User:Erkan Yilmaz/observations/2008 June

observations from Erkan Yilmaz for 2008 June

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June 17 - words and their magic
It is funny (was my first thought) then it became the feeling "interesting": to see, how a possibility - which is open since long - is not used until a new name is born for this - and suddenly: all people wanna join the road trip. Change can be dependent on so many things or sometimes: just a few easy things. 
 * Agreed Change needs catalysts, I think joining wikiversity is letting your self become that catalystThuvack 05:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

June 16 - why is the German Wikiversity research page going to be updated ?
So, how did I spend the last 2h ? Setting up a first version of the new Wikiversity-Research page Wikiversity:Forschung (the current page is still from 2006 and has not all info implemented) on de.WV. And now people have to be informed so they can implement their ideas/views. This was the reason for all of this. Sometimes you just have to read and that what you wanted to do for some time will happen finally.

June 8 - something Wikiversity related at Wikimedia Foundation's board election
Candidate' plans for Wikiversity are to be found here: Board elections/2008/Candidates/Questions/3. There are still about 2 weeks for the election. Here you can see the votes so far. I will vote on the last day, when I have all info available.
 * Voting is still possible until 23:59 21 June 2008 (UTC):
 * [[Image:Wikimedia Foundation's Board elections 2008 statistics from Wikiversity - 16th June 2008.jpg|300px|Wikimedia Foundation's Board elections 2008 statistics from Wikiversity (data until 16th June 2008)]]


 * select your home wiki (see the requirements):
 * Special:Boardvote
 * fr:Special:Boardvote
 * de:Special:Boardvote
 * betawikiversity:Special:Boardvote
 * it:Special:Boardvote
 * el:Special:Boardvote
 * es:Special:Boardvote


 * Voting has finished, so how was the participation ?
 * (please keep in mind: these are not the only Wikiversity contributors who voted – some used also their user accounts in the other Wikimedia projects)
 * [[Image:Wikimedia Foundation's Board elections 2008 statistics from Wikiversity.jpg|300px]]


 * Here is the data from Wikibooks, when just looking at the values, "seems" Wikibooks participants were not so motivated to go to election :


 * {| class="prettytable"

! !Wikiversity !Wikibooks
 * Accounts eligible to vote
 * 48
 * 114
 * Filtered by email address (each valid address counted once)
 * 31
 * 92
 * User accounts which voted
 * 12
 * 16
 * voters per filtered email
 * 38,7%
 * 17,4%
 * }
 * [[Image:Wikimedia Foundation's Board elections 2008 statistics from Wikibooks.jpg|300px]]
 * 38,7%
 * 17,4%
 * }
 * [[Image:Wikimedia Foundation's Board elections 2008 statistics from Wikibooks.jpg|300px]]

June 2 - When did you read ALOUD the last time ?
was written back in August 2007 - I am talking here about an additional book for Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War

I am reading a foreign language book - aloud. I remember the last time reading aloud - over a longer period of time - was in school, when we read set books in class.

Why am I doing this now (again) ? Perhaps to get more of my senses activated ? Could also be because of the topic of the book - it is about ancient times. And as you know: stories sound better, when they are told.

I noticed that this slows me down (when comparing to “normal” silent reading). Could be because: - now I read REALLY the complete text instead having read some parts (quickly) - sometimes also the pronounciation/accentuation seems not correct to me and I stop and think how it would be correct - perhaps I see more with my mind’s eye ?

The book has >500 pages - I wish all my neighbors fun listening :-)