Our partners recognize the value of giving experts the dedicated time and support to do public engagement work, which is why they sponsor Wikipedia or Wikidata training courses for their members or staff.
Whether you’re looking to support and train researchers in your field, increase collaboration within your organization or give back to the world’s most-accessed knowledge resource, Wiki Education can customize our curriculum to meet your needs.
Open Courses
November 16th – January 16th (8 weeks)
Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Wiki Scholars
In this tutorial, you'll become familiar with the different types of pages found on Wikipedia and how to interact with each of them.
A “sandbox” is your personal wiki page where you can practice editing, plan out articles, draft articles, or just experiment. You can change your sandbox without impacting the article "mainspace” on Wikipedia — which is what we call live articles.
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November 16th – January 16th (8 weeks)
Wikidata Institute
A short case study of a translation assignment from another
language to English.
Translation courses typically run 4-12 weeks. This case study includes all of the options related to a translation assignment, but you can pick and choose to omit segments, such as fact-checking the target article in the target language, to use less time in your course.
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November 16th – January 16th (8 weeks)
LGBTQ+ Wiki Scholars
In celebration of Pride Month, Wiki Education is hosting a free Wiki Scholars course focused on expanding Wikipedia’s coverage of notable LGBTQ+ people. Through this project, Wiki Education will train a diverse group of academics, scholars, and university students how to contribute content to Wikipedia and better represent influential LGBTQ+ figures to the public.
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Course Offerings
Amplify research to the general public
Millions of people read Wikipedia every day, and while the vailable content can be high quality, so much is still missing. If your institution houses academic knowledge and expertise within your publications, members, and staff, you can be an active part of making more relia
In a customized 6-week Wikipedia training course, Wiki Education trains up to 20 of your stakeholders to find missing, underdeveloped, or inaccurate information on Wikipedia, and we guide them through the intricate process of improving those pages.
Increase Wikipedia’s diversity, equity, and inclusion
Only 19% of Wikipedia’s biographies are of women, and we know there are more stories to tell and accomplishmentsto celebrate. You can bolster the coverage of historically excluded members of your field and community to Wikipedia’s millions of readers
In a 6-week virtual course, Wiki Education’s team of
Wikipedia experts meets with up to 20 of your members,
staff, or other stakeholders to guide them as they add a
biography to Wikipedia. They develop Wikipedia know-how
as they bring more diverse voices and stories to the public.
Bring your team into the Open Data Movement
A common challenge facing librarians, archivists, and museum professionals is the accuracy and accessibility of information related to their collections and archives. How do you get good, reliable information to the public? For many, the answer is Wikidata.
In our 3-week Wikidata Institute, we meet virtually twice a week to facilitate hands-on work for up to 20 participants, providing guidance as they edit Wikidata and bring your collection data to the public.
Increase Wikipedia’s diversity, equity, and inclusion
Millions of people read Wikipedia every day, and while the available content can be high quality, so much is still missing. If your institution houses academic knowledge and expertise within your publications, members, and staff, you can be an active part of making more relia
We’ll work with you to schedule 2 1-hour sessions with up to 30 attendees, and our Wikidata experts will share an overview of why Wikidata is important, how it works, and how eager participants can learn more about engaging with the open data repository that gets high quality knowledge out to the public.
“By the end of the quarter, they realize that their work has been affecting people, something that rarely happens with a standard term paper. In their evaluations of the course, students routinely mention the Wikipedia assignment as t
“My students wrestled with their status as quasi-gatekeepers to particular information. I believe this revelation made their commitment to and belief in free and accessible information even more poignant. We used this project to reconsider power and privilege in the academy and exercised our positionality as a driving force in contributing to the Wikipedia articles."
“Students’ Wikipedia pages and presentations also showed me that they achieved everything that a traditional research paper is supposed to do and more—they conducted research, analyzed it, wrote effectively about their topics, but also shared their work in a meaningful way with each other and with the public.”
Build a training course
Wiki Education works closely with organizations to set up Wikipedia and Wikidata training courses that align with their mission and serve their institutional goals. We have facilitated courses and workshops for faculty, staff,members, and other affiliated stakeholders across academic disciplines. These custom trainings begin with a conversation. Please contact us so we can learn more about your needs, resources, and scope, and we’ll begin a partnership to bring your institution’s knowledge to the world.
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How our courses inspire scholars and scientists
Give to a community
When someone wants to know about a subject, they go to Wikipedia. That’s why 500 million people use Wikipedia every month to freely find the answers to their questions. By enriching Wikipedia pages with their specialized knowledge, scholars and scientists can amplify the access to that information and meet people where they already are – on Wikipedia
Reach the public
When someone wants to know about a subject, they go to Wikipedia. That’s why 500 million people use Wikipedia every month to freely find the answers to their questions.
By enriching Wikipedia pages with their specialized knowledge, scholars and scientists can amplify the access to that information and meet people where they already are – on Wikipedia
Change the future
As amazing as Wikipedia is, there’s currently a gender gap in the community that we can close. So many Wikipedia biographies of notable women don’t exist yet – simply because no one has taken the time to write them. Institutions
can empower their members to add women and other historically excluded people to Wikipedia, becoming a part of
the collective mission to make publicly available free knowledge more equitable and inclusive and inspiring the next
generations to pursue any career.