Anthere:
Wikielearning might be a solution. E-learning has the benefit of being a rather framed word at least...
Wikimedia has a history of coming up with confusing names, I'd like one that will be correctly remembered and spelled for a change. Wikielearning? Wikelearning? Wikilearning?
*naming* should really be one of the *last* issue when thinking to create a project.
I see it more in the middle, which is where we are with Wikiversity. As you correctly say, the name can delineate what the project will be about, as can a temporary name.
The problem with this project is that it can consist of many individual components, but we cannot tell in advance which ones will be successful and which ones will fail. For example, we may want to *experiment* with the idea of using this framework to publish peer reviewed original research. However, if this fails entirely, we will want to remove this component and carry on regardless. It may very well turn out that we do the best possible job at primary education, and completely suck at tertiary learning -- again, we can choose to then narrow our focus. But imagine a "Wikiversity" which *only* does primary education!
The current proposal at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity (which was originally just a big discussion page before I refactored it) is deliberately open about these goals. I'd like the process of precisely defining the scope to be developed in practice rather than in theory.
We are talking about an extremely ambitious project, and it is almost certain that it will not succeed in all its goals. If we call ourselves a "wiki university" already, then we set expectations, we limit the framework, and we make it impossible to backpedal if we disappoint the expectations set in the project, and its name.
That's why, to me, the time to choose the name has come. We need to spend some more time on the definition, certainly, but I see technical evaluation as the next priority.
Erik