Hi Milos,
Thanks for the pointer. On the proposal page, I'm missing a somewhat clear and straightforward summary of the arguments in favor and against closing (why is the request made, and what was considered). That seems like valuable information for such discussion.
Would you see the opportunity to summarize your view (or of the views of the proposers) on the top of the page?
Thanks in advance!
Lodewijk
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
There is the proposal for moving Beta Wikiversity into the Incubator [1]. According to the Closing project policy [2], the decision about closing projects is something done by particular members of the Language committee (while the Board could veto the decision).
However, this is an unusual request with the positive positive outcome and I would like to hear wider community explicitly again.
My position is -- and unless I get good arguments against I would send it to the Board -- that Beta Wikiversity should be closed, as it's a generator of projects lead by lunatics. "Academic freedom" has not been fruitful and any new request for Wikiversity should pass regular Incubator rules, inside of the curator environment fully trusted by the Language committee.
The decision would be to move relevant content to the Incubator and let Incubator curators decide if any of the Beta Wikiversity admins should have adminship transferred. Beta Wikiversity would be closed and after some time (a year or two), it should be deleted.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_ projects/Move_Beta_Wikiversity_to_Incubator [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy
-- Milos
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