Wikiversity talk:Meetings/Learning on Wikiversity/log

Points and questions
Let me ask here participants some questions: first part, the log is quite long:-)--Juan 18:43, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you think, we can manage some kind of recyclation of learning materials?
 * I thin that implementing new policies and extensions/tags/hooks is very slow. It has the same velocity as on other Wikimedia projects, but I see an urgent need to be more flexible on wv.
 * When you are talking about formats, one of my collegue on cs is preparing a proposal to open cs to much more formats than now. Especially formats which can be used in research. Use a translator: betawikiversity:Wikiverzita:Diskusní prostor.
 * I think cormaggio should re-freshed his evaluation of good/bad communities (sorry dont remeber the page, but you know).
 * I also think that more collaboration between different projects (different languages) can help to develop it. I think that iw linking is not enough. I have started to feed es and it communities by the ideas from en and cs. For future I would like to extend this brainstorming like information change extend to cs and pt (but everithing depends on language skills. I also think that there is a need to animate wv communities to collaborate more internationally that just on the level of iw. I would like to ask you what you think about it?
 * I think McCormack hit the problem: "[5:34pm] ¥ McCormack says "contributor retention" again.". I had the problems in Spanish courses, that there were an interest, but many people did the first lesson and left the project. I think we should ask why? What was wrong? How we can remove "the barrier"? Also in the course of Botany Ink Drawing. There was one participant who "hungrily" came, but havent started. So what has happened? If there were so much enthusiasm on the beggining. And again, I should ask: what was wrong? or why she left? what we should do to "retain" participants?
 * "[5:34pm] ¥ McCormack says "contributor retention" again." - I think the same problem was with the Wikipedia. People they didnt know what is it. So it took time to explain them what it is, what they can get from the project and how to use it. The same problem is with wv. People can think that it is a University. But if they will see that on the Main page there are links to the projects for children, and we will explaing that it is the education for all after some years, people will study this fact. CS community was recently talking about this problem, there is about 50% of people for "Wikiversity" and 50% for "Wikischool". And this disscussion on cs is ongoing.
 * The major problem we see on cs is, that in the Czech Republic and also many countries hole around the world (expect Asia) there is a behaviour to understand "school" as a (how to say it in English) as a pest, or something which is tiering people and they should spend there as little time as possible. So I hope cs community will try to work hard on melting this relationship to education and also hope, that this could be one of the aims of wvs worldwide.
 * interesting point that people are affraid if pages are not static - ummm...