A high-impact, real-world assignment

Take your students beyond the classroom with the Wikipedia assignment! You’ll bring your subject expertise, we’ll bring ours in Wikipedia, and together we’ll empower your students to fill in content gaps, enhance representation, and improve citations on the world’s largest encyclopedia.

Each term, Wiki Education supports hundreds of faculty across the U.S. and Canada as they incorporate the Wikipedia assignment into their courses by providing custom syllabi, tailored resources, robust trainings, and staff support.


Get started today

Click “Apply Now” and follow the prompts to create your Wikipedia account, take our self-paced instructor orientation, and create your course page. December 1, 2024 is the priority deadline to teach with the Wikipedia assignment during the spring 2025 term.


How it works

Through our Dashboard’s trainings, tools, and human support, faculty guide their students to research course-related topics, then fill in missing information and add high-quality citations to Wikipedia articles.

Students develop research, writing, and digital literacy skills, all while improving representation and knowledge equity for all – instead of writing for just you, they’ll write for the world.

The Wikipedia Student Program is free for participants, funded by generous donations to Wiki Education.


Connect with faculty participants

Register for an upcoming webinar to hear from faculty who have taught with Wikipedia and ask questions.


Explore faculty experiences

As students write Wikipedia articles through our program, they learn how to collaborate with their peers, frame academic research to the public, and convey knowledge to a non-expert audience. Essentially, they do work that really matters!

  • 97% of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment improved their students’ digital and media literacy skills.
  • 96% of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment helped their students develop a sense of digital citizenship (e.g., a desire to contribute to and ensure the accuracy and accessibility of information).
  • 93% of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment improved their students’ research skills
  • 77% of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment helped their students to become more socially and culturally aware (e.g., the ability to identify underrepresentation and other content gaps stemming from bias).

Explore faculty reflections on their experiences and peer reviewed literature about teaching with Wikipedia.


Questions?

Contact Wiki Education’s Andrés Vera at andres@wikiedu.org.


Testimonials


Interested in teaching with Wikipedia later?

To hear from us about the Wikipedia Student Program, please submit the form below. Note: We are only able to work with courses in U.S. or Canadian accredited higher education institutions.