[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread vmensah
Nellie, It will make everybody's work easier if we just make links to the approriate sites. We may however present a breif "condensed summary" before we direct a link so that the reader may decide whether she wants to go ahead or not. Links to Wikipedia sites may be treated as internal links usin

[WikiEducator] Re: RESULTS OF THE FIRST WE ELECTIONS

2008-09-26 Thread vmensah
Hi All, As late as this comes, i will like to express my sincerest gratitude to all who voted in the elections, those who encouraged others to vote, all who put themselves up for the task ahead and to the wonderful election team of Nellie, Ruvani and Patricia who made this process simple, transpa

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Leigh Blackall
I don't think we need a policy for it Nellie, I can see reasons and benefits for copying large amounts of content over, as well as simply linking to it. Maybe I missed something in your original expression of what you saw as a problem in that? On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Pankaj
I also agree to the proposal and providing the link of pages mentioned by Nellie. The link is http://www.wikieducator.org/Handbook_of_Open_Universities. These pages on Open Universities of the World is a collaborative model of knowledge resource where professional from concerned institutions joi

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Leigh Blackall
There's the GFDL & CC incompatibility problem. Bingo, there it is there. A 'good' reason not to copy. Policy? Or just obey the rules in the GFDL? On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Chris Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's the GFDL & CC incompatibility problem. > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Harvey
There's the GFDL & CC incompatibility problem. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Pankaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also agree to the proposal and providing the link of pages mentioned > by Nellie. The link is > http://www.wikieducator.org/Handbook_of_Open_Universities. > > These pages on Ope

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread nellie . muller . deutsch
I totally agree with you, Victor. However, should there be an agreed upon policy? On 9/26/08, vmensah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nellie, > > It will make everybody's work easier if we just make links to the > approriate sites. We may however present a breif "condensed summary" > before we dir

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Missan
Dear Nellie and All, Being a part of the OU Handbook initiative, I must share my views on this issue, from where you have got it. The idea of OU Handbook is not to copy information from Wikipedia. In fact, any copying is bad and not in academic interest, if nothing new is added at the end. The ide

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Pankaj
Thats it... and that is why the information provided on WikiEd needs to be copy-right free. Usually, the information that is being compiled on Handbook are not adressing these issues. Pankaj Leigh Blackall wrote: > There's the GFDL & CC incompatibility problem. > > Bingo, there it is there. A 'g

[WikiEducator] Re: RESULTS OF THE FIRST WE ELECTIONS

2008-09-26 Thread Dilip Barad
A hearty congratulation for the victorious council members. I hope you all will live up to the expectations of all wiki-Users. Dilip Barad, Ph.D. Department of ENglish Bhavnagar University, Gujaarat INDIA. On Sep 20, 5:10 am, nelliemuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear WE Members, > > As the

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Harvey
If I recall correctly, the fsf has plans to make them compatible. It's taking a long time though. Here's some info. http://blog.jamendo.com/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/ Chris On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > There's t

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Harvey
What a brilliant idea, it must have taken a long time to think that through. Forgive my sarcasm. Chris On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Pankaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thats it... and that is why the information provided on WikiEd needs > to be copy-right free. Usually, the information th

[WikiEducator] Re: Community Communique

2008-09-26 Thread Günther Osswald
Dear Wayne, Steve,Leigh, Minhaaj and Randy your “Community Communique”, Wayne, makes me think a lot. 1) COL has for me been and is still a guarantee, that WE serves the objective of developing OERs especially for the use in the so called developing world. I'm grateful to this organization and a

[WikiEducator] Some interesting statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Peter
It certainly would be interesting to get similar (or similalry relevant depending on country) statistics from institutions from around the world. It would be interesting to have evidence of the change. Or if the change is regionalized... http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/it-index Chee

[WikiEducator] Re: Some interesting statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Wayne
Hi Peter, COL has commissioned the development of a robust monitoring and evaluation plan for WikiEducator to help us measure our progress towards achieving our strategic objectives. I'm hoping to post the plan on the wiki next week (one of the top 10 priorities of my to do list ). The plan ha

[WikiEducator] WikiEducator is growing rapidly

2008-09-26 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Good Afternoon, Here are WikiEducator's latest traffic ranking worldwide: As Alexa Statistics of Sep 24, WikiEducator has made a big jump from last month to this month in terms of ranking most popular website: It is up by 64,024 and currently in 164,234th place from 184,000+ last month Re

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-26 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI, the definition should now be updated as per the discussion we've had here and on the wiki: http://freedomdefined.org/Definition HTH, Erik --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To