WikiSwitch – A New Wikipedia-Based Game is Born!
The new enjoyable educational game is the result of a cooperation between HIT’s Faculty of Instructional Technologies and Wikimedia Israel The Conception of the Idea The Faculty of Instructional Technologies at Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) asked Wikimedia Israel to come up with proposals for its students’ graduation project, with the aim of developing an […]
A picture is worth a thousand words: history students research pictures on Commons
Summary: History students at the Kibbutzim College of Education researched and wrote about archival pictures on Wikimedia Commons. This is a new form of collaboration between Wikimedia Israel and an academic institution. Working on Commons has advantages when it comes to original research. Background: In November 2018 Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) extracted around 28,000 public-domain photos from public and private […]
Writing about the Holocaust on Wikipedia: an inter-generational project
Writing about the Holocaust on Wikipedia: an intergenerational project Today, January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Each year on this date we commemorate the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War. Wikimedia Israel’s partners and volunteers, ranging from 8th graders in schools to senior citizens, write about this topic and […]
What we learned about closing Wikipedia’s gender gap using a classroom assignment
The following post about our activity in academia was published on Wikimedia Foundation’s international blog: Assigning Wikipedia as a classroom assignment is a difficult proposition. The idea of integrating the encyclopedia into a curriculum has been stigmatized for many years, and it can be complicated to ensure that students’ work fits into Wikipedia’s extensive […]
“Wikipedia Ambassadors” program for Arabic-speaking schools is launched
A group of 20 students participated in the first session of “Wikipedia Ambassadors”, a new program organized by Wikimedia Israel On December 20th, 2018, a group of 20 high school students convened in a lecture room at Haifa University to attend the first session of the “Wikipedia Ambassadors” program. The session included an introduction by […]
Wikimedia Israel introduces Wikidata to Education
Wikimedia Israel is expanding its activities in the education system, with a new program for using Wikidata as an educational tool In 2016, a new matriculation track was introduced to the Israeli education system: Israeli high-school students can choose to major in Cyber Informatics. This new track focuses on the discovery, identification and detection of […]
Students Use Archival Documents in a Competition
“Nibras Wikipedia” is a students wiki competition co-organized with Jrayed.org, a digital newspapers archive of Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine During the month of Ramadan last May, Wikimedia Israel launched “Nibras Wikipedia,” a competition for students and schools, to celebrate the month of Ramadan and the end of the school year. The competition was an exciting […]
Agreement Reached Between Wikimedia Israel and Israeli Archives
February 2019 Last Monday, nearly four months after Wikimedia Israel’s extraction of nearly 28-thousand public-domain photographs from archives affiliated with the State of Israel and the Zionist movement, an agreement was finally reached to reconcile the differences between the parties and to assure future cooperation. The archives from which the photographs had been extracted last […]
