It might be worth mentioning simple.wikipedia.org?
2010/1/6 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> My draft includes a link to such a guide on Wikipedia - do we need to >> write another one? >> >> > Yes, to address the British teaching profession [[Wikipedia:Researching > with Wikipedia]] isn't really the concise guide that is needed. It looks > like a bunch of generalities addressed to American college students, > frankly. (Like much else on Wikipedia, hah. For reasons that are not > hard to understand.) > > Imagine you're a teacher of a class of sixteen-year-olds, and you're > leaning over the shoulder of one of them looking at a WP article. Your > job is to tell them to click here/scroll there/read the tags at the > top/observe that this section has no footnotes, to some effect, so that > the student has a better idea of how to assess what they're looking at. Ok, fair enough. We will be producing those kind of materials for the schools project anyway, so we can easily make them available online (and probably would anyway - it's just a matter of publicising it). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
