User talk:BillBell~enwikiversity

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slide show
Hi, I'm not sure how I would go about including a slide show here at wv. It might be a bit tricky to incorporate deck.js as I suspect that it would require integration with the MediaWiki installation on the server. Please take a look at Commons:User:Dschwen/Slideshow to see if it might meet your needs. This would be easier and quicker for one of our support staff to install. The drawback of this method is that each person who wishes to use the slide show feature would have to go to Special:Preferences and check enable before it would work. There might be other ways to incorporate slides. I'll ask one of our techs if there are other options. --mikeu talk 14:35, 8 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I've quickly put together the basic skeleton for slideshows. It doesn't provide any basic styling or effects though.

Slideshow:  Welcome to our Slideshow!!!


 * You have to click a slideshow once to give it focus before any clicks will switch slides. You should also be able to use the left and right arrow keys to goto the previous and next slides. I hope this is what you had in mind. -- dark lama  22:56, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

dark lama : Thanks! That might just do it for me. Would it be possible for you to say what code I might put behind 'previous' and 'next' to emulate the corresponding button clicks? Thanks in any case. BillBell 13:15, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Can you please clarify the question? Do you mean:


 * -- dark lama  14:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

"Can 'previous' and 'next' buttons be added to the slideshow?"

This is what I would like, please.

It also appears that you have sweetened the syntax for slide shows. Or at least showed how to embed them in some existing facility in wikiversity. Very nice!

BillBell 15:14, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll add some buttons, as soon as I can find some decent copyleft graphical buttons to use. Yes I showed how to embed them in an existing facility. -- dark lama  17:59, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem with File:Subscribing Shot 00031.png

 * This has been deleted, but if you need it back, please let me know. --Abd 23:26, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

News feeds
There are some serious copyright issues with this resource. All of the screenshots are of copyrighted software, and should have a fair use rationale attached. If no claim of fair use is added to the files in the next week, the files will be deleted. Thanks. -- Simone 20:13, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Copyright is a serious issue. I'm sorry if my message sounded terse, but it's very important that our content complies with copyright law. Just placing a unsupported claim of fair use doesn't constitute an appropriate fair use license. I suggest that you add Template:Non-free use rationale and Template:Fairuse to each image, and fill in all the relevant fields of the first for each (the rationales should be fairly similar for each). You might want to lower the resolution of the images: there can be issues with using high-resolution fair-use images of software. Thanks. -- Simone 06:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It's our duty as administrators to assist users with tasks like these. The user has donated certain content, in apparent good faith. If it needs some technical touches, it behooves us, if possible, to help. We are all volunteers.
 * Unfortunately, the area of copyright law and fair use can be thorny, and, it seems to me, there are misconceptions rampant. So it can take some time to sort it. --Abd 16:22, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your work, but please remember to be civil
. S Larctia did not initiate action against the files you uploaded, the deleted file was tagged by Crochet.David, who is not an administrator, but who does a lot of clean-up. The problem is that WMF policy is fairly strict about fair use, it's allowed only under some narrow technical conditions. S Larctia was merely enforcing common practice. Now, my view is that we can establish a relatively open fair use policy here, because of the educational purpose, but the niceties required by the WMF will remain, I'm sure. I tagged one of the files you uploaded, File:Google Reader Shot 00009.png, with the templates S Larctia suggested; if that's acceptable, the rest of the pages used can be so tagged as well.

S Larctia is not attempting to destroy your educational resource, so your comments were unfair and uncivil. "Tone" is only unreliably present in text; what S Larctia wrote was simply advice and a warning of the likelihood of deletion if the requirements were not met. I think we can do better than that, but S Larctia is a volunteer just like you and I. Please respect the work this user is doing as a new (probationary) custodian, and I'll do my part to help the user to improve public relations; but please understand that many sysops on WMF projects would not be so patient, those files would have been gone in a flash.

Instead, S Larctia went to the trouble of setting up fair use templates, attempting to help you.

Please remember that Wikiversity is a community, and we have diverse users, each doing their part.

My expectation is that the images you provided will prove to be usable, and the way will have been paved for similar future educational resources. Thanks for your consideration. --Abd 00:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called BillBell. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name BillBell~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)