Thank you for your interest, Sumana. I'll answer both your questions:
1) I'm thinking this would be an opt-in feature; those who opt-in have a "Quizz" switch/button/tab for every article. If the extension becomes popular then having the switch/button/tab by default (and opt-out for logged-in users) could be option.
2) For almost-right answers I intend to allow users to override the automatic correction if they feel their answer is correct. I was thinking of building a list of synonyms and misspellings for each link using redirects, for example. Stemming is something I haven't considered yet; thanks for the suggestion!
Best, Justin
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@panix.com wrote:
On 04/02/2011 07:30 AM, Justin DRAKE wrote:
I'm seeking feedback for my Google Summer of Code project. A description is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Drakefjustin/Fill-in-the-blanks
Justin, I have taken a look at your project, a "fill-in-the-blanks" extension for MediaWiki. Your abstract, to help others in the thread:
This project aims to make learning content from Wikipedia articles more interactive. I want to develop a fill-in-the-blanks extension for MediaWiki, where blanks are made by removing (at random?) links from an article. The key observation is that an article's wikilinks hold pertinent and localized information, easily exploitable for learning (and quizzing!).
Thanks for the mockup at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Fill-in-the-blanks.jpg which is useful.
Would users who want to be quizzed turn it on in their user preferences? Or are you envisioning a per-page switch/button? Or some kind of combination of these?
This might be too detailed for right now, but would you do stemming or something like that to allow for almost-right answers?
best, Sumana Harihareswara