Is it possible to integrate other sources as some sort of module / building block?
Perhaps wikipedia as “Basics”?
or youtube to show an experiment?
papers: I imagine that for most questions you also would need studies/papers. For some problems (“Is smoking healthy?”) there are studies pro and contra. (In this example the pros are obviously paid by tabacco companies.) But it is difficult for non-professionals to sort through studies and find relevant ones. (And prove why those are the relevant ones.)
I think mediawiki (the software that runs both wikipedia and this question wiki) only allows text by default. But there’s no reason why the pages can’t just link to relevant sources. And in fact probably some questions should be answered with just one link to the relevant wikipedia page.
Ideally pages should synthesize relevant sources but I think just listing sources is better than nothing.
MediaWiki supports plugins, so in theory you could write your own plugin with any functionality you need… in practice, this could turn out to be a lot of work.
I like this idea.
Is it possible to integrate other sources as some sort of module / building block?
Perhaps wikipedia as “Basics”?
or youtube to show an experiment?
papers: I imagine that for most questions you also would need studies/papers. For some problems (“Is smoking healthy?”) there are studies pro and contra. (In this example the pros are obviously paid by tabacco companies.)
But it is difficult for non-professionals to sort through studies and find relevant ones. (And prove why those are the relevant ones.)
I’m not sure I’m getting your question.
I think mediawiki (the software that runs both wikipedia and this question wiki) only allows text by default. But there’s no reason why the pages can’t just link to relevant sources. And in fact probably some questions should be answered with just one link to the relevant wikipedia page.
Ideally pages should synthesize relevant sources but I think just listing sources is better than nothing.
MediaWiki supports plugins, so in theory you could write your own plugin with any functionality you need… in practice, this could turn out to be a lot of work.