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Global Ed Metrics and Activities Meeting

Thanks for expressing interest in the monthly Global Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting! Instructions for joining the meeting, which will be held Tuesday at 15:00 UTC, are now available. I hope you can join us! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 23:24, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Next meeting

I hope you're able to join us for the next Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting on Tuesday, November 22, at 16:00 UTC. Instructions for joining and time conversions are available at Global Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 00:05, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

December Metrics and Activities Meeting

Thanks for your interest in the Wikipedia Education Program's Metrics and Activities Meeting. We're attempting to schedule the next meeting, and we'd like to get your input on days and times that you'd be available. If you're interested in joining us, please fill out this Doodle. We look forward to talking with you then. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

It looks like the most number of people will be able to make it on Tuesday, December 20 at 16:00 UTC. Please visit Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting for instructions on joining and time zone conversions. Hope to talk with you then! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

January meeting

The hunt for the best time for our January edition of the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting is underway. If you're interested in joining us, please fill out your availability on this Doodle by Monday, January 16, so we can schedule the meeting. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 22:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

The January meeting has been scheduled. For instructions on joining and a time converter, see Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. Hope you can join the meeting. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 20:54, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

February meeting

It's time to schedule the February Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. Please add your availability to this Doodle by February 15 so we can schedule the meeting at a time that the most people are available. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 21:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

February Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting

Please join us for the February edition of the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. Join us on WebEx on Wednesday, February 22 at 16:00 UTC. See outreachwiki:Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting for instructions on joining and a time zone converter. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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Scheduling March Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting

It's time to schedule the March Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. If you're interested in joining us, please add your availability to this Doodle by Wednesday, 14 March, at 17:00 UTC. If you're interested in volunteering to lead the meeting, please leave a message on my talk page! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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March Wikipedia Education Program Meeting

Please volunteer to lead the meeting! Leave a message if you can help.

The March Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting will be on 21 March 2012 at 20:00 UTC. We will have updates from countries around the world and Ayush Khanna will present some results of data analysis he's done on students' contributions. Instructions for joining are on the page linked above. I hope you can join us on Wednesday! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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Doodle for April Wikipedia Education Program meeting

Please leave your availability for the April Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting on this Doodle so we can find the best time for all of us.

I also need a volunteer to lead the meeting! Will you help? Leave a message. It requires no advanced preparation, just the ability to welcome everyone and move us through the agenda. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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Join us Monday for April Wikipedia Education Program meeting

Greetings,

I need your help to lead the next Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting! Will you leave a message if you can help? It requires no advanced preparation, just the ability to welcome everyone and move us through the agenda.

The next meeting has been scheduled for Monday, April 23 at 20:00 UTC. See the meeting information page for joining instructions and a time converter. Hope to talk with you on Monday! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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Making the Wikipedia Education Program Meeting better

Thanks for expressing interest in the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. I'm investigating ways to make the meeting more effective, and I'd love to get feedback from you as to what we could do to improve the meeting. Please weigh in on the discussion there! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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This Month in Education: August 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 1, August 2012 Headlines Welcome to the first This Month in Education newsletter! EduWiki Conference, UK "Students Write Wikipedia", Czech Republic Reaching out to different target groups in Germany Involving more professors in the Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil Working with International Baccalaureate students at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México Cairo Pilot wraps up successfully with conference Project TAO at Wikimania: Promoting Wikipedia among Seniors "Wikipedia for Seniors": Upcoming Presentation at WikiCon 2012 (Austria) To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: September 2012

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This Month in Education: October 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 3, October 2012 Headlines Day of the Dead Wiki Style at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México Wikipedia de la A a la W by Tomás Saorin of the University of Murcia Communicate OER: Help improve Wikipedia content about education! Czech program concentrates on promotion and high-quality guidelines Editatón at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana Research shows students improve English Wikipedia Workshops introduce education program in Brazil Professor argues for Wikipedia's use in class Cairo students' translation work featured Professor from Brazil profiled on blog To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: November 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 4, November 2012 Headlines Preliminary results of cooperation about protected areas Winners of the Day of the Dead Wiki Style contest announced More than 20 classes join Egypt program this term U.S. student improves article on bird species Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: December 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 5, December 2012 Headlines wikiArS initiative in Catalonia Pilot Project "Wikipedia in University", Coquimbo, Chile Editathon with the Digital Humanities Winter Institute and the University of Maryland Some Statistics from the Czech program: explosion of new projects Fall 2012 summary Tecnológico de Monterrey- Campus Ciudad de México NCA conference highlights Wikipedia initiative Sample syllabus brochure revamped Student's article featured the psychology of music preference on main page Ambassadors in Cairo hold many student workshops Brazil student creates important chemistry article Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: January 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2013 Headlines United Kingdom sums up its year in Education Outreach Education Program kicks off in Sweden Teaching the Teachers in UK Secondary Schools Pilot program for Mexican university students working with Wikipedia to satisfy community service requirement Worldwide resources page created on outreach wiki Trophy Case highlights excellent student work Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: February 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2013 Headlines Welcome (back), Rod Dunican! ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México donates 100 photos to Commons School of Open to launch with a Wikipedia course for open education enthusiasts Cairo class creates Spanish literature portal Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: March 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2013 Headlines Program leaders invited to workshop in Milan Chesapeake College Wikipedia Project Toni Sant joins Wikimedia UK as Education Organiser Medical English students begin work with Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia Farewell, Annie! Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: April 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2013 Headlines Survey research and design in psychology - Example of a Wikiversity resource Wikimedia Argentina's educational strategic plan Wikiversity and Moodle Czech program flourishes Egypt program celebrates end of second term Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: May 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2013 Headlines First ever medical school education program pilot begins at UCSF 7th grade Wikipedia project in Geneva Wiki Education Foundation proposed Wikiversity-Moodle project is moving on Principles of radiation astronomy in Wikiversity Trophy Case highlights good student work Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: June 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2013 Headlines Growing contributions from wikiArS initiative German Wikiversity continues its relaunch English Wikipedia program seeks Ambassadors Italian nursing students and Wikipedia Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: July 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2013 Headlines Students' articles nominated for Featured Article Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: August 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2013 Headlines EduWiki Conference 2013 - Call for Proposals The Singapore Management University Constitutional and Administrative Law Wikipedia Project – putting accurate and free information about Singapore law on the Internet Videos from Open Educational Resources conference Welcome to Sophie Österberg and Tighe Flanagan Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: September 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 9, September 2013 Headlines Wikimania pre-conference draws crowd Student leader achieves Featured Article Spanish-as-a-foreign-language students at ITESM-Mexico City Campus upload photographs on Mexico to Commons Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: October 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2013 Headlines Students to Uganda, Swedish for Immigrants, university staff and researchers and a group of principals Connect with others using Wikipedia in education – invitation to EduWiki Conference 2013 Two project starts in October for Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City campus WikiProject Open launches on English Wikipedia Demystifying Wikipedia at Singapore Management University Provide feedback on Welcome to Wikipedia brochure Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: November 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 11, November 2013 Headlines EduWiki Conference 2013 convenes in Cardiff Notes from Tec de Monterrey-Mexico City Campus "Students Write Wikipedia" in the Czech Republic again Plagiarism study results released More than 50 gather to celebrate third Egypt term Feedback sought on new Welcome to Wikipedia draft Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2013 in Berlin Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: December 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2013 Headlines International Seminar Wikipedia and University: Research and Teaching Experiences Final report on "Silberwissen" available in English Planning the future of course pages Day of the Dead photo contest winners Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: January 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2014 Headlines Wikimedia Deutschland starts alliance for Open Educational Resources (OER); Berlin discusses introduction of OER in schools Next EduWiki conference slated for Serbia Presentation on Wikipedia at the 8th Congress of Innovation and Educational Technology in Monterrey, Mexico Presentation on Wikipedia at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: February 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 2, February 2014 Headlines Wikimania still accepting submissions for Education related presentations Wikimedia Deutschland: Summany of activities in January 2014 Wiki Borregos begin Spring 2014 projects Free online course: Writing Wikipedia Articles Turning senior Czech citizens into Wikipedians Editing Wikipedia brochure helps newbies learn basics New features for course pages released Interactive elements added to editing tutorials Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: March 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2014 Headlines Education Cooperative Kickoff Meeting in Prague Frank Schulenburg selected as Wiki Ed executive director Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in February 2014 Teaching students to use Wikipedia critically as a first source in research Welcome, Floor Koudijs! Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: April 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 4, April 2014 Headlines Consolidation of Portals and newsletter for the Global Education Program Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz Remembering Cynthia Ashley-Nelson Engineering students in Panama work on Spanish Wikipedia Jisc/ Wikimedia UK partnership Wikimedia Sverige: New resource for Swedish teachers on Wikiversity Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in March 2014 Happenings at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus Educational programming continues on Wikinews Welcome, Anna Koval! Exploratory research started for setting up a Wikipedia Education program in the Netherlands LiAnna Davis joins Wiki Ed as head of communications and external relations To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: May 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2014 Headlines Wiki Camp 2014 at Vanadzor EduWiki Conference in Belgrade 2014 Participation of "Servicio Social" students in Wikipedia grows at Tec de Monterrey Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in April 2014 Wikimedia Sverige: Meeting the educators Egyptian students and professors celebrate last term's accomplishments Articles of interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: June 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2014 Headlines Wikipedia Education Project in Uruguay Sanothimi Campus celebrates 12 years of Nepali Wikipedia Wikipedia Primary School Project Israeli Ministry of Education and Wikipedia collaboration: teachers and students will be trained to write Wikipedia articles Wikimedia Serbia teacher education course accredited by the Republic of Serbia Geneva education department produces two films on Wikipedia editing by students Busy 2014 for Education at Wikimedia UK, so far Getting ready for WikiCamp 2014 Armenia News from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in May 2014 Czech senior citizen program supported by a WMF grant Wikimedia Sverige: Classrooms and ambassadors Wiki Education Foundation attends WikiConference USA Update on the education portal Articles of interest in other publications Highlights  · Single page edition To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: July 2014

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• MACEDONIA: Internet marketing students learn about Wikipedia and suggest ways to improve its fundraising
• ISRAEL: Haifa University students write Wikipedia articles for academic credit
• MEXICO: Editing about Literary Theory in UNAM
• MEXICO: Professor training continues as part of the Wiki Learning program
• CZECH REPUBLIC: Education program presented at BarCamp
• GERMANY: Wikimedia Deutschland June Activities
• UK: 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference
• UK: VLE content reuse at Wikimania
• TWL: The Wikipedia Library
• WMF: Learning & Evaluation to publish quarterly newsletter
• WMF: Updates from the Wikipedia Education Program and the Wikipedia Education Collaborative
• Articles of interest in other publications: Brazil, South Africa, The Signpost, and more

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This Month in Education: August 2014

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Wikimania: Education at Wikimania
• U.S & Canada: U.S. and Canada Program Spring 2014 wrap-up
• Taiwan: Wikimedia Taiwan dreams of Open Knowledge
• Armenia: Vanadzor, Armenia again welcomes WikiCamp
• Netherlands: Education pilot projects by Wikimedia Nederland
• Sweden: Wikimedia Sverige creates Open Badges for education program
• Germany: Wikimedia Deutschland's July education activities
• Tech: VisualEditor for students and educators
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Israel, India, Armenia, Ukraine

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This Month in Education: September 2014

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Wikipedia Education Collaborative welcomes five new members
• Wikimedia Deutschlands recent activities: events, events and more events
• Working with Wikipedia expands at Tec de Monterrey
• Digital agenda for education and open badges to be tested
• Most successful Czech course continues again this year
• Articles of interest in other publications

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This Month in Education: October 2014

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Sweden: Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
• Greece: Greek university giving credit for translation of Wikipedia articles
• Greece: Wikipedia in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
• Serbia & Hungary: Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian college students will explore Wikipedia in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Wikipedia Network
• Israel: 9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Wikipedia
• Mexico: New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
• Catalonia: Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Wikipedia
• Ukraine: Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia
• Netherlands: Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Wikipedia
• WMF: Data Collection Round II has started: be part
• Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more

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This Month in Education: November 2014

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• France: Wikimedia France obtains an agreement from the French Ministry of Education
• Mexico: Tec de Monterrey wrapping up semester projects
• Mexico: A student in Mexico makes the best of her study to edit Wikipedia
• Egypt: Egyptian Student invites his colleagues at Al-Azhar University to edit Wikipedia
• Sweden: Successful Wikipedia assignments presented by faculty at national conference in Sweden
• Global: Wikipedia Education Collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
• Global: Iberoconf discusses Wikipedia in education
• Global:Welcoming new WMF staff supporting education
• Articles of interest in other publications: MIT, Myanmar, and Jimmy Wales

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This Month in Education: December 2014

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Uruguay: Wikipedia Education Program Celebration in Uruguay
• Egypt: Egyptian students wrap up their 5th term on Wikipedia with great success
• Serbia: First Wikipedia ambassador at the University of Belgrade
• Sweden: Swedish Wikimini 1 year anniversary
• UK: Wikimedia UK processing EduWiki 2014
• Regional: Eastern European education programs presented at regional conference
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Korea, Australia, the Gender Gap, the Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Medicine, Adrianne Wadewitz, Jimmy Wales, and Wikibombs

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This Month in Education: [January 2015]

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night
• India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage
• Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons
• Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo
• Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria
• Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement
• Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey
• Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden
• Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more

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This Month in Education: [February 201

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia runs WikiCamps with great success
• Greece: Corfu adult school piloting WikiExpeditions and article writing on Wikipedia
• Serbia: High school student advocates for Education Program
• Sweden: Education Program succeeds with high school students
• Armenia: WikiClub contributes more than 300,000 bytes to Armenian Wiktionary in a month
• Egypt: New campus ambassador and new Chinese translation class
• Resources: New education toolkit helps program leaders develop their programs
• Resources: New education learning patterns answer many of your questions
• Communications: Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Australia, Ireland, Black History Month, WikiWomen and Jimmy Wales

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This Month in Education: March 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Uruguay: A new edition of Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Uruguay
• Czech Republic: Czech senior citizen program scales up
• Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their sixth term on Wikipedia
• Israel: Education/Newsletter/March 2015/Educator conference successfully concludes teachers' online courses
• Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina reinforces gender diversity on Wikipedia with several women targeted events
• Mexico: Novel photo projects related to editathon at Tec de Monterrey
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Events commemorating WikiWomen History Month, WikiMed and Black History editathons

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This Month in Education: April 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• WMF: Quarterly update from the education team
• Armenia: Teachers and journalists of Armenian community in Lebanon joined Wikipedia and Wikipedia Education program
• Ukraine: First round of WikiStudia wraps up with success
• Greece: Greek Adult school completes wikiexpedition on Greek villages
• Mexico: New to Wikipedia: A personal perspective
• Latvia: Education Program Extension enabled on Latvian Wikipedia
• Russia: Education Program Extension enabled on Russian Wikipedia
• Sweden: Students nominated for their MOOC on Swedish Wikiversity
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Studies and news from Harvard to Cambridge, women events and history editathons

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This Month in Education: May 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Tunisia: Rachidia music school celebrates 80 years of love and art by editing Wikipedia
• Mexico: Five new classes begin experimenting with Wikipedia
• Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WikiArabia 2015
• China: Chinese students commemorate deceased philanthropist Run Run Shaw
• Argentina: Editathon for young students to edit articles about their school
• Mexico: Maria enjoys editing Wikipedia as her community service
• Global: Registration for Wikimania Education Pre-Conference in Mexico City is now open!
• Sweden: Wikimedia conference 2015: better understanding for Wikipedia in Education
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: School editathons, medical research, Jimmy wales and new Wiki

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This Month in Education: June 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Uruguay: A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award
• Hong Kong: The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong
• Greece: Adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers
• Sweden: Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program
• Mexico: New video tutorial for Commons created by students
• Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015
• Argentina: Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries
• Israel: Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary
• Global: New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders
• Media Articles of interest in other publications: Uk, India, Palestine and more

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This Month in Education: July 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Israel: Wikimedia Israel's annual conference helps expanding its education activity
• Community: Join the Community Health learning campaign on Meta
• Global: Wikimania 2015: education highlights
• Education Collaborative: Wikipedia Education Collaborative is changing. Be part of the movement!
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Wikimania, Wikipedians in residence and public domain value

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This Month in Education: August 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Sweden: The benefits of teaching with Wikipedia broadcasted on Swedish National Radio
• Mexico: Summer term ends with great success and Fall begins at Tec de Monterrey
• Newsletter: On its third birthday, a retrospective of This Month In Education and proposed changes to the publication process
• Newsletter: Call for volunteers - This Month In Education
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Israel, Mexico and Australia

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
• Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
• Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
• Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
• Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
• Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
• Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
• Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
• Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
• Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
• France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
• Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
• Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
• Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
• Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
• Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
• Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
• Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
• Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
• Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
• Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
• Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
• Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
• Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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This Month in Education: [March 2016]

Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015

By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)

Walaa with Mr. Rashid El Telwaty and Ms. Suad Alhalwachi

Walaa with Dr. Sherifa Atallah

Walaa with Mr. Rashid El Telwaty, Ms. Bonnie Chiu, Mr. Jake and Ms. Naadiya Moosajee.

Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.

WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.

Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without ‎problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).

Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University

By Shani Evenstein (WMIL)

Amir explains about the new translation tool to students

Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus

On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge" has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.

Working in small groups to correct copyrights and Non-NPOV violations

The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.

The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.

This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.

The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.

The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?

By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina

Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.

How to be a Wikipedian in a week (educactional MOOC for university professors)

Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.

Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.

A professor´s educational experience with Wikipedia explained with a tweet. He said: "I´m translating, enjoying and learning with Wikipedia". Know more experiences on Storify.

With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.

The result

More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.

Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:

The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]

We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.

Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official

By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)

Masaryk University employees are being trained in using and editing Wikipedia

Marek Blahuš, Wikipedian in residence at Masaryk University

Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.

Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.

In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš (Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first "Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference (more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias (more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.

Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called "Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol (Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech "Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.

The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.

Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico

By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)

Group photo of Reto Wikimedia participants at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus

Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!

For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!

Wiki expeditions

The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects "Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.

Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.

In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.

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Some video clips of the event:

Animation clips with the Museo de Arte Popular

Animation about alebrijes

Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.

Classes and Wikimetrics

Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.

Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.

Wikimetrics for the semester are:

According to Wikimetrics tool....

• 9,589,918 bytes to Spanish Wikipedia
• 3,098 edits to the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia
• 367 pages created in the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia

Manual count

• 302 student and teacher participants
• 281 Spanish Wikipedia articles created or expanded
• 6,057 photographs
• 10 videos
• 9 articles in English Wikipedia
• 2 articles in French Wikipedia
• 1 article in Swedish Wikipedia
• 1 article in Danish Wikipedia

First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.

Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities

By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)

Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina

Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.

The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.

Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.

To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.

Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.

Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.

Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.

Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content

By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)

Bassem Fleifel

Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.

Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al-Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.

The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.

This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.

Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.

See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.

Full statistics of WEP in Egypt the first term in 2012 till the seventh term in 2015 which include numbers of created articles, featured and good articles, featured portals and lists.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.

Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia

By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)

Jorid Martinsen teaching students at the University of Oslo about Wikipedia.

Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.

The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.

Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.

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• Argentina and Mexico: First mentoring program between the Argentine and Mexican chapters
• Czech Republic: Czech education program turns professional with a new education manager
• Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate the seventh conference of WEP
• Nigeria: Wikipedia workshop for students of Fountain University
• Sverige: Teacher celebrated for excellent pedagogy with Wikipedia
• Taiwan: Taiwanese students use Spoken Wikipedia as their service learning
• Global: Education Program Historic Data Campaign
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• Argentina: A New Online Course in a New Virtual Campus
• Czech Republic: How to survive the Big Bang in your education program
• Estonia: An online elective course on Wikipedia for high school pupils in Estonia‎
• Greece: Argostoli Evening School students and a Wikitherapy participant turn Wiktionary project into Android app
• Israel: New training materials in Arabic by WMIL‎‎‎
• Mexico: Luz María Silva's students and their adventure editing Spanish Wikipedia
• Mexico: Spring semester wiki activities end at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City‎‎
• Netherlands: Maastricht University 40 years
• Sweden: Students in Sweden edit Somali Wikipedia‎
• Taiwan: Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker!
• Wikimania 2016: Education at Wikimania‎‎
• Wikimedia Foundation: Education Program surveys are here!
• Wikimedia Foundation: Vahid Masrour joins the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation
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• Armenia: Armenian students inspire their parents to join Wikipedia
• Brazil: Brazilian Wikimedians interview editor of academic journal Wiki Studies
• Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their eighth term and start their ninth term on WEP
• Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate eighth WEP conference
• Greece: Online wiki training for educators in Greece
• Israel: Outcomes report on a Wikipedia Course “Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, Tel Aviv University
• Israel: Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
• Israel: "Writing a new article is a special experience that feels new every time"
• Mexico: Video projects redefine student Wiki work and student community service
• Russia: Wiki Workshop at Saint Petersburg Internet Conference 2016 in Russia
• Sweden: Swedish National Agency of Education endorses Wikipedia Education Program
• Turkey: Psychology students of Uludag University are very proud of contributing Turkish Wikipedia
• West Africa: West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
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• Germany: Open Science Fellows Program launched in Germany
• Basque Country: Students go wikipedian in the Basque Country
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• Macedonia: First Wiki Club in Macedonia
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Featured Topic	Newsletter update Common Challenges: Time is not an unlimited resource
From the Community	Medical Students' contributions reach 200 articles in innovative elective course at Tel Aviv University Wikilesa: working with university students on human rights An auspicious beginning at university in Basque Country The Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Finland The Brief Story of Mrgavan WikiClub Citizen Science and biodiversity in school projects on Wikispecies, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
From the Education Team	WMF Education Program to be featured at the Asian Conference for Technology in the Classroom Opportunities to grow in Oman An invitation to participate in the "Hundred Words" campaign! Education Collab updates membership criteria
In the News	Students Can Learn By Writing For Wikipedia Online communities are supercharging people's careers Using open source to empower students in Tanzania Signpost Special Issue: Wikipedia in Education

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Featured Topic	Newsletter update Overview on Wikipedia Education Program 2016 in Taiwan
From the Community	High School and Collegiate Students Enhance Waray Wikipedia during Edit-a-thons Approaching History students as pilot of Education program in Iran An experience with middle school students in Ankara Wikishtetl: Commemorating Jewish communities that perished in the Holocaust
From the Education Team	UCSF Students Visit WMF Office as they start their Wikipedia editing journey Meet the team
In the News	Från dammiga arkiv till artiklar på nätet

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From the Community	Cairo and Al-Azhar Universities students wrap up their ninth term and start their tenth term on WEP Glimpse of small language Wikipedia incubation partnership in Taiwan Key to recruiting seniors as Wikipedians is long-term work Education at WMCON17 OER17 Western Armenian WikiCamper promotes Wikiprojects in his school Building a global network for Education
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From the Community	Klexikon: the German 'childrens' Wikipedia' in Montréal Wikipedia is now a part of Textbook in Informatics

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Volume 6 | Issue 10 | November 2017

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From the Community	Hashemite University continues its strong support of Education program activities Wikicontest for high school students Exploring Wikiversity to create a MOOC Wikidata in the Classroom at the University of Edinburgh How we defined what secondary education students need Wikipedia Education Program in Bangkok,Thailand Shaken but not deterred Wikipedia workshop against human trafficking in Serbia The WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique kicks in 4 francophones African countries
From the Education Team	A Proposal for Education Team endorsement criteria
In the News	Student perceptions of writing with Wikipedia in Australian higher education

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This Month in Education: December 2017

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 11 | December 2017

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From the Community	Wikimedia Serbia has established cooperation with three new faculties within the Education Program Updates to Programs & Events Dashboard Wiki Camp Berovo 2017 WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators Corfupedia records local history and inspires similar projects Wikipedia learning lab at TUMO Stepanakert Wikimedia CH experiments a Wikipedia's treasure hunt during "Media in Piazza"
From the Education Team	Creating digitally minded educators at BETT 2017
In the News	Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia "Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" Conference in Ireland Science is shaped by Wikipedia

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This Month in Education: January 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018

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Featured Topic	Bertsomate: using Basque oral poetry to illustrate math concepts
From the Community	Wikimedia Serbia celebrated 10 years from the first article written within the Education Program WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique update The first Swedish Master's in Digital Humanities partners with Wikimedia Sverige How we use PetScan to improve partnership with lecturers and professors
From the Education Team	The Education Survey Report is out! Education Extension scheduled shutdown

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This Month in Education: February 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 2 | February 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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From the Community

WikiProject Engineering Workshop at IIUC,Chittagong What did we learn from Wikibridges MOOC? Wikimedia Serbia launched Wiki scholar project Wiki Club in Ohrid, Macedonia Karvachar’s WikiClub: When getting knowledge is cool More than 30 new courses launched in the University of the Basque Country Review meeting on Christ Wikipedia Education Program The Multidisciplinary Choices of High School Students: The Arabic Education Program; Wikimedia Israel

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The Education Extension is being deprecated (second call) The 2017 survey report live presentation is available for viewing

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This Month in Education: March 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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Featured Topic	Education Programs Itinerary
From the Community	Animated science educational videos in Basque for secondary school student Beirut WikiClub: Wikijourney that has enriched our experiences Students of the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade edit Wikipedia for the first time The role of Wikipedia in education - Examples from the Wiki Education Foundation Multilingual resource for Open education projects Wikipedia: examples of curricular integration in Portugal
From the Education Team	Resources and Tips to engage with Educators Education Session at WMCON 2018

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This Month in Education: April 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 4 | April 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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Featured Topic	Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
From the Community	Global perspectives from Western Norway Togh's WikiClub: Wikipedia is the 8th wonder of the world! Aboriginal Volunteers in Taiwan Shared Experience about Incubating Minority Language Wikipedia in Education Magazine Workshops with Wiki Clubs members in the Republic of Macedonia Celebrating Book's Day in the University of the Basque Country: is Wikipedia the largest Basque language book? Txikipedia is born and you'll love it Students Write Wiktionary
From the Education Team	Presenting the Wikipedia Education Program at the Open Education Global Conference

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This Month in Education: May 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 5 | May 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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From the Community	Creating and reusing OERs for a Wikiversity science journalism course from Brazil Inauguration Ceremony of Sri Jayewardenepura University Wiki Club Wiki Education publishes evaluation of Fellows pilot The first students of Russia with diplomas of Wikimedia and Petrozavodsk State University Selet WikiSchool
From the Education Team	A lofty vision for the Education Team UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018, Digital Skills for Life and Work

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