Great project! Thank you for information. There is the discussion about the multilingual project name at page 33-34. I like the name Wikischool :)
Best regards, Andrew Krizhanovsky. On 4 May 2017 at 18:45, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does it have to be Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a reference work for > "everybody", but not especially written for pupils in the primary education. > > We discussed this kind of issues at the foundation of the Klexikon, see our > report in English: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_version_Konzept_Wikipedia_f%C3%BCr_Kinder.pdf > > Kind regards, > Ziko > > > > 2017-05-04 14:44 GMT+02:00 Heather Ford <[email protected]>: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've started working on a paper with folks who ran a fascinating project >> called "Wikipedia Primary School" [1] where they investigated different >> mechanisms or models for eliciting and developing Wikipedia content that >> was relevant to the South African national primary school curriculum. We >> are currently writing a paper that assesses each of the different types of >> "interventions" that were tested/tried out in trying to fill in these gaps >> - including editathons, contests and collaborations with scientific >> journals. It seems as though there are a host of different types of models >> that are used to fill in Wikipedia's gaps beyond the original "volunteer >> edits what interests them in their spare time" model (e.g. Wikipedians in >> residence, editing Wikipedia as part of class assignments). If anyone has >> any good references to work already undertaken in this area please let me >> know! >> >> Many thanks, >> Heather. >> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School >> >> Dr Heather Ford >> University Academic Fellow >> School of Media and Communications <http://media.leeds.ac.uk/>, The >> University of Leeds >> w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> / >> t: >> @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
