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Astronomy award

I just wanted to make sure that you know that Observational astronomy is featured content at Portal:Physical Sciences. Please make sure that the description there is coherent. --JWSchmidt 15:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

You could be more helpful if...

...you were a Custodian :). I'd be happy to serve as your mentor if you like: seems you're doing a lot of RC patrolling these days, and the tools really do come in handy from time to time. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 19:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree. --McCormack 05:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletions and clean-up

I think it's great you are looking at all these weird pages and marking them for deletion. As part of the deletion process, we need to check what links to these pages and tidy up the links. The links need tidying first, because once the page is deleted, you can't use the "what links here" feature any more. I'm happy to help you with this if you like, but I'm waiting for you to get probationary status - I don't want to take away your chance of practising with those tools! --McCormack 05:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Custodianship

I've promoted you to probationary custodian. Good luck with tools. sebmol ^? 12:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

New Courses?

I wanted to know where I could get information on designing a course on wikiversity, I am a consumer-student-activist who is working on my doctoral thesis in clinical psychology; my rather radical endeavor is to create an alternative behavior-social science called Recovery Psychology; the syllabus for the course that I want to place on wikiversity would be: although mostly just links to other sites and internet resources that I would say constitute a textbook or course materials with explanations of how it relates to the subject at hand...for example an outline like this:

What is mental illness? [Sociological]

What is social deviance?
http://www.geocities.com/tdeddins/deviance.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviant_behavior
http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/200/intrdev.html
What is conformity?
1. Stanley Milgram Obedience to Authority about how easy the human mind bends to the will of perceived authority
2. Solomon Asch about how people conform to group pressure and change their perceptions and behaviors
3. Philip Zimbardo The Stanford Prison about how people fall in to assigned roles
4. Jane Elliot: In the Eye of the Storm or A Class Divided about how people are quick to change their perception of others
5. See Rosenhan below for a psychosocial lesson on the nature of psychiatric conditions
6. Learned Helplessness

What is mental illness [Psychological]

http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=160

Etc, Etc, Etc...

Would that be allowed? Since the subject does not exist as a subject, although my arguementum would say it does exist as a thing with in itself although not yet releized by academics. Of course I would place a disclaimer statement that this an academic pursuit of an activist, but pretty much all the things I point at will be "considered to be authorities" I understand that your subject in astronomy not psychology, but no less you are a qualified academic for advisement (particularly here) --Recovery Psychology 03:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC) I had some of my work tagged as spam by a bot, do you think I should delete it?--Recovery Psychology 00:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Machine sound

I am having better results in the Wikimedia media player with this new file: Image:Punchcardsound2.ogg —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JWS (talk • contribs) 17:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Venus and Mercury

If you are the one who created the pages Venus and Mercury, I added a ton more information to the pages. --km 21:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Meteorology

hi i am an very keen on meteorology and weather forecasting...i have no proffessional degree nor professional knowledge about it; so i am just going to follow lessons...but i have a little bit experience about forecasting using models like gfs... i can share the web sites and some basic details of wether models.

thanks for the current lessons and waiting for other lessons(including forecasting meteorology)...

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by dark (talk • contribs) 17:48, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Image licensing

Hi, Mike. I saw you removed the public domain licence info on an image as a copyright violation. But now we're left with an image which has no licensing at all. So I'm wondering what the next step is ;-) (Delete; contact uploader, etc...) --McCormack 07:00, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mike. Aah - your secret weapon is the User:Mu301/todo page! I felt you were up to something that had a system to it somehow, but from the edits I could see, it looked like the "unlicenced images" were just going to vanish into wiki-oblivion. Great stuff, Mike, and thank you for your excellent efforts to make WV a better place. --McCormack 07:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Observational astronomy lessons

I can't do it… I don't have the digital camera and a telescope. --km 01:41, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Liquid water on Europa

I could do it if I have the chance… --km 01:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Test edit

User:Daanschr says he can't post to your page. This is a test edit to see if I can. --McCormack 12:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Commons images

Hi Mike. The images from your to-do list that are already on commons should just be deleted... you should probably also resize on the page any that were uploaded for that reason (I'm still trying to find a help file on image sizing, but may end up just having to import one). I'll pick off a few if you don't have time. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 10:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, here it is: Help:Media Files. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 10:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Sandbox Server

Hi mikeu,

The sandbox server now has shell accounts. I'll setup a subdomain for you -- would mu301.sandboxserver.org do? Drop me a line at draicone at gmail dot com with some basic details of what you intend to do on the server, technical-wise (e.g. setup some PHP scripts, build a bot to upload captured images via SCP etc.).

Also let me know what password you want and what username you were hoping for. Finally, put a unique subject line in and some way for me to identify that it's you; a blank edit to your user page with that subject line will do, I just don't want to start randomly handing out shell accounts.

You'll get your own subdomain running Apache loaded with PHP, Perl and (I think) Ruby, maybe even Python (don't ask me, I don't run the server, I just stand there, look pretty and pay the bills). If you'd like to build a Jabber bot, I can hook you up with an account on the jabber server as well. I haven't really gone through your project much, but if you have any special technical requirements let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Draicone ^(talk) 11:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Europa

I edited the liquid water on Europa page. Thanks for the advise ☺. --km 02:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Introduction to computers

I finally got your notes [1], sorry it took me so long to notice. I am teaching a class, and I am trying to get them to check and document the copyright state of materials. I will pint them towards Commons. Andrew 04:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Astrophysics

Sorry, I've been caught up with offline work that I had forgotten to check these pages. I'm hoping to check back periodically. I agree with you about not separating Astronomy into both a School and a Topic. I belive it should be under the School of Physics (joint school). However, I still maintain that Astronomy and Astrophysics should probably be in the same topic page.

I agree that many people may be interested in Astronomy but I'm not sure if wikiversity is supposed to have the scope to cater for high school level and university level. Although, given that astronomy isn't taught at any high school (that I know of), I can see good reason for starting with very basic lessons.

Too many sub-topics on the current Astronomy topic page are 1) redundant and 2) heavily physics based. Could we just merge Astronomy with Astrophysics, kill the redundant place markers (courses/topics) and include a set of pre-university topics/lessons? Well, I know we could but I'm wondering if you or anyone else would agree with that line of logic. :-) Augustus 00:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Living on Earth

Hi! Can you please drop me a note, when the story about Ladd Obs. will be made and available online? I want to hear it, but as I know myself, I forget to check for it at radio's website. :) Thx! --Gbaor 06:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedian Demographics update

Hello Mu301. I'm writing because you requested a reminder about progress on Wikimedian Demographics. For the time being these will be about once per month.

Speaking of reminders, it turns out the template question isn't the most efficient way of coming up with a mailing list. If you want to recieve this message on another of your talk pages (or don't want them at all), please edit the list on Wikimedian Demographics/Reminders.

To update on progress so far, there have been somewhere around 50 respondents over the past month, with more trickling in slowly but steadily. There are 7 major surveys (or 12, depending on how you count them):

The basic survey (about your participation in Wikimedia)
The "geography" surveys (actually 6 of those, for each inhabited continent)
The Operating System survey (still stubby)
The Wikipedia survey
The Commons survey
The US presidential elections survey
The sexuality and relationships survey

Only the geography surveys have had any major modifications since being originally posted (more countries were added to those).

Several new surveys have been discussed at Talk:Wikimedian Demographics, as well as other places within Wikiversity. A few that might be ready sometime in February include:

A survey about Women in Wikimedia
A survey about Wikibooks
A survey about Wikiversity
A survey about administrative issues (including cross-wiki topics such as CheckUser and "global blocking")
A survey about environmental issues
A survey about religion
A survey about international trade

If you have ideas for more surveys, please share them on Talk:Wikimedian Demographics. Thanks for your participation thus far, and we hope to see you soon! --SB_Johnny | ^talk 11:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

us currency

I don't know why, but I felt like adding pages about the currency of the United States of America. Take a look @ it.

Since I am a seventh grader, I go to school five times a week and another school on Saturday's so I have a lot of homework everyday. I don't have time for anything unless I don't have the homework. So that means I wouldn't be able to be doing the experiments on the Observational astronomy page. All I can do for now is to read the page.

-km 12:10, 10 February 2008 (EST)

custodianship

The 5 days period is over now. Did one of the b'cats contact you already about making you full custodian ? ----Erkan Yilmaz Wikiversity:Chat 18:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to the Bloom Clock!

Hello, Mu301, and thanks for signing up as a contributor to the Bloom Clock!

To get started, all that you need to do is keep your eyes open for flowers on plants growing outdoors. Then, depending on how well you know plants, you can either try to find the plant using the global keys, or just check the master list where plants are listed by their scientific names.

Assuming you find a log page for the plant you saw, all that you need to do is click [edit] above the list of signatures, and add *~~~~ on a new line below the last signature and above the line that begins with <noinclude>, which will make your signature appear on the profile page.

If you don't find a log page, just add an entry for the plant to the Master List using {{bcp|Scientific name|Common Name}}. Someone can then show you how to create a profile and log page for the plant.

If you don't know the name of the plant you saw, try asking on Bloom Clock/Unknown Plants using the template there. Photographs are very helpful, but if you don't have a digital camera, just give the best description you can and hopefully someone can identify it for you.

After you've logged 10 or more plants as flowering for your location, another bloom clock contributor will help you set up the categories and templates used to construct a key for your region, and try to match up your region to the global keys.

If you have any questions, ideas, or need something explained, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

(Apologies for the long-belated welcome message... finally got around to writing one!) --SB_Johnny | ^talk 09:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:Teaching with Technology

Thanks very much for these links, Mike! I had a very quick look (more deadlines to catch up with) at some of the work of Mark Tribe - some very interesting stuff there. I'd like to talk with him - perhaps a group voice chat session might be in order? Also, I taught a session a few weeks ago on wikis in education, in which I wanted to give an up-close look at Wikipedia, the result of which is at Inside Wikipedia (my slides are on LeMill for the moment). There are some readings in that page that might be relevant to your upcoming sessions - including a nice article on using Wikipedia to develop students' media literacies. In fact, this is something we could easily develop a pretty good course on... Cormaggio ^talk 13:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:

I've removed the deletion tag, however though is there a chance if you could tell me what I need to improve the content, or change. Terra ^{Welcome to my talkpage} 07:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations on being successfully elected "bureaucrat". --McCormack 08:28, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Username Change

Hi, Is it possible for you to change my username from User:Reedy Boy to User:Reedy, as i am having it changed on the english wikipedia, and want to get the rest of my accounts inline for the single user login

Thanks

Reedy Boy 14:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, if you put your request at: Wikiversity:Changing username also other bureaucrats see this faster. ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 14:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Done, thanks - Wikiversity:Changing_username#User:Reedy_Boy_to_User:Reedy Reedy Boy 14:41, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Rename is done. --mikeu ^talk 16:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Reedy 17:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Licensing

If you'd like some input regarding Wikiversity talk:Licensing policy, I'm probably not the person you want to do it as I'm not intimately familiar with Wikiversity. As for the bot, I can probably be more helpful there. The state of your images (as of when my bot last finished operating) is that the untagged ones are categorized in Category:Images with unknown copyright status, and all uploaders have been notified. If there's something more you'd like done to them, just let me know. Best of luck. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 02:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Test file.gif

This is tagged for deletion as Copyrighted material, in the edit summery you've stated that it shouldn't be deleted, as with copyright and other copyright status all images must provide the copyright status so that we know whether it is allowed on this site, if it isn't copyrighted please say so and use the correct tag. Terra 18:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

How to use R/Tutorials/Introduction

Looks like I made a bit of mess in terms of losing the trail with that import, sorry. I was semi-conscious at the time of leaving a gap in the editing history, but not quite sure what to do. The content has subsequently been split into different tutorials (loading and plotting), so maybe on this occasion we can live with it. Had I thought through it more, it probably should have been imported to How to use R/Tutorials rather than How to use R/Tutorials/Introduction, then the sub-directory structure would lead to the content. Not sure if its possible to somehow redirect the import for wikibooks history to How to use R/Tutorials. But thankyou, because this learning experience will definitely help for next time. If you have any other thoughts on how this could/should have been done, please let me know. -- Jtneill - Talk 23:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Mike. I've added a note to explain at the top of each of the subpages which can be shifted to the talk page once the content evolves. Yes, WBs wanted it left there, so they might expand. -- Jtneill - Talk 00:27, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyvios in Design for the Environment course

Hi Mike, I'm going through the many copyvios in the Design for the Environment course, and I noticed you added and then removed a copyvio flag on one image - how come? Cormaggio ^talk 16:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, thanks - I thought as much. :-) I've created Template:Db-unknowncopyvio - do you think it's redundant with Template:No license?. Cormaggio ^talk 10:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Right - we might do well to draft a page for face to face groups intending to use Wikiversity as a workspace - with copyright issues at the top in bold, blinking text. (Well, ok, we don't need blinking text.. :-)) Cormaggio ^talk 12:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for help with Design for the Environment

Mike, I appreciate your help and that of other custodians with the labeling of the reports with the DFE category. It's the first year that I'm doing this and hope that with time and experience everything will go better. --SRego 18:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Flowers?

Hi Mike,

Just wondering if you had blooms to log, and if you plan to keep logging generally. I ask because I'm going to have Mike.lifeguard do a template update within the next day or two, and need to know whether we need an entry field for Rhode Island :). --SB_Johnny | ^talk 15:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I thought of you today :-)

Was wondering if you saw this show ? ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 22:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Custodial flag for Remi

ping, ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 16:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)