Google have just released a new product, somewhat similar to a blog, but more customised for the release of educational articles – the knol. It’s designed to facilitate collaboration, and to allow the publishers to define access & rights.
We’re currently developing our material on the WikiEducator platform, but one of the downsides of working WikiEd-side is the lack of a WYSIWYG interface. I’ve been saying every now and again that I see this as being one of the main barriers to collaboration on a wiki as the interface is much less intuitive than what people are generally used to. Perhaps it’s time to move to the knol platform?
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July 31, 2008 at 6:14 am
Helen
How about a WYSIWYAF interface? That would be my dream come true!
July 31, 2008 at 9:11 pm
David McQuillan
The wikipedia WYSIWYG page ( August 1, 2008) has a definition of WYSIWYAF –
“What You See Is What You Asked For (in reference to programs such as those used for manual typesetting such as TeX or troff, that what is retrieved from the system is what the user specified – in essence, a statement of GIGO; sometimes also YAFIYGI: You Asked For It, You Got It)”
Isn’t this what you get with WikiEd? Apart from the odd bug.