A gentle reminder wouldn't hurt. One of the ideas I jotted down for a Wikimedia chapter in Ireland was to get a link to Wikipedia on every school desktop. Getting a link put on the laptops rolled out in the "Smart Schools" program should be a priority, if we were to.

The 'pedia though is not the only project: how much of the English curriculum is on Wikisource? Or primary documents for history curriculum? That's an inside track that Wikimedia has over the likes of Britannia and World Book. Not to mention the Gaeilge Wiki, which is pretty much a one-of-a-kind and could be a big selling point.

It would also be possible to do a slimmed down, curriculum focused 'pedia like schools-wikipedia.org specifically for an Irish market, but that would be more work.

Some thoughts anyway, Oliver (aka rannpháirtí anaithnid)

See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland

On 5 Jan 2010, at 16:12, Michael Peel wrote:

(resending as the Wikimedia IE mailing list apparently defies the "- l" convention...)

On 5 Jan 2010, at 16:10, Michael Peel wrote:

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http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/schools-to-get-free-access-to- online-encylopedias-440794.html

"The country’s 4,000 schools are to get free access to online versions of the popular Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book as part of an e-Learning initiative announced today."

... do you think we should offer to generously let them access Wikipedia for free as well? We can even throw in the native language version. ;-)

(via Mathias Schindler on wmfcc-l)

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