Wayne, OLiVer is a good test case for importing materials into WikiEducator. As we grow, you're right that we need a method that itself is scalable, to itself accommodate the future 'donation' of materials, and the 'migration' of other communities who wish to align themselves with WE (WikiEducator)...
Ahh, I can see it now - "WE" is stronger than "I" or "They"..... :-) Randy ________ Randy Fisher - aka "WikiRandy for WikiEducator" iCentro Networks Vancouver, BC +1 604.684.2275 www.icentronetworks.com www.hirerandy.com Skype / Yahoo: wikirandy ----- Original Message ---- From: mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WikiEducator <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:14:40 AM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: new curriculum project on WikiEducator 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 - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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