WikiLearn

What is the WikiLearn platform?

An audio interview at WikipediaPodden explaining WikiLearn, recorded in April 2024.

WikiLearn is a learning management platform that hosts self-guided and live courses developed by and for the Wikimedia community.

Online learning is one way the Community Development team can support Wikimedians across the movement and provide access to resources/tools related to capacity building and leadership development. WikiLearn makes it possible for volunteers to learn such skills at their own pace.

WikiLearn is currently run by the Community Development team, until a governance model for it is developed, and currently offers courses created by Wikimedia Foundation staff, Wikimedia affiliates staff, and experienced Wikimedia trainers. As we put in place governance mechanisms for the platform, it will become open for contribution from all Wikimedia contributors.

Available courses

The platform has a public course catalog of courses open for anyone to take. Some courses on the platform are designed for small cohorts and only accept learners via an off-platform registration process and manual enrollment by the course instructors.

Feel free to browse the catalog and explore the available courses. Additional courses are deployed quarterly.

Who can sign up to take a course?

All Wikimedians with an active Wikimedia account can login to the WikiLearn platform using their Wikimedia identity (OAuth) without needing a separate account.

Who can create courses on the platform?

"How I created an Introduction to Wikipedia course on WikiLearn" by James Gaunt

For now, the Community Development team is handing out access to trusted Wikimedia affiliates and trainers in good standing, by request. When the governance conversation results in a workable model, we expect there would be community-driven processes to gain access to the course-authoring part of the platform.

For course requests, please complete this form and a member of the team will be in touch with you. Review the WikiLearn Course Creator Journey to learn more about the process and support available.You can dive deeper into WikiLearn's learning principles, modalities and some helpful tools for course creators here.

Course translations

Existing WikiLearn courses can be translated into multiple languages using the standard Meta translation system and re-importing content automatically onto WikiLearn. You are very welcome to express interest in translating a course of your interest into additional languages. Visit the WikiLearn Translation page for more information.

If you've identified a WikiLearn course that you would like to translate, please contact the Community Development team at wikilearnwikimediaorg so we can set it up.

Contact information

If you have any questions or concerns about the courses or the WikiLearn learning management system, please email the Community Development team at wikilearnwikimediaorg

Stay updated

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Privacy statement

The WikiLearn platform is powered by Open edX, free software. The software is hosted by Edly. The Wikimedia Foundation Legal team has reviewed Edly's privacy policy. For more information about our privacy practices, please refer to our non-wiki privacy policy.