From Wikiversity

Changed names from people to processes. I'd like to get rid of the class system that underlies most universities by labelling actions rather than people. Roadrunner 01:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiversity is not a degree-granting institution. It does not have professors or staff or registered students. There are simply people here teaching learning and discussing in many different subjects.

Wikiversity is also not steam shovel and is not useful for toasting bread. Is there any particular reason to describe what Wikiversity is not?

Roadrunner 02:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

wikiversity is a cyber-collegium where learning happens, and where teaching, schools, educational burocracies, knowledge factories and corporations, and power-relations may hopefully be disrupted, dismantled, changed and even, re-made.

--70.32.180.118 18:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)professor chaos

Contents 1 Wikipedia article on Wikiversity 2 Differences 3 Wikibooks and Wikiversity 4 emphasis 5 progress 6 All ages?

[edit] Wikipedia article on Wikiversity

1. The Wikipedia article on Wikiversity is still pretty anemic in terms of the very topic of this page, and could use some help.
2. At w:Talk:Wikiversity#Clarifying_the_Wikiversity_proposal, someone has written an essay that perhaps better belongs somewhere on Wikiversity; I don't know my way around this well enough to know where it might go. - Jmabel 04:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Jmabel, I've moved the essay above to User:Morley/Clarifying the Wikiversity proposal for now - where it may be used to discuss, strengthen, or make Wikiversity policy. I might get around to developing the Wikipedia article one day - though the truth is that different people have different views on what Wikiversity is (imagine that: an edit war over a Wikimedia project!). But no, that's probably overstating it - we could at least have a good overview - but please note, we're still trying to do that here :-). Cormaggio 10:49, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Differences

Can any one tell that is there any guideline-article here related to the differece between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. If not it's better to add a guideline as Difference between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. - Vaikunda Raja 21:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I would say Wikiversity is almost the same as Wikibooks. Its like 2 alternate sets of the same thing - learning material. Check any well-known thing on both of them(eg violin) and admit that there is no point in keeping them seperate.

Wikibooks hosts textbooks. Wikiversity does not host textbooks. Wikiversity started at Wikibooks and was kicked out of that project. Wikiversity is for learning materials that are not hosted by other Wikimedia projects.

"..... the idea here is to also host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can be used more effectively." (source)

Wikiversity participants can learn about a topic and then use what they have learned to improve textbooks at Wikibooks or encyclopedia articles at Wikipedia. Take a look at Category:Learning activities. --JWSchmidt 20:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

One of the problems was that about half of the stuff hosted here was orginally hosted on wikibooks, thus anything that was moved over was orginally writen FOR wikibooks. Those pages you won't be able to see any difference betweeen the two.--Rayc 21:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining.

[edit] Wikibooks and Wikiversity

I really want to know the different between Wikibooks, Wikipedia and Wikiversity. Wikiversity for learning? Are there any article for example? If you answer me, please talk in my talk page except for answer me here. --Chaplin

Please take a look at the section of this page just above this section. --JWSchmidt 15:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] emphasis

There needs to be greater emphasis on this project's being about teaching and research. As it is (and looking at some pages), it is being used by some contributors as a place for publishing encyclopedic material which, of course, belongs on Wikipedia. There need to be two types of material: courses and research-projects.

• Course-material should not just be presentations of facts; it needs to attain educational objectives. One way to ensure this would be to require contributors to state such objectives before they can start posting text or pictures. Such course-pages would usefully include opportunities for students to produce work in response to the educational material and to have that work assessed by tutors.
• University faculty should be publishing their research-work through the site; it could be tied-in to the courses they are giving, and peergroup comment and review should be encouraged.

The site would thus fulfil the twin purposes of a university: teaching and research. It would not simply be a place to post encyclopedic material and, more importantly, it would function as a real educational facility for the people of the world. It could be that pages on w'versity are already doing this and I would be very interested to see them.

Wikiversity does not duplicate other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is true that some Wikiversity pages need improvement and some Wikiversity editors need help in learning how to create learning resources that do not duplicate the content of other projects. Suggestions are welcome at Wikiversity:Content development. You might be interested in the proposed Wikiversity Research guidelines. --JWSchmidt 20:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] progress

I think this page should include a record on the progress that has been made and what kind of quality and completeness the users should expect. (The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.212.92.251 (talk • contribs) 20:08, 9 September 2007.)

Hello,

quality is a subjective matter, everybody has a different understanding of the term. But here is one thing which could be of interest: Wikiversity:Quality. Progress news you could observe in the Colloquium and also in the Recent changes list. Completeness - probably never - everything evolves. This is a wiki.

But perhaps you could give some examples what you would like to have, then we could help build this.

What do you say ? ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 20:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All ages?

I noticed when browsing that the discussion area for 'what wikiversity isn't' mentions that wikiversity is meant for all ages, but the "schools" seem laid out for more advanced materials. My interest (at present) would be in primary school level material, helping parents wishing to teach their children, providing additional resources for students who wish to explore subject areas, or to assist a parent in helping children with homework. I can't see how one can easily fit topics like kindergarten science (concept of food chains, life cycle of a seed, identifying animals as birds, reptiles and mammals), in the same categories as synaptic signalling, pharmacodynamics, or indeed anything on the List_of_Major_Topics_and_Concepts_in_Biology. I might contribute to higher level topics in mathematics or neuroscience, but have 3 children under 5 years old and am more concerned with creating resources for people to use to supplement (or replace, in the case of home-schooling) the public education system, and to create lists of activities that can be done by parents or children. Feel free to engage me on my talk page. --Epinephrine 19:00, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Please see Wikiversity:Pre-tertiary portal and Main Page/Draft version 0.2. If you decide on the name for a new protal, I'll start it and we can link to it from the main pages where people start browsing for content. --JWS 19:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)