What is Mathias Damour?
{{Infobox person | name = Mathias Damour | image = Astimays-IMG 2979.jpg | caption = Mathias in 2016 | birth_name = Mathias Damour | birth_date = 1975 | birth_place = [[Annecy]], [[France]] | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Astirmays | occupation = [[environmentalist]]<br/>[[teacher]] }} '''Mathias Damour''' (born in 1975 in [[France]]) is founder of the free project [[Vikidia]], in 2006. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Mathias Damour, auteur sur Wikimédia France|url=https://www.wikimedia.fr/author/astirmays/|access-date=2022-06-13|website=Wikimédia France|language=fr-FR}}</ref> [[File:Wikimedia_Education_Workshop_03.JPG|thumb|200x200px| Mathias in 2013]] Following the proposal of a [[List of Wikipedias|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 [[List of Wikipedias|French Wikipedia]] contributor using the Astirmays account. The English version was created in 2014. In 2022 it had more than 4,000 articles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vikidia|url=https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Main_Page|access-date=2022-06-14|website=en.vikidia.org|language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Damour, Mathias}} [[Category:1975 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:People from Annecy]] {{bio-stub}}