Hi,
Here is the text of a contribution to a Janusz Korczak Seminar in Geneva
on May 2015 on the topic "Childhood Protection and Participation"
It was about Childhood Participation, which is stated in the Convention
on the Rights of the Child in words to which the Wikimedia's vision and
mission statements are surprisingly close.
I hope it can draw the attention especially to Vikidia in English (and
Vikidia in Spanish) which, although behind fr and nl, already have some
valuable content and a significant audience!
Vikidia, an equivalent of Wikipedia for children and the information and
participation rights
Mathias Damour - contribution to the 7th International Janusz Korczak
Seminar in Geneva on May 30, 2015. On the topic Childhood Protection and
Participation
https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays/Vikidia,_an_equivalent_of_Wikipe…
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Mathias Damour
[[User:Astirmays]]
Le 13/02/2015 23:52, Mathias Damour a écrit :
May I give you some news on the wiki encyclopedias for
children:
I have let you know nearly one year ago about the launching of Vikidia
in English[1]:
Vikidia in English now has 1,445 articles and 32 active users. the
advantage in English is that we can pick up, choose, adapt and select
some existing material, especially from Simple English Wikipedia, and
from Wikijunior. Some of the first users on
en.vikidia.org also come
from other Vikidia language and it even gather some Dutch teenager
from Wikikids.nl.
Vikidia was first launched in French and there is a similarly
developed counterpart in Dutch :
http://wikikids.nl/ . these wikis are
8 and 9 years old now.
Vikidia in French has now more than one million unique visitors a
month, with a yearly growth of audience of nearly 40 %.
It's not a Wikimedia project, yet it is supported by Wikimédia France
that now funds our hosting costs.
Another wiki encyclopedia for children was recently launched in
German, and is supported by Wikimedia Germany. See some English
explanation on it here: [2].
There is some quite significant differences between the way each
wiki's aims, rules and functioning are designed, which we had the
opportunity to discuss between one and another teams/founders.
The guestbook on fr.vikidia show that this resource is really
appreciated by children (and even older peoples), and that there is a
need for such a wiki beside Wikipedia ([3] [4]).
Yet nothing can be done but with a significant community, that's why
your support (as individual people so as an organisation) really matter !
klexikon.de, which claim to be a content - rather than an educational
- wiki for children, directs a great part of its efforts (this is most
of the Wikimedia Germany support) on organizing meeting and workshop
for wannabe editors (teachers or other - mainly - adults). What about
Wikimedia UK supporting something similar? Yet it would demand some
peoples to undertake it... One can also begin with one (or some) blog
post about this project ?
[1]
http://blog.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-in-english-opens-today-lets-build-a-childr…
[2]
https://zikoblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/a-new-wiki-klexikon-the-free-ency…
[3]
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Livre_d%27or
[4] see also
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=wikibooks%2C%20wikiversity%2C%20viki…
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Mathias Damour
[[User:Astirmays]]