On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:41 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Heh... "The Journal of Citation Needed" sounds more like a potential blog than a journal, but I like it nonetheless :) Reference librarians tend to use email lists for this sort of thing -- there are several specialized and general lists for posting and answering hard questions. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumpers-L is the most famous). Maybe we need something similar :) Re: Wikiversity -- it's worth nothing that PrivateMusings was told to please quit it as early as mid-January by at least a couple of people [see his enwp talk page], so the deletion of the Wikiversity page didn't totally come out of the blue. Also PM posted a clarification to the Signpost story that I wrote on my en.wp talk page, in which he writes that no experiment was planned but only a few were written up "in a very small way". I suspect few of us have access to the deleted page to see for ourselves, though personally it's hard for me to imagine someone -- anyone -- coming from the English Wikipedia and choosing such a topic to write about in the first place without at least having the intent to be provocative. How much intent does it take to become a troll? More broadly, I think the global principle of "don't take your fight to other projects" (x-project or x-language) is a good one, and we should adopt and enforce it, but I don't know if that includes global blocking. -- phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
