2009/7/20 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>om>:
Slide 7:
I'd rather WMUK didn't draw conclusions about how
child-friendly Wikipedia is. Present the facts and let people make up
their own minds. Personally, I think it is perfectly child-friendly,
since I don't see any harm coming from exposure to sex and violence.
I'm talking to primary school teachers here as well as secondary school
teachers. From the schools Wikipedia website:
"Wikipedia is not necessarily a childsafe environment and has "adult"
content."
I'll change it to use their wordings.
Yeah, "not child-safe" is far better than "not child-friendly". It
makes it clearer that children can use it but need supervision.
Slide 9: Bear
in mind that the Nature study is several years old now.
Wikipedia has changed a lot since then.
True, and the study was very limited anyway. However, I'm not aware of any
other studies that have been done.
I know of others for other languages, but I can't think of any for enwiki.
Slide 12:
WikiSpecies is hardly one of our major projects. I would
replace it with Wiktionary (I would also spell "Wiktionary"
correction! ;)).
It isn't, but it contains lots of educational material, which I could
imagine teachers using. I've added Wiktionary though, spelt correctly!
I see I've obeyed whatever law it is that says there has to be a typo
in any message pointing out a spelling mistake!
Cheers! I've got 20 minutes to do 10 slides (well,
10 with material on it)
which seems about right.
As a rule of thumb, that works, but you do need to actually time it and see.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Good luck!