Dear Sumana,
Thanks for the reply. Here are some clarifications:
Q: You should put a page for the extension up at
mediawiki.org and
link to the source code to download.
A:
mediawiki.org already has a page for an old version of the
extension. I'll think to update it.
Q: Is it configurable, whether the page offers those choices or just
makes the user type in words from scratch?
A: You can hide the answer boxes for a paragraph by doing "ctrl" +
click on that paragraph.
Q: When I'm deciding what word to put in a blank I wish I could click
on a word button and thus choose it.
A: I'm working on this now. At the moment there are two ways of
entering the hidden links: type or drag-and-drop.
Q: You don't want your Talk pages to include artifacts of the quiz functionality
A: Indeed! I will try to find a way to detect if a page is an article.
In the meanwhile, toggle the button at the top (that says "quizz" or
"read") to disable the quizz.
Q: Have you gotten feedback on this prototype from any teachers yet?
A: No. I have only put the prototype online today. Feedback from
teachers would be great.
Cheers,
Justin
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 08/31/2011 09:24 AM, Justin Drake wrote:
In my spare time I have been coding a MediaWiki
extension to generate
quizzes automatically from Wikipedia content.
I would be *very* interested in your feedback, so I have put a basic
prototype online, available at
http://wikilearner.net/wiki
Justin:
Thanks for the heads-up! You should put a page for the extension up at
mediawiki.org and link to the source code to download.
I see that the page offers me choices of what words to put in a slot; is
it configurable, whether the page offers those choices or just makes the
user type in words from scratch?
I know it's rough right now, but when I'm deciding what word to put in a
blank I wish I could click on a word button and thus choose it.
And you probably don't want your Talk pages to include artifacts of the
quiz functionality, as
http://wikilearner.net/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&action=edit&…
does.
Have you gotten feedback on this prototype from any teachers yet?
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation