--- El mié, 1/10/08, Cormac Lawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> De: Cormac Lawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Asunto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce
> Para: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities"
> <[email protected]>
> Fecha: miércoles, 1 octubre, 2008 2:11
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Daniel Kinzler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> > Michael Reschke schrieb:
> > > a virtual space promoting interaction and
> interdisciplinary research
> > > among wiki researchers around the world
> > >
> > > http://en.wikiversity.org
> > >
> > > so what?
> >
> > Uh... from the front page: "Wikiversity is a
> Wikimedia Foundation project
> > devoted to learning resources and learning projects
> for all levels, types,
> > and
> > styles of education from pre-school to university,
> including professional
> > training and informal learning."
> >
> > That is something complety different. The focus is on
> learning/teaching,
> > not on
> > research. And it's for learning about anything,
> not focused on researching
> > wikis. Cooperation with Wikiversity is of course a
> good idea, but it's be
> > no
> > means redundant.
>
>
> To clarify: it's incorrect that Wikiversity is not
> focused on research;
> research is one of the core focuses of Wikiversity,
> complementing learning
> resources and learning activities. Just like other learning
> 'institutions',
> research is seen as an educational activity, and as a
> driver of further
> knowledge and resources. It's always been a core focus
> to get researchers
> (including, but not limited to, on wikis) together on
> Wikiversity - to share
> and discuss each other's work, and to collaborate on
> further work. However,
> I admit this isn't so clear from the main page, so
> I'll edit that now. :-)
>
> Conversely, I'd also like a bit more clarity on what
> WikiScience aims to do,
> and how it aims to do it. For example, it seems that there
> is an explicit
> aim to integrate other tools alongside a wiki in this work
> - is that right?
Yes, the objective is to have an initial demo for December (hopefully, if
travels and other work stuff let me dedicate enough time). The demo will
include a CMS, integrating the wiki, as well as other tools for annotated
Bibliography, a descriptive repository with information about wiki research
tools (links, descriptions, manuals, examples, screenshots, etc), a directory
of researchers (initially simple, but it will potentially evolve to a
"mini-facebook" of researchers in due course), as well as research news, and
sindication of blogs and external resources.
> It would be good, in general, to expand on its scope and
> vision - as well as
> an indication of the activity/people/organisation behind it
> so far. That
> might help set a foundation for further development and
> collaboration. ;-)
>
I'm right now in Germany, with not very good connectivity, so I'll try to
expand the main page and sections to provide more information.
The initiative was launched at the first WIRW, co-located with the last WikiSym
08 at Porto, last September (I think I linked the description on the
WikiScience front page). Currently, we at GSyC/Libresoft (http://libresoft.es)
are leading the technical development, and we set up a virtual machine for the
demo, and this wiki.
We are open to collaborate with any other interested research
group/organization/foundation. The aim will be, after having a working demo on
December (as a "proof of concept" of the usability and feasibility of our idea)
to search interested organization/research programs to get fundings for a more
formal initiative.
As Daniel said, I would really like to promote cooperation with other
initiatives like Wikiversity. Our goal is not at all to *substitute* any other
web place, but to *help* to index and find a lot of useful information about
wiki tools, wiki researchers and wiki research working lines and methodologies,
publications, etc. which is currently dispersed throughout a broader set of
pages/sites.
Bests,
Felipe.
> Cheers,
> Cormac
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