Hi all! I've been glad to read about this idea. If you know children well you might consider the possibilty that they had this idea before us ;-) I assume that there are already a lot of wikis maintained by children, especially in the context of local areas, school intranets, etc. As already stated by Fred there is a need for people like teachers who are already working with children to help them to connect their wikis to each other. IMO for children it is not so much important to contribute to *the* one and only encyclopedia, if they could grasp this idea at all. They prefer communicating to each other, and see only need for a steady storage of information if they are asked by others to explain them something and want to refer to some articles. So i guess for the younger ones it should be the loosely combination of a wiki communication and collaboration space where they can play and explain things to each other and the older children could do the task of refractoring the contributed stuff and build a uniform wikipedia from it. (with the help of us wikipedians and their teachers) I want to encourage you to keep this idea in mind as it would be nice to watch the children's wiki grow. Never underestimate their creativity and the readiness of the older to help the younger ones. Another point is the phenomenon that children often explain things to each other in very pictured language and funny where we adults can profit also as some grasp some sorts of things easier that way. The corresponding pages could be referenced from wikipedia more or less for fun to learn how children think about an issue - and this will keep the generations together. Concerning the question how the wikipedia and the *wikidia* could be linked to each other: I cannot imagine a proper solution (namespaces etc.) yet. I'll think about this problem, i already do some related work on interwiki solutions as suggested i.e on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AllInOneWiki There's still much work to do and good ideas needed. I'd appreciate your further comments and ideas about a kid's wiki/ -pedia. I would like to contribute to such a project! Regards, Florian -- Florian Konnertz Have a nice day! http://www.openspirit.de consciousness research and wisdom traditions http://www.openspirit.de/os_portal/noowiki/FrontPage Collaboration http://www.florian-konnertz.de homepage, my linux howtos http://www.openmovie.org movie and mp3 -player projects

Florian Konnertz wrote in small part: We could call the children's Wikipedia "Wikipaedia", unless you think that will be misunderstood ^_^. -- Toby

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