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[edit] Greetings

Hi Roadrunner - I'm sorry we didn't get to speak more at Wikimania (although you were at my talk and I was at yours), but just to say, glad you've made a start here, and hope you stick around. I'm just so pushed for time that I haven't been able to push forward the ideas I'd really like to here (or even comment on the many things that have been said, including your comments on Meta), but will have to postpone them for a while longer. In the meantime, I'd encourage you to continue making suggestions on what you see as a viable way forward for Wikiversity, and we can hopefully work on them in collaboration. Cheers. Cormaggio 13:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Astronomy Research project

Hi Roadrunner! Glad you could make it. I was brainstorming what kind of research wikiversity could do and had an idea about astronomy. I saw your name on the astronomy page and desided to see what you thought. Isn't there some giant database full of pictures of deep space that is free to the public that people can manually look through for asteriods and/or supernova? I thought I heard about something like that, thosands of terabytes just waiting for someone to look through them. The astronomy project could invite people to look at certain areas of the data and keep a running list of what was looked at, while at the same time teaching partisipants what to look for. Think, there could be a asteriod "wiki" found in the short future. What do you think?

P.S., sorry if I stepped on your tose when I created the school page, I didn't see what was left on wikibooks.--Rayc 14:53, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I'm currently an undergrad at Penn State majoring in Astrophysics and minoring in Chemistry. It seems I may be able to assist is your projects in some way. If so, don't be shy to ask, I'm eager to help, time permitting. RyanJSuto 15:19, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiversity:Financial services

Hello,

I don't understand the purpose of this page. Could you tell me please? If it was not supposed to be imported here, I'll make a SD request.

Thanks. Guillom 11:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japan

Where can I create an article on Japan?68.96.23.7 20:35, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lie algebra

Thanks for the note. I'm looking at things more from a quantum optics perspective, but I'd like to learn more about it very much. Oh, don't forget to sign your posts! :-) --HappyCamper 17:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

May I ask why we are linking so much to MITs open courseware? Are those the only resources available to us at the moment? --HappyCamper 17:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] gnacademy

One key element of Wikiversity is to provide links to other websites with learning resources. We have Portal:Learning Materials and Hunter-gatherers project, but nobody has shown much interest in trying to create a guide to existing online resources. If you could create a Wikiversity page that describes the content of www.gnacademy.org, that might help Wikiversity participants become aware of what is at that website. With awareness, Wikiversity participants might start to make use of the gnacademy content. We could even have a "featured GFDL education site" on the main page. --JWSchmidt 16:23, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Models for Wikiversity

Hi Joseph

Stumbled on your posting on the Colloquium. A number of folks have said we need to prominently feature projects and good courses, for two reasons:

Stimulate traffic to those pages
Provide contributors some models on which to base their own contributions and demonstrate some of the range of what's possible.

I don't know where I'm going with this project as yet. Right now I'm gathering up possible candidates and seeing where this might lead.

Your statement on the Colloquium was a bit sparse. I'd appreciate if you could provide an overview of what users can find and how they might contribute. And add any other thoughts.

When I came to Wikiversity a few weeks ago I found it confusing and vague. In order to satisfy myself on just what was going on here I set into editing the Newcomers page.

Kind regards — morley 01:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] your edit

Why did you remove the link for Wikiversity:Service community? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JWSchmidt (talk • contribs) 17:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

"I moved the community service link into "how you can help wikiversity?"" <-- What does this mean? --JWSchmidt 18:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree that changes should be made to the main page. There is a page to plan changes to the main page, please participate at Wikiversity:Main page design changes. The last effort along these lines resulted in: Wikiversity:Welcome, newcomers but no real changes to the main page. Have you seen this page? --JWSchmidt 19:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

"Things have generally worked better when I've just done it" <-- This is one of the fundamental wiki rules: Wikiversity:Be bold.

"the wikiversity site is extremely new user unfriendly, but fixing all of that is going to take more effort than I have" <-- as a wiki, Wikiversity depends on collaboration. If people do not take some of their time resources and invest them in discussion then the whole thing falls apart. The Main Page was created by long-time editors of Wikipedia and it does not serve well for most Wikiversity visitors. People who understand this need to speak up and help make changes.

"efforts would then be better spent trying to do actually something with the medium rather discussion what should be done" <-- we need to try to avoid false dichotomies, but the first rule of wiki is that everyone dos what they want to do. Thanks for your contributions. --JWSchmidt 21:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] great work!

Hi! Thanks for your great work! As a person who obtained a BS Physics from UC Santa Cruz, I look forward to helping! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JPatrickBedell (talk • contribs) 03:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Homeschooling

I think Homeschool is a cool idea, as I have children that I would like to homeschool online this summer. I'm divorced and away from them, and this situation is common. I think it would be great to develop resource for families - both functional and disfunctional - to build their own learning resources. I noticed Wikiversity:Homeschool redirects there and there exists an intersting and provocative "unschooling" page as well. Could we have a School:Homeschool or something like that and a Portal:Homeschooling? CQ 20:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stochastic calculus

I've been clicking on the random link and a number of pages you have authored have come up. Mostly finance related pages. Do you have any experience with stochastic calculus? I'd be interested to start up a learning project for that topic if you're interested. Let me know what you think! --HappyCamper 03:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Great! Let me find a nice resource to help me get started. Do you have a recommended book we could use as a starting point? --HappyCamper 00:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Renewable energy

Hiya, Roadrunner. Just a quick note to notify you that we've formed the Renewable energy department. I listed MIT Energy Initiative there. OK? -- CQ 16:50, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BoomCode

I noticed that BoomCode includes this line: "The documentation for some of this is available in BoomCodeDissertation" Is this document uploaded here?--mikeu 04:17, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General Relativity

Hi there - glad you are devoting some time to this project. Don't forget to include GR in your course outline. I have been studying phyics off and on for some years, and have specific interests. I have a question that interests me and have found little if no information about it - hope you can explian:

Q: With astromonical sightings, how do astrophysicists calculate Gravitional Redshift? A mathematical reply is preferred, and althuogh there will certainly be some reference to the Tensor and/or Metric, please explain how it is estimated, which part of observed red shift is gravitional redshift.

Much appreciated. Furthermore, I will be doing some study on the Wiki A&A course and so I'll most certainly talk with you again. Good luck with the program and I very much look forward to your reply. THANKS asmodel

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