250 by 2026 Wiki Scholars Courses

Is your organization passionate about preserving and sharing history? Wikipedia can help you disseminate the history of your community, state, or region to a global audience. To mark the upcoming 250th anniversary of 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 DATE/TIME, with approximately 20 spots available. Successful enrollees will be notified the following week and asked to confirm their participation.

Are you ready to improve the historical content on the world’s largest online Encyclopedia, with 500 million monthly readers? Reserve your spot now!

This course is presented in partnership with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). Visit aaslh.org to learn more.

Are you 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 have one course scheduled, scroll up to the “Enroll Now” button on the right to apply or fill out the form below to receive updates about future courses.