(Late reply, sorry.)
While I may have doubts about the merits of Wikiversity myself, I don't
think it's within the scope of the Language Committee to deny the creation
of projects based on those merits. We should only focus on whether the
community for the relevant language edition of a project is healthy enough
for it to become a separate project, without consideration for the
individual committee members' feelings about the project as a whole.
2017-07-04 18:12 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
Yes, that is the politically correct answer. The question asked by
several is what is Wikiversity good for. Is it actually used?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 July 2017 at 18:06, Satdeep Gill <satdeepgill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I do think that the community will improve content as the time
> progresses. The community has been working hard on translation as well.
>
> But I do see some pages which are not written well and contain machine
> translations. Such as
>
> <http://goog_1512637911>
>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/%E0%A4%90%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8
> B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%87%E0%
> A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%
> E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97
>
> Regards
> Satdeep Gill
>
> Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B#SGill_.28WMF.29>
> Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
> Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
> Member, Language Committee
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee>
>
> On 25 June 2017 at 01:08, Jay prakash <0freerunning(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_graphics/2013-2014
>> /Page_footer]
>> See Here.
>>
>> On 6/25/17, Mahir Morshed <mmorshe2(a)illinois.edu> wrote:
>> > Well, the part in [brackets] was "the lack of effort to even
>> localize the
>> > comments in the code samples" and I did mention that it was being
>> addressed
>> > slowly. My apologies for failing to provide a direct link to an
>> example.
>> >
>> > I also now see that the email address is in fact yours. I am not
>> sure that
>> > there is any precedent elsewhere for such byline templates on other
>> > Wikimedia projects.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jay prakash <
>> 0freerunning(a)gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> You are showing it that you will not see all those links which I
>> have
>> >> cleaned like it [
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/कंप्यूटर
>> >> ग्राफिक्स/2013-14/जीओजीएल-टेम्पलेट].
>> >>
>> >> On 6/25/17, Mahir Morshed <mmorshe2(a)illinois.edu> wrote:
>> >> > To piggyback on what Justin is saying (and also via Phabricator:
>> >> >
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168765#3376191):
>> >> >
>> >> > I am not a Hindi speaker, but I can at least discern Devanagari
>> text
>> >> > and
>> >> > the English loanwords in it. Justin's first link is to
>> >> > "Category:Intelligence" with subcategory
"Artificial
>> intelligence". His
>> >> > second link (Computer Programming/IDE/Visual Basic .NET/...)
>> bears only
>> >> > a
>> >> > link to a Japanese online IDE. His third link (Computer
>> >> > Graphics/2013-2014/"Page Foot", a page footer which is
>> transcluded
>> >> > elsewhere) has an email address prefixed with a link to
>> >> > @Jayprakash12345
>> >> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Jayprakash12345/>'s
>> >> userpage--maybe it
>> >> > is his own email address?
>> >> >
>> >> > The problems of most pages only consisting of source code is
>> indeed
>> >> > inherited from the English Wikiversity courses to which the
>> pages are
>> >> > linked. Nevertheless, from seeing at least [the lack of effort
>> to even
>> >> > localize the comments in the code samples], and perhaps from
>> seeing the
>> >> > lack of something more substantial in the way of content
>> revolving
>> >> > around
>> >> > those code samples, and perhaps more so from Jayprakash12345
>> being the
>> >> only
>> >> > consistent contributor going back at least a month, I must thus
>> agree
>> >> with
>> >> > his assessment that opening hiwikiversity would be a disaster. My
>> >> personal
>> >> > opinion is that other Hindi projects (such as hiwikisource and
>> >> hiwikiquote)
>> >> > could be populated more easily and meaningfully at this point,
>> but I
>> >> would
>> >> > digress to elaborate on that and the whole process of site
>> requests
>> >> > more
>> >> > generally here.
>> >> >
>> >> > (Edits since the original comment was made: It appears judging
>> from
>> >> >
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinke
>> d/Category:
>> >> HI
>> >> > that 1) the subcategory "Artificial intelligence" has
been
>> deleted and
>> >> > 2)
>> >> > the part in [brackets] above is being addressed slowly.)
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Justin Anthony Knapp
>> >> > <justinkoavf(a)gmail.com
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Via Phabricator (
https://phabricator.wikimedia
>> .org/T168765#3376166):
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is this really ready? I don't read Hindi but the main
category
>> has 84
>> >> >> subcategories and 25 are empty (many only have subcategories
>> which are
>> >> >> themselves empty, such as
https://beta.wikiversity.org/
>> >> >> wiki/Category:इंटेलिजेंस) There are 578 pieces of content,
many
>> of
>> >> >> which
>> >> >> are just one or two lines, such as
>>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/
>> >> >> wiki/कंप्यूटर_प्रोग्रामिंग/IDE/विजुअल_बेसिक_.नेट/Online/Free
or
>> >> >>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/कंप्यूटर_ग्राफिक्स/2013-20
>> 14/पेज_फ़ुट
>> >> >> which is mostly someone's personal email address. Remove
>> categories
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> erroneously-categorized userpages and that becomes 490. This
>> includes
>> >> >> almost 100 pages which are part of some Linux code such as
>> >> >>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/लिनक्स/linux-0.01.tar/boot
>> /boot.s.
>> >> >> Remove *those* and it's 401 which includes purely cosmetic
>> templates
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> pages like
>> >> >>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Engineering/box-footer
>> .
>> >> >> The actual amount of content seems like something that one
>> person
>> >> >> could
>> >> >> make over a long weekend. How is this supposed to be a live
>> project?
>> >> This
>> >> >> seems like a misstep.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Creating a new project is a big responsibility and with 500
>> pages in
>> >> five
>> >> >> and a half years? And most of them are either copy-pasted
Linux
>> code
>> >> >> or
>> >> >> one
>> >> >> line long? That is not a thriving community. This is a recipe
>> for
>> >> >> disaster.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --JAK
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> "[Icarus] glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling
into
>> that hot
>> >> >> eye. Who cares that he fell back to the sea?"
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Viva Western Sahara, viva West Papua
>> >> >>
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>> > --
>> > Yours sincerely,
>> > Mahir Morshed
>> > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> > B.S. Computer Engineering, May 2019
>> >
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