Wiki Review

I looked at Magistra G.'s Latin Wiki. I tried to find information on the age group that it was created for and by, but I couldn't find any. I would guess middle school, however, as the information is generally very basic and sometimes incomplete.

From what I looked at, all the information which is on the site is accurate - but the site is missing many grammar forms (the third conjugation page is entirely blank, and it's the largest conjugation in Latin) and isn't formatted consistently. For example, on the first conjugation page, tenses are initially organized into charts with an example verb conjugated directly beneath them, but later on the conjugations are merely listed, with no chart.

Also, the entries in a list (such as the list of animals) are rarely alphabetized, making it difficult to find a specific entry. When I glanced at the Holidays section, I expected to find some information on Roman holidays, but instead they only list vocabulary for modern holidays, which is disappointing.

(And Saturnalia would be so easy to include. Winter holiday, widespread feasting, gift giving - it's often compared to Christmas. I think the Christians placed Christ's Mass on the Winter Equinox specifically to compete with Saturnalia, and how is that not cool trivia for kids?)

I think that a wiki like this is a good idea because it would give students a resource other than their book which they can access at any time or place (provided that they have internet), but I feel that this particular website is incomplete and needs some TLC towards its formatting. If I made a wiki, I think I would set up the entire structure of the site and enter some basic information before turning my students loose on it to edit. Afterward, of course, I would very carefully monitor their edits so that no one added incorrect information.