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This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 10 • October–November 2022
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 In October, the 2nd Latin American Regional Meeting on Education was held by the EWOC team. Read more…  The Kwara State University celebrated International Youth Day (IYD) 2022 to recognise the tremendous work of its student editors to improve the content and its visibility on Wikipedia and its sister projects. Read more…  On October 7 in Warsaw and online under the ~title "The Door of the Library is Open", the fourth Educational One-Day Conference organized by the Wikimedia Polska education team was held. Read more…  Wikieducation: Educational practices and experiences of Mexico with Wikipedia and other open resources book, is a collaborative work that arises from the need to make visible the pedagogical practices that are carried out within educational spaces, citizen laboratories, and libraries of Mexico making use of Wikimedia projects and other open resources. Read more…  Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group collaborated with the national museum and high schools to celebrate two historically important dates in November. Read more…  Wikimedia Nigeria User Group Abuja Network celebrated Wikidata at 10 with an edit-a-thon on Wikidata. Wikidata central storage chamber for structured data for Wikimedia projects celebrated its 10 years of existence, and it was all fun and interesting. Read more…  Wikimedia Israel is leading an innovative educational project in both in Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia, during which students expand entries in Wikipedia as an alternative to matriculation. Read more…  On November 28, 2022, the Russian-language illustrated teaching aid "Introduction to Wikipedia" was released. The new 245-page book is a training course and is intended for anyone who wants to thoroughly understand the functioning of the Wikipedia encyclopedia, learn how to work with sources and write high-quality encyclopedic articles. Read more… .svg){kind=logo} Announcing the Wikipedia & Education User Group Election Results and Welcoming the Board Read more…
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 Technology will never replace great teachers, but in the hands of great teachers, it’s transformational...George Couros Read more…  October is the month of birthdays in Albania and Kosovo. Read more…  Wiki For Senior Citizens Network, Nigeria is an initiative that gathers Seniors and aspiring seniors who are interested in editing and contributing to Wikimedia projects. This month, guests shared insights about the project that cut across data, media, and article writing using the Wikimedia project that participants found engaging to spur their interest in the projects. Read more… Wiki Movimento Brasil holds Wikimedia & Education Workshops every month, an initiative that gathers educators and people who are interested in the educational potential of Wikimedia projects. Last month, we received guests that talked about a project that crosses data for academic purposes using Wikimedia projects and an Olympiad that engages students to write Wikipedia articles about different languages. Read more…  A 24-hour “hackathon-style” Wikipedia article writing competition took place on November 12-13. The teams had 24 h time to write a wiki article on a topic received by lottery. Read more…  From April 2022, Hetq Media Factory of the Investigative Journalists NGO based in Armenia is implementing "WikiGraphers. "Visualizing Open Knowledge" educational program, contributing to the development of the visual content of Armenian Wikipedia articles and the formation of a community of WikiGraphers. Read more… _30.jpg) The Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program was recently implemented in Morocco by the Wikimedia Morocco User Group and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. The program aimed to improve digital literacy and media literacy among Moroccan teachers. Read more… Wikipedia for School contest was organized in Ukraine to enhance the qualitative articles on Ukrainian Wikipedia. Read more…
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