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'''Bold text'''Some wikis focused on education by and for children:

It is unsure 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 apporoach 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 m the French one. It could become an international project and both can help to build free encyclopedic data iy languages, but dedicated to children and also havcal interest because of its [[Writing ]] appr

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== Current proje
* '''[http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/Hoofdpagina wikikids.nl]''' Dutch, for kids & teachers, via Kennisnet - 8 - 12 years old, started in march 2006 ; ''3867 articles on 29 July 2008'' [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 ; ''4851 articles on 29 July 2008'' [http://fr.vikidia.org/index.php/Vikidia:About ''english explanation about Vikidia.org''],
** in [http://es.vikidia.org spanish], started in may 2008, ''105 articles on 29 July 2008''
* [http://fr.wikimini.org Wikimini] French, an encyclopedia ''written by'' 8-13 years old kids (new 2008 project)
* [http://www.zum.de/grundschulwiki/index.php/Hauptseite ZUM-Grundschulwiki] in german, started on december 2005, ''299 articles on 29 July 2008''.

Wiki for Kids [http://www.wikiforkids.com] Share the knowledge globally. Teachers and students can contribute information suitable for children ages 5-18.

The ''wikikids idea'' was proposed as a wikimedia foundation project here : [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids Wikikids on meta.wikimedia.org] but the above 3 projects are independent of it. The Dutch and French project are willing to work together and would welcome and help any sister projects (could be it.vikidia.org, pl.vikidia.org...)

=== Secondary school ===
* [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]]

Revision as of 15:10, 13 December 2008