Wikiversity:IRC meeting about research

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This meeting took place on Saturday, 10th March 2007 @ 22:00 UTC in the freenode channel #wikiversity. A log of the meeting can be found at /log. There are further discussions on the discussion page.

This page is to plan a meeting on IRC to discuss research scope and guidelines - in advance of the WMF board's meeting on March 16th. Specifically, are these proposals good and realistic enough to move Wikiversity out of its "beta" phase?

Pros

It might be a good way of "hammering out" ideas that could be useful in addressing questions that the board may have.
It would be an opportunity for people of different Wikiversities to get to know each other.

Cons

There is actually no research on Wikiversity.
Perhaps we should better discuss why Wikiversity is so little attractive to researchers.
- Yes to the second point (though I would focus on the positive, i.e. making Wikiversity more attractive to researchers. As to the first, there clearly is research being done on Wikiversity - on :en anyway - see en:Portal:Research. Cormaggio 00:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Interested participants

If you are interested in attending such a meeting, please list yourself with dates and times that suit or don't suit you. (Try to leave a line for the next user that includes the table markup, for ease of use.) If you are not sure, just leave your details underneath, and someone can format it for you. :-)

Username	Main WV project	Timezone (UTC+/-?)	Preferred times	Days/dates available/not
Cormaggio	English	UTC+0	19-24:00 UTC (though flexible)	Available almost any day
JWSchmidt	English	UTC-7	flexible	Generally available
Rayc	English	UTC-6	UTC 0-6 (or anytime Saturday)	Generally available
Xenon	English+beta	UTC+0	UTC 17-23 (or all weekends)	Generally available
Jade Knight	en:	UTC-7	..	Tues/Sat
Hillgentleman	beta, En	UTC-5	-	Le Weekend
CQ	English+beta	UTC-6	lurking in #wikiversity as `yeoman`	Generally available
Michael Billington	en, beta	UTC+10	UTC 0-10	Any time
Javier Carro	Español & English	UTC+1	today, flexible	After midday
WiseWoman	being cranky	UTC+1	why not right now	odd times
Next user	Main project	Timezone	Preferred times	Availability

Channel

What IRC channel should we have this meeting in? Can anyone get in touch with the ChanOp of irc.freenode #wikiversity ? Otherwise #wikiversity-en is available, but doesn't seem ideal (en-centric)...

Could we not meet in a research-specific channel, such as #wikiversity-research (doubt it exists)? - Xenon (talk)

Agenda

Ideas here..

Wikiversity:Scope of research/Policy/En and Wikiversity:Research guidelines/En - are they good enough?
Can we set one policy for all projects?
- "the decision, as to what kinds of research should be permitted, should be left to the individual specialist areas as well as the individual language versions" (source).
Small Wikiversity projects - how would they cope with research?
- Wikiversity:Research guidelines/En#Research at smaller Wikiversity sites
- Wikiversity:Scope of research/Policy/En#Review
Fringe groups - what to do?
- Wikiversity:Research guidelines/En#Fringe research
Existing (ongoing and proposed) research activities on Wikiversity: How do they measure up against the proposed guidelines?
- See the examples at Wikiversity:Scope of research/Policy/En#Original research.
- Metadata extension for Mediawiki just finishing up, see --WiseWoman 22:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did the special projects committee review Wikiversity?
Questions from the Colloquium at the English language Wikiversity [1], [2].
Summarize - short bulleted points, for example