How often do you land on Wikipedia during a quick search, curious detour, or a fact-check mid-conversation? The free encyclopedia continues to be one of the most visited websites around the globe, yet its coverage of topics like U.S. history is riddled with inaccuracies, outdated information, and significant gaps. It’s also well-known now that the … Continued
Something that is both hidden and obvious about rare diseases is that published research about these diseases is sparse compared to other diseases. This has a compounding effect on Wikipedia — with fewer sources, it becomes much more difficult to represent these topics in the online encyclopedia. This is one of the many reasons why … Continued
A few weeks ago, I made my way to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 hosted by WikimediaPT, Wiki Editoras Lx, the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Brasil and several other amazing folks. Never heard of the GLAM Wiki Conference and wondering how there could possibly be another Wiki-related conference? I’m sure you’re not … Continued
Why is linked data important? How do Wikidata and library collections work together? What does a Wikidata project look like? To answer these questions and more (and to celebrate Wikidata’s birthday this month!), Wiki Education hosted the Speaker Series webinar Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata on October 23. Panelists Kate Topham, Digital Scholarship Specialist … Continued
In fall 2023, 20 esteemed experts in art history joined Wiki Education for a special ten-week Wiki Scholars course funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Designed to train experts to edit articles about European art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century, the course demonstrated the incredible impact a small group of … Continued
In 2023, thanks to a Data for Good grant from the Nielsen Foundation, we built a set of pages to identify articles missing on the English language version of Wikipedia through an equity lens. We call these pages Equity lists. Like many online communities and publications, Wikipedia suffers from systemic bias, resulting in underrepresentation across … Continued
Do you ever wonder where Wikipedia articles come from? With a world of knowledge to represent, it’s a big question. At Wiki Education, we are especially concerned with Wikipedia being an equitable and representative resource. Whether it’s a museum of paintings, a library full of volumes of books, or an online encyclopedia, systematic bias is … Continued
At Wiki Education, we spend a lot of time working to make Wikipedia and Wikidata more representative of the world we live in. Many of our courses focus on content gaps about historically marginalized communities, so that our programs and the greater Wikipedia editing community can systematically tackle them at scale. Unfortunately, there have been … Continued
We have wrapped up another round of excellent work with the University of Virginia (UVA) Data Science capstone project. Capstone work entails having students collaborate with community partners using data science methodology and some powerful computing to provide new insights about a dataset. This is Wiki Education’s second round working with a UVA capstone group … Continued
