Wikiversity:Wikiversity Studies
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Please note the discussion page. There is evolution at the wikipedia:Wikipedia wrt to article development with a loosening of the rules for discussion pages (where Wikipedia article development happens). There is no more appropriate site to support Wikipedia evolution than the Wikiversity.
As there is only one editor for this page (and hence little chance of editor disagreement), this material will be incorporated directly into a new page, Wikiology. Wikiology is what it sounds like, the Science of wikis, and a request will be made to redirect this page to that one.
The Wikiversity in it's uniqueness will have to be described, and perhaps debated, specifically, but as a subset of the greater Wikiology.
This article
edit.. is meant to build an understanding of the Wikiversity as a unique component of the mw sphere, and also the more general wiki-sphere. It is also a category and seeks to provide an index to documents about the Wikiversity (on the Wikiversity) that can help wv-ers:
- Build better courses
- Understand how information can interrelate within the Wikiversity
- Help form Wikiversity policy
- Help development of wiki page authoring style that benefits the Wikiversity
- Document names (is this a page, document, article, or course?)
I initiated this page, and so far I am the only contributor. I have not promoted the page to invite other editors, but when I do I will be moving this explanatory text to the talk page.--John Bessatalk
Policy discussion
editI am trying to form this page with material gathered from policy debate, which I find fascinating, and rich in ideas. I will be able here to "throw" ideas, especially those that may controversial, where others can edit and discuss the ideas. I hope it will focus principles while directly creating text for policy, and I hope it will test ideas of parallel opposing idea development, as part of wv information development.
Test cases can be developed as courses to experiment with policy to assure that wv can grow quickly, and flexibly enough to prevent internal conflict, such as experienced on the wp by Piotrus.
Who are the Wikiverisans? Is this a valid word? Who are the people most active in policy making?
Building a page
editPages can be built in two ways; they can be started from scratch, or material can be imported, but not duplicated. Since the wv is in huge need of material, then importing material makes sense, but the material has to be deconstructed and reassembled to make it unique.
I have writing that I wish to import, but more important to me is helping wv organize its principles. I recently got involved in a policy debate, "what wv is not," and I got a lot of insight to the meaning of wv, and learned about the opinions of other wikiversians. So I want to initiate this page by importing material from the debate to create an article about what wv is not, and also to aggregate some of the ideas of what wv-ians expressed that have higher reaching meaning.
Idea Incubator
editA good way to describe one of my goals for this article is as an incubator. An article can start here, and then move to its own page, and then a synopsis of the page, or an annotation, can augment an index of successfully incubated wv study articles.
My way of writing a wiki article is to paste in all the material I can find, and then disassemble the writing into key words, and then move the key words to the top of the document until nothing but chafe is left below in the original text. Then I tend to create headings followed by text followed by lists of attributes as bullets followed by descriptions. I developed this technique as a tech writer. If the text needs to be further developed, then normal prose can be constructed from the text.
Raw editing
editAs it happens it is not practical to build a page right here from raw material because the rendering does funny things; it can only be done in a text editor. In the very-ancient text browsers, text areas were enacted as text editors by actually calling up a text editor, such as notepad on Windows, or VI (or Emacs) on GNU/Linux. (This was a great feature, I thought, and might be helpful here.) For now I am editing the text on google docs (which irritates some wv-ers), but I want to edit it in a place where other wv-ers can look over my shoulder if they want to.
Sidelining
editI call this sidelining and I do it when text is inappropriate for wv, but is relevant. An example is when there are copyright issues being resolved, but still creating a liability. This is why I bring up the text browser editor technique; I think we need a "sidelining" facility as a [server-type service].
Other Ideas
editPrimary discussion can be:
- Policy documents and the debate surrounding them
- Potential new policy documents
- The meanings of the components of these policy principles and how they form the philosophy, or "personality," of the Wikiversity. Does the wv have a wv agenda?
- The types of educational and research techniques that we want to implement
- WikiMedia technology that benefits the Wikiverstiy
- Creation of wikimedia technology specifically to benefit the Wikiversity
Suggested components:
- Annotated bibliographies -- rather than point directly to citations, relevant phrases can be cited in a seperate artcile, and then critical analysis can enhance the phrase, followed by a link to the work and the phrase's location.
- Scientific Method, Augmenting it as a guideline, or even policy, for wv courses and research
- Levels of support in the reference material sense:
- Reasonably supported
- Protected pages
- Personal experiences
- Hypotheses-level reference material
- Well supported
- Peer review
- Documented events
- WP-level support material
- Main page vs. talk page
- Level of support
- Editing styles
- Reasonably supported
Raw Material
editRaw material is a collection of text that is stripped to create lists of ideas as terms, nearly as tags to create new agregatted material, such as for this wv study.
I am collecting the material from policy debates as they happen, because many parallel concepts are introduced, and the emotional nature of the debate ensures collaboration (though it may not seem that way), then an aggregated picture of what wv-ers think is constructed. That is part of the wiki phenomena as I have experienced it.
This material will be cut and place above in specific categories to create documentation that goes above policy documents as a guide to the principles of wv.
What wv is not: discussion
editThis came from the debate and versions of the policy article
Participants are all considered equals
No: Diplomas Certificates Titles
Professor Doctor
Creating, or linking to, useful learning resources
Beneficial to learning and research
For all age groups
Unbiased
Reasonably supported information
Promote learning
Research
benefit the project
isolated thinking resistant to new information
Exploring potential learning resources
differing or opposing approaches
reasonable criticism
no agenda
differences of opinion
accommodate
protect
personal experiences
off the wall
psychosis
truthing
parallel opposing research threads
knowledge and experiences
unbiased and informative
bias
biased or unsupported information
mental isolation bad information dominate
bias biased people feel justified different species
No duplication
Projects maintain focus
Overlapping
Consolidate Sharing
research freedom
develop new information
free of the harassment
Scholarship
- Teachers
- Researchers
- Lifelong learners
Advertising platform
- Products
- Services
- Commercial products
- unwelcome advertisements
Self-promotion:
- Causes or advocacy
- Personal agenda
Policy abuse instruction creep
Disruption
grow and evolve rapidly
policies, guidelines, practices, and services
not prematurely limit future options
mono-diet
everything is an article
lack the discussion threads
Science: one set of phenomena
New information
wiki pages structure information create knowledge
unexpected meanings
much information is simply wrong
Scientific Method
lifelong learning
Learning to learn
Ideal learner
Transnational
Multilingual
Localized support
Trans-cultural
Multicultural
isolated places
multilingual community barriers
Research
Attract collaborators
knowledge construction
construction techniques
scientific method
social science
research freedom
Developed knowledge
Policy
Purpose
Support
Technology
Connections to educational institutions
Support research in schools
applicable knowledge
protected mode
peer review
validate
all approaches are protected
parallel projects
individuals develop their own ideas
individual focus Protect individual learning project indivdual's scope
community knowledge
consensus
aggregation of ideas
opinions respected
protection
protected mode gives "ownership"
owner
contributors
inherit the validation
recognized for the accomplishment
GFDL: given credit when the article is duplicated