WikiEducator

WikiEducator was an education-oriented wiki that aimed to produce a free version of the education curriculum which closed in 2026. WikiEducator hosted a collection of learning content in a variety of disciplines, with a unique approach to developing learning content. The project had a strong focus on users contributing free content resources, often linking incentives to the process of contribution to encourage users to participate; as a result, WikiEducator built up a strong content database.

The WikiEducator site was powered by the MediaWiki software, which also powers Wikiversity, however WikiEducator has took advantage of innovative extensions to the software to provide further technical infrastructure to facilitate learning. For example, the project experimented with collaborative video through the Kaltura system.

As of 2026, it no longer has funding from New Zealand and is no longer editable.

Relationship with Wikiversity

The founder of WikiEducator, Dr. Wayne Mackintosh, sits on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, and has a Wikiversity account. User:Countrymike/BrentSimpson and User:Leighblackall were admins/custodians on both WikiEducator. Erik Möller from Wikipedia and various other Wikimedia projects was on the WikiEducator Community Council and has run the hosting for WikiEducator as of April 2006. User:Leighblackall and User:Ktucker have also been significant contributors to both wikis and both are on the WikiEducator Community Council.

See also

Search for WikiEducator on Wikipedia.

• Wikiversity and WikiEducator

External links

• WikiEducator
• WikiEducator Statistics
• Initiatives@WikiEducator