I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost anything I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories from many other educators across a range of fields.

kindest regards
Andrew (Perth, Australia)

On 21 December 2011 12:59, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
<everton137@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to point out a discussion I've just started on Wikiversity
> asking if they are using this project as part of the Wikipedia
> ambassadors program
>
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Wikiversity_and_Wikipedia_Ambassadors_program
>
> and ask you if you know of any other Wikimedia Foundation project,
> beyond Wikipedia, involved in the Ambassadors program. If some case
> you know to tell us is not in English or some Romanic language, I'd
> like to read your experience about it.

Wikimedia Commons has been significantly involved in the Ambassadors
program, in a couple of courses focused on the creation of videos and
diagrams:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Ambassador_Program_student_projects

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

> Also, a short comment bellow about a point of Juan's nice description
> (thanks!) about Czech Republic situation of its educational sector.
>
> 2011/12/19 Juan de Vojníkov <juandevojnikov@gmail.com>:
>
>> Other "problems" comes when newbies coming to the Czech Wikipedia. There is
>> a luck of mentors for them and they have to face both technical (wikisyntax,
>> templates, standards) and social problems (unpleasant users, lack of social
>> interaction, just templates on their discussion page). Thus we have agreed
>> to focus on setting up some features from en.wp such gadget Cite[2] or
>> Wikilove. At this time User:Vojtech.dostal comes up with the information
>> that Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) developers is close to WYSIWYG editor for
>> Wikipedia, but user Chmee2 is afraid that most of the good tools from WMF
>> might be reject by the local community.
>
> What about using Wikiversity in Czech <http://cs.wikiversity.org/> for
> these social problems you mention? I've seen similar comments on
> Wikiversity to be more hospitable than Wikipedia (see, for instance,
> the last note in blue here <http://diigo.com/0lzhd>), from volunteers
> of both English and Portuguese languages projects.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Tom
>
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