[WikiEN-l] links to open courses?

Alan Liefting aliefting at ihug.co.nz
Thu Oct 4 00:48:32 UTC 2012


I would not want to see them linked from within an article as a 
reference. I would be ok with having them linked from the ext links 
section.

Better still though they would be ideal for Wikiversity links.


Alan


On 4/10/2012 12:47 p.m., phoebe ayers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is something I've been thinking about lately. Do we have a policy
> or a practice on linking to open courses in articles, for instance the
> MIT courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu?
>
> As universities increasingly move to posting their courses and
> lectures online, it seems to me like these would be useful links to
> curate and add to the relevant (broad) articles.
>
> I am mostly familiar with English-language courses from US
> universities, but I'm also curious if any Wikipedia edition in any
> language has had discussions on this subject.
>
> cheers,
> phoebe
>




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