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.
Kind regards,
2017-07-03 22:05 GMT+02:00 Mathias Damour <mathias.damour(a)gmx.fr>fr>:
Hi,
I sometimes gave update on this list about the Vikidia/Wikikids projects,
yet last time was three years ago.
I couldn't post on this list for a while, so here is a quite old message I
wanted to share about "Vikidia, an equivalent of Wikipedia for children and
the information and participation rights"
Here is the text of my contribution to a Janusz Korczak Seminar in Geneva
on May 2015 on the topic Childhood Protection and Participation:
https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays/Vikidia,_an_equiv
alent_of_Wikipedia_for_children_and_the_information_and_
participation_rights
It was about Childhood Participation, which is stated in the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, in words to which the Wikimedia Foundation's
vision and mission statements are surprisingly close.
Don't you miss a "Wikipedia for children" in your language? Where children
can not only find a suitable corpus of knowledge for them, but be able to
freely share their knowledge. ;-)
I hope it can draw the attention especially to Vikidia in Spanish and
Vikidia in English which, although behind fr.vikidia and wikikids.nl,
already have some valuable content and a significant audience!
You may have also heard about Klexikon as well, in German.
However WikiKids.nl in Dutch and Vikidia in French are for now the far
most successful wikis for children, and seem to be better known in their
language area as every Wikimedia sister project but Wikipedia.
They should be a lecture about Vikidia in Wikimania 2017 by Gabriel
Thullen, see:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/
Working_with_kids_:_Wikipedia_vs_Vikidia
*
https://www.vikidia.org/
* Presentation of the project
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
Best regards,
--
Mathias Damour
[[User:Astirmays]]
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