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talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher
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Education program kicks off on English Wikinews
Wikipedia isn’t the only Wikimedia project students contribute to as part of their
coursework. Over the last few terms, more and more journalism classes have started doing
classroom projects on English Wikinews. In a post on the Wikimedia blog, The Wikinewsie
Group’s Laura Hale offered an explanation of what students can accomplish on Wikinews and
why the students benefit from this learning opportunity. Read Laura’s post.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
Planning the future of course pages
Have you used the Education Program MediaWiki Extension? If so, you may notice there’s
room for improvement with course pages. With our new developer Andrew Russell Green,
we've started planning out the future of our course pages and other software features
for Wikipedia assignments. Let us know what improvements to the software you would most
like to see. Check out the planning page.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
Arabic Web Days video features education program
Arab World Education Program Manager Tighe Flanagan was invited to participate in a Google
Hangout conversation as part of an Arabic Web Days program. Arabic Web Days is an
initiative of tech companies across the Arab World to improve the availability of
information in Arabic on the internet; while more than 5 percent of the world’s population
speaks Arabic, only 3 percent of the digital content available today is in Arabic. The
Wikipedia Education Program Arab World is trying to change that by adding more content in
Arabic to Wikipedia. Watch the video of the Hangout (in Arabic).
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
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