This is an excellent project! If there is anything that the English Wikipedia 1.0 team can do to help, please let us know.
If you are looking for a list of important Indian topics to check through, I'd propose using a slightly amended toolserver list sorted by points rather than importance, available here: http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi??namespace=&importance=&...
For simplicity, I created a tinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/WPIndiaWorklist but this URL will be blocked as spam if you try putting it into the wiki!
Good luck! Martin (User:Walkerma)
Martin A. Walker Department of Chemistry SUNY College at Potsdam Potsdam, NY 13676 USA +1 (315) 267-2271
Jessie Wild wrote:
What a great opportunity! Thanks for spear-heading, Hisham. Some notes below, which I'd love thoughts on:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Hisham Mundol hmundol@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I understand that Wikipedia for Schools http://schools-wikipedia.org/ is readying for release sometime in July 2011 - and the timing couldn't be better.
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!
The list of current articles can be seen here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools The primary changes in the version pending release in July 2011 will be newer revisions of these articles.
*Can you help us out with * *a) how you could help on adding the additional articles that this initiative would require?** (You could also sign up on the **Volunteer Page* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page*)*
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.
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 offline projects pages of metawikihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics).
Would anyone be interested in spear-heading this for India-specific content? *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!!
[[1] Toolserver: http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=India&...
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