This sounds like a wonderful project for the Wikimedia universe. It also aligns with the interests of the education interests of multiple US affiliates. Would you be able to set up a Hangout meeting with some of us (me and whoever else is interested) during the next few weeks? I wouls like to learn more about this project!
Pine On Nov 27, 2015 5:22 AM, "Riccardo Iaconelli" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to introduce to the Wikimedia community WikiToLearn, a FOSS > project of which I am a participant and which is lately getting a lot of > contributions and momentum. > > It is a KDE project sponsored (among the others) by Wikimedia Italy and > recently joined by institutions such as HEP Software Foundation (CERN, > Fermilab, Princeton...) or Universities such as University of Pisa and > Milano- > Bicocca. These institutions are already populating the website with > content. > > We aim to provide a platform where learners and teachers can complete, > refine > and re-assemble lecture notes in order to create free, collaborative and > accessible textbooks, tailored precisely to their needs. > > Although the project is quite young (only a few months old), it is already > growing in allure at an unexpected rate. Thanks to this we are now > counting on > nearly 40 developers, and growing (including content developers). > > We are different from Wikipedia and other WMF projects in several ways, > and in > a sense, complementary. Our focus is on creating complete textbooks (and > not > encyclopedic articles), drawing from a professor’s or a student’s own > notes, > either existing or that have to be written down. > > We also have a strong focus on offline use: all the content of WikiToLearn > should be easily printable by any student for offline use and serious > studying. > > Besides a good team for content development, we can count on a small but > motivated team of developers, and we would like to improve communication > with > upstream (a.k.a. you ;-) ), because we found ourselves developing a few > features which could probably be made available to the general public, with > some generalization and polishing. ;-) > > Is this a right place to start such a discussion? > > We would like to help as much as we can, but we might need some mentoring > in > how to best approach MediaWiki development, as many of us are relatively > new > to OSS/Web development. > > Bye, > -Riccardo > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
