Join Wiki Education as we bring together experts in Wikimedia and open knowledge for lively discussions of topics relevant to our communities. Wiki Education hosts regular, Zoom-based conversations, and you’re encouraged to take part! Sign up for any topics that are of interest to you, and join as our panelists share their thoughts, moderated by a Wiki Education staff member.
Upcoming events
Celebrating 10 Years of Wiki Education
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 · 10 am PST / 1 pm EST
Join us online as we celebrate 10 years of learning and impact with Wiki Education! We’ll hear from special guests including Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, Wiki Education Board Chair P.J. Tabit, former Board Chair Diana Strassmann, and Executive Director Frank Schulenburg. And we want to hear from you! Have a favorite memory from your interactions with us? We’ll have an opportunity for you to share it. Join us!
The Experts Behind the Edits: Expanding public understanding of healthcare
Monday, January 27, 2025 · 10 am PST / 1 pm EST
To kick off our first Speaker Series event of the new year, Wiki Education brings together a panel of healthcare experts to take us behind the scenes of their work on Wikipedia and the contributions of their students! Join us on Monday, January 27 (10 am PST / 1 pm EST) to explore the impact of Wikipedia on patient-physician communications, the unique guidelines for editing its medical content, and how both the public and healthcare professionals turn to it for reliable information.
Panelists:
- Gabriela Alvarado, MD, PhD, policy researcher, RAND
- Amin Azzam, MD, professor, UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program
- Maureen Richards, PhD, professor, Assistant Dean of Medical Education & Evaluation, UICOM Rockford
- Izidora Skracic, PhD, health researcher
- Melissa Joseph, Wiki Education (moderator)
Past events
Speaker Series events are recorded and available on our YouTube channel:
- How teaching with Wikipedia revolutionizes higher education classrooms (August 2023)
- Wikipedia in a Generative AI World (September 2023)
- How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world (October 2023)
- Closing the gap for Black and Hispanic STEM professionals on Wikipedia (December 2023)
- How Wikipedia tackles the climate crisis (January 2024)
- What’s it like to edit Wikipedia? Hear it from the students themselves (February 2024)
- Tackling Wikipedia’s Gender Gap (March 2024)
- Wikipedia Research! (April 2024)
- Wikipedia and Education, globally (May 2024)
- Who is preserving LGBTQ+ history? (June 2024)
- Wikipedia & Politics: Improving articles for a more informed public (August 2024)
- Wikipedia & Social Justice: How students are improving representation and equity (September 2024)
- Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard (October 2024)