Dear Wikimedians,

The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been thinking about an online learning platform for several years now. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has focused us more strongly on building such a platform to support learning and knowledge sharing across the movement, and in early 2021, the team piloted https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn[1] hosting two online courses using the Moodle platform.

We have now published a report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn/Pilot_report[2] about that pilot program, with a description of the rationale, design considerations, curriculum structure, and both learners' and our own evaluations of how it went. The report concludes with a series of recommended next steps. The team is actively pursuing those next steps, and they are going to be submitted by the team in the upcoming annual plan process for the Foundation's next fiscal year.

We invite you to read the report and ask any questions on the talk page. If you are interested in taking part in teaching using this online learning platform, please get in touch with the team by email to comdevteam@wikimedia.org and tell us a bit about your plans, your subjects, and your expected audience.

With best wishes for a healthy and productive 2022,

Community Development team

Wikimedia Foundation

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn/Pilot_report

Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)

Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities

Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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