Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Milosh, I'm afraid your arguments are not getting across to me. I understand you don't like the quality, but I don't see the connection at all with the structure it is set up in. Also, while I appreciate you make the attempt here, you didn't add any argumentation at all to this page you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Samuele Mantani
I'm also talking about beta.Wikiversity administrator. I am opposed to this proposal because I think it is advantageous to keep beta.Wikiversity for a variety of reasons: to help create new Wikiversity and to have a special project could stimulate the creation of new Wikiversity (also note that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Milos Rancic
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Pretty please, let's not even mention Multilngual Wikisource here. There is > no plan to close it and it's not related to this discussion at all. > > This discussion is only about Beta Wikiversity. True. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2017-05-16 14:28 GMT+03:00 Milos Rancic : > There are other reasons listed here [1], most of which could be > applied for Multilingual Wikisource, as well, but I see no reason why > to the same with it, as the community of Multilingual Wikisource is > doing a good job. > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Milos Rancic
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. On the proposal page, I'm missing a somewhat clear > and straightforward summary of the arguments in favor and against closing > (why is the request made, and what was considered). That seems

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Milos, Thanks for the pointer. On the proposal page, I'm missing a somewhat clear and straightforward summary of the arguments in favor and against closing (why is the request made, and what was considered). That seems like valuable information for such discussion. Would you see the

[Wikimedia-l] Closure of Beta Wikiversity

2017-05-16 Thread Milos Rancic
There is the proposal for moving Beta Wikiversity into the Incubator [1]. According to the Closing project policy [2], the decision about closing projects is something done by particular members of the Language committee (while the Board could veto the decision). However, this is an unusual