Dear Laura,   I never really thought about having an education program on Wikinews but it just seems like a wonderful idea. I can envision a university project during a class for young journalists. Each week, one student writes a Wikinews article on what he thinks is the most important news of the week. This could be a refreshing way of recruiting new contributors to sister projects :-).   I will share your project page with colleagues from the Czech community to see if anyone would be interested in something similar to this. Alas, I don't know any potential class from the English-speaking world.   thanks for inspiration, cheers Vojtech Dostal, WMCZ (http://studenti.wikimedia.cz)     ************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz &lt;vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz&gt;     ______________________________________________________________ On English Wikinews, we recently requested the Education Program extension be installed with the idea of making it easier to recruit classes to participate.  We've set up a "course" for new project participants at https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_rep… <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_reporters_(2013)>as a way of testing this.  Any feedback on our test course would be appreciated. :)  How useful is it for potential modeling by instructors? How useful is it for new project participants? That sort of thing.  Feedback would be really, really appreciated as we want to be able to see how this works so we can better assist existing contributors and classes that may use English Wikinews.I've talked to a couple of contributors on English Wikinews and we'd really love to engage more with high school and university courses.  We just lack the people power to do the outreach to attract them at the moment.  Currently, David Blackall at the University of Wollongong has a class using the Wikinews as part of coursework.  He made a video about this available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv> .  If anyone knows any university instructors or high school teachers who might be interested in doing work on English Wikinews, please get in touch with me. :)Sincerely,Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com <http://ozziesport.com/> ---------- _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education>