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"On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées." — Victor Hugo (discuss)

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Scientology

It appears that Scientology has invaded our sacred halls via Origins of Scientology. It would seem that the dust up over at Wikipedia's ArbCom is causing scientologists to seek a new home. There seems little to the page except for propaganda to further that dispute with little discourse or any kind of learning. We should discuss if this is acceptable. I would suggest this page to be nominated for deletion. Ottava Rima (talk) 04:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

--67.65.39.44 15:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I NEED HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have constructed a Martin birhouse 2'x2'x2' and it weighs 30 pounds. It is mounted on top of a 16' pressure treated 4"x4" post. I now need to have the bottom of the post 2' off the ground and erect it vertical ( so the birds will come live in it). I figure I need to use concrete and some more lumber. But how??? so mother nature won't destroy it????

HELP!!!!HELP!!! PLEASE!!! My name is Paul

This isn't really the right place for such a post, as this is for questions and comments about Wikiversity itself. What you want is the Engineering Help Desk. I will repost your Q and answer it there. StuRat 14:39, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

MIcroprocessor learning project

Hello. Any one interested in this learning project? or if anyone has completed this project contact me ASAP by sending me a mail on jigsaw.18june@gmail.com or post it here

thanks

Below is the project statement :

Design a microprocessor based EPROM programmer to program 2716.The EPROM can be programmed by applying 25V at VPP and 5V at OE pin. Initially all data of EPROM will be 1's and the user should make the bits zero selectively. The bit parallel data is applied to the data output pins (D0-D7). The address for the EPROM is provided through the address pins. To program the address of each location to be programmed should be stable for 55ms.When address and data are stable, a 50ms active high pulse is applied to CE input.

Interesting idea - if you can start a project microprocessor programming(?) for it, so that anyone who is interested can follow it step by step, that would be great. Hillgentleman | //\\ |Talk 17:35, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Archiving Student Work

Hello!

I'm having some troubles figuring out a system of archive pages here at Wikiversity. I'm having students do fairly large group assignments inside my UserSpace, and I'm trying to figure out how to archive old assignments so future students can look over what previous classes accomplished. I'm not so familiar with the way this is done, and I've been progressing along a fairly "cavemannish" route of manually creating an archive page, then doing <cut> from the original page and <paste> into the archive page. This takes kind of a long time, and there are many opportunities for me to make the kind of mistakes to which I'm sadly prone. Also, this method doesn't transfer over the discussion pages.

So, in a nutshell, I'm wondering if there's a better way! Here's an example of the kind of thing I'm trying to archive.

Thank you very much! --Stevenarntson 20:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Your current approach is the common approach used for archiving past discussions. You could use a more uniform structure to reduce the need to archive past assignment, like have students edit User:Stevenarntson/2009/Q1/Analytical_writing and User_talk:Stevenarntson/2009/Q1/Analytical_writing to begin with would keep assignments organized by year and quarter and would avoid the need to copy or move anything, assuming the same assignment never comes up twice in the same quarter. -- darklama  16:51, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

We also have the ability to do automatic archiving, using a bot. Here's an example: {{auto archive|target='English Language Reference Desk/Archives/((Year))'|age=60|mincontributions=1}}. See English_Language_Reference_Desk. However, this does tend to make the watchlist less useful, since constant archiving obscures other changes. (You can hide bot edits on the watchlist, but I don't believe this will show an older non-bot edit.) If we could make the bot only run once a week or month, that would work better. StuRat 14:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the ideas. I think I may try to implement something along the lines of Darklama's suggestion for now.

Stevenarntson 21:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

New Wikiversity Funding announced

After years of being overshadowed in the trails of other bigger wikis, the WMF has been pledged a large and substantial gift from tbe w:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of $4.1 Million dollars. One of the conditions attached to the pledge is that the bulk of the donation be directed at educational activities, and specifically mentions Wikiversity as one of the vehicles for this to be realized.

Now, of course, the question is: Where is the best place to direct these funds to, and how should the parcelling out be handled? Should a formal committee be struck, or should we write up proposals and forward them to the board for approval? Historybuff 06:27, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Good idea. We need more people to get Wikiversity off the ground. And people love $$$. We have had some Wikiversity based courses (e.g. Teemu in Finish Wikiversity, Robert Elliott in film. Ciprian et. co. in computer courses in Romanian, Estonian e-learning teams,...,) and may be we can use their experience to do a good one. May be a full package using the entire spectrum of wiki-tools, from wiki-lessons to wiki-notes, wiki-homeworks, wikiquizzes, irc sessions, video conferencing with SKYPE, wiki-exams etc. In the end, maybe wiki-grades and a wiki-certificate. Hillgentleman | //\\ |Talk 08:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

For comparison, what's the current Wikiversity budget (amount, sources of income, and how it's spent) ? StuRat 14:11, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Is this an April Fools joke? Countrymike 22:08, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I got busy later in the week and didn't see Countrymike's comment until now. River from the toolserver almost got me (since his post was before April 1 in my timezone), so I thought I'd spread the love. :)

On a serious note, to respond to sturat, we don't have a formal budget that I'm aware of. We can propose things, but it's hard to get funding of any sort if it's not somehow tied to Wikimedia wikis directly.

I think we probably need more content promotion, because some of the above mentioned resources are golden. Historybuff 13:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Culture insights from project GLOBE

--Puttykatlee009 21:20, 2 April 2009 (UTC) I am taking a class in Management and I need information on Asia and Europe. I need to do a comparison and contrast on culture and business climate from the perspective of a Multinational Corporation (MNC)seeking to expand into a new market. From Kathy Shorty

This isn't the right place to post this Q, as this is for questions and comments about Wikiversity itself. I will copy this Q to the Wikiversity:Help desk, and try to answer it there. Here it is: Wikiversity:Help_desk#Culture_insights_from_project_GLOBE. StuRat 13:34, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Category problem

In the categories there are both [are and [wikiversity Schools]. Should these not be combined, or was the 1st meant to be [Academic Institutions]? Also I would like to make a school that is called an Academy rather than a school.--Dchmelik 21:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure the current consensus thinking on this, but we are a wiki and there is no one "right way" to do everything. We do have some issues of capitalization with Categories, and it isn't always clear which one you should put things in (although there is a convention, once people start using a category it can catch on for quite a while).

As for as naming goes, be bold and go forth. School or Academy or Topics are just organization pieces, if that greases the wheel for the underlying content that is all the better. If a majority then don't like it, we can chat about it and see where it fits -- it is a wiki, after all. Historybuff 13:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)