Digital Material | Wikipedia Challenge: Become a Contemporary Encyclopedist

In taking on the task of enriching the category of “1821 Greek Revolution” in Greek Wikipedia, in the context of the Panhellenic Student Contest of Encyclopedia Entry Writing “Become a Contemporary Encyclopedist”, participating school teams will be asked to work with a wealth of information, sources, and facts; their aim is to facilitate students and teachers as well as encourage participation in the competition. Talks, training, workshops, bibliography, and specific references will ensure an academic and scientific approach to the contemporary digital web of information.

Teachers and students will have free and open access to this inclusive material drawn from a wide range of sources. Essential for the editing of historical entries for this competition, the material can be accessed through the digital educational platform of the Onassis Foundation Classroom. It will be offered in the form of asynchronous classes.

Addressed to

Gymnasium and Lyceum students, teachers of all grades, and the general public

Credits

The material will be prepared by Onassis Foundation and Onassis Library in the context of the Protovoulia 1821–2021, in collaboration with the General State Archives, Open Technologies Alliance, PostScriptum and Wikipedia Community Schools Association, Greece, with the support of National Documentation Centre (EKT), with the approval of Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and under the auspices of General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the context of the Panhellenic Student Competition, the following research and cultural institutions will cooperate with us providing supporting digital material: B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Historical Archives of National Bank, Gennadius Library, Library of the Hellenic Parliament, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank (MIET), Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA), etc.