Renaming the subject so as to catch everybody's attention on this .. -TC On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear friends, > > A reminder to you that work has begun on assembling a list of articles > suitable for a Wikipedia For Schools Offine Edition (Indian version). At > present, its a one-man effort (namely, me). It is located here : > > http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:_Wikipedia_for_Schools/Indian_version > > The immediate reason for this is that the present version is tailor-made > for the UK schools curriculum. User Bozmo (creator of WPSOE) has indicated > that about 300 articles extra have been added for this reason. User Bozmo > has promised guidance to this project once the 2011 version will be released > in a couple of months time. In the meantime, if anybody feels that some > particular article on India should be added to the 2011 version, please > contact Bozmo immediately. > > The aim of this endeavour is two-fold. The first is to have an Indian > version tailor-made for our context and which will (hopefully) tackle all > the issues you all mentioned in the recent thread. The second is - to have a > framework of articles on Indian subjects. This list will help us to ensure > that core knowledge will be developed and brought up in standard. The same > list can be used to cross-check the articles in Indic-language wikipedias so > as to prioritise content needing development. > > The methodology and progress are as indicated : > > 1. Prepare list of topics of the latest version of Wikipedia for Schools > (SOS Children's Village Project version - html download). (Done) > 2. Count them. (Done). > 3. Check each section's topics for relevance and : (Yet to begin) > * Delete articles pertaining to British/North American cultural > contexts irrelevant to the Indian context. > * Add articles relevant to the Indian context. > 4. Prepare list of desired topics from a set of textbooks in CBSE and > countercheck availability on Wikipedia for Schools - Indian version. > 5. Get list counter-checked with the Learning Lab's semantic and > phyllogenic web (proposed). > 6. Get domain experts in each field to cross-check if any important topics > left out. > 7. During the process (steps 4 to 6) get peer review. > 8. Censorship (as required). > 9. If Wikipedia for Schools occupies less space, add articles. If Wikipedia > for Schools exceeds size of DVD then trim number of articles. > 10. Compile the offline version - humungous task. > 11. Trial deployment. > 12. Usability testing. > 13.Release version 0.1. > > Comments and participation welcomed. All of you are requested to please > contribute timely so that issues can be sorted out during the procedure > rather than having to redo the work afterward. Since this is an Indian > initiative on English Wikipedia, I am using this post to inform all of you, > as has been suggested earlier - get the relevant language wikipedia > community in the picture. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > >
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