Erik Moeller wrote:
1) When and why was this wiki set up? Who made the
decision?
I set up the wiki on March 1 on Kurt Jansson's request.
I'm sure Kurt won't mind if I reprint his request here: "hi! I already
asked in #wikimedia, but didn't have any luck, so I'm trying again here:
could one of you server guys please set up
de.wikiversity.org (just with
an empty wiki)? we still don't have any news about funding, but people
want to start working on it and keep bugging me. would be really nice :-)"
2) Why was the procedure for launching new projects as
established with
Wikinews not followed?
My understanding is that this was all discussed ages ago, and the
project's just been waiting on the external funding (which hasn't quite
happened yet).
3) What are the future plans for the wiki?
If this is merely meant to be a demonstration prototype and not an
official project of the Wikimedia Foundation, I think that status should
be clearly indicated on the wiki.
That's my understanding of the present situation; it's for demo /
discussion / planning for now.
Last but not least, a MAJOR issue: all the
wikiversity.org language
subdomains have an unprotected "Create wiki" link. If this is meant to
be a German demo only, then we have to disable this link ASAP, or
otherwise people will start building their things there before the
project has been officially approved.
If you find such links *anywhere* they need to be disabled. The
autocreation script is broken.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)