Wikipedia, now serving K-12 and over

Mango wrote earlier about One Laptop Per Child; now, apparently, Wikimedia (parent of Wikipedia) has gotten involved:

A few minutes ago here at the Wikimania conference, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the One Laptop Per Child Project is including Wikipedia as the first element in their content repository. They've been talking about this for at least a year, but now it's official. He also announced a new project called Wikiversity. It will serve as an online center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual learning materials, for all ages in all languages. It'll host scholarly projects and communities to support these materials, and foster research based in part on existing resources in Wikiversity and other wikimedia projects. Launching in three languages, in a six-month beta, within a month.

I love the idea of Wikiversity. Suspect my parents would have loved it too; it could have saved them a bundle in tuition.

Link via BoingBoing