https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page is supposed to have complex content (adult level) written in Simple English. Simple English uses short sentences and a small number of words. It is written for educated people who are learning English. There is a good community at that wiki.
There is also https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior which is simplified content (younger children) in age-appropriate language. It is written for native English speakers. I don't think that very many people are working on this project right now. On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 2:02 PM Mathias Damour <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 03/07/2017 à 22:22, Ziko van Dijk a écrit : > > 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. > > Thanks for your response, for sure, students - future teachers are a good > potential editors and people to be initiated to such a wiki. > We had sometimes editing projects on Vikidia from these class, but without > any of us. > > Indeed, there is some differences in Klexikon and Vikidia approaches and > the way they work. Vikidia aims to involve young people in building it. > It is a nevertheless a intergenerational work. This side does quite well. > I would say it is a natural way to be in society that we may miss in our > modern countries, which sort pupils by age and often segregate ages groups. > Child and teenager vikidian most often respect adults editors and > appreciate to work and interact with them, which is reciprocal. We do have > controversy and quarrels on Vikidia, typically on being rather lenient, > tolerant toward the newbies or strict. Oddly, there is young and older > people in each side of this kind of case... > > Our weakness would rather be : > > * one that you may find in any wiki or any group of volunteers: we are > never as many and as active as we would wish ! > * that quite a few articles may be too difficult for the age range we > announce to write for, which is difficult to assess. > > By the way, I would like to ask on this list: what do you think about > Simple English Wikipedia, especially if English is your language? > Is it a occasional resource and place to work in education programs? > Maybe for younger people than higher education students, or for lack of > subject to write on in Wikipedia? > > > -- > Mathias Damour > 49 rue Carnot > 74000 Annecy > 04 57 09 10 56 > 06 27 13 65 51 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing) Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
