Education/Newsletter/February 2015/Highlights
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Greece
Adult school starts a project on writing articles in Wikipedia
Long-time Wikimedian/educator begins a pilot project on writing Wikipedia articles with adult school students. (read more→)
Serbia
Serbian high school student advocates for the Education Program
Lazar Simonović, student of VII Belgrade Gymnasium, advocates for education program to continue in his school. (read more→)
Sweden
Education Program in Sweden succeeds with high school students
In Sweden, the Wikipedia Education Program succeeds with high school students. (read more→)
Armenia
Armenian students contribute more than 300,000 bytes to Armenian Wiktionary in a month
Armenian students contribute more than 300,000 bytes of content to Armenian Wiktionary in under a month! (read more→)
Armenia
Wikimedia Armenia run WikiCamps with great success
Wikimedia Armenia's new educational project, WikiCamps, engage young students to edit Wikipedia. (read more→)
Global
Articles of interest in other publications: Australia, Ireland, Black History Month, WikiWomen and Jimmy Wales
Worldwide media coverage of Wikimedia projects in education. (read more→)
Egypt
New campus ambassador serving a new translation class in Egypt's Education Program
Chinese language department in Egypt's Al-Alsun joins the Wikipedia Education Program with a new translation course supported by a new Wikipedia Ambassador. (read more→)
Global
New education toolkit to help program leaders develop their programs at all levels
The first program toolkit has been launched to help program leaders start, develop, and grow their education programs. (read more→)
Global
New education learning patterns answer many of your questions
New education learning patterns answer many how-to questions for program leaders. (read more→)
Global
Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook
The global education program is joining Facebook for the first time with new global education group. Join us! (read more→)