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[[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|Armenian]] and [[Sicilian language|Sicilian]].

It was inspired by '''WikiKids''', a [[Dutch language|Dutch]] website, much in the style of the larger and better known [[Wikipedia]]. The major difference is in the fact that these sites are meant for minors. They are for children from the age of 8 to about 13 and everything in between, although there is no age limit.

== Characteristics ==
As in [[Wikipedia]], Vikidia is an open wiki, so everybody is allowed to edit the articles.  But Vikidia is also a wiki for children, so all inappropriate or shocking content, especially [[vandalism]], is quickly removed by the site's [[administrator]]s.

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 18,000 articles, 208,000 users and 60,000 pages in total.

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'')]

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