On 18 March 2010 17:16, Cormac Lawler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 March 2010 16:33, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2010/3/18 Anthony <[email protected]>: >> > For what it's worth, I think it's probably a good idea to shut down >> > Wikiversity. Wikiversity hasn't to my knowledge achieved anything of >> note. >> >> To be fair, I don't think that's equally true for all language >> editions. The German Wikiversity, from what I can see, seems to be >> slowly but productively doing what the project was designed to do: >> producing learning materials. > > > > Wikiversity was set up to do *two* things: produce learning materials, and > support learning/research activities and communities. The second question > was always more vaguely defined, but was always the more interesting > question for me. English Wikiversity's problems stem from an uncertainty > about what a legitimate learning/research activity would be, and a > consequent uncertainty in Wikiversity's scope as a project. Dealing with the > question of what someone is free to learn in Wikiversity is the useful > course of action to take here; rather than talk of closing the project. > Unfortunately, due to imminent submission of my thesis, I have no time to > give this for the next two weeks, but will get back to the discussion > thereafter. > > Cormac
Well we could put in place a mechanism for creating open access journals then tell those in the open source community involved in the dwm mess to use it. Heh or start the journal of [citation needed] aka stuff wikipedians know but haven't been able to find a source for. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
