Ciao,
2015-11-27 20:04 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
To clarify, Wikimedia Italia doesn't financially sponsor this site nor contribute content to it. AFAIK our volunteers provided some MediaWiki training to the site's users. Wikimedia Italia is always happy when MediaWiki usage spreads, but recommends Wikibooks and Wikiversity as primary platforms for OER activities.
Wikimedia Italia is also happy if new open content is produced. So even if Wikimedia Italia has given only "moral" support up to now (see the fact that WM-IT logo appears in https://www.wikitolearn.org/)
To me WikiToLearn has two main advantages: 1. They have been able to develop new extensions for MediaWiki and use them in a project with ~20 active users/month (and growing). They also built their own infrastructure for development and testing (and this is the use for the machines in this project[1]). 1 (bis). They have been able to gather a community of new developers and introduce them to MediaWiki development (with a full testing/stating/production stack based on Docker containers).
2. They have been able to pique the interest of many professors in universities (mostly in Italy for the moment). In this respect I think that having a separate project helps, for example being able to import LaTeX files and having them converted is a great help.
If this is a path that can help to have more extensions and tools reach upstream I think it is great for everybody.
Cristian [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115282?workflow=76375