michael_irwin(a)verizon.net wrote:
At the moment we are decentralized, disorganized, and
have no authority
from the Wikimedia Foundation to proceed in English with Wikiversity at
en.wikiversity.org. If you are looking for authoritative information
or need to process sensitive negotiations or information your best bet
is probably to contact a member of the Board of Directors.
You might also point interested people at the German Language
Wikiversity portal:
http://de.wikiversity.org which reroutes to this
apparently functional wikiversity site:
http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Hauptseite. I do not know for certain
who actually owns this domain and the servers currently supporting it.
I have been assuming the Wikimedia Foundation but it seems odd that
Wikiversity has been authorized to proceed in German but not English.
Perhaps the German wikimedia sites are operating under different
auspices than the original Wikimedia Foundation.
wikiversity.org is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, with Jimbo as the
administrative contact and Brion Vibber as the technical contact. The
data dumps for this site are available from the usual places you can get
them for the rest of the Wikimedia projects, but is part of the "other"
group of projects in terms of server administration right now (aka meta,
foundation wiki, wikispecies, sept11, and wikimania).
As far as why German Wikiversity is active and not English Wikiversity,
that is something to bring up to the Foundation board. That question
has never really been answered completely other than a developer got
active and simply decided to do it, and is no end to controversy as a
result. A rather substantial thread about this topic was done about a
year ago on Foundation-l. There is no authority for operating the
German Wikiversity other than some people interested got a bug in the
ear of one of the developers and made it happen. I will let this issue
die right now, unless somebody wants to pick up the torch from here,
because I've said plenty about this issue already.
--
Robert Scott Horning