2019:Education/How to Institutionalize Persian Wikipedia as a Curriculum in Iranian Universities

Education/How to Institutionalize Persian Wikipedia as a Curriculum in Iranian Universities

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Session leader(s)

Full Name*	Email address*	Wikimedia Username (if you have one)	Affiliation	Country	Role, website or any other details you'd like to share
Mohammad Heidarzadeh	darafsh@hotmail.com	Darafsh	Iranian User Group	Iran	Coordinator of Education program in fa.wikipedia
Mohsen Salek	mardetanha.wiki@gmail.com	Mardetanha	Iranian User Group	Iran

Session type

Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:

• Roundtable discussion forum - - 30 min

Length of session

The length of the session is variable and adaptable to the requirements of the conference.

Description

In this presentation, we are going to tell history of the Education Program in Iran firstly. The history is divided to three phases. In each phase, we faced some challenges and reached out several achievements. It will be explained how we could reach from a stage in which many articles were created with copyright infringement by untrained students, to the today's stage in which we succeeded to have a big education program course with many standard articles, some featured articles and several student-ambassadors.

Relationship to the theme

This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:

Session outcomes

At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:

Relation to other Spaces

Requirements

The session will work best with these conditions:

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