User talk:Leighblackall

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12 March OER conference

Hi Leigh. I'm a Wikipedia editor, mostly interested in medical topics. I'm on the board of WikiProject Med and I'm interested in attending the above conference, mainly to listen and learn. I don't have any formal training in education, networking or learning, though, so do you think it would be approptiate for me to attend? --Anthonyhcole (discuss • contribs) 18:09, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Anthony, it is VERY appropriate. Your experience working with the WMF projects makes you particularly sort after. You'll have good advice on such work, if people (and hopefully they will) recognise just how much these projects offer the open education agendas. I hope you will come, and add your name to the event page. Your topic area of interest, will be even more important because we have a strong contingent from the Faculty of Health Sciences coming. Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 23:55, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Australian university

This page Australian university FYI. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:41, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Where will this lead James? La Trobe University Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 04:52, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with this. Maybe goes nowhere, but at least it gives a quick overview of the activity on en.wv by Australian university. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:24, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Journalism studies and Wikinews

Great work - maybe add a summary of this to the Outreach Wiki Education Newsletter Newsroom for the May newsletter. I tested the waters in April and got up a brief article about Survey research and design in psychology - Example of a Wikiversity resource -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:24, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement James, but alas it looks as if the project is on its last legs. A few new reviewers in Wikinews (one with an association to Uni Canberra) have created significant discontent in this year's cohort of journalism students, causing the academic leading the project to pull the plug on engagement with Wikinews. I have looked into it, and while most of the comments from the reviewers were to the letter of Wikinews policy and guidelines, there appeared to be a number of instances of varying standards being applied to different types of news stories. So far this semester, not a single student in the cohort has succeeded in getting a story through. Most of this problem I think relates to the design of Wikinews, where the review process runs the risk of falling into the hands of a small group with limited diversity in perspective or experience - much like when groups get hold of administrator priveleges in any of the wiki projects, and use those to alienate and sideline certain types of contribution. This is both explicit and implicit, so difficult to hold to account. The review process develops a feeling of bad will in its simple implementation (red cross graphics, short sharp messages, guidelines made difficult through hypertext) and the preference of reviewers to not get involved in the development of the news story, which as we know is an effective way to teach people - especially in wikis, choosing to remain a reactive reviewer. So the result may well be that at least in this instance, the UoW project will draw to a close, and the findings of this paper will be updated with the new experiences and outcomes. Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 04:51, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Missing License Information

Hi! I'm reviewing files missing license information and came across File:Phe5polPoliticalThought.ogv. This is linked to your work on Public Health Policy. Do you have a recommendation on how to handle this? Can you get the original publisher to add a license? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Licensing policy study committee

On User_talk:Abd/Licensing_policy you requested being updated on the work of this Assembly Committee. The Assembly is a device for creating small-scale discussions, aimed toward creating consensus reports (either by agreement or by inclusion of all divergent points of view), and participation in the Assembly is open to any registered user, subject to Assembly clerking. The goal is to create coherent reports. I was, ah, unable to participate from November 2011 to last year, but it's about time to get this going again.

If you register as an Assembly member at Wikiversity:Delegable proxy/Table, I would then list you as a Committee member, to be notified as seems appropriate. You are free to comment on the attached Talk pages regardless.

There have been interesting discussions lately, and I think it is possible to set up clear and easy-to-follow procedures, to clean up and avoid creating unmanageable messes. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 22:17, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Files Missing License Information

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International tourism

The resource international tourism appears to have been abandoned since 31 May 2007. So far it reads like an outline that hasn't been filled in. I can add a {{Orphan|date=31 May 2007}} or a {{Subpage|Tourism}} tag to help increase activity or put it up for deletion if you like. What do you think? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Marshallsumter, I think the subpage template. At the very least it may offer content scope ideas to someone thinking to develop something. Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 19:57, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

File Tagging File:Aaaopenconf.png

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Y Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 06:10, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Files Missing Source Information

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Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Files Missing Information

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MaintenanceBot (discuss • contribs) 00:27, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Video journalism

Hi Leighblackall!

The resource Video journalism appears to be ready for learners! Would you like to have it announced on our Main Page News? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 22:26, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Marshallsumter, yes sure. I've quickly gone through it to fix links and formatting. Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 00:57, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

I'll be back

Hi,

I'll be in Melbourne again in September; details and schedule TBA, but there should be an event on Sat 15th. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:02, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Activity Review

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Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:54, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

page move

Pages have been moved into your userspace To see what is in your userspace click here Here are two wikitext scripts that you can use to keep track of subpages in your userspace. [[special:prefixindex/User:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/|My subpages]] creates a page called My subpages {{Subpages/Pagename|User:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}} creates a list of all subpages in your userspace. Keep in mind that these two scripts here on this talk page, and on your user page User:Leighblackall. They won't work on most Wikiversity pages.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 05:27, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Health and Wellbeing of People with Developmental Disabilities

Something you wrote a long time ago, Health and Wellbeing of People with Developmental Disabilities, was recently nominated for deletion. If you take no action and nobody else objects, it will likely be either deleted or moved into your subspace. Which do you prefer? Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 19:01, 11 February 2024 (UTC)