When Experts Edit: Improving Wikipedia’s coverage of U.S. history
What happens when historians, museum and historical site professionals, and other history practitioners are empowered to bring their collections and expertise to the world’s go-to encyclopedia?
Join Wiki Education on December 3 to hear how experts throughout the United States are improving Wikipedia’s coverage of local history!
In collaboration with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), Wiki Education launched a new series of editing courses to teach history professionals how to contribute to Wikipedia, engaging their knowledge and collections across galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. To date, the courses have gathered participants from 43 states (and counting!), bringing together experts from across the U.S. to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their local history in celebration of the country’s upcoming 250th birthday.
When:2025-12-03T18:00:00Z→2025-12-03T19:00:00Z Participate:Register Watch: Zoom link sent with registration Info:https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/ (see all recordings from past events in this series)
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I am happy to see “When Experts Edit: Improving Wikipedia’s coverage of U.S. history” topic. I am +70yo. I no longer travel well. If I am around, I will view online content. Honest Global, EU,… and US history is vital to our future. Now and in the past children’s history books are edited to provide far to many plausible (agitprop) stories about societies and cultures that that “Sort Of” / “May Be“ are to mythological.
The USA, which I know well (after +70y) teaches a Morosoph Intellectualist Supremacists (MIS) history approved by affluent nationalist and influential religious committees.
I have used, and watch improvements in Wikipedia for about 20 years now. I now rely on Wikipedia as my initial and most reliable resource on human history. USA Schools should drop the use of very expensive and edit limited hard-copy school books and consider Open Source (GPL) models for history, science, … and civics virtual-books education.
I always tell people in pub/bar-room chats that actual education information online is better and less outdated than present USA education.
Anyway, Thanks for what y’all are doing for humanity.
And thank you for joining this community, chiming in, and speaking to your appreciation of Wikipedia. Do you have specific standout articles that demonstrate the Wikipedia advantage?
Please share your wisdom and experience anytime in the open conversations here.
When: 2025-12-03T18:00:00Z→2025-12-03T19:00:00Z
Participate: Register
Watch: Zoom link sent with registration
Info: https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/ (see all recordings from past events in this series)