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
Thursday, October 24 · 9:30 am Pacific / 12:30 pm Eastern
Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard
In our October Speaker Series, Wiki Education’s Chief Technology Officer Sage Ross hosts a discussion about Wiki Education Dashboard as an open source software project, featuring a panel of Google Summer of Code and Outreachy alumni who worked on the Dashboard as interns. Join us to learn a bit about how the Dashboard works under the hood, how it connects to the broader open source software ecosystem, and what sorts of contributions our interns make.
Panelists:
- Om Chauhan, Google Summer of Code
- Matt Fordham, Web Developer
- Sulagna Saha, Outreachy Intern
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)
