On 11/11/05, Robert Scott Horning
<robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
I do want to emphasis, however, that Wikibooks is
not the place to do
this either. This is a need for a whole new project altogether.
Wikibooks isn't the place for incubation of new projects, I agree.
And I can see the argument that Wikiversity goes beyond the original
scope of Wikibooks. Essentially I feel that Wikiversity is a superset
of Wikibooks. For that reason I don't really feel comfortable saying
that Wikiversity should be a separate project, I'd rather see
Wikibooks expanded to include other materials. But I'd be willing to
concede that point, in fact I essentially have.
As for Wikijunior, well, I find it hard to see how that's not a book,
but that's a completely different discussion.
The discussions for Wikiversity and Wikijunior have been going on for
some time already. Whatever one thinks of them, I don't think that
their issues are the kind that would be solved in a seed project. The
purpose of a seed project would be primarily to see if there is enough
interest to sustain an otherwise acceptable project. The problems
connected with Wikiversity and Wikijunior are different; I have no
doubt that if started both could easily meet the participation
critera.. Neither project should be a part of this discussion.