For eight years now I (and now Eldarion) have run [Quisition](https://quisition.com/), an adaptive, browser-based flashcard system with user-contributed content.

For years it was my intention we'd rework the content-creation to support collaboration, versioning, branching, etc. I even considered the tagline "social learning" mirroring GitHub's "social coding".

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I stopped short of describing what I wanted to build as the "GitHub of flashcards" because, to be frank, I think the "GitHub of X" for many values of X is actually GitHub itself.


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In 2009, Eldarion rapidly built and launched [Typewar](http://typewar.com) which introduced a different take to the quiz genre, albeit the very limited domain of typeface recognition.

But I realized very quickly Typewar could be used as a framework for quizzes on all sorts of topics.

The thought was: what if any Quisition pack could be played like Typewar?

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Then when I read the [blog post](https://github.com/blog/1601-see-your-csvs) on GitHub's native support for CSV files, it dawned on me: a typewar-style quiz site could be built using GitHub as the means for creating and collaborating on content.

Hence we've built **QWIZ.IO**.

We'll be launching a private alpha in the coming days. Follow [@qwiz_io](https://twitter.com/qwiz_io) and keep reading this thought stream.

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We've launched the private alpha. The focus is basic two-choice quiz creation so at the moment you need to have a GitHub account to use the site.

You can read more about the [repository format](http://qwiz.io/repo_format/), even without an account.

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I've also published a [roadmap for quizzes](http://qwiz.io/quiz_roadmap/).