Hi everyone, *Just wanted to let you know about a Wikipedia training course that might be of interest to you - this course will *NOT *focus on Wikidata like the others I've written about, but we do have financial aid available to help lower course costs for anyone within your network who might be interested. More below! *
Did you know that by adding to Wikipedia, you have the power to share your expertise with millions of readers? When we educate the public we help them understand and value science. But they can't apply scientific knowledge to solve the world's problems without high quality information access. *You can help* by meeting people where they're already getting information – on Wikipedia. Even though Wikipedia is for everyone, the process of creating and adding to pages can feel like learning to read and write music. Our expert guides can show you the way in our *Living Knowledge <https://tracking.cirrusinsight.com/325bd5b8-2e0d-4ec0-8a5c-6cfae91a5980/wikiedu-org-professional-development-living-knowledge> *training course that is specially designed to increase public understanding of biology. Living knowledge *Biologists grow public access to science via Wikipedia* Join us: early bird, group discounts, and financial aid available <https://tracking.cirrusinsight.com/325bd5b8-2e0d-4ec0-8a5c-6cfae91a5980/wikiedu-org-professional-development-living-knowledge1> Registration closes on November 8th. - We *meet for** 8 weeks*, via 1 hour weekly collaborative online meetings - We will meet *November 18th through January 13th* (no meeting week of 12/23) - By the end of the course, you will have improved at least *one Wikipedia article related to biology *that reaches thousands of readers each month *Financial aid details* Thanks to generous funders, we have* financial aid availabl**e* for this course. We encourage anyone to apply who would like to participate but who might not have access to the necessary funds to cover the full course fee. Financial aid details are available in the registration form. Please let me know if you have any questions, Samantha *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _* *Samantha Weald* Customer Success Manager Wiki Education 628-502-4275 saman...@wikiedu.org @WikiEducation <https://tracking.cirrusinsight.com/325bd5b8-2e0d-4ec0-8a5c-6cfae91a5980/twitter-com-wikieducation> learn.wikiedu.org _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
