Talk:Wiki Community College

The 'legitimate content pages' contributed by individuals could also be used for these degrees especially for contributors on African Languages. A 5,000 entries by an individual could earn a B.A. in the language, M.A., 10,000 and PhD., 15,000. This will encourage more people to contribute to African languages wiki. --user:LOAdewole

Sounds Good, but it should really be more than 5k-10k-15k entries, so as to not let anyone off easy ;). Also, this should be on the "discussion" tab --Jayseki 04:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Community_College"

So, I'll just put it there! --Jayseki 04:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

this is a great idea, one could make it so that people wishing to become admins must go through this "Wiki U", their grades determining their admin status. This could prove a users commitment and knolege of wikipedia, i think its a revolutionary idea! 72.88.115.15 05:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

thank you for the kind words! btw, "WIK UNV", or "WIKI U" naturally were my first choices for a name, but then i found out that there already is a wikiversity, so i changed it to WCC. yes, i think it's a pretty good idea too, one of those that seems so obvious after you think of it. --Jayseki 16:54, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Supportthis idea. I think it is brilliant to do this on the wiki's. Many people learn on wiki so they can use this to learn more and get the thingy's. Great Idea...tell me when it properly starts. I you want to see my user page go to wikipediaWiki.user 07:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I like this idea

Not a bad idea... if it gets started, let me know, I'd love to participate. Walton^talk 18:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I like this idea also. Especially the community college slant. People go to community college to learn stuff, not so much for the "degree". --Rocksanddirt 18:01, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Incubator

I started a project category at the Incubator. Greeves ^{(talk • contribs • Wikipedia)} 14:52, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Greeves! I really know very little about actually making the wiki itself (i'm more of an "ideas" man ;)), so i appreciate the help! also, what did you think of the idea? anyone feel like forwarding this page's link around to folks? --Jayseki 17:47, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Legal concerns w/ using the word "degree"

I'm no expert (nor do I play one on TV) but isn't there restrictions on someone claiming to issue a degree to a person? I know there was a huge issue w/ the diploma mills in the US and I wanted to make sure any "certificates" that might be issued wouldn't cause legal issues. -- Tawker 01:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm no expert either, but i think as long as you give several disclaimers, youre fine. for example, there are tons of non-accredited "degrees" out there; degrees in many paranormal or fringe sciences, like being a degree holder in chakra reading, or tarot. And then there are other highly specialized fields where accredidation is just not needed-Ringling Bros. Clown College springs to mind. other than these concerns, though, what did you think of the general idea? --Jayseki 02:09, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Just for fun?

This is an interesting idea, but as I understood this project would only serve for fun, wouldn't it? Do you think Wikimedia Foundation would need and approve that?

true, it would just be for fun, and personal education... i suppose if the WF is that anti-fun, then they might object, but who knows? wikipedia is also fun, as well as educational (or perhaps i should say informative) --71.220.206.162 02:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity

Could someone please explain to me how this is different to Wikiversity? Maybe creating a new rewards initiative over there is what you're after. --Ben^hello! 11:37, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

as i understand it, wikiversity is more about providing educational materials for teachers and other educators, and less about laying out a course of study for someone on a particular topic. for example, you could find chapters, articles, pamphlets etc. on some topic, say economics. but if you know nothing about the topic, you wouldnt know where to start, where to finish, whats vital reading and whats not, and you might easily not know when, or even if, youve achieved a basic level of knowledge on the subject. plus at WCC youd get a cool template for your page that lets everyone know what an awesome person you are. --71.220.206.162 02:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)