Ciao,
2015-11-27 20:04 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
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