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We believe Wikipedia and its sister projects belong in education. When students of all ages engage with Wikimedia projects as part of their learning, they gain significant 21st century skills . By fostering a relationship between Education and the Wikimedia movement, we have the best chance to realize our goal that the sum of all knowledge will be accessible to everyone in the world for free.

Meet the team

The Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports the EduWiki network to empower people with the skills and knowledge to contribute to free knowledge, engaging the global education sector in the Wikimedia Movement. The EduWiki network encompasses affiliates, volunteers, like-minded organizations, and policy makers.

Nichole Saad
Senior Manager, Education
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas
Senior Program Officer, Education
Sailesh Patnaik
Program Officer, Education

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Our Values

Inclusion

The Education Team strives to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to participate in the Wikimedia movement as both consumers and contributors to open knowledge. That’s why we value inclusion. Living this value means prioritizing work that facilitates participation for people who are currently left out for various reasons.

Growth

Our team supports each other to grow personally and professionally. As our team continues working with our communities we continue to learn and grow. We look to explore new pathways, relationships, and opportunities to help us get better at what we do. We aim to use our diverse backgrounds to amplify the voices of underrepresented people and communities doing work for Wikimedia and education to grow the use of the Wikimedia projects in education.

Fellowship Program

Since 2018, the Education Team has facilitated a Fellowship program that brings students from related fields and disciplines onto the team for a semester or a year to learn about the value of Wikimedia in Education and to contribute to the Foundation through a research project.

2018

Sailesh Patnaik and Alen Ameni

Presentation from 2018's Fellows on the "Education Mapping Exercise" project

2019–2020

Priyal Gala and Meng Zhou

On Wednesday Feb 12, 2020, Priyal Gala and Meng Zhou from the George Washington University International Education Program shared the amazing work they've been doing over the last 16 weeks conducting background research on the education systems of the three countries partnering with the Education Team on the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom project: the Philippines, Morocco, and Bolivia. Their research is helping us to understand how this project can work within the existing systems, and improve outcomes for teachers, students, and the Wikimedia movement.

Watch here

2021–2022

Fu-Ying Lin

Originally from Taiwan, Fu Ying has worked as an educator in Taiwan, Turkey and Germany. She recently completed a Ph.D. in linguistics from Freie Universität Berlin and has a strong interest in data analytics.

In 2021–2022 Fu Ying Lin researched the challenges and opportunities for Wikimedia in Higher Education (focusing on communities outside of North America and Europe). She shared her research in a final presentation in June 2022. You can find the report slides here.