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== Press release ==
---


Andrew - per our discussion:
Andrew - per our discussion:


SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9
SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools
Wikipedia Selection for Schools


22 October 2008: SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia Foundation, has released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Previous revisions have been distributed off-line widely across the globe including by the Shuttleworth Foundation to South Africa Schools, by the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children and through SOS offices worldwide. The updated selection has the content of a 20 volume encyclopaedia - with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words and articles on more than 5500 topics. This revision, which can be freely downloaded or collected free from SOS Children is selected and organised around the UK National Curriculum and aimed at 8-17 year olds who broadly follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world.
16 October 2008: SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia
Foundation, have released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia
Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked
content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Previous
revisions have been distributed off-line widely across the globe
including by the Shuttleworth Foundation to South Africa Schools, by
the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children and through SOS
offices worldwide. The Selection has the content of a 20 volume
encyclopaedia - with 34,000 pictures, 20 million words and articles on
more than 5500 topics. This revision, which can be downloaded or
collected free from SOS Children is selected and organised around the
UK National Curriculum and aimed at 8-17 year olds who broadly follow
the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the
world.


Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, offered the following "The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to work with SOS Children. Our goal is to make Wikipedia accessible to as many people as possible around the world, and SOS Children is a great partner that helps us make that happen. Wikipedia is released under a free content license so that individuals and institutions can easily adapt, reuse and customize its content: we encourage others, like SOS Children, to do exactly that."
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, remarked: "The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to work with SOS Children. Our goal is to make Wikipedia accessible to as many people as possible around the world, and SOS Children is a great partner who helps us make that happen. Wikipedia content is released under a free content license so that individuals and institutions can easily adapt, reuse and customize its content: we encourage others, like SOS Children, to do exactly that."


Dr Andrew Cates, CEO of SOS Children (and himself a Wikipedia
Dr Andrew Cates, CEO of SOS Children (and also a Wikipedia administrator) said: "Wikipedia is an incredible phenomenon, and we are proud to have helped improve the accessibility of Wikipedia
content to include users requiring remote access, child-friendly access and checked access. This year, general quality improvements on the English Wikipedia (particularly on requiring reliable sourcing for material) means the single most important selection criterion is now relevance or interest to children and manual content checking is slowly becoming secondary."
administrator) said: "Wikipedia is an incredible phenomenon, and we
are proud to have helped improve the accessibility of Wikipedia
content to users requiring remote access, child-friendly access and
checked access. This year, general quality improvements on the English
Wikipedia (particularly on requiring reliable sourcing for material)
means the single most important selection criterion is now relevance
or interest to children and manual content checking is slowly becoming
secondary."


This selection which was originally designed for remote developing world schools without internet access, has been widely put on first world school intranets and websites. Although it is mainly an offline project, even the online browsable copy at [[SchoolsWP:index:home|http://schools-wikipedia.org]] gets on average well over ten thousand human surfers a day. Around 15% of last year's article selection has been removed as no longer meeting rising relevancy standards and more than fifteen hundred more relevant topics have been added, as now of high quality. All articles were reviewed and updated as needed.
This selection which was originally designed for remote developing
world schools without internet access, has been widely put on first
world school intranets and websites. Although it is mainly an offline
project, even the online browsable copy at
http://schools-wikipedia.org gets on average well over ten thousand
human surfers a day. Around 15% of last years selection has been
removed as no longer meeting rising relevancy standards and more than
fifteen hundred additional topics have been added. All articles were
reviewed and updated as needed.


SOS Children is best known as the world's largest orphan charity (UK
SOS Children ('s Villages) is best known as the world's largest orphan charity (UK Charity No. 1069204) but is also a very large educational charity running 192 schools with 91,000 pupils in the developing world. See www.soschildren.org
Charity No. 1069204) but is also a very large educational charity
running 192 schools with 91,000 pupils in the developing world. See
www.soschildren.org


The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after
creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco, California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use Wikipedia and its sister projects.
foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.
The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after
creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge
projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco,
California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and
servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use
Wikipedia and its sister projects.


Summary points:
Summary points:
* The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects
* The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects
* The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability
* The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for and usefulness to children
* Website: [[SchoolsWP:index:home|http://schools-wikipedia.org]] ;
for and usefulness to children
* Downloads: [[SchoolsWP:download|download link]]
* Website: http://schools-wikipedia.org ;
* Downloads download link (to be provided)


Contact:
Contact:
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* Elizabeth Rodgers, Press Officer, SOS Children UK:
* Elizabeth Rodgers, Press Officer, SOS Children UK:
elizabeth(at)soschildren.org, +44 1223 365589
elizabeth(at)soschildren.org, +44 1223 365589

:Sorry to point this out, but the download link doesn't work. <tt>:-(</tt> '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 21:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
::Casey, "[http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=31618 (tidied, updated date, correct grammar and odds and ends: I will fix the download link by Wed)]" it's not Wednesday yet. :P --[[User:Az1568|Az1568]] 01:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

== "About SOS Children UK" ==

Hey Andrew. Do you want to add more information to this "About us" section on the [[Press releases/2008-9 Selection for Schools|press release]]? If so, you can edit it at [[Template:About/SOS Children UK]]. '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:green">Cbrown1023</span>]]''' '''<small>[[User talk:Cbrown1023|<span style="color:#002bb8">talk</span>]]</small>''' 20:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Revision as of 20:15, 22 October 2008

edit Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation website.

Thanks for being here! This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is not open to all for editing, and in case of disagreement, the organ of decision will be the Board. A rule of thumb however is that if we gave you access, that means we trust you. So please, do not be shy in editing this site. There is ample work for everyone :-)

Cbrown1023 talk 01:05, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Press release

Andrew - per our discussion:

SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools

22 October 2008: SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia Foundation, has released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Previous revisions have been distributed off-line widely across the globe including by the Shuttleworth Foundation to South Africa Schools, by the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children and through SOS offices worldwide. The updated selection has the content of a 20 volume encyclopaedia - with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words and articles on more than 5500 topics. This revision, which can be freely downloaded or collected free from SOS Children is selected and organised around the UK National Curriculum and aimed at 8-17 year olds who broadly follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world.

Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, remarked: "The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to work with SOS Children. Our goal is to make Wikipedia accessible to as many people as possible around the world, and SOS Children is a great partner who helps us make that happen. Wikipedia content is released under a free content license so that individuals and institutions can easily adapt, reuse and customize its content: we encourage others, like SOS Children, to do exactly that."

Dr Andrew Cates, CEO of SOS Children (and also a Wikipedia administrator) said: "Wikipedia is an incredible phenomenon, and we are proud to have helped improve the accessibility of Wikipedia content to include users requiring remote access, child-friendly access and checked access. This year, general quality improvements on the English Wikipedia (particularly on requiring reliable sourcing for material) means the single most important selection criterion is now relevance or interest to children and manual content checking is slowly becoming secondary."

This selection which was originally designed for remote developing world schools without internet access, has been widely put on first world school intranets and websites. Although it is mainly an offline project, even the online browsable copy at http://schools-wikipedia.org gets on average well over ten thousand human surfers a day. Around 15% of last year's article selection has been removed as no longer meeting rising relevancy standards and more than fifteen hundred more relevant topics have been added, as now of high quality. All articles were reviewed and updated as needed.

SOS Children ('s Villages) is best known as the world's largest orphan charity (UK Charity No. 1069204) but is also a very large educational charity running 192 schools with 91,000 pupils in the developing world. See www.soschildren.org

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The Foundation was established by Jimmy Wales in 2003, two years after creating Wikipedia, to build a long-term future for free knowledge projects on the internet. The Foundation, now based in San Francisco, California, maintains the technical infrastructure, software, and servers that allow millions of people every day to freely use Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Summary points:

  • The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects
  • The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for and usefulness to children
  • Website: http://schools-wikipedia.org ;
  • Downloads: download link

Contact:

  • David Gerard, UK media contact, Wikimedia Foundation:

wp(at)davidgerard.co.uk, +44 7733 223584

  • Andrew Cates, CEO, SOS Children UK: andrew(at)soschildren.org,

+44 1223 365589

  • Elizabeth Rodgers, Press Officer, SOS Children UK:

elizabeth(at)soschildren.org, +44 1223 365589

Sorry to point this out, but the download link doesn't work. :-( Cbrown1023 talk 21:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Casey, "(tidied, updated date, correct grammar and odds and ends: I will fix the download link by Wed)" it's not Wednesday yet. :P --Az1568 01:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"About SOS Children UK"

Hey Andrew. Do you want to add more information to this "About us" section on the press release? If so, you can edit it at Template:About/SOS Children UK. Cbrown1023 talk 20:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]