How much do you know about art in Renaissance Italy? You can read all about it now that students in Sara Galletti’s art history course at Duke University have expanded and improved these articles on Italian painters. Thanks to them, anyone can have access to knowledge about these influential figures of art history. Giulio Bonasone‘s Wikipedia article … Continued
January 15th of this year marks the 17th anniversary of the site’s launch and is thus named Wikipedia Day! This day is celebrated around the world as the birth of the most popular open source encyclopedic resource in the world. We often hear from students that before completing a Wikipedia assignment, they used Wikipedia almost daily and … Continued
January happens to be Thyroid Awareness Month. If you heard this and went in search of thyroid information, you’d likely end up on Wikipedia. There, you’d find the article for thyroid disease, which was heavily expanded during Dr. Amin Azzam’s Fall 2016 course for fourth year medical students at UCSF. That article has been viewed 26,778 times since … Continued
If you had searched for the Hungarian novel, The Door, on Wikipedia before this year, you would have been disappointed with the lack of information. Now if you looked for it, you’d find the work of a student in Sibelan Forrester’s Spring 2017 course at Swarthmore College, Eastern European Prose. The student expanded the article to include … Continued
Today is International Migrants Day, a day appointed by the UN and recognized around the world as an opportunity to disseminate information about the human rights and political freedoms of migrants. It is also a day to celebrate societal contributions made by migrants, to share experiences, and to strategize ways to ensure protection of human rights. … Continued
December is Universal Human Rights Month, and yesterday was Human Rights Day, an internationally recognized day remembering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. On this day, governmental and non-governmental organizations around the world raise awareness for human rights issues, meet to strategize about solving them, and host events to commemorate … Continued
I accompanied Educational Partnerships Manager Jami Mathewson to DC last week where we attended the American Anthropological Association’s 116th annual meeting. We spoke with dozens of instructors about the importance of disseminating academic scholarship to a wider audience. How can we not only increase coverage of anthropology topics on Wikipedia, but also add an anthropological … Continued
“Did you know… that the Canadian government invests millions of dollars in First Nations communities to close the digital divide in Canada?” On February 8, 2017, this blurb appeared on Wikipedia’s main page in the Did You Know? section, which features interesting facts from newly developed articles. In this case, the article was created and fleshed out … Continued
Highlights In October, we formalized a partnership with the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Through this partnership, AAA will encourage its members to participate in Wiki Education’s programs, increasing the availability of information about anthropology from a global perspective on Wikipedia. Classroom Program staff held their second round of Office Hours earlier this month. These sessions … Continued