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Math-drills.com is a great tool for online worksheets for math fact worksheets

Math Facts
Worksheet: math-drills.com

Strands

 * Multiply tens with tens
 * Multiply decimals (ones with ones)
 * Add or subtract whole number from fraction

Rules for Multiplying tens with tens
eg: 21x12 Write on board, flip sheet, poster, or project on LCD Projector:

Example:

- 21x12

- 21x2 = 42

- 21x1 = 21, put 0 in the ones column ---> 210

- 42+210 = 252

Rules for Multiplying decimals (ones with ones)
eg: 1.2x1.3 Write on board, flip sheet, poster, or project on LCD Projector:

Add or subtract whole number from fraction
eg: 1.2x1.3 Write on board, flip sheet, poster, or project on LCD Projector:

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Some changes to the code
Now I know that nobody likes it when their code is touched, and I tried to be gentle. However, if this is to be anything like a university (or rather, like a university should be), teaching things that are flat out wrong or just unportable will not do, in my opinion.

The ISO C standard mandates that the return type of the main function be int; and it does not describe a header called . While the first of these is admittedly a mostly academic point (but again, this is an academy!), using the latter simply keeps users of non-Windows systems from compiling and using the code, thereby hindering their learning experience—and for what reason? For being able to clear the terminal screen, a feature completely unrelated to matrix multiplication.

So I took these out; getch also had to go, which means that the well-known Windows problem of starting terminal programs by double-clicking comes up. Changing the code to deal with that is reasonable (and doable in a portable way); changing the code in a way that will keep Mac OS and Unix users from using the code is not acceptable. Gergo 21:37, 23 June 2007 (UTC)


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User:Graciela.dirocco

I am interested in bilingual education. I am currently teaching secondary school Spanish-speaking students who are training for the University of Cambridge International Examinations. My work has to do mostly with Advanced English Language, Creative Writing, Literatures in English, Practical Criticism, and Literary Theory.The approach of the courses I am teaching is task-based and the emphasis is on originality of outlook and experimentation.The field of IT applied to education is of great interest to me, though I am only beginning to get an inkling of the importance of such tools as complementary of traditional classroom-based education. That is one of the reasons why The Wikeversity sounds so interesting at the moment, at a time when I am about to embark on a diploma course in IT. The design of interactive materials and online-courses is what attracts most. I am also a practising writer currently working on a travelogue as well as a guide for Spanish-speaking teenage students of English Literature and materials tailored to their needs. Another field I am interested in is researching the narratives of the first travellers who recorded their impressions of Argentina in former centuries, education and Nature Writing.

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Hi, signed up here to try to bring my french on as fast as possible. Busy learning vocabulary and trying to make sense of all the grammar rules, and starting on the wikibook at the moment too.

If you're one of the mentors from the French stream and you wouldn't mind talking to me over an instant messenger and helping me learn as fast as possible, please send me an email special:emailuser/michael130187 so we can arrange things.

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Salut, Michael. You are listed at the French stream as being a beginning student of French with prior French-language experience, who is interested in learning French at Wikiversity. 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) 08:54, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

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Introduction
Man when he invented electrical computing machines, started programming with 1's and 0's. Then came the age of using Hexadecimal code for programming, then came mnemonics and assembly language. Now we use textual language. Languages like LabVIEW have gone further and have put up a graphical programing system. It is similar to draw flow chart. But these are not under GNU. We the free people need to design a graphical programing language that's stunning and free to use for all available under GNU license.

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Extraordinary School Project/Northern Computer Center, Ghana

The Northern Computer Center, Ghana is a school being created in Tamale, Ghana by the Northern Volunteers Group.

The Northern Computer Center will teach students how to create intellectual property that can be traded over the Internet, further it will teach the skills to support this type of business. By trading intellectual property, information and ideas to an international audience, the people of Ghana will be able to expand into the global economic system, instead of being stuck in their currently limited economic system. They will be able to do this with a low start up cost.

By making the Northern Computer Center successful, and sharing the process that made the center successful, the idea will be able to be duplicated and expanded in other developing communities throughout the world.

Infrastructure, Systems & Equipment
In order to be successful several systems will need to be in place.

Computer Systems
The school will attempt to have computers donated from American schools that are discarding their older systems. The cost of shipping the computers to Ghana will need to be addressed.

Electricity
The location of the school has electricity. The electrical system uses 230 Volts Most computers have a switch on the power supply that will allow for this voltage. Computers sent from America will need to have different cords. How to get these cords will need to be determined.

Internet Connectivity
The location of the school does not currently have Internet Connectivity. But there are several Internet Cafes located in Tamale ; work can be transmitted via the Internet in batches from these locations.

Reliable Banking System
Barclays Bank has a branch office in Tamale. Given that Barclays is a reputable multi-national bank, they should be capable of having funds transfered from other countries, or from systems such as PayPal. The startup cost for an account is approximately $100.

Further Western Union can deliver money to Ghana. There is approximately a $15 transfer fee in addition to a minor exchange rate charge of approximately 1/2%.

Standard Accounting Training & Procedures
It is important that the Northern Computer Center has good accounting abilities, and follow standard accounting practices. To help this, accounting principles should be taught with spreadsheets using applied academic methodologies.

Curriculum
The current goal of the Northern Computer Center is to train students to be capable of selling intellectual property over the Internet. The goal is to help every student be capable of being independent in their efforts, or choosing to work together in an organization. The school will use an applied academic curriculum where traditional academics such as language, math, etc will be taught through teaching the specific skills needed to create and sell intellectual property. The curriculum will be based upon a subset of the Systems And Tools Educational Model.

Math (Numbers)
Mathematical concepts will be taught through teaching about accounting, and financial topics, which will be taught through the use of a spreadsheet program.

English (Communication)
English will be initially taught through transcribing English language audio files from the Internet into text using a word processing program. More advanced English will be taught by creating sales letters, emails, and other type of professional communication, and through using English to write stories and other intellectual property in English that can be published and sold through the Internet.

Graphic Design (Art)
Graphic Design and Art will be taught through teaching how to create graphics that can be placed on to clothing or items, and sold on the Internet. This will be taught through the use of a Graphical Image Manipulation Program.

Systems Thinking
Systems thinking will be taught throughout the entire curriculum so students can see how different systems they participate within, such as the international economic system, or the pop culture system of America, work, and how they can utilize these systems. This will be taught using software capable of diagramming.


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confused
please help me! i don't know how i should start! what should i do after i created an account? i don't want to edit pages, i just want to learn articles.

 * Try starting at the portals. --JWSchmidt 18:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

project?
There seems to be a number of students from University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Most of the edits are on a userpage. See, User:Petar, User:Gomita, User:Nina Koleva - in particular the wikiversity contacts box at the bottom, with links to wv-de. Not sure who started the project. --mikeu 01:13, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Dear Sir, Madam,
I am Manuel from www.adelaidelanguages.com. I teach French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish from home. I would like to extend these services via the Internet, maybe using Moodle.

I need to ask two things:

1 - Re: Moodle, how can I use it to teach on-line, and is there a webpage to show me how I can use it?

2 - Re: Language Courses, are there any I could use for English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish that I could use together with my own material?

Thank you in advance

Yours sincerely

Manuel seixo

manuel.1@bigpond.com

 * Reply: Thanks for posting, Manuel. I browsed AdelaideLanguages.com and noticed that it is a fee-based service. Wikiversity is a free all-volunteer open learning community that believes in share and share-alike. Here's what we have here in response to your query:
 * Wikiversity has a Moodle learning module and an external test environment under development.
 * We are devloping a Language and Literature school with Foreign Language Learning and Multilingual Studies departments which include all the languages you mentioned.
 * Wikiversity is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License. You are free and welcome to participate at Wikiversity as it suits you according to the terms of use. Thanks for your interest! --CQ 06:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

 * If you are feeling ambitious we have an installation of Moodle that can be used to test the software and try out the features. See our Sandbox Server Moodle for more information.

 * In addition to what you can find here on the English Wikiveristy there are also learning resources available in French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and some other languages. Students might find Wiktionary to be very handy and there are reading materials in multiple languages at Wikisource and language textbooks at Wikibooks.

 * Let us know if there is anything more specific that you are looking for, and we'll try to help. --mikeu talk 09:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

strategy wikimedia - Proposals
Please see
 * Proposal:Improve interfacing with academia
 * Proposal:Integrated educational experience
 * Proposal:Wikimedia for Education
 * Proposal:Wiki-assisted University and School
 * also: Category:Proposals for schools and schooling, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:01, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Feedback for reports
For the Reports (also at betawikiversity) some feedback would be nice. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:18, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Advice on how to start please
Hello,

I would like to create curriculum resources using Wiki-media. Specifically, I would like to create a space where teachers, parents, and other interested parties can collaborate to create lessons on specific reading lists using the educational approach outlined in The Paideia Proposal, Paideia Problems and Possibilities, and The Paideia Program by Mortimer J. Adler and the Paideia Group.

Let me be even more concrete. The initial project would consist of providing lesson resources and plans for teaching specific works like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe, or Plato's Apology. Charles Lamb's My First Play is a work I've already contributed to Wikisources, so I'll use it as my one specific example.

Wiki contributers would collaborate to provide background knowledge, skill development lessons, and seminar questions and resources for a work like Lamb's My First Play. The first category, "background knowledge" would include things like a map of 18th century London, definitions of unfamiliar words in the text, information about references made by Lamb to unfamiliar people, places, and events, etc. These sorts of contributions would contribute to what The Paideia Proposal calls Column One education.

Contributers would also collaborate on Column Two, the skills of learning, education by contributing resources or lesson plans conducive to coaching students in higher level reading skills, research skills, etc. Coaching focuses on the language arts of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in addition to scientific arts like observing, measuring, calculating, reasearching, etc. In the case of Lamb's My First Play, the language arts would be more prominent, but other works may focus more on the scientific arts. This listing is not exhaustive; there are other skills of learning too.

Finally, contributers would work together through the wiki to provide Socratic seminar questions, cross references, links to the great ideas, etc. in order to provide for Column Three education, which focuses on increasing understanding of ideas.

I'm asking for help on how to get started on this project using Wikiversity and other wikis like Wikisources, Wiktionary, and Wikipedia. I will appreciate any guidance you can provide. Thank you. Majrjejm 19:25, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

 * I suggest creating resources named Gettysburg Address, Robinson Crusoe, Plato's Apology, and Charles Lamb's My First Play. You could have three sections named "Background knowledge", "Coaching skills", and "Increase your understanding" for each resource, with links for each lesson that you plan to develop under the appropriate section heading. -- dark lama  19:47, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Great advice. I think I'll do that. However, I have another question. How would you suggest organizing the resources into a course. For example, there may be 20 works to be covered by high school freshment. I'd like to organized those works into a course. In addition, the courses add up to a full school program. Should I start a "school" named "Paideia School" and include the courses in it? Students would be able to follow the program I'm envisioning and earn a high school diploma. Indeed, we have 18 students enrolled in a bricks and mortar Paideia High School now. Thanks. Majrjejm 20:18, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Welcome. One option is use categories e.g., make sure each of these pages belongs to the category Category:Course X. That category can, in turn be a sub-category of say Category:Paideia High School. Another option (which can be also be used) is structure the pages as sub-pages e.g., Paideia High School/Course X/Gettysburg Address etc. For more see Help:Categories and Help:Subpages. Here's an example: University of Canberra and Category:University of Canberra. One example course within this University is Motivation and emotion. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 20:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Wikiversity still is very open and resources may be organized in many different ways. One of the differences between Wikiversity and Wikipedia is that Wikiversity allows subpages in mainspace. You can create a class on a topic, and then subtopics can have pages underneath the topic. I'm working on a controversial field, Cold fusion, and if you look that over, you might get some ideas. I can create, way down in this structure, pages that are very specific, I can create individual student papers and reports, etc. It's all a work in progress and Talk pages with heavy discussion will become resource pages that express some kind of consensus. Or alternate views.

Ultimately, we'd like you to build, if possible, resources that are for general use, but there is not requirement that you do this. But please don't do one thing: don't create a large number of individual pages in mainspace, unless these really do belong as separate 'courses' or the like. Okay, maybe for some purposes that would be okay! After all, students could create some "articles" on things for Wikiversity. But this kind of class project can quickly become a difficult-to-maintain mess. For an example of what was better, see 18th_century_European_scholarly_societies_and_academies. This was a project of an actual university course, but the individual society pages were created individually in mainspace. Then an admin thought that one of them was a 'conspiracy theory' and deleted it. In mainspace, pages can and will be subject to lots of independent editing and vandalism, for that matter. A page in subspace, as these pages were eventually moved, is more likely to be left as-is, and it's easily seen as connected with the rest of the pages! --Abd 21:06, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate all the comments! Thank you. I'm following most of it, but part of the problem I faced is that I lack experience with wikis. My first foray into the wiki-world was the simple posting of Lamb's My First Play on Wikisources. I may need to gain more experience before I can understand all of your suggestions. I'm still at a bit of a loss as to how to organize my idea. However, I think the idea of organizing as Paideia High School/Course: Person and Society/Work: Gettysburg Address or something like that would work well. I'm still stuck, though, on whether to make the first structure a "school" or a "category." Majrjejm 21:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Take a general page if you ask me, users without knowledge in wiki things do not perhaps understand or see categories (fast)? (also ask yourself how you reacted, others will be perhaps similar) Though I find the cateories (using as tags) a great thing. If you want, you can also ask in the chat for fast feedback. If you would like we could create for you the basic skeleton and you can "just" fill in the content? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat + Identi.ca 22:44, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree with Erkan here - start simple. If/when a single page gets too large, then the content can easily be moved into separate pages. Here's a good example of a course on a single page Composing educational resources. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Moved from page - abandoned project ideas

 * User:Rivcal~enwikiversity/Ms. Ruther's class (2007)
 * Human Computer Interaction (HCI) (Fall 2007) - University of Utah. half the class made accounts, then left.
 * Cow eye dissection (2008) - Magee Secondary school, Mr. Rozitis grade 8 science, incomplete notes
 * Peace Studies in Africa - not quite a concept outline

Redesign page
I find the page hard to cope with as it sprawls with so much information. How would people feel about redesigning it so that it functions more as a portal page, or indeed creating a portal page?Leutha 08:32, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * As you might have noticed, asking how possibly absent "people" feel about redesigning a page hardly ever gets the job done. A lot of pages were created in a burst of enthusiasm with little experience as to how to actually organize a project like this. Redesigning this page is substantial work. I'll do it if invited. Right now, I'm dealing with overall cleanup process, and come across these things as part of it. Organizing Wikiversity is a highly educational activity. We will get more of the community involved in it. Many hands make short work. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 03:23, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Seeking support for a new course project
Hi -- I'm interested in setting up a undergraduate course project that involves university students individually creating wikiversity pages related to the course subject (Celtic dance). I'd very much appreciate any advice anyone cares to offer on setting this up! Thanks so much.

--HeatherCBU (discuss • contribs) 20:25, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

 * This can work well. See Federal Writers' Project – Life Histories for an example where several instructors have had students create Wikiversity pages for their course subject. Motivation and emotion is another long-term project where students create subpages for a given course project.
 * It is easier if we either give the students pre-formed links to the pages they will create (if you know the titles in advance) or a simple input box they can fill out to create the page. That way their pages are created in the right place.
 * It is also much easier if the project spans a period of time (at least a week or two), so that students can get started, learn the technology, give the software time to recognize their account and give them permission to create content and add links, etc. If we know in advance what they will be working on and when, we can try to help you and them along the way.
 * Specifically try to avoid a situation where they all wait until the last minute to create their pages and add their content. As I have posted elsewhere, technology senses deadline panic and generally refuses to cooperate. It's kind of a Murphy's Law corollary.
 * Try creating an example yourself of what you are expecting students to do, both so you are familiar with issues they may encounter, and so they have an example of what you are asking them to do.
 * Be prepared to edit what they have created, or use the Talk page on their pages to make constructive suggestions.
 * Be comfortable in constructivist learning. Turning students loose and letting them create content is a wonderful learning experience. They will learn and remember, and typically be very proud of their efforts. And some will surprise you for how they choose to interpret your instructions or what they decide to create. Sometimes good surprises, sometimes just surprises. :-)
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Thank you so much, Dave! This is very helpful advice and the psych example is particularly helpful as a model. I definitely plan on having the students learn some wiki editing skills gradually and won't have them do it at the last minute. This is a project for the fall; it won't be due until November some time. I will integrate small editing activities prior to that -- not sure yet what the timeline will be but they'll start in either Sept or Oct. I won't know what the students will write about until later, but I can create the links to their pages once I know. --173.241.96.83 (discuss) 12:35, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

 * See Federal Writers' Project – Life Histories/2020/Summer II/Section 01 for a page design and input box that allows students to create pages in the correct location, and then automatically displays links to the pages. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:53, 19 July 2020 (UTC)


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Economic Leap Frogging through Trading Information via the Internet

Note: The development of this concept has moved to the Effective Education Project. This page is being left for archive purposes.

This is a research project about how selling intellectual property via the Internet can allow people in less economically developed countries to reach beyond their mostly closed economic system into the international economic system. By doing so, individuals will gain a better standard of living and the economy and stability of the nation will ultimately improve.

The Problem and a Solution

Many less developed nations face a problem of having an internal cycle that consists of corruption, poor infrastructure, debt, poor education, low skills and inequality. Each of these components contribute to the other components within the system. Since the economic system is primarily a closed system, the average person only has the capability of having economic trades with others who are trapped in the system. Because of this it is difficult and generally highly unlikely that an average citizen can significantly increase their standard of living.

There is foreign aid that comes to many countries, but unfortunately this often goes to corrupt leaders (who often use it to buy imported goods), and does not directly benefit the poor. Even when it does, rarely does the aid help build systems that allow the people to help themselves in the future. Physical goods can be manufactured in less developed countries, but this generally requires a large start-up cost and capitol. Due to corruption, and the lack of infrastructure, this is often difficult to do, and rarely can it be done by an entrepreneurial individual.

A solution to this conundrum lies in the potential of the Internet. The Internet allows trade of intellectual property with very little influence of the government or internal systems of the country. It also brings in foreign money directly to citizens in their closed system. It also can be done by individuals with a relatively low startup cost (if enough infrastructure exists), such that a micro-loan could potentially fund an individual. Further, the very nature of the Internet helps expose people in closed systems to other systems of government, culture, etc, which helps open their minds and educates them.

While technology has been heralded as a method for countries to "leap frog" cycles of growth, it can fail if it is put to use in the wrong way. This project attempts to put technology to use in a logical way that can truly help people help themselves. Further, it is unlikely that technology will truly help people leap frog stages of development, it is much more likely to change the order and method that societies will develop.

It is also important to realize that high technology and money in the hands of someone with a lower consciousness (lacking ethics, empathy, critical thinking and a broad view of the world) can be very dangerous. This has been evidenced by the many terrible wars that have existed on the African continent, and in other less developed areas of the world. (Although, those of us in higher developed nations should not think that we too do not have have people of lower consciousness that utilize tools of technology and money in destructive manners.) That is why the goal of this project is not only to help people gain the skills they need to make and trade intellectual property, but to also help them learn higher order knowledge and skills such as system thinking, economics, etc. In this way, this project is closely tied with the Extraordinary School Project.

Infrastructure & Systems Requirements
While this project can greatly benefit people in less developed nations, there needs to exist at least a certain level of technological and financial infrastructure for people to be able to sell Intellectual Property over the Internet.

Computer Systems
Computers have become the standard method of creating and transmitting intellectual property. These computers must be capable of creating the specific intellectual property that is to traded via the Internet. All computers should be capable of handling USB devices. Other specific requirements will be based upon the type of intellectual property that will be traded. (See Appropriate Section)

Electricity
There must be a method that can power any computer system. Preferably this exists through power lines that carry either 110, 220, or 230 Volts. If an electrical infrastructure does not exist, it may be possible to power the system through alternative generating means, such as human based power, solar or local turbines on rivers or windmills. The cost of the electricity must be calculated into the business plan.

Internet Connectivity
The Internet is now the standard method used to transfer intellectual property, and is generally the most cost effective method. Connectivity must exist within the community that the intellectual property will be traded from. This may be something that the users can access from the computers they use for development, or if there is only limited place where connectivity exists, such as Internet Cafes, the intellectual property products can be batched up and sent as needed.

Reliable Banking System
In order to be able to collect money from international customers it is critical to be able to have access to a bank that is reliable and that can work with foreign banks, and be able to have money deposited into them from systems such as PayPal, etc.

Standard Accounting Training & Procedures
It is important that internally to the organization selling the intellectual property, that they have good accounting abilities, and follow standard accounting practices. Further accounting procedures need to be in place, to help ensure the honesty and integrity of all who are involved in the process.

Language & Literacy
It is important that the creators of the intellectual property are able to create it in a language that is appropriate for their audience. For example, someone wishing to sell information to Americans, needs to have the information written in English. Further the English needs to be of such a quality that it can be easily understood by Americans. If someone is wishing to sell intellectual property to the French market, then it will be important to create it in French, etc.

Specific Product Training
Depending upon the type of intellectual property traded, will determine what other types of education someone must have.

Social and Governmental Stability, Human Freedoms
It is highly unlikely that the less developed nations where these leap frogging tactics are attempting to be used will have perfect stability, and freedom for its citizens. But a minimum amount of stability must exist for economic systems of trade to occur. If a war is occurring or other highly damaging or dangerous issues are occurring, there is no possibility for the economic leap frogging to occur.

One of the good points about Economic Leapfrogging being done on the individual scale, is it should raise the standard of living for the masses, and hence increase long term stability for the nation.

Potential Intellectual Property Products
There is a whole range of intellectual property that can be sold on the Internet. There are several key requirements for the intellectual property to be succesful:

 * 1) The person in the less developed nation must be capable of making a quality product
 * 2) The product should be something that can be done with a low start up cost
 * 3) The product must be capable of being made with the technology, infrastructure, etc available to the person
 * 4) The product must cost equal or less than it would cost from a person in a more developed nation
 * 5) The person must be able to earn more selling the product than the other options they have available
 * 6) There must be a demand for the product in more developed nations
 * 7) The person making the product must be able to communicate their potential wares to people who may want the product
 * 8) All actions taken should be ethical on all sides
 * 9) Competition and current markets for products must always be considered when developing a product.

Transcription Services
Users could transcribe sound files to word processing files. There are many organizations that produce sound files that may wish to have them converted to text so they could be placed on a website and be in a searchable format.

Technical Details
Assuming that radio programs have approximately 200 Words Per Minute, then 1 hour of audio has approximately 12,000 words. If a typist can type 40 Words Per Minute, then it would take about 5 hours to type. A typist who can type 80 Words Per minute could do it in 2.5 hours.

The original audio files being received would need to be small enough in size that they could be transmitted to the person in the lesser developed nation. This is especially important because often these people will have lower speed connections. Using mono MP3 encoding with a constant bit rate of 16 Kbps and 11025 Hz, the audio is still legible and can be fit into about 1.1 MB per 10 minutes of audio. The finished transcribed files will generally be negligible in size, being less than 100 KB.

Market Viability
Given a low enough cost, this service could be marketed to churches, schools, and radio stations. Churches could have their sermons transcribed, schools could have lectures transcribed, and radio stations could have talk radio shows transcribed.

Most current transcription services do not go after this market, as the costs they charge, which is generally a minimum of f $1.50 per minute or $90 per hour of audio, is prohibitive. Further, the standard market for transcription is usually for business meetings, legal matters and medical matters. It is not recommended that a leap frog entrepreneur attempt to enter into the traditional transcription market due to specialized knowledge required, and high liability risks.

Imprinted Clothing & Products
Websites such as Cafe Press and Zazzle allow anyone to sell clothing or other products with customized pictures which may be artwork or text. To be able to utilize these sites the user must have a computer able to handle the creation of pictures.

Paid Web Research
Some forms of web research simply require a fair amount of time to accomplish. For example, many statistical things could be discovered about the web, but either software needs to be written, or things need to be counted by hand. Someone with a continual Internet connection could do part of this research.

OCR Cleanup
Many documents are in a graphical format, and while OCR software has become very commonly used to convert these documents to text, they often have troubles with specific areas. Users in developing communities could take these documents and clean them up, turning out a quality product in the end.

Programming
There are a wide range of programs that can be created. Database programming generally is not an option due to legal and privacy reasons. Further, depending upon what the program will do, determines the system requirements to create the program. Also, specialized training must occur for anyone wishing to write a computer program. But even given these issues, programming can be very lucrative as India has demonstrated.

Web Design
Similar to programming, web design has different specialized knowledge that is required to be successful. But it can be done anywhere in the world.

Customer Support
Many companies have been outsourcing their customer support to other countries. Excellent language skills are required to be able to do this, and a fairly high startup cost, as well as good infrastructure, as batch processing is not generally an option, except potentially for written support (email support, or text messaging support). This also requires more dependence upon another company.

MMORPG Products
It may be possible for users to play in MMORPGs such as Everquest, etc, and build up a character that they can then sell on the Internet, thus converting money from a  virtual economy to the real economy. This could only be done if the specific MMORPG allows for such things. Also, it requires the up front capitol of paying for an account, and a computer system capable of handling the game, and a reliable on going Internet connection.

General System Requirements
Each type of intellectual property will generally fit into one of these categories, although specifics will vary.

As can be seen from this chart, generally text and pictures can be produced on the lowest capable machines, and hence generally have a lower startup cost. Since the difference in income is not greatly more significant with Sound or Video, it is generally better to start with selling intellectual property that only incorporates text and or pictures. The requirements to only receive a particular media, without editing that media, is approximately 1/2 of the system requirements for editing that form of media.

Specific Implementation of this Theory
Extraordinary School Project/Northern Computer Center, Ghana

Influences on Research
This research project has been influenced by the following people, organizations, and works:

 * Muhammad Yunus & the Grameen Bank
 * The World Is Flat written by Thomas Friedman
 * W. Edwards Deming and others influential in Total Quality Management
 * Bono and his work with the ONE Campaign


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 * All wood products brought to the job site should be:

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 * 2. protected from soil splashing onto the materials, and

 * 3. covered tightly with weatherproof tarps to protect the material from precipitation. (coverings that spread out and also cover the ground will act as a greenhouse and allow ground moisture to condense under the cover and will move back into the wood products.) The only exception to covering would be for the delivery of pressure treated lumber which is still wet from the pressure treatment process, which needs to dry out in order minimize shrink stresses when placed in construction.

 * When wood picks up moisture it can warp, but more importantly it can become attractive to wood infesting insects. Most wood boring or wood chewing insects will leave materials alone if they have less than 10% moisture content.  Wood products must also be protected from mud splashes (from rain hitting the ground adjacent to the wood).  All soil contains micro-organisms that initiate and or accelerate decay.

 * Materials that are "man-made" such as OSB (Oriented Strand BoardOriented_strand_board), unless treated with copper or borate compounds, are even more suseptible to absorbing moisture and fungal attack. When OSB is exposed to moisture the chipped wood begins to swell, allowing for the edges of the individual 'flakes' to lift, where soil, bacteria, fungal spores, and insects can get leverage.

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 * The change from chromated copper arsenate pressure treated lumber to alkaline copper quat (ACQ), and copper azole (CA) treatments (substantially increasing the percentage of copper in the wood) is much more corrosive on aluminum and steel elements that are in contact with the wood, and are subjected to moisture. .  Recent trends in the use of aluminum for foundation flashing, window flashing, and insect barriers will need to change to materials that are more compatible with this chemistry.

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X86 Architecture
X86 is a microprocessor architecture initially created by Intel in 1978, introduced with the 8086 microprocessor. The x86 architecture is now used in most modern computers and most Operating Systems are designed to be compatible with it.

Operating Systems and X86
There are specific instructions that need to be followed when writing assembly code for x86. In order for an Operating System or any other low level program requiring assembly to be compatible, the code must use the x86 instruction set provided by the hardware manufacturer.

The instructions for x86 assembly code have undergone many changes and additions since the architecture was created. What this means for an OS Programmer is that he/she sometimes has to consider the benefits of the newest and greatest additions to the architecture while also considering the costs of losing backwards compatibility. An example of the problems created by this situation can be seen in the Windows 95 through Millenium Edition Operating Systems. At this time, the Windows programmers needed to introduce the newest 32 bit x86 architecture into their OS, but they also needed to include 16 bit backwards compatibility. Users of these Operating Systems saw some negative results such as the "Blue Screen of Death" and the frequent "Freezing" of the OS itself.

Writing code in assembly can be a long and difficult process as the code itself can be difficult to understand and lengthy. Regardless of these setbacks, assembly programs are some of the fastest and smallest programs written. It is for this reason that the lowest functions in an OS are usually written in assembly. Some OS's, such as Menuet OS, are written entirely in assembly in order to take advantage of the benefits. Others, such as Ace OS are written using a mix of C and Assembly in order to cut down on programming time. Both OS's are written to be compatible with the x86 architecture and their source code is available for download on their web pages.

Operating Systems Written for X86

 * AtheOS
 * BeOS
 * BRiX
 * BugOS
 * DOS
 * EROS
 * Exopc
 * Fiasco
 * FreeBSD
 * FreeVMS
 * GEM
 * ReactOS
 * GEOS
 * GNU Hurd
 * Linux
 * MAC OSX
 * Microsoft Windows
 * MINIX
 * NetBSD
 * OpenBSD
 * OS2
 * QNX
 * RadiOS
 * RMX
 * Sun Solaris
 * TinyOS
 * Unix
 * Xenix


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Wikiversity talk:History of Wikiversity

Would a Traditions page be useful? What would appear on such a page?

(s) Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-06-25 (June 25, 2007) Time: 193701 UTC

 * My first reaction is that Wikiversity is more about exploring new possibilities for using wiki in education than it is about tradition. Wikiversity has adopted some Wikipedia traditions such as Be Bold. --JWSchmidt 20:18, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I personally would be fascinated by such a page. No idea what would go on it, however.  The Jade Knight 16:43, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

First two pages...
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikiversity&oldid=11035 (was moved to the talk space)

http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity&oldid=31956 Emesee 23:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Energy Storage in Biological Systems

Fats
There was an article a number of years ago in (the UK) NewScientist magazine that covered this in much more depth. The text in the main article is from memory. Ideally a reference to it or similar would be useful.


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User talk:Terence wiki

Hello Terence wiki, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. When leaving comments for others to read, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone keep track of who is writing messages. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To help you get started:
 * Take a guided tour and learn how to edit;
 * Explore our learning projects;
 * Browse our portals, schools, and research pages; and
 * Read and help develop our community policies.

Also, don't forget to experiment with the links to your left. Be bold, and see you around Wikiversity! --JWSchmidt 21:12, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

section flow
"how we can still make each of the main sections flow together yet tie in with the idea that they are separate lectures, course or whatever" <-- Maybe we could make an introductory page called "Overview of energy storage" that provides links to all of the individual "lesson pages" and does so in the form of a concise narrative that outlines the entire scope of the "course". --JWSchmidt 22:12, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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Are links to lecture pages supposed to use uppercasing on each letter as in the outline for this topic?

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http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/24-high-flying-windmills-blow-away-their-ground-based-cousins Emesee 23:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/June 2007

Wikipedia Learning
There are proposals to change the name of the Wikimedia Foundation (to Wikipedia Foundation) and the names of projects like Wikiversity (to "Wikipedia Learning"). You can comment on these proposals at Wikimedia brand survey. --JWSchmidt 00:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Why are people constantly trying to merge us back with wikibooks?--Rayc 05:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Some people have never fully agreed with the idea of removing Wikiversity from Wikibooks. 2) We could do a better job of explaining the differences between Wikiversity and Wikibooks. 3) Some people have never agreed that Wikiversity should be a Wikimedia project, or, in some cases, they think Wikiversity launched too soon. 4) We could do a better job of promoting cooperation between Wikiversity and Wikibooks. --JWSchmidt 13:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I really don't think there's much trouble between Wikibooks and Wikiversity (or any of the other non-Wikipedian sisters)... this is more a problem between the Wikipedia-only people and the rest of the Wikimedians (there are regular minor blow-ups between en.wp and commons, for example). If nothing else, the NOR exemption Wikiversity enjoys effectively precludes any re-merging into other projects, just as wikinews could never be merged because it uses the CC-BY license. The survey seems to be more aboutwhether the smaller projects are just offshoots of Wikipedia (which in some ways they are), or if they're independent but related projects (ditto). Making every project "Wikipedia something" just rubs the wrong way, especially for our project, where we even decided to throw out "Admin" in favor of "Custodian" because of the heirarchical connotations "Admin" has accrued on Wikipedia. This is Wikiversity! :-) --SB_Johnny | talk 23:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Egads, I just started moving my stuff from wikibooks to wikiversity because there are most definitely differences. That and the community is very different.  Different people, different rules, different templates, etc.  I like having a wikibooks and a wikiversity.

And why would the wiki world need to be based off of wikipedia? I tell people I work on stuff on wikibooks and/or wikiversity. What is that? they ask. It's like wikipedia but for curriculum and textbooks. Oh. Very quick to explain.

I could see making mediawiki into wikimedia foundation or mediawiki foundation. But leave the rest alone to evolve naturally. Just sayin. Harriska2 16:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Welcome template
Hi everyone - general broadcast message here. Some of us have been working on a new welcome template. Take a look at Template:Welcome/new and feel free to comment! --HappyCamper 22:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia service-learning courses
I've put up a proposal at Wikipedia service-learning courses for a new series of courses that will add Wikiversity to the list of schools with class projects that involve contributing to Wikipedia. Comments on the talk page would be most welcome, as would sign-ups on the list of interested course developers. Seahen 02:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

E-mail blocking
Just a heads up that a new blocking option, "Prevent user from sending e-mail," which disables a user from accessing Special:Emailuser, will be coming to Wikiversity soon. I would hope that on a small wiki such as this one, it will never need to be used; however, larger wikis such as enwiki have been having quite a problem with spam. In any case, it will be available for you if you need it, but please use it only when absolutely necessary. AmiDaniel (talk) 18:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

 * If spam is a problem there, I can't see why it won't be a problem here. Wouldn't it be more sensible to add a CAPTCHA (sp?) challenge rather then nullify your e-mail address? Just a thought. Historybuff 23:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Things such as this and an e-mail throttle have been suggested and are still being discussed. At present, we're just going to try this out and see if it does the trick. If not, then we may venture to some of these other options (which have several problems that need to be worked out). AmiDaniel (talk) 23:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

how to write drama?
--59.95.41.63 07:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Here are some starting points: Lesson:Script writing for highschool drama departments, Portal:Writing Center, Category:Writing. It looks like we need Topic:Drama. --JWSchmidt 13:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity downtimes?
I've increasingly experienced difficulties accessing Wikiversity. The site simply cannot be reached using HTTP. Not an ISP issue at my end. Including just now, for about 30 minutes or so. It's been going on for perhaps a week (or so). Anyone know anything? -- McCormack 09:44, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * When you cannot reach Wikiversity can you reach other sister projects like Wikipedia? --JWSchmidt 14:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * This morning I noticed I was having difficulty accessing Wikipedia as well. But generally, I either didn't check or didn't notice what WP was doing. I'm pretty sure it was just HTTP. McCormack 14:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * McCormack: I had an issue with this a few months ago, where there was apparently some sort of trouble with the routing between me and the wikimedia projects. Someone on #wikimedia-tech managed to reroute it somehow, but I have no idea how they did it :). --SB_Johnny | talk 14:19, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Did you experience any problem at the time? I think you were doing some editing, but you might have had a break around then. McCormack 14:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope, nothing lately, though I came up against "database locked" a bit when the db servers all went down a week or two ago. If I understand correctly, wikipedia (or maybe just en.wikipedia) is on a different server than the rest of the projects now, so rather than seeing if wikipedia works, try checking wikibooks or commons. --SB_Johnny | talk 16:41, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I've noticed sporadic downtimes for a few months myself. I just wait it out. Wikiversity seems to be down more often than Wikipedia. I can often go there, but not here. --HappyCamper 15:40, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Rather than suffer is silence, lets keep a log of the times when Wikiversity cannot be reached but Wikipedia can be reached. As soon as a Wikiversity page fails to load, try to record the number of the server that failed to serve the Wikiversity page. When a Wikiversity page fails to load, use the view menu of your browser, select "page source", scroll to the bottom of the HTML and there should be something like: "Served by srv138 in 0.197 secs." --JWSchmidt 16:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree with JWS here -- if we suffer in silence, problems won't get noticed and fixed and casual users will just conclude that things don't work. Techs and developers tend to not notice problems, and I'm not sure if front end (ie web page stuff) is even monitored. (Maybe that could be a WV LP? :P) Historybuff 15:36, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I think a research project on this would be interesting (tying downtimes to thunderstorm activity in the southeast US, etc.), but I don't think we should be worried about being singled out for neglect or anything. The devs and techs have had a few serious issues to deal with lately, so please let's not "take it personally". Manure occurs, eh? --SB_Johnny | talk 23:15, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Request: GET http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Transcendology, from 66.230.200.143 via sq39.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE12) to Error: ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD, errno (11) Resource temporarily unavailable at Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:22:04 GMT  McCormack 13:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity page display problems

JWS just uploaded a good image. I've been seeing weird things like this as well today. As well as other weird things (see above). --McCormack 15:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Judging from this log there has been some recent work on the server array. I have yet to see a problem that cannot be fixed by reloading the page. --JWSchmidt 15:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

 * My Transcendology error (above) qualifies as an example - no amount of reloading could fix it at the time. But perhaps we should leave the long-suffering server guys alone. McCormack 15:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Endorsements now open for Wikimedia Foundation Board
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Is this the place?
You're all inside looking out; I'm trying to look in and it seems rather murky. So I'll try stirring it up with a stick...

I lead a group of search and rescue volunteers who are trying to write training materials for our community. The more we do, the more we see we still have to do. There are now over 100 people involved and to date 4 or 5 documents. So far, we have been using an e-mail list, archived in a semi-threaded form on a web site. As you can imagine, our activity has become too complex to function entirely via e-mail! For the documents I maintain personally, I try to achieve transparency by incorporating the gist of every discussion as it happens, with rapid turnaround. I can no longer do such intense micromanaging of the process (I have other committments). The other documents' maintainers have simply gone underground to work in isolation. Their withdrawal is highly destructive to the collaborative sprirt of the community. I want to move all the document editing functions to a MediaWiki site, here or our own dedicated wiki, reserving the list for announcements and meta-discussions. Is anyone here doing anything similar? Una Smith 05:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Take a look at School:Fire and Emergency Management. Are any of your existing materials available on a public website? --JWSchmidt 06:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Seen it. That's not the kind of similar I mean, though.  I mean, is any other large collaborative community working here?  All of the content I have seen here so far looks like the usual situation in academia (at least at the "better" institutions):  each instructor making up their own teaching materials from scratch.  As a graduate student, I took a course in how to do that.  I was aghast at the waste.  We have two lists, one with a public archive, the other with a private archive but anyone can join . Una Smith 06:26, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

 * "large collaborative community working here" <-- I think the closest we have come is that several instructors have run wiki editing projects here with a class full of students, for example see Historical Introduction to Philosophy/General Introduction. I was left uncertain about the involvement of ASTM in your project. Are the learning resources that you now have covered under a copyright controlled by ASTM International? "aghast at the waste" <-- historically, very few people are willing/able to release their learning resources under a free license. Wikiversity participants are forced to start from scratch in most cases. --JWSchmidt 13:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

ASTM International supports community working groups (Technical Committees) to develop standards, and copyrights those standards. ASTM standards are published by ASTM, and by others under licensing agreements. As far as my community is concerned, however, we are writing ASTM standards only to define the learning objectives of our curriculum. Other curriculum materials will not be under ASTM copyright. In fact, we expect one organization that sells training and testing services will develop its own proprietary curriculum to meet our ASTM standards, and other organizations and individuals will remain free to do the same, or make their work open source. Our documents destined to become ASTM standards are little more than syllabi, defining what topics to teach about, not how or what to teach about them. All other elements of our curriculum will be evaluated against the ASTM standards. This is conformance assessment. Our intention is to ensure that our collective knowledge does not become the private property of any one entity. Our ASTM standards won't be distributed to students, and probably not to instructors either; we expect the users to be curriculum developers. As far as search and rescue standards are concerned, ASTM must be losing money at every turn: I gather that its main profit center is in standards that form the basis of such exotica as international building construction codes. Every nation, state, and municipal government that has building regulations may require a copy... Una Smith 20:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I think it might be useful to take a look at Comparison of wiki farms too - this will give you an idea of the capabilities and limitations of Wikis, and in turn, will help guide you find one that meshes well with your objectives. --HappyCamper 01:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I worked through Comparison of wiki farms and similar resources at the start of my evaluation process, months ago. Wikiversity is one of two candidates on my short list.  To me, Wikiversity's strength seems to be in learning by teaching ... or at least by writing teaching materials.  For me, that has a lot of appeal, but I have decided to go with the other candidate. Thank you, JWSchmidt and HappyCamper for helping me make this difficult decision.  -- Una Smith 03:50, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

 * No problem, I'm glad this was helpful to you. Cheers, --HappyCamper 01:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Why this is not the place
I'm disappointed I didn't see this discussion before now - but I'd be very interested to know where you decided to develop this resource base, and why you chose there. Cormaggio talk 20:37, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

 * My user community has needs beyond curriculum development, that I think a MediaWiki wiki can fulfill. We need MediaWiki, precisely because most of our collaborative work resembles writing wikipedia pages, except the content is not encyclopedic.  I have done a "lot" of research into technology and communities that would serve us best.  Reception here was lukewarm, so this is not the right place for us;  a good fit should be a no-brainer and receive a very enthusiastic reception.  I have kept community resources on ibiblio.org since 1993 and I can have my own MediaWiki wiki there, or perhaps go on wikinfo.org (hosted on ibiblio.org).  I just didn't want to start yet another wiki, if I could avoid it.

 * Thinking about wikiversity, I think one no-brainer would be a food school. I think of the many recipes I have tried in cookbooks and on the Internet, that fail.  I have a personal cookbook of special recipes, mostly for "specialty" foods, where I have found the crucial missing details that make the recipe work.  Often, there is a food science lesson involved.  Eg, pretzels don't taste like pretzels unless they are coated with sodium bicarbonate.  Boiled or brushed doesn't matter to the taste, but does affect the texture and color.  Boiled eggs are started in cold water because no matter how delicately they are slipped into hot water, they explode.  At least, they do at sea level;  at high altitude perhaps they won't explode.  Ethiopian injera has a trivial list of ingredients but making injera is a challenge I have not yet come close to mastering. --Una Smith 02:40, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your reply, though I find it disappointing that the main reason for choosing elsewhere was a perceived lukewarm response. We possibly haven't done enough to make it clear that we welcome various communities - of different levels, subject areas, pedagogic styles, etcetera. I think your community and proposed resource sound great, and I would warmly welcome you here - but I entirely respect and understand your decision to choose wherever you feel is best. I really like your ideas for a food school also. :-) Cormaggio talk 14:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Curriki
Yet another source from the interwebs:. "the wikipedia of curriculum". Anything we can learn from them?--Rayc 23:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

More Online Repositories of courses
Many of the multimedia learning material at Curriki appears to come from the US based National Repository of Online Courses. Check out HippoCampus to see an array of multimedia learning materials. There is also an equivalent site from England at National Learning Network unlike the US version you need to register to access these materials. Click the link on the page and if you live in England select ACL England (Adult and Community Learning) fill in the form choosing the local council you live in select student and give an email address. If you don't live in England I guess you could just pretend you're a visiting student at the local council of your choice. It's worth having a look at these materials to see a variety of national approaches to multimedia online learning materials. Mystictim 18:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Licensing the NROC Library is very strange. The HippoCampus interface is such that I do not see how to provide links to the specific multimedia resources. --JWSchmidt 18:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Dynamic page lists
If you want Wikiversity to have dynamic page lists, please add a supporting comment to this request.

Example: b:User:SBJohnny/DPL.

There is some old discussion at Request custodian action. --JWSchmidt 15:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I added my support here. Looks like we're on the way to getting the extention. We have Help:Dynamic page list primed and ready... cool! Thanks, JWS :) -- CQ 18:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yaaaaay!!!!--SB_Johnny | talk 19:46, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

 * This feature is now available. See an example at Help:Dynamic page list. --JWSchmidt 16:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Page protection at Wikiversity
It is common practice in WikiMedia wiki projects for custodians to protect pages after pages become targets of vandalism. There may be additional reasons for protecting some Wikiversity pages that do not have an existing history of past vandalism of the pages. This idea can be explored at Talk:ListOfQuizzesForMobileClient, Course protection policy, Page protection templates. --JWSchmidt 14:51, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Nevertheless I think that the underlying principles are so important, I'll voice some comments here. In a healthy Wikimedia project, most pages are protected by the vigilance of the whole community, using watchlists, RC patrols and many layers of democratic institutions (esp. voting). Any use of the artificial page protection facility available to custodians should always be seen as a failure of the community and a shift of power towards custodians. Even the extreme case of the worst vandals is, stricto sensu, a "failure of the community", because vandals are a part of the community in the widest sense - a failed part of that community. Our community cannot be perfect, so we have artificial page protection by custodians. But every use of the page protect facility is an erosion of the community. -- McCormack 17:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Every wiki page must be available to be edited by everyone all the time or else it indicates a "failure of the community" or a violation of "underlying principles"? Sorry, but I do not agree. Wiki technology makes it possible for people to perform collaborative webpage editing. If there is a good reason to prevent or restrict editing of particular wiki pages then shouldn't the community be free to explore the options for page protection? Some of the options for page protection do not have to involve custodian-specific tools. --JWSchmidt 21:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I think page protection is by necessity a community issue - the community decides criteria for when a page should be protected, how, by whom, for how long etc., so it is a part of the community's work. I think that it should not be applied willy-nilly nor lazily, but I can see some instances where it does seem warranted, or at least appropriate. I'm thinking, for example, of a quantitative dataset which somebody uploads to Wikiversity - a number could easily be changed without it being clear to someone monitoring recent changes whether this is vandalism or simply correcting an error in the data entry. I would welcome a broad discussion about page protection - it's something we've discussed before in more of a speculative, rather than definitive, way - and I think it's important we consider a wide variety of cases and uses before we apply our own system. At the root of this discussion, of course, is that this is a wiki, and works through the wiki way - so I very much appreciate the spirit of McCormack's comments. On where to have this discussion, though, would Page protection (and its talk page) not be a more logical place? Cormaggio talk 21:45, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity Traditions
Would a Traditions page be useful? What would appear on such a page?

(s) Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-06-25 (June 25, 2007) Time: 194701 UTC

 * What were you thinking its function could be? Could you outline what made you think about it, perhaps? Of course, you could always be bold... :-) Cormaggio talk 19:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

 * As university life is governed by tradition, so it would seem that Wikiversity may also be. The "History" Page and "What is Wikiversity?" are two (2) instances which suggest, perhaps, the beginning of Wikiversity Tradition.

 * The "Jamming Online" Page carries the language "We might have to move forward as a group quite slowly at first, according to the emerging Wikiversity tradition of consensus desision-making as it relates to developing network standards for this harbinger of innovation."  So, it seems to this Participant, that the Traditions Page may soon have some value.  Of course, this Participant will be bold; thank you very much.  :-)

 * (s) Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-06-26 (June 26, 2007) Time: 184701 UTC

Board of Trustees election - voting now open
Voting is open from June 28 to July 7. When the "vote" link first went into the Wikiversity site notice, Wikiversity had not yet been set up for the correct connections to the secure server for voting. Sorry if you tried to vote and could not do so. It should work for you now. --JWSchmidt 18:01, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity meeting
It will be one year since the en.wikiversity reached. So I think some people collaborationg in here would like to meet in real meeting. It doesnt meen I am going to U.S. Anyway we can also built a special page for real meetings. So what you think?--Juan 19:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * We could have a "virtual meeting" and coordinate with Wikimania. --JWSchmidt 19:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Could you explain it a little bit? What you mean by "coordination with Wikimania"?--Juan 11:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikimania is early August and the one year anniversary of Wikiversity is the middle of August. I think it would be useful to have a "virtual meeting" for people who cannot attend Wikimania. You mentioned the idea of a "real meeting" without "going to U.S.", which sounded like maybe we could have a "virtual meeting" where everything is done online with no need for travel. --JWSchmidt 12:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Virtual you mean video/audio. Anyway I am not against live meetings, but I see it is so early. Maybe I can call for European meeting of en.wikiversity also:-).--Juan 16:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I think we should have some focused IRC meetings, perhaps on a reasonably regular basis. General details are at Chat - but how about IRC meetings? Or should this be coordinated at Beta? Cormaggio talk 00:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If it will be coordinated via beta it could help a lot. There is a need to announce it on beta, that each group can find out people able to communicate in English.--Juan 11:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Cough--Rayc 00:35, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Vishal Patel was in IRC #wikiversity today and suggested that there could be a meeting/conference call to talk about Wikiversity. Cary Bass has also been showing some interest in Wikiversity. This might be a good time to discuss Sandbox Server and ways to get approval for that "learn by doing" project. --JWSchmidt 21:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Wow, look what happens when you get busy for a week. Good stuff, hopefully this will give us some traction. I'll start poking around to see what needs help. Historybuff 15:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Learning projects
how do i create a learning project??? --Rigosantana3 01:56, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Feel free to experiment with new formats or copy the format of an existing one. There are some templates that you can use to help start learning projects. --JWSchmidt 02:37, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

 * We don't have a page on "how to create a learning project"... Cormaggio talk 19:23, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Learning projects has explicit instructions. --JWSchmidt 19:57, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Hmm .. perhaps we should have a learning project on creating learning projects =D. AmiDaniel (talk) 18:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Question: Re: "Open Task" Template
On the "Open Task" Template, Item #3 is:

Create Links from Wikipedia Pages to Existing Wikiversity Pages

 * Template:Wikiversity2
 * Template:Wikiversity

Question: Re: "Open Task" Template (Continued)
This Participant would be inclined to accept this Task; and has made one or two of these Links; but, in order to be sure he is Linking correctly, he needs to understand the difference between Template:Wikiversity2 and Template:Wikiversity and their proper uses.

Would some Wikiversitan please be so kind as to fully explicate the explanations found on these Templates so that even the newbie can productively complete these Tasks.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

(s) Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-06-18 (June 18, 2007) Time: 204901 UTC
 * It looks like "Wikiversity2" is for cases when what can be learned is a sub topic of the page, like (For more information on BLUE see "The colors of the rainbow"), where as Template:Wikiversity just says "for more information on this subject"--Rayc 23:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Help make a short introduction to templates at Introduction to templates. --JWSchmidt 23:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


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User:Rigosantana3/Projects

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I am currently studying the properties of cold fusion and how to improve it to an industrial scale, here is a link: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

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User:Rigosantana3/Whiteboard

whiteboard Plasma Weapons? Cold Fusion reactor? 3 dimensional data storage?

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User:Rigosantana3/Research ideas

Research Ideas Plasma Weapons? Cold Fusion reactor? 3 dimensional data storage?

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User:Rigosantana3/Paper drafts

Drafts

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