This is great news for the entire free knowledge community. I consider WikiEducator, in many ways, a sister project to our own initiatives, especially Wikiversity. Wayne Mackintosh, who founded the project, sits on our Advisory Board (and I sit on the WikiEducator Advisory Board). He's also a friend and drives many key initiatives like this one.

I'm especially pleased that the probably largest initiative ever for capacity building around wiki use is taking place in developing countries. The idea of the "Learning4Content" project - teachers get instructed in the wiki use, and in return contribute their knowledge - could very well be a model for us to follow.

Kudos to Wayne and everyone else who is making this happen. :-)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: mackiwg WMackintosh@col.org Date: Oct 26, 2007 4:11 AM Subject: [WikiEducator] Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100 000 To: WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com

Be sure to check out our News on the front page.

(http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page)

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100000 to build MediaWiki Educator skills for at least 2500 educators in 53 countries under our Learning4Content initiative:

http://www.wikieducator.org/Metawikieducator/Learning4Content/Hewlett_bid

The COL will also be investing an additional $60000 for this project.

The WikiEducator family is proud of this achievement because it is our first funding proposal developed as free content on WikiEducator.

The project will widen the skills base among educators to contribute to free content projects like WikiEducator and Wikipedia.

I think I should have a glass of red wine to celebrate. I hope WIkiEducators all over the world will do the same!

Cheers Wayne

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