Education/Newsletter/June 2022
 A hybrid edit-a-thon event in collaboration with Black Lunch Table and Igbo Wikimedians User Group was organized to create or edits articles/items of black artists. Read more…  Ukrainian universities have been joining the Wikipedia Education Program for years, and one of this semester’s highlights is the work of tourism studies students at the Lviv Polytechnic. Tourism juniors learned how to edit Wikivoyage as a course assignment – and helped this Ukrainian wikiproject to reach 1000 articles. Read more…  Students at the University of New Mexico were for the first time introduced to Wikimedia projects through the WikiForHumanRights 2022 campaign to contribute content related to the environment to the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Read more…  In the 2021–2022 spring term, Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (WMTR) collaborated with Kadir Has University , Istanbul in supporting 200 students from different departments for doing Wikimedia related projects in their compulsory Civic Responsibility Project course in their first year in the university. Read more…  At the beginning of the academic school year 2021–2022, Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group created 3 wikiclubs with different schools in Elbasan, Albania. Read more… The use of Wikipedia in secondary school classrooms in Aotearoa New Zealand was examined in a research study with feedback from over 90 local teachers. Read more…
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 How more teachers learned the advantages of using Wikipedia in class Read more… The inclusion of librarians in Wikipedia's activities created the spaces and learning in information services. The idea is to participate and contribute in enhancing authentic and accurate references in Wikipedia articles. Hence, the librarians in the Nigerian Team embraced the training with candour, showcasing interest in the Edit-a-thon. Read more…  The project Ziemia Tarnowska w Wikipedii (en: Tarnów Land on Wikipedia), took place in March-May 2022 at the Integrated Primary School in Tarnów. Project activities included a coordinator and 14 participants (11-15 years old) writing and expanding a total of 18 articles, some of which were published in the main Wikipedia space by June 15, 2022. The project was created by one of the students and Wikipedian editors & admins Kacper Szymański aka user: Jamnik z Tarnowa! Read more…  With the beginning of the academic school year 2021–2022, Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group celebrated the Sq Wikipedia Birthday with the Vasil Kamami High School students in Elbasan. Read more…  The project brought together the students of Junior Secondary,Senior Secondary and some teachers of Federal Government Girls College Bwari Abuja. Read more… А large-scale online course for teaching beginners to work in Wikipedia has been developed in Russia
Wikimedia Russia launched an online course on working with Wikipedia providing a compact guideline covering various topics including how to contribute to Wikipedia and the basics of information sources. Read more…
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