[Localization] Wikikids/Vikidia, encyclopedia for children

[Mathias Damour]

Le 24/04/2013 22:35, Walter Bender a écrit :
> 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.

Ok, I understand that by "curating" you mean check the content fo 
Wikipedia and delete what is not appropriate to children don't you ?

Well indeed, I guess that's a big work !

Actually we can assume that Vikidia in french is already curated, that's 
an advantage.
Still, it's much more than a curated Wikipedia, it's a whole content 
that is designed to better fit to children aged 8 to 13.

The Wikikids proposal (Wikikids being a working title for it) is 
intended to be a Wiki encyclopedia designed for children open to 
contributors of any age. It aims both to offer a suitable corpus of 
knowledge for children and to let some of them, as well as teenagers 
them be involved in building it.

Children tell themselves that they appreciate this content to be more 
affordable than the one of Wikipedia (according to what the write on the 
guestbook when asked for "what they think about Vikidia" throught the 
sitenotice)

As far as Vikidia in french is concern, the work would be (as far as 
OLPC is concerned) just to put it on Sugarlabs.

The (bigger) project I tell about is to set a reliable frame to allow 
community building, community work to develop this content in language 
in which it's still poor or non-existent (Spanich, German, Russian 
arabic...)
That's what we work on on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids and on 
which I would be glad to have support.

Sure that the work will take some years to offer a substantial in new 
language, but that's why we shouldn't delay too much its lauch (or 
relaunch in Spanish) !

English is a special case, since there is Simple English Wikipedia.
I guess the process there would be to reuse large amount of its content, 
but set a new wiki community.
So that would be more than curating it.


> -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 <mailto: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 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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