Yes, I concur about the country page - this will be very useful. Randy
On 10/20/07, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Ryan, > > I've spent a little time this morning getting to know the Oliver wiki > a little better. > > There are a couple of neat ideas in your approach and structure, and > I'm sure that these will filter through and add value to WikiEducator. > WikiEducator is at the point of thinking about portal pages for > different levels of education and how best to structure content, eg > Library of Congress system etc. > > Your experience here will be a great help as we think through the best > way to organise content in WIkiEd. > > It would be possible to do a database dump and then import the pages > into WIkiEd - but this is better suited to very big database. I think > we're better off with a cut & paste approach. If you can find a > student who is willing to help we can look at organising a stipend or > honorarium for the task. > > This is also a good opportunity to think about information design and > navigation of OLiVEr - now is the opportunity to fix those any of > those navigation decisions which have been niggling <smile>. > > FLOSS4Edu has a rather nice hybrid based on WikiEducator's main page > and worth taking a look for ideas: > http://www.wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu > > The OLPC SoCon project has also taken a few ideas from our site: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content_2007 > > It would be great if we can get a country page for Uganda started - > see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Countries with a link to the OLiVer > project. I'll get in touch with some of our friends in Uganda and see > what we can do to encourage local community developing around OLiVer. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 20, 10:37 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all... > > Sounds like a worthy thing to consider...how to assist smaller > > projects joining WikiEducator. > > > > As for OLiVER, here's the specific situation...as you can see from its > > current home -http://oliverproject.org- there's not a ton of pages > > yet, but its not tiny either This is a job that could be done just > > cutting and pasting to recreate the pages in WikiEducator. Boring and > > tedious, but just some hours of work for a few people who want to dig > > in and do it (the way I did the first few pages which are up). Or, > > someone mentioned to me that there may be some method in a python > > framework that could migrate pages from one place to another? any idea > > what this would be? (I'm not to good on things that get into that tech > > realm...) A stipend sounds great for someone to do the work, but is > > this a big enough project to warrant that? And OLiVER doesn't really > > have a lot of images, so a bulk option for image uploading (though a > > great idea for future projects!) may not be necessary here. > > > > I'm hoping to get this moved over as soon as we can...becuase then I > > think the synergey of the our project within the larger WikiEd > > community will really take off. > > > > Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks! > > > > Ryan (not trying to remain anonymous) :) > > > > On Oct 19, 11:59 am, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Derek - > > > > > If we don't find an easy solution for bulk uploading of images - I'm > > > more than happy to provide a little funding support (possibly a > > > stipend for students) to assist existing wikis who would like to > > > migrate to WikiEd. Building a free curriculum is a big task and we > > > need all the help we can get! > > > > > It seems to me that our critical mass in WikiEd can help smaller > > > projects achieve their goals - without compromising their specific > > > content objectives. Together we can achieve so much more. > > > > > Cheers > > > Wayne > > > > > On Oct 18, 12:23 pm, "Derek Chirnside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Well anonymous OLiVER project person, you are really welcome. > > > > A good decision I think. > > > > > > I'd suggest you ask Brent if there is any way to bulk upload > images. :-) > > > > > > -Derek > > > > > > On 19/10/2007, OLiVER Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I've just put up the first few pages of the OLiVER Project on > WikiEducator > > > > > -http://wikieducator.org/OLiVER_Project. OLiVER is intended to be > a place > > > > > where the best resources are organized in relation to specific > national > > > > > curricula. It is especially geared toward teachers, students, and > schools > > > > > who are new internet users around the world, to help find the best > resources > > > > > easily. It can also serve as the way to find textbooks and other > resources > > > > > that may be hard to come by for some schools. > > > > > > > OLiVER was started as a stand-alone wiki using MediaWiki software: > > > > >http://oliverproject.org > > > > > Uganda is the first curriculum we're putting up. > > > > > > > We are now migrating it to WikiEducator for a few reasons: > > > > > - to benefit from the expertise of this community > > > > > - to link to similar projects like it already started in > WikiEducator > > > > > - it will be more sustainable and generally better maintained > > > > > - and the word will get out better > > > > > > > Please comment in the discussion area - > > > > >http://wikieducator.org/Talk:OLiVER_Project-oremail me, if you have > > > > > ideas for making it better or getting the word out to > users/contributors. > > > > > Or if you have suggestions for the best way to move it from its > current > > > > > location to WikiEducator, which I'd like to do sooner than later. > > > > > Or anything else. > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- > > > > From Derek Chirnside.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > > -- ________________ Randy Fisher + 1 604.684.2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hirerandy.com Skype: wikirandy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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