On 10/2/08, Felipe Ortega <glimmer_phoenix@yahoo.es> wrote:

Yes, the objective is to have an initial demo for December (hopefully, if travels and other work stuff let me dedicate enough time). The demo will include a CMS, integrating the wiki, as well as other tools for annotated Bibliography, a descriptive repository with information about wiki research tools (links, descriptions, manuals, examples, screenshots, etc), a directory of researchers (initially simple, but it will potentially evolve to a "mini-facebook" of researchers in due course), as well as research news, and sindication of blogs and external resources.

Thanks for clarifying, Felipe - sounds good. :-)
 
We are open to collaborate with any other interested research group/organization/foundation. The aim will be, after having a working demo on December (as a "proof of concept" of the usability and feasibility of our idea) to search interested organization/research programs to get fundings for a more formal initiative.

As Daniel said, I would really like to promote cooperation with other initiatives like Wikiversity. Our goal is not at all to *substitute* any other web place, but to *help* to index and find a lot of useful information about wiki tools, wiki researchers and wiki research working lines and methodologies, publications, etc. which is currently dispersed throughout a broader set of pages/sites.

That's great - I've signed up now, and posted an announcement to the English Wikiversity's Colloquium ('Village Pump' equivalent).

Cormac