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Open education: Egyptian students contribute to Wikipedia (Learning World: S5E16, part 2/3)

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Channel: WISE Channel · 2015 · Education

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In Egypt, university students learn how to use and contribute to the Arabic language edition of Wikipedia, the biggest free online encyclopaedia. Instead of writing term papers, students write Wikipedia articles as part of their course work. Learning World visited one such workshop in Cairo, where the Wikipedia Education Program was launched in 2012.

The Wikimedia Foundation's educational branch is enlisting and training students to contribute articles in their native tongues in an effort to enrich the content available and to increase the diversity of its contributors. Originally about 80% of the editors were male, but this trend is reversed in Egypt: almost 90 percent of the latest workshop participants were female.

Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has grown into a global giant. Relying on rouhly 23 million volunteers, just the English language Wikipedia counts more than 4 million articles. 

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