Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service hours

2015-04-15 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service > hours > > Content about businesses is potentially useful to people who need jobs. > Television shows *are* cultural topics. > > I am uneasy about well intentioned attempts to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service hours

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Farmbrough
-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > CC: wikimedia-casca...@lists.wikimedia.org; > wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community > service hours > > > > If editing Wikipedia counted as community service my school ought to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service hours

2015-04-13 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
ikimedia.org; wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service > hours > > If editing Wikipedia counted as community service my school ought to start > handing me plaques. > > Alas, it does not, for a host of legiti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service hours

2015-04-13 Thread Aleksey Bilogur
If editing Wikipedia counted as community service my school ought to start handing me plaques. Alas, it does not, for a host of legitimate reasons as I see it, ranging from academic uncertainty about the usefulness of doing so when it comes to community impact, to the sheer difficulty of actually

[Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service hours

2015-04-13 Thread Pine W
Hi all, Many schools in the United States encourage or require students to perform community service hours, such as by cleaning up parks, caring for the disabled, or tutoring younger students. Sometimes more specialized requirements apply, such as university schools of education or health which ma