[EM] School of election science on Wikiversity

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 12:08 PM 8/10/2011, Raph Frank wrote:
>I notice it is hosted by the wikimedia foundation.  I assume the idea
>is that it is a new clean slate?

I should say a little more. Wikiversity is not for "encyclopedia 
articles," per se. Write an article there, stand-alone, in mainspace, 
it will probably get deleted. However, if you place an article within 
an educational structure, it can be fine. You could probably move the 
entire content of electowiki to Wikiversity, but how it would be done 
woudl be important. You'd place the pages within a structure that 
made the sum a deep educational resource.

Wikipedia is flat.

Books can be put together this way. Wikibooks is for books, but has 
stricter standards, supposedly Wikibooks aren't for "original 
research." But it can get a bit vague. Wikiversity is safer. There 
are still some users who "don't get it," and they'll nominate a page 
for deletion because it's "fringe," but if the resource is at all 
interesting and not just one person's rant, it is almost certain to 
survive. Sometimes even one person's rant is allowed to continue....

The rate of deletion on Wikiversity is tiny compared to Wikipedia, 
and what is deleted really has consensus for deletion. Junk. And we 
will give the user lots of time to save the content....