Wikiversity:Vision/2018

Well, it seems that it's almost been a decade since the last "vision" statement here. Although I don't believe that WV lacks a vision, like any Wiki Project, it's probably documented elsewhere.

Some ideas I liked from there:

PLEs

• Develop examples of Userpages as Personal learning environment (PLEs) (credit User:Jtneill)

Identifying quality content

Seems like this is still an issue. There were some good ideas here. I also like the idea around Wikiversity:Featured, and I'm also looking at some of the templates, such as and Help:Resources by completion status in particular. I've always felt a little discomfort with the "completion" notion, as it seems like creating learning resources is a race with a set distance, and in a wiki you could always have a new contributor add new information. I think the idea of "ready" is good, and there are obviously points where content is "in progress/not ready".

Further Vision

There is an "ad" banner for me that reads "Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia during Contribution Month". While I'm all for cross project promotion, why are we pushing people to contribute to the big project and not here? (I know this is likely a WMF/all project ad, but we should be advocating to get in this rotation). I'd love to see that space promote content or explain how things work.

This is all just a start. the 2009 outline was huge and very ambitious; we only have a quarter left, I'm trying to think about this year with an eye to next year.