Surely you needn't even force them to register for Commons at all? Just make your own child-friendly submissions page, temporarily hosting them then transferring them en masse to Commons on the children's behalf.
-- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On 6 June 2011 12:47, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > I was recently involved in a children's photography competition > through another organisation I'm involved in. I think that commons and > "Wiki loves monuments" has a huge opportunity there, as most UK kids > now seem to have access to digital cameras and the Internet. It would > be great to launch a "Wiki loves monuments" competition to schools, or > as a badge for scouts to earn. > > Providing the rules were clear about not including your friends in the > photographs, or using your full name as your commons ID at least until > you are 18, I think this could be useful, good for the kids and a > great entry route to the community. > > WSC > > On 5 June 2011 19:19, Martin Poulter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Chris, what I understand by schools outreach is getting the educational >> benefits of WM projects into schools - via teachers. Hence still an adult >> audience. >> >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Chris Keating <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Pitching this stuff is hard; kids at different ages see things >>>> differently, and kids in different areas age at different speeds. >>> >>> I think you've hit one of the main challenge of schools outreach on the >>> head. >>> We are starting to have a "recipe" for introducing adult organisations to >>> Wikipedia which will basically work for charities, universities, museums >>> and the like - we would need several, for schools. >>> Plus our adult outreach model is based on people coming to events of their >>> own free will, not because they've been told to! I imagine that a room full >>> of schoolkids is a much more difficult audience than what we're used to. >>> I think this is part of the reason why we're focusing more on universities >>> and GLAMs at the moment. But clearly schools need to be part of the >>> long-term plan... >>> Chris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network >> Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ >> >> The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ >> Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter >> Board member of Wikimedia UK: http://uk.wikimedia.org/ >> "Creating a world in which every single human being can freely share >> in the sum of all knowledge" >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
