Like Wikinews, we're trying to see if Wikiversity is viable. This is being accomplished through a six month beta run, then it's cleared on its own.<br><br>I don't know what the difference between Beta and Not-Beta in this case is. Just a bunch of names to me.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Scott Horning</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:robert_horning@netzero.net">robert_horning@netzero.net</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm really confused about this proposal.&nbsp;&nbsp;Who is it that originally came<br>up with the idea of a &quot;beta&quot; Wikiversity and what is it supposed to do?<br><br>I can't really find any substantive details about the whole thing, and
<br>it seems to be merely an afterthought of some other discussion.&nbsp;&nbsp;If this<br>is supposed to be an independent incubator for multi-lingual Wikiversity<br>projects, the whole idea really needs quite a bit more thought put into it.
<br><br>Frankly, I think the whole idea stinks altogether.&nbsp;&nbsp;If there is a<br>pressing need to start up a trial Wikiversity in another language other<br>than de and en, it should be on the incubator wiki together with other
<br>similar kinds of ideas.&nbsp;&nbsp;And there is absolutely not even<br>acknowledgement that Wikiversity has been going for some time in other<br>languages like Portuguese, Polish, and Italian.&nbsp;&nbsp;I really don't see too<br>many people really pushing to remove Wikiversity from the other language
<br>projects either, but then again I'm not on the community discussion<br>pages for those other projects.<br><br>If given my druthers, I would not want to see<br><a href="http://beta.wikiversity.org/">http://beta.wikiversity.org/
</a> go live as a seperate Wikimedia project ever.<br><br>BTW, I'm not exactly sure what the next language that will be set up for<br>Wikiversity will be, and there is some support for several languages<br>right now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Surprisingly, there is now 5 votes for 
fr.wikiversity on<br><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Requests_for_Wikiversity_Languages">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Requests_for_Wikiversity_Languages</a><br>
<br>--<br>Robert Scott Horning<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wikiversity-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Wikiversity-l@wikimedia.org">Wikiversity-l@wikimedia.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l">
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l</a><br></blockquote></div><br>