Talk:Wikijunior
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[edit] Three suggestions
Why not change the name of wikijunior to WiJi? It would definitely be more appealing to children. I think it sounds a lot better. Another suggestion would be to ditch the whole wikipedia template, its too boring. make one more appealing to children. My final suggestion is too allow for flash upload; this will allow interactive viewing for children,. Animation explains in a way no textbook can. It would be exclusive to wikipedia.
[edit] I'm for a book about good books for kids
I would like to see a book containing book reviews. I would like to contribute reviews of books by Holling Clancey Holling like "Paddle to the Sea," the "Swallows and Amazons" books and their video tie-ins, and "Banners at Shenandoah" by the noted historian Bruce Catton.
[edit] Bookshelf
On the bookshelf, the title of the book "Science Experiments" is misspelled as "Science Eperiments". Can whoever made the title fix that, as I am not experienced with whatever I'd need to do to fix it? Bart133 (talk) 19:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Just a note
In case anyone working here was interested in the Schools Wikipedia which we are a few weeks from completing for 2008/9. It is jointly done between the Wikimedia Foundation and a children's charity and is pretty successful in terms of having well over a million readers. It gets given away free to schools all over the place. The content is just Wikipedia content so the language is often complicated but it does have "adult" content removed, get selected around the schools curriculum and get checked for vandalism. AFAIK this is the only such project so perhaps we could do the clean up etc jointly with Wikijunior if there are people with time here? The overlap with non fiction projects for children is pretty striking so I hope no one minds the heads up. --BozMo (talk) 20:55, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Suggestion
I'm unsure of where to suggest this, but how about some sort of non-English language book for young children, maybe as part of Wikijunior:Animal Alphabet? I've seen multiple books for young English-speaking children in which the alphabet of a different language is given, along with alphabet-book type pictures and words describing the pictures. Bart133 (talk) 00:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
