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The '''Wiki Education Foundation''' (sometimes abbreviated '''Wiki Ed''') is a [[nonprofit organization]] based in San Francisco, California.<ref name=QA>{{cite web|title=QA Frank Schulenburg announcement February 2014|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/QA_Frank_Schulenburg_announcement_February_2014|publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]|accessdate=February 19, 2014|location=San Francisco, California|date=February 12, 2014}}</ref> It runs the Wikipedia Education Program, which promotes the integration of [[Wikipedia]] into coursework by educators in Canada and the United States.<ref name=Monterrey>{{cite web|last=Monterrey|first=Carlos|title=Frank Schulenburg named executive director of Wiki Education Foundation|url=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/12/frank-schulenburg-named-executive-director-of-wiki-education-foundation/|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|location=San Francisco, California|accessdate=February 19, 2014|date=February 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name=WMFPR>{{cite web|title=Press releases/Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new WEF|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Frank_Schulenburg_named_executive_director_of_new_WEF|date=February 12, 2014|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|location=San Francisco, California|accessdate=February 19, 2014}}</ref>

==History==
The Wikipedia Education Program was started by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] in 2010. The Wiki Education Foundation incorporated in 2013, a process that the Wikimedia Foundation began in 2012 to give the education program "more focused and specialized support" and to "develop additional programs to promote academic research and teaching that engage with Wikipedia".<ref name=WMFPR/> It has been granted [[501(c)(3)]] charity status.<ref name=WMFPR/><ref>{{cite web|title=Exempt Organizations Select Check: Wiki Education Foundation|url=https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/pub78Search.do?ein1=30-0790695&names=&city=&state=All...&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchCharities&submitName=Search%7CUS|publisher=[[Internal Revenue Service]]|accessdate=January 11, 2016}}</ref>

In February 2014, the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF) and Wiki Education Foundation announced the hiring of Frank Schulenburg, who had formerly served as senior director of programs at WMF, as the organization's first [[executive director]].<ref name=WMFPR/> In April 2014, Schulenburg represented Wiki Ed at the World Literacy Summit in Oxford. The conference aims to make global improvements to literacy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldliteracysummit.org/press-release-80-billion-wasted-every-year-on-global-education-initiatives/|title=Press Release: £80 Billion Wasted Every Year On Global Education Initiatives|accessdate=April 21, 2014|date=March 3, 2014|publisher=World Literacy Summit}}</ref>

==Leadership==
Schulenburg has served as executive director since February 2014. [[Diana Strassmann]] heads its [[board of directors]].<ref>{{cite news|title=People, papers and presentations|url=http://news.rice.edu/2013/11/08/people-papers-and-presentations-179/|accessdate=February 18, 2014|work=Rice News|publisher=[[Rice University]]|date=November 8, 2013|location=Houston, Texas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/strassmann|title=Diana Strassmann|accessdate=April 21, 2014|publisher=University of Chicago Law School}}</ref> Robert Cummings, Director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric and Associate Professor of English at the [[University of Mississippi]], also serves on the board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/arts/slam/research/visiting_research_fellows.shtml|title=Visiting Research Fellows: Associate Professor Robert Cummings|accessdate=April 21, 2014|publisher=[[University of Sydney]]}}</ref> [[Adrianne Wadewitz]] (1977–2014), a Wikipedian, had served on the board.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26828726|title=How can Wikipedia woo women editors?|first=Lynsea|last=Garrison|date=April 7, 2014|accessdate=April 21, 2014|publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/remembering-adrianne-wadewitz/|title=Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz|first=Rod|last=Dunican|date=April 10, 2014|accessdate=April 21, 2014|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Wiki Education Foundation}}
* {{Official website|https://wikiedu.org}}
* [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation Wiki Education Foundation] at Meta-Wiki
* [http://www.diversifyingecon.org/index.php/Wikipedia_Education_Program Wikipedia Education Program], Diversifying Economic Quality: A Wiki for Instructors and Departments
* [http://oer.uoc.edu/wiki4HE/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Seminari-Wikipedia_presentacio-WANNEMACHER.pdf Experiences and Perspectives of Wikipedia Use in Higher Education] (PDF), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
*[http://www.courant.com/consumer/hc-ls-tech-wikipedia-0626-20160626-story.html "Editing Wikipedia Entries Is Becoming A Class Assignment In Colleges Across The U.S."]
*[http://firstmonday.org/article/view/3583/3313 "Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later"], by Piotr Konieczny, ([[user:Piotrus]]), ''[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]'', September 3, 2012 (a detailed article about the project)

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