[Foundation-l] Wikibooks texts and Wikiversity

[James Hare]

That's what I was thinking: Wikiversity hosts the lesson plans, and the
lesson plans are based on books (courtesy of Wikibooks).

On 8/15/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Amgine wrote:
> > A comment in IRC yesterday raised a concern for me which I would like
> > to see addressed.
> >
> > Cormac mentioned that he and Mr Horning had discussed moving  textbooks
> > and curricula from en.Wikibooks to en.Wikiversity. He was  unsure if
> > this meant the textbooks would be deleted from  en.Wikibooks, but he was
> > sure any contributors who preferred working  on en.Wikibooks would be
> > able to copy them back to that project.
> >
> > This seems extremely odd to me, that deleting a textbook from  Wikibooks
> > would even be contemplated. Educational materials are,  after all, the
> > mission of the project. And dividing a textbook  between projects seems
> > to be forking, both of the book in question  and the potential
> > contributors as well, again something which should  not even be
> > contemplated in my opinion.
> >
> > Could the Wikiversity project please clarify this?
>
> Amgine is correct.
>
> The point of reference in the future should be this one :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/Modified_project_proposal
>
> This proposal was the one which was approved for the creation of
> Wikiversity. This proposal makes it clear that both projects should try
> their best to cohabit in peace. Wikiversity should not become the new
> host provider of wikibooks content, but aim at building a collection of
> references for one topic.
>
> For example : textbook, lesson plans, lecture notes, presentation
> slides, memory flash cards, listening exercises, educational video etc...
>
> This does not mean that all these materials will be hosted on
> Wikiversity. Some may but other material may be found at wikipedia, or
> wikibooks and wikisource etc...
> For each topic, Wikiversity will be the central place where someone may
> find the material available for a topic. If the material is on
> Wikibooks, then Wikiversity should only link to the Wikibooks content.
>
> If Wikiversity wishes to double host the content, fine (though it seems
>   unecessary), but it is excluded that Wikibooks should lose its content
> because of Wikiversity activity.
>
> This is within that spirit that the special project committee
> recommanded the creation of Wikiversity project.
>
> Anthere
>
>
> > Amgine
> >
> >
> >
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