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[edit] New versions of the Research Portal
If you want to experiment with a radical new version of Portal:Research you can work at Portal:Researchnew.
- Thanks for the above comment. I looked and it seemed very similar :-) --McCormack 11:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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- For the clueless: Portal:Researchnew started as an exact copy of the Portal:Research. It is an available workspace for planning new content for this portal. --JWSchmidt 15:38, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
If you update featured content on this portal, make sure that you update Portal:Research/Featured. --JWSchmidt 14:41, 27 January 2007
I just made this comment on the Researchnew portal, I just noticed that the graph of the number of pages online at Wikiversity only encompasses a page count before December 2006. Shouldn't a new version be availible? --Sgutkind 21:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- These are not very good graphs. Here is the most recent info from stats.wikimedia.org:
--JWSchmidt 22:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Research tasks
I was coming here to add participation at http://galaxyzoo.org/ to the list of "Research tasks", but I don't see any such list. Should we add one to the new design?--Rayc 01:25, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Harvard Liberal Arts Faculty Votes to Distribute Research Free
Harvard Liberal Arts Faculty Votes to Distribute Research Free .. sort of interesting item related to research. Would there be a better place to put items like these? --Remi 09:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wiki Research could be Sold for Fundraising
Current fundraising needs beg a saleable product of value in the free-market. Under US tax laws, the only items allowed to be sold are those created with volunteer labor. Principally within wikimedia projects, the work product of volunteer labor is information, yet the purpose of these resources is to be free for all (nmtp). A potential source of fundraising income is available in Custom Research Projects which might be commissioned by parties in exchange for a donation. Although granted, the majority of work products within the Wiki family will be freely available to the public, the result of the collaborative efforts in this venue are eventually to be Research Reports which could be produced according to contracted specifications and for the purpose of supporting the foundation. These should be freely available but could also be the property of the comissioning donor. --Gustable 20:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Not a bad idea, though I know little about the details. The Jade Knight 07:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Radical new version (April 2008)
General ideas of the new version: (1) update antiquated references, (2) improve visual appear, (3) improve ergonomy, (4) improve overview of and access to content (category tree system), (5) incorporate some dynamic rotating content (features, quotes), (6) visually connect the portal into the other five top-level "resources by level" portals. --McCormack 14:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
For the moment I have left out the content of Portal:Research/Research news and Portal:Research/Did you know. If someone reckons this content needs adding, it's still there on the subpages. At the moment this page seems a little overloading, so some trimming seemed in order. --McCormack 11:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I have combined the following pages under the heading of "research administration" to try and simplify things a little: Portal:Research/WikiProjects, Portal:Research/Categories, Portal:Research/Selected biography. In the future it might be a good idea to actually consolidate the content of these pages into something more digestible for a new researcher trying to get to grips with what can and cannot be done at Wikiversity. Incidentally, the selected biography page had nothing to do with biographies! --McCormack 12:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Archive of older content
To access old content (i.e. pre-radical revision), you can use the page history, or alternatively the redundant subpages listed above. The subpages have mostly been left alone - i.e. quite a bit of "productive forking" has been done. Other subpages have simply been incorporated intact into the new design. --McCormack 12:37, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Categories
Category:Research needs a thorough tidy-up. One useful recategorisation that could be performed is changing the category to Category:Research project for specific projects. -- Jtneill - Talk 15:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] research initiative
Before there was a WikiMedia project (Wikiversity) that was open to original research, wiki participants with an interest in doing research on wikis congregated at the Meta wiki. It would make sense to bring those folks to Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 15:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
