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It seems to me this article is not one about advertising in a social sense. It seems to be written in a business sense. An article better suited for this area of Wikiversity would be in regard to the impacts of advertising on society. This article is VERY informational, I think however it would be much more impactful if moved to the business section of Wikiversity. Cheers!

thank you
Thank you for good site. Very helpful. I add your web site in my google reader. I will return again. bye...

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I have tons of information, but I don't know how to get the page started. RangerJ 02:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I started the pages for you, but they still need to be broken down into topics. If you want more then let me know. I have tons on these subjects too. Sidon 22:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course, bring in your knowledge please. Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 22:31, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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Hello And Welcome
The article which you created recently on Stonehenge seemed sort-of pointless, if you wish to experiment please use the sandbox! which is a place for experimenting with formatting if you are new!! 14:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called RangerJ. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name RangerJ~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 23:41, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Reliable sources
Since Wikiversity passed the end of its initial six month "beta testing" period, I have been reflecting on the future of Wikiversity and trying to think about lessons that can be learned from Wikipedia. This page should be viewed as the third in a series that includes the previous blog pages about review of wiki edits made by anonymous editors and claims of credentials by Wikimedians.

In May 2005 an anonymous Wikipedia editor initiated the "Seigenthaler prank" by adding un-sourced claims to the Wikipedia article about John Seigenthaler, Sr.. This is the kind of editing by unregistered users that could be countered by having a "version flagging" system that required review of content added by anonymous editors. The "Seigenthaler prank" led to Wikipedia's policy for Biographies of living persons. The "Biographies of living persons" policy was created to make sure that biographical information is based on high quality sources. Wikiversity has a Reliable sources policy, but like Wikipedia, Wikiversity has large amounts of content that is not supported by citations to sources.

Wikiversity faces extra challenges that cannot be met by citing reliable sources. Since Wikiversity is open to explorations that concern the creation of new knowledge, some Wikiversity content extends into domains that cannot be built upon a solid foundation of existing published sources. I think this will lead to an unavoidable role for experts who can help guide the Wikiversity community in explorations of the boundary of knowledge. Can the Wikiversity community find ways to build upon the expertise of its participants with the goal of avoiding the dangers that exist in moving beyond the traditional Wikimedia Foundation policies for NPOV and NOR?

Case studies
The "Seigenthaler prank" had a simple solution: when the false and un-sourced information was discovered, other editors removed it.

Daniel Brandt
In a strange turn of events, Daniel Brandt was the person who "cracked the case" and figured out the real world location from which the original bogus content was added to the Seigenthaler article. Daniel Brandt has complained about the contents of the Wikipedia article about him. The Wikipedia Daniel Brandt article has been nominated for deletion thirteen times. The fact that the page still survives and its rather extensive references list suggest that there are a significant number of reliable sources that can be cited in the article, justifying for the community that there should be a Wikipedia article about Brandt, even if he thinks that the article is unfair or should not exist. In a dramatic turn of events, Wikipedian administrator Yanksox repeatedly deleted the article and lost his status as a Wikipedia administrator because of his action in repeatedly deleting the article. In deleting the article, Yanksox cited "privacy concerns", and the Wikipedia "Biographies of living persons" policy is pretty clear about the idea that "Biographies of living people must be written conservatively and with due regard to the subject's privacy." I think one can still question if many of the cited sources used the Wikipedia Daniel Brandt article are suitable sources for a biographical article. In citing sources, many Wikipedians seem to have adopted the attitude, "I saw it on the internet, that is good enough for me".

Update. Brandt wrote to Jimmy Wales complaining about the Daniel Brandt article on Wikipedia, making his case that, "Wikipedia is incapable of writing a biography of me that is encyclopedic, non-defamatory, and does not invade my privacy," and suggesting that Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation can probably be held legally responsible for, "invasion of my privacy". Jimmy Wales unblocked Brandt with the comment, "Courtesy unblock, he asked nicely, we are talking about a productive way forward in the future, it has been more than a year". It is not clear if this will shift the Wikipedia community's position with respect to having a biographical article about Brandt.

Update June. The 14 deletion discussion for the article was closed with a plan to move all information about Brandt into related non-biographical articles. Deletion review confirmed the merge plan.

Archimedes Plutonium
The references cited in the Daniel Brandt article can be compared to those cited in the Wikipedia Archimedes Plutonium article. One can wonder why Wikipedia biographical articles about marginally notable people persist even without reliable sources. I think the only thing that will change the existing situation is if the Wikimedia Foundation is hit with a serious law suit.

Barbara Bauer
The Wikipedia article about Barbara Bauer (deleted 25 March 2007) is apparently now part of a lawsuit, "BAUER VS GLATZER" before the Superior Court of New Jersey with the Wikimedia Foundation as one of several defendants. Like the "Archimedes Plutonium" article, the Barbara Bauer article was built mostly upon unreliable sources, persitently violating Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons.

Update. After initially being deleted (as mentioned above), the article's deletion was reviewed and the article was restored. The article was finally deleted again and survived another "deletion review". See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara Bauer (2nd nomination).

Reiki
The Wikiversity REIKI article is an example of one of the many Wikiversity articles that have been created without any serious attempt to cite reliable sources. I added the section REIKI in an attempt to "start the ball rolling" on citation of sources for this article. I admit that I had been waiting to have a chance to start Topic:Complementary and Alternative Medicine. There are many medical practices that have little or no support from evidence-based medicine and systematic efforts to verify that medical practices are safe and effective. The first line in the REIKI article is, "Reiki is an ancient Japanese science of healing". Other sources suggest that Reiki had no existence before about 1910. What is the best way for Wikiversity to deal with content that is not supported by reliable sources?

Update. I created History of Reiki as part of Evidence-based medicine.

Comments/Discussion
JW.. We seem to be on exactly the same page. I respect your desire to make Wikiversity more "wiki" versus estrangement by an interim panel or set of ethicists such as we would use in publishing in a credible scientific journal. However, I cant help but wonder whether or not a loose set of volunteer editors such as you have already alluded to could enhance the wiki-experience. That saying that we are all contributing and all editing. Perhaps a staged editor rating or even better a percentage degree of comfort from an editor of the references and citations provided by the writer. Eg poor to credible references may yield a rating of 25/100 if the content is barely adequate, but 90/100 if the content AND references are in line. Ultimately, thinking of statistics or using a Forest plot, we would expect the degree of correlations (percentages from editors) should be in line with other editors even if multiple editors review the same article and likely a high CI assuming all other factors similar. The resultant plot would be in line. Example: This in fact would open up a whole new "wiki-" experience. Reference:http://www.statsdirect.com/help/images/stat0004_wmf.gif Joel Lamoure 23:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have a hunch that it should be possible to have useful rating/ranking systems for wiki content. My expectation would be that non-experts would rank some articles high while experts for that topic would have different ranking criteria and rank other types of articles high. Rankings might tell us as much about the people doing the ranking as they would about the wiki articles being ranked. User:Teemu has been pushing the idea that we should all use Knowledge user templates to let other wiki participants know what are areas of expertise and interest are. Some people question if such templates lead to unverified claims of expertise that would not be meaningful or useful. However, if people were honest, knowing something about the people providing article ratings  might lead to an article ranking system that would be "two dimensional", allowing beginners to find articles that are suited for beginners and allowing more advanced learners to find content that is referenced with a higher level of rigor and more in their "comfort zone". At Wikipedia there is one article for each topic and it has been suggested that articles can start with basic information and leave the details for sections further down the page. At Wikiversity we can have multiple pages for each topic and try to craft individual articles for different audiences. Rather than push for all Wikiversity pages to cite sources with the same degree of rigor, maybe we need to allow a range of approaches to citing sources with different strategies that are suited for different audiences. When my son who is in the second grade reads his first book about whales, he is not really interested in seeing a reference list, while a graduate student in marine biology reading something about whales would want to see a good set of cited sources. --JWSchmidt 04:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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Hard drive crash?--JWSchmidt 04:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hehe. -- sebmol ? 06:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia's down! TimNelson (Talk) 10:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC) My Taco! NO! Heltec  talk

new namespace
I suggested that Wikiversity have a "portal" namespace and Cormaggio suggested "be bold and set up the Portal namespace". I have no idea how to add a new namespace to a wiki. Do you know how the "School" namespace was set up? --JWSchmidt 13:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, I do. I was just wondering if you could maybe provide an example where School: wouldn't fit. The only reason I'm asking is that it would be unfortunate if we were duplicating efforts. -- sebmol ? 13:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I wrote a little about how I think portals would function for Wikiversity. I suspect that "schools" will also function like portals, but there are going to be Wikiversity portals that do not fit into a conventional list of schools. --JWSchmidt 13:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * That's what I meant. I was wondering if you could give an example of that. -- sebmol ? 13:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Check this out too: Colloquium. Maybe we can discuss there how we want to organize this project. -- sebmol ? 13:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Import deletions
Seb, I'm just thinking, instead of blank deleting all pages which have been improperly imported (eg School:Music), should we not be putting a placeholder text there to tell people what to do? Not everyone will check the Recent changes, or even the History.. Cormaggio 17:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I can make a template for that purpose. No problem. Also, have you seen the site notice at the top of the page? -- sebmol ? 17:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's a helpful notice - it's just not everyone will see it, and I don't want to turn away anyone who came in yesterday.. And on importing "Help", the Meta pages are the canonical references - possibly too much at times, but I was thinking we could pare them down later.. Cormaggio 18:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Crap, ok. So I should delete stuff I got from Wikibooks? -- sebmol ? 18:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Uh yeah, I made lots of changes to School:Music. It'd be nice to have them back. Thanks. --Fang Aili talk 19:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

ty for the advice
ty, sembol.

I have noted your advice.:)

You must be an expert. it takes one to know that i am a beginner here. sorry, I must have deleted some of your edit. I am volunteering here to help me finish my doctoral dissertation.Pmcalara 15:48, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem at all. Just ask me if you have any questions. -- sebmol ? 15:48, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Foreign languages
About that school, the books will be imported from wikibooks or they will be created here?--VictorGuarnieri 22:11, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Textbooks will remain at Wikibooks. Organizational pages for Wikiversity should be imported. If you're interested, you should look over the pages that exist at Wikibooks and list the ones that you would like to see here at Import. -- sebmol ? 22:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the welcome
Hi Sebmol! thanks for the welcome. I do have a few questions in my mind. It'd be super cool if you'd help me out.

 * 1) What can we do here at wikiversity? I dont want to be neither a scholar nor a student here. I just want to contribute with learning material is it possible?
 * Yes, it is. In fact, we actively encourage it. -- sebmol ? 12:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) If possible in what form can I contribute? Should the material I put in be in Wikipedia format? Or something else?
 * It should be marked up using Wiki syntax. -- sebmol ? 12:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Where can I find the official rule list of Wikiversity, and are there any rules different than other wikis?
 * Since the project started three days ago, we're still in the process of formulating our policies. You can participate by going to Policies and leaving a comment or voting for some of the proposals. -- sebmol ? 12:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Are userboxes legal here?
 * There has been no policy proposed yet but, aside from Wikiversity-internal indicators (e.g. Babel, projects, etc.), discussion has shown that user boxes will be discouraged. -- sebmol ? 12:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Is there a limit to the subjects I can contribute to? Like if there's no medicine portal or any demand for it I shouldnt write stuff about that or such?
 * No, there isn't. In fact, if there's not a place yet, Be bold and create one! -- sebmol ? 12:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

thanks in advance! --Suleyman Habeeb 11:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. -- sebmol ? 12:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * cool! --Suleyman Habeeb 12:57, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Wiki.png
Is this protected or not? I can find in the logs that you protected it on the 15th - but it's been changed and re-uploaded several times since - sometimes by non-admins, I would add. What's the story? Cormaggio 19:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The log shows this image has been deleted after being protected. Deletion automatically unprotects a protected page/image. guillom 19:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Guillom - now done :-) Cormaggio 09:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blocks
As HappyCamper said on my talk page, 'user..' is the defacto standard on Wikipedia for username blocks. Is there a different message you would like me to use?--digital_metalk 22:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I would prefer you give an actual reason for blocking someone. How are they or others supposed to know what the user got blocked for? Also, please don't block people for using numbers as user names. There's no good reason why that shouldn't be acceptable. -- sebmol ? 22:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Policies
I'm a little confused by your comments on my talk page. Yes, I added the petition, but I did not restore anything, or change anything else on that page. Eclecticology 03:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Further to the above, the diffs would seem to contradict what I said. This is peculiar.  I do remember that when I added I had difficulty saving my changes.  It would keep reappearing with the full text of the proposed policies, but without my petition.  I had no reason to be looking at older versions at that time, so I can't imagine that I was editing an obsolete version.  Frankly, if the page had only included the links that it includes now I would have done nothing with it.  This sounds very much like a software glitch of some kind. Eclecticology 17:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Pearle bot
Hi. JWSchmidt suggested I discuss my request on the Request_custodian_action page with you. Thanks, TimNelson (Talk) 10:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I can help with that. I don't have any experience with that particular bot. -- sebmol ? 17:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. I was going to ask why you might need to have experience with a bot to use it, but after looking at the code, I won't ask :).  If it was only object-oriented... :).  TimNelson (Talk) 08:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Colloquium
Thanks for that... can you help me with creating some pages on business systems for people at Liverpool John Moores University?? --82.42.145.158 13:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure why you're asking me? -- sebmol ? 13:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't know who to ask for help on creating these pages. --82.42.145.158 13:56, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Ah, ok. Introduction is a good place to start. To create a new page, just write a link to it Like this, save the page, and click on the red link. There you can write the contents of the new page. -- sebmol ? 14:05, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

My custodianship
Since it's been a month since I was made a probationary custiodian, I was wondering if you had any comments or constructive criticisms to make about how I've performed.-- digital  _  me   03:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll be writing my recommendation shortly. I've been insanely busy lately but will get to it as soon as I get a free minute. -- sebmol ? 12:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm quite sorry about this. I got assigned a new project at work and it's taken more time than I thought. Thanks for joining up in the first place. Sorry to have let you down. ~ATrivedi
 * No problem. Thanks for letting me know. -- sebmol ? 20:06, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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Accessibility
I don't remember what I wrote in Accessibility, but you're probably right to delete it for now. I might revisit it later, but probably better to wait when this project has more people around. --HappyCamper 00:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hello! Just trying to get back to you about this. Actually, what I had in mind at the time was just a little project to outline some good rules of thumb for formatting and presenting information on Wikiversity, particularly for the blind. Perhaps, even developing tools to print stuff out in Braille! I might have more resources for this later. --HappyCamper 20:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help...
Thanks for your help. I am rushing as madly as I can to set up all the lessons. I am now separating my lesson (and the list of lessons) from general educational material about Basic Filmmaking. The new list of lessons will be a full course which is much broader (covering music education, animation, as well as filming) so it is now listed in the COURSE namespace for a special set of lessons to make an actual movie both animated and live action. There has been a lot of argument about creating a COURSE with some people allowing a new name and some saying that TOPIC is sufficient. Or perhaps it is just the name which is confusing. I am not sure. Until this is resolve, I keep the two separate. This can be easily resolve by moving the page or creating a more accurate name for the page when this is needed.

Robert Elliott 15:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. Please do remember however that neither Course: nor Lessons: are true namespaces. Actual lessons/learning materials should go into the main namespace (no prefix), Topic: could be used to present that in a structured manner (like a lesson plan perhaps or a sequence of pages). Does that make sense? sebmol ? 15:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Reply by Robert Elliott
 * In Wikiversity, there are Schools, Divisions, Departments, Courses, and Lesson Pages. Therefore, the correct namespaces for Wikiversity should include "School", "Division", "Department", "Course" and "Lesson".  Once there are one million pages in Wikiversity, you will never be able to find anything if you use names which have no meaning such as "Topic" and "Main Namespace".  The only thing which makes sense is to call a lesson page a "Lesson" and to call a list of lessons a "Course".  Even lesson pages should be broken down into the title page (or first page) of the lesson which should be called "Lesson" and any additional pages for a lesson to be called "Lesson_Pages" or "Pages".  Only then will the meaning and use of all pages in Wikiversity be clear. Robert Elliott 18:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * At Wikiversity, the view is that no such thing as "the only way" exists. Different approaches of learning exist and Wikiversity should be able to support most of them. So, if you want to arrange your content along "Lessons" and "Courses", feel free but realize that "Lesson:" and "Course:" are technically not namespaces. That has other technical implications such as the naming of talk pages, category sort order and various page list. However, if you do believe that we should have Lesson: and Course: as proper namespaces, I would recommend you bring it up at the Colloquium for discussion as rarely anyone reads my talk page. sebmol ? 18:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Help:Talk page
A disoriented contributor seems to have left an ad on the bottom of the Help:Talk page requesting assistance from contributors for an outside wiki based portal. The German/English language barrier may be amplifying his confusion, which is why I thought it best to bring it to the attention of Wikiversity's favorite German custodian! --Lynzerlot 05:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I moved the entry to the Colloquium since I figured that's where the user is most likely to receive comments. sebmol ? 09:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Please explain recent moves
Hi Sebmol, you've been moving pages about and there's no notes in discussion on why that may be. Specifically, the Game Design pages and "policy by other means." These were projects in the Project: namespace that you moved to main namespace. Since they are proposals for collaborative learning projects, I'd like to know the reasoning behind the moves please.--Dnjkirk 07:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I moved those pages because the prefix Project: refers to the Wikiversity: namespace which is intended to pages internal to Wikiversity. To structure content, there three other namespaces available (Topic:, School:, and Portal:). Please feel free to use those for your purposes. sebmol ? 09:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I understand what you mean now. I had read the following in a way other than the way it was intended:"All pages in the Wikiversity 'project namespace' start with the prefix Wikiversity:. The Wikiversity 'project namespace' is also called the Wikiversity namespace because our project is called 'Wikiversity'. The Wikiversity namespace is a namespace containing pages that provide information about Wikiversity. The page you are now reading is located in the Wikiversity project namespace. An example of another page in the wikiversity namespace is Wikiversity:Main Page. Other important pages in the project namespace are the policy pages." This should probably read "Wikiversity Project" namespace, which means it belongs specifically to the Wikiversity project, not "project namespace" as that said to me that this namespace was for projects. Clear semantic ambiguity (which is unfortunately quite at home in the English language). Where should Projects be put then, just in the main namespace as you have done? Thanks, --Dnjkirk 11:55, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I would suggest you place it where you think it fits best and where it makes most sense to other users. Naming conventions might help too. sebmol ? 12:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Done.--Dnjkirk 16:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Rayc probationary custodian
User:Rayc is willing to accept me as his mentor. Please activate him as a custodian. Thanks! --JWSchmidt 01:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Done . sebmol ? 07:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blocks
I blocked User:Excuse me, I'm drunk because that's not an appropriate username. I blocked User:Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, because it was an excessively long username, and it's hard to reference a name like that. I'm not certain that the second block was justified, so I've unblocked. If you think that I should unblock User:Excuse me, I'm drunk, then please let me know, and I will do so.-- digital  _  me   05:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Block the first user name, I can completely understand. The second one seemed to make constructive edits and, besides being a bit log, wasn't really offensive or attacking, at least IMO. If you think the user name is inappropriate, maybe you can contact him and suggest a name change. Bureaucrats can change a user's name so the user would not lose his edit history. sebmol ? 22:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Recycing Redirects
A question. I have updated all the links from the redirect Modeling and Animation Clips using Art of Illusion to where I moved the overview page A Hands-On Introduction to Game Design and Production Processes. Can we now delete the redirect so I can recycle the cycle as a subtopic or is this redirect now part of the database forever? Thanks for any assistance you can provide! Mirwin 02:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I've deleted the redirect for you. For the future, if you need a redirect deleted, place a delete-Tag on it and a custodian will stop by to get rid of it. sebmol ? 13:09, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Skype
Hi Sebmol, habs heute abend einfach nicht geschafft. Morgen bin ich tagsüber in Kassel und komme erst recht spät zurück nach Göttingen. Ist es Dir recht, wenn wir am Freitag mal miteinander skypen? Herzliche Grüße aus Göttingen --Frank Schulenburg 00:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ja, kein Problem. Bis dann. sebmol ? 00:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Custodianship
I was thinking about running for custodianship, but I noticed that a vote is not involved within the process. Rather, it seems as if a mentor must select you. It lists you as a mentor, and I was wondering what your personal "requirements" are for mentoring a candidate for custodianship? -- J.Steinbock 18:44, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The process is described at Custodianship. Basically, the first steps are as follows:
 * Self-nomination describing who you are, what your contributions to Wikiversity have been and why you are interested in the job.
 * Contact an experienced custodian to be your mentor. It has to be a deal both you and the mentor agree to.
 * In general, I prefer mentoring candidates who have shown that they can contribute to Wikiversity effectively and persistently. That coupled with the right understanding of the job and there should be no problems. sebmol ? 19:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

An idea
I have an idea. Wikipedia has a weekly newsletter which is automaticlly sent to users who request it. Why don't we do that here, it could be really useful and could help bond our community together. Student Galaxy 16:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I would say let's focus on what has to be done at the moment and once more users join we can consider these programs. It is much too early to try and begin programs that we will have trouble finding contributors and gaining popularity. I would also suggest that you post your ideas to the Colloqiuium so that everyone can see them :-). This is just my opinion, though. -- J.Steinbock 16:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Appeal board.
Its okay, JWSchmidt took care of the page. He accepted it for me, and turned it into a project page, its for cases on vandalism and sockpuppets.

Also: I'm requesting appeal for a bot, called User:Nitrobot I heard you were in charge of bot requests, so can you sort it out? Student Galaxy 23:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For bot status, please list your bot at Bots/Status. sebmol ? 09:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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Some things to do...
I don't think we have a formal process for this yet, but after going through the user list, I found some user names I think we'd rather not have there. Anyway, seeing as you have the necessary account flag for it, could you decide if the following 11 accounts should be renamed? (links to Special:Renameuser with the fields filled in to make it easier :D) . Thanks --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 09:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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 * Renamed all but one. Thanks for searching through the list. sebmol ? 10:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the email template
The email template at "Template:Email" works great!!! Thanks. What kind of coding is that? Is that PHP?

Also, thanks for your user page. I borrowed the formatting from there and created Help:Color schemes 2. Robert Elliott 16:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The coding uses some special variables MediaWiki offers. It might be useful to have them documented here too. I'll do that if I can find the time. sebmol ? 19:16, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

User variables?
Are there user variables? I want about 10 variables for my lessons that I can define and change whenever I want to change them. One variable that I want is "Course3UnderConstructionToday" which is "true" for today but hopefully will be "false" tomorrow. Robert Elliott 13:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * We can use templates for that. You could create a Template:Course3UnderConstructionToday with the value 1 today and 0 tomorrow. Then, you can use it in expressions like etc. to evaluate them. This is fairly advanced technical stuff though. If you give me more details about your needs, I'd be happy to create something suitable. sebmol ? 15:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Mailing list for a course or lesson?
As an instructor, I want to set up a mailing list for all the active students taking my filmmaking courses. I want to be able to send out emails to all students when something new has happened. I want to be able to add students to my list and I want to be able to remove students from my list. Robert Elliott 14:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki/Wikimedia don't offer this at the current time. I will think about it though and see if we can create something quickly. sebmol ? 15:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Post-Christmas return
Hey Seb, and a very happy New Year to you. :-) Thanks for creating that email template - good work! One more thing - J.Steinbock was enquiring about uploading Powerpoint (.ppt) files to Wikiversity, which I think would be an obvious addition. Do you have shell access to change this? Or do we need to bug a developer for all such requests? Cheers, and talk to you later! Cormaggio talk 13:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * We would have to ask a developer to do that. I'm not sure if this is customarily done though. sebmol ? 15:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Page Tracking by User?
Is there any way to track Wikiversity users who come to my pages? (User name and how long the user visited my page and where they went to from my page.) Robert Elliott 15:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, that's not possible at all. Because of the huge number of hits on Wikimedia's servers (caused primarily by Wikipedia), the developers don't even keep access statistics. In other words, we don't even know, how many people visit a specific page, much less who they are. sebmol ? 15:19, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Ip vandal
It appears that the IP vandal you blocked, which was attacking userpages, belongs to a school in Sunderland, United Kingdom. With the WHOIS, button. A yearly block may not be nesscery, and if so, enable account creation for legitimate users. Student Galaxy 16:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If it is a school, it's their responsibility to ensure their students don't vandalize Wikipedia. sebmol ? 16:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki pages
Hey Sebmol, do you know what happened to all the MediaWiki pages? I meant to ask this before. It seems that a ton of them were deleted simultaneously at 23:14, 8 January 2007. What do we do about specific things that we want to change (like, for example, the button changes proposed by Robert Elliott on the Colloquium today)? Cheers, Cormaggio beep 19:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The messages were deleted because they were all duplicates to what MediaWiki already has as a default. We can still change messages if we want by just creating the appropriate pages in the MediaWiki: namespace. sebmol ? 07:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, thanks - I asked on mediawiki IRC channel and they told me the same. Thanks for changing the userpage button again - but do you know of a way to change the associated talk page? MediaWiki:Nstab-user-talk didn't work.. Cormaggio beep 11:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hola Juan,

thank you for giving the course. I am partly interested in to explore how Wikiversity course could be organized, but also interested in to study Spanish, too. I have a very passive spanish and should activate it. --Teemu 19:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice to meet you Teemu. This week I have lotsa work, but for the next one Ill offer some time.--Juan 11:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Skype name
A skype search for user "juan-de-v" yields 52 results, none of which have "juan-de-v" as their Skype username. The Jade Knight 04:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ive just fix that bug.--Juan 18:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, as the user has posted on the about page, it is difficult to find you on Skype. Any help you can offer is appreciated.--ybit 09:18, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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