On 6/15/06, Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin@verizon.net wrote..: ..about 3600 words
I'm not going to respond to all of them, but can I just make a simple point or two..
I don't envisage Wikiversity's content being moved to other wikis when it gets to a standard worthy of another project (ie a book). Far from it. This would be a terrible way of working. Rather, I see Wikiversity developing learning materials which can be used for a number of learning projects/activities - ie. a class/lesson plan with relevant learning material (eg. images, book extracts, audio exercises etc), which can be set out in any way that seems the best way to construct this material into a learning process/course, whatever you want to call it. Keep all this at Wikiversity - no question of moving it anywhere. If people want to do further research or reading, they can go to Wikibooks or Wikipedia (etc) - I don't see anything disastrous about that. Furthermore, if their learning compels them to do so (or if specified by their learning activity to do so), they can improve those articles/books, in order to consolidate their learning. But they will always come back to their learning materials on Wikiversity - this is the basis of their learning - what they do with that learning is anyone's guess.
Also, I don't see Wikiversity as being a junior subproject for other Wikimedia projects - on the contrary, I see it as a meta-project of them all. I see Wikiversity occupying a space for people to learn about how to contribute content to any project. I see a space for it to gather content from all other projects to put them to practical use. For example, Wikiversity and Wikibooks have been intertwined since the name "Wikiversity" was first suggested - even though Wikiversity was developed on Wikibooks, an early suggestion was to have Wikibooks as the repository of content for Wikiversity. This is far more the way I see their relationship, and applied to all other projects too. Obviously, it will take time to get to that stage, but that is my dream.
Finally, I admit that the process of getting this proposal realised hasn't been as quick or even as ideal as I would have liked it to be. However, this is now the final stage, and I personally expect Wikiversity to be up and running by Wikimania, hopefully sooner.
Cormac