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This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 1 • January 2020


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Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group cooperated with BONEVET, a non-formal educational institution, to train their instructors on Wikimedia projects which they can further carry out in their activities. read more...



Starting November 2019, we are highlighting a Wikimedian who is impacting or who has been impacted by Wikimedia & Education work. For January. In this article meet Parvathi Sri, a teacher and a Wikimedian, using Wikipedia and its sister projects as a tool of digital literacy and for awareness.read more...

We ran a campaign to collect missing education activities from Wikimedia Education database. That 10 days long edit-a-thon campaign helped us to collect 36 new activities from 13 different countries. This centralised document of the Education Programs will help educators and community leaders to understand the strategies, ideas and workflow followed by different affiliates and education leaders. read more...

Wikimedia Serbia, in cooperation with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies in Belgrade, has made 20 user friendly and easy to use video tutorials in the Serbian language on editing Wikipedia. read more...


February 2019 Wikimedia Armenia started a partnership with Lernapat Secondary School. Students Wikiclassroom is another opportunity to acquire new knowledge by editing articles in Armenian Wikipedia read more...


Selet Wikischool completed its Fall-2019 Edutainment Outreach Program. These traditional twice-a-year (Spring+Fall) session runs are one of the main avenues of introducing Republic of Tatarstan youth to Wikimedia platforms.read more...

Wikimedia Indonesia collaborated with 5 universities and high schools in Wiki Masuk Sekolah.read more...

Wikimedia Indonesia has previously opened an internship program in Wikimedia Indonesia’s Yogyakarta Community which resulted in 4 interns finished the program. Three of those four interns are now still active in contributing online and also helping us with our other programs, such as GLAM, Community, Competitions, and Wikipedia workshops. read more...

How do I know if my community will really benefit from the project I want to implement? What is a logic model? Where can I find funding to bring my project idea to life? These are just a few of the questions addressed during the second unit of the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse online course. read more...


Thanks to the Wikimedia Poland cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lodz (central Poland) students of Ethnology became Wikipedians.read more...


Wikimedia Indonesia collaborated with National Board of Teachers Association of the Republic of Indonesia (PB PGRI) organized the second Training of Trainers in Makassar, South Sulawesi.read more...



Wiki Club Ohrid started several months project about rare diseases.read more...


Joint translations of articles on Wikipedia help Armenian school students to be better at foreign languages. This experience is carried at Karvachar's Wikiclub. read more...


Alva's College and The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Kannada Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Kannada to all Kannada speaking people across the globe.read more...


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