Today starts the Plautdietsch friends project "Mien Lexicon". It is important impetus for the development of Plautdietsch create Wikipedia. Support from Action Man ( dieGesellschafter.de ) is requested. Here is an overview of the objectives and content of the project "Mien Encyclopedia":
Summary / Project Objective
The most used encyclopedia in the world is the Wikipedia . Not only is it free and use online, it also exists in many languages. The Plautdietsch version for about 500,000 scattered around the world living Plautdietsch speakers ( Russia Mennonites ) is still under construction. This is where the project.
Plautdietsch speakers from different countries should be linked in the Wikipedia project, "Mien lexicon" and in September 2009 together in the production and evaluation of new Wikipedia articles work: In a period of 10 weeks and in a geographical area of 10 different countries 10 students are working on new Wikipedia articles and are supported by 10 jury members n evaluated.
competition is open to students from those schools that have a relatively large proportion of Plautdietsch speakers. The student or the Students (as school) participates in the interests of his / her school or school library. The students will live weekly by a jury whose members are also different in these 10 countries evaluated. According to their assessment will be rewarded the article authors (the student) with book and CD prices for their school or for their school library. These prices, the association Plautdietsch-Freunde eV entities as promoters in the context of the proposed action-man-project funding.
This project will support youth in their educational process and strengthening their self-esteem. They are also encouraged to continue contribute their personal contribution to the promotion of knowledge, culture and international understanding. Overall, this program would also support a more active use of mother tongues and encourage more civic engagement.
project implementation / execution
The active participants are Plautdietsch -speakers who are at home in the following 10 countries: Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada, USA, Mexico, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. These are countries where many live relatively Russia Mennonites, often in enclosed settlement colonies. The Project Manager / Project Coordinator is (in the first project weeks in August), a team consisting of 10 articles-authors together (students of one of these 10 countries) and of 10 jury members from those same countries. The young authors write
per week (week 37 - week 46) per an article . These 10 items will be evaluated weekly by the jury according to certain criteria (points for content, language and scope). At the end of the project will be awarded according to the reached total score book and CD prices for the students represented by each school or school library. The coordination and publication of activities and results is done over the Internet (emails, Wikipedia, project blog), but prices will be sent by post.
Rating / Price
Each week (until Sunday evening) gives every member of the jury for a total of 10 written and published Wikipedia article is a point rating of the following criteria: new article comes in the evaluation, if he more than 5 sentences, and contains the internationally accepted criteria of relevance Wikipedia equivalent. Since the Plautdietsch Wikipedia still in incubator status is, can be taken generously for this evaluation. Per participating student per week, only one item to Review coming. For each of the following 10 criteria, there is one additional point:
- The Lemma (Item Keyword) makes sense.
- The article is the content / factually correct.
- The content corresponds to the Wikipedia relevance criteria.
- The content is interesting for a large part of the Plautdietsch speakers worldwide.
- The text provides useful links to other Plautdietsch Wikipedia articles.
- The text provides useful external links.
- The text is clear and well structured.
- The vocabulary is appropriate and differentiated.
- the spelling is consistent.
- The article structure is formally in order. can
a week Students will now receive a maximum of 10 points. 1 point corresponds to a value of 1 €. A single student (as Wikipedia-article-author) may acquire in the course of 10 weeks for his school so total of 100 points worth 100 € . The score of each student is published weekly in the project blog. The total points scored will be on 21 November 2009 ( annual meeting of the Plautdietsch friends) announced. The number of points acquired is redeemed by the students or their schools against Plautdietsch books, CDs, or similar materials in the Plautdietsch friends in Detmold.
motivation and sustainability
The public and international character of this project should represent join Articles for the young writers for a special incentive. The individual school will be interested in having "their" school is as good as possible. The total (Plautdietsch) world experiences through the online dissemination of the progress of the project. The school or the school library at the end of the project can be justly proud of "their students". Reached at a total of 100 points, he or she has enriched the school and its environment by approximately 10 books, CDs or DVDs. This not only ensures
the made-up school library for a lasting benefit of the project, but more generally the role models of the participants: The young producer of the text to motivate their active and voluntary participation in the project while others young people to engage in their society - and to work as well as the further development of Wikipedia, or to take other non-profit initiatives.
