Draft:Wikiversity:What-goes-where 2024/Guy vandegrift

What-goes-where 2024 • Draft..Guy- • User..Guy- • Consensus • Slowdown

Proposal


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Organize Wikiversity into informal "WikiJournals"
We are currently attempting to divide Wikiversity up into subjects, schools, or topics. Instead, we need to divide it up into units organized around things all editors can agree upon. We need a mathematics page that forbids original research. And one that allows it. And one that encourages mathematics for children. And one that forbids it.

I recommend that each unit have a board of directors, perhaps with a rule that the board membership count be an odd number. This odd-number membership rule is entirely optional, unfortunately most pages will likely be controlled by one person. Except for policies dictated by the WMF (e.g. copywrite issues) all editorial decisions remain local to that page.

That's about it. We would need a strict rule that nobody can be the sole board member of more than one page. It would be nice if we could incentify groups of people working together on one unit.

It would be nice if I could come up with a better name than "unit". The word "Journal" comes to mind, since only the WikiJournals are able to achieve anything resembling quality control on Wikiversity.

Should we delete pages without properly sourced references?
to delete a page on Student Projects because no sources were referenced. Here's the problem: Almost none of the pages in this project has references (see footnote.) So we have to either (1) delete almost all the pages, (2) go the "wiki way" and correct the problem on each page, or (3) delete none of them for lack of sources.

This brings us to the question of whether these pages belong in mainspace. Although the word "Wikiversity" suggests that we only do higher education, we need to realize that college award degrees in childhood education. In fact, a potential use for these student projects is to education future teachers on the range of student writing to expect when they become teachers. And, these future teachers would gain insight into young peoples' willingness to follow written instructions, since Student Projects contains clear instructions regarding the mandatory use of sources. - - Footnote: Out of these randomly selected pages in Student Projects, only one had references, and it had wiki -links:


 * 1) Traditional vs contemporary methods of education
 * 2) Diffraction and wave nature
 * 3) Earthquake
 * 4) Environment
 * 5) Pseudo Physics
 * 6) Relationship of Physical Science with other Natural Sciences
 * 7) Scientific attitude
 * 8) Sound
 * 9) The British Bridge
 * 10) Tiger
 * 11) Student Projects/Traditional vs contemporary methods of education
 * 12) Concept map