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'''Technical freedom and Access.''' Mediawiki already is a strong platform in terms of providing multiple ways of accessing content, including facilities like an API, a version for mobile content, as well as the ability to download content as PDF or as a ZIM archive. However, many of these facilities are first "stress tested" on Wikipedia, and may be somewhat tailored to use on Wikipedia (and the kind of content hosted on Wikipedia, i.e. encyclopaedia articles). In this project, we seek to apply the the accessibility provided by mediawiki to another site (i.e. http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki), and explore to what extent the tools developed for Wikipedia carry over to other mediawiki sites, particularly with regard to a mobile site, PDF and ZIM. | '''Technical freedom and Access.''' Mediawiki already is a strong platform in terms of providing multiple ways of accessing content, including facilities like an API, a version for mobile content, as well as the ability to download content as PDF or as a ZIM archive. However, many of these facilities are first "stress tested" on Wikipedia, and may be somewhat tailored to use on Wikipedia (and the kind of content hosted on Wikipedia, i.e. encyclopaedia articles). In this project, we seek to apply the the accessibility provided by mediawiki to another site (i.e. http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki), and explore to what extent the tools developed for Wikipedia carry over to other mediawiki sites, particularly with regard to a mobile site, PDF and ZIM. | ||
'''Educational freedom and content organisation.''' One of the areas where we previously experienced difficulties were in the area of content organisation. Wikipedia's "unit of content" are encyclopaedia articles. While these articles have relations with each other, articles do not form "linear sequences". Other other types of educational materials, such as books, have a linear order. Typically such content would be organised as a set of (reasonable length) pages, with appropriate navigation between pages. Other than doing this manually, by default, mediawiki does not provide such facilities. However, as part of this project, we developed a number of options to better structure content (see below), enabling mediawiki users to structure their content in ways more suitable for certain typed of educational content (books, manuals, courses, including professional development courses). The issues address here should be highly relevant for other sites that offer more structured content, such as [https://www.wikiversity.org Wikiversity] and [http://www.wikibooks.org Wikibooks]. | '''Educational freedom and content organisation.''' One of the areas where we previously experienced difficulties were in the area of content organisation. Wikipedia's "unit of content" are encyclopaedia articles. While these articles have relations with each other, articles do not form "linear sequences". Other other types of educational materials, such as books, have a linear order. Typically such content would be organised as a set of (reasonable length) pages, with appropriate navigation between pages. Other than doing this manually, by default, mediawiki does not provide such facilities. However, as part of this project, we developed a number of options to better structure content (see below), enabling mediawiki users to structure their content in ways more suitable for certain typed of educational content (books, manuals, courses, including professional development courses). The issues address here should be highly relevant for other sites that offer more structured content, such as [https://www.wikiversity.org Wikiversity] and [http://www.wikibooks.org Wikibooks]. | ||
'''Participation and usability.''' Visual editor and TogetherJS. We were also keen to introduce some of the excellent usability enhancements. | |||
The concrete goal of the project is to develop a number of extensions | The concrete goal of the project is to implement existing extensions, as well as to further develop a number of new extensions for mediawiki, that will significantly enhance the usability of the platform for creating teaching and learning materials in Higher Education, and particularly for teacher education. We expect the outcomes of this project to be immediately applicable to other wikimedia sites (including wikibooks). | ||
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* '''Assessment of pdf generation.''' A briefing document on mediawiki to pdf workflow options, aimed at the Higher Education sector. | * '''Assessment of pdf generation.''' A briefing document on mediawiki to pdf workflow options, aimed at the Higher Education sector. | ||
* '''Collaborative options.''' A briefing document on real-time collaboration on mediawiki, aimed at the Higher Education sector. | * '''Collaborative options.''' A briefing document on real-time collaboration on mediawiki, aimed at the Higher Education sector. | ||
= Content organisation = | = Content organisation = | ||
