[Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff

Sun Oct 17 07:20:54 UTC 2004

*sigh*
How many times do I (and any of the other people interested in this
project) need to say this?

Wikiversity is *not* just about writing textbooks.

-- ambi

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:07:42 +0200, James R. Johnson
<modean52 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Wikiversity seems to me like it should be a way to view wikibooks, or a
> subdomain within it, like wikikidsbooks or wikisciencefiction would be about
> kids books or sci-fi, but that's just me.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andre Engels
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:40 AM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff
> 
> But if it can't offer those, then I would like to repeat Robin's
> question: What would wikiversity offer that wikibooks doesn't? That's
> no negativity, that's a legitimate question. Apparently it is NOT
> dems, pracs and class discussions. So what is it?
> 
> Andre Engels
> 
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:08:42 +1000, Tim Starling
> <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > Robin Shannon wrote:
> > >fifthly, what would wikiverstiy offer that wikibooks doesnt? i fail to
> > >see how a wiki is capable of producing anything that a university
> > >offers other than text books (and class notes ect.). How is it going
> > >to be able to do dems and pracs, and class discussions?
> > >I really want to like the idea of wikiversity, but I'm gonna need some
> > >clarifying before ill do that.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > It can't offer pracs and class discussions, the proponents were very
> > clear on this. There's no need to be so negative about it.
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