User:Erkan Yilmaz/observations/2008 January

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observations from Erkan Yilmaz for 2008 January

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[edit] 2008 January 29 - You are kidding ? Wikiversity is (also) about learning (?)

Some learning mechanisms:

  1. habituation
  2. classical conditioning
  3. operant conditioning
  4. exploring/game (Spielverhalten)
  5. imitation -> learning by observing
  6. recombinant behavior -> cognitive learning
  7. imprinting
  8. tradition

Thanks for the references, this is great information about learning about learning! --Ncouture 11:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 January 28 - German WV participates in the "year of mathematics" by the "Federal Ministry of Education and Research"

In Germany the year of mathematics has started (more info here by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)). Not only because of this German Wikiversity has initiated a project called Mathematics is everywhere (Mathematik ist überall). German WV applied for the event and participates now as sole non-profit organization so far and got also the logo for usage at WV.

Mathematics is everywhere at German Wikiversity

[edit] 2008 January 27 - history of WV

While reconstructing the history of German Wikiversity (for the history of en.WV see here, for el.WV see here) it seems that from the initial 5 members of Wikiversity only two are actively participating. Perhaps we might get the others back again on board ?
earliest known written evidence (please update, if you find earlier evidence):
Wikiversity date where ?
en.WV 2003 August Wikibooks
de.WV 2004 September meta (Wikibooks 2005 February)
it.WV 2004 November Wikibooks (meta 2006 September)
es.WV 2004 November Wikibooks
fr.WV 2005 January Wikibooks
(request on 2006 August)
beta 2006 August betawikiversity
el.WV 2007 July meta

[edit] 2008 January 23 - whiteboard feature for Sandbox Server 0.5

Imagine a student, sitting in her chair and watching the board where the teacher has just written something.
Sounds boring ? Well, perhaps not:
  • if your chair is located not in the school building and
  • the board you see is a whiteboard on your notebook and
  • your teacher is 500 miles away :-)
a 2 mins test and it seems to work: Image:Whiteboard feature - test with Coccinella.jpg (another example)
needs to be tested more (e.g. with more than 2 people) - how to log in on the Sandbox Server 0.5

[edit] 2008 January 19 - new WV main pages & status of reading group "Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War"

  • new main page layout
The French Wikiversity has a new main page since 16th January. Also recently en.WV and www.wikiversity.org got a new layout.
So far some people showed interest in the reading group:
Unfortunately the announcement in various WVs and WBs did not bring new participants. Therefore there could be thought about how to improve this situation, since the heart of the group still consists of two people (thanks Daan). We will continue and hope for more people to join.
Some reasons which might hinder others to participate more could be:
  • no time or too much to read in total (per session so far 25 aphorisms were to read) and therefore too longterm project ?
  • not interesting enough ?
  • language difficulties ?
  • a desire to be entertained instead of doing something that appears to be like homework ?
  • please add :-)
edit 2008-Feb.-4: who would have thought this to happen

[edit] 2008 January 15 - Wikipedia Signpost and Wikiversity & I must be crazy, really :-)

  • What might be written about Wikiversity and other wikimedia projects in the future issue: see here


This user must have gone CRAZY
see here.


I have now publicly offered a recently registered de.WV member that for each new member he woos, I will invest x mins of my lifetime to review articles: [1]. Let's see the reaction to this marketing initiative

[edit] 2008 January 14 - translation status Wikiversities + what you can find on commons

translation status of not yet established Wikiversities:

...can be seen here, e.g. for the Turkish Wikiversity it is (request page on meta):
Most often
used messages		 Extensions used
by Wikimedia		 MediaWiki
messages		 All
extensions
93.35% 12.13% 69.36% 3.35%
From all the languages only the following have for all 4 values good percentages (I am not sure if the values from above link are updated - but if it is uptodate not for all 4 fields are needed high values to found a WV - when looking at the values from the so far six established WVs): ar, en, fr, gl, hsb, nl, oc, sk.
edit 2008-Januar-28:
Question: How can I help ?
Answer: Slave, you dare to ask ? Your punishment therefore is: start translating (see here)


what can you find on commons?

click usage on
wikimedia projects
Image:Ass.jpg [2]
Category:Nude women
Category:Nude men
Category:Nudity
You may ask yourself, why I searched for this of course :-)
Don't get funny ideas now, we were talking about a contest on IRC and then I searched for a keyword and found the above. I wonder what else you can find in the large commons archives (commons statistics). But interesting is: I did not try this special keyword before, because somehow I assumed on commons I would not find "such" things :-) You can always be wrong in your thinking patterns.

[edit] 2008 January 13 - votes for sysops and bots

Since the Greek Wikiversity is now launched, there are votes already going on for sysops and bots. Unfortunately not all requests are in English available :-( I also have some questions. If you want to vote, click here.

[edit] 2008 January 12: request for Greek Wikiversity has been approved !

Don't forget to vote :-)

[edit] 2008 January 07: cooperation with robots.wikia.com ?

Let's see what kind of cooperation can be with Wikiversity.

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