Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/January 2021

Mathematics

How to solve quadrilaterals with equations or expressions? --41.114.3.165 (discuss) 13:20, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How's that? A quadrilateral is a type of figure: you can't solve them. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:35, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

he may have meant quadratic equations? not sure. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 03:08, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment this question is best suited for Wikiversity:Help desk. If you mean "quadratic equations", see our resource for this: Quadratic Equation. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 13:25, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language. Thank you!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 15:16, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
Video tutorials for writing a strong application
General planning page for Project Grants
Program guidelines and criteria

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrants@wikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (discuss • contribs) 08:01, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Footer copyright notice

The current footer in VW states that pages are under CC BY-SA (I assume via MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright). This is true for the majority of pages, but some have ben released by their contributors under different licenses (e.g this page is CC BY). It would be good to be able to indicate this in the footers so that there isn't the possibility for conflicting information.

Ideally have the ability to include a custom footer within a page (either via its css or some template) so that the exact license can be stated in the footer
Alternatively, include the phrase 'unless otherwise stated above' in the footer

Any ideas? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 08:27, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Evolution and evolvability: Sorry, this would violate wmf:Terms of Use. All text published on Wikimedia sites is published under CC-BY-SA and GFDL. According to Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Multi-licensing, users would be free to extend that licensing with additional licenses, but they can't remove or replace them. The multi-licensing article does suggest ways multi-licensing can be accomplished and provides a link to one example. In short, it needs to be done on an author-by-author or article-by-article basis. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:37, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: Ah yes, I see what you're saying - any other licenses are in addition to CCBYSA+GDFL, rather than replacing them. In that case perhaps the appropriate wording could be something more like like: 'in addition to any licenses stated above'. That way when additional licenses are applied (article-by-article) there's indication of that in the footer? I feel that it reduces the possibility for confusion by people interpreting the footer and in-article additional license as conflicting. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 23:23, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]