[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools: Status Board

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
For what languages is this ?
Thanks,
      Gerard

On 9 January 2012 15:01, Nitika <ntandon at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are happy to announce that WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian
> Schools has kicked off with a great start. For OWIS-FULL we want to compile
> a set of 7000-9000 articles that will fit in a single DVD.
>
> Planned sequence of action is as follows:
>
>    1. Set up the framework for the WikiProject. *Done*
>    2. Select articles for OWIS-FULL, subject-wise. -* In progress* - *Open
>    now for 7 subjects.*
>    3. Create table & inspect each article carefully for tags, issues and
>    work needed, subject-wise.
>    4. Sort out all the article problems, subject-wise.
>    5. Submit to a jury for proposed changes eg maps, deletion of
>    inappropriate material etc.
>    6. Hand over to tech team which takes articles and compiles them into
>    an offline Wikipedia.
>    7. While OWIS-FULL is being prepared, each subject set once completed
>    will be released separately to the environment.
>
>
> For selecting articles for OWIS we're using articles included in SOS
> Children's Village Offline Wikipedia as the base articles. From this base
> we're deleting the articles that we think are not so relevant to Indian
> students and add articles that are more relevant to them. The aim of this
> step is to take the existing SOS list and convert it into a balanced set of
> articles list that will give adequate and balanced exposure to both the
> aspects - Indian and international, for Indian School students. For this we
> are also using the syllabus of CBSE 9th to 12th to help us identifdy the
> school relevant topics that may be missing.
>
>
> Over 33 volunteers have started narrowing down the list of articles that
> will be added to OWIS-FULL. We are currently working on following 7
> subjects: Arts, Business Studies, IT, Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry.
> Please refer to the table below to view progress of OWIS in absolute number
> terms:
>
>
>
>
> Just to understand the table better:
>
>    1. *No. of volunteers =* Number of Wikipedians volunteered for a
>    particular subject.
>    2. *No. of articles we want for OWIS =* Total number of articles we
>    want to include in Offline Wikipedia for Indian schools per subject
>    3. *No. of SOS list articles = *Total number of articles that were
>    included in SOS Children's Village Offline Wikipedia per subject
>    4. *No. of articles to be deleted from SOS list for OWIS =* Number of
>    articles that have been selected to be deleted from SOS list since they
>    might not be highly relevant to Indian students.
>    5. *No. of articles to be added to SOS list for OWIS =* Number of
>    articles that have been selected to be added to OWIS list since they might
>    be highly relevant to Indian students.
>    6. *Total no. of articles for OWIS =* Total number of articles we have
>    as for now to be included in OWIS.
>
>
> Special thanks to Swaroop who has made a lot of contributions to Maths &
> Physics stream, Netha Hussain for Biology, Arnav Chaudhary, User:DebashisM,
> & User: BPositive for IT. All of them have done great work and contributed
> in their special way towards this project.  We need more volunteers to
> start working on Chemistry which is currently lagging behind.  I'd
> request more of you to step ahead and volunteer for this project either for
> Chemistry or any other stream that you like as there is so much more to be
> done. You can get more information about OWIS and volunteer for it here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_Indian_Schools
>
> Now we're hoping to complete the 2nd stage in the New Year: Select
> articles for OWIS-FULL, for these 7 subjects by end January 2012. May we
> request every-one to pitch in on this most worthwhile task?
>
> Thanks
> User:AshLin & Nitika
>
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