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User talk:Anand sv~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Anand sv. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Anand sv~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 23:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Srs~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Srs. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Srs~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.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 00:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Vynodkumar~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Vynodkumar. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Vynodkumar~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.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Craig-Kelly

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User talk:Pharmankur

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User talk:Acote~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Acote. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Acote~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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User talk:Powertoothbisa

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User talk:Marius Wallace

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User talk:Createdontimitate~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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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.

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User talk:ZetaSolid

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User talk:Surajv1986

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User talk:Marinsco

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User talk:E1e4n0r~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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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 E1e4n0r. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name E1e4n0r~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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User talk:Ravirapolu

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User talk:Gradvmedusa

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Gradvmedusa. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Gradvmedusa~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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User talk:Mzshey2x

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User talk:Doublethink~enwikiversity

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Doublethink. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Doublethink~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 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:John Vandenberg

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Ethics project
Welcome, and thank you for your participation. Dzonatas 17:09, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for joining the Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia project. Please do your best to encourage and enable everyone to advance sourced claims that are related to the ethical management of a wiki site or a media site; especially management of the English Language Wikipedia site. We are still at the stage of identifying and documenting (1) which questions should be asked and (2) what has happened and (3) is happening at that site. My preliminary conclusion is that increased ethical awareness would be helpful at Wikipedia. But it will be months before this project is at a stage that I would recommend people from there to come here to learn. Right now I recommend people come here to help create it as a resource. WAS 4.250 01:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

This is my boilerplate message to everyone who comes to the ethics project who might not be familiar with WikiVersity: Welcome to the ethics project. Things are different here from Wikipedia. Original research is allowed, there is no three revert rule (this add/delete links thing on the ethics project appears to be their first revert war), and it is inclusive meaning people are supposed to add their learning resources (with evidence) and not delete other people's contributions. Feel free to create whatever new learning resources you think would be useful for someone trying to manage a media or encyclopedia project ethically or improve existing learning resources. Collaborative edits are fine; completely changing the meaning should not be done to another's contributions - instead, create an alternative learning resource rather than do that. Others can read either or both and make up their own mind. WAS 4.250 01:41, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Hello, John. Welcome to wikiversity. I find it interesting that you are exploring wikiversity through the images, which may be a new pathway. How is the experience? Hillgentleman|Talk 02:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, I am sprung!! Image maintenance is how I explored Wikisource at first as well.  It is interesting to see who is uploading what, try and find out why, and whether it is appropriate.  I am not finding many blatant copyvios, which is good, but I am seeing a lot of media without much reason (I have yet to see much rhyme here, anywhere; clearly we need more poetry here).  I'll keep pottering along; feel free to yell if I am stepping on anyones toes. John Vandenberg (chat) 04:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Australia
Hi jayvdb - just saying hi after our IRC chat. Happy to be involved in Wikimedia Australia. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:18, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Japanese poetry copyvio
Let me know if you want to rescue the copvio stuff at Japanese poetry copyvio. --mikeu talk 02:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I am looking at these now. John Vandenberg (chat) 03:48, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Have you had a chance to review these? --mikeu talk 19:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I did look at a few, and verified that one of them isnt a copyvio. I'm intensely busy right now with the en.wp arbcom elections; give me a few days and ill sort it out. John Vandenberg (chat) 22:19, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ok, just checking. --mikeu talk 01:48, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Looks like the original uploader just blanked most of those pages, and is using User:Okanosato instead. --mikeu talk 14:47, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi John, thanks for the help with University of Canberra/RCC2011. Looking forward to learning some advanced skills. Gotta warn you though, I'm really crappy at managing the communication through mediaWiki. Best send me email if you need to get me: leighblackall@gmail.com

Very nice to meet you, and looking forward to a great year. Leighblackall 06:52, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

 * If you are any better at IRC, I am on at the moment, and can be usually found there throughout the day.
 * email also works for me. jayvdb@gmail.com
 * I'm feeling very enthusiastic about this coming year; thanks for that! John Vandenberg (chat) 07:12, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Great to meet you, albeit briefly at RCC, John. Look forward I hope to further collaboration. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 07:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Meeting you all, and seeing the videos of the sessions that I missed, has given me hope in Wikiversity. John Vandenberg (chat) 08:34, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for thinking of fixing my link and for your responses to my public domain questions in the colloquium. --Charles Jeffrey Danoff 06:16, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Biblical RFD
Hi John, you commented on this previously; I reopened the RfD: Requests_for_Deletion –SJ + > 11:58, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * When Poetlister first began working here on Wikiversity, a RfD was appropriate as it would have effectively put a halt to the core problem, which was avoiding the Wikisource community. Now it isn't, as Poetlister is now using Wikiversity within scope, e.g. Discussion of the Wikisource Translation of the Bible.  A local ban discussion is the appropriate way forward. John Vandenberg 06:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The page on discussion of the WS translation is spot on - that's something wikiversity should be doing. So is the bibliography for would-be translators.  I don't see the point in keeping the duplicate translation here, however; hence the RfD.  –SJ + > 04:04, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

The question of a ban is independent in my mind from whether a primary source translation is appropriate for WV. Do you feel a local ban discussion is appropriate, given the discussion of a global ban on Meta? If so, where should that take place here? –SJ + >

File:Uc-logo.png, File:UC.png
Hi John. You uploaded these two files as fair use, but neither have fair use rationales. You should add and complete Template:Non-free use rationale to each file page to provide a rationale. Independent fair use rationales are needed for every use of the image. It would probably be best to limit use of File:Uc-logo.png to University of Canberra. You might want to see the Wikipedia claim of fair use of a similar logo for the Wikipedia article on the University. Concerning the second file, we currently don't allow fair use images in userspace, if you see our exemption doctrine policy, so unless this file can be released under a free license, it cannot be used in any of its present applications. Thanks. -- Simone 09:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing this out. I only updated one of them.  user:Leighblackall started it! ;-)  I've notified Talk:University of Canberra. --John Vandenberg 10:23, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- Simone 10:24, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Dementia Care Wiki
Hi John - I'm curious to get your thoughts about the Australian Paralympic History project in terms of the partnership with WMF. I am developing a project outline for an already-funded Dementia Care Wiki, which is essentially to build information and resources about research on dementia care for training and community and patient purposes, as well as a community of editors around this. One of the tasks it to make recommendation for a wiki platform. There are many elements of the Paralympic History project could be replicated and appropriate. However, I am interested to pick your brains and get any suggestions re getting the project well aligned with WMF if that is a good direction to go. And would WMF Australia like to officially partner in the project in some way? I will also catch up with Leigh to get his thoughts. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:57, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry I didnt see this until now. It's a shame as I was down in Canberra on the weekend at w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Canberra/5, and it would have been great to discuss this in person.  A skype call would be the way to go, either to discuss the project or to arrange an in person discussion.  I've emailed you my skype ID as I like to keep that private.  Grab me any time. John Vandenberg 02:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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The template doesn't work it says "template: nospam" as contact point - wifey
 * Fixed :P John Vandenberg (talk) 08:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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User:Martinmcd

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Thanks for Acknowledgement of Invitation's Usefulness
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Topology/Lesson 1

What is a Topology?
The word "topology" has two meanings: it is both the name of a mathematical subject and the name of a mathematical structure. A topology on a set $$X$$ (as a mathematical strucure) is a collection of what are called "open subsets" of $$X$$ satisfying certain relations about their intersections, unions and complements. In the basic sense, Topology (the subject) is the study of structures arising from or related to topologies.

Reading Assignment

 * The following reading is suggested to help supplement this lesson.
 * Wikibooks Topology book:
 * Chapter 2.2.2
 * Chapter 2.2.3
 * Chapter 2.2.4
 * Wikipedia articles:
 * Topology
 * General topology
 * Open set

Definition (topology)
Let $$X$$ be a set. Then a topology on $$X$$ is a set $$\mathcal T$$ such that the following conditions hold. The set $$X$$ together with the topology $$\mathcal T$$ is called a topological space (or simply a space) and is commonly written as the pair $$(X,\mathcal T).$$ Or, when $$\mathcal T$$ is understood it may be omitted and we will simply say that $$X$$ is a topological space.
 * 1) $$\{\emptyset, X\}\subset \mathcal T\subset 2^X$$ (where $$2^X$$ denotes the power set of X)
 * 2) For $$\mathcal S\subset \mathcal T$$ we have $$\left(\bigcup_{U\in \mathcal S}U\right)\in \mathcal T.$$
 * 3) For finite sets $$\mathcal S\subset \mathcal T$$ we have $$\left(\bigcap_{U\in \mathcal S}U\right)\in \mathcal T.$$

Examples
Here are some very simple examples of topological spaces. For these examples, $$X$$ can be any set.
 * Discrete topology
 * The collection $$\mathcal T_d=2^X$$ is called the discrete topology on $$X.$$

 * Indiscrete topology
 * The collection $$\mathcal T_i=\{\emptyset,X\}$$ is called the indiscrete topology or trivial topology on $$X.$$

 * Particular point topology
 * Given a point $$x_0\in X,$$ the collection $$\mathcal T_{x_0}=\{U\subset X\mid x_0\in U\}\cup \{\emptyset\}$$ is called the particular-point topology on $$X.$$

It is left as an exercise to verify that each of these three collections does indeed satisfy the axioms of a topology (conditions 1,2,3 in the definition above).

Reading supplement
See also Wikipedia articles:
 * Discrete space
 * Trivial topology
 * Particular point topology

Definition (open set, closed set,neighborhood)
Suppose that $$(X,\mathcal T)$$ is a topological space.
 * Open set
 * A set $$U\subset X$$ is open if $$U\in \mathcal T.$$

 * Closed set
 * A set $$A\subset X$$ is closed if $$A^c=(X\setminus A)\in \mathcal T.$$

 * Neighborhood
 * For a point $$x_0\in X$$ a set $$N\subset X$$ is a neighborhood of $$x_0$$ if there is an open set $$U\in \mathcal T$$ such that $$x_0\in U\subset N.$$

Definition (closed topology)
Suppose that $$\{\emptyset,X\}\subset \mathcal S\subset 2^X.$$ Then $$\mathcal S$$ is a closed topology if Show that for any set $$X,$$ the collection $$\mathcal T$$ is a topology on $$X$$ if and only if the collection $$\mathcal S=\{T^c\mid T\in \mathcal T\}$$ is a closed topology on $$X.$$
 * Alternate definition of a topology
 * 1) for any $$\mathcal R\subset \mathcal S$$ we have $$\left(\bigcap_{R\in \mathcal R}R\right)\in \mathcal S$$ and
 * 2) for any finite collection $$\mathcal R\subset \mathcal S$$ we have $$\left(\bigcup_{R\in \mathcal R}R\right)\in \mathcal S.$$

Definition (interior, closure)
Let $$(X,\mathcal T)$$ be a space and let $$A\subset X.$$
 * Interior
 * The interior of $$A$$ (denoted $$\operatorname{int}(A)$$) is defined to be the union of all open sets contained in $$A.$$ In other words, $$\operatorname{int}(A)=\bigcup_{\underset{U\in \mathcal T}{U\subset A}}U.$$

 * Closure
 * The closure of $$A$$ (denoted $$\bar A$$) is defined to be the intersection of all closed sets containing $$A.$$ That is, $$\bar A = \bigcap_{\underset{B^c\in \mathcal T}{B\supset A}}B.$$

Definition (basis)
Let $$(X,\mathcal T)$$ be a space. Then a collection $$\mathcal B\subset \mathcal T$$ is a basis if for any point $$x_0\in X$$ and any neighborhood $$N$$ of $$x_0$$ there is a basis element $$B\in \mathcal B$$ such that $$x_0\in B\subset N.$$

The benefit of talking about a basis is that sometimes describing every open set is unwieldy. For example, describing an open set in the Euclidean plane $$\mathbb{R}^2$$ would be difficult, but describing a basis is very easy. A basis of open sets in the plane is given by "open rectangles". That is $$\mathcal B=\{(a,b)\times (c,d)\mid a<b, c<d\in \mathbb{R}\}$$ forms a basis.

Once a basis is determined, a set $$U\subset X$$ is open if it is the union of basis elements. That is, if $$\mathcal B$$ is a basis, then the topology is given by $$\mathcal T=\left\{\bigcup_{B\in \mathcal A}B \mid \mathcal A\subset \mathcal B\right\}.$$

Definition (compact)
Let $$(X,\mathcal T)$$ be a topological space. Then a set $$K\subset X$$ is compact if and only if every open cover of $$K$$ has a finite subcover.

Reading supplement
See also Wikipedia articles:
 * Interior
 * Closure
 * Basis

Lesson Exercises

 * 1) Let $$X$$ be a three-point set. Then there are $$2^{2^3}=256$$ different subsets of $$2^X.$$  How many of these are topologies on $$X?$$  In other words, how many different 3-point topologies are there?
 * 2) Can you find a formula for the number of topologies on an $$n$$-point set?
 * 3) Suppose that $$\mathcal B\subset 2^X$$ is such that for any $$x\in X$$ there is a set $$B\in \mathcal B$$ containing $$x$$ and that for any two sets $$B_1,B_2\in \mathcal B$$ such that $$B_1\cap B_2\ne \emptyset$$ there is a set $$B_3\in \mathcal B$$ such that $$B_3\subset B_1\cap B_2.$$ Show that the collection $$\mathcal T=\left\{\bigcup_{A\in\mathcal A}A\mid \mathcal A\subset \mathcal B\right\}\cup \{\emptyset\}$$ is a topology on $$X$$ and that $$\mathcal B$$ is a basis for $$\mathcal T.$$
 * 4) Let $$\mathcal S\subset 2^X$$ be such that for all $$x\in X$$ there is a set $$S\in \mathcal S$$ which contains $$x.$$ Then show that the collection $$\mathcal B=\left\{\bigcap_{R\in \mathcal R}R\mid \mathcal R\subset \mathcal S\text{ is finite}\right\}$$ is a basis for a topology $$\mathcal  T$$ on $$X$$ (using the criterion given in exercise 3).  In this case, we call $$\mathcal S$$ a subbasis for $$\mathcal T.$$
 * 5) A basis $$\mathcal B$$ for a topology $$\mathcal T$$ is said to be minimal if any proper collection $$\mathcal A\subsetneq \mathcal B$$ is not a basis for $$\mathcal T.$$ Given a set $$X,$$ find a minimal basis for the discrete topology $$\mathcal T_d=2^X.$$
 * 6) It is clear from the definition that $$\operatorname{int}(A)\subset A\subset \bar A.$$ Show that if $$A\subset B$$ then $$\operatorname{int}(A)\subset\operatorname{int}(B)$$ and $$\bar A\subset \bar B.$$
 * 7) Show that $$\operatorname{int}(\operatorname{int}(A))=\operatorname{int}(A)$$ and that $$\overline{\bar A}=\bar A.$$ Use these facts to show that $$A\subset X$$ is open if and only if $$A=\operatorname{int}(A)$$ and is closed if and only if $$A=\bar A.$$
 * 8) Is it true that for any set $$A\subset X$$ that $$\overline{A^c}=(\operatorname{int}(A))^c?$$ Give a proof or a counterexample.
 * 9) Show that the collection $$\mathcal B=\{(a,b)\mid a<b\in \mathbb{R}\}$$ of open intervals is a basis for a topology on $$\mathbb{R}.$$ This is called the standard topology on $$\mathbb{R}.$$

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I re-incorporate me (myself) to the activities of wikiversity and i am thanking u for your contributions there in topo, greets--Juan Marquez 18:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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Nice work at Lesson 4 of topology. Are you planning to talk about nets and all that? Thenub314 04:28, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, actually. I was planning on doing that. I wasn't sure if Lesson 4 was the best place, but I suppose it would be. Gandalfxviv 05:01, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

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This is kind of cool! I do not intend do learn Cornish but if I did this seems like it would be a useful starting place. Interested Cornish speakers might want to check out http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page as a place to meet other Cornish or multilingual people, start accumulating Cornish materials, and gather enough Cornish participants to establish a dedicated Cornish language Wikiversity wiki. Mirwin 18:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


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User:JWSchmidt/Blog/19 December 2007

Adjustments to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

It was announced this month that both Michael Davis and Erik Möller are gone from the Board. Michael was one of three Trustees who had terms scheduled to end this month. Erik had been elected this year to be on the Board until the middle of 2009. Jan-Bart de Vreede and Jimmy Wales had recently been re-appointed to new terms. So the loss of Michael was expected, but the loss of Erik from the Board was a surprise until Florence Nibart-Devouard announced his resignation.

My expectation is that the remaining Board members might just appoint someone to replace Michael and they are probably going down the list of candidates from last year's election to find someone to replace Eric.

Other Questions
Another event in 2007 was the departure of Danny Wool (mail list) from the Office and his run for a Board position. During his campaign he raised questions about the handling of money by the Foundation. A few days after Danny's departure, Brad Patrick, the Foundation's legal adviser also left. Given the turmoils discussed below, it might be relevant that his replacement did not arrive until July. The June Board meeting was a nexus of place, time and people. Sue Gardener attended and was soon hired by the Board. Carolyn Doran (see below) attended and apparently had trouble slipping back into the country.

In the Office
A major objective for the Board has been establishing the Wikimedia Foundation Office as the locus for day-to-day operations of the Foundation. Key to this plan has been staffing the Executive Director position. Sue Gardner is now at the helm of the Office as Executive Director and has been searching for new staff, a process complicated by the fact that she decided to move the Office from Florida to California.

Two unusual events have recently impacted on the process of establishing the Wikimedia Office staff:

2008 update note,
 * 2008 Updates:

Finance
First, the mysterious loss of Carolyn Doran last Summer was finally revealed to be related to personal problems. The troubling part of her loss from the perspective of the Wikimedia Community is that her job in the office (chief operations officer) included all the key fiscal duties:

 * Ensure effective audit trails.
 * Approve expenditures.
 * Provide for proper fiscal record-keeping and reporting.
 * Submit monthly financial statements to the board of directors.

After previous failure in past years to provide regular financial statements, it had been promised that the Audit Committee would establish a process in the Office for regular financial reports (quarterly or semi-annual reviews) and make sure that the next financial year external audit was completed in a timely manner. This is where matters become murky. It seems reasonable to assume that Carolyn Doran would have been given the responsibility to produce the regular financial reports. The Office should have been establishing a book-keeping system that would make it easy for the external auditor to produce their yearly report in a timely manner. After Carolyn Doran's departure from the Office a new time-table for reporting on Foundation finances was announced. Members of the Wikimedia community are left wondering if Carolyn Doran might have disrupted Foundation finances in some way. Jimmy Wales tried to calm fears by announcing that, "if the currently underway audit turns up any stolen money, I will personally make a donation out of my own pocket to cover the loss".

2006-2007 audit

 * Release of financial statements 2006-2007 - email from Florence Devouard
 * the actual report - PDF file

The Deputy
The day after Eric resigned from the Board, Sue Gardner announced that she had hired him as her "Deputy Director". Nobody in the community had ever heard of the "Deputy Director" position, let alone the possibility that Erik would be moved from the Board to a paid position in the Office. It seems that Erik may have been the one person besides Sue who knew what was going to happen. Wrong

In November, when the Board appointed Sue as Executive Director, Erik mysteriously refused to vote. We now know that Erik knew of Sue's plan to make him Deputy Director and he did not vote on her appointment because he had a huge conflict of interest. Of course, what we do not know is if Erik participated in previous Board actions related to the hiring of Sue as a "consultant" and if that was part of an agreement by which she would hand him a paid position in the Office.

Why would a new Executive Director, someone who claims to know what is going on do an end run around sensible hiring practices such as creating job descriptions and doing advertising of new position openings and interviewing job candidates? "It's completely normal, in some circumstances, to not advertise." Yes, many corporations do secret hires and do not follow good practices in hiring. No, this is not how to build support in the Wikimedia community. There is no evidence that she yet understands this (even after vocal complaints from community members), but what can we really expect from someone who is an outsider and really does not understand the organization she has been hired to run?

Sue has made clear her position, "transparency is always tough when it comes to individual staffing issues." Yes, when you fail to first define a job, when you fail to ask if filling that position has priority over previously launched job searches, when you fail to consult with others who have years of experience in your organization, when you fail to open a job search to external candidates then transparency becomes very tough....and the difficulty is all because of the choices you have made.

Due to popular demand, a job description was finally created the day after the job position was filled. Erik will be, "Responsible for the development and execution of the Foundation's technical strategy". Should such a task be assigned to someone who has been busily working on his own technical development strategy outside of Wikimedia rather than inside our own projects?

Update:
 * The Day the Foundation Stood Still

Rules on hires
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and others continue to wonder about Erik's role in the Board not setting a policy on Trustees being hired for paid Foundation Staff positions. Was the Board in favor of making it a policy that nobody be hired directly off the Board into a paid Staff position? Did Erik play a role in delaying the implementation of such a policy just before he was hired?

Open Governance
Some members of the community have expressed unhappiness with the secrecy of the Board of Trustees and the secrecy of Erik's appointment as Deputy Director (one example). Rather than a consistent atmosphere of openness, the Foundation has sometimes been secretive and when asked about this has responded with defensiveness and incoherent efforts at self-justification (just one example). "I don't believe that hiring and staffing decisions are something that belongs on a public mailing list." That is an interesting point to make, particularly since nobody else ever suggested it. Everyone knows that Sue has been given the power to hire people. What has been questioned is creating an important position and filling it in secret under conditions that raise questions about conflict of interest and if she knows what she is doing or cares if she alienates the community.

Another miss-direction: "Increasing the number of people involved in the decision does not necessarily increase the quality of the decision". Nobody has suggested this, so again, why does Erik bring this to our attention and work so hard to show us that it is a silly idea? The point is, sometimes openness and community effort helps to guide our actions. In the end Sue makes hiring decisions, but does she walk on water and not need advice from Wikimedians? She got advice from Erik and they both agree that it was adequate advice. Are they so embedded in their bunker that they cannot see how this looks to others from the outside?

This is a critical time for the Foundation with Sue trying to build a staff that can meet the needs of the Wikimedia Foundation and support the volunteers of the wiki project community. Since Sue is an outsider brought in as an experienced non-profit manager, there is going to be concern about the question of if she and other outside staff members will understand and respect the community. The appointment of a "Deputy Director" is an opportunity to position a member of the Community in the Office who can help orient other staff members towards an understanding of the community and its needs. The question becomes, is Erik the best person for such a critical role?

Erik originally ran for election to the Board on a platform calling for "open community dialogue" and said he would ensure that organizational processes were open and transparent. Things were different in 2007 where his goals had shifted to "license compatibility", "institutional partnerships" and hiring an Executive Director. Some members of the community have viewed his work on behalf of internet projects outside of Wikimedia as a conflict of interest. Some of his Wikimedia initiatives (example) and dealings with the smaller Wikimedia wiki projects have been viewed as insensitive to the needs of those projects. Will Erik guide the Office Staff towards the needed support of the projects and the volunteers or towards external interests that really are not priorities for the community?

The Chair of the Board previously asked for advice on how to set up suitable systems of governance for the Foundation. She was exploring options such as "Carver model". I think the correct option for the Wikimedia community is open governance. A wiki-based community does not want its leaders acting in secret. We need to either fix the Special projects committee or create some other mechanism by which the community can gain access to Foundation money for the purpose of addressing the needs of the community. We certainly cannot just leave it up to administrators in the Office to make decisions about how to spend money when there is no evidence that they are acting as members of the community or have any interest in supporting the community. Of course, Sue and Erik might become the dynamic duo who learn to communicate effectively with the community while working in support of the community. Its hard to see that now when what we are experiencing is secrecy and poor communication between the Foundation and the community.

This might be the time to form an "Open Governance Party" that will try to elect Board members who support the idea of open governance and who will support the Foundation's wiki projects. In the last election there was a candidate who ran on a platform that called for "shutting down non-Wikipedia projects". Those of us who see Wikipedia as the launch platform and the smaller wiki projects as the future of the Wikimedia Foundation need to become organized and active in Foundation-level governance.

Follow-up

 * About transparency by Florence Devouard
 * reply from Sebmol
 * board expansion <-- I think this is a good example of the kind of openness that is needed between the Wikimedia Foundation and the community. The idea of expanding the Board has been discussed for quite a while and it sounds like a decision has been made to do it soon. It sounds like three new Board members might be appointed soon and then they will have to stand for election next Summer. In the past, these kinds of appointments have been made from the list of high vote getters at the previous election. One aspect of this practice is that the current system for electing Board members gives advantage to anyone who was previously appointed by the Board. I've heard it stated that the top vote getter in the last Board election only got the support of 40% of those who voted. I think it would be better to use a system like the one used to elect members to the Wikipedia arbitration committee elections where you can vote either yes or no for a candidate. Only allowing yes votes gives too much advantage to incumbent candidates.

Update: Welcome to our two new board members

disturbance in the force
Just a few lingering complaints about About transparency on the Foundation mail list.

For me, Florence's comments from the 22nd contained a rather large holiday lump of coal. I've been expecting someone on the mail list to provide some details, but I guess it is rather a catch-22.....the theme from the Foundation seems to be "we cannot talk openly with the community", so lump it. Personally, I feel sorry for Florence and would not put her on the spot by asking her to reveal what she apparently is not free to discuss.

What I found most alarming in the email of the 22nd was this: "Other mistakes, and these ones are much more difficult to forgive, were made because of conflicts of interest." The Foundation has a conflict of interest policy, but there have been lingering doubts about its usefulness. The basic problem is that we rely on people to notice their own conflicts of interest and be open about them. Apparently this system of trust has not worked...surprise, surprise. It looks like the Foundation is a black hole with respect to this problem and we will never know which conflicts of interest have resulted in mistakes by the Foundation.

continued
I continue to have a feeling that Florence is struggling to keep a position in support of providing more information flow to the community while other Board members and Staff members are clueless about why this is important for the Foundation. In the January 2008 foundation-l discussion thread WMF Development and Memes, Florence wrote about the concerns of the community and and said, "I do not see these concerns addressed". Florence's post called "thoughts on leakages" also clearly puts into contrast what seems to be a fundamentally different response from her to community concerns about transparency as compared to other Board and Staff members.

Related resources

 * Why is there a Board? by Tim Shell
 * two things essential for transparency by Ray Saintonge
 * Board meeting minutes - now that the Board is handing off daily operations to Staff, will there be more openness about Board meetings?
 * Valleywag and Erik Moeller - example of the joys associated with being willing to hold controversial views. Wikimedia and PR.

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Lunar Boom Town/Theme Park Rovers

Business model:

Deliver small teleoperated rovers to the interior and/or exterior of crater Copernicous for theme park customers to operate via ticketed control consoles. Customers must have previously completed a training session adequate to safely operate the rover. Rovers could also be time shared with multiple theme parks or via software environments accessible over the internet. Lower priced options might include running a simulated lunar rover at a Terran facility. This may also provide a phased in venture startup approach.

Planning exercise:

Use http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Image:Autolevel_then_sharpen.png and the U.S.G.S. PDS system http://www.mapaplanet.org/ to plan touring zones where the theme park rovers are allowed.

Exclusion zones will be programmed into the control software to help reduce customer generated problems and keep the rovers within a reachable range for retrieval and maintenance and telecommuncations.

Task draft deliverables will be briefing materials, maps, analysis, and reports for other venture participants to understand why and how travel and exclusion zones were established for using in other venture planning processes.

Final deliverable will a set of briefing slides and accompanying reports for presentation to potential venture capital investors.

Prototyping excercise:

Use the deliverables from above to create or simulate a scaled simulated facility in your back yard or a local public park. Use small radio operated toys, open source software packages, etc. Warning: This is very demanding task best attacked in small pieces. If it grows into actual venture or hobby may consume large quantities of time.

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User:Proteins

Hi, my name is Bill Wedemeyer. I'm an assistant professor at Michigan State University.

I'm interested in trying out the Wikiversity approach in teaching my students. I've begun two courses here

 * Course:Protein Science I, an undergraduate course in protein structure and biochemistry.

 * Course:Quantitative Biology I, a graduate-level course in mathematical and computational methods for biochemists.

I've already written many LON-CAPA questions and released them into the public domain. I hope to integrate those resources with those of Wikiversity. I also hope that other biochemistry professors will join me in developing a good online course for protein science.

Approach and pedagogy
I'm relatively new to Wikiversity, so I apologize for any mistakes that I make. Please feel free to give me hints as to the customary way of doing things here.

I intend to develop my initial materials in the context of a course, since that is how I'm accustomed to organizing learning materials, although I have just learned that this is deprecated. Once the materials are more or less in place, I'll try to find a good organization for them within Wikiversity, hopefully with advice from people here.

My own style of pedagogy is modeled on the late 19th-century Russian school of ballet, in which a small amount of material was assigned every single day. I have tried to follow that in my university courses, by teaching in a modular way and giving small quizzes every day. I'm going to try to follow that approach here, with short, digestible modular lessons followed by a quiz. Ideally, these modules will be independent and interchangeable, so that other professors can re-use some of my work.

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Welcome
Hello Proteins, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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LON-CAPA
We have had a few discussions here about the idea of running Moodle or similar software on a server for use by the Wikiversity community. I'm not familiar with LON-CAPA, but it sounds similar. --JWSchmidt 19:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

 * LON-CAPA has a decent set of built-in programming tools, so that the teacher can make randomized answers and even randomized questions. I'm not familiar with Moodle; is it the same?  To give you an idea of LON-CAPA, here is a set of such randomized questions. Proteins 20:10, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

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