[Foundation-l] Wikiversity

Fri Aug 5 12:31:49 UTC 2005

I aqm an Italian fellow ana I live in Italy , Salutami a sorata
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Scott Horning" <robert_horning at netzero.net>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity


> Angela wrote:
>
> >Despite claims to the contrary,
> >http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity was certainly _not_ protected
> >at the advice of the Wikimedia Foundation.
> >
> >Perhaps it was advised by one member of that foundation, but other
> >Board members were not consulted. I am disgusted this approach would
> >be taken with no consensus from the community.
> >
> >Wikiversity has been running for a long time on Wikibooks and I see no
> >agreement whatsoever for it to be suddenly shut down like this.
> >
> >Protection is a defense against vandalism, not a way of expressing one
> >person's point of view on whether or not a sub-project of Wikibooks
> >should exist. Please remove the misleading statements about protection
> >and explain why you ever thought the Foundation would propose such an
> >awful measure on a popular set of pages like Wikiversity.
> >
> >Angela.
> >
> >
> The following is a formal reply from Aya about this issue:
>
>     After having put some more thought into this, I would say that my
>     protecting the page was the wrong thing to do in this case, since,
>     although I feel that knowingly using Wikibooks as a free
>     content-provider to host texts which are not part of the Wikibooks
>     project (Wikimania05 <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05> is
>     another example), are tantamount to vandalism, there should be some
>     formal clarification. I will not do it again, and I strongly
>     recommend that others do not, until we have some sort of official
>     Wikibooks:Vandalism policy
>
<http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Vandalism_policy&action
=edit>,
>     which states when page protecting and IP/account blocking are
>     justified. The correct action would have been to mark it as a VfD,
>     but I didn't really want it all to be deleted, since a lot of work
>     has gone into it already, and it seems a shame to delete it all. I
>     shall start work on such a policy when time permits. - Aya
>     <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Aya> ^T
>     <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User_talk:Aya> C
>     <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Aya> 16:43, 4
> August 2005 (UTC)
>
> I'll let him speak for himself.  I'm just relaying this because Aya is
> not on this mailing list.
>
> -- 
> Robert Scott Horning
>
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