When Georgia Institute of Technology student Annika Trout learned she’d be improving a Wikipedia article for her Introduction to Environmental Sciences class this fall, she felt like it would be an interesting change from her typical research essay or presentation. “I also felt daunted by the challenge – it seemed like a huge responsibility to … Continued
Charles Darwin coined the term “warm little pond” to describe the potential origin of life. But the idea lacked a Wikipedia article until Ula Jones created it this fall as part of a class assignment to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of the origin of life. Ula is a first-year graduate student in earth and space sciences … 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
The recent movie Oppenheimer brought recent attention to the Manhattan Project. For Lone Star College – Kingwood sophomore Connor McAdams, an important part of learning more about the Manhattan Project is learning about the traditionally underrepresented scientists who also contributed. “People often acknowledge scientists such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, but other scientists who worked on … Continued
Mahmoud “Mody” Hassan is a freshman at Rutgers University Newark. It was his first term of college, and he had just started at Rutgers after being born and raised in Egypt. So there were a lot of changes in his life when he showed up to Dr. Laura Porterfield’s class on “Education and Social Change … Continued
In this 8-week course, climate action enthusiasts, finance experts, and other scholars will work to add at least one biography of a woman leader in climate finance to Wikipedia. Wiki Education’s team of Wikipedia experts will guide participants through the process of adding notable biographies to Wikipedia, and participants will emerge having told the story of a woman’s contributions toward global sustainability. … Continued
In this 8-week course, climate change experts, scientists, and scholars will work to improve a article to Wikipedia about climate change as it relates to human rights and vulnerable communities. Wiki Education’s team of Wikipedia experts will guide participants through this process, and participants will emerge with the skills add high-quality academic knowledge to Wikipedia. … Continued
Climate solutions exist, but they aren’t happening on the necessary scale to reach the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement. Why? We need to shift our cultural mindsets on a collective level in order to cut emissions across all sectors. One shift the public must make is to mobilize capital for climate mitigation and … Continued
In this 8-week course, political scientists and other experts will improve Wikipedia’s content related to topics like: electoral processes, proposed local laws, US political parties, candidates for office, issues relevant to voters in local or federal elections, voting behavior and participation, or any other topic related to the 2024 election. … Continued
