Hey,
Having been involved in the Dutch Wikikids project over the past years (full disclosure:
this is a small part of my work for the Kennisnet Foundation which supports this
initiative) I can tell you a little more about it.
Wikikids is run by a small foundation which has 5 trustees (who are all educators). They
have 12889 articles and over 9000 pictures. They get about 3,5 million website visits a
year. An important part is that they feel that the writing of the article by kids is
actually a way for them to learn. While the end result is also important, the writing and
improving is at least of equal (if not higher) importance.
The english page on the project is here:
(I am not sure but I think one or two of the founders might be on this mailing list, but
probably not actively following it)
Jan-Bart
On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Laurent Jauquier <laurent.jauquier(a)unifr.ch> wrote:
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(a)aol.com>
How do you ensure that the contributors are children ?
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From: Jane Park <janepark(a)creativecommons.org>
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)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(a)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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