[Mediawiki-l] Help - Social Network

[Phillipe, Eros]

Alright, fair enough. Let me share with you guys:

I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between
people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social
network. So, we are all volunteers.

The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be a universal
right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for
example, not to have access to the same knowledge as boy who is at MIT.

Ok,..  right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers on
this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with my SQL
and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people to
interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split mainly
in 3 groups on the internet

1) academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online
etc)
2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something,
tutorials)
3) articles - published and non published

so we need
1) to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on
these 3 groups
2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a
crawler, tags, some index system)
3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very
important..
4) to enable users to share their own material
5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common
(and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss
academics topics and so on..

there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and
we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a
lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't
necessarily speak English.

We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an
agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and
iTunes U if we be able to do it..

Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda.



On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:12, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists em gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote:
>
> > Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a
> > very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies.
>
> Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you
> want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that
> applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve,
> what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more
> successful.
> Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so
> far, to show that you're serious at it.
>
> At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good
> social network anyway!
>
> Domas
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