We’re back from an amazing trip to London! Last week, four Wiki Education Foundation staff and three board members were in the thick of the global Wikimedia community at the annual Wikimania conference. This year Wikimania had a strong focus on education, and it drew large crowds of people from all over the world who were interested … Continued
1. Highlights After meetings with representatives of American Sociological Association (ASA), the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS), and the National Communication Association (NCA) this spring to establish their goals for their Wikipedia initiatives, we embarked on a strategy of strengthening our educational partnership support, with a reorganization of the programs department. Jami Mathewson has moved … Continued
1. Highlights As part of our ongoing work to develop a visual identity for our organization, we rolled out a new logo, which you can see at the top of this report. It was designed by David Peters of EXBROOK, who has done work with the Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia Foundation, and Creative Commons in … Continued
Last month, the Wiki Education Foundation doubled in size from three to six employees — and we’re at it again! We’ve just posted two new positions: Classroom Program Manager and Communications Associate. Both positions will support our growing programs department in expanding our mission to support university faculty members in the United States and Canada … Continued
Last weekend, Program Manager Jami Mathewson and I traveled to London to facilitate the Future of Education Workshop, part of the Fringe events before Wikimania 2014. The four years we’ve spent working on the Wikipedia Education Program give us a unique ability to facilitate workshops like this, which was designed to develop the content of the Education … Continued
Highlights We launched our new website. We will continue to build out various areas, but now there is a central place for information about the Wiki Education Foundation, our participants, and our activities. We have an active blog that you can subscribe to by email or RSS at http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/blog. We announced the hiring of three new staff … Continued
Highlights The Wiki Education Foundation welcomed LiAnna Davis as the Head of Communications and External Relations. In her new role, LiAnna will be responsible for key communications with news media and other Wiki Education Foundation stakeholders (including the Wikipedia community), and for building educational materials targeted at instructors and students. Also, LiAnna will be responsible … Continued
Last weekend, the Wiki Education Foundation’s LiAnna Davis, Jami Mathewson, and Frank Schulenburg traveled to New York City to attend the first WikiConference USA. The event was an opportunity for about 150 Wikimedians from around the United States to gather and discuss programmatic activities happening all around the country. We participated in four talks during … Continued
Earlier this week, I was honored to be an invited guest at my alma mater, the University of Puget Sound, to speak about Wikipedia. The Collins Memorial Library on campus invited me to speak to a gathering of librarians, professors, students, and staff from the greater Tacoma region, including Pacific Lutheran University, University of Washington … Continued
