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User talk:JWSchmidt

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Will you allow us to welcome you home?
JWS, I just came across File:Logo Movie.gif, which you created, just like you created much of this project. It reminded me to tell you I'd love to welcome you home, here.

I've written before about what that would take, it would simply be a commitment to leave the past in the past, and to move forward developing Wikiversity into what you and others saw possible here. We are doing it.

I was blocked for almost two years, by the same custodian who last blocked you. That's just a fact. If I were to belabor that fact, over and over, using it to draw conclusions about that custodian or Wikiversity, I'd probably be blocked again! However, working on this project, developing resources as is uniquely possible here, and, now, even working on Wikiversity structure and organization, I'm unimpeded, as you could be. Please consider requesting unblock, perhaps as I did. There, I expressed my clear intention to focus only on developing educational resources. As it developed, I began working again on Wikiversity structure, and so I just asked Jtneill, who unblocked me, about this, but I doubt that he will object, and if he does, we'll deal with it collaboratively.

If you commit to sticking to the positive, I'd personally trust you, and I'm sure you could be readily unblocked. Times have very clearly changed. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 00:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Unblock request
I was blocked because I was unable to let go of being deeply offended by events on Wikiversity, and continued to rehearse them, to point and link to them, to express my anger and frustration over those events.

I now commit to working on learning projects such as Science Fiction Challenge. I will avoid basing my editing on what happened in the past. I will avoid controversy and will not edit when I am upset, but will ask other users for help, on or off-wiki. I will respect and will respond civilly to warnings from custodians and other users, and will proceed with caution if my work offends anyone. --JWSchmidt (discuss • contribs) 01:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

 * See see Colloquium review. note added by Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:14, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Welcome back!
Thanks for doing what it took to allow me to welcome you! --Abd (discuss • contribs) 12:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Happy to see you here again.--Juandev (discuss • contribs) 13:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

The nanoepitaxy of Susanne Marie
The nanoepitaxy of Susanne Marie has been moved to Science Fiction Challenge/The nanoepitaxy of Susanne Marie. We've undertaken a major effort over the last two years to organize Wikiversity content by learning project rather than individual resource title. This helps avoid deletions such as occurred to Science Fiction Challenge/Admiring Odin. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:20, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I didn't quite understand what Dave meant about Admiring Odin. The page wasn't deleted, as far as I could tell, Dave moved it under the learning project. I didn't see the deletion in the page log. Looking at your edits, though, I saw the undeletion request. It is now routine that any speedy-deleted page is restored on request, there is rarely an argument. Courtesy would be to ask the deleting admin first. We only use RfD if there is some disagreement. But it's okay.

 * Technically, that deletion was in error, in several ways. It was a linked page, requiring a bit more thought. The user wasn't notified. We don't notify spammers and vandals, but this wasn't spam or vandalism. It was explicitly a learning project, for the user.

 * However, in my view, the page is not developed enough to be worth generations of users clicking through to it from the Challenge page. So I have prodded it.

 * John, the prod template, new in 2012, substituted, gives the page three months, and if nobody removes the tag, it's routinely deleted if any custodian agrees with deletion. This allows us to notice something probably useless, but postpone the deletion. Without this kind of tool, we had arbitrary deletions that caused harm, in one direction, and we had junk piling up, in the other.

 * I also notified the user, and emailed him. I'll be thrilled if he returns and removes the template....

 * Meanwhile, its up to you if you want the link to that page in the Challenge project, as it is. I'd think of removing it, myself. We do want to encourage uses to create, but we also want the resources we and they create to be maximally useful. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 00:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

 * . Nice. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 11:23, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Welcome Template
The template must be substituted to work correctly. Try. This eliminates the need to sign the post afterwards. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for re-joining the WV:Welcoming committee. Started a project at one point to stand for making this reliable (see the Talk page). No particular interest showed up.

 * In any case, the following seems to have settled as standard welcoming practice: I first learned this from my first mentor, though later he dumped it and welcomed indiscriminately. We do not welcome upon registration, and a lot of registration happens automatically, now, anyway, with SUL. Rather we welcome on the first edit that appears to be even reasonably good faith. What this does is to generate an effective filter by which any of us may notice new accounts in Recent Changes: a redlinked talk page. When I do RCP and see a redlinked talk page from a contribution, I will generally look at the contributions, and welcome, unless the contributions are vandalism or spam. But what is spam? This is somewhat new: there is a common spam user pattern, they register an account and create a User page quite like . We do assume good faith; however, because this is a spam pattern, I would not welcome that user yet. I'd leave the talk page redlinked so that it gets further attention. A non-spam edit, more than a likely bot-created user page, even just trying out the Sandbox, etc., I would welcome.

 * The harm of welcoming a spammer is not large. So don't worry, we won't be yelling at you over this! However, I will ask you to watch out for treating User page creations like this as a sign of participation. If you look at it closely, it is not a real communication. It shows zero interest in education. There are no real personal details. It says "I'm glad to come across you," but the user has not come across anyone. It's a first registration on Wikiversity (which is unusual). There is no email setup, so the user is quite unlikely to notice the welcome. 95% or more this is a spammer. We may never know. Most of the accounts created are throwaway.

 * There is some "interesting" discussion on that Welcoming committee talk page, particularly on the Colloquium linked from there, and a truly hilarious careless welcome. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:46, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Possibly of interest to you
As one of the founders of Wikiversity, I'd like you to look at permanent link). Please be extremely careful, this is a steward and I'm not asking you to play Don Quixote. There is background at User:Abd/Volleyball. Most of all, I'm interesting in your support (or other reaction) on the issue of Wikiversity mission. There is a collision between Wikipedian values and the Wikiversity mission. You, obviously, were very upset by that collision, but this is the political reality: the encyclopedic mission dominates the WMF.

In fact, that vision has become blinded and partially disempowered by very normal social processes, that blindsided the original Wikipedians, they were not socially sophisticated, to be able to expect and avoid what would naturally occur, with what they set up.

To move beyond this, we must ourselves move beyond black and white, right and wrong, good and bad. Blame never engages those blamed. The steward whose talk page I point to is, by far, not the worst of the lot, and what he does is normal practice, though the community at large is not aware of the gory details. If he is attacked, he is very popular, and the attacker will simply be whacked by the windmill blades. It's a big windmill.

No, we need to watch the windmill, learn how it works, respect its purpose, and then design systems to fulfill those purposes without causing the harm that we can see.

I write too much, myself. Please suppress your tendency to write a lot, unless it is on, say, the talk page for that Volleyball study in my user space. There, be completely free, as on my User talk page, but, of course, avoid incivility, assume good faith, etc. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:52, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Copyright notices
Template:File copyright was used in the following two sections. These two notices redacted by Abd (discuss • contribs) 22:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

What is the copyright of File:Second Nature.png?
-- Green Giant ( talk ) 15:54, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

What is the copyright of File:Kuula help board.png?
Green Giant ( talk ) 16:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Comments
See. It looks like Simone did not place all the files on Commons, he missed these two.

Green Giant, this was discussed in 2011, see the link. The consensus was that copyright was adequately established through Second Life rules and JWSchmidt's claim of "I made this." See and the edit summaries at  and. Simone based his action on those edit summaries and the comments here. If necessary, we would claim Fair Use, but it does not appear necessary. Thanks, GG, nice to see you at Wikiversity, stick around!

JWS, it might simplify things if you add explicit information to the files, it was the lack of that which caused Green Giant to tag them (which is much better than what was done before, that ISTE in SL file was summarily deleted without notice, which I thought, ah, well, maybe I shouldn't say.... wata unda da bridge.) I personally don't like moving our files to Commons, because it has often happened that, some years later, a Commons decision is made to delete, because on the precautionary principle or whatever, when we might well decide to keep the file, sometimes we claim fair use. There is no harm with files being in both locations, but I'm not exercised to move these files. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 22:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the links; makes more sense now. I agree that files should only be moved to Commons if they are explicitly licensed or PD. I hate to delete moved files, which is why I'm on a quest to sort things out at this end before we get to a Commons Deletion Requests. Slightly off-topic but you might remember NonFreeWiki; well I'm still not convinced that moving it to Commons will work but I've finally found the time to set up a couple of demos at WMFLabs (a mission in itself) and hopefully they will be ready for testing soon.   Green Giant  ( talk )  01:44, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

"it might simplify things if you add explicit information to the files" <-- It was simple when I uploaded these images. At that time, there was a statement at Wikiversity that said by uploading content I asserted that it was not copyright protected. Images like "Second_Nature.png" are obviously intended for an educational purpose and if anyone wants to challenge their copyright status or use at Wikiversity they can come to this user talk page and discuss the matter with me. Any attempt to delete such images behind my back (such as placing a speedy deletion template on the image page) is disruptive to the Wikiversity mission. Users who participate in such disruption should not be editing Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt (discuss • contribs) 10:07, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * JWS, you never really paid attention to what I was doing when I was a custodian. What you may have overlooked or forgotten:
 * I argued extensively for primacy of educational purpose. I have written a license for files like yours, i.e., depending on an edit summary of "own work" or the like.
 * However, I also took flak for it, and received very little support. Because I understood wiki traditions, and referred to them, you frequently attacked me, even when my goal was to return you to normal activity.
 * Our procedure would normally notify you of a speedy deletion attempt. That was skipped by the probationary custodian, Simone. As you might recall, I undeleted and notified you. Once again, I got only personal grief from that kind of action. Simone, however, did research and found what Green Giant has now affirmed, site policy for Second Life, and he transferred the images to Commons, leaving the two in question here. There remain some problems and we may still need to claim Fair Use.
 * You created our Exemption Doctrine Policy, and it requires machine-readable tagging of all non-free content. The problem with the images I see is that there may be an avatar in them you did not create. It's an unclear issue to me. Because of this, it is not impossible the images will be deleted on Commons.
 * We are part of the WMF family of wikis, and are subject to WMF policy. We cannot treat attempts to enforce WMF policy as "disruption." You might notice that I suggested Green Giant work more on making the images fully legitimate, which is more work than simply tagging as missing license information. And you might notice that GG responded very positively to that suggestion. Please be careful about assuming that "Wikipedians" -- he is really a Commons admin -- are out to disrupt Wikiversity, just because they request deletion.
 * It is part of our job, if we take it on, to educate them, as I have long worked to support the education of "disruptive users," such as children or, see RCA and the Colloquium, volleyball fans from the Philippines.
 * To manage this and make it sustainable requires the presence of users who will stand for our purpose, positively, instead of merely attacking those with different views. I hope you will join us, but this is a wiki. It's all optional.
 * If you decline to handle possible copyright issues, now that you are aware of them, I may decide to do it myself, but the users I've done that before were absent, not available. I hope that you will take responsibility for your content. Leaving the detatiled licensing information out was an oversight, back then. We are now stricter about that, commonly. The goal is always to support the user, while, at the same time, maintaining compliance with WMF policy. Both are needed. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 14:16, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

>"I hope that you will take responsibility for your content." <-- Has a copyright violation claim been made for something that I uploaded? If so, then I should be notified about that claim. Self-appointed Wikicops who show up at Wikiversity and start deleting educational content are irresponsible. Wiki editors who adopt the approach "when in doubt, speedy delete" are disruptive and should not be editing at Wikiversity. It is sad that Wikiversity became a learning community where wiki editors must watch their educational resources be destroyed during endless copyright hysteria pogroms and other manifestations of Wikipedia disease. --JWSchmidt (discuss • contribs) 10:48, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I wonder if you have read a recent essay of mine: Wiki studies/Wiki disease. Yes, indirectly, a claim was made, though not exactly "copyvio." True copyvio is rare on WMF wikis. The issue is complex, and arises because of the official WMF goal of "free content," which was defined as including "free for commercial re-use." The claim was "missing license information." The custodian deleted, in 2011, on own initiative, which was out-of-process, and so I undeleted, being a custodian at the time (also probationary). The custodian then moved almost all the files to Commons, and gave them a license which relied on your edit summary, but, technically, your edit summary was not a release. You had the right to release, because you made it, but did you actually release the files? Yes, you claim site license as an agreement, and I have used that argument to keep pages proposed for deletion. It gets more complicated because that custodian then deleted the local copy, as moved to Commons, a common practice which obscures the license.
 * You may call this "copyright hysteria," but I would call it a somewhat obsessive focus on technical propriety, and a loss of focus on the purpose of the wiki. This is one of the characteristics of "Wikipedia disease," which should really be called, more simply, "Wiki disease," when the wikis develop customs and practices as did the WMF wikis, including Wikiversity.
 * JWS, one of the characteristics of wiki disease is that dissenters in the community do not develop skill at handling process, but instead focus on protest, mostly complaint about abuse. One might consider this an primitive immune system response that fails to handle the primary cause of the infection, but that attacks infected parts of the body. There were elements moving in this community that were functionally addressing Wikipedia disease. You did not identify and support them, indeed, you opposed. I was three times a probationary custodian. I was up for confirmation as permanent several times. How did you vote? I have argued against our present WV:EDP, which you created, as not designed well for Wikiversity purpose. Have you supported these efforts in any way? I would quite freely use non-free rationales, and have done so. I would extend this to user space, reflecting actual practice in universities, were personal-use copying is common. There have been objections. Have you commented, supporting? You had an opportunity to make your voice heard even when you were blocked, with the Assembly proposal (which includes a proxy system, and which can then represent even banned users.) Did you respond to that?
 * Now, consider this case. GG is a Commons administrator. He did not "delete" anything. He tagged pages with missing license information. On Commons, he would routinely handle such. On Wikiversity, the tag sets up a proposed deletion with a seven-day expiration. True and clear copyvio is speedied, and if he believed that this was an unremediable situation, he'd have speedy-tagged the pages. He did not. He notified you. This was cooperative, collaborative process, and if you are going to call users who are cooperative and collaborative "self-appointed wikicops," you will be contributing to the toxic atmosphere that is an aspect of Wiki disease, simply out of an established knee-jerk response. Very human, and Wiki disease is very human. We can do better, JWS.
 * In this case, license information is still missing. You actually copied the page from Second Life. You provided no URL, and no evidence that you were the Second Life user who *created* that content. GG, I'm suspecting, is anticipating a challenge to the content on Commons on this basis. You can easily fix this, but there could be an issue about the woman avatar. I would argue for keeping the file, because that woman is de minimus. Those arguments sometimes fail. Commons can be brutal. That is one reason why I generally oppose routinely deleting files moved to Commons from here. If they are deleted on Commons, there is then no backup file, license information here, if any, has been concealed, and it's trouble to get the page back. Nothing is saved by deletion. (A soft redirect might be used to Commons, keeping the content accessible).
 * GG is the author of a proposal that could fix a lot of the disruption over "copyvio," NonFreeWiki, and see Requests for comment/Creation of a Global Wikimedia Commons.
 * I have often confronted "copyright hysteria." But I don't call it that, usually. Green Giant was not "hysterical," he was simply taking a normal action for a cross-wiki user, as he is. Commons users are frequently extremely sensitive to copyright issues, arguing ridiculously fine points of copyright is a normal Commons pastime. My view, it's a waste of time, when mixed with the educational mission of the WMF. Green Giant's proposal could reduce that. I have suggested that a new wiki is not needed, that all Commons has to do is to host non-free content, separately tagged, wherever there is any claimed usage on WMF wikis. Commons could also become much more useful, generally, if they hosted thumbnails of whatever they now delete. Google does it routinely for all material, and they link to sources. Totally legal, and educational. *And with tagging of non-free content* it still serves the commercial purpose.
 * But what it fails to do is to force users to find alternative images, it fails to coerce users into becoming laborers for ultimate commercial users. I'd say let those who want free images (as distinct from, say, NC images or fair use) do the work. Let others pursue educational purpose. Green Giant's point has been that Wikipedia is full of fair use images. Further, there is even content where there is a protest from a copyright claimant, so someone who uses a certain famous image could be exposing themselves to a lawsuit. It's quite a mess, and the system, being black and white (delete or keep), is inflexible and difficult to maintain, requiring constant and often contentious debate.
 * Again, JWS, we will solve these problems by finding consensus, by considering the goals of all users and players in the system, not by complaining about some segment of the community as abusive or specially diseased.
 * Human society is suffering from various natural products of our evolutionary history, such as racism and other knee-jerk thinking.
 * This is your talk page. I will fully stand for your right to be wrong here (or, to say it more neutrally, to express opinions on this page that might be objectionable if voiced, say, on the Colloquium). I will support your blog, if anyone ever attempts to delete it without your permission. Besides, that's a fantastic zombie!
 * We all become zombies, not fully alive, but not dead either, when we act as robots, simply reacting to our past. Some might say this condition is inescapable, but my experience is contrary. Something else is possible for us, that appears to be able to create possibilities anew, never before seen. The capacity for that is rare, it appears, but it also appears that it's possible to train for this.
 * How about it, JWS? Old dog, new tricks? I was 66 when I undertook training, in 2011, and, as was my common habit, I went deeply into it. I did learn some new tricks, I'm still learning, and more than that, I recovered my childhood enthusiasm, recovered my connection with academia, and was published in a major peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal, and have had many other amazing adventures. None of this was going to happen while I sat fat and happy with my precious "identity." Game?
 * Here, "taking responsibility" would be supplying missing information from the file, as users are normally expected to do, and as the upload instructions now ask for, and may have asked for back then. Yes, a lot of pages don't have that. Cleanup is slow. We do not want to damage resources, so I will often claim Fair Use here, i.e., setting up a Non-free use rationale. Old iffy pages with no use, I will tag for speedy deletion, on sight, unless the user is active, in which case I'll provide time. Almost always notice is provided, so a user may object, and we do follow policy on this: speedy deletion tags may, in practice, be removed by any user, and if a file is speedy deleted, it will normally be restored on request, and then if someone still wants deletion, it must be discussed. We actually have functional process, JWS. I still think there are some Wiki disease problems, but they are on a different scale than I think you have in mind. Your impressions are from the past. If you have present cause for them, point it out! --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, I have had the displeasure of deleting hundreds of files transferred to Commons from wikis like Wikiversity by well-meaning but ill-informed users. In the past few months I have found hundreds of files on wikis from Meta to Wikiversity and Wikibooks to Wikinews, which have been tagged for transfer to Commons but as a Commons admin I can see that they will be deleted there. So I've untagged them and tried to get uploaders to attend to their uploads. True, some of them have been deleted because they don't follow the policies of those wikis but a significant number have been fixed and then transferred to Commons. It is better to raise the issues here rather than files being deleted twice (here and on Commons).
 * The biggest obstacle to keeping these kind of files on Commons is that the originals are deleted after transfer and it is a headache to ask for the details of each deleted file at the original wiki (sometimes taking weeks). In the past we tried to remedy this with a proposal that Commons admins should be allowed to view deleted files on other wikis but the proposal did not succeed. This is why I try to nip the problem in the bud by trying to get the files fixed before transfer. To be honest I don't really want any files to be deleted if it can be avoided.
 * On these two files we've solved the source problem and part of the license problem by using Second Life screenshot and Second Life copyright. The only thing left is for you to either declare them as own work (and license them for reuse) if they are your own work or make a non-free use rationale. If the files end up being licensed, let me reassure you that they belong on Commons so they can be used elsewhere.
 * I'm sorry to see that you've misunderstood my purpose but I'm not a "wikicop". In fact I'm quite the opposite, for example if I nominate a Commons file for discussion I go the extra mile to leave a note on the talk pages of wikis where such files are used. I'm currently working on a proposal to overhaul Commons deletion procedure to reduce tensions with other wikis. This will include mandatory informing of affected wikis, extending of the discussion period from seven days to possibly twenty eight days (so we have increased chance of input from other wikis), inclusion of a new button on deleted file pages to enable a request for undeletion to be made with one click by registered users, etc. As Abd has mentioned above I'm also working on a second Commons-like repository for files that Commons won't accept but could be used on some wikis. So please don't look at my 200 or so Wikiversity edits and assume that I'm a mindless deletionist. By the way thank you for the kind words .  Green Giant  ( talk )  19:41, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Green Giant, please accept my apology on behalf of Wikiversity for the crankiness of our founder. If you'd been through what he went through, you might be cranky too. Yes, you have noticed many of the bugs in Commons process that I've seen. We can, however, simply stop deleting files here because they are transferred to Commons. This does no good, and it causes obvious possible harm. So I just edited Template:NowCommons and Category:NowCommons to remove reference to deletion, and removed the reference to pages moved to Commons as qualifying for speedy deletion on WV:Deletions. Some people don't like it when I do that without getting consensus first, but this has actually been discussed rather extensively, at various times. So ... running it up the flagpole, seeing if anyone shoots at it.
 * We can then deal with the Commons delinker vandal bot. Do you know if it checks for local copies?

Wikiverity editors tried to established image file rules that were suited for this project's goals, then a bunch of vandals from other Wikimedia projects arrived and imposed their unsuitable rules on Wikiversity. For years I argued long and hard about the destructiveness of mindless drones from the Commons project who claimed that images from Wikiversity should be transferred to Commons. Through the years, an endless stream of these vandals have shown up at Wikiversity and have shown no concern for the special nature of this project or the challenge of creating a learning community within Wikimedia. These vandals from other wiki projects just should not play their speedy delete games here. They are not needed here, but sadly they seem to have nothing better to do than come here and disrupt Wikiversity with their deletionist games. I mourn for all of the Wikiversity editors who have been driven away from this project by copyright hysteria and other manifestations of Wikipedia disease. I'm still waiting for the day when one person (just one!) from Commons who cares about the Wikiversity project comes to Wikiversity. Maybe then some sanity can be restored to the Wikiversity image file management process. I'm not holding my breath. --JWSchmidt (discuss • contribs) 02:00, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, JWS, you are holding your breath. If you let go, relax, and allow yourself to breath easy, you will discover that one such Commons user, actually an admin, just showed up. You will also discover that you are not the only person who has noticed "copyright hysteria," but there are others who are very willing to work to keep files here, to see that legitimate concerns are addressed, and that the Wikiversity educational purpose is served. I will look at your blog page. Do I get to see the zombie again? She is really spectacular.
 * If you would pay more attention, you would see that part of the problem here is the strict definitions in WV:EDP, which you brought here. We can define our own fair use policy, and as long as it serves WMF purposes, it will be accepted. One of the phenomena I ran into here was users who insisted that any local proposal must first be approved by the WMF before even being discussed here. So one went to the WMF and asked, and, very predictably, got a "No" answer, which is a great way to prejudice a discussion. Answers depend on questions, and when the people asking the question are just trying to find a way to shoot down a proposal, they will ask the questions to get the answer they want.
 * No, I wanted us to decide what we wanted. When we have consensus, we do have a large measure of autonomy, but going to the WMF before we have consensus is asking them to judge a hypothetical case. The non-free content policy is a huge can of worms, and, yes, it is contradictory to our educational goals. It created an enforcement nightmare, highly subjective, and where it was not subjective, it was purely damaging with no value generated. For example, insisting on free images of users in user space. 'Twere it up to me, I'd announce that user space is not subject to the free re-use goals of the WMF, that it all is not checked for "non-free." Nobody searches through student effects at universities looking for copyright violations (on the level of fair use). Our EDP did not understand that content is developed here in user space, often, whether or not it is ever moved to mainspace.
 * Template:NowCommons, my opinion, should be deprecated. Deleting those pages actually creates a license nightmare, I don't know how this ever became practice.
 * That is our template, JWS. However, I just edited it, and also our deletion policy page. "Moved to Commons," as I've edited it, is no longer a speedy deletion reason. I see that I had already noted the problem in 2014 on Category talk:NowCommons. Let's see if this sticks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 21:50, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * My ability to edit that guideline in anticipation of consensus is being challenged. If you care to comment on the changes I've proposed, that could be useful, since you participated heavily in the development of these policies, guidelines, and practices. Please be careful, please stay focused on the purpose: improving the guideline. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:35, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

You still around? :)
Hi JWS! Long time no see. Thought I'd stop by and say hello. Historybuff (discuss • contribs) 03:02, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Blogging on Wikiversity
Hi! You seem to be a blogger, so I thought I'd say hullo. :-) I've been having a look at creating some templates for blogging on Wikiversity. Just wondering what you think? I'm trying to bring Help:Blogs up to date, and have created blog post and blog post comments. Would you be interested in using these sorts of things? Do you have any other ideas? I've also created an RSS feed generator: . — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 04:02, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Status of the Blender coures
Thanks for the blender course, apparently created primarily by you. Are you still actively developing the course? I am an active Wikiversity editor and I am currently (struggling) to learn blender, version 2.79. I was about to create a course "Using Blender" when I came across the existing course. I had in mind gathering up the best YouTube video tutorials and organizing them into an easy-to-navigate structure. Are you open to augmenting your existing course with well-chosen YouTube tutorials? Would you welcome or be annoyed by my collaboration, and perhaps major restructuring of the existing materials? How can we best get the best learning resources assembled here to help students learn bender? Should I just go ahead with an alternative course to provide students some variety to choose from? Thanks! --Lbeaumont (discuss • contribs) 11:47, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I'm no expert with that software. I have limited experience with DAZ3D, Bryce and POV-ray. Good luck! --JWSchmidt (discuss • contribs) 03:36, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

More cat dragging
Hey JWS!

Sorry for the long wikipause (and my vaporizing for a couple years) -- I found myself with a bunch of time on my hands (at the end of a job) and then found a "temporary" teaching job for a semester that ended up going 2+ years. Hope all is well with you, and I hope to come back and be more of a regular contributor here. Historybuff (discuss • contribs) 06:45, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

 * Well, I'm probably here for the long haul this time -- I'm doing more school and maybe more teaching, mixed in with a bit of research. I saw there was a Sandbox 2 project -- were you involved with that? I went back to the original proposal and saw that the WMF committee which we were supposed to apply to got disbanded. Wow. Anyways, hope all is well, and hope to see you around these parts from time to time. Historybuff (discuss • contribs) 03:15, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Hey JWS... you know what they say, no rest for the wicked. I'm definitely on the educational treadmill now, but trying to enjoy things and have fun at the same time. I haven't been around enough to see if IRC is even around anymore, but I did make an actual content contribution. I'm thinking about starting up WCR or working on some other project, but who knows if anyone is interested. I'd like to fiddle a bit with screen recording and casting tech for education, and I've been playing with Moodle as well. Anyways, things will come along slowly but I'll be here more regularly. Historybuff (discuss • contribs) 07:09, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

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Whats an easier career between being a scientust and biologist

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 * I spent some time as a research biologist and then I have been teaching biology for a couple of decades. In the middle, I had some time when I was supposed to being doing both. As long as you enjoy what you are doing, then either research or teaching feels "easy"... as long as you find a work environment that is free of crazy people. JWSchmidt (discuss • contribs) 22:51, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hello
hi :)

 * Hello and welcome! Thanks for your work on the main page. I'm looking forward to your future contributions :) -- sebmol ? 18:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks also from me for your work on the main page. I would like to see material from this page (and the pages it links to) on the Wikiversity main page. --JWSchmidt 19:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hello again! You're both welcome. It was fun. :) I'll look at the example page if time tonight. Otherwise, in a few days or so. Doug 19:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and hello from me, too! How rude of me not to have stopped by.. :-) Cormaggio 15:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi :) Lots going on! Talk to you in a bit, Doug 17:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Research
I've started Research as a place to start developing policies on what research we'll allow and how it could work - it would be great to have your input whenever you have the time. Also, there's interest in learning about how to do research, as well as proposed "courses" on the use of wikis and their implications for education - all these could tie in nicely.. Cormaggio 17:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * OK, will look at this in a bit. Doug 17:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hello, Doug. A request has been made at Changing username to usurp, or "take over", your username because you have not used it to edit, and another user would like to use it to edit. w:Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations says that any unused username may be usurped if the user is given 14 days notice to object and does not do so.

If you have an email set in your preferences, you should be getting an email from a bureaucrat explaining how to consent or object to this process.

If you do not object to being renamed to a new username in order for another user to utilize the name you currently have, please log in and post a reply here saying so (you may also tell us what username you would like to be renamed to, or we will provide you with a generic one).

If you do nothing : the request will be filled after 14 days, and your account will be moved to a generic username. You may request that it be moved to a new username of your choice at any time.

If you object to being renamed : please log in and make an edit. You may make an edit here saying "No", you may make an edit to blank this page, or any other edit you like; making any edit at all prevents your username from being usurped, because users with edits cannot have their usernames usurped.

Please note that even if your current username is usurped, you can still edit and your data will not be lost; your preferences, watchlist, and other user settings will be transferred to a new username.

Thank you for your time. --BewareofDoug 18:42, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Doug has been renamed to User:Doug (old)
FYI, This happened because User:BewareofDoug requested usurption. We can rename User:Doug (old) to something else if you like. See WV:CHU. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:36, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

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User:WiseWoman

This is my, what, 15th User page in the Wikipedia? Where is Single Sign-On, Brion?!

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Yes, I am still alive. But I am rather saddened by what has been happening on Wikiversity. So instead of bitching around, I just quit coming and sat down with my research assistant to conduct some web-based research in the manner that I had hoped to create at the Wikiversity. I am now finished, and have published my results - and my data and some alternative interpretations of that data - on my portal on plagiarism. Yes, it is in German, but Google Translator does a smashing job of translating it:

I've decided that it is better to show people what I mean instead of trying to explain it. Works better that way.

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Hallihallo
Schönen Tag. Wir sitzen alle gemütlich im Chat, wenn du mal vorbei kommen willst. -- sebmol ? 21:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Guten Abend
"15th page in the Wikipedia"? THIS IS NOT THE WIKIPDEIA!! Congrats - you're now a sysop :-) Cormaggio 21:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, wiki whatever! So sorry I've been non-existant, but we had a death in the family. I am slowly coming back up for air, but there are still 672 non-spam emails in my inbox :) --WiseWoman 20:40, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I supposes this is good and bad news in one. Glad to see you back though :) -- sebmol ? 20:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

translations
Help is needed at Wikiversity translations. --JWSchmidt 12:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Your motto suggestion
Hi WiseWoman, I wanted to let you know that Sam made a comment on the talk page of the motto contest, which I copied to the contest page here: Motto_contest. In the light of this informative comment (if it is indeed correct), I thought you might want to reconsider your vote. Thanks for participating, -- Reswik 15:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Nö. Check out the Latin Wikipedia: http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vici

Welcome back
Hi Debora - I just saw this - good to have you back. :-) I've also been absent for a substantial period myself. :-( Have been in touch with your student Ulrike - would love to hear more about that.. Cormaggio 18:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Cormac, yes, I am overwhelmed - this is not the Wikiversity I wanted to have. It is trying to be a copy of brick-and-mortat universities, but including courses on advanced shoelace tying and hair combing.... :( Anyway, Ulrike will be setting up a method of integrating meta data so we have a fighting chance of finding something. We have a colleague from a nearby library school co-advising, so I feel that we have a fighting chance to get something good running. We shall see! --WiseWoman 22:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

are you this person, which is talked about?
Hello WiseWoman, in this article your username appears. Can you please clarify, if this is you? And if so, why your name is referrenced there. Well may be you may not know, but this info also would help. Thank you, Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion ) 16:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

You are invited to register for the Wikiversity Assembly

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

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

You are invited to name a proxy

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

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

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

 * See Delegable proxy for details.

Comments
I'm inviting all relatively inactive custodians to register for the Assembly, and to name a proxy as described. This is because you who have been and remain custodians have yourselves been trusted by the community, and your proxy choice, if you name one, may carry some reasonable weight, due to your experience. You may, of course, participate directly, whether you do or do not name a proxy. Thanks for considering this. --Abd 01:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Your advanced permissions on en.wikiversity
Hello,

A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing activity on wikis with no inactivity policy.

You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on the wiki listed above. Since that wiki does not have its own rights review process, the global one applies.

If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights.

If you wish to resign your rights, you can reply here or request removal of your rights on Meta.

If there is no response at all after approximately one month, stewards will proceed to remove your administrator and/or bureaucrat rights. In ambiguous cases, stewards will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact the stewards.

Yours faithfully, --MarcoAurelio (discuss • contribs) 19:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

 * I no longer wish to be associated with Wikiversity, for various reasons. It also does not accept the single sign-on, so I can't even log in here. WiseWoman

 * Good day. With regards to the single sign-on problem you report, I've looked at Special:CentralAuth/WiseWoman and I don't see any reason why it should not work as I don't see any issues with your global Wikimedia account. You could try to reset your password in case your password isn't working anymore, provided that there's an email address associated to your user account. Unfortunatelly I cannot confirm that the IP that wrote the message above is really you so I cannot action the resignation right now, unless you manage to log-in and request the removal at Meta-Wiki. Best regards, --MarcoAurelio (discuss • contribs) 18:43, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Learning projects

This page provides a general discussion about Wikiversity learning projects: their purpose, how to start and manage them, and how to support the learning goals of Wikiversity participants through the development of learning projects. To look over existing learning projects or start a new one please proceed to Portal:Learning Projects. For a conceptual overview of what some others believe learning projects to be please continue reading here.

What is a learning project?
A "learning project" is one of the primary units of which Wikiversity consists. Wikipedia has articles, Wikibooks has books, and Wikiversity has learning projects. But what is a learning project?

 * A project is a collection of pages: this is one of the fundamental differences between Wikiversity and Wikipedia. Wikipedia's articles are single-page entities. Wikiversity's learning projects are multi-page entities. There is good reason for this: we have found that when people create educational resources, a single page simply doesn't work. Wikiversity deals with multi-page entities (projects), because this is what its educational mission requires. Of course, every project starts as a simple single page. It grows into a connected collection of pages over time.
 * A learning project is a collection of pages devoted to learning which centre around some kind of topic or theme. There's nothing particularly magical or hidden to its meaning. If you are an educator, you've probably made plenty of "learning projects" before elsewhere: every time you sit down and make a small website or a sequence of web pages on an educational topic for your classes, it's a learning project. If you've set up a course on Moodle or some other Learning Management System (LMS)/Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), it could be called a learning project.
 * Beyond that, a learning project is whatever you want it to be. A learning project can be a page if you would like it to be. The "learning project" is a bottom-up concept, not a top-down concept; nobody from above imposes an idea on you of what it is you have to create; it is the ordinary users at the "bottom" who explore the possibilities of the wiki for creating educational resources the way they want them to be.

Who can participate in a learning project?
Anyone.

In practice, the participants at any one time are often members of a real-world class at a real-world educational institution. You don't have to apply or register anywhere. If you are a teacher, you can simply go ahead without any further permission and create a learning project. If you are a student, you can join any learning project without restriction.

In theory, any of the following variants might occur (or variants not listed here):
 * 1) Real-world classes from different institutions might join together.
 * 2) Distance learning might group around a learning project - the participants belong to a real-world class that has no real-world classroom.
 * 3) The members of the class might have met for the first time on Wikiversity. For example, educators might join together in a project to train themselves further in their professions.
 * 4) Guests from afar might join a project based around an already established group.
 * 5) One real-world class might take over and adapt a learning project which another class has finished with.
 * 6) You could be a lone educator with no class at all, but creating resources for posterity.
 * 7) You may have a specific learning goal and create a new learning project to attract participation from others with similar goals.

What is significant about this is its openness. Schools and universities often set up Learning Management Systems or Virtual Learning Environments which are restricted in their membership. For example, in a typical Moodle installation, you need a password to enter the whole system, and probably further passwords to enter any particular course. Restrictions are everywhere in these kinds of learning environment. Wikiversity does not have restrictions on participation - not even on course creation!

A note about "uninvited participants"
The principle of openness means that as a teacher, you can't actually stop anyone joining your course. In other words, there is no such thing as an uninvited participant, because everyone is invited. Normally surprise guests are unusual and everyone is very well-mannered, though, and you aren't obliged to actively teach everyone who joins. If you find you have some surprise participants, please remember the wiki-principles of assume good faith and don't bite the newcomers. If an uninvited participant becomes disruptive, you should ask a custodian to help (see request custodian action). Custodians have administrative powers that can prevent disruption, but it is rare that their action is needed.

What makes learning projects valuable?
Possible question: ''I've read all this stuff so far, and it seems I can just jump in here and use Wikiversity to set up some pages to organize and teach my own class. Surely this is hardly in the interest of a global project like Wikiversity? Surely there must be some kind of limitation on my exploitation of Wikiversity's resources?''

Answer: of course you can jump in and do your own class stuff here!

The reason why this helps the world at large is a piece of deep, subtle and somewhat speculative wiki-wisdom, however. The theory of wiki-dom looks at the very long-term effects and fate of the learning resources you create. At first, a new resource may be so specific and particular in terms of time, place and people, that it is of absolutely no use to the wider world whatsoever. Your resource may only be used by you for a few weeks (the time); its content pretty well limits it to your own lesson planning and classroom events (place); and the people involved may not extend outside your class (and people). However, unlike a non-wiki webpage, others can come after you and find the resources you have left behind. Rather than reinventing the wheel, they may re-purpose your resources to save themselves time. During the process of repurposing, it is likely that the universality (wider usefulness) of the resource may increase by a small, perhaps almost insignificant amount. The universality will tend to increase, because the resource has now been used on two occasions in different times, places and by different people. Of course, each time the repurposing occurs, the universality may not increase much, or may even sometimes decrease. But in the long run, the resource will incrementally become more valuable and of more universal appeal. This is something which is scarcely visible at the beginning, or not at all visible. But it is the theory of the wiki.

Learning to edit the wiki
Funnily enough, pretty much the first thing that happens in any learning project is for the learners to learn how to edit the wiki. Whether it's a learning project on astrophysics, microbiology, principles of corporate accounting or witchcraft 101, in most real-world situations most of the class may not yet know how to edit a wiki. Don't let the necessity of this put you off as a teacher. You don't have to bring wiki-house-trained students here - you can bring entirely novice wiki-editors as well.

There are two basic approaches to teaching wiki-editing: the sandbox approach, and the task-orientated approach. Both can be applied together. The sandbox approach involves setting up a subpage where participants are free to do anything at all (see here for the general Sandbox). The task-orientated approach involves giving a series of simple editing tasks, escalating in difficulty. A good idea is to reserve part of your learning project for these purposes - use one or more subpages.

Borrowing from other projects: as almost all learning projects have to face this same challenge, it's worth scouting out other learning projects to see how they do it. Borrow and modify their resources freely to save time creating your own.

Custodians and the wiki-illiterate: if you're planning on bringing dozens of completely uninitiated students onto Wikiversity for their first editing lesson, you don't need to ask anyone! You can go ahead just like that. On the other hand, it's advisable to find and tell some custodians what's going on. Custodians are like your local IT department handymen, who try to keep things vaguely shipshape. They wander around Wikiversity, helping or tidying up messes. A custodian who finds a bunch of clueless and rather randomly editing students will always try to be helpful, but may help wrongly if s/he doesn't know what you're planning. It's a good idea, as a teacher, to create an account for yourself at Wikiversity, and then contact some active custodians in advance of your first and most chaotic lessons. They can then help your students find the right "room" (pages) and even help when they make their first mistakes. See: custodians.

Other things that can happen
Once your students know what they're doing, it's mainly a matter of your imagination how you adapt the MediaWiki editing environment to your teaching needs. Experimentation is positively encouraged.

A non-exhaustive list of standard ideas: discussions, reports, resource preparation, web research and link hunting; formal learning from text segments (reading tasks); listening and video tasks (both creation and reception). In the area of interactive learning, Wikiversity has a quiz extension for you to make a large variety of quizzes from.

Things that don't happen
Wikiversity doesn't track learner progress or performance in the same way that a full-blown Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) does. Nor does Wikiversity formally or programmatically distinguish roles such as "teacher" or "student". In a VLE you may be able to see which resources a student has used, how often they were present, what grades they achieved on interactive tasks, and combine all this together into a grade. None of this currently exists on Wikiversity. Even quiz results are only viewable temporarily on the user's screen.

Where can I find existing learning projects?
Related learning projects are grouped into Schools and Portals. There are major Wikiversity portals that provide user-friendly introductions to groups of Wikiversity schools that are related by their common subjects of study. There is also a guide to existing learning projects at the learning project portal.

 * Engineering and Technology
 * Interdisciplinary Studies
 * Humanities
 * Life Sciences
 * Physical Sciences
 * Practical Arts and Sciences
 * Professional Schools
 * Social Sciences

How to start a learning project
The main requirement for starting a learning project is a sense of adventure and boldness. Simply allow yourself to open up to new knowledge.

Finding a title and parent page
One of the more difficult things you have to do at the start will be to think of an appropriate title, and then fasten the new project into Wikiversity's existing hierarchy of schools and departments.

 * Titles should generally be in English; avoid acronyms; avoid references to specific times and places; try to find a title which correctly and dutifully describes what you are doing. If you mess up, a custodian can rename or move a project for you.
 * Browse through existing schools and portals until you find somewhere to "hang" or "announce" the project. If the project extends across more than one discipline, then feel welcome to announce it (with a hyperlink) in more than one place.
 * Once you have a title, and that title exists in a school, portal, or other project as a hyperlink, all you then need to do is click the hyperlink and start editing the new page.

See: naming conventions (out of date?)

Relation to existing projects
There is an important distinction here between Wikipedia and Wikiversity: generally, Wikipedia has only one article for any particular topic and if two articles are created by accident, they will be merged. Wikiversity, however, does not adhere to this principle of exclusivity; Wikiversity can have any number of learning projects on the same topic. Ten introductions to knitting are just as valid and acceptable as one. As a matter of good practice, looking for ways to integrate with or communicate between similarly themed learning projects would be good. If an existing learning project hasn't been edited for a long time, you could also take it over and re-purpose it, rather than creating a new one alongside. It may be a good idea to search for an existing project with a similar theme before starting a new one. There is also the practical matter that it is impossible to create two pages with the same title, so your title will have to be slightly different from any existing project.

Learning project templates
In the course of time, Wikiversity hopes to be able to offer a selection of templates or boilerplate to get you started with a learning project. So far we only have this: the only boilerplate so far, and you should feel free to do something quite different from this.

A note about project-"ownership"
In principle, no wiki page belongs to any particular user, other than your own account page and its subpages. A learning project is a public good. At Wikipedia, this community ownership concept is very obvious and visible, but at Wikiversity the practice, if not the theory, is subtly different.

In the field of open educational resources, the creation of an educational resource generally requires more time and expertise, and the result tends to be rather more personal than an encyclopedia article. In addition, because parallel projects on the same topic are permitted, there is no real pressure on anyone else to "invade" an existing project. The result of this is that as a matter of psychology of editing, or as a matter of Wikiversity culture, people tend to respect and leave alone each other's contributions much more than on Wikipedia. So on the one hand, if you are worried that others will edit your resource beyond all recognition before your class actually takes place, do not fear - it would be bad manners and rather unnecessary for someone to interfere in this way, and you can recover your original material easily from the "history" tab. On the other hand, you must nevertheless remain aware that there is no such thing as page-"ownership" on Wikiversity. If you leave your pet project alone for a long time and find that another teacher has moved in and changed it, then your choice is either to cooperate with them, or create a new parallel project and put your old material there (which you can recover from the project "history" tab).

see also: Original_research

Learning projects, learning objects and metadata
If you're someone who's heard of open educational resources and learning objects, then you can certainly think of learning projects as the unit of organisation at Wikiversity which is the best equivalent of a learning object. One day it may be possible to define metadata for Wikiversity learning projects, so that information about these learning objects can be shared with other OER projects.

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Wikiversity talk:Learning projects

The original source of the text that started the Learning projects page

Draft of a rewrite of this page

Organization
The Wikiversity:Learning Projects page should eventually become a page that discusses how Wikiversity learning projects are started and managed. Major Wikiversity efforts such as what is now called the "Learning materials project" should become a portal in the Wikiversity portal namespace (which needs to be created). Major portals such as the Learning materials portal will link to multiple learning projects (for example, there should probably be different projects for finding existing online learning materials and promoting the production of new learning materials at Wikiversity). Individual learning projects should exist within the main Wikiversity namespace. --JWSchmidt 00:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Could you provide some examples for portals we would have? -- sebmol ? 13:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I am a fan of portals (as they have evolved at Wikipedia) because I view them as a good way to provide wiki participants with a sense of being in a community with others who have similar interests. I think each traditional academic "school" will come to have the functional equivalent of a portal. Wikiversity is going to be an experimental exploration of how to use wiki technology to promote online learning. Some portals are going to be created outside of the school namespace; almost all of these future portals I cannot hope to imagine. I think it would be constructive to have portals for general topics such as "Wikipedia learning activities" and "Learning materials". These two are the two main components of the Wikiversity project proposal and they each should have a portal that explains these fundamental elements of Wikiversity. The third portal I would like to see is a portal for research that would be concerned with the role of research in Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 16:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I saw the School: namespace basically as a place for users to create new pages that would bundle materials by subject matter. So there'd be a School:Engineering page that would have materials/learning projects/research related to "engineering". Since this is based on topic, there would be dozens of these, most likely, depending on the interest and activities of the community. They wouldn't necessarily be limited to what is customarily taught at schools, I just liked the term "school" as a place where learning occurs, material is collected and presented, research is being done, etc. It's a lot like what WikiProjects are on Wikipedia. -- sebmol ? 16:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Research vs. Teaching material
I think that it is confusing to have projects that produce courses and courses material and other projects that are resaerch based. Should we split these somehow?--Rayc 23:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiversity:Learning projects v Portal:Learning Projects
I would like to propose merging these two pages. Having two pages that deal with the meta content of Learning projects is confusing. I'm unsure of what the fine distinction is between these pages and from the content on the pages so are a lot of other people. Also the titles are inconsistent on is title case with both words being capitalized and the other is sentence case with just Learning being capitalized. Mystictim 14:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * "inconsistent on is title case" <-- If it matters to you, you can change the name of one of the pages. --JWSchmidt 15:50, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

How to start a Learning project
How to start a Learning project is an attempt to write a general guideline for starting a Learning project. Srinivasasha 09:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Guide to Learning projects
I think we can develop a Guide to Learning projects based on Guide to WikiProject in wikipedia. This could help clearer up things about Learning projects. Srinivasasha 06:09, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Learning Project vs Textbook
I think there needs to be a clear definition laid out on this page about what is the difference between a textbook (belonging on wikibooks), and a learning project, and how the two can interconnect. --Jacob Walker 21:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Research and Experience
Are Learning Projects intended to serve as media for a single person to meet with others to learn about (primarily through secondary and perhaps eventually primary research), or for an experienced/established source in a given field to share his/her knowledge in a directed (textbook-like) atmosphere? Thanks --Sgutkind 06:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It is great if an expert shows up and edits, but we cannot wait for that to happen. If you want to learn about something, just start editing. We can learn by editing and build Wikiversity content at the same time. --JWSchmidt 06:12, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Navigation
This page or similar pages should always have an active link to the portal of active learning projects in the top introduction for those newcomers who decide they wish to participate or look over existing learning projects and those people who are looking for the index of learning projects who arrive at this page mistakenly. 71.161.16.47 21:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The introductory paragraph of Learning projects has a link to Portal:Learning Projects . I see you added the link. The page used to look like this. The "Browse" link in the "navigation" box of the left side bar on every page is a short cut to the main directory of content. --JWSchmidt 21:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

More clearly differentating between learning projects and learning materials
In some areas of Wikiversity under sections labeled as containing learning projects, there seem to be many items which seem to be intended to be used as learning materials. Perhaps a clearer differentiation would be useful. That is just a thought. Emesee 20:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Assume good faith

To assume good faith is a fundamental principle on Wikiversity. As we allow anyone to edit, it follows that we assume that most people who work on the project are trying to help it, not hurt it. If this weren't true, a project like Wikiversity would be doomed from the beginning. This principle is also called the principle of first trust.

When you can reasonably assume that a mistake someone made was a well-intentioned attempt to further the goals of the project, correct it without criticizing. When you disagree with someone, remember that they probably believe that they are helping the project. Consider using talk pages to explain yourself, and give others the opportunity to do the same. This can avoid misunderstandings and prevent problems from escalating.

Newcomers unaware of Wikiversity's unique culture and the mechanics of Wikiversity editing often make mistakes or fail to respect community norms. It is not uncommon for a newcomer to believe that an unfamiliar policy should be changed to match their experience elsewhere. Similarly, many newcomers bring with them experience or expertise for which they expect immediate respect. Behaviors arising from these perspectives are not malicious.

Obviously, editors can't be expected to assume good faith if, despite the best possible interpretation of another's actions, it is clear that these actions are contrary to the project's goals. Actions inconsistent with good faith contributions to the project's goals include vandalism, sockpuppetry, and other clear instances of intentional deceit.

Assuming good faith also does not mean that no action by editors should be criticized, but instead that criticism should not be attributed to malice unless there is specific evidence of malice. Accusing the other side in a conflict of not assuming good faith, without showing reasonable supporting evidence, is another form of failing to assume good faith.

Essays

 * Wikipedia:Assume the assumption of good faith
 * Wikipedia:No angry mastodons
 * Wikipedia:On assuming good faith
 * Wikipedia:Assume bad faith
 * Wikipedia policy should follow the spirit of ahimsa (from meta)
 * Forgive and forget - essay at Wikipedia

Articles

 * Ethic of reciprocity
 * Hanlon's razor
 * Reciprocal altruism

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User:Walter

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Hi,

I am user Walter (Walter Vermeir) form Belgium. My home Wiki is the dutch Wikipedia or "Wikipedia NL" like we call it.

I am not active on this wiki

For more info see my userpage on Wikimedia Meta; wikimedia:meta:user:Walter

Contact

 * My talk page on Meta; wikimedia:meta:user:User_talk:Walter

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Bibliography and Research Methods

Goal of the learning project: At first, this project will be to find out how to properly obtain sources for Wikiversity so that we may properly and successfully conduct our own research. Concepts to learn via research of this topic include:
 * Ethical research

 * What is "unethical research"? Perhaps as a start we could say "ethical reason" breaks no laws, is intended to hurt no one, and has no fixed position to support.  An ethical researcher is interested in facts and truths, not just supporting a predetermined position.

 * What sources are appropriate for what type of research
 * How to properly cite these sources

 * A url link such as: [] or a unique delimiting character or font such as ^ or subscript which provides links or index to further information on the publisher, date, page number, paragraph number, etc. seems like a good start for references.   I am coming to prefer online materials for convenience.

Once we have all the unanswered questions answered, we will set up instruction materials (and possibly an accompanying wikibook) that can be used for self-instruction or for a research class.

See also Research process

External resources

 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia For ethical learning is yes do no harm, but it is also 'the end does not always justify the means', and i would say that learning with an eye always to the ethics of what you will take from learning and then take out into the wider environment .--Coolpolitealex 22:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

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User:Digitalme

My username is Digitalme, I sign as  digital_ me , and I'm active on several projects (click here for a list of all my accounts.) I am a custodian (logs), so if you need anything done, please leave me a message. I'm in school right now, so my activity is somewhat limited, but I'll be on whenever I can.

Some templates:
 * -- Non-indef blocked vandals (ips and users)
 * -- Indef blocked users
 * -- Pages that have been deleted and protected to prevent recreation

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User talk:Naconkantari

''This is the talk page for Naconkantari at Wikiversity. For my main talk page, please use w:User talk:Naconkantari. Thanks''

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User:Ashibaka~enwikiversity

I am Ashibaka, and I'm going to school!

Navigation

 * Up to Wikipedia

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User:Btball

My user page on Wikipedia Brian.

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Usage
To use this template simply type on the users talk page. No signature is required, it will automatically put it in the intro.

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User talk:Btball

My user page on Wikipedia Brian.

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: ~~~~.
 * Remember to conduct any editing experiments in the sandbox, and try to follow our rules.
 * Check out our help page if you need additional editing help.

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

Good luck! - Trevor MacInnis 00:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Brooke Vibber

Thanks for all your help in the launch of Wikiversity! --JWSchmidt 01:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Have fun! :) --Brion VIBBER 19:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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