Hi Leo, I suspect that your dreams for WE supporting Chinese may become a reality in the near future :-). As of 1 July 2009 WE will become an independent project which will provide us with the scope to install a Chinese localisation for WE :-)
Watch this space. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 12:59 +0800, Wong Leo wrote: > hey Maria , well , you are surely right , however , is there anyone > here from German in this group , I heared that German has made a > school policy to require the students to use wikipedia in their > assessment . > > I am a teacher from China , I dream one day Chinese students can get > access to wikiepedia , in one of classes I am teaching ( primary > school ) the kids here are copying information to my winter assignment > instead of creating something , I am also againist the mere > information consumption ,instead of creation , but I think German is > doing something right , what others think of this ? > > I also dream one day wikieducator can support Chinese character for > both teachers and students . > > Leo > > > 2009/2/11, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]>: > > I think it's a really bad idea. It kills many key ideals of > Wikipedia in general and wikis in particular. For example, it > makes students consumers rather than creators of content, and > removes any possibility of current relevance and constant > updating of the information. It also re-institutes the > division into experts and everybody else. > > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Wong Leo > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://schools-wikipedia.org/ > -- > Leo Wong > -------------------------------------- > http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP > > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > MariaD > > Make math your own, to make your own math. > > http://www.naturalmath.com social math site > http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
