I plan to review the content over the weekend and let us move forward with the 
task next week. 

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
Member, Language Committee

> On 21-Jul-2017, at 7:03 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This should move forward. 
> 
>> On 20 Jul 2017, at 22:04, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Indeed we should, this is already taking embarrasingly long. Do any other 
>> members plan to review the test-wiki content?
>> 
>> 2017-07-20 3:58 GMT+02:00 Jay prakash <[email protected]>:
>> This is my humble Request to langcom. We can hurry in Discussion. Because 
>> this taked already long time after creation of task.
>> 
>> On 19-Jul-2017 4:20 pm, "Jay prakash" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Langcom Members,
>> 
>>                    As of Hindi points of view the content which already have 
>> are very usefull. There are no site on internet which provide this type of 
>> information. We already made well written content like Principals of 
>> Management and Aerospace Engineering etc. Where the content is much better 
>> than English Wikiversity. Because where we describe whats do student after 
>> 10+2. You can verify it with third party source. The partialy failure of Eng 
>> Wikiversity is that because the many sites host learning content in english. 
>> But Hindi Wikiversity will be the only place where native get free knowledge 
>> in thier language. I am not say you believe me. You can confirm it with 
>> third party. 
>> 
>> With the respect of time. Hindi Wikiversity will be milestone. Thanks
>> 
>> On 19-Jul-2017 10:20 am, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hoi,
>> People want us to consider the deletion of projects... not happy about it. 
>> The consequence for me is that we also look at Wikiversity as a project. Is 
>> it viable, is it used. What experiences exist with English Wikipedia ?
>> Thanks,
>>     GerardM
>> 
>> On 19 July 2017 at 03:35, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> StevenJ81 informed me that most of the pages are only in 
>> <https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95_HI>,
>>  for whatever reason (>400). So I looked at them as well.
>> 
>> With this "full picture", it looks much better. Not stellar, but well... the 
>> project is active and continues to be edited (and, I guess, improved).
>> Now my opinion is that we should carry on with the approval.
>> 
>> 2017-07-19 1:21 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg <[email protected]>:
>> I have now looked through the Hindi pages on Beta.wikiversity myself. At 
>> first I just wanted to look at a random sample of pages, but then I noticed 
>> that there are only "69 pages (including categories, templates, talk pages, 
>> and redirects)" (cf. catanalysis). I don't know if this number was higher 
>> previously.
>> However, that is IMHO way too little for a wiki to be approved. I also don't 
>> see any pages that look like courses, which after all, is what Wikiversity 
>> is for.
>> 
>> Therefore I agree with the starting point of this thread, that Hindi 
>> Wikiversity should not be created, and the approval taken back.
>> 
>> 2017-07-19 1:09 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg <[email protected]>:
>> Yes, agreed. Though the question here is different, it is about whether the 
>> test-project as it currently is is in a state that is appropriate for 
>> approval.
>> 
>> 
>> 2017-07-18 12:51 GMT+02:00 Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]>:
>> (Late reply, sorry.)
>> 
>> While I may have doubts about the merits of Wikiversity myself, I don't 
>> think it's within the scope of the Language Committee to deny the creation 
>> of projects based on those merits. We should only focus on whether the 
>> community for the relevant language edition of a project is healthy enough 
>> for it to become a separate project, without consideration for the 
>> individual committee members' feelings about the project as a whole.
>> 
>> 2017-07-04 18:12 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:
>> Hoi,
>> Yes, that is the politically correct answer. The question asked by several 
>> is what is Wikiversity good for. Is it actually used?
>> Thanks,
>>     GerardM
>> 
>> On 4 July 2017 at 18:06, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I do think that the community will improve content as the time progresses. 
>> The community has been working hard on translation as well.
>> 
>> But I do see some pages which are not written well and contain machine 
>> translations. Such as
>> 
>> https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/%E0%A4%90%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97
>> 
>> Regards
>> Satdeep Gill
>> 
>> Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
>> Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
>> Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
>> Member, Language Committee
>> 
>> On 25 June 2017 at 01:08, Jay prakash <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_graphics/2013-2014/Page_footer]
>> See Here.
>> 
>>> On 6/25/17, Mahir Morshed <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Well, the part in [brackets] was "the lack of effort to even localize the
>>> comments in the code samples" and I did mention that it was being addressed
>>> slowly. My apologies for failing to provide a direct link to an example.
>>> 
>>> I also now see that the email address is in fact yours. I am not sure that
>>> there is any precedent elsewhere for such byline templates on other
>>> Wikimedia projects.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jay prakash <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You are showing it that you will not see all those links which I have
>>>> cleaned like it [https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/कंप्यूटर
>>>> ग्राफिक्स/2013-14/जीओजीएल-टेम्पलेट].
>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/25/17, Mahir Morshed <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> To piggyback on what Justin is saying (and also via Phabricator:
>>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168765#3376191):
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am not a Hindi speaker, but I can at least discern Devanagari text
>>>>> and
>>>>> the English loanwords in it. Justin's first link is to
>>>>> "Category:Intelligence" with subcategory "Artificial intelligence". His
>>>>> second link (Computer Programming/IDE/Visual Basic .NET/...) bears only
>>>>> a
>>>>> link to a Japanese online IDE. His third link (Computer
>>>>> Graphics/2013-2014/"Page Foot", a page footer which is transcluded
>>>>> elsewhere) has an email address prefixed with a link to
>>>>> @Jayprakash12345
>>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Jayprakash12345/>'s
>>>> userpage--maybe it
>>>>> is his own email address?
>>>>> 
>>>>> The problems of most pages only consisting of source code is indeed
>>>>> inherited from the English Wikiversity courses to which the pages are
>>>>> linked. Nevertheless, from seeing at least [the lack of effort to even
>>>>> localize the comments in the code samples], and perhaps from seeing the
>>>>> lack of something more substantial in the way of content revolving
>>>>> around
>>>>> those code samples, and perhaps more so from Jayprakash12345 being the
>>>> only
>>>>> consistent contributor going back at least a month, I must thus agree
>>>> with
>>>>> his assessment that opening hiwikiversity would be a disaster. My
>>>> personal
>>>>> opinion is that other Hindi projects (such as hiwikisource and
>>>> hiwikiquote)
>>>>> could be populated more easily and meaningfully at this point, but I
>>>> would
>>>>> digress to elaborate on that and the whole process of site requests
>>>>> more
>>>>> generally here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> (Edits since the original comment was made: It appears judging from
>>>>> https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:
>>>> HI
>>>>> that 1) the subcategory "Artificial intelligence" has been deleted and
>>>>> 2)
>>>>> the part in [brackets] above is being addressed slowly.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Justin Anthony Knapp
>>>>> <[email protected]
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Via Phabricator (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168765#3376166):
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is this really ready? I don't read Hindi but the main category has 84
>>>>>> subcategories and 25 are empty (many only have subcategories which are
>>>>>> themselves empty, such as https://beta.wikiversity.org/
>>>>>> wiki/Category:इंटेलिजेंस) There are 578 pieces of content, many of
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> are just one or two lines, such as https://beta.wikiversity.org/
>>>>>> wiki/कंप्यूटर_प्रोग्रामिंग/IDE/विजुअल_बेसिक_.नेट/Online/Free or
>>>>>> https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/कंप्यूटर_ग्राफिक्स/2013-2014/पेज_फ़ुट
>>>>>> which is mostly someone's personal email address. Remove categories
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> erroneously-categorized userpages and that becomes 490. This includes
>>>>>> almost 100 pages which are part of some Linux code such as
>>>>>> https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/लिनक्स/linux-0.01.tar/boot/boot.s.
>>>>>> Remove *those* and it's 401 which includes purely cosmetic templates
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> pages like
>>>>>> https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Engineering/box-footer.
>>>>>> The actual amount of content seems like something that one person
>>>>>> could
>>>>>> make over a long weekend. How is this supposed to be a live project?
>>>> This
>>>>>> seems like a misstep.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Creating a new project is a big responsibility and with 500 pages in
>>>> five
>>>>>> and a half years? And most of them are either copy-pasted Linux code
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> one
>>>>>> line long? That is not a thriving community. This is a recipe for
>>>>>> disaster.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --JAK
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> "[Icarus] glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling into that hot
>>>>>> eye. Who cares that he fell back to the sea?"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Viva Western Sahara, viva West Papua
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>>> Mahir Morshed
>>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>> B.S. Computer Engineering, May 2019
>>> 
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