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Educational Wikis Created and Written by and for Children

It's not easy to know how often a child will have access to an Internet connection, so a wiki may not always be available. But, when available, a wiki provides knowledge, writing, and wiki-creation opportunities (in several languages). Wikipedia has proven the value of wikis and the success of community sharing. To make sure that we continue to spread the technology freely, we need to post not only content, but content about how to create and build wikis, wiki pages, and wiki communities. Several such experiences are documented in Dutch ([1] and in French ([2]). Both projects are independent, but do keep in touch with each other.

These two wikis are quite successful. Volunteers have written over 800 articles in 8 months for the Dutch wiki, and just as many for the French wiki. It is becoming a true international project.

wikikids.nl Dutch, for kids & teachers, via Kennisnet - 8 - 12 years old, started in march 2006 ; 15000+ articles in 2014 english explanation about Wikikids.nl
Vikidia
- In french , an encyclopedia for 8-13 years old kids, started in november 2006 ; 16000+ articles in 2014 2010 ;
- in spanish, started in may 2008, 3500+ articles in 2014.
- in Italian ;
- in English, launched in february 2014, 900+ articles in june 2014.

Vikidia in Spanish, Itanian and English really needs new users, contributors, and may be an organisation or people to promote them. Please contact us if you want to do so.

Wikimini French, an encyclopedia written by 8-13 years old kids (2008 project)
ZUM-Grundschulwiki in german, started on december 2005, 662 articles on 12 december 2010.

The wikikids idea was proposed as a Wikimedia Foundation project here: Wikikids on meta.wikimedia.org but the three projects listed previously are independent of the Wikimedia Foundation project. The Dutch and French project currently collaborate and welcome any help with additional projects, such as de.vikidia.org, pl.vikidia.org, and so on.

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High School Online Collaborative Writing wiki, via Wikia

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-Some wikis focused on education by and for children:
+'''Educational Wikis Created and Written by and for Children'''
-It is not sure how often the child's laptop would be used with an Internet connection. Anyway, a wiki is not only to give knowledge but also to write and built it (in several languages). This apporach has proved its efficiency in Wikipedia. Not only its content (or simple WP's) should be posted, but rather its way of working. Such experiences are documented in Dutch ([http://kennisnet.wikia.com/wikikids/wiki/Hoofdpagina wikikids.nl] and in French : http://fr.vikidia.org/. Both projects keep in touch each other but are independent. They are quite successful with 800 articles in 8 months for the Dutch one and just as many in 2.5 months for the French one. It could become an international project and both can help to build free encyclopedic data in many languages, but dedicated to children and also have a strong pedagogical interest because of its [[Writing to learn]] approach.
+It's not easy to know how often a child will have access to an Internet connection, so a wiki may not always be available. But, when available, a wiki provides knowledge, writing, and wiki-creation opportunities (in several languages). Wikipedia has proven the value of wikis and the success of community sharing. To make sure that we continue to spread the technology freely, we need to post not only content, but content about how to create and build wikis, wiki pages, and wiki communities. Several such experiences are documented in Dutch ([http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/Hoofdpagina] and in French ([http://fr.vikidia.org/]). Both projects are independent, but do keep in touch with each other.
+These two wikis are quite successful. Volunteers have written over 800 articles in 8 months for the Dutch wiki, and just as many for the French wiki. It is becoming a true international project.
+* '''[http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/Hoofdpagina wikikids.nl]''' Dutch, for kids & teachers, via Kennisnet - 8 - 12 years old, started in march 2006 ; ''15000+ articles in 2014'' [http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/Wikikids:English_explanation ''english explanation about Wikikids.nl'']
+* '''Vikidia'''
+** In [http://fr.vikidia.org french] , an encyclopedia for 8-13 years old kids, started in november 2006 ; '''''16000+ articles''' in 2014 2010'' ;
+** in [http://es.vikidia.org spanish], started in may 2008, 3500+ articles in 2014.
+** in [http://it.vikidia.org Italian] ;
+** in [http://en.vikidia.org English], launched in february 2014, 900+ articles in june 2014.
+;Vikidia in Spanish, Itanian and English really needs new users, contributors, and may be an organisation or people to promote them. Please contact us if you want to do so.
-=== Primary school ===
+* [http://fr.wikimini.org Wikimini] French, an encyclopedia ''written by'' 8-13 years old kids (2008 project)
-* [http://wikikids.nl Wikikids] (Dutch, for kids & teachers, via Kennisnet - 8 - 12 years old) [http://kennisnet.wikia.com/wikikids/wiki/Wikikids:English_explanation ''english explanation about Wikikids.nl'']
+* [http://www.zum.de/grundschulwiki/index.php/Hauptseite ZUM-Grundschulwiki] in german, started on december 2005, ''662 articles on 12 december 2010''.
-* [http://fr.vikidia.org Vikidia] (French, an encyclopedia for 8-13 years old kids) [http://fr.vikidia.org/index.php/Vikidia:About ''english explanation about Vikidia.org'']
-* [http://www.zum.de/grundschulwiki/index.php/Hauptseite Grundschulwiki], a German wiki by and for primary school children
-The ''wikikids idea'' was proposed as a wikimedia fondation project here : [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids Wikikids on meta.wikimedia.org] but former 3 project are independants from it. Dutch and french project are willing to work together and would welcome and help sister projects (could be es.vikidia.org, pl.vikidia.org...)
+The ''wikikids idea'' was proposed as a Wikimedia Foundation project here: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids Wikikids on meta.wikimedia.org] but the three projects listed previously are independent of the Wikimedia Foundation project. The Dutch and French project currently collaborate and welcome any help with additional projects, such as de.vikidia.org, pl.vikidia.org, and so on.
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 * [http://schools.wikia.com/ High School Online Collaborative Writing] wiki, via Wikia
+== See also ==
+* [[Band of Wikis]]
+* [[WiXi]]
+* [[Educational ideas#The disposable encyclopedia|The disposable encyclopedia]] (and its [[Talk:Wikis for kids#Disposable Encyclopedia|discussion / talk]])
 [[Category:Pedagogical ideas]]
 [[Category:Resources]]
-== See also ==
-*[[Band of Wikis]]
-*[[WiXi]]
-*[[Educational ideas#The disposable encyclopedia|The disposable encyclopedia]] (and its [[Talk:Wikis for kids#Disposable Encyclopedia|discussion / talk]])

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