Hi all,
(crossposted to main discussion fora of all Wikiversity projects)
I've just been notified that the board will be reviewing Wikiversity
at its next meeting (on the 16th of March). The major question around
Wikiversity at its setting up was about research. So far, scope and
guidelines have been discussed at a multilingual forum, but there are
new policy proposal developments at:
* http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Scope_of_research/Policy/En
* http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Research_guidelines/En
It would be very helpful to get some more feedback from non-English
project participants - these were always meant to reflect the whole
Wikiversity community (and is why the multilingual wiki was set up in
the first place). Please translate, edit, and/or comment..
Specifically, I should say that one initial concern was how smaller,
less-developed Wikiversity projects will deal with research. Another
obvious concern is how will we deal with fringe groups (eg. Nazis etc)
who want to use Wikiversity as a publishing house? If we deal with
these questions at a minimum, we are a long way towards having a
sustainable base of policies that all Wikiversities can work from.
Thanks,
Cormac
Just to invite people to the "virtual office" I've set up on Wikiversity
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Roadrunner
Also, I'm in the process of drafting some academic papers under Paper drafts,
and I'm doing this on an open wiki just to see what happens.
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Joseph Wang Ph.D. - joe(a)gnacademy.org
China Derivatives Researcher and Software Developer - QuantLib
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Roadrunner
Very interesting:
http://www.primaryaccess.org/pa.htm
I would be interested in an evaluation (a brief report about the
strengths/weaknesses), if someone is willing.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
Wayne Mackintosh of wikieducator.org has written some thoughts about
the relationship between the two projects here:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Talk:Wikieducator_tutorial/Creating_an_Account/…
If anyone wants to get in touch with Wayne to discuss this
relationship, let me know, and I can make an introduction.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
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the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
On 12/15/06, Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2. is any Wikiversity folk willing to expand
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Our_projects/En:#Wi…
> (it will be shown at the foundation wiki)
I've made a stab at this for now (not sure if this is too
"present-specific"). Feel free, anyone, to give it a look-over - see
link above - forwarding this also to wikiversity-l.
Cheers,
Cormac
Hello,
To help cleaning the small wikis, people from the Small wikis monitoring
team have thought about asking people from all projects to create a redirect
from [[Template:Delete]] to the local speedy deletion template. The major
wikis have already set this redirect, but it would be very useful on small
projects where sysops don't come very often. Thus they could check the
linked pages/the related category and deal with the pages containing
nonsense or pages remaining after move vandalism.
Please help spreading this request on your projects and forward this message
to people I've forgotten (I haven't found any mailing list for wikiquote,
for example). Thanks a lot.
On 11/14/06, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to Tangotango's great work, there is now a working channel
> monitoring 20 small wikis. People willing to help can join us in
> #wikimedia-swmt on freenode
>
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Guillaume Paumier
Disciplus Simplex
http://fr.wikipedia.org : Resistance is futile — You will be assimilated.
Hi all,
Have you discussed about the possibility to host mailing lists, IRC
channels and VoIP conference calls for the study courses using
Wikiversity?
This way the teachers could actually have a class in the Wikiversity.
These collaboration services would bring Wikiversity to new level:
not to be a repository of self-study materials, but hmm... University
(community) ran on Wiki :-)
I wrote sometime ago about the community and social aspects of
Wikiversity in here:
http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=wikiversity-time-to-vote
Best regards,
- Teemu
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Teemu Leinonen
http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
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