2010/3/18 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
For what it's worth, I think it's probably a good idea to shut down Wikiversity. Wikiversity hasn't to my knowledge achieved anything of note.
To be fair, I don't think that's equally true for all language editions. The German Wikiversity, from what I can see, seems to be slowly but productively doing what the project was designed to do: producing learning materials. Even the English Wikiversity has a set of well-developed, rich pages, e.g. Robert Elliott's filmmaking lessons:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Course:WikiU_Film_School_Course_01_-_Learning...
It's heartbreaking to see how a small project can be disrupted by a tiny number of well-known problem users, and IMO a strong argument for using more global blocking processes. Small projects often think they need to give people "fresh start" opportunities because they're otherwise not going to grow, but that's a bad bargain - introducing toxic personalities into a fledgling community is a certain way to bring about its decline.