Wikiversity:Community Portal/Old/2007

Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 To do lists 3 Help and Resources

The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikiversity. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups can be joined, and get or post news about recent events or current activities. New to Wikiversity? see Introduction to Wikiversity. Join a community project See the help page for documentation, or ask a question for assistance. The Colloquium is Wikiversity's main discussion forum. For vandalism, or other custodian (admin/sysop) tasks, you can request custodian action. Is something missing? Request it.

Community bulletin board Post your Wikiversity related news and announcements here! New portals, collaborations, and Learning projects seeking contributors. New initiatives, proposals, discussions, or article drives, and current maintenance requests. A course titled American Literature is now available. Please see --Zakman93 03:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC) A course titled 8th Grade Honors Literature is now available. Please see--Zakman93 03:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC) A course titled History of Germany is now available. Please see--Zakman93 03:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC) A new group has been created in the Writing Center of the School of Language and Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing Group. Looking for contributors and students for unconventional courses, reading lists and other relevant activities.

2024 December 5: Pedophilia: Innate or Learned? has been published and is ready for viewers. July 22: Wikiphilosophers has launched on Wikiversity. The goal of this project is to provide an overview of all philosophical ideas of philosophers and thinkers within Wikiversity. May 13: Collaborative authoring using wiki: An open education case study published in the International Journal for Students as Partners March 15: Using open wikis for teaching and learning presentation to the ASCILITE Learning Design Special Interest Group January 5: The Real Good Religion course is now welcoming students seeking adventure Help form active Wikiversity learning communities: see Reading groups. Wiki Campus Radio (once called "Wikio") is getting closer to becoming a reality. This audio learning platform will help "increase participation in Wikiversity while strengthening its community and extending its reach." get involved Summer is here and the Bloom clock project is looking for blooming flowers. Anyone with a digital camera or even a notepad can help out! The French Department is in need of an Instructor and contributers. New learning project: Collaboratively-building concepts. Users interested in learning Spanish should sign up at Spanish/Students. Register language of interest We have a threshold of ten interested participants to initiate a dedicated language domain away from the beta.wikiversity.org incubator site. Update the links on this page from Wikipedia links to Wikiversity links. Create pages from the redlinks on this page (if required and useful) New learning project: English as a Second Language (ESL) project in coordination with The Justin M. Dart Foundation (www.justindart.net). We are looking for volunteers and teachers to help create a FREE online English learning program. Please email jdart1@gmail.com if interested! Centralized discussions Custodianship: Faendalimas Discussions: Disclosures · What Wikiversity is not · Naming conventions · Scholarly ethics Blocking policy · Ignore all rules · Manual of Style · Cite sources

To do lists Wikiversity is growing. However, at this early stage many areas are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in.

Things to do Help with the migration of Wikiversity pages from Wikibooks Create and add content to pages on the requests page. other open tasks Learning projects Bloom Clock Wikiversity the Movie Astronomy Project Human Genetic Uniqueness Project IRColloquium Learning to learn a wiki way Wikiversity Concepts Project Custodian work Import - to move Wikiversity pages from Meta and Wikibooks Request custodian action - for page deletion, protection, user blocking and undoing all those Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - monitor for requests for speedy deletion of pages. Time Dependent Translators needed for Wikiversity Beta discussions. Ongoing Learning Projects encourage active learning. Organization of Wikiversity Plan for featured content - show off Wikiversity's finest Policies - for proposed policies and discussion about those Wikiversity mission - help refine Wikiversity's mission statement Wikiversity Local Live - Real life meetings for nearby Wikiversity participants by location Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikiversity:Maintenance.

Guidelines, help, and resources Wikiversity is "staffed" by a small number of volunteers. Here are some of the most general; for more specific departments, check the appropriate page below. See also the Wikiversity department directory.

Help Wikiversity help - Browse help pages Where to ask questions Help desk - Ask a question about anything. Editing The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial How to edit a page How to contribute to Wikiversity How to add content How to improve materials How to produce great material A list of template messages The list of files that have been uploaded to Wikiversity What special pages are Tools for editing Policies and guidelines Wikiversity has some policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a brief sampling of some of the most important. Policies and guidelines apply both to materials, and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed. Article standards Be bold! WV:BB • WV:BOLD Citing sources WV:CITE • WV:REF Copyrights WV:C External links WV:EL Image use WV:IUP Include only verifiable information WV:V • WV:VER Manual of Style WV:MOS • WV:STYLE Neutral point of view WV:NPOV What Wikiversity is not WV:WWIN • WV:NOT Working with others Assume good faith WV:AGF • WV:FAITH Civility and etiquette WV:CIVIL • WV:EQ Consensus WV:CON Don't bite the newcomers WV:BITE Resolving disputes WV:DR Vandalism WV:VAND • WV:VD

Resources New user information Welcome! · New user tutorial · Sandbox · Help · What Wikiversity is not · Glossary · Account benefits Ways to communicate Discussion pages · Mailing list (Wikiversity-l Please subscribe to the list or view the archives) · IRC Chat · User pages · Surveys · Custodians' noticeboard · Requests for feedback · Meetups Community support groups and programs Welcoming committee · Wikiversity awards program · Barnstars · Common Procedures Featured content · Good content · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Custodian nominations m· Category-based access to administration How to resolve conflicts Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Community information About Wikiversity · About Wikimedia · Wikischolars · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Related communities The links below lead to the main community pages of the projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia – The free encyclopedia. Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary. Wikinews – News stories written by readers. Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative textbooks. Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations. Wikisource – A repository for free source texts. Wikispecies – A directory of species. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.