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#26 2008-01-02 15:30:19
- kevin_karplus
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
I put a screenshot of Scratch at startup on the (English) Wikipedia scratch webpage.
relyt12101, the correct place for discussions about the content of the Wikipedia page is on the corresponding Wikipedia discussion page. This scratch forum should be used for announcing changes that have been made and for inviting scratch users to contribute to the Wikipedia and Wikibooks pages, not for detailed discussion of the contents of the page. The editing discussions for the page belong as part of the Wikipedia site, so that future editors can see what has already been discussed.
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#27 2008-01-12 05:29:51
Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
AngelEyra wrote:
I don't think Wikipedia allows embedding Java...
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Wikipedia does alow java because they use it to play sound
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#29 2008-01-27 16:14:49
- relyt12101
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
JSO wrote:
Click on support twice and you (I hope its not only me...) will see the Scratch wiki - it is in ver test stadium...
I got there too - it obviously is part of the updates to the ScratchR.
You might get more feedback if you move that post to a more relevant topic...
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#30 2008-01-27 16:16:29
- relyt12101
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
Oops, I just saw the topic you posted.
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#32 2008-06-30 21:53:15
- xbox360gurl70s
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
why not try other wikis too! there are a lot of commercial wikis out there where we can have our scratch known! like aboutus.org, wetpaint.com and wikihow
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#33 2012-04-13 03:54:54
- MartinWollenweber
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
This discussion should not be over and out forever! Who would like to give it another try? Who is active at both Wikipedia and Scratch? This Discussion in Wikipedia to bring Interactive Content to Wikipedia with Scratch, should start again because in 2007 interactive Content was a gap in Wikipedia, that could be nicely filled by Scratch and today in 2012 - five years later - nothing has changed.
The Wikipedians didn't understand that - if the Scratch Java Engine would be implemented inside Wikipedia - there would be no outside content that would have been referenced: It would be perfectly fitting to rules of Wikipedia and every Wikipedia-Author could easily create his own interactive Multimedia-Content with nearly no learning-curve.
Imagine what kind of breakthrough this wold be for both: Wikipedia and Scratch! Today we have not only the Java-Player, but soon also two alternatve engines with the Flash-Player of the upcomming Scratch 2.0 and the HTML5-Javascript-Player, Jens and Brian are implementing for BYOB4.0/Snap, that surely will be upward-compatible with Scratch one day (soon?).
Who helps, to get this idea to reality?
You know what Alan Kay says: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it!"
...but you not only have to invent it....sometime you also have to fight a little bit for it, even if it lasts a long time... 
Last edited by MartinWollenweber (2012-04-13 07:00:04)
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#35 2012-04-13 06:42:08
- MartinWollenweber
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
Example: In our DACH-Wiki-Entry about Scratch itself, we use the interactive german Scratch-Project "Scratch in 5 Minuten" = "Scratch in 5 Minutes" to show what Scratch is and to make your first interactive experiences with it: I don't belive that you could explain the "look and feel" of Scratch so fast with written words, pictures or evan with video, than with this interactive media.
DACH-Scratch-Wiki: Scratch
(tip to use it: de:"Weiter mit Leertaste"= en:"Continue with Space-Key")
Who finds other examples, where interactive media - made by Scratch - helps to explain something better than words, pictures and video?
Last edited by MartinWollenweber (2012-04-14 01:32:37)
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#36 2012-04-13 17:56:43
Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
Sounds really cool 
Gonna see if I can find a good example
EDIT: I think this is a good example. While you could just use one of those sound bits in wikipedia already to play the automated song, you can actually click on the keyboard to hear notes!
Last edited by Chrischb (2012-04-13 17:59:07)
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#37 2012-04-13 19:51:39
- scratchisthebest
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Re: Scratch and Wikipedia
If there are any constraints on the java player on the wiki, we can use the Flashy player...
bye 1.4, we all loved you. but we all outgrew the site. 2.0 is a welcome change.
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