Hoi,
Yes, that is the politically correct answer. The question asked by
several is what is Wikiversity good for. Is it actually used?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 July 2017 at 18:06, Satdeep Gill <satdeepgill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I do think that the community will improve
content as the time
progresses. The community has been working hard on translation as well.
But I do see some pages which are not written well and contain machine
translations. Such as
<http://goog_1512637911>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/%E0%A4%90%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8
B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%87%E0%
A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%
E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97
Regards
Satdeep Gill
Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B#SGill_.28WMF.29>
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
Member, Language Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee>
On 25 June 2017 at 01:08, Jay prakash <0freerunning(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> [
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_graphics/2013-2014
> /Page_footer]
> See Here.
>
> On 6/25/17, Mahir Morshed <mmorshe2(a)illinois.edu> wrote:
> > Well, the part in [brackets] was "the lack of effort to even
> localize the
> > comments in the code samples" and I did mention that it was being
> addressed
> > slowly. My apologies for failing to provide a direct link to an
> example.
> >
> > I also now see that the email address is in fact yours. I am not
> sure that
> > there is any precedent elsewhere for such byline templates on other
> > Wikimedia projects.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jay prakash <0freerunning(a)gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> You are showing it that you will not see all those links which I
> have
> >> cleaned like it [
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/कंप्यूटर
> >> ग्राफिक्स/2013-14/जीओजीएल-टेम्पलेट].
> >>
> >> On 6/25/17, Mahir Morshed <mmorshe2(a)illinois.edu> wrote:
> >> > To piggyback on what Justin is saying (and also via Phabricator:
> >> >
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168765#3376191):
> >> >
> >> > I am not a Hindi speaker, but I can at least discern Devanagari
> text
> >> > and
> >> > the English loanwords in it. Justin's first link is to
> >> > "Category:Intelligence" with subcategory "Artificial
> intelligence". His
> >> > second link (Computer Programming/IDE/Visual Basic .NET/...)
> bears only
> >> > a
> >> > link to a Japanese online IDE. His third link (Computer
> >> > Graphics/2013-2014/"Page Foot", a page footer which is
transcluded
> >> > elsewhere) has an email address prefixed with a link to
> >> > @Jayprakash12345
> >> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Jayprakash12345/>'s
> >> userpage--maybe it
> >> > is his own email address?
> >> >
> >> > The problems of most pages only consisting of source code is
> indeed
> >> > inherited from the English Wikiversity courses to which the pages
> are
> >> > linked. Nevertheless, from seeing at least [the lack of effort to
> even
> >> > localize the comments in the code samples], and perhaps from
> seeing the
> >> > lack of something more substantial in the way of content revolving
> >> > around
> >> > those code samples, and perhaps more so from Jayprakash12345
> being the
> >> only
> >> > consistent contributor going back at least a month, I must thus
> agree
> >> with
> >> > his assessment that opening hiwikiversity would be a disaster. My
> >> personal
> >> > opinion is that other Hindi projects (such as hiwikisource and
> >> hiwikiquote)
> >> > could be populated more easily and meaningfully at this point,
> but I
> >> would
> >> > digress to elaborate on that and the whole process of site
> requests
> >> > more
> >> > generally here.
> >> >
> >> > (Edits since the original comment was made: It appears judging
> from
> >> >
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinke
> d/Category:
> >> HI
> >> > that 1) the subcategory "Artificial intelligence" has been
> deleted and
> >> > 2)
> >> > the part in [brackets] above is being addressed slowly.)
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Justin Anthony Knapp
> >> > <justinkoavf(a)gmail.com
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Via Phabricator (
https://phabricator.wikimedia
> .org/T168765#3376166):
> >> >>
> >> >> Is this really ready? I don't read Hindi but the main category
> has 84
> >> >> subcategories and 25 are empty (many only have subcategories
> which are
> >> >> themselves empty, such as
https://beta.wikiversity.org/
> >> >> wiki/Category:इंटेलिजेंस) There are 578 pieces of content, many
> of
> >> >> which
> >> >> are just one or two lines, such as
https://beta.wikiversity.org/
> >> >> wiki/कंप्यूटर_प्रोग्रामिंग/IDE/विजुअल_बेसिक_.नेट/Online/Free or
> >> >>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/कंप्यूटर_ग्राफिक्स/2013-20
> 14/पेज_फ़ुट
> >> >> which is mostly someone's personal email address. Remove
> categories
> >> >> and
> >> >> erroneously-categorized userpages and that becomes 490. This
> includes
> >> >> almost 100 pages which are part of some Linux code such as
> >> >>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/लिनक्स/linux-0.01.tar/boot
> /boot.s.
> >> >> Remove *those* and it's 401 which includes purely cosmetic
> templates
> >> >> and
> >> >> pages like
> >> >>
https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Engineering/box-footer.
> >> >> The actual amount of content seems like something that one person
> >> >> could
> >> >> make over a long weekend. How is this supposed to be a live
> project?
> >> This
> >> >> seems like a misstep.
> >> >>
> >> >> Creating a new project is a big responsibility and with 500
> pages in
> >> five
> >> >> and a half years? And most of them are either copy-pasted Linux
> code
> >> >> or
> >> >> one
> >> >> line long? That is not a thriving community. This is a recipe for
> >> >> disaster.
> >> >>
> >> >> --JAK
> >> >> --
> >> >> "[Icarus] glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling into
> that hot
> >> >> eye. Who cares that he fell back to the sea?"
> >> >>
> >> >> Viva Western Sahara, viva West Papua
> >> >>
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> > --
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Mahir Morshed
> > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> > B.S. Computer Engineering, May 2019
> >
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