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Juridical national measures on transport, politics and education

This second document deals around measures to
 * Make a road-less/car-less system of transportation
 * Improve the political system
 * Improve the education system

Road-less/car-less system of transportation
At the moment, urban expansion is at his height and is causing enormous environmental damage. Road construction (which makes up a huge portion of this) is one of the main factors in this environmental desctruction. Not only do roads take up enormous amounts of space (for which forest land often needs to be cleared) but they also account to a huge decrease in biodiversity (as the forests are cleared which provide housing to animals) and as the roads are a source of noise/disturbance and work as a physical (virtually uncrossable) barrier for animals. These negative implecations of roads have been demonstrated by roads as the BR163, which cuts trough the Brazilian rainforest.

In addition, roads and cars have extra design-specific problems with them as easy clogging (with reduced speed/efficiency as a consequence) and a cost/or fuel-inefficient way of transport (ships and aircraft being much more efficient). These problems together with the costs of creating/maintaining the road itself have resulted in heavy financial losses. As such, a mitigation to a better system of transport is proving necessairy.

At the moment, cars and roads can (largely) be eliminated and replaced by a combination of

 * in-city transportation: where (well-constructed) roads are kept in place, yet where cars are banned out
 * and city-to-city transportation: where all roads and cars are to be eliminated (over time).

In-city transportation would rely on the following vehicles/modes of transportation:
 * small or two-wheeled vehicles:
 * electric scooters, segway PT's, Toyota winglets, bicycles, recumbent bicycles,
 * cycle rickshaws, auto rickshaws, cabin cycles, velomobiles, motorised and human powered steps and monowheels,
 * inline skates, heelys, ...
 * communal transportation vehicles:
 * subway, trolley, bus, monorail, folding city car (for point-to-point "cab"-trips only), skycab, Shweeb
 * and by foot

City-to-city transportation would rely on the following vehicles/modes of transportation:
 * by airways: regular communal airplanes, the new airships, personal air vehicles (PAV)
 * by waterways: communal and personal boats and other water vehicles
 * and by railways: trains travelling in non-eco-fragile environments or travelling underground

Note
The city-to-city transportation vehicles should be seemlessly hooked up to the in-city transportation system/vehicles. This can be done by for example providing a good connection between trainstations, airports and busses, metros, skycabs, ...

Extra advantages for cities
Besides the environmental and increased efficiency advantages described by the elimination of (most) roads and cars, there would also be extra advantages for the city. As demonstrated in Shanghai and Seoul (see article), trough effects as the Braess paradox, traffic flow may be improved by implementing physical barriers in the city. By banning out the car (which can only be effectively realised in practice by putting up physical car-barriers as F-shape barriers or bollards) this same effect can be accomplished.

In addition, as cars (being 4-wheeled vehicles) would be largely replaced by 2-wheeled vehicles, the cities will almost inmediately be freed from the now contemporary traffic jams. This positive effect on the traffic flow and the enlarging of its capacity can be seen from cities that almost exclusively rely on 2-wheeled vehicles. Examples for this can be found in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

How the system can be implemented in practice Simply put, physical barriers as F-shape barriers and bollards would be placed at the edge of the city and would still permit passage to the city for 2-wheeled vehicles, but deny it for 3- and 4-wheeled ones. To still allow passage for 3-wheeled vehicles (and the occasional 4-wheeled one), provisions as retractible bollards (which may be opened only by certain people) can be placed.

The system would also be enforced by law by implementing a law that states that "all human-controlled, 4-wheeled vehicles intented for private use, are banned within city centres.

Outside the cities, 4-wheeled vehicles and cars would not yet be banned by law until further notice, and parking spaces would be set-up at the edge of town to provide people the further use of their car and allow them to phase it out gradually.

Note on the personal air vehicles
One of the new pillars of the system would be the personal air vehicle, which would allow people living outside the cities/city centres of swapping in their car for a better/more-efficient vehicle.

Aldough the best PAV-design or manufacturer is still to be determined, the best vehicles are those which combined a fully automated control with propeller-driven VTOL technology. These include the Aerovironment SkyTote, DM AeroSafe Group Aerocart, and Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. Automated versions of these vehicles allow the use of zero-emission engine technology (as the compressed air engine, electrical engine on fuel cell, ...), unlike what is the case with turbofan or jet engine propelled vehicles (aldough hydrogen combustion is still a noteworthy exception to this).

More information
Personal air vehicle Carfree Cities Car-free movement Human-powered transport BR-163
 * Design flaws of the road transport system
 * Car-free cities
 * Carfree movement
 * Human-powered transport
 * The BR-163 highway in Brazil

Bollard F-shape barrier Velomobile Recumbent bicycle Cabin cycle
 * Traffic bollards and F-shaped barriers
 * Velomobiles, recumbent bicycles and cabin cycles

Auto rickshaw Cycle rickshaw
 * Auto rickshaws and cycle rickshaws

Personal Air Vehicle
 * Personal air vehicles

Heelys Powerbocking
 * Heelys and PowerSkips

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/nov/01/society.travelsenvironmentalimpact http://www.armedforces-int.com/categories/unmanned-air-vehicles-uavs/the-development-of-the-skytote-uav.asp http://www.dmaerosafe.freeservers.com/index.html http://abc.net.au/news/items/200706/1944303.htm?nsw http://cities.media.mit.edu/projects/citycar.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/23/new.airships/ http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/bga/816.html
 * Article describing the Braess-paradox
 * The AeroVironment SkyTote
 * DM AeroSafe Group Aerocart
 * Smart Cities CityCar (folding) with automatic control
 * The new airships as environmental transports

Reform of the political system
Why is a reform in the political system necessairy ? As we have seen with the US government in 2001–2009, having a single person at the top is always hazardous given the size of the decisions he can make, and the consequences this may have as a result (e.g. climate change, US intervention in Irak, ...).

As such, we should have control mechanisms in place that ensure that no person, inequipped to hold such a powerful function/position is able to attain this position/function. Besides preventing of putting the wrong people in charge, we should also ensure that the people/groups at the base of the pyramid (ministers and political parties) work to address those problems/issues that are a priority, in that point in time and in that particular country. This means that completely independent research needs to be conducted and a huge variety of political agenda points need to be available. This requires a huge amount of political parties to be available, far more than the amount of parties currently available in any country (developed or undeveloped).

As a last issue, inefficient forms of government (forms of government that favor an elite; ie monarchies, ...) should be outruled.

Type of proposed government
Rather than having a single person on top (president, prime minister, ...), it is better to opt for a system where several people have the highest rank and can solve problems together and address the policy by compromise; (for the sake of convenience we'll refer to this group of politicians as the “upper politicians”. In most countries, something similar is already done using parties and their party leaders. In most instances however, each party leader of the most important parties all get a position as minister in one or another field. This clearly doesn't work and promotes corruption (this, as there is no direct communication and too much paperwork involved; the latter being prepared by the other members of the political party from which the minister was appointed from or from biased research units). Instead, ministers should be chosen independent of the political party they're in (so various ministers should be able to come from one party, and some most important parties may have no ministers coming from them at all). This can be achieved by the requirement for the political party members (political leaders or simple members) to have a degree in the field they wish to become minister of; no electing of an unschooled members (members without a degree) should be possible for this position. This can be made a legal condition, recorded in the law.

These people that are to all have the same, highest rank (“upper politicians” no presidents, prime ministers, vice presidents, ...should be able to be present) can be made up by ministers, each with their own jurisdiction (e.g. Minister of Energy, Minister of Environment, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ...). A general set-up of the ministries should be made compulsatory and imbedded in the new system of government. At the moment, the ministries are all chosen by the country itself, and are thus all different based on the country (ie some have Ministry of Environment, others have a ministry of Ecology, still others combine some ministries -i.e. environment and energy, ...). Setting a uniform standard ensures that all countries all have a same amount of ministries and that thoses ministries are not handicapped by regretful combinations.

In order to stimulate as much political parties (with different political agenda points) as possible of being created, campaign financing should be outlawed. In instances where campaign financing is not outlawed, not all political parties are able to spend a same amount of money on their campaign. This handicap hence benefits parties that have much money (which is hence inheritly undemocratic) over those that don't have much money. This money comes from private founders/companies which often expect something in return (ie new laws that help them to increase their revenue), hence also promoting corruption. Instead of allowing political parties to set up their own campaign, information on the parties and their agenda points can be distributed via the public media, in shows specifically set up to cover elections. These shows can then cover each political party, in a uniform way. This measure would ensure that so much political parties will be created, that the party that is most crucially important in that point in time, and in that country, will attain the most votes/gets to power.

The meetings described can be held at set intervals (e.g. 3 times/year), or whenever urgently required. A similar set-up is also being followed in Tokelau, where meetings of island chiefs of state (or faipule) discuss regularly in country-wide meetings (or general fono's). Also, in many countries in Africa a (more or less) similar system can be found; knowingly the system of the "council of elders".

Extra suggestions To give voters feedback, so that political parties can fine-tune their party on the main problems the voters put up front. At the moment, parties may have the intention to tackle both things people do and do not want to see handled. As such, the current political system can never be truly democratic (not one political party will ever completely be able to act in their representation, arranging things they do and do not agree on) To forbid ministers and political parties of talking freely/suggestively to press and other media; and with it reducing country leading into a farce. At the moment ministers can talk about 'proposed changes' and other matters without content, clearly giving fluent people an edge over the less-fluent ones (whilest genetically seen the latter might have more input). Besides this, in certain countries (e.g. in Latin-America), before elections things are announced that after the elections are never executed.

More information

 * Wikipedia's council of elders page
 * Appropedia's Alternative Society page
 * Wikipedia's Alternative Society page
 * Movie recognising the current flaws of party politics

Open source, base-education e-learning platform
With the arrival of freely available (open-source) information from encyclopedia's as the Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica and the arrival of on-demand courses from universities as the Open University, information and distance/e-learning has become available to everyone.

Now, the technology for distance/e-learning too is becoming well affordable (e.g. OLPC-project/50x15, Evo Projector, Espresso Book Machine, ...). Also, besides the lowered price of the technology, and the availability of a high-quality, uniform, open-source e-learning contents, the internet too is now providing a valuable tool for acquiring skills, learning and information gathering on the outside world (trough internet radio, google video documentaries, google earth maps, google books, open-source models (for diy-devices construction), ...

By combining this e-learning contents and low-cost technology, a completely new way of teaching and base education-approach can be given. This approach could, especially in the developing world, elevate the quality of education, decrease costs and increase the willingness of the poor of letting their children to follow education. Also, the system may be implemented in the developed world as well where similar advantages may be attained (albeith to a lesser degree).

Overview of the operation of the new distance/e-learning approach

Project objectives
As mentioned above, the main objective would be to provide base education for children (and young adults). The age range would thus be between 6–18 years. As widely known, basic education is the most important form of education people may receive and is able to keep children from participating in slave labour, crime, ... and ensure that they may become more prosperous than their parents (who are usually fishers/farmers in the developing world).

The project however is not intented for higher schooling/education, hereby thus ensuring that no competition exists with Universities providing distance learning courses. Not only would there be no competition, it would also provide the possibility of these Universities to aid in our project (as this may have benefits to them; e.g. on later recruitment, ...).

Intented achievements and further advantages
The project would focus on specific, usable/practical subjects and knowledge and disregard less usable subject-matters, still frequently given in schools in the developed world.

There would be a focus on:
 * firstly, basic computer skills (to be able to retrieve the courses and other educational materials)
 * basic knowledge on maths (basic calculating), geography (countries in the world and capitals, climate zones, wind systems, currents, ...), everyday technology (workings of electricity, energy production, how everyday technology as stoves, refrigerators, trains, ... work, ...), basic biology (evolution, origin of life, fotosynthesis, ..), the earth (raw materials, structure of the earth and solar system, natural phenomenons, ...), cultures (types and meaning of the main religions, greatest structures in the world, most important people, ...)
 * practical knowledge and techniques to allow the children of aiding their family financially (e.g. cooking/food gathering, clothing repair/manufacturing, tying knots and sometimes house construction, construction of diy-domestic electric devices as passive solar heaters, water boilers, ..., field orientation, repair of electrical/mechanical equipment as personal vehicles and electric domestic equipment, basic herbal medicine, ...). Besides aiding the family practically/financially, it would also ensure that parents remain willing to keep sending their children to school. For this reason too, the classroom with projector would be used for special gatherings of the community (e.g. to display (educational) movies, ...).
 * to provide knowledge on the types of jobs they may one day perform in society (thus job orientation) and aid them practically in this
 * to provide knowledge on the outside world (showing real life examples of cities, cultures, types of world music, popular books, ...)
 * to adapt them so that they may function in the international world (by learning them fluent (simplified) English, etiquette, fashion and personal hygene, ...) and adopt an environmentally and ethically sound lifestyle (see below).

Subjects that are not really usable in practice and which would be dismissed

 * History
 * Arts

Implecations for the Ubuntu/Fedora operating system, and the OLPC/ultra mobile pc with headset and speech recognition-version used:

 * Only the international (English) version of the OLPC/ultra mobile pc is to be used and no translated forms are to be allowed
 * It would also be helpful to demand the OLPC-team (if this is used) of implementing a WiMax-capable wireless receiver, a GPS-receiver into the OLPC and a satellite internet receiver (for satellite phoning, communication, ... ) This would allow the device to be even more helpful to the children and their families by allowing better field orientation and communication in times of emergency. If required for the gps-function, the amount of storage room too is best expanded (500mb might not be enough).
 * Rather than Fedora, Goobuntu (perhaps along with the suggested modifications of my last letter) could be used, which may be better aligned with the educational (Google) services. Perhaps some suggestions noted in following document may be imbedded: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcwtr665_190fz23z2gx or locally at Linux adaptations for UMPC design
 * For Edubuntu, the KDE Edutainment Project may be better aligned with the subject matter (e.g. KLatin etc. should be removed, ...), better aligning of GCompris with the subject matter, better aligning and rethinking of the LTSP Thin Client (as the OLPC has better performance (500mhz CPU), and unique computer networking on its own)

Extra notes and considerations

 * It may be helpful to write to National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, ... to open-source (part of) their picture/video archive. This so that this information/pictures/video documentaries, ... may be used to improve Wikipedia and Google Video. Alternatively, Google Video may opt to buy certain interlinking/key documentaries so they may be used in the courses.
 * This project may also be linked with 3 other projects I worked out and sent to the Virgin Earth Challenge to maximise its humanitarian assistance.
 * The project would best be sponsored by organisations as the World Bank, UN and/or by countries interested in introducing this project in their country. As the project is totally in line with humanitarian organisations, there might be no problem in this. In addition, trough resolution 2861, the UN has stated clearly to be interested in a global-wide/international learning approach (see UKOWLA: why link). Also, organisations as the Musk Foundation may provide financial/practical support.
 * Organisations as UKOWLA and Global Kids may provide additional logistical support in setting up the system
 * At least in some countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), the project can make use of voluntary (unpaid) or low-payed teachers to lower expenses of the project (see below)
 * Finally, certain countries as the Comoros (of which the present is condoning new ways of education as trough his TV-station Ulezi) may provide additional support for the possible set-up of the base education project along with its complete underlying system of national internet access and simplification of city services (as described in the linked document below).

Extra clarification on why a Ultra-Mobile PC (Samsung Q1, TabletKiosk Sahara, ...) is chosen over other computers (as OLPC, ...) and isn't this device expensive ? The main reason why this device is to be chosen is because it has just the right amount of computing power to still run a non-embedded (yet preferably simplified form of) Linux and perform cpu-intensive tasks (as playing movies, audio, ...)

In addition, rather than the OLPC (which is still quite big), the UMPC is still small enough to be carried along all the time. In addition, it makes the most efficient use resources, power consumption and finally deals with the archaic/outdated computer controls as keyboard and mouse. Finally, the screen size would be about the same size as the OLPC. When this is still not enough (e.g. movie nights, presentations, ...), the low-cost diy projector would be connected and used anyway.

On regards of the pricing, aldough this is still high, one must remember that other expensive equipment as radio, TV, ... no longer needs to be bought. In addition, given the expected success in the future prices will drop anyway (as more production initiates this) and perhaps (due to the use of on-server services; thus non-cpu labour-intensive apps as Google Maps), the cpu/technology used in the device does not need to be so high as what the Samsung Q1 uses, allowing some components of being lowered in performance/price (perhaps allowing the use of handhelds as the Nokia N770/800, Aeronix Zipit, Pepper Pad).

More information
w:Wikipedia:Release Version OpenCourseWare Wikiversity (offering courses on several topics available for download) Main Page E-learning Distance education Open University http://www.bamboostic.be/ (NGO focusing on bamboo construction techniques) http://www.survival-school.org/ (The Survival School, which has information on field orientation, construction, ...) (SERE program) http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_03/uk/dossier/txt15.htm http://www.unesco.org/education/efa_report/chapter4.pdf (see page 32)
 * Wikipedia Release Version
 * MIT's OpenCourseWare-project
 * Distance/e-learning
 * Universities offering subject-matter via distance learning
 * Extra possible input from survival schools, and NGO's
 * Open educational resources
 * Volunteerning (unpaid) teachers in India
 * Low-paid teachers in Bangladesh trough BRACeducation

Non-compulsory learning approach http://www.muskfoundation.org/ Elon Musk http://www.ukowla.org.uk/main/toolkit.asp http://www.globalkids.org http://www.holymeatballs.org/ Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi Goobuntu Edubuntu
 * Carl Rogers
 * Student-centered learning
 * John Gatto
 * Musk Foundation website and information
 * UKOWLA
 * Global Kids and Global Kids' Digital Kids Media Initiative
 * President of the Comoros supporting new ways of education
 * Goobuntu (Google Linux distribution)
 * Edubuntu

$100 laptop Samsung Q1 Ultra-Mobile PC Speech recognition (Most known speech recognition software package)
 * $100 laptop (OLPC-project)
 * Ultra-Mobile PC with headset and speech recognition

http://www.tapsns.com/ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/worldbiz_20080101-0800.mp3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/worldservice/meta/tx/digital_planet?size=au&bgc=003399&lang=en-ws&nbram=1&nbwm=1&ls=p1248
 * Mark Anderson of SNS predicting the rise of the UMPC in 2008 ("Ten Pedictions for 2008")
 * Mark Anderson's interview by Peter Day (World of Business program; "GlobalBiz: Mark Anderson 01 Jan 08") In this documentary an overview of the "all-screen" Ultra Mobile PC is presented
 * BBC's Digital Planet of 1 Jan 2008, marking the need of new technology for hands free writing

http://www.eduvision.or.ke/technology/tech4.html http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.107.html http://50x15.com/en-us/sol_tech.aspx http://www.geekcorps.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/DesertPC.pdf
 * E-slate handheld example showing that educational computers may be used no larger than 9x5 inches
 * Tablet pc's already created at low cost, marking the possibility of lowering the price for UMPC's as well
 * Class pc (DecTOP and Linutop) Note: the class pc will use the projector both as regular computerscreen as well as to allow many people to view movies
 * Class pc (Mini ITX)

review of HSDPA Other techniques (iBurst, UMTS, ...) that can be used trough the use of a USB or integrated modem http://www.stompboxnetworks.com/intro.html example on how to connect a wireless modem with an access point (example shows WiFi; not WiMax); also femtocell devices are similar in approach
 * Other possibilities (instead of satellite internet) for internet connection.

TabletKiosk Sahara/Axiotron Modbook (recommended; expensive dough) http://chinese.engadget.com/2006/10/12/china-sinomanic-notebook-appear/ (Sinomanic) http://www.classmatepc.com/ (Intel Classmate) http://www.zonbu.com/home/ (Zonbu) http://eeepc.asus.com/global/ (Eee PC) http://www.dataevolution.com/clio%20info%203.htm (Clio NXT) http://www.ink-media.com/ Ink PC
 * Other possible low-cost laptops than OLPC/tablet pc

http://www.eduvision.or.ke/ http://www.inveneo.org/ http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcwtr665_5hdz48t&hl=en http://www.geekcorps.org/2007/06/making-r-bgan-internet-connect/ http://mali.geekcorps.org/category/en/products/ http://mali.geekcorps.org/2005/01/10/vsat-study Internet access WiMAX List of wireless community networks by region
 * My proposal for a improved Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC, which is several times more efficient, being fitted with a dynamo (as the OLPC), speech recognition and touch screen and a simplified form of linux
 * EELS (EduVision E-Learning System); on which most of the system is based
 * Invineo Communications System
 * Document describing the system of national internet access
 * Reducing satellite internet bandwidth requirements by Geekcorps Mali
 * DIY-router enclosure ($10)
 * Geekcorps Mali VSAT study
 * Internet access as a human right
 * WiMAX as a tool to nationalise internet access
 * Wifi-networks already covering allot of cities

Espresso Book Machine http://yhst-18925554572786.stores.yahoo.net/llpjevov1w2.html http://www.instructables.com/id/LCD-Overhead-Projector/ 3M Mpro 110 Altering of DIY projector to include use of the longer lasting LEDs instead of HID-lamps http://hackaday.com/2006/05/23/ccfl-backlight-replaced-with-white-leds/ http://meuk.spritesserver.nl/projects/dlpbeamer/ http://www.elektor.nl/artikelen-als-pdf/2008/februari/led-it-beam.350445.lynkx http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcwtr665_9d8pdwh&hl=en (science/technology subject matter, lifestyle tuition) KDE Edutainment Project GCompris Linux Terminal Server Project http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Core_principles/lang-en (see networking) http://rfdesign.com/news/laptops-wireless-connectivity/ (see networking; the OLPC uses Nortel Networks P2P networking) http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml (see better performance; trough the better CPU, RAM, ...)
 * Espresso Book machine (EBM)
 * Lumenlab's cheap and durable projector
 * DIY-projectors
 * Projector build with LED-lamp
 * Documents from which further possible subject-matter may be derived for use in the project
 * http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcwtr665_4ds2cq7&hl=en (lifestyle tuition, ...)
 * http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcwtr665_5hdz48t&hl=en (lifestyle tuition, measurement units to be used, ...)
 * Additional links on specific issues for Goobuntu/Ubuntu:
 * KDE Edutainment Project
 * GCompris
 * LTSP Thin Client
 * The OLPC's unique features to which Edubuntu needs to be adapted

PS: The base-education system might also be used together with a self-designed wallet system and other set of tools, to be worn at all times. This system/set of items may be found at Survival wallet

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Multipurpose clothing

This article describes how to make a "civilian military-grade, multi-purpose jacket with sports pants, bag and eyewear". It was taken from my website (under CAD models).

Overview
This military-grade jacket and pants is a toughed up version of the hip-hop culture's hoodie and sports pants. It can be described as a "civilian military-grade, multi-purpose jacket with sports pants, bag and eyewear". As it has been toughed up, it is usable in all environments (including survival use), yet still remains light and casual (no military appearance). Colors are to include plain yellow, olive/drab green and kaki (all for the different environments); no "camouflage"-colors are to be used.

Make-up
The shoes would be rather than angular, more oval shaped and be visually somewhere in between true “skater shoes” (as Globe, Osiris, ...) and regular sportshoes (eg Nike). It would be very similar to the model of “Docker” shoes seen here next to this text. This geometric shoe-design is already very tough and can endure allot of punishment due to is oval shape (eggs have this too and are herefore also very tough in relative terms). The shoes would herefore be not only more or less as tough as regular army shoes (eg Bata shoes; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bata_Shoes) and offering the same advantages as their counterparts (protection from spines, shrubs, ...) but would be also lighter (allowing more swiftness, movability and speed). The shoes may be outfitted with ventilation designs similar to the Geox-shoes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geox), ...

The bag to be worn would simply be a piece of cloth, folded together to hold all belongings (which are placed within). The bag may hold the umpc and the bag/piece of cloth itself may be folded to be used as a pillow (for use when no chairs are present to sit by knee-sitting) or it may be used as a blanket when needed. The piece of cloth/bag would feature 2 ring-attachments and a belt with fastdraws. This to reduce the time necessairy to fold the blanket and for more secure carrying. Extra items should however always be contained in extra bags so that quick reassembly of the bag can be done when it had been unfolded. Especially for those with a weak back or easily brusable ligaments, the pillow is extra handy as chairs are always worse.

The eyewear could be vintage willson welding glasses (visually similar to swimming glasses; and portraied in "The chronicles of Riddick" and "Pitch Black")/swiss mountain or swiss artillery goggles (see http://www.berkeleysurplus.com/swedishmgoggles.htm ), or the Oompa Loompa googles worn in Charlie and the Chocolate factory (in the area where violet gets lost) and would allow a range of functions ; eg protection from sand (eg for desert climates), water (for swimming), wind (from wind), smoke and other gases and perhaps also protection when welding/sawing and/or performing other technical activities. The Bugaboos glacier glasses by Bolle from Mountain Equipment Co-op are also similar. Alternatively, if the goggles prove to be too small to allow enough vision, U.S Army Wind Sun & Dust Goggles can be used instead, or, perhaps even better Kroops over the eyeglasses goggles. (see http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2259544). The lenses in the goggles may be Advanced Intelligence X-Reflect lenses]. These allow (modest) nightvision, and slightlty improved vision, without needing batteries as thermal imaging goggles. Only the lenses would be used however and no recording, ...

The implementation of automatic drainage would also be a useful addition to the combined sun glasses/swim goggles.

The air supply mask would also be included to the design, yet would not be worn all the time. Rather, they would be placed in a pouch or strapped to a leg or arm so that they can be used when this is required.

A climbing harness is also included. This for safety when crossing elevations, aswell as for securing in vehicles, ...

Fingerless gloves are also to be added to the uniform, to be used when needed. When they are not required, they can be secured by a carabiner -in- or unto the bag. The righthand glove (when righthanded) is to be filled with steel around the knuckles The gloves may also be outfitted with a small metal plate just below the fingers, a bit similar to the Tekagi-shuko, but smaller to still allow grasping objects, ... with the hand.

A wristband would also be included which can be used as is (to protect a watch with integrated compass), aswell as to protect yourself from sand, gases or other substances (by using it as a dust mask). The "wristband" would be much similar to a buff). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_%28headgear%29 for further details

Unique features
Based on a "hoodie", the jacket features strong waterproof material, no pouches, and a hood that is specially designed to a U-shaped, rather than round hood (which still provides good visibility). The entire suit would be used as a suit with personal load carrying equipment (PLCE).

The fabric would be very light and a bit flimsy. The suit would be made from natural, extremely durable fibres as climatex, flax, jute, hemp, ... and natural, durable coloring (by Rohner, ...) The appearance of hoodie + pants would be visually similar to the suit worn by Judas in the movie 'The Passion of The Christ", the suit worn by Altair in the video-game "Assassin's Creed" (this latter suit is a special design the team created and only loosely based on the garments worn in this period of time), and the suits worn in Morocco/Saoudi-Arabia (Djellaba, ...), Half-Life 2 rebel costumes, aswell as by "riddick" in "the chronicles of riddick" movie (the black suit of new Mekka) and the civil-guard uniform worn by him and flores in the riddick-games (Escape from Butcher's Bay). Aldough similar, some outer changes remain such as (some of) the clothes mentioned being offcourse only from one single piece, and thus not include a central zipper for the chestpiece. The pants itself would include a integrated belt (aldough integrated, the belt should be still removable). This would be small (2cm) tie-down strap with ladderlock fastener and webbing (or alternatively a rope). The belt would be worn low on the hips in order to eliminate the ligation of the stomach and to create a physical point of reference on the hara (similar as in Aikido).

The suit and/or the bag may be outfitted with symbols of all the capabilities of the person aswell as religion (eg chalice, cross or half moon for unitarian, catholic or muslim, ...) and other achievements (eg red hand for having inputted info at instructables, international squatters symbol for squatters, ... More presicely, the symbols may be eg a wrench for mechanics, plants experience in domestic food production systems ( may be put into a V with rice/grains plants in the V filled with dirt), allambic for distilling, power symbol for the diy electricity generation, ...) The symbols are to be imbedded into the clothing (alternatively on the fabric of the special wallet design (proposed in another document and linked below).

Benefits
The combination of hoodie and pants has many uses. It may for example be used for desert environments (pants and hoody fitting together creating air-insolation like too in a desert robe. This tight fitting is made in practice by a zipper which allows the pants and hodie of being combined or seperated, depending on the needs of the situation. Depending on the material used, it may also be used in wet or cold environments.

Cooperation
Can happen with DIY Tactical; a company specialised in diy manufacturing of clothing. Hereby, they are probably open for the special features mentioned (natural coloring and fabrics, ...).

In addition, labour force may be obtained in the debeloping world (organisations as the Grameen Bank organise textile production trough microcredit-shemes)

Users
PS: army clothing development institutes as the FDDI can cooperate in making the clothing (see: http://www.fddiindia.com/)
 * Heavy-duty users (eg in the military, travel and/or specific professions and departments as fire departments, news services and agencies operating at switching locations/climates,

More information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodie http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0008161HC/ref=nosim/?tag=nextag-apparel-tier1-20&creative=380333&creativeASIN=B0008161HC&linkCode=asn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ http://www.diytactical.com/main/ http://www.wbshop.com/cat/Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory/Costumes/Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory-Goggles-Set-of-Three.html?AID=8123187&PID=2187177 http://www.raymears.com/ http://www.eaglecreek.com/accessories/pouches_waistpacks/Passage-Wallet-40360 http://www.practicalairsoft.co.uk/plce-assembly.asp http://www.diytacticalstore.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=329 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Load_Carrying_Equipment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_survival_kits http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/security2020_1976_27086832 http://www.kitbag.com.au/prod849.htm http://www.mcdonough.com/writings/transforming_textile.htm
 * Hoodie
 * Flimsy pants example
 * Assassin's Creed Hoody/pants example
 * Another example may be found from the clothing worn by Judas in the film "The Passion of the Christ"
 * DIY Tactical
 * Version of oompa loempa googles of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (not exactly the type described dough; movie version is made with yellow-red glass)
 * Ray Mears's Woodlore organisation (may help in set-up)
 * Example of a commercial Personal Load Equipment-webbing belt (which does not feature a plain buckle and which is too bulky for everyday use)
 * http://www.sasskit.co.uk/products/rescueandsurvival/sassescapebelt.htm
 * Breast wallet example
 * PLCE-assembly diagram
 * Your parachute harnass adapter (also called a ladderlock fastener), which may be used in conjunction with the webbing to make the Personal Load Carrying Equipment
 * Personal load carrying equipment
 * Mini survival kit-article
 * Pocket scope strap example (here its used for shotgun-ammo)
 * Firefly kit marker
 * Climatex, natural dying, ...

 * UMPC description: see Survival wallet model

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Survival kit/Wallet

This article describes how to make a "survival wallet" consisting of a breast wallet with imbedded suvival, communication and media equipment. It is taken from my website.

Overview
At the moment, no good Travel/Survival Wallet with integrated communication/media system exist which may be used in world travel (supplying both assistance in times of emergency aswell as good, usable communication technology). In addition, no good (low-tech, cheap, light) systems exist to allow world travellers aswell as everyday citizens to store all of their everyday items (ID card, laptop with communication technology, money, ...) at a centralised place on their body. As such, I created a design for this and the specifications/set-up may be found below. This info was taken from my original website.

The Basic Set-up
The solution I found that can store both regular items needed in civilian life (e.g. money, bank cards, international driving license, ...), some basic, regularly usable survival items; as a small knife, small light, antiseptic, ...) and provide additional benefits for communication, ... consists of a breast wallet (attached to a small, wireless headset), wrist band with combined compass/watch and a ultra-mobile pc with speech recognition, fixed to a belt (tie-down strap, waist belt or alternatively, webbing with ladderlock fastener; belt would also feature small pockets). The belt should be strong enough to carry the weight of a person, and should be able to be used for climbing. As such, an extra chain, rope with small carabiner should be present that can easily be attached between the two legs for this climbing feature. Aldough a additional webbing can be simple used, the use of a chain allows quick removal, which may be more practical for running. The breast wallet would hold money, ID-cards, papers, and most survival items while the belt would be hold some extra survival/observation items and ultra-mobile pc itself the media capability. Wrist band would include the watch/compass capability aswell as provide some lightning. This set-up is highly usable and may be used for everyday life, (world) travel and even in emergency/survival situations. In addition, the system would in its normal set-up also feature a ultra mobile pc. The ultra mobile pc would be used as a very cheap portable media player (similar to an Ipod), and also has a GPS-receiver, mobile phone functionality (trough wireless internet connection over VoIP and satellite communication) and extra capabilities (web-browsing, text-editing, e-book reading, ...)The Ultra-Mobile PC-battery would finally also provide the energy needed for a small faraday flashlight (connected inmediatelly hereon) and a small digital camera (to take pictures of the surrounding and of documents, ...) Aldough composed of commonly commercially available items, it has distinctive differences which include:

For the breast wallet

 * non-irritating material; vegetable fibre (documents waterproofed by aloksak bag, put inside the breast wallet
 * 11cm x 15cm

For the belt

 * very small removable belt pouches (around the size of the belt; thus less than 1,5 inch x 1,5 inch)
 * use of a a tie-down strap or alternatively, webbing with metal ladder buckle ( e.g. DIY Tactical's "Parachute Harnass Adapter")
 * use of keyrings, quickdraws, paracord 550, ... to quickly yet securely connect superluminova key marker, pocket scope, ...

For the bag (preferably sling bag):

 * durable material,
 * 20x30cm

For the wrist band with compass/watch

 * completely shielded design (to prevent any hassle with putting on extra clothing as coats, ..)

For the wrist band with compass/watch:

 * combined ultra-flat wrist watch (digital) combined with compass and equipped with superluminova markings or with a backlight (e.g. Polar Fitwatch 97 with BCB Explorer/Silva SERE 40 button compass on watch band, or Oregon Scientific RA 202 or Suunto Core). It would preferably also need to be added with solar recharging (e.g. as in the Citizen-watches). The wrist band is best an ordinary Buff; this can also be used as air filter/head mask or for general protection of the face (e.g. in desert environments)

For the breast wallet:

 * small wireless headset with earplugs (connected to breast wallet with keyring and reel, when not in use it may be put inside the breast wallet)
 * mini neck knife connected trough the wallets neck cord (e.g. Emerson Knives LaGriffe WWR SFS, Spyderco SPOT, ...); alternatively the knife may be put in the breast wallets pouch (e.g. Cold Steel 20BTJ Bird and Trout, KA-BAR TDI LDK, FS HideAway S30, ShivWorks Lil Loco, Fred Perrin LaPel, ...)
 * 5x5 cm ziploc bag with potassium permanganate stuffed herein
 * 5x5 cm ziploc bag with wire saw
 * ultra-small flint rod with striker (e.g. WSI Hot Spark flint rod, Swedish FireSteel Mini, WSI Flint and Steel)
 * several 5x5cm ziploc bags with 5g of salt, stuffed herein
 * several 11x15 cm ziploc bags (for water carrying, water production, keeping tinder dry, ...)
 * extra keyring with superluminova kit marker (for light and may be used to attach keys)

For the Ultra-Mobile PC-connected belt:

 * pocket scope (monoculars)
 * 1m paracord 550 rapped around the belt itself

For the flashlight
The flashlight should be a faraday head torch, that is recharged by motion (walking) and by the OLPC (for fast recharging). The battery used should be a capacitor. The flashlight should be build into the hood of the Multipurpose_clothing, worn with the survival wallet/OLPC.

For the ultra mobile pc

 * ultra mobile pc with handwheel generator for recharging (similar to OLPC), connection for the recharging of the head torch and digital camera. The umpc is ideally made according to this design. Note that as an alternative to the handwheel generator, certain biomechanical energy harvesters (eg the Max Donelan harvester) may be used instead. Also, PV solar panels on the outside of the UMPC (or alternatively on the Multipurpose clothing) can easily recharge the device, yet this option may be expensive (depending on type of PV cells used, and -if used on the clothing- not too easy to connect.

In addition, a small blood pressure meter should be added to determine the salt intake and vary it depending on the amount and type of food eaten.

Benefits
Its benefits are: At the moment, aldough such most components can already be simply bought at the commercial circuit, some cannot (belt pouches of less than 1,5 inch cannot be found). Also, most commercially available equipment are of poor quality, have unusable features/design, are too expensive, ... Aldough when you carefully select your supplier you might get relative good material, equipment that incorporate all the benefits, quality, ... found above will never be achieved. Simply the non-polluting feature is something which not one supplier is currently offering. Note on the UMPC-satchel: Aldough it is possible to simply put the UMPC in a satchel; it is even more efficient to opt for an alternative. The belt in which the survival items are placed may be simply attached to the OLPC so that the waist belt does not need to include so much items and so that the faraday flashlight/camera may be easily used from the laptop.
 * it is not heavy or bulky and its very usable in everyday life (you'll never feel the need to leave it at home)
 * it is very usable for survivalists/travellers (e.g. a light in the form of a tritium marker can be used in theater, compass can be used for city navigation, international driving licence can now be kept on the body for travellers, ...)
 * the materials chosen would be durable (instead of using plastic buckles, metal buckles, ...)
 * the complete Load Bearing System is composed of only 2-3 parts, thus limiting the time it takes to put them on (gathering wallet, keys, ... may even take longer)
 * as the system is only composed of 2 parts, very few textile, ... is needed and it may thus be created very cheaply (especially when made diy)
 * it removes the need to take a large container along to store mini survival kit items
 * the survival items are limited to the basics, yet retain the capability of giving a better chance of survival in extreme situations
 * the materials and equipment chosen would be maintenance-free (e.g. the tritium light, rather than a regular battery torch does not need to be revised for battery depletion, ...)
 * webbing, pouches, breast wallet, ... can be made do-it-yourself
 * the webbing, belt pouches, ... can be made extremely environmentally-friendly (even non-polluting). This may be done by naturally extremely durable fibres as climatex, flax, jute, hemp, ... and natural, durable coloring (by Rohner, ...)
 * the UMPC is cheap compared to its functions; it is the only device that can achieve so much functionality (media playing, gps, ...) at such low price. For example a IPod-player may only provide a small amount of its features (no gps, e-book, flashlight, ...) while still having a comparable price. In addition, I also have submitted a self-made UMPC design with some extra features (dynamo, WiMax, ...).
 * the UMPC allows people to save on costs by eliminating the need to buy home appliances (e.g. radio, tv, .. is no longer required). In addition, all of a persons home appliances can now be taken along (making a trough nomadic media lifestyle possible)

FAQ
Why is such a plain knife used and why is no pocket survival tool (PST) included ? The survival items mentioned in this document focus mainly on true survival and emergency situations. As these situations typically only last only a few days, no items involving food gathering need to be foreseen (people can do without food up to 30 days without problems). In addition, water gathering is a much more serious problem and needs to be solved immediately (within 3 days). Also, if food is consumed, extra water gathering needs to be done as for the food digestion extra water is required. Finally, if extra items for food gathering are taken, the pack gets larger (which may result in not carrying it all the time and it would also get heavier (requiring one to spend extra energy for carrying it along)

Why is salt and blood pressure included/discussed ? Another serious issue (next to water gathering) is salt intake. Besides being required heavily by the body, maintaining a good blood pressure is also vital for survival. This as low blood pressure (which can easily result from not eating a few days) will make people less fit (dizziness, tiredness, ...) and thus less capable of getting trough the first few days of a survival situation (which are always vital). Also, for people going extensively abroad, the types of food consumed are seriously altered depending on the area visited (different cultures bring different foods/meals). In these situations too, checking your blood pressure often and maintaining a regular salt intake is vital to remain healthy while on the road and will make your trip more enjoyable.

More information

 * My design for a training suit that can be used in conjunction with the system
 * The same design at wikiversity (without extra pictures)

 * Example of a commercial Personal Load Equipment-webbing belt (this example is for waist use; which is obviously not employed)

 * Breast wallet
 * Sling bag
 * Buff wrist band
 * Wireless headsets
 * Wireless clip headset
 * Logitech Mobile Freedom (miniature bluetooth headphone)
 * An example of a ultra mobile pc
 * Samsung Q1
 * Wikipedia's UMPC article
 * PLCE-assembly diagram
 * Ladderlock fastener, which may be used in conjunction with the webbing to make a belt

Omron HEM-808F Compact Finger Blood Pressure Monitor http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art15467.asp (Lumiscope 1083N Finger blood pressure monitor; cheaper) http://www.raymears.com/
 * Personal load carrying equipment
 * Mini survival kit-article
 * Firefly kit marker
 * WSI Flint and Steel
 * Knives
 * Emerson LaGriffe WWR SFS
 * Fred Perrin LaPel
 * Maraglo Watch/compass
 * http://www.westcoastime.com/marusismilge.html
 * http://www.marathonwatch.com/site/catalog.php?pid=co194001
 * http://www.timex.com/gp/product/B0000TIJ04/ref=sc_pgb_c_3_2_238505011_m_A1S5XB33AHYRMX_2/104-9242513-8576737?ie=UTF8&n=238505011&s=&timexBrand=core&v=glance
 * Finger blood pressure meter (smallest blood perssure meter types; Omron is specialised in travel meters)
 * Solar powered watches
 * Wikipedia Solar powered watch
 * Examples
 * Ray Mears's Woodlore organisation (may help in set-up)

P.S.1: The self-made CAD designs which work together to this Travel/Survival Wallet System may be viewed at my blog (under CAD models)
 * Climatex, natural dying, ...

P.S.2: A article on living a ethical/environmental life, travelling, and making preparations therefore may be found at this website

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Underground refrigerated storage room

This article describes how to make a underground (temperature-controlled), refrigerated storage room.

Principle

This storage room is based on natural principles (thermics); it draws on the principle that hot air rises (it will not enter lower-lying areas as easily). In addition, the room uses proven, low-cost equipment. The pipes (1) shown on the drawing are hollow pipes made from a heat-conducting metal (e.g. aluminium or composite). Fans are added to the entrance of the pipes or directed at it to conduct the heat in the room away via the pipes. The fans are to be controlled by a computerised system to allow precise cooling (at a certain amount of degrees). Finally, the ground is to be equipped with a heat-conducting grille (again in a metal), the grille allows the temperature to be evenly distributed in the room (so the sides do not become colder than the interior. This grille together with the computerised fan-system would also allow the system to be patented.

The system is proven to work due to the fact that similar, natural (above-ground) systems exist and are in use in the developing world. For example in Mali, in certain mosques a similar system is implemented to chill rooms. This may be seen in the documentary 'Around the world in 80 treasures' and 'Micheal Palin's Sahara' (note the chimneys with pots on top). In addition, heat pumps and peltier coolers work at a similar fashion (without the added thermics-advantage).

Benefits
The system may drastically reduce the cost of refrigeration (as the thermic effect + heat would decrease power requirements. As such, it may allow people (e.g. in the developing world) to afford a means of refrigerating food. Although less convenient than a refrigerator (getting the food is more of a nuisance), in the developing world, getting by is more of the essence. As such, they will appreciate the many advantages instead (longer storage life for their foodstuffs, healthier food (less degraded), sometimes no longer a need for other food preservation techniques (e.g. pickling, drying, smoking, ...)

Secondly, the system is entirely environmentally-friendly. Although new refrigerators are said to be this as well, this is actually untrue. This because the substances used as cooling liquid are still highly toxic, and environmentally damaging (damaging the ozone-layer at least to some degree, although less than before the Montreal-accords) and biological diversity/life (water/air pollution, toxicity, ...).

Thirdly, the system may be set-up totally self-sufficiently (when the fans are powered by a local wind turbine, PV solar panel or other microgeneration-plant).

Users
The system may be sold especially in the developing world (in subtropical and tropical climates). Given the increased interest in humanitarian relief (the 2015 Millennium Goals are now fully being targeted by organisations worldwide), there should be no problem in finding customers. The organisations may use this storage room within ethnic communities and villages in developing parts of the world. A good place to start are the 'Millennium Villages', being undertaken by the UN and which incorporate a high number of potential customers/organisations.

Other possible buyers are environmentalists (especially those living in confined communities) and people appreciating the self-sufficiency part of the system (survivalist-communities, ...)

Links

 * Millennium Villages
 * http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/

 * Documentary showing the the use of similar systems in real life
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_80_Treasures#Episode_8:_Mali_to_Egypt
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_with_Michael_Palin

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User:Alabandit

Hi my names Alastair.

I come from Cape Town, South Africa. I'm 25 though i have not as yet graduated with a degree i have done a number of course and certificates.

if you want to contact me my email is my user name @ gmail

Currently studying: French_stream

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User talk:Alabandit

 Hello Alabandit, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! Jtneill - Talk - c 09:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

 Hi! My name is WikiversityJack. I am a pumpkin and a Wikiversity mascot. My aunt told me that fun + learning = Wikiversity. Let me know if I can help you out.

re: French contributions
Salut Alastair, thank you very much for your help so far. You got responses here. See you around soon, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 07:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

French Mentoring
Salut, Alastair. You are listed at the French stream as being a beginning student of French who is interested in learning French. The French Mentoring project has recently been launched, and if you add your name to that list, I will do my best to put you in contact with an appropriate Mentor who would be glad to help you. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 10:02, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

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User:JWSchmidt/Moulton

Note: 8/25/08 I will continue working on this study at Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia/Moulton, JWSchmidt's investigation.

Here is my proximal starting point: "Perhaps Jimbo could just suggest that Wikipedians establish a better practice of Fair Play than has thus far been afforded to outcasts such as myself."

The first thing that comes to mind is that Wikipedia could have a page for "block review". Wikipedia has many pages for review of actions such as page deletions (Wikipedia:Deletion review), so why not a similar organized system for the review of blocks? Currently there is Wikipedia:Appealing a block and Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks.

Study question. Should editors of biographical pages be required to reveal their real world identity?

I want to write a very short account of how Moulton got into the mess he is in. First I need to make sure I have the facts clear.

John orders his thoughts
How I came to know Moulton. I have been busy in the real world and only became aware of User:Moulton on or about 4 August 2008, even though he came to Wikiversity on 9 July 2008. Since then I have been gradually learning about Moulton's editing history at Wikipedia. When I first saw Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia I linked it to an existing Wikiversity topic, Topic:Wikipedia studies. At that time I did not have any knowledge of Moulton's editing history at Wikipedia. As someone who has been learning about that editing history during the past few weeks, I hope to be able to help construct a short narrative of events. This exercise is important because Wikipedia has a problem with biographies of living persons and Moulton's editing history at Wikipedia is an interesting case study related to that larger problem. By understanding what happened to Moulton we might be able to improve Wikipedia. The basic problem is that anyone can start a biographical Wikipedia article and write it in a biased way that does not follow the Wikipedia rules that are designed to lead to the creation of fair and balanced biographies of notable people. The additional problem is that some of Wikipedia's biased biographies are created and owned by editors who are pushing a particular agenda. Moulton crossed paths with some dedicated editors who behaved as if they owned a set of biographical articles and could use those articles as part of a protracted edit war that is roughly centered on the Creation-evolution controversy.

Study questions:

1) Has the Wikipedia:WikiProject intelligent design attracted a group of editors who damage Wikipedia by trying too zealously to defend Wikipedia against creationists and other editors who question evolution by natural selection?

2) Is Moulton an example of a Wikipedia editor who was unfairly treated by editors associated with the Wikipedia:WikiProject intelligent design?

3) Is there something we can do to prevent this kind of problem in the future?

Timeline of events
August 2007. Before 21 August 2007, User:Moulton was a typical Wikipedia editor, having made several dozen edits to various articles over the course of a year and a half. When Moulton followed a link from Affective computing to Rosalind Picard he found a biographical Wikipedia article that was in a particularly bad state. The Wikipedia article about Rosalind Picard is in some ways a "typical" Wikipedia biographical article. The subject of the article, Dr. Picard, is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wikipedia has many other biographical articles about university professors, many of which are autobiographical, having been started by the subject. The Rosalind Picard article is unusual in that it was started by an editor who had an ax to grind.

The Rosalind Picard article was made (7 March 2006) by copying her online Faculty Profile and adding a section called, "Intelligent Design Support". It is clear that the purpose of User:Tempb was to create an article that labels Dr. Picard as a supporter of Intelligent design and as "anti-evolution". Page section title changed from "Anti-Evolution Petition Signatory" to "Darwin dissenter" by Filll.

Is there an "anti-Intelligent Design Cabal"?
Study questions: 1) was there an organized effort to create biographical articles for signers of the petition that was released under the title, "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism"? 2) was there an organized effort to prevent those articles from being made more balanced and accurate? 3) is there a coordinated group of rude and abusive anti-Intelligent design editors who prevent the creation of more balanced articles related to intelligent design and creationism? 4) Is this a good summary: "a group of editors was so caught up in their crusade against ID-on-Wikipedia that they couldn't recognize valid criticism, and moreover, that many of those editors resorted to despicable tactics in order to get their way"?

terminology. "IDiots" used to refer to creationists in edit summary by User:General Nolledge, creator of Granville Sewell (8 October 2006 ), an early "single purpose" biographical article linked to from A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism....example of creating a biography just to make connections to the person's stance on ID.

single purpose biographies. Just how many "single purpose" biographies like Rosalind Picard were created? By who? For what purpose?
 * long list of biographies towards the bottom
 * discussion of creation of a "Signers Category", (ConfuciusOrnis 15:08, 20 June 2007 (diff) (deletion log) (Restore) . . m Category:Signatory of "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism" (creating Cat)), the category was deleted and replaced by a list: List of signatories to "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism"
 * Is this good wording? Looks like the list was built before each person on the list was tagged.

A recent list of problematical biographies from Moulton lists:
 * James Tour - fairly normal short biography, then added to category [Signatory of "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism"] by ConfuciusOrnis on 20 June 2007. Then a page section Anti-Evolution Petition Controversy was added by User:Filll on 26 August 2007, doubling the size of the article in order to make the single point that he was a signatory to the petition. Is this an example of Undue weight?
 * David Berlinski - is this the start of excessive biography weighting by FeloniousMonk on 8 March 2006?
 * Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer) this article was subject to a discussion about deletion soon after its creation (26 February 2006). This short discussion provides an interesting window into the give-and-take at Wikipedia over biographical articles related to evolution/creationism. The article was originally created by User:King aardvark and called Guillermo Gonzalez (CSC), making explicit reference to the Center for Science and Culture. Category:Intelligent design advocates

How do we clean things up?

 * Ottava Rima: expand the biased biographies into balanced articles

Moulton responds here
I first began editing in the bailiwick of the WikiClique on Intelligent Design ("IDCab" or Intelligent Design Cabal) exactly one year ago today. During this time of year, when everyone is on vacation and nothing much is happening, it occurred to me to look at Wikipedia to see if it had an article on Affective Computing, and whether it was up to date. Whilst reviewing that article, I noticed it included a blue link to Rosalind Picard, the author of the textbook of that same name, the founder of the academic discipline of the same name, and the MIT Media Lab faculty member who had established the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and who, in 1999, had brought me into her group as a Visiting Scientist on the occasion of winning an NSF grant.

The Wikipedia biography of Rosalind Picard, as it stood a year ago today, was atrocious. So I fixed it. Immediately it was reverted by User:Hrafn, a card-carrying member of IDCab.

There then ensued a brief edit war followed by a contentious talk page discussion on the Picard BLP and related IDCab-controlled articles that lasted two weeks. On September 4th, User:ConfuciusOrnis and User:Filll (both IDCab charter members) filed RfC/Moulton, which lasted another week. On 9/11 of last year, User:KillerChihuahua (also an IDCab charter member) unilaterally closed RfC/Moulton by executing an Indef-Block, at which point I could only edit on my own Wikipedia talk page.

Travesties of the Intelligent Design Cabal
Last week, I sent to Jimbo Wales (at his request) a list of problematic BLP's and related articles and non-article pages produced by members of the Intelligent Design Cabal. Here is a summary of the items in that list.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Other editors comment here
You're starting the story in the middle. Moulton has also gone through this same behavior pattern at Slashdot and at Worldcrossing  and has numerous complaints about this kind of behavior on his own site. Salmon of Doubt 20:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Please tell the story of what happened at Slashdot and in the Soap Opera Forum at World Crossing. —Moulton 22:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reminder. Does this help us to improve Wikipedia? --JWSchmidt 21:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I do think it is useful to point out that among Moulton's behavior patterns that are consistent over time include being both obsessive and persistent which can be frustrating to work with. Add his being "part aspie" and you have a recipe for people perceiving him as a trouble-maker. Also note that Moulton has a w:WP:COI on his good friend Rosalind Picard and the subject of their project - Affective Computing, so his point of view can not be trusted to be neutral with regard to the article he was trying to get changed when he was initially banned. IDcab sees a constant stream of people coming to articles they protect from creationists trying to push their point of view and it was perhaps inevitable that they would mistake Moulton for one of these. Unfortunately, they seem incapable of changing their minds based on new information. All in all, it made for a typical newbie-biting scenario at Wikipedia. Which could have been resolved, if the IDcab did not behave as it does. And the IDcab problem could be fixed if Arbcom would act as it should. But they have not so far been willing to halt abuse by long standing contributors who mostly help the encyclopedia, so the problems fester. WAS 4.250 19:16, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

 * WAS, you state "Unfortunately, they seem incapable of changing their minds based on new information." How many times has Moulton/Picard been asked to publish a clear statement that they do not believe in Intelligent Design as professed by the Discovery Institute and find Evolution to be the most likely explanation for current life? How many times have they been totally unwilling to answer with a clear and unambiguous statement? You say there is "new information." What is it? Salmon of Doubt 23:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

 * to "Salmon of Doubt". I do not understand how your desire for such a statement relates to Wikipedia or this page. "We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged." You might not like it, but many rational people are skeptical about the ability of natural selection to account for everything. If this bothers you so much, to the extent that you imagine it is your place to demand that Picard publish something to satisfy you, then you have a clear (and I would say irrational) bias and should not edit Wikipedia articles related to this subject. I think I understand why you hide your identity. --JWSchmidt 03:50, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I have no problem with their "nuanced" statement supporting intelligent design. There is consensus in the scientific community that you are wrong - there is additional consensus in the polemical community that using "Darwinian theory" means you're not actually "skeptical" but rather "polemical." I have no bias, in that I don't especially care about Evolution on Wikipedia, but WAS 4250 says there was new evidence that supporters of accuracy in science-related pages could trust Moulton not to push ID. I'm wondering what that new evidence was. Salmon of Doubt 10:57, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * What is your evidence and reasoning to support the notion (long published by IDCab in the pages of Wikipedia) that the first 103 signatories of the 2-sentence, 32-statement which IDCab has elected to label and refer to as "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism" (from the headline of an anti-PBS ad in which the statement first appeared in print) are either pro-ID or anti-evolution? Is that notion WP:OR?  Is it a misconception and a logical fallacy?  —Moulton 12:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

(<---)Salmon of Doubt, you seem to under the impression that Moulton has made a pro-ID statement somewhere. As near as I can tell you are wrong on that. As near as I can tell, it is a case of you and IDcab folks not understanding that there are non-Darwinian non-ID processes that are a part of evolution. You guys see the ID people conflate Darwinian-ism and Evolution so you think everyone does. Scientists investigating evolution distinguish Darwin's ideas and post-Darwin ideas. They do not want their ideas credited to Darwin. They want that credit for themselves. So they restrict the meaning of "Darwinism" to ideas Darwin actually had. I have read many statements Moulton has provided that indicate some of the signers were merely saying that other newer evolution ideas like evolutionary drift needed to get more attention. WAS 4.250 14:43, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I was once asked to comment on Intelligent Design. I did so here and here.  —Moulton 20:44, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Links? Salmon of Doubt 14:59, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * PS - I am well aware that "Darwinism" is a slur advanced by push groups in an attempt to denigrate the scientific fact of Evolutions as a religious belief. Salmon of Doubt 15:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Links to what? To "many statements Moulton has provided"? I don't have them handy. Perhaps Moulton does. Ask him. WAS 4.250 16:13, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Here is one, for example. There are many more on that page.  —Moulton 20:44, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Sulaimon

>Hello World Hello, welcome around here. I hope we can help you succeed in your learning goals. Below more info about Wikiversity, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

 Hello Sulaimon, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Wikiversity Day/2009

Plans for the next Wikiversity Day are:

 * finish: Wikiversity the Movie
 * postponed: rumors had it that the next party will be therefore much bigger

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Wikiversity:Wikiversity the Movie/already existing movies

Please start collecting here some media in regards to Wikiversity (don't get offended with some - please think about reusage or generating more/other ideas ?):

Discover more at:
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User:Ottava Rima

Ottava Rima - an Italian rhyme used by epic poets and later adapted by playful Brits.

British Romantic poetry (course)
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley lectures: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound collection, Shelley's Alastor collection
 * John Keats lectures: Comparison of Keats and Coleridge's "nightingale" poems, Keats's attempted epic
 * Lectures on influence: Gray's Elegy Among the Romantics and Victorians
 * John Keats's major works: "To Autumn"
 * British Romantic literary theory

Independent lectures:
 * History of printing
 * James Joyce's Ulysses: Narrator of Ulysses, Feminist interpretations of Molly Bloom
 * Middlemarch and the Nazarenes

Projects:
 * English literary canon
 * Wikiversity Ethics
 * Wikipedia

My academic transcript:
 * File:Ottava transcript part 1.jpg
 * File:Ottava transcript part 2.jpg
 * File:Ottava transcript part 3.jpg
 * File:Ottava transcript part 4.jpg

Some important links:
 * Review board
 * Portal:Reading groups
 * Colloquium
 * Custodian feedback
 * Featured

Tasks:
 * Special:DoubleRedirects
 * CAT:CSD
 * Requests for Deletion
 * Request custodian action

Other:
 * Wikiversity chat

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Topic talk:Web 2.0

No link to Techcrunch? Emesee 04:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I heard this the first time now (am I now outed somehow? :-, but Wikipedia has a page about them: TechCrunch - so could be added that (on one of the pages at Category:Web 2.0) ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 05:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable. Emesee 05:44, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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User:Jtneill/Creative writing

 * /What is more?/

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User:Jtneill/Creative writing/What is more?

What is more …. shameful or self-sickening – the ache of not having written creatively with any regularity or effort for years (and realising that and trying again) – or the slide of the body not well exercised through middling years into sloppiness. There is no answer; everything is interaction. They’ve gone together. Wife’s away for three weeks getting ridiculously fit and focused at a yoga ashram. The boy ‘though I love him (its his 8th birthday) and his mate run seemingly insolently for the goal of a midnight stay-up, oscillating between computer games, videos, lego, and sporadically visiting me in my littered cave with requests for sustenance, miracle cures for temporary ailments, and other forms of boyful manipulation in effort to wrest the entire planet around their hungry little ego’s fingers. Thankfully my day can rotate at least sometimes instead around small, vital mercies – a Tibetan folk song audio documentary on the radio. A short story from an ‘old’ friend which seems dredge up in me the groan of a forgotten creative self. And I have written one paragraph again. And I have sung some ohms. And I have weathered my offspring through another arc of the sun (with the aid of my mother who uncomplainly in the next room helps with my kids doing what she already spent a generation doing for me). And my daughter … ‘though the request came again seemingly 1000 times today down the tunnel of my ear-drums as though from a far distance morse code requests for another “apple-turn”, another “banana-turn” please dad (over the shoulder, down the back) please dad – how can one refuse? I know she will be grown up in the blink of an eye – so one must comply; it would be utterly inhumane not to. And it is pleasurable to play. Yet everything about this twists on paradox. Why are these creatures so voracious in their dependence and demand, chewing up and spitting out every ounce of parental resource and on this feed of love, finding new demand for even more. I recall a documentary about the fierce battle between embryo and mother’s body, both vying for the same limited resources, a tug of war revolving around the sun, selfish genes clad in fleshy guise calling out for each other across the vast nano-ness.


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Wiki Campus Radio/Formerly active audio stream

 * The playlist which aired on October 31st 2008 is now archived.

Portions of the original live stream are archived ( you can select individual audio files) at this page. Example: Cantate Domino

What was In the live audio stream

 * Introduction to Wiki Campus Radio (ogg) 1m22s
 * About the WikiWay Theme <--> WikiWay Theme (ogg) | mp3 - musical introduction (2m:26s)
 * Introduce the interview <--> Podcast about Wikiversity Reports | alt. mp3 by Dave LaMorte - Teaching for the Future. (27m:52s) Mentioned: Sculpture
 * Introduction to Hark the Herolds <--> Hark the Herolds (ogg) | mp3 sung by Sundance Raphael (1m1s).
 * The Wikiversity Reports podcasts. Introduction Note: video podcast versions are available.
 * Report 1 (mp3): the first month of Wikiversity (2006, 5m:01s)
 * Report 2 (mp3}: Wikiversity website traffic statistics, launch of the Spanish language Wikiversity website (2m:12s)
 * Imoggination (ogg) | (mp3) - music (1m:51s) video version
 * Report 3 (mp3): frequently visited Wikiversity pages (4m:03s)
 * Report on the 2006 Nobel Prizes (mp3, see also RNA interference, Eukaryotic transcription) (2m:16s)
 * Report on the Computer science program (mp3) (1m:20s)
 * Report on Wikiversity content development projects (mp3) (1m:19s)
 * Go down Moses (mp3) sung by Sundance Raphael (1m18s)
 * Interview (alt. mp3) with Cormac Lawler from Wikimania. (2008) (13m:24s)
 * Wiki Way with words (ogg) | (mp3) theme music (2m:43s).
 * Presidential election 2008
 * TeamSpeak test audio recording (mp3, 45s). We are experimenting with this system for audio chat. Download the Teamspeak software and "quick connect" to "newscafe.ansci.usu.edu" (no quotes). Pick your own username.
 * Wiki Campus Radio
 * Guitar tuning (ogg) | (mp3) by CQ (2m:54s)
 * Jimmy Wales talks about Wikiversity (2006, ogg | mp3) and discussion of the Sandbox Server (16m24s).
 * Cantate Domino by Sundance Raphael (ogg) | mp3 (1m17s)
 * Music by User:CQ and discussion by User:Historybuff, User:Chrismo and User:Rayc about other types of uses for interactive audio (ogg | mp3, 17m10s).
 * Group discussion of interactive audio and relations between Wikiversity and other education-oriented projects (Feb. 2007, ogg | mp3, 21m:47s).
 * Hark the Herolds (ogg) | mp3 sung by Sundance Raphael (1m1s).
 * Collaborative fiction writing (ogg) (17m33s) See VirileMail.
 * Group discussion (April 2007): Copyleft Part I (ogg) | mp3 (39m:59s) and Copyleft Part II (ogg) | mp3 (52m:49s) from a conference call that included User:Historybuff, User:CQ, User:Chrismo and User:Leighblackall. Most of the discussion is Chris and Leigh discussing reasons why some people do not want to release materials under licenses like the GFDL coyyleft license.
 * Image:Active listening.OGG - Example of using teamspeak for language learning (active listening).

Specials
Burns Night - Burns night special... currently in planning stages

Plans for the future
Add your suggestions, requests. Would you like to create a daily, weekly or monthly show? Do you want to be a "DJ"? Here is your chance. note, see also: Planned sessions.
 * Tess of the d’Urbervilles
 * H. P. Lovecraft collection
 * Gospel of John
 * Collaborate with Whole Wheat Radio


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User:Reason

Hello,

I often contribute to Arabic Wikipedia.

Thus, You may catch me here.

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User:CQ/2008/W34/5

Happy Birthday Kasey!

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User:Robpenney

Pages to hit:

Introduction to Latin

Latin stream

Classics

Dictionary

Latin conjugation

Latin declension

Latin mnemonics

Grammar

Robpenney 17:32, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Robpenney

Hello, welcome around here. I hope we can help you succeed in your language learning goals. Below more info about Wikiversity, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

 Hello Robpenney, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Introduction to Latin
Rob,

Thanks for you comments! It is assuring to know that someone is actually using the material. Since I know that you are using the lessons, I will add indefinitely - probably 2 or 3 lessons per week. If you have any questions or comments feel free to e-mail me (probably easier to deal with than this discussion board): ebams06@gmail.com

Vale,

Evan Prothmes

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User talk:Ncrmedia

Your recent edits
Hi there, what are you doing? Adambro 19:22, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear user, would you mind giving feedback ? Probabyl you have some info why you are doing your edits ? If you could tell us, we could even help you. What do you say ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion request
Please see comments at Requests for Deletion. Thanks, Cormaggio talk 14:50, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * did you see above message ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 23:33, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

authorized
"THIS CONTENT WAS POSTED BY AN AUTHORIZED ZTEKNOLOGIES REPRESENTATIVE AND IS IN NO WAY SPAM OR HACKING TOMFOOLERY!"

You might be authorized, but you have provided no evidence that there is a valid reason for us to remove text from this website. It does you no good to bluster and make threats. It would help if you provided evidence to show us what the problem is. "COMPANY VIOLATIONS" makes no sense to me. --JWSchmidt 01:03, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

I was contacted by user:drjayztekradio and I deleted the pages. I hope you understand that we do not like to delete pages without reason or without request from the person who made the pages.--JWSchmidt 02:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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School of Mathematics:Introduction to Proofs:Lecture 1

Introduction
Exercise: Before reading any further, take a few minutes to try and define a proof for yourself.

A Proof is a sequence of logical deductions based on a set of assumptions, the axioms of the logic system, and previously proven statements of the system, ending at a desired conclusions. A proof is always associated with a Theorem, Lemma, or Corollary.

Less formally, given a statement, usually giving one or more assumptions and arriving at one or more conclusions, we prove that statement by starting with the givens and using what we know to eventually end up at the desired conclusions.

A theorem and its proof in mathematics must be distinguished from a theory (or law or etc.) in the sciences, in that a theorem in mathematics, once proven, is a fact (in mathematics) whereas a theory in the sciences is simply the best known explanation to date of a given pattern. In logical terms, a proof is deductive reasoning (meaning, if constructed properly, cannot be wrong) whereas a theory in the sciences is inductive reasoning (meaning it's probably correct, but may still be wrong).

Example
Theorem: Every even positive integer greater than 2 is not prime.

Proof: Suppose that we are given a positive integer $$X$$ greater than 2.

An even number is defined as a number which is an integer multiple of 2.

Therefore, that integer must be divisible by 2.

Since a prime number is a number which has no proper divisors, $$X$$ cannot be prime.$$\square$$


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Social entrepreneurship/FAQ

Replace links with concise answers ...

What is social entrepreneurship?

 * Wikipedia article
 * Wikiversity answer

What is a social entrepreneur?

 * An evolving definition may be found here.

How can I get Involved?
See this "welcome page" on how to get involved.

Check up on what is happening.

Do social entrepreneurs tend to come from any specific disciplines/professions or sectors?
"No". Social Entrepreneurs (SEs) come from all sectors and professions including politics, psychology, environmentalists, education, businesses, finance, manufacturing, public relations, religious leaders, human resources, various trades, health care, marketing, law, human rights, social work/community development (less than 5%) and so on. Their specific interest in a certain field and social entrepreneurial ability, rather than education in social change projects would trigger social entrepreneurial activities in that area of operation.

Who is already involved?
See the People page and the Networking area.

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Portal:Social entrepreneurship/To-do

 * Develop an initial curriculum.
 * Check that pages are correctly categorised.
 * Populate the Issue Tracker.
 * Sort out the FAQ and pages it links to.

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Portal talk:Social entrepreneurship/Curriculum/Terminology/more

I assume this page is to help students understand the terminology.

Do we need a separate page for terminology debates?

 * e.g. instead of referring to community "needs", refer to "aspirations"? etc.


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BCP/Lavandula pinnata

Lavandula pinnata

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BCP/Lavandula pinnata/Logs

2008 Logs

 * (no archived logs yet)

Recent Logs

 * --SB_Johnny talk 00:20, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 10:49, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Ahill3

Hello, welcome around here. I hope we can help you succeed in your learning goals in mathematics. Unfortunately with this edits: the 3 people (one of them can be reached by email also) can not be contacted again when the learning resource finds new active people. What do you say, how should we solve this ? Below more info about Wikiversity, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 05:58, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

 Hello Ahill3, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 05:58, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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User:Jkl~enwikiversity

 I am primarily Czech wikiversity user.

Member of/studying

 * none so far

Modules

 * none so far

Subpages

 * none so far

To do

 * get sandbox server account

Links
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Talk:History of the Ottoman Empire

Hello, the content was deleted because it violates the terms and conditions of historyworld.net. Feel free to get permission by them so they can send this to OTRS. Why don't we make a learning experiment now with this and try to rephrase this in our own words ?

Please also see: What Wikiversity is not - also worthwile reading: What is Wikiversity?, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 08:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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History of the Ottoman Empire

'''Hi! Welcome to the "History of the Ottoman Empire" course. This course's goals are: teaching, quizzing, and homework. After seven weeks, successful students will become assistants. After eleven weeks, the most successful student will become a "professional student". The first lesson will begin on 20 June 2010 and the second lesson will start on 8 July 2010. Good luck...''' --Bermanya 16:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Rules of this course

 * Students must do homework.
 * Students must ask questions about the Ottoman Empire.
 * Students must take quizzes.
 * Successful students will become assistants.

If you wish to take this course, please add this template to your user page:

Schedule
The aim of this course is that to give some knowledge about Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkish History in professional level. Students have to do their homework, follow the lessons, solve the quizzes and if they need, they should ask their questions to their instructor. If the students aren't interested in their homework, then don't spend any effort for them, don't follow the lessons and don't solve the quizzes, they will add in to inactive students list. Before adding in to inactive students list, they will be warned. When The History of Ottoman Empire semester is completed, the most succesful students who obey the rules of this lesson will be chosen as assistant students. In the second semester, the most succesful students will be chosen as an assistant professor. In the last week, the most successful student will be chosen as professional student. When the course is over, successful students will get an award from the instructor.

General Quizzes

 * Quiz I
 * Quiz II
 * Quiz III

Semester I: Age of the Ottoman Empire (20 June '10 - 15 September '10)

 * Week I:  Establishment of the Ottoman State
 * Week II: Obtaining power
 * Week III: Mehmed II (Fatih) - The rise of the Ottoman Empire and downfall of the Byzantine Empire
 * Week IV: 16th century: Growth of the Empire, Part 1, Selim I (Yavuz)
 * Week V:  16th century: Growth of the Empire, Part 2, Suleiman I ("the Magnificent")
 * Week VI: Height of the Ottoman Empire
 * Week VII: Recession of the Empire, Part 1
 * Week VIII: Recession of the Empire, Part 2
 * Week IX: Decline of the Empire, Part 1
 * Week X:  Decline of the Empire, Part 2, Abdulhamıt II
 * Week XI: World War I and collapse of the Ottoman Empire
 * Week XII: Turkish War of Independence and establishment of modern Turkey

Semester II: Age of Modern Turkey (20 November '10 - 27 February '11)

 * Week XIII: Ataturk, Part 1
 * Week XIV: Ataturk, Part 2
 * Week XV:  World War II and Modern Turkey
 * Week XVI: Joining NATO and the Korean War
 * Week XVII: Adnan Menderes
 * Week XVIII: Revolution of 1960
 * Week XIX: Military government, Part 1
 * Week XX:  Communist youth
 * Week XXI: Revolution of 1972
 * Week XXII: War of Cyprus with Greece
 * Week XXIII: 1974-1980
 * Week XXIV: Revolution of 1980
 * Week XXV: Military government, Part 2
 * Week XXVI: 1982-2000
 * Week XXVII: War of Iraq and Terrorism

Homework this week
Week V: There is homework this week;

1-) Why were revolts period of Suleiman I
 * C:

2-) Which states were enemy of Ottoman Empire period of Suleiman I?
 * C:

3-) When did Hayreddin Barbarossa become commander of Ottoman navy?
 * C:

Questions
If you have any questions, please write here... Are Turks related to Asians in any way?

Is Turk related to Korean ethnically or historically?

Students
If you want to be a student of this course, please add your user name below:

İlker ozbay
 * 1) Aycan
 * 2) Acilladon
 * 3) Harrypotter
 * 4) Tamerlane
 * 5) Emperyan
 * 6) Alilu
 * 7) Shawnbhatti53534 22:58, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 8) Victoria Butler 17:23, 01 December 2011
 * 9) Hnag06
 * 10) tsblansett
 * 11) World historia (talk) 10:06, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 12) Lily
 * 13) Aditya Sharma
 * 14) J ansari

Resources

 * en.wiki Ottoman Empire
 * tr.viki Osmanlı Devleti
 * fr.wiki Empire Ottoman

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BCP/Spilanthes oleracea

Spilanthes oleracea

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BCP/Spilanthes oleracea/Logs

2008 Logs

 * (no archived logs yet)

Recent Logs

 * --SB_Johnny talk 10:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * --SB_Johnny talk 10:49, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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Sex education

Participants in this learning project want to learn more about sex education. Let's start with some questions:

 * Do you remember the first time you heard about sex?
 * From what resource (human and/or non-human) did you learn about sex?
 * From what resource (human and/or non-human) can you also learn about sex?
 * What do others think about this topic? Did you talk with anyone already about this topic? With whom? And why not with others?
 * When do you stop learning about sex?
 * What does sex mean for you? What does sex education mean to you?

Participants

 * goodguy007

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