The US Department of Education says that women earn 57.4% of bachelor’s degrees. Women receive 62.6% of master’s degrees. But only 31% of degrees and certificates in STEM fields go to women. This gap has an uneasy, well-known counterpart on Wikipedia. Roughly 80–90% of the volunteers writing Wikipedia are men. It’s perhaps no coincidence that … Continued
Highlights On January 15, we officially launched the Year of Science, our initiative to improve both Wikipedia’s science content and the science communication skills of higher education students across the United States and Canada. The Year of Science will include significant outreach to increase the number of supported courses in STEM and other science fields. … Continued
I’m pleased to announce a new opportunity for a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Hunter College. The Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program connects university libraries and Wikipedia editors. Libraries grant Wikipedians access to high-quality research materials, empowering them to write even better content in areas of common interest. That increases the impact of university collections. Hunter College was … Continued
In honor of Black History Month, we’re sharing articles about black women in science. We know that Wikipedia is often missing these stories. For the Year of Science, Wiki Ed is connecting with higher education classrooms to helps students understand that there is diversity in science. When students uncover and share stories not only of … Continued
I’m pleased to announce that the Wiki Education Foundation is attending the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to promote the Wikipedia Year of Science. On February 13 and 14, we’ll join the Simons Foundation to support scientists attending a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons. Samantha Erickson and I will join … Continued
Wiki Ed supported more students in 2015 than ever before. With improvements in our tools and resources, we’ve been able to maintain quality work from those student editors. It was a year of rapid growth and considerable change. In one term, the courses we supported rose from 117 (spring 2015) to 162 in fall 2015 … Continued
Highlights The Wiki Education Foundation launched new onboarding and online orientations for instructors through the Wiki Ed Dashboard. We simultaneously launched a suite of modular trainings for student editors. The new trainings focus core learnings in two introductory modules, then provide specific trainings for students based on what students are asked to do in the … Continued
The Year of Science is here! In 2016, the Wiki Education Foundation will be working to get comprehensive — and comprehensible — science information into the screens and pockets of millions of readers by improving Wikipedia articles in the sciences. Along the way, we’ll challenge university students across the United States and Canada to share … Continued
January 15th marks Wikipedia’s 15th birthday. In those 15 years, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit has become one of the few resources that people can use to research a topic, or settle a bar bet. But among academics, Wikipedia has had a rockier path to acceptance. Today, the Wiki Education Foundation has worked with … Continued
