Nina, thanks for the suggesion. I will certainly take a look. If you want help, we got already some people from Michigan University, BYU and Chicago University helping. It would be a pleasure.
On Sunday, June 19, 2011, McHale, Nina <[email protected]> wrote: > Phillipe, > > Your project and philosophy sound wonderful, but I don't think MediaWiki, as > great as it is, is the right tool for the job. Since you are already working > with PHP and MySQL, I'd highly recommend considering Drupal. It was designed > specifically with social networking sites in mind, and it has a lot more > features built-in that MediaWiki does not. Also, if you are placing a lot of > importance on user input, you will better be able to control user accounts > and security with Drupal than in MediaWiki. > > Don't get me wrong; I love MediaWiki. But I think you'll find that you need > much more than any wiki software provides to really achieve the level of > social interaction that you're going for. > > Best, > > Nina > > Nina McHale, MA/MSLS > Assistant Professor, Web Librarian > University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library > Facebook & Twitter: ninermac > http://milehighbrarian.net > > > > On 6/18/11 3:52 AM, "Phillipe, Eros" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alright, fair enough. Let me share with you guys: > > I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between > people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social > network. So, we are all volunteers. > > The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be a universal > right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for > example, not to have access to the same knowledge as boy who is at MIT. > > Ok,.. right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers on > this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with my SQL > and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people to > interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split mainly > in 3 groups on the internet > > 1) academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online > etc) > 2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something, > tutorials) > 3) articles - published and non published > > so we need > 1) to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on > these 3 groups > 2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a > crawler, tags, some index system) > 3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very > important.. > 4) to enable users to share their own material > 5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common > (and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss > academics topics and so on.. > > there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and > we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a > lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't > necessarily speak English. > > We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an > agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and > iTunes U if we be able to do it.. > > Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda. > > > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:12, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote: >> >> > Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a >> > very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies. >> >> Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you >> want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that >> applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve, >> what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more >> successful. >> Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so >> far, to show that you're serious at it. >> >> At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good >> social network anyway! >> >> Domas >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
