Education/Newsletter/April 2015/Highlights
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Mexico
New to Wikipedia: A personal perspective
English professor and first-time Wikipedian Karen Mazanec shares her experience in teaching with Wikipedia for the first time last term. (read more→)
Ukraine
First round of WikiStudia wraps up with success
+100 articles were edited by WikiStudia students in the first round of the project. (read more→)
Latvia
Education Program Extension enabled on Latvian Wikipedia
Latvian Wikipedia joins the list of Wikipedias with Education Program Extension. (read more→)
Sweden
Students nominated for their MOOC on Swedish Wikiversity
The first Swedish student generated MOOC stands a chance of winning national prize for web publication in education. (read more→)
Greece
Greek Adult school completes wikiexpedition on Greek villages
Adult students with the help of their educators write Wikipedia articles in 2 languages and upload photos to Wikimedia Commons. (read more→)
Global
Articles of interest in other publications
Articles of interest in other publications: Studies and news from Harvard to Cambridge, women events and history editathons. (read more→)
Armenia
Teachers and journalists of Armenian community in Lebanon joined Wikipedia and Wikipedia Education program
Teachers and journalists of Armenian community in Lebanon joined Wikipedia and Wikipedia Education program. (read more→)
Russia
Education Program Extension enabled on Russian Wikipedia
Russian Wikipedia enables the Education Program Extension to be the 17th Wikimedia project with it. (read more→)
WMF
Quarterly update from the education team
Upates from the education team quarter3 2015 in supporting programs around the world. (read more→)