Roundups (Student Program) — Entidade

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From Long Beach, CA to Fayetteville, NC: Students expand Wikipedia’s coverage of figures in STEM

When Bryson Parham Jr. set out to find a Wikipedia article to improve as part of his Wikipedia assignment, he wasn’t browsing the online encyclopedia at random. Instead, the Long Beach State Universit

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7 courses, 96.6M pageviews: UC Berkeley professor’s Wikipedia assignments bring students far beyond classroom

Each term, hundreds of postsecondary faculty across the U.S. and Canada launch Wikipedia assignments with a free suite of materials and support from our team at Wiki Education. While some are newcomer

wikiedu.org·há 7 meses

Public impact, personal meaning: Inspiring future generations in STEM

When a student editor in our Wikipedia Student Program sets out to improve a biography on Wikipedia, the possibilities of choice might seem endless. With more than 2 million biographies on the English

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The missing bedrock of Wikipedia’s geology coverage

The Catoctin Formation is a geological formation that extends from Virgina, through Maryland, to Pennsylvania. This ancient rock formation, which dates to the Precambrian, is mostly buried deeply u…

wikiedu.org·há cerca de 5 anos

Improving Wikipedia’s Islamic art and architecture coverage

The Book of Curiosities is an 11th century book of maps, star charts, and historical information believed to have been created in Egypt during the Fatimid Caliphate. It includes a rectangular map o…

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Improving Wikipedia’s coverage of Indigenous Canadians

Improving Wikipedia’s coverage of historically marginalized populations has long been a driving force behind our work, so we’re proud to highlight the incredible work of two classes fro…

wikiedu.org·há cerca de 6 anos

Students document workplace health risks on Wikipedia amidst global pandemic

Are you familiar with occupational epidemiology? It’s the study of whether working conditions are safe for workers. As workplaces determine whether or not it’s safe to open up facilities again and …

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Writing Latina artists into Wikipedia

What if students could help raise the visibility of artists of color across decades through a single assignment? In the case of Dr. Nicole Strathman’s students at UCLA, learning how to write …