Breaking down into subpages
Hi Alison,
I figured that you were using the big pages to help figure out the structure. Its a good way of working because its easier to visualize the structure that way and save time later down the track.
It is possible to preserve the edit history if you use the export and import page feature. You have admins -- so you can export a page as XML text. Save locally and then edit the target page (new page) in the xml text file before importing again into the wiki. You can set the option to retain edit history. However, that is a time consuming process.
If its only the team members who have added edits -- If Irwin and (other editors) are OK with not having the edit history preserved for the initial edits - it will be quicker just to copy & paste into the new pages. Just remember to acknowledge the copyright of the source in the edit comment when making the first entry.
Jim and I had a chat about the sub-page conventions. Initially I was thinking along the same lines as you -- ie having the Modules in the main namespace and not sub-pages of the course homepage. In the case of AST1000, we opted for having all the course materials as a subpage of the AST1000 page, as we though that the contributing institution would like to retain identity as the original contributor. (This is different from the Saylor course in the sense that that AST1000 was developed by USQ.)
I agree having the Modules in the main wiki space will facilitate greater reuse options and will be fine in my view. We just need to think carefully about the style guidelines -- eg if the contributing institution wishes to retain identity or association with the course, that we then create subpages.
Yes- -we need to provide style guidelines for naming pages. I would recommend that we don't included references to "Module" or numbers in the page titles because in reuse scenarios course may wish to use an alternate sequence. The specific OERu course pages will still be able to use the "Module" label in the pipe for the link -- so I recommend that we don't include numbers or module references in the page titles. Thoughts?
