You're right, there is a "long tail" of short articles on Wikikids especially, which nevertheless has about 7000 articles above 2000 bytes, whereas Grundschulwiki has 150 (and Vikidia in French has about 13,000 articles above 2000 bytes)
The Pareto principle apply there again! Articles are far from being equally developped and popular.
Hopefully, the best quality or the most developped articles are also the core subjects and the most viewed!
 
 
Envoyé: vendredi 24 juin 2022 à 11:45
De: "Ziko van Dijk" <zvandijk@gmail.com>
À: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia
As in Wikipedia language versions, article numbers don't count.
Wikikids has many "articles" that consist only of one or two
sentences. That makes it easy to reach tenthousands of "articles". :-)
https://wikikids.nl/Seks_museum
Kind regards
Ziko

Am Fr., 24. Juni 2022 um 11:42 Uhr schrieb Mathias Damour
<mathias.damour@gmx.fr>:
>
> Hi,
>
> You may compare :
> - Grundschulwiki in german, launched in december 2005 with institutionnal support and enought visibility I guess, restricted to articles produced by the schools : 1,134 articles today : https://grundschulwiki.zum.de/wiki/Hauptseite
> - Wikikids.nl in Dutch, launched by teachers in march 2006, yet opened both to school works and anybody : 35,839 articles today : https://wikikids.nl/
>
> Note that German is the main language of about 100 millions people whereas Dutch is the one of about 24 millions peoples.
>
> That mean that only content produced by schools don't make enought content to be a fair resource to readers. You have to work in the Wikipedia way to thrive.
>
> 2d note : The number of articles on Grundschulwiki is quite similar to the number of the articles that were tagged as written by school project in Vikidia in French : https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Article_fruit_d%27un_travail_scolaire 1,255 articles today (out of 35,840).
>
>
> Envoyé: vendredi 24 juin 2022 à 10:37
> De: "Adam Sobieski" <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
>
> As for the earlier discussion in this thread about wiki-based encyclopedias for younger students, one idea is to let school districts host their own encyclopedias and to research how to federate or combine contents and content updates from and across software at each school… like a P2P network of MediaWiki software nodes.
>
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