Wikiversity talk:Network naming conventions

Votes

 * Reswik 17:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments
There are two issues to consider in the current naming proposal: structural and linguistic. I think that this naming system is simpler than the structural aspects of the naming convention proposal and that the language used in the network proposal could invite more creativity in study areas and networking amongst them. In practice, it seems the structural proposal (divisions/subdivision/departments/etc) brings focus onto presenting extra unnecessary departmental structural elements which will detract from focusing quickly on developing learning resources and projects. A networking approach and language could invite a less territorial approach and more collaborative atmosphere to co-creating content. See discussion here for more points:. Reswik 17:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The School>Division>Departmentt>Learning Project hierarchy is just an organizational tool that grew from the needs of the Wikiversity community. During the first few days of Wikiversity, different people were using contradictory categorizations of conventional academic subjects, leading to conflicts. People who are familiar with traditional academic disciplines are going be arriving at Wikiversity in search of pages related to a particular topic of study that they are interested in. They will be able to make use of an easy to navigate hierarchical system that can lead them to the relevant Wikiversity pages. I agree that we want to free Wikiversity participants from the restrictions of conventional categorizations. We are free to create new portals in the "Portal:" namespace. Learning materials can be arranged into any imaginable categories. Groups of related pages in a category can be called an "area", a "faculty", a "college", an "institute", a "program" or anything that you want. Right now we only have a few portals such as Portal:Learning Projects. Each category for an "area", a "faculty", a "college", an "institute" or a "program" can have its own portal. --JWSchmidt 18:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)