By Francisco Laso, Ph.D. Environmental Studies, Western Washington University A student once stopped me after class and said, flatly: “You know your class is deeply depressing, right?” He wasn’t wrong. I teach Extractivism and Its Alternatives in Latin America, a four-credit course that examines what happens when an economic system is built on removing natural … Continued
Mike Pascoe is the President of the Lafayette History Museum in Lafayette, Colorado and associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus. When I enrolled in one of Wiki Education’s 250 by 2026 Wiki Scholars courses, I expected to learn how to edit Wikipedia more effectively. What I did not expect was how quickly … Continued
Jennifer Bernstein, PhD Editor-in-Chief, Case Studies in the Environment Faculty, Texas Tech University In an eight-week, online introductory environmental science course, I assigned the Wikipedia assignment in lieu of a traditional research paper. Students selected an article from a list of geoscience terms and improved it through editing and contributing text, references, and media. My … Continued
Marketing and Information Systems major Tim Qian is a senior at the University of Washington. As part of his Wikipedia assignment, Tim created the new Wikipedia article on the 2008 Shell Bodo Oil Spill. Tim, creating a brand new Wikipedia article is a big deal! Why did you choose to work on this article? In … Continued
By Kaelynn Ross, student at the University of Alaska Anchorage Trying to figure out a direction for my Wikipedia assignment last term proved to be tricky. I hadn’t spent much time on Wikipedia previously, and all of the things I was interested in also seemed to be loved by many other editors, so finding additional … Continued
David Minh is the Robert E. Frey, Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Illinois Institute of Technology and the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Biagon Inc. Introduction This semester was the first time I had students complete the Wikipedia assignment, where they evaluated and made edits to an article in the free online encyclopedia. … Continued
Michenael is a first-year student at Rutgers University-Newark. She plans to major in diagnostic medical imaging to become a sonographer. As part of her Wikipedia assignment in fall 2025, Michenael improved the Wikipedia article focused on tech entrepreneur and activist Judith Adem Owigar. 1. Was your work on Wikipedia meaningful to you? In what way? … Continued
Jane Sancinito is Assistant Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is an ancient historian, focusing on merchants, artisans and working people in the Roman Empire, a numismatist, studying ancient coinage, and a specialist in the concept of greed in the pre-modern world. I never considered myself much of a Wikipedia editor. I … Continued
Jennifer Lynn Stoever is an Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!, and author of The Sonic Color Line (NYU Press). She is an interdisciplinary scholar who researches the role of sound in constructing racial identities. Her current book-in-progress details how Black women and their record collections were fundamental to the … Continued
