User talk:HappyCamper
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[edit] Project incubator update on HHF
Please check Wikiversity:Project_incubator for an update on HHF. I have made a forum like structure for discussing topics in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. I have a target audience for this forum, so that won't be a problem. We have definite use for this forum, but there are somethings that are required for a smooth operation of the forum. Please feel free to brainstorm on the project incubator about this project. In the mean while, you can have a look at HHF. --Dharav talk 12:32, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Main page protection
Hi, HappyCamper. Nice to see you busy again. I removed the cascading on the main page during the redesign a short while back. This was the result of a discussion with MikeU on IRC about some main page content being editable by non-custodians. What I in fact did was to cascade some of the sub-components, and semi-protect others, so that things like the news topic box remained accessible to all ordinary users. Have you seen the main page learning project (still incomplete)? Can we discuss the best way of protecting the main page subcomponents wile maintaining a small degree of increased openness? McCormack 06:39, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
- I'm slow...! You removed it againn 4 minutes before my post. :-) McCormack 06:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message on my talk page. The only great highlight I know of recently was probably the main page redesign. McCormack 06:47, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Message
I think I left an engraved invitation at your Wikipedia account or on a talk page somewhere for you to visit Wikiversity or perhaps Lunar Boom Town. Obviously a bit of misplace outreach effort since you are already a custodian here. Please feel welcome to visit Lunar Boom Town and drop comments, questions, and/or participation on us! Hope this clears us the confusion .... I am lazyquasar at Wikipedia as result of losing the password to w:user:mirwin in an email account shuffle a few years ago. See you around! Mirwin 23:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
-->"So idea is to make Wikiversity more transparent to academics?" More attractive to everybody. Sorry if I gave you the idea I prefer a bias towards one specific population. If you refer to recent comments regarding user a.z., arbcom, or pedophilia, I think some subjects have to be addressed appropriately. A scholarly neutral presention of issues and information would be one way I think most people are familar with and most would accept is not "advocacy". Other acceptable approaches probably exist. I agree with MCCormack that straight advocacy of pedophilia would be detrimental to Wikiversity's stated missions and goals in both the short term and long term and should not be tolerated. Mirwin 19:17, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ... and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest..."
May you and yours have all the best of this Season's Greetings: a
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[edit] talk about speedy delete!
Yes, I did tag those with speedy but I didn't expect them to go so fast! Here's another pair: Image:Nnn666.jpg uploaded by User:Nikoleta and Image:456.jpg.jpg uploaded by User:Nikolette. Note, the username spelling is two different accounts. Images are identical. The first one seem to be active.--mikeu 01:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thank you for "fixing" the bullet point thing; I was having trouble with it. It will be also be a good shortcut. Happy New Year!
--km 01:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rules of thumb for organization Wikiversity
I apply the following rules of thumb based on community norms as I understand them.
Titles for the most part should be lowercase, except for first letters. I mostly just apply this rule to the main and topic namespaces only. The capitalizing of the first letter of a subpage is ambiguous to me. I capitalize them when I create them, as many people seem to do, but seldom ever change them if I see them lowercase.
If content is intended to be together, I try to keep it together, using subpages, links, and so forth.
If a page in the topic, school, or portal namespace calls itself a project, course, lesson, what have you, and seems to be geared in that way, I will sometimes move it into the main namespace.
If a person is developing actively developing a section in Wikiversity, I try not to touch it, even if they doing things that some might consider not helping Wikiversity to be less unorganized.
It's fine if people want to give a numbering system to a page, course, etc, but it should not be in the pagename.
If something is not spaced as it would be normally I will give it space. This mostly applies to numbering for pages like Homework11 or AirPlaneFlyingHandbook.
As a rule of thumb, if there are multiple ways in which something is not uniformly organized within Wikiversity and I am not sure how to deal with it (because it is ambiguous in a way that is discussed in the next paragraph), I will change it as much as I am sure how to in order to have it conform with what I understand to be community standards, and will leave the rest of it the same, even if it is incorrect. I hope that makes sense.
There are several things that I am not sure about and seem ambiguous to me. For the most part, as a rule of thumb, I leave them alone. These include the following. Should course titles comply with regular naming conventions, and are courses considered to be proper nouns? There are many pages like Introduction to Programming, and then also like Introduction to programming. Additionally, schools and portals use capitals where it appears other pages may not, and I leave them all alone.
Many subpages are used as quasi-templates in the sense they are used as includes on higher level pages in the same way templates sometimes are. I don't really touch them.
I think that covers most of it.
All the help Wikiversity can get is good for it. I hope that helps. --Remi 05:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] lists...
I use special pages sometimes - like uncategorized pages, short pages, and so forth. I often use the random buttoms on the sidebar and on my userpage, and will just go through pages to see if there is way changing them in someway will be of benefit. Like, I will click the topic, school, portal, and main random buttons I have 20-50 times total, and just go through what I see, usually pretty quick, and then I'll do it again. Sometimes I have a certain thing in mind to change - like find pages that belong in a different namespace, or find pages that need such and such done, but usually using the random button. I often have something in mind.
So, I don't think I really go off a list per se, at least not so much lately. I just use the random buttons a lot. Sometimes if I see a subpage that needs changing, then I will go find other subpages off of the higher level page that the subpage is connected to.
I guess I sometimes use lists off higher namespaces, like school, to find related topics that could use tweaking. Those are sort of lists. I hope that clarifies things. --Remi 04:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Thank you for resizing the pic on my page. I'm still behind on the learning curve. Mike 03:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for welcoming me!
I'm sure it'll be a fun time here. ;D --Gp75motorsports REV LIMITER 00:01, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Project boxes
Thank you for your message about this. I've struck out the offending phrases and replaced them with neutral ones. --McCormack 17:29, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] quantum formula...
That is complex looking stuff. How and where are those equations applied? --Remi 09:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it does. Thank you... --Remi 18:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Plea from Newbie
I wish I knew whether the stuff at the top is the latest or the earliest. I thought I woas familiar with wiki-stuff but I'm totally baffled here on my second visit.
Please will some nice person (individual human) write to me and give me a hand. Be a sort of mentor. In fact IMHO all newbies whould have a mentor appointed to see them through the pain theshold. Maybe organising that (when I get the hang of it myself) could be a fair exchange for what I hope to get from my membership. I'm Tom Holloway [tom@holloways.org] (The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tomholloway (talk • contribs) 22:08, 28 May 2008.)
- Hello Tom, about latest/earliest: you can orientate by the date in the signature, which indicates that the posts at the bottom are the newest. I will write on your talk page a welcome message which will highlight you the basics. If you have questions after that, please feel free to contact us anytime. ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 23:32, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] subst
I had an edit conflict fixing the subst. Fixed now. --mikeu talk 16:20, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
