I'm really confused about this proposal. Who is it that originally came
up with the idea of a "beta" Wikiversity and what is it supposed to do?
I can't really find any substantive details about the whole thing, and
it seems to be merely an afterthought of some other discussion. If this
is supposed to be an independent incubator for multi-lingual Wikiversity
projects, the whole idea really needs quite a bit more thought put into it.
Frankly, I think the whole idea stinks altogether. If there is a
pressing need to start up a trial Wikiversity in another language other
than de and en, it should be on the incubator wiki together with other
similar kinds of ideas. And there is absolutely not even
acknowledgement that Wikiversity has been going for some time in other
languages like Portuguese, Polish, and Italian. I really don't see too
many people really pushing to remove Wikiversity from the other language
projects either, but then again I'm not on the community discussion
pages for those other projects.
If given my druthers, I would not want to see
http://beta.wikiversity.org/ go live as a seperate Wikimedia project ever.
BTW, I'm not exactly sure what the next language that will be set up for
Wikiversity will be, and there is some support for several languages
right now. Surprisingly, there is now 5 votes for fr.wikiversity on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Requests_for_Wiki…
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Robert Scott Horning