Re: [Wikimediauk-l] News about the wikis for children

2015-10-28 Thread Mathias Damour

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_Wikipedia_for_children_and_the_information_and_participation_rights

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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-children-wiki-encyclopedia-6400
[2] 
https://zikoblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/a-new-wiki-klexikon-the-free-encyclopedia-for-children/

[3] https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Livre_d%27or
[4] see also 
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=wikibooks%2C%20wikiversity%2C%20vikidia%2C%20wikikids




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[Wikimediauk-l] News about the wikis for children

2015-02-13 Thread Mathias Damour

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-children-wiki-encyclopedia-6400
[2] 
https://zikoblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/a-new-wiki-klexikon-the-free-encyclopedia-for-children/

[3] https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Livre_d%27or
[4] see also 
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=wikibooks%2C%20wikiversity%2C%20vikidia%2C%20wikikids


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

2014-03-05 Thread Mathias Damour

Le 05/03/2014 12:13, Gordon Joly a écrit :

On 04/03/14 21:56, Mathias Damour wrote:

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.

Hence, there is a small but finite risk associated?


Hence, there would be a small but finite risk that a user would be a 
fake child.
Then children are on the wiki to work together from their homes, or 
sometimes schools, they are not to meet one another, moreover alone.


Vikidia is not, and will probably never be a massive community of 
editors, most visitors are only readers (about 2000 or more readers to 
one editor on fr.vikidia) there is some much more massive online 
communities for children. See:
Supporting an Online Community for Kids, by Andrés Monroy-Hernández, 
Scratch Team at MIT, about the Scratch Online Community.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/andresmh/2011/11/supporting-an-online-community-for-kids/

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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 
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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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[Wikimediauk-l] Vikidia in English opens today, let’s build a children wiki encyclopedia!

2014-02-28 Thread Mathias Damour

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] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread Mathias Damour

Hi,

Le 21/02/2014 18:17, Bod Notbod a écrit :

I would be grateful to learn how this Wiki project fits alongside
Simple English Wikipedia:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

...and how the project intends to avoid a situation where well-meaning
volunteers find themselves spending a lot of effort doing work that's
already been done.


Well, we technically aloud users to import articles from both SEWP and 
Wikijunior (with patroller user group rights, it put the old records of 
the article in the history) but we don't plan to import all the SEWP 
(Simple English Wikipedia) article at once.


I personally think that we should use it to grow this wiki with some 
part of the work already done on SEWP nevertheless chosen and adapted 
one by one. It is obviously an opportunity to grow this wiki faster, to 
save time in its growth, time to get some readers (and new editors) and 
as you say to avoid volunteers spending effort doing work that's already 
been done (and SEWP editor to feel their effort not valued as they could)


I don't pretend to have a deep knowledge on SEWP but I tried to check 
out to which extend its content would fit to such a wiki for children. I 
think that the articles of SEWP and Wikijunior are uneven in suitability 
and content (many stubs on minor subjects), which means that we surely 
should do that with care, so we can watch and discuss what it brings to 
this wiki, and built a policy on it if needed. I guess the best way to 
discern if and which articles are suitable to be imported is to 
practice, and import some of them (which we have begun see 
http://en.vikidia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhineaction=history ). It will 
make us able to talk about the quality and suitability of the articles 
we can find, and other issues. We already felt that articles imported by 
SEWP had to be worked again for en.vikidia, and that some of them were 
not to be taken at all. We may choose the articles to import, and then 
edit and check them just after it. That's still some work but it makes 
then a good result and faster than if we have to write it from scratch. 
(Readers on fr.vikidia on the guest-book often say they want more 
content in the articles.) With some practice, we may have some ideas on 
how to do that in the best way, be it still slowly and safely, or with 
some tools/applications to select larger numbers of articles. It may be 
possible that way to get say 2000 to 1 of the best and most 
significant articles of SEWP in a few month.


It ultimately depends on/pertain to the community of this wiki (both by 
their work on it and potential consensus against it...)


I hope I answered you question !


On 19 February 2014 23:31, Mathias Damour mathias.dam...@laposte.net wrote:

Hi,

Since I was able and glad to come in EduWiki 2013 in Cardiff, to make a
presentation about the Wikikids proposal :
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2013/Abstracts#Wikikids_-_Mathias_Damour
we have gone forward and we are about to launch Vikidia in English on the
28th of February.
It's already open with restricted access, and the early editors mainly come
from the other Vikidias and from WikiKids.nl.

Nevertheless, I would be glad that Wikimedia UK or some of it's member gets
involved and supports this project, (Wikimedia France does), provided that
if it makes its way properly, it can have a great impact for our goals.

If you want to have a look, it's http://en.vikidia.org and the codes are
vikidia and aidikiv
We have set up most of the basic/frame pages and we better them before
launching the wiki.
Here they are : http://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Talk/2014/8

Here is a scratch communiqué/launching message :
May you be interested in this project and spread, advice or help it ?

*

A Vikidia opens today, let's built a children wiki encyclopedia in English !

Vikidia is the equivalent of Wikipedia for children: an online encyclopedic
project, for 8-13 year-old readers, open to contributors of any age. It was
launched in November 2006 in French, then in Spanish, Italian, Russian and
now English. 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. It is very close to Wikipedia in its aim and functioning,
except the age range.

Such wikis have proven their sustainability, relevance and success, the two
biggest ones this model being Vikidia in French and WikiKids.nl in Dutch,
with respectively 16000 and 14000 articles and hundreds of thousand readers
every month.

Many children already use Wikipedia daily, for the substantial content and
the well known convenient way it is to find material on any subject.
However, the level of Wikipedia articles makes them hardly accessible for
children or even other people on some subjects and they may read it for lack
of a better resource.
There is some television programs for children, some books, some movies

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-21 Thread Mathias Damour

Le 21/02/2014 21:44, Fæ a écrit :

Could someone explain how this fits with past experiences of setting
up school-friendly versions of Wikipedia, like
http://schools-wikipedia.org?


I answered above, see 
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2014-February/011827.html


Moreover, it's not only a matter of providing content to children but 
for them to freely share knowledge and empower them to collect and 
develop educational content under a free license and to disseminate it 
effectively and globally. (Guess where I picked this up ! ;-) )


There is also the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (signed and 
ratified by the UK) which states:
Article 13 - 1. The child shall have the right to freedom of 
expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive *and 
impart information* and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, 
either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through 
any other media of the child's choice.


Even if the readers/editors rate is roughtly the same as on Wikipedia (I 
mean that while Wikikids.nl and fr.vikidia are some reasonable success 
in audience, they don't  gather a massive community of editors. 
fr.vikidia has 600 000 UV a month, 175 active user a month and about 20 
very active of any ages), I can tell that children and teenagers can 
really appreciate and be proud to be involved in such a project !


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-20 Thread Mathias Damour

Le 20/02/2014 12:22, Brian McNeil a écrit :

Have you looked at working with the Wikipedia for Schools people?

I spoke to them back in 2008[1], but don't have current contacts.


Yes, I have met the person in charge of Wikipedia for Schools ( 
http://schools-wikipedia.org/ ) at EduWiki, he made a presentation just 
before I did.


This project has a significant audience, however they sometimes have 
some remarks about the content being still too difficult for children. 
There is not many people working for it, so they can't rewrite each article.
Meanwhile, Vikidia may be seen among others as a forge for encyclopedic 
content for children that may be reuse for a future release version of 
Wikipedia for Schools, it's some free content anyway ! :-)
On Vikidia in french, we have been asked for on offline release, and 
it's available here :

http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Vikidia_hors-connexion

[1] 
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/2008-09_Wikipedia_for_Schools_goes_online


On 2014-02-20 10:56, Richard Nevell wrote:

It's an interesting idea. The colours on the main page really stand
out, though I wonder how easy it will be for people with colour
blindness to read. Has it been tested for that?

On 19 February 2014 23:31, Mathias Damour mathias.dam...@laposte.net
wrote:


Hi,

Since I was able and glad to come in EduWiki 2013 in Cardiff, to
make a presentation about the Wikikids proposal :

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2013/Abstracts#Wikikids_-_Mathias_Damour 


[1]
we have gone forward and we are about to launch Vikidia in English
on the 28th of February.
It's already open with restricted access, and the early editors
mainly come from the other Vikidias and from WikiKids.nl.

Nevertheless, I would be glad that Wikimedia UK or some of it's
member gets involved and supports this project, (Wikimedia France
does), provided that if it makes its way properly, it can have a
great impact for our goals.

If you want to have a look, it's http://en.vikidia.org [2] and the
codes are vikidia and aidikiv
We have set up most of the basic/frame pages and we better them
before launching the wiki.
Here they are : http://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Talk/2014/8 [3]

Here is a scratch communiqué/launching message :
May you be interested in this project and spread, advice or help it
?

*

A Vikidia opens today, let's built a children wiki encyclopedia in
English !

Vikidia is the equivalent of Wikipedia for children: an online
encyclopedic project, for 8-13 year-old readers, open to
contributors of any age. It was launched in November 2006 in French,
then in Spanish, Italian, Russian and now English. 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. It is
very close to Wikipedia in its aim and functioning, except the age
range.

Such wikis have proven their sustainability, relevance and success,
the two biggest ones this model being Vikidia in French and
WikiKids.nl in Dutch, with respectively 16000 and 14000 articles and
hundreds of thousand readers every month.

Many children already use Wikipedia daily, for the substantial
content and the well known convenient way it is to find material on
any subject. However, the level of Wikipedia articles makes them
hardly accessible for children or even other people on some subjects
and they may read it for lack of a better resource.
There is some television programs for children, some books, some
movies for children and even some newspapers and magazines. It would
be unsound to consider that they couldn't make a great use of a
children encyclopedia. Many children really need and appreciate when
it does exist to have a more readable content for them. They tell it
on the French Vikidia guestbook, on which the main remarks are that
they like it and that they would like to find more articles and more
content in most articles. It is not designed only for children but
for everybody who want a simple explanation on a subject. That mean
that the content must be suitable for 8-13 years old children, based
on the general perception of what is or not considered as possibly
offensive for this age range. That also mean that we take each
subject seriously in order to build a quality and substantial
documentary resource.

To offer to some children and teenagers to take part in such a
resource and to be active in the building process is also obviously
a matter of empowerment. The mere possibility to add something may
also change one child's motivation for the content as a reader.

Everybody is invited to edit Vikidia without age restrictions.
There are no mandatory or forbidden roles or status related to the
users real ages. Vikidia both needs grown-up contributions and
enable children and teenagers to write and to be involved in
building the encyclopedia. Young people can also be involved within
educational activities organised

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-20 Thread Mathias Damour

Le 20/02/2014 11:56, Richard Nevell a écrit :
It's an interesting idea. The colours on the main page really stand 
out, though I wonder how easy it will be for people with colour 
blindness to read. Has it been tested for that?


The current colours on the main page were made by a 15 years old user of 
(mainly) Vikidia in French, we just make it in a wiki way you know ! 
(Would you believe it can work ? ;-) )


On 19 February 2014 23:31, Mathias Damour mathias.dam...@laposte.net 
mailto:mathias.dam...@laposte.net wrote:


Hi,

Since I was able and glad to come in EduWiki 2013 in Cardiff, to
make a presentation about the Wikikids proposal :

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2013/Abstracts#Wikikids_-_Mathias_Damour
we have gone forward and we are about to launch Vikidia in English
on the 28th of February.
It's already open with restricted access, and the early editors
mainly come from the other Vikidias and from WikiKids.nl.

Nevertheless, I would be glad that Wikimedia UK or some of it's
member gets involved and supports this project, (Wikimedia France
does), provided that if it makes its way properly, it can have a
great impact for our goals.

If you want to have a look, it's http://en.vikidia.org and the
codes are vikidia and aidikiv
We have set up most of the basic/frame pages and we better them
before launching the wiki.
Here they are : http://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Talk/2014/8

Here is a scratch communiqué/launching message :
May you be interested in this project and spread, advice or help it ?

*

A Vikidia opens today, let's built a children wiki encyclopedia in
English !

Vikidia is the equivalent of Wikipedia for children: an online
encyclopedic project, for 8-13 year-old readers, open to
contributors of any age. It was launched in November 2006 in
French, then in Spanish, Italian, Russian and now English. 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. It is very close to Wikipedia in its aim and
functioning, except the age range.

Such wikis have proven their sustainability, relevance and
success, the two biggest ones this model being Vikidia in French
and WikiKids.nl in Dutch, with respectively 16000 and 14000
articles and hundreds of thousand readers every month.

Many children already use Wikipedia daily, for the substantial
content and the well known convenient way it is to find material
on any subject. However, the level of Wikipedia articles makes
them hardly accessible for children or even other people on some
subjects and they may read it for lack of a better resource.
There is some television programs for children, some books, some
movies for children and even some newspapers and magazines. It
would be unsound to consider that they couldn't make a great use
of a children encyclopedia. Many children really need and
appreciate when it does exist to have a more readable content for
them. They tell it on the French Vikidia guestbook, on which the
main remarks are that they like it and that they would like to
find more articles and more content in most articles. It is not
designed only for children but for everybody who want a simple
explanation on a subject. That mean that the content must be
suitable for 8–13 years old children, based on the general
perception of what is or not considered as possibly offensive for
this age range. That also mean that we take each subject seriously
in order to build a quality and substantial documentary resource.

To offer to some children and teenagers to take part in such a
resource and to be active in the building process is also
obviously a matter of empowerment. The mere possibility to add
something may also change one child's motivation for the content
as a reader.

Everybody is invited to edit Vikidia without age restrictions.
There are no mandatory or forbidden roles or status related to the
users real ages. Vikidia both needs grown-up contributions and
enable children and teenagers to write and to be involved in
building the encyclopedia. Young people can also be involved
within educational activities organised by schools. They may gain
some digital/media literacy by learning about the functioning of a
resource they will use extensively few years later: Wikipedia,
although the goal is still to create content an the knowledge
resource benefit of such a project: school projects are welcomed
provided they consider the wiki's rules and content objectives.

- Adults involvement is essential for building content that is of
quality and significance, fostering basic maintenance: to watch
and ensure

[Wikimediauk-l] Launching a Wikipedia for children soon, you may help !

2014-02-19 Thread Mathias Damour
 Wikikids project. They no longer ask for it and decided 
to remain it independent from the Wikimedia Foundation and now to open a 
Vikidia in English.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Vikidia%27s_withdrawal_of_the_adoption_proposal

Vikidia is handled by the Association Vikidia, located in France, a 
non-profit-organization. The servers are hosted by Tuxfamily, a 
non-profit-organization that host free softwares and free content projects.
Vikidia is free according to the principle of Free Knowledge. The 
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