[Localization] Wikikids/Vikidia, encyclopedia for children

[Gonzalo Odiard]

These in fact are offline versions with data selected from wikipedia.
Do not have a special edition, just some pages blacklisted.

Gonzalo


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Up until now, we've been maintaining our own subsets of wikipedia for kids
> in different languages. See [1-n]. +1 to having someone else (your team)
> curating.
>
> -walter
>
> [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4535 (pl)
> [2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4536 (qu)
> [3] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4540 (fr)
> [4] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4631 (pt)
> [5] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4632 (hi)
> [6] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4401 (es)
> [7] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4411 (en)
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Mathias Damour <
> mathias.damour at laposte.net> wrote:
>
>> I wanted to speak about Wikikids/Vikidia, which are encyclopedia for
>> children on the Wikipedia model.
>>
>> 2 of them are doing well: French (14000 articles) and Dutch (13000
>> articles)
>> There is a Vikidia in Spanish as well, that doesn't work so well.
>>
>> See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikikids<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids>which gives all the links and explanations.
>> Moreover, it is the proposal for it to be adopted as a Wikimedia project.
>> I think it can be a significant resource for children, since we can
>> consider that Wikipedia often is too difficult for children.
>>
>> Did you know it ? Do you have any question, suggestions on that project ?
>>
>> Now we need people for feedback, and help, feel free to join or forward
>> this message to people that might be interested !
>>
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