Dear Graeme,

I'm happy to hear that you are interested in introducing Wiki work into schools in Scotland. I work at WMF in San Francisco on the Wikipedia Education Program, which is related to what you are doing. The programs we support are usually set up a little different than what you appear to be looking at. We encourage secondary schools and universities to have their students learn how to use and edit Wikipedia in the classroom. So instead of just another paper to write that only the teacher will read, students in class will learn how to update a Wikipedia article. 

If this is something you'd be interested in, I would love to tell you more about the work that is done in this field around the world. Also, it might be useful for you to talk to Toni Sant, who is working on education stuff with Wikimedia UK. You can reach him at toni.sant@wikimedia.org.uk. 

There are several countries where the Ministry of Education is involved in introducing Wikipedia in the classroom. If you would like some more examples of that, please let me know and I can put you in touch with people in different countries who might have some inspiring stories for you. 

Best of luck with your ideas, and please let me know if you have any further questions.

Floor

Floor Koudijs

Wikipedia Education Program Manager

Wikimedia Foundation

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Graeme Arnott <graemejarnott@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All

I've been asked by a civil servant at the Scottish Government to look into the ways that mediawiki literacy could be incorporated into Scottish secondary school work (12-18 years of age). This might be something like installing MediaWiki on the schools' national intranet, or doing something with Wikiversity or simply using Wikipedia within a particular project. When I discussed the project with the civil servant it was clear that the aim was not simply to provide MediaWiki skills training for students and teachers, but to make possible collaborative inter- and intra-school work, as well as raising and developing the digital citizenship of school teachers and students.  That is really as far as I've got.

One problem is that I don't actually work in schools. So I thought that a good place to start was this list, and to ask for help in identifying examples of any Wikimedia project work that either you've been involved in at school level, or that you know about. It would be great to get links to the actual work (if it's publicly available on Wikipedia for example), but it would also be good to get links to reflective blog posts on successes, failures, things to avoid etc.  I can then collate and map these for further discussion with the government.

I'm just at the start of the conversation, but I'll keep the list updated on any progress.

With thanks in advance and best regards,
Graeme.
Volunteer for Wikimedia UK
Community Coordinator for Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland
@thegrimmbrother
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