Hi everyone,
On the French Wikimini (http://wikimini.org), about 10 to 15% of the
articles are being written in the context of such small class/school
projects (pupils in the age of 8-15). Some of them even took place in North
Africa (French speaking parts).
If this teacher speaks French, he may
t; that
> >>> the writing of the article by kids is actually a way for them to learn.
> >>> While the end result is also important, the writing and improving is at
> >>> least of equal (if not higher) importance.
> >>>
> >>> The english pa
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>
> This is very cool! Are there any children oriented wikis in other
> languages?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Laurent Jauquier <
> laurent.jauqu...@unifr.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm pleased to let you know that Wi
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your nice comments which are very much appreciated.
Given the success of the French version with children in general in the
French-speaking countries (in schools and out-of-school), launching new
language versions of Wikimini has become one of our most desirable goals.
Hi All,
I'm pleased to let you know that Wikimini in French (http://fr.wikimini.org)
has reached 10 000 articles. For those who don't know our project, Wikimini
is a free encyclopedia written by children and young teenagers, both at
school and at home. It currently exists in French and the site is
rs 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 a
