Talk:Confucius Institute

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Contents 1 List and location 2 In the news 3 Source to confirm 4 Africa 5 Links in the article

[edit] List and location

Where can one get a list of these and where they are located? The Jade Knight 03:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I can't seem to find a list anywhere, but so far I've turned up locations at:

• US
  • New York's China Institute [1]
  • Maryland
  • Kansas
  • Chicago public schools [2]
  • Michigan Virtual High School [3]
  • Iowa (opening fall 2006 [4])
  • San Fransisco State (planned [5])
  • Hawaii (planned [6])
  • Massachusetts (planned [7])
• Canada
  • Vancouver
• Australia
  • Western Australia
  • Melbourne (official launch on 25 June 2007 [8]) Caskinner 13:48, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
• New Zealand
  • Auckland (planned [9])
• UK
  • Edinburgh (planned [10])

They're certainly not all set up yet: "China plans to create 100 Confucius Institutes worldwide by 2010" [11]. — Laura Scudder ☎ 18:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Germany
  • Berlin
  • Erlangen-Nuremberg

shouldn't this work (in progress) including the plan be moved to the main page? --Ghormax 21:53, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Certainly, particularly where we have citations. The Jade Knight 05:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In the news

See Why China wants you to learn Chinese By Carol Huang | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor. ^BlankVerse 22:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source to confirm

When adding to the list, I'd like to ask editors to please provide a link to confirm the existence or at least future existence of an institute. And it should be more than some news about how a certain school wants to start a Confucius Institute. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 00:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Africa

There are apparently three in Africa (South Africa, Kenya, and Rwanda), with plans to open 20 more in the next couple of years. Badagnani 18:58, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Here's the link. Badagnani 05:02, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Wow. That brings up an issue that's been on my mind of a while now, concerning this article. Should we abandon keeping a list of the institutes? I don't really mind either way. And if there was a reliable source that lists all the existing institutes, it would be really useful to this article. But it seems like so far, nobody publishes a list except, well, Wikipedia. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 21:37, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

That's just another example of the great and irreplaceable things that we do. Badagnani 05:10, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I've added all 3 African ones, and they're properly sourced. Badagnani 05:09, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links in the article

I am about to make some changes to the links in the article in accordance with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and Wikipedia:Lists. In general with lists like this the links should go to a Wikipedia article page (even if it is a red link). In keeping with WP:V it is appropriate for the reference to be listed. If you have questions about my changes drop me a line on my talk page. Jeepday (talk) 14:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Done Jeepday (talk) 03:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Deleted link to Chinese software from the external links section that was not relevant to the article. Caskinner 10:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)