Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Homeschooling

Semi-active?/Revive
Is there anyone here who would be interested in trying to update and revive this project? I'm willing to join and help. PrincessofLlyr royal court 20:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll second this. I'm willing to help out. Bejinhan  Talk   12:23, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, if there are two of us, I'm willing to get started. The first thing would be a roll call to decide active/inactive members. At the same time, I would like to update all the project pages and update/cleanup major articles under this project. We could also start up the newsletter, but only after the aforementioned activities. Also, I would like to post a notice at the Signpost. Sound good? PrincessofLlyr  royal court 14:20, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it sounds great. I've been spearheading the WikiProject Malaysia revamp and those were the steps I took. To deliver the messages, you might want to try a bot, like ChzzBot so that you won't have to deliver them manually. It's pretty tedious. :) Bejinhan  Talk   06:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, draft of message in the bottom section of my sandbox. Ideas on the appropriate period of time for roll call to last? 2 weeks, month, whatever. Any other changes or ideas are welcome! PrincessofLlyr  royal court 00:48, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The "Hi USERNAMEHERE" might be possible if you're planning to deliver it manually, but if by bot, I doubt that a bot can pick up usernames based on user talk pages. It might be more practical to have it as "Hi! You are receiving this message because you are in WikiProject Homeschooling's member list(link to member list here)." That's just a thought... putting "Hi USERNAMEHERE" is also possible because it'll be more personal then.
 * I think that 2 weeks should be sufficient. A month is a bit too long.
 * Bejinhan Talk   03:43, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay...the BASEPAGENAME is supposed to pick up for the page it's posted on. For instance, I used that tag and because the sandbox is in my userspace, it added my name. You think it wouldn't do that with a bot? I'll set the time for two weeks and will add the sentence about being listed as members. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 12:20, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, if that's the case, then I think it should be fine. It might also help if you post a notice(re-phrased from your user talk messages) on the different projects' talk pages like the education portal talk page and others. Bejinhan  Talk   12:26, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * All right, news so far. Roll call delivered. Other projects notified. Newsletter draft begun for July. Collaboration page of July posted. Section for assessment requests added. Signpost notified. What else? PrincessofLlyr  royal court 20:11, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that's about all. You'll have to give them the 2-week duration... Later, you might want to notify the confirmed active members about the Collaboration and Newsletter. I can help with the newsletter. I'll just need to get a hang of it and a list of things to be included in it. Bejinhan  Talk   06:27, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I hate waiting. As far as that newsletter goes, it appears to fairly uncomplicated. The archives show just a short list of news. So I figured an announcement about the revival (or attempt at), general note about number of active contributors, update about collaboration of July (or request for input into that), and maybe a note about open tasks, places where members could contribute. That sort of stuff should pretty much cover it. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 12:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Be patient. I'm interested. Maybe you should start up the project page. It looks dead. AirplanePro 03:52, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, sounds good. I'll start working on it. Feel free to make any changes. Bejinhan  Talk   06:15, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm in. Some of the editors here will probably know me as the webmaster of a site on homeschooling. I watch these articles more than actively edit them, to make sure to keep well within the bounds of the Wikipedia conflict of interest policy, but I'm glad to be part of the project and have several of the main homeschooling articles on my watchlist. How can I help? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 14:07, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Great! The most pressing matters are publicity for the project to attract more active members and working on our various articles. Alternative education is our collaboration for this month. You can add the userbox or ad to your userpage to help publicize and please invite any other users you think would be interested. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 16:24, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Recruiting users
I've placed a general invite on AirplanePro2000's page. AirplanePro RadioChecklist 02:15, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Great! Inviting new users is a good way to get the project started again. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 03:05, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Newsletter-update
I'm working on finalizing the newsletter for July as time is running out. I've put in the roll call and revamp news. Am waiting for the July Collaboration of the Month, which seems to be Alternative education. The newsletter would be ready for delivery by 29th. No later than that. Bejinhan Talk   02:36, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It's done and ready for delivery. I'm sorry to say that I won't be on much for the next few months, so this is probably the last item from me for WikiProject Homeschooling for a while. Bejinhan  Talk   11:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks terrific. Should we just deliver to the active members? If so, I can distribute. Thanks for your work and sorry I kind of disappeared in the middle of all of it.  PrincessofLlyr  royal court 13:39, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Yeah, I think that should work fine. Projects deliver newsletters to the active members only. If you're going to deliver it manually, don't forget to change the . :) Sorry I can't be on more often nowadays... I'm having some RL issues that need to be iron out first. I'll try to check in whenever I can, though. Bejinhan  Talk   09:45, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That's fine. Newsletter delivered and member list and collab sections updated. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 17:52, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * No August newsletter was prepared. Seeing that not much work is being done on Alternative education, why not extend the Collab to 2 months and have a bi-monthly newsletter? That means, the next newsletter will be in September. Also, don't forget that the nom of the collab has to play his/her role in working on the article. It's his/her responsibility per nom. Bejinhan   talks   04:45, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Bimonthly sounds great. There really wasn't any news for a newsletter, so I hate taking the time just to clutter up people's talk pages. Also support extending the collab. I've definitely been behind about working on that. Although, unless I'm remembering wrong, AirplanePro nominated alt. ed. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 01:56, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, cool. Something I've been thinking about is ways of expanding the member list. We need more active members.... Any ideas about that? Bejinhan   talks   05:06, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Believe me, I've been wracking (racking?) my brain about that one. No more creative ideas yet. I've plastered it all over my userpage, invited every user I think might be remotely interested, contacted the Signpost....I'm just out of ideas at this point. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 13:39, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Signpost did not work for me too. :p You could have a competition where the user with the highest referrals and the user with the most successful referrals get awarded. I don't know if this will work for this, so far I've not implemented it for WikiProject Malaysia yet. Bejinhan  talks   14:26, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that's a thought. Or I could post something at the reward board. I'll think that one over. I'm actually leaving later today and probably won't be back on until Wednesday, so I don't want to start anything today and then leave. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 14:48, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Do any of you frequent any of the big homeschooling forums, like Vegsource? I wonder if going the other way around and finding homeschoolers who edit Wikipedia instead of Wikipedians who are also homeschoolers might bear any fruit. (Personally, I spend most of my online forum time on Ravelry, whose only homeschooling forum is rather inactive, so I'm not of particular help there.) Princess Lirin (talk) 20:23, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * @PrincessofLlyr That's a good idea, but I was at the Reward Board page recently, and saw some stagnant requests. It's possible and we can give it a try... but it has got to be someone interested in homeschooling.
 * @Princess Lirin Nope, I do the Sonlight forums because that was the curriculum I was using when homeschooling, but as far as I know, most of them there aren't interested in editing Wikipedia. :) Maybe we could recruit new homeschooling users... that's another idea. But we'll have to teach them the hooks of Wikipedia. Bejinhan   talks   03:04, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Homeschooling articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Existing Curriculum/Education Wiki?
Is there an existing wiki that presents an organized curriculum for home schooling. What I have in mind is a complete curriculum, going from beginning to high school, built as a wiki, with options along the way for various approaches.

It would be free, complete, professional, open to the best education minds to contribute, and available to EVERY child and parent who can get an internet connection. Given that there is no one best way to educate every child, it would have options and alternatives, but still be guided and organized.

Much of what I have found so far lacks any organization or road map.

Any ideas?

Wikipedia would be a WONDERFUL place to put such a thing, given that it has a brand name and a presence on the net.

Never mind, found WikiVersity —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.77.161.22 (talk) 18:50, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

18:09, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmfarb (talk • contribs) 16:28, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Please review seriousness v. proposed deletion as parody of new article Names of small numbers at Articles for deletion/Names of small numbers
especially from the point of view of its usefulness as an article used in home schooling, now and as it may grow.

Homeschooling WikiProject members, this is being discussed at:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of small numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Names_of_small_numbers#Names_of_small_numbers

Please also consider what additional sections from binary and other numbering systems and from educationally, historically, linguistically and epistemologically significant concepts and works, including fractions and parts of wholes other than simple number-base exponential systems, including terms from currencies, agriculture, art media, and pre-modern English language names of small portions should be made to this topic as a kept article, especially subtopics which may not be generally known by Wikipedian editors in other particular fields. Etymology for SI and Metric terms is included in their respective articles to which this one is linked; please consider what portions and extents of etymological information from those sources and what other sources are appropriate to add to this article as well.

Thank you. Pandelver (talk) 05:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

BrainPOP educational websites
There are persistent IPs who add unreferenced trivia and errors to the BrainPOP article. See, for example, these edits. Can someone help please and watchlist this article? I feel rather alone in patrolling this article. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:35, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Watchlisted. PrincessofLlyr  royal court 19:18, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:55, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

New Member
Hi, I'am Hamham31, may I join this Wikiproject? I'am willing to be a part of this group and also share my ideas about anything. Thanks. Hamham31 (talk) 01:37, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Absolutely! Just add your name to the list of members. Welcome aboard! PrincessofLlyr  royal court 03:17, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks PrincessofLlyr.Hamham31 (talk) 03:30, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Homeschooling will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in homeschooling. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 20:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:HighBeam
HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to HighBeam Research. —Wavelength (talk) 18:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Seton Is Amazing!
I am a 7th grader in Seton, and I have been here since 2nd, it is Ah-mazing! Thank You for being the best School there is! ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.253.240.54 (talk) 19:06, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Notability concern
Hi. When editing at random I stumbled across Mother of Divine Grace School, which looked more like an ad than a factual article. After editing it, I decided to take a look at similar articles, as articles on schools generally tend to be deleted for lack of notability. I've had a look at the list of articles below, but would like additional help on digging up references on them if possible, if not the alternative is deletion for lack of notability and/or verifiability. I've added a few notes on the various articles where I had any additional comments (in italics). All the articles have also been tagged with various maintenance templates as needed.


 * 1) Calvert_School - Probably notable due to the age, has one book referenced which I assume helps, but need at least one more to establish notability.
 * 2) Growing Without Schooling - Possibly notable, but haven't been able to verify. There is at least one book published, but it appears to only contain original texts from the magazine
 * 3) Mother of Divine Grace School - Possibly non-notable; appears to have mostly self-published references, blogs or reviews. Also a lot smaller than some of the others (if by 'schools' they mean home-schooled families)
 * 4) Raymond S. and Dorothy N. Moore Foundation - ''Might be notable for Dorothy N. Moore (described as a pioneer in the homeschooling movement), but lacks any references independent of the subject. Could not find any books (that didn't contain articles from WP) on google, and couldn't find any sites that appeared to be useful during a quick search either.
 * 5) Regina Coeli Academy - Unreferenced, had problems finding anything useful. Doesn't appear to be notable.
 * 6) Secular Homeschooling (magazine) - Has references, but none of them is about the mag. Appears to be non-notable.
 * 7) Seton Home Study School - Same problem as the others with a dead link, no refs that establish notability. Might be notable though, if the claim that they serve people in all US states and more than 50 countries.
 * 8) Stoa USA - Tons of refs; mostly to their own websites, rankings and debate result pages. Probably non-notable.
 * 9) Upattinas School and Resource Center - ''Only references their own site, and a government site listing "Diploma-granting Organizations". The other external links appear to be reviews, blogs and top n sites listing the best schools (or similar).

In general all of these fall under WP:ORG as there doesn't exist a specific notability guideline for schools, and most of them fail the criteria set there. Before taking any of them through an AFD, I'd like to hear with people associated with this Wikiproject, as you're more likely to know where to look for good sources. Please add anything you can find, and help me clean them up. Bjelleklang -  talk 21:07, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Homeschooling at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

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• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 13:17, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Proposal: Merging this project into WikiProject Homeschooling
I believe that this project, WikiProject Homeschooling should be merged into WikiProject Alternative Education as this project is inactive and shares many of the same goals. Thoughts?

Daylen (talk) 03:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support; there seems to have been very little (if any) activity here after 2011. No point keeping it as a separate project if WP:ALTED is more active. Bjelleklang -  talk 07:37, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Creative Mind through Art of Mathematics
I think, many of our high schools do not provide an adequate level of knowledge in such an important subject as Mathematics. I am sure, many young students, especially those who study math at home and appreciate rigorousness, logic and creativity, would welcome an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of this subject, while inquisitive teachers might be benefited from a course concentrated on rigorous presentation of mathematical ideas, logic and methods.

I'd like to introduce you to an educational site UNIZOR.COM and the course "Math4Teens" presented there, which is created with an idea to redirect studying Mathematics from simple memorization of facts, usually forgotten immediately after passing an exam, towards development of intelligence, creativity and analytical thinking, which I consider the real purpose to study Mathematics and important throughout the whole life, regardless of profession.

Students have to think about Math for their minds as they think about gym for their muscles. Inasmuch as the latter is needed for physical development, the former is needed for development of their creativity, analytical thinking and ability to solve real life problems that needed new, previously unknown solutions. In real life people rarely lift weights, but they do it in a gym to improve their health, develop their strength and stamina to do whatever real life expects them to do. Similarly, in real life people don't have to prove theorems of Geometry, but doing it will greatly improve their ability to solve real life problems. Mathematics is a tool to develop the mind, inasmuch as weights in the gym are tools to develop muscles.

Unizor is free and has no advertising. Its sole purpose is to distribute knowledge in its purest form. I, as its author, have no financial benefits from it and continue developing this Web site as my contribution to a society, hoping that it will help some young students to reach higher goals in their lives.

At this time (September, 2022) the course is complete, and a new course, Physics4Teens, has been almost complete. Physics 4 Teens is a relatively comprehensive course of classical Physics on a solid mathematical foundation of the course of Mathematics described above.

Recently, realizing the deficiency in our Civics education, Jesse Brogan, a retired specialist in performance engineering and law, have contributed a course "Law4Teens" to UNIZOR.COM - a comprehensive course of lectures about our Constitution, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Business Law, specifically directed to young students.

Zshekhtm (talk) 13:09, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Invitation
Mvolz (talk) 14:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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Use of Freemium Websites?
I have become aware of two "freemium" websites, both of which have articles here:

-- OpenClassrooms (French)

-- Duolingo

Freemium is an article as well.

I suggest that a page "List of Educational Freemium Websites" would be useful for Wikiproject Homeschooling.

2601:8A:C180:70:C1C:215B:BAD8:FAF0 (talk) 07:45, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

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Merge of inactive education wikiprojects
I'm proposing to merge this and other inactive education-related wikiprojects to WikiProject Education. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 17:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)