Thanks for all the hopeful notes I received privately and publicly this
week end :-)
I now have to tell my boss. Ouch.
Ray Saintonge a écrit:
In a different direction, after your Algerian trip you
mentioned that
you were showing your son how to use Wikipedia to help him with his
school work. Has he been sufficiently infected ;-) to want to attend
Wikimania?
Ec
I have showed him how to use it. Here is the page of the article he
wrote :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:William/Le_Sahara_alg%C3%A9rien
Kids were set up in team (which I did not know at first). His team mate
was a brazilian girl (which allowed me to make new brazilian friends)
with who he prepared a big poster where they pasted several pictures.
Though initially planned in february, they presented their work in june :-)
It was extremely well appreciated and he got a 20/20:-)
However, I stopped the experiment of him editing for several reasons.
First, my husband was not happy *at all* with it. Second, wikipedia was
too slow in spring, which was upsetting. Adults easily switch from one
page to another during loading time, not kids; so it is quite boring.
I also noticed the interface was too complicated for him and he had pain
to remember where to access what. So, even after a while, he was very
far from independant. If we ever do a wiki for kids, we'll have to
improve the interface I fear.
Currently, he is giving most of his computer time playing Alpha Centauri
:-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
As for Wikimania, I have considered bringing the family along, but
considered at least 3 would be very bored, not knowing anyone, with only
conferences to have fun. So, no, they will not come.....
ant