Salut Mathias,
Thank you for sharing your vision of such a project and taking the time to
collect information about it.
I've added a description of the *Wikimini* encyclopedia. Here is a copy:
*Wikimini.org <http://wikimini.org>* (License: CC-BY-SA 3.0): currently in
French*, started in *October 2008*, *10180 articles* in April 2013,
anonymous contributions not allowed**
* is working on new language versions
** collecting and publishing the IP addresses of participating schools and
children (without parental permission) has been considered a problem by the
people who designed the project
As it is the case in the two projects described above (Wikikids.nl and
ZUM-Grundschulwiki), *Wikimini* is an online encyclopedia where *almost all
of the content is being written by children and teenagers* (~8 to 15 years
old in the case of Wikimini). 10-15% of its articles are being created or
developed in the context of class/school projects (see an original example
covered by the press here *(in
French)*<http://stock.wikimini.org/w/images/5/50/2012-07-25-La-Liberte.j…g>),
while the rest is being edited by other contributors outside any formal
teaching context (see one of their young contributors interviewed at home
by the national
FrenchTV<http://stock.wikimini.org/w/images/6/6d/2009-10-16-Journal_Fran…)v>).
Adults are welcomed to participate and have a dedicated portal. Basically
they can be seen as "helpers". They help in: organizing the content;
following the recent changes; checking and proof-reading the articles;
making text understandable when it is not; adding pictures and videos;
providing encouragement and advices to new contributors; etc. (More details
here *(in French)* <http://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/Aide:Adultes>). It should
be noted that moderation and administration tasks are shared between both
adults and children. Ultimately, the children remain the main actors and
builders of the project and their contributions are not overwhelmed by
massive adult inputs. This is a central scope of Wikimini and probably one
of the most important factors regarding its success and the large-scale
participation of children of all abilities (not only those excelling at
school and with a high self-esteem).
The conceptual design of Wikimini began in *Switzerland* in 2008, within a
small group of primary education teachers and students in educational
sciences from the universities of Fribourg (CH) and Mons (BE). Actually,
the initial aim was not to bring the project into reality, but only to
imagine a successful way of building such a wiki. Laurent Jauquier, a Swiss
teacher currently living in *Brazil*, and who was at the origin of the
idea, took the lead and decided to transform it into reality. He launched
Wikimini in French in October 2008. The project has been growing fast ever
since and has received a warm welcome from children, educational and media
professionals around the French-speaking parts of the world. In 2011 it has
even been invited, nominated and finally awarded as the “*Best French site
/ content for children*” in a contest organized by the European
Commission (more
info
here<http://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/Spécial:AWCforum/st/id234/Wikimini.org_…)l>).
More recently, Wikimini has received the financial support from Wikimedia
CH to improve its technical infrastructure, develop a common repository of
shared media files suitable for children (something like ''Commons''),
implement the technical requirements to support the development of other
language versions and finally relieve the (non-technician) founder of the
most highly technical workloads.
It has been expressed on different occasions that Wikimini wants to
collaborate/exchange with similar wikis and that motivated persons would be
welcomed to coordinate and represent new versions of Wikimini in their own
language.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss more about this.
Kind regards
Laurent
http://wikimini.org
2013/4/6 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi, Mathias.
I've sent your e-mail to the Brazilian volunteers. If someone if
interested, I hope they will contact you.
Tom
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Mathias Damour
<mathias.damour(a)laposte.net> wrote:
Hi, I have updated and better again the proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
It refers in particular to the 2010 /Wikimedia Study of Controversial
Content/.
I added :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Review_of_current_existing_wikis_ak…
and I may write a /*Wikikids/Questions and
answers <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikikids/Questions_and_answers&…
to anserw the questions and concerns this proposal can raise.
One next step it certainly to draw up a project plan/potential
schedule/roadmap
for a migration to WMF hosting and for the first months...
And to have your remarks on the proposal !
--
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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