[Foundation-l] Wikibooks texts and Wikiversity

[Robert Scott Horning]

Brion Vibber wrote:

>Robert Scott Horning wrote:
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>>James Hare wrote:
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>>>You'd think that Wikiversity would be tested on Incubator...
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>>The incubator was set up because of Wikiversity (and other similar 
>>issues).  It was the spark that was one of the things that helped create 
>>the idea of an incubator, as it was "incubated" on Wikibooks instead.
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>The incubator was set up to keep the "test Wikipedias" in various languages from
>cluttering up meta. No particular relation to Wikiversity.
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>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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While that may have been your personal justification for making it, the 
idea of an incubator project for developing proposed Wikimedia projects 
like Wikiversity has been kicking around Meta for more than a year, and 
discussion even made it into board meetings as recorded on the minutes. 
 Indeed a problem still exists where because of the way that the 
incubator wiki was set up, that the idea of hosting anything other than 
wikipedia tests still is brought into question, and there is yet to be a 
serious project that has used the incubator as a test project besides 
these test wikipedias.

See Wikikernel, Wikilabs, and Seedwiki on Meta for more details.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning