User:Erkan Yilmaz/observations/2012 September

observations from Erkan Yilmaz for 2012 September

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2012 September 28 - the trust factor
I find this funny: a user who had lots of trouble - unfortunately - becoming Wikiversity custodian on de.WV in 2008 is now on election for bureaucrat
 * So much to the voices who do not trust at begin

2012 September 27 - wikis and fear
I was reminded again that a successful project starts by eliminating the fear in the community ... Some advices I gave during the chat:
 * first start your learning projects, than trying to change the whole Wikiversity (WV)
 * this leads also to good examples to show to new people arriving at Wikiversity
 * understand people by asking them about their definition (of learning)
 * I am wondering now if the concept of learning is perhaps for the majority of people fuzzy and can only be understood over time better?
 * e.g. by seeing how oneself and others attempt their learning
 * I think it will help people if they review their learning (it must not be formal, they can start it as a blog in their preferred PLE (personal learning environment))
 * I also see after so many years that "we" did a bad job in transmitting the mission of WV for future generations
 * though there can be different reasons for that: internal (user did not see the link to WV mission; ...), external (people did not bother to make a link on popular places; there is no understanding or compromise of what is the mission actually; ...)
 * I assume here that the en.WV had probably the chance to influence this much since back then we were quite active and other WVs were influenced very likely (e.g. also to select other paths than en.WV)
 * the other question would be how to do this (better?) in the beta Wikiversity (where new WVs are nurtured)

2012 September 9 - create some positive news for WV

 * I find this troubling (last time someone added content beside me, was 2 years ago) - can someone point me where is done active PR for Wikiversity lately? I see on the microblogging scene the usual WV bot pasting links, but what else? My response there may sound a little bit non-politically correct, but hey, come on ...
 * MediaWiki:Sitenotice: the last time someone really added content to it was 10 months ago

