Wikipedia:Education program/About

In the Wikipedia Education Program, educators assign their students to edit Wikipedia (or its sister sites) as an assignment. Volunteer editors support educators in designing an assignment that will be a good fit for Wikipedia, and they help student editors learn the ropes and understand how to contribute.

The goal of the Wikipedia Education Program is to engage students and professors across disciplines in improving Wikipedia while learning about their subject area, how information is created, and how to research and write educational articles for an encyclopedia. The Wikipedia Education Program brings Wikipedia into the classroom instead of keeping it out. Over the past few years, thousands of students have added thousands of pages of content to Wikipedia through the program.