[Foundation-l] Re: Personal info

[Anthere]

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