WikiConference India 2011/Submissions/WikiBooks

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Timestamp
13:41, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Title of the submission

WikiBooks--The Modular Design

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, or presentation)

Presentation

Author of the submission

Chirag Sharma

E-mail address

chirag.iitkgp@gmail.com

State of your origin (Country, if you are not based in India)

Rajasthan

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University Alumni, IIT Kharagpur

Personal homepage or blog

Not Available

Abstract (maximum 500 words)

In today's world of ever increasing knowledge, Wikipedia project has evolved into a very useful, unique and most comprehensive knowledge base mankind has ever seen. Having already a major impact on the college students and the researchers, it has started to even influence school level students and teachers with its rich articles and media. But Wikipedia, as we know, is an article oriented knowledge base, something with which a school student is seldom familiar. For such a student, book oriented interface is more convenient and appealing. Same is the case to some extent with engineering students too. Also, that will facilitate the education for the poor students. To actualize this, a modular based approach can be implemented, without the actual need of new books, but rather compilations of existing articles or sections of the existing articles under a particular "Module". This will help us realize the "WikiBooks" and in turn, "WikiSchool" Project. The presentation would contain the practical methods to achieve the same goal, with certain examples.

Track (Community/Knowledge/Outreach/Technology)

Knowledge

Will you attend Wikiconference if your submission is not accepted?

Yes, I would be glad to.

Slides or further information (optional)