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Vikidia
[[Image:VikidiaLogo1.png|thumb|Vikidia's [[logo]].]]

'''Vikidia''' is an [[encyclopedia]] made with a [[wiki]], using [[MediaWiki]].  Its goals are to be readable by a child from 8 to 13 years old and to allow easy understanding by people learning [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[English language|English]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Basque language|Basque]], [[Armenian language|Ar(contracted; show full)

Vikidia helps children to contribute, and some schools and teachers<ref> from [[France]], [[Belgium]] and [[Quebec]]</ref> have involved their classes to write articles as a school project.

The [[Simple English Wikipedia]] is much like Vikidia, but it is written for mature people learning English with a lesser focus on children.

== History ==
WikiKids and Vikidia were started in November 2006
 and reached 16,000 articles in [[February]] 2014 in French.

The Dutch WikiKids now has around 1 28,0500 articles, 208,000 users awhile French Vikidia has around 630,000 pages in totalarticles in [[March]] 2020.

The Spanish version of Vikidia was started in May 2008, the Italian one in 2011, the Russian one in 2012, the English one in 2014, the Catalan one in 2015, the Basque one and the Armenian one both in 2018.

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

== Bibliography ==
*''Vikidia, l'encyclopédie des ados'', Luc Ihaddadène, ''in'' Okapi, June 2007.

== Other websites ==
{{Commonscat|Vikidia}}
* [http://en.vikidia.org en.vikidia.org, the main page (''English'')]
* [http://fr.vikidia.org fr.vikidia.org, the main page (''French'')].
* [http://es.vikidia.org es.vikidia.org, the main page (''Spanish'')].
* [http://wikikids.nl wikikids.nl, the main page (''Dutch'')]
* [http://it.vikidia.org it.vikidia.org, the main page (''Italian'')]
* [http://ru.vikidia.org ru.vikidia.org, the main page (''Russian'')]
* [http://ca.vikidia.org ca.vikidia.org, the main page (''Catalan'')]
* [http://eu.vikidia.org eu.vikidia.org, the main page (''Euskera'')]
* [http://scn.vikidia.org scn.vikidia.org, the main page (''Sicilian'')]
* [http://hy.vikidia.org hy.vikidia.org, the main page (''Armenian'')]

[[Category:Encyclopedias]]
[[Category:Wikis]]
[[Category:Websites established in 2006]]