[Foundation-l] What is de.wikiversity.org?

[Erik Moeller]

I just noticed on User:WiseWoman's user page that a German Wikiversity 
has been created at

	http://de.wikiversity.org/

According to the Main Page history, it seems to have been started on 
March 2. I see no discussion on this list regarding the creation of this 
project. It does reside on our servers, however.

I am aware that there are Wikiversity-endeavors taking place within the 
Wikibooks framework. But this is different, it has its own domain name 
and is clearly labeled as a separate project. No mention is made of 
Wikibooks on the Wikiversity homepage. And it is German-specific -- no 
other wikiversity.org wikis exist.

 From what I understand, this may be related to the continuing effort to 
get a German government grant for the project. I'm not opposed to 
Wikiversity, though it is not yet fully clear to me what the project 
should encompass and whether it should happen within Wikibooks, above 
it, or in parallel. I would simply like to know:

1) When and why was this wiki set up? Who made the decision?

2) Why was the procedure for launching new projects as established with 
Wikinews not followed?

3) What are the future plans for the wiki?

If this is merely meant to be a demonstration prototype and not an 
official project of the Wikimedia Foundation, I think that status should 
be clearly indicated on the wiki.

Last but not least, a MAJOR issue: all the wikiversity.org language 
subdomains have an unprotected "Create wiki" link. If this is meant to 
be a German demo only, then we have to disable this link ASAP, or 
otherwise people will start building their things there before the 
project has been officially approved.

Peace,

Erik