Is your organization passionate about preserving and sharing history? We are offering three courses this fall to help you disseminate the history of your community, state, or region to a global audience through Wikipedia. To mark the upcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, Wiki Education is partnering with the American Association for State and Local History to improve Wikipedia’s depth and coverage of American history. Course participants will receive training from Wikipedia experts to expand and deepen the site’s articles related to American history, beginning millennia before 1776 and continuing on to the present. Our free 250 by 2026 eight-week course has been designed specifically with history and cultural heritage practitioners in mind.
We encourage enrollment from practitioners who will be able to attend all eight (8) of the weekly, hour-long meetings. Please note that, in addition to these live sessions, participants will be asked to do about three (3) hours of reading and writing work each week. Registration closes on Monday September 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 Pacific time. If you miss this round, don’t worry – we will be running more courses later next year.
Are you ready to improve the historical content on the world’s largest online Encyclopedia, with 500 million monthly readers? Apply by scrolling down and clicking on one of the courses below!
This course is presented in partnership with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). Visit aaslh.org to learn more.
250 by 2026-Mondays
Mondays 11am-12pm (Pacific)/2pm-3pm (Eastern)
September 29th – November 17th
250 by 2026-Wednesdays
Wednesdays 10am-11am (Pacific)/1pm-2pm (Eastern)
October 1st – November 19th
250 by 2026-Thursdays
Thursdays 11am-12pm (Pacific)/2pm-3pm (Eastern)
October 2nd – November 20th
Not sure of your schedule, but still interested in sharing your knowledge about US history on Wikipedia? Fill out this general sign-up form below to learn more as we post new courses. We will be scheduling more courses for the fall. Fill out this form to receive updates about future courses.
Please join us in this initiative and sign up for an upcoming course that fits into your area of expertise:
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Who should apply?: Public historians; museum, historical society, and historic site workers; and other history practitioners
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Time commitment per week: 1 hour virtual, collaborative meeting via Zoom; ~3 additional hours of independent work
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Cost: The full tuition fee for this course is waived by Wiki Education.
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Goal: to improve Wikipedia articles about improving American history to advance public knowledge
