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Portal:Particle physics

Welcome to the Wikiversity Institute of Particle Physics Part of the School of Physics Physics is the science of the natural world. It deals with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces.

Things you can do
What I think would be useful is to create "study guides" for each of the major physics topics. These wouldn't be textbooks, but rather pages with hints, links, and helpful advice for studying each topic. Anything that would be textbook related could be put into wikitext and linked in from here.

What I'd like to see is to have pages that would be of interest of and useful to people that are studying physics in traditional academia, and this would help build a community of people working on Wikiversity.

I've created some study guide pages with links to OCW. Please add your own links and also comments for things that you learn when studying that topic.

How about syllabi? These would include assigned textbook readings, problem sets, links to their solutions.

Subdivisions and departments
Like divisions, subdivisions and departments are pages in the Topic namespace) and their names start with the "Topic:" prefix. Individual departments can be used by multiple schools. Schools that use (link to) the same department should cooperate to develop the department. Subdivisions are used by large divisions to help organize related departments. Not all divisions have subdivisions. If you need a subdivision in your division, you can use the Template:Subdivision boilerplate template to start a subdivision.
 * General
 * Elementary Particle Physics
 * Nuclear Physics
 * Experimental
 * CP Violation experiments
 * Particle detectors
 * High Energy Physics Centers - explore all existing facilities around the world
 * Software and databases
 * Theoretical
 * Collider phenomenology
 * Symmetry breaking and super symmetry
 * Higgs bosons
 * Models beyond the Standard Model
 * String theory
 * Early universe cosmology

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this division, you can list your name here (this can help small divisions grow and the participants communicate better; for large divisions a list of active participants is not needed).

 * Sojourner001 - Soon-to-be third year student of pure physics, Reading, UK. I have no more knowledge than one might expect from an undergraduate but I can contribute to making things comprehensible and straightforward for someone of my level. Sojourner001 15:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The Winged Self - Well I can help with basic stuff. I've taken two years of (non-calc) physics, got a 5 on the AP physics test, a 5 on the AP calc BC test, and a 790 on the SAT II physics test.  I'm best at kinematics and thermodynamics.  I'll do my best!  It'll be exciting to see how this all develops.  --The Winged Self 02:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hypermorphism - I can help out with the calculus-based physics (it is the natural language for physics; algebra gets a bit hand-wavy) as that's how I learned basic physics. While I have a basic knowledge of the fields of modern physics (and classical relativity) so that I can read most arXiv papers with some understanding, I'm not really an expert in any of them. I'm currently trying to get into the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian reformulations of classical mechanics. If there were a course on this as well, that would be great! It is frequently assumed that one has studied these forms when trying to learn quantum mechanics from texts.

 * Roadrunner - Ph.D. in numerical astrophysics. Right now trying to put together a physics degree plan.  What I work on is basically up to you, so leave a message on my talk page if you want me to do something.

 * HappyCamper - Quantum mechanics. I'm really excited about the possibilities here!

 * Reuvenk - Basic physics. Highschool grad with two years of calculus physics, so I can help with the fairly simple stuff. Can't promise to be too active, though.

 * M. Duprey - Theoretical and Applied Nuclear Physics. I am a nuclear specialist, worked for the International Organization for Nuclear Physics, participated extensively on DOD projects for nuclear propulsion in aerospace applications. I can help with anything you want to know related to that subject. I also can work on any mathematical level that you want.

 * Z. Whichard - I am a 3rd year undergrad student of physics at U. of Chicago. I frequently write overviews of the topics I am studying so perhaps I could work on shifting those here. For example I have sorted through dozens of quantum books collecting the best explanations and interpretations from each--ones that have the most mathematical rigor and the least amount of hand waving. I am no math whiz but I enjoy learning new procedures in order to fact check. I am also interested in the philosophical interpretations of modern physics and am a firm believer in the distinction that should be made between arguments with a strictly scientific foundation and those propounded by materialists. I believe popular physics spends too much time trying to 'Wow' the layman, sacrificing science for eye-catching interpretations and straw man theories and believe every attempt should be made here to keep things accurate and interesting without resorting to such devices.

 * SBL - Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics. I am a physics engineer and now, I am PhD student of physics. Mainly i'm studying condensed matter subjects, but i can help in the area of quantum physics for this institute.

 * Hillgentleman 06:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC) Algebra.

 * Massimamanno - Italy, M.S. in physics, incomplete Ph.D. course (did not finish thesis for complicated in part bureaucratic reasons). Expert in foundations of quantum mechanics, familiar with many other fields, my current job is teaching physics and mathematics in high school.

 * mickyfitz13 In my second year of A-level Physics and hoping to do a BSci Physics course or a MSci course in Queens University. I also currently do Maths and ICT at A-level. 19:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Lily - Graduate student in Accelerator Physics at University of Oxford, UK. I can work on core undergraduate physics subjects together with particle physics and colliders.--Lily 17:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Fubwubs Currently working towards Ph.D. in quantum. New to Wiki-sites in general, but happy to share what I know! (and hopefully learn something too) Fubwubs (discuss • contribs) 04:52, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Institute news

 * August 17, 2006 - Institute founded!

Degree plans
School:Physics/Bachelor of Science - This is intended as a "howto guide" which will let you get an accreditted degree in physics that would make you eligible for physics graduate school admission.

Learning projects

 * Why 10 dimensions - participants explore why it has been suggested that the universe might have 10 dimensions.

Lesson plans

 * Introductory physics
 * Introduction to physics
 * Basic kinematics
 * Basic thermodynamics
 * Physics teaching

 * Table of Physical Constants - a handy set of tables for finding a variety of physical constants
 * Units, significant figures, and standard procedures - A handout for properly applying physics concepts to real world measurements. Students should read this as a prerequisite to lab activities and experiments.
 * Feynman diagrams

Get to work writing lessons! Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!

Courses

 * Statistical mechanics
 * Special relativity (MIT), Special relativity and steps towards general relativity
 * Mathematical Methods in Physics
 * Quantum mechanics I
 * Classical mechanics
 * Chaos theory

Research projects

 * There is discussion of Wikiversity research policy at the multi-lingual Wikiversity hub.

 * Proposed Learning project: Theory of Everything Project - student research projects involving public databases for particle physics experiments.
 * Proposed Research project: Theory of Everything (From Scratch) Project.

Resources
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!
 * Physics Today - Cool physics magazine
 * John Baez's Stuff. Accessed August 21, 2006. - This page is a treasure trove of aspects of modern physics for the physical sciences or mathematics student. Baez covers the cutting edge physics world with ease and he has lots of archived goodies and links.
 * Resources from other wikimedia pages
 * Particle physics
 * http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec07.html

Related news

 * March 14, 2007 - CERN's latests and greatest atom smasher to date will start operating in late 2007. Now outdated!

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Pages and categories that are used by the school.

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School:Plant sciences

Welcome to ! Part of Life Sciences

Note: Material from Wikibooks was imported to Portal:Plant Sciences. Please coordinate that page with this page.

Plant Sciences covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, ecology, and evolution of plants. The School of Plant Sciences works closely with the Wikiversity School of Agriculture.

Active participants
Are you knowledgable in this topic? Would you like to create instruction material and help out with people studying this topic? Sign up to become an advisor — all it takes is adding your username to this list!

 * SB_Johnny | talk: Happy to help, my background is in horticulture and agriculture.

 * Charley Quinton | talk: I am bioneer working on urban planning initiatives geared toward sustainability and ecoscience. I am particularly interested in urban agriculture, aquaculture, plant and soil science, biophysics, urban microtransport systems – thus a new eco-logistical model for developing and re-develping both urban and rural economies.

 * Since 25 October 2013 with contributions to Botany --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 21:43, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Inactive participants

 * alettaka | talk: I have studied plant breeding and molecular plant virology, and am willing to help.

 * sonicbiology | talk: I am interested in plantlore, especially the medicinal uses of plants. My knowledge base includes a few medicinal plants of Guatemala and the US, a few food plants of the US, and a little botany, as well as a summer of experience on a natural farm.
 * -User:Wikicollege creator DS07 this is really Pika64eBay! This is just a pseudenoym!
 * User:Pika64eBay Hey yo! I'm back! I am intrested very much canrivorous plants (examples: Venus's Fly Trap, Sundew)
 * Trinity507 - my field of interest/some knowledge is ethnobotany, but I'd like to learn more about plants in general. I also do a lot of "practical horticulture", a.k.a. gardening. :-) I founded the ethnobotany department in the School of Ethnology. It's an interdisciplinary subject so I'll link a lot of the resources here.

School news

 * 17 August 2006 - School founded!
 * 20 September 2006 - Ethnobotany resource started!
 * 6 October 2006 - Plantlore lecture started!
 * 21 December 2006 - Plant identification quiz-making resource started!
 * 28 February 2007 - Botany lecture started!
 * 11 April 2007 - Aquaculture resource started!
 * 12 May 2007 - Forestry resource started!
 * 3 April 2008 - Horticulture learning project started!
 * 31 October 2008 - Plant tissue culture resource started!
 * 13 January 2009 - Plant fossil structure and preservation resource started!
 * 13 July 2010 - Plant microtechnique resource started!
 * 17 October 2011 - Plant propagation lecture started!
 * 18 November 2011 - Plant growth promoting bacteria lecture started!
 * 3 October 2012 - Hydroculture lecture started!
 * 28 October 2012 - Palynology lecture started!
 * 21 April 2013 - Phosphate biochemistry lecture started!
 * 22 November 2013 - Agriculture lecture started!
 * 20 June 2015 - Rainwater harvesting resource started!
 * 17 December 2015 - Agronomy lecture started!
 * 19 September 2016 - Plant movements lecture started!
 * 12 December 2016 - Plant Nutrition learning project started!

Divisions and Departments
Divisions and Departments of the School exist on pages in "portal" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "Portal:" prefix; departments reside in the Portal: namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning materials and learning projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the Naming Conventions. Be bold! Start writing resources! Make a link to the name of the resource (resources are independent pages) and start writing! Be sure to include a link too!
 * Medicinal plants & wild foods
 * Paleontology resources
 * Ethnobotany research projects

Research projects

 * Wikiversity's oldest (first) research project: the Bloom Clock
 * A new project looking for participants: the Ethnobotanical research project

Resources
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!

 * Agriculture/Lectures
 * Biochemistry/Lectures
 * Biology/Lectures
 * Botany/Lectures
 * DNA/Lectures
 * Earth sciences
 * Ecology/Lectures
 * Eukaryotes/Lectures
 * Genetics/Lectures
 * Medicine/Lectures
 * Paleontology/Lectures
 * Plant sciences/Lectures

Things you can do!

 * Clean up Draft:Agriculture and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Biology and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Eukaryotes and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Genetics and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Heredity and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.

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Other Free Learning Resources

This project (formerly the "Hunter-gatherers project") aims to find, list, and evaluate Internet learning resources that anyone can freely access and use. We encourage you to discuss and explore ways to integrate these resources with Wikiversity courses. These are important tasks and essential aspects of Wikiversity's purpose.

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 * 120 Minutes with JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary): A wide variety of Jewish topics, many of general interest to students of world history.

A - D

 * Academia Thules, a site that offers courses about ancient Rome and ancient Roman reenactment
 * Academic Earth, a site containing video courses from various Universities and Lecturers.
 * Access Excellence Activities Collections
 * Alison
 * Better Explained
 * Bioscience Education
 * BBC: Colin And Cumberland - An interactive game that teaches elementary Gaelic
 * BBC: OU offers free learning materials
 * Bhakti Ananda Goswami’s Collected Works: The Primal Revelation at the Heart of Civilization
 * Big History - An Introduction to Everything
 * Brand Management Study Guide - A complete tutorial on Brand Management.
 * Beyond Intractability - Lots of essays about constructive approaches to dealing with conflict.
 * ByMath: Algebra (text)
 * ByMath: Basic Arithmetic (text)
 * Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning
 * Cell Biology and Cancer Activities
 * CK-12 Foundation
 * Colorado Education Resources in Environmental Sciences
 * Conflict Resolution Information Source
 * Coursera
 * Curriki
 * Darakht-e Danesh
 * DMoz

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 * ECGpedia - free online electrocardiography (ECG) course and textbook.
 * edHelper - on-line lessons paid subscriptions, but can be viewed for ideas.
 * EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world.
 * Excel Easy - fully illustrated Excel tutorial + 300 examples. 100% free.
 * Excel Template - A collection of over 200 free Excel templates for any occasion imaginable. Calendars, planners, timesheets, finance and accounting documents, charts and dashboards, and other documents for productivity, business, study, and private life.
 * The Floating University - Released by Big Think to distribute big ideas.
 * Free University
 * Freedesktop
 * Free Video Lectures
 * GeoGebra - Similar Figures manipulation for 6th grade math
 * Gentoo Linux Wiki
 * Goodwill Community Foundation Learn Free
 * Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
 * HowStuffWorks
 * HippoCampus The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone.
 * Strategies for Teaching History University of California Santa Barbara
 * Higher Still Notes Full Course Notes for Scottish Higher Courses
 * Humiliation Studies Network list of open education resources.

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 * Issuelab Online publishing forum for nonprofit research licensed under CC-BY-SA[?].
 * Internet FAQ Archives
 * JavaScript 1.5 Reference
 * John Hopkins OpenCourseWare
 * Khan Academy with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It has more than 1800 videos on math, biology, chemistry and more.
 * Learnamic Online directory and reviews of self-paced learning tools
 * The Linux Documentation Project

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 * Math Drills Math worksheets for elementary and middle school
 * Math Solutions Math by Marilyn Burns
 * Math Village Teaching materials for middle school math
 * MERLOT II A collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services.
 * The University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies courses are available here
 * Mooc-List
 * Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - An educational non-profit organization committed to improving access to education.
 * More Video Lectures
 * National Repository of On-line Courses (NROC) - Project supports the development and distribution of high-quality on-line courses to a worldwide audience.
 * University of Nebraska Lincoln Digital Commons
 * Ocean resource center
 * OER Commons
 * Open Education Consortium
 * Open courseware finder
 * OpenStax - free scholarly materials, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
 * Open Study - OpenStudy is  a website partnered with institutions like MIT OpenCourseWare and Yale Open Course
 * MIT OpenCourseWare
 * Tokyo Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
 * Tufts OpenCourseWare
 * Utah State University OpenCourseWare
 * OpenLearn: access to Open University course materials under a Creative Commons licence
 * P2P University
 * Physics Forums: An Introduction to PH and Buffer Solution Calculations (text)
 * Programming Resources List - Helpful resource list for those wanting to learn how to code.

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 * Request for Comments - Documentation for Internet protocols
 * Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses.
 * STEM Sheets A collection of free customizable and printable math and science worksheets and flashcards.
 * Ted Ed Lessons Worth Sharing
 * Scientific Methods
 * Standford Introduction to General Relativity (video)(pdf)
 * Tools for Structural Biology Education
 * Scientist.By Community: Educational Webinars
 * Questgarden - webquest activities for a range of ages and study areas

U - X

 * Visual Calculus is a very good introduction to single variable calculus with explanations and exercises made with flash.
 * Visual Fractions is an online reference - covering fraction and math calculators, percentages, unit conversions, and more. There is a Spanish Version as well.
 * The Whole Frog Project
 * World Wide Web Consortium
 * WikiEducator
 * WikiHow
 * The WWW Virtual Library
 * W3 Schools On-line Web Tutorials
 * The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and other fields.
 * Wonder How To
 * WorksheetGenius hosts educational worksheet generators for homeschoolers, teachers or parents who want differentiated, randomized worksheets at the click of a button.
 * The Xorg Foundation

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 * YouTube EDU - lectures, demonstrations, and other educational videos. See also YouTube.

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Wikiversity talk:What is Wikiversity?

Changed names from people to processes. I'd like to get rid of the class system that underlies most universities by labelling actions rather than people. Roadrunner 01:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * Wikiversity is not a degree-granting institution. It does not have professors or staff or registered students. There are simply people here teaching learning and discussing in many different subjects.

Wikiversity is also not steam shovel and is not useful for toasting bread. Is there any particular reason to describe what Wikiversity is not?

Roadrunner 02:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

wikiversity is a cyber-collegium where learning happens, and where teaching, schools, educational burocracies, knowledge factories and corporations, and power-relations may hopefully be disrupted, dismantled, changed and even, re-made.

--70.32.180.118 18:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)professor chaos --- Wikiversity is  is intended for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. The mission of Wikiversity is to empower people to achieve their educational goals using resources produced by the free culture movement. The goal is to create a community of people who support each other in their educational endeavors.

USSER: JOICEBAE 06:55, 02 AUGUST 2022 Wikiversity is a platform that gives assistance to learning communities with learning tools and teaching aids. One can be able to ask questions on Wikiversity and be provided with accurate information to that question that can be useful and shared with the next person. USSER: ROXYMAYA 04 October 2022,21:32

Wikipedia article on Wikiversity

 * 1) The Wikipedia article on Wikiversity is still pretty anemic in terms of the very topic of this page, and could use some help.
 * 2) At w:Talk:Wikiversity, someone has written an essay that perhaps better belongs somewhere on Wikiversity; I don't know my way around this well enough to know where it might go. - Jmabel 04:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks Jmabel, I've moved the essay above to User:Morley/Clarifying the Wikiversity proposal for now - where it may be used to discuss, strengthen, or make Wikiversity policy. I might get around to developing the Wikipedia article one day - though the truth is that different people have different views on what Wikiversity is (imagine that: an edit war over a Wikimedia project!). But no, that's probably overstating it - we could at least have a good overview - but please note, we're still trying to do that here :-). Cormaggio 10:49, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Differences
Can any one tell that is there any guideline-article here related to the differece between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. If not it's better to add a guideline as Difference between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. - Vaikunda Raja 21:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I would say Wikiversity is almost the same as Wikibooks. Its like 2 alternate sets of the same thing - learning material. Check any well-known thing on both of them(eg violin) and admit that there is no point in keeping them seperate.

 * Wikibooks hosts textbooks. Wikiversity does not host textbooks. Wikiversity started at Wikibooks and was kicked out of that project. Wikiversity is for learning materials that are not hosted by other Wikimedia projects.

 * "..... the idea here is to also host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can be used more effectively." (source)

 * Wikiversity participants can learn about a topic and then use what they have learned to improve textbooks at Wikibooks or encyclopedia articles at Wikipedia. Take a look at Category:Learning activities. --JWSchmidt 20:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * One of the problems was that about half of the stuff hosted here was orginally hosted on wikibooks, thus anything that was moved over was orginally writen FOR wikibooks. Those pages you won't be able to see any difference betweeen the two.--Rayc 21:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for explaining.

Ideological explorations from roots for answering this question above
Hello, dear friends:

Thanks very much that your discussions have made me settle myself here. I think this question is quite great and needs to be solved from the roots' differences between the two, then to the details.

'Wikiversity' is a new created term combining both 'wiki' and the word-root of 'University' - 'versity'. Therefore, its creation and development need to maintain both the two categories' requirements, targets, developing zones and sustainability.

If it came to 'Wiki', as it was stated 'without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users'[], I thought 'freedom for commons, world-wide expressions, explicit descriptions' can be highlighted as three very important features for the making-out of all wiki-members voices'. Alongside this logical line, then, compared with other virtual 'universities' or 'online learning websites', wikiversity's weight-centre is much easily centralized upon ‘postmodernist learners and creators' self-reflexivity from certain learning materials’ freely. (Here, the definition of 'postmodernist learners' are different from merely 'students' - learners' definitive extensions are much widely distributed upon any persons in any stages of life who have the desires to get knowledge and skills; meanwhile, contribute their own knowledge and skills in particular subjects or generally overall). If you want to share knowledge and skills, or identify them clearly, or classify them freely, and or systematically conclude them with the internal structures, you can all come to Wikiversity for helps or give your helps to others. In order words, Wiki gave universities much more freedoms to popularize their knowledge and skills explicitly with diverse peoples all around the worlds - 'no leaders and little implicit structure' but full of explicit universal truths, principles, laws and truths exchanged among different 'mind-sparks'. Wiki also gave commons and universities the opportunities to make the communications between each others. Universities can get the nutrition from talking with commons about certain societal or natural topics under the background of globalization; meanwhile, commons (especially for some young generations who are far away from the civilizational core areas of our worlds and desire to get more knowledge and skills but hardly; and for some teachers who have the strong motivations to teach people surrounding them but feel very hard to collect even one piece of teaching materials in some places 'far away') can gain multiple-disciplinary knowledge from Wikiversity to better their life-level sustainably.

Following it, if it came to '-versity', it means Wikiversity needs to have some basic functions as University ( Wiki introduction:[] ). This is a continuously developing 'channel' for wikiversity to take. Wikiversity needs to be compared with a real university but constructed totally upon virtual environment. In the future, it needs to have the functions as educational administrations, essays' submission and assessment, lectures' organizations and presents, learning and teaching communities (we have already gotten), diverse subjects and schools' arguments and defences, project' design and practice, field-investigations, philosophical regressions (to roots), cultural exchanges, the explorations of universal reasonability, research-results' reports and the predictions for future's peace. However, rather than 'the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars' stated in Wikipedia, it is without leaders and means the 'community of all the postmodernist learners for commons'. To be here, I has been thinking for long time - which painting can directly and explicitly give us the feelings in terms of wikiversity's possible future in 'Postmodernist Regression' -

The School of Athens []

That's quite right - the academic freedom, the diversity of academic schools, various approaches for exploring the universal truths and for all the peoples with equality. I thought: by hand in hand, if we can together construct this 'university' virtually, but of reality, upon the boundaries of Times and Spaces, how beautiful our mutual future will be!

Finally, I would like to talk a little bit about the summarized differences between Wikiversity and Wikipedia. Indeed, through reviewing the information above in terms of Wikiversity, we can already self-find the differences between. 'Internet encyclopedia' - the statement of Wikipedia's introduction in Wikipedia [] clearly account the differences - the developing tendencies are quite different - Wikiversity is for producing new knowledge in some creative approaches compared with the root from University's cultivation and education; however, Wikipedia is focusing on making the reports, current statements of articles, researching questions and interests, clarifications and identifications of the knowledge, which have already been existing from the past into the structured encyclopedia books for reviewing and storing. Can Wikipedia produce new knowledge? Yes, it should be able to, through the repeated modifications of knowledge's structures, the supplements of world-wide advanced researches' outcome-reports and the descriptions of some inventions and fresh phenomena; but this is through another approach like historical writing not university's.

Friends, more and more discussions can all be argued under this topic. Here above, there are some my personal ideas through researching this topic, which, as others, I would like to share here. If you thought they are helpful, it would be my pleasure.

Sincerely Regards Best Wishes Jason M. C., Han

Jason M. C., Han (discuss • contribs) 16:09, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikibooks and Wikiversity
I really want to know the different between Wikibooks, Wikipedia and Wikiversity. Wikiversity for learning? Are there any article for example? If you answer me, please talk in my talk page except for answer me here. --Chaplin
 * Please take a look at the section of this page just above this section. --JWSchmidt 15:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hopefully Wikipedia can tell you what Wikiversity is and what Wikibooks is. --Devourer09 02:59, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

=emphasis= There needs to be greater emphasis on this project's being about teaching and research. As it is (and looking at some pages), it is being used by some contributors as a place for publishing encyclopedic material which, of course, belongs on Wikipedia. There need to be two types of material: courses and research-projects. The site would thus fulfil the twin purposes of a university: teaching and research. It would not simply be a place to post encyclopedic material and, more importantly, it would function as a real educational facility for the people of the world. It could be that pages on w'versity are already doing this and I would be very interested to see them.
 * Course-material should not just be presentations of facts; it needs to attain educational objectives. One way to ensure this would be to require contributors to state such objectives before they can start posting text or pictures. Such course-pages would usefully include opportunities for students to produce work in response to the educational material and to have that work assessed by tutors.
 * University faculty should be publishing their research-work through the site; it could be tied-in to the courses they are giving, and peergroup comment and review should be encouraged.

 * Wikiversity does not duplicate other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is true that some Wikiversity pages need improvement and some Wikiversity editors need help in learning how to create learning resources that do not duplicate the content of other projects. Suggestions are welcome at Content development. You might be interested in the proposed Wikiversity Research guidelines. --JWSchmidt 20:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

=progress= I think this page should include a record on the progress that has been made and what kind of quality and completeness the users should expect.
 * Hello,
 * quality is a subjective matter, everybody has a different understanding of the term. But here is one thing which could be of interest: Quality. Progress news you could observe in the Colloquium and also in the Recent changes list. Completeness - probably never - everything evolves. This is a wiki.
 * But perhaps you could give some examples what you would like to have, then we could help build this.
 * What do you say ? Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 20:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

=All ages?= I noticed when browsing that the discussion area for 'what wikiversity isn't' mentions that wikiversity is meant for all ages, but the "schools" seem laid out for more advanced materials. My interest (at present) would be in primary school level material, helping parents wishing to teach their children, providing additional resources for students who wish to explore subject areas, or to assist a parent in helping children with homework. I can't see how one can easily fit topics like kindergarten science (concept of food chains, life cycle of a seed, identifying animals as birds, reptiles and mammals), in the same categories as synaptic signalling, pharmacodynamics, or indeed anything on the List_of_Major_Topics_and_Concepts_in_Biology. I might contribute to higher level topics in mathematics or neuroscience, but have 3 children under 5 years old and am more concerned with creating resources for people to use to supplement (or replace, in the case of home-schooling) the public education system, and to create lists of activities that can be done by parents or children. Feel free to engage me on my talk page. --Epinephrine 19:00, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Please see Pre-tertiary portal and Main Page/Draft version 0.2. If you decide on the name for a new protal, I'll start it and we can link to it from the main pages where people start browsing for content. --JWS 19:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

The /En in the page name
Why is this necessary? It looks funny as well, so I feel as though if we are going to emphasize we are talking about the English language Wikiversity it should look like En.Wikiversity. I don't see the point really since it's assumed we are talking about the English language Wikiversity. --Devourer09 03:17, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

 * ✅ - I have redirected the page "Wikiversity:What is Wikiversity/En" to Wikiversity:What is Wikiversity? --Draubb (discuss • contribs) 20:54, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Essay discussion
Essays needs to be discussed. We have a category for essays. On the other hand there is the section "podium" under What Wikiversity is not.
 * "A podium: Wikiversity resources and activities should promote learning above any personal opinions, beliefs, or biases that you may have. If you wish to express your personal take on someone or something, please do so in a way that is open, respectful, inclusive of academic participation, and informs participants on the issues that matter to you. Critical analyses and academic lectures are two possible ways to do this."

So essays are allowed if they are critical analyses or otherwise educational, without emphasis on personal matters. The issue is clarifying and the inclusion on this community page. - Sidelight12 Talk 11:14, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Sharing ideas / Discussion forum
I was wondering if the Discussion forum section is redundant. After the section on sharing ideas, it's fairly obvious, at least to me, that Wikiversity is a place for discussion. What's limiting in that paragraph is that the sharing of ideas is about how to teach and how to learn. Perhaps this needs to be expanded to include content understanding and application. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:59, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

 * It seems like it, but it would be nice to make discussion forum stand out. The idea needs polishing. As the mainspace pages are a refined presentational version of the discussion. While the talk-pages and irc can be used together for the main discussion. The idea of discussion forum may need expanding. - Sidelight12 Talk 02:50, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

 * I like the latest update. Good work!  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:05, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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Please fix this. 83.18.191.198 (discuss) 10:48, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

What's wikiversity and how a teacher can use it in the classroom
Wikiversity -is a learning community, meaning you can get information,edit ,also ask information on any subject.It offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning

How a teacher use wikiversity in his/her classroom. A teacher can use wikiversity in the classroom as by downloading summaries from the websites ,print them out and handout to the learners.The teacher can also use wikiversity as when using a projector and show wikiversity tutorials to the learners.It can be used as self study.It act as a researcher host,learners can as well use wikiversity for research based on what the teacher has instructed them to do.Teacher can research for any range content to teach the learners ,same information can as well be used for later preference.The teacher can print the information from wikiversity and use them to easy teaching and learning in the classroom 123poppy (discuss • contribs) 13:01, 30 September 2022 (UTC) It's advisable for learners to use computers in a classroom because it makes the lesson much easier. https://youtu.be/zLu1HBkIaKI

title: Wikiversity talk:What is Wikiversity?


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Wikiversity:Approved Wikiversity project proposal

''This page contains a copy of the project proposal for Wikiversity. Wikiversity became a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation after this proposal was reviewed by the Foundation's Special projects committee. The special projects committee submitted its Wikiversity Resolution to the Board and by vote of the Board, the project was approved.''

''This page is an historical archive of the approved project proposal. Do not edit this page. Another copy of this page that can be edited to be better integrated into Wikiversity is at: Wikiversity project proposal.''

This page is a modified proposal for Wikiversity to become a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The first section of this page ("Historical review of the Wikiversity project", below) contains a description of how the original Wikiversity project proposal was produced. The modified proposal is in Part 2, starting with "Mission".

Historical review of the Wikiversity project
Wikiversity was proposed for deletion from Wikibooks in August 2005. Soon after that, there was a proposal to make Wikiversity an independent WikiMedia project. In addition to the information on the proposed projects page, information about the original proposal was described in a mailing list post and on the Wikiversity page of the WikiMedia meta-wiki.

An old proposal and discussion can be seen here : Original proposal.

A modified project proposal follows (Part 2)

Mission
Wikiversity is a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Its primary priorities and goals are to:

 * Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages
 * Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support these materials
 * Complement and develop existing Wikimedia projects (eg. a project devoted to finding good sources for Wikipedia articles)

See more on Scope and Online Course. In the fulfillment of its mission, other tasks and goals may be initiated and developed by participants to support learning and the creation of new content. In particular, guidelines will be developed during the beta phase of Wikiversity's development on hosting and fostering research based in part on existing resources in Wikiversity and other Wikimedia projects.

Learning
The Wikiversity e-Learning model. Existing "bricks and mortar" universities began as meeting places for scholarly individuals seeking knowledge and those with mastery of a subject who could act as teachers to guide the learning process. Wikiversity will be a virtual meeting place for masters and scholars, a wiki that hosts and promotes a flexible online learning environment.

Conventional universities evolved to have classrooms, collections of courses, grades, fees for students, pay for teachers, the granting of degrees, the certification of teachers and accreditation of universities. That entire structure grew out of the need to concentrate expensive resources (people and facilities) at a particular location in the physical world. The Wikiversity e-Learning model abandons all aspects of conventional universities that arise from the need to focus people and facilities in one place and time. The Wikiversity e-Learning model grows out of the power of the wiki user environment to liberate learning from conventional constraints of time and place. See Learning for more.

Learning groups
It is natural for the wiki format to develop "learning groups" (creating and maintaining learning trails; interest portals; project or task artifacts) where all participants can discuss and learn collaboratively. These groups/communities will be help desks, mentoring teams, cohort groups, debate clubs - practical applications might be in doing research for Wikipedia, or writing code for MediaWiki. This is peer-learning, learning through collaboration and discussion - the "wiki way".

Wikiversity participants will actively participate in online learning projects. As for any wiki, community participation involves the editing of wiki pages. Wikiversity learning projects will consist of collections of wiki webpages concerned with the scholarly exploration of a particular topic. Some Wikiversity learning projects will be oriented around existing needs of other Wikimedia projects. For example, a group of Wikiversity participants might engage in a project to find good sources for an existing Wikipedia article. Another Wikiversity project might involve exploration of an established academic discipline and the participants might decide to collectively assemble material that would contribute to a Wikibooks textbook for that subject. Thus, Wikiversity will naturally complement existing Wikimedia projects by providing an environment that supports and fosters scholarly “secondary research”. Wikiversity will begin with a bias towards learning projects that provide support for existing Wikimedia projects, but with time, Wikiversity will evolve to serve the needs of its community. Students will express their learning needs and the Wikiversity community will evolve learning activities and projects to accommodate those needs. Some groups could act more didactically - there is room for materials to be laid out as instructions or tasks to be followed. In any case, communities will exist behind the materials to support the ongoing use and development of the content Wikiversity hosts. See more on learning in Wikiversity and more on online courses.

Resources
Resources will include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links, reading lists, etc. Each subject area (or 'course', 'project'), essentially, each community, creates a web of resources that would form the basis of discussions and activities within that field of Wikiversity, and that could be used by any other educators for their own purposes. Some of these will link up with other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks and Wikipedia - a key to these resources should be that they prompt further work (practice/discussion/reflection/criticism etc).

Research
Wikiversity could act as a repository of research carried out by the Wikimedia Research Network or other people involved in wiki-based research, and could also host the proceedings of Wikimania. Whether or not Wikiversity will ever host original research in addition to secondary research is the subject of debate (see talk page) though original research could take place based on materials in Wikiversity (eg. materials on sociology prompt a survey research project). Guidelines for what would be appropriate research will be developed during the beta phase of the project through a community consensus process, and reviewed (by the Special projects committee) after six months. There will not necessarily be "approval" of research added to Wikiversity - though some sort of review process needs to be established which will deal with potential problems.

What Wikiversity is

 * A repository of free, multilingual educational resources.
 * A network of communities to create and use these resources
 * A group effort to learn. Which may or may not be led by an instructor, who may or may not be an expert on the topic.

What Wikiversity is not

 * A duplication of other Wikimedia projects. While Wikiversity complements other Wikimedia projects, it will not simply duplicate their content. So, if you want to read about a topic, you may be better off visiting, say, Wikipedia or Wikibooks, but if you want to learn about this topic, you can do so at Wikiversity. Learning materials will be created and used on Wikiversity, but materials on other projects may also be used as learning materials themselves or even places to consolidate this learning, ie writing an article, manual etc based on what you've learned. There may be some overlapping, but each project will maintain its own focus.
 * A degree or title granting institution: Wikiversity will not confer degrees or any other academic qualifications, nor will it entitle people to call themselves "professors", if they are not professors.

Work done on Wikiversity will hopefully be useful to other projects. When participants have significant results they may be used to improve other Wikimedia projects, and indeed other online learning, reference and data sources.

See more at: What Wikiversity is not and What is Wikiversity?.

Features Wikiversity will/might need in the future

 * Metadata - there is currently work on a Metadata patch, which will be able to be added to Wikiversity retrospectively.
 * Page protection - there may be a need to restrict editing of pages or groups of pages to within groups of people (such as a research community, for example). However, this needs to be done with care, so as to minimise the exclusion of people to the work of that community.
 * Software - there is currently no software needed to get Wikiversity going, but participants are welcome to experiment with additions to the source code which might help the work of Wikiversity in some way. Implementations of these ideas will have to be done through the appropriate channels (probably the Special projects committee).

Further discussion
There has been some discussion of how to satisfy the Board's request for modification of the original Wikiversity proposal, which can be seen through these (and associated) pages:
 * Talk:Wikiversity
 * Moving Wikiversity forward
 * b:Talk:Wikiversity

Please place all additional discussion of modifications to the Wikiversity proposal on the discussion page for the modified proposal.