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This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 8 • August 2022


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We learn to teach others and to create the world we want. When we learn, we acquire information, build our capacity, have insight, and solve problems. These are the benefits of being in the Wikimedia Education program of Reading Wikipedia in the classroom. Read more...

The Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program Curriculum Guide for Teachers was localised into Yoruba and some of the course contents illustrations were adapted as part of the project planning activities for participating teachers in Kwara State to suit the predominant languages in the State. Read more...

Wikimedia Serbia has again organized the in person EduWiki Camp after a two-year break and organizing two Online EduWiki Camps in 2020 and 2021, . This event brought together participants who had the opportunity to learn about the programs and projects of Wikimedia Serbia and also to improve the skills that will help them in further volunteer engagement in Wikimedia Serbia. Read more...

Use of Wikipedia for National Development: The Nigerian Senior Citizens' perspective Read more...

WIKITEKA is a project within the Wiki-school program addressed to school libraries. Recognizing needs of school librarires, Eduactional Team of Wikimedia Polska has reached out to teachers-librarians and asked how they run their often small, underfunded spaces with time limits and very often frustration. While waiting for the results of the study (a poll of 400 questionnaires), we invited a group of school library employees for training days specially designed for them. Read what has happened in Katowice! Read more...


The Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development organised a local events for the Wikimedia movement’s annual Wikimania.svg in Kwara State to celebrates student-members contributions to free and open knowledge projects made possible to promote SDGs such as Commons Wikimedia Commons, MediaWiki MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks Wikibooks, Wikidata Wikidata, Wikinews Wikinews, Wikipedia Wikipedia, Wikiquote Wikiquote, Wikisource Wikisource, Wikispecies Wikispecies, Wikiversity Wikiversity, Wikivoyage Wikivoyage, Wiktionary Wiktionary among others. Read more...

Facilitators shares their training experience at the recently completed first implementation of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program, Kwara, Nigeria. Read more...

Adeniyi Ibitayo Oluwaseun, a class teacher at the Iwo Comprehensive High School Iwo-Isin, Salihu abdulkadri from Government Day Secondary School Adewole, Ilorin, and Mrs. Oluyemisi Fadare A. from Bishop Smith Memorial College, Ilorin selected as participants for the first-ever implementation of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Nigeria. He gained a lot during the course of the training and shared the summary here. Read more...

The Wiki Loves SDGs Campus Tour which ran across 3 selected universities including the Kwara State University Malete in June raised awareness on creating and improving Sustainable Development Goals related Wikipedia articles with a focus on recruiting and training new volunteer editors there by advocating for open education in your region. Read more...


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