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Objective
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Output
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| Article on Wikipedia on the country' education system.
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- Testing working on a Wikipedia article.
- Gaining experience on Wikipedia-wiki edits.
- Getting a sense on a country education system.
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Education in South Africa - Related documentation by Kelsey Wings and Isla Haddow in WikiAfrica Primary School Feasibility Study.
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Done Networking with local like-minded and relevant organizations.
- Education: national networks, schools, NGOs supporting educational projects, universities.
- Open knowledge: Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources.
- Knowledge: journals, cultural organizations, magazines/newspapers, networks of journalists/bloggers.
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- Creating a community around the project.
- Looking for people who can contribute to the initiative and involving them.
- Making sure the project involves the relevant local stakeholders.
- Making sure the project can rely on a team with relevant skills/experience/networks.
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Identification of relevant institutions and projects in South Africa WikiAfrica Primary School Feasibility Study
- School of Education at WITs (University of Witswatersrand)
- Alliance for Children’s Entitlement to Social Security (ACESS)
- Equal Education
- Symphonia
- Siyavula
- Eduation without Boarder
- e-Government for Citizens (E-G4C)
- LEAP Science and Math Schools
- IkamvaYouth
- Shuttleworth Foundation
- Mindset Network
- Dep. of Economics at Stellenbosch University
- South African Institute for Distance Learning
- OER Open Educational Resources Africa
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| Done Getting access to primary school exams.
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- Reviewing the content requested by the exams and the questions.
- Getting the authorization to distribute previous exams and their answers online with an open license (>cc by sa).
- Uploading the exams on Wikiversity in the relevant language.
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| Done Producing a list of relevant articles for the country' primary education system.
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- The list allow to check the current status of the articles in different languages.
- It allows to start identifying the kind of people/expertise needed to review, improve or produce the articles.
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Topics and articles related to the South African primary school curriculum on Wikipedia in English.
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| Getting access to a dataset of the country' municipalities.
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- The dataset allows to update WikiData and to generate stup articles for the country' municipalities.
- Stub articles of municipalities allow people to feel represented on Wikipedia and they encourage the involvement of new editors.
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Reviewing the country's bibliography with the identification of the authors' names, copyright/publisher, the date of publication and the sources (also archival sources).
- Open educational resources in cc by or cc by sa.
- Open education resources with other licenses.
- General bibliography related to the country: encyclopedic articles, national or regional encyclopedias, books with an overview of the country, history, geography, main historical/contemporary figures (protagonists)
- Archives used for the publications (documents and images).
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- It allows to start identifying the resources which can already be used for the articles.
- It allows to identify the resources for which is worth try to negotiate rights.
- It allows to start identifying the people/experts which can be contacted.
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| Call for articles related to the country on the Wikipedia Scientific Journal in collaboration with other scientific journals.
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- Invitation to submit articles.
- Submission of current articles for review.
- Articles submitted and reviewed.
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| Offline distribution of Wikipedia and observation of its use in a primary school.
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- Evaluation of the use of Wikipedia in primary school.
- Feedback on the project and evaluation.
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