Re: [Wikimedia-l] New partnership and expansion of Wikimedia Israel's Education initiative - WikiCampus

Dear friends, On behalf of Wikimedia Israel, I'm pleased to announce a new partnership and expansion of our Education initiative - WikiCampus. WikiCampus it is a new initiative by Wikimedia Israel and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC) [1]. As part of the collaboration, during the upcoming academic year, dozens of courses (and a total of hundreds of students) will take part in the Wikipedia assignment program. Until now, we ran many Wikipedia assignment collaborations directly with teachers in universities and colleges in Israel. For the first time, this pilot will be lead directly by the Rector’s office, and teachers will be encouraged to integrate article writing assignments into academic writing assignments. In 2015, some 150 articles were written or expanded by students (not counting programs with high schools). In the first half of 2016, students added 583 articles to Hebrew Wikipedia - more than a 300% increase (!) and we hope to see another major increase in the upcoming year thanks to WikiCampus. This is the first time that an academic institution is embracing this program with great motivation and enthusiasm. We hope that this collaboration will be a model for other chapters and academic institutions to adopt. Many thanks to Prof. Karine Nahon [2], WMIL's board member and an associate professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC for her help with initiating this collaboration! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary_Center_Herzliya [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_Nahon *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>