Well I do not get it.
While the functioning definitely is interesting (I have very
little wiki knowledge so interesting means a lot to me).
I do not understand the relevancy of the questions.
Is this a "quiz" why should I spend my time answering questions
about a subject of no interest to me?
Now what "I" think would be cool would be questions relative to
the content of the page this could be a reading comprehension
quiz and that I could find cool.
How did you see the tool validating the wiki? This could be a web
page as well as a wiki page, that I can see. I have been looking
at the SMW discussions and would hope to eventually implement
some facet of it on my wiki so I certainly would like to
understand this.
Ralph
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] New wiki tool + demo + online
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Markus this is really cool!
I am wondering if this tool can be used as a trivia game. Where
the assumption is the answer provided in the wiki is correct and
players are tested against that answer. So a bit like turning the
tool around as not to validate the wiki but to quiz the user.
I am thinking, many wikis are in-house documentation tools or as
educational tools (kind of textbooks) and some users are expected
to go through and learn it. This kind of tool may help these
individuals to evaluate their understanding.
Nikhil
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Cc: Sebastian Blohm
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] New wiki tool + demo + online experiment
Dear all,
we have a reasonably cool new MediaWiki enhancement, a demo site,
and an actual online experiment where you can try it. We would
like to ask you to give it a try (no setup or commitments, just
clicking around online :-)
In a nutshell, we have built various "intelligent" tools that
read a wiki and try to make sense of it. The tools then come up
with facts that they think are stated in the wiki, and they ask
users whether or not these facts are correct (this is where you
come in). We did this on a Wikipedia copy:
http://test.ontoworld.org/
You can find questions at the bottom of each page (in a real wiki
one could restrict them to certain pages). It's like a quiz ;-),
and it should be possible to find the right answers on the
related wiki pages. You can answer "don't know" if you are not
sure, or you can just leave some answers blank. When you answer
yes, the confirmed fact will be added to the wiki (we use
Semantic MediaWiki to represent facts). You can see this as a
contribution of your user-login/IP (feel free to get a user
account if you want to track your contributions). The tool will
also use your answers to learn how to better interpret the wiki
in the future. So please have a look and answer a couple of
questions.
Do not be dismayed if some suggestions of the tool are nonesense.
They are in random order, and many of them are actually quite
good. We will publish details about how good the tool performed
overall, so please give proper answers ;-) Let us (i.e. Sebastian
and me, see header) know if you have any comments/questions.
Thanks a lot!
Markus
P.S. We will publish all of the associated software soon, but we
still need some testing first. Your contribution is very helpful
to us! The question-extension for MediaWiki will be fairly
modular, and could also be used to ask completely different
questions to users, or in combination with other tools for
improving the wiki. Such tools use a web interface, can run on a
different server, and may use arbitrary programming languages.
--
Markus Krötzsch
Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe
phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998
mak(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de www
http://korrekt.org
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