I'm not dismissing other approaches! I'm noting one approach that did work :-)
On 18 March 2015 at 20:02, Mathias Damour <mathias.dam...@laposte.net> wrote: > Le 18/03/2015 16:23, David Gerard a écrit : >> >> http://schools-wikipedia.org does most of the job. And teachers LOVE it. >> We should give this project more love and assistance, it's basically the >> refutation of all attempts to, er, filter the base product. > > > Teachers love it, what about children? > > Le 18/03/2015 16:51, Marc A. Pelletier a écrit : >> >> On 15-03-18 11:23 AM, David Gerard wrote: >>> >>> We should give this project more love and assistance, it's >>> basically the refutation of all attempts to, er, filter the base >>> product. >> >> I agree. Whenever a group of people decide to curate some subset of our >> projects with an eye towards their needs, then I count it as a win (even >> in the cases where I would object to the curation choices myself). > > > The fact is it is "just" a set of curated (and choosen) Wikipedia articles. > What if they are still mostly too complicated ? > > Le 18/03/2015 17:33, David Gerard a écrit : > >> On 18 March 2015 at 15:51, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote: >> >>> What irks me is the idea of giving imprimatur to something "we" curate, >>> or to do any sort of curation "ourselves" (that is, the movement or the >>> Foundation). "All the knowledge" means "All", not "some subset thereof". >> >> In the case of Schools Wikipedia, it's worked quite well - the >> editorial review heavy lifting was substantially done by en:wp >> volunteers. They specifically approached it as "what would we expect >> in an English school situation?" though it was intended for use >> outside the UK (they just used the English National Curriculum as >> their guide). > > > Should children be only allowed to be interested to their school curriculum? > There is so much subjects to be interested in and to learn about. > > Le 18/03/2015 17:38, David Gerard a écrit : > >> On 18 March 2015 at 16:07, Richard Symonds >> <richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Indeed. http://schools-wikipedia.org is already used around the world - >>> it's a great example of what can be done if Wikimedians work with (even >>> passively with) other orgs. >> >> Everyone likes it, not many are coming forward to lead the ongoing >> update cycle since User:Bozmo left SOS Children (the charity who put >> it together). (And I'm not volunteering.) Not sure what to do about >> that. > > > Well I suggest to do it on a full new open wiki, to use the Simple English > Wikipedia content when it fits, to promote the translation of already made > good work on other languages equivalent of such a wiki, and to allow fully > new articles to be written and bettered. > > Yet even the Simple English Wikipedia article are not always the best > content to have. You may compare: > https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States > https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/History_of_the_USA , written in the last few > month by a eleven years old "vikidian" (however a quite experienced user) > and... I can't find it on schools-wikipedia.org, there is just > http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/u/United_States.htm > I wonder how would someone curate the 168,391 bytes > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States to make it fit to > school children. > And here is how we can "curate", that's to say rewrite a few parts and add > some images, an article from Simple English Wikipedia : > https://en.vikidia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman_house&diff=76306&oldid=28149 > > -- > Mathias Damour > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays > https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
