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Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 1 – Mediawiki
Scott Leslie, EdTechPost, February 2, 2012.

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Scott Leslie explores MediaWiki as an authoring tool for open textbooks. Along the way he discovers:
- D2L exports aren't very good
- there's no simple way of getting from an IMS Content Package to a wiki (cynically, I would say they were designed that way)
- approaches that let you output to multiple formats depend on clean markup
- editing mediawiki seems just short of rocket science (at least for some people)
- the UBC wiki continues to astound
- you can write blog posts while sailing across the Salish Sea.
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Re: Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 1 – Mediawiki

Frank Lowney, February 5, 2012

The ePub output options are also interesting. Some have described ePub documents as a "web site in a box" so this would be a "wiki in a box." Not the whole of a wiki I would hope but, rather, some coherently edited pieces of it. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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