What a great opportunity! Thanks for spear-heading, Hisham. Some notes below, which I'd love thoughts on:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Hisham Mundol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hmundol@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">hmundol@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px">I understand that </span></font><a href="http://schools-wikipedia.org/" target="_blank"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px">Wikipedia
for Schools</span></font></a><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"> is readying for release sometime in July 2011 - and the timing couldn't be better. </span></font></div></blockquote><div><br>July 2011 was the most recent update we heard from User:BozMo, who is the lead for SOS Children's Wikipedia for Schools (WPFS) project. It would be great to get an update from him on this timing!<br>
<br>The list of current articles can be seen here: <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools</a><br>
The primary changes in the version pending release in July 2011 will be newer revisions of these articles.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><i><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px">Can you help us out with </span></font></i></div><div><i><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px">a) how you could help on adding the additional articles that this initiative would req</span>uire?</font></i><i><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"> (You could also sign up on the </span></font></i><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page" target="_blank"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><i>Volunteer
Page</i></span></font></a><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><i>)</i></span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>WPFS is geared to match the UK curriculum, which is very useful but undeniably lacking in its coverage of other geographically important topics, such as history & geography of India.<br>
<br>To that end, if we had a list of ~200 additional articles which *should* be included in an educational encyclopedia for India, we can add these to the updated version of WPFS. Kenya is also doing a similar thing (they are recording their list on the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics" target="_blank">offline projects pages of metawiki</a>). <br>
<u><b><br>Would anyone be interested in spear-heading this for India-specific content? </b></u>I have some ideas for how this could be facilitated (namely, by leveraging the work done by the Wikipedia 1.0 team and the India WikiProject [1], so reach out to me directly!!<br>
<br></div></div><br><br clear="all">[[1] Toolserver:
<a href="http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=India&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&showExternal=on&limit=100&offset=1&sorta=Score&sortb=Quality&filterRelease=on&reviewFilter=0&releaseFilter=0">http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=India&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&showExternal=on&limit=100&offset=1&sorta=Score&sortb=Quality&filterRelease=on&reviewFilter=0&releaseFilter=0</a><br>
<br><br><br>-- <br><i>Jessie Wild<br>Global Development, Manager<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br></i><br><br>