Talk:Content repositories

Timelines for various collections

• Reference

  Wikipedia (english, spanish, other languages)

  Dictionaries (wiktz, logos, other sources)

• Images (commons, flickr, other; clip art)

  Maps (Local, national, historical)

• School texts

  Science and Math (primary, secondary)

  Social science (sensitive... need some review?)

• Media

  Songs

  Other sounds (clip audio)

• Games

  Solo games, puzzles

  Advanced games, multiplayer

External deadlines

• Nov 7 - snapshot testing
• Nov 20 - day-long evaluation & analysis
• Dec 18? - content retreat #2

Comments on "Extended use case #1"

Besides wondering where you get all those names from... I have the following issues:

• I doubt that (elementary and middle) school children have the linguistic and analytical abilities needed to develop an article worthy of any '(serious) knowledge base'—no offense meant; as 'cute' and important a 3rd grader's attempt at writing can be, it will never fit into a formal knowledge body.
• Even if some kids are capable of producing 'serious' content I would suspect that there's a limited amount of themes or subject areas that can be developed within the curricula (we must remember that there'll be millions of kids per country and not all teachers will be 'smart' enough to generate such a vast amount of 'new' ideas)
• Each year, kids will be writing over-and-over again about their national holidays, local heroes, and subjects...

Possible ways to overcome the repetitive nature of education (or its inspiration) are to have:

• A local mesh of wiki sites that gets overwritten each year (school, district, province, country) per grade possibly with some sort of overseeing body that cherry-picks from one level to the next (ie: school to district, and another board from district to province). Possibly with some formal competition and prizes?
• Every year, intermediate wikis get wiped out leaving the 'national' wiki as a reference for next year, and will be merged with whatever gets picked the current year (downside is that there's probably a practical limit to how 'perfect' and 'complete' an article about the local iconic animal -ie: the cow, lion, etc.- can be after a given number of such iterations)

Another (positive) outcome of these sub-wikis is the capability of keeping "your year's enciclopedia", just like in some places you get your yearbook... not only your schools, but also all the way upto the national enciclopedia of that year. It could also be used as a proxy to measure the evolution and technical ability of your country's education system.--Xavi 00:29, 23 December 2006 (EST)