On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote: Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve, what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more successful. Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so far, to show that you're serious at it. At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good social network anyway! Domas _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Phillipe, Your project and philosophy sound wonderful, but I don't think MediaWiki, as great as it is, is the right tool for the job. Since you are already working with PHP and MySQL, I'd highly recommend considering Drupal. It was designed specifically with social networking sites in mind, and it has a lot more features built-in that MediaWiki does not. Also, if you are placing a lot of importance on user input, you will better be able to control user accounts and security with Drupal than in MediaWiki. Don't get me wrong; I love MediaWiki. But I think you'll find that you need much more than any wiki software provides to really achieve the level of social interaction that you're going for. Best, Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library Facebook & Twitter: ninermac http://milehighbrarian.net On 6/18/11 3:52 AM, "Phillipe, Eros" <eros.phill(a)gmail.com> wrote: Alright, fair enough. Let me share with you guys: I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social network. So, we are all volunteers. The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be a universal right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for example, not to have access to the same knowledge as boy who is at MIT. Ok,..  right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers on this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with my SQL and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people to interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split mainly in 3 groups on the internet 1) academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online etc) 2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something, tutorials) 3) articles - published and non published so we need 1) to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on these 3 groups 2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a crawler, tags, some index system) 3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very important.. 4) to enable users to share their own material 5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common (and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss academics topics and so on.. there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't necessarily speak English. We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and iTunes U if we be able to do it.. Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:12, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I'm not gmailed, linked-in, facebooked or my-spaced. I guess I'm not very social. ----- Original Message ----- social network anyway! _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

My 2cents: Mediawiki is not for elearning. Have you looked into software like moodle and alike? Ruud Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad Op 18 jun. 2011 om 07:56 heeft "Phillipe, Eros" <eros.phill(a)gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l