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Interactive elements added to editing tutorials
This term, we've started enhancing the Wikipedia training for students with
interactive editing tutorials. Using the "guided tours" framework that was
introduced to help newcomers find productive ways to get started, student editors can
practice formatting text, creating links, and adding citations, with step-by-step
instructions from [edit] to [Save page]. So far, feedback from the student editors has
been very positive; many note the interactive tutorials as their favorite part of the
training. Log into your Wikipedia account, then click the link below to try the first
interactive tutorial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students/My_sandbox
US, Canada students fill 1/3 Encyclopedia Britannica
Quantitative success numbers are in for the fall 2013 term of the Wikipedia Education
Program in the United States and Canada. In the fall term, 1,347 students added 11.6
million bytes to Wikipedia, including creating 251 new articles. In the seven terms of the
program, students have added enough words to the English Wikipedia to fill 1/3 of
Encyclopedia Britannica. And qualitative research projects have found students in the
United States and Canada program have added high-quality content to Wikipedia. Learn more
about last term's student work.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/04/wikipedia-education-program-us-canada-…
Online screencast of workshop helps Arab students
The academic term in the Arab world has come to an end, and students at Ain Shams
University in Cairo are finishing up their Wikipedia assignments. Over the course of the
semester, Campus Ambassadors help each group get familiar with Wikipedia and editing
on-wiki. One ambassador for students the Korean Faculty made a screencast walking new
students through the basics — from creating a username to editing in a sandbox and in the
article namespace. Especially given the disruptions in classes due to the political
situation in Egypt, video screencasts are an important learning tool for students who may
not be able to attend in-person workshops. Watch the Arabic screencast here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSKMEEpkJo
New features for course pages released
Several much-requested features have been added to Wikipedia's course page system:
instructors and course volunteers can now add batches of students to a course all at once,
assign articles to students, and send a message to everyone in the class at once by
posting to the course Talk page. You'll also be able to identify students and see
which courses they are in whenever you look up their contribution history. To keep up with
the latest improvements to course pages, you can sign up for periodic technical updates,
delivered straight to your Talk page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikipedia_E…
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