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Wikiversity:General disclaimer

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Wikiversity:Site support

Wikiversity is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization with the goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. Wikiversity is exploring ways to use the power of wiki to support online learning.

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Help:Contents/Old

 * Wikimedia Help
 * The main Wikimedia meta wiki help page

 * Specific Questions?
 * This page is a directory of pages in the Help namespace. If you have a specific question see: Questions

 * Need help with jargon?
 * Wikiversity participants use many technical terms that have special meaning within the Wikiversity project; see the glossary of terms.

Editing

 * Editing tutorial
 * Help:Editing $$\Leftrightarrow$$ This page has excellent tables showing the basic formattingoptions.
 * Help:Editing FAQ
 * Help:Editing tips and tricks
 * Help:Edit summary
 * Help:How to edit a page
 * Help:Editing toolbar - Shortcut buttons for editing

Making pages

 * Help:Starting a new page - See start a new page function at bottom of this page.
 * Help:Page name
 * Help:Moving, renaming and removing pages
 * Help:Portal - about making, and especially about editing, portals.

Links

 * Help:Link
 * Help:Piped link
 * Help:Interwiki linking
 * Help:URL

Making pages pretty and interesting

 * Help:Color tables -- Allowed colors on the internet.
 * Help:Icons -- Icons for instructors - Sources of great icons for Wikiversity pages
 * Help:Style Sheet 1 - Basic elements of colorful formatting styles for lesson pages
 * Help:eMail for Teachers -- Wikiversity eMail coding for instructors - How to set up email for students to contact teachers, etc.
 * Help:Quiz-Simple -- How to use the quiz extension (simplified)
 * Help:Quiz -- How to use the quiz extension (detailed)
 * Help:CSS at Wikiversity -- How to apply the features of Style Sheets on Wikiversity pages.
 * Help:Table -- Simple tables
 * Help:Table2 -- Samples of tables that you can apply on Wikiversity pages.

Other help topics

 * Help:Category
 * Help:Diff
 * Help:List
 * Help:Formula
 * Help:HTML in wikitext
 * Help:Talk page
 * Help:Variable - This is a list of variables that can be used in the wikitext.
 * Help:Wiki markup examples
 * Help:Wikitext quick reference
 * Help:Media Files - How to work with media files in Wikiversity (JPG, PNG, PDF, OGG)
 * Help:Syndication - How to receive notice when an individual Wikiversity page is edited.
 * Help:Table - Useful tips for making tables.
 * Help:Template - Find useful templates
 * Help:Error Messages

Page layout help

 * Help:Color schemes -- Page layouts for instructors - Rough samples of lesson pages
 * Help:Color schemes 2 -- Page layouts for instructors - Better quality lesson pages
 * Help:Color schemes 3 -- A simple lesson page layout for instructors. (This is better than the two above.)
 * Help:Color schemes 3b -- Color variations that can be used in Help:Color schemes 3
 * Help:Color schemes 4 -- A colorful index for language pages (currently used for Spanish/Spanish One.
 * Help:Color schemes 6 -- Yet another simple lesson page layout for instructors

Outside Help

 * Wikimedia's Help with Magic Words
 * Wikipedia's HTML Web Color Tables - A good chart of the colors you can use for your lesson pages. (Note : Do not use color numbers ; use only color names. Each browser works differently with numbers.)
 * Wikipedia's syntax for posting images on a page
 * Wikipedia:Media help
 * Media help at WikiCommons
 * Wikipedia:Media help Help getting OGG files to play on your computer.
 * ParserFunctions WikiMedia parser funtions if you want to do IF statemetns.
 * Help:Advanced templates

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This category and its subcategories contain Wikiversity help pages. See Help:Contents for an overview of these pages. The help pages of the user's handbook are imported from Meta and can be found in Reader handbook, Editor handbook, and Moderator handbook.

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Category:Wikiversity policy

Be aware that many of the pages included in this category are not official policies, but only proposals. Many of them are still being discussed. If you want to know which ones are official and which ones not, visit Policies.

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Category:Learning projects

Learning projects portal.

Ideas for starting a learning project.

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Category:Wikiversity schools

Schools are dynamically listed at Browse so be careful about what you include directly in this category.

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User talk:Harej

Euclidean Geometry: New Member?
Heyoo, I'm yrsnkd and I'm a math major in college.

Just posting to let you know I'm signing on to your page on Euclidean Geometry! :D

Newellington (discuss • contribs) 00:52, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

be bold
"organization and labelling of pages" <-- be bold!--JWSchmidt 04:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I think that some of us have just been dumping files into Wikiversity without much concern for organization. --JWSchmidt 05:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

New schools
Could you add to the new school you create, so that they can be found later on? Thanks!--Rayc 00:25, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Foreign languages
About that school, will the books be imported from wikibooks or will they be created here?--VictorGuarnieri 21:44, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello!
I believe you may know of me. :) MyName 01:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Messedrocker. Bolding wiklars is a form of electioneering for my own creation in a discussion of possible useful names for Wikiversity participants. Just as Ben Franklin hoped to help create a nation by coining and using the term American. It is a contraction of the phrase Wiki Scholars which is a bit unwieldy when used repetitively. There were other candidates available. Notice I decided against Partyer short for Participant Scholar. Cheerio! Carrying on. 8) Mirwin 08:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Nested Category Pages
As currently structured it takes two nested category pages with ugly (to me, admittedly possibly diffent to other people) large letters separating the alphabetized groups and subjects. Is this really necessary? My first thought every time I hit one of these pages is I have fallen back into an incomplete Wikipedia index. I rather liked the aethetics of the index pages at the Wikiversity main page and under at Wikibooks. Is there some solid ergometric reason or standard practice in the related industries that says the large bold letter flags are necessary and better for a typical population of users than the old alphabetized subject list or index? Thanks! Mirwin 10:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the response Messedrocker, after thinking about it for a while I agree with you.  After the naming conventions are drafted I can look at a single link off the main page to the previous school list index I liked; if others agree it is a nice alternate index.  In the meantime getting a good generic structure in place that makes sense to newcomers and forms a framework to move the existing file into is critical.  Sorry for criticising for your work needlessly.  I hope you press on with the structures you are building.  I know the look has been stable on Wikipedia so it must appear comfortable and useful to a large minority or more probably a large majority of web browsers.  Mirwin 23:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for moving my comment to Colloquium from its talk page. I had this problem once before - I use the Cologne Blue skin, and when I click the link for "Post comment" it automatically goes to the talk page. Not sure how to avoid this, but I'll get into the habit of checking... --

organization
Feel free to join in. What I am doing now is going through the "School:" namespace from A to Z. I "made room at the top" for more schools. Maybe in another month we will settle into a stable configuration! --JWSchmidt 07:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I got through that list. I think we are in good shape for now. --JWSchmidt 08:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

That was Quick!
I saw the term "Wiklar" on someone's post and thought there might be others wondering what that meant. While I only put in a dictionary definition, I thought I and others might flesh that out. It's not important :) But man - within two minutes! Wow! :) -- SatyrTN 07:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey MessedRocker
I wanted you to know I have duplicated your idea for a learning trail with blender at before I saw your stub. It is humerous that I am now frantically studying Blender because it turns out I can reuse some 3DSMax data I own with it. The Art of Illusion still has its place as it is in Java and blindingly fast as near as I can tell so far. There is a whole series of Blender books and trails at Wikibooks, some of which might/should probably be moved to Wikiversity. At a minimum students should be encourage to use the Blender trail here to collaborate on new exercises and tutorials before shifting them into polished books. Please drop me a line when you have a chance and consider participating in the CisLunarFreighter learning project or at least the intro to game process productions if you have other open source projects you contribute to. Mirwin 05:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Blocking and Minor Edits
Is there anyway that you could mark your blocks as minor edits? If they were, then I could hide them on the recent changes page. Thanks. --Remi0o 21:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Euclid Geometry
Messedrocker, I am going to work on the geometry couse, and also try to get more people to work on it. --Freiberg 16:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Blocks...
Hi Messedrocker - I don't see any contributions from the recent names which you blocked. What does your block summary refer to? The user creation log? Or something else? --HappyCamper 01:16, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Those user names had their accounts blocked at Wikipedia and the person who created them has been apparently been causing trouble for Wikimedia projects. --JWSchmidt 02:22, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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

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

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User talk:Ashibaka~enwikiversity

Hello and welcome to Wikiversity!

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

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

Good luck!--JWSchmidt 04:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hah :) Ashibaka 23:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ashibaka. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ashibaka~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:03, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Scholarly ethics

Wikiversity participants are free to explore topics without having to adhere to the restrictions of the traditional Wikimedia Foundation Neutral point of view (NPOV) policy. Wikiversity pages that are edited without strict adherence to NPOV policy must be explicitly marked as such. Wikiversity participants who edit pages where NPOV policy is not enforced must first make a personal and public commitment to the Wikiversity policy on scholarly ethics. The scholarly ethics policy serves to make sure that Wikiversity remains devoted to a search for knowledge and a support system to help people learn about the world. The policy on scholarly ethics is designed to keep Wikiversity free from propaganda, deception and intellectual dishonesty such as plagiarism. Wikiversity does not exist as a platform to support advocates of particular political movements, religious ideologies or scientific, legal or historical theories. Wikiversity can contain scholarly study of all topics, but Wikiversity does not exist for the purpose of advocating or advancing particular points of view, movements or belief systems.

Policy
When Wikiversity members choose to edit pages that exist outside of the confines of a neutral point of view (NPOV) policy, they take on an added level of responsibility and are open to extra scrutiny. Anyone editing Wikiversity articles that exist outside of the NPOV category must
 * 1) Edit using a registered username and maintain a verified email address.
 * 2) Keep the "Scholarly ethics" template  on their Wikiversity user page:

The “scholarly ethics” template indicates that a Wikiversity editor accepts and supports the Wikiversity policy on scholarly ethics. It explicitly states that the editor will not attempt to use Wikiversity as a platform for advocating or advancing propaganda or any other type of deception or intellectual dishonesty, but rather, the editor is devoted to scholarly consideration of their topic of study. This means not distorting or hiding evidence and not crafting illegal, deceptive, dishonest or otherwise unethical accounts of facts or ideas. Wikiversity scholars can, and must, study their subjects with devotion to honesty and the highest scholarly standards.

It is only by strictly adhering to the highest standards of scholarly ethics that members of the Wikiversity community secure and maintain an opportunity to participate in the Wikiversity community.

Trust and responsibility
The responsibility to adhere to high standards of scholarly ethics is automatically imposed upon you when you decide to be a Wikiversity editor. Being a trusted member of the Wikiversity community is something that you must earn by showing that you accept and adhere to the responsibilities imposed upon you by the community. If you do not understand or do not accept this, then save yourself a lot of trouble and do not try to edit Wikiversity. Until you demonstrate that you can be trusted, all of your edits will be subjected to a high level of scrutiny and any questionable edits that you make will be reverted or challenged. A demonstrated pattern of vandalism or disdain for the practice of scholarly ethics will result in blocks from editing and ultimately a ban from participation.

Editing Wikiversity outside of the restrictions imposed by the Wikimedia Foundation NPOV policy is not a right, it is a privilege. That privilege can be easily lost by any Wikiversity participant who does not adhere to the highest standards of scholarly ethics.

Wikiversity will always strive to keep a “culture of thoughtful diplomatic honesty”.

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Wikiversity:Adding content

Note: ''There is a tutorial about editing existing Wikiversity pages and starting new pages and also some help pages about editing. You might also be interested in the adding content tutorial.''

This page is intended to help you add educational content to Wikiversity. Wikiversity is devoted to providing support for both conventional schools and for self-motivated active learners who want to participate as Wikiversity editors.

Quick start
I want to start adding information to Wikiversity NOW. Use your browser to navigate to a Wikiversity page that is closest to the topic that is of interest to you. Click on the edit button for that page; an edit window will open. Find a good location and then type:

new page name

in the edit window. This will create a hypertext link to the new page. Click the "Save" button. Now find the red link you just created that says "new page name". Click on that link and start editing the new page. Type in your information.

Note: you can place this text:   into your new page to get started.

Educational content
The first thing to think about, when adding your own content is how it will be used (and by whom). Try to gear your learning materials for a specific audience - this could be simply "beginners", or it could be "K-12" (or however the educational system you are working in is structured). Some sort of note on the page on who you imagine will use this material and how it will be used would be useful.

When actually developing material (or participating in any kind of Wikiversity learning project) on Wikiversity, many feel that the main thing that is currently needed is content. Even if you want to engage in some active, collaborative learning, there will still need to be some sort of content on Wikiversity which can be used to pose problems, generate ideas etc. Try to develop material which could either be used by a self-study student, or by a teacher in their class. This is one of the fundamental roles of Wikiversity: providing free, educational content for all learner levels.

Others feel the key to content formation is participation. It is possible that a multiparty discussion of specific topics could leave a sufficient trail of FDL'd (Free Documentation License) material that a talented editor could revise into a lesson. If you choose to limit participation to discussion with other participants, please try to create an appropriate space where the discussion is FDL'd and may be easily revised and relocated or deleted to make space after a few weeks. For example: people interested in engineering topics can gather and leave questions or comments at Portal:Engineering Discussions.

If you want to find out about the licencing of our content, please see more on Licences.

Another way to help create content is ask questions, leave a comment, or join a discussion already regarding the available material on the discussion page. Nothing inspires volunteer authors like seeing their contributions in use.

If you wish to make a major contribution, consider creating a lesson plan.

You may want to think about the reading level of your content - is it appropriate for the people you are gearing it towards. Generally speaking, a reading level of two grades/years above the person's assessed level will lead to them becoming frustrated. (McPherson, 2006)

Should you add it here, or on another Wikimedia project?
Wikiversity does not duplicate other Wikimedia projects. If you wish to add material that's already suitable for a textbook, it may be best to add it at Wikibooks; if it's most suitable for an encyclopedia, it may be best to add it at Wikipedia. This can avoid duplication of effort.

However, if you wish to maintain the integrity of your materials within a course structure, it may be best to adapt them to a format which is appropriate to this project, and/or create "further reading" in other projects, like Wikipedia and Wikibooks.

One method of version control which may be useful to established courses creating an online component for the convenience of students consists of creating links to specific versions of the material. This capability is available from the "history" log accessible via the history tab at the top of the Wikimedia page view. The static list of links may be placed anywhere and a custodian asked to protect it. Registered users may protect specific pages they create. One good location for a list of links to protected or archived versions of specific material is a subpage on the course syllabus. Now students have access to the original material easily as they proceed through the course and also the modified materials the entire community is attempting to improve as they use it. Using this method assures a static reading list while allowing collaborators to attempt to improve the current default version served to arriving viewers.

It is appropriate to add draft materials and notes here which are of a current quality substandard for other Wikimedia projects or purposes. It is then easy to collaborate on improving them to the point it is feasible to insert them into other projects and then link or point at them from within local or external materials or web locations. Instructors, mentors, and learners of all categories are welcome to collaborate on pedagogical materials of all types and levels here at Wikiversity.

Material here or there can be easily used as part of a Wikiversity course. Other projects may link to Wikiversity materials as easily as we link to theirs when appropriate.

Using Internet resources
Textbooks at Wikibooks and resources elsewhere on the Internet can be used as materials in a Wikiversity syllabus, and should generally be linked from the module rather than duplicated here.

Links to useful materials around the web are useful and welcome but it is critical that they be identified as external links so people do not assume they are copyleft material.

Learning adding content
Introduction to Wiki summarizes references on learning wiki editing.

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Wikiversity:Research

This page provides guidelines for research in Wikiversity.

Nature of research
Research can be described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising knowledge. Research investigations aim to produce a greater understanding of events, behaviors, or theories, and to make practical applications through policies, laws and theories.

The learning projects are used to direct Wikiversity. Learning projects that have goals and objectives that are currently unattainable or that require the development of new knowledge are classified as research learning projects.

There are many theoretical and practical dimensions to research. Some are outlined on this page and briefly discussed.

Scope of research in Wikiversity
Research is an integral part of advanced education and professional work in many fields. Wikiversity may support research education and practice in various ways, some of which may be unique or very needed in society.

Research issues to be resolved include what kind of research will be hosted on Wikiversity, whether there will be active research on Wikiversity, and, if so, how it can be managed. Please add ideas below.

In universities, different types of service offices handle various of the issues below. As Wikiversity grows, perhaps policies and networks of interested individuals might grow to facilitate research work.

The responsibility for articulating the topics here may fall with Wikiversity, a school or individual instructors. How this is so should perhaps be stated clearly for some issues.

The topics below might need to be discussed in detail on new pages.

Internal and external research
Internal research is research by Wikiversity participants for Wikiversity purposes. External research is research into various aspects of the world for presentation as general findings.

Wikimedia and Wikiversity
What is the relationship of Wikimedia sponsored research, internal research by other Wikimedia projects, and Wikiversity based research?

Degree of institutional review
Based partly on the internal/external distinction and partly on research ethics (regarding research on persons), program evaluation research, research exercises by students, and research for publication require different kinds of rigor in preparation, institutional review, and administration. What will the criteria be in Wikiversity for working with these different types of research?

Research ethics
The ethical guidelines for scientific research in the developed world are well established by governmental agencies, professional societies, universities, and journal publishers. Unethical research is not permitted on Wikiversity.

See overview of topic, important instructional links and what Wikiversity could offer regarding research ethics at Research Ethics.

Original research and literature review
Wikiversity is devoted to exploration on both sides of the boundary between the known and the unknown. Original research is the use of research method in the exploration of scientific questions. Literature reviews are the study of past research findings.

For students, there is a natural progression from doing literature reviews (secondary research) to original (primary) research. Within Wikiversity, all original research should be clearly identified as such: the original research template or research project template are useful for this.

Different guidelines may or may not pertain to original research and literature reviews. Sometimes the boundary between primary and secondary research is not clear. A critical review of previously published ideas and data can lead to the discovery of new ideas. Policies and practices need to be developed for wikischolars to guide and assist learners in engaging in research.

Research learning projects
Wikiversity is structured around learning projects. Learning projects structured around the development of currently unavailable knowledge, techniques, methods, or devices are all appropriate for Wikiversity. Where are the research learning projects? Waiting for you to create them!

Lunar Boom Town is actively researching how Wikiversity can establish and support advanced edutainment communities that allow engineering venture teams to advance the state of space applicable technologies while helping entertain and educate each others dependents, customers, and suppliers. The basic question is whether the millions of effort hours applied to video games each year can be siphoned into productive design and possibly test efforts to reduce the overall capital requirements for space settlements.

Theory
Almost all fields have various theoretical aspects. The study of the theory and history of various fields may overlap with the study of various types of research methods. Ongoing education in theory needs to be integrated with education about research methods and analysis.

Doing research
Research is a complex social or scientific activity, and there are a range of theoretical paradigms, methodologies, and methods to help guide the researcher. For more on this see our Introduction to research.

Writing instruction
Tutorials in research paper writing methods for various fields and research modalities would be helpful.

Citation formats
A catalog of what citation guidelines and styles are in use in each field or country would also be useful, as would reviews of products like Endnote.

Peer review
An outline of the nature of peer review and how to access peer review would be helpful.

Research services
These are useful services that Wikiversity could provide:

See: Wiki Scholar
 * Journal clubs
 * Grant advice and support - What grants are available, how do I apply? Compile resources, for example:
 * basic social science research including education - Russell Sage Foundation
 * - Chronicle of Higher Education Research board
 * Matchmaking co-authors - I want to publish a paper on X, and am looking for co-authors
 * Matchmaking journals - I have a paper on X, where do I publish
 * Local peer review - I have a paper on X, can someone do a "dry run" peer review so that I can fix it quickly before submitting it to a journal
 * Verification

Research sponsorship

 * Hosting research
 * Initiating research
 * developing research
 * Marketing research
 * Strategy research

Legal and institutional issues
At some point, will Wikiversity need an Institutional Review Board?

Types of research
Philosophical, social scientific, and historical investigations of the sciences sometimes consider general differences amongst and across research areas. Some of the distinctions about research that may be made (or debated or critiqued) are:
 * theoretical (pure) and empirical research
 * basic and applied
 * quantitative and qualitative
 * objective and subjective (or inter-subjective)
 * large, medium and small scale (macro, meso, and micro)

There are various differences in research methods and philosophies between various general types of subject areas, such as: Physical sciences, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and professions (to name some general areas). [Discuss these here.]

It would be helpful if the scientific worldviews, assumptions and biases underlying general perspectives on research could be discussed in some introductory education contexts in Wikipedia.

Research conferences and networks
Wikiversity could develop research conferences and networks in conjunction with and/or independently from Wikimedia projects. For Wikimedia examples, see Wikimania and Wikimedia Research Network.

Research funding and administration
It would be helpful to compile information and methods for funding and coordinating research projects.

Languages
Multi-language discussion of research policy for all of Wikiversity will take place at betawikiversity:Wikiversity:Research_guidelines/En the Wikiversity Beta site, at the multilingual Wikiversity hub.

Education

 * Public Pupil Pizza Project
 * Psycho-social Dynamics
 * Systems And Tools Educational Model

History

 * Africa and the First World War
 * Ancient Egyptian Monuments Project

Microsystem design

 * Capillary electrode array
 * DNA integrated circuit

Animal sciences

 * Salticid studies

Plant sciences

 * Bloom Clock

Social sciences

 * Nerd Project

Interdisciplinary nature/biodiversity conservation science

 * CIVICS/Socio-economic Tools for Integrated Conservation Planning in the Multi-Ethnic South Caucasus

Medical sciences

 * Medical Research

Pharmacology

 * Drug discovery

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User talk:Mirwin

For older messages, see /Archive

Game of life
When you are reading this, probably you could play the game of life for Mike. Go here: Tributes for Mirwin. Why not put this also at User:Mirwin? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 17:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

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User:Mirwin

This user contributes to
 * Lunar Boom Town
 * cisLunarFreighter

Educational Background
 * Valedictorian, Coquille H.S., 1979.
 * B.S. Engineering Physics, Oregon State University, 1984.

Work experience:
 * Systems Analyst/Program Manager, 5 ys, Edwards AFB
 * Instrumentation and Control Engineer 1.5 yr CH2M-Hill
 * Sole Proprietor, Irwin Consulting, 10 yr
 * Discontinued, peaked at 12 working computer professionals, Systems Analysts, CAD, Animation & Multimedia

 * Currently: At liberty. Studying commercial opportunities in  free/open paradigms with a view towards engineering resources or projects.

Wikiversity participant since wayback. Authority to proceed minus a couple of years.

Current Personal Study Zones

 * Lunar Boom Town
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Statistics
 * http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/Book_1&oldid=476315

Technical papers that have attracted my serious interest and attention ...
Subject:heat into light 209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:MdU42903udkJ:www.gamasutra.com/features/gdcarchive/2000/baron.doc+online+game+services+heat&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

Speculative Fiction Written and Copyrighted by Me
Terran Tankers

/musical activities

Learning trails in which I have a current interest:

 * A Hands-On Introduction to Game Design and Production Processes
 * Modeling and Animation Clips using Art of Illusion

Personally Useful Links

 * http://http://me.oregonstate.edu/facilities/machineshop/index.html
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Journals
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User's_Guide
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Java
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online
 * http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Teaching_Educational_Games_Resources
 * The above is a list of links to specialized knowledge involving use of games as educational resources

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/1015/Wanted-Simple-Science-Experiments-for-Kids
 * http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses

Check these out

 * http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/search
 * http://www.managementhelp.org/ Practical information on managing nonprofits.

Online open textbooks of interest:
http://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Java Links:
 * http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
 * http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html
 * http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/javatutorial.html
 * http://www.duke.edu/~trc7/cps/

Object Oriented Design Links
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Object_Oriented_Software_Design

Game/MUD Development Tools and Links
 * Java
 * Audicity
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Creating_music_with_your_PC#Activities
 * jFreeRails

HTML Code Test in progress
user:mirwin/sand box

open fault investigations

 * 1) 1 Unexpected Exception

Consider submitting a bug report using the sourceforge.net bug tracker at the following url: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=9495&atid=109495

Please: 1. Use the following as the title of the bug report: Unexpected Exception: null line -2 2. Include steps to reproduce the bug (attach a save game if  appropriate). 3. Copy and paste the details below into the bug report: Windows XP 5.1 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_09 Freerails build 20060903-0355 compiled by Luke

java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source) at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source) at java.net.ServerSocket. (Unknown Source) at java.net.ServerSocket. (Unknown Source) at jfreerails.network.InetConnectionAccepter. (InetConnectionAccepter.java:44) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher.prepare2HostNetworkGame(Launcher.java:394) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher.nextButtonActionPerformed(Launcher.java:628) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher.access$100(Launcher.java:41) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher$5.actionPerformed(Launcher.java:470) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

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Wikiversity:Import

MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikiversity and its sister projects, has a feature that allows importing of pages from other wikis. When a page is imported that way, the edit history is preserved and the license observed. Currently, we can import pages from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Beta Wikiversity, Wikiquote and Wikisource.

Archived requests for import: Archive 1

New requests for import
You can list here what pages from the above available projects you would like to have imported to Wikiversity.

Completed requests for import are located in the archive.

Developing A Universal Religion
Please import the main page and its subpages per b:Wikibooks:Requests_for_deletion.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 21:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello, I checked the RFD at Wikibooks. I can see one user suggesting to move to Wikiversity (b:special:diff/4238829), but I'm not sure if others have agreed with that. The original suggestion seems to be "Moving to Wikisource" (b:special:diff/4096694), but then the nominator says they are happy to keep in Wikibooks (b:special:diff/4232954). Another user said that it should be moved to Commons (b:special:diff/4238871). At this moment, I don't think there is a consensus to move it to Wikiversity, so the discussion over there may need to be continued. In other words, if there is consensus then we can handle this request. I hope this can help you. Other custodians or curators may have something else to say, so this thread will be kept open for a while. Thank you for taking your time to visit Wikiversity. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 05:34, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * . It's unclear to me how this content would be within the project scope of Wikiversity; it is essentially a philosophical tract, not an educational resource. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 00:58, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

 * : Wikiversity says "Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning." And thus, research is included, and the book presents original philosophical research from which one may learn, e.g. by criticizing it. However, if what I just wrote contradicts some policy I do not know of (does anyone have a link to the most applicable policy?), it should be disregarded. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 19:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm hesitant to accept content as "research" which isn't being actively conducted or developed on the wiki, nor as "learning material" which isn't part of a course and doesn't have specific educational goals associated with it. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 20:26, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Are the above invoked requirements based in policy? What is the most pertinent policy page for content inclusion criteria? My assumption was that Wikiversity allows publishing of original research. However, in Scope, "The other kind of research is wiki-based original research. It is not yet clear that this will be part of the Wikiversity. If the Wikiversity community decides to support original research, it will have to develop a specific set of policies to support such research activities." On the other hand, Original research does seem to allow original research.
 * Instead of ad hoc requirements not based in policy, it seems proper to identify the most fitting policy or guideline. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 06:27, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Assuming now that we can analyze the issues without reference to specific policy items, why should it matter that research is "actively conducted or developed on the wiki"? Since, one can learn from a piece of philosophical research whether it was made on wiki or elsewhere. As for specific learning objectives, I can see the following ones: learn about one particular concept of a universal religion and arguments in its favor, and criticize the concept and the arguments. At a minimum, answer the following questions: what distinguishes a religion from a particular ethical philosophy or system? Does religion need a God or gods? What does a religion have to do to be "universal"? One can state this as one task for the readers if one wants. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 06:55, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

600-cell
Please import 600-cell. I understand that will import its complete history with it, which is what I need. I will make the necessary edits to the copy after it is imported, e.g. to resolve links to W:. But is there a tool available to help me with that? It is a long article with a lot of links! Thanks. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 17:39, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

 * I forgot to explain that Dave Braunschweig did this import for me once before, in 2019 -- see Import/Archive 1. I then worked with the Wikiversity copy for a year or two before merging it back into Wikipedia, after which the Wikiversity:600-cell page was left empty, until it was deleted by custodians. That's all well and good, but now I need to import the current Wikipedia article to Wikiversity once again, for a different reason, to create an expanded "annotated" version of it that isn't going to be merged back into Wikipedia, but is going to stay here at Wikiversity as a learning resource companion to the Wikipedia article. So please import Wikipedia:600-cell again for me, with all its history, so I can start working on that. Thanks. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 03:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅, latest revision imported. The page has many revisions and it takes too much time to import all of them. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 06:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

 * I have finished adapting this to Wikiversity (resolving links to W:, inserting banners, etc.). It is ready for use by participants in the Polyscheme learning project. From now on it will continue to diverge from the 600-cell article, as we continue to develop them both, with the Wikiversity version being an expanded superset of the encyclopedia article with additional commentary and learning resources. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 16:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Template:Infobox polychoron
Please import Wikipedia:Template:Infobox polychoron. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 05:34, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

 * This is actually W:Template:Infobox 4-polytope. It has a few dependencies. Obviously I would need them too. Or I could do without, and make up an equivalent Infobox of my own to use at Wikiversity, if it's too much trouble to import. That wouldn't be hard. Which do you recommend? Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 05:54, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅, all revisions imported. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 08:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

120-cell
Please import 120-cell. Wikiversity:120-cell already exists, but is currently empty. Thanks! Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 16:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅, latest revision imported. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:12, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

 * I have finished adapting this to Wikiversity (resolving links to W:, inserting banners, etc.). It is ready for use by participants in the Polyscheme learning project. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 22:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

24-cell
Please import 24-cell. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 22:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 23:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

 * I have finished adapting this to Wikiversity (resolving links to W:, inserting banners, etc.). It is ready for use by participants in the Polyscheme learning project. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 06:24, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

16-cell
Please import 16-cell. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 22:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 23:45, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

 * I have finished adapting this to Wikiversity (resolving links to W:, inserting banners, etc.). It is ready for use by participants in the Polyscheme learning project. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 22:25, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

5-cell
Please import 5-cell. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 22:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 23:45, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

 * I have finished adapting this to Wikiversity (resolving links to W:, inserting banners, etc.). It is ready for use by participants in the Polyscheme learning project. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Various geometry table templates
Please import:

 * Template:Demitesseract family

 * Template:24-cell_family

 * Template:Tesseract family

 * Template:Symmetric_tessellations

Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 06:08, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 06:26, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

More geometry table templates please
Please also import:

 * Template:4-simplex Coxeter plane graphs

 * Template:1 k2 polytopes

 * Template:2 k1 polytopes

 * Template:Symmetric2 tessellations

Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Template:4-cube Coxeter plane graphs

Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 22:24, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 04:40, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Online courses

Note: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees directed Wikiversity to move away from conventional courses. The Wikiversity e-learning model is centered on active learners who participate in learning projects.

An Online Course can be many different things to different people. This page will try and list the different learning materials that are sometimes mistakenly considered to be online courses, as well as give examples for different types of courses - particularly with regards to Wikiversity.

Courses for Credit

 * Courses for credit can only be offered by an (accredited) institution of higher learning. They usually entail a mentor or tutor taking care of a specific instance of the course. Students register (often paying a fee) and receive materials to read and discuss with other students. Usually exercises are submitted for grading and feedback, with an on-site examination.
 * Some courses for credit are, however, offered as material free of charge, so that other instructors can use the materials in their classes, for example (Course on plagiarism detection, free, in German)
 * When credits have been accumulated, it is possible to obtain a degree from an institution. Note: Wikiversity has no current plans to be a degree-granting or credit-granting institution. Instead, it will offer educational materials to both students and instructors.

Courses not for Credit

 * Sites such as Instructables offer little courses on how to do something (my favorite: 3D chocolate printer made from LEGO). These can be considered courses, but are not part of any university curriculum.

Learning Materials that are not Courses

 * Lecture Notes: Many instructors in Europe put out lecture notes (skripta) or compedia for the students to use as a reference. Many times this is just put in .doc or .pdf format and published online. Thus, only the delivery of the materials is online, not the course itself.
 * Syllabus: One of the hard questions at the start of course preparation is: what do I leave in, what do I leave out. Topics are then assigned to days and given a sequence. This can be a valuable resource to an instructor, but is also not an online course.
 * Simulation: One simulation or an animation can be great for illustrating a point and should be available on its own, but this is not a course.
 * PPT Slides: Many people mistakenly assume that having the slides for a lecture are an adequate equivalent for a course. This is not the case, as the instructor will be giving lots of stories and telling what the things on the slide depict in a way that cannot be captured in a slide.
 * Video Sequences: Setting up a camera and filming a lecturer seems to make sense, but it doesn't. The quality of the video sequences is often quite bad, and there is non-existent navigation and coordination to slides. Instructional videos are best made in a studio, where the environment can be controlled.

Cooperation with the Wikibooks project
It is anticipated that some Wikiversity participants will make use of textbooks at Wikibooks. Some Wikiversity participants will also participate in the development of textbooks at Wikibooks. Some learning materials developed by Wikiversity participants will be easily integrated into Wikibooks textbooks. Natural synergies between Wikibooks and Wikiversity will benefit each project.

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Wikiversity:What Wikiversity is not

 * Note: Read the Wikiversity project proposal.

Wikiversity is a space for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. This page outlines some of the things it does not do.

What Wikiversity is not

 * A degree-granting institution: Wikiversity does not confer academically accredited degrees, diplomas, certificates, titles, etc. Be respectful towards other participants regardless of their age, academic background, or knowledge. Everyone has an important role to play in Wikiversity's development. Wikiversity, however, can help you get a degree at a university.

 * A post-secondary institution: Wikiversity includes learning resources for all age groups. Wikiversity is only a university in the sense of a multilingual community of teachers, learners, and researchers ("universitas magistrorum et scholarium") dedicated to lifelong learning.

 * A podium: Wikiversity resources and activities should promote learning above any personal opinions, beliefs, or biases that you may have. If you wish to express your personal take on someone or something, please do so in a way that is open, respectful, inclusive of academic participation, and informs participants on the issues that matter to you. Critical analyses and academic lectures are two possible ways to do this.

 * A static project: Every day brings new people, new ideas, and new ways of doing things. Wikiversity will continue to change and develop to meet the needs of the Wikiversity community.

 * Other Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia or Wikibooks may be better for you if you just want to read about a topic, but they may also be a good place to consolidate learning as well if you would rather help write an article, book, etc. without getting too involved in participation. Wikisource is available for source texts and historical documents. There may be some overlap between projects, but each project maintains its own focus.

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Wikiversity:Scope

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project for participants to mutually cooperate in an active effort to learn. This page complements the original scope as approved by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2006.

Wikiversity is not a University
A university is traditionally a place where interested persons gather for instruction, for research, and for earning degrees. Wikiversity offers a collaborative environment for the creation, sharing, and discussion of open educational resources, open research and open academia. Wikiversity welcomes learners of all ages. Wikiversity does not grant any degrees. Wikiversity strives to have learning projects corresponding to all subjects at accredited educational institutions and any other topics that are of interest to Wikiversity community members.

Instruction
Some traditional forms of instruction incorporate a rigid duality of teaching and learning. Wikiversity community members edit collaboratively and explore their learning goals, often moving with flexibility between the roles of learner and teacher.

Teachers at bricks-and-mortar institutions
One goal of Wikiversity is to host static learning materials. Wikiversity should become a premier source for accurate teaching materials — bibliographies, lesson plans, syllabi, effective animations, well written papers, ideas for in class and at home exercises, discussion topics, course work, etc. — as well as offer a clearing house for new and emerging teaching methodologies and technologies of learning. Teachers making use of Wikiversity learning materials are encouraged to comment on and adapt those materials in a continual effort to refine and improve Wikiversity's resources.

Learning
People can always learn, but should Wikiversity offer complete courses?

Wikiversity will not be able to organize tutoring for individual courses (such tutoring would be done off-wiki), but there is no reason why individual lessons, or indeed entire courses, should not be made available under appropriate license to the community. See Online Course for more.

While complete courses are possible for a wiki, there are limitations in the wiki user environment that may make it difficulty to attract and maintain online participants in conventional courses. Conventional courses normally involve the dedication of instructors, learners and learning materials in time and space. The virtual learning environment of Wikiversity will be more suited to flexible wiki-based learning projects that will allow Wikiversity participants to come and go at any time in the usual wiki way. A fundamental unit of organization within Wikiversity will be the learning group.

Research
There are currently two major distinctions made in the research area with respect to wikis. There is research concerned with wikis as the objects of investigation, that is, research about wikis as it already exists at the Wikimedia Metawiki. Wikiversity will definitely be open to efforts that support this kind of research about wikis. Wikiversity participants will routinely engage in all types of "secondary research" that is aimed at critical evaluation of published sources of information. The other kind of research is wiki-based original research. It is not yet clear that this will be part of the Wikiversity. If the Wikiversity community decides to support original research, it will have to develop a specific set of policies to support such research activities.

About wikis
There is already a large body of research that has been conducted within various institutions pertaining to wikis. For example, the Wiki Research Bibliography is a bibliography of scientific publications and sources about wikis in general, Wikipedia in particular. Additions should be made there only for the time being.

Using wikis
Although the use of wikis as a collaborative basis for research in various subjects is indisputably useful, the question arises as to whether Wikiversity can actually host work-in-progress.

WiseWoman is of the opinion that the Wikiversity should be reserved for completed research — however, papers that have not been published elsewhere should be welcomed (only if they're under a free license of course). However, providing for learning communities to develop, modify and use the materials on Wikiversity, itself constitutes a way in which research could be done as an activity on Wikiversity.

Earning Degrees
In order to earn a degree, a certain amount of credit must be earned with an accredited organization, that is, some body of experts must determine that the program and the coursework make sense in the context of the degree to be conferred.

Wikiversity is not a degree granting institution, although the materials available at Wikiversity can definitely be used by students and instructors at accredited institutions as a basis for the partial fulfillment of examination requirements for an accredited course.

What Wikiversity is not

 * We do not run traditional courses
 * We do not grant degrees
 * We are not out to get accreditation
 * We are not a place for duplication of other Wikimedia projects

Digital libraries
The Wikiversity can provide a commented guide to the varied digital libraries around. But we do not provide our own library.

Wikimedia projects
Wikiversity will seek to complement other Wikimedia sites by adding to their content, and acting as a resource for their communities. However, it will not seek to duplicate their material.

Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a repository of textbooks, which are specifically educational resources, but which are ultimately developed to be books. Wikiversity will host educational content on similar subjects, but its aim is to host and create multimedia learning resources which can be used flexibly, in different contexts, whether as "off the shelf" resources for teachers in class, or as prompts for collaborative work themselves — whether within Wikiversity, or even other Wikimedia projects (eg. about academic versus layman writing in Wikipedia articles). This will include things like lesson plans, lecture notes, presentation slides, memory flash cards, listening exercises and educational videos (within bandwidth reason).

Wikisource
Wikisource is for hosting free-content material, much of which is out of copyright. This kind of material should stay at Wikisource, but could be used, along with other Wikimedia content, to complement material at Wikiversity. (There could also, of course, be some kind of course/material on Wikiversity about copyright or related licensing issues, that could benefit the raising of awareness of this key component of Wikimedia projects.)

Commons
As noted, Wikiversity is for multimedia learning resources (ie video, sound, graphics, text), which could also be hosted on Commons, but, if they are specifically designed for an educational use, it would probably be better to host them at Wikiversity.

Others
Other Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and Wikinews have very clear goals which do not overlap with Wikiversity's. However, Wikiversity will attempt to benefit any/all of these projects — for example, by developing resources, methods and communities to improve Wikipedia articles/graphics etc., or information on animal/plant taxonomies, or, of course, translation efforts between projects.

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Wikiversity talk:Scope

Time frames
In thinking about how to launch Wikiversity, it is important to talk about a timeline for the development of the project. My expectation is that the project will start small and grow larger. It will not be possible to do everything right at the start. We should think critically about the types of activities and subgoals that should be emphasized in order to support the launch of the project. Some major and ultimate goals for the project might need to be approached incrementally with the expectation that "obvious" goals such as constructing conventional online courses will require a wiki support system that will encourage multiple editors to contibute to a course's development in a distributed fashion over an extended period of time.

It has been natural for all of us to leap to the logical conclusion: that it would possible to construct conventional online courses within a wiki. However, we need to put some thought into the practicalities of attracting and supporting Wikiversity editors who will do the hard work of editing the Wikiversity pages so as to construct such courses. Also, we need to face the reality that the easily imagined goal of constructing Wikiversity courses is in competition with many other activities that potential Wikiversity editors can be involved in. I think the past history of Wikiversity (within the Wikibooks project) demonstrates that it is not enough to just start the Wikiversity project and expect that editors will automatically show up and put functioning courses on line. Also, I think that almost all wiki courses will never really fit the "conventional" mode. The natural mode of operations for any wiki is dependent on distributed processes to an extent that is not compatible with conventional online courses that have specific times of existence, designated instructors and a group of students forced to march in lock-step.

All that said, I think the dream of constructing conventional online courses within Wikiversity is fine, but the Board is correct to state that it is not wise to try to launch the project by simply imagining that by setting up a new wiki space then Wikiversity editors will suddenly show up and put courses online. That is not how wiki works. There might be a few people who are only looking for free server space so that they can put some training session online TODAY, but for the most part it is unreasonable to expect that there is an army of people just waiting to put free courses online in wiki format as soon as the doors open.

It is not constructive to view the Board's stated requirements for the contents of an approvable Wikiversity project proposal as a roadblock to goals that are widely held by members of the community who voted in favor of the Wikiversity project. It is not an "us vs them" situation. It is not a question of should there by Wikiversity courses or not. The Board cannot prevent the community from making online courses. However, in my view, the requirements for the project proposal that have been imposed by the Board are based on a realistic assessment of how the wiki interface works and communities of wiki editors grow, interact and die. The requirements for the Wikiversity project proposal that have been established by the Board are not based on arbitrary decisions that should provoke outrage and contempt within the Wikiversity community. If members of the community fail to try to recognize the good intentions of the Board and the wisdom of the imposed restrictions, then the project will never be approved by the Board.

To those members of the community who have responded with outrage to the Board's Wikiversity project proposal requirements, I can suggest a first step towards possible reconciliation. I suspect that it is possible to construct a wiki learning environment that optimally takes advantage of the wiki user interface. There are some goals and projects that make sense for the launch of Wikiversity because they take into account the realities of the wiki interface and how communities of wiki editors grow and function. At the same time, there are some concievable goals for Wikiversity that would actually damage the project if they were adopted as immediate goals for the project launch. I suggest that our first natural impulse, to imagine re-creating conventional courses in wiki format, is easier to imagine than to make happen. I encourage the members of the Wikiversity community to be open to un-conventional learning opportunities that are "natural fits" for the wiki user interface. In my view, if we develop these "wiki-natural" learning-oriented projects at the launch of Wikiversity, then the project will get a good start in life and be able to move on to the most ambitious goals. If the community eventually finds a way (and a need) to put online a bunch of conventional courses, the Board will never be able to stop it. For those who view conventional courses as the only concievable content for Wikiversity, I ask that you remain open to other types of learning opportunities that are made possible by the wiki interface and will be the best way to launch Wikiversity. Please be open to various learning projects that are natural for the wiki interface and will tap into existing pools of wiki editors. Starting Wikiversity with an emphasis on such wiki-oriented learning projects is not saying no to the future possibility of conventional courses. It is saying yes to a viable project that will be approved by the Board. We should all be able to live with courses as a long-term goal that will come into focus after a strong launch of the project. --JWSurf 17:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

 * John, I fully agree with this assessment (with the caveat that the board obviously can stop courses developing if they like, but with the strong feeling that they wouldn't if courses developed in the way that you envisage). As I understand WiseWoman to see them, "full courses" are simply full course materials - in this case there is absolutely no controversy. The controversy begins in whether Wikiversity is itself used as a place of learning. Now, I believe that Wikiversity should be this "place of learning", and I believe that it could include online courses, but I agree that they do not need to be our initial goal. I agree that wiki-based learning projects could be designed around the materials that Wikiversity hosts, and I believe that they can be mediated through study groups, learning communities and portals, which we have already discussed. I think that this needs to be better explained on Learning, so that people who are obviously motivated to share their knowledge can do so, without feeling frustrated. Cormaggio @ 09:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Methinks we need to define the term "online course", as there are many things this could actually be. I'll get right on it, even if I don't have time :) --WiseWoman 20:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * This section of the proposal is too conciliatory to other projects. For example: Wikibooks has a clique of regulars who wish the Wikibooks to be printer ready and who frown upon links to external materials.   It is no large stretch of imagination to foresee that this will often make these books less useful to online students than they could be.  It is likely in this situation that rather than wasting time debating with Wikibooks regulars learning groups or even individual student will fork the book if it is a useful starting point and start adding links to other online material to improve its effectiveness on Wikiversity learning trails and to Wikiversity students.  It would reduce future strife and controversy if it was understood in the approved project proposal that Wikiversity will tend to its knitting and other WMF sponsored projects can tend to theirs.  Nevertheless, the project is fine as written if it gets a permanment URL activated.   Opponents to Wikiversity never seem to account for its total lack of visibility, advertising, stability, etc. when claiming it has not prospered so far therefore it will never prosper.  Allow me to assist you WiseWoman with a prototype definition"

 * A Wikiversity Online Course is a location in the Wikiversity URL/namespace where more than one student has agreed to work together via some documented and evolving procedures to study material (information, data, and documented knowledge interlinked with the rest of the internet as well as using traditional references to offline material) of interest; while improving that available body of free material available in humanity's knowledge commons (see GNU FDL and the stated mission of WFM used when soliciting public funds for operation) for future students, groups or asynchronous mobs or individual students, and other useful purposes at the sole discretion of the user as per the GNU FDL.  68.238.143.172 06:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)  lazyquasar

"What Wikiversity is not"
I, and some of the other users (such as those at Creation of Free Online University) disagree strongly with this section (as it was added by WiseWoman) and feel than there should be nothing preventing Wikiversity to offer pseudo-traditional courses (as the excellent Hitler's Germany course currently underway), and that accredation is not only desirable, but a real long-term possibility. The Jade Knight 03:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

The scope of Wikiversity
Wikiversity is two things. It is the framework for creating and using learning materials and it is the actual learning materials. Therefore, the success or failure of Wikiversity will be judged on these two items alone. Only these will define the scope of Wikiversity.

 * The structure - Functional and fantasy
 * The structure of Wikiversity is still very rough and the eventual direction is not clear. Initially a general structure was need and that is being developed now.  However, the trend is to develop an imaginary university (fantasy) rather than a real one (functional).  While half the structural development is to flesh out the categories where the lessons and materials will go, too much distraction is being created by developing imaginary lessons which are just useless stubs that hinder, not help the attraction of authors to Wikiversity.

 * An equally important part of the structure of Wikiversity is the software. While designed for efficient use at Wikipedia, the design of the software is awkward and limiting for authors at Wikiversity to use.  These deficiencies are not being address and new authors are finding the wikiversity environment extremely awkward to develop in.  Therefore, Wikiversity has not been attracting authors who complete and maintain lessons.

 * The ultimate measure
 * The final measure of the success and failure of Wikiversity will be the lessons and learning materials that are developed. Wikiversity will eventually bend to fit the lessons that are completed, ready for use, and staffed by willing coordinators.  Only when lessons are actually finished will we know what the true scope of Wikiversity is. Robert Elliott 15:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

"useless stubs that hinder, not help the attraction of authors to Wikiversity" <-- A wiki is a website for collaborative authoring of webpages. A stubby page might hinder some "authors" who are not familiar with online collaboration. For "authors" who respect the fact that Wikiversity is a place for collaboration, a stub page is an invitation to collaborative editing. A Wikiversity stub page was probably started by a student who wishes that there were learning resources at Wikiversity about a particular topic.

"new authors are finding the wikiversity environment extremely awkward to develop in" <-- Wikipedia has a large number of resources for helping editors learn how to contribute (Editing Wikipedia). The Wikiversity help pages need work and Wikiversity should have better development of resources such as Wiki 101 that would help participants "learn the ropes" for wiki editing.

"lessons that are completed" <-- this is just one part of the Wikiversity mission. "..... the idea here is to also host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can be used more effectively." (source)Most Wikiversity editors are students who are not going to wait for someone else to produce "complete lessons". Does Wikiversity have "staff" or does it have participants? --JWSchmidt 17:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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I find myself making a distinction between 1) "conventional" courses and 2) what I imagine Wikiversity will evolve as non-traditional courses in wiki format.

The main distinction is that conventional courses have a specific start date and a specific group of people participating from start to finish. This format is a good fit for bricks-and-mortar institutions, but is in conflict with the power of wiki to allow a diverse community to participate, each participant working on their own terms. I think it would be a huge error for Wikiversity to adopt the primary goal of producing conventional courses in wiki format. As an alternative, we need to find new ways for learning communities to function efficiently in a wiki environment. Only time will tell exactly what works best for learning in a wiki environment. We need to construct a flexible framework (the Board called for a wiki-specific model for e-learning) for allowing the Wikiversity community to evolve learning projects and discover the best way to do things. We have to keep in mind how best to do this within the existing family of WikiMedia projects. My hunch is that if we do this right, the non-traditional courses that develop within Wikiversity will provide the world with an important alternative to conventional online courses. --JWSurf 23:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I have trouble with restricting the Wikiversity to just courses. The materials that are not, on their own courses, can still be valuable if offered in the Wikiversity for *teachers* to use (i.e. in a repository, much like pictures on commons). It is rather like we need to have a quarry for nice bits of marble, an atlier where everone can chip in, and a museum where the gorgeous finished statues can be displayed along with a book for people to make comments on them. --84.189.59.199 21:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh yes, I don't think anyone is saying that everything on Wikiversity must be contained within a course - this whole discussion is largely an attempt to address the board's uncertainty about Wikiversity and courses, and also the desire amongst many in the community to create their own courses. Of course, we will have stand-alone materials - that's a fundamental part of the way it will probably grow. Does that ease your mind? Nice analogy, by the way :-) Cormaggio @ 11:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I should also add that much of these sub-pages on Wikiversity are far from comprehensive or being complete - please edit as you see fit. Cormaggio @ 11:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

 * By what authority can the definition of a course state that Wikiversity will NEVER be an accredited institution? Best anyone can say with any credibility is that there are no current plans to seek accreditation and such a process is long, expensive and rigorous/arduous.  Jimbo and the rest of the trustees are not immortal and our wiki participants plans have always envisioned a long and useful future to humanity of our knowledge products.  Not even the God King, Jimbo, can state with authority that the Wikiversity upon WMF servers will NEVER have accreditation. 68.238.143.172 07:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC) lazyquasar

I like the "never say never" attitude. I'd be interested in reading a description of a hypothetical series of events that could lead to accreditation of Wikiversity. --JWSurf 06:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

New way of doing courses
At the moment many wikiversity 'courses' tend to be based around university courses - a series of 10-15 topics with a reading list and questions for assignments and a 'lecture.'

Would it not be better to make 'courses' into something much smaller, something that you can do in 1-2 hours. Obviously you would have to do a lot more courses to gain a degree, but I think there are many advantages.

Advantages of shorter courses

 * Flexibility - you can create a programme suited exactly to your needs
 * Increased sense of achievement
 * Ability to fit courses more easily into a busy lifestyle
 * Easier to create a course - if courses are shorter, then more people can work on courses that are of interest to them. It also means the amount of reading required to create a course is much less

What does everyone think?

Davymast 12:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, it would be useful to have clearly defined modules with some estimate of the time required for each. However, sometimes I suggest a fairly open-ended assignment such as "look up something on topic X and then add it to this page". I'd hate to have to put a time on things like that. Really, in a wiki, people just work at their own pace anyhow. Rather than thinking in terms of "course = a page" we can think in terms of pages for "learning materials" and "learning activities" that can be small and modular chunks. In splitting courses into pieces, we can even use subpages in the main namespace at Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 00:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * For a guide to Wikiversity projects devoted to learning materials, see: Portal:Learning Materials

Part of the Wikiversity mission is to provide a collection of learning materials and links to online learning resources. Some Wikiversity participants are devoted to these tasks.

Wikiversity is not a platform for commercial enterprises to advertise education-related products. Wikiversity is devoted to free education. Wikiversity provides server space for public domain and copy-left learning materials. Wikiversity provides links to online learning resources that are available for free to students and teachers.

An important function of Wikiversity is to provide critical evaluations of learning materials and online learning resources. The Wikiversity Hunter-gatherers project is devoted to finding learning resources on the internet. Hunter-gatherers participate in the critical evaluation of learning resources by editing the Wikiversity pages that are devoted to evaluating learning materials and describing how to integrate them into courses of study.

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Archive
I was going to archive everything on this page, but I'm going to ask here first, waite a day and then do it.--Rayc 23:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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Shouldn't this be Portal:Engineering? Ah I see... why is there a Portal:Engineering and a School:Engineering? Shouln't we find a way to name this less confusingly? 71.77.207.50 06:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Productive forking and tailoring is encouraged

Forking and tailoring is encouraged within Wikiversity materials to rapidly achieve a broad spectrum of useful materials suitable for various ages or skill levels of diverse participants.

Tailoring is a term used within the U.S. Defense Department to describe a process of starting with MIL-STDs (military standards) and modifying them to meet a specific project, mission, team, or personal goal or requirement.

To facilitate rapid creation of useful learning materials and processes, Wikiversity participants are encouraged to start with properly accredited electronic copies of public domain, CC by-sa or FDL'd materials and modify them to meet specific lesson plan or learning processes needs and objectives. This is easily accomplished with local files by cutting and pasting the original text one wishes to fork into a new file. Be sure to provide a link in the edit summary back to the original file to meet attribution requirement. Anyone who wishes to see where the material originated can now trace its origin via this link to to the originating online file history and the materials immediately begin to diverge.

Polished materials produced in this manner should be linked into our learning trails appropriately so they may be found and used dynamically by other participants.

Incomplete or predominantly duplicate or unused resources that have gone idle or static should be considered targets for merging, linking or removal.

Materials are considered active if participants home or talk pages link to them and edits have taken place within three months, even if the materials are not yet ready for general use within active learning processes.

Materials are considered idle if participants linking to the materials are nonresponsive to queries placed on their talk pages for six months.

GFDL
The GNU Free Documentation License, our copyright licence, requires that forked materials based upon GFDL documents (which includes copying existing Wikiversity pages to make new ones) must comply with certain basic requirements: On MediaWiki wikis, including Wikiversity, common practice for observing both requirements is: For administrative convenience, particularly for determining whether an original page can be deleted without violating the GFDL, it is best practice to note in the source page which pages are copies of it. This is particularly true of pages that have been merged into other pages (which is, again, copying).
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A couple of thoughts come to mind: first, is there a time window we are considering before materials are merged or removed?(saw that as one of the statements in the doc.) Second, should we promote a modularized or "object based" development? Such an approach would allow for a module to be used in other courses... reducing development time and better utilization of resources. For example a module in statistics could be used in management, accounting, and economics. What do you think? --Mfinney 14:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally I think it will be impractical to restrict individuals in how they choose to structure their contributions. If after creating 200 daily lesson plans and FDL'ing in preparation for a high school class, the author and students cannot find them because they have been modulized for general use and relocated, we will pickup a reputation for a useless chaotic environment.  Hence the idea that anyone who sees potential as you state above is encouraged to fork or copy the original lesson plan with proper attribution credit and then modularize appropriately (tailor) and link in from the multiple classes.  Now we have the originals and the new version.  Both can be linked to from appropriate locations.  This type of thing will result in stray files but that can be managed effectively with the tools provided by the wikimedia software. Mirwin 19:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

 * Messedrocker 05:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * digital_metalk 01:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 12:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Doesn't need to be a policy.
 * Mirwin 19:21, 21 August 2006 (UTC) Call it what then? Put under possible work methods?

Comments

 * Wikipedia already does this with U.S. government and 1911 Britannica publications. Messedrocker 05:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What are the last two paragraphs about? Do we need those? Awolf002 00:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Last two paragraphs were quick attempt to define when it is ok to simply delete a forked version created by someone else who is not using it or responding. Essentially never modded significantly and then abandoned by its user for some reason.  Personally at other wikis I have never had a problem with a few duplicate files but I know others do .... and then it occurred to me we might be talking about hundreds, thousands, millions of 101 lab exercises or other handouts.  I could live without them depending on how other cleanup procedures evolve. Mirwin 07:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This could definitely be worked into a workable policy (akin to "being bold"), but I won't vote on what's there just yet. I don't agree with specifying materials as "active" or "idle" - I, personally, can't see this as practical, or beneficial. Cormaggio 08:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think we can address the "millions of 101 exercises" when we actually have them. Right now, deleting something the "looks old" is just not making sense. Awolf002 15:39, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

GFDL requirements
Please note that the requirement to provide a back-link to the copied page is a requirement of the GFDL. This policy needs to be clearer that this isn't simply an administrative convenience that can be ignored. It's a fundamental requirement of the project's copyright licence. Uncle G 00:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing this out. Feel free to edit the page appropriately.  I'm assuming that's true even of pages on the same project?  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 22:20, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. Although some argue that each project as a whole comprises a single document, that is not a practical interpretation of the GFDL, especially for those who want to mirror items individually.  The practical, and also common, interpretation is that each page is a single document, and the edit history is its list of authors, titles, and history for the purpose of the GFDL.  Therefore, copying and pasting a page to a new page is making a copy, under the GFDL, and subject to all of the requirements thereof, including preserving a link to the "network location" of the source, and retaining (or at least linking to) the prior authorship, title, and history. Uncle G 10:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


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Welcome
Hello and welcome to Wikiversity!

Here are some tips to help you get started:
 * You can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~.
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You will find more resources at the Community Portal. If you want to ask a question, visit the Study help desk, the Colloquium, IRC channel or ask me personally on my talk page.

Good luck! Messedrocker 13:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the latest project, Erik!

Thanks ;-) --Eloquence 13:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

LiquidThreads
Hi Eloquence. I took the liberty of copying to Image:Liquidthreads2.png and started a liquidThreads learning project as a subproject of the MediaWiki Project. Please have a look. Thanks! -- CQ 22:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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