I was recently involved in a children's photography competition through another organisation I'm involved in. I think that commons and "Wiki loves monuments" has a huge opportunity there, as most UK kids now seem to have access to digital cameras and the Internet. It would be great to launch a "Wiki loves monuments" competition to schools, or as a badge for scouts to earn.
Providing the rules were clear about not including your friends in the photographs, or using your full name as your commons ID at least until you are 18, I think this could be useful, good for the kids and a great entry route to the community. WSC On 5 June 2011 19:19, Martin Poulter <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, what I understand by schools outreach is getting the educational > benefits of WM projects into schools - via teachers. Hence still an adult > audience. > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Chris Keating <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >>> >>> Pitching this stuff is hard; kids at different ages see things >>> differently, and kids in different areas age at different speeds. >> >> I think you've hit one of the main challenge of schools outreach on the >> head. >> We are starting to have a "recipe" for introducing adult organisations to >> Wikipedia which will basically work for charities, universities, museums >> and the like - we would need several, for schools. >> Plus our adult outreach model is based on people coming to events of their >> own free will, not because they've been told to! I imagine that a room full >> of schoolkids is a much more difficult audience than what we're used to. >> I think this is part of the reason why we're focusing more on universities >> and GLAMs at the moment. But clearly schools need to be part of the >> long-term plan... >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > > > > -- > Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network > Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > > The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ > Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter > Board member of Wikimedia UK: http://uk.wikimedia.org/ > "Creating a world in which every single human being can freely share > in the sum of all knowledge" > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
