The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has awarded Wiki Education a $25,000 grant to lead a 10-week Wiki Scholars course in the upcoming year that will train scholars in pre-modern European art and architecture how to add their knowledge to a topic deeply underdeveloped on Wikipedia. The Foundation agrees it’s critical that Wikipedia provides accurate, expert, … Continued
These students made Wikipedia’s information about fertility care and family planning more inclusive of the LGBTQ community. Their work continues to be read 1,500 views every day, well beyond the conclusion of their course. What other assignment can say the same? Dr. Cynthia Gabriel’s course about LGBTQ Reproductive Health invites students at the University of … Continued
Professor Yajun Mo’s course at Boston College delves into the changes in Chinese women’s lives through a period of profound change on the Chinese mainland: from the mid-19th century to the present. Yik Tung Tsui, a junior from Hong Kong majoring in history and mathematics, was one student in the course last year. He was … Continued
Margaret Helen Harper was a programmer who worked with Grace Hopper to help develop one of the first computer programs. But until 2020, she didn’t have a Wikipedia biography. Thanks to a student editor currently in our program, she now does and hundreds of people have since read about her work. With 450 million readers … Continued
As one of Wiki Education’s Wikipedia Experts, my interactions with students in our Student Program are usually limited to the talk pages of Wikipedia. However, a couple of weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the class of Alma López, a visual artist and lecturer with the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o … Continued
The Wikipedia assignment is giving students career skills that allow them to address misinformation, to correct the historical record in racially marginalized communities, and to discover that personally, they are a crucial part of the solution. I recently visited students at Denmark Technical College, a historically Black college in South Carolina, to share about … Continued
Each term, I’m charged with reviewing and assessing the Wikipedia Student Program. It’s a time intensive process which is why these posts often appear several months after the completion of a term. It would be easy for us at Wiki Education to simply say that one term is like another. Thousands of students from hundreds … Continued
Courtney Hall, Mary Strecker, and Rachael Ballou all took Christine Lattin’s Environmental Physiology course last term. They dove into how species survive in their environments, deal with common problems, and adapt to extreme conditions–from deserts to the deep seas. Then they took what they learned and they shared it with the world. That is, the … Continued
You may be aware that Wikipedia suffers its fair share of gender imbalance and that many are working to change it. Only 19% of biographies are about women. But the gender gap isn’t just about content. It’s also about the contributors who write that content–87% of whom identify as male. It’s important to bring women’s … Continued
