Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/May 2022

iframe embeds of Wikiversity pages

I am embedding some Wikiversity pages into a learning management system (Canvas) using iframe. This works fine, but includes the Wikiversity navigation bars etc. How can these be stripped out? Appending ?action=render to the embed URL allows the print version of the Wikiversity page to be embedded which is OK, but it loses the style. I found an implementation of what I'm looking for here: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:Embed_wiki_to_canvas_via_iframe which uses this extension: https://github.com/ubc/EmbedPage. How could something like this be achieved with Wikiversity? Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You could try using the Mobile view: https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page . Does that help? Otherwise, it is possible to request an add-in, but someone has to "own" it and be responsible for maintenance. You might try asking at Phabricator: and see if anyone there has suggestions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:45, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Dave Braunschweig. Following your suggestion, embedding the mobile version does do a reasonable job because it retains the styling and uses stripped down navigation bars. But a clean, styled embed of just the page content would be ideal. So, I followed your other suggestion and added a phabricator request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307462. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 14:00, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New competition on English Wikipedia and related SiteNotice request

A popular article writing competition CEE Spring (about Central and Eastern Europe; now with special subcategory about Esperanto) is happening on the English Wikipedia until the 31st May 2022. I warmly invite you to participate, write some article and win a valuable prize! If you have question, I will happily answer it on the competition page talk.

Also, for more wide outreach, I have just asked for a CentralNotice, which should appear also in this project. If you have a comment on the request, you are welcome to write it on the request page. --KuboF Hromoslav (discuss • contribs) 18:30, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Let's talk about the Desktop Improvements

Hello!

Have you noticed that some wikis have a different desktop interface? Are you curious about the next steps? Maybe you have questions or ideas regarding the design or technical matters?

Join an online meeting with the team working on the Desktop Improvements! It will take place on 17 May 2022 at 12:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC on Zoom. Click here to join. Meeting ID: 86217494304. Dial by your location.

Agenda

Update on the recent developments
Questions and answers, discussion

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes will be taken in a Google Docs file. Olga Vasileva (the Product Manager) will be hosting this meeting. The presentation part will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, Italian, Polish; also, only at the first meeting: Farsi, Vietnamese; only at the second meeting: Portuguese, Spanish, Russian. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the talk page or send them to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

At this meeting, both Friendly space policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces apply. Zoom is not subject to the WMF Privacy Policy.

We hope to see you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 05:02, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

open edX

Has anyone tried to put their courses on an open edX instance, or other online courseware platform? –SJ + 23:24, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]