[Textbook-l] Austrian Wikiversity in German

Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin at verizon.net
Sun Jun 18 01:26:51 UTC 2006


Hi all,

A link has been added to a "Austrian" Wikiversity in advertised as in 
German Language to the bottom of the front page of the English prototype 
of Wikiversity at English Wikibooks.

http://wikiversity.at/MyWiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite

at bottom of:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity

Is this an authorised prototype of a Wikiversity or should the link be 
removed?

It seems odd that we would want multiple Wikiversitys in the same 
language.   It is certainly my conclusion that we prefer Wikiversities 
broken out by language so people can participate effectively 
internationally as feasible one the same sites.   Similar to how 
Wikipedias have mostly been established around language where feasible.

If this is not a Wikimedia site then I think the link should be deleted 
immediately and perhaps it should be put in our legal queue for action 
as appropriate when resources are available.  The site is using a 
variation of Wikipedia's puzzle globe logo and is clearly intended to 
leverage off of Wikimedia Foundation's existing and pending successful 
projects' reputation to gather traffic.

regards,
lazyquasar




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