Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 21/02/2014 21:44, Fæ a écrit : Could someone explain how this fits with past experiences of setting up school-friendly versions of Wikipedia, like http://schools-wikipedia.org? I answered above, see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2014-February/011827.html Moreover, it'

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread
Could someone explain how this fits with past experiences of setting up school-friendly versions of Wikipedia, like http://schools-wikipedia.org? Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread Mathias Damour
Hi, Le 21/02/2014 18:17, Bod Notbod a écrit : I would be grateful to learn how this Wiki project fits alongside Simple English Wikipedia: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ...and how the project intends to avoid a situation where well-meaning volunteers find themselves spending a lot

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread Bod Notbod
I would be grateful to learn how this Wiki project fits alongside Simple English Wikipedia: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ...and how the project intends to avoid a situation where well-meaning volunteers find themselves spending a lot of effort doing work that's already been done. B

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread rexx
I prefer Snook's Colour Contrast Check: http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html as it allows you to test the foreground/background colour combinations for compliance with WCAG 2.0, which is the internationally recognised standard for accessibility of web pages. I checked the front

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread Martin Poulter
Here's a tool for testing web sites for suitability for colour-blind users. http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ It may be worth creating a mockup on a public server and testing. Good luck with the project, Mathias- glad to see so many of the projects discussed at EduWiki are actually happening. On 2

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Potential collaboration with the BBC -

2014-02-21 Thread Michael Maggs
Excellent stuff! Michael On 21 Feb 2014, at 12:23, Stevie Benton wrote: > Hello again, > > Just to let you know that John Cummings and myself went to another meeting > with the BBC. We're making good progress and I've written up the notes. These > can be seen at > https://wikimedia.org.uk/

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Potential collaboration with the BBC -

2014-02-21 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello again, Just to let you know that John Cummings and myself went to another meeting with the BBC. We're making good progress and I've written up the notes. These can be seen at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Potential_memorandum_of_understanding_and_collaboration_with_BBC#Meeting_on_14_February