Hello, I allow myself to add (I am not quite neutral, as related to Klexikon) that the children encyclopedias have an important advantage: you can reach institutions and audiecnes you usually not reach with Wikipedia.
In general, I can imagine that this user group (as many „evangelists“) often starts with Wikipedia as a topci, because WP simply is the most known wiki, and occasionally regards other wikis as it fits. For example, I know that some initiatives focus on Wiktionary because Wiktionary entries are shorter and „easier“ to create than Wikipedia articles. Kind regards, Ziko Mathias Damour <[email protected]> schrieb am Do. 9. Aug. 2018 um 23:02: > By the way you may also think about like-minded wikis, however outside > Wikimedia, which are aimed for children and teenagers. > I mean Wikikids in Dutch, Vikidia in French, Spanish, Italian, English, > and Klexikon in German (the later being less oriented toward children > and pupils participation). > > I think that these "Wikipedias for children" are especially relevant for > education projects when the Wikipedia version in your language is very > developed, which not only means few available subjects to work on but > also long and too high level articles for children and younger peoples, > which in turn implies a lack of a well-suited encyclopedic resource for > children. > I guess it is also relevant if you think that education does not only > aim at higher education students ! > > I noticed this tweet: > "Would be very cool if @Wikipedia had official support for different age > ranges. Such tremendous effort is expended to include different > languages / cultures / topics, but nearly all of it remains inaccessible > to the 25% of the world population under 14" > https://twitter.com/anthonygarvan/status/981584340986540032 > > We may elaborate why the Wikimedia movement missed to support and > develop a children-oriented encyclopedic wiki, and still elude this > idea. I may have some ideas on the topic, yet it is still a mystery to > me. However it does exist and is doing well! > > Well, come and get involved in Vikidia in Spanish, English, Italian and > so on ! ;-) > https://www.vikidia.org/ > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids > > Le 09/08/2018 à 11:21, Shani Evenstein a écrit : > > Yes, the brand is what guided the founding members of the group when > > choosing the name, especially thinking about global outreach; but we are > > certainly looking at all Wikimedia projects. Wikidata is very much a > focus > > - actually, I was the one to suggest and lead the Wikidata & Education > > session at WikidataCon and have been including WD in my academic courses > > for a few years now, so I have a personal interest in what you're doing, > > Daniel. ☺ In general, initiatives around any of the other sister projects > > are very much of an interest. There are success stories / best practices > > that I can think of about working with WikiQuote, WikiSource, WikiBooks > and > > of course WikiCommons. We'd love to document more examples we might not > be > > aware of. > > > > Shani. > > > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 10:10 Vojtěch Dostál, <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> I guess that's just a name, nothing more. Wikipedia is by far the best > >> known brand - hence the name of the user group - but our activities will > >> AFAIK support educators using all Wikimedia projects. > >> > >> Vojtěch Dostál > >> > >> předseda rady / chair of the board > >> > >> Wikimedia Česká republika > >> > >> Web <http://www.wikimedia.cz/> | Facebook > >> <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter > >> <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter > >> < > http://wikimedia.us7.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=24c9403aa67fc995b69c7e704&id=4c2c82e14b > > > >> > >> > >> 2018-08-09 8:10 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>: > >> > >>> Daniel Mietchen, 09/08/2018 08:46: > >>> > >>>> I'm very interested in matters at the interface between Wikimedia and > >>>> education but don't understand whether this user group - as the name > >>>> and existing documentation would suggest - is limited specifically to > >>>> Wikipedia(s) or what the role would be for other Wikimedia projects. > >>>> > >>> I agree, it's confusing and not inclusive. Wikimedia activities in > >>> education need to be flexible: in many cases Wikipedia is just not a > viable > >>> option. Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata > etc. > >>> have proven to be essential educational tools in various cases. > >>> > >>> Federico > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> education-collab mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education-collab > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> education-collab mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education-collab > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Education mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > -- > Mathias Damour > https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur: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
