How postgraduate students are connecting academic learning with Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata to contribute to the knowledge commons

What happens when students move beyond studying knowledge in the classroom and begin contributing to knowledge that anyone can access, reuse, and improve? At Gauhati University in Assam, India, the Wikipedia Education Initiative is exploring this question by connecting postgraduate education with practical participation in Wikimedia projects.

The initiative is being undertaken by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies (MIL&LS), Gauhati University.…