Working with learners

The objective of this course activity is to share your knowledge and skills in using the editing tools in Wikipedia to create a new page with a group of your learners.

Identify a group of learners to work with to create a new Wikipedia page. Decide what topic you would like to feature on your page; this might be your school or a project the learners are working on.

Create a simple Wikipedia page with the learners, sharing with them a suitable code of conduct, and demonstrating the editing tools on the site. You can either allow the group to work on the page with your own account details, or register the learners individually. Choosing the latter option will allow each learner to practice in their own Sandbox. You can choose after this activity to keep the page on Wikipedia or remove it. The Wikipedia Foundation monitors pages created by schools and will remove the page if they feel it has insufficient content.

This page may be the start of a larger project, with other learners becoming involved in submitting content to the page. You may even start a school ‘Wikipedia Club’ for learners to create and add content to your page.