That's what I was thinking: Wikiversity hosts the lesson plans, and the
lesson plans are based on books (courtesy of Wikibooks).
On 8/15/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Amgine wrote:
A comment in IRC yesterday raised a concern for
me which I would like
to see addressed.
Cormac mentioned that he and Mr Horning had discussed moving textbooks
and curricula from en.Wikibooks to en.Wikiversity. He was unsure if
this meant the textbooks would be deleted from en.Wikibooks, but he was
sure any contributors who preferred working on en.Wikibooks would be
able to copy them back to that project.
This seems extremely odd to me, that deleting a textbook from Wikibooks
would even be contemplated. Educational materials are, after all, the
mission of the project. And dividing a textbook between projects seems
to be forking, both of the book in question and the potential
contributors as well, again something which should not even be
contemplated in my opinion.
Could the Wikiversity project please clarify this?
Amgine is correct.
The point of reference in the future should be this one :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal
This proposal was the one which was approved for the creation of
Wikiversity. This proposal makes it clear that both projects should try
their best to cohabit in peace. Wikiversity should not become the new
host provider of wikibooks content, but aim at building a collection of
references for one topic.
For example : textbook, lesson plans, lecture notes, presentation
slides, memory flash cards, listening exercises, educational video etc...
This does not mean that all these materials will be hosted on
Wikiversity. Some may but other material may be found at wikipedia, or
wikibooks and wikisource etc...
For each topic, Wikiversity will be the central place where someone may
find the material available for a topic. If the material is on
Wikibooks, then Wikiversity should only link to the Wikibooks content.
If Wikiversity wishes to double host the content, fine (though it seems
unecessary), but it is excluded that Wikibooks should lose its content
because of Wikiversity activity.
This is within that spirit that the special project committee
recommanded the creation of Wikiversity project.
Anthere
Amgine
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