Hi Pine
It's already one year that we work with secondary school students in
Armenia. The program is successfully run here. As for the students of their
age it is difficult to edit on Wikipedia we have offered them to work on
Wiktionary where editing is much easier. I don't know much about editing
guidelines in English Wiktionary but I think it can be much easier to edit
it than on Wikipedia. We have written a blog post about it recently. Here
is the link
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/01/wikicamp-armenia-student-editors/>.
It might be helpful.
Best,
Lilit Tarkhanyan
Wikimedia Armenia
Board Member
Wikipedia Education Program Leader
2a Arshakunyats ave., 4th floor
tel. +374 55 534 011
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Education folks,
I recently met a U.S. Boy Scout leader here in the U.S. I believe that I
heard that a boy scout one earned a merit badge by way of Wikipedia
contributions, so I mentioned this to the scout leader and encouraged him
to follow up with me about the possibility of scouts creating or editing
content on Wikipedia (and possibly Commons). Boy scouts are typically in
grades 6 through 12, and are normally to ages 12 to 17. I am wondering if
anyone has had experience with introducing Wikimedia in the middle school
age group, because it sounds like this scout leader has scouts in his unit
that are of that age. I am thinking that there might be an opportunity here
to get at least one group of scouts involved with creating or editing
Wikimedia content that is related to their scouting interests. For example,
it might be nice if they would take photos of their outdoor activities and
upload them to Commons, or write about wilderness skills and environmental
conservation activities.
Thanks,
Pine
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