I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost anything I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories from many other educators across a range of fields.
kindest regards Andrew (Perth, Australia) On 21 December 2011 12:59, Pharos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to point out a discussion I've just started on Wikiversity > > asking if they are using this project as part of the Wikipedia > > ambassadors program > > > > > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Wikiversity_and_Wikipedia_Ambassadors_program > > > > and ask you if you know of any other Wikimedia Foundation project, > > beyond Wikipedia, involved in the Ambassadors program. If some case > > you know to tell us is not in English or some Romanic language, I'd > > like to read your experience about it. > > Wikimedia Commons has been significantly involved in the Ambassadors > program, in a couple of courses focused on the creation of videos and > diagrams: > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Ambassador_Program_student_projects > > Thanks, > Richard > (User:Pharos) > > > Also, a short comment bellow about a point of Juan's nice description > > (thanks!) about Czech Republic situation of its educational sector. > > > > 2011/12/19 Juan de Vojníkov <[email protected]>: > > > >> Other "problems" comes when newbies coming to the Czech Wikipedia. > There is > >> a luck of mentors for them and they have to face both technical > (wikisyntax, > >> templates, standards) and social problems (unpleasant users, lack of > social > >> interaction, just templates on their discussion page). Thus we have > agreed > >> to focus on setting up some features from en.wp such gadget Cite[2] or > >> Wikilove. At this time User:Vojtech.dostal comes up with the information > >> that Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) developers is close to WYSIWYG editor > for > >> Wikipedia, but user Chmee2 is afraid that most of the good tools from > WMF > >> might be reject by the local community. > > > > What about using Wikiversity in Czech <http://cs.wikiversity.org/> for > > these social problems you mention? I've seen similar comments on > > Wikiversity to be more hospitable than Wikipedia (see, for instance, > > the last note in blue here <http://diigo.com/0lzhd>), from volunteers > > of both English and Portuguese languages projects. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Education mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >
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