Hi,
I'm curious as to what level of reading skill you are writing this for and
also what level of understanding/adulthood.
I see these as two different issues and both are likely to vary sharply
especially between different countries with very different education
systems.
A childrens'
Hello WSC,
It is even more complicated: two 10 year olds may be not on the same
level with regard to reading or knowledge of the world.
The Klexikon has a "little sister", the MiniKlexikon with articles
that are even more simple and targetted to beginning readers and
people with specific
Hi,
De: "WereSpielChequers"
A childrens' encyclopaedia written for nine year olds would surely be very different than one written for thirteen year olds. And content that parents of fourteen year olds thought was age inappropriate in Alabama might be thought appropriate or even bowdlerised by
About Txikipedia: the age range is 8-12, but is more 10-12 than 8-9. The
problem is that some of the writers are 8-9 years old, so their content is
quite simple.
Basque language readers are concentrated in a narrow area. We are in two
different states, and three different education
We have discussed at svwp the target group for our articles and to which
we should adjust our language.
And we have come to the conclusion 15-16 years old (good) students. If
younger it is too hard to understand the elements we use in an article
to describe an issue. And to write without
Dear all,
I have not been writing to the list for a while, so please bear with me:
this will be a long one.
== March Board Meeting ==
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met in New York City over March
22-24. This was the first time the Board met in person since 2020 because
of the
The English Wikipedia has a “plain language” wikipedia, the Simple English
Wikipedia. It’s targeted not only towards children, but also towards people who
aren’t fluent in English and/or have learning disabilities. A few “internet
hack” memes say “If you can’t understand the Wikipedia article,
Dear Natalia,
Thanks for this comprehensive update. Great hearing about what the board is
doing!
Best,
Bobby Shabangu
On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 16:55, Nataliia Tymkiv wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have not been writing to the list for a while, so please bear with me:
> this will be a long one.
>
> ==
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Cornelius Kibelka schrieb am Mi., 15. Juni
2022, 01:24:
> Hello everyone,
>
> thanks for being patient with us. As announced previously, WMF's Movement
> Strategy and Governance team will host a *global conversations event on
>
> I think that SEWP was created like it is, partly by fear of creating a
> project openly directed to children, and I'm afraid it precisely make it not
> so compelling for them.
I think the solution is to make the Simple Wikipedia more appealable to kids,
or at least more well-known to them
The Simple English Wikipedia is geared towards writing simple content for
kids and others, but not specifically geared towards children as authors.
Both because the majority of basic topics that they'd want to write about
are already covered, and because only the content is simple, not the site's
I'm reading your points with great interest, and I don't want to become this a
(literal) Encyclopedia selling. All the solutions (Klexikon, Vikidia, Wikimini,
Wikijunior, Txikipedia) are part of the same reasoning: we can't write an
Encyclopedia fitting all the readers at the same time. It's
Am Do., 23. Juni 2022 um 20:40 Uhr schrieb Mathias Damour
:
> Vikidia in French and Wikikids in Dutch are by far the biggest wiki
> encyclopedias for children, with about 35000 articles each. Yet young reader
> on the Vikidia's guestbook still ask for "more content", which certainly mean
> both
> We do, however, love when teachers use the Simple English Wikipedia as an
> educational tool (aka, supervised editing), though more often in user-space
> than article-space. For example, see:
> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schools
>
Ok, I did read your message too fast... I nevertheless know Simple English Wikipedia.
I think that SEWP was created like it is, partly by fear of creating a project openly directed to children, and I'm afraid it precisely make it not so compelling for them.
> The thing is, as the main
The thing is, as the main English Wikipedia more specialist, and therefore more
complicated, we have a Simple English Wikipedia that we shouldn’t let languish
in the hopes of creating a children's encyclopedia out of whole cloth.
From,
I dream of horses
She/her
> On Jun 23, 2022, at 12:35
Also children are individuals, just like adults. There's vastly different
levels of maturity and interest and that shouldn't be limited based on your
age, outside of extreme situations that are actually relevant to age. 12
year old me would've felt very patronized by something like this. I also
I don't disagree with trying to make language more understandable in
general, though. If there was a children's version, it might be useful for
things like math articles. I remember looking up stuff like the quadratic
formula when I was in high school, seeing way more advanced mathematics
than I
> 12 year old me would've felt very patronized by something like this.
As a twelve year old who read on a college level, I would’ve been patronized as
well, but my parents, my dad especially, would’ve tried to pressure me to using
“wikikids” instead of Wikipedia, if both existed. It would’ve
> I don't disagree with trying to make language more understandable in general,
> though.
Right, but like I’m saying, we have the Simple Wikipedia already.
From,
I dream of horses
She/her
> On Jun 23, 2022, at 8:57 PM, Clover Moss
> wrote:
>
> I don't disagree with trying to make
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