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Talk:Wikiversity workshop at Wikimania 2007

What do you think of the timing of these activities? Is there space for one more question that's burning in my mind about how Wikiversity can be of service to the teacher/learner who wants to simply access Wikiversity material for use in their own "extra-Wikiversity" context? If we have too many questions, I fear we will not be able to have a really productive feedback session when the groups reconvene. How many is "too many" questions? How much time do you think this would need overall? Cormaggio talk 15:31, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Thoughts from Reswik
(copied from User talk:Cormaggio by Cormaggio talk 10:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC))

Hi again, the workshop raises interesting topics for discussion. Couple of thoughts as a first impression: I'm not sure if 20 min is enough time for discussion. On topic 1, I think any of the foci could be enough to discuss, e.g., only discuss "learning activity". Finally, I wonder if most people attending will have a grasp of these issues.

I wonder if doing actual learning activities together for 1/2 the period (on workstations in small groups) and then having a feedback summary from those groups and then having a round robind discussion might be another type of workshop format that could work?

Given time limits, I wonder if considering how WV interfaces with other Wikimedia projects might be something to approach in another session. --Reswik 01:33, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Yeah thats right 20 min. not enougth. Time i depending on number of activities.--Juan 16:11, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks very much - I share your uncertainty about time, and I'd like for people to really get into discussion. I also want to think freely about this - does this session warrant 1.5 hours perhaps? However, one idea would be to use this session as a good brainstorm, and to leave the inevitable bubbling of questions for a follow-up activity on Wikiversity. I like the idea of doing activities in groups - although I'm also nervous it could spiral out of hand, and/or lose focus. Do you have any suggestions for what activites to do, and how to frame them? Cormaggio talk 10:29, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm pretty sure that this workshop will last for an hour (60 mins) - this gives me a bit more time (roughly 15-20 mins) than I had originally scheduled.. Cormaggio talk 00:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Remote participation
Assisting phisically or remotely, I will do my best to participate on this workshop. --Javier Carro 20:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks Javier, I hope that there will be live video (or at least audio) streaming of the room - though this will perhaps be difficult to capture completely when activity is broken down into groups, as I had planned. There'll definitely at least be IRC as a platform (probably using the freenode "wikiversity" channel?), within which to store questions and comments to supplement discussion. Any ideas on how to increase or enhance remote participation would be very much appreciated. Cormaggio talk 16:40, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Yeah. IRC channel would be nice, cus I can be on video. Anyway skype conference would be also suitable, because, we can share audiovisual data and links more quickly, than using IRC.--Juan 12:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Which platform (IRC, Skype, etc.) would be more widely used, do you think? It could be problematic to have more than one virtual space to meet - or perhaps not? Cormaggio talk 12:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Hard to say (is this right in English?). I think people from Wikimedia knows IRC very good. In the case of Skype, I also think people use ICQ, or AOL messenger than SKYPE. But I would prefer Skype because it is basic and easy to use, by means of quick sharing ideas and data. There are also servers available were we can share bigger files, but this is probably something different. Anyway I thought that there will be official live brodcasting or not? How they will do that?--Juan 13:18, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Ive been just pokeing around on User:JWSmidt and found aout this: Cannal which allows recording.--Juan 14:26, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Recording
I think all workshops and activities shlould be recorded. There are hundreds of people who are interested in Wikimania, but for such a reasons they can come. This is an opportunity, how they can, back in time, get ideas you will share and build up their own knoweledge. The problem authorifying you probably thought people present remotely, because people present in Taipei, they will lost their face identity for sure. It would be no problem to cut these people out, but I thing we will not have a problem with this (we who will go there via internet).--Juan 12:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Extensive time and space
It would be nice to offer to the participants of this workshop more time or place to share and brainstorm their ideas. So you might for example open a special page on Wikiversity for this purpose.--Juan 12:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


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It's another beautiful day at the beach. Halibut season is open, clamming tides are near perfect, wish I didn't have to work for a living. Not so - I enjoy my work.

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Archives of past content from 8:00 class.

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8:00 class/11 May 2007

This is an archive of Wikiversity current events from 11 May 2007

Colloquium summary
Short summaries of active discussions at Colloquium
 * Issues with categories - using categories and page navigation tools to organize related Wikiversity pages.
 * m:RFCU? - is it time for Wikiversity to have CheckUsers?

Internet Relay Chat topics of the day
Re-cap of topics discussed in #wikiversity-en.
 * Discussion of how to improve Wikiversity pages so as to better serve new visitors. Related links: Introduction Overhaul Taskforce, Main Page/Draft version 0.2, Topic:Wikiversity, Portal:Wikiversity
 * What is the status of courses within Wikiversity?
 * If asterisk and voice recording are good enough for the Wikimedia Foundation Office, are they also good enough for Wikiversity? Related links: Wiki Campus Radio, Sandbox Server, Topic:VoIP. What about VoIP as a tool for a virtual Wikimania?
 * Free software and Vista.
 * A MOO at Wikiversity? Related links: Virtual Wikiversity, Mooversity, MOO Universities.
 * New Wiki Campus Radio session plans.

Email discussions and blogs
Summaries of Email discussions and blogs with relevance to Wikiversity participants.
 * Lingering comments arising from proposal to change "Wikiversity" to Wikipedia Learning. Related blog comments.
 * Use strong passwords. Related links: Wikipedia Signpost, Notices for custodians.

Recent changes
Today's trends in active editing efforts.
 * The Trentcosta financial management case study project from Georgetown University continues to be active. Is this case study copyrighted property of Georgetown University? Is this a group project or are these students cheating? Should this project be listed at School and university projects?
 * Much new School of Medicine content from user Koppertone and user Palmd001
 * Does Template:Welcome need an update?
 * New page: Adding content tutorial. Related link, Introduction Overhaul Taskforce.

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User:Matty~enwikiversity

My name is Matty, im a Geologist from the grant county of Cornwall, England.

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User talk:Matty~enwikiversity

Hi Matty, and welcome to Wikiversity. You might be interested in School:Geology and its links (still mostly red). I'm adding a few links below - feel free to ask me anything anytime on my talk page. Cormaggio talk 16:22, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Matty. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Matty~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:15, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Cormaggio/Archive 4

Resource/reference namespace
Hi, thanks for the hint. Yes, that goes in the direction I am imagining. I like the idea that articles must not have direct external references but must go through an intermediate level of references. This seems to make life harder on the first look but would actually be very usefull. You can see on that site for each reference which articles are using it. That is useful. And you could add abstracts, annotations and reviews and discuss a sources credibility etc. on the article about the source instead of in your article or its talk page. I have also seen that there is a Meta project called Wikicat, but I have not yet had the time to really look at what they are doing there and if that project in the present form covers what I am thinking about. I think I should go there and ask them. What I imagine is a site that would be outside Wikipedia, Wikiversity etc. because it provieds references for all. It would also be multi language. The "reference cards" should have a structured part with the bibliographic information plus a free from part that is multilanguage. If such an object is created, either from an import from a library server or by an author or reader entering it, it would immediately be visible for all languages. You could then add new text parts in different languages. For example, initially the text could be in english, but somebody else could then add a french or japanese text part on a parallel page (maybe users could define a sequence of language preferences). Annotations, abstracts etc. for a reference can so be centralized instead of being dispersed over different articles using a reference. Discussions about the validity or quality of literature items could be moved out of single articles in Wikipedia etc. to the talk pages of such objects, making them visible from any article using that reference. References could be categorized by lots of overlapping categories, making traditional hierachical bibliographical signature systems obsolete (although these traditional classifications would still be included). Category-like information should be in categories, not in fields on the cards. The cards could include links to other cards with a "cites" meaning (and the software could offer the opposite "cited by"). It should be possible to annotate (fre form or partially formalized) such links in turn so that information like "a confirms b", "a rejects/contradicts b" could optionally be captured on the cards. This would especially be useful in the humanities/social sciences. There should be the possibility to group different editions, translations etc. into group entities (my first look at the Wikicat page indicates that they have included such features already). The data model could include pages on authors and institutions. The system could include an interface to a distributed system of library servers through which one could find the next library (archive, museum...) containing the referenced resource. Library servers could include interfaces to such a system. From the user's pint of view, this would look like one server (demanding project, but seems feasable to me). I am not sure to what extent these ideas are covered by the present wikicat project. In any cas there should be free form text space (i.e. if you overformalize, it becomes less usefull) and discussion pages attachable to each "card". Sorry for getting so lenghty. I think I will just carry this over to the Wikicat project's talk pageNannus 17:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the links
Hi, thanks for the welcome message and the links. To answer your question, I'm not unfamiliar with wikis in general (I have about 10 months experience on the English language Wikipedia), I was just really confused about what's going on here at Wikiversity. I was looking at some of the "articles" (I guess they're called "lessons" here), and they are written in a very conversational tone. Is that normal? Should I write as though I standing in front of my class? Can I upload the quizzes I've given in my Calculus courses throughout the years? If so, where? If so, would they even be the type of thing we're going for here? –King Bee (τ • γ) 14:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I guess my main problem is that I don't know where to do anything. If I want to create a tutorial on a certain technique of integration (a Calculus topic), where do I do it? I looked at the page Sequences and Series, and it looks horrible. Is that page supposed to be an overview of the entire topic, or should that page contain an introduction, and then spin-off pages for all the different types of techniques for determining the convergence of a sequence or a series? I understand that Wikiversity is relatively new, and it's probably not the case that all of these things are not necessarily decided yet, but I don't want to do a bunch of things "incorrectly." Does this make any sense? –King Bee (τ • γ) 04:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

From Ali
Hi Cormac, how's things? I have a few questions about Wikiversity! Are you free for lunch any time soon?

AREOL - from DavidWDon
Cormac, I browsed at Wiki and was not feeling all that confident about my capacity to join in but decided to add my name to the Areol-wiki-list anyway. (It was easy - I copied some one else's note and changed it!). I hope I can make some useful contributions over the next three months. David Don

13/03/07 Au: Had a crack at editing wiki today - just thought I would record an observation that may be relevant to what you are looking at Cormac. Who would have thought it would be so anxiety-provoking to write in public. I guess I am still afflicted by the notion of the SACRED word and that novice 7 y.o. choir boy inside me trembles in awe. Exaggeration and symbolism aside, it is a bit nerve wracking for the novice. [N] dd

Beep
Hi Cormac - I'd like to join in the discussion, but I don't know how to use IRC! I thought it would be simple. Maybe I'll just edit beta... --HappyCamper 17:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

AEROL - Media Wiki Syntax: Stefanie
Hi Cormac, thank for the warm welcome! I've never used Media Wiki before, but I work a lot with a Plone CMS... Today I've learnt to use these handy subheadings and the signature feature. Maybe I'll get the knack on the linking syntax tomorrow... --Stefanie 13:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Banning
Please ban user Firecrackerhan and IP 88.233.80.40. Thanks. --Remi 01:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Firecrackerhan
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/88.233.80.40

Hello
Yes I am finishing off a college program in audio production and engineering. I've started a small recording business as well. Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to expand on.Eb.eric 16:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

User seeks ... code
Just wanted to touch base and point you here: http://leuksman.com/log/2007/03/15/wikimedia-in-google-summer-of-code/ We should try to get our noses in their somehow, in any case ... it would be good if we can get the summer of code stuff to be routed through Wikiversity ... or at least a project. Lemme know your thoughts. Historybuff 15:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for putting us on the plate there.

I noticed that the Grants Co-ord is now vacant (see here). I had two e-mails outstanding there ... any idea on where to move on with that? Thanks Historybuff 04:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * After e-mailing everyone you mentioned, I happened to be in #wm for something else and touched base with bastique. He's trying to be helpful, which is great. I haven't seen you much in IRC, I'm guessing you've been busy. Drop me a line, let me know when you might resurface. :) Historybuff 05:45, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Quick update ... hope you had a happy bunny day. Am now doing a bit of "action research", vis a vis Wikimedia Canada. It looks like I might be starting a non profit. How the heck did that happen? :P I'm doing this with the end goal of getting funding for WV projects, so this is just a means to an end. I got 5 minutes earlier today with Brion, where he said he was busy, but we touched on the Sandbox Server. I'll leave it with him a few more days, and then ping him again. Hope things are well with ya. Historybuff 09:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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Furthering our collaborations between WikiVersity and WikiEducator
Greetings Cormaggio -

Following on our collaborations to explore the use and potential of pedagogical templates in our respective wikis, Kruhly @ WikiEducator has been doing some work exploring templates - which  might be of interest to WikiVersity.

To further our collaborations - I'd like to extend an open invitation to Wikiversity folk who may interested in submitting ideas and proposals for a Tectonic Shift Think Tank

The aim is:

''To refine the available technology infrastructure to radically scale up the development of a free curriculum for all levels of education which can be customized, modified and adapted for local needs without restriction. We recoginise the dignity of all educators and learners to become equal participants in transforming the digital divide into digital dividends.''

This is a visioning exercise which among other things, will help us identify future refinements for MediaWiki software. I suspect that this will also be of interest to many folk in your community. This is an open meeting - so if anyone is close enough to Vancouver to join in - please feel free to join us. We will be attempting remote participation via the Tectonic Shift pages on WikiEducator - so feel free to join in the discussion pages.

Perhaps a few folk from Wikiversity would like to collaboratively prepare a visioning statement/document on the wiki outlining your technology wishlist for the future of Mediawiki.

You will also see that on Day 1 we have a few visioning presentations - maximum of 15 minutes. Would you like to prepare a Open Office slide show which we could display remotely and connect via skype or teleconference? The time difference may be awkward - but I'm sure we can work something out.

Chat to you soon. --Mackiwg 18:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

PS - I'm very impressed with your Welcome template - WikiEducator should also adopt this neat idea.

 * Thanks Cormaggio - Enjoy your travels & if you can find a gap to knock something together, that would be great. I'd like to get Wikiversity's technology vision into the discussions. Check out Historybuff's availability and whether he/she would be keen to attend. Torronto is closer to Vancouver than other places - and possibly we can help with travel and accommodation.  --Mackiwg 16:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

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probationary custodian request
As discussed at Requests for Custodianship I am willing to mentor User:Remi0o and he is willing to put up with me. If you agree, please make Remi0o a probationary custodian. (this request also made at User talk:Sebmol) --JWSchmidt 13:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Reflective spiral
I answered to your petition in my talk page, so maybe you didn't read it. Basically it is "yes". --User:Jorge

Klingon
Thanks for your support. The Klingon wikipedia has moved to wikia, and the wiktionary should do likewise. My intention for the Klingon Language Department fits within the remit of Wikiversity, and is something I've been wanting to do for a while. It would be nice, however, to have more contributors... Jonathan Webley 17:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Mandarin Chinese
Thanks for your comments. I wondered how long it would take to get noticed. Having Wikiversity as your PhD project sounds rather interesting and consuming, but very important. You can get started learning Chinese by learning the pronunciation of all the sounds and tones in the syllables in Lesson One, and then tell me how they should be pronounced once you become a Mandarin expert for your Wikimania gig in Taipei this year :)

New Course: Mandarin One
I started a list of Chinese courses and the course outline for Mandarin/Mandarin_One this weekend while learning how to make wiki pages. Things have been rather slow and boring at work this week so I am almost done with Lesson One (Pronunciation) in Mandarin One. I just need to find a way to get public domain Mandarin sounds, and then get them into Commons so it will be crystal clear how every syllable in Mandarin sounds in this lesson.

Purpose
After struggling with learning Chinese from the other sources of Mandarin infomation in other Wiki Projects I decided that actual online Mandarin courses should be provided to help clarify some of the information already out there. Disclaimer: I am not a Mandarin expert at all. I hope that an expert will help fix any mistakes that I might have made. The only qualification that I have to do this is a couple of years of frustration trying to learn this language before and after an adoption trip to Hunan over a year ago.

Goals
I envision the purpose of the Wikiversity Mandarin courses to be like Cliff Notes on steroids. It should be a place to consolidate information from various sources, provide links to the sources, and crystallize it into information that will be easily remembered during real-life conversations or during a test. Having quality "homework", "pop quizzes", end of lesson quizzes, multiple lesson tests, and a final exam would really add to the learning experience, and provide instant feedback on what needs to be reviewed before proceeding with the next section. I need to learn more about how to implement this part of the coursework because this is what distinguishes an online independent study course from simply being an online textbook. Also I would like some kids courses or texts to be created for ages 2-15 for those parents who have Chinese children, but know squat about Mandarin. It would be nice to have some Flash type of animation for the kids classes. Is there an open-source version that will work on a wikimedia page? My first goal will be to help myself learn Mandarin by starting to develop the basic courses when I get the time to do so. After all they say that the absolute best way to learn a subject is to teach it.Pmhollow 19:39, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Faculdade_Atenas_de_Paracatu
Cormaggio, This looks like a College Advertisement. How do we usually deal with it? The issue is, of course, that it may not be objective, and even if it contains useful information, I am not sure how to verify it..--Hillgentleman|Talk 02:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * My thoughts are in WV:C---Hillgentleman|Talk 01:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

follow up of general talk & learning to learn the wiki way
Hi Cormac

As mentioned at the wikiversity page we will run this year a summer university at the flosscom project on “learning the open source way” to learn more about “floss-like” learning and how to transfer this to (formal) educational settings. This will also be linked to the OU’s OpenLearn/Labspace initiative and hopefully receive some Unesco coverage. So do you assume it would be interesting for wikiversity to join in with its pendant course “Learning to learn the wiki way”? At least like that we could concentrate public attention trying to attract volunteers from the wiki, the floss and education scene to brainstorm with us!

--andreas 08:40, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Moving string theory
That seems quite fair and reasoned, and I appreciate the candor. I will move it back to the original name with the original flavor kept but without the number asap if it remains. --Remi 18:18, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

oompapa
Please take a look at the discussion of oompapa on Wikipedia. --JWSchmidt 01:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Mentor for custodianship
Many thanks for offering to be my mentor. I gratefully accept! McCormack 11:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I've added myself to the staff list as requested. I spent some time admiring the picture, searching for zen-like enlightenment. My next resolution is to pretend nothing happened and finish the quiz help. :) McCormack 18:30, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey Cormac! You know, reading your note made my day - thanks so much. I'd like to help out for sure. When do you think is a good time to put my name in? --HappyCamper 21:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I just got the buttons today! I'm really glad to be of service to Wikiversity. Thanks for your confidence in me. --HappyCamper 02:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Jon/Qu'mey
Sorry, that page name was my mistake - I copied it from another wiki. I've moved it to User:Jonathan Webley/Qu'mey, but it's left a redirect behind. Feel free to delete the redirect. Thanks. maw'wI' 19:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Cooking basics
Sure, no problem. I could probably talk my teacher into lending me the camera, and we could schedule some time to film some basic things for Cooking. We'll probably add knife cuts and some other things in, too, for the Culinary Arts program. :) Blast 26.04.07 0128 (UTC)

Promoting/Marketing Wikiversity
According to my recollection, there were some pages created on how to promote Wikiversity; do you know where can those be found, or where are they linked from? Thanks. --Remi 21:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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MOO (MUD object oriented)

Welcome to the MOO (MUD object oriented) learning project. This project allows Wikiversity participants to learn about the text-based virtual reality environments known as MOOs.

What is a MOO?
"MOO" means "MUD, Object Oriented".

What is a MUD?
MUD is an acronym for Multi-User Dungeon (or Domain), based on the Dungeon and Dragons board game. The board is a world divided into various sized rooms with interconnecting exits. The world is inhabitted by several monsters and contains many items like armour, weapons, potions, hearbs, scrolls, poisons, containers, and furniture. Each player creates their own character and tries to advance it as far as possible by moving around the world and 'interacting', usually by killing or getting killed by, monsters with the help of other characters.

Most MUDs use several point systems: Experience, Hit, Mana, Move, and Gold being the most common. Characters also have attributes, such as strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, and constitution. These are defined by the character's race and modified by class. The class defines what skills and spells a character can learn, but race decides how well they can do them. In some MUDs, it is possible to multi-class and in others to remortalise.

The game is played over a network, using a telnet client to connect to the MUD server, and logging in as your character, typing commands, and reading the response. Each room has a name, description, and exit list. By carefully reading the description you can figure out where you are and what surprises the room contains. Other players, monsters, and items currently in the room are listed by name and title (or item description), and their current position (standing, resting, fighting, incapacitated, or corpse).

You can use several communication channels to talk, say, shout, yell, auction, and whisper to others. This variety enables players to remain in contact throughout the world. Players can turn off channels to avoid channel spam. Unlike direct channels, notice boards provide discussions, questions, bug-reports, and advice, regardless of whether players are logged in or not.

Because the MUD simulates a world and people have the choice to become someone else, MUD culture has undergone some academic scrutiny. Four player types have been identified:

 * Killer - Likes to kill players, the easier the better.
 * Achiever - Likes to win, accept all challenges, and work hard.
 * Explorer - Likes to map the world and discover how it works.
 * Socialiser - Likes to talk, and talk, and talk.

These four types interact with each other as follows:

 * Killers like Socialisers, ignore Explorers, but dislike Achievers. Socialisers are wimps and the aftermath of whining and complaing is the best. Explorers are damn tough, but don't care, so leave them alone. Achievers just won't lie down and die, sooner or later they'll get you.

 * Socialisers like Explorers, ignore Achievers, and dislike Killers. "Explorers just know ever so much you have simply got to have one around when conversation falters. Achievers are too boring, you can't imagine, always after something, and have nothing but their own ego. Killers are so rude and impolite, they should be banned for good. Like yesterday three of us were talking when ...." yes, thank you, moving to

 * Explorers like Achievers, ignore Killers, and dislike Socialisers. Achievers want to know stuff, which is great to see them use it well. Killers are just one more hazard to exploring, initially fun, but one dimensional. Socialisers are just plain ignorant.

 * Achievers like Killers, ignore Socialisers, and dislike Explorers. Killers are good challenge and you can always beat them in the end. Socialisers are no competition, but tell the world who the best of the best is. Explorer's have no competitive spirit and a waste of time.

Successful MUDs have a mix of all four types, as each contributes to the mud culture. Setting up the world to provide interest for all types is more an art than science. Ensuring that killers don't drive out socialisers, achievers the killers, socialisers the explorers, or explorers the achievers, takes careful balancing between interest, difficulty, challenge, and oppotunity. A major factor is building unique, rather than using stock, areas. Builders are designated players who have to bring the world alive with interesting descriptions and colourful words. But more than that, the layout and quests must be well tested for difficulty and interest. Coders define the game play, the skills, races, classes, and available items. Angels are special players who spend their time helping others and mediating conflicts. Immortals run the MUD, make policy, are forbidden to play, and lurk in the background, just so you know they're watching.

Object programming

 * Object-oriented programming - article at Wikipedia
 * Object oriented programming at Wikibooks
 * Topic:Object-oriented programming - learning resources at Wikiversity

Putting it all together
A MOO is a MUD that makes use of an explicitly object-oriented programming language for constructing the MUD. See: MOO programming language.

Mooversity can help Wikiversity participants learn about object-oriented programming.

Activities and discussion
If you have participated in a MOO, please provide a description and a link.

External resources

 * AvatarMUD website
 * mudconnector FAQ
 * MOO - article at Wikipedia
 * MUD - article at Wikipedia
 * LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual
 * MOO library
 * MOOIX - Multi-language programming.

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Objective structured clinical examination

Welcome to the content development project for the Objective structured clinical examination. This project is where Wikiversity participants create, organize and develop learning resources for the OSCE.

OSCE
The OSCE is the objective structured clinical examination, the exam where medical students interview an actor playing the role of patient. These usually consist of scenarios typifying cases that students are likely to come across multiple times in their medical training.

Modules
Each module corresponds to a common OSCE station.


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User:Ehooh

Je suis un étudiant français qui essaye d'apprendre a parler en anglais. Dans tous les cas, je suis prêt à aider n'importe quel personne le désirant.

Mon adresse e-mail : theehooh@gmail.com

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User:JWSchmidt/Blog/12 May 2007

I started trying to bring the dynamic navigation box technology over to Wikiversity from Wikipedia. There seems to be a problem with getting the hide/show button to display correctly on the navigation boxes.

Navigation templates
While trying to making some page navigation templates for Wikiversity I noticed that Template:Navigation seemed to have a problem with the collapse/expand button not being on the navigation box (Figure 1).

Also, I wanted to have a navigation template that would show the "v d e" links as shown in Figure 2. I made Template:Navigation2 and Template:Tnavbar2 by copying from the current versions of w:Template:Navigation and w:Template:Tnavbar. Template:Navigation2 had the same problem with the position of the collapse/expand button.

MediaWiki files
I tried adding this code to MediaWiki:Common.js and the code for navigation at MediaWiki:Common.css is the same as at Wikipedia, as far as I can tell.

Wikipedia uses hide/show while Wikiversity is using collapse/expand. This can be changed in the MediaWiki:Common.css file (change "var NavigationBarHide = 'Collapse';", etc) if anyone cares.

Examples
These are some navigation boxes I am working on for School:Medicine:

Dr. Darklama
With much help from User:Darklama the problem with the collapse/expand "button" was fixed. MediaWiki:Common.js now holds code that correctly produces collapse/expand "buttons" on the navigation boxes.

Related discussion

 * User:JWSchmidt/quiz - a way to make quiz questions.
 * Talk:Threaded discussions with NavFrames - Threaded discussions
 * Science and the nonphysical - archive course discussions
 * User_talk:Sebmol
 * Colloquium

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User:Hmwith

I use this account occasionally, but I mainly edit/contribute to Wikipedia.

For this reason, you can see my English Wikipedia userpage at:

User:hmwith

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User:Red1

Dear WikiVersity,
 * Much of my writings are anchored in http://red1.org/
 * I am a child of knowledge, I existed to know what i know not.
 * So now, it is to fill in what gaps i find in this place.

 * smile*

email contact: red1(at)adempiere.org

About Me
Redhuan D. Oon has, since venturing on his own in 1980, taken to very undisciplined experiences:
 * Learning - from cosmology to what presidential candidates say on CNN
 * Teaching - from dropout school-kids to the university hopeless
 * Selling - from newspapers, mugs to an entire B2B transatlantic migration project
 * Computing - from caching payslips to debugging Java
 * Conspiring - from escaping work to world domination

I never attended University

 * Perhaps this is a proud truth i profess in, having never attended beyond A' Levels Cambridge from my high school, i have by choice left the paper chase and now bask in utter alienation of the ivory towers.
 * It saves me a lot of interview money because i never attended one, as they all ask for a formal degree before i can attend.
 * I have to work in more creative ways to get where i want
 * Ok, ok, i am more hungry than you... you, you Fatsos!

Open Source ERP

 * What i have been doing and teaching too
 * There are so many learning points that i wish to capture and leave as legacy
 * Open Source ERP/Executive Masters is now offered in a private University that supports Open Source spirit by having the materials free.

Open Source Community

 * Eric Raymond's Bazaar requires further practical treatment and experience
 * Much recent development that has split into Commercial and Community variations
 * As founding member of a top ten SourceForge project ADempiere Bazaar i can share many tots on it

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Understanding the environment

The definition of the word environment is:
 * Environment refers to a complex of surrounding circumstances, conditions, or influences in which    a thing is situated or is developed.

 * Environment is the external forces affecting living things.

 * Environment is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

 * Environment is the natural world or ecosystem.

 * Environment is all the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

 * Environment is a particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

 * In architecture environment is the different variables that should be taken into consideration & effect the design. There is natural environment that consists of earth, sun, water, wind, & life. There is man made environments such as Political, religious, social, economical, & physical changes that could affect the design.

The natural environment has a constant range of change within a particular area, and has mostly direct impact on the design. The more these are understood and taken into consideration the more the design will be appreciated.

The man made environment has a changing range and is not so stable it could change with the change of man him or her self. Sometimes the impact is so high on the design that it could mean that a certain design is good in one environment and a failure in another. Here we have to take into consideration and have the flexibility to change. This will allow the design to live longer.

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User talk:Red1

Hi Red1, nice note on your user page! Here are some links to hopefully get you going. :-) Cormaggio talk 11:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Them's encouraging words! Looking forward to seeing your end-to-end course - though I suppose my thought for now would be to check what's here already (it sometimes takes some digging - our structuring is quite different from Wikipedia's, and the search function is, as you're probably already aware, pretty inadequate). You can use Topic pages and Categories (see Namespaces) as well as navigation bars to interlink relevant and/or overlapping content, but you really have quite a blank canvas to work with here. Oh, and of course feel free to set up collaborative learning projects as well as creating stand-alone materials. Let me know if you ever need any help... Cormaggio talk 12:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. Anyway i missed the Motto Contest. Would have supported Open Learning Community. Anyway agreed with u that i m starting easy on an open canvas. Will learn up the rules as i go along. Won't wana suffer the flag planting. - Red1 12:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops Open Learning Community made it! haha! shall cast vote then. - Red1 12:33, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * A wise choice. ;-) I replied to your comment on User talk:Cormaggio/Visions of Wikiversity, btw. Cormaggio talk 17:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Thanks for helping clean up vandalism - I replied to you at Wikiversity_talk:Vision/2009. :-) Cormaggio talk 11:47, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Being bold has its uses :)
Thanks for your note on my talk page about my edits to The Web Economy. I was trying to bring a sense of order to the Dynamic Lists that are created on some of the portals, which stem from the categories that topic/content pages are placed in. With the mix of one and two digit identifiers, it's hard to figure out what goes where, since page "2" comes in sort order after page "19", which doesn't follow logically.

My suggestion would be to replace the "01", "02" page titles with titles that more properly reflect the subject/topic of the page itself. For instance, page "17" is nominally titled "Why isn't everyone using Linux?", which is a great standalone topic. You could also place this as a subpage of The Web Economy.

The idea of Wikiversity in my mind is to bridge understanding, and using more meaningful titles could help with this. I'll leave it to you for now, but I think this might help people to find your course. Historybuff 21:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Chapingo University System
Hi! I noticed your recent post at Chapingo University System. If most of the content will be in Spanish, you should consider contributing to Wikiversidad español instead. We do have some Spanish content here, but it is primarily for teaching Spanish to English speakers. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:03, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I will certainly reorganised this then as you advised. - Red1 (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Need
Helo I. Am new here but I am willing to learn Fezial (discuss • contribs) 21:13, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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Enterprise Resource Planning/Open Source

Introduction

 * This is intended to be a framework of a 10 module Executive Diploma in Open Source ERP.
 * It hopes to make graduates who followed this course to be capable in managing an implementation of an Open Source ERP application.
 * They would also be able to calculate the case of an OSS option versus a proprietary one with regard to risks and resources preparedness to ensure a successful outcome.
 * They would also be able to analyse basic requirements of typical target users and figure out the necessary modifications to fit those requirements.
 * They would either be able to implement the whole project on their own or work with a bigger team satisfactorily.
 * At the end of the course, they can participate with community members, vendors or practitioners as apprentices to gain valuable practical exposure and experience.
 * There can be a certification process by the author(s) to denote those who meet the passing mark.

ERP Goes Open Source

 * Open Source has gone up the food chain. It is no longer about Linux and Apache. It has entered the realm of business software.
 * When Compiere ERP/CRM made its debut in 2001, it brings to the territory its first serious player challenging even the likes of SAP and Navision.
 * Since then many play the path and in many integrative units such as Dolibarr ERP/CRM, SugarCRM, Pentaho and Eclipse BIRT.

New Disruptive Landscape

 * There is a need to comprehend this new disruptive playing field in business applications and its impact to vendors and users
 * A new landscape brings new definitions and names to the market. Much confusion is caused by names-dropping and repackaging of old theories and models. An example is the previously failed ASP (Application Service Provider) been repackaged as SaaS (Software as a Service).

The Need To Understand

 * Many early attempts to implement Open Source in the business area have met with their golden share of failures. What are its true causes and remedies?
 * Is the chaos clearing itself and the dust settling? What do we watch out for? What to believe or not to believe?
 * Who are the pioneers and what can they tell us?

What is ERP?
You most likely know what Open Source is, but what is ERP and what does it mean to have Open Source ERP?

ERP and ES

 * ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning
 * Concerns the operations of any accounts-based organization
 * Face challenges in managing and analysing the flow of information involved
 * Organization interfaces with the supply chain of suppliers and consumers, both internal and external
 * Requires modern tools such as computers and software to allow efficiency of operations

 * ES stands for Enterprise Software that handles ERP
 * Often refered to as ERP Software
 * Interchangeable with the term ERP
 * Has come to mean Business Application Software that covers Business Intelligence (BI) and CRM

Where ERP comes from and goes to?

 * Formerly started as Manufacturing MRP
 * Recently move up the value chain to ERP
 * Now even cover the areas of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and BI (Business Intelligence)
 * It may be an even more drastic Where is it going to? with ERP On Demand. Think Google-ERP.

Why is ERP Important?

 * Accounting is the fundamental basis of all business activity
 * ERP has accounting in the backend and Supply Chain in the fore
 * Supply chaining means non redundancy and automation to the whole process

Free ERP Software

 * Open Source has now moved higher the value chain to encompass business enterprise applications
 * Focus on business solutions and independent of other Open Source utilities such as Linux, Apache and MySQL
 * Highly complex to implement as ERP in itself is complex
 * Shall compete with proprietary ERP Software such as SAP, MS Navision, Oracle Financials and JD Edwards

Examples of Open Source ERP

 * Compiere ERP/CRM
 * OpenERP
 * OpenBravo ERP
 * ADempiere Bazaar
 * Dolibarr ERP/CRM
 * Erp5
 * Pentaho (BI)
 * SugarCRM (CRM)
 * Tryton
 * Xtuple postbooks
 * webERP
 * Apache OFBiz

What to Learn Here?

 * Types of Open Source software and their advantages
 * Commercial vs Community Open Source
 * Licensing Model
 * How to evaluate their functional suitability for businesses
 * Scoping and Gaps Analysis
 * The challenge of implementation
 * Methodology and Good Practice
 * Phased and Protoyping Approach
 * Comparing to proprietary options and calculating TCO (Total Costs of Ownership)
 * Cost of Warranty and Intangible Risks
 * The Eco-System That Open Source ERP Today Involves
 * Involving the Community
 * Institutional Assets of Product
 * Learn From Both Sides of The Fence
 * As the End-User
 * As the Vendor
 * Go Under The Hood
 * Setting Up The Application
 * Debugging the Source

2 Day Technical Course

 * Is part of the longer course but specific to technicalities

Day 1 Part I (4 hrs)

 * How to Setup the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse
 * Getting the source and porting into the IDE
 * Setting Up The Database and Sample Data
 * Setting Up The Application (based on ADempiere)
 * Check-up and System Utilities

Day 1 Part II (2hrs)

 * Going through the App
 * Completing a Sales Order with new Client and Product
 * Checking the inventory
 * Shipment and Invoice
 * Purchasing through Receipt

Day 2 Part I

 * Configuring the Window-Table
 * Incorporating Business Rules
 * Configuring Reports

Day 2 Part II

 * Debugging and solving bugs
 * Extending the source
 * Example of an Addon (based on Posterita)

One Day Seminar

 * This is as a general pre-sales buy-in of a public seminar

First Session (2hrs)

 * What is Open Source?
 * TCO on ERP's favour
 * The Dilema of ERP and the Open Source Answer
 * The Miracle of the Bazaar

Second Session

 * Demo of an ERP
 * Samples of vertical industries adaptation

3rd Session

 * Demo of Posterita
 * Live Installations worldwide

Open Source ERP Implementation Course

 * High-level Business Concern and Project Level Treatment
 * To see the whole challenge of implementing from a nutshell
 * To appreciate the context and challenge of business needs behind the promise of Open Source ERP
 * More for the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) community
 * Also known as End-Users
 * Give them idea of what to expect and thus make right decision if its worth DIY all the way
 * Deciding when not to do too much and outsource the crucial parts to experts
 * Can be for the Implementor Community
 * Also known as Systems Integrators (SI)
 * Able to educate End-Users the path and risks along the way
 * Use as roadmap to divide the role and tasks between them and End-Users in a contract
 * Even for the Developer Community
 * To be aware of the challenge of implementing as different and outside their scope
 * To know where to fit their skillsets into the roadmap

Chapter 1 - Knowing the Right Source

 * Why Choose Open Source?
 * The TCO Pyramid
 * War Games Among Players
 * Ways to Evaluate Open Source Products
 * Reading The Source
 * Reading The License

Chapter 2 - Spelling Out Your Business

 * Know Your Priorities and Pains
 * Making Your Wishlist
 * Identifying the Gaps
 * Getting the best fit

Chapter 3 - The Proposal & Selection Stage

 * Issuing the RFP
 * Selecting The Vendor
 * Managing the Contract
 * The Exit Clause

Chapter 3 - Turning The Key

 * Scoping for a phased approach
 * Prototyping and Proof-Of-Concept Approach
 * User Checklist
 * Before Cutting Over

Chapter 4 - Sustenance

 * Disaster Recovery & Other Doomsday Scenarios
 * Return to the Source
 * Why Are Your Options Open?

Open Source ERP Practitioner Course

 * For the newbie community who got infected with the passion of Open Source collaboration
 * For freelance contributors who wants to know how to sustain themselves the consultative way
 * Understanding the various segments who sees different Business Models in sustenance

Chapter 1 - Community Sentence

 * Are You Up To It?
 * What Is The World Up To?
 * Serving The Community
 * Creating A Presence
 * Etiquette & Professional Conduct
 * Making Open Source Your Business

Chapter 2 - Approaching The Buyers

 * Types of Buyers
 * Qualifying a Sale
 * Scoping the Project
 * Terms of Contract
 * Preparing the Team

Chapter 3 - Signing Off

 * Reports on Progress
 * Sign-Off Strategies
 * Managing the Unexpected

Chapter 4 - Training

 * Getting the audience
 * Hands-on Exercise
 * Continous Coaching

Chapter 5 - Support Contract

 * Handing Over Options
 * Negotiating the Support Contract

Chapter 6 - Bad Buyers

 * Why It Happen and How to deal with it?
 * There are no bad buyers but bad sellers
 * Avoiding bad deals
 * Questions to ask back

Project Workshop
Here are samplings from prototype work or client projects. Trademarked and copyright information belonging to the prospects or clients are carefully removed or edited off.
 * Sample Project I - ERP/Dual UOMs - On how to resolve the different Unit of Measurements between Buyer and Seller within an ERP Application.

Copyright & Other Disclaimers

 * All works here are from original authors and not taken from 3rd party sources
 * The course material and project works are suggestive materials awaiting peer review and not meant for professional consumption
 * Any business practice shown here are generic ones devoid of any practical advantage for any business to adopt against another competitor.
 * In case of the need to clarify any material depicted within here from the commercial or legal aspect please direct them to - Red1 05:49, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Resource Links

 * Lecturer's Project Resource - ADempiere Wiki
 * Lecturer's Learning Resource - Red1.org Forums
 * Open Source ERP tutorials and how-tos,recorded demos,industry analysis and news - Open Source ERP Guru.
 * Open Source accounting/ERP resources and evaluations - FBA "Open for Business" Blog.


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=Learner's Wishlist= Hi learners and professors!

Do join in and tell us what else u expect to learn on this subject. I happened to be involved in some Open Source ERP Projects such as Compiere ERP/CRM and ADempiere Bazaar. We have lots of resources, experience but most important the benevolent attitude of working with any Institution of Learning and Research in giving the world the best options. Not bias to own project namesake, we work with many other parties and thus wish to render the audience here the best possible prepared resources of documented learning. Do drop a line in my talk page if u find anything amiss and need to knock me on my head! I am used to it :) - Red1 12:02, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

=About this initiating lecturer - red1=
 * Born Singapore 1961, male of Chinese descent, habitually speaks Malay, English and local Chinese dialects
 * Career covers both sides of the fence in vendor-client relationships, contracting mostly in IT and Busines areas
 * Involves conducting courses, running websites, advising business and leading projects
 * Prefers to lecture and motivate than collecting debt and serving eviction notices
 * Concerned with the lack of common-sense materials that is up-to-date taking into account real-life scenarios but given in a professional and ISO style.

I'm looking for a similar resource but in "Closed Source ERP" MSWarrior 02:52, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


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User:Bmovaqar

Qui dedit benificium taceat; narret qui accepit (Seneca) Let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it. A quite descriptive resumé of mine is available at BahmanM.com.

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User talk:Cormaggio/Visions of Wikiversity

Been new, and not wishing to be bogged down by monolithic research i pointed in one direction and said "this way" so i m here. My question is "What is the Vision or concept of Wikiversity? What differentiates it from the rest?" i.e. from Wikipedia. Like to say more, but let me see if this pebble reached the bottom first. :D - Red1 12:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I must say the quote from Ray is most remarkable. I vote in support! - Red1 12:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * "chains on free speech" <-- Some speech runs counter to the educational mission of Wikiversity. Academic freedom does not mean Wikiversity is a platform for speech that fails to respect scholarly ethics. There are objective criteria that can be used to decide if someone is a liar. There are objective criteria that can be used to decide when something is pseudoscience. This is why it is possible for judges and juries to decide when someone is lying about what is or is not science. Intelligent design is in the category "pseudoscience" and not in category "science" for very good reasons. As one judge put it, "the religious nature of ID [intelligent design] would be readily apparent to an objective observer, adult or child" (see).: "silence the creationist", "Arguments for creationism" <-- Biblical creationists are free to explore their interpretations of scripture at School:Theology. If there are any Wikiversity participants who want to discuss published evidence they feel is scientific and supports intelligent design, we can easily do that (see discussion). I think it would be best to put such a discussion project in Category:Protoscience. (see) --JWSchmidt 15:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I think the main thing differentiating Wikiversity from other projects is that it is explicitly about learning, rather than involving some implicit element of learning. I would add to this the freedom Wikiversity gives people to explore what gives rise to knowledge, rather than to "simply" state how something is (not that I'm suggesting that Wikipedia's process, for example is simple!), and I think this is more or less the spirit of Ray's comment. To extend Jimbo's quote, it is to make people literate -ie being able to read and write (and that is a noble end in itself), but also to enable people to think critically about information. Information does not equate to education - learning must be prompted and framed by goals and contexts of learning - even informal or incidental learning. There may be some overlap between Wikibooks and Wikiversity - some of this is inevitable, but some could be better organised between the projects. And, to further muddy my answer, there will inevitably be learning involved in people's participation on other projects (I wrote my first M.Ed on "Wikipedia as a learning community"), but that Wikiversity can serve to organise and make explicit that process and context of learning - even if it involves the writing of articles on Wikipedia. Initial structure of these thoughts has been developed around Service community (and perhaps feeds into Wikiversity outreach, but this still needs a good deal of work. However, to avoid getting confused, I'd start with the welcome page and the approved project proposal. Cheers! Cormaggio talk 17:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well put. I hold that the first light of controversy shall arise over name calling. For example if i wish to dive into teaching economics, someone would ask which branch of economics, and if u would say, "Chinese Medieval laissez fair Bazaar Economics" i fear someone would ask, "Show where it came from the tree of economics, or go elsewhere". Anyway we won't know until somehow scratch back on the board. Thanks for intercoursing. My mind is getting warm - Red1 00:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Ear training

I suggest writing something about GNU Solfege.

Too many deadlinks!
Can we simply dispose of these redlinks? They are "bridges to nowhere" and rather unsightly!GeoBardRap 19:41, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

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User:Andy isonline

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currently pursuing electrical engineering. interested in a career in computer networking and security. email: andy_isonline@yahoo.com

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Parkinson's disease

Resources and pages covering Parkinsons disease

 * Portal:The Science Behind Parkinson's
 * Progress and Prospects in Parkinson's Research
 * Introduction to Parkinson's Science

 * Parkinson disease (OSCE) - Observed structured clinical examination

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User:Watercorse

watercorse page under construction.

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Category:Universities

This category is for brick and mortar universities. If you would like to place a high school, middle school or college, go to their respective category to do so.

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Talk:Southeast Asian Languages/Vietnamese language/Vietnamese One

This seems like an interesting, and perhaps highly functional way to make exowiki content easily available to wiki users. While I'm sure it is a wealth of valuable information, I've personally always found the MIT Open Courseware site a bit obfuscated and hard to navigate. Perhaps Wikiversity might be a tool to facilitate the utilization of content on other sites. --Remi 19:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:School

I think it's a bad idea to encourage Real world schools to put their institutions within the "School:" namespace - instead I think that they should be simply organised in this category (or subcategories). Otherwise we are going to have these pseudo-namespaces like "University:", "College:" "Community College:", "Kindergarten:", and all the other educational institution names I can't think of right now. I also think we need a policy on such pages to keep them to a practical aim, ie organising their activities in Wikiversity (effectively creating their own "portals"), instead of allowing a school to use Wikiversity as free advertising. How about having this policy at: Real world schools? Finally, I think this page (ie School) should be a kind of disambiguation page on meanings of schools in Wikiversity as well as outside of it. Thoughts? Cormaggio talk 20:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * We have Category:Real world school and a few pages in that category such as Phoenix Union Cyber High School. The "School:" namespace should be for content development projects, not descriptions of real world schools. --JWSchmidt 22:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I've made some changes that reflect this view. Cormaggio talk 11:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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8:00 class/13 May 2007

This is an archive of Wikiversity current events from 13 May 2007

Colloquium summary
Short summaries of active discussions at Colloquium
 * MediaWiki variables - Improving page creation templates.
 * Motto and slogan: close to the end of the selection process? "set learning free" and "open learning community". Related link: Motto contest.
 * Problem with hide/show buttons. Related blog entry: Navigation boxes.
 * common.css problem at multilingual Wikiversity hub.

Internet Relay Chat topics of the day
Re-cap of topics discussed in #wikiversity-en.
 * Using input boxes. Related link: create learning resource.
 * Improving French language content.
 * Proposed project: "How to check open proxies". Related links: Open Proxies, Service community, Meta-Wiki, Topic:MediaWiki, School:Computer science.
 * Problem with navigation box collapse/expand "button" solved via IRC. Related links User:JWSchmidt/Blog/12 May 2007, User_talk:Sebmol, Colloquium

Email discussions and blogs
Summaries of Email discussions and blogs with relevance to Wikiversity participants.
 * New page navigation aids for Wikiversity.
 * Why use wikis? blog post by Bertalan Meskó.
 * Warning about cross-wiki accounts.
 * Agenda watch: next Board of Trustees meeting in early June. See: Wikimedia meeting agendas. Will there ever be feedback from the Foundation about the proposed research guidelines?

Recent changes
Today's trends in active editing efforts.
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User:Libertiki

Basics
Libertiki is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and Liberty. I run a blog Libertiki and I use it as my user name. I will also use LaissezFaire on occasion.

My blog Libertiki is designed to organize and interact with other Libertarians or liberty minded individuals. Libertiki will be updated with political news and political editorials and opinions. There will also be links to resources that are helpful and valuable to the Libertarian community.

I created Libertiki to help organize the Libertarian community. This blog was created to help distribute information for the Libertarian community. It will be used as the news and information for the community of online Libertarians.

The Internet is important to the Libertarian community because it is a way for them to connect to spread the Libertarian philosophy and ideas. The Libertarian community is large, but it needs a way of coming together. Many projects have been started by many different groups, to accomplish this in their local areas. Libertiki is a way for Libertarians to connect on the Internet.

Many online users have leanings toward the Libertarian party and their ideas. Libertiki will allow them to focus their efforts on the Internet. The Libertarians have a rather large community online, making the goal of spreading Libertarian philosophy to mainstream politics and mainstream America, through the Internet an easier task.

Current Projects

 * Libertarianism - I am currently collecting and organizing material for the course.

Links

 * Libertiki My blog for organizing Libertarians.
 * Libertarian Party of the United States Libertarian Party of the United States
 * Libertarian Talk Show Free Talk Live
 * Mises.org Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Blogging/Starting a blog

Become one with the Internet
1.	What are you interested in? In order to begin blogging, you must identify what it is exactly you want to write about. Do you want your blog to be personal or a textbook of information? Do you like cooking or understanding and helping others understand mathematical algorithms? What kind of blog do you want to have: travel? lifestyle? fashion? photography? Choose to write about something that interests you. It doesn't have to be of something you're confident about. The confidence comes with practice.

2.	What blog platform do you want to use? There are several kinds of blog platforms: Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Google+ and others. Look at different blogs that use each platform. Then, set up a test blog on the ones you're most interested in to get a better feel of what it would be like to run a blog on that platform. From there, choose which one you like best and develop your blog.

3. 	What kind of feel do you want it to have? Personal? Informative? Identifying this will help you develop your writing style. This will also help you write more freely.

4. 	What do you want your blog to look like? Like in step 2, check out some blogs. Jot down things you like about them, like black background, big pictures, anything at all. Then, again, highlight the ones you like best and apply them to your blog. If you don't know how to do it (like installing endless scrolling), Google it.

5. 	Start writing! This can be the hardest, most enjoyable, most rewarding part of the whole process. Writing and expression yourself and your ideas is an invigorating thing. Try not to over-think what you're writing in the first draft. Just let your thoughts spill out onto the virtual paper. From there, you can develop/delete ideas and add new ones on.

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Blogging

A blog (a truncation of the expression web log)[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

Lessons

 * /Starting a blog/
 * /Software/

Related resources

 * Engines of Collaboration: A Look Under the Hood of Wikimedia - 26 November, 2007
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Stars/Evolutions

The star, or star system, at the center of the Cat's Eye Nebula on the right, is a Wolf-Rayet class WC star. An O7 spectral class star may be present as part of the system.

The planetary nebula around the stars has reached an outer diameter of about 25 arcseconds. If it has been expanding at a constant rate of 10 milliarcseconds a year, then HD 164963, the WC star, also designated BD +66 1066, has been evolving at least over the last 25,000 years.

Introduction
How do stars form, how do they shine for such a long period of time, and how do they die?

This lecture seeks to describe the process of a star's evolution.

Stellar evolution can be described as the life and death of a star. A period that theoretically may last from a few hundred million to ten billion years depending on the size of the star. Our Sun is about 4.5 billion years old and should last another 4-6 billion years if the Sun is an average size star.

If you were to pick a star at random there would be 1 in 15 chance of it being similar (same spectral type) as the sun. On the other hand the most likely star you would pick would be a very low mass M-type star which make up about 76% of all stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Other stars with larger masses, about ten times that of our Sun's, have a chance that they may burst and throw out all of their stellar material into the surrounding space leaving behind a super-dense object called a neutron star.

One theory is that throughout a star's life, it consumes its hydrogen through the process of nuclear fusion in its core, creating new and heavier elements until the star has exhausted its hydrogen fuel.

Pre-requisites
Students should have a good grasp of classical physics and calculus.

Evolutionary factors

 * Initial Conditions
 * Collapsing Gas Clouds
 * The Virial Theorem
 * Jeans Mass
 * Kelvin-Helmholz Contraction

 * Nuclear Fusion in Stars
 * The proton-proton chain

Objectives
Students will acquire an understanding of the following: The stages of the evolution of a star are determined by the size (mass) of the star.

Theoretical stellar evolution
Def. the "process of accumulating change" is called evolution.

Def.

 * 1.a: "any natural luminous body visible in the sky [especially] at night",
 * 1.b: "a self-luminous gaseous celestial body of great mass whose shape is [usually] spheroidal and whose size may be as small as the earth or larger than the earth's orbit".

is called a star.

Here's a theoretical definition:

Def. the "process of accumulating change" of "a self-luminous gaseous celestial body of great mass whose shape is [usually] spheroidal and whose size may be as small as the earth or larger than the earth's orbit" is called stellar evolution.

Photospheres
Def. "[a] visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun" is called a photosphere.

"When we speak of the surface of the Sun, we normally mean the photosphere."

"[T]he photosphere may be thought of as the imaginary surface from which the solar light that we see appears to be emitted. The diameter quoted for the Sun usually refers to the diameter of the photosphere."

The photosphere usually emits visual, or visible, radiation.

Starspots
"Starspots are equivalent to sunspots but located on other stars. Spots the size of sunspots are very hard to detect since they are too small to cause fluctuations in brightness. Observed starspots are in general much larger than those on the Sun, up to about 30 % of the stellar surface may be covered, corresponding to sizes 100 times greater than those on the Sun."

"The distribution of starspots across the stellar surface varies analogous to the solar case, but differs for different types of stars, e.g., depending on whether the star is a binary or not. The same type of activity cycles that are found for the Sun can be seen for other stars, corresponding to the solar (2 times) 11-year cycle. Some stars have longer cycles, possibly analogous to the Maunder minima for the Sun."

The Sun and other stars have periods of no starspots. As starspots appear to be cyclical but leave no apparent accumulated change, starspots are not participating in stellar evolution.

Understanding

 * Review what you have learned about stars so far.
 * Do you fully understand the terms red giant, white dwarf, neutron star, supernova, and black hole? If not, become acquainted with the terms and understand how they relate to the evolution of stars of different sizes.

Before continuing the activity, you should understand the following three facts:
 * 1) A star the size of our sun will burn steadily for 10 billion years, then expand to a red giant, and finally collapse into a white dwarf about the size of Earth.
 * 2) A star three or four times the sun’s mass will burn steadily for a shorter time, then expand into a red giant, and finally collapse, ending up as a neutron star—a super-dense star about the size of a large city.
 * 3) A star 50 times the sun’s mass will burn for an even shorter time and may blow up as a supernova before collapsing and eventually shrinking to infinity, becoming a black hole.

Focus on one of the three types of stars: a star the size of our sun, a star three or four times the sun’s mass, and a star 50 times the sun’s mass.

Draw a set of diagrams for all three types of stars.

Example diagram is centered at top.

Discussion Questions

 * 1) Discuss why some scientists were uneasy about the idea of an expanding universe?
 * 2) Astronomer Wendy Freedman's observations of Cepheid variable stars in another galaxy indicated that the age of the universe is about eight to twelve billion years. Why did her discovery cause such a debate among astronomers? What elements of her discovery still lend themselves to argument?
 * 3) What do scientists learn by observing parts of the universe in other than the visible parts of the spectrum?
 * 4) What materials are believed to compose dark matter, and what can we learn about the universe by examining it?

Evaluation
Evaluations of the diagrams are as follows: Three points: diagrams carefully prepared; labels clear and correct; diagrams accurately illustrate the star’s stages of evolution Two points: diagrams adequately prepared; some labels unclear or incorrect; diagrams accurately illustrate the star’s stages of evolution One point: diagrams carelessly prepared; labels unclear and/or incorrect; diagrams reflect some inaccurate information about the star’s stages of evolution Students can contribute to the assessment by determining how many diagrams will be required to illustrate the stages of evolution for each type of star.

Extra

 * Cepheid variables, supernovae, dark matter, cosmic background radiation, black holes, red shift.

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Backyard Astronomy

''' Introduction: What is backyard astronomy? '''

"There are more stars in the Universe then there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth"

What is Backyard Astronomy? Well it’s exactly that; buying your first telescope and setting it up for the first time in your backyard. In backyard astronomy, you hardly ever use long math equations or even calculate long impossible numbers (leave that to the professionals). Instead of complicated study of the sights of the universe (geography if you will), backyard astronomy is the pleasant sightseeing or touring of the universe; with a smattering of valuable scientific contribution if you would like.

In this page is solid advice for the beginner who wants to start exploring the universe. I will describe a quick yet meaningful trip towards the infinite and three solid ways to be prepared for them. Just like you wouldn't want to hike the Appalachian Trail before you've done a day hike, you should take an initial tour of the universe with your eyes open, and your mind open for learning on how to search the stellar void; after all the universe is a very big place.

I will then give some solid advice about an initial telescope and a new alternative approach that has been the big buzzword of the hobby for a couple decades now (and revolutionized everything). I give some suggested targets at the end; some of which I am currently studying.

Once you are exploring space, feel free to compare notes and let me know what your seeing. feel free to use the talk page to ask for directions, and for additional resources

Prepare to observe

Every beginner wonders Where do I begin?? The answer seems all too simple. Astronomy is a hobby of looking at distant splendors with a telescope and the unfortunately result for too many people (and worst of all; kids) is the ubiquitous skinny telescope in the closet; never used.

The truth is that for people that neither know what to look for, or how to see, the telescope is a very poor tool for both. So whatever you do, Don't begin with the telescopes, begin with the sky. The sky?

Right, the sky. Your first job is to begin the psychologically hard step of finding the major constellations.

So the first thing you will need is a dark place where you intend to observe, a chart to show you the constellations, and a plan to get your bearings. I would suggest you time your initial observation to coincide with some interesting astronomical sight.

we will discuss each in better detail.

Choose a location

Most people that think about observing celestial objects think of far-away skyscapes in the desert where the man-made lights are eliminated. While this might be useful later on, such a place is a Hard place to get your bearings. More likely (anyway) you live in the town and city and your backyard is a good enough place to learn the constellations. Here's the basics of what you need.

 * you need to keep all (local) bright lights out of your eyes. Turn off the porch light, find some kind of shadow to get the neighbors security light out of your eyes.  Use a red flashlight (or make a flashlight red with cloth), to read charts and make notes.
 * you need a clear sky. Even broken clouds will prevent you from seeing the patterns you need to see to start learning how to recognize constellations.
 * you need a good horizon. You need to be able to observe most of the way to the horizon without trees or buildings.  The North horizon is particularly important.
 * lastly close is a good thing. Close means comfortable, it means you can do it more often (important when your learning new stuff)

Sometimes the backyards isn't the best place. But often a neighborhood park, river, lake shore, or overlook is great. If your nearest place is particularly dark, you will actually work a little harder. Darker skies means more stars, Which will make it tough to see the basic patterns of the bright stars that form the constellations. Take heart, A little difficulty beginning is rewarded later on- When particularly beautiful cosmic sights is in the back yard or around the corner instead of hours away.

A chart (and other equiptment)

So if you were going on a trip, one of the more indispensable items would be a map, and preferably one showing the major intersections. Similarly in the night sky, you need a map as well. Unfortunately the earths' wobble through the season creates some definite changes in the sky over time. What happens then is that the sky rotates around a star in the north called Polaris (or the North star). You will either need a chart that rotates (called a planisphere) or you will have to use the correct chart for the year.

It is important that the chart is oriented correctly in the sky. Often this holding the chart above you as you view it. You might become disoriented and confused if you sit the chart on a table. Remember, It is also very important to Use a red light to view the chart at night. This allows you to read in the dark without spoiling your night vision for looking at the sky.

Another option is to use webpage that shows the position of the stars from your location at a particular time. One example can be found at http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

Software to run on your computer is also available for this purpose. The free Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/) is a great tool. With it you can determine what will be visible when you will be going outside.

A plan
Your goal in Astronomy will determine what you try to identify first. Some good initial projects could include:

 * Identifying the constellations of the Zodiac
 * Identifying the planets
 * Identifying different features on the Moon's surface

When you know what you wish to find, you can more effectively plan your astronomy time. Using a chart, software or a website, determine when the features you wish to identify will be visible.

If you are using a telescope or binoculars, you should practice with them during the day or inside before trying to use them in the dark. If you are unfamiliar with the controls on your telescope, trying to find a planet in the dark will be a frustrating process.

Video

 * Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Series
 * Neil Degrasse Tyson's "Cosmos: A Space Time Oddesy" and "Cosmos: Possible Worlds"
 * BBC’s “The Planets” Series
 * BBC’s “Space” Series
 * Discovery Channel “Understands the Universe”

Books

 * NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe, Terence Dickinson, 3rd edition
 * The Stars: A New Way to See Them, H.A. Rey, Enlarged World-Wide Edition, Houghton-Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-24830-2

Magazines

 * Astronomy Magazine
 * SkyNews: The Canadian Magazine of Astronomy & Stargazing

Internet

 * Astronomy picture of the Day

Glossary

 * Asteroid
 * Asteroid Belt
 * Astronomy
 * Azimuth
 * Ceres
 * Constellation
 * Dwarf Planet
 * Earth
 * Ecliptic
 * Equatorial Coordinate System
 * Galaxy
 * Globular Cluster
 * Horizon
 * Horizontal Coordinate System
 * Jupiter
 * Latitude
 * Longitude
 * Mars
 * Mercury
 * Moon
 * Nebula
 * Nadir
 * Neptune
 * North Pole
 * Open Cluster
 * Planet
 * Pluto
 * Saturn
 * Solar System
 * South Pole
 * Star
 * Sun
 * Telescope
 * Uranus
 * Venus
 * Zenith

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Talk:Stars/Evolutions

This page contains organisational materials, whereas topic:Stellar Evolution has contents. They should switch places (Naming conventions).Hillgentleman|Talk 06:44, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree. I do not know how to move the two by renaming without loosing info.  I also do not want to loose revision history.  How to proceed?--mikeu 21:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * After a couple of tries using rename, I merged Topic:Stellar_evolution with Stellar_Evolution I think the redirects are ok.  --mikeu 04:00, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

 * All learning resources must go in the main namespace. The topic namespace is for content development. --JWSchmidt 04:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Feel free to rename, or undo the merge. Otherwise I'll take a look at it later.--mikeu 04:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Moved Topic:Stellar evolution to Stellar evolution. --mikeu 14:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I think all the redirects are fixed. Note that Stellar Evolution, Topic:Stellar evolution, and Stellar Evolution all redirect to Stellar evolution--mikeu 14:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Incomplete lesson
There does not seem to be much content here for a lesson that would normally take several hours of lecture even for a general education non-majors course. I'm surprised not much has been added in the last decade, it is not like stellar evolution has changed drastically. I'll admit I have not looked through a large number of Wikiversity lessons, but as a student I would not get much out of this lesson. And why is calculus considered a prerequisite for this lesson? We don't ask about any math content here. Lauren-GRCC (discuss • contribs) 01:53, 30 September 2019 (UTC)Lauren-GRCC

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Backyard Astronomy
Just wanted to drop by and say I really like this idea! --HappyCamper 09:34, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I've added a category to the page and added a link to it from Topic:Astronomy. You might also want to get in touch with User:Mu301, who's active in all things astronomical. :-) Cheers! Cormaggio talk 10:46, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Hello, and welcome! Let me know (by leaving a message here) if you have any questions or need any help learning your way around.  A few people have already linked the pages you created so that they can found from the other astronomy pages.--mikeu 00:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Do you have any info on the image you uploaded Image:Venus by the Lake.jpg? Did you take it yourself or get it from somewhere else? --mikeu 02:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikiversity are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this:.

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Introduction to Christianity/The Christian Faith

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Faith
''Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. ... By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.'' (Heb 11:1,3, WEB)

Certain

 * God is self existing, knows everything, can do everything, and is everywhere.
 * God is love, good, just, and right.
 * God created the universe and all that's in it.
 * God created humanity like himself, without evil.
 * Humanity became evil and because of it, all die.
 * God produced his first born son, by a woman, called Jesus Christ.
 * Jesus died to save the world from evil, was raised from death, and returned to God.
 * Whoever has faith in Jesus Christ, and acts on that faith by doing good, will be resurrected and live forever.

Hope

 * Jesus will return with his reward.
 * "In my Father’s house are many mansions. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also." (Jn 14:2,3, WEB)

 * Jesus will establish an eternal new world order.
 * "Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star." (Rev 22:14-16, WEB)

 * All evil, pain, suffering, sickness, and death will be removed for ever.
 * He showed me a [TR adds “pure”] river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:1,2, WEB)

 * God and Jesus will live with humanity.
 * There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever. (Rev 22:3-5, WEB)

Laws
Christianity has the following laws of love:

 * Unconditional - "This is the first and great commandment. Love God with all your mind, body, and spirit." (Mt 22:38 [WEB])
 * Conditional - "A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Mt 22:39 [WEB])
 * Sacrificial - "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another." (Jn 13:34 [WEB])

"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (Jn 13:35 [WEB])

Practice
Christianity has the following rituals:

 * The Eucharist/Communion/Sacrament - A community "meal" with bread and wine (or juice or water).
 * Baptism - A personal sign of accepting Jesus into their life.

A Christian is expected to:

 * Pray to God in Jesus' name.
 * Meditate on God.
 * Fast.
 * Study the Scriptures.
 * Congregate in fellowship and worship.
 * Practice the Gifts of the Spirit.
 * Spread the faith throughout the world.
 * Watch for the return of Jesus.
 * Only do what is useful, beneficial, or productive.

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Hi there, welcome to Wikiversity, and thanks for your edits to Networking Intro/Personal practice. Below are some links which I hope you'll find useful. Cheers, Cormaggio talk 11:44, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Tom Hollinghurst. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tom Hollinghurst~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

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My name is Rafael. I'm a catalan native speaker from Benaguasil, a litle town in valencia, spain. I'm interested in Politics, I am going to start with School:Political Science

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French Mentoring
Salut, Liv. You are listed at the French stream as being a beginning student of French who is interested in learning French. The French Mentoring project has recently been launched, and if you add your name to that list, I will do my best to put you in contact with an appropriate Mentor who would be glad to help you. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 09:45, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Liv. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Liv~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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B is the new C

Welcome to B is the new C. This learning project allows Wikiversity participants to explore ways to use wiki technology as a tool to allow them to pursue their personal learning goals.

True or False
We all develop strategies for learning. Some strategies for learning that work in other environments may not work at Wikiversity. How can we best make use of wiki technology and collaborative webppage editing to promote learning by Wikiversity participants?

Reading assignment

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 * Wikiversity learning model
 * Superstition in the pigeon

Discussion
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 * What is Web 2.0?

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