User:Erkan Yilmaz/observations/2007 October

observations from Erkan Yilmaz for 2007 October

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2007 October 31 - discussion about criteria for an account to have bot flag at de.WV

 * At the moment we are discussing here about above topic. The bot operators were all invited to take part.

2007 October 30 - new de.WV chat users

 * two new faces in the de.WV chat
 * The de.WV chat #wikiversity-de is often only visited by the usual people. Today a new WV-member followed the invitation and we had a longer chat. This week also another user joined. Let's see if they stay around :-)

edit 2011-10-21:
 * de.WV chat never got much interaction, perhaps mentality of German?
 * en.WV more frequent users, though since the "incidents" people left also here :-(

2007 October 22 - German Wikiversity has voted its slogan

 * winning slogan: Lernen und Lehren (english: learning and teaching)
 * The German Wikiversity has voted after over 6 months of discussion and votes its slogan. It is Lernen und Lehren (english: learning and teaching). More information available here

edit 2011-10-21:
 * see
 * and right now I think: slogans or so are fine, but actions of people show the real face of a wiki

2007 October 17 - el.Wikiversity: Conditionally approved

 * el.Wikiversity: Conditionally approved

edit 2011-10-21:
 * I think it's great that since back then many more WVs were created
 * beta Wikiversity should get more attention
 * somehow never people from individual/existing WVs got more activity there though they really could help + multiply the efforts by help
 * also they would learn from this by the questions/problems others have

2007 October 14 - Wikimedian Demographics & reactivating users again & helping at es.WV & use your vote

 * Wikimedian Demographics:
 * I also set up the Survey responses page. I am interested how this will evolve, since we are at the begin of this project. You have opinions ? State them at: Talk:Wikimedian Demographics


 * trying to activate not contributing users again:
 * My assumption is following: If users replied back on the welcome message this might show they are really willing to contribute to this project. But due to different (internal or external) reasons some stopped contributing. So, I scrolled through my talk page and wanted to check their contributions. Since there is established already from back then a connection here in this project there might be a chance to motivate them again to participate here.
 * Unfortunately few of them have activated their emails, because I assume with email they could be reached faster. So a message on their talk pages was written. Let's see what the reaction will be.
 * edit 2007-10-17: so far more replies by German Wikiversity users. They have also mainly email activated :-)


 * Helping at Spanish Wikiversity:
 * Actually it is not so hard to help other wikiversity projects - you just have to know the tools which can help you. I do not speak Spanish, but was asked by a user in IRC and could help him in several cases - with using an online Spanish to English translation service.


 * use your vote for this feature: Support global (crosswiki) blocking

edit 2011-10-21:
 * I remember the times when I welcomed too many
 * welcoming should be done by bots + if humans welcome then after reviewing edits + guiding perhaps like mentors

2007 October 11 - de.WB + chess

 * Thanks to the German Wikibooks channel I have started playing chess again. Thanks for the nice games: T., S., h. To great games in the future.

2007 October 6 - intelligent bots & import work from other wikimedia projects (which gets deleted)

 * Perhaps someone can create or knows a bot which identifies such comments as not appropriate in Wikipedia ? And then we would not need another edit by the SineBot at all.


 * Normally when I see copy + paste of Wikipedia I write a comment to the author (see e.g. What Wikiversity is not, section: "A duplication of other Wikimedia projects"). But today I have seen for the first time something different. JWSchmidt has "rescued" this page to Wikiversity. While chating with him I got to know this project: Wikimedia Garbage Detail - great idea and probably one of the means to achieve the mission of Wikiversity.
 * edit 2013-12-11:
 * unfortunately this page (talk) I was mentioning as an example from external got deleted :-(

edit 2011-10-21:
 * my perspective on deletion definitely changed over time
 * see Learning from conflict and incivility/Erkan Yilmaz for when I was the top deleter over all WVs

2007 October 4 - immediate bot fix

 * I love the IRC wiki system: I tell someone a problem and 8 minutes later the problem gets fixed. Thanks again for all the help with the bot in the past (and for the future)

2007 October 3 - #wikiversity-it

 * Today I had in #wikiversity-it for the first time a longer conversation - thanks for the nice chat.

2007 October 1 - try the good old lynx

 * browser problems ? try it with the good old lynx:
 * We talked about which browser is good (for e.g. working with wiki). And I mentioned just as joke lynx and after trying: I must say it works. But it is not so comfortable as a "normal" browser. :-)

edit 2011-10-12:
 * lynx not much used for wiki editing, though with the presence of mobiles nowadays GUI layout of wikis need to be rethought