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Portal talk:Social Sciences

If you want to experiment with a radical new version of Portal:Social Sciences you can work at Portal:Social Sciencesnew.

If you update featured content on this portal, make sure that you update Portal:Social Sciences/Featured.

Hey people
Did you get to hear or see what the vandals did on the main Wikiversity page? If not, check the page history, it was terrible. User:Lawman was the first to witness the effect. The admins should better consult him for the investigation. How dishonorable the act is? I appeal to all noble people who are beyond such barbaric acts to be vigilant throughout Wikiversity. User:Humble Guy

I think we'll survive pr0n spammers so long as there are enough regular visitors to revert mischief. Lucidish 18:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Does "communication" belong in the social sciences?
Communication Courses seem more like they'd belong in a Humanities league. Just a thought. jxn 19:56, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

One of the things you should consider doing, if you wish for people to enroll in Wikiversity courses is to make it really, really easy to do. I would like to enroll in the school of economics. I searched for about an hour for a way to enroll, and never did find one.

Put a link right near the top of the Wikiversity home page; >>>ENROLLMENT<<<. I'm not saying there isn't a way somewhere, but I didn't find it. Wilbur Wilson wilsonw@harborlink.com

It seems obvious to me that communications theory belongs in the social sciences, though I would call it a subcategory of Sociology. Though this brings up the whole notion of a categorization scheme for the social sciences, which I'll talk about in a sec. Lucidish 18:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

New Departmental scheme
Quite literally the word "anthropology" means the study of humans, so every so-called "Social science" is actually a branch of anthropology. Accordingly, I think that's what the entire faculty should be named.
 * Moreover, the way I see it, disciplines would look like this, if they were arranged by topic:

The Anthropologies
 * School of Psychology
 * School of Sociology
 * School of Communication
 * School of Media Studies
 * School of Development Science
 * School of Economics
 * School of Political Science
 * Cultural Studies
 * School of History
 * School of Human Ecology
 * School of Geography
 * Archeology
 * (Indsnry.) College of Social Work (applied Social Science)
 * (Indsnry.) College of Social psychology
 * Linguistics

 * Note that "geography", "Human ecology", "archeology" and "linguistics" have been included.
 * Economics and politics are specialized fields of sociology because they describe the makeup of societies and the activity within them.
 * Sorry, but this doesn't gel with most established Universities... Economics and Politics are separate fields of study distinct from Sociology.--Dnjkirk 07:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * "Interdisciplinary" fields I dubbed "colleges".
 * In hard brackets are some of the applications of each field, indicating that some generic introductory material will be included to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
 * Italicized are disciplines that would not have departments of their own.
 * All the research done in Anthropology would be downloaded into the appropriate discipline(s). Lucidish 04:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't see any particular reason that we need a hierarchical scheme at all. Why not simply use the categorization functionality of MediaWiki to put schools (and courses) in multiple categories?  -- 164.125.27.221 09:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't History be in the Social Sciences?

Furthermore I think the name "Social Sciences" is problematic. I much prefer the name "Social Studies." Fokion 02:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This is what is great about wikis. History can be in which ever school it wants to be, both at the same time. No need for it to fall under just one cat.--Rayc | (Talk) 05:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That's fine, but currently it's not here or in the Humanities. I don't care if it gets put in both places, but clearly it should be created!  Jade Knight 07:23, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Social Studies or Social Sciences, they are both used in universities all over and the distinction is negligible. The argument will continue long into the future no matter what it is, so it's probably better in the long run just to make a decision early and stick with it.--Dnjkirk 07:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * History should not be in "Social Sciences" because it is not a scientific discipline or attempting to be a scientific discipline. Social Sciences are those disciplines that try to use scientific methods to study human beings, such as sociology and psychology.  Political Science can be included because many of its practitioners use scientific methods such as statistical analysis and scientific polling.  A simple rule of thumb, if the discipline includes "science" or "-ology" in its names then it should be considered a "science".  Given a list of departments I would never look in "social sciences" for history. History is like the study of literature or art, not like sociology.   It searches for understanding, not scientific technocratic solutions. --125.60.227.202 12:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

List of teachers
If learners are teachers and teachers are learners, shouldn't a list of active participants by definition include the list of both teachers and learners? Why must this be reproduced?--Dnjkirk 07:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Totally Redone!!
Strategic Studies has completely cribbed the template from Humanities and created their own killer page. It's probably better set up now for a cribbing by Social Sciences, if someone's up to the task... Right now I've got to get on redesigning Strategic Studies' templates! HOHO!!--Dnjkirk 16:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Genealogy
I would like some input on exactly where Genealogy belongs. I don't see anything on it yet, but am interested in starting something. As it's own department? Or as a sub-department under ... perhaps History? I'm open to suggestions. Wjhonson 07:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

New page format
I started Portal:Social Sciencesnew as a work space for new designs of Portal:Social Sciences. My main goal was to include featured content and links to other Wikiversity content about Social Sciences. --JWSchmidt 00:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Active participants

 * Roy H. Brown, LCSW - interested in teaching
 * Ruzzel Brian Mallari- needs help for School of Demography kindly email me: rcmallari1@up.edu.ph
 * Emanuele Canegrati - interested in teaching Political Economy and Political Economy Projects —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JWSchmidt (talk • contribs) 23:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC).
 * William Hamblin 07:46, 16 May 2010 (UTC) - Working on developing the new department of military history.

Things you can do
The "todo" list box is currently being truncated and is virtually useless for this reason at the moment. Can anyone fix this? I've tried to figure it out, but failed. The Jade Knight 00:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

In need of Peer Review/Criticism
I am looking for some serious critiquing on my project here, I know many of you are probably busy enough. But, I do not feel dignified by begging. Recovery_psychology--recovery psychologist 01:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Congratulations on your very substantial work on this resource. I will gradually take a look and see if I can help where I can - I have much to learn from it and an interest in humanistic/positive psychology, and anti-psychiatric viewpoints. I like the way you've positioned the topic in the introduction (as academic but also activist). I didn't look closely enough yet, but does recovery psychology include examination of the history of anti-psychiatric arguments e.g., Thomas Szasz? -- Jtneill - Talk 01:53, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely examing anti-psychiatry arguements point-counter point is essential to recovery psychology, since the recovery concept is very much influenced by anti-psychiatry. Actually on the humanistic-positive psychology aspects, I was working with another student-consumer who felt it all should be humanistic, I felt it should be eclectic or integrated school of thought (all except the Freud) Positive psychology, although when I read what I have seen so far on it looks like it is not very accepting of persons with psychological disorders, as if it is only about the so called normal, pathologically normal, or chronically normal finding happiness...other than that I would say that positive psychology and recovery psychology would be like twins (except one has a mental illness) --recovery psychologist 20:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I've semi-randomly flipped through some Recovery psychology pages, and am appreciating the depth and quality of the material. One thought for you is to consider renaming the pages by topic rather than by lesson number. You could still have a sequential course outlined, but it would also facilitate people being able to come in and find and learn from specific, single topics. -- Jtneill - Talk 02:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I will have to consider that...If you see the talk page on the course summary page; I have thought of doing that study I mention there offline, since I guess we are not supposed to do any actual or original research here on wikiversity, but it would be APA published research paper, the question of self-promotion comes in it I qoute myself after I am officially published, what are the ethics or guidelines here on that?--recovery psychologist 20:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi RP, I don't see any problem with original research on wikiversity, e.g., see Portal:Research. If you do consider renaming, maybe see Naming conventions. Here's an example of a way I've created sequenced content, but also created lessons with unique and descriptive names Survey research methods and design in psychology. Hope this helps. -- Jtneill - Talk 05:11, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Critical Updates
The Social Sciences Portal is in need of critical updates, as opposed to discussing them, I'm going to start making the changes and as people disagree with the changes,I beg for feedback and help in attempting to revitalize Wikiversity ... let's not let this good thing, fade away.

Some major projects that I am going to be working on are:

-Wikiversity Social Sciences Summit 2009 (WS3 2009) scheduled for 21 - 25 September,2009; more to follow. Make sure to check back into the page as often as possible for updates.

-Wikiversity Social Sciences Featured Articles Program

-Wikiversity Social Sciences Featured Research Program

-Wikiversity Social Sciences Research Centers and Programs

Departmental Changes
I figured that this would be really controversial so I am going to give the reason why the change is being made so that folks don't get too upset. We are trying to define Social Sciences as if it were a wikipedia page by adding all of the different disciplines that we think should be added. As opposed to trying to redefine Social Sciences, why don't we just use the Wikipedia page to make the divisions. If you have an issue, change the Wikipedia page and then we can add it to the Wikiversity page. In essence, we're allowing the broader Wikipedian society to help us define the major Social Science Divisions ... flawed logic? This way we don't have a list of divisions that literally runs over a page long. We can have the departments within each division, represent the different disciplines that each Division may have. --JaylanHaley 04:08, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Makes sense enough. Do make sure you pay attention to Social_Sciences, however.  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 05:15, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The structuring of social sciences and related pages I think is quite mature, so this make sense. I've noticed especially on WV in the School: and Portal: name spaces a lot of rather empty structure, so by all means tidy up and be as consistent as possible not just with wikipedia but also check social sciences. Personally I've tended to drill bottom-up, e.g., I've tried to organise Psychology pages, but we need people approaching from all angles/levels. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:20, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And I'm doing the same kind of work over at History. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 06:34, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You know, I was just thinking, if we could get just one very active "bureaucrat"/participant from each of the schools here, that could be a very good thing. Right now, looks like we've got Jtneill for Psychology, JaylanHaley for Political Science, and me for History (and theoretically for Linguistics, but I mostly just ignore the School there, as I mostly am only interested in ELang).  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 06:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Great discussion thus far ... I am absolutely going to be working on the Political Science page and I have been thinking about taking on another project (Division) but for the next couple of weeks, I am going to be working on cleaning up the Social Sciences and Political Science Pages so that they can be streamlined and ready to go. In a couple of weeks I am going to be hosting the Wikiversity Social Sciences Summit and I encourage you all to attend.  The specifics of the conference have not been fully conceived but I think once I get everything organized it should be an interesting experience.  If anyone needs any help with anything, let me know.--JaylanHaley 17:19, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Category Tree
I think we should make a Category like the one below, but for the entire School. (This one is featured at Portal:History.)

The Jade Knight (d'viser) 06:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And put it on the Portal. Forgot to mention that part.  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 06:38, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That's an awesome idea ... I'll work on incorporating that into the Social Sciences page. I'll use the history link as the guinea pig.  Actually, I'll use the Political Science Department.  Since it's a little thin.  I'll work on the categorization because that's going to be the biggest pain.--JaylanHaley 17:22, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

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Introduction to psychology

Welcome to Introduction to Psychology which provides learning resources that can be used to introduce learners to psychology.

Objectives
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
 * Describe the scientific methods utilized in the study of human behavior;
 * Appreciate the diversity of the field of psychology and the dynamic nature of its continuing development and growth;
 * Understand the influence of biology, learning histories, situations, cognition, personality, and cultural factors, in the shaping and development of human behavior;
 * Understand the concepts, histories, methods of investigation, and theories of the different subfields of psychology;
 * Appreciate the importance of psychological principles as they apply to everyday life.

Outline

 * 1) Introduction to psychology as a science
 * 2) Research methods in psychology
 * 3) Biological basis of behavior
 * 4) Sensation and perception
 * 5) States of consciousness
 * 6) Human development
 * 7) Learning
 * 8) Memory
 * 9) Language and cognition
 * 10) Motivation and emotion
 * 11) Personality
 * 12) Intelligence
 * 13) Psychological disorders
 * 14) Psychotherapy and intervention
 * 15) Social psychology
 * 16) Media and communications psychology

Textbooks
Introductory psychology textbooks tend to cover a similar range of topics. It is recommended that this course use Introduction to Psychology (Wikibooks), as well as other online resources.

OpenStax has a free online introductory psychology textbook: Psychology 2e

Other

 * Saul Kassin's 'Psychology'.
 * Psychology by Alan J. Fridlund, Daniel Reisberg, Henry Gleitman. This textbook has been used for Stanford, Penn, MIT, and Harvard Introduction to Psychology courses.
 * Bernard J. Luskin, Casting the Net Over Global Learning, New Developments in Workforce Training and Online Psychologies, Griffin Publishing Group, 2002.

Lectures

 * /Questions and comments/

 * Chapter 1: Definition and History - Key words - Questions
 * Chapter 2: Research Methods - Key words
 * Chapter 3: Biological foundations - Key words
 * Lecture four: Developmental Psychology (briefly)
 * Lecture five: Sensation and Perception
 * Lecture six: Consciousness
 * Lecture seven: Learning
 * Lecture eight: Retention and Forgetting
 * Lecture nine: Cognitive Processes
 * Lecture ten: Motivation and Emotion
 * Lecture eleven: Psychological Testing and Individual Differences
 * Lecture twelve: Personality Principles
 * Lecture thirteen: Abnormal Personality Patterns
 * Lecture fourteen: Therapies
 * Lecture fifteen: Social Psychology

Related areas

 * School:Anthropology
 * Artificial consciousness
 * Topic:Artificial intelligence
 * Cognitive science
 * School:Biology
 * School:Economics
 * School:Education
 * Ethology

 * Human sexuality
 * Linguistics
 * Topic:Marketing
 * School:Medicine
 * Neuroscience
 * Topic:Psychiatry
 * Psychophysics
 * Philosophy of mind
 * Philosophy of psychology

 * Political science
 * Psychology of art
 * Relationship education
 * School:Social work
 * Topic:Sociobiology
 * School:Sociology
 * Topic:Statistics

Related topics

 * Aristotle, On the Soul
 * Tabula rasa
 * Empiricism
 * Rationalism
 * Scientific method
 * Evolution
 * Moral value
 * Systems theory
 * Complex systems
 * Game theory
 * Discourse analysis
 * Multilevel model
 * Structural equation modeling
 * Howard Gardner's Nine Types of Intelligence
 * Szaszian studies

Learning about Psychology

 * Dictionary of Psychology
 * Encyclopedia of Psychology
 * Learn Psychology Glossary
 * Simply Psychology
 * AQA A Psychology Resources

History of Psychology

 * The Archives of the History of American Psychology
 * A Century of Psychology (APA)
 * Classics in the History of Psychology

Other

 * Psychology Wiki
 * PsychWiki - Wiki for psychology researchers (theory, findings, research methods, funding sources, and more)
 * Find a Therapist - Psychology Today
 * AmoebaWeb Psychology Directory

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

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Talk:Psychology

Past talk

 * 2005-2008

Restructuring
I've begun restructuring this 'school'. To start with I'm following the suggestions by McCormack on the Colloquium (27 April, 2008), pasted here for convenience and modified/revised. -- Jtneill - Talk 12:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Topics

 * a. The topics section is really just a list of which pages need a category leading from Category:Psychology, so I'd ensure all the existing (blue) Topic: pages have an equivalent Category: and then rely on the CategoryTree to lead to the listed topics;
 * Done. -- Jtneill - Talk 12:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * b. the CategoryTree could go on Portal:Psychology (which does not exist yet and might make better sense!).
 * Done. -- Jtneill - Talk 15:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Journals
The list of journals and external resources should go to Psychology Learning Resources (mainspace) and be categorised under Category:Psychology where it will show up prominently in the CategoryTree.
 * Done. -- Jtneill - Talk 15:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * -> Psychology/Learning resources. -- Jtneill - Talk 10:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Courses

 * a. The list of uncreated courses is a hangover from the early days and should be deleted.
 * Done. -- Jtneill - Talk 15:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * b. The created courses should be checked for proper categorisation (CategoryTree listing) and perhaps some chosen as featured content for the new Psychology portal.

Participants
The participants list could be moved to the talk page of the new portal.
 * Done. moved below for now. -- Jtneill - Talk 16:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The rest
The rest could probably go in boxes on the new Psychology portal. At the same time, the portal should become more friendly towards resource creation, which the current School: page isn't.

Trying to understand the psychology pages' hierarchy
So, I'm new to the Wikiversity and I have been looking around at the psychology articles, and I found it very confusing that there were four separate "psychology" pages (one for each of Portal:, School:, Topic:, and /Psychology). Perhaps these could be condensed to just one School:Psychology page that is underneath the Social Sciences portal. Then specialties (such as biopsych, cognitive, clinical, etc) could be put under the Topic: namespace. I have a little example here on my user page. I'd be glad to do the consolidation and re-arranging, but I just wanted to ask first so I don't start overwriting plans that other people might have for these pages. Thanks!  -- CraigWilliam 19:17, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * See the msg on your talk page and made a link at Portal reform to here. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).
 * ArrowStomper 17:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * dolp706
 * Freeman 08:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yi Fang
 * Aismailov 10:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Freesree
 * Indie3
 * Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-07-24 (July 24, 2007) Time: 1345 UTC
 * RantPavlov
 * xTHExONEx1
 * 76.232.67.95 06:55, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Jtneill 12:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * AFriedman 22:35, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 22:49, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Kernsters July 2013

2013 talk
Hey guys, I'm going to be contributing to the Cognitive Psychology sub-project. I don't really know how active this group is, or if you have moved somewhere else, but I have already started improving the main Cognitive psychology stub article in my sandbox. Cheers! BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 22:53, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Glad to see some renewed activity! I noticed on your page you have some topics that overlap with a project I'm currently workign on, Fundamentals of Neuroscience. Feel free to check it out or link to it as a resource. (We may even want to consider a merger seeing as your project is just getting off the ground, as I think a cognitive science page would be a great addition to Topic:Neuroscience) ---Kernsters (discuss • contribs) 16:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I definitely see a merger as a possibility. I'm actually a computer science major.  So I'm not too familiar with the workings of the psychology world, but I am learning.  Cheers! --BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 14:49, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Noteworthy Articles
I'd like to nominate Cognitive psychology as a featured psychology article, or at least to upgrade it from being a stub. --BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 06:57, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm revoking this nomination since that project is now in an experimental state. --BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 17:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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Abnormal psychology

Texts
This course will use the Abnormal Psychology Wikibook, as well as online sources.

Course Objectives

 * Students will have a better grasp of various mental disorders
 * Students will be able to differentiate between mental disorders

Course Outline

 * Introduction - When does a symptom rise to a level of disorder? And are psychiatric disorders truly abnormal if a significant percentage of the population has them?
 * Assignment - Buy a cheap notebook to keep a journal for this class all in one place. Begin by reflecting on the above questions, and your expectations for the course.

"Unit One - Serious and Persistent Mental Illness"

 * First Class Meeting - Depression
 * Lecture
 * Readings
 * Clinical Depression on Wikipedia

 * Second Class Meeting - Bipolar Disorder
 * Lecture
 * Readings
 * Bipolar Disorder on Wikipedia
 * Third Class Meeting - Schizophrenia
 * Lecture
 * Readings
 * Schizophrenia on Wikipedia
 * Fourth Class Meeting - Schizoaffective Disorder
 * Lecture
 * Schizoaffective Disorder on Wikipedia

 * Fifth Class Meeting - Community and Hospital Treatment for People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness.
 * Lecture
 * Readings
 * The Psychiatric Hospital on Wikipedia
 * Day Treatment or Partial Hospitalization on Wikipedia
 * Clubhouse Model for Psychosocial Rehabilitation

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Wikiversity:Reliable sources

Wikiversity pages should cite reliable published sources whenever possible. Sometimes it might be suitable to cite scholarly peer-reviewed research that has been performed at Wikiversity. This page provides guidance about how to identify these kinds of sources and distinguish them from unreliable sources. The policy page that discusses the need to use sources is Verifiability.

If you can provide useful information to Wikiversity, please do so, but bear in mind that edits for which no reliable references are provided may be removed to corresponding talk pages for discussion. The responsibility for finding and adding references lies with the person adding material, and sources should be provided whenever possible.

Wikiversity has many learning communities that are devoted to study of particular subjects. Each scholarly discipline has standards for judging the reliability of sources. As a Wikiversity participant, you should learn about the scholarly practices that are used in the study of topics that are of interest to you. When you contribute to Wikiversity pages, cite sources that are considered to be reliable by experts who publish in peer-reviewed sources.

Comparison to Wikipedia
What follows is a description of Wikipedia's best practices. Many articles may fall short of this standard until editors devote time and effort to fact-checking (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources; efforts to identify reliable sources). In the meantime, readers can still benefit from your contributions, bearing in mind that unsourced edits, or edits relying on inappropriate sources, may be challenged and removed at any time. Sometimes it is better to have no information at all than to have information without sources.

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Wikiversity:Verifiability

Much of the information on Wikiversity is derived from published sources. Some of the information on Wikiversity has been produced by scholarly research performed at Wikiversity. Sources of information should be cited in order to allow others to find the sources and judge their reliability.

Information in Wikiversity pages should be verifiable, which means that any reader must be able to check that material added to Wikiversity pages has either: 1) already been published by a reliable source or 2) has been produced by scholarly research performed at Wikiversity.

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Wikiversity:Cite sources

A citation, or reference, uniquely identifies a source of information:

Citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which an article is based. Citations indicated by a superscript number or other means in a line of text are called inline citations.

Citing the sources of information added to Wikiversity pages is mandated by Verifiability. Any information on a page that is challenged and has no reliable sources may be removed to the corresponding talk page for discussion.

Attribution is especially needed for direct quotes, information that is contentious or likely to be challenged, and superlatives and absolutes (such as statements that something is the best, first or only one of its kind). If you don't know how to format the citation, others will fix it for you; simply provide the source information as plain text.

Why sources should be cited

 * To ensure that the content of articles is credible and can be checked by any reader or editor.
 * To help users find additional reliable information on the topic.
 * To improve the overall credibility and authoritative character of Wikiversity.
 * To reduce the likelihood of editorial disputes, or to help resolve any that arise.
 * To credit a source for providing useful information and to avoid claims of plagiarism.

When to cite sources
If you add any new information to a Wikiversity page in the main namespace, particularly if it's contentious or likely to be challenged, you should supply a source.

In general, even if you are writing from memory, you should actively search for authoritative references to cite. If you are writing from your own knowledge, then you should know enough to identify good references that the reader can consult on the subject — you will not be around forever to answer questions. The main point is to help the reader and other editors.

The need for citations is especially important when writing about opinions held on a particular issue. Find a specific person or group who holds that opinion, mention them by name, and give a citation to a reputable publication in which they express that opinion. Remember that many Wikiversity pages follow rules for limiting bias. Those pages are not a place for expressing your own opinions. For Wikiversity pages that mainly explore only one point of view, intellectual honesty must guide the efforts of editors. Good scholarship is the goal of Wikiversity and it calls for careful citation of only verifiable sources and an honest effort to find reliable sources.

Because this is the English Wikiversity, English-language sources should be given whenever possible, and should always be used in preference to other language sources of equal calibre. However, do give references in other languages where appropriate. If quoting from a different language source, an English translation should be given with the original-language quote beside it.

When you quote someone
You should always add a citation when quoting published material, and the citation should be placed directly after the quote, which should be enclosed within double quotation marks — "like this" — or single quotation marks if it's a quote-within-a-quote — "and here is such a 'quote' as an example".

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Think ahead. Try to imagine whether people might doubt what you wrote, or need more information about it. Supporting what is written in Wikiversity by referring to a clear and reliable source will add stability to your contribution. When in doubt about whether something might be disputed, provide a specific citation.

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What sources to cite
Prefer credible, peer-reviewed English-language sources.

Edit toolbar buttons for citations
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User:Srinivasasha

I am Srinivas asha from india. I am an Engineering student.

Also see

 * Wikipedia:User:Srinivasasha
 * Wikinews:User:Srinivasasha
 * m:User:Srinivasasha
 * b:User:Srinivasasha

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Foundations of calculus

This class is also called Freshman Mathematics. The subjects below are copied from the list for Ma 1 class in Caltech Institute.

Subjects

 * Function
 * Mathematical Induction
 * Sequences and Series
 * Completeness

 * Integral for Step Functions
 * Integral for More General Functions
 * Applications of Integration
 * Limits
 * Continuity
 * Intermediate Value Theorem
 * Inversion
 * Extreme - Value Theorem
 * Integrability Theorem
 * Mean Value Theorem for Integrals
 * Derivatives
 * Implicit Differentiation
 * Extreme Values
 * Mean Value Theorem for Derivatives
 * Curve Sketching
 * Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
 * Integration by Substitution
 * Integration by Parts
 * Logarithm
 * Exponential Function
 * Integration by Partial Fractions
 * Real Numbers
 * Complex Numbers

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Category:Theology

See also:Category:Religious studies

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User:Jpm2112

Hello. I'm w:fr:User:jpm2112

 * Wikiversity talk:Policies

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Portal:Jewish Studies

Welcome to the Wikiversity Division of Jewish Studies, part of the School of Theology and the Division of Religious Studies The Division of Jewish Studies offers academic study of the religion, history, literature, languages, and material culture of the Jews from ancient to modern times. It includes a forum for discussing Jewish topics.

See also: w:Portal:Judaism, Judaism (as a religion), Jews (as a people), Jewish history, and Jewish culture.

Branches

 * Orthodox
 * Conservative
 * Reform
 * Reconstructionist
 * Karaite
 * Samaritan
 * Humanistic
 * Socialist

Ethics

 * Buisness Practices
 * Santification of God's Names
 * Lashon Hara
 * Charity/Tzedakah
 * Hesed

Holidays

 * Shabbat
 * Yom Kippur
 * Rosh Hashannah
 * Passover/Pesach
 * Purim
 * Hannukah
 * Shavuot
 * Sukkot
 * Shemini Atzeret
 * Simchat Torah
 * Tu B'Shevat
 * Lag B'Omer
 * Tisha B'Av

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History

 * Biblical Period
 * Classical Period
 * Medieval
 * Sabbatean
 * American
 * Holocaust
 * Soviet

Textual Studies

 * Torah
 * Weekly Parshah
 * Midrash
 * Talmud
 * Daf Yomi
 * Mishnah
 * Tanya

General Observances

 * Kashrut
 * Santification of God's Names
 * Tefillin
 * Kippa/Yarmulke

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this Division, you can list your name here (this can help small Divisions grow and the participants communicate better; for large Divisions it is not needed).
 * w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism on Wikipedia for collaboration
 * AFriedman
 * Daniel Yehuda
 * Erin
 * Orin Dion (Oren Dayan)
 * Rebele

Division news

 * March 28, 2010 - Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv turns 100 around this time! To add comments and birthday wishes, write your message here.
 * August 18, 2006 - Division founded!

Departments
A Division has departments (in the Topic: namespace). The departments link to learning materials and learning projects. Simply make a link from department pages to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!

 * Introduction to Judaism
 * Department of Torah study
 * Jewish Law
 * Portal:Hebrew

Research projects

 * What is Judaism?

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

 * Jewish Books Seforim,Sefer,Jewish Books,Kabbalah,Kabalah,Sforim - http://www.MySefer.com | The Largest Online Provider Of Hebrew Sifrei Kodesh
 * Sefaria: huge range of open source material in both English and Hebrew
 * MyJewishLearning.Com: A Trans-denominational Website Of Jewish Information and Education
 * Judaism FAQ: Online introduction to Judaism in book-form
 * Wikipedia main article on Judaism, branches into thousands of articles
 * Torah.org
 * Chabad Lubavitch
 * Learn @ JTS (Torah resources)
 * 120 Minutes with JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary): A wide variety of Jewish topics, many of general interest to students of world history.
 * United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
 * Aish HaTorah
 * Ohr Somayach
 * Mechon Mamre (online Hebrew texts, some English)
 * Sifrot Kodesh: Tanach, Misnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah (Hebrew)
 * http://www.hebrewbooks.org/ Over 40,000 books (mostly in Hebrew) available in pdf format for free download
 * The Jewish Encyclopedia is on line and is no longer under copyright.
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/

Full Google books

 * Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person's Guide to a More Peaceful Life
 * The Legends of the Jews
 * Judaism
 * A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediaeval Judaism
 * Making Our Wilderness Bloom: 350 Years of Extraordinary Jewish Women in America

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Hi.

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Introduction to Judaism

The course gives the student an overview of Judaism's core beliefs, important figures and organisations, and history. It exists to give the student a full overview of what Judaism is, what Jews believe in, and an idea about what the culture of Judaism is all about. It will not go into major detail in any direction, such action is reserved for more advanced and specialized courses.

Judaism consists of different streams.
 * Orthodox Judaism maintains Jewish law as prescribed by the Talmud and later works of Jewish law, and maintains that no changes can be made to this code of law. 'Orthodox' Judaism is thus the stream which has most faithfully endeavored to preserve the observance of Jewish law throughout the centuries, in contrast to the non-Orthodox streams which separated from it during the past 200 years.
 * Non-Orthodox Judaism maintains that Jewish law can be changed by human beings to reflect changes in technology and culture. This should not, however, be confused with the natural progression and evolution of Jewish practice.

Because the viewpoints held by the Orthodox and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism are radically different on many points, this introduction has been split up into an introduction to traditional or Orthodox Judaism and an introduction to non-Orthodox streams.

Continue:
 * Introduction to Orthodox Judaism

Introdução ao Judaísmo

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User:David Levy

Please see w:User:David Levy.

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Wikiversity:Administrator Creation and Behavioral Criteria Guidelines and Policy

Note: this page is now listed at Archive.

This page may have been effectively superceded by Custodianship. You are welcome to put your comments or add material here or there in the main page or on the attached discussion as seems most appropriate to you.

This is very much a policy in drafting. It is tied into how we will manage our community internally and its interface to the rest of the world.

Update: It has been proposed that at Wikiversity we use the term "Custodian" to refer to users empowered to help with the site's file maintenance, cleanup and emergency mediation. See  http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity_talk:Custodianship

Processing of Custodial Requests has begun at Candidates_for_Custodianship. People interested in helping out with routine site maintenance and cleanup should apply immediately while this policy evolves per community input.

Useful links for background, policy and procedures on other large Wikimedia supported Wiki community projects.

 * Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_administrator

 * Wikipedia FAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration_FAQ

 * Wikipedia Reading List on Administrator Responsibilitiesw:Wikipedia:Administrators%27_reading_list

 * Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Administrators

The wiktionary model seems small and perhaps applicable to our early days. I could find no specific guidelines or policy so perhaps they relying on Wikipedia's early model of you can have administrator priveleges until you screw up enough the community wants you out for a while until you learn the responsibilities better and skills at meeting them improve. Mirwin 08:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The Wiki Commons looks like a fairly excellent one page self contained writeup lacking only a couple of quantitative criteria to be entirely suitable for Wikiversity at this time.
 * Wiki Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators

Draft below is tailored from Wikipedia Admin FAQ
For the moment the words Administrator and Custodian refer to the same position of responsibility within the Wikiversity project. All other Wikimedia Foundation sponsored wiki project currently use the terms Administrator or Sysop interchangeably for what Wikiversity may refer to as Custodian.

See also: Administrators for current list of administrators.

What is a Custodian? What is an administrator? What is a sysop?
Three words for the same thing ("sysop" = "system operator" = "administrator" = "admin" = "Custodian"). An Custodian is simply a member of the Wikiversity community who can access a small number of restricted software functions: deleting, protecting (and unprotecting) articles and files, and blocking (and unblocking) user accounts or IP addresses. The software internally uses the string "sysop" to flag their accounts, perhaps one reason that term is used. They are friendly folks that are willing to help you if you post a message on their "talk page" or request assistance. See the current list of custodians.

Responsibilities of a Custodian
A Custodian keeps current with Wikiversity policy and applies it with caution and civility.

A custodian should try to answer requests for assistance promptly, though please bear in mind that they are all volunteers and may not be available to help immediately.

How can I Become a Custodian?
First, you'll need a user account. Then, start to contribute to Wikiversity - its content, and, hopefully, policies or other modus operandi. In this way, you demonstrate to the community that you are here in good faith as you absorb the local policy, culture and procedures. After a period of useful contribution, you can add your name to Requests for Custodianship. Voilà! Be sure to read the Administrators' reading list, Administrators, deletion policy, protection policy, and blocking policy, and use your new "powers" with caution and civility.

For initialization purposes at en.wikiversity.org people may use experience at other Wikimedia supported wiki communities to meet the three months of experience requirement. People wishing to be administrators in the nearterm should be participating in helping create policies and procedures here at en.wikiversity.org by at least periodically reading and voting in the straw polls.

Who Monitors the Conduct of a Custodian?
Custodians monitor each other; nearly all custodial powers are completely reversible by any other custodian including: page deletions, lockings, and IP bannings.

At the current time the only way to have custodial status of a usermeta:Help:Administration removed is to request this action of a Wikimedia Steward. All Wikiversity participants are encouraged to approach another Custodian for assistance in evaluating the case against a Custodian and preparation for presentation to a Wikimedia Foundation Steward. It is worth a little extra local effort and caution to avoid overloading the Stewards and prevent unnecessary hard feelings within the Wikiversity community via mistaken charges being lodged against our Custodians. We much prefer to mediate and resolve problems locally at Wikiversity if that is at all possible.

What if I have a Problem with a Custodian?
It is a good starting point to discuss the problem with another Custodian to see if it can be resolved locally. Probably wise to try several if the first few feel unable to assist or you are dissatified by their response. After this the only effective action is to begin working way through the sets of Bureaucrats and Stewards. One could also try joining the Wikiversity-L mailing list and asking for assistance. At each point in the chain it would be wise to consider whether the perceived problem is really large enough to justify all this effort at resolution. As a community we do value your contribution so please stick around even if some specific persistent problems are irresolvable. We have a very large and growing knowledge base so perhap you can avoid problems with specific individuals which cannot be resolved satisfactorily with reasonable effort at this time.

How can I Get Help From a Custodian?
Wikiversity participants can go request assistance from an Custodian here. Request Custodial Action Please use our Custodial resources sparingly, many controversies can be resolved with a little extra effort applied to a little extra civility

How is Persistent Inappropriate Behavior from Custodians Handled?
The members of the community approach a Steward of the Wikimedia Foundation and request that Custodial status be removed. This step is untaken cautiously and rarely so be prepared to document the problem with the misbehaving Custodian and make your case that this merits disciplinary action on the part of the Steward.


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User:Suleyman Habeeb

'''Hi! I'm Suleyman Habeeb.'''

I am a student of the University of Marmara Medical School in Istanbul/Turkey. I want to contribute on subjects about Biology, Medicine and other Life Sciences. I have a vast resource of copyright-less lecture notes on these subjects. Feel free to contact me at: suleyman_habib@yahoo.com.tr

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Category talk:Engineering and Technology

the chance to gain an education online the idea is great
--202.67.121.162 07:44, 18 August 2006 (UTC)there are many organizations offering an online education,the big problem for me has been the high cash cost.Hopefully wikipedias attempt will suceed in enabaling many to have a chance at an education previously difficult if not impossible.Thank you one and all keep up the good work kind regards dale walsh.


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Wikiversity talk:Example

Hopefully Wikiversity will be provided with its own internet domain. At the bottom of each Wikiversity page there will be a link called "About Wikiversity". I propose that the "Wikiversity/Example" page here at the metawiki be used to develop content for the future "About Wikiversity" page. --JWSurf 16:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

more pages at meta-wiki
There are additional Wikiversity-related pages such as this one at the meta-wiki. --JWS 14:54, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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School:Engineering and Technology/Statics

Statics

 * Statics - Wikiversity resource
 * Statics - Wikibook in progress

Links to Applicable Online Notes
Please note these materials are offsite with their own copyright policy:

 * K12 Introduction to Statics http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/class/vectors/u3l3c.html

 * http://em-ntserver.unl.edu/NEGAHBAN/EM223/Intro.htm
 * http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~statics/
 * http://web.umr.edu/~oci/frame1.html This site has lecture notes and self quizzes available.
 * http://www.eng.iastate.edu/efmd/statics.htm
 * http://physics.uwstout.edu/StatStr/indexfbt.htm#STATICS%20&%20STRENGTH%20OF%20MATERIAL
 * MIT OpenCourseWare Homepage for downloadable course involving building structures, includes statics and demos below: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Architecture/4-463Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm
 * Point and click java demos at MIT's OpenCourseWare site above. Excellent for assistance with designing quiz questions and practice exercises.  Demos allow varying the loads and lines of force via click and drag with realtime updates of the resultant static forces. http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/4/4.463/f04/module/Start.html


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User talk:Suleyman Habeeb

Hello and welcome to Wikiversity!

Here are some tips to help you get started:
 * You can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~.
 * Remember to conduct any editing experiments in the sandbox.
 * Check out our help page if you need additional editing help.

You will find more resources at the Community Portal. If you want to ask a question, visit the Study help desk, the Colloquium, IRC channel or ask me personally on my talk page.

Good luck! -- sebmol ? 11:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Great to have you around Suleyman! Your lesson plans and other resources would be most appreciated - I'm hoping that people with teaching experience will start sharing resources soon, so that we can really build something useful (and revolutionary!) Looking forward to working with you. By the way, do you know User:Dbl2010 from the Turkish projects? Cormaggio 13:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool! Well, I know Ozgur (Dbl2010) from the Special projects committee (which finally authorised Wikiversity to exist) - and he's a great guy (or "the man" as you say!). And on your learning materials/lesson plans, I'm dying to see them - give me a link when you've got a few online! Cormaggio 13:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merhaba Suleyman Habeeb, demek buralarda saklanıyordun. Ben de nerey kayboldu bu diordum valla. :) Cormaggio, bu projenin olması için çok çalışmış, ve doktora tezinde bile bu konu üzerine çalışan biri. Ondan yardım istemekten çekinme. Benim buradaki mevcutiyetim tamamen teknik sebeplerdendi. İlk kurulum sırasında bir iki şey yapmak içindi. Kolay gelsin, ara sıra Vikiye de uğra. --Özgür 18:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:WikiLeon

Welcome to Speakonit at Wikiversity: The degree-less university for those who can't offord college.

Hello and welcome to Wikiversity!

Here are some tips to help you get started:
 * You can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~.
 * Remember to conduct any editing experiments in the sandbox.
 * Check out our help page if you need additional editing help.

You will find more resources at the Community Portal. If you want to ask a question, visit the Study help desk, the Colloquium, IRC channel or ask me personally on my talk page.

Good luck! -- sebmol ? 11:25, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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User:Oliver~enwikiversity

Welcome to Olivers User Page '''

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Contact Me

 * Add a messege to my discussion page.
 * Send me an email.
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Currently I am working on this portal page: User:Oliver/Portal:Engineering_and_Technology

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User talk:Oliver~enwikiversity

'''Welcome to my Talk page. To start a new topic click here: Add a New Thread '''   Hello and welcome to Wikiversity!

Here are some tips to help you get started:
 * You can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~.
 * Remember to conduct any editing experiments in the sandbox.
 * Check out our help page if you need additional editing help.

You will find more resources at the Community Portal. If you want to ask a question, visit the Study help desk, the Colloquium, IRC channel or ask me personally on my talk page.

Good luck! -- sebmol ? 11:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

adminship
You might be able to help at Administrator Creation and Behavorial Criteria Guidelines and Policy. --JWSchmidt 13:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Oliver. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Oliver~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 23:45, 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) 06:17, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Masterhomer~enwikiversity

Welcome to Wikiversity. You might be able to help at Administrator Creation and Behavorial Criteria Guidelines and Policy. --JWSchmidt 11:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Masterhomer. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Masterhomer~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 23:42, 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) 06:15, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship

Requests and Nominations for Curatorship

 * Notes:
 * 1) Registered users can either request curatorship, or be nominated for it by others. Candidates who have not accepted a nomination, or have failed to secure a mentor within one week are archived as incomplete.
 * 2) See Special:UserGroupRights for some details on what options are available for curators.
 * 3) Candidates can request a mentor from those listed at List of custodian mentors; the requested mentor must agree.
 * 4) Candidates: please respond to any questions from the community about your wiki editing and wiki participation.

None at present.

Nominations for Custodianship

 * Notes:
 * 1) Candidates for custodianship are listed here.
 * 2) Candidates must be 18 years of age or older, of legal age in place of residence, and be familiar with Privacy policy.
 * 3) Archived requests can be seen at Special:PrefixIndex/Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/

None at present.

Nominations for CheckUser
CheckUsers are required to follow Wikimedia Foundation's CheckUser policy, including requirements for gaining access to the checkuser tools.
 * Notes:
 * 1) Candidates must be 18 years of age or older, of legal age in place of residence, be familiar with Privacy policy, and supply identification to the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * 2) Candidates must have 70–80% agreed consensus or more and a minimum of 25–30 votes in support by local community members. Following this, permission must be requested from the Wikimedia Foundation. Projects must have 2 or more check users, or none at all.

None at present.


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Education

Education is the process by which a person, community, or society shares and passes /knowledge/, skills, and values from one generation to the next. Education literally means to "bring forth what is within yourself". This course will teach you the basic knowledge, skills, and values to educate yourself and others.

Index

 * /21st century skills/: use of ict tools, driving skill, communication skill, understanding local curriculum
 * /Hive Learning Networks/
 * /Resources/
 * /See also/
 * /To-do/
 * /Vision/

Possible discussion questions

 * What is the purpose of education?
 * How can wikis be utilized to help educate many individuals?
 * Is there value in education beyond increasing one's income earning potential?
 * Is promoting and offering education a way that humanity can move towards and achieve a post scarcity future of abundance for all?

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User: (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

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Template talk:User

Origins
Copied the idea from uncyclopedia. - Aya T C 03:37, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Enhancements
Something like this, but needs to cope with spacey names.

Aya T C 03:37, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The problem appears to be that the parameter is being passed with an underscore in place of the original space (e.g., Robert Horning is being converted to Robert_Horning). We need some way of stripping the underscore back out again before including it in the URL. The problem is that virtually no processing of the parameters is possible within templates, hopefully that will change in future. Geo.T 04:15, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Well. The best I can do with a single parameter is this (I'm using a new template here, since the other one is 'live'):

The links work fine, but the name looks messy.

With two params you could have a inclusion that looks like this:

Aya T E C 04:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

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User:Jlguinn

Jim Guinn -- Adviser of Computer Science

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User talk:Jlguinn

Welcome Jlguinn! We're currently in the process of importing over the computer sci school, so it will be a bit before all the old stuff is here. In the mean time, what do you think about my screensaver research project?--Rayc 14:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Ogre3D.org
Hey, do you think that could be used to make a movie?--Rayc 04:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

That's the question I've been pondering for a while. I've only read some of the documentation. Not yet experimented with it. Would be interested in exploring further. Any particular movie in mind? (P.S. thanks for the note)--jlguinn 02:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Computer Science
Hi, I just saw your comment at the above page:

There used to be a talk page, because I created it. It seems everything I do gets undone around here.--jlguinn 12:04, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps we can continue the conversation ? Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 16:37, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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School:Education

Welcome to the Wikiversity School of Education The Wikiversity School of Education is a resource for teachers and students seeking to learn the art of knowledge transmission. The School of Education also supports the use of Wikiversity itself as a teaching and learning tool. You can learn about education in general, or follow the links below to learn more specifics.

Divisions and Departments
For information on the organization of schools, divisions and departments, see Namespaces.
 * Curriculum and Teaching Department
 * Education Policy and Administration Department
 * Pedagogical Theory and Teacher Formation (Pedagogical Patterns • Pedagogy at Florida State University • TPACK)

Topics

 * Adult Education
 * Elementary Education
 * Critical Pedagogy
 * Decolonise Knowledge
 * Distance Education
 * Early Childhood Education
 * Educational Leadership
 * Educational Psychology
 * Education and Technology
 * Experiential education
 * Free education

 * Higher Education
 * Home Education
 * Instructional Technology
 * Instructional Design
 * Lifelong Learning
 * Mathematics Education
 * Medical Education
 * Modern Education
 * Philosophy of Education

 * Research Administration
 * Social Education
 * Special Education
 * Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
 * Collaborative learning
 * The Online Classroom
 * Informal Learning
 * Peer to Peer Learning

Bibliographies

 * Wikipedia article on Lev Vygotsky
 * Wikipedia article on Jean Piaget
 * Cambridge Encyclopedia of Expertise and Expert Learning
 * Wikipedia article on Lisa Delpi - Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
 * Wikipedia article on Paulo Freire

Guides

 * Physics teaching
 * Notes on models for structuring courses
 * Case studies on projects similar to wikiversity
 * The Rise and Fall of MOO Universities

Active participants
If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).
 * Creating lectures since 14 October 2011 with Astronomy! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Creating lessons since 4 January 2012 with First X-ray source in Andromeda! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Creating quizzes since 21 September 2013 with Radiation astronomy/Blues/Quiz! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Creating laboratories since 16 October 2012 with Cosmogony/Laboratory! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Creating problem sets since 16 March 2014 with Column densities! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Creating courses since 5 December 2013 with Principles of Radiation Astronomy! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Other Resources

 * OLPC:Wikislice
 * Schome
 * 17 "Weird" college classes at brick-and-mortar universities
 * Aluka - Online digital library about Africa
 * A Vision of Students Today w/ music by Tryad

School news

 * 18 August 2006 - School founded!
 * Portal:Education - be sure all education-related learning resources are linked to from the Education Portal.

Related news

 * April 2007 Report released on how to optimize US Graduate schools...
 * March 2007 Second Life being investigated as a media for college classes.

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User:Some P. Erson

This is my Wikiversity userpage. My main page is at Wikipedia.

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User talk:Some P. Erson

Hello and welcome to Wikiversity!

Here are some tips to help you get started:
 * You can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~.
 * Remember to conduct any editing experiments in the sandbox.
 * Check out our help page if you need additional editing help.

You will find more resources at the Community Portal. If you want to ask a question, visit the Study help desk, the Colloquium, IRC channel or ask me personally on my talk page.

Good luck! -- sebmol ? 15:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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MOO Universities

Notes from the Rise and Fall of MOO Universities

These are some notes about the rise and fall of MOO Universities which is a historical capsule of some of the experiences I went through in the early 1990's. Wikiversity is the second time I've been involved in creating an online university, and there are a lot of lessons that I've learned.

If there is someone out there who is skilled at interviewing and wants to create a dissertation out of this, this would be really useful.

Roadrunner 15:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Start
The MOO was the key social element. Created by MediaMOO (Amy Bruckman) and LambdaMOO (Pavel Curtis).

Just a note. The idea of having multiple interacting corporations is something that worked well in the "first era of online internet universities." What happened was that you just had too many personality conflicts if you tried to fit everyone under one roof, so it worked much better to have several interacting non-profits (Globewide Network Academy, Diversity University, BioMOO, and Virtual Online University). The interesting thing was that each non-profit was basically organized around a single "queen bee" (me, Jeanne McWhorter, Gustavo Glusman, and William Painter).

Decline
What killed the era of the MOO universities was that we didn't have the funds to match people like Yahoo and MSN who eventually developed chat and discussion facilities which attracted ordinary people and eventually killed the communities.

Lessons

 * You have to develop a sustainable open source technical infrastructure
 * Cooperate with people who are willing to cooperate with you.
 * Mentors are important
 * Shared values are important

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Learning Theories represent the models of how people learn and how education works.

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Wikiversity:Custodianship

A Wikiversity custodian is an experienced and trusted user who can protect, delete and restore pages as well as block users from editing. Custodians are the Wikiversity equivalent of administrators, also known as sysops, bibliotecarios (librarians), and moderators.

The English Wikiversity currently has custodianNaN ss (full list), including human and bot users.

Request assistance - List of custodians - Requests for custodianship

How does one become a custodian?
Any Wikiversity participant willing to do a lot of dull and boring work for the community can become a custodian. If you have a good editing record then you are likely to be trusted and granted the privileges and responsibilities of custodianship. If you are still interested in custodianship, here is the process it takes:

Deletion and undeletion of pages
Custodians can delete pages including images, categories, templates, etc. Deletion is subject to policy. Deletion requests may be submitted by any user at Requests for Deletion.

Deleting a page does not actually remove it from the database. It is merely invisible to non-custodians and can be restored at request, which may be submitted at Requests for Deletion. Page deletions and undeletions can be monitored by viewing the deletion log.

Custodians can also delete individual versions with the RevisionDelete feature. This is particularly useful to remove materials that violate copyrights or other applicable law.

Before you delete a page, read: Welcome templates. See also: Deletion policy.

Edit and move protection of pages
Custodians can protect pages to prevent editing. There are two types of page protection: semi-protection, which prevents anonymous and new users from editing, and full protection, which prevents all non-custodians from editing. A page can also be protected to prevent moving. Page protection can be lifted by any custodian upon request, which may be submitted at Request custodian action. Page protections and unprotections can be monitored by viewing the protection log.

Rollback
Custodians have a rollback tool to revert the last change or group of changes made to a page by the same user. There is no option to provide an edit summary when using this tool. Instead, a summary such as "" will be used automatically. This tool is primarily used to respond to obvious vandalism and spam. For other edit reversions, the rollback button should not be used and a good edit summary should be provided.

User blocks
Custodians can block users from editing by specifying a username, an IP address or range of addresses. Blocks can be temporary or permanent. Most frequently, blocking occurs in response to obvious and repeated vandalism. When blocking a user, a reason for blocking must be provided which is displayed in the block log. It is also possible to block IP addresses from creating new user accounts. See Blocking policy.

Editing MediaWiki namespace
Custodians are able to edit system messages (the standard texts that are used by the MediaWiki software), though site CSS and site JS editing requires interface administrator privileges.

Import
Custodians have access to the Import tool, to bring materials from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Beta.Wikiversity, Wikiquote, and Wikisource.

How are custodians expected to act?
Custodians are supposed to follow the same principles as every other user, including being civil, assuming good faith, and understanding what Wikiversity is. They are expected to act professionally, and to respect policy and community consensus.

For a discussion of possible failure to act professionally, see a proposed recusal policy at Recusal.

Problems with custodians
If you have a question about an action (page deletion, page protection, user block, editing MediaWiki namespace pages, violation of Wikiversity policy or some other action that does serious damage to the project) by a Wikiversity custodian, the first thing to do is leave a message on that custodian's user discussion page. Custodians should always be able to explain how their actions support Wikiversity. If you cannot get satisfaction from discussion with the custodian, you can place comments, suggestions, complaints or questions at Custodian feedback. Try to resolve all custodian problems by discussion.

Custodians can lose their status for egregious violations of policies. Loss of custodianship involves a process that establishes community consensus. If a specific complaint is not resolved at Custodian feedback then a Community Review can be initiated to establish if there is community consensus in support for the custodianship of the custodian who is the subject of the unresolved complaint. At the end of the review, Wikiversity bureaucrats will review the discussion. If a bureaucrat decides that there is good reason for removal of a custodianship, that bureaucrat will go to the meta-wiki and request that stewards review the community discussion. If a steward agrees that the Wikiversity community has reached consensus about a problem custodian, then that steward can terminate the custodianship of the custodian.

If you have a question about an action of a probationary custodian, you should consult their mentor(s). Actions of a probationary custodian are the responsibility of their mentor(s) during their probationary period. Partially depending on agreements made in the probationary candidacy, and with respect for the 48 hour period to find a new mentor, a request to remove custodianship for a probationary custodian may often be made at Meta by any mentor or bureaucrat without need for community consensus. The local process to remove custodianship should only need to be used as a last resort, because of this alternative option.

Wikiversity

 * Blocking policy
 * No shrines for vandals
 * Policies
 * Revision deletion
 * How to be a Wikimedia sysop/Wikiversity

MediaWiki/Wikimedia

 * How to be a Wikimedia sysop
 * MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook

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User:Shogun

Hello,

I'm a german Wikibooks User and I'm interested in the Development of this Project.

--Shogun 16:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Subpages

Wikiversity allows creation of subpages for articles in the main namespace. Subpages are given names such as "Page/Subpage". Subpages are used to help organise individual projects such as courses, seminars, and research projects.

Example of a main namespace page with a subpage.

Courses
Courses are learning projects that can be joined at any time. Courses can have subpages like:
 * Source materials (texts and articles)
 * Lists
 * Subtopics
 * Seminars (see )
 * Help desk (for list of "tutors")
 * Participants (students or "scholars")
 * Quizzing and testing materials
 * Papers, etc.
 * Papers by students
 * Essays by students or experts (including a course instructor) that include opinion, that need not be neutral, or that include original research or personal experience.

Classes
Classes are guided by instructors. These take place over a certain time frame. (Maybe not needed)

Classes on Wikiversity could use subpages for some or all of the following:
 * Source materials
 * Instructors
 * Rosters
 * Syllabi
 * Quizzes
 * Tests
 * Study guides
 * Papers
 * Papers by students
 * Reflections by students
 * Assignments by students
 * Whatever else you might find useful. Please be creative and innovative. Wikiversity is somewhat of an experiment!

For example you could use a page like Introduction to Engineering/Student848/Reflection 1, Introduction to Engineering/Roster, Introduction to Engineering/Quiz 1, Introduction to Engineering/Exam 1 study guide/Answers, etc. Please use subpages so long as they are useful!

Seminars
Seminars are egalitarian. If part of a course, student-led, though experts may participate. These may be split into projects, which may or may not have time limits.
 * Instructors
 * Projects
 * Source materials
 * Other materials (for art projects, etc.)
 * Submission and critique
 * Discussion

Research

 * Brainstorming
 * Different sections of research (results, methods, introductions, etc.)
 * Publishing papers
 * Allowing for peer review
 * Start a peer reviewed journal at Wikiversity

Userpages

 * Archives
 * Sandboxes (testpages)
 * Workspaces
 * Educational related blogs

(learning) Projects

 * Organization, organization, organization

Please note that Lunar Boom Town and CisLunarFreighter makes copious use of subpages.

Once you have an account here at Wikiversity for a few days or so, the move function can be a useful tool! It is usually better to move a page than to copy the page content under a new page name. This keeps the history intact.

(Page moves can sometimes be difficult to undo. A page move ordinarily leaves a redirect in place, and "double redirects," where a redirect links to a redirect, don't work, so some cleanup may be required. If the redirect has been edited, the move cannot be simply undone, a custodian is required. So be careful when moving pages.)

Subpage(s) to this project page
What could be more appropriate for a page on subpages than an illustration of the topic with a subpage of its own?

Forking and organizing (permalink) is an essay as written by one author (as you will see at the top of the page). The permalink is a "permanent version." That version cannot be changed, though it can be hidden by a custodian. The current version is shown by /Forking and organizing. As the essay is not attributed (except in page history), any user may edit it.

See w:Help:Permanent link for information about how to find and use permanent links.

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User:MichaelFrey

MichaelFrey

Clean up task:
 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
 * Category:Stub pages
 * Category:Empty pages

 * Introduction to Programming in Java/Introduction to Java Introduction to Java

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User talk:Sblive

'''Please leave any personal messages here: Sblive's discussion page at polish language Wikibooks. Sblive 20:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC) '''

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User:Sblive

Sebastian Nanek, mainly active on polish language Wikibooks (his personal page).

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User:Dirk gently~enwikiversity

Ready to help out wherever I can...

for my userpage on Wikipedia: Dirk Gently

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User:Somefilename

Theodor Meresescu --Computer Scientist.

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Wikiversity talk:Custodianship

Please see the archives for prior discussions:
 * /Archive 1/ 2006 - 2008
 * /Archive 2/ 2009 - 2010
 * /Archive 3/ 2011
 * /Archive 4/ 2015
 * /Archive 5/ 2016
 * /Archive 6/ 2018 - 2019

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User:Veemonkamiya~enwikiversity

Look me up on Wikipedia with the same name, please.

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User talk:Digitalme

Hello, this is the place to leave me a message.

Please leave all new messages at the bottom, and be sure to sign with four tildes ( ~ .)

Custodian
Hi Digitalme, I've made you a custodian, as per your request, and seeing as you have someone to act as a mentor. Wishing you all the best with your new tools - use them wisely :-). Cormaggio 14:41, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I put you on the list at Custodians, you might want to add some info to the table. --JWSchmidt 15:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocks
User:3-14159 isn't that bad I think...it's just digits of pi. For the other one, well, it's a bit ambiguous. I don't think we need to be too concerned about these accounts at the moment. --HappyCamper 23:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I was wonder for the reason you blocked User:950855. Somehow "user.." doesn't tell me anything. -- sebmol ? 05:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * "user..." is a blanket term used on Wikipedia for blocking accounts, originated from about a year ago and has quite a bit of interesting history. Briefly, an admin had a bot running on his/her account, and it would block usernames with only "user..." as the reason. This was because the bot operator felt that it would minimize giving away the internals of how the code worked. --HappyCamper 13:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I still don't understand. User:950855 didn't even have any edits.. Cormaggio 10:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello - I spotted this edit which you made on Cormaggio's page. Sebmol and Cormaggio don't seem to be up at the moment, so I'll answer for them. Part of your question was answered here, I think.

Wikiversity does not have a blocking policy in place like the one on Wikipedia - in fact, the one here is still in a proposal stage! Were you around that time when Wikipedia was flooded with hundreds of random number accounts vandalising all at once? After that, there was pretty good reason over there to preemtively block accounts that were simply "up to no good".

For a young project like Wikiversity, it's probably safe to give these accounts more leeway, at least until the vandals become a bit more sophisticated. We don't get as much exposure on the internet like Wikipedia yet. From what I've seen so far, the blocking culture here seems sort of laid back and relaxed. It's probably best to emulate that. Maybe on top of that, make a few judgement calls here and there - those, I think of, as the little bit of salt and pepper you might add to mashed potatoes for taste and good measure. Wikipedia is slighly different I would say, but that's probably an understatement.

Anyway, I came over here to say that you're doing a great job. I don't think we have crossed paths too often on Wikipedia, but I have to say, I was pretty happy to see you ask Cormaggio what was best to do. That's not something I see very often on Wikipedia, and for me, it's a sign that you're "one of the good guys around" :-)

Having said that, let us know when you're online again? Apparently, we hit more than 10,000 edits and 400 users here just recently, so there's probably going to be something that might interest you here as things roll along. Cheers, HappyCamper 05:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, just to reiterate what HappyCamper just said (and very nicely too!), that we should be a little more hesitant to block someone this early on Wikiversity. I would say only do this if they are vandalising heavily, or have an obviously offensive username such as "The blonde's ass" one. Most people can be given a chance - a fair warning - wikis work through soft security. I've unblocked the user now. Cheers. Cormaggio 08:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Too slow...
darn, you beat me to the punch with that welcome. ;) - Trevor MacInnis 22:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Main page Design 2
Hi, I responded to your comment about Design 2 on the main talk page. What do you think could be done to improve the design? Thanks, Reswik 01:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry
I'm just trying to figure out how to link to a section of an edit page, and that didn't work. I'm trying to make this commenting thing work, but the Reply links aren't working like I want :). (ie. yes please, delete my accidental sandbox page) --TimNelson (Talk) 03:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Templates
Please don't delete them; I created them specifically for Wikiversity. --Hotrocks 16:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Sociology of the Family
I believe textbooks should remain on Wikibooks, and this move should be reverted. Please note that all other sociology textbooks remain on Wikibooks.--Piotrus 22:05, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you!--Piotrus 18:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Mentorship
I have nominated you for full custodianship here. -- sebmol ? 08:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Custodian Question
When you join Wikiversity, do you automatically get custodian rights? 205.189.97.202 Yes, I'm really an IP Monday, July 29, 2024, (UTC) }}

Full custodianship
You are the first community-approved Wikiversity custodian! See: Candidates for Custodianship/Digitalme. Thanks for all of your contributions to the Wikiversity community. --JWSchmidt 20:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Rollback by IP
Just letting you know, you rolled a few edits that I made to both my user page and the school of education page (where I was relinking my name). Now considering that I've been quite an editor - working on a page about the Third Reich, and contributing here and there..the only reason I can fathom that you rolled it back was because of the IP address. That particular IP is of the High School that I currently am employed at in the technology department, so I can assure you that trying to filter that one IP is not going to be very successful with people who actually want to edit as opposed to some of the punk kids we have there. --Kfitton 23:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem, just a minor annoyance..I tend to write from whatever connection I am at, when I have time. --Kfitton 16:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

custodian mentor
Are you willing to add yourself to the list of mentors at List of custodian mentors?--JWSchmidt 04:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

/templates
yes i made this page by mistake - you can delete it Davymast 14:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Blocks
I saw you blocked two users today. Can you elaborate on your reasoning "username"? sebmol ? 19:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Support for Subpages?
As far as I was aware, Wikiverisity does not support sub pages (sorry if this is not the correct term.) Please point to any information how this works. (Example User:Robert Elliott/RE1Test)  When can you have sub pages and when not?Robert Elliott 03:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, for butting in, but Wikiversity does support subpaging, even in the mainspace. See, for example, Software Freedom/Information. To create a subpage you simply add  to the end of the article name. AmiDaniel 03:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Can I use subpages to generate a tree stucture for my lessons. If I have two courses with the same lesson names (example: Course 1 has a lesson called "Script Writing" and Course 2 has a lesson called "Script Writing"), can I have "Course1/ScriptWriting" and "Course2/ScriptWriting" to keep them separate? Can I have homework assignmnents as "Course1/ScriptWriting/Homework/Jane Doe"? Do Subpages support spaces in the name? Is there any search engine for subpages?Robert Elliott
 * More questions :
 * You could technically do it this way; however that's quite discouraged, as it's been decided that individual lessons should each get their own page (not a subpage) in the mainspace, and that lessons do not belong to individual "courses". The best way to do what you've stated is to give each lesson a unique name and then link the lessons to their "owner" and their previous and next lessons using a navigational template. You can see some examples of how this is done at, for instance, Topic:Visual Basic--each lesson is linked from the main topic, and each lesson individually links back to that topic and the previous and following lessons in the series. With homeworks, you might consider using some form of subpaging, i.e., "Topic:Course1/Homework/ScriptWriting/Jane Doe", although that might quickly get rather unamanagable. I might suggest instead that users keep their homework in subpages of their own userspace, i.e, "User:Jane Doe/Course1 homework/ScriptWriting". A lot of it's up to you, as nothing has been carved in stone on Wikiversity yet, and many of the questions you've posed are not ones that have concrete answers yet. Do what you think is best, and perhaps, over time it may be come the standard. AmiDaniel 05:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

question about main namespace subpages
"it's been decided that individual lessons should each get their own page (not a subpage) in the mainspace" <-- where was this decided? --JWSchmidt 14:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * From Naming conventions, "Lessons should not be subpages of schools (see below). Each lesson should have a unique title, for example The rise of the Roman Empire and The Fall of Rome, instead of the named Part 1 and Part 2-type titles listed above. Such title types are okay as temporary measures, or if a better name is not possible (for example, splitting a large lesson into two parts)." I interpret that as meaning that each lesson should get its own page in the mainspace, and, even without the explicit statement of this convention, it seems to be what has become standard practice in looking over other learning materials. On most projects, subpage support in the mainspae is disabled because it's kind of... disgusting, though it can certainly have its uses. I think we should probably avoid using it where we can. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Cormaggio2 and 3
Yeah - they're mine - I created them to see whether I could rename two usernames into one account (you can't). We might as well leave them - they're doing no harm - and might even be useful for me in the future.. Cheers! Cormaggio talk 00:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Just don't use them as sock puppets - we'd know ;-) sebmol ? 09:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hah! Untold wiki-damage will soon be MINE!!! Cormaggio3 12:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Ad hoc medical advice on Wikiversity
You may be interested in a debate on the wikipedia reference desks - W:Wikipedia talk:Reference desk - in which it appears that a user is directing reference desk questioners who have asked for medical opinions, to the Wikiversity help desk, where an ad hoc answer is given. W:Wikipedia talk:Reference desk is also worth a read.

You may wish to consider whether Wikiversity should put in place policy relating to the answering of legal and medical opinion questions, as has Wikipedia. (e.g. # Do not request regulated professional advice. If you want to ask advice that "offline" would only be given by a member of a licensed and regulated profession (medical, legal, veterinary, etc.), do not ask it here. See Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer and/or Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer. Ask a doctor, dentist, veterinarian or lawyer.) --Tagishsimon 23:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

You are invited to register for the Wikiversity Assembly

 * The Assembly has been established as a technique for developing reports on topics of import for Wikiversity administration. The Assembly is not a decision-making body, per se. Rather, it is designed to create or discover or estimate consensus, through focused, facilitated, thorough deliberation. Assembly reports may be referenced in regular Wikiversity discussions, but will not directly control outcomes. Where full consensus is not found, minority reports may be issued.
 * I invite you to register for the Assembly by adding your user name to the Delegable proxy/Table.

 * Registering for the Assembly creates no specific obligation, but does consent to direct communication as the Assembly may determine is appropriate. You may opt out of such direct communication by adding "no messages" to the Table when you register, in the user comment field, but it is unlikely that the default (communication allowed) will create burdensome traffic for you.

You are invited to name a proxy

 * When you register for the Assembly, you may optionally designate a "proxy."

 * I suggest that you nominate, as a proxy, the user whom you most trust to participate positively in a Wikiversity discussion if you are unable to participate yourself. The proxy will not be voting for you in any process. Rather, the proxy will be considered to loosely represent you, as a means of estimating probable large-scale consensus based on small-scale participation, in the event that you do not personally participate.

 * If you name a proxy, you will be consenting to direct communication with you by that proxy. If a named proxy accepts the proxy, you become, as long as you maintain the nomination (you may change it at any time), the "client" of the proxy, and by accepting, a proxy has consented to direct communication from the client.

 * See Delegable proxy for details.

Comments
I'm inviting all relatively inactive custodians to register for the Assembly, and to name a proxy as described. This is because you who have been and remain custodians have yourselves been trusted by the community, and your proxy choice, if you name one, may carry some reasonable weight, due to your experience. You may, of course, participate directly, whether you do or do not name a proxy. Thanks for considering this. --Abd 01:36, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Your admin status
Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy. You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on enwikiversity, where you are an administrator. Since that wiki does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies. If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights. We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard. Best regards, Rschen7754 20:53, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Blocking policy

The blocking policy explains when and why custodians may block or unblock user accounts, IP addresses, and ranges of IP addresses. The block log allows anyone to track blocks and unblocks at Wikiversity. A block revokes editing privileges at Wikiversity to stop behavior inconsistent with the Wikiversity mission and scope for either a definite or indefinite time. An unblock restores editing privileges at Wikiversity after accepted practices and appropriate behaviors are likely to be understood. A block does not otherwise restrict access to Wikiversity, and usually people can continue to edit their own user discussion page to encourage dialog about participation at Wikiversity.

Anyone may ask custodians to consider reviewing a person's recent behavior. If you are blocked and feel that you understand how to behave in a way consistent with the mission and scope, you can ask for the decision to be reviewed on your discussion page, or by e-mail if you cannot edit your discussion page.

When are blocks appropriate?
You should first ask questions and discuss concerns on a person's user discussion page, be concise and specific when suggesting solutions, explain and encourage behaviors consistent with the Wikiversity mission and scope to resolve conflicts yourself, and try alternatives when appropriate. On occasion, a block may be appropriate after a good faith discussion, other reasonable solutions have been exhausted, and the person continues behaviors not consistent with participation at Wikiversity. People who vandalize and spam may be blocked immediately before considering anything else.

The following caveats apply to blocks:

 * 1) Blocks for behavior that has ceased or may happen in the future are inappropriate. Blocks are to deter continuing recent behavior.
 * 2) Participants with a history of good faith edits are to be informed about their block on their user discussion page.
 * 3) A custodian capable of impartial treatment is recommended when possible. Other custodians should ask for a second opinion.
 * 4) Blocks for IP addresses and IP address ranges should be kept short because often other people are affected too.

Common rationales for blocks
Custodians are encouraged to first discuss when in doubt, or when a block is unusual. The following are common rationales for blocks:

 * Threats to take legal action ("legal threat") or to cause harm ("malice").
 * Disclosure of personal information without consent.
 * Libelous material about living people.
 * Persistent harassment or personal attacks.
 * Persistent use of copyright works without permission.
 * Use of inappropriate usernames. If unintentional, the user will be allowed a name change.

 * Persistent promotions with no clear benefit to education or learners.
 * Use of multiple accounts to affect community consensus.
 * Bots without approval to operate or malfunctioning will be immediately blocked.
 * Compromised accounts
 * Behaviors that have a net negative effect per community consensus.
 * Circumventing revocation of privileges.

When should unblocks be considered?
People whose behavior was consistent with the Wikiversity mission and scope may be unblocked immediately. People who understand and agree to participate appropriately at Wikiversity may be unblocked. You are encouraged to discuss why a person was blocked, explain and encourage behaviors consistent with the Wikiversity mission and scope, and suggest solutions that may help encourage appropriate participation before you ask custodians to unblock. If you were blocked, you may ask custodians to review your block by adding unblock to your user discussion page.

An impartial custodian may review the circumstances of a block and determine an appropriate response or action. A custodian may set conditions to ensure civility and behaviors remain appropriate. Custodians may decline to act on a request to unblock, and are encouraged to ask for a second opinion when in doubt, or when an unblock is controversial or unusual.

Custodians may refer people to Community Review when a block is based on community consensus, and link to prior community consensus for review.

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User:Spacey~enwikiversity

Spacey - Computer Science

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User:Koavf

I have been a curator since 2016-10-20T19:59:55 and a custodian since 2023-09-08T18:53:10. Let me know how I can help. Let's learn chess, philosophy, and Spanish together.

Contributions

 * Category:Interlingua
 * Category:Wikidebate
 * Chess/Play with other Wikiversitans
 * Content under Spanish/Verbs
 * Topic:Philosophy
 * I did a lot of the debating at Should we go vegan?, which was featured on Main Page/News on 2017-03-31.
 * I started Was 9/11 an inside job?, which was featured on Main Page/News on 2019-11-10.

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User:Puff Daddy

Yo Dog! Me Puff Daddy.

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User:Tastymangojuice

James Elias - Computer Science

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