Education/Newsletter/February 2019

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 2 • February 2019


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The event was originated by AfroCrowd, User Group from United State of America in partnership with Oregon State University, US , Wikimedia User Group Nigeria and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State Nigeria. read more...

The first Wikimedia+Education Conference will happen next April 5-7 in Donostia, Basque Country. The Programme Committee has reviewed more than 90 proposals for the programme and more than 50 events has been accepted. read more...

Project Wikipedia in Education in Uruguay. Development and scope of the project in its second stage. read more...


Oslo Metropolitan University is on Wikimedia Norges long-term partners, and they have now decided to commit even further to knowledge sharing online, with giving three students jobs as “Wikipedia-assistants” at the university.read more...

The Basque Wikimedians User Group began their Education Program. Its purpose was to improve, with the help of university students, the content that students between the ages of 12 and 16 need. 2018 has been an intense year, in which more than 1,500 students have participated in more than 80 courses, adding 1.5 million words to Basque Wikipedia. read more...

Wikimedia Israel is expanding its activities in the education system, with a new program for using Wikidata as an educational tool. read more...

Wikimedia Serbia, in cooperation with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies in Belgrade, has made the first tutorials in the Serbian language on editing Wikipedia. read more...

In February 2019, I guided a seminar at a German university on wikis in education. This contribution describes the goals, the programme and the results. A major element was the German wiki encyclopedia for children, Klexikon.read more...

Wikimedia Portugal and Instituto Superior de Administração e Línguas da Madeira join efforts on the first large scale Wikimedia in University project in Portugal, about Education, Wikimedia and Tourism in Madeira; Also this month in Portugal: read more...


In 2019 Wikimedia CH began a partnership with the faculty of Pedagogy of Locarno (Switzerland) for a series of events related to workshops to be organized with teachers and their students. The workshops are held in the beautiful setting of the Locarno Palacinema and go by the name of #theLab. read more...

Meet Hungary is a mutual project of GLAM Macedonia and the Association of Hungarians "Teledom", who are supported by the Hungarian Embassy in Skopje, with an aim to fill the content gap on Hungarian themes on Macedonian Wikipedia. All Wiki Club's members in the Republic of Macedonia are welcome to participate. read more...


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