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Education/Newsletter/November 2022

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Volume 11 • Issue 11 • November 2022


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Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group collaborated with the national museum and high schools to celebrate two historically important dates in November. Read more…

Wikimedia Nigeria User Group Abuja Network celebrated Wikidata at 10 with an edit-a-thon on Wikidata. Wikidata central storage chamber for structured data for Wikimedia projects celebrated its 10 years of existence, and it was all fun and interesting. Read more…

Wikimedia Israel is leading an innovative educational project in both in Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia, during which students expand entries in Wikipedia as an alternative to matriculation. Read more…

On November 28, 2022, the Russian-language illustrated teaching aid "Introduction to Wikipedia" was released. The new 245-page book is a training course and is intended for anyone who wants to thoroughly understand the functioning of the Wikipedia encyclopedia, learn how to work with sources and write high-quality encyclopedic articles. Read more…


A 24-hour “hackathon-style” Wikipedia article writing competition took place on November 12-13. The teams had 24 h time to write a wiki article on a topic received by lottery. Read more…

From April 2022, Hetq Media Factory of the Investigative Journalists NGO based in Armenia is implementing "WikiGraphers. "Visualizing Open Knowledge" educational program, contributing to the development of the visual content of Armenian Wikipedia articles and the formation of a community of WikiGraphers. Read more…

The Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program was recently implemented in Morocco by the Wikimedia Morocco User Group and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. The program aimed to improve digital literacy and media literacy among Moroccan teachers. Read more…

Wikipedia for School contest was organized in Ukraine to enhance the qualitative articles on Ukrainian Wikipedia. Read more…


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