Dicoado

Dicoado (Dico des Ados) is a community project started in 2016 and focused on being a collaborative dictionary for children.

https://dicoado.org

https://fr.dicoado.org

Goals

The Dicoado project is designed to be attractive for school activities, especially in French Switzerland.

The current aim is for other people (Vikidian, Wiktionnarist, Wikimedian, young or not so young...) to join Dicoado to make it increasingly useful and fun.

History

The Dicoado project was started in September 2016 by User:DSwissK inspired by Vikidia.org - the encyclopedia for children.

After that moment, the project started to have over 4,500 words defined.

In order to support the Dicoado community and fight hosting costs, in 2023 the project was migrated to the infrastructure of Wikimedia CH. The server is still managed by the community, plus complimentary on-demand support.

Contacts

Contact Project members

User:DSwissK: I'm the volunteer project leader and a wiki administrator.
Feel free to contact me for any information, or any project in your mind!
rififi: volunteer technical wiki and server administrator
...

Contact Tech Support

User:ValerioBoz-WMCH: Valerio is a server administrator (on-demand).
Feel free to contact me for any "tech boost" to be requested on this server to support the community!
User:Ilario: staff, main contact with the hosting service provider in Wikimedia CH.
...

Activities

Some activities are published on Wikimedia Phabricator, in this Tag:

#dicoado.org

Feel free to surf Tasks, share comments, and collaborate!

Technical Details

Dicoado has a unique highly-customized MediaWiki interface. As such, Dicoado is shown in the page mw:Sites using MediaWiki/gallery.

DicoAdo is based on the skin Foreground but with local modifications.

The source code of the DicoAdo's skin is available on Wikimedia GitLab. See the #Documentation.

Documentation

For the public technical documentation, see:

(English) Dicoado/Technical documentation