James Hare wrote:
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.
I don't know what the difference between Beta and Not-Beta in this case is. Just a bunch of names to me.
On 8/18/06, *Robert Scott Horning* <robert_horning@netzero.net mailto:robert_horning@netzero.net> wrote:
If given my druthers, I would not want to see http://beta.wikiversity.org/ <http://beta.wikiversity.org/> go live as a seperate Wikimedia project ever.
That is the whole point I'm trying to make. I am fine with the idea that Wikiversity is in "beta" mode as a demonstration of viability and to avoid the mistakes that happened to Wikispecies (I won't get into everything, but it was awful... slowly recovering and it might actually get some progress finally).
The point is what to do with this beta server, as I don't see it serving any useful purpose at all, and I don't think it will get the support including strong admins that are needed for something that will be so prominent. As I said, any group of individuals wanting to start Wikiversity in a language other than en, de, or fr and can't get the necessary 10 votes on meta should try the incubator instead. That is precisely why it was set up in the first place BTW.
I will nominate it for closure on Meta as soon as it is started, if it is started.