I chose you as my proxy, Abd: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Delegable_proxy/Table
What happens next? -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > this has been posted to the electionscience and election-methods > mailing lists, but a Delegable Proxy trial is being set up on > Wikiversity. Please consider participating, link to your resources, > etc. I'll assist as I do all Wikiversity users, but this is a special > opportunity. > ************ > > I'd like to invite any interested in developing educational resources > on election science to register on Wikiversity and participate in the > School of Election Science. (Wikipedia accounts should work there if > they've been linked as a Single Unified Login (SUL) account, but some > people do register real name accounts on Wikiversity, it's far more > like academia than Wikipedia.) > > Wikiversity isn't like Wikipedia, the comparison would be between a > university and an encyclopedia. On Wikipedia, there is a constant > struggle for space in a page on a topic, there can be only one page, > and Wikipedia mainspace does not allow subpages. > > Wikiversity handles conflict, where users cannot agree, by forking. > It is required that content be, overall, neutral, but individual > pages can express opinions, and can be placed in a hierarchy for > overall neutrality. Subpages may be used. Original research is > allowed, even encouraged. > > As matters stand, Wikiversity is very small compared to Wikipedia; > however, I (and some others) predict that Wikiversity could > ultimately be much larger. Compare a university library with an encyclopedia! > > It has been very difficult to make Wikipedia articles reflect what is > well-known in the field of election science, because often what is > well-known isn't found in sources that Wikipedia considers standard > reliable source. A great deal of the development of election science > took place on mailing lists, over the last twenty years. > > Many new users on Wikipedia run into trouble because they want to > discuss the topic. That's strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. It's > part of the process on Wikiversity, just as students in seminars in a > university are encouraged to discuss the subject. > > Further, it is, in theory, a standard practice, where Wikiversity has > resources on a topic, to place an interwiki link to the Wikiversity > resource in a corresponding Wikipedia article. This can provide a > method for Wikipedia readers to find deeper material, including > interactive learning, than is possible on Wikipedia. > > Wikiversity could also serve, and has served sometimes, as an > incubator for better Wikipedia articles, because scholars on > Wikiversity may freely cooperate on better-written articles, multiple > versions if they can't agree, which can then be proposed as > replacements on Wikipedia, thus bypassing the excruciating one edit > at a time process that can make it very frustrating to edit > Wikipedia. (If you make major changes to a standing Wikipedia > article, be prepared to see them all reverted, quickly. But an RfC on > Wikipedia could decide to choose an alternate version, and the > decision, showing consensus, would stick.) > > Take a look at > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/School:Election_Science, I just > started that resource. > > Drop on by http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Abd, my Talk page. > > And, while you are at it, take a look at > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Delegable_proxy > > Hopefully, this will be the first substantial application of > Delegable Proxy beyond Demoex and Votorola. It was proposed as an > experiment for Wikipedia about three years ago, and was, essentially, > crushed. But Wikiversity is very, very different. I'm currently an > administrator on Wikiversity, just to give you an idea. I can't use > that to favor any position, but I've been working for well over a > year to insure that Wikiversity stays open and free as a cooperative > community. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info