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Wikiotics week 2: Talking about the Weather

Last week Great job last week everyone! We got the Introduction lesson translated into 14 new languages and made five more languages available for Wikiotics users building lessons. This week we’re focusing all that effort on one lesson, talking about the weather: http://wikiotics.org/en/Weather This week Talking about the weather is a daily activity in people’s [...]

Students of Free Software

Thanks to the FOSS@RIT program, Wikiotics is proud to welcome two new developers to the project, Taylor Rose and Nate Case . Both are students at the Rochester Institute of Technology and veterans of the FOSS@RIT program. FOSS@RIT houses an innovative introductory class “Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development” designed to give students real [...]

Time to Translate!

After a productive summer of software building, we would like to introduce the first version of the Wikiotics community site. In order to test everything out and introduce the site’s new capabilities, we’re asking everyone to help out and translate our Introductory lesson into as many languages as possible. If you know how to write [...]

Contributing is giving too

After a year of careful planning, and a fair bit of last minute scrambling around, Wikiotics is now a recognized charity in the United States. This is generally the point where new charaties shift into fundraising mode and ask for your support in the form of a check. I'm not going to do that. If [...]

Go Ahead, Make My Lesson

I'm proud to announce that we now have a simple interface for editing and translating lessons on wikiotics.org! This is some great work by Jim that lets us get on with the fun part, making and playing with lessons. If you have a minute, take a look at our example lesson (in English) and play [...]