I want to raise an important (and very frequently-asked) question: How do Wikiversity and Wikibooks relate to eachother (and within this: do they overlap unnecessarily, and how might they be aligned most productively)? I'm asking this as an *international* question (ie as it relates to present and future projects), although perhaps, in asking this, we could ask: in what ways might different language communities deal differently with these definitions and distinctions? (And yes, I also realise this is several questions, and that there are a few more to come. :-))
This is a question that does seem to come up too frequently still. While I think that it is a good subject to try and tackle, I'd be skeptical that we would come to any firm conclusions now that could be spread uniformly to all languages.
The idea about expanding Wikibooks to encompass what Wikiversity would have become is an interesting one, although "wikiversity" sounds to me like more of a generalized learning resource then "wikibooks" does. That is, I think it is more intuitive that Wikiversity could be expanded to include textbooks then I do that Wikibooks could be expanded to include all sorts of "learning resources".
The difference between the projects comes down to a division of the types of instructional materials that are allowed at each project. Both wikiversity and wikibooks only allow instructional materials, which sets them apart from nearly all other wikimedia projects. The division is that wikibooks only allows instructional material that is "book-like", while wikiversity allows more general forms of instructional materals. From another perspective, Wikibooks is more rigidly structured, while Wikiversity is more free-form. Both approaches have their own potential benefits. Trying to expand Wikibooks to cover free-form materials loses some of the structure and organization that is inherent to Wikibooks.
Once CentralAuth (Single-User Login) becomes a reality (if that ever happens) I think there will be many more opportunities for synergy and collaboration between the two projects. I think that in general, trying to expand Wikibooks to prevent the need for a separate Wikiversity project is a bad idea and shortsighted. I also don't think it's a good idea for different language projects to stray too far from one another in their definitions, but then again there isn't enough communication between different languages to help keep the projects synchronized. We don't have enough translators to do anything like that.
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