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Main Navigation× Search for: Teach Learn Connect Partner with us Consult our expertise News Impact Changing students Changing classrooms Changing Wikipedia Communicating Science ImpactMission and Vision Strategy Annual Plan Staff Board Financials For media Careers Contact us Donate Customized Wikipedia & Wikidata training courses 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. ENROLL NOW 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. ENROLL NOW 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. ENROLL NOW 5 test course ENROLL NOW Course Offerings 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 Ben Karney University of California Los Angeles 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." Delia Steverson University of Florida 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.” Sarah Lirley Columbia College How our courses inspire scholars and scientists Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Wiki Education by understrap.com .(Version:...