Wikiversity talk:Strategy

Priorities
My thinking from the Get-go was that the power of Wikiversity was its connectivity with languages and sisterprojects. When Philippe posted on the Colloquium it woke up the aspects of cross-project cooperation and multilingualism I had thought about back then. To me, we have a calling here to contribute things that will increase our value as a daughter-project of the Wikimedia Foundation and as a learning community in cyberspace. Actually, Philippe and company could have just as easily accomplished strategic planning "down here" in Wikiversity, but that way will work also... if people from all the projects participate. I made a little template that looks like this:

I'm thinking of reworking another template, languages and putting it with daughters to make a super-navigation tool that doesn't need words as much. I'm also revamping some translation concepts that I put a lot of work into a couple of years ago. I believe that a focus on diversity and inclusion are vital to the success of v: and the foundation. CQ 05:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

From User_talk:CQ DynamicPageList and DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) and other extensions need to be examined in depth. My intuition is that mw:API:Client Codes can be crafted and tuned to the ways of Wikimedians of all sorts. What we need is an evolution of the tools that extend functionality of the collaborative platform to a more accessible community-driven model. Categories, templates, namespaces, portals and other components can be "tuned" to specific groups of users in an even more pervasive and dynamic way. Many talented coders have already paved the way of doing this using everything from CategoryTrees and simple templates to very complex bots, parser functions, and custom applications. I would like to incrementally apply some of these ideas as an outreach of Wikiversity's MediaWiki Project here in the strategic planning workspace, if it's OK with everybody. 03:05, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd actually rather not. It's important that this be a space that's comfortable for people to work in - applying new tools is something that Eugene and I think very carefully about.  I'm willing to consider specific ideas, but I'm not comfortable with such a blanket approval.  This particular wiki, while community facing and community driven, is Foundation managed.  In addition, there are other modifications coming down the pike that may impact functionality.  For the record, proposals of changes to the strategy wiki should probably go on Village Pump where they can be seen by the wider community, not just your own talk page.  -- Philippe 03:12, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

The reply I almost posted in a rage but didn't:
 * Wow! I've never had anyone pay this much attention before. Thanks, Phillip! Actually, I'm thinking out loud trying to develop ideas here and see how interwiki linking behaves in this domain. But you've made yourself very clear. My efforts are only welcome here if they fit the mould (which will take me months to get used to in the same way it took me years to get acquainted with the Wikipedia mould). I'll be gone, now. Thanks :) CQ 03:33, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Anyway, It's clear that we need to slow down and keep developing outside the gates. CQ 03:33, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Your efforts are welcome here, CQ. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 05:27, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Updates
Would someone paying attention to all this be so kind as to post somewhere around here when important things are developing there? I can't be bothered to remember to check the other wiki all the time, but I'd like to remain involved. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 05:30, 2 September 2009 (UTC)