On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:> > 2008/9/8 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk:> >> I think that its not just one for people in poor countries. I think stable> >> versions of the> >> encyclopedia could be used in many schools within the UK. Versions could> >> even be tailor> >> made for various curriculum.> >> > Absolutely. A lot of schools have very restricted internet access and> > block pretty much every site under the sun, sometimes including> > Wikipedia (or so I'm led to believe, the schools in my local area> > don't have it blocked, but I'm told others do), so being able to hand> > out an offline version to such schools would be very handy.> > However, handing out an offline version will give some schools who> currently do not block Wikipedia a reason to do so :-( It's something> to think about.
I would imagine that most kids in school would only get a small amount of time to edit wikipedia in school. I gather most kids who edit, edit from home. I think in terms of children's learning it would be advantageous to them. It may even get more kids involved in wikipedia in their later schooling years. I think that it would be easy to tailor articles for GCSE student's. Seen as GCSE's arnt exactly the most complex thing. I would say that the net gain by helping these kids, would outweigh any loos in editing time they would get from wiki. Also I do not think that it would result in too many further blockings. We could get in touch the education authorities of each county and discuss with them directly. Perhaps even specifically targeting those that block wikipedia. That would be the best damage limitation approach and increase the net gain from this.
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