That's nice Ole, thanks for sharing! What did the teachers think about it? *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg 0733-832670 sophie.osterberg(a)wikimedia.se* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. * 2013/5/13 Ole Palnatoke Andersen <ole(a)palnatoke.org> > Today, we concluded the Brede Værk project* that has run for the > last three weeks on the Danish-language Wikipedia. Students from Ørestad > Gymnasium** and Det frie Gymnasium*** have been writing articles about the > industrialisation in Denmark, based on materials from Brede Værk****, which > is part of the National Museum*****. The project first appeared on our > radar in July 2010, so things do not always move as fast as we would love > them to. > > The students were assigned sandboxes to allow them to create their own > articles with minimal interference. Three of the articles have now been > "promoted" to the main namespace, while two others need to be merged into > pre-existing articles, one needs a general improvement, and one needs to be > merged with an article that a group of students created when they tried to > avoid damaging another group's work. > > The three-week process has been frustrating (generally in a good way), > but apparently the fear of changing someone else's text is something we > need to work on. > > We plan to have more collaboration with the gymnasiums and the museum > in the autumn. > > *) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Brede_V%C3%A6rk > **) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98restad_Gymnasium > ***) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_frie_Gymnasium > ****) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brede_V%C3%A6rk > *****) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalmuseet > > Regards, > Ole > > -- > http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education