Mathias Damour

founder of Vikidia

Mathias Damour (born in 1975 in France) is founder of the free project Vikidia, in 2006. [1]

Mathias Damour
Mathias in 2016
Born
Mathias Damour

1975
Other namesAstirmays
Occupation(s)environmentalist
teacher
Mathias in 2013

Following the proposal of a French Wikipedia user, the possibility that between users and the Wikimedia Foundation an encyclopedia for children was evaluated. The idea was to make some Wikipedia articles that would be selected and then adapted for a young audience. This discussion also carried over to other language versions of Wikipedia, Currently lives in Annecy, France, Prior to Vikidia, he was a French Wikipedia contributor using the Astirmays account.

The English version was created in 2014.

In 2022 it had more than 4,000 articles.[2]

References

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  1. "Mathias Damour, auteur sur Wikimédia France". Wikimédia France (in French). Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  2. "Vikidia". en.vikidia.org. Retrieved 2022-06-14.