Our belief is that synchronous communication facilitates much more meaningful 
discussion than does asynchronous posting.  With respect to the notion of 
wikistructors, our belief is that people will have an interest in speaking w 
experts on various subjects in connection w their searches and readings on 
Wikipedia.

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Jeff Levy
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> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 00:23:35 +0100
> From: "Simon Knight" <sjgknight@gmail.com>
> To: "'Wikimedia Education'" <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
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> Where specifically do you think it would go? Why would people use it? I've
> thought about this in some ways around co-editing, or collaborative
> information seeking activities.
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> Simon
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> Why would you want to do this?  Is there a benefit to you and your company?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Levy <jeff@o10s.com>
> To: education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 3:36 pm
> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
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> We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia.  We'd
> like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified,
> Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of
> "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with)
> anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk.  We can also enable people to
> connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on
> that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course).  These
> connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video
> conversation. 
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> I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
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> Jeff
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