On 10/2/06, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
Actually, there is a "Spanish Wikiversity" community that is very active in trying to get their edition of Wikiversity going, and even has built a "Wikiversity prototype" similar to the Wikiversity pages that used to exist on the English Wikibooks.
I would strongly start with: http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversidad%3APortada
It should be noted that they have already accumulated over 33 approval votes and not a single vote of opposition. See:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Spanish_Wikiversit...
(BTW, if you are a spanish speaker and want to support or even oppose this idea, please add your vote to this page as appropriate)
Frankly, I don't see exactly why it can't be started all other things considered, as I think a Spanish edition would do quite well. Still, Wikiversity is going through a beta evaluation and it might not be quite ready for a massive expansion into many additional languages yet. The 33 votes does exceed by a large margin what the WMF board suggested as a benchmark for establishing a new language edition of Wikiversity.
-- Robert Scott Horning
With 33 support votes (presumably including ten people who are actively interested in working on it), the Spanish Wikiversity should absolutely be set up - the beta site is in no way intended to act as an impediment to new projects being set up, but rather acting as a point of multilingual coordination, and as an incubator for new proposed language Wikiversities. If there are ten people willing to work on any language Wikiversity, that language should very definitely be set up - by bugging the appropriate people (like Brion) to do so if necessary.
Cheers,
Cormac