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:
>         
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>                 http://schools-wikipedia.org/
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>                 Leo Wong 
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>         
>         
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>         
>         
>         
>         -- 
>         Cheers,
>         MariaD
>         
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