Scratch

I don't think Wikipedia allows embedding Java...

eyra

I like your idea. We know an active wikipedian. I will share your idea with him. But as you know, Wikipedia is ruled by the community, it might be useful if you could pitch the idea on the wikipedia forums.

Wikipedia has a forum?

eyra

AngelEyra, your question got me looking around on Wikipedia...

I wonder if this might be a place to propose Scratch-Wikipedia ideas (such as Martin's is suggesting):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29

Andres, are there other wikipedia forums you were thinking?

Kahuna, I'm about to post a page on Scratch in many languages -- I'm going to add your article now!

these ppl rock
    Mitchel Resnick,
John Maloney,
Natalie Rusk,
Evelyn Eastmond,
Tammy Stern,
Amon Millner,
Jay Silver,
and Brian Silverman

Awesome! Thanks Martin

Within lesss the 24 hours we alread had some feedback: Thank you all, specially andresmh for your encouragement ! The thing will not be "fast & easy" but with the help of interested Scratchers and Wikipedians we have a chance. Who wants to help?

Feedback until now at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: … kipedia.3F

...Thank you for your feedback in advance. Mtwoll 19:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

    One way of doing this would be to enable uploading of scratch files and then allow the java scratch player to be used to display them, perhaps either on the image description pages or inline on other pages. This would require an extension to be written to enable this. Tra (Talk) 21:51, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

    I am leading the development of the Scratch on-line community. I would be happy to help in making it easy to push projects hosted in the Scratch website into Wikipedia if this is needed. I have seen pictures from Flicker in Wikipedia. Is this done manually or is there some automated system? In any case, let us know if there is anything the Scratch team could do to let non-professional programmers contribute programmable media to Wikipedia. andresmh

        In the past, Wikipedia has avoided hotlinking media from other websites (apart from Wikimedia Commons and some Toolserver scripts, which are sister projects). This is mainly because if the media is on another website, it's not possible to connect it with a Wikipedia username and see the full revision history and there's a risk that third party servers may fail, or the media may be deleted or modified in a way that is unsuitable for its use in Wikipedia. There is also the problem that it is very easy for someone to just link to anything that may violate someone's copyright.
        This is just in a general sense. Depending on how the Scratch site is designed, some or most of these problems might not apply but it's still best to be on the safe side and not hotlink media on third party sites. As for the Flickr pictures, those were downloaded from Flickr then uploaded separately to Wikimedia Commons.
        Even without hotlinking, having Scratch projects embedded in Wikipedia pages would still require developer involvement, since an extension would need to be coded for the MediaWiki software to make it possible to type in a reference to the Scratch file in wiki-code and generate a link to the applet. Enabling Scratch uploads also requires developer involvement, although it is much simpler by comparison since it just requires adding a file extension to the whitelist.
        As for what you can do at the moment, the only currently possible way of including Scratch files in Wikipedia is to link to the page on the Scratch website with a basic hyperlink. Tra (Talk) 03:24, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Last edited by MartinWollenweber (2012-03-31 16:09:13)

Sadly the above idea to use Scratch in Wikipedia has vanished, cause there were not enough supporters. As my english is not perfect I can't take parte efficiently enough in the english Wikipedia, so I wrote the german article at:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28Programmiersprache%29

Is sombody here at Scratch who want's to enlagre the english Wikipedia Artikle at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scratch_%28programming_language%29 ?
In the discussion about it it's considered as a stub :

Wikipedia wrote:

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science.
Stub     rated as Stub-Class on the assessment scale
Low     rated as low-importance on the assessment scale

Or the German page could be translated to English via web translator or person translator.

OK, I made a rough translation of the German Wikipedia page and added it to the English one (with a couple of minor additions):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_language%29

I welcome further edits by anyone in the Scratch community.  If some of the native German speakers could check my translation and see if I missed any big points, I'd appreciate it—my German is pretty rusty and my dictionaries are old enough not to include any recent computer terminology. (I'm relying on a Langensheidt's dictionary with a 1961 copyright!)

I noticed that there is a Wikibook started on scratch.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scratch
That would be a good place for anyone who feels like writing tutorial material to put it.

Alright, I'm in on Wikipedia. Over time, I can add updates to the article. But more people need to help!