Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Presentation - Wikipedia in Sc: msg#00069 wikimediauk-l

I would suggest replacing:

Wikipedia contains sexually explicit, violent
language and is subject to vandalism
Therefore â not child friendly

With something more reassuring, remember most of your audience will have
already looked at Wikipedia, some will even have edited it; but they may not
have done so for some time. If so they may have perceptions of vandalism and
article quality that are ancient in Wiki time, and this is your opportunity to
persuade them to go back and see how much its changed.

I would suggest that early on you ask your audience how many have read
Wikipedia articles, did they spot errors? Did they fix those errors? Then say
"We have hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who've made the changes that
make wikipedia what it is today.

Similarly with vandalism - there we do have an amazing story in terms of how
quickly vandalism now gets fixed.

Also worth asking how many have tried Wiktionary and commons.

And talk up the advantages of Wikipedia over offline encyclopaedias - if
something fits into several categories it can be given several categories
unlike paper classification systems where each library book has to be fitted in
one classification. Talk about hyperlinks, ask your audience if they've clicked
on a link in a Wikipedia article, and give them an example - point out that
when you read about Steel you can click on [[Bessemer Process] and from there
you can go to [[Limestone]] without the hassle of looking at three different
volumes in a dead tree pedia.

WereSpielChequers
--- On Sun, 19/7/09, Joe Anderson <computerjoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Joe Anderson <computerjoe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Presentation - Wikipedia in Schools
> To: wikimediauk-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 19 July, 2009, 10:39 PM
> On 2009-07-19 18:33:41 +0100, Andrew
> Turvey
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> > All comments gratefully received!
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> > Regards,
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> > Andrew
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> I show a list of sources at the bottom of an article and
> the inline
> citations to demonstrate its transparency.
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> I would also talk much more about Commons. Free images are
> not only
> useful for pupils, but can be used in school documents as
> stock images
> etc.
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