Achim Raschka wrote:
Dear all,
I want to start a new Wikiproject called Wikikids. After a starting
phase it should be a Wikipedia from children for children. The
following proposal I posted at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
an
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikikids
but there seems to be no reaction. It would be great if we can discuss
this at the projects discussion page at Meta.
Wikikids should be a Wikipedia-version for children aged between eight
an sixteen years. After a starting phase when adults will construct
the Wiki together with children it should be a Wikipedia from children
for children. The idea is to have articles in a simple language
without much scientific words and other stuff. The themes should be
specific for childrenĀ“s interests.
As a new project Wikikids will have the same starting problems any
other project has too. It is thought, that Wikikids will be a
Wikipedia in the full control of kids between 8 and 16 years old and
also the sysos of this project will be children too. At the starting
phase there will be some adults to help constructing the Wiki and get
a start in writing the articles, but that should be as long as there
are enough children to take control. From that time on, adults will be
allowed to write articles inbetween the rules of Wikikids (first of
all: simple language), but they will be users like any others under
the control of children administration.
Problems
There are some problems to be discussed, but I think, it will be
possible to handle them. For example there should be the problems of
* what is an encyclopedia, what kind of aricles should be find in
an encyclopedia?
* how about the copyrights of articles and pictures?
* ...
One major problem that is not mentioned, is how do you know when someone
is between 8 and 16 years old, except when they tell you. I am long
past 16, but what's to prevent me from saying that I qualify. How can
this be reconciled with the right to edit anonymously, which is one of
the important features of a wiki.
Ec