I think it's an important point to make about the diversity of approaches between Wikiversity projects. Wikiversity is certainly a difficult fish to pin down. ;-) But it's worth also pointing out that the intention of setting up the beta.wikiversity project was not only to incubate new projects, but also share experiences between existing language projects. I'm not sure how useful it has been in that respect - my personal observation up until a year or so ago was that it hasn't really taken off in that regard, but others may disagree. I think it might be useful, in your presentation, to either reflect on that, or to point towards further potential work in sharing experiences, thoughts, etc between individual Wikiversity projects.

On 20 Jul 2011, at 02:39 pm, Juan de Vojníkov wrote:

Hi,

I have just visited several Wikiversities in preparation of my presentation of this project on Wikimania:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_the_Wikiversity_content_to_its_conflicts

I red recent core discussions on cs, en, es, it, pt and ru and I am wondering how different approaches in fullfilling our missions are. Now it realy seems to me that Wikiversity is in fact researching e-learning in MediaWiki software. And because of the different approaches and different understandigs there might be multiple results.

Let me give you here a teaser:
*pt, ru and es are based on brick and mortar school units (i.e. elementary schools, departments, institutes and so on)
**from a realy interesting discussion on pt, I have find out that it for people who will come up to these units in the future and who create educationa materials arround themseves
http://pt.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversidade:Esplanada#Perfil_da_Wikiversidade
*en and cs was open to deploy all of what contributers deployed. Nothing was deleted and sometimes this was causing problems not just within the Wikimedia community, but also at cs.wv. These languages are trying to sort this content recently, trying to put an order in to chaos, by type: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Resources_by_type
*recently on cs and ru, its some users were trying to have just live educational courses. The other stuff to mute or delete.

And others different approaches. So do not forget guys, there are also other Wikiversities, which are not copying en.wv

Regards,
Juan
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