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

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 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.

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
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
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,

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

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Nevell
It's an interesting idea. The colours on the main page really stand out, though I wonder how easy it will be for people with colour blindness to read. Has it been tested for that? On 19 February 2014 23:31, Mathias Damour mathias.dam...@laposte.netwrote: Hi, Since I was able and glad to come

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

2014-02-20 Thread Brian McNeil
Have you looked at working with the Wikipedia for Schools people? I spoke to them back in 2008[1], but don't have current contacts. [1] https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/2008-09_Wikipedia_for_Schools_goes_online On 2014-02-20 10:56, Richard Nevell wrote: It's an interesting idea. The colours on

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

2014-02-20 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 20/02/2014 12:22, Brian McNeil a écrit : Have you looked at working with the Wikipedia for Schools people? I spoke to them back in 2008[1], but don't have current contacts. Yes, I have met the person in charge of Wikipedia for Schools ( http://schools-wikipedia.org/ ) at EduWiki, he made

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

2014-02-20 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 20/02/2014 11:56, Richard Nevell a écrit : It's an interesting idea. The colours on the main page really stand out, though I wonder how easy it will be for people with colour blindness to read. Has it been tested for that? The current colours on the main page were made by a 15 years old

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

2014-02-19 Thread Mathias Damour
Hi, Since I was able and glad to come in EduWiki 2013 in Cardiff, to make a presentation about the Wikikids proposal : https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2013/Abstracts#Wikikids_-_Mathias_Damour we have gone forward and we are about to launch Vikidia in English on the 28th of