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WikiToLearn was a collaborative, international, free knowledge project, run entirely by volunteers, and dedicated to creating free and accessible textbooks for higher education. In December 2013, it joined the KDE Project through its incubation process with multiple sponsors like Wikimedia Italia.
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| Founded | July 24, 2015 |
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| Founder | Riccardo Iaconelli |
| Type | Community, Education |
| Focus | Open textbooks, Science |
Parent organization | KDE |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | WikiFM |
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History
WikiToLearn started as WikiFM in Milan by a group of science students from the University of Milan Bicocca on May 1, 2012. WikiFM was originally launched as a private wiki to exchange links, suggestions, and other information related to studying at the University of Milan Bicocca.
In May 2013 the website has been publicly announced using some money destined to student associations of the University of Milan Bicocca.[1] For this historical reason, while the project has an international aim, the bulk of the oldest content is in Italian.
In September 2013 WikiFM received the sponsorship of Wikimedia Italia.[2] In December 2013, WikiFM officially joined the KDE project, by entering, as first project, KDE's incubator program.[3][4] It was later advertised by the KDE project as one of its most important success stories.[5]
From WikiFM to WikiToLearn
2015 has been the turning point for the project. The key event happened during KDE's annual conference, Akademy. In July 2015, Riccardo Iaconelli has given a speech on the WikiFM project[6] in order to submit it to the attention of the international community. On this occasion, the website has enriched to accommodate multiple languages, to embrace a larger number of people using their native language. Following the initial feedback, WikiFM was subsequently renamed to WikiToLearn. The project thus started to gather a more official attention from educational institutions. The first foundation interested in using WikiToLearn as a training/tutoring platform has been the High Energy Physics Software Foundation,[7] which experimentally tried its own section on the English website.[8][9] Several professors from different institutions have subsequently started to collaborate on WikiToLearn, like CERN, HSF,[10] and Fermilab.[11] In September 2015, the University of Milano-Bicocca became the first institution to officially back the project, asking professors and students to populate the portal with educational content.
The project
WikiToLearn stated goal was to provide free textbooks to the world.
Content was written by both students, who ideally start to create textbooks while studying the subject in question, and professors, who provide thorough fact-checking and accuracy.
Given the technical nature of the topics, there was a complex review and rating system under review to try to measure the quality of the individual articles.[12]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WikiFM cambia faccia! | WikiFM blog" (in italiano). Blog.wikifm.org. Retrieved 2014-01-12.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WikiFM patrocinato da Wikimedia Italia! | WikiFM blog" (in italiano). Blog.wikifm.org. Retrieved 2014-01-12.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."[kde-community] Incubating project". kde.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Incubator/Projects/WikiToLearn - KDE Community Wiki".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Another KDE success story - the Incubator - Part 1". KDE.news. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."akademy2015: Akademy 2015 Program". kde.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The HEP Software Foundation". hepsoftwarefoundation.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hep Software Foundation". wikitolearn.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hep Software Foundation/Philosophy of this site - WikiToLearn - collaborative textbooks". wikitolearn.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Training". [permanent dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Contributing to WikiToLearn/Uni list - WikiToLearn - collaborative textbooks". wikitolearn.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WikiRating Proposition Version 0.1" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
External links
- WikiToLearn Homepage Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- The launch talk at Akademy 2015
- Article on Wired Italia Template:In lang
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