Wikimania 2011 - 3rd Day: Wikiversity and Wikinews

Room: Gilboa
Date: 6.8.2011, 13:45

Wikipedia and Wikinews: differences between news articles and encyclopedic news
Iván Martínez, Dennis Tobar
Many users of Wikinews come from Wikipedia, where there
are many problems of adaptation that are derived for a different
way of writing and presentation of information on the page,
which represents a challenge for Wikinews users to able help
new users to cooperate with the project. We want to find an
effective synergy between the objectives of both projects.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_and_Wikinews:_d...

23:25 - From the Wikiversity content to its conflicts
Jan Lochman
Wikiversity is one of the Wikimedia Foundation's project
related to direct education and research. Its goals were to
create and host free educational materials and activities and
host learning and research communities. No guidelines how
such "educational material" or "community hosting" should
look like were established, nor policies for research. For the
last five years its participants were using knowledge and
imagination overstepping both software and communication
related problems. Nowadays there are thousands of pages in
Wikiversity and some conflicts which brokenspined stones

http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_the_Wikiversity_cont...

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