[Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani language
Osmar Valdebenito
osmar at wikimediachile.cl
Mon Dec 17 16:27:54 UTC 2012
Hi Everton!
It will be amazing if you can use it in Brazil. We need all the possible
feedback to improve the booklet for following editions.
El 17/12/2012 11:58, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" <ezalvarenga at wikimedia.org>
escribió:
> Caro Osmar,
>
> I would like to congratulate you and Wikimedia Argentina for this
> work. I've seen also Wikimedia Argentina booklet in Spanish about one
> month ago, and I liked your initiave
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_en_el_aula.pdf
>
> And as pointed out in the following discussion, this can be used in
> Brazil. Even in São Paulo, for instance, we have some indigeous who
> speak Guarani. Let's hope some volunteers from Wikimedia Brasil can
> use them in the classroom!
>
> Saludos!
>
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Osmar Valdebenito
> <osmar at wikimediachile.cl> wrote:
> > This week, Wikimedia Argentina published the first edition of "Vikipetã
> > mbo'eha kotýpe" [1], "Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani, an
> indigenous
> > language spoken in Northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. It is the
> > first Wikipedia related publication made in an American indigenous
> language.
> >
> > The goal of “Wikipedia in the classroom”, made originally in Spanish, is
> to
> > help teachers to understand what is Wikipedia, how it works and how they
> > can use it in an useful way. Most students already use Wikipedia so it is
> > really important that teachers know what to do.
> >
> > “Wikipedia in the classroom” is an initiative launched in 2010 by
> Wikimedia
> > Argentina with the support of different institutions, including the
> > Education portal of the Argentine government, educ.ar. They released an
> > special website about the project.[2] Wikimedia Argentina will print 500
> > booklets of the Guarani edition to be distributed in schools and other
> > educational institutions, and we expect to publish new editions in other
> > indigenous languages in 2013.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Osmar Valdebenito G.
> > Director Ejecutivo
> > A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vikipet%C3%A3_mbo%27eha_kot%C3%BDpe.jpg
> > [2] http://wikipediaenelaula.educ.ar/
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