Wikiversity talk:Getting involved

Hi, I work on a project called openlearn http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php which makes open educational resources available for free under a Creative Commons licence.

Obviously our projects have a lot in common and I wondered how it would work with making our material available in wikiversity. Would it be a case of copy and pasting course content into the relevant pages (but how would we deal with the Flash/Mpeg/MP3/interactive quizes in openlearn units?) or could we link from relevant pages in Wikiversity to associated pages on openlearn? Or is there no way we can work together?

Please let me know what you think!

Best, Stuart--Jinky32 09:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Feel free to make links from Wikiversity to resources at other education-oriented websites. Wikiversity will always allow commercial re-use of content according to the GFDL. Many people and profit-oriented institutions are not comfortable with the idea of making their educational resources available for commercial re-use, so those resources have to be linked to from Wikiversity, not included at Wikiversity. Media in formats such as Flash and mp3 are not allowed in Wikimedia Foundation projects because they are not free and open file formats and they are not compatible with the GFDL. Wikiversity uses ogg audio and video resources. Wikiversity has its own system for quizzes. --JWSchmidt 13:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Creating course pages
This section must seem really confusing to newcomers - it basically gives no overview of the Naming conventions at all. Any input on how to make it make sense? Trinity507 04:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Write reviews and reflections
Even though I'd like to write about and discuss academic papers I read, after reading this section and looking at reading groups I'm still unsure how to do so.


 * Welcome! The reading groups aren't particularly active right now. Most people adding content to Wikiversity are either teachers who create their courses and/or lessons on Wikiversity or students who have been asked to contribute to Wikiversity as part of their course requirements. Pick something you'd like to help educate others about and see if it's a resource we already have. If so, see if it needs to be enhanced. If not, consider adding something about it. As you add content, try to add things that help others learn by doing. If it's just a written explanation, that probably belongs at Wikipedia. Instead, think of something a learner might do with that information to help them learn it. For examples of this, see Internet Fundamentals as one approach and some of the featured resources on the guided tours for other ideas. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:26, 1 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation! I was thinking more about a way to have an organized and persistent conversation about an academic paper or a textbook. As far as I'm aware, pages about particular academic papers are not common in Wikipedia.--Wp complete (discuss • contribs) 08:08, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * That wouldn't be accepted at Wikipedia but is welcome here. What I would recommend is a main page that introduces the overall subject with links to resources providing background understanding, and then one or more subpages for discussion. Unless there is currently someone active and prepared to engage in the discussion with you, this is likely to be more like alternating perspective essays rather than ongoing discussion. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 12:40, 3 May 2020 (UTC)