At 12:08 PM 8/10/2011, Raph Frank wrote:
I notice it is hosted by the wikimedia foundation. I assume the idea
is that it is a new clean slate?
I should say a little more. Wikiversity is not for "encyclopedia
articles," per se. Write an article there, stand-alone, in mainspace,
it will probably get deleted. However, if you place an article within
an educational structure, it can be fine. You could probably move the
entire content of electowiki to Wikiversity, but how it would be done
woudl be important. You'd place the pages within a structure that
made the sum a deep educational resource.
Wikipedia is flat.
Books can be put together this way. Wikibooks is for books, but has
stricter standards, supposedly Wikibooks aren't for "original
research." But it can get a bit vague. Wikiversity is safer. There
are still some users who "don't get it," and they'll nominate a page
for deletion because it's "fringe," but if the resource is at all
interesting and not just one person's rant, it is almost certain to
survive. Sometimes even one person's rant is allowed to continue....
The rate of deletion on Wikiversity is tiny compared to Wikipedia,
and what is deleted really has consensus for deletion. Junk. And we
will give the user lots of time to save the content....
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