On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:42:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Peters wrote:
The original question was fine. The problem was that
someone directed him
elsewhere instead of trying to work with him on how to produce the content
on Wikiversity. We've had a lot of problems with that in the past, and that
is something everyone needs to look out for if we are going to have
Wikiversity continue. It is a dying project because groups keep poaching
our members.
Maybe people are leaving because the project is dying. I have been
dormant on wikiversity for a long time, in part because I now have less
time for all WMF foundation projects, but also because of several
weaknesses of the project and in part because of attitudes like yours
here that are rather aggressive. It is a free project for volunteers.
The word poaching should never be used in relation to those volunteers.
After receiving no posts here for months, I was rather shocked to read
all the posts that greeted me this morning here in Australia.
Bduke
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Nkansah Rexford
<nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> @Jefrey, I'll simply advice you don't take this discussion personal. I
> hope we don't drag this discussion farther than it should be.
>
> This thread has been dry for a period of time. Joe started a converstation
> I thought will keep things going, but its seems, according to Jefrey, he
> did that wrongly.
>
> Find accepted. Let Wikiversity thread continue free from all policy
> violations then.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Jeffrey Peters <
> 17peters(a)cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm Ottava Rima, which would be known by most Wikiversity regulars.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Nkansah Rexford <
>> nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> @Jefrey Who are you?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Jeffrey Peters <
>>> 17peters(a)cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mailing lists are not based on consensus, and the Foundation would
>>>> never allow its sites to be used to direct people to non WMF sites and
take
>>>> away our volunteers.
>>>>
>>>> Put up your account name if you do instead of merely claiming you have
>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Joe Corneli
<holtzermann17(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jeffrey Peters
>>>>> <17peters(a)cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote:
>>>>> > Really? By pointing out that directing people to other sites
is
>>>>> wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, really, first because that policy is something you made up and
it
>>>>> does not in any way represent a consensus view, and second because
>>>>> drowning the conversation with argument and comebacks is not the
way
>>>>> to learn anything. (Only useful if Wikiversity is implementing a
>>>>> policy of trying to reproduce standard university politics... you
know
>>>>> what they say about that, the arguments are so heated precisely
>>>>> because the stakes are so low.)
>>>>>
>>>>> > Do you even have an account? Because too many people making
claims
>>>>> about it
>>>>> > acceptable to direct others to other sites don't.
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact, I do.
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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