Hi, I take this subject to let a message about Wikikids/Vikidia (further down in this message)
Le 03/02/2013 17:09, Laura Hale a écrit :
Had the chance to do it but things went pear shared. If I was including it in the curriculum, I would look specifically at curriculum standards and see how they can be specifically addressed in ways that are non-disruptive to Wikimedia projects. Sample lesson plans for how I would do this can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outreach_Oceania_Integrating_Wikimed... .
That sounds interesting and varied, we should have a closer look at it. However, haven't you feel that using Wikipedia, a quite sophisticated approach on each article, can be a limit for its use for younger pupils ?
Le 03/02/2013 21:22, Lila Pagola a écrit :
In Argentina we have an interesting resource: http://wikipediaenelaula.educ.ar/ (in Spanish) It was developed by the government, including our booklet "Wikipedia in the classroom"... and they added some suggestions of activities using Wikipedia at school: general approaches such as using articles for research, evaluation of information sources, collaborative work, wiki-culture, etc.
Hi, in France we have an equivalent : Wikipédia en classe http://www.wikimedia.fr/sites/default/files/userfiles/Wikip%C3%A9dia%20en%20classe-Wikim%C3%A9dia%20France.pdf, it mention Vikidia, and advice it for pupils up to 15 years old.
Vikidia is an equivalent of Wikipedia for 8 to 13 years old children. I've already sent a message about it more than a year ago. It exists in French, Spanish and Italian (and is about to be launched in Russian) whereas another group opened it in dutch : http://fr.vikidia.org/ ; http://es.vikidia.org/ ; http://it.vikidia.org/
There has been a sister project proposal page for a long time on Meta : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids ...and I have update it.
fr.vikidia.org ans wikikids.nl are doing well, whereas es. and it. not so well. Vikidia in French is about 1 to 2 % of the importance of Wikipedia in French for activity, number of article and audience, which is not bad. I can tell you more about the spanish Vikidia, that has had good supporter but deserve new people to join in or even an organisation to take it in charge.
Wikitravel/Wikivoyage has recently be adopted as a sister project by the WMF. This could be possible for Vikidia/wikikids.
I would help translate from French if needed different pages that introduce to the project, such as http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Pour_les_enfants_ou_par_les_enfants_%3F (by or for children ?) and http://blog.wikimedia.fr/la-documentation-et-vikidia-1494 (the documentation and Vikidia - which was already translated in Spanish)
What do you think about it and would you be interested in it ?