A high-impact, real-world assignment your students will remember.
Students improve Wikipedia articles in your subject area — and learn research, source evaluation, public writing, collaboration, and AI literacy along the way. Our staff supports you and your students for free.
Free for U.S. & Canadian postsecondary instructors. Supporting faculty since 2010.
One assignment. A program behind it.
You bring the syllabus and the subject expertise. We bring the training, the dashboard, the playbooks, and the staff. Free for U.S. and Canadian postsecondary instructors.
Wiki Education is your co-pilot for the term.
Scaffolded training modules for your students, sample syllabi for your discipline, and a dashboard for tracking contributions — plus direct staff support whenever something comes up. We’ve helped thousands of instructors run this assignment since 2010.
Build a course page
Set up your course on our dashboard — sample syllabi and timelines included.
Students complete training
Self-paced modules teach Wikipedia policies, sourcing, and editing — no class time lost.
Pick & draft articles
Students choose articles in your subject area, evaluate sources, and write — without AI.
Publish to Wikipedia
Contributions go live, get peer-reviewed by the community, and stay online indefinitely.
Wrap & reflect
Dashboard reports show pageviews, edits, and reach. Students see their public impact.
What instructors tell us the assignment delivers.
From the most recent faculty survey. Percentages represent agreement that the Wikipedia assignment helped students develop the named skill.
From the instructors who’ve run it.
A few of the thousands of faculty members who’ve made the Wikipedia assignment part of their courses.
Students’ Wikipedia pages showed me that they achieved everything that a traditional research paper is supposed to do — and more.
Writing for Wikipedia has added intellectual substance and verve to my courses, while giving me and my students a sense of accomplishment.
By the end of the quarter, they realize that their work has been affecting people — something that rarely happens with a standard term paper.
My students leave the course knowing that they made a contribution that other people will actually read and use.
The Wikipedia assignment is the closest thing to professional academic work that I can offer my undergraduates.
It transformed the way my students think about who gets to write the historical record — and that they can be part of it.
Talk with us before you decide.
Drop in to ask questions, see the dashboard, and hear what other instructors in your discipline are doing.
More all-disciplines sessions coming soon. Tell us your subject and we’ll let you know.
Common questions from faculty.
Have something more specific? Email studentprogram@wikiedu.org and our staff will get back to you.
What is the Wikipedia assignment?
Who is eligible for free support?
What do students learn?
- Research and source evaluation
- Writing for a public audience
- Collaboration with peers and the broader Wikipedia community
- AI literacy and a critical eye for verifiable information
How long should the assignment run?
What class size works best?
Can students use AI tools?
How does my student protect their privacy?
Can I run the assignment in multiple courses?
How do I apply?
Not ready to apply? Tell us about your course.
Share a few details and we’ll be in touch with resources tailored to your subject and term. Free for U.S. and Canadian postsecondary instructors.
Bring the Wikipedia assignment to your next course.
Most instructors are approved within a few business days. We’ll match you with a Wiki Education staff partner who knows your discipline.
