Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/October 2017

Moving OpenStax textbook materials into separate mainspace pages for each book.

I want to create a mainspace resource for each of over a dozen OpenStax textbooks. See discussion at Talk:OpenStax#Intention_to_move_each_textbook_out_into_main_space if you have any thoughts on the subject.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 14:55, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How do I best setup a wiki page/topic etc. to work with government improvements?

Hi Wikiversity

I'm looking to setup a co-creation site regarding the co-creation of better livelihoods and communities in our cities.

I already have a community management program where contributors can create a profile etc., but it lacks the flexible possibilities that a wikipage has...

I'm especially interested in improving user driven city development as a democratic tool...

Thx for your reply!

Fumzenberg

--Fumzenberg (discuss • contribs) 16:04, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Fumzenberg: I'd recommend starting with Urban planning. You can expand on the subject and then create subpages for different learning projects, different cities, or similar. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:27, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resource in Spanish

Revista Panameňa de Salud Publica, Ocupacional y Ambiental - why? Boris Tsirelson (discuss • contribs) 15:39, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Tsirel: Dave added a translate template onto the page here, but the author of the page removed it--and since then, the page has gone undetected with it's non-English content... I have added back the template, in hopes that the author doesn't remove it.

Thanks for bringing this up--next time you see pages like this, add a translate template to it--Like I have added it here. ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:22, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

At this point, it could also be tagged as {{Delete}}. There's an excellent Spanish Wikiversity available at Wikiversidad. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:07, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: - We have pages in Category:Pages_needing_to_be_translated that have been here longer than Revista Panameňa de Salud Publica, Ocupacional y Ambiental and still exist here at Wikiversity. Should we delete the other pages in that category or give this page more time? -Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 21:55, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's a great question for the community. Some would argue they aren't causing a problem and should remain. I think that non-English content here presents a dis-service to the non-English Wikiversities that need contributors in their native language. An exception would be user space content and projects like Hilbert Book Model Project, where the pages are actually translated into multiple languages and display by desired language. I would guess that at some point in the not-too-distant future, wikis for separate languages may not be necessary. The software will be able to translate dynamically, with hints added for any translations that need customization. But until then, content is separated by language. It's the basis for how Wikimedia wikis are organized. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:09, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Citoid activiation

Hi! As WikiJournals expand on Wikiversity (WikiJMed, WikiJSci, WikiJHum), the need to format references from DOI or PMID codes is becoming more important. Is it possible to enable the full Citoid extension? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 06:28, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Additional info, apparently it's a case of modifying the Citoid preferences, since base Citoid is already installed? I'm not too familiar with how the MediaWiki extensions work behind the scenes. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 11:20, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Special:Version. mw:Citoid is already installed. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:TemplateData for how to add template data. I haven't worked with TemplateData yet, but You may be able to borrow from Wikipedia:Template:Cite_journal/doc. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: I've completed the first steps for its activation as per instructions here. The next step is to copy this page from Wikipedia over to this location at Wikiversity. However I don't have the edit permissions. Would you mind copying it across to see it it works? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 01:22, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Evolution and evolvability: Done. Note that import is better than copy, It includes the page history. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:27, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: Champion! Autoformatting citations from DOIS, PMIDs, URLs and ISBNs all seem to be working. I see what you mean about the benefits of import over copy-paste. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 01:44, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]