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WIKIPINIANA: The Philippine Encyclopedia

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Philippine education goes to cyberspace. Sixty percent of the countries' enrolled population are now using the Information Gateway for research because it is fast, easy, accessible and affordable to students and the masses. As government agencies now interlinks their basic services, the educational system is now taking advantage of the present technology to provide students, teachers and parents with the basic information and services through their websites. Colleges and universities can gain access to their class schedules, grades and enrolment process online and this would evolve in years to come. With the popularity of the Internet, students have become dependent and reliant to whatever information the Internet feeds them. But the problem here in our country is the scarcity of information of some websites about the Philippines. Books and related writings about the Philippines often can be found in foreign schools and universities. Most of the students turn to these sites to g...

FilNet and Wikipiniana

As debate continues on whether I should start the groundwork of the wiki project. Editorial board are still hesitant to push through not because they lack of manpower but I think, it is because they never know where to start and how they go about with the process. I made it more simple. First, we have the option to aggregate contents from Wikipedia because of its free licensing scheme. Second, we will use same technology, method and taxonomy, and Third, we will use Filipiniana.net content categorization for our outline structure. The mediawiki tools that was used by Wikipedia was already stable and I know this is the best platform to use to come up with our conceptual encyclopedia. I have reminded them that this tool can be use in any form and we can offer more than that. I thnk they don't get what open source is all about and what is the advantage of developing sites based on open source. Most of the world's successful websites comes from open source and most of today...