Thanks teemu I tend to agree, but did not have suggestions. The front seems to be designed more for established users rather than attracting new. Remembering the the front front is the page where you choose the language, and that page is nice and simple. Considering the search can return all sorts, it would be important that the front maintain a kind of editorial best of snap shot view of projects. This is what it tries to do? Apart from the bi line, what other ideas did you have?

On 01/12/2009 1:51 AM, "Teemu Leinonen" teemu.leinonen@taik.fi wrote:

Hello friends,

I just wrote to the en.wikiversity.org Colloquium a note about "redesigning" the front page. I'll rpost it to this list, too. Maybe we can have more cross-Wikiversity discussion in here - I hope. Here:

== (re)designing the en.wikiversity front page ? ==

Hello all,

I know that this may sound like a stupid "complaining" and it is possible that the right reply would be "do it yourself", but I will "complain" anyway. Peace. :-)

I think there is a need to redesign the en.wikiversity.org front page to raise awareness of the project and to get more users involved it. It could be useful to check the way some other sites with the same objectives have organized their stuff. Here are some links:

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

http://www.p2pu.org/

I also think that the Finnish Wikiversity design, even though it is very minimalistic, is much better than the en.wikiversity.org (I am involved in the fi.wikiversity.org). I think it is better, because a new visitor of the site will in two seconds get the idea what is the site about. In the front page of the fi.wikiversity.org it states:

"Welcome to the Wikiversity, an open and free online learning community!

What is Wikiversity?

Wikiversity is an online community and learning environment. In Wikiversity you can learn almost anything. Learning opportunities are provided to each other by the community members. If your area of interest to study does not yet exist in Wikiversity course offerings, you can start it by creating out of your theme an online class, reading or study circle, web conference or self-study course."

I believe that if the en.wikiversity.org front page is clear an nice the Wikiversity’s in other languages will follow and the community will grow.

--[[User:Teemu|Teemu]] 13:57, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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