Well,

I am not offended. Wikiversity is how it is. If you dont have powers to
start a new project within Wikiversity or rebuild actual Research portal
than I dont understand, why you are coining with the idea to buid such hub
within Wikiversity.

But I should have a look to Meta. I still dont understand, why the Journal
team needs also Research Hub - thats extra work.

Regards,
Juandev

2012/11/11 Joe Corneli <[email protected]>

> Hi Juan:
>
> I hope it won't offend anyone too much if I say that the research
> currently hosted on Wikiversity is not all of high quality.  (Note to
> reader: if you were offended by what I just said, please stop reading
> now, it's not my intention to offend anyone, I'm just sharing my
> impressions of the site as I think about whether it is suitable for
> use as the kind of Research Hub I've been imagining, or as a place to
> build a scholarly journal, etc.)
>
> Indeed, it's a bit hard to figure out what all is really meant to be
> included under the "research" label on Wikiversity.
>
> For instance, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Research links to
> the "research-related portal"
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Mathematics -- but this page
> says:
>
> "Wikiversity participants who are interested in mathematics are
> invited to create and develop *learning projects* and *learning
> resources* and help organize them by developing this portal."
>
> If we return to the Research Portal itself, then there's this:
>
> "Guide to Research: The following is a dynamic listing of all the
> pages categorised into this portal. To restructure or extend this
> list, you will need to edit the category system itself. Where are the
> use instructions for this template?"
>
> (It seems like the curator(s) are having a public conversation with
> themselves here.)
>
> But, OK, examining the list of pages that are designated as belonging
> to research, my eyes are instantly drawn to things like:
>
>
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Abd/Wikipedia,_Wikiversity_and_disruptive_editing
>
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Brainless_humans_for_transplants(User:Super_Quantum_immortal)
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Dominant_group
>
> none of which are particularly easy for me to make sense of.
>
> This one is much more straightforward:
>
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Early_telescope
>
> but it looks more like a student research project, rather than
> something that is aiming for eventual publication in a journal, or any
> other sort of further development.  And this would describe many of
> the other articles that I sampled.  It's not clear what the difference
> is between this kind of page and a Wikipedia page on the same topic.
>
> My initial conclusion is that Wikiversity's Research Portal could
> potentially be used as a research hub like I was envisioning, but it
> would need to be retooled almost completely, and most of the current
> content would get pushed into a "student research" or "science
> fiction" category.
>
> I'm not sure I have time to take on something like this!  I'll be
> focusing on developing my own work elsewhere... and I'll report back
> to the other people looking at building a Research Hub to see what
> they think.
>
> Joe
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Juan de Vojníkov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > it could go to Wikiversity. Wikiversity is also about research, not only
> > education. Recently I was kicked from Wikibooks, where I left a primary
> > research textbook, so I came back to Wikiversity. That is like GLAM
> > bulletin, which is on outreach wiki, not at its own special wiki.
> >
> > There is also the other way to have a special wiki for the journal, but
> if
> > there are not many contributors its better to start on existing project
> and
> > than if needed move it outside.
> >
> > Think also about Wikiversity Beta, which is suppose to be our
> multilingual
> > hub and incubator.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Juandev
> >
> > 2012/11/9 Joe Corneli <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Dear Wikiversity-ans:
> >>
> >> There has been some considerable discussion in wiki-research-l about
> >> creating a new Wiki Studies journal and/or a new place to do research
> >> the wiki way.
> >>
> >> One question is, why do we need a new place to do research, couldn't
> >> we just use Wikiversity for that?  For now, Wikiversity seems to focus
> >> on education and specifically-educational research, but might it make
> >> sense to broaden the scope to include original research more
> >> generally?
> >>
> >> If you could have a look at the skeleton of the proposal here and add
> >> your input (or via this thread), I would appreciate it!
> >>
> >>   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas/Research_Hub
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Joe
> >>
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