Thread:Project:Support desk/Open source exam and quiz banks: An idea for a new wiki/reply

Hi Guy,

for that you write that you are not a programmer, you obviously have already made up big part of the software needed. You are writing much, but you do not have clear questions (yet) - so let me give you some thoughts:

You say that certain questions (and their answers obviously) need to be secret. Hiding a revision from view is one way to do that, and it might not even be the worst. If you set up an own wiki for that stuff, kind of your own one, then you could fully control what is going on there. E.g. you could take people's read access away from certain pages. However, MediaWiki is not made for that and you cannot regard that as "secure". There will most likely always be a way around such limitation. Making the complete wiki private would however be possible (and secure if you ask me).

If I understand correctly you or some co-workers will prepare tests. This should also continue that way - you do not want a computer algorithm to randomly pick questions for you. The Matlab software creates text files, which you are uploading to the wiki. Since I guess you know (or can control) the exact format, in which questions and answers are presented in these files, it should be rather easy to process them further. But if I understand you correctly, your software is already able to produce wikitext out of them.