Congratulations Lucy! A warm welcome in the Wikimedia movement :)
Tanweer Morshed
Wikimedia Bangladesh
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this announcement, Michael.
Lucy, welcome. I look forward to occasional collaborations with you across
the
Hi Renata:
Please don't despair. When I was growing up (I'm pushing 69) there were
definitely encyclopedias but they surely were not the *only research tools*.
Information was available, you just had to really dig for it - go to the
library, comb through the card catalogue, go into the stacks,
Thank you for sharing this, Renata -- cool video!
But I think I'm taking the exact opposite from it. It makes me happy. It
seems to me these kids love information -- and are eager to say so! -- and
love books, too, most of them expressed sadness at the idea of books
disappearing (but also, shock
On 14 July 2015 at 21:22, Renata St renataw...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
So I saw this YouTube video yesterday about kids reacting to printed
encyclopedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7aJ3xaDMuMnoredirect=1
It made me sad. And very fearful of the future of Wikipedia.
These kids do not
Hi all,
a few more sessions that were missed in the last email:
*Wednesday (hackathon):*
* *Education Program Extension Hackathon.*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103623* Workplace 2, Don Genaro, 1 pm.
Hosted by Sage Ross.*
*Friday*
* Pitfalls, protocols and prior planning: A panel on making
I know this probably sounds like I had to hike 20 miles to school with
snow up to my waist - which I didn't - but I offer it only to say that we
humans are a pretty persistent and creative bunch and when determined
enough we can make things work. Sometimes, having to really dig for
These kids do not appreciate knowledge and information because they grew
up
with its abundance. When I was growing up (and I am only 30), printed
encyclopedia was the only research tool.
You would have been 8 years old when Encarta was launched.
I am from a small non-English speaking
I agree that finding correct, accurate, current, and NPOV information can
be a challenging task, and media literacy is an important skill these days.
Good research tasks today go beyond the goal of finding just any book,
magazine, journal or webpage that asserts a certain fact.
Pine
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for sharing this, Renata -- cool video!
But I think I'm taking the exact opposite from it. It makes me happy. It
seems to me these kids love information -- and are eager to say so! -- and
love books, too,
