Education/Newsletter/February 2020

This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 2 • February 2020


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Wikimedia México participated with a “Wikipedia in Mayan language” workshop, in the Oriente University in the city of Valladolid, Yucatán, with Linguistic and Mayan Culture students. The Mayan language, or Maayat’aan, is the second most spoken indigenous language in Mexico. read more...

Starting November 2019, we are highlighting a Wikimedian who is impacting or who has been impacted by Wikimedia & Education work. For February, In this article meet Maxwell Beganim read more...


Respati, a project that aims for beginners in editing Wikipedia, has started in January 2020. The registration of the program is divided into 3 batches and the program in each batch has 3-months period to complete. We opened the first batch in January 2020, and the last batch will be opened in March 2020. read more...

Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group since 2019 is collaborating with REC Albania an environmental NGO to train their instructors and students on Wikimedia projects. Two main project we're working on are Wikipedia Albania and Wikidata read more...

At the end of 2019 the Basque Wikimedians User Group hosted three sessions with the Sakana Development Agency in Navarr for the development of the Digital Commons in Altsasu, Uharte Arakil and Urdiain. In these last two sessions we had the youngest Wikimedians ever, improving the contents of their village in Txikipedia. read more...

Bath Spa University in the UK had its first ever Wikipedia assignment, as part of a Digital Citizenship module for undergraduates studying Business Management Fashion. The results are mostly in user sandboxes, but some new articles have been created read more...




Founded in 2013 by the Open Education Global (previously Open Education Consortium), the goal of Open Education Week is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. For the 2020, Wikimedia Poland, organizes or support several events in whole country read more...


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