Program areas at Wiki Education
Student program - instructors assign their students to write wikipedia articles instead of traditional term papers. Work in this program includes onboarding and training instructors and students, ensuring that assignments and courses run smoothly and successfully, and resolving any incidents that arise from our 12,452 students from 691 classes at 331 universities.
Partnerships & outreach - we collaborate with 24 organizations - including 13 academic associations, 4 research networks, 3 professional organizations, and 4 other nonprofit organizations - as they promote the use of wikipedia and wikidata among their members; individual subject matter experts are encouraged to share their knowledge with the general public. Work includes building and maintaining institutional partnerships as well as recruitment of individual scholars and scientists.
Scholars & scientists - 94 academic subject matter experts improve wikipedia and wikidata in areas of high demand. Work in this program includes training academics in how to contribute their knowledge to wikipedia or wikidata as well as tracking and resolving any incidents that arise from this activity.
Digital services - we develop and maintain a platform that empowers tens of thousands of users to contribute content to wikimedia projects and track their impact. This includes user research and product planning, development of new and existing features, user testing, and fixing software bugs. We also use technology and design to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our student program, scholars & scientists, and partnerships & outreach activities.