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Portuguese Wikiversity

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Proposal summary

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Number of speakers: 230 million total

Locations spoken: Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor , Cape Verde , São Tomé and Príncipe , Macau.

Arguments in favour

  • SUPORT.

The Portuguese Wikiversity has real conditions to function very well for every causes:

1.The Portuguese is a very important language,because is the third Occidental Language moat speaked in the world and the sixth language more speaked in the world,with 280 million of speakings(P.S.:The country who has more Portuguese speakers is Brazil).

2.The Portuguese speakings are efficients in the Wikimedia Foundation projects.And,over this,we have big projects.Observe the Wikimedia Foundation's Statistics about the projects in Portuguese.

Projects World Position Articles' number Official Website
Wikipedia in Portuguese tenth 1375025 [1]
Wikitionary in Portuguese seventh 80459 [2]
Wikibooks in Portuguese forth 15343 [3]
Wikiquote in Portuguese sixth 12541 [4]
Wikisource in Portuguese seventh 28460 [5]
Wikinews in Portuguese seventh 12131 [6]

3.The Portuguese Wikiversity goes to have the opportunity to make a union of the education's style of many different countries,how Portugal,Brasil and Angola.

4.How Lucas 13 says:"(...)this site would be useful because everyone will be able to learn from his/her home quickly and free."

5.We are interesting in a E-learning.

6.Now exists a good project ,the project Wikiversidade no Wikilivros.It needs to be developement .But,we can be this in the Wikiversity model,and not in Wikibooks.

7.In the Wikiversity,exists a change to do learnings that can't be did in a normal university.And the lusophonos has new knowledges to share.

8.In Portuguese Wikiversity,can be debate topics that amplify the people's point of view.Above this,the debate of the topics can update and capacite teachers,workers and other people.And the lusophonos' debates are always many available and bright.

9.In Brazil and Portugal,we're side with educationals lawyers about distance education.

10.The stuffes created by the Portuguese Wikiversity can be avails for studentrs,teachers,not-governamental organizations,courses and others.

11.It can,with the Wikieducator,to formate a educational curriculum that can be a model with others universities.In small and poor countries,this is very important.

12.Surely,the Portuguese Wikiversity will be complement the other Wiki projects in Portuguese.


(OBS.I'm going to help in Portuguese,History,Geography and Spanish)

User:Tosão

It is mandatory to have this project extended to the portuguese language. It's legitimated not only by the large number of portuguese speakers, but for the political, economical and scientific role that the comunnity plays in the world.

Arguments against

  • none

General Situation

  • I believe that I've heard about some situations at pt.wp in which there have been some nasty content disputes about whether what type of Portuguese to use. I even know of many users who are boycotting pt.wp because of these disputes between Brazilians and the Portuguese. What do you plan on doing to avoid this? --Agüeybaná (hábleme) 23:22, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The problems with the idiom is the minor thing to worry; Portugal is also the Nation-mother of the portuguese, and all lusophon countries and all lusophon peoples can understand what your "Nations-brothers" talk; and in Portuguese Wikipedia have others problems than the idiom; the linguistic variety isn't a problem for us and all lusophon collaborators of Portuguese Wikipedia. --Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko 00:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. Linguistic variation isn't a major problem in wiki-pt. Charley Vasconcelos 01:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the portuguese speakers is one of the major linguistic community in the world, and don't have a manner of this project to give "wrong". All interrested in the project (I believe) will make the possible to build a solid project; ando one more suscefull lusophon project. --Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko 01:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hoi, the general situation is that it does not matter if you vote in favour. The project has conditional approval. What is needed is people demonstrating that they want this project by making it shine in the Incubator before it goes life. GerardM 23:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From me, all things who I planned for the project is in my first commentary below. --Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko 01:58, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with people above that said that the minor variations between Brazilian portuguese and European-African Portuguese isn't a big deal. But I would like to propose that The Wikiversidade adopts the new orthographic convention even if it is not ratified by all Portuguese speaking countries yet. See [7] Maque 20:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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