“Wikicamps” for Armenian students have expanded with Wiktionary.... Read more
Samir El-Sharbaty
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What I Learned: Improving the Armenian Wiktionary with the help of students
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Wikipedia Education Program in Estonia encourages collaboration online and off
The Wikipedia Education Program in Estonia got students to contribute to the world of free knowledge on the internet by editing Wikipedia and bringing experienced editors of the online encyclopedia to work on the ground and help newbies. The journey was not an easy nor a short one for them. Leaders were able to take the challenge, support their initiative, and learn from their past lessons.... Read more
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First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences
Wikipedians from around the Arab world met last April for their first regional Wikipedia conference in Monastir, Tunisia.
This report summarizes three days of discussions about their community’s challenges and opportunities — and the future of the free knowledge movement.... Read more -
WikiCamps introduce young Armenians to Wikipedia
Last summer, 135 young adults ages 14-20 learned to edit Wikipedia while attending WikiCamps, a promising new program from Wikimedia Armenia. (…)... Read more
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Egyptian students made the most contributions to the Arabic Wikipedia in 2014
Over the last five academic terms, 978 students from the Arab World added more than 42.6 million bytes of content to the Arabic Wikipedia, as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The highest contributions ever in one term came from the Egyptian students in Spring/Summer 2014, with more than 12.38 million bytes of new Arabic content. (…)... Read more
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Education collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
Wikipedia is built upon diversity. A high quality encyclopedia cannot be achieved unless there are opportunities for everyone in the world to contribute to it and people from different cultures, genders and ages are well-represented in the community….... Read more
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Hans Oleander: Using offline Wikipedia to guide tours at the bottom of the Earth
Hans Oleander lives and works in southern Germany, but once a year he gets away from his desk and voyages to the bottom of the Earth to spend a few weeks as a tour guide in Antarctica.... Read more
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In Egypt, Ain Shams’ Al-Alsun celebrates four terms of successful work on Wikipedia
This post is available in 2 languages: English • Arabic English Students, ambassadors and professors celebrate as they wrap up the fourth term on Wikipedia. Two years ago the Wikipedia Education program had its first inception in the Arab world with Egypt’s Cairo Pilot. With such a large number of Arabic speakers (530 million primary and secondary speakers) Arabic Wikipedia needed more ... Read more
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Egyptian students help narrow gender gap on Wikipedia
Fewer than 15% of Wikipedia editors around the world are female and the coverage of articles about women on Wikipedia is often not very good. Although the Arabic Wikipedia suffers the same imbalance in its content, this is not the case for the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt. The number of female students in the Egypt program is much higher than male ones. The program has also brought to the ... Read more
The new Wikipedia store features many new items, such as plantable "sprout" pencils and "free knowledge" T-shirts. 