Marry Christmas and Happy New Year folks!
I am coming to warm you up (not just those from temperate zone) to take a
part on the discussion about the renewal of Sandbox Server, which is from
the beginning of December dead.
I have deployed some needs and scenarios to Wikiversity Beta, that everybody
can come and discuss:
http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Sandbox_Server
Regards,
Juan de Vojníkov
cs.wikiversity.org
Hi AFriedman..
I note that Mikeu has taken action:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:KyleBeals and we await a response
regarding page blanking... Thanks for the headsup..
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:28 AM, AFriedman <ras2198(a)columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> User:KyleBeals is now blanking pages and hasn't (yet) been blocked. For
> example, he blanked several of your Userpages, as well as my User talk page.
> What he's destroyed can be found in "Recent changes." I tried to revert
> him but he reverted me back, and I can't keep up with him. Would you please
> block him before he can do more damage?
>
> Also, how do I join the IRC channel for Wikiversity, and how do I become an
> admin so I don't have to write these notes anymore?
>
> Thanks,
> AFriedman
>
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Last week's Question of the week focused on how Wikimedia could change
its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment.
Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic
that Wikipedia might use to increase participation. The following
graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online
populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the
number of users and active participants. Specifically, in China,
Brazil, France, South Korea, Turkey and Indonesia, Wikipedia.org
ranking is below 10. What tactics do you think could be used to
increase participation in a specific country?
<Graph and link to participate are at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
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It's happening again :)
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It would be good to have a page that attempts to answer the question and
document some history. I have tried to keep abreast of the issues seeing
some very interesting exchanges and debates with the questions largely
remaining unanswered by those who should answer... a small part of me
worries, given the amount of time Eric and Wayne have to give their
projects, that WMF attentions and resources will want to go to
wikieducator.. and that to me would be a disappointment. Most of us here
work in WV with very little backing, so its even more remarkable to see
where WV is on that note.
On 01/12/2009 8:04 PM, "Cormac Lawler" <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/12/1 Leigh Blackall <leighblackall(a)gmail.com>
> > Can anyone here clarify what the relationship between the Wikimedia
Foundation and Wikieducator...
Hi Leigh,
Wikieducator is independent of the Wikimedia Foundation - though there are
close personal links. Wayne Mackintosh (Wikieducator founder) is on the
advisory board of the WMF, and Erik Moeller (WMF deputy director) gives
technical support (or something like that) to Wikieducator.
Wikiversity is a WMF project, and therefore hosted on its servers, and bound
to its licensing conditions. Apart from that, the relationship between the
Wikimedia Foundation and individual projects is slightly ambiguous - in
general, the WMF does not intervene in project-level issues, and will
support project initiatives on a case-by-case basis (and according to
community support).
The article you linked to was associating Wikieducator with the Mediawiki
software platform, rather than the Wikimedia Foundation. (These two often
get confused!) However, as implied above, the lines here are often blurry;
and, of course, many people are active on both sites ;-), and both sites
have similar missions/scope. Furthermore, high profile collaborations
between Wikieducator and WMF (such as successful funding bids) make their
links more visible - whereas Wikiversity is within the WMF family, and is
therefore implied in any funding that WMF receives.
(Do we need an educational resource on this issue? :-))
Cormac
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Hello friends,
I just wrote to the en.wikiversity.org Colloquium a note about
"redesigning" the front page. I'll rpost it to this list, too. Maybe
we can have more cross-Wikiversity discussion in here - I hope. Here:
== (re)designing the en.wikiversity front page ? ==
Hello all,
I know that this may sound like a stupid "complaining" and it is
possible that the right reply would be "do it yourself", but I will
"complain" anyway. Peace. :-)
I think there is a need to redesign the en.wikiversity.org front page
to raise awareness of the project and to get more users involved it.
It could be useful to check the way some other sites with the same
objectives have organized their stuff. Here are some links:
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Pagehttp://www.p2pu.org/
I also think that the Finnish Wikiversity design, even though it is
very minimalistic, is much better than the en.wikiversity.org (I am
involved in the fi.wikiversity.org). I think it is better, because a
new visitor of the site will in two seconds get the idea what is the
site about. In the front page of the fi.wikiversity.org it states:
"Welcome to the Wikiversity, an open and free online learning community!
What is Wikiversity?
Wikiversity is an online community and learning environment. In
Wikiversity you can learn almost anything. Learning opportunities are
provided to each other by the community members. If your area of
interest to study does not yet exist in Wikiversity course offerings,
you can start it by creating out of your theme an online class,
reading or study circle, web conference or self-study course."
I believe that if the en.wikiversity.org front page is clear an nice
the Wikiversity’s in other languages will follow and the community
will grow.
--[[User:Teemu|Teemu]] 13:57, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
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Teemu Leinonen
http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
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Can anyone here clarify what the relationship between the Wikimedia
Foundation and Wikieducator is? And where Wikiversity stands in that
relationship?
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/19276
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