text:
Wikiversity:Sandbox Server

This project has been inactive since 2011. See the second Sandbox Server proposal that has been inactive since 2013. Wikiversity has adopted a "learn by doing" model of education, and as such Wikiversity participants need to be able to take part in collaborative learning projects that involve (for example) webpage creation/editing/development beyond the limited wiki user interface. Wikiversity participants, particularly in the Computer Science area, need access to a server that would be used for collaborative projects that foster learning.

Needs

 * A server which will function as a testing ground for several Wikiversity projects. This will be a series of case studies, to explore various methods of collaboration and learning.
 * podcast: Sue Gardner says there is some money available to support the projects.

Assessment
No current Wikimedia servers, including the toolserver, fill the role envisaged for this server. The Toolserver requires an application process (which would be cumbersome for students) and is probably more restrictive in what it could offer students. (The toolserver admins reasonably assume that since their audience is limited, their security doesn't have to be as stringent). It may be difficult to get various services running, and a disruption of the toolserver (for any reason) would be detrimental to Wikimedia projects in general, while a disruption of our Sandbox Server should only affect Wikiversity processes/learning projects that are using this server.

Clearly this service is inapproriate for general wiki servers or caches, which are tuned to serve wiki content in an efficient way.

Getting approval/funding
The Special projects committee was created to help the Foundation with, "Evaluation, incubation, and development of current and proposed Wikimedia projects, events, and ideas," However, the web page for the special projects committee indicates that committee meetings ended in 2006 and the last resolution was in November 2006. Oscar van Dillen has described the special projects committee as "now dormant". Should the Sandbox Server proposal be submitted to the special projects committee or is there some other mechanism for getting the Foundation to take action on the proposal?

Audio/Video Projects

 * Live communication/Distance learning project
 * Would allow realtime group participation on many levels.
 * The idea is to connect people who are at large distances
 * One practical idea is a collaborative Drawing program, for primary learners
 * Podcasting (lectures, videos, demonstrations, reports)
 * Wikiversity Radio
 * Journalism
 * Broadcast experience (DJ)
 * Wikiversity TV
 * Wikiversity community chat
 * While current contributors feel comfortable using IRC, it doesn't have the intuitive interface that something like MSN offers. This is an impediment to the free exchange of ideas and knowledge that should be fostered at Wikiversity. A Jabber like server could fill this role.
 * Concept is to use (IAX, Asterisk, etc.), but other protocols would be considered. (eg Skype)
 * This would be inclusive, allowing both computer users and telephone users to interact
 * Coordination of Multimedia projects for Wikimania - See w:Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Wikimania 2007
 * Coordination of Wikiversity Distributed Virtual Supercomputer projects such as rendering video for learning resources.

Giving out limited access accounts to "students"

 * So Computer Science lesson work can be done
 * Would allow students access to tools such as a compiler which wiki software doesn't allow
 * Allows lessons to be innovative, as the instruction can be geared to a known format
 * Simplifies and provides a concrete feedback for the student
 * Access can be limited for introductory lessons
 * For more complicated lessons (advanced), we could consider shell access
 * Other types of classwork.
 * Assignment server
 * Robotics programming lab
 * Web design coursework
 * Email access for all lesson participants
 * Facilitating multi-lingual communication (Native speaker to Learner interaction)
 * As a mirror of this very site, as a safety measure against disruptions. (A bot could be used to channel information and edits between these two sites).

Technical Discussion
See Technical Details

Wikimedia Foundation
The WMF has many servers in various locations (see Servers). One idea is to ask the WMF if it could donate an old server (ie three years old or so), that has passed its "best before" date.

Kennisnet
Kennisnet host some servers for the WMF already - they are also an educational organization, and could be interested in Wikiversity.

Grants
Wikiversity is interested in pursuing grants. This could be a vehicle for research and grant funding. See Research grant collaboration group

Contributors who support this proposal

 * Historybuff 20:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * JWSchmidt 05:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * CQ 10:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * sebmol ? 17:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC) it's a great idea
 * guillom 17:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC) although I think I can't help, I support this project.
 * Rayc 06:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Xenon Sounds like somebody knows what we need. (Serversity ftw)
 * Mirwin
 * MatthewGall2005 20:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC) I Support This Project And May Be Able To Assist
 * The Jade Knight 08:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC) I think something like this would be a good idea.
 * Brent 03:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Julien1311 talk 00:32, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Cormaggio talk 15:51, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * AmiDaniel (talk) 01:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Sounds like a great idea. I'd be more than glad to assist in initial setup and administration of the server or anything else that needs doing, as I have considerable background in this area. Please leave a note on my talk page.
 * cybiko123 (talk) 14:41, 05 June 2007 (UTC) I'd be more than happy to allow use of my servers for this.
 * Greudin interested about jailed shell to allow student to perform : "cc exercice1.c -o exercice1"
 * RM77
 * Bduke 08:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC). I would like to use a web server to allow students to run simple computational chemistry exercises and get familiarity with real computer programs.
 * mikeu 18:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC) - see SkyCam for my project
 * Erkan Yilmaz, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * rrrmanion 11:54, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * --Simonfj 00:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC) This group has the same interests as the Communications Project Group

Additional resources

 * 10 wishes list for 2008 by Florence Devouard. "I would like to see this year a system implemented to collect technical wishlists from each project"

title: Wikiversity:Sandbox Server


text:
Wikiversity talk:Sandbox Server

CS Dept. would like to have resources for coursework
Rather than give out regular accounts for computing coursework, how about a web interface where students could submit project files. The server compiles and runs the program and then emails the results to the student. It wouldn't work for every language or for GUI software, but shell accounts wouldn't work with GUI software either. It would be sort of like the old mainframe days where folks would submit their decks and then wait for their output. Dmclean 04:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

There has been talk about Collaborative Computing
This might be the ideal spot for research and live testing of such a component.

Don't we have a sandbox sever somewhere on mediawiki?--Rayc 20:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Rayc, there is the toolbox server and test wikis, but nothing which currently allows us to play with some other kinds of educational and facilitation research/software, as far as I'm aware. If you know more, please let me know. Historybuff 06:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Feedback
This page is looking much better than it originally did (and apologies for taking so long in replying). Still, I'd say that the more detail here, the better. It's still pretty vague on exactly what kinds of activities (apart from synchronous communication) the server would be used for. When it says "So Computer Science lesson work can be done", I'm left wondering, what kind(s) of computer science lesson work? Are there any materials here on Wikiversity that might show me what access to a server might facilitate? I'm also thinking, would this work be useful for the MediaWiki developer community? Could this be used in a way to give people practical experience of coding, etc.? I think it also needs to be clear about who would be managing this project - both the physical hardware end, and the use of it. Pardon my ignorance here if it's apparent, but this is what flashes through my mind when I read "Giving out limited access accounts to "students"". Who will have shell access? And I dunno, but the paranoiac in me asks: if it gets hacked, what damage can be done? The more of these kinds of questions answered in advance the better (while, of course, hoping that this can be a real resource - with the flexibility to really put it to good, educational, use). I think that good proposals (even though this isn't necessarily a proposal page - yet) do people's initial imagination work for them - so that they can get to the interesting imagination parts, like "ooh yes, imagine what we could do if we had that.." I'd help here if I knew how, but so far, I haven't got to that stage. If you could help me there, that would be great. :-) Cormaggio beep 09:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * One obvious example of of a CS-related learning project that could use the sanbox server is Linux Server Administration (assuming it will be Linux). We can also install support for various Programming Languages both compiled and interpreted. There's much to discuss here. --CQ 11:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Teleconference guidelines
The Wiki Campus Radio project (wiki radio) can serve as an example of how the Wikiversity community would make use of of a server.

We are using borrowed resources from a non-wikimedia project to conduct some VoIP teleconferences to discuss the Sandbox Server. These are quite informal and experimental at this time and are generally for brainstorming and proposal refinement. The project page shall be used as the agenda and should reflect changes in the consensus as we go. We're using IRC to coordinate the conferences in real-time at this time, but we don't want to turn into a cabalish group. (which is what could happen if you don't join the channel)

Please get over your aversion to using the crude IRC protocol and get with the program. Sorry to be so indirectly direct. CQ 16:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Recording and sharing
In order to share the proceedings of the teleconferences with the broadest possible community, we'll be recording and posting a weekly teleconference audio digest in the wikiversity local image namespace with a filename that fits this format:
 * Image:Sandbox_Server_teleconference_ .ogg

These must remain viewable by the Internet public, so we must agree on a licencing structure. See Wiki Cmapus Radio and Talk:Wiki Campus Radio for ideas on how this technology is developing.

When we get them edited, digested, polished, transcribed and licensed, they can go to the wikimedia commons.

Barnstars and other acknowlegements had better be given to transcribers and translators. CQ 16:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Publicizing
The following is a suggestion by CQ subject to consensus: WikiversityWeekly will be a Current events subsection similar in nature to the WikipediaWeekly project. The idea is to build a self-referencing Weekly News agency within the Wikimedia metacommunity.

 * NOTE: We have a local WikipediaWeekly page

We should prepare also Monthly, and Quarterly digests to use in other publications, notably Quarto.

Barnstars and other acknowlegements had better be given to transcribers and translators. CQ 16:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Participation requirements
Below, we shall begin to compile a list of participant preferences and scheduling parameters. Because we are using so many borrowed resources (mainly because we don't have our own Server), A few restrictions exist by default:

 * 1) You must be registered at a Wikimedia Project.
 * 2) You must be identified by Freenode Services.
 * 3) You had better participate on Wikiversity talk:Sandbox Server (it is how you get "voice")

Roster
User preferences for teleconferencing database:

Participation level:
 * admin (+o channel operator)
 * active (+v fully voiced)
 * pledge (+i identified, potentially voiced)
 * passive (lurking... I don't need voice)

Wikimedia userpage:
 * Wikiversity (default)
 * Wikibooks
 * Meta
 * Wikipedia
 * Wikinews
 * ...other wikimedia project

Language:
 * English (default)
 * German
 * French
 * Spanish

Timezone
 * UTC (server default UTC[offset])
 * UTC+12 (New Zealand)
 * UTC-12 (Hawaii)
 * UTC-12 (Hawaii)

These preferences are used by operators and automatons to keep the system running smoothly

Other
This is all tentative. Anyone can edit Wikiversity pages! (...unless, of course, they're Protected for some twisted reason...) • CQ 16:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Moving forward
I took the liberty of promoting the Sandbox Server here. I'm assuming that a web server will be implemented and that it can be used by Web Design students to test their projects. I'm proposing that we go ahead and form a general Server Administration Division to organize departments and learning projects that insures we have a strong knowledge base for running a server. • CQ 02:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow... really does sound amazing?! In the past I've encouraged learners in our web design course to use XAmp Lite - a free Apache/PHP/MySQL webserver for windows that's easy to setup and run (Mac's and Linux generally have this stuff almost ready to go). That way it requires no administration etc. Not sure how the logistics would work for the wikiversity server but keen to find out! Michaelnelson 03:00, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

 * It would be nice if we could offer some space in a lightweight manner to web students. Depending on how things are structured, the webspace could be very light in admin needs. Once a student registers for a class, their webspace would be automagically generated, and once they are done it could be recycled. Might that approach work?

 * All that would require is a server admin to login and set the account up. With WHM or something that would barely take a minute. Also should bear in mind that small websites (consisting of a few html/php pages) take up a negligible amount of space on the server - with a 80GB hard disk (being the minimum specified) we would easily have room for dozens if not hundreds of CS students to have their own slice of webspace. This is a really decent idea. Xenon 16:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I'd prefer not to use WHM quite yet -- it might be a good idea to get some of that software for learning projects, though. I'll probably start a learning project to write some tools to generate the accounts when we are there, though.
 * Thanks for the support -- it's always nice to have a new face with new ideas. Historybuff 03:48, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Further to moving forward, if people could chime in about Sandbox_Server, it would be helpful. Historybuff 14:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania 2007
OK. In response to Fuzheado's proposal at w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_WikipediaWeekly/Wikimania_2007, and to follow up on Cormac's ideas on that talk page, I've begun a Wikimania page here. Involving the Sandbox Server in Wikimania might could propel this proposal along a bit. In my view, several things need to be done to position ourselves for such an impetus:
 * Start seeing this as a project rather than a proposal
 * Step up content development for Topic:Server administration
 * Get more VoIP testing and development done
 * Create an Asterisk (Asterisk) learning project
 * Create an Icecast (Icecast) learning project
 * Integrate all of the above with the Sandbox Server project

That's the top of the list from my angle. CQ 23:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

 * From my perspective, it's a "proposal" until we have our first user logged in. After chatting with some of the people that have some say, I get the feeling it's a "when" and not an "if", but nothing is guaranteed.
 * As far as "project" goes, we definately have to demonstrate we have what it takes to get this up to snuff and keep it running. There is lots of room for learning projects to get this done, and we should start pushing forward on them ASAP. Historybuff 04:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikitionary and Wikispecies interface
Anyway dont know if this is a right place, but... If we have to teach or study and we would like to use a dictionary or "taxonomical" dictionary more suitable interface is needed. I think those to wiki projects written above are run on not suitable software - so a new server can helpl also.--Juan 12:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Juan, are you thinking about the devlopment of new software, or adapting something currently existing to better do the job? Historybuff 16:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I dont know these softwares or ideas connected with Sandbox Server, but if I am thinking about e.g. dictionary. It is not problem to edit a mask for the browser to WikiMedia Software by html script or others. The problem is to store its databases in WikiMedia Software. It is like to brush my teeth by feet. I also spoke to guys at Wikispecies and they would really find usefull, more suitable software. So I thought if it could be possible to run it on Sandbox Server. E.g. I have my own databases in MicrosoftExcel - its a very friendly environment, but not open! - and one character is linked by others in row, column and I try to give them anoter dimensions via colours.--Juan 14:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Ah, you are literally looking for a "sandbox". Interesting. We wouldn't be able to support Excel directly, but maybe through some import filter magic. I like the idea ... we should flesh the idea out a bit more here, and then add it to the formal proposal. Historybuff 04:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, only thing which is needed to have a simple databese with a tables (rows and columns). Or if the browser can get the words from Wikitionary? But I am not sure, this should be standarizade list. I may found a project based on Spanish language vocabulary, but there is a need to set format. E.g. casa = house, pero = but, trabajar = work. I dont know.--Juan 18:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi Juan. I'm not sure on the timeline for this server -- if your need is pressing, we might be able to find you another home. We could have a server tomorrow, or not until Summer, and I don't want your project to be delayed waiting for us. Historybuff 23:46, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Until Summer? Sounds fast to me. I know thats a run for a long distance of course. I am just splashing on you ideas in here. Anyway I have found on Spanish this: Spanish/Bilingual Spanish-English Dictionary and I think it will not be a problem. We may use comertional dictionaries, but also wictionary or program king of javascript.--Juan 16:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Next step
What we need is to find out how we formally request this from the WMF. There has been some informal discussions, but we need to press forward and get some commitment.

Everyone I've spoken with (informally) has offered support for the idea. Now, we need to turn support into a real physical machine. Historybuff 23:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Critique from -tech on IRC
Some info from a discussion in wm-tech. An outside perspective.

why would this server need a dvd-r drive? and kvm over IP sucks.. use a text LOM console [LOM == lights out module] no chance in anyone coming in to rotate media for you.

In a nutshell ... we need to not expect anyone will ever be able to do anything on the box on a periodic basis. And we must make sure the box takes up as little WMF resources as possible. Historybuff 01:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

alternative to one server for everyone
On one hand, I agree that giving students learning Topic:Web_design and Topic:Computer Networks access to a web server would be really nice.

However, I think using some remote server to teach students a particular programming language is a mistake. You learn faster when you Wiki:ProgramComputersYouCanUnplug. What possible benefit would the sandbox server have, over letting students use their own computers?

Instead of one sandbox server for all of Wikiversity, I think it would be more interesting if "we" set up several sandbox servers -- not only making them available to students, but also training (not necessarily the same) students to set up a server properly.

Aren't people in Topic:Computer Networks and Linux Server Administration already learning how to set up web servers with adequate security measures?

I have bought several textbooks that each cost more than a used PC, a PC more than adequate to host 10 or so students. Perhaps some of our Linux Server Administration and Topic:Computer Networks students will consider buying such a PC just for that class (using the money they saved by using Wikibooks / Wikiversity), using it for hands-on training during class. Instead of making utterly useless (although educational) homework assignments, perhaps one series of assignments to the Topic:Computer Networks students and/or Linux Server Administration students would result in each of those students setting up a web server, connecting it to the internet (perhaps using one of the free dynamic DNS services), and giving 10 or so other students (some of them Topic:Web_design students) accounts on it.

In the worst case, that machine gets trojaned, we give that Topic:Computer Networks student an F in security, that student unplugs the machine and erases everything on it, and 10 or so Topic:Web_design students are surprised, and waste literal *minutes* switching over to some other machine. (A smart web design student will find accounts on 2 independent machines, in case one of them goes offline for any reason).

That is much better than one huge server intended to support every student at the wikiversity -- if that goes down for any reason, then everyone who uses it is inconvenienced, and it will probably be *hours* before it is fixed and they can finish their assignments.

I volunteer to host the first 10 web design students who ask me on my Talk page.

--DavidCary 00:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Interesting idea. The current sandbox proposal isn't just for Web hosting -- that is just one function. And I will say, from experience, it's much more difficult to co-ordinate a few machines then it is to administrate one machine. Unless we come up with a boilerplate install, then each machine could be a different flavor of Unix (or even of Windows), with different server side pieces installed and different modules. It could quickly get confusing or worse for even web students, where things "work" on one server and don't on another.
 * The idea of the Sandbox server it to have a permanent spot where people can work. We should endevour to build something available and robust, and something that is well hosted.
 * That said, I'm not trying to discourage you, as the Sandbox Server is not a reality, and I would be glad for at least 10 web students to have a home. Have you left a note there? Historybuff 15:32, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Have I left a note at Topic_talk:Web_design ? Oooh, good idea ... done.

it's much more difficult to co-ordinate a few machines then it is to administrate one machine. You are right. However, in my experience, rather than build one do-everything machine, I have found it easier to set up one machine that is just a firewall, another machine for software development (and so is expected to crash often), another machine that is just a web server, another machine that is just a mail server, etc. That way when I am working in one area, I don't have to worry about the possibility of messing up those other functions.

build something available and robust Are you saying that students who are just one lesson away from graduating from our Topic:Server administration and Topic:Computer Networks courses are unable to set up a adequately "available and robust" systems? (Those courses are inadequate *now*, with most of those lessons mere stubs, but I hope it will change in the future). Or are you saying that you know someone who can set up a machine such that it never, ever crashes or otherwise becomes unavailable?

I hope that (compared to One Big Sandbox) the educational experience of building a server and supporting 10 or so real users, and the reliability benefits of having geographically-distributed servers, will outweigh the extra "difficulty" and "confusion" involved.

--DavidCary 13:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

 * "What possible benefit would the sandbox server have, over letting students use their own computers?" <-- The learning model for Wikiversity is heavily biased towards a heavy role for collaboration. Sure, people can all go off and do most things on their own PC, but then you do not have a common space where people learn to collaborate. --JWSchmidt 13:48, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I think we can experiment with both approaches, in fact. Some services we want available to a wide audience almost always -- for those services, we really do want one central server, with a bunch of admins looking over it. For others, we may well be able to use something like small servers.
 * I do see the sandbox server as an experiment, and I would hope if was successful we might be able to do further work in this area. But, if we don't try, we'll never know what might be possible. Historybuff 03:15, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't laugh, let's Play Wikiversity!
A MUD program provides a virtual world and characters people can take on and explore. A MOO turns gaming into Education with few limits. For example, certain rooms can have DJ's who stream media, others for voip. Although the default protocol is telnet, any other can be used. The advantages are:

 * Users never access the server directly, accounts are created within MOO.

 * The Wikiversity can be mapped out as a physical world, complete with Schools, Classes, and Courses, Projects, etc.

 * A student may have one or more characters. Each character belongs to a school and assigned to one or more courses/projects.

 * Students collaborate in building the world through object oriented programming in MOO itself, such as interactive items, mobiles (robots), and even economic, legal, and behavioural subsystems.

 * Room (course) descriptions can be multilingual.

 * Teachers (Wizards) oversee the world with the power to intervene, mediate, and educate when neccessary.

 * Backend interfaces to wikiversity or student websites allows controlled updates.

a Free hosting site

 * Wow - what a great idea! This is the kind of thing that might just explode (in a good way). :-) Cormaggio talk 13:14, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Cost
Just on a practical note, how much is what's needed likely to cost? How about pricing a number of options, new and second-hand, and listing them here? Also (and I think I saw this above), if this is really going too slowly within the WMF, could this be written up into an external (ie extra-Wikimedia) grant? Cormaggio talk 16:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, after getting the breezy response from some we've been shopping with, I'd like to entertain a third option -- renting (or leasing). If it's too hard or too far outside the box for some to think about putting it "near" WMF stuff, let's take that out of the equation. Comments? Historybuff 05:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

More feedback
Ok, here's some thoughts on the page - just to try getting it a bit sharper..

Under "Needs":
 * "This will be a series of case studies, to explore various methods of collaboration and learning."
 * This could be phrased better - how about: "This server will be put to different uses in Wikiversity, in which the focus is on facilitating collaborative and active learning - and research will be carried out in order to feed this learning back into how this server can be best put to use in a series of case studies."? However, I wonder if this kind of stuff should be in the introduction, which would be the rationale..?

Under "Assessment":
 * "The Toolserver requires an application process (which would be cumbersome for students) and is probably more restrictive in what it could offer students. (The toolserver admins reasonably assume that since their audience is limited, their security doesn't have to be as stringent)."
 * These sentences are a bit confusing - is the toolserver more or less restrictive security-wise than the sandbox server? Also, how is the toolserver more restrictive in what it could offer students? Spell this out a bit more - can you think of examples?

Under "Audio video projects":
 * "Idea is to connect people who are at large distances"
 * Don't we already do that? :-) It needs to be clear what kinds of connection are being talked about - ie clarify the type of project that will be worked on, preferably linking with an example on Wikiversity.

Under "giving out limited access account to students":
 * "So Computer Science lesson work can be done"
 * What lesson work? Are there some concrete examples of, say, 3 tasks that learners could be engaged in? (Describe each task in one or two sentences - try make it clear to a non-so-techie. :-))
 * Also, I don't know why "Email access for all lesson participants" and "Facilitating multi-lingual communication" is here - it doesn't seem to be about giving "access", and I wonder if it's really the best use of resources when people can get free email, MSN, IRC etc elsewhere?

Technical details
 * I actually think the technical details could be brought back to this page (except for perhaps the previous servers bought, which can be moved to this talk page). Unless it's going to get very detailed, it doesn't seem to need to split off, and there are interesting things there, like "administration" that are of general interest. And speaking of which..

 * "Initial setup will be done by the volunteers associated with the Computer Science school, after the operating system is installed by onsite personnel."
 * Ok (naive question), so does this mean that there will have to be someone at the server co-lo that does this, or can a server be procured with this in place?

 * "The computer science school will nominate a few volunteers.."
 * I think it would be good to be specific here - insofar as to name at least two people (preferably more) who are willing and capable to deal with this from the word "go!"

 * "A server administration department has been initialized.."
 * I like this - as much focus on learning as possible - on different levels :-)

Overall, I think this proposal is mainly missing a costing/budget - as well as clear descriptions of the kinds of learning activities that people can engage in. On costing, is it possible to give an indication of the cost of different scenarios (ie second-hand/new, more/less powerful)? Perhaps correlate this with the administration issue - ie whether a second-hand server is likely to give the administrative autonomy required for this project. Spell it out!

Ok, that's my shpeel for now. Onwards and upwards... Cormaggio talk 22:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I've let this simmer a bit (and haven't had the time I'd have liked to look it back over). I'll do a bit of brainstorming here, and then we can tweak the real page. I'll address points in order.

 * Needs - I don't mind merging or rewriting. Should we just dyke out everything that isn't in a section, to make it hang together better? I've been twiddling bits, it might make sense to just redo the layout.
 * Assessment - How's this for a rewrite: "The Toolserver requires an application process (which would be cumbersome for students) and is more limited in what it could offer students. The toolserver is precious to other WMF projects, and our box should have an experimental feel. We intend to host things like interactive voice (WCR, language learning projects), video (Wikiversity the Movie, Tutorials) and other types of experimental communications projects."
 * Audio video projects - "For example, WCR and our Wikimania learning projects, as well as future co-operation with wikinews and other Wiki projects. We also hope to facilitate distance learning by means other then text in this manner."
 * giving out limited access account to students - The most obvious part of this is to complete programming assignments, which could be in a variety of languages. We could also offer collaboration assignments which would otherwise be difficult or impossible. I'm not sure what the "e-mail" part was supposed to be, but even learner to learner e-mail could help. Multi-lingual communication could be inter-wikiversity (eg EN-FR), but the idea was to put "native" or "advanced" speakers in touch with "learners", to help them with spoken language.
 * Technical - I'm happy to return it or transclude it, but I'm hoping we can focus on the rationale/needs and have the technical "at the ready" if we get the green light.
 * does this mean - This touches on the Lights out management. I think it's reasonable to assume we'll get some help, either from co-lo staff or WMF for the server setup, but beyond that we should assume we're on our own.
 * insofar as to name at least two people - amidaniel has indicated a willingness, and so am I. We both have a few years of professional (ie paid) experience at running servers. Once the ball gets rolling, I'm sure we won't have a shortage of helpers.
 * A server administration department has been initialized. - CQ gets the credit here, and we'll call it "System Administration", but it will be a learning project. Our idea is to both use this as a learning and a teaching tool.
 * I'll add some more costing info, and do some more tweaking soon. Historybuff 05:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Recorded track of pronunciation
Hi, this is anoter need I see. When I am recording pronunciation of a foreign language, it is a very hard work. There are two way. I can record each word to the separate file, or record all words to one track and then cut the tract into separate parts. The problem is that if I would like to recorde hundreds of words it eats a lot time. So is there a way how to help with this? I saw some games they are having more different sounds on the same track separated by silence.--Juan 17:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Juan. Have you seen the Shtooka Project? I was referred to that project when I talked with OmegaWiki folks about the very problem you describe. I'm thinking that functionality for recording and playing pronunciations can be extended from the Sandbox Server. Something to consider. -- CQ 19:16, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Forums
And this is another idea. I know, that we can use MediaWiki to create a forum, but it is difficult and anyone can lost when replying. So what about to develope something like that. Or maybe we maight instal Freeware forums on a new server? It would be nice to connect good things from MediaWiki with good thinks of forums software.--Juan 17:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

 * That's an idea, but what would we use the forums for? All relevant discussion can be done here on the wiki or on IRC. Offtopic discussion isn't exactly a productive use for a new server. Xenon 17:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

In the forums we can share and brainstorm ideas of students. I dont want to have a chat, but forum, were people can easily share pictures and documents and they disscuss the problems. E.g. a project forum or a subject forum. Students can ask others their questions easilly or they can brainstorm their ideas with others.--Juan 13:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Have a look on this
I dont exactly know how it works, but it sounds to develop same opportunities as Sandbox Server: http://www.ces.net/about/--Juan 12:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * For me, that is a dead link. --JWSchmidt 13:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. It is. You should follow the tables on the left.--Juan 16:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Technical Quotes
Alright, I went ahead and looked up some quotes. I have many more than I'm providing here, but I believe these will likely be more in line with what we want:

Rackform nServ A236 CPU: 1 x Opteron 2210 (1.8GHz, Dual Core, Skt F, 2 x 1MB L2 Cache ) RAM: 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2-667 Registered ECC - Interleaved NIC: Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps NICs - Integrated Management: None PCI Riser Options: PCIe (For PCI-X Options, Please Contact our Sales Department) PCIe x8: None Low-Profile PCIe x8: None Hot-Swap Drive - 1: 80GB Western Digital SE (1.5Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 8MB Cache) SATA Optical Drive: Low-Profile 8x DVD +/- RW Front Input:  None Power Supply: 560W - PFC - Auto Switching 100-240V Rail Kit: Sliding Rail Kit OS: Fedora Linux Core 6 - 32-bit - Preload, No Media Warranty: Standard 3 Year - Return to Depot - Advanced Component Exchange Configured Power: 188 Watts, 193 Volt-Amps, 643 BTU/h, 1.8 Amps (110V), 0.9 Amps (208V)
 * Minimal configuration:

Price per unit: $1,499.00

Rackform nServ A236 CPU: 2 x Opteron 2214 (2.2GHz, Dual Core, Skt F, 1MB/Core L2 Cache ) RAM: 8GB (8 x 1GB) DDR2-667 Registered ECC - Interleaved NIC: Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps NICs - Integrated Management: None PCI Riser Options: PCIe (For PCI-X Options, Please Contact our Sales Department) PCIe x8: None Low-Profile PCIe x8: None Hot-Swap Drive - 1: 80GB Western Digital SE (1.5Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 8MB Cache) SATA Hot-Swap Drive - 2: 80GB Western Digital SE (1.5Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 8MB Cache) SATA Hot-Swap Drive - 3: 80GB Western Digital SE (1.5Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 8MB Cache) SATA Optical Drive: Low-Profile 8x DVD +/- RW Front Input:  Front Serial / USB ports Power Supply: 560W - PFC - Auto Switching 100-240V Rail Kit: Sliding Rail Kit OS: Fedora Linux Core 6 - 32-bit - Preload, No Media Warranty: Standard 3 Year - Return to Depot - Advanced Component Exchange Configured Power: 337 Watts, 346 Volt-Amps, 1151 BTU/h, 3.1 Amps (110V), 1.7 Amps (208V)
 * Much more ideal configuration

Price per unit: $2,532.00

Some observations: Memory and physical storage are cheap as hell. About $51 for each additional 80GB HD and (depending upon the configuration) anywhere from $50-$100 per GB of RAM. The primary money guzzler (as well as power guzzler, which may well be important) are CPUs. I personally think that 1 dual core 1.8GHz will probably suffice for our needs, though in my optimal quote above I included 2 2.2GHz duals, which is probably quite severe overkill for our needs. In any case, WMF is quite used to shelling out anywhere from $50k-$100k per server purchase, so I'm sure the difference between 2.5k and 1.5k won't even make them lift an eyebrow--nonetheless, we should still only ask for it if we really need it. I don't have any pricing on VOIP or tape drives, but I can't imagine we're talking much -- these will most likely be things we will definitely need. Thoughts? AmiDaniel (talk) 18:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Prototype Sandbox Server
To assist in proving the actual viability of the site, I am happy to supply hosting/ftp and a few gigs of hosting so we can have a working preview of some sort so we can see how things would work. If you want this, just drop me a line at symode09 (at) >nospam< hotmail.com 17:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)~

More then a sandbox
I think if we do this project, it should not only be a experimental project but, a project for alternative medias/projects out of wiki's but in the foundation's scope ie. broadcasting wikimania, blogs for projects and other things which cannot be easily done on wikimedia wiki's Symode09 18:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Availability for all Wikiversities ?
Since I guess also other Wikiversities could have access to this, why not give administration also to the different custodians there ? This could for some cases cover 24h service for the users - in case something needs to be done on the server. Imagine there are 5 WVs around, if you make advertisement there also, might speeden the funding. Though then I am not sure how it is with accessing then from all WV - could bring a serverlaod problem ? or people argue when they can use it ? Erkan Yilmaz ( talk ?, wiki blog ) 16:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Use in learning computational chemistry
I strongly support having such a server as proposed here. I have been developing internet learning of computational chemistry for about 13 years, and I want to put a lot of these materials on to wikiversity. One of the innovations of these materials is the ability for students to run real computational codes from a web page. Running the codes on the server would be ideal. I have already discussed this on the e-mail list and with User:Draicone. Without the ability to do this, there would be no point in putting many of these materials on wikiversity. --Bduke 22:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

strategy wikimedia - Proposal:Integrated educational experience
Please see Proposal:Integrated educational experience, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:03, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

New sandbox server is coming
With the help of WMDE, it looks like we'll have a new server soon. Anyone have any projects to use it for? Historybuff 10:45, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't remember what happened with the talks in mailing list, would be great if someone points directly to the server
 * so far found this (see whole thread), Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat + Identi.ca 21:07, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * see thread here, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat + Identi.ca 02:02, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Wikiversity talk:Sandbox Server


text:
Template:Mad Max:Sound Of Fear:GarageBand with symphony orchestra:Pop Quiz 1:TOC

 * Which trill is the most frightening? - 2 points
 * Which pitch is the most frightening? - 2 points

 * }


text:
GarageBand/Quiz 1 - Fear

{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" style="width: 100%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 50%; background-color: #ffffe0; border: 2px solid #ff7777; vertical-align: center; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" |

Question 1: Which trill scares you the most?
In Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra (or MOTU's Symphonic Instrument) there are many different trills.

Listen to them all and tell me which is the one that you find the most frightening.

@undefined.

 * style="width: 50%; background-color: #EFFFEF; border: 2px solid #ff7777; vertical-align: center; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px; height: 10px;" |

Question 2: Which pitch of the trill scares you the most?
Once you have isolated the trill that you think will create the best "Sound of Fear", tell me which pitch you find the most frightening.

@undefined.
 * }

{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" style="width: 100%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 50%; background-color: #ffffe0; border: 2px solid #77f; vertical-align: center; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" |

Question 1: Which instrument scares you the most?
In the free Boldt packages from Ben Boldt, there are many different instruments.

You must listen to them all and tell me which is the one that you find the most frightening.

@undefined.

 * style="width: 50%; background-color: #EFFFEF; border: 2px solid #77f; vertical-align: center; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px; height: 10px;" |

Question 2: Which pitch scares you the most?
Often an instrument which sounds very happy at a higher pitch will be very scary at a low pitch. Once you have isolated a musical instrument that you think will create the best "Sound of Fear", tell me which pitch you find the most frightening.

@undefined.
 * }

{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="5" style="width: 100%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 100%; background-color: LemonChiffon; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" rowspan="2" |

The next page

 * Continue this lesson at Creating the sound of fear with GarageBand and symphony orchestra sounds

 * }

title: GarageBand/Quiz 1 - Fear


text:
User talk:Sensorymoments

Spanish
Thank you for signing up, If you wish to start practicing Spanish and looking for something to do, practice with the El Salón de Clase Flashcards and then go take the El Salón de Clase quizI --Rayc 00:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

New template
This new template has been created to coordinate studies for the Spanish 1 class. Feel free to deleted it or place it where ever you see fit.--Rayc 02:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Spanish Contributors Refresh
Hi a few weeks ago I have found Spanish Language Division completely void. I added a new course for beginners, but the problem was that the sites Spanish and Topic:Spanish had unfriendly environment to add something like Spanish: An Introduction. I wait for a while, but then I started to reorganize those sites. My aims are give more freedom on these sites and to use more friendly Wikipedia templates (e.g. this) than the former HTML script was. Finally I would like to ask you if you can sign in ones more here and reconfirm your offer to help. You can also visit this. Regards Juan 15:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

title: User talk:Sensorymoments


text: Category:Learning Project

title: Category:Learning Project


text: Category:Learning Projects

title: Category:Learning Projects


title: File:Zoom1.png


text: File:How to morph1.png

title: File:How to morph1.png


title: File:Zoom2.png


title: File:Zoom3.png


title: File:Zoom4.png


text: File:How to morph3.png

title: File:How to morph3.png


title: File:Zoom5.png


title: File:Zoom6.png


title: File:Zoom7.png


title: File:Zoom8.png


text: File:How to morph4.png

title: File:How to morph4.png


title: File:Zoom9.png


title: File:Zoom10.png


title: File:Trace1.png


title: File:Trace2.png


title: File:Trace3.png


title: File:Trace4.png


title: File:Trace5.png


title: File:Trace6.png


title: File:Trace7.png


title: File:Wikiproject2.png


text: User talk:Lopps

title: User talk:Lopps


text: User talk:ShookJ

title: User talk:ShookJ


text: User talk:Fangw

title: User talk:Fangw


text:
User talk:Stonec~enwikiversity

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Stonec. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Stonec~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 23:44, 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) 06:23, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Stonec~enwikiversity


text: User talk:Cantrellc

title: User talk:Cantrellc


text:
User talk:Jmo21~enwikiversity

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Jmo21. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Jmo21~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 23:35, 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) 06:12, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Jmo21~enwikiversity


text: User talk:BeltonP

title: User talk:BeltonP


text: User talk:SpicerK

title: User talk:SpicerK


text: User talk:Nashp

title: User talk:Nashp


text: User talk:HicksK

title: User talk:HicksK


text: User talk:Kealakekua

title: User talk:Kealakekua


text:
Computer Architecture Lab/Winter2006/PolzerJahn/Bin2iniram

Bin2IniRAM
Bin2IniRAM is a simple VHDL code generator for SISP written in Python. It generates a VHDL entity, representing an initialised RAM, from a binary file.

Usage
Synopsis: bin2iniram.py -a address width][-d data width][-o outfile][-m memory interface type binary_inputfile

The following parameters control the execution of the program:

 * -a, --address_width: Controls the address width of the generated memory interface (default: 16).

 * -d, --data_width: Controls the data width of the generated memory interface (default: 12).

 * -o, --outfile: The name of the file where the generated VHDL code should be written (default: prog_mem.vhd).

 * -m, --memory_interface: The type of the memory interface. Can be either "single" (default) or "dual".

Download
You can download the current version of Bin2IniRAM as archive here.

Version History
0.4: 13-01-2007 0.3: 10-01-2007 0.2: 20-12-2006 0.1: 19-12-2006
 * script looks for templates in its execution path instead of cwd
 * added support for dual port memory interfaces (flag -m dual)
 * fixed bugs, created vhdl code is now syntactically correct
 * initial version


text:
DNA integrated circuit/proposal import 2007

A DNA integrated circuit is a integrated circuit semiconductor system incorporating or interacting with deoxyribonucleic acids or other molecules. The interaction of molecules with the IC system may be due to the adsorption of the molecules on the IC, or the electromagnetic or mechanical interaction of the IC with molecules.

Depending on the attachment methodology, the molecules incorporated into a dIC may be other than deoxyribonucleic acid.

proposes one way to attach molecules to CMOS integrated circuits.


text:
Template:Message for Film Scoring Lessons

These lessons on film scoring are under construction this month


text:
Religious Law

Resources

 * The Laws of the Pharisees
 * Shariah Law
 * Agape
 * Church Doctrine
 * The Ten Commandments

title: Religious Law


text:
Film scoring/Creating the sound of fear

{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" style="width: 99%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 60%; background-color: BlanchedAlmond; border: 1px solid #777777; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;"  |

Overview

 * What? No Jam Pack : Symphony Orchestra?
 * You selected this page because you have GarageBand but you have no way to create the sounds of symphony orchestra. If this is a mistake, click on correct option at the top of this page.

 * You do not need Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra (or, as an alternative, MOTU's Symphony Instrument) to create simple moods with GarageBand. But I strongly recommend you get Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra

 * If you do not have the sounds of a symphony orchestra, you can still create moods by using cords. This reqires more musical knowledge.  (Using Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra requires absolutely no musical background to create fantastic musical sounds that create mood for your motion pictures.)

 * Notation Protégé
 * If you are using VirtuosoWorks' Notion Protégé - demo version, select "Notion Protégé" at the top of the page.

 * style="width: 40%; background-color: Lavender; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px; height: 200px;" |

The Sound of Fear
Some cords automatically create the sound of fear. You must try all the possible combination of software instruments and chords to find a sound which creates fear in the mind of the audience.
 * Creating moods with chords

Just playing a chord is not enough. When you play a cord with GarageBand, the trill turns on and then turns off. This is not realistic. To make the trill seem realistic, you must adjust the volume of the sound so it fades in and fades out, etc.
 * Fade in and fade out

This entire process is fast. Super fast! Once you have found the correct musical instrument and the chords to create the mood you want and after you have adjusted the volume of the note, you are done. How easy can it get!!!
 * That's it!
 * }

{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="5" style="width: 99%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 100%; background-color: LemonChiffon; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" rowspan="2" |

The Next Page

 * The next page explains the how to get started with GarageBand.
 * Page 1: Getting started with GarageBand [[Image:Crystal Clear action forward.png|24px]]

Contact Your Instructor

 * Your instructor for these courses is Robert Elliott. To email me, you simply @undefined.  [[Image:Crystal Clear app xfmail.png|32px]]

 * }

title: Film scoring/Creating the sound of fear


text:
Film Scoring/Creating the sound of fear:Protégé

Orphan {| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" style="width: 99%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 60%; background-color: BlanchedAlmond; border: 1px solid #777777; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;"  |

Overview

 * An interesting (and FREE) alternative
 * This course is designed for Apple's GarageBand with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra. However, there is an very interesting alternative which is free.  This is the demo version of Notation Protégé which is fully working for 30 days.

 * Learning musical notation
 * This course does not teach you to understand musical notaion. There are many tutorials on the Internet for this.  Notation Protégé is a very good excuse to learn musical notation.  It creates wonderful sounds so you know when you have it right (unlike Finalé Note Pad.)

 * Creating moods with the sounds of a symphony orchestra
 * Creating musical sound effects using Notation Protégé is not difficult if you know musical notation. All you do is find different sounds which create moods.  This is it!  That is the entire lesson.  This is why even musicians who are not filmmakers can create effective musical scores with Notation Protégé if they know musical notation.

 * Wrong page?
 * If you got to this page by mistake, click on the option at the top of the page (if you have GarageBand with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra or just GarageBand by itself.) If you have only GarageBand by itself, I strongly suggest you try Notation Protégé or you buy Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra to use with GarageBand.

 * style="width: 40%; background-color: Lavender; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px; height: 200px;" |

The Sound of Fear
Some musical sounds automatically create the sound of fear. The most common musical instrument sound which creates the sound of fear is the violin trill.
 * Creating moods with individual notes

A trill is a special musical sound created with bowed instruments such as a violin. Most filmmakers cannot play a trill on a violin. Not in a million years.
 * "It's a trill!"

Yet with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra, all a filmmaker need do is press one key on the keyboard to get a wonderfully realistic trill sound. For filmmakers with no musical talent, this is a miracle. Using the software instruments in the Macintosh computer, a filmmaker can create fantasitc sounds for motion pictures.

Just playing a violin trill is not enough. When you play a violin trill with GarageBand, the trill turns on and then turns off. This is not realistic. To make the trill seem realistic, you must adjust the volume of the sound so it fades in and fades out. That is simple!
 * Fade in and fade out

This entire process is fast. Super fast! Once you have found the correct musical instrument to create the mood you want and after you have adjusted the volume of the note, you are done. How easy can it get!!!
 * That's it!
 * }

{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="5" style="width: 99%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 100%; background-color: LemonChiffon; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" rowspan="2" |

The Next Page

 * The next page explains the how to get started with GarageBand.
 * Page 1: Getting started with Notation Protégé [[Image:Crystal Clear action forward.png|24px]]

Contact Your Instructor

 * Your instructor for these courses is Robert Elliott. To email me, you simply @undefined.  [[Image:Crystal Clear app xfmail.png|32px]]

 * }


text:
Film Scoring/Creating the sound of fear:Notion Protégé

{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" style="width: 99%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 60%; background-color: BlanchedAlmond; border: 1px solid #777777; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;"  |

Overview

 * An interesting (and FREE) alternative
 * This course is designed for Apple's GarageBand with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra. However, there is an very interesting alternative which is free.  This is the demo version of Notion Protégé which is fully working for 30 days.

 * Learning musical notation
 * This course does not teach you to understand musical notaion. There are many tutorials on the Internet for this.  Notion Protégé is a very good excuse to learn musical notation.  It creates wonderful sounds so you know when you have it right (unlike Finalé Note Pad.)

 * Creating moods with the sounds of a symphony orchestra
 * Creating musical sound effects using Notation Protégé is not difficult if you know musical notation. All you do is find different sounds which create moods.  This is it!  That is the entire lesson.  This is why even musicians who are not filmmakers can create effective musical scores with Notion Protégé if they know musical notation.

 * Wrong page?
 * If you got to this page by mistake, click on the option at the top of the page (if you have GarageBand with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra or just GarageBand by itself.) If you have only GarageBand by itself, I strongly suggest you try Notation Protégé or you buy Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra to use with GarageBand.

 * style="width: 40%; background-color: Lavender; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px; height: 200px;" |

The Sound of Fear
Some musical sounds automatically create the sound of fear. The most common musical instrument sound which creates the sound of fear is the violin trill.
 * Creating moods with individual notes

A trill is a special musical sound created with bowed instruments such as a violin. Most filmmakers cannot play a trill on a violin. Not in a million years.
 * "It's a trill!"

Yet with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra, all a filmmaker need do is press one key on the keyboard to get a wonderfully realistic trill sound. For filmmakers with no musical talent, this is a miracle. Using the software instruments in the Macintosh computer, a filmmaker can create fantasitc sounds for motion pictures.

Just playing a violin trill is not enough. When you play a violin trill with GarageBand, the trill turns on and then turns off. This is not realistic. To make the trill seem realistic, you must adjust the volume of the sound so it fades in and fades out. That is simple!
 * Fade in and fade out

This entire process is fast. Super fast! Once you have found the correct musical instrument to create the mood you want and after you have adjusted the volume of the note, you are done. How easy can it get!!!
 * That's it!
 * }

{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="5" style="width: 99%; background-color: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
 * style="width: 100%; background-color: LemonChiffon; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" rowspan="2" |

The Next Page

 * The next page explains the how to get started with GarageBand.
 * Page 1: Getting started with Notion Protégé [[Image:Crystal Clear action forward.png|24px]]

Contact Your Instructor

 * Your instructor for these courses is Robert Elliott. To email me, you simply @undefined.  [[Image:Crystal Clear app xfmail.png|32px]]

 * }


text:
Template:Project-stub

This adds page to Category:Learning Project stubs.

title: Template:Project-stub


text: Template:Box portal skeleton

title: Template:Box portal skeleton


text:
Template talk:Box portal skeleton

Use notes
See w:Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions for usage instructions for this template.

See Portal:Science for an example.

You can use the "to do" template to do to add a "to do" list.

Key steps
To create a new portal on the topic "Topic" using the box portal skeleton template follow these steps:

{| !width="50" valign="top" | 1. Save !valign="top"| 2.
 * Create a new page using Portal:Topic as the title of the page (where "Topic" is the subject of your portal) and enter the following text
 * Create two subpages:
 * Save Portal:Topic/box-header with this text:

!valign="top"| 3. !valign="top"| 4.
 * Save Portal:Topic/box-footer with this text:
 * Return to your portal page Portal:Topic and begin editing (general instructions on editing a portal are below). Basically follow the red links to create sub-pages that will fill the boxes.
 * When the portal is complete and of good quality:
 * Recategorize the portal from Category:Portals under construction to Category:Portals or an appropriate subcategory.

title: Template talk:Box portal skeleton


text:
Wikiversity talk:Wikiversity the Movie/Music

Introduce yourself
Hello everyone,

I just found out today about Wikiversity. I am an amateur musician, a pianist and composer, mainly. I totally love Film Music, so I'm very interested in this Wikiversity Movie. Has anyone composed the soundtrack already? If not, what should aspirant composers take into account when composing this soundtrack? Is anyone free to give it a shot? Thanks! ---Sergeidave 23:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

 * You are the first person to express interest, so you are in control! Please note: everything we use here at Wikiversity must be released by its creators under a copyleft license. Please take a look at Wikiversity the Movie/Script outline. --JWSchmidt 00:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm also interested in helping with soundtrack and sound effects. I'm a composer and pianist with bachelors in music, and have produced several CDs of original music. I have a small recording studio at home with professional condenser microphones, and I can produce fully orchestrated, professional-sounding music in common audio formats (.wav, MP3 etc.), using programs like Finale, Reason, CoolEdit Pro and Studio 8. Music and sound technology are my passion! MusicWeaver 05:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello there i am an a level student highly interested in film composition i wrote using sibelius software i am interested in this project i hope im not to late. Could i be a pain and ask the people who know more about how wikipidia works explain how i could upload files and things as i would enjoy to help you guys out with this? Gregg

 * Hi Gregg. I this Sibelius Software? If you are new to wiki you can try starting at Introduction to Wikiversity. Try reading Uploading files. If you have questions, let me know. --JWSchmidt 14:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

yes sibelius software ok so it all sounds good. can we start playing around with some ideas? is anyone leading us? would be good for us to all input some ideas? thanks

 * I suggest that you create an account. If you are not familiar with wiki, the idea is that everyone contributes what they can. Have you seen this script outline? --JWSchmidt 18:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Order of business
So what comes first? Perhaps the composers involved (I think there are 3 or 4 of us) should share ideas for a Wikiversity theme song that would be played at the beginning and/or end of the video when the Wikiversity symbol and slogan appear. It seems like the bulk of the composing would need to be done after we have completed video segments to work with, because the music has to sync with the video. But we could follow the current storylines and scripts in progress at Wikiversity the Movie/Script outline, and start sharing ideas for background music in each scene.

In general, do you think we should have multiple users produce a soundtrack for a given scene and then have a general vote on which should be used? Or should we assign a different composer to each scene to ensure that nobody gets left out?

Also, should there be an audition required of all composers involved? MusicWeaver 05:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I had the same questions you proposed above. So where can we share our musical ideas? I mean, where should we upload the files to hear each others music and so forth? If we are going to start with the Wikiversity Logo Music, how long should that music clip be? I'm very excited on this project! Sergeidave 18:02, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Maybe you could upload some music and suggest how it could be used in the movie. I'm not sure what "Wikiversity Logo Music" would be like. Maybe this short video could provide some practice for Collaborative video creation. All I did for that tutorial was use music that comes with GarageBand....it would be great to have some original music. Some possible scenes to include in the movie are discussed at Script outline. --JWSchmidt 19:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi guys, I haven't been around for a while (been kind of busy). I was just wondering if composer will need to use only GarageBand to create their music contributions to this movie. 199.73.1.1 00:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Some original music would be very welcome, how ever the music is made. You might also be interested in Wiki Campus Radio. --JWSchmidt 01:03, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

2008-08-23: What is the progress ?
So far I have identified 5 users willing to help with the sound track (sorry if I forgot someone, please just add yourself below in the list). The plan will be now to contact them and see who reacts on the new time frame: 15th August 2009. If you are interested please drop a message. We can also meet in the Chat later. See you, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 14:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

willing to help
alphabetical:
 * User:CQ
 * Wikipedia:User:CyclePat
 * User:Mac Davis
 * User:Mr Music
 * User:MusicWeaver
 * User:Sergeidave
 * Brylie
 * User:Yuwen Shuo

I'll help!
I'm willing to help with either writing or recording music. I play drum set, guitar and keyboards. Contact me if I can be of any use/help. Cheers, Rock drum (talk • contribs) 15:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


text: Template:Box portal skeleton/box-footer

title: Template:Box portal skeleton/box-footer


text: Template:Portals

title: Template:Portals


text:
Template:Purgepage

[ Purge server cache]

title: Template:Purgepage


text: Template:WikimediaForPortals

title: Template:WikimediaForPortals


text:
Template:·

·

title: Template:·


text:
Template:·/doc

A template intended to aid the creation of lists which are strings of items separated by a "divider" or "separator" character.

The divider/separator character used here is a bold middot (·) as it seems less obtrusive than a bullet (•) or the vertical-line ( | ) but more substantial than a plain middot (·). (The vertical-line also resembles the uppercase letter "I", lowercase "l" or the upright parts of "h", "k", etc.)

The character is preceded by a non-breaking space (&nbsp;) so the template may be used as shown below (i.e. suffixed to each item) to prevent the character being linewrapped to the starts of lines, thereby compromising a list's appearance.

Result: item 1· item 2· item 3· item 4
 * Example : Code:

 * Reference

title: Template:·/doc


text: Category:Wikiversity special effects templates


text: Template:Box-footer

title: Template:Box-footer


text: Portal:Science

title: Portal:Science


text: Portal:Sciencenew/box-header

title: Portal:Sciencenew/box-header


text: Portal:Sciencenew/box-footer

title: Portal:Sciencenew/box-footer


text:
User:JWSchmidt/Blog/18 January 2007

I am trying to use Template:box portal skeleton to make a portal. That portal format seems to be the current dominant one at the English language Wikipedia. I like it because it hase edit "buttons" for each section.

I made a new page to replace the old version of Science Portal at Portal:Sciencenew. There are a bunch of sub-templates used by "Template:box portal skeleton", so it is useful to work in parallel at Wikipedia to debug the problems arising from templates that do not yet exist at Wikiversity. I started creating a portal page at Wikipedia (see w:Portal:Protoscience) for this purpose.

I'm changing Template:box portal skeleton to place a list of major portals near the bottom rather than the top. I also made a few changes to the "box" names in order to adapt them to Wikiversity. The last three sections need to be updated with information from the other major science-related portals, Engineering and Technology - Life Sciences - Mathematics - Physical Sciences - Social Sciences.

Update. The Science Portal was updated as described above.

title: User:JWSchmidt/Blog/18 January 2007


text: Template:Box-header

title: Template:Box-header


text:
Category:Portals under construction

__HIDDENCAT__ Portals under construction are grouped in this category. You can categorize here also pages related to developing portals. To make a new portal, see Make a portal.

title: Category:Portals under construction


text:
Portal:Science/Introduction

Welcome to the Science Portal! This page is a guide to Wikiversity learning resources that are about science in general. Please help create and organize learning resources at the content development projects. Browse the major science categories: Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences.

title: Portal:Science/Introduction


text:
Portal:Science/Related portals

Many science-related learning resources are for specific scientific sub-disciplines and can be found with the aid of other Wikiversity portals: Engineering and Technology - Life Sciences - Mathematics - Physical Sciences - Social Sciences

title: Portal:Science/Related portals


text:
User:AJYandow~enwikiversity

Full Name: Andrew James Yandow

Date of Birth: September 4, 1992

Hometown: Glastonbury, CT

Political Belief: Conservative Republican

Subjects of Articles: Math and Physics

AJYandow 02:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

title: User:AJYandow~enwikiversity


text:
Portal:Science/Featured Resource

Featured Resources

 * Astronomy Project
 * Biophilia Project
 * Consilience
 * Exploring science through fiction
 * Open content science
 * Science as Religion
 * Understanding Scientific Terminology
 * What is science?
 * Why is science important?
 * Who first discovered science?

title: Portal:Science/Featured Resource


text:
Portal:Science/Featured Picture

Featured Pictures

 * William Fettes Douglas - The Alchemist.jpg
 * M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg
 * Rotating_earth_(large).gif

title: Portal:Science/Featured Picture


text:
Portal:Science/Learn/News

The Wikiversity Science Journalism Center is a content development project where Wikiversity participants can collaborate to develop learning resources for science journalism. The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of RNA interference.

 * July 2008 Science could halt or reverse ageing

title: Portal:Science/Learn/News


text: Portal:Science/Categories

title: Portal:Science/Categories


text:
Portal:Science/Selected research

Participants at the Wikiversity Astronomy Project access public astronomy databases and explore outer space. Learn astronomy "on the job" by participating in analysis of astronomical observations that are available in public databases.

title: Portal:Science/Selected research


text:
User:Historybuff/Status

Category:Wikiversitians who are currently online

http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=User:Historybuff/Status&action=edit

title: User:Historybuff/Status


text:
Portal:Science/Learn/Quotes

"...I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted." Alan Turing

"the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa." Albert Einstein

title: Portal:Science/Learn/Quotes


text:
WINAPI Programming/Message Handling

WINAPI Messages
After successfully creating the window in Lesson One you may have noticed it is just a window, it doesen't do anything useful. Here you will learn how to handle messages and therefore create a Window with more functionality. First you will need to reuse the code from the previous example (Simple Window). When were fiished with this lesson it will show the user the name of this program. To handle mouse clicks we need to add a WM_LBUTTONDOWN handler. Like This.

Questions
Leave whatever questions you may have here.

Winapi Home

title: WINAPI Programming/Message Handling


text:
Portal:Science/Learn/Did You Know

Aristotle (384-322 BC) is said to have studied marine organisms at the island of Lesbos. Aristotle observed crustaceans, echinoderms, mollusks, and fish. He knew that cetaceans are mammals, and that some marine vertebrates release eggs that hatch outside the body while others have eggs that hatch within the body. Aristotle is often referred to as the father of marine biology.

title: Portal:Science/Learn/Did You Know


text:
Portal:Science/WikiProjects

Wikiversity is new and depends on volunteer editors. In the Sciences we have content development projects for: Biology - Biomechanics - Biomathematics-School of Dentistry - Marine Sciences - Medicine - Pharmacy - Plant Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Zoology - Molecular Biology - Microbiology - Ecology - Genetics - Paleontology - School of Chemistry - School of Geology - School of Hydrology - School of Physics and Astronomy - School of Engineering - School of Electronics - Department of Astronomy - Center for the Study of General Relativity - Department of Anthropology - School of Criminal Justice - Economics - School of Media Studies - School of Developmental Sciences - Department of Anthropology - School of History - School of Linguistics - School of Political Science - Department of Sociology - School of Demography - Department Social Work - Center for Strategic Studies - Mathematics - Computer Science - Physics Basics

title: Portal:Science/WikiProjects


text:
Portal:Sciencenew/Sciencenew topics

 * Science as Religion - the relationship between science and religion
 * Science research and the Law - how various governments regulate scientific research
 * Open content science - Wikiversity content development project for Open content science.
 * - how scientific studies have resulted in altered human concepts of time
 * Consilience - can all knowledge be unified within a scientific world view?
 * Exploring science through fiction - where is boundary between science and science fiction?
 * Understanding Scientific Terminology

title: Portal:Sciencenew/Sciencenew topics


text:
Portal:Science/Participate/Things You Can Do

 * Add your name to the Participants list below.
 * Participate in one or more of the avaliable Discussions.
 * Improve a page from the existing Categories and then add it to the Featured Resource list (after consensus by the community of Portal:Science).
 * Find related images at Wikimedia Commons and add them to the Featured Picture list.
 * Create a new lesson or course to help others learn about.


text: Template:Tasks/Preload

title: Template:Tasks/Preload


text: Template:Tasks

title: Template:Tasks


text:
User:Salgat~enwikiversity

Industrial Electricity/Electronics Major.

title: User:Salgat~enwikiversity


text: Template:Notice

title: Template:Notice


text:
Spanish/Registration

From Spanish/Spanish Two/Students (before 12/04/08)

 * Nobody

title: Spanish/Registration


text:
Portal:Czech

{| cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25" style="width: 100%; background-color:inherit;" ! style="background-color: #eeeeff; border: 1px solid #777777; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" colspan="2" |

Welcome to the Czech Language Page (český jazyk)

 * style="width: 100%; background-color: #eeeeff; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" colspan="2" |

Department of the Czech Language
Welcome to the Czech language at Wikiversity, part of the Center for Foreign Language Learning and the School of Language and Literature.

Introduction to the Czech Language

Czech [ʧɛk] (čeština [ˈʧɛʃ.cɪ.na]) is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak and Polish. It is spoken by most people in the Czech Republic and by Czechs all over the world (about 12 million native speakers in total). Czech is relatively close to Slovak.

In fact, because the Czech Republic (in red) and Slovakia (in blue) were united in a federation for most of the 20th century, citizens of either state are able to understand the other language. This is changing since the velvet divorce between the two states.

 * style="width: 60%; background-color: #eeeeff; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" |
 * style="width: 60%; background-color: #eeeeff; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" |

Language References
Czech Language - learning project main page

Pronunciation

 * How do the Czech pronounce their letters?

Typing Accents

 * Locate general information on how to type Czech characters in all contexts (including Microsoft Word).
 * Locate information on how to type Czech diacritical marks specifically in Microsoft Word.

Verb conjugation

 * Czech/Verbs

Vocabulary

 * Cardinal Numbers.
 * Ordinal Numbers.
 * Colors.
 * Months & Dates.
 * Mnemonics.

False Friends with Czech
False friends are pairs of words in two languages that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning. At the very least, they make learning the language more difficult. At worst, the wrong word may change the entire meaning of your sentence. There are few false friends between Czech and English. There are, however, more between Czech and other Slavonic languages. Wikibooks provides the following lists of false friends.

 * Czech-Slavonic
 * Czech-Macedonian
 * Czech-Croat
 * Czech-Russian
 * Czech-Polish
 * Czech-Slovak

 * style="width: 40%; background-color: #eeeeff; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px; height: 10px;" |

Streams

 * Czech Language Stream

Current Courses

 * None yet

Planned Courses

 * Czech 000
 * Czech 100
 * Czech 200

To Do List

 * 1) Incorporate Wikibooks materials into the Czech Department.
 * 2) Get rid of the red links on this page.
 * 3) Get rid of the "Locates" on this page.
 * 4) Get rid of the "None yets" on this page.

Department news

 * September 28, 2007 - Department founded!
 * I created three Czech language templates so that you can show your support of this WikiProject.

 * style="width: 100%; background-color: #eeeeff; border: 1px solid #777777; vertical-align: top; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;" colspan="2" |

 * }

title: Portal:Czech


text:
Talk:New Zealand Pilot License

Welcome to the New Zealand Written Examinations Manuals section. The aim of this section is to build up a manual that eventually can be used as a sole means of study by people who are sitting the various New Zealand exams.

This is going to be done in two steps. The first step is to set up the subjects with their syllabus items and knowledge requirements. The second step is to replace the knowledge requirements with actual content. This is to provide a level of quality control and to ensure all syllabus items are firmly covered in respect to the requirements.

example: in the AC for PPL in subject 2 Flight Radiotelephony, the first Syllabus item is 'Basic Radio Wave Propagation' and is followed by the knowledge requirements.

Basic Radio Wave Propagation
Describe the characteristics of High Frequency (HF) and Very High Frequency (VHF) in terms of:

 * Range

 * Surface Interference

 * Clarity of Reception

Once that has been done, a writer can then replace the knowledge requirement with actual content.

Basic Radio Wave Propagation
High Frequency and very high frequency radio communication differs in three main ways, Range, Surface Interference and Clarity of reception.

VHF radios have a shorter range than HF radios because bla bla bla

VHF radios suffer greater surface inteference than HF radios because bla bla bla

VHF radios have a greater clarity of reception than HF radios because bla bla bla

Of course, the actual syllabus items will hopefully be covered in greater detail that this but you get the picture.

The knowledge requirements for step one are found on the NZCAA website www.caa.govt.nz, there is no direct URL to this so go to 'rules and more', go down to 'Advisory Circulars (ACs)' an click on AC61-1.3 which is for private pilot lisences. in the pdf document, the written syllabus starts on page 13.

The syllabus does change from time to time so there will need to be a system in place to update it as time goes on, if you have any ideas, contact me on my userpage 'Aerodrome'.

title: Talk:New Zealand Pilot License


text:
New Zealand Pilot License

This is a list of resources related to the New Zealand Pilot License.

Private Pilot License

 * Subject 2: /Flight Radiotelephony/
 * Subject 4: Air Law
 * Subject 6: /Air Navigation and Flight Planning/
 * Subject 8: Meteorology
 * Subject 10: Human Factors
 * Subject 12: /Aircraft Technical Knowledge/

Commercial Pilot License

 * Subject 16: Air Law
 * Subject 18: /Flight Navigation General/
 * Subject 20: Meteorology
 * Subject 22: /Flight and Aircraft Performance/
 * Subject 26: /Aircraft Technical Knowledge/
 * Subject 34: Human Factors

title: New Zealand Pilot License


text:
New Zealand Pilot License/Flight Radiotelephony

Basic Radio Wave Propagation
Describe the characteristics of High Frequency (HF) and Very High Frequency (VHF) in terms of:

 * Range

 * Surface Interference

 * Clarity of Reception

Transceivers
Describe the purpose, correct manipulation and adjustment of the controls of commonly used aeronautical transcievers

Describ the correct operation of:

 * the headset/boom microphone combination; and

 * the handheld microphone

SSR Transponders
Describe the manipulation and adjustment of the controls of commonly used transponders.

Describe the function of the following terms, and explain the procedures to transmit

 * Mode A information; and

 * Mode C information.

State the emergency codes and explain when they should be used.

Demonstrate proficiency in transponder terminolofy and describe the actions and responses expected from a pilot, following ATC transponder instructions.

List the documents that identify transponder mandatory airspace then the aircraft transponder is inoperative.

Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT, aka ELBA or ELB)
State the frequeny(ies) on which the ELT transmits.

State the requirememnts for the carriage of an ELT

Explain how an ELT can be acticated:

 * automatically in the event of an impact; and

 * manually

Describe the management of the ELT following a forced landing.

Describe the requirements associated with ELT testing.

Explain the procedures to follow in the case of inadvertant ELT activation.

Practices and Rules
Demonstrate proficiency in transmitting and recieving spoken messages competently and in accordance with prescribed procedures, including

 * language to be used;

 * word spelling;

 * transmission of numberals;

 * procedure words and phrases;

 * time system;

 * establishment of communications;

 * frequencies to be used;

 * identification of service;

 * radiotelephony aircraft callsigns;

 * correction and repetition tests;

 * listening out

 * readibility scale

Demonstrate a good working knowledge of the following Civil Aviation Rules:

 * Part 91.217 (5);

 * Part 91.243;

 * Part 91.245 (b), (c) and (d);

 * Part 91.247

 * Part 91.249 (a) and (b);

 * Part 91.513;

 * Part 91.545;

 * Part 91.529

APINZ Volume 1, describe the radio procedures, requirements, and functions associated with:

 * UNICOM

 * ATIS

 * ARFU

 * AWIB

AIPNZ demonstrate a good working knowledge of the phraseology used for, and by VFR aircraft.

AIPNZ demonstrate a good working knowledge of the AIPNZ and AC172-1 with regard to:

 * Communication services;

 * communication aspects in the Search and Rescue section

Phraseology and Procedures
Demonstrate proficiency in standard radiotelephony phraseologies and procedures for:

 * all VFR operations in controlled and uncontrolled airspace;

 * taxi, take-off, approach and landing at controlled aerodromes, Flight Service aerodromes, aerodromes served by UNICOM, and uncontrolled aerodromes; and

 * read-back instructions

State the limitations on pilots with regard to:

 * unauthorised transmissions;

 * secrecy of communications.

Distress and Urgency Communications
Describe the degrees of emergency that warrant:

 * a distress call (MAYDAY); and

 * an urgency call (PANPAN).

Explain the procedures and phraseology involved in transmitting a MAYDAY and PAN call with emphasis on:

 * radio frequencies

 * station(s) to call;

 * contents of the call;

 * enforcing radio silence.

Describe the actions by stations not involved in the emergency with regard to:

 * radio silence; and

 * provisin of assistance.

Describe the procedure involved in terminating emergency communications.

Loss of Communications - Aircraft Equipment
Describe the checks that should be followed when becoming aware of an aircraft communication system failure, including a check of:

 * radio power source;

 * function settings (frequency, squelch and similar);

 * microphone or headset.

Detail the actions to be taken when experiencing loss of communications in:

 * controlled airspace;

 * uncontrolled airspace;

 * special use airspace.

Describe corrective actions that could be taken, including:

 * change of frequency or station;

 * transmitting blind;

 * increase in altitude.

Detail the speechless technique using unmodulated transmissions.

State the meaning of light signals used by ATC.

Loss of communications - ATS Equipment Failure
State the occasions when TIBA (traffic infomation broadcasts by aircraft) might be introduced.

Detail TIBA procedures with respect to:

 * VHF frequencies to be used;

 * listening watch;

 * times of broadcasts.