On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Hisham Mundol <hmundol@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I understand that Wikipedia for Schools 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)

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 metawiki).

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!!