On 01/06/2011 22:36, Roger Bamkin wrote: > Two minor threads: Martin Poulter and I discussed how we could put > together a teaching plan so that someone like yourself could organise > an enevening course in "creating your own wiki page" ... not sure > whether Martin made any progress. I know he was investigating ... I > suspect there are a lot of people who would like to put their local > history work into Wikipedia ... if we just explained it and demo ed it > at the same time. >
I think there's a significant strand here. It is probably quite true that local history is a good way to bait the hook. As it happens I have only once set out to write such an article, and that experience confirmed an assumption of mine: "reliable sources" are ever more important as a constraint, as you get off the beaten track in history. Typical sources may be suspect, such as: random amateur websites; TV documentaries or local papers; even local council information, though this is more upmarket. Quite generally, those intending to edit rather close to home have many things to worry about beyond getting some wikitext together. Family history/genealogy is a tough area in which to contribute well, for example. I feel all this is relevant to giving correct advice to teachers. What is reasonably clear to us in the way of pitfalls attached to classes of topics would require some getting over. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
