On 16/11/06, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Nice. And then what? Does a single wrong answer mean I can't upload to the commons, ever? Or can I retry the question (in which case even monkeys could pass it;-)?
No, no. You retry the question. Of course monkeys can pass it. It is just a basic "be aware of this fact before uploading" thing. It's pretty obvious that displaying notices doesn't work. Even big red warnings don't work. But a quiz is interactive and given how simple the questions are, will almost certainly engage the user. In fact thinking about this quiz will likely be a faster way to get through it than donkey-voting. :)
If it's not a requirement but a "fun suggestion", it could go to an external web site (toolserver!), which would avoid putting a quiz mode into MediaWiki ;-)
That would be fine, but then how would it be tied with the requirement of completing the quiz before successfully registering/uploading? I figured that would only be possible if it was actually integrated into MediaWiki. If I'm wrong on that point, please correct me.
OTOH, that could be a cool extension. Think determining something based on a series on yes-no decisions - this is how you can identify plants (using a book) or the car that matches you best (a German newspaper does that every odd year or so). It could work with specially prepared wiki pages. Oh, if I only had more time to code...
Yes, it would be a very cool extension, and I can see it being extraordinarily useful for Wikibooks, for example. (well with multiple choice, write-in answers would be nifty too)
There is this - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quizzes - which is kinda waiting to be turned into a proper extension, I think.
cheers, Brianna