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Welcome to Wikiversity. Please let me know if you have any questions. --JWSchmidt 16:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Daniel575

Glad to have you here...
It was no bot, just very lucky timing tith the recent changes page. Good editing! - Trevor MacInnis 18:11, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Hoi!
Kben hier een tijdje niet geweest dus had je bericht niet gezien... Leuk om er iemand bij te hebben, mijn naam stond daar maar eenzaam. Waar ben je zoal mee bezig geweest? Ik ben eigl. meer van plan om gewoon te wachten tot we met een paar zijn om hier meer werk in te steken, momenteel heb ik al wikipedia en wikinews... werk genoeg (om van het echte leven nog te zwijgen).

Kben ook meer van plan om te wachten op geïnteresseerde studenten om te kijken hoe we dit kunnen aanpakken... gewoon een kopie van wikipedia is immers niet de bedoeling. Kijk er al naar uit om te kijken hoe je dat gaat aanpakken bij "emergency medicine".

Als je tijd hebt moet je deze discussie zeker eens lezen: w:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Clinical_medicine.

Veel succes, als je me nodig hebt kan je me sneller bereiken op w:User_talk:Stevenfruitsmaak.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Talk) 17:02, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Message
...at School_talk:Medicine.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:59, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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User:Daniel575

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel575 for now. Messages can be left here or there or via email at daniel.vandalen###ANTISPAM###gmail.com.

Who am I?

My name is Daniel. I am 20 years old. I am an orthodox Jew living in Jerusalem; originally I am from Holland. I speak Dutch, English, German, and moderate Hebrew and Yiddish.

My main interests are medicine (with a focus on cardiology, critical care and emergency medicine) and Judaism.

I am a member of the School:Medicine and am going to write more in Topic:Emergency Medicine.

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Daniel,

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User:Trevor MacInnis/Research questions

1. Find out about one of these astronauts:

Yuri Gagarin          First person in space Alan Shepard          First U.S. astronaut John Glenn            First American to orbit Earth Valentina Tereshkova  First woman in space Virgil "Gus" Grissom  One of the first astronauts in Project Gemini, later killed in Apollo 1 test flight Ed White              First U.S. astronaut to walk in space, also killed in Apollo 1 Neil Armstrong        First person to walk on the moon Edwin (Buzz) Aldren   Also walked on the moon with Armstrong Michael Collins       Piloted spacecraft while first men on moon James Lovell          One of three astronauts on ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, chronicled in recent movie, Apollo 13 Sally Ride            First U.S. woman in space Guy Bluford           First African-American in space Ellison Onizuka       First Asian-American in space, died in the Challenger explosion Rudolfo Vela-Neri     First Hispanic in space Christa McAuliffe     Won contest to be first teacher in space, also died in the Challenger explosion

2. Find out about one of these NASA programs:

Manned Flight:         Robotic  Flight: Project Mercury        Mariner missions Project Gemini         Pioneer missions Project Apollo         Viking missions space shuttles         Voyager missions Galileo mission Hubble Space Telescope What were its objectives? When did it occur? How many missions did it have? What were its most famous missions and why? What did it accomplish?

3. What probes have been sent to (pick one):

Mercury? Venus? Mars? Jupiter? Saturn? Uranus? Neptune? Pluto? the sun? the moon? asteroids? Halley's Comet?

What scientific information was gained on these missions?

note: Some of this material overlaps with Question 2, Robotic Flight; it's a different way to find out much of the same information.)

4. Find out about the following space stations:

* Salyut 1 (USSR) * Skylab (U.S.) * Mir (USSR, now Russia)

* Why were they built? * What was done on them? * What has been learned because of them?

5. Find out about the Russian space program. Choose from: * Manned Missions 1957 (Sputnik) through 1975 (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project) * Moon Missions 1959 (Luna 2) through 1976 (Luna 24) * Missions to Planets (Venera crafts to Venus, Phobos Mission and Mars '96 to Mars) * Russian space stations (Salyut and Mir projects) (note: this part of the question overlaps with question 4)

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1. Many people believe that time and money would be better spent at home to fight poverty and crime than on the space program. What do you think? How do you think NASA would answer?

2. Why was it so important to the U.S. to get a man on the moon?

3. Astronomer Carl Sagan said "The U.S.'s first mistake was to go to the moon. Its second was not to go back." Why do you think he said this?

4. For many years the "Space Race" was on between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. (now Russia). What were the motivations for competition between the two countries? Why were the Soviets more secretive, not even announcing their missions? Why is there less secrecy now?

5. Why do some spacecraft carry people and others do not? Try to come up with several reasons.

6. Why are spacecraft sent to other planets?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Space Shuttle project?

8. For 22 years, until 1983, all U.S. astronauts were white males. That year the first female, Sally Ride, and the first person of color, Guy Bluford, flew on the Space Shuttle. Why did NASA use only white, male astronauts between 1961 and 1983? Why did the Russians send a woman into space in 1963, twenty years before the U.S.?

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Hi, I am Larry Pieniazek, I like LEGO and I am not notable. I edit more on the English Wikipedia than anywhere else, so for best results either mail me, or leave me a message on my talk page there: w:User_talk:Lar... thanks!

Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia
If we cross some line in your opinion, feel free to say so. We may not agree with you, but we need input from everybody. These issues need a deft touch and your input can be very helpful. WAS 4.250 06:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I will do that, and I appreciate your forthrightness. I've already voiced a concern that I think it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to "outing". I don't personally think that means you can't link to entire sites where outing (per the en:wp definition) has happened. I don't see that as a reasonable restriction at all, it's far too broad. But directly linking to pages where it has been done seems like it is not prudent. ++Lar: t/c 16:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree that it is an important consideration. But at some point, the information is out there and can not be again made secret. At some point, it simply becomes a matter of being polite to not mention what everybody knows. But to allow Wikipedia to be disrupted to this degree over a secret that is no longer secret is dysfunctional. People who claim that their livelihoods will be destroyed if their real name is revealed should be banned for their own good as well as our good. Accountability and project health should outweigh the "right" of any one person to edit. We should not be a battleground, nor a therapy for those who can are so addicted to editing Wikipedia that they continue to edit even when it endangers their livelihood. WAS 4.250 17:02, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * There is much in the above I agree with... "people who claim that their livelihoods will be destroyed" ... yes, we saw a bit of that sort of hyperbolic hysteria on Wednesday evening, didn't we? My real name is out there for all to see, and always has been, ever since I started editing at WP. (I think it was within my first dozen edits that I put it on my user page). So in part I may not completely see the concerns of those who wish to edit pseudonymously as clearly as I might. And MAYBE I'm swinging the pendulum too far but I just think that the (defacto ?) policy of not directly linking to pages where concordances are published and the like seems a good one. Even if the cat is out of the bag. Sometimes policies, in order to be easily applicable and crisp, may lead to some inconsistency in outcome in specific cases. That's OK, I think. A clear rule, applied consistently, strikes me as more ethical than case by case reasoning. You and I know that one of the areas for improvement of WP is in the "applied consistently" part. But tis still what I think.

 * For that reason I favour caution, especially here with this project to explore ethics. There is plenty of material available for a comprehensive work without directly linking to problematic things. Why not be prudent, and move the project forward, rather than standing on principle and giving critics easy ammo? ++Lar: t/c 17:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree in principle. I am encouraging everyone to be as sensitive as they can be. WAS 4.250 17:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good deal. I've made my caution known so I consider the proximate matter sorted. People will act on that caution as they see fit. Best. ++Lar: t/c 17:42, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

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User:Magnunnr

Unnr
I just like learning stuff. I would like to be doing things in a more formal way, but have the usual problems (no background, no money, etc.)

I hope I'm not jumping in too fast!

General areas of Interest

 * archaeology and history, primarly of the viking age
 * experimental archaeology and living history/re-enactment as ways of "doing" history.
 * visual communication
 * aphasiology

Particular Interests

 * Old West Norse
 * the cut and construction of Norsewomen's clothing c1000
 * tents and other temporary shelters in Iceland c1000

Background

 * Native speaker of Canadian English
 * Graphic designer, videographer & aphasia-friendlifier. http://www.aphasia.ca
 * Active Member of the SCA, sometime participant with other re-enactment groups.

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I am a graduate student in mathematical ecology. I primarily frequent the pages of the English language Wikipedia; the quickest way to contact me is my talk page there: w:User_talk:TeaDrinker.

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be bold
"dissagreement between the 'be bold' statement and the 'but don't modify this page unless you know you're right' statement" <-- Often there is a "happy medium" between recklessness and timidity. If you do not mind my asking, how did you find Wikiversity? --JWSchmidt 00:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

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That makes perfect sense to me. But I try to ask the question even when I agree with the lay of the land. I am having trouble finding a footing as to where to start looking for the happy medium. Particularly since this seems to be very new, and I've not been involved in any of these before, I am very shy of swinging way too far in some direction. Incidentally, I noticed a couple of changes there today that I like.

re: finding wikiversity. I had heard many bad things about wikipedia, and had been generally avoiding it, without having a proper look, I just never really thought about it enough to notice. Then someone sent me a paper on wikipedia as it relates to academia (specifically historians), and I thought "wow, if that alowed original work, it would be exactly the kind of thing I'd want to be part of." Then I spent a half hour or so pouring over the paper in a coffee shop noticing the similarities to what I like about (some) living history versus standard academic history, and decided to go try and get into it. At which point I went to look, and found that wikiversity was exactly what I'd been imagining as thing I'd be interested in, and maybe I should go there... And you guys told me to be bold, so I did as I was told :)  Things rarely come out so tidily, and so I wanted to grab it while it was near.

I'm not sure what the correct way to reply to your question is (yeah, newbie), I hope this works!

(the paper is at: http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42)

Unnr 00:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Experimental Methods
I'm afraid I don't entirely understand how this could be a Department/Division in the school of History; but I'm sure I don't understand what you mean by it. Mind explaining to me? Jade Knight 09:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome!
You might be interested in the School:Mathematics--Rayc 23:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will check out the link! --TeaDrinker 22:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiversity talk:Be bold

Is there a bit of a dissagreement between the "be bold" statement and the "but don't modify this page unless you know you're right" statement attached?

I'm actually thinking it's kind of good that way -- but I'm wondering what people think on this, if people have 'thinked' on this :) Unnr
 * It really comes down to doing whatever you can to improve the page you're editing. And don't be afraid to make big improvements. The nice thing about wikis is that if someone doesn't think you're improvement was an improvement, it can always be modified again. --SB_Johnny | talk 00:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the biggest problem can be when people start getting bold in areas that consensus needs to be developed before being bold. For example, if someone created an entirely new policy and stated it as official policy.  This could be Wikiversity-wide, or limited to individual Schools or Departments, but otherwise I think we should encourage people to be less bold when it comes to anything not in the name Mainspace.  That means, be somewhat less bold when editing Topic:, Portal:, User:, and Wikiversity: pages.  In these cases, it might be better to talk before being bold.  The Jade Knight 06:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the phrase "add a new perspective" helps the goal to keep edits unbiased and impersonal. Thoughts? -Linelor
 * I'm not sure we need to construct a division between1) staying open to editors who "add a new perspective" to wiki pages and2) trying to be unbiased.It just takes a bit of effort to stay open to multiple perspectives and judge them on their merits. Also, in some learning activities it is constructive to adopt a single or a biased perspective. Some teachers have at times told students to adopt a bias and then as an exercise the class explores the implications of doing so. At the end of the exercise, the teacher reveals what was going on and the class is in position to recognize the dangers of uncritically adopting a single point of view. In other cases, learners might explore a "personal" point of view that is unpopular and condemned by authorities....and eventually that "personal" point of view might become widely recognized as being better than previous conventional points of view.--JWSchmidt 16:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

 * "don't modify this page unless you know you're right" - This is unreasonable; in science, we can never know for sure that we are right. "Just make sure that you know what you are doing" is more sensible.
 * Some "major changes" are harder to revert than others: one big change to a page is easy to revert;  small changes to dozens or even hundreds of pages takes time (or machine) to revert.
 * The flip side of "be bold" is: don't be surprised or upset if you make a structural change or one that affects others and it is reverted. Hillgentleman|Talk 01:48, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

The Bold SHARUL
In a bold move, SHARUL added the following passage to the Official Policy on Being Bold...

el:Βικιεπιστήμιο:Έχετε θάρρος SHARUL 14:15, 23 August 2008 (UTC)my name is SHARUL.it would better if learners are allowed to become active members of this prestigious instituition through membership.i therefore entreat all and sundry to come on board and make this a great success to project us forward.

Here is the English translation of the Greek page, el:Βικιεπιστήμιο:Έχετε θάρρος ...

Vikiepistimio: Have courage From Vikiepistimio

Be bold!

The community Vikiepistimiou considers it necessary by users not to hesitate in processing pages. The wiki expand faster when many correct problems, correct grammatical errors, add elements, ensure the accuracy of grafomenon etc. Everyone must be bold and this is what we all expect. How many times you read something and skeftikate "because it is not corrected these pages?" Vikiepistimio not merely allows but asks you to add, to correct and edit the page himself. We need some courtesy, but it works. We will see.

If someone wrote a poor-quality text, a text of a sentence, or simply something meaningless, do not worry about feelings. Correct, you add to it, and if it is a waste of time, replace it with a good text. This is the essence of a wiki.

And of course, other users with courage and ruthlessly will draw what you wrote. Do not take it personally. And they, like all of us, simply want to do Vikiepistimio as best as possible.

Moulton 14:45, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

A different way of looking at being bold
I think there could be the comparison that being bold is like vandalizing WV except you don't get blocked. I think getting blocked is what happens to vandals. But, in the sense that vandalism can be fixed. So if vandalism can be fixed then there is really no way you can break WV by editing it normally. I think if this was pointed out then be bold could be a little more effective. I think a reason people are not bold is just the simple fear that their change will be criticized or they will make a "mistake" and look like a fool. --Devourer09 00:55, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

being bold works even better with...

 * ... a good edit summary, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 00:50, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... a little discussion - if your change would affect the way other people uses wikiversity. Hillgentleman|Talk 01:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia vs Wikiversity
In my researches [Jarrokam] I have come across some very imaginative articles that depart from the mainstream of accepted scientific consensus. I do not object to these per se I just wish they might be moved from the Wikipedia to the Wikiversity, as I think that is the more appropriate forum. I believe that these articles have been developed by participants who were unaware of the University format. A generation from now it might be an important distinction as the internet becomes overwhelmingly the most significant portion of the cultural gestalt passed from one generation to the next.

At present, everyone knows that wikipedia information is just a quick inventory of what's immediate and must be verified from 'reliable' sources but - this is quickly changing! Thoughts? Anyone? Jarrokam 19-02-2016

 * Wikiversity appears to be a place where we can think through topics together. There doesn't have to be an end product that is published/finished. It can be a permanent work-in-progress. KNik 9/27/19

Being Bold
Being bold may be hard, if you are not used to editing others! --Kendrauhe (discuss • contribs) 13:37, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

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User:DarkFighter

Hello! My name is Dennis. I am Russian, currently living in Canada. I am third-year Computer Science student at Ryerson University.

Wikiversity statistics:
 * September 12 - 255 pages
 * September 19 - 273 pages
 * September 26 - 312 pages
 * October 15 - 372 pages

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User talk:DarkFighter

Welcome
You might be interested in the School:Computer Science--Rayc 22:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Already there!

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User talk:Shar~enwikiversity

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Shar. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Shar~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 23:59, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:22, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Lisa~enwikiversity

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Lisa. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Lisa~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 23:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:14, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Introduction

nl:beta.wikiversity:Wat is Wikiversity Beta?

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Wikiversity talk:Introduction

Original source of this page at Wikipedia. some older comments from the test page

suggested sequence of tutorial pages
It is that the sequence of tutorial pages should be:page 1, "Explore" (state what Wikiversity is and how to find existing content) --> page 2, "edit this page" --> page 3, how to create a new page--JWSchmidt 12:33, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Differences
Can any one 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 21:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is for encyclopedia articles. Wikiversity is not for encyclopedia articles. Wikiversity has other types of learning resources. There are several Wikiversity pages about Wikipedia. You might start at Wikiversity and Wikipedia services. --JWSchmidt 17:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Science and Psychology Hypothesis
Well lets say that a person has schizophrenia and they have delusions and visions or in their terms hallucinations. Now how much as been done to connect the delusions with a group of schizophrenias. When they hear something it is picked up on brain scans and from my observations using Natural Environmental Studies They seem to produce the same experiences and are and seemingly more inept to esp. How much of this has been observed I am Not for sure. So if any one has any concrete or a theory please let me no the supporting facts thank you
 * Are you asking to what extent it is possible to find patterns of brain activity that correlate with the experience of hallucinations? Take a look at "Cerebral activity associated with auditory verbal hallucinations: a functional magnetic resonance imaging case study" and Neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: a critical review and theoretical integration. --JWSchmidt 17:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Is this page hostile to newcomers?
No doubt someone thought it was cute to build a template into the "leave this line alone" category so this page could have all the lovely html coloring and formatting. Unfortunately it obscures what is going on for newcomers. It might be better to use a plain jane page with obvious wiki syntax that is visible to the newcomers so they can see they are actually editing the page and it is displaying what they told it to edit along with the sections above they were requested to leave alone. I suspect this page confuses rather than enlightens newcomers and thus probably scares a few away who are already timid of programming and markup languages. Time enough for them to learn about templates and leaving them alone on complex pages when they need to edit a main page or a portal page. This should be covered in advanced editing, not the first introductory page a newcomer is asked to edit. Mirwin 07:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * "The line above is a template which substitutes in the text the community wishes to remain static or permanent on the top of this introductory page." <-- I'm not sure that this sentence will mean much to new visitors. As someone who has edited for five years, I had to read it three times before I could figure it out. I'm open to experimenting with new ways to encourage people to make their first edit. --JWS 15:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Interlingual
This resource is great. I have imported it to beta. Does anybody (or Erkan, or Juan?) know how to find similar pages in other languages? --Hillgentleman|Talk 05:27, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

--Ddreview 02:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)== 112508.ddreview - something basic ==

suffered a case of situational depression. Slowly I continue to recover and even slower at realizing a measurable return in faculties. Cognitive recall and memory - enough about explaining...

I am a professional land surveyor with a specific focus on inland and riparian boundary law.

I am submitting a narrative with respect to my capabilities and worth to an energy business.

I'm challenged in remembering or knowing the meaning of each and relative to each other and which is correct to use where and when.

knowledge, intellect, experience, understanding, intelligence, expertise, acumen, and wisdom

thank you for your patience

0=0 0*1=0*1 0/0*1=1 0/0=0

0/0=1
0=0 0*1=0*1 0/0*1=1 0/0=1

The one who wrote the previous equation should understand that mathematics never plays such jokes. First of all dividing by zero is not accepted in Mathematics unless the value is infinity. See the | Rational number definition for more understanding. Finally 0/0 is an illegal term in Maths regardless the rest of the mathematical expression, and that's why limits are used. For more information about these tricks visit this wikipedia page | Fallacies based on division by zero--Email4mobile 02:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

here I boldly edit
Is there a Wiki-Kidversity ??? ( Kids are generally alot smarter than most teachers realize, and if a simplified interface was made, kids could start to contribute an entire universe of content. )

One potential "Wiki-Growth Exponentiator" might be finding a way to better integrate online social networking to bring in a new breed of cyber netizen nerds. The people of www.szstuff.com are a good example of people who seek to teach and learn. Online social networking has an addictive element... The most effective learning is that which fully engages an array of one's senses.

Uni students love listening to and making music, right? Can't wikiversity have featured pages for wikibands to share musical knowledge whilst collaborating on other academic projects?

That's my two cents. Spend it wisely. ;)

 * Some good ideas with potential here. For some possible starting points, try:

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

bold editing not taken kindly to in these parts
gimme a break for editing the wrong way. it was my first edit.

anyway, i thought it fit better where it was than the comment that currently resides there. who says they can override my comment?

not cool wikiversidad

Protect this page?
I've just reverted page blanking practically twice in a row over here. It looks like too many people, intentionally or otherwise, are destroying the beautiful content we've put on this page. Perhaps the page needs a bit more protection than it's been given. For people who want to make their first edit, why don't we direct them to a blank page that we have open in a new window? --AFriedman 07:42, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * We could modify the page to send people to Sandbox for editing (which has a bot to tidy it) - or an empty-ish subpage? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 09:27, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I think the intention was to send them to a sandbox page, for edits but navigating to a sandbox page is too advanced for most starting editors. Perhaps link the Edit button on the page to a sandbox page with a translocation of an explanation of what is different here.--Graeme E. Smith 14:30, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Graeme, I like that idea. Or, protect the page and give readers a link to the sandbox (which would open in a new window) so readers don't change the original page?  Basically, something that is workable for new users and would stop the periodic destruction to the page.  --AFriedman 02:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * See what you think about these changes. I think we encourage sandbox editing and then there is one less place to monitor. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:46, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Is there any way to have the link to the sandbox open in a new window or tab? Otherwise, I am concerned that going to the sandbox might get new users lost. --AFriedman 18:47, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Had a quick play/search but couldn't get anything working here from mw:Manual:Opening external links in a new window. Whilst it may be short-term helpful, since this would not be normal navigation (opening a new window), it could actually be more confusing. So, at the moment I'm ambivalent about putting in non-normal navigation (opening a link in a new window/tab). -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:59, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sharing the MediaWiki page. I was looking at the page and was wondering how you changed it to show the link to the sandbox?  Also, I accidentally blanked the page myself while I was experimenting.  It seems like this would be awfully easy to do even for users in good faith, and hard to revert for people who don't know what they're doing.  Do you think anything is lost if we protect the page?  Before you made the link to the sandbox, non-experimental edits hadn't happened there in a long time.  --AFriedman 01:03, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Video "Wikiversity Special Report" learn the wiki way
I tried multiple versions of the file, only to find that most of them were garbled in one way or another. Most gave me a greyscreen, with shadows, started out very choppy, and I didn't recognize that they were playing music in the intro. The best version was QuickTime, but even it, made the womans voice virtually indecipherable. The main text was good however--Graeme E. Smith 16:12, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Romanian Wikiversitate
Could anyone create a Romanian Wikiversitate portal? Thank you. Calusarul 22:18, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Please see at beta wikiversity, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat 18:12, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Introduce myself
'''My name is Kanadee, this name is a unique name in Thai language because it's a bit strange. it means 'Now Good' in Thai. However you can call me as my nickname 'Poy'. Now im 2nd year in MUIC. i attend many activities in my college like welcoming camp, as im p'group, and volunteer club. i love fashion n beauty. i always make my friends to get better styles. Hope tht now u will know me better.''' - '''My name is Dr. Bitetto. I am currently a science researcher in the field of robotics and control systems. My education starts with my Bachelor's of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from the State University of New York (1991) and continues through my Doctoral degree in Robotics from the Union Institute (1994). I have taught both at the graduate level in a university and also at the professional level at an adult continuing educational service. '''

'''I currently hold numerous patents and copyrights from both my undergraduate and doctoral level work. Presently, I am employed by the Institute of Cybernetics Research, Inc. (see my linkedin web-page for Dr. Marco Bitetto), where I am engaged as a science researcher doing research in the areas of feasibility analysis of designs for robots and control systems.''' --Robodoc (talk) 13:42, 20 August 2012 (UTC) -

My name is Aviwe I'm still in high school but I have special subject like cat, business studies,economics and mathematics lit ..but I want to be sport management Aviwe memeza (discuss • contribs) 07:56, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

bluetooth connectivity
which type of network or signals are being used in bluetooth? how bluetooth works?
 * Please use Help desk, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat 18:12, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Introduction
Is it me, or is the intro thing entirely based around introducing the concept of a wiki rather than introducing specifically wikiversity? Because I'm kind of finding the intro and front page to be somewhat vague on the subject of what exactly wikiversity is and does. It doesn't really lend itself to immediate comprehension of how the community of "learning resources" works or how to jump in to one of those learning communities. Perhaps this could be elucidated? 99.23.240.60 14:19, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

can any one tell the applications of harmonographs??
Harmonographs are the complex curves drawn with the help of two or more pendulum. Is their any proper application and use of those curves in general life expect for drawing complex curves for fun???--Gyandeeprkmv (talk) 19:03, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Image sizes
Is it possible that there may be something wrong with this page? I am getting huge images on my screen and there is no text. something is out of whack. I need to read this before I fix anything :D Svrangerchrista (discuss • contribs) 05:02, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Now corrected. Thanks for letting us know. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:47, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Phần mở đầu
Mở đầu XuanBach226700 (discuss • contribs) 13:51, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Climate change
What is climate change? Zonkerh (discuss • contribs) 18:30, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

 * See Global warming. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:25, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

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School talk:Geology

Rocks and minerals
To develop some hopefully enjoyable learning by doing resources I am preparing a number under three separate departments:
 * 1) Minerals under Mineralogy,
 * 2) Rocks under Petrology, and
 * 3) Volcanoes under Volcanology.

Each of these lectures has and may have a number of subpages including specific sciences. For example,
 * 1) Minerals has Mineralogy,
 * 2) Rocks has Glaciology, and
 * 3) Volcanoes has Volcanology.

Unless there are some objections, I will move these fields into the department portion of the topic namespace.

Comments, suggestions, questions, and criticisms are most welcome. What do you think? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:42, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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School talk:History

Note: Sections marked by an asterisk (*) are current discussions about policies, guidelines, or goals for the School of History.

Archives

 * Archive 1
 * School talk:History/Archive 2006
 * School talk:History/Archive 2007
 * School talk:History/Archive 2008
 * School talk:History/Archive 2009
 * School talk:History/Archive 2010

Topics and courses
I'd like to remove courses from the Topics or Divisions and Departments, e.g., United States History. What do you think? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:50, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

 * These would include those that are not portals or topics (not red-linked). --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:52, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

History course
What subjects does being a Historian need 41.115.98.92 (discuss) 17:47, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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School talk:Media studies

Radio and Television Broadcasting
We've had some interest in developing learning projects for Radio and Television Broadcasting. I see that there are several such topics proposed here at the School of Media Studies. Should we start a separate School:Broadcasting or make a Broadcasting Division of this school with Television and Radio Departments? Thoughts? CQ 18:26, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Please see my note in section that follows. My opinion is that it would make best sense to crate a [School:  Media Production] to encompass practical / technical courses, including eg. Radio, Television, Film & Video, Computer Games & Digital Arts, Web Media Production.

"Media studies" is not "Media"
Media studies is part of Media. Media studies examines the impact of media.

Media studies does not include the actual creation of media.

Please move all media creation to the appropriate pages. Robert Elliott 04:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I concur, but not completely. If School:Media existed as a separate entity, the moves may be justified. But for now, I think this School should act as an over-arching institution for many media projects (see below). CQ 18:01, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Multimedia in Media Studies classes
 * Starting with Apple Computer (etc.) in 1990, the definition of media has been distorted wrongly. According to all manuals coming out of computer companies until about 5 years ago, media was simply "multimedia" and all forms of media (including motion pictures) could be produced by using "multimedia" technology as taught in New Media classes.  That is, Apple said that motion pictures are just a natural extention of multimedia.

 * Apple was such a good marketer that most educational institutions accepted this idea as true. Therefore, all universities with Media Studies programs still include motion picture production (and motion picture technology) under multimedia.  This, of course, is totally wrong.  The technologies are totally different, almost the exact opposite.

 * The funny thing is now Apple, Inc. has decided it is no longer just a "multimedia" company. It still sells the concept of "New Media equals Multimedia" to universities which teach Media Studies but Apple now has has a professional motion picture division which sells motion picture technology to film studios. And the technologies are the exact opposite.

 * All of the New Media programs at unversities still tell their students that if they learn the multimedia technology that they teach, students will be prepared for the future of television and motion pictures. They continue to say that all media is simply an extension of the multimedia as taught in their Media Studies classes.  This is wrong.

 * Therefore, I am not eager to continue this deception. The technology of multimedia as taught in Media Studies courses is a totally different technology than motion picture technology.

 * This is like saying that English Composition should now be taught in French Literature classes because the two coutries are now joined by a tunnel. Nonsense!   Robert Elliott 01:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Media / Multimedia

 * Robert has a point, but he's off track. There should be clarification of what is being discussed, and the media platforms involved at both the production and consumption ends of the communication process should be noted explicity.  However the reality is that in the present day, the creation of film, television, radio AS WELL AS 'New Media' (web content, video games, etc) happens on a desktop computer.  The difference between the video I make in iMovie and post on MySpace versus Lord of the Rings, is increasingly a matter of degrees of  skill and resources, rather than a difference of 'kind.'  The principles are the same.

 * The more important question is this: should technical / practical Production courses -- whether for Film, TV, Music, Radio, Games, Web Content, what have you -- be included under the 'Media Studies' banner? Or, as is most often the case in brick-and-mortar schools of the present day, should they be placed under a separate "Media Production" heading?  My take on it is that it should be one or the other -- all in or all out.  So, either we move the Film Production content under a "Media Production" SUB-HEADING of "Media Studies," or we move Multimedia production under a separate full-heading of "Media Production," alongside Film Production and whatever else may come.  Each option has potential advantages and disadvantages.  Please discuss.

 * I think it's obvious that there are different skills and technologies involved in particular disciplines of the media (ie video/film production - and its sub-disciplines - sound recording, writing, etc), however some of these skills certainly overlap. This is why I think it makes sense, for certain courses, to give an overview of what "the media" is, how it is produced and disseminated, and how it affects us. I think this does well to involve a practical and theoretical understanding both of technical processes (such as editing film), and the societal implications of how a film is edited. Any "media studies" course I have been aware of has incorporated this kind of perspective - an understanding of both "how to do it", and what "the doing of this" means. This is a key to media literacy - being able to understand, critique, use, and produce media. This is why I disagree with media studies not including the actual creation of media (Robert).

 * I'm also not sure I understand or agree with how Robert is delineating multimedia and media above. As far as I have always understood it, media is a generic term for a 'means of communication', and multimedia is a generic term for the array of media at our disposal, particularly newer and predominantly audio/visual media. Neither of these words mean much specific, and I think it would be worthwhile to have a page (or series of pages) devoted to these words alone. As regards how courses/resources are structured, it should really be flexible enough not to have to worry about whether something is a "sub"/section of a certain field or another - all these departments/resources can be listed multiply, categorised and cross-categorised, according to their specific focus. There is also a Portal:Media which is intended to be a user-friendly gateway to all things media-related. I think all these things are interrelated, so we should therefore interrelate them all accordingly. :-) Cormaggio talk 23:01, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Robert Replies :

 * You say "The difference between the video I make in iMovie and post on MySpace versus Lord of the Rings, is increasingly a matter of degrees of skill and resources, rather than a difference of 'kind.' The principles are the same."

 * No! This is wrong. No matter how much skill and resources you use, the technology (methodology) that you use can NEVER produce a motion picture like "Lord of the Rings".

 * · Companies such as Apple have told people this for years. But it is not true.

 * Personally, I believe that Apple was the one that created this myth. Their marketing department told people that if they learned to make multimedia, they were also learning how to create motion pictures.  At the time, Apple was only able to create the technology for making multimedia but not motion pictures. So this was an excellent marketing ploy.  But it simply is not true.

 * · The people who teach multimedia have told students this for years. But it is not true.

 * · The people who write request grant money have said this for years. But it is not true.

 * Narrative filmmaking uses techniques which look very similar to multimedia production. Therefore, at first glance, people assume that the methods uses for multimedia are the same as for narrative motion pictures.

 * These are totally different technologies. Therefore, they should not be grouped together otherwise we will continue to support this myth.  Robert Elliott 08:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't disagree with anything there (though I do disagree with media studies being only the analysis of media and not including learning how to produce media). But I don't quite understand what the problem is here. Is it purely a matter of "grouping"? Personally, I don't think we can (or should) exclude a link to the "filmmaking" page from the "analysing film" page, or indeed this school's page. How do you think we should group content/links instead? Cormaggio talk 09:40, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

 * It would be great if everyone was saying "To learn how to add audio, video, pictures, music, and dialog to a production, click here to learn how to create multimedia. But to learn how to create a dramatic movie, click here to learn the technology of filmmaking.  And to learn how to create television production using synced cameras and a switcher, click here."

 * Instead, people are saying, "We must offer more classes in multimedia so people can learn how to create motion pictures." or people are saying "To understand more about the different media (including motion pictures), we must offer more classes on how to create multimedia." Both of these are wrong.

 * Putting filmmaking classes under the heading of "Multimedia" or "New Media" is like saying we should put "French Poetry" under "German" because they are both foreign languages. The students are mutually exclusive.  No student of "New Media" has ever produced a motion picture.  Robert Elliott 21:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I just don't understand why we are having this discussion. Who is saying that we need more multimedia classes in order to lead the learner to a career in filmmaking? And also, who is to say that knowing something about audio and video editing/aggregating might not be useful experience in learning about filmmaking (eventually, down the road)? Can't we say that all these endeavours are aspects of "media" (ie communication), and then delineate and interlink as appropriate? Cormaggio talk 22:28, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Virtual Wikimania
The Wikiversity School of Media Studies is planning to get Wikiversity involved in producing a "Virtual Wikimania" from Taipei via a "Wikiversity kiosk" located at the main event. Some of the participating content development groups are:
 * Topic:Wikimania - Wikimania, Wikimania 2007 etc.
 * Topic:Internet Audio and Video - Setting up the Sandbox Server (or equivalent) with Icecast and and other Internet Audio/Video services.
 * Topic:VoIP - Setting up the Sandbox Server (or equivalent) with Asterisk Voice over Internet Protocol hub linked to something like an OpenMoko/Internet Kiosk
 * Topic:Server administration - Setting up the Sandbox Server (or equivalent) in general
 * Topic:Internet Audio - Wiki Campus Radio, Hypatia, WikiCast, etc. to work on Topic:Audio Engineering learning projects for the "Sound of Wikiversity" Internet radio project
 * ...several others... just follow the breadcrumbs...

If you know of people, companies or groups that could help out, please let us know at Talk:Wikimania 2007. Thanks in advance for your input! CQ 17:53, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

literature review from b:Wikiversity-school of media:media113:comparing texts
Hello the following info will be removed soon from Wikibooks. Perhaps someone can need/include it somewhere ? Thanks, Erkan Yilmaz ( my talk page, wiki blog ) 11:11, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

''The Art of Thinking, A Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking 6th Edition. Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Copyright 2001 Addison Wesley Longman''
 * Starts a little slow but looks like a good introduction. 172.198.210.24, 19:58, 22 December 2005

Definition
"Media studies examines the effect of media on society" - o.k. that's the sociology point of view. But what is about the "rest": the content and history of (mass) media? If you don't know the media, how do you want to talk about the effects? --89.247.43.210 16:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Bias
Noticed that the media is bias and the people who have control over it have an agenda for political parties. This is seriously an issue. The media has the ability to sway and create false statements about political parties on either side. This is a control issue and it is so wrong. The media should just report the truth and only the truth 💯.

 * Be bold. If there is a problem, fix it or rebut it. Don't just complain about it. There is no control issue. You have as much control of content on Wikiversity as anyone else does. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:50, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Potential peer reviewers for medical articles
For the purpose of arranging for Peer review, I've found many potential reviewers at e.g. the AMWA freelance Directory and Enago for medical articles. However, it is often quite burdensome and/or costly for me personally to arrange for peer reviews in this way (e.g. $250 to $300 for a peer review by Enago), and I'd prefer that the whole idea didn't completely depend on my own existence. Thus, it would be best if we had a list of volunteers that have the expertise for and would be willing to perform peer reviews of works in particular areas of medicine. If we can create such a list, we can then place it on the main page of this school, so that authors of original medical research articles can directly find an appropriate peer reviewer. I now start the list below (now located at Talk:Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Peer reviewers 14:58, 20 June 2015 (UTC)). Mikael Häggström (discuss • contribs) 10:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Mikael Häggström - I'm willing to take requests for peer review of works in the field of reproductive medicine.
 * User:Lesion-- Oral medicine
 * I have no medical expertise whatsoever but I would volunteer to support in other ways, such as by providing or arranging Wikimedia training for non-Wikimedia people who participate in this. Please message me on English Wikipedia if I am needed.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   15:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not a physician, nurse, or medical technician. I am a scientist with many publications in the physical sciences under my real name. I have refereed or reviewed manuscripts for journals like Applied Physics Letters and the Journal of Applied Physics among about half a dozen others like the Journal of Electronic Materials. I'm willing to help where I can and would like to see the Wikiversity Journal developed. I also contribute occasionally to WikiDoc (basic science). --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 19:27, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you find the Wikiversity Journal project interesting I've recently prepared a page specifically for peer reviewers of this journal: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Peer reviewers. I think this list should be made at that page instead, so you are welcome to sign up there: Talk:Wikiversity_Journal_of_Medicine/Peer_reviewers. There are currently two works in need of peer review, and I think your input is very valuable. Also, feel free to participate in any activity under Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Contribute. Mikael Häggström (discuss • contribs) 15:28, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Links to Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology
I added links to these topics since they interface with both medicine and dentistry. Lesion (discuss • contribs) 16:58, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Opinion
I think everyone sees eyes to eyes on free open learning concept and Wikipedia should be appreciated for its contribution in open learning but interest in learning and learning are different thing. Medicine is very sensitive profession where there is no chance for second take. If a health profession makes mistakes then someone has to lose his life or suffer.

Wikipedia is making easier for people to access information. But frankly saying i don't find it relevant to provide medical information to everybody.Wikipedia has not yet providing clinical knowledge but i guess it is preparing to provide it soon. If it Medical science is a subject of learning for everybody then why are there so tough entrance exam, is it just to minimise no of doctor just to fit requirement or to disqualify who can make logical analysis? What if everyone tries to gain medical education to treat them self and to give advice with drug to other? Will people with Wikiversity degree (I know Wikipedia do not give any degree) will try to practice at least for them self correctly? who will be responsible if they tried to do so and found to have done greatest mistake of their life?

"Little knowledge is dangerous." Medical knowledge is comparable to the knowledge to make bomb. As like it is dangerous. so Wikiversity school of medicine would be a great source of knowledge to medical students and for benefit of humanity if it could be limited to medical students only. Giving access to medical professional and student would overcome this soon to come problem.

--Dipendra Bhusal (discuss • contribs) 17:37, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

 * Medical textbooks in libraries have been accessible for everyone since ancient times without much controversy, so I think Wikiversity can be the same. Mikael Häggström (discuss • contribs) 04:25, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikiversity is not a degree-granting institute. However Wikiversity can help medical students get a degree at a Medical School by providing a place where medical students and medical professions can participate, interact, and share their medical knowledge. Medical Schools can also rate and make accessible medical resources at Wikiversity that meet their standards of quality for inclusion as curriculum in a medical course. Wikiversity has no means to authenticate whether anyone is in fact a medical student or professional, and welcomes anyone with an interest in medicine to participate.
 * Wikiversity participants in the past have suggested that a medical disclaimer should be required for all medical-related topics and discussions, and have suggested to differentiate what to accept at Wikiversity by whether what is presented is medical advice or medical training. -- dark lama  14:33, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Why separate template
I don't see the reason why a major part of the content of this page located in the separate Template:School homepage, when, as far as I see, this is the only place where that template is used, so I just merged them. Mikael Häggström (discuss • contribs) 16:09, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

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documentary hypothesis
The wikisource file Bible, English, King James, According to the documentary hypothesis has been proposed to be moved here. Any comments?--Rayc 04:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think this would be the best place to move it, maybe under a division of biblical/Christian studies (or something akin to it). It is not a source text (which is why WS won't accept it), and not exactly appropriate for WB.  Instead, it's more of a set of teaching material which explains a particular theory of biblical studies that claims the Torah and deuteronomistical history is a collection of sources that had been compiled into one document.  For any person who wants to study the Bible or the Old Testament, this set of pages provides a good germ for spurring such studies.— Zhaladshar > (Talk) > 16:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Absolutely it should be moved here; the Document Theory is an exegetical theory that would be home under Christianity's Biblical Studies, I believe (even though it's wrong! ;) I'm glad you mentioned this course; I just did a lesson concerning the Document Theory, and the course will provide a great supplemental resource to link to.  Btw, I should mention that the wikisource page was deleted, it seems.

 * --Opensourcejunkie 00:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

 * By Opensourcejunkie's request, I've imported it with history to Bible, English, King James, According to the documentary hypothesis. — Pathoschild 23:46:40, 03 April 2008 (UTC)

Department of Christian Theology?
Would it be possible to have a department which focuses purely on Christian theology rather than the various denominational biases which are implied in other departments? AlistairReece 14:50, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

 * One would hope that this could be achieved. --  Dionysios  (talk), Founder of the Wikiversity School of Theology, Department of Orthodox Christian Studies, Date: 2007-10-23 (October 23, 2007) Time:  1231 UTC

 * The changes I made yesterday should accommodate your desire, Alistair. -- Guðsþegn 00:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Organizational Changes
I've been in these nightmarish denominational nomenclature wars before, and I want to avoid that, but I also wanted to bring much needed organization to what was a chaotic mess. You (Dionysis) have already seen the major changes I have made so far. I am wanting to conform the department names to what I created on the school intro page.

Also, I am showing here some slight changes to what I have already put on the intro page that may be amenable to everyone.

 * Department of Traditional Christian Theology — includes topics that are relevant primarily to particular traditions
 * Center for Orthodox Studies — includes topics like ...
 * Center for Catholic Studies — includes topics like ...
 * Center for Reformational Studies — includes topics like ...
 * Center for Restorational Studies — includes topics like ...

So, instead of "Department of Orthodox Christian Studies", it would be the "Center for Orthodox Studies" within the "Department of Traditional Christian Theology".

BTW, it is common for university departments to have "Centers for" such and such in them.

This scheme avoids some things: (1) in linking each tradition family to the Department of Traditional Christian Theology it doesn't make as overt a claim for each tradition family as being "Christian" as having the two words in the same phrase does (some in some traditions do not believe that others in other traditions are fully Christian -- again, avoiding conflict), but it does say they are nominally Christian (because they are in that department); (2) it avoids negative or unpalatable words as labels -- Orthodox is a wide enough term to cover that family of traditions (and it may not sound parochial as "Eastern ..." may sound to some); Catholic is here not called "Roman" which can also sound parochial; Reformational is used instead of "Protestant" because many of us "Protestants" hate that word (it sounds attached to something else, while in rebellion; it was used as a curse word by foes; and it doesn't cover reformational movements that existed prior to Martin Luther); and Restorational is used by adherents as an umbrella term. I would have used the term "Evangelical" instead of "Reformational" to cover Protestantism but some have a negative association with that term as well (not me, mind you - I love the term).

I'm going to change the intro page for now (because I hate having to wait to do something that in my mind seems to be a great solution), but I am holding off changing the existing department pages themselves until I get some feedback. -- Guðsþegn 00:08, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Hey, I really like this Department - Center metaphor; I think it could help clarify a lot. I wanted to suggest applying it to the Department of Biblical Studies as well.

 * --Opensourcejunkie 00:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Comparative Religion
Hello All, I would like to see the creation of a school of comparative religion that can unify most of these schools of thought into a single curriculum that is more well established and has a higher degree of community cooperation. It seems like something we could all work together on.

 * I think this would be a great idea. We should start by creating the division of Comparative Religion and have certain subdivisions: (a) Mythology/metaphysics (b) Ethics (c) Practice ... These three areas could yield many interesting and profound comparisons. IAO131 19:55, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

 * There is a general feeling that the school/department metaphor may not be working well in Wikiversity. An alternative suggestion has been to create projects in the Topic namespace, ie, Topic:Comparative Religion. See: Wikiversity_learning_model/Discussion_group. Countrymike 20:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

 * This seems perfectly reasonable if it is a more effective route of organizing all of this information IAO131 20:43, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Okay, I added a department of comparative religion, it is very basic, so people can help by expanding it. Thank you all in advance. Magosgruss 21:36, 02.28.2008 (UTC)

Faculties
The faculties use too many odd naming conventions. Why separate it into 'dominant' & 'old,' 'historic' & 'tribal?' The 'dominant' ones are about as old as Zoroastrianism, but the latter is a just as significant monotheism, and so are some new ones such as Ayyavazhi and Baha'i.  The 'historic' ones are not just historic, but still practiced, and similar to the 'tribal' ones, though focusing on tribes is not the main idea. Instead of 'dominant' & 'old' we should have 'the great religions' (i.e. monotheisms or henotheisms,) and instead of 'historic' & 'tribal' we should have the pagan, ethnic, or cultural religions. These two and perhaps 'new religions' are the only categories needed.--Dchmelik 03:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Just so everyone is aware, the Sikh religion is, alas, less than a thousand years old (though I agree that it ought to be grouped with the "majors"). Meanwhile Zoroastrianism is God knows how many thousands of years old, and the major influence on pre-Islamic Iranian culture. The Druze religion just barely qualifies in terms of time, and hardly at all in terms of influence, and outside of Israel is often viewed as a sectarian form of Islam. In other words, borderline in every possible way.

 * I would suggest a cateogy of "major religions" defined as follows: more than 1 million followers, and/or more than 1000 years of history as a literate culture; and which has continued to exist up to the present day. (Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druze, Baha'i, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion, Shinto, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Caodaism, Yiguandao, Brazilian Spiritism.)

 * With the numerical bar raised to 10 million (but retaining the 1000-year loophole) we lose only the Baha'is, Caodaists, and Yiguandao followers. --Dawud

Meher Baba Dept.
Meher Baba is a person, not religion. Also, do we need to make an entire department for every Spiritual Master that did not found one of the 'great' or pagan religions? If so, there would be thousands of Departments. IIRC Meher Baba taught Vedanta and Sufism, so he should be a topic in the Sikh or Sant Mat depts. (Sant Mat could also be a Sikh topic.)--Dchmelik 03:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

God and donating body parts
this comment was moved from here I dont know if I am at the right place to ask. what God says about donating our body parts????
 * The answer depends on your religion, among other things. The Jade Knight 16:30, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Wicca a new religion?
Is Wicca strictly speaking a new religion? I was under the impression that Wiccan trace their beliefs back to the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic world of the early centuries of the Common Era. AlistairReece 09:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

 * It seems to be a new religion, though many Wiccans say it is old; some of its ideas can be traced back far, but it also seems there are new ones, or at least ones that cannot be verified as old. The word 'Wicca' is actually based on the Anglo-Saxon words 'Wicche' and 'Wiccha,' but those meant types of priests or witches, and not a religion itself: classical words for religion were different than the root words of 'Wicca.'--Dchmelik 07:57, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Wicca is indeed a new religion, founded about 60 years ago, though it makes claims to antiquity (its founder, Gardner, claimed to have gotten the original Wiccan teachings from a coven of witches which traced its religious heritage back thousands of years). Frequently Wicca is claimed to be ancient Celtic religion in a modern form, but (as some people have pointed out in no uncertain terms) Wicca is not a Celtic religion.  The Jade Knight 16:33, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Time Cube Studies
How does one go about establishing a department of Time Cube Studies? http://www.timecube.com

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material from Wikibooks
Material from Wikibook was imported to Portal:Sociology. Please integrate that older material into the School of Sociology. --JWSchmidt 02:38, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

about translation
Did we need a chinese translation? I would do this if I can and I know how to do it(I am a newbie of wiki ^^).

--Lightnesssnow 00:26, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Feel free to translate what you think is useful. About how to do this, people at Questions may have more ideas.--Piotrus 02:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

School vs. Portal
What's the hierarchy of schools and portals? I'd think that Portals would be like 'pretty displays', attracting people and having more eye candy then the School, but if so, the School being the main content and discussion place should have more priority then the Portal(s)?--Piotrus 02:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Courses
???Question So as not to replicate, does anyone here differentiate between "Demography" and "Social Stratification"?? Buddpaul 17:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Autistic Rights course
I am thinking of writing a course, but I am not sure where it belongs. This would be a course on the Neurodiversity and Autistic Rights movements, which are branches of the Disability Rights movement. Because these are current movements, this course would not belong in a history department; but it even though it concerns developmental disorders, it also does not belong in psychology. I am tackling the issues from a sociological perspective as much as I can, so I thought it might belong here. Also, I'm new to wikiversity, so I don't really know how to go about setting up a course... if someone would like to help me, I'd be grateful for the assistance. --Luai lashire 19:47, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I suggest starting a resource like Disability Rights and associate it with a Topic:Social movements department of School:Sociology. Just cover Neurodiversity and Autistic Rights movements as sections to get things started. Later, if it gets too long, split it out to subpages "Disability Rights/Neurodiversity" and "Disability Rights/Autistism".

 * Just go ahead and tackle! Things can be moved around and re-structured if need be. These are important issues. CQ 22:13, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Ok, then. When I get part of the course written down I'll start a page for it, and I guess it can be altered and expanded as needed.  --Luai lashire 23:49, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

The page for this is up and running, albeit badly in need of various kinds of assitance and expansion. Here: The Neurodiversity Movement  --Luai lashire 19:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Related Department
Hi all, I am currently invovled with the School of History, and especially with the Department of Historiography. This department specialises in studying how history is practiced. Sociology is a major contributor to much of what a historian does. Sociological evidence is a great tool in which the historian uses to support his theses. I am proposing that a 'Related Schools/Departments' list be added to your main page. I currently have one on the Department of Historiography's main page. If you have any questions please contact me or visit the discussion page for the department. Dctrainor 20:19, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Collaboration
Would anyone like to collaborate on a medicine/sociology project? Go raibh mile maith agaibh 23:42, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Dignity Course
I am developing a Dignity course which may fit well here. If you like it, perhaps you can add it to the curriculum. (I hesitated to do this myself because I did not want to disturb the existing structure.)--Lbeaumont 22:42, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

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Unsolved problems in software engineering

There is not a canonical list of unsolved problems in software engineering; however, there are the following issues:

Engineering Challenges

 * Is it possible to simulate a human mind?
 * Is computer consciousness possible?
 * Is it possible to solve any NP-complete problem quickly (in polynomial time)?
 * Will software complexity continue to match or exceed Moores Law?
 * Is it possible to have computers solve their own problems, in particular configuration problems or problems involving improper setup, integration or programming?
 * Is it possible to write software that users can themselves extend and interact with to solve the actual problem they want to solve, as opposed to the software that was written by the developer in a general way?

Software Engineering Project Management

 * List of antipatterns, which might be thought of as statements of poor practice, in contradistinction to the list of design patterns
 * Poorly predictable relationship of project duration to program functionality
 * Systematic detection of software defects
 * Statistical tendency of project to run behind schedule and over-budget
 * Adding additional manpower to a lagging software project (especially in later parts of the project) may actually cause further schedule slippage due to overhead experienced during the integration of new employees. See The Mythical Man-Month.

Programming Complexity

 * Current complexity of most programming languages, in general
 * Current complexity of most applications, to the extent that companies fail when programmers leave, if those companies have no one else who understands what the programmers have done.

Standards (software)

 * Non-standard implementation of standards or specifications by multiple organizations result in a requirement for implementation specific code and special case exceptions as a necessity for cross-platform interoperability. Notable modern examples include web browser compatibility and web-services interoperability. Companies create competing standards to solve their own problems and use their political clout to market the standard and themselves. Although competing standards sometimes improve upon existing problems, rarely do they replace or even provide an improvement upon current standards.  That is to say that while a portion of the competing standard may outperform the other current standards in one area, a portion of the competing standard will suffer.

 * Differential implementations of standards by one specification. One explanation is that the early-adopters program according to an older, outdated version of the spec.  Another possible explanation is that the companies' different implementations revealed after-the-fact that the specification had unclearly-defined or ambiguous rules. Eg: different blog software companies have implemented the metaweblog api based on the metaweblog api specification, although they did so differently since there was confusion about the methodNames of those methods shared with the blogger api (blogger.methodname vs metaweblog.methodname).

 * Arbitrariness of most software concepts, which is related to historical hardware and software implementation, lack of common standards worldwide, and economic pressures.


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Unsolved problems in neuroscience

Some of the yet unsolved problems of neuroscience include:
 * (Self-)Awareness: What is the neuronal basis of subjective experience, wakefulness, alertness, arousal and attention? What is its function?
 * Perception: How does the brain transfer sensory information into coherent, private percepts? What are the rules by which perception is organized? What are the features/objects that constitute our perceptual experience of internal and external events? How are the senses integrated? Is face perception special (e.g. inert)? What is the relationship between subjective experience and the physical world?
 * Learning and Memory: Where do our memories get stored and how are they retrieved again? How can learning be improved? What is the difference between explicit and implicit memories? How plastic is the mature brain?
 * Development: How and why did the brain evolve (the way it did)? What are the molecular determinants of individual brain development?
 * Sleep: What is the function of sleep? Why do we dream? What are the underlying brain mechanisms? What is its relation to anesthesia?
 * Cognition and Decisions: How and where does the brain evaluate reward value and effort (cost) to modulate behavior? How does previous experience alter perception and behavior? What are the genetic and environmental contributions to brain function?
 * Language: How is it implemented neurally? What is the basis of semantic meaning?
 * Diseases: What are the neural bases (causes) of mental diseases like psychotic disorders (e.g. mania, schizophrenia), Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease or addiction? Is it possible to recover loss of sensory or motor function?

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Wikiversity is sufficiently small that its main contributors are (theoretically) able to have an overview of each other. At the same time, Wikiversity is sufficiently large and diverse that its main contributors (and newcomers) do not in fact have a proper overview of each other. To avoid unnecessary embarrassments and generally keep people informed about who's who and who's doing what (of significance), the idea of this page is to collect personalia on a month by month basis. Ultimately this page should be a minor contribution to communication and community.

The exact notes collected is not a closed set - contributors may add notes depending on what they personally think is important for the community to know. However notes should generally be related to the most active participants at Wikiversity, and to events and efforts of significance involving participants.

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Project: SRego (mechanical engineering, University of Toronto, Canada) used Wikiversity for his Design for the Environment project. About 100 to 150 students were involved as editors for a brief period, many becoming "very active" contributors for this month. The students are not included in the above list, as they did not become long-term contributors.

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In memoriam: The Wikimedia Foundation was informed that Mirwin, a Wikiversity contributor and founding member, who had been very active up to December 2007, died this month. The Wikiversity community is greatly saddened by this loss. Mirwin also had the distinction of being one of the very earliest users of Wikipedia (#369).

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Galactic evolution

Data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Mission (launched April 28, 2003)

GALEX project information
GALEX is the first Space Ultraviolet sky survey. Data from two wavelengths of light (135-175 nm and 175-280 nm) are being collected and made public. The measured UV properties of galaxies will be used to estimate star formation rates in galaxies. The goal is to map the history of star formation in the universe over the red shift range zero to two. The GALEX mission includes an Associate Investigator program for supporting data analysis. GALEX data are available in a large archive available to the entire astronomical community and to the general public. This supports a wide variety of investigations of the data from the UV sky survey.

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