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.
This is a project allowing students, families and teachers to find on Wikipedia the documentation necessary to obtain the primary school qualification in their country, in their language.
Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool and it is currently available online, via mobile phones and offline. Experiences have shown that, once accessible, Wikipedia does not provide information that responds directly to curriculum-based questions. The project relies on Wikipedia as an existing and growing resource, it solves the need for an encyclopedia capable of responding to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters Wikipedia content, quality and outreach.
Bridging Wikipedia and primary education. This objective implies to move the Wikipedia community towards a focus on primary education, and at the same time to strengthen the capacity of the education ecosystem to contribute to Wikipedia, and in general to open collaborative knowledge.
Enriching Wikipedia with new content relevant to primary education. This objective implies an assessment of the articles produced.
Fostering the development of translations and new content in different Wikipedia linguistic editions. This objective implies the release of existing educational resources (OER in cc by or cc by-sa), the production of datasets and the involvement of the Wikimedia movement.
Verifying and evaluating the use of Wikipedia as a source of information for primary education. This objective implies the involvement of stakeholders and data analysis.
Wikipedia Primary School contributes to universal primary education and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2: Achieve Universal Primary Education). Even if it is scalable and international, the project is conceived primarily to address African countries and languages.
The project is focusing on the South Africa primary school curriculum. A list of 100+ articles on the English Wikipedia was drafted: over the course of the next few years, those will be reviewed (or created: missing articles were identified as well) by Wikipedians, by scholars/external experts or by journals.
Glad you asked, because the answer is: everybody can! If you decide to create a new article or review an existing one, please bear these criteria in mind.
Please add your name here if you're interested in working/if you worked on any of these articles.
User:Alfhild-anthro Working from knowledge of the subject (San healing practices), I have made substantial deletions, additions and grammatical edits to this article while trying to preserve the work of previous editors. The sources are legitimate but mostly very old, so some of the text left an idealized impression of these folks. Working from ethnographic data gathered in the 1950s can be problematic if the reader is not made aware that that is what they are reading.Alfhild-anthro (talk) 15:12, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
By all means, please do check the list of articles and see if you know someone (e.g., an academic) you'd like to recommend. We'll evaluate your advice carefully if we don't have an engagement for that specific article yet.
These articles are going to be evaluated by an expert in the next few weeks. Improving them before a version is sent to the relevant expert for review would be optimal!
none at the moment
These articles were evaluated by an expert without initial review by community request (Feb 2016):
Can one work on the articles after the deadline?[edit]
This shouldn't be a question! We welcome articles' improvement at any time, working on them after the deadline just means designated experts won't be able to keep your changes into account, since they'll be working on an older, offline version of the article.
