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)

Best regards,

Adam

From: Charles Matthews via Abstract-Wikipedia
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Subject: Re: [Abstract-wikipedia] Comprehension questions

On 02 August 2020 at 16:16 Grounder UK <grounderuk@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