I have reviewed some content on the project. It is fair enough and I think
we can proceed with the creation of the project.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B#SGill_.28WMF.29>
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
Member, Language Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee>

On 21 July 2017 at 07:46, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B#SGill_.28WMF.29>
> Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
> Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
> Member, Language Committee
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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
>
> --
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>
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>
>
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>
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>
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