Well, the number of pages is also a question. Now it looks like that it is enough for Foundation to look on the quality and/or vitality of the project. Well there is not other way how to evaluate it.
But according my opinion it doesnt say nothing about Wikiversity. It is a good measure of succes for wp (no. of articles), wikt (no. of words), wb (no. of pages of a textbook). But for wv number of educational resources? How educational resource is defined? Lets have a look on Bloom Clock, it can cover 20% of total article count. I.e. there are 6 thousand pages on the project and 2 thousand are botanical items. So thats why number of pages is not good enough to evaluate wv. And well, thanks to Philippe Beaudette "after many core contributors left" is a better statement. Regards, Juan de V. 2010/8/10 Philippe Beaudette <[email protected]> > Without trying to pick a fight here, I think it's important to not let > phrases like "exodus of Wikiversity participants" go unchallenged. The > numbers are interesting here: for every month in the last 12, every > Wikiversity project except Japanese and Russian (with the exception of two > months in which the Russian Wikiversity had amazing growth, a trend that I > hope will continue) has seen growth, not diminishment. "Exodus" to me, > implies a net loss. Overall, the languages have an increase from 1954 users > to 2623 over the last year. > > Perhaps what Juan meant was "after some core contributors left", or > something, but I think we should look seriously at the numbers when seeing > statements like that. > > As to whether the Foundation cares... again, I don't want to pick a fight, > but... well, I'm reading, and I answered. :) > > pb > ____________________ > Philippe Beaudette > Head of Reader Relations > Wikimedia Foundation > > [email protected] > > ofc: +1 415 839 6885 (x 643) > mobile: 918 200 WIKI (9454) > > Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Juan de Vojníkov wrote: > > Hi, > > also a comment from me. After exodus of Wikiversity participants from the > WMF movement I lost the interest. There seem to be also a very small support > from WMF (as I seen some presentations on Wikimania). > > There were founded also some forks, where people are not frighten from the > founder and were the technical development goes faster being not burdened by > bureaucracy and technical strategy, which is still implementing Wikipedia > tools to other non-Wikipedia projects. > > And of course another reason is time. Now I work on Czech Wikiversity and > this month came back to English Wikiversity were I found a mess, a big mess. > There are hundreds of students and teachers from universities and other > schools from hole around the world, but seems to me that a very little > number of people patrolling RC. > > Regards, > Juan > > 2010/8/9 Gerald A <[email protected]> > >> Hi All, >> >> After sitting on the sidelines for a couple months, it's time to take this >> off the backburner. >> >> I'm quite disappointed that there seem to be no local to me orgs that want >> to help out with this. >> >> They were either out of our budget or weren't willing to host such a small >> endeavour, despite it being a good cause. >> >> So, off with their heads, onwards and upwards. We'll have plenty of choice >> without a "local to me" restriction, which >> I wanted just in case something goes wrong with the servers -- I can >> actually physically kick the box. >> >> Ok, so, we're looking for a host with good internet connectivity. I'm not >> sure if our initial projects will require >> VMs, but being able to do VMs easily would be nice. >> >> We'll also need some kind of a backup system. >> >> If anyone has suggestions or referrals, please let me know. >> >> I'm hoping to have this up and accepting projects in 2 weeks. Let's see >> what we can do. >> >> Thanks, >> Gerald. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikiversity-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > >
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