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* the broad purposes of the community summed up as "the Wikimedia movement"; | * the broad purposes of the community summed up as "the Wikimedia movement"; | ||
* the purposes defined by WMUK as a charity. | * the purposes defined by WMUK as a charity. | ||
The system specification includes an auxiliary wiki. My default assumption is that WMUK would use this wiki as its auxiliary wiki. | |||
===Details of wikimodule under a CMS=== | ===Details of wikimodule under a CMS=== | ||
*There is a concept of "good module". Any account holder can deem a module good. The stated objectives of a good module must include one that is concretely about the broad purposes of the system. The criterion for a good module is a box-ticking checklist. | *There is a concept of "good module". Any account holder can deem a module good. The stated objectives of a good module must include one that is concretely about the broad purposes of the system. The criterion for a good module is a box-ticking checklist. | ||
*There is a concept of "featured module". Modules become featured by consensus of the trainer status group. Review of featured modules is by threaded discussion. The objectives of a featured module must include one that is concretely about the specific purposes of the system. | *There is a concept of "featured module". Modules become featured by consensus of the trainer status group. Review of featured modules is by threaded discussion. The objectives of a featured module must include one that is concretely about the specific purposes of the system. | ||
===Details of wikimodule under its auxiliary wiki=== | |||
The wikimodule work goes on on its auxiliary wiki in a number of namespaces and associated talk namespaces. There need to be portals: [[Portal:Education]] and [[Portal:Educational quality]]; the latter portal would be edited only by trainers, with discussion on its Portal talk page (open of course to all). There need to be namespaces for Topic, Lesson, Module and Workshop. Module and Workshop pages must have a Lesson page transcluded into them to be well-formed. Besides its Lesson, a Module page must be named after and link to a module on the CMS and include metadata from its associated module. | |||
Revision as of 09:40, 17 June 2012
Currently editing here under an IP number, for reasons I won't go into.
Wikimodule
I have been asked to lead a WMUK project to set up a distance learning system. We shall be using Moodle as course management system (CMS).
My approach has to been to abstract from WMUK's situation. What I call "wikimodule" is a system depending on three inputs (or four, if you included choice of CMS). In WMUK's case these are:
- The Training for Trainers system, leading to accredited trainers";
- the broad purposes of the community summed up as "the Wikimedia movement";
- the purposes defined by WMUK as a charity.
The system specification includes an auxiliary wiki. My default assumption is that WMUK would use this wiki as its auxiliary wiki.
Details of wikimodule under a CMS
- There is a concept of "good module". Any account holder can deem a module good. The stated objectives of a good module must include one that is concretely about the broad purposes of the system. The criterion for a good module is a box-ticking checklist.
- There is a concept of "featured module". Modules become featured by consensus of the trainer status group. Review of featured modules is by threaded discussion. The objectives of a featured module must include one that is concretely about the specific purposes of the system.
Details of wikimodule under its auxiliary wiki
The wikimodule work goes on on its auxiliary wiki in a number of namespaces and associated talk namespaces. There need to be portals: Portal:Education and Portal:Educational quality; the latter portal would be edited only by trainers, with discussion on its Portal talk page (open of course to all). There need to be namespaces for Topic, Lesson, Module and Workshop. Module and Workshop pages must have a Lesson page transcluded into them to be well-formed. Besides its Lesson, a Module page must be named after and link to a module on the CMS and include metadata from its associated module.