It would be good to have a page that attempts to answer the question and
document some history. I have tried to keep abreast of the issues seeing
some very interesting exchanges and debates with the questions largely
remaining unanswered by those who should answer... a small part of me
worries, given the amount of time Eric and Wayne have to give their
projects, that WMF attentions and resources will want to go to
wikieducator.. and that to me would be a disappointment. Most of us here
work in WV with very little backing, so its even more remarkable to see
where WV is on that note.
On 01/12/2009 8:04 PM, "Cormac Lawler" <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/12/1 Leigh Blackall <leighblackall(a)gmail.com>
> Can anyone here clarify what the relationship
between the Wikimedia
Foundation and Wikieducator...
Hi Leigh,
Wikieducator is independent of the Wikimedia Foundation - though there are
close personal links. Wayne Mackintosh (Wikieducator founder) is on the
advisory board of the WMF, and Erik Moeller (WMF deputy director) gives
technical support (or something like that) to Wikieducator.
Wikiversity is a WMF project, and therefore hosted on its servers, and bound
to its licensing conditions. Apart from that, the relationship between the
Wikimedia Foundation and individual projects is slightly ambiguous - in
general, the WMF does not intervene in project-level issues, and will
support project initiatives on a case-by-case basis (and according to
community support).
The article you linked to was associating Wikieducator with the Mediawiki
software platform, rather than the Wikimedia Foundation. (These two often
get confused!) However, as implied above, the lines here are often blurry;
and, of course, many people are active on both sites ;-), and both sites
have similar missions/scope. Furthermore, high profile collaborations
between Wikieducator and WMF (such as successful funding bids) make their
links more visible - whereas Wikiversity is within the WMF family, and is
therefore implied in any funding that WMF receives.
(Do we need an educational resource on this issue? :-))
Cormac
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