[WikiToLearn Editors] Disambiguation page for concurrent courses

[Daniele Pannozzo]

Daniele
Il 12 mag 2016 1:51 AM, "Dario Mapelli" <mapelli.dario at gmail.com> ha
scritto:
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>> Would we add direct PDF downloads for "author" books? what about
collaborative
>> ones? are they guaranteed to have a reasonable index?
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Well, I think there will be both of two, in case collaborative text is
complete. Remember that our site allows users to create their own book,
collecting the chapters they want. Obviously, adding direct PDF to complete
course is really comfortable for a new user who doesn't know how books
creator works.

> Now the hardest part​: I see some problems emerging.
> 1. Are we gonna import every .tex file in a different imported course,
even if it is veeery similar to an already existing one? The answer can be
"yes, in order to give credit to both the `donors`", or "no, we do not want
to have content dispersion"
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I think that, if two different authors write about the same course, we have
to import both of them. Of course we could review the books and, in case
they are really similar, we can decide to merge them in a single text with
the names of the authors, and still have the teo different texts in the
users page of the authors.
> ​2. ​What about a professor who wants to develop its notes on the
website? We could encourage him to start a collaborative course, but he may
not feel different from its colleague who have their name on imported
authored courses. This may push our professor to develop the notes locally
in latex, and then give us the sources to be imported, closing the
development cicle.
> We may think of differentiating the courses based on the title of who is
developing them, and not to the fact that they are imported or developed on
our website.
> This would mean that we differentiate between student/collaborative
courses, researchers/professors, despite the completness of the content.
That could be described through a different system (maybe using the ranking
system here?).
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This is quite complex. I think we could encourage the prof to write his
book on his users page, where he could allow his students to work on, and
then move the complete course to the author's texts.
> 3. Sometimes it may also be possible that a professor strongly encourages
the creation of a course inside WTL by its students, then he reviews the
content and may pretend to have this course to be transferred from the
collaborative section to the authored one. I would then create a system to
give credit to the reviewer. This would allow, for example, to have
collaborative editions to be reviewd by professors, so that the professor
does nottake excessivecredit for the work by its students, and its role
inside the development cicle is described more accurately.
> Moreover, it may be possible that a professor review a course, then it
gets changed. The professor would want its review to be relative to a
specific version. Think about the reviews as git tags.
> Finally, i would give the PDF download link for each reviewed version,
very "git-likely".
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I answer at this point in the previous period.  We also need to describe
the cicle more accurately: as the recent experiences we could see on
italian portal, a new user really doesn't understand the site and its aim,
so we need to work on this as faster as possible.
> Eventually, I suggest to describe each course through a template that
specifies the Author(s) [Collaborative/Students | Researcher | Professor],
Reviews [students | researcher | professor]. We may think about inserting
in this template the short description of the course and its argument
ouline.
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Could be an option; maybe there are not necessary some many templates,
maybe writing about the text (who wrote him, the aim of, if it's
collaborative or one-hand-written exc) could be enough. Feedbacks are
necessary here.
> 4. We are considering "disambiguation" at course level. Sometimes it may
be sufficient to have different verions of a section/chapter, or smaller
parts of the content (let's say just a demonstration in the case of a math
textbook). This is still an unexplored path, but I think it should not be
ignored.
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Well, this is a hard topic. As we thought about the disambiguation, me and
@valsdav, it were a page about the course. Now, if we start disambiguation
pages also on section, it will be a labyrinth for the new users; for the
capthers it is really hard to. So, we need to appropriately differentiate
the sections.

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