Education/Newsletter/April 2026
 Wikimedia MKD continues to strengthen its education program through a diverse range of activities aimed at empowering young people, fostering digital literacy, and enriching free knowledge in the Macedonian language. Through workshops, trainings, edit-a-thons, and community initiatives, students and participants across the country are actively engaged in learning and contributing to Wikipedia. Read more… _01.jpg) Wikimedia Ukraine’s “Wikipedia for School” is an annual contest that connects Wikipedia with formal education by improving articles related to school curricula in the Ukrainian language. Since 2019, the program has engaged educators, students, and volunteers in making reliable educational content freely accessible online. In the 2025–2026 edition, the contest ran from 22 December 2025 to 31 January 2026. During the contest, 28 participants created and improved 230 articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia, while an additional “Wikivoyage for School” track added 28 travel-related educational articles. Participants learned how to research sources, improve encyclopedic writing, collaborate with others, and contribute open knowledge resources useful for teachers and learners. A particularly meaningful moment was an offline edit-a-thon in Kyiv, where contributors met despite freezing weather, power outages, and wartime disruptions. The event demonstrated how Wikimedia education programs can build resilience, community, and continued access to knowledge even in crisis conditions. The contest strongly advocates for open education in Ukraine by expanding free, curriculum-based learning materials and showing how Wikimedia projects can support schools, teachers, and lifelong learners. Read more…  Wikimedia CR partnered with Czech NGO ARPOK from Olomouc region to supply education in SDG's and information literacy in Czech elementary and grammar schools. Read more…  This was the third year of collaboration and partnership between the Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group and the Department of Journalism at Aleksandër Xhuvani University in Elbasan and it has become an important way to involve students in contributing to free knowledge through Wikimedia projects. Read more…  Health misinformation and disinformation continue to pose significant risks to public health, particularly in communities where access to credible health information is limited. The Wiki for Combating Health Misinformation and Disinformation in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State project aimed to bridge this gap by empowering young people, particularly medical and health science students, to become informed advocates for accurate health knowledge through the use of Wikimedia projects. Read more…
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 WikiScholar is a pilot initiative by Wikimedia Bangladesh to introduce school students to Wikipedia and promote awareness of free knowledge through structured learning and engagement. Read more… Wikimedia UK has partnered with Thoughtful, the UK charity supporting philosophy for children, to create a new teacher training course on media literacy. Read more…  Between February and the end of March 2026, Wikimedia Armenia organized mandatory internships for 114 students from Brusov State University and the Ijevan Branch of Yerevan State University. Through trainings held both in person and online, students learned about Wikipedia’s principles, editing rules, and technical tools for contributing to Armenian Wikipedia. During their internships, participants translated articles from several language editions of Wikipedia, including English, Chinese, Korean, French, and Russian, while some also created and improved articles using Armenian online and printed sources. In total, the students created or improved 458 articles and contributed more than 18.8 million bytes to Armenian Wikipedia. Additional internships with part-time students are continuing through late April. Read more…  The program engaged students, providing them with their first hands-on experience in contributing to open knowledge platforms. Participants learned how to edit Wikipedia and use Wikidata, gaining practical digital and research skills. Additionally, the program introduced them for the first time to the concepts of open education and open-source resources, highlighting their importance and potential impact on everyday life and learning in the region. Read more… Students at Abdullah Gül University, Türkiye explored UNESCO designated sites through Wikipedia in the elective course Sustainability Governance and Public Knowledge. Working individually and in interdisciplinary teams, they created and improved the Wikipedia article on Camili (Macahel), the only UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Türkiye. The course brought together undergraduate students from diverse disciplines. Read more… .jpg) In April, the educational team at Wikimedia Brasil focused a lot of its efforts in promoting workshops and encounters at schools and universities throughout the country. Check below all activities carried out in Brazil during this month. Read more…
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