[Wikiversity-l] (no subject)

[Robert Scott Horning]

Akash Mehta wrote:

> Hi there,
> Thanks for your interest in Wikiversity. Currently, Wikiversity 
> doesn't _have_ a Spanish community. There may be one or two Spanish 
> speakers, but if you really want to find a Spanish wiki community, I 
> suggest you head to the Spanish Wikipedia at 
> http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portada, I'm sure they'll be able to help 
> you there.
>
> Regards,
> Draicone
>
> On 10/1/06, * Nieves Alvarez Cazallas* <andygonzalez at infomed.sld.cu 
> <mailto:andygonzalez at infomed.sld.cu>> wrote:
>
>     /hello. I´m a spanish speach girl. I´d like to comunicate with
>     other person which know about the restauration or another issue./
>     /I promese to answer with my bad english/
>     /see you/
>
Actually, there is a "Spanish Wikiversity" community that is very active 
in trying to get their edition of Wikiversity going, and even has built 
a "Wikiversity prototype" similar to the Wikiversity pages that used to 
exist on the English Wikibooks.

I would strongly start with: 
 http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversidad%3APortada

It should be noted that they have already accumulated over 33 approval 
votes and not a single vote of opposition.  See:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Spanish_Wikiversity

(BTW, if you are a spanish speaker and want to support or even oppose 
this idea, please add your vote to this page as appropriate)

Frankly, I don't see exactly why it can't be started all other things 
considered, as I think a Spanish edition would do quite well.  Still, 
Wikiversity is going through a beta evaluation and it might not be quite 
ready for a massive expansion into many additional languages yet.  The 
33 votes does exceed by a large margin what the WMF board suggested as a 
benchmark for establishing a new language edition of Wikiversity.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning