Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/About/Collaborative authoring using wiki

A similar but distinctly different proposal

@Jtneill: I was thinking about the problem of hesitancy on the part of students to learn how to write on a wiki. Writing gets complicated when equations, images, and graphs are involved. Some instructors might prefer to integrate Google Drive and Wikiversity, giving students the option of posting their work on Google Drive. Wikiversity would a "community center" that links all documents together, and where ideas are shared using simple wikitext. The freedom to write on other platforms might encourage people to take "baby steps" towards active participation on a WMF wiki. My effort is at a much more primitive stage than yours, and I would appreciate your feedback. See Wikiversity:Rootsub Essay. I also created an experimental wiki I just created on Google Drive called WikiGooCity. The wiki doesn't do much except demonstrate that Google Drive and Wikiversity can support links to each other.-- Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 19:09, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Guy vandegrift:, sorry I missed this comment earlier. In short, I agree. Some scaffolded training steps (e.g., using a wiki within a learning management system, using Google Drive, etc.) also make sense for developing collaborative writing skills and providing useful outputs. I've added this statement to the article: "Collaborative online authoring projects can, in theory, use any server-based content management software platform." although the article necessarily concentrates on a Wikiversity case study. Appreciate your thoughts and experiments. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:25, 16 January 2023 (UTC)