Thank you for your interest, Sumana. I'll answer both your questions: 1) I'm thinking this would be an opt-in feature; those who opt-in have a "Quizz" switch/button/tab for every article. If the extension becomes popular then having the switch/button/tab by default (and opt-out for logged-in users) could be option.
2) For almost-right answers I intend to allow users to override the automatic correction if they feel their answer is correct. I was thinking of building a list of synonyms and misspellings for each link using redirects, for example. Stemming is something I haven't considered yet; thanks for the suggestion! Best, Justin On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/02/2011 07:30 AM, Justin DRAKE wrote: >> >> I'm seeking feedback for my Google Summer of Code project. A >> description is available at >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Drakefjustin/Fill-in-the-blanks > > Justin, I have taken a look at your project, a "fill-in-the-blanks" > extension for MediaWiki. Your abstract, to help others in the thread: > >> This project aims to make learning content from Wikipedia articles more >> interactive. I want to develop a fill-in-the-blanks extension for MediaWiki, >> where blanks are made by removing (at random?) links from an article. The >> key observation is that an article's wikilinks hold pertinent and localized >> information, easily exploitable for learning (and quizzing!). >> > > Thanks for the mockup at > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Fill-in-the-blanks.jpg > which is useful. > > Would users who want to be quizzed turn it on in their user preferences? Or > are you envisioning a per-page switch/button? Or some kind of combination > of these? > > This might be too detailed for right now, but would you do stemming or > something like that to allow for almost-right answers? > > best, > Sumana Harihareswara > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
