The Wiki Education Foundation (sometimes abbreviated Wiki Ed) is a

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based in San Francisco, California. It runs the Wikipedia Education Program, which promotes the integration of

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into coursework by educators in Canada and the United States.

History

The Wikipedia Education Program was started by the

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in 2010. The Wiki Education Foundation incorporated in 2013, a process that the Wikimedia Foundation began in 2012 to give the education program "more focused and specialized support" and to "develop additional programs to promote academic research and teaching that engage with Wikipedia". It has been granted

charity status. In February 2014, the

(WMF) and Wiki Education Foundation announced the hiring of Frank Schulenburg, who had formerly served as senior director of programs at WMF, as the organization's first

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. In April 2014, Schulenburg represented Wiki Ed at the World Literacy Summit in Oxford. The conference aims to make global improvements to literacy.

Leadership

Schulenburg has served as executive director since February 2014.

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heads its

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. Robert Cummings, director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric and associate professor of English at the

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, also serves on the board.

Adrianne Wadewitz Adrianne Wadewitz (January 6, 1977 – April 8, 2014) was an American feminist scholar of 18th-century British literature, and a Wikipedian and commenter upon Wikipedia, particularly focusing on gender issues. In April 2014, Wadewitz died fro ...

(1977–2014), a Wikipedian, had served on the board.

References

External links

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Wiki Education Foundation The Wiki Education Foundation (sometimes abbreviated Wiki Ed) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. It runs the Wikipedia Education Program, which promotes the integration of Wikipedia into coursework by educato ...

at Meta-Wiki
Wikipedia Education Program
Diversifying Economic Quality: A Wiki for Instructors and Departments
Experiences and Perspectives of Wikipedia Use in Higher Education
(PDF), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

* ttp://firstmonday.org/article/view/3583/3313 "Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later" by Piotr Konieczny, ( user:Piotrus), ''

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