with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk Project (Fun Project).” Apart from introducing the Fun Project, the authors also discuss a key deliverable of this project, namely Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki. (CUHK Hong Kong Literature Research Center and CUHK Library, n.d.) In this paper, the advantages of using MediaWiki as an effective open platform for creating content collaboratively are discussed, and the challenges of using an online platform to promote literary reading and writing are addressed.
Fun with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk: A Brief Outline
In January 2013, the SCOLAR of the HK SAR Government invited applications for the “Chinese Language Promotion 2013–2014” to promote creative and meaningful activity to improve Chinese writing skills of primary and secondary students. The HKLRC and CUHK Library jointly submitted a two-year proposal entitled “Fun with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk Project,” which aims at promoting literary reading and writing skills to junior secondary school (equivalent to junior high school in North America) students in Hong Kong. e proposal was submitted to SCOLAR in March 2013 and was subsequently accepted in July 2013. The work team of the Fun Project consisted of four members: principal investigator, coinvestigator, project coordinator, and project assistant. The principal investigator and coinvestigator oversaw the direction, execution, and evaluation of the project while the project coordinator and project assistant were responsible for the project delivery including liaising with external parties, conducting publicity, coordinating literary walks, editing student writings, and setting up the Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki.
The Fun Project was designed in such a way that a literary walk was conducted in each district of Hong Kong. Administratively, Hong Kong is divided into eighteen districts in three major geographic areas: Central and Western, Eastern, Southern, and Wan Chai districts in Hong Kong Island; Kowloon City, Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin, and Yau Tsim Mong districts in Kowloon and New Kowloon; and Islands, Kwai Tsing, North, Sai Kung, Sha Tin, Tai Po,
