Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection/How to help

This page is intended to help people who are offering to help with the 2008 Wikipedia CD Selection. This page is written both for experienced Wikipedia contributers and for volunteers helping SOS Children.

The last (frozen) 2007 wikipedia can be browsed at http://schools-wikipedia.org

It is organised by topics here: http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/index/subject.htm

The individual articles have been taken from some historical version of the relevant wikipedia article and "cleaned up" by a script which removes some sections which are inappropriate for an offline stand alone version for children.

The new version will be generated using a script which updates the articles whenever a more recent historical version is listed and uses the same clean up.

Broadly we are after three types of assistance:

(1) Article checking/updating. Starting with a list of topics finding a historical version from the article history which is free from vandalism, has few if any maintenance tags, has appropriately sized images and could be used as a source. Listing any sections or paragraphs which are not suitable for children (these will be checked by someone else so if in doubt, list).

(2) Article choosing. Starting either with a Wikipedia list (such as "Good Articles" etc) or with a curriculum topic finding suitable articles for inclusion

(3) Article classifying. Starting with a historical version of an article classify it according to curriculum topic. Multiple listing is allowed. Mis-listing to suit common misconceptions (is Georgia in the EU?) is also allowed.