[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Canada and Massachusetts sites noticing wikibooks/versity

[Sj]

Ec++  (that's up-moderation, not changing your version number :)

Perhaps someone could do this for wikiversity.fr, once the foundation
is in place?   --sj


[ moved to foundation-l for clarity. ]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:06:36 -0700, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
> 
> > Sj wrote:
> >
> >> And does anyone know these Canadian IT Traning people?  They
> >> apparently just started setting up a site, but half of their links are
> >> to Wikimedia projects... and they're obviously waiting for a
> >> wikiversity site to be set up (check their one "Press Release").
> >>  http://www.canadianittraining.com/Main.htm
> >>
> > I'm trying to make sense of this.
> >
> > I'm naturally suspicious of this.  They have too many domain names
> > which appeared when I looked more closely at the contact information.
> > They also have canadianitoverseas.com and
> > educationbeyondboundaries.com which link back to the same website.
> >
> > The phone number for the CEO is listed as belonging to one W. Jolly of
> > Richmond Hill, Ont.  The other phone number appears to be unlisted.
> >
> > I also followed through the link to their Nova Scotia based Web design
> > provider.  That gave me another site of theirs at
> > http://www.cittilearningsystems.com/  That, at least, has a more
> > substantial page about the courses that they offer, mostly IT and
> > business related but with none of the courses being described beyond
> > having a title.  Evolution Learning of Halifax
> > http://www.evolutionlearning.com/# also seems to be theirs.  The lack
> > of any personal names to all this is an alert to me.
> >
> > I suspect something like Vancouver University International that was
> > dicscussed not long ago.  They may be trying to piggyback on
> > Wikiversity to build credibility for themselves!!! :-D   So far their
> > track record is too slim to be meaningful.
> 
> Further to the above I have pre-emptively registered the domain
> wikiversity.ca
> 
> Ec
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