[Foundation-l] Re: Wikiversity

Wed May 11 12:48:53 UTC 2005

Because the proposed project serves the people. Check out the book Going
Broke by Degree. There is a major societal project to construct a workaround
of the blockage which has resulted from persistent rent-seeking by
traditional educational institutions. We may not be the solution, but the
problem is there to be tackled.

Fred

> From: Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net>
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:57:53 +0700
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Re: Wikiversity
> 
> 
>> 
>> The people who want a wikiversity have already a playground to develop
>> concepts and produce something. So far, I haven't seen any results. If
>> they develop something useful, fine, let's have a wikiversity. But
>> until then I see no sense in this discussion.
>> 
>> Founding new projects can be a nice hobby, but I prefer working at and
>> improving our existing ones.
>> 
> Although I skipped everything she wrote above, I conquer with Elian on
> all the points she made. Why spread ourselves even thinner?
> 
> Walter/Waerth
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