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  • From: Kẏra <kxra AT riseup.net>
  • To: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • Cc: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Expanding scope?
  • Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:03:34 -0500



On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com> wrote:
On 11/13/2014 09:48 AM, Kẏra wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com> wrote:
On 11/12/2014 01:53 AM, Kẏra wrote:
Why not merge these efforts? The only issue I see is that the name 'AcaWiki' doesn't seem to make sense for including non-academic works.

There are some others listed at http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:Similar_projects (I hadn't heard of WikiSummaries, added it). I'd be fine with merging any/all of these. None has really taken off, including AcaWiki. So there isn't a lot of reason to think merging would produce anything active, but maybe the side effect of being forced to rethink the resulting site would? Would a broader scope help create a community of people who care more about summarizing stuff than academia, latter maybe not well aligned with actually doing the work? What would the broader scope be? Any work anyone felt like summarizing? Any work that would qualify for having an item in wikidata?

I think any work that people feel like summarizing would be fine, with a focus on published books, articles (academic, news, etc.), and other written works. So, if right now summaries of non-academic articles are pushing the scope, after this summaries about films might be pushing the scope. Too bad wikinotes.org is already taken by some spammy thing

I think 'AcaWiki' *could* make sense for summarizing works that aren't primarily intended for an academic audience. Any work is of interest to some academic audience. The name AcaWiki would indicate summaries of anything should be written with that bent. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but it might be something to try to hash out.

Yeah, that makes sense enough. I'm just always trying to shy away from centering academia.
 

 
When I searched for WikiNotes, I actually found another project that might be a cool future expansion of AcaWiki: course notes. We could keep the main wiki for summaries, and then subdomains for different universities to allow students to take notes on their courses, and easy linking to the articles/books/etc discussed in class could be a powerful combo, especially in terms of getting more contributors to the main wiki.
I'm too disconnected from what students do to have a feel for this. Are there existing sites on which students collaborate on class notes?

This looks like a more established genre, and wikinotes is free software. My first instinct would be to have AcaWiki or AcaWiki-successor work with them rather than build a new service.


Maybe notes.acawiki.org could be given to them?

so this could be the page for a course at a school (schools each have their own namespace?):

notes.acawiki.org/Hamshire College:2014F-HACU-0257

I guess that would be up for them to decide how that would be organized, but it could work



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