[Wikireader] Forward of moderated message

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Laura,

How have things gone over the summer with your students?  We are
currently busy making a large wikislice with over 50,000 english
wikipedia articles and some images, along the lines of the current
[[wikiBrowse]] activity (wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse) ... it would
be interesting to reflect on how useful that is to people making new
materials from same, or from the larger global WP collections from
which this selection is drawn.

You should be able to follow the production of the current wikislice
on the page linked above over the next week.

I hope this finds you well, and send

Regards,
SJ

> Hi Offline Wikireaders :-)
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> Thanks, SJ, for the pointer to this list.
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> The student project that I described briefly below has come out of the Wikislices project at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wikislices
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> The idea is that the three technical students in the team will design and develop a tool or tools to support teachers preparing learning materials from Wikipedia for use on OLPCs. The exact tools that the students produce will depend, to an extent, on the students themselves - the students are here for just 12 weeks. The business student, the fourth member of the team, is responsible, in part, for looking at whether the tools produced could be made available and useful to XO users.
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> I think the students would really benefit from contact with people who have experience of working on the OLPC and/or Wikipedia projects. Would you be willing to be a contact for the students and talk to them about your experiences of the Wikipedia and/or OLPC projects, in particular, with regard to producing useful tools that could be used on the XO laptops?
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> Please feel free to email me if you have any questions, or if you know of anyone else involved in OLPC or Wikipedia who might be interested.
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> Thanks,
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> Laura
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> ----- Forwarded by Laura Cowen/UK/IBM on 04/06/2008 22:16 -----
> "Samuel Klein" <sj at laptop.org>
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> 03/06/2008 01:23
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> To
> Laura Cowen/UK/IBM at IBMGB
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> "Alyson-Kathleen Riley" <akriley at us.ibm.com>, Andy Stanford-Clark/UK/IBM at IBMGB, "Diane Serley" <olpc.aunti.mame at gmail.com>, "Offline Wikireaders" <wikireader at lists.laptop.org>
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> Re: OLPC wikislices project at IBM
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> Hello Laura,
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> It's great to hear that you will have an extreme blue team working on organizing data for wikislices.
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> From OLPC, Diane Serley might be a good point of contact -- she's interested in realizing a wikislice of her own and has been asking about tools for creating one from scratch (in contrast to the scripted WikiBrowse collections Chris Ball has been making, which are a large proportion of all articles in a large wiki).
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> From Wikipedia, many potential contacts are on our wikireader list, which I copy in case anyone has specific interest.  Martin Walker may be able to suggest someone from the "Wikipedia 1.0" project for you as well (closer to the slicing problems that Wikipedians in particular face).
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> Regards,
> SJ
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> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Laura Cowen <laura_cowen at uk.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Hi SJ,
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> I'm part of the wikislices team that Alyson is running, though I don't think I've ever been on a call at the same time as you. :-)
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> Every Summer, at IBM Hursley (UK), we host a student programme, Extreme Blue, for which small teams of bright technical and business students are recruited for about 12 weeks to work on selected projects. I proposed that one of the teams of students work on the tool that we have been discussing in the wikislices conference calls and the idea was selected. I now have about three weeks to prepare for the students' arrival.
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> One thing that I think is important to the success of this project would be for the students to have contact and interaction with people from the OLPC project and the Wikipedia project. Alyson suggested that I contact you. Do you know of someone from each project who might be interested and willing to help support the students from time to time throughout the Summer?
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> I can provide more detail if you need it; feel free to ask any questions!
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> Thanks,
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> Laura
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> Technical Author
> WebSphere Business Events
> User Technologies
> MP095 Hursley
> IBM United Kingdom Ltd.
> Tel. 44 (0) 1962 815622 (Int. 7-245622)
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> Blog: http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/laura/
> UT Blog: http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/ut/
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