That's very cool Laurent! Thank you as well for sharing. Hopefully there's some natural way to connect the projects.
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Laurent Jauquier <[email protected]> wrote: > Salut Mathias, > > Thank you for sharing your vision of such a project and taking the time to > collect information about it. > > I've added a description of the Wikimini encyclopedia. Here is a copy: > > Wikimini.org (License: CC-BY-SA 3.0): currently in French*, started in > October 2008, 10180 articles in April 2013, anonymous contributions not > allowed** > > > > * is working on new language versions > > ** collecting and publishing the IP addresses of participating schools and > children (without parental permission) has been considered a problem by the > people who designed the project > > > > As it is the case in the two projects described above (Wikikids.nl and > ZUM-Grundschulwiki), Wikimini is an online encyclopedia where almost all of > the content is being written by children and teenagers (~8 to 15 years old > in the case of Wikimini). 10-15% of its articles are being created or > developed in the context of class/school projects (see an original example > covered by the press here (in French)), while the rest is being edited by > other contributors outside any formal teaching context (see one of their > young contributors interviewed at home by the national FrenchTV). Adults are > welcomed to participate and have a dedicated portal. Basically they can be > seen as "helpers". They help in: organizing the content; following the > recent changes; checking and proof-reading the articles; making text > understandable when it is not; adding pictures and videos; providing > encouragement and advices to new contributors; etc. (More details here (in > French)). It should be noted that moderation and administration tasks are > shared between both adults and children. Ultimately, the children remain the > main actors and builders of the project and their contributions are not > overwhelmed by massive adult inputs. This is a central scope of Wikimini and > probably one of the most important factors regarding its success and the > large-scale participation of children of all abilities (not only those > excelling at school and with a high self-esteem). > > > > The conceptual design of Wikimini began in Switzerland in 2008, within a > small group of primary education teachers and students in educational > sciences from the universities of Fribourg (CH) and Mons (BE). Actually, the > initial aim was not to bring the project into reality, but only to imagine a > successful way of building such a wiki. Laurent Jauquier, a Swiss teacher > currently living in Brazil, and who was at the origin of the idea, took the > lead and decided to transform it into reality. He launched Wikimini in > French in October 2008. The project has been growing fast ever since and has > received a warm welcome from children, educational and media professionals > around the French-speaking parts of the world. In 2011 it has even been > invited, nominated and finally awarded as the “Best French site / content > for children” in a contest organized by the European Commission (more info > here). More recently, Wikimini has received the financial support from > Wikimedia CH to improve its technical infrastructure, develop a common > repository of shared media files suitable for children (something like > ''Commons''), implement the technical requirements to support the > development of other language versions and finally relieve the > (non-technician) founder of the most highly technical workloads. > > > > It has been expressed on different occasions that Wikimini wants to > collaborate/exchange with similar wikis and that motivated persons would be > welcomed to coordinate and represent new versions of Wikimini in their own > language. > > > Please feel free to contact me to discuss more about this. > > Kind regards > > Laurent > http://wikimini.org > > > > 2013/4/6 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <[email protected]> >> >> Hi, Mathias. >> >> I've sent your e-mail to the Brazilian volunteers. If someone if >> interested, I hope they will contact you. >> >> Tom >> >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Mathias Damour >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, I have updated and better again the proposal: >> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids >> > It refers in particular to the 2010 /Wikimedia Study of Controversial >> > Content/. >> > >> > I added : >> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Review_of_current_existing_wikis_akin_to_Wikikids >> > and I may write a /*Wikikids/Questions and answers >> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikikids/Questions_and_answers&action=edit&redlink=1>*/ >> > to anserw the questions and concerns this proposal can raise. >> > >> > One next step it certainly to draw up a project plan/potential >> > schedule/roadmap for a migration to WMF hosting and for the first months... >> > And to have your remarks on the proposal ! >> >> >> -- >> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) >> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more >> useful than a life spent doing nothing." >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Education mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
