Charles,
Regarding questions as structured data, you might find interesting the following
publication:
De Meester, Ben, Hajar Ghaem Sigarchian, Tom De Nies, Ruben Verborgh, Frank Salliau, Erik
Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle. "SERIF: A Semantic ExeRcise Interchange Format."
In LINKed (workshop)@ ISWC2015, pp. 1-12. 2015.
(PDF<https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/7241020/file/7241033>)
Best regards,
Adam
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Subject: Re: [Abstract-wikipedia] Comprehension questions
On 02 August 2020 at 16:16 Grounder UK <grounderuk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But we don't just want the answer, we want a quiz! Equally, maybe we don't just
want the question and the answer, we want some wrong answers and some tips.
It goes back to 2016, just to generate questions from Wikidata:
https://pub.tik.ee.ethz.ch/students/2016-FS/BA-2016-03.pdf
Technically the incorrect answers in multiple choice are called "distractors".
Clearly this is a rather simple data structure to handle. Hints assume quite a bit more.
At the beginning of 2017, I decided to take seriously the suggestion (from Magnus Manske)
that questions should be treated as structured data. I even suggested Wikidata should have
a namespace for them (this didn't go down well). A road not taken then, and just as
the Comprende! tool was finished I got diverted into a Wikimedian in Residence position.
So much for that.
Anyone, one take on this is that AW output might be some kind of structured data, rather
than the sectioned prose (+media files and tables and templated data) familiar from
Wikipedia.
By the way, mathematics in wikitext has traditionally been a threefold mix of approaches
(HTML, png, LaTex): not an elegant solution.
Charles