On 7/5/06, Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin@verizon.net wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
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As an update, I'm still trying to move this process along within the Special projects committee, and hopefully there will be something to show for it soon. Meanwhile, however, I continue to invite comments, suggestions, criticisms from anyone, however new or peripheral to the discussion you may feel yourself to be.
I could not find recent Wikiversity proposal activity either in the special subcommittee's resolutions or on their agenda: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee/Resolutions http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee
The only documented suspense I could find required that you setup your Wikiversity subcommittee and report back by March 21, 2006.
You're right. We need to improve documentation of our activity on the Special projects committee. We're currently working on that.
To clarify my update, I have raised Wikiversity at our last two meetings (June 28th and June 14th) as well as on our mailing list, and am awaiting feedback from the other committee members.
What exactly are the tasks remaining before the Wikiversity proposal can be presented to the Wikimedia Board for a final go or nogo decision?
It is to be presented as is, unless the SPC have any specific recommendations. Apart from that, cleaning up the interlinking pages on Meta so that they fully complement each other seems like the best thing we can do. But most importantly, have we addressed the questions raised by the community at the last vote? This is the fundamental question the board will ask.
Are you aware that Jimbo has informed us directly a few months ago either here on this list or on the foundation list that the present Wikimedia Foundation board members all support the Wikiversity project?
There is no guarantee this will be true of future Board members.
lazyquasar
I think there is a difference between supporting the Wikiversity project in principle and endorsing the current proposal in practice (Jimbo's comments fall into the former - not necessarily the latter, as far as I could make out). This is exactly what we have been doing over the last few months - addresssing the last recommendations we were given, as well as the concerns of the community (which the board specifically asked for, and Jimbo re-affirmed). Believe me, I'm as anxious to get Wikiversity set up as you are, and as frustrated it's taken this long, but that doesn't change where we are or what we are doing - which is to develop and realise as clear and realistic a project as possible.
Cormac