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Basic nursing

Nurses may receive their education and training through many avenues. In the United States,a licensed nurse may be a Licensed Vocational(Practical) Nurse or a Registered Professional Nurse. A Licensed Vocational Nurse completes a one to 2 year vocational/technical education program and provides defined patient care tasks under the direction of a Registered Nurse or physician. A Registered Professional Nurse has 3 options available for their professional educational program; a hospital based school of nursing, a community or junior college offering an Associate Degree, or a 4 year Bachelor of Science program at a college or university. In past decades, Registered Professional Nurses were trained not at a university level but at an apprenticeship level through a hospital school of nursing. Whilst nursing is progressing towards being a more academic area of study and developing its own body of knowledge, a great deal of nurses' education and training requires an emphasis on practical application which is achieved in clinical rotations in a health care setting. To complete this assignment it will probaly be necessary to secure a job or work placement as a care assistant, auxilliary nurse, support worker or similar support role, and provide written support that you can achieve each of the learning proficiencies. This assignment can be completed many times and it may in fact be in your best interests to complete it every few months or so. I welcome any edits anyone feels should be made especially because this assignment will need to be edited to make it appropriate for those working outside the united kingdom.

Proficiency 1: Practicing in an ethically accountable manner. Provide written support that you are able to practice in line with the nursing and midwifery council's code of professional conduct: standards for conduct, performance and ethics.

Show appropriate behavour when entering a patient/client's home

When providing care ensure that individuals or groups are shown support and acknowledgement

Have a relevant and comprehensive knowledge of health care policy and regional legislation with regards to nursing

Proficiency 2: Striving to enhance the knowledge of the profession of nursing as well as personal knowledge and skills.

Reflect on practice as often as possible and engage with contemporary nursing literature in order to maintain best practice and identify gaps in your own knowledge, this will also help to identify gaps in nursing knowledge as a whole and formulate new research.

Proficiency 3: Evaluation, record keeping, clinical judgement and assessment in nursing.

Generate a plan of care in order to achieve the best possible health, habilitation or rehabilitation, expected outcomes and a time frame of the patient/client's care.

Work with patients to gauge the progress of their care according to the the care plan.

Show that you can apply your skills safely and appropriately

Select nursing interventions based upon evidence, practical knowledge and patient/client's interests.

Promote independent living skills and communicate with patients in order to ascertain their need/desire for health promotion.

Show an ability to collect necessary nursing data on patients/clients in a systematic manner.

Proficiency 4: Nursing management.

Ensure that the patient/client's clinical/home environment is safe and eliminate hazards where possible and demonstrate safe and responsible control of therapeutic substances.

Maintain efficient and reciprocal working relationships with other members of the health and social care team.

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Wikiversity:Mission

Wikiversity's current mission statement is:

This statement derives from the Wikimedia Foundation approved Wikiversity project proposal and from further discussion and development. An early version of the mission can be seen here.

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User:GeorgeA~enwikiversity

GeorgeA is a college lecturer, teaching business and management studies.GeorgeA 13:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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User:Jtneill/Sandbox/Video

This page is for testing out and demonstrating available options for embedding video.

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User talk:GeorgeA~enwikiversity

Hello George, nice to see you around here. Hope you will have fun. Below more info about Wikiversity, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 13:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello GeorgeA, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit;
 * Explore our learning projects;
 * Browse our portals, schools, and research activities;
 * Read and help develop our community policies；or
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 13:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called GeorgeA. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name GeorgeA~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 23:37, 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) 06:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:McCormack/Archive 2007

Help:Quiz
I suggest you go ahead and start Help:Quiz; it can always be moved/renamed. Also, be sure to coordinate with User:Rayc, who I believe has been the Wikiversity participant most involved in working on a quiz system. --JWSchmidt 13:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Quiz
Hi User:McCormack

Yes I did leave you a message on WikiEducator. Thanks for the links to the Quiz help and learning project. They are very interesting. I have been chaffing at the bit while waiting for the quiz extension to be rolled out on WikiEd. I'm not here much but will try to remember to post my messages to you here.

Cheers  kruhly 22:01, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

You're one of the Good Guys around...
...I've left a message for you over here. --HappyCamper 22:25, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Custodianship
Cool! I suggest you say so on the request page, where others can see it. Thanks for all the work on Help:quiz - it looks great! Cormaggio talk 11:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You now have probationary custodian status. Please list yourself at WV:STAFF. Good luck! sebmol ? 14:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and also you might want to take a look at some of the reading list for Wikiversity custodians too. By the way, what time zone are you in (and where are you based)? Many other questions of course, but that's all for now. :-) Cormaggio talk 15:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking the vandal editing from 217.205.250.130. Take a look at w:User talk:217.205.250.130. --JWSchmidt 12:47, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Good counter-vandal work today. :-) Cormaggio talk 14:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Quiz project
Hi McCormack, thank you for your info about the discussion in meta about the quiz. I didn't participate because you centered on technical issues i don't know about. I center more on how this technology can be applied based following certain language acquisition theories. But I see now that the filling-the-gap quiz is running. Great. Thank you for your work. The "how-to" description for the quiz is very good. I am really excited, this quizzes are a very important step forward for wiki-based learning strategies. --Javier Carro 12:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Revert
Hi McCormack - my revert was to address what I thought was a genuine error - that a newbie had blanked a page and replaced it with something else that they simply wanted to add. That account only has one other edit - which I agree looks sarcastic - but I think the principles of custodianship in Wikiversity should be a lot more tolerant of people who make mistakes. Where possible, a mistake should be an opportunity for learning - and leaving a note for the contributor is usually a good first step - though if there is clear and repeated trolling or vandalism, of course, it should be simply reverted. I'm not sure if the other anon edit from around that time was from the same person - it's a similar IP - so dunno, this case isn't clear to me. Still, I'd rather have someone feel better able or motivated to contribute to Wikiversity than the opposite (even if it turns out meaning cleaning up a bit more subsequent vandalism). Cormaggio talk 21:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Drop boxes
The boxes are broken. The expand, collapse thingy is appearing in the upper right hand corner, instead of right on the boxes. I've tracked down this which lead me to this, which lead me to this edit. I'm thinking that is what did it. I've asked sembol what this edit did, since I'm not sure on the code.--Rayc 04:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Thorough
You're very thorough with the mop :-) --HappyCamper 20:37, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Template quiz answer
Hi,

I was just mucking about. Feel free to make my version an old revision -- it doesn't need to move anywhere. Long live the new quiz stuff! Historybuff 21:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandal Fighting
Thanks! Your words are encouraging. I will visit the IRC channels next time i notice a troll messing up pages in wikiversity. Bduttabaruah 10:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Cutting reaction time: McCormack, It seems that the most suspecious is when a brand new user uploads an image. Perhaps somebody can write a bot (I don't know...) for keeping an eye on the special:recentchanges and report it whenever this happens. Hillgentleman|Talk 12:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi McCormack - no, I hadn't seen any instances of vandalism, having been tied up all weekend. :-( Thanks for your work - have you been on IRC at all in the meantime? Cormaggio talk 10:07, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What's your IRC moniker? Is it also "McCormack"? Cormaggio talk 11:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

WV namespace
That's an interesting template. I agree that the Wikiversity namespace needs some organising - in fact, I think that a fair amount of it needs to be merged or archived. As for the rest, I think there still needs to be either an organiser page to list all related pages, or a navigational template to link related pages together. However, I'm not sure if a template or category on their own are going to cut the mustard here... Cormaggio talk 15:38, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Good points - you've prompted me to start work on these already. :-) Cormaggio talk 16:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Dead man walking
Hi McCormack, blocked users can edit their own talk page - this is so that people can request an unblock (for example, because they are editing from a dynamic IP that is used by a vandal). Thanks for your diligence! Cormaggio talk 10:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you around IRC at all these days? I'd like to discuss the organisation of the Wikiversity namespace amongst other related things we've been discussing of late... Cormaggio talk 13:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Heh, yeah... that was confusing :)
I was wondering what was going on there... of course to make it worse I was using a sockpuppet and so didn't have admin tools :). --SB_Johnny | talk 11:02, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

replied
Hi McCormack, I've replied to you on my talk page. Cheers, --Joe Gittings 13:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

 * ...and again... --Joe Gittings 15:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

 * and again. --Joe Gittings 15:44, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I tend to troll "recent changes", so I usually know what's going on ;-) Thanks for the notifications, though. --McCormack 16:02, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Release 0.9.3 of mobile phone client (Occleve)
Hi McCormack, Release 0.9.3 of Occleve is now talking to the wikiversity wiki. However it only understands multiple choice, single response questions. I'll add support for more question types in the next release. Have a play with it at http://occleve.berlios.de/demo.html, or download it to your phone if you feel brave (!), and please let me know what you think. --Joe Gittings 07:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Thoughts
Hi McCormack, if you have a moment, could we share and exchange some ideas on what page protections mean for us? I think it would be healthy if we have a better perspective of each others philosophies, but I don't want to scare Joe away by outlining our positions on the project page. --HappyCamper 14:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I miseed you yesterday. Maybe we can pick it up at Page_protection? --HappyCamper 16:32, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

re: GCSEMatt
Hi McCormack. Yup, I'm sure. This guy is a seria vandal on at least 3 other projects (wikibooks, wikipedia, and commons). He probably has other accounts too, but I'm still waiting for a steward to run CU on him. The "do briefs stink?" vandal accounts tend to share the same IPs as the w/w/forum.php spambot operators. I personally ran CU on the IP he was originally editing from (he says he's not now, but no way to know without CU), and it was nothing but vandal accounts. I'm going to block the IP 1 year as well for good measure... it's either an open proxy or actually belongs to the vandal (we haven't quite nailed that part down yet).

Best way to handle these sorts of vandals is to have local CUs. --SB_Johnny | PA! 18:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Nope, still no local CU set up, so we're vulnerable to this variety of troublemaker :-(. I don't think a high level of sophistication is absolutely required to use it as a vandal-fighting tool (the interface is quite intuitive until you get into deeper levels of searching), so you'd probably be able to make good use of it. --SB_Johnny | PA! 13:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

CU
Yup, sounds good... we're propably a good pair because you're a frequent vandal fighter, and I have experience with the tool (I only check for vandalism early in the morning (EST)... don't really bother looking for it later in the day because I'm busy editing). In my case it will also be nice because I'm fairly sure the serial vandals on WB and WV are the same people, so I'll be able to track better (b:User:Herbythyme has had very good results doing cross-project CU on commons and wikibooks, and both projects have seen vandalism decline). --SB_Johnny | PA! 17:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Mobile editing coming soon
Hi Cormaggio, McCormack, and Lrbabe... After a break, I'm doing another burst of work on the mobile phone software. The main new feature in 0.9.4 will be the ability to add new questions to a quiz and upload them back to Wikiversity... watch this space! --Joe Gittings 19:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Technical Writing Course
Hi there - was looking through the history of our Technical Writing course and notice that you made some changes to the enrollment section. I have a question about the exercise template we have, which seemed to have vanished. Was there a particular reason for the code being taken out? Obviously we are on a learning curve as well in building this course so any pointers would be much appreciated. Cheers AlistairReece 09:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed that you are removing re-directs from pictures on the Technical Writing course we are doing. This is an exercise for our current students. Is there a rule concerning re-directs? If so could you point it out to us? Cheers AlistairReece 10:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Concrete construction...
I want to say first that I am quite glad you are a custodian here, and that I see your works as being quite an asset to Wikiversity.

However, this message is about a question. Were I to restore Concrete construction and slap on a template (sans Russian), would you have any objections? --Remi 10:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

User:God
Thanks for the heads up - I've let User:God know that I can change their username for them, once they decide one that they like. Cormaggio talk 11:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

*Gives McCormack a high five*
--Remi 14:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

me too, thx Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 17:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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The Offending Deletion Request Template & Consensus
Your servant asks you why you do not remove the offending Deletion Request Template, not why did you not remove it. That is to say, "McCormack, my friend and adversary, please remove the offending Deletion Request Template."

Apparently, you and Your servant have a vastly different understanding of Consensus.

You indicate that, "[T]here is a small consensus in favour of deletion, but not a large consensus yet. If there is consensus against deletion, the template goes. If there is a clear consensus for deletion, the page will be deleted. If there is a neutral result or only a small consensus, the template remains so that more people can state their opinion. It makes no difference how strongly you oppose deletion - you can only vote once. Please respect the opinions of others and wait for more votes. It is quite possible the voting may last for months."

Your servant, on the other hand, finds that there is no Consensus. In his view, your servant has blocked Consensus.

The Wikipedia Article on Consensus Decision Making could provide us with some guidance here. It provides an etymology: (Latin) "cum meaning 'with' or 'together with', and sentire meaning to 'think' or 'feel'. Thus, etymologically, 'consensus' means to 'think or feel together'"; and indicates that "as a decision-making process, consensus aims to be:
 * "Inclusive: As many stakeholders as possible should be involved in the consensus decision-making process.
 * "Participatory: The consensus process should actively solicit the input and participation of all decision-makers.
 * "Co-operative: Participants in an effective consensus process should strive to reach the best possible decision for the group and all of its members, rather than opt to pursue a majority opinion, potentially to the detriment of a minority.
 * "Egalitarian: All members of a consensus decision-making body should be afforded, as much as possible, equal input into the process. All members have the opportunity to table, amend and veto or "block" proposals.
 * "Solution-oriented: An effective consensus decision-making body strives to emphasize common agreement over differences and reach effective decisions using compromise and other techniques to avoid or resolve mutually-exclusive positions within the group."

The Wikiversity notion of Consensus, which so far seems to summed up in the major content of the "Wikiversity: Consensus" Page: "Consensus usually means that a large majority of community members who have discussed a proposal have provided good reasons for either adopting or rejecting the proposal." does not seem to your servant to be so well thought out as the Wikipedia Consensus Policy, which Policy might provide us with some guidance.

Perhaps you, your servant, and others interested in the true meaning of Consensus could work together to develop a Wikiversity Consensus Policy which might reflect a shared Understanding of Consensus. While your servant has a concept of Consensus in line with the Wiktionary second definition of Consensus, in his humble opinion, a Wikiversity Consensus Policy needs to be developed, again, based on a shared Understanding of Consensus.

It is hoped that Wikiversity will work on building real Consensus. In the humble opinion of your servant, your comtinued Decoration of the "Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi" Page with a Deletion Request Template represents a clear departure from Consensus Decision Making. Your servant has blocked Consensus on your request to delete the Page in question.  A strong commitment to Collegiality prompted your servant to comply with your irregular request that your servant restore the offending Deletion Request Template; but his Action was in no way Unilateral. He did what is necessary to correct a continuing, real, and serious harm that a Pernicious Deletion Request is causing, after being advised that "These requests for custodian action do not seem to require custodian action." and receiving the suggestion that he "take the action" that he "feel[s] is justified." -- < JWSchmidt 18:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)>. Now that he has removed and restored those Four (4) Offending Keystrokes, perhaps we can move on to a solution of the underlying problem.

Would you please be so kind as to join your servant and some other interested Wikiversitans in an effort to develop a Wikiversity Consensus Policy which will reflect what might come to be a shared Understanding of Consensus?

Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-09-12 (September 12, 2007) Time:  2007 UTC -->

computer course?
"edit style of the above page strike you as slightly weird" <-- Yes, it is unusual. My best guess is that User:Areil123 is having groups of students edit "Introduction to computers" pages. If you are concerned about edits to these pages, try asking "Areil123" what is going on. I suspect that "Areil123" may have made use of a script to help automate creation of Wikiversity user accounts for students. --JWSchmidt 05:51, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Palo Alto...
I think I know which page you are referring. I was simply moving a comment that was located in a page ending in "index.php" (a bug I think?) to an appropriate talk page. The opinions expressed by the author were not mine.

Personally, I have no opinion. I would need more information on the matter. I lean towards assuming good faith. --Remi 04:34, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Cheers
Thanks for this - made me smile, I didn't think anyone would notice. What sort of tools are you using to find out the words used? Thanks for the suggestion :-) --Pumpmeup 09:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Deleting Pages
Thanks for the tip on 09:35, 23 November 2007. Don't be surprised ;-) - I am not that experienced - just do what I can when I can (occasionally). Kim 17:01, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

76.247.222.101
The same thing has taken place at Wikipedia. Some people just are not welcome here....this is a wiki where everyone is welcome but only as long as they contribute constructively. --JWSchmidt 14:41, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello!
Indeed, it's great to be back! Just browsing around at the moment. Any highlights in particular I might be interested in? --HappyCamper 06:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice bold edit to the main page. Looks great! :-) --HappyCamper 06:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:McCormack/Archive Jan-Feb 2008

home page
yes i tested it   it works good    my alternate fix witch was on  sandbox was like 1-2kb smaller but  same effect      its a hell of alot better than it was Eadthem 17:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

new discussion
You might want to participate at Educational Wikis/constructive interactions. --JWSchmidt 01:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

mw:extension:tree view
Hello. You need a wiki where the extension is turned on. Here is an example for you. If people find it useful, we may ask a developer to install it. I think TreeView is in the same family as the dynamic page list extension. Hillgentleman|Talk 17:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Graph Gadget
Yeah, there are certainly some problems with it. The gaps are there because I turned the updater off for a few weeks while I was trying to diagnose some problems. The counter behavior is quite wild, and that is a result of bugs in the Wikicharts page counter itself. We have posted a bug report to the maintainers of that tool, but I haven't heard yet whether those bugs are being corrected.

If i multiply out the numbers, and try to account for the bugs by hand, It appears that en.wikiversity is getting between 5,000 to 10,000 page hits per day, or 150,000 - 300,000 page hits per month. Compare this to an estimated 23,000 hits per day at en.wikibooks and 750,000 hits per month. Consider that en.wikiversity has about 5,400 edits per month. Each edit is approximately 3 page hits (view the page, edit the page, save the page), so that accounts for about 16,000 hits per month solely from page editing.

I hope this answers some questions that you have. Keep in mind that these numbers are all guesses and estimates, so take them with a grain of salt. I think we can assume that they are at least approximately correct, by some definition of the word "correct". --Whiteknight (Versity) (Books) 02:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

French pages
(Comments by User:Dan4114)

I am not very good at this editing business, are you able to make the move to where you wished it to be?

Thanks for fixing that but there's one more problem, if you look at the table, the je section is fine but for tu to ils it's all in a blue box, can you teach me how to fix that?

www.wikiversity.org template
www.wikiversity.org template/test ? Hillgentleman|Talk 11:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

"Wikiversity" x3 on www.wikiversity.org
The word "wikiversity" appears thrice on the portal. Whilst simplicity is good, I suggest (just suggest, it is not a preference) that the title can be "Wikiversity projects" or "The Wikiversity project" (meaning that wikiversity is one project in many languages), which describes the stuff under itself. Hillgentleman|Talk 00:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

LOL
Cormaggio talk 10:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Oh no - I didn't mean to suggest Wikiversity might be "losing me"! (Not a chance!) I was just reacting to a query asking why this hadn't be closed ages ago. However, I'm just back from holidays and facing a deadline, so will still be fairly muted here for a week or so... Cormaggio talk 11:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your Help
To answer your question...no I don't know what I'm doing exactly. I was just trying to add content. Thanks for fixing my mistakes, I thought I knew what I was doing. I will read more about the Wikiversity Standards before posting again.

Thanks again!

Sincerely,

Jsswift talk a wikiversity Newbie. 8 January 2008

lists of projects
at Wikimedia projects it says "Please add any missing projects". I think most people try to keep Complete list of Wikimedia projects up to date. --JWS 13:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Greek Wikiversity title and motto
Hi McCormack, we haven't decided yet the title and the motto, I guess this will be done after voting. I guess you could you some temporary ones, like the ones you gave as examples, and then, after they voting is completed, they will be replaced, is that possible? ---- (profile|chit chat|email) 16:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Well as title Ελληνικά and as a motto Ελεύθερη Παιδαγωγική Κοινότητα--ZaDiak 22:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Image licensing
I've been watching the Introduction to Computers pages and "cleaning up" image problems. See my concerns at Notices_for_custodians and the notes I left at Talk:Introduction to Computers/Introduction and User_talk:Areil123. I did not want to delete last night while they were in the middle of a very busy editing session since that would confuse newcomers. I think the best approach is to expalin good practices to the teacher and then I'll clean up after we talk. There are a number of problems with the uploads made by several students in the class. They have been downloading images from commons, resizing, and then uploading here (when a simple thumb or 250px would have done the trick) The wikipedia images are a little more complicated. They have copied images here, but sometimes without a link to wp or with a changed or misleading copyright notice. It is not trivial to migrate and image to commons. I've moved a couple already. Anyway, I don't want to do too much more cleanup until we can do some preventative medicine. --mikeu 16:10, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I suspect that there are some problems with many of the images uploaded for the Introduction to Computers page. See User:Mu301/todo for the list.  Only a couple are copyvio, but there are a number of copies of Commons images, svg changed to jpg, and a few candidates for moving from wp to commons.  Note that the images from wp have munged attribution - some are license tagged "I the creator..." with no mention of the source or original author.  I have not heard back from the instructor who is teaching the class.  BTW, this is the second batch of images that I cleaned up.  I'd like to get them into some good habits since I expect another batch to be uploaded soon.  --mikeu 06:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Actually, the todo list did not exist when you left the first message. I realized I should probably leave a "paper" trail of what I am doing.  I first changed the links in the pages that used the deleted files to point to the copy at commons.  For the files that remain I edited the summary to note the correct license and source of the image.  But they should still go at some point.  No sense in having a copy here when a simple 200px in the link would do the same thing.  I'll probably transwiki a couple images from wp to commons so wv can use the same file.  A few of the images are "fair use" so that won't fly.  I didn't want to tag the copyvio with speedy until the uploaders are informed.  --mikeu 07:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

spam filter
Thanks for the test, McCormack. I hope this message gets through.--Daanschr 12:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I will try the talk pages of Mike and Erkan again.--Daanschr 12:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Mike's talk page is still bouncing.--Daanschr 12:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * No, just regular words. I tried to say that i was not able to be online and chat, because i don't have an internet connection yet in my new home.--Daanschr 14:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

re: IRC
Sorry McCormack - didn't see that message until now - and just about to watch a film now. I'll join IRC some time soon and you can fill me in - or just post a message on my talk page... Cormaggio talk 21:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Drat
I can't get the past participle part to go left on the tenses page. I' m rubbish at HTML i know. Please help!

Here's the page URL - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Learning_the_Basics_of_French/Learn_the_tenses

--Dan4114 13:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this what you wanted to do ? Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 22:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Quiz bug
Awesome! Thanks! -LambaJan 17:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


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Prunus mahaleb

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This page contains recent bloom logs for the plant Prunus mahaleb (St Lucie Cherry, Mahaleb Cherry).

Recent Logs

 * --Juan 16:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
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User talk:Webaware

Welcome
Hello Webaware, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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 * Amazing who you run into in these places, eh? thanks, Webaware talk 23:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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Emergency Operation Centre GIS

Emergency Operation Centre GIS, (EOCGIS)
The goal of this project is to publish a cookbook style textbook called "Emergency Operation Centre GIS, (EOCGIS)". It is envisioned that this textbook will be used by students in a univeristy or college setting working towards a career in emergency management and Emergency Managers responsible for developing GIS capabilities within their emergency operation centre.

Administrative Information
Programs:  Status:   Credit Value: < common definition needed here> Credit Value Notes < > Prerequisites: Corequisites: Equivalents:

Typical Instructional Format Lecture: <42-56 hours>

Course Details
Detail Description

 * Program Context
 * This required course of the Emergency Management Program is essential to the program as it prepares students and emergency managers with critical information needed to understand the use of GIS within the emergency management context, to include the role "EOCGIS" into emergency operation plans/procedures and into the design of the emergency operation centre ...

Course Critical Performance and Learning Outcomes

Critical Performance:

By the end of this course, students will have demonstrated the ability to ...

Learning Outcomes:

To achieve the critical performance, students will have demonstrated the ability to:

Evaluation Plan

Students demonstrate their learning in the following ways:
 * Case studies
 * Procedures
 * Assignments
 * Simulations
 * On-line discussions
 * Tests
 * Other

Total = 100%

Evaluation Plan

Academic Procedure

Test and Assignment Protocal

Topic Outline
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5 Module 6

Module 1

Targeted outcomes

Module 2

Targeted outcomes

Module 3

Targeted outcomes

Module 4

Targeted outcomes

Module 5

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User:Mchua/Trac

Introduction
Many projects I'm involved with use Trac as part of their development process. Aside from being a "normal user," I don't know how to do things with Trac; I can file bugs, comment on them, resolve them, make wiki pages, etc. but installation, configuration, plugin development, and other things that go beyond "basic Trac" are things I don't know yet. This is a chronicle of my attempts to fix that.

Installing Trac
First step: learn how to install trac. I chose to create a separate trac user (trac, using adduser) for running and administering my trac instance.

 * With root privs - see http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall
 * Without root privs - this took a few more minutes. I wrote up my instructions here afterwards.
 * Linking to an svn repository - I had to install (apt-get) the python-subversion package before it would work.
 * Authentication - allow people to log in and, well, change things. I followed the instructions for the standalone server installation (tracd). (Note: I was originally going to use mod_wsgi, but after hitting multiple walls I decided "sod it, this isn't worth it, and isn't particularly conducive to my learning," and moved on with my life. I'd like to use mod_wsgi in the future when things get more stable, though - or if someone is willing to walk me through it over chat or email.)

Now if I run this command as the trac user in the trac user's homedir, it all starts up beautifully. bin/tracd --port 8000 --auth=tracbacks,/home/trac/tracbacks/conf/users.htdigest,trac ~/tracbacks/

Trac on Dreamhost/shared servers
I later found some sites that talked about installing Trac on Dreamhost and other shared servers. The solutions they came up with look far more complex than mine. Should read these soon. readme
 * http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Trac
 * http://natmaster.com/articles/installing_trac.php (read http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2007/04/21/install-trac-on-dreamhost/ at the same time, as it comments on some errors on the first)
 * http://cactuswax.net/archive/installing-trac-on-dreamhost/

And a script that seems to do the job: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/DreamTracInstall

Installing plugins
Trac has plugins that can extend its basic functionality. I used this tutorial, but it will tell you to read about the component architecture and plugin development first.

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User:Jananda~enwikiversity

INTENTION
To share information about our efforts to manifest ecoversity villages. An ecoversity village is an ecovillage with the intention of being a learning community in the development of a sustainable culture. Ecovillage, Learning Community are defined well enough on wikipedia. Sustainable culture is the shared intention, knowledge, skills and behaviors that cultivate sustainable living. Sustainable living means that the resources needed in all our relationships (for we live entirely by grace in a state of complete interdepences with Spirit, with each other, and with all beings) are replenished and nourished. (AKA Living with a negative footprint.)

Sustainability is usually expressed in four dimensions. Ecological, Economic, Social and Spiritual.

My intention is to start a page for Ecoversity Villages, with these four items of our curricula. My own skills and interests seem to focus on Social Sustainability, and I invite others to contribute according to theirs. A group of us are doing this on about 300 acres of land in Southern Costa Rica between San Isidro and Dominical. We are doing this as an inspired community who have agreed on making decisions by consensus, on maintaining our trust with each other as a priority, and on not using drugs or alcohol on our sacred lands.

STATUS
I need to know how to establish the home page for Ecoversity Villages. I am currently looking at the HELP files for assistance in this area.

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User talk:Jananda~enwikiversity

Welcome
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Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Jananda. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Jananda~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 23:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User:Wikifapf

This is my Wikiversity page.

My name is Felix Apfaltrer.

This page is under construction.

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Talk:Romance of the Three Kingdoms

intentions for the moment + what might be become of this
nice, maybe English speakers at some point could use this as a learning resource to help learn about German and maybe Chinese as well. --Remi 22:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. Yes, it could be similar to something what Google does: they use docs from the UN (about 20 billion words) with different languages for their google translator.
 * 2. My intentions at the moment are: to come closer to the text, to get a feeling for it, ...

 * 3. What I noticed during translation was:
 * a. I wondered about:
 * "autumn moons": around earth (in close distance) I just see one moon, so either it is a typo or a metaphor for something ? done
 * "green mountains": means perhaps that there are trees or other green plants blooming on mountains ?

 * b. I also had the urge to translate it sometimes a little more different, e.g.
 * b1. "wie oft war die Abendsonne rot ?" -> "wie oft war die Abendsonne schon rot ?"
 * in English: "how many times has the setting sun been red?" -> "how many times has the setting sun already been red?"
 * b2. "gewöhnt wie sie sind" -> "gewöhnt wie sie es schon sind"
 * in English: "accustomed as they are" -> "accustomed as they are already"
 * But I sticked to the English text. Perhaps later in a second run this can be changed ?
 * c. Also I am not sure if here is missing something ?
 * "how many things from past and present have they laughed and talked about with each other?" -> "about how many things from past and present have they laughed and talked about with each other?"
 * d. Also I noticed that for the poet Yang Shen there is no German WP article yet :-( Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 23:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

 * s:User:A-cai could help me in the above matters, see here. Thx, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 19:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

translation continued on temporary page
see for chapter1 here, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 19:16, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Wikifapf

Welcome
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User talk:Gsevugap

Welcome
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Talk:Introduction to Swedish/Verb tenses

Why does the article begin with irregular verbs, and why is there nowhere said that they are irregular?--Edvin 23:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Good point..some improvement made. Irregular verbs are generally the most common verbs and some of them need to be brought up from start. --Mats 28 March 2008

The first verb that should be learnt in any language is the verb "to be". In most languages, it is irregular. Donek (talk) - Go raibh mile maith agaibh 15:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I believe that this article has nothing to do with dynamite.

Aren't there different groups of regular verbs? Because the only verb shown in this article is the verb "work", so it seems like all regular verbs are conjugated the same way Danielph147 (talk) 16:26, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


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User:Webaware

G'day, I'm not very active here, but you can usually find me at Wikibooks.

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Category:Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Here you find material for the reading group: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (by Luo Guanzhong)

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Wikiversity talk:Statistics

Most viewed articles
This link from the main page seems to be broken: -- Jtneill - Talk 23:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * WikiCharts This tool shows the articles from Wikiversity that are viewed most.

More data
See colloquium archive (don't let distract by the later links, they are all to be found in the first one :-) ) Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 00:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Remi/Stats

Statistics
Hi Remi, I was hoping we could improve the link above. Your material on this page seems to be perhaps the most informative statistics available about WV. Would you consider merging the content with Statistics? -- Jtneill - Talk 23:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Unknown123

Welcome
Hello Unknown123, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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Deletion Request
Hello, besides you, 3 other accounts edited there. Perhaps you could add more details what that was about ? btw: to put a deletion request add on the page: please, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 19:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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Psychometric instrument development

Psychometric instrument development involves designing, developing and testing measures of psychological constructs. An expert in this area is called a psychometrician. Psychometricians, in general, are in high demand.

This set of learning resources focuses on operationalision, and developing and testing tools designed to measure fuzzy psychological constructs such as attitudes, self-esteem, personality, and intelligence.

See also: Psychometric instrument development (Lecture slides)

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User:Azdiaz1002

Hi. I'm an inveterate student.

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User talk:Azdiaz1002

Welcome
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms

This page is based on an import of Romance of the Three Kingdoms from Wikisource. Background info you can find here. Time of import: 01:28, 25 March 2008

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a Chinese historical novel based upon events in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). It is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Table of contents

 * 1) Chapter 1: Three brave men swear an oath of allegiance at the feast in the peach gardens, our heroes' first achievement is the vanquishing of the Yellow Turbans
 * 2) Chapter 2: Zhang Yide gets angry and whips the County Inspector, Uncle He plots the murder of the wretched eunuchs
 * 3) Chapter 3: How Dong Zhuo rebukes Ding Yuan in the Garden of Warmth and Brightness, and Li Su wins over Lü Bu with offerings of gold and pearls
 * 4) Chapter 4: Deposing the Han emperor: Chenliu becomes emperor; plotting against the villain Dong: Mengde presents a dagger.
 * 5) Chapter 5: A forged imperial edict is issued: all towns respond to Lord Cao; Breaking through the soldiers at the pass: three heroes battle Lü Bu.

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 5

This page is based on an import of Romance of the Three Kingdoms from Wikisource. Background info you can find here. Time of import: 02:17, 25 March 2008

Chapter Five: A forged imperial edict is issued: all towns respond to Lord Cao; Breaking through the soldiers at the pass: the three heroes (Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei) battle Lü Bu.

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Biblical Overview/Course Template (Topical)

Study of Scripture - (insert page name here)

Introduction
Here you can provide a brief introduction to the topic being studied. The topic will be expounded upon in the tour of scripture; this space is simply for an introduction.

Tour of Scripture
Scripture Passage (link to passage in BibleGateway) (link to corresponding lesson & section)
 * This indented paragraph serves to describe the given passage, interpret it if necessary, and describe how it adds to/shapes the overall topic being discussed. Not every pertinent passage needs to be listed here; that feat is reserved for the chain reference section below.  This tour of scripture simply lists the passages most helpful in illustrating and developing the overall topic.  What follows is an example:

Genesis 3:7 (passage) (lesson)
 * Immediately after he sins, man struggles to repair his mistake without the assistance of God. He tries to cover up his nakedness with fig leaves, while God's solution requires a covering of animal skin.  This attempt to better himself apart from divine assistance foreshadows the humanistic attempts of Babel, whereas the faith in (dependence on) God's solution typifies redeemed Jerusalem.

A Note (passage) (lesson)
 * (this note requires an understanding of templates) I would like to note here that there is a companion template that goes along with the tour provided here. It is a list of each of the tour stops, linked to its respective lesson & section.  The template for this template ^_^ can be viewed above, or found here: Template:Study of Scripture - Template.  This template is created to appear not only on this page, but also on every lesson referred to in the tour.

 * To create a new tour template for a new topical study, do the following: Create a page that begins with the word "Template:", and ends with the name of the topical study (ex: "Template:Study of Scripture - A Tale of Two Cities"). Next, copy-paste the code for the template template into the new page, and edit it appropriately.  Finally, place the template onto every lesson referred to in the tour.

Topical Chain Reference
This section provides an extensive list of scripture pertaining to the topic at hand, It lists the passages by book, with the book in bold, and the passages bulleted && linked to BibleGateway:

Book of the Bible
 * passage 1
 * passage 2
 * below is an example:
 * below is an example:

Genesis
 * Genesis 2:8-17
 * Genesis 2:22-24
 * Genesis 10:8-12
 * Genesis 11:1-9

Exodus

Supplemental Resources
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Study of Scripture - Salvation

Study of Scripture - Salvation

Introduction
When trying to understand the Biblical concept of Salvation, it is helpful to understand from what one is being saved. This study, consequently, takes you through the Biblical concepts of Sin and Death, as well as God's Salvation from such problems.

Tour of Scripture
Genesis 3 (passage) (lesson)
 * In the beginning, Man messes up. He is created as ruler over all of the earth, yet he rebels against God, condemning himself to death.  However because God loves Man , He promises that a child of the Woman will be born who will crush the serpent (later called Satan ), and who will himself suffer loss.

Topical Chain Reference
This section provides an extensive list of scripture pertaining to Salvation

Genesis
 * Genesis 3

Supplemental Resources
Salvation - a practical guide to obtaining salvation for yourself.

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Christian Salvation (literal-normal)

Note: this guide approaches salvation from a literal-normal perspective.

My intention with this page is to provide a simple yet complete guide to the Biblical concept of salvation - what it is, and how to obtain it. Unfortunately, salvation is not a universally agreed-upon subject; quite the contrary, there seems to be as many interpretations of salvation as there are denominations.

In this guide, I (User:Opensourcejunkie) have attempted to present what seems to be the viewpoint represented in scripture, when it is interpreted literally (normally). However, I am not the only (or anywhere near the most) authoritative speaker on the subject, and there are many authorities with conflicting viewpoints. Thus I urge you to search out scripture for yourself, to see if the things I am writing are dependable. With something as important as your eternal fate, you shouldn't blindly trust anyone's opinion.

That being said, don't put off taking this step. If the Bible is correct (and my interpretation of it is accurate), then you could step into eternity at any moment. Whether it's eternity with God, or eternity apart from Him, the choice is up to you.

Understanding Salvation
In Luke 14:27-35, Christ advises people to count the cost of following Him, because (as He illustrates), it is not a decision to be taken lightly. And there is a cost to following Him; once we are saved, we are called to continually turn from our sins. The Bible admits that sin is pleasurable, but only for a time. Lasting pleasure, on the other hand, comes by looking past the present to the future rewards of obedience.

Understanding salvation is integral to counting the cost. If you understand its mechanics, you can better understand what will become of you should you accept Christ, or should you not. Thus in this section, we will examine the need for salvation, salvation itself, and the results of salvation

The Problem of Sin
Salvation addresses two related problems - sin and death. Early on in (Biblical) human history, our ancestor Adam sinned by disobeying one of God's commands . At the time, God's Breath (Spirit) was living inside of him, providing him with life , but because God cannot tolerate sin , His breath had to leave Adam. Thus man died spiritually , and began to die physically .

The results of sin and death in the world are clear, and widely attested to in scripture. Man's spiritual death is evident in that he is consistently self-centered, sacrificing others' well-being for his own gain. Moreover his physical death has spread to the rest of creation , as we abuse the environment for our own comfort.

Now God had decreed that if Adam disobeyed His command, "He would surely die" . The Bible tells us that the payment for sin is death , and that God cannot leave sin unpunished , so God by His own moral imperative, must punish sin by killing the sinner.

God, however, promised to defeat Satan (the source of sin & death) through a child of the woman . This child, then, has to deal with two problems. First, He has to find a way to remove God's punishment from the sinner, and stop the sinner from sinning. Second, He has to reinstate the Breath of God into the sinner, to bring him/her back to life (physically and spiritually).

The Old Covenant Solution
There are a number of covenants (agreements) made between God and Man, which are attested to in scripture. Two of these covenants - that which was made with Israel and that which is made with the Christian - deal with the issue of salvation, and are often contrasted in scripture. The covenant discussed here is the one made with Israel.

Broadly speaking, there were two aspects to the covenant given to Israel. There was a set of laws, accompanied by a description of what to do when one broke the law.

The Law
The purpose of the law, as interpreted by the New Testament, was to establish the weight of sin. . Without the law, Man would be unaware that he was sinning. With the law, however, he would know full well God's standards.

The law in and of itself, however, could not provide salvation . It's function is to point out moral failures, but it could never elicit moral success. The Israelites didn't become fundamentally better people by simply knowing the law or even by trying to obey the law . Rather, they were all slaves to sin, as are we, compelled to disobey because of the sinful nature passed down to us from Adam .

The same is true of Christians, although many assume they are saved because they are "good people". This tendency to base one's salvation on good works is called "Legalism", and is fiercely combated in scripture. It ignores the fact that a single, allegedly small misdemeanor is enough to condemn a person to death (as in the case of Adam), and that everyone has sinned, missing the mark .

The Atonement
Because God knew that every Israelite would break at least one law, He made a provision that would cover over a person's sin. This provision, called substitutionary atonement, involved taking an innocent substitute (an animal, often a lamb), leaning heavily upon it, and slaughtering it in the sinner's place. This substitute would thus be punished in place of the sinner, thereby relieving God's wrath .

Now both the law and the atonement started with Adam. When Adam broke God's first law, God provided an animal substitute to cover his (and Eve's) sin . Thus Man always had a way to cover over his sin. However, this method of atonement was insufficient (for reasons we'll discuss next). Hence the Old Covenant itself was insufficient, and was eventually replaced by a new, better coveneant.

The New Covenant Solution
There were three major problems with the Old Covenant: Hence, God sent Jesus Christ to be mediator of a new covenant.
 * Israel could not keep God's law.
 * Man's sin was never overcome, as sacrifices had to be made year after year.
 * Access to God's Spirit was limited; only the high priest could be in His presence, and then only once a year.

The Atonement
In the New Covenant, Jesus Christ himself is the innocent substitute who was slaughtered in our place. His death on the cross covers the sins of everyone who "leans heavily" on Him . This solves a couple issues. First of all, because Adam was a man, he needed an innocent man (non-existent before Christ) to take his place, not an animal. The sacrifice of bulls and goats merely looked forward to the death of Christ. Second, every person who sinned needed his own animal to sacrifice, one per sin. Because Christ was also God, His one sacrifice was able to cover the sins of a multitude of people .

Because Christ's death provides complete coverage for all sins, God no longer needed to be separated from man. The veil in the temple which guarded His presence was ripped , and later His Holy Spirit (Breath) began to enter those who believed on Christ .

This solved a number of issues, not the least of which is death . Because Christ's death covers our sin, the living Breath (Spirit) of God can now live inside of us again! Moreover the Spirit has given us a new nature that struggles against our tendency to sin . Thus the three problems of the Old Covenant are solved in the New:
 * We can now keep God's law.
 * Our sin is defeated, because Christ's sacrifice covers every sin - past, present, and future.
 * We have unlimited access to God, and can approach His throne in confidence.

The Law
Just as the atonement in the New Covenant is more complete than that of the Old Covenant, so is the law. (more to come...)

Obtaining Salvation

 * 1) Admit you are a sinner
 * 2) Turn from sin toward God
 * 3) Place your trust in God's solution to sin: Christ's death and resurrection
 * 4) Pray to Jesus Christ, and ask him to take away your sins, and to fill you with His Holy Spirit.

For the Skeptic
This entire issue of salvation rests on whether or not the Bible is trustworthy. If it is accurate, then there is much to be concerned about. If it isn't accurate, then it is worthless for any practical, life-altering applications - namely salvation.

Many people prefer to base their world view on cold, hard facts rather than on faith in an unverified text (I'm one such person myself). It is for such people that the field of Christian Apologetics was created, an effort to reconcile Christianity with evidence found in other fields of study. I myself have become convinced that Biblical Christianity can more than take the punches thrown by modern skepticism, and return a few blows itself. Check out the Department of Christian Apologetics for more information.

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Talk:Study of Mark/Background

The Intro Quote...
...doesn't even make sense. Mark wasn't written by Jesus Christ himself; it is quite possible (in theory, at least) for Mark to have been fabricated (perhaps being partially based on history or truth) without Christ having been a liar at all. And how does it go to figure that just because a book isn't true that it should burn? The Jade Knight 08:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Christian Salvation (literal-normal)

Problems?
Seeing as how diverse Christianity is, this topic with its current premise is impossible. Moreover, the title isn't even Christian Salvation, so as it currently stands it would need to be all-inclusive of all religions (and potentially even philosophies). I strongly recommend you choose a particular branch (if not a specific denomination) from which to approach this topic, and move the article appropriately. The Jade Knight 08:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


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