the wmf mission statement, if it came true

the wmf mission statement, if it came true

Philippe made me do this :-P

I still dream of an online learning environment that is: fully virtual, with large active learning communities in anny topic unde rthe sun, with real-time interaction with those communities, with access to all knowledge in any form: written text, multimedia, sound files, interactive games, avatars, quizzes, self-designed exercises, flash cards, notes, oral narratives from past generations, interactive whiteboards.. and a bunch of stuff we haven't even conceived of yet. All knowledge accessible to all people (and contributed by all people) is so much more than even the best digital encyclopedia. That's why the other projects are so important; without them we won't realize this vision. I don't want to have to go to sit in a school classroom and listen to lectures, then go home and do exercises from a textbook and call that "learning". That's very limited and imperfect access to (some) knowledge. I really do want it *all*. How do we get there?

24.23.247.10105:06, 14 April 2010

Right now, Wx is primarily "static pages" - that is, pages rendered through HTML which just sit there while you read them, as a rule. Making them more interactive is an interesting suggestion -- possibly having automatic pop-ups for images, sounds, news etc. for any given article would make sense (not limited to those, by the way).

Alas - "exercises" are how our brains manage to store patterns about information - in the same way that a bowler gains "muscle memory" by practicing, so our brains gain "logic memory" from doing calculus exercises, etc. Wx can not change that, as far as I know <g>.

Collect12:02, 14 April 2010
 

I'd encourage you to check out Task force/Content scope, where these issues are being explored. I think they've come up with a nice framing to think about where Wikimedia could potentially go and where we could support partners instead.

Eekim10:57, 15 April 2010