Hello Mathias, Thank you for the notice.
It happened by chance only Friday that we had a workshop for our Klexikon (Kinderlexikon, in German). The university Duisburg-Essen had invited Michael, Beat and me to talk about the wiki encyclopedia for children and have a workshop in which ca. 25 drafts were written. The students (mostly future teachers) and university staff in our workshop were motivated especially because writing for a specific target group - children from 6 to 12 - relates to a key competence of a teacher. They found it tricky to conceive and write those drafts but found it an interesting challenge. Of course such a workshop is quite different from a Wikipedia course - just because the Klexikon uses much less code. The Klexikon is also very different from the approach Vikidia represents. I am very positive about our experience on Friday and am happy to talk with you about it. Kind regards, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klexikon 2017-07-03 22:05 GMT+02:00 Mathias Damour <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I sometimes gave update on this list about the Vikidia/Wikikids projects, > yet last time was three years ago. > > I couldn't post on this list for a while, so here is a quite old message I > wanted to share about "Vikidia, an equivalent of Wikipedia for children and > the information and participation rights" > > Here is the text of my contribution to a Janusz Korczak Seminar in Geneva > on May 2015 on the topic Childhood Protection and Participation: > https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays/Vikidia,_an_equiv > alent_of_Wikipedia_for_children_and_the_information_and_ > participation_rights > It was about Childhood Participation, which is stated in the Convention on > the Rights of the Child, in words to which the Wikimedia Foundation's > vision and mission statements are surprisingly close. > Don't you miss a "Wikipedia for children" in your language? Where children > can not only find a suitable corpus of knowledge for them, but be able to > freely share their knowledge. ;-) > > I hope it can draw the attention especially to Vikidia in Spanish and > Vikidia in English which, although behind fr.vikidia and wikikids.nl, > already have some valuable content and a significant audience! > You may have also heard about Klexikon as well, in German. > However WikiKids.nl in Dutch and Vikidia in French are for now the far > most successful wikis for children, and seem to be better known in their > language area as every Wikimedia sister project but Wikipedia. > > They should be a lecture about Vikidia in Wikimania 2017 by Gabriel > Thullen, see: > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/ > Working_with_kids_:_Wikipedia_vs_Vikidia > > * https://www.vikidia.org/ > * Presentation of the project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids > > Best regards, > > -- > Mathias Damour > [[User:Astirmays]] > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
