User:Historybuff

Here is my non-prioritized todo list:

Happy New Year 2010! :)

Back, and looking into e-learning. Isn't that what Wikiversity is supposed to be? Ok, so there is Moodle, which I've flirted with all too briefly. I'm going to look back at that, as well as:

• http://www.omnovia.com/
• http://www.wiziq.com/
• http://www.lightspeedvt.com/johndavidesp/
• http://www.teachanolddognewtricks.com/
• http://www.dimdim.com/

Note, these are NOT endorsements or spam links, just a place to keep a few things I want to check out together. I don't have any idea on licences or fees or whatnot, or how good any of them are. If I get this organized enough, maybe I'll post some reviews.

I'm not going to revive targets of things quite yet -- I'm still quite busy IRL but I do intend to do more WV related stuff as time goes by.

• Neat wifi hacking lab: http://antennablog.lbagroup.com/

• Read http://www.infinitethinking.org/ (blog) (was linked from here
• Check into Making nice maps
• write a course on accounting/SQL-Ledger (check into Category:Accounting) (refer to http://dwmbeancounter.com/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=13)

• Upgrade MW, or write an article about interwiki??

What was I thinking? Where did I go? :)

Okay, been far too busy for far too long. I'm not even going to update this list for a bit. I'm here to soak in for a little bit.

Not updating yet, but still doing some work. Ever increasing amounts, until when I can actually realistically re-order and tackle some of this.

More comments... what year was this "week ending"?? Wow, have I really been absent long enough that my todo list rolled all the way around to another year? Ugh.

Anyways, have a lot of project ideas now, and finally getting some time to do them. Yay me! :)

Check out this educational tool: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/education.asp?CMP=KgoogleSctedu&gclid=CIeB8eCV6ZgCFROU7QodGnUc0w

To be completed in the week ending this Sat, Sep 20:

• See if any response to talk page comment at Bachelor_of_Computer_Applications_(BCA)

To be completed in the week ending this Sat, Sep 27:

• Review Time management
• start software for openmoko [1]
• Review [2] for inclusion in Asterisk
• Figure out what is up at m:Wikimedia Canada
• read better then free and blame the wayward worker

To be completed in the future:

• Do a bit on Mediawiki Wikis from http://wikidev.net/MediaWiki_skin_tweaks, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles.
• Figure out easy to edit pretty tables (might need style-sheets) and add a lesson to Topic:MediaWiki
• Schedule a recording session with User:Cormaggio for WCR that works (maybe using this?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#How_can_I_create_Interwiki_Links_in_my_Wiki.3F

• bug JIRA/Toolserver people for key reset
• Toolserver -- refine Timezone tool prototype
• look at Open_Source_ERP
• Review Research_grant_collaboration_group page
• Check [3], [4] for preschool project
• Find out if we can use [5] in a Wikiversity setting

• Figure out how "½" got into my todo page, and how to do something like that when I mean to. :)

• MediaWiki stuff - threaded output possible with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Robchurch/Extension_output_handlers?
• Category rationalization
  • Did Computer Programming (added Programming Languages).
  • In the middle of Computer Science
  • Notes on categories Help:Category
• Fix http://toolserver.org/~gerald/edit_count.php?wiki=en.wikiversity&name=historybuff&count=count (form needed, pretty pages) and post changes here

Currently on hold (reason):

• Apply for access to Grants Wiki http://grants.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Wiki is frozen, with no co-ord)
• Review/Beef up CS/IT area on Portal:Engineering and Technology (Need more content)

Needs Scheduling:

• Check out Bloom Clock and http://healthyhousesystem.com/services.html
• Check out [6]
• Financial stuff? http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/04/09/teens.money/index.html?eref=rss_latest
• Help Cormaggio - http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/index2.html

• Review wm2007:Technology
• Review User:JWSchmidt/Semantic_prosthetic

• Openstreetmaps - [[7]]
• Work on Remote Learning Development
  • check out resource w:Virtual learning environment
• Identify courses related to CS
  • In progress at Category:Computer Science
• Complete Introduction to Computer Science
• Identify core courses
• community based courses - interaction courses?
  • Wikiversity:Wikiversity outreach
• Figure out how Participants works on w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Review The_music_industry
• Follow up on User:Joel_Lamoure
• Check out http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page
• piddle with http://www.openmoko.org/

[edit] Course Related

• Survey courses - rate?
• Survey wikibooks
  • Wade through b:Wikiversity:School_of_Computer_Science to see if there is anything useful
  • see if they have any useful texts [8]
    • Wikibooks has no current versioning that we can use -- need the book to stay consistent (snapshots?)
• Think about how [[[:en:Category:Game_Design|Category:Game_Design]]] integrates with CS
  • look at Games in Development
• check out Web related stuff, like Topic:Web Design
• Think about Wikiversity:Featured and putting features on the portal
• Use Wikiversity:Help_desk#Lesson_Plan to help write lessons
  • Use Template:Learning project boilerplate to create courses
• Don't forget Wikipedia .. like w:Category:Programming constructs

[edit] Policy and Admin Related

• Recruit more wikiversitians
• Talk about streams, and how streams fit together (course of study)
• discuss the accredation issue

[edit] Tech related

• learn wikimedia software
  • Installed a test wiki
  • Got pointers in #mediawiki for javascript stuff
  • Manual of config stuff at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings
• Get [Test_and_Quiz] working in a general way
  • Fiddled with Template:HB-Quiz -- need to get it to send, not escape, HTML
  • looks like it might be possible through LocalSettings.php or Skins settings.
  • edit MediaWiki:common.js. Use addOnloadHook(yourfunctionhere) to add the hookd. (from #mediawiki)
  • check out m:Wikiquiz
• Figure out how bots work
  • Got some good info from JWS
  • Write a magic agent that collects the names of contributers from certain areas (bwahahaha)
• play with transclusion: {{{{FULLPAGENAME}}/overview}}
• Wikiversity_Blog_howto
• w:Template:user in

[edit] General Stuff

• How are we doing? Wikiversity:Quality and using Template:Quality0
• Delete/merge duplicates
  • Topic:Quality Assurance
  • Topic:Computer_Science - is this needed anymore?
• Check out
  • Bar Camp
  • Topic:Telecommunications
  • Topic:Internet_TV
  • Topic:Image processing and Machine Vision
  • Wikiversity:Sonic user interface
  • Nerd_Project
  • School:Project Management
  • History_of_Quebec_and_Canada/Study_Guide
  • Introduction to GarageBand

Done (should go into an archive)

• Move to a real todo list template:to do?
  • add a user page (needed to get todo to be in the "right" spot)
• Organized and prioritized todo list
• Complete Portal:Computer Science
• WAV -> OGG codec translation for 2 sessions
• Another WAV -> OGG codec translation
• Numerous confrence calls
• Push toolserver request [[9]]
• Get the ball rolling on Wikimedia Canada
• Chat w/ m:User:Eloquence and commons:User:Gmaxwell; follow up w/ Brion
• Start moving on WM Canada
• Brainstorm ideas for Grants -- pick one with good curb appeal
• Chat w/ m:User:Eloquence; follow up w/ commons:User:Gmaxwell and Brion
• Check about powerbook info for http://www.bitshuffle.org/wikicast/User:Mysid
• Fiddle with Toolserver toys
• installed [10] (actually a more recent) image
• Merge legal notes into the bylaws at meta:Wikimedia Canada