For references you can use journal articles, perhaps education journals?
or news coverage in journals such as The Guardian or The Journal of
Higher Education. Need to link to the article from other Wikipedia
articles also.

Fred

> Hi Bjoern,
>
> I think it's a great idea to create Wikipedia articles for these
> projects.
> The article for OER4Schools <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OER4Schools>
> will
> need quite a lot of work to make it appropriate for Wikipedia; every
> statement must be referenced, and it can't rely only on primary sources
> (e.g. the OER4Schools website).
>
> If you know of other sources that discuss the project, please add them or
> references or list them on the article's talk page for other people to
> look
> at.
>
> If you like, you could propose similar articles on the WikiProject Open
> talk page
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Open>.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
>
> On 21 February 2014 10:59, Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am currently at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, and I thought I'd
>> raise
>> something for discussion.
>>
>> *Should there be wikipedia entries on projects that are to do with
>> "open"?
>> I.e. an entry describing the project?*
>>
>> *Should there be wikipedia entries on educational projects? *
>>
>> E.g. the significant UNESCO TISSA project, or the CREATE project
>> http://www.create-rpc.org/ are not on wikipedia. Larger scale projects,
>> such as EfA / GMR:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_For_All
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_for_All_Global_Monitoring_Report
>> are represented.
>>
>> Background: People at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week here are saying
>> that
>> it's difficult to find out about other projects, and I would advocate
>> that
>> we should use wikipedia to share basic information, rather than setting
>> up
>> a separate platform.
>>
>> For example I've just created this page:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OER4Schools
>> It's fairly unbiased, but at the same time, I am a key person within
>> the
>> project. So while I could defend the neutrality of the article, it may
>> still be frowned upon.
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> All the best,
>> Bjoern
>>
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