There has been a special course in University of Tartu closely related to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not the sole topic of the course and the whole field of open knowledge is explored, including copyright issues, crowdsourcing, encyclopedias, free software, information society, popular science, relations between Wikipedia and media, wiki software, Wikipedia in education, photography, etc.
It was introduced in 2011/12 as a 2 ECTS course under Institute of Journalism and Communication and continued in 2012/13 under Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science as a 3 ECTS course (link).
Other subject fields (geography, informatics, international relations, linguistics, physics, psychology, etc) have also had courses with exercises involving contributions to Wikipedia.
Võro Wikipedia started using university students already in 2007.
One of the administrators of Võro Wikipedia is teaching Võro language in the University of Tartu.
As part of this course students have possibility to write a short article on Võro Wikipedia.
As a result ca 65 new articles have been created (that correspond to 1/80 of all articles in Võro Wikipedia project).
For example back in 2009–2010 there was a course about history of photography with ca 35 students. It involved the first wikiarticle writing exercise in Estonian Wikipedia.
In the schoolyear 2010/2011 Ivo Kruusamägi and Teele Vaalma visited alltogether 15 schools in Estonia, introduced Wikipedia and its editing rules and conducted a survey regarding general awareness about Wikipedia among students and teachers.
Since the year 2013 there have been discussions with the Ministry about their possible support for piloting a large scope project for introducing Wikipedia in secondary schools of Estonia.
Project included payed staff for training (1 FTE) and for coordination activities (0.5 FTE), totalling 1,5 FTE.
Although contacts were established with 12 schools, only 6 of them participated in the project.
Alltogether 93 students and 20 teachers participated in Wikipedia lectures and workshops in schools.
A total of 41 students wrote at least 1 article on Estonian Wikipedia during the workshop.
The goal of the project was not achieved, as only 6 secondary school students engaged in wikipedization of their research writings.
A total of 19 articles were created and 11 significantly improved, based on the research writings of students, which equals 101 341 bytes of Wikipedia editing.
Geography teacher of the school has integrated Wikipedia related tasks to the study of Geography.
It was done in years 2013 and 2014.
As students are in need of significant amount of assistance (Estonian is not their native language and they have never contributed to Wikipedia before), this initiative may be discontinued as an uneffective one.
In January 2015 the 5-member project team consisting of teacher of Estonian language, educational technologist, specialist of academic writing and communication, wikipedian and coordinator started its work.
During the course all participants will be working on their own Wikipedia article and will provide feedback for other participants.
E-course will use the environment of Moodle and Estonian Wikipedia and will be available as an optional subject for schoolyear 2015/2016.
Project enrolled in the end of the year 2014 with an aim to increase environmental awareness by creating nature and environment related articles on Wikipedia.
Both secondary schools and universities, as well as environmental education centres are involved with the project.
Although not strictly an educational project, it includes several educational aspects.
In Spring 2014 Wikimedia Eesti applied for an Erasmus+ funding to support this project on international level, but application was rejected.
Wikimedia Eesti considers the project to be important and continues with it.
Minority Translate tool that is being developed for small wikis (like many fenno-ugric wikis are), could potentially be used in education (translation and languages studies). (P.S. The development of Minority Translate is a personal project of Ivo Kruusamägi and not directly related to activities of Wikimedia Eesti, nor funded by the chapter).
