[Foundation-l] Vote to create Wikiversity Vote

[Robert Scott Horning]

This is a reminder/formal notice that the voting period for the creation 
of Wikiversity is now over, and that the proposal to create Wikiversity 
as a new Wikimedia sister project is now being submitted to the 
Wikimedia Foundation board for a formal review, as per guidelines 
outlined on this page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy

and the time table I submitted previously on:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AWikiversity#Wikiversity "Relaunch"

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The participation IMHO have been outstanding, with one of the largest 
user interest surveys that I have been able to find with over 300 
Wikimedia contributors weighing in to voice their opinions on the 
subject, both for and against the proposal.  There is quite a body of 
opinion there for the Foundation board to work with to try and come up 
with their own opinion on the subject.  I hope this vote has been viewed 
as a success at least in terms of getting people interested in a future 
direction for Wikimedia projects and that the energy particularly of the 
supporters of Wikiversity will translate into active participation with 
the project in some form.

I could use some help from an admin on Meta to "freeze" the voting 
pages, unless the board doesn't mind continued voting for the next few 
days.  It isn't that big of a deal, but essentially the voting is over 
and there is no real reason to continue.  There has been some "policing" 
of the votes, and a few duplicates, but I think members of the board are 
intelligent enough to figure out what is going on and can come to 
reasonable conclusions about what direction to go regardless of the raw 
numbers.  

Preliminary raw count was approval of Wikiversity by a vote of 208 in 
favor to 86 against (voting before November 1st... a few votes did come 
in afterward) and that ratio has been roughly consistant throughout the 
entire voting process, generally 2:1 in favor.

See this page for the current vote:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Vote/en
(also in other languages besides English)

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Robert Scott Horning