Wiki Education Foundation

The Wiki Education Foundation ("Wiki Education") connects higher education to Wikipedia, ensuring that the world’s most read source of information is more representative, accurate, and complete.

A spin-off of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wiki Education is an independent nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, USA.

Current programs and major initiatives

Wikipedia Student Program

University students in the United States and Canada learn to write Wikipedia articles through Wiki Education's Student Program.

Wiki Education provides support for university instructors in the United States and Canada who are interested in assigning students to contribute content to Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects as part of their coursework. See Teach with Wikipedia on Wiki Education's external website for more information about getting started, or visit our Dashboard to see up-to-date results.

Wiki Scholars & Scientists Program

Our Scholars & Scientists courses give scholars, scientists, and other professionals a technical, procedural, and cultural understanding of Wikipedia and Wikidata. See Wikipedia & Wikidata training courses on Wiki Education's external website for information about current offerings. We published an evaluation of the Wikipedia program pilot in May 2018, an update on the evaluation in March 2019, and an evaluation of the Wikidata program pilot in October 2019. We also ran a series of courses tackling information about the COVID-19 pandemic; we also published an evaluation report of that project.

Communicating Science

The Wikipedia Year of Science was a large-scale initiative in 2016 to improve Wikipedia’s potential for communicating science to the public. These efforts continue today through the Communicating Science initiative. By connecting higher education classrooms to the publishing power of Wikipedia, Wiki Education helped future scientists learn about science communication, while improving Wikipedia’s science coverage for millions of readers worldwide. Wiki Education published a full evaluation of the program in 2017.

People involved

Board

Wiki Education board members, June 2022

• PJ Tabit, Chair
• Jon Cawthorne, Vice-chair
• Garfield Byrd, Treasurer
• Robert Cummings, Secretary
• Carwil Bjork-James
• Sue Gardner
• Richard Knipel
• Karen A. Twitchell

Staff

Wiki Education Staff, July 2021

• Frank Schulenburg, Executive Director
• LiAnna Davis, Chief Programs Officer; Deputy Director
• Sage Ross, Chief Technology Officer
• Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager, Wikipedia Student Program
• Will Kent, Wikidata Student Program Manager
• Jami Mathewson, Director of Partnerships
• Ian Ramjohn, Senior Wikipedia Expert
• Kathleen Ramsey, Director of Donor Relations
• Andres Vera, Equity Outreach Coordinator

More information

Follow Wiki Education on Twitter and Facebook or visit our website at www.wikiedu.org. You can reach us by email at contactwikiedu.org.

Monthly reports

2021

• January: PDF
• February: PDF
• March: PDF
• April: PDF
• May: PDF
• June: PDF
• July: PDF
• August: PDF
• September: PDF
• October: PDF
• November: PDF
• December: PDF

2020

• January: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• February: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• March: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• July: PDF
• August: PDF
• September: PDF
• October: PDF
• November: PDF
• December: PDF

2019

• January: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• February: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• March: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• July: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• August: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• September: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• October: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• November: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• December: PDF, on-wiki, blog

2018

• January: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• February: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• March: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• July: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• August: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• September: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• October: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• November: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• December: PDF, on-wiki, blog.

2017

• January: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• February: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• March: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• July: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• August: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• September: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• October: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• November: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• December: PDF, on-wiki, blog.

2016

• January: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• February: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• March: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• July: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• August: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• September: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• October: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• November: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• December: PDF, on-wiki, blog.

2015

• January: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• February: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• March: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• July: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• August: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• September: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• October: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• November: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• December: PDF, on-wiki, blog.

2014

• December: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• November: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• October: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• September: PDF, on-wiki, blog.
• August: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• July: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• June: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• May: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• April: PDF, on-wiki, blog
• March: PDF, on-wiki
• February: PDF
• January 8 (Village Pump)

2013

• November 25 (Village Pump)
• November (Village Pump)
• Late October (Village Pump)
• Mid-October, Village Pump note
• October (Village Pump)
• September
• August
• July
• May
• April

Press releases

• 7 July 2016: Ted Yang elected to Wiki Education Foundation board
• 7 March 2016: Dr. Carwil Bjork-James elected to Wiki Education Foundation board
• 22 July 2015: WikiConference USA to be held at the National Archives in October
• 21 July 2015: Sue Gardner, Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer elected to Wiki Education Foundation board
• 18 August 2014: Lorraine Hariton elected to Wiki Education Foundation board
• 20 June 2014: Wiki Education Foundation board adds Karen George
• 11 June 2014: Karen A. Twitchell joins Wiki Education Foundation board
• 8 May 2014: John Willinsky joins Wiki Education Foundation board
• 14 April 2014: Wiki Education Foundation receives grant to support programmatic activities
• 12 February 2014: Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new WEF (joint press release with the Wikimedia Foundation)

Annual plan, board minutes and bylaws

Further information can be found in our current Annual Plan. See also minutes of board meetings and the current version of the organization's bylaws.

History

The original bylaws agreed by the interim board of the Wiki Education Foundation in consultation with its pro bono legal counsel are available on Wikimedia Commons (PDF). Many more details about the original structure and proposed working of the Wiki Education Foundation can be found in the original proposal for the organization. Much has changed since that proposal, however, and the information there is mostly out of date or incomplete, but kept for historical reasons.