Hi all,
A link has been added to a "Austrian" Wikiversity in advertised as in German Language to the bottom of the front page of the English prototype of Wikiversity at English Wikibooks.
http://wikiversity.at/MyWiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite
at bottom of: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity
Is this an authorised prototype of a Wikiversity or should the link be removed?
It seems odd that we would want multiple Wikiversitys in the same language. It is certainly my conclusion that we prefer Wikiversities broken out by language so people can participate effectively internationally as feasible one the same sites. Similar to how Wikipedias have mostly been established around language where feasible.
If this is not a Wikimedia site then I think the link should be deleted immediately and perhaps it should be put in our legal queue for action as appropriate when resources are available. The site is using a variation of Wikipedia's puzzle globe logo and is clearly intended to leverage off of Wikimedia Foundation's existing and pending successful projects' reputation to gather traffic.
regards, lazyquasar
On 6/18/06, Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin@verizon.net wrote:
Hi all,
A link has been added to a "Austrian" Wikiversity in advertised as in German Language to the bottom of the front page of the English prototype of Wikiversity at English Wikibooks.
http://wikiversity.at/MyWiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite
at bottom of: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity
Is this an authorised prototype of a Wikiversity or should the link be removed?
See earlier discussion here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/006165.html
It's not operated by Wikimedia and should probably be removed or labeled as such. de.wikiversity.org is an official prototype, though.
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 6/18/06, Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin@verizon.net wrote:
Hi all,
A link has been added to a "Austrian" Wikiversity in advertised as in German Language to the bottom of the front page of the English prototype of Wikiversity at English Wikibooks.
http://wikiversity.at/MyWiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite
at bottom of: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity
Is this an authorised prototype of a Wikiversity or should the link be removed?
See earlier discussion here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/006165.html
It's not operated by Wikimedia and should probably be removed or labeled as such. de.wikiversity.org is an official prototype, though.
Ok.
I am removing it.
I see no reason why a direct competitor should be given equal space on our English prototype front page with an official project of ours.
regards, lazyquasar
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