Hello Galder,
You did a great job on Txikipedia but I think Txikipedia concept is mostly useful for small communities like Euraska's, with same contributors on Wikipedia and Vikidia, and with a very implicated friendly group, which keeps a the friendly ambiance for children. However I doubt we can reproduce that for larger wikis, in particular because it does not make a safe place for children to contribute, they are welcomed and reverted like adults, and adults can even send private messages to children on Txikipedia. At Vikidia we value a lot the contribution of children to the encyclopedia, and we encourage it, sometimes with class exercises. That makes Vikidia get articles on subjects adults wouldn't write, and remind all the time to focus on young readers. Sometimes, some contributors start to write in a much too complicated way, without noticing it... They're here also for that.
Klexikon approach is also far from Vikidia. If I remember correctly, children were prohibited from contributing.
Since we are talking about the different approaches, there is also Wikimini.org, which at the opposite, focuses mostly on children contributions, that gives a much different result, for younger readers I think (Vikidia focuses on 8-13yo). There is also the oldest, Wikikids.nl, which inspired Vikidia, and has a similar approach too. And last but not least the "Simple" Wikipedia, but mostly for foreigners, not focusing on children.
However, we opened the wiki for trial, we'll move later articles if needed. https://pt.vikidia.org
Best, Plyd
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:22 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder158@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Plyd, From our experience, Txikipedia is the best approach to the children encyclopedia issue. Children are visiting Wikipedia (even in languages where Vikidia exist) and giving them a devoted space inside our infrastructure gives the best results.
There were some concerns two years ago about security, but our experience is delightful, more and more students and teachers are coming to us and we have lots of schoolchildren writing at Txikipedia in this moment.
I hope other communities can adopt also our approach.
Sincerely
Galder ________________________________ From: Education education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 12:08 PM To: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: CA VIKIDIA ca@vikidia.org; Rafaela Samagaia < rafaela.samagaia@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Opening of Vikidia in Portuguese
Hello Plyd, That sounds very exciting! If you are interested in an exchange of ideas and experiences, your primary contact is certainly from Vikidia, but I would be happy to talk with you about building up an encyclopedia for children. Kind regards, Ziko https://klexikon.zum.de/wiki/Hilfe:In_English
Am Mo., 22. Feb. 2021 um 11:51 Uhr schrieb Plyd wiki.vincent@amplyd.com:
Hello Wikimedia Education Group,
Rafaela Samagaia, from Brasil, is leading with the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) a large project of building a children's
encyclopedia
in Portuguese. A Portuguese edition has the potential of being a big children
encyclopedia
very quickly.
Could you help us reach all Portuguese-speaking wiki user groups
interested
in starting the project with them?
We opened for testing https://pt.vikidia.org .
Thanks a lot! Best, Plyd, from Vikidia _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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