Indeed... there is no wikiversity phd.  Nor is one planned in the near future in any language, as far as I know.

Getting WV courses onto accredited platforms seems like a step towards alignment (or perhaps first: working w/ an existing set of accredited courses and getting their materials onto WV as a non-accredited space to find and learn from those materials!)

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:35 PM Thomas Shafee <thomas.shafee@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Amirouche,

It's definitely possible to write articles in WikiJournals without a PhD (
example <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjs/2018.006>). External peer reviewers
are invited in the same way whether the author is some top prof or an
undergrad.

I definitely think that WikiJournal articles can be useful for Wikiversity
courses (example <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjm/2017.006>, example
<https://doi.org/10.15347/wjs/2018.005>). Bu I think that the two projects
have different technical needs.

As far as I know, Wikiversity is currently not accredited in any country -
a process usually tightly regulated by governments (Australia example
<https://www.teqsa.gov.au/>). Wikiversity is therefore more like P2PU
<https://www.p2pu.org/en/about/> than Open University
<http://www.openuniversity.edu/courses>, in that it can offer courses and
provide completion badges, but not yet award formal PhDs. I don't now
whether there are any users working on it, but accreditation for
Wikiversity courses would probably be most easily achieved by partnering
with established accredited universities, a bit like coursera
<https://www.coursera.org/degrees>, but that would still be a pretty major
project.

Hope that is useful info!
All the best,
Thomas

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 15:39, Amirouche Boubekki <
amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I am new to the mailing list and more generaly on wikipedia as contributor
> and as student in wikiversity.
>
> I did not know about WikiJournals as part of Wikiversity. My only remark
> will be that the wikiveristy
> PhD program is in poor shape. I was lost in the various tools I had to use
> and broken links.
> Most if not all conversation are old-ish and doesn't say the PhD program is
> active or working
> at all. (French wikiveristy is in much better shape).
>
> I am certain that the implementation of wikijournal as sister project will
> have more impact for WikiJournal.
> My point is with a better english wikiversity, both could have more impact.
>
>
> I think, forking wikijournals outside wikiverity will have a bad impact on
> wikiversity.
>
> Also, is it possible to write a publication in the journal without prior
> PhD?
> Can publication in the wikijournal help obtain the wikiveristy PhD?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amirouche ~ amz3
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