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- EIN 30-0790695
- contact@wikiedu.org
- (415) 470-1198
- 11 Funston Ave Ste A San Francisco CA 94129 USA
- wikiedu.org
- wikieducation
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education
Mission: Wiki education engages students and academics to improve wikipedia, enrich student learning, and build a more informed public.
Programs: Educational partnerships & outreach - partner with ten academic associations, universities, and other institutions to promote wikipedia content contributions. Partners work with us to promote the use of wikipedia as a teaching tool among member professors, create "wikipedia visiting scholar" positions within universities to open access to resources to wikipedia editors, and facilitate donation of media under open licenses on wikimedia commons.
classroom program - instructors assign their students to write wikipedia articles instead of a traditional term paper. Work in this program includes recruiting, training, and on-boarding instructors; ensuring that assignments and courses run smoothly and successfully; tracking and resolving any incidents that arise from our 14,136 students as they edit and write articles for wikipedia in 658 courses at 292 universities.
digital services - development and maintenance of an interactive web platform that empowers thousands of instructors and students editors to contribute content to wikipedia. This includes creating a product roadmap; working with outside software development contractors; conducting research and identifying new opportunities for improving our platform. During the year, we continued developing core features and added three new projects.
communication & program management - create education materials targeted at instructors & students; ensuring communication aspects of our web platform meet our organizational and programmatic goals; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting statistics about programmatic activities.