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User:Robert Horning

This is just a place filler until I can put some more stuff in here.

I am an administrator on Wikibooks where I'm likely to respond if you contact me there. I am going to be very active on Wikiversity as well, so either place is a good place to contact me.

Apparently I've been made an administrator here on Wikiversity as well, so feel free to use my talk page here to ask about critical project related items, such as edit disputes and other stuff that may require a 3rd party to step in.

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Wikiversity:Wikiversity project proposal

''This page contains a copy of the project proposal for Wikiversity. Wikiversity became a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation after this proposal was reviewed by the Foundation's Special projects committee. The special projects committee submitted its Wikiversity Resolution to the Board and by vote of the Board, the project was approved.''

''This page has been edited to provide links to other Wikiversity pages. The original text of the Wikiversity project proposal should not be changed. An archived copy of the page is at Approved Wikiversity project proposal. The original copy of the proposal is at the Wikimedia meta wiki.''

The first section of this page ("Historical review of the Wikiversity project", below) contains a description of how the original Wikiversity project proposal was produced. The approved proposal was a modified version of the original proposal. The approved project proposal is in Part 2, starting with "Mission".

Historical review of the Wikiversity project
Wikiversity was proposed for deletion from Wikibooks in August 2005. Soon after that, there was a proposal to make Wikiversity an independent WikiMedia project. In addition to the information on the proposed projects page, information about the original proposal was described in a mailing list post and on the Wikiversity page of the WikiMedia meta-wiki.

An old proposal and discussion can be seen here : Original proposal.

A modified project proposal follows (Part 2)

Mission
Wikiversity is a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Its primary priorities and goals are to:

 * Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages
 * Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support these materials
 * Complement and develop existing Wikimedia projects (eg. a project devoted to finding good sources for Wikipedia articles)

See more on Scope and Online Course. In the fulfillment of its mission, other tasks and goals may be initiated and developed by participants to support learning and the creation of new content. In particular, guidelines will be developed during the beta phase of Wikiversity's development on hosting and fostering research based in part on existing resources in Wikiversity and other Wikimedia projects.

Learning
The Wikiversity e-Learning model. Existing "bricks and mortar" universities began as meeting places for scholarly individuals seeking knowledge and those with mastery of a subject who could act as teachers to guide the learning process. Wikiversity will be a virtual meeting place for masters and scholars, a wiki that hosts and promotes a flexible online learning environment.

Conventional universities evolved to have classrooms, collections of courses, grades, fees for students, pay for teachers, the granting of degrees, the certification of teachers and accreditation of universities. That entire structure grew out of the need to concentrate expensive resources (people and facilities) at a particular location in the physical world. The Wikiversity e-Learning model abandons all aspects of conventional universities that arise from the need to focus people and facilities in one place and time. The Wikiversity e-Learning model grows out of the power of the wiki user environment to liberate learning from conventional constraints of time and place. See Learning for more.

Learning groups
It is natural for the wiki format to develop "learning groups" (creating and maintaining learning trails; interest portals; project or task artifacts) where all participants can discuss and learn collaboratively. These groups/communities will be help desks, mentoring teams, cohort groups, debate clubs - practical applications might be in doing research for Wikipedia, or writing code for MediaWiki. This is peer-learning, learning through collaboration and discussion - the "wiki way".

Wikiversity participants will actively participate in online learning projects. As for any wiki, community participation involves the editing of wiki pages. Wikiversity learning projects will consist of collections of wiki webpages concerned with the scholarly exploration of a particular topic. Some Wikiversity learning projects will be oriented around existing needs of other Wikimedia projects. For example, a group of Wikiversity participants might engage in a project to find good sources for an existing Wikipedia article. Another Wikiversity project might involve exploration of an established academic discipline and the participants might decide to collectively assemble material that would contribute to a Wikibooks textbook for that subject. Thus, Wikiversity will naturally complement existing Wikimedia projects by providing an environment that supports and fosters scholarly “secondary research”. Wikiversity will begin with a bias towards learning projects that provide support for existing Wikimedia projects, but with time, Wikiversity will evolve to serve the needs of its community. Students will express their learning needs and the Wikiversity community will evolve learning activities and projects to accommodate those needs. Some groups could act more didactically - there is room for materials to be laid out as instructions or tasks to be followed. In any case, communities will exist behind the materials to support the ongoing use and development of the content Wikiversity hosts. See more on learning in Wikiversity and more on online courses.

Resources
Resources will include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links, reading lists, etc. Each subject area (or 'course', 'project'), essentially, each community, creates a web of resources that would form the basis of discussions and activities within that field of Wikiversity, and that could be used by any other educators for their own purposes. Some of these will link up with other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks and Wikipedia - a key to these resources should be that they prompt further work (practice/discussion/reflection/criticism etc).

Research
Wikiversity could act as a repository of research carried out by the Wikimedia Research Network or other people involved in wiki-based research, and could also host the proceedings of Wikimania. Whether or not Wikiversity will ever host original research in addition to secondary research is the subject of debate (see talk page) though original research could take place based on materials in Wikiversity (eg. materials on sociology prompt a survey research project). Guidelines for what would be appropriate research will be developed during the beta phase of the project through a community consensus process, and reviewed (by the Special projects committee) after six months. There will not necessarily be "approval" of research added to Wikiversity - though some sort of review process needs to be established which will deal with potential problems.

What Wikiversity is

 * A repository of free, multilingual educational resources.
 * A network of communities to create and use these resources
 * A group effort to learn. Which may or may not be led by an instructor, who may or may not be an expert on the topic.

What Wikiversity is not

 * A duplication of other Wikimedia projects. While Wikiversity complements other Wikimedia projects, it will not simply duplicate their content. So, if you want to read about a topic, you may be better off visiting, say, Wikipedia or Wikibooks, but if you want to learn about this topic, you can do so at Wikiversity. Learning materials will be created and used on Wikiversity, but materials on other projects may also be used as learning materials themselves or even places to consolidate this learning, ie writing an article, manual etc based on what you've learned. There may be some overlapping, but each project will maintain its own focus.
 * A degree or title granting institution: Wikiversity will not confer degrees or any other academic qualifications, nor will it entitle people to call themselves "professors", if they are not professors.

Work done on Wikiversity will hopefully be useful to other projects. When participants have significant results they may be used to improve other Wikimedia projects, and indeed other online learning, reference and data sources.

Features Wikiversity will/might need in the future

 * Metadata - there is currently work on a Metadata patch, which will be able to be added to Wikiversity retrospectively.
 * Page protection - there may be a need to restrict editing of pages or groups of pages to within groups of people (such as a research community, for example). However, this needs to be done with care, so as to minimise the exclusion of people to the work of that community.
 * Software - there is currently no software needed to get Wikiversity going, but participants are welcome to experiment with additions to the source code which might help the work of Wikiversity in some way. Implementations of these ideas will have to be done through the appropriate channels (probably the Special projects committee).

Additional discussion
There was much discussion of how to satisfy the Board's request for modification of the original Wikiversity proposal, which can be seen through these (and associated) pages:
 * Meta:Talk:Wikiversity
 * Moving Wikiversity forward
 * Wikibooks:Talk:Wikiversity

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User:Fang Aili

Greetings, earthlings. I'm Fang Aili throughout Wikimedia and an administrator on en:Wikipedia. (My userpage there)

Wikiversity is a damn cool idea.

 * Planning a course
 * Planning Your Course: Eight Basic Principles
 * Writing a syllabus
 * COURSE PLANNING AND PREPARATION

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User:Smalltalkman

hello, everybody!

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User talk:Robert Horning

Temp Adminship
Hi Robert, I've made you a sysop - at least temporarily. We can have community votes when we get the basics set up, but for now, it's just work to get it structured properly. Cormaggio 15:49, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm glad to see that you have been working in this direction, and I'll take the job seriously.  --Robert Horning 15:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Reporting for tutorial duties
Hey Robert, I support your plan to get some activity going plus I have a nephew in High School Alegebra that I am concerned gets a excellent basic math grounding before college. If you could post the first couple of assignments (reading, exercises, etc.) I could review the material and be better ready for any takers on tutoring. No biggee if you are busy. Obviously I can handle it since I intend to work asychronously from somewhere linked from my talk page and then if it looks useful massage the materials created in the Q & A to cover gaps in text, exercises or examples. Mirwin 09:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I would love to help out here. Certainly I want to get some stuff going, and any help here is appreciated.  As I pointed out, this is such a basic topic that it is vital to the rest of the whole Wikiversity plan, which is one reason why I'm getting involved with this.  I'll admit that I don't feel as comfortable doing this as perhaps some other topics, but that is precisely why I'm doing this too:  Nobody has felt comfortable getting it started.  And we need to get some of the basics going first.

 * You have pointed out something here too that does need to be mentioned. The major difference between High School and College (usually) for topics like this is that in High School they tend to go a little more slowly.  That is really the major difference, as a well taught High School Algebra class ought to get into the same depth as a university course.  There may be some people that disagree with me here, but those I've seen take the classical College Algebra class are usually those who were playing, daydreaming, passing notes, and generally not paying attention when they had to take this subject in High School.  And as a result this tends to be one of the killer classes when they get to college.  It is also something so basic that almost every general education program has this class in it, unless you are on some hard core science/math/engineering track, where it is presumed that you took this and comprehended it in high school.
 * I could also say the same thing about the other subjects I had in both college and high school myself, but I also consider that I had some very excellent instructors in high school. I didn't really feel I was being pushed until I started to cover new ground that I hadn't seen before, although in some cases the referesher was useful.  --Robert Horning 13:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Another student
I was resently approched by a friend would wanted some help with college math. I pointed him to some websites, but didn't think I had enough time to dirrectly help him myself. Your proposal is perfect timing! Plus, I think we need a couple of students who actually need help to gauge the effectiveness of the system. When do you think this will start? I have a math minior, so I could help some too if you need it.--Rayc 14:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * My intention is to start the "class" in September. I could use all of the help I can get, although in this case I think just about everybody involved including the students are going to be helping to design the curriculum.  Thanks for your interest here. --Robert Horning 15:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Dear Robert: thanks very much for you message. I´m not very trained in wiki´s but I´d like to learn some Algebra´s lessons. I´ve just registered... but I don´t know what else do I have to do. Thanks again. --Horacio

CheckUser
Hmm, I'm not sure if I even understand what's involved here. Have you already nominated me somewhere publicly? I'd like to decline the nomination if possible - at least for a while - being "very busy" is something I can resonate with right now ;-) Cormaggio 16:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I appreciate the show of faith in any case. Yes, I'll be less busy in a month's time, so can take on responsibilities - but, to be honest, i've been wondering if I should be a bureaucrat at all. With this in mind (and i said i'd do this earlier), I've nominated you for bureaucratship. Cormaggio 17:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Mentor
Hi, I'm looking for a mentor -- see here. I saw your name on the list of mentors, and I see your not at your limit of 2 Probationaries like sebmol, so I was wondering if you would take me on :) Let me know on my talk page, or here --Deon555 08:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Intro to 3D Geometric Algebra
Hi Robert! I've been chatting with Cormagio a little and he recommended that I touch base with you. I've been working on Investigating 3D Geometric Algebra in my own space, but just moved it out. I wrote on Cormagio's discussion page: "I was just uncertain about this learning project because I'm trying to make a low entry point, but this means going against some of the normal conventions for Geometric Algebra (for eg, I'm using $$\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y}, \mathbf{z}$$ as the basis vectors rather than the de facto $$\mathbf{e_{0}}, \mathbf{e_{1}}, \mathbf{e_{2}}$$, because x,y, and z, are much more "visualise-able" to high-school maths students). Other people who are already familiar with Geometric Algebra might not appreciate it... oh well, guess i'll find out."

I didn't want to add a link on the School of Mathematics page without touching base first, and finding out whether you or others think it'd be useful there...Michaelnelson 09:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Quiz
I wrote you a quiz for your class, College Algebra/GrammarQuiz. Feel free to fix anything wrong I got. :) --Rayc 19:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Motto & Slogan selection process
Hi Robert, I don't know if you saw but I had responded awhile back to your thoughts about instant runoff on the talk page for the motto and slogan contest: Motto contest. I had similar thoughts. However, I suggested a simpler selection process for the contest. This came to me recently. I think this fits this context better -- where there are lots of options with no support or 1 support sig and a handful with some support. I do think preferential voting can be helpful and it would be interesting to try it in a Wikiversity context. I hope the new process works. It seems to fit wikipedia style of doing things. -- Reswik 22:15, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Set a time
College algebra should set a time and just see if anyone would come.--Rayc | (Talk) 23:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Question
Hi Robert, I've tried to create an account but I've found some problems with the numbers, I haven't understood how to write " - ". COuld you help me? (Unfortunately I can't try again today, as I've alredy tried six times). Could you contact me on my Wikipedia User Page?. Thanks.

Mentorship?
Would you mind being my mentor as a custodian? I wish to become a custodian to further my contributions on Wikiversity and to improve this project. To tell you a little about what I have done so far, I have set up the Spanish Language Division and am the instructor of the Spanish I and Spanish II courses. I have also done some work on templates such as talk header, Spanish language, to do list, and others. -- J.Steinbock 20:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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

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

Mentor
Hi, Robert Horning, I have a humble request for you. Would you be willing to mentor me as a probationary custodian? I'm willing to help out all I can - and really just need someone to get me going and a solid reference point should I encounter situations where I'm not too sure what to do (although this shouldn't happen to much after reading the guide and being well versed in Wikimedia projects). I run my own private installation of MediaWiki so the technical aspects shouldn't be a problem. It would be great if I could learn from someone obviously experienced and with the project's best interests at heart. Cheers, --Pumpmeup 06:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Where do i start?
I am interested in enrolling in the college algebra course. Could you tell me how to get started, as I am new to this. I have followed most links on many pages and always seem to end up nowhere. Is there a defined course, or a set schedule for classes?--Adrift 17:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

College Algebra Instructor
Hi Robert,

I noticed that you are a College Algebra Instructor. I enjoyed seeing in your introduction that you are addressing different learning styles. I have been trying to start a big push in this direction: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improving_Technical_Topics_At_Wikiversity

I am also trying to encourage formal collaboration and content contribution and refinement by students at brick and mortar institutes. It seems to me that if we have a couple of students who refine the material as they go through the course for real, it would only take one or two semesters of iteration before we get some decent content. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Colloquium#Current_Student_Volunteer_Campaign If you have any ideas on how to start this type of thing (how to contact a school/university "officially" rather than me just sending them a letter ,etc) I'd be happy to hear them /discuss.

Daviddoria 15:01, 22 June 2010 (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)

Hi
Robert, I still remember you from the very early days of Wikiversity. We started editing about the same time. I read your post on the Colloquium, thank you for that post. I'm going to think about it all day long today. Welcome back! :-) --HappyCamper 14:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I saw your post as well. I think things like Template:Slideshow can be done without the need for extensions, at least as proof of concepts to be later turned into extensions if enough people like and use it. -- dark lama  15:05, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

 * I appreciate the thought. Yes, I know that there are a great many things that can be done with templates.  Heck, I've done them myself.  MediaWiki software is incredibly powerful, but there is much more to it that just creating extensions.  I'll try to put more on the Colloquium about my thoughts on this issue.  More importantly, some of the attention being placed on Khan Academy is misplaced, but that is just my opinion.  --Robert Horning 16:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Your admin status
Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy. You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on enwikiversity, where you are an administrator. Since that wiki does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies. If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights. We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard. Best regards, Rschen7754 21:04, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

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User talk:Fang Aili

Hi Fang Aili, welcome to Wikiversity :-). What's your area of interest/expertise? Or what do you want to learn in Wikiversity? Cormaggio 15:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * "This is such a big idea; I'm having trouble even wrapping my head around it" - I know - I think even those of us who have been pushing this for a year are going to be grappling with the idea for some time to come :-). On your interests, what aspect of music would you be interested in working on in Wikiversity? The "school of music" is something I'd like to get going myself.. Cormaggio 16:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome
Hello and welcome to Wikiversity. Please pardon the dust and the fresh paint, we're still very new. Right now, first dicussion has started at the Colloquium. Stop by and let us know you're here! -- sebmol ? 15:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, My personal information page will be at Reswik on meta. Doug

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Template:Sisterprojects

Wikiversity is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other multilingual and free-content projects:

Note

 * You may wish to use Sisterprojects/Projects instead.

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Thanks
Hey Seb, I know it's early days, but I just thought I'd give you a barnstar anyways (Wikiversity's first) to thank you for all your tireless work. You deserve this already :-). Cormaggio 15:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice color
don't you think ? Guillom 15:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Bureaucratship
Hi Sebastian, I nominated you for bureaucratship - I think you'd be great for the job. Cormaggio 17:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey there
I see you've listed yourself as willing to mentor me. How do I indicate you on the page? Still willing to do it, I hope! Thanks for the opportunity to serve Wikiversity! Atrivedi
 * Just write it next to the name of the mentor you accept. -- sebmol ? 09:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Approach
I've noticed that in a number of your posts, you have emphasized that this project is rather young - thanks for having this spirit at heart! Generally speaking, I think I agree with your philosophy and perspective too. Admittingly, in the back of my mind, I am a bit worried. I really hope we don't fall into the trap of codifying too much. --HappyCamper 07:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks /Parser functions?
Thanks for the welcome. In response, yes I am aware of the parser function, but have limited awareness of how they work. I created the template as part of my work on this little experiment, which is basically something I've copied from the Italian wikipedia. Perhaps you might want to take a look at it. If any of it is any good perhaps it can be used on the Main Page? Thanks again, and let me know if there's anything specific I can help with. - Trevor MacInnis 14:54, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Huhu
Na jetzt muß ich doch auch mal schauen, wie es hier so ist... ;) --Cascari 18:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

import process update
See the note from SBJohnny on this talk page about import of pages from Wikibooks.

interwiki links in red
I have seen this happen twice: one Wikiversity page suddenly starts displaying all interwiki links in red. The first time I saw it was last week, it lasted about a day. This page just did the same thing today. --JWSchmidt 18:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

"Joining us again"
Hi Sebastien, I fully anticipated to be back to normal this week, but things will remain chaotic, I'm afraid, until after the weekend (back home again Monday evening). From then on, I very much look forward to joining you all again on IRC and wiki :-) Cormaggio 14:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Sebbot
Hi Seb - I granted bot status for User:Sebbot - sorry it's taken me this long, and I hope it hasn't inconvenienced you in the meantime. Cormaggio 10:10, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Free Online Uni
Thanks for moving that; I was wondering if we might want to do that. The Jade Knight 22:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

community-approved
You are now a community-approved custodian and Wikiversity's first community-approved bureaucrat! Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 16:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Research Guidelines
Hey - I'd be grateful if you could have a browse round Research Guidelines on beta (haven't figured out interwiki links on WV yet). Thanks - Xenon 19:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Wherebot
I think everything is ready at Wikiversity for Wherebot. There is now an example of how this might work at Wikiversity; see User:Wherebot. If you have any questions for user Where, maybe you could put them here ("wherebot for Wikiversity" thread at Wikipedia). --JWSchmidt 16:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Edit
I do not know what you mean. I pointed out the location of the bussiness school..---Hillgentleman|User talk:hillgentleman 16:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh I forgot
What do you think of my new articles. Please reply on my talk page on how I can improve them.

Football (soccer)

UFO research

Digestive system

Student Galaxy 17:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Custodianship
I want you to be my mentor for Custodianship. It says I need one. Student Galaxy 20:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

semicircles?
Looks like you got away with it. The buttons remind me of the dome in the logo...now I wish the buttons were full semicircles!. --JWSchmidt 01:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Bots/Status
I've asked Hagerman to help us out by running his bot on Wikiversity (It's a pretty neat bot that marks comments with Unsigned). I was hoping you could drop by that page to approve/ decline /flag the bot so we can get it running. User:JWSchmidt and I will be happy to monito its performance. Cheers. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 04:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

candidate for probationary custodianship
Please consider this candidate: Candidates for Custodianship/J.Steinbock. Thanks. --JWSchmidt 14:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

"Rounded" corners
This discussion has been moved to MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css where it should always have been. guillom 14:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

who is online
for the status thing i'd imagine one could make an rc-bot that changes the status as soon as the user makes an edit and times out 15 minutes after the last one

 * Problem with that is -- what about people who are here for courses? It's fine for active editors, not for learning participants. I've thought a bit about that approach too. Historybuff 17:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

sitenotice
Could you update the sitenotice at beta.wikiversity.org? Thanks. --JWSchmidt 16:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

renaming user
Hello. I'm drini. I got impersonated past weeks by User:Drini here on this wiki. I'm kindly requesting your help getting back my name renaming Drini to something else (inird, xyz, etc), and then changing this username (Drinisteward) back to drini. I've made a small edit on meta confirming my identity:. I'm a steward, I could make the rename myself, but since this project has local bureaucrats, it's better if you (or cormaggio) could help me on this.

I'll appreciate the help (I'm also dropping a note on cormaggio, so make sure you don't rename users twice ;) Drinisteward 14:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Sebmol!

From Cormaggio talk 11:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Missing custodian template
Thought I'd have a go after the IRC chat last night!

User:Chrisfow/sandbox

Chrisfow 13:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

probationary custodian request
As discussed at Requests for Custodianship I am willing to mentor User:Remi0o and he is willing to put up with me. If you agree, please make Remi0o a probationary custodian. --JWSchmidt 21:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Cormaggio messes up: Part 47
Hi Sebmol, in archiving Announcements, I've messed up the layout of Template:Announcements/Community_bulletin_board, which in turn messes up the Community portal. Do you know how we can keep them in two separate columns - or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks. Cormaggio talk 11:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Sebmol! Thanks for the buttons. I will do my best with them :-) --HappyCamper 02:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Adding a button to the editing toolbar thing
Do you think you could add a button that when you press it give you a simple layout of a simple table maybe? That'd be cool. :) Maybe it could have options too where it gives you parameters for certain properties of the tables. It would just be a faster way to do it so someone doesn't have to exactly look it up. Heh. Thanks. --Devourer09 15:04, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Custodianship on Beta Wikiversity
Hi! I have posted you a messsage on beta Wikiversity. I decided to let you know here since you check this site often. Greetings, Azimski 20:31, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

the babel template
check my talk page, is it only me or are en-3 templates displaying that wikimedia france link? i'm not sure it should be there (didn't like it there, myself, but if it is supposed to be..). capi talk 15:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Please change my name
Changing_username. --Edmund the King of the Woods! 14:52, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Offer
Hi, Sebmol, I have a humble request for you. Would you be willing to mentor me as a probationary custodian? I'm willing to help out all I can - and really just need someone to get me going and a solid reference point should I encounter situations where I'm not too sure what to do (although this shouldn't happen to much after reading the guide and being well versed in Wikimedia projects). I run my own private installation of MediaWiki so the technical aspects shouldn't be a problem. It would be great if I could learn from someone obviously experienced and with the project's best interests at heart. Cheers, --Pumpmeup 06:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

MichaelFrey Bot
Seb, would you mind taking a look at Bots/Status? Michael asked me to take a look at it, but I've no idea what to look for. :-) It seems ok - in use on Wikibooks and de.wv - is that valid criteria for turning on a bot locally? Cormaggio talk 20:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Username Change
Is there a chance if you could take a look at Changing username I've placed a request for my username to be changed. Imperial What do you want? 08:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

beta.wikiversity bot
Please see: http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:White_Cat#bot -- Cat chi? 18:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

My wish
I read your post, but I am very busy at the moment. I have a response on my to-do list. --McCormack 13:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

usurping request on beta.wikiversity
I would like to take over User:Yuyu (no edits) on beta.wikiversity. I'm using Yuyu on most of the project, en as a sysop in zh.wikipedia. --Yuyu 18:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Rename request
Please, rename kisbes on the beta wikiversity to balasyum. --Kisbes 17:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Custodial flag for Remi
ping, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

ping
ping --mikeu talk 05:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

ArchiveBot
Is there any way to get ArchiveBot to count as a signature? The Jade Knight (d'viser) 04:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation follow-up
Crats: I messaged a couple of you previously about this but just noticed there was a specific note to message all crats on Changing_username and due to the delay thought I'd better do again:  I'm following up on my request from December at Changing_username, no action has been taken. mikeu mentioned back in January that there was a technical problem with some of the tools and I see that mentioned on the Changing Username page now too. Reviewing the problem myself though, I am not clear on why this administrative issue is really a problem. I can see why it might be in some cases but not allowing clearly valid requests to go through without a pro forma check seems silly. For the life of me, I cannot see what these two tools would tell you for information about a user that you can't get nearly as easily through other means, particularly when we're talking about accounts that haven't edited in years in most cases and even then very little. I know there are only four of you, but the request ahead of mine has been sitting since July. That user and I are both Sysops on other projects and are both trying usurp accounts that appear to be clearly dead. I've actually been waiting before taking a more active role here until my account was fully unified and it looks like you could use a bit of help. Cheers! --BewareofDoug 03:02, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

User rename request
Would you please check the username page for my request on changing userame? C.I. 17:05, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

What happened to Archive bot?
I tried to apply using the archive request template, but when I looked at Archivebot, it seems that it has only ever archived 1100 edits. Is this Bot broken?

fyi
Community_Review/Abd --mikeu talk 18:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

missing bureaucrat noticeboard on beta.wikiversity
This message was supposed to be posted at http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Sebmol

Hi. You are listed as a bureaucrat on that wiki, but so is at least one other person. To contact a bureaucrat, in order to usurp accounts and similar, users have to send duplicate messages, rather than post at a single place. Please create a bureaucrat noticeboard of some sort and list it at meta:Index of pages where renaming can be requested. If it already exists, please list it there! Thank you. --Joy-temporary 11:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

User rename requests open
I've reviewed the standing renaming requests at WV:Changing username and have commented with recommendations, for all but one of them. I'm notifying all three active 'crats of this, because simple renaming requests should not be delayed. I have not yet reviewed the usurpation requests. Thanks. --Abd 18:56, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Single+User+Login+finalisation+announcement%2FPersonal+announcement&filter=&action=page translate and review the notification] that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages Rename practices and Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:08, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Custodianship
Hello Sebmol, Can you help me become a custodian. Please give me a comment on my talk page, Please talk on Draubb or Candidates for Custodianship/Draubb. Bye! Draubb (discuss • contribs) 00:42, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

ArchiveBot broken
ArchiveBot, which you operate on your system, has not run since April of this year. Sebmol, can you advise us? Are you monitoring your Talk page? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 14:12, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, fyi - I've requested usurpation of the bot's username here - F ASTILY 09:34, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Problem with unified account
Hi. I am registered in pl.wikipedia.org with the username Zink. I tried to create the unified account, but the page said that the en.wikiversity.org was the mother wiki for my account, and asked me to enter the password for it. I'm not registered here, but in fact there is an account here with the same name, which does not belong to me, thus I cannot provide the password. But the unified account page won't let me go further without that. I have written to one of the Polish Wikipedia bureaucrats, but haven't got any answer for a week now. Can you help me? I'm not particularly interested in taking over someone else's account, but I would like to complete the unified account conversion procedure.

An important message about renaming users
Dear Sebmol,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig
As a bureaucrat, please close this discussion. It's been two weeks. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:15, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Your admin status
Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy. You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on enwikiversity, where you are a bureaucrat and administrator. Since that wiki does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies. If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights. We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard. Best regards, Rschen7754 21:05, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikiversity:Bots
There is a current discussion about changes to the Bots policy. As a bot operator we would welcome your input at Wikiversity_talk:Bots. --mikeu talk 15:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, we've noticed that the bot that you operate has been inactive since 2006. The bot flag has been temporarily removed for inactivity per changes in the Bots policy. The flag will restored if we notice that the bot has resumed productive activity, or if you request restoration from a bureaucrat. The community does not consider it a big deal to re-grant this right to a trusted contributor. Thank you for the bot contributions that you have made in the past, and we hope that you will consider becoming active again. --mikeu talk 17:15, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

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User:Salvor

I live in Reykjavik Iceland. I teach at Iceland University of Education, my field is eEducational Technology and use of computers and Internet in education. /memo
 * User Salvor on English Wikipedia
 * User Salvor on Icelandic Wikipedia
 * User Salvor on Wikipedia Commons

I participated in the first Wikipedia conference Wikimania 2005, I gave a presentation about use of wikis in education, brainstorming with wikis

Abstract of my Wikimania 2005 presentation: The author suggest in this presentation how wiki can be used in on-line distance teacher education as a brainstorming tool, peer assessment activity, and a tool to develop accessment criterias for e-portfolio based learning environment.

I participated in Wikimania 2006 in Boston and gave a presentation about wikibooks and webquests.

Abstract of my Wikimania 2006 presentation: "This paper explores how educators can use Wikibooks.org and Wikipedia.org when creating constructivist learning environment on the Web. Educators can design Wikibooks that link together Wikipedia articles and include student-centered and authentic inquiry-based learning tasks. These learning tasks could be Webquests. A WebQuest is a model to teach with the web that was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March. A Webquest is an inquiry oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet. Open content such as Webquests as part of a Wikibook can make the writing and updating of a webquest a collaborative process for teachers and can also make possible for learners to interact with the task - rewriting it or making changes such as adding links to resources, maintaining links collections, providing tips and messages and adding their own findings/solutions to problems thus changing the task for future learners travelling on the same learning path. "

I have been a blogger since year 2000 and keep several blogs, some of them are in English, here is my : Elgg blog and here is my videoblog Salvor videoblogging. Links to some of my websites are here. I have set up experimental mediawiki for my students to try out how to use wikis and Wikipedia in education. My main blog is salvor.blog.is /quiz-testing

Tools and extensions
Interesting tools http://tools.wikimedia.de/~nikola/articlesby.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~nikola/grep.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~agony/antistub/ http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/mynoinfo.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dschwen/wikiminiatlas/ http://tools.wikimedia.de/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kylu/cgi-bin/pwgen.cgi

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User:Korg

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User:Whiteknight

I am Whiteknight. I predominantly author textbooks at wikibooks, on a variety of technical subjects such as electrical and computer engineering, computer science, science, and mathematics. My participation here is currently minimal, but that may change over time. My userpage here is unlikely to ever be as organized as my wikibooks user page is.

About Me
I have some teaching credentials, i've been a TA at Temple University for a few semesters and have taught a number of engineering-related classes. The complete list of courses I have taught can be found at Wikibooks:User:Andrew Whitworth.

For what it's worth, I'm probably going to call you people "Wikiversitans" or something similar, because i'm too lazy to repeatedly write "Wikiversity participants", or "Those guys who edit Wikiversity all the time".

I operate a blog that's reserved for news about Wikibooks, but I also am willing to write lots of stuff about Wikiversity too. If anybody has news or a story or anything that they want to get posted, let me know and I will put it up. BLOG.

Contacting me:

 * Me at Wikibooks
 * My main talk page
 * Registered users may also have the option of emailing me.

Pages
Here is a listing of pages in my user namespace. Some of these may never be used again and I may end up tagging them for deletion.

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User talk:Whiteknight

You can leave messages for me either here or on my Wikibooks user talk page. I will check messages in both locations regularly.

Graph gadget
I was looking at your page visit stats, and saw that there were huge gaps, repetitions of specific days, and wildly varying totals. I'd be interested to know what the real WV usage stats are, but yours don't seem to be reliable yet. Or are the most recent totals bug-free? --McCormack 10:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Many thanks for your detailed reply! Useful information. --McCormack 13:06, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Portal talk:Engineering and Technology/ - Electrical/Electronic Engineering Orientation/Aptitude Course
ping-Thuvack 11:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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Educational wikis

This resource offers an introduction to the use of wikis in education. The Wikiversity community keeps track of education-oriented wikis, establishes constructive interactions with them, and researches their technology, activity, culture, processes, and impact. Constructive interactions is a sub-page for exploring interactions between education-oriented wikis and other projects involved in the development of learning resources.

Ask Dr Wiki
Ask Dr Wiki - A medical wiki with the goal of creating a collective online memory for physicians, fellows, residents, and medical students.

CouchSurfing
CouchSurfing University - social networking wiki that is trying to make use of Wikiversity resources.

Curriki
Curriki was started by Scott McNealy the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. It is a non-profit organisation with the goal of building a complete course of instruction and assessment for K-12.

Debatepedia

 * Debatepedia - International Debate Education Association

Edutechwiki

 * http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page - based in Switzerland; explains a lot of the technical stuff behind web education.

ELATEwiki

 * - E-Learning and Teaching Exchange wiki supports e-learning endeavors at the higher education level.

Experimental Learning Processes
Join or create a debate and/or summarize its salient features at http://wikireason.net/wiki/Forum_Entrance. Please note this is an external site with its own community, social norms, and legal requirements. Please be prudent and wise in paraphrasing, citing, and archival of results locally. Content license requirements may conflict occasionally. Alternatively, methods learned there may be useful within the context of some local learning process or free materials development.

FLOSSCom Project & Ubuntu Education

 * FLOSSCom.NET Wiki - exploring free/open source software communities as learning communities
 * Learning the Open Source Way - a project aimed at developing a toolkit on "Learning the Open Source Way"

One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child wiki - research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. The Educators' page describes OLPC learning projects. Licence: cc by + others. See also: One Laptop Per Teacher.

OER Grapevine

 * OER Grapevine - mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources

OpenWetWare

 * OpenWetWare promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.

Second Life Education Wiki
Second Life Education Wiki -"Second Life provides a unique and flexible environment for educators interested in distance learning"

WikiEducator
WikiEducator - is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. WikiEducator has a strong focus on a learning for development agenda. Content is licensed under CC-BY-SA. WikiEducator has similar goals and methods to Wikiversity.

Wikihow

 * Wikihow - Another wiki with how-to information, licenced under a creative commons By-NC-SA license.

Wikihowto

 * Wikihowto - comprehensive, free, and open Howtos hosted by Wikia. Content licenced under CC-BY-SA.

Wikiversity

 * Wikiversity is an educational wiki supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikiversity is one of several sister projects on the WMF Mediawiki platform, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and Commons.

Wiki auto-training project
Empower yourself wiki - after using many tools to place the courses materials and students works (tikiwiki, google sites, moodle, and others) this one still new started 20/8/2012 will use mediawiki it seem to me the nearest to my first goals "Freedom and empowerment" I will come back at the end of the fall semester to evalute this experience.

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Wikiversity:Support staff

Wikiversity staff are trusted users who volunteer to help maintain the site as curators, custodians, or bureaucrats. They are happy to assist and answer any of your questions. Request assistance at request custodian action or contact someone directly.

Roles

 * Curator : A user who has rights to manage content on Wikiversity, such as the ability to delete, rollback, import from other wikis, and protect pages.
 * Custodian : Known as administrators or sysops on other projects, these users have the same permissions as curators plus the ability to block other users and edit user interface text. See.
 * Bureaucrat : A user who has the same permissions as custodians plus the ability to promote other users to curator or custodian status and grant and revoke bot rights.
 * Checkuser : A user who have access to the CheckUser tool, used to investigate situations where a disruptive user may be using multiple accounts. See: CheckUser policy. Currently has no members.
 * Bots : Bots are accounts used by other Wikiversity users to perform repetitive automated or semi-automated tasks such as fixing links, eliminating typos, changing categories, etc.

Support staff directory
Automatically-generated lists of current Wikiversity support staff:
 * Curators
 * Custodians
 * Bureaucrats

This table provides Wikiversity support staff details. Staff who have been active in the last three months (as of March 2024, based on Special:Log actions) are shown in bold. Inactive staff members may not be available to provide assistance. Missing staff members should be added.

Candidates
If you would like to help out as a curator or custodian on Wikiversity, please list yourself at Candidates for Custodianship. You are strongly advised to familiarise yourself with the maintenance page and Wikiversity policies, and to involve yourself with non-custodial maintenance tasks before you apply. There are lots of ways you can help Wikiversity without/before becoming a custodian. See Catalyst for example.

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Wikiversity:Original proposal

Brief summary of the original wikiversity proposal, which did not meet with complete approval.

Short summary of the old proposal

 * A center of learning using Wikimedia projects content as course material.
 * Initial scope of Wikiversity: something realistic that can be accomplished with the current set of tools available with MediaWiki software.
 * Mission: to test the limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and publishing results within a policy framework developed by the community.
 * Vision: a collaborative learning community structured to promote learning by engaging participants in scholarly activities within a wiki environment.
 * Two goals were identified:
 * E-teaching materials. The development and cataloging of tests, teaching materials that go beyond the scope of Wikibooks such as slides and videos, complete courses, and more. All this information must be presented from a neutral point of view and represent the current state of scientific research. Wikibooks will be used as a partner project where appropriate.
 * E-learning. A framework within which members of the community can actually take courses online.

Evaluation of the old proposal
A vote was held on the Wikiversity project proposal. The proposal got the required 2/3 majority (shortly).

In November the Board discussed the Wikiversity project and requested modifications to the proposal:

 * "Wikiversity proposal (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity) not approved, but we will approve it if some changes are made and if the community seems joyful about it, which may or may not require another vote. The board recommend rewriting the proposal to exclude credentials, exclude online-courses and clarify the concept of elearning platform. to be rewritten to exclude credentials and to clarify concept of e-learning."

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User talk:Mindmatrix

Thanks for starting to add some content! --JWSchmidt 18:22, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Category:Wikiversity

The root of the category system for Wikiversity-internal pages.
 * Portal:Wikiversity

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Wikiversity talk:News

If this is a page for meta-news about Wikiversity maybe it should go un the Wikiversity namespace. --JWSchmidt 18:25, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Where are announcements about Content?
Good News! The first  Motion Picture Storyboard has been created for the WikiU Film School's short movie called Seduced by the Dark Side!

Where do I tell people about it? All the news and announcement pages that I can find are only about the site itself, not about the new and great lessons inside. Robert Elliott 16:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

"The "news" list here isn't new. Is someone supposed to keep this thing current?" IDangerMouse 14:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * see also Main Page/News + Colloquium, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat + Identi.ca 18:38, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

mechanical engineering projects
project ideas on hydrogen energy

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Wikiversity:Copyrights

The license Wikiversity uses grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikiversity content can be copied, modified, and redistributed, either commercially or noncommercially, so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikiversity content used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). Wikiversity learning resources therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

To fulfill the above goals, the text contained in Wikiversity is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Please see Terms of Use.

For material whose copyright is in question see Copyright issues. This also includes information on how to deal with such material.

Copyright and Media Uploads
According to Foundation policy, uploads are required to have a license template and source. To add this information after upload, please edit the image description page directly (click the edit this page tab); uploading a new version of the media will not update the license template, nor the source information.

Wikiversity

 * License tags
 * Uploading files
 * Foundation licensing policy
 * The GFDL and you

Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ
 * The Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for questions on copyright.
 * Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
 * Wikipedia:Standard license violation letter
 * Wikipedia:Copyright problems
 * Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
 * Wikipedia:Fair use
 * Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
 * Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission
 * Wikipedia:Copyright issues

Meta

 * Wikipedia and copyright issues
 * Avoid Copyright Paranoia
 * Permission grant extent
 * A new GFDL?

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