--- El mié, 1/10/08, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com escribió:
De: Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com Asunto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce Para: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: miércoles, 1 octubre, 2008 2:11 On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.dewrote:
Michael Reschke schrieb:
a virtual space promoting interaction and
interdisciplinary research
among wiki researchers around the world
so what?
Uh... from the front page: "Wikiversity is a
Wikimedia Foundation project
devoted to learning resources and learning projects
for all levels, types,
and styles of education from pre-school to university,
including professional
training and informal learning."
That is something complety different. The focus is on
learning/teaching,
not on research. And it's for learning about anything,
not focused on researching
wikis. Cooperation with Wikiversity is of course a
good idea, but it's be
no means redundant.
To clarify: it's incorrect that Wikiversity is not focused on research; research is one of the core focuses of Wikiversity, complementing learning resources and learning activities. Just like other learning 'institutions', research is seen as an educational activity, and as a driver of further knowledge and resources. It's always been a core focus to get researchers (including, but not limited to, on wikis) together on Wikiversity - to share and discuss each other's work, and to collaborate on further work. However, I admit this isn't so clear from the main page, so I'll edit that now. :-)
Conversely, I'd also like a bit more clarity on what WikiScience aims to do, and how it aims to do it. For example, it seems that there is an explicit aim to integrate other tools alongside a wiki in this work
- is that right?
Yes, the objective is to have an initial demo for December (hopefully, if travels and other work stuff let me dedicate enough time). The demo will include a CMS, integrating the wiki, as well as other tools for annotated Bibliography, a descriptive repository with information about wiki research tools (links, descriptions, manuals, examples, screenshots, etc), a directory of researchers (initially simple, but it will potentially evolve to a "mini-facebook" of researchers in due course), as well as research news, and sindication of blogs and external resources.
It would be good, in general, to expand on its scope and vision - as well as an indication of the activity/people/organisation behind it so far. That might help set a foundation for further development and collaboration. ;-)
I'm right now in Germany, with not very good connectivity, so I'll try to expand the main page and sections to provide more information.
The initiative was launched at the first WIRW, co-located with the last WikiSym 08 at Porto, last September (I think I linked the description on the WikiScience front page). Currently, we at GSyC/Libresoft (http://libresoft.es) are leading the technical development, and we set up a virtual machine for the demo, and this wiki.
We are open to collaborate with any other interested research group/organization/foundation. The aim will be, after having a working demo on December (as a "proof of concept" of the usability and feasibility of our idea) to search interested organization/research programs to get fundings for a more formal initiative.
As Daniel said, I would really like to promote cooperation with other initiatives like Wikiversity. Our goal is not at all to *substitute* any other web place, but to *help* to index and find a lot of useful information about wiki tools, wiki researchers and wiki research working lines and methodologies, publications, etc. which is currently dispersed throughout a broader set of pages/sites.
Bests,
Felipe.
Cheers, Cormac _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l