[Foundation-l] Please activate the English Wikiversity using whatever standard nomenclature accessible from the main portal page wikiversity.org

[Cormac Lawler]

On 8/16/06, Michael R. Irwin <michael_irwin at verizon.net> wrote:

> Brion,
>
> If you could please activate a  Wikiversity mailing list as previously
> discussed it will be useful in coordinating Wikiversity activities and
> encouraging immediate participation and useful policy formation.
>
> Further, if you could please activate the English namespace and make it
> accessible from a portal page similar to what has been done with
> Wikipedia it could get us off on a level playing field for everybody who
> chooses to participate or browse Wikiversity materials.
>
> This has the major advantage that all participants in all languages have
> an easy portal page and URL to publicize while encouraging useful
> participation from newcomers.
>
> I will attempt to get a language registration page accessible from the
> current Wikibooks Wikiversity main page setup to facilitate documenting
> ten language users who wish to move away from the beta site currently
> being established to a dedicated language site.
>
> Thanks for your efforts on our behalf.
>

Michael,

The English Wikiversity was set up yesterday - see:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page

Also, there is now a mailing list you can sign up for:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l (although
this is for some reason absent from the mailman main page).

Cormac