“A better Wikipedia means a better world for all”

Wiki Education envisions a world in which students, scholars, scientists, archivists, librarians, and other members of academic and cultural institutions are actively engaged in sharing their knowledge with the general public through Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open collaboration projects on the web.

Wikipedia

WITH Wiki Scientists: Improving healthcare for adults with disabilities

Wiki Education is seeking scholars, scientists, and medical practitioners to participate in an 6-week virtual course as they learn how to edit Wikipedia. We'll take a deep dive into Wikipedia's coverage of healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities and add high-quality information to Wikipedia to inform the public with potentially life-changing knowledge.

Wikipedia

WITH Wiki Scientists: Improving healthcare for adults with disabilities

Wiki Education is seeking scholars, scientists, and medical practitioners to participate in an 6-week virtual course as they learn how to edit Wikipedia. We'll take a deep dive into Wikipedia's coverage of healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities and add high-quality information to Wikipedia to inform the public with potentially life-changing knowledge.

Wikipedia

WITH Wiki Scientists: Improving healthcare for adults with disabilities

Wiki Education is seeking scholars, scientists, and medical practitioners to participate in an 6-week virtual course as they learn how to edit Wikipedia. We'll take a deep dive into Wikipedia's coverage of healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities and add high-quality information to Wikipedia to inform the public with potentially life-changing knowledge.

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 their favorite part.

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

In the past two years, writing for Wikipedia has added intellectual substance and verve to my courses, while giving me and my students a sense of accomplishment as we produce and disseminate knowledge.

Heather Sharkey

University of Pennsylvania