Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia Education] Vikidia in English opens today, let's build a children wiki encyclopedia!

2014-03-04 Thread Craig Franklin
Hi Mathias,

I am curious, what policies does Vikidia have for child protection?  While
we all hope it will never come up, I would be concerned that a project like
this might attract undesirable individuals with less than pure motives for
wanting to work with children.  There appears to be some wording on the
Legal Matters page, but this seems to be concerned primarily with
avoiding legal liability rather than protecting children from predators.

Thanks,
Craig Franklin


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Mathias Damour mathias.dam...@laposte.net
 wrote:

 We are launching Vikidia in English today ! :-)

 http://blog.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-in-english-opens-
 today-lets-build-a-children-wiki-encyclopedia-6400
 http://en.vikidia.org

 I hope you will like it, your comment are welcome, and feel free to spread
 the message !

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia Education] Vikidia in English opens today, let's build a children wiki encyclopedia!

2014-03-04 Thread Mathias Damour

Le 28/02/2014 13:51, Craig Franklin a écrit :

Hi Mathias,

I am curious, what policies does Vikidia have for child protection? 
 While we all hope it will never come up, I would be concerned that a 
project like this might attract undesirable individuals with less than 
pure motives for wanting to work with children.  There appears to be 
some wording on the Legal Matters page, but this seems to be 
concerned primarily with avoiding legal liability rather than 
protecting children from predators.


Hi Craig,
We disable the Special:EmailUser function of Medawiki, thus it is not 
possible to send an e-mail/private message to another user and every 
discussion is public (unless some use an external tool for it of course 
such as simply their account on Wikipedia) . Then the tools to deal  
with inappropriate behaviour are basically the same as in Wikipedia.
Likewise we write on the page you mention[1] that Real name, e-mails 
and identifying informations, if given by young users on their user 
pages are to be deleted.


Another usual fear is the possibility that they would be fake kids. 
Firstly, while there nearly no special assigned roles or privilege that 
would depend on the age of an editor, which makes fewer reasons to fake 
it. Then during the several years of existence of Vikidia in French, we 
didn't have this case. I guess it would be very difficult for someone to 
pretend to be a child for months if he isn't.


[1] http://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Legal_matters


Thanks,
Craig Franklin


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Mathias Damour 
mathias.dam...@laposte.net mailto:mathias.dam...@laposte.net wrote:


We are launching Vikidia in English today ! :-)


http://blog.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-in-english-opens-today-lets-build-a-children-wiki-encyclopedia-6400
http://en.vikidia.org

I hope you will like it, your comment are welcome, and feel free
to spread the message !

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Mathias Damour

49 rue Carnot
F-74000 Annecy
00 33 (0)4 57 09 10 56
00 33 (0)6 27 13 65 51
mathias.dam...@laposte.net mailto:mathias.dam...@laposte.net
http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays

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