Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Wikistudy - will Wikimedia dominate?
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (also known simply as Wikimedia) starts many project which main objective is to maintain and develop free-content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. Many of that projects are still pre-mature but each of them may quickly develop to the size of Wikipedia and became one of the main internet learning tool that is continuously developed and what is most important is for free!
Wikiversity
This weekend (August 4th-8th) Jimbo Wales announced that the wikiversity project has been officially approved by the board, and the project is going to be moved to its own server within the month. Initially, there will be 3 languages, and the project will be in a "beta" version for a 6 month trial period. Discussion about how/when/where to move material can happen in a local discussion page, or at Wikibooks:Staff lounge. Material not in the "Wikiversity:" namespace should not be deleted off this server unless it has undergone an official transwiki AND it has been confirmed by Wikibookians that it does not meet Wikibooks' inclusion criteria.
WikiBooks
Wikibooks is a collection of open content textbooks. Wikibooks site is a wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any book module right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears near the top of each Wikibooks module.
The project is still small, but we hope to mimic the growth of our sister project, Wikipedia, while maintaining sufficient quality controls.
Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003, and there are 21,049 modules currently on the site.
First books for pupils on WikiBooks in Polish is in progress - Math for secondary school!
http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Matematyka_dla_liceum
Wikistudy
Wikistudy is the home to textbooks that are directed towards specific syllabi and academic exams. The main part of Wikistudy is for books dealing with core subjects. There is also a section for non-core subjects. Because it is directed at specific syllabuses it is divided into two sections, which themselves are divided by country.
Wikiversity
This weekend (August 4th-8th) Jimbo Wales announced that the wikiversity project has been officially approved by the board, and the project is going to be moved to its own server within the month. Initially, there will be 3 languages, and the project will be in a "beta" version for a 6 month trial period. Discussion about how/when/where to move material can happen in a local discussion page, or at Wikibooks:Staff lounge. Material not in the "Wikiversity:" namespace should not be deleted off this server unless it has undergone an official transwiki AND it has been confirmed by Wikibookians that it does not meet Wikibooks' inclusion criteria.
WikiBooks
Wikibooks is a collection of open content textbooks. Wikibooks site is a wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any book module right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears near the top of each Wikibooks module.
The project is still small, but we hope to mimic the growth of our sister project, Wikipedia, while maintaining sufficient quality controls.
Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003, and there are 21,049 modules currently on the site.
First books for pupils on WikiBooks in Polish is in progress - Math for secondary school!
http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Matematyka_dla_liceum
Wikistudy
Wikistudy is the home to textbooks that are directed towards specific syllabi and academic exams. The main part of Wikistudy is for books dealing with core subjects. There is also a section for non-core subjects. Because it is directed at specific syllabuses it is divided into two sections, which themselves are divided by country.
posted by Forty4 at
1:18 pm
1 Comments:
God I hope not. I hope people will still want to meet in person and not arrange everything through wikimedia..
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