Wikis for children

Some wikis focused on education 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 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 (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.

Primary school

• Wikikids (Dutch, for kids & teachers, via Kennisnet - 8 - 12 years old) english explanation about Wikikids.nl
• Vikidia (French, an encyclopedia for 8-13 years old kids) english explanation about Vikidia.org
• Grundschulwiki, a German wiki by and for primary school children

The wikikids idea was proposed as a wikimedia foundation project here : Wikikids on meta.wikimedia.org but former 3 project are independent from it. The Dutch and French project are willing to work together and would welcome and help any sister projects (could be es.vikidia.org, pl.vikidia.org...)

Secondary school

• High School Online Collaborative Writing wiki, via Wikia

See also

• Band of Wikis
• WiXi
• The disposable encyclopedia (and its discussion / talk)