On 9/1/07, Martin Weissman weissman.marty@gmail.com wrote:

I have posted a project proposal, WikiCurriculum, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCurriculum.

Please let me know your thoughts about the viability of such a project. In addition, please read the section of the project proposal on "distinction from existing projects", before jumping to conclusions that this project fits naturally within Wikiversity or Wikibooks.

In addition to your general thoughts, my project relies on some Semantic Web technology. Will the Semantic Mediawiki extension be integrated into Wikimedia projects? If not, perhaps I should consider using some combination of Longwell/Fresnel or hosting elsewhere.

Thank you for your advice and consideration,

Marty Weissman

Hi Marty, and thanks for this.

I reckon this proposal is ripe for inclusion within Wikiversity - provided some changes are made to Wikiversity's technical structure. I have thought about 'turning on' Semantic MediaWiki in Wikiversity as an experiment, but I haven't consulted with anyone else in the Wikiversity community about this. Having talked with Denny Vrandecic at Wikimania, he seems to be enthusiastic about getting SMW leaner and faster, thereby reducing pressure on bandwidth. I'd like to know and talk more about this, and other aspects of your outlined "foundational structure" of materials.

Other than this, Platonides' question is good - curriculum "standards" according to whom? Or would this be targeted to and cross-referenced with as many educational systems as possible (if not all)?

I like the idea of doing it as a focused activity at the beginning (K9-12 Maths). Wikiversity's curriculum-building efforts are widely-spread, not very well organised, and mostly quite sparse, but a community around this activity could well change that. Is there a community behind this idea?

Looking forward to hearing more. :-)

Cormac