Wikis for children
Some wikis focused on education 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 not only knowledge but also writing and wiki-construction 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//kennisnet.wikia.com/wikikids/wiki/Hoofdpagina wikikids.nl and in French ([[1]]). 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
yo == Current proje
- wikikids.nl Dutch, for kids & teachers, via Kennisnet - 8 - 12 years old, started in march 2006 ; 3867 articles on 29 July 2008 english explanation about Wikikids.nl
- Vikidia
- In french , an encyclopedia for 8-13 years old kids, started in november 2006 ; 4851 articles on 29 July 2008 english explanation about Vikidia.org,
- in spanish, started in may 2008, 105 articles on 29 July 2008
- Wikimini French, an encyclopedia written by 8-13 years old kids (new 2008 project)
- ZUM-Grundschulwiki in german, started on december 2005, 299 articles on 29 July 2008.
Wiki for Kids [2] 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 : 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
- High School Online Collaborative Writing wiki, via Wikia
