Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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wikipedia automatically generates quizzes
wikipedia automatically generates quizzes from any article
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a computer program like an AI Eliza program generates a test on the material at wikipedia then puts the test right at the article

This gives people an opportunity to practice n retain what they read

they could accumulate a proof of the articles visited then share that with teachers

autogenerated quizzes make Wikipedia superior to Britanicca at least until Britanicca creates the same feature

Note: rewrite of a previous item

Youtube version at link


beanangel, Dec 04 2007

http://youtube.com/...wnSi4Q&feature=user [beanangel, Dec 04 2007]

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       <eliza>Why do you think Youtube version at link?</eliza>

phoenix, Dec 04 2007
  

       It doesn't need to be automatic. Wikipedia has enough nerds to write the quizzes themselves, all they'd have to do is start a "Quiz Wikiproject" complete with banners that say "This is part of the Quiz Wikiproject" or "This page does not have a quiz. Why don't you create one?"   

       Anyway, bun for you.

Spacecoyote, Dec 04 2007
  

       they could also expand it to the halfbakery [+]

keithbrunkala, Dec 04 2007
  

       Why do you laugh in an evil way after washing your hands?

hippo, Dec 04 2007
  

       I'ld bun this except 1) writing AI code to *understand* text and then extract enough meaning from it to ask a meaningful question that couldn't just be answered by cut & paste is actually an interesting problem (on the Computer Science scale of trivial..interesting); and 2) I'm not bunning anyone who mis-spells Britannica twice in one article. And by twice I mean in two different ways, so it's not as if you didn't realise that you didn't know how to spell the word.

gtoal, Dec 04 2007
  

       Treon, I am pretty sure one of you has posted this before.

4whom, Dec 04 2007
  

       Wikipedia is not a valid source of factual information, Britanica is.

Antegrity, Dec 05 2007
  

       A good idea if you have to pass the quiz -- i.e., you have to have read the existing entry -- before modifying it.

Ford, Dec 05 2007
  
      
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