User talk:Altera vista

 Hello Altera vista, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may


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Re: Frustration
Hi there - and thanks very much for your message. I have to say, I caught it by accident - I don't participate in the site as much as I used to (due to writing up my thesis). I also have to say that I truly empathise with you - I think we could have done a better job at helping people get involved. Having said this, have you taken a look at our help section? Or perhaps Introduction, or Being educational, or other links in the welcome message above? Is anything here of any use to you? If not, how so? Do you have any suggestions for how we could improve the editing/resource development experience? If you do have suggestions, I think it might be good to discuss them on the Colloquium (our general community discussion forum), where you'll be most likely to get wider input. Or you could also leave suggestions for how particular pages could be improved on their talk pages (though bear in mind that they might not be seen by as many people). Thanks again, and I hope your initial frustration won't prevent you from being involved - it's exactly this kind of feedback that should serve to make Wikiversity better. :-) Cormaggio talk 08:46, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

re File:Intercept_theorem_proof.jpg, from Colloquium
File:Intercept_theorem_proof.jpg is taken from wikipedia, a file of same name there...hope this satisfies the doubts


 * Moved to commons and deleted locally... we should probably have a link to commonshelper on our upload form for WP images. You can use that tool for any image that's freely licensed on WP and move it to commons for use here (and everywhere else, for that matter!), then add Ncd to the Wikipedia file page to help the WP admins find it. --SB_Johnny talk 09:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem with Image:DC 1.png

 * Which of these 5 items can not you to do ? Crochet.david 21:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi Altera vista
I created a minimal user page for you from the user template. Hope you don't mind. I also noted your various comments about frustrations with the MediaWiki platform we're using at Wikiversity. I just wanted to encourage you to stay on the learning curve and ask questions. The Dynamic Containment resource is interesting. See my comment. Thanks! --CQ 18:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I do not know how to respond to you - I mean not to your questions, but how this will reach you. if it does please enlighten me how it works ( if it is not too much trouble- don't want to be a pain!) Dynamic Containment is mine and all mine Its good technology since it operates exclusively with forces instead of structures. in this case the DC field is generated simply by 2 nozzle sets that's it. In the first picture one nozzle set spits out water the other air both fluids interact in the DC zone where the shear forces are from order to 2 orders of magnitude higher than in the surroundings that's where and why everything happens there. in the flame case 2nd picture the flame or/and fuel never touches the wall ( the reason i stumbled upon this thingy. there are other Dynamic containment processes available and one is in use called Tokamak reactor which uses magnetic fields to contain high/ correction very very high temperature plasmas (gasses). Of course I am planning to include some wright- up on the page. thank you for your interest. If this does not reach you I will try some other way ( not sure yet?) Altera vista 21:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * FYI: People are more likely to see responses posted on their talk pages, as opposed to your own.  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 19:11, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Universitas and Communitas
Hello again Altera vista. I appreciate your insightful participation at the Colloquium and notice that you are getting better at using MediaWiki (the web platform). I just wanted to offer some historical perspective about Wikiversity that is a bit more obtuse than salient: Though you may be less conversant with Wikipedia and other WmF cultures and processes, I see you fitting in rather well here. I was born in the '50s so am also a bit alienated from some of the cultural dimensions of an Internet influence by younger people. My hope is that Wikiversity will in time inherit cultures and influences from mainline academia and still have its youthful flair. See Communitas and Talk:Communitas for some archived ideas along these lines. Again, thanks for your insights! --CQ 16:01, 1 September 2009 (UTC) [ talk ]
 * 1) Wikiversity is a part of Wikimedia, thus subject to cultures and influences from Wikipedia, Wikibooks and other "sister projects"
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 * 3) A "larger context" community space was formed long ago by the developers of the technology all the projects and languages use - meta
 * 4) The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting strategic planning discussions at yet another site - strategy