IL Handbook: technical issues
Gill, Avtar
agill at ocadu.ca
Thu Aug 1 18:01:51 UTC 2013
>> However, the ILHT contains more features (searcher -with search by need/topic-, metadata, favouriting, etc).
>> Having in mind Floe's experience after developing the Handbook, Silvia asks our opinion about MediaWiki's ability to support all these features.
My impression of MediaWiki is that it's rather bare bones by default, leaving one to rely on extensions in order to augment its functionality. It might be worth evaluating this extension:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_Semantic_MediaWiki
Here's a public instance:
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Query_description
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Query_license
Avtar
On 2013-08-01, at 1:25 PM, Jess Mitchell <jessmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm forwarding this email in case there are thoughts in the community we'd like to pass along.
>
> Best,
> Jess
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: tona monjo <tonamonjo at gmail.com>
>> Subject: IL Handbook: technical issues
>> Date: July 29, 2013 11:33:14 AM EDT
>> To: Eva de Lera <eva at raisingthefloor.org>, Jess Mitchell <jessmitchell at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Eva and Jess
>>
>> I've been chatting with Silvia this morning about the integration of Handbook's (ILHT) design, but two other issues raised:
>> • About the platform: the UdG team knows that the Inclusive Learning Handbook was developed in MediaWiki and they are evaluating to use it for the ILHT. However, the ILHT contains more features (searcher -with search by need/topic-, metadata, favouriting, etc).
>> Having in mind Floe's experience after developing the Handbook, Silvia asks our opinion about MediaWiki's ability to support all these features. They can also work in Joomla, but seems that it has some problems with accessibility.
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tona
>
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