Presentation of the project Wikipedia Primary School in Cape Town, 19 June 2014.

1. Wikipedia Primary School
!
Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary
to complete the cycle of primary education in the
languages used by the different education systems
Cape Town 19/06/2014

2. Wikipedia?

3. xkcd, Map of Online Communities and related points of interest, 2007, http://xkcd.com/256/, cc by-nc.

4. © Information Architects,Web Trand Map 2007/V2, 2007.

5. © Bili Bidjocka, Ecriture Infinie, http://www.ecritureinfinie.org.

7. Kiwix,Wikipedia offline.

8. http://education.wikia.com/wiki/Education:Main_Page.

9. Framasoft et Wikimedia France proposent en 2012 une clé USB contenant l'encyclopédie libre Wikipédia accompagnée de plusieurs dizaines de logiciels libres.

11. © Mounir Fatmi, G8 Les balais, 2004, installation.

14. Erik Zachte, May 2011. CC BY-SA

15. © Tsesler &Voichenko,Welcome, Minsk, Road sign.

16. We want to make Wikipedia a better education resource.

18. Identify content
gap from school
programs
Trigger the
production of
content: new
articles,
improvements,
editing of existing
OER
Peer review
process on
Wikipedia, with
the involvement
of journals, with
the involvement
of experts
New content
available on
Wikipedia or for
Wikipedia
SCHOOL
PROGRAMS
SCHOOL
PROGRAMS
SCHOOL
PROGRAMS
Thank you Luca &all.

19. Why
1.Wikipedia claims to be an educational tool
2. It is powerful (500 million readers)
3. It is more and more accessible (online, mobile, offline)
4. Making sure it provides (good) content related to education
5. Improving underrepresented content
6.Taking advantage of existing resources and expertise
7. Making sure we take into consideration who Wikipedia is “educating” and
what it is “teaching”
8. Supporting Wikipedia and its (potential and new) communities

20. What we are not going to do
1.We do not break Wikipedia rules.
2.We do not work for governments and ministries of education.
3.We do not consider Wikipedia a schoolbook.
4.We do not promote Wikipedia as a stable and passive resource.
5.We do not centralize all the activities, and in any case we can’t.
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21. Conclusion

22. © Mounir Fatmi, Les connexions, 2003-2004, installation

24. © Lara Baladi.

25. Wikipedia Primary School: Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of
primary education in the languages used by the different education systems
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School
Iolanda Pensa, io@pensa.it, SUPSI, cc by-sa all, Cape Town 19/06/2014
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© Chacho Pueble, his great-aunt and photos by his sister Lula, http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grandmother-Tips/2392946.