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

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

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

Staff

Frank Schulenburg, Executive Director
LiAnna Davis, Chief Programs Officer; Deputy Director
Sage Ross, Chief Technology Officer
Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager, Wikipedia Student Program
Kathleen Crowley, Director of Donor Relations
Brianda Felix, Wikipedia Expert
Melissa Joseph, Scholars & Scientist Outreach Coordinator
Will Kent, Wikidata Program Manager
Colleen McCoy, Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Ian Ramjohn, Senior Wikipedia Expert
Andrés 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

2024

January: PDF
February: PDF
March: PDF
April: PDF
May: PDF
June: PDF
July: PDF
August: PDF
September: PDF

2023

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

2022

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

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

Press releases

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