-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Jauquier <laurent.jauquier@unifr.ch>
To: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 2:09 am
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimini, the Children's Encyclopedia has reached 10 000 articles (word cloud inside)

Hi Will,

After four years of activity, I can't recall a case in which an adult had tried to pass itself off as a child or that we even suspected such a case on Wikimini. In fact it is important to note that adults are also fully involved in the project and they even have their own dedicated portal on the wiki. I mean, our users are not *only* children, and furthermore, the collaboration between the latter and adults is an important component of Wikimini.

>From a safety standpoint it should also be noted that unlike many other community websites and services aimed at children (think of chat systems, message boards, online games, virtual worlds, social networks...) there is no way to engage in private exchanges with other users on Wikimini. Moreover the email functionality has been deactivated.

Laurent
http://wikimini.org

2013/4/18 Wjhonson <wjhonson@aol.com>

How do you ensure that the contributors are children ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Park <janepark@creativecommons.org>
To: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 2:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimini, the Children's Encyclopedia has reached 10 000 articles (word cloud inside)

This is very cool! Are there any children oriented wikis in other languages?

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Laurent Jauquier <laurent.jauquier@unifr.ch> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm pleased to let you know that Wikimini in French (http://fr.wikimini.org) has reached 10 000 articles. For those who don't know our project, Wikimini is a free encyclopedia written by children and young teenagers, both at school and at home. It currently exists in French and the site is based on Mediawiki (same software used by Wikipedia).

Word cloud:

On this very special occasion, our aspiring encyclopedists were asked to choose 3 words that would best describe the project in their eyes. A word cloud was built using the words we had received and their frequency. I wanted to share it with you, so I translated it in English:

==> http://stock.wikimini.org/w/images/7/7c/EN-Wikimini_in_75_words.png

I hope you'll find it interesting and inspiring.

Laurent
http://wikimini.org

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