Angela wrote:
Despite claims to the contrary, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity was certainly _not_ protected at the advice of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Perhaps it was advised by one member of that foundation, but other Board members were not consulted. I am disgusted this approach would be taken with no consensus from the community.
Wikiversity has been running for a long time on Wikibooks and I see no agreement whatsoever for it to be suddenly shut down like this.
Protection is a defense against vandalism, not a way of expressing one person's point of view on whether or not a sub-project of Wikibooks should exist. Please remove the misleading statements about protection and explain why you ever thought the Foundation would propose such an awful measure on a popular set of pages like Wikiversity.
Angela.
The following is a formal reply from Aya about this issue:
After having put some more thought into this, I would say that my protecting the page was the wrong thing to do in this case, since, although I feel that knowingly using Wikibooks as a free content-provider to host texts which are not part of the Wikibooks project (Wikimania05 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05 is another example), are tantamount to vandalism, there should be some formal clarification. I will not do it again, and I strongly recommend that others do not, until we have some sort of official Wikibooks:Vandalism policy http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Vandalism_policy&action=edit, which states when page protecting and IP/account blocking are justified. The correct action would have been to mark it as a VfD, but I didn't really want it all to be deleted, since a lot of work has gone into it already, and it seems a shame to delete it all. I shall start work on such a policy when time permits. - Aya http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Aya ^T http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User_talk:Aya C http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Aya 16:43, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I'll let him speak for himself. I'm just relaying this because Aya is not on this mailing list.