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Wikipedia at 24: Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence
January 17, 2025 3:44 pm
Wikipedia at 24 “With more than 250 million views each day, Wikipedia is an invaluable educational resource”.[1] In light of Wikipedia turning 24 years this week (January 15th), and the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh turning 9 years old this week too, this post is to examine where we are with Wikipedia today in light […]
January 17, 2025 3:44 pm
Wikipedia at 24 “With more than 250 million views each day, Wikipedia is an invaluable educational resource”.[1] In light of Wikipedia turning 24 years this week (January 15th), and the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh turning 9 years old this week too, this post is to examine where we are with Wikipedia today in light […]

January 15, 2025 2:24 pm
By Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh. To coincide with Wikipedia’s 24th Birthday, seven new case studies have [...]

January 14, 2025 5:04 pm
We’re delighted that our OER “Sustainable Schools – An IDL STEM design challenge” has been chosen this month to feature [...]

November 27, 2024 6:59 pm
The 3rd UNESCO World OER Congress took place in Dubai last week. The previous two congresses, held in Paris in [...]
Open Education and AI: Proselytisers, prophets and poets.
October 23, 2024 7:01 pm
I’ve been dipping my toes back into the debate about open education and AI over the last few weeks. I stepped back from this space earlier in the year both for personal reasons and because I was getting a bit dispirited by the signal to noise ratio. It’s still a very noisy space, more so […]
October 23, 2024 7:01 pm
I’ve been dipping my toes back into the debate about open education and AI over the last few weeks. I stepped back from this space earlier in the year both for personal reasons and because I was getting a bit dispirited by the signal to noise ratio. It’s still a very noisy space, more so […]
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