[WikiToLearn Editors] [WikiToLearn] Disambiguation page for concurrent courses

[Sofia Liguori]

2016-05-11 18:52 GMT+02:00 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>:
>
> On mercoledì 11 maggio 2016 18:14:25 CEST Gianluca Rigoletti wrote:
> > It seems really a handy way to manage different materials on that
> > course! We still need to try to find an appropriate expression
> > identifying the imported books. I would really like to see some
> > feedback from non italian members; they may have the solution. What
> > you see in the template is "Corsi d'autore Accademico" which can be
> > translated into "Author's academic courses". If someone has a better
> > idea please tell us!
>
> <brainstorming>
>
> Well, they may describe imported books, the idea is that they are self-
> consistent, or written by some notable authors. But we would want that all
> courses produced on WTL are started as collaborative courses.
>
> We could try to change Collaborative courses to Community courses vs...
> Authored courses? (not sure that sounds really good tbh)
>
> Let's try again to define how we'd want this used and what kind of material
> we'd get:
>
> #1 community based notes:
> they are usually started off by students or by a diverse community, there can
> be more than one covering the same subject if they differ in approach or
> depth, and it's all those courses that might be yet to be completed but are
> started off on the website, written a few chapters at a time and improved by a
> community.
>
> #2: "author" courses, written on the website:
> I am a cool professor and I am writing my book on WikiToLearn. I have my
> precise way of explaining things, and I am not interested in other approaches,
> but I am still developing my book on WikiToLearn step by step.
>
> #3: "imported" content:
> Somebody gave us some TeX sources of content, usually quite polished, as they
> come from a previous publication. The author is usually notable-ish, or it has
> received a proper review.
>
> At this point... why separating things at all and not just adding a badge
> "imported" to the imported notes? I'd still want to encourage people to write
> collaborative versions of books, but maybe that can still be done by addding a
> link on top? And what about a section for Collections? (i.e. what can be
> downloaded as PDF)
>
> Would we add direct PDF downloads for "author" books? what about collaborative
> ones? are they guaranteed to have a reasonable index?
>
> </brainstorming>
>
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo

<brainstorming>

I  think we can just create a section "collaborative courses" and
"teachers' notes", forgetting the distinction between imported courses
and courses written directly on wiki. The difference is that
teachers'notes (imported or written on wiki) are more reliable and for
this reason less dynamic, more static. I don't think we really need
the distinction between imported and not imported courses since also
the imported ones are susceptible of changes and once on wiki nothing
differentiates them from not imported books. Maybe we can even call
the section "most reliable courses" or "reviewed courses" and put
there also the collaborative courses which have been completed and
reviewed by a professor or something like this.

I think that we can also add a section in the template with "related
PDF books" which collects the already built wiki books related to the
courses.
So :
-Collaborative courses
-Most reliable courses -> authors' ones are marked with a badge
-related PDF books
-External references (which contains also the bibliography)
I talked with Riccardo about the possibility of having a "graph-kind
index" in the future. Maybe disambiguation pages are a possibility for
their position.

One note: We decided to trash the name "courses" and use "topic"
instead (in italian ARGOMENTI e non CORSI). Please let us try to use
the right words, especially in the name of the sections (@ruphy you
insisted on the distinction please change the name in the template).
</brainstorming>