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Origins of the essay resource type

The following is perhaps of interest to action researchers. There are four main immediate sources for the idea of an "essay" resource type on Wikiversity. (1) User:SRego's Design for the Environment project of Spring 2008 (with about 100 to 150 participants and a very high level of content creation).(2) User:CQ's essay contest idea of October 2006, which was the origin of the essay category, and which was forgotten. (3) Wikipedia essays. (4) The rather obvious general experience that Wikiversity users were frequently using the main namespace for opinion pieces in an unregulated fashion - by defining a number of opinion-piece types, a more regulated approach to NPOV exceptions might be attained. --McCormack 12:25, 14 June 2008 (UTC)