Hello Mathias,

Thank you for the notice.

It happened by chance only Friday that we had a workshop for our Klexikon (Kinderlexikon, in German). The university Duisburg-Essen had invited Michael, Beat and me to talk about the wiki encyclopedia for children and have a workshop in which ca. 25 drafts were written.

The students (mostly future teachers) and university staff in our workshop were motivated especially because writing for a specific target group - children from 6 to 12 - relates to a key competence of a teacher. They found it tricky to conceive and write those drafts but found it an interesting challenge.

Of course such a workshop is quite different from a Wikipedia course - just because the Klexikon uses much less code. The Klexikon is also very different from the approach Vikidia represents.

I am very positive about our experience on Friday and am happy to talk with you about it.

Kind regards,

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klexikon

2017-07-03 22:05 GMT+02:00 Mathias Damour mathias.damour@gmx.fr:

Hi,

I sometimes gave update on this list about the Vikidia/Wikikids projects, yet last time was three years ago.

I couldn't post on this list for a while, so here is a quite old message I wanted to share about "Vikidia, an equivalent of Wikipedia for children and the information and participation rights"

Here is the text of my contribution to a Janusz Korczak Seminar in Geneva on May 2015 on the topic Childhood Protection and Participation: https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays/Vikidia,_an_equiv alent_of_Wikipedia_for_children_and_the_information_and_ participation_rights It was about Childhood Participation, which is stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in words to which the Wikimedia Foundation's vision and mission statements are surprisingly close. Don't you miss a "Wikipedia for children" in your language? Where children can not only find a suitable corpus of knowledge for them, but be able to freely share their knowledge. ;-)

I hope it can draw the attention especially to Vikidia in Spanish and Vikidia in English which, although behind fr.vikidia and wikikids.nl, already have some valuable content and a significant audience! You may have also heard about Klexikon as well, in German. However WikiKids.nl in Dutch and Vikidia in French are for now the far most successful wikis for children, and seem to be better known in their language area as every Wikimedia sister project but Wikipedia.

They should be a lecture about Vikidia in Wikimania 2017 by Gabriel Thullen, see: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/ Working_with_kids_:_Wikipedia_vs_Vikidia

• https://www.vikidia.org/
• Presentation of the project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids

Best regards,

-- Mathias Damour [[User:Astirmays]]

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