--- El mié, 1/10/08, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> escribió:
De: Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com>
Asunto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce
Para: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities"
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Fecha: miércoles, 1 octubre, 2008 2:11
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Daniel Kinzler
<daniel(a)brightbyte.de>wrote;wrote:
Michael Reschke schrieb:
> a virtual space promoting interaction and
interdisciplinary research
among
wiki researchers around the world
http://en.wikiversity.org
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
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