User talk:Cormaggio/Archive 6

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communication forsaken
is it my impression or is the communication division left behind. there seems to be no one else working on it but me. what should i do? give up on it, gather people from WP? any suggestion? capi talk 19:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Mobile editing coming soon
Hi Cormaggio, McCormack, and Lrbabe... After a break, I'm doing another burst of work on the mobile phone software. The main new feature in 0.9.4 will be the ability to add new questions to a quiz and upload them back to Wikiversity... watch this space! --Joe Gittings 19:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Maths
I put this on my talk page (still trying to figure out how to converse thru talkDouglas R. White 16:35, 17 August 2007 (UTC)) and in response to your mention of maths needed the maths (in my sandbox) for our InterSci/wiki (complexity sciences community and its Paris summer school lectures) and was practicing here then had my tech install maths fonts to our wiki, so I won't be usings maths much here from now one. Have been focusing energy there for the last month with our summer school running.

custodianship of Darklama
Please visit Candidates for Custodianship/Darklama. --JWSchmidt 13:32, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sebmol got it. --JWSchmidt 13:34, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

namespace suggestion
Hey there, I have made a suggestion on wiki 101 regarding namespaces and would really appreciate your feedback. Cheers AlistairReece 14:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

French wikiversity
OK, it's great to you, unfortunatly Ihaven't time to prepare the lesson for the oment Vivelefrat 19:41, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Please change my name
Changing_username. --Edmund the King of the Woods! 14:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Various
1. Taking the invitation to "be bold" seriously, I began copyediting. How do I tag an article as 'edited' or 'stub'? 2. The Portal has outdated notices on the BB: so what's the use of having it? 3. I applied to you because of your senority in the Welcome Committee: apologies for any newcomer gaffs. NB Help and Tour for beginners should have more than one level - basic, intermediate, advanced - to make it truely accessible for everyone. Both provide too much and too little information to be really helpful. Thank you. --Shir-El too 19:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for replying so fast! I needed that, really!
I'm like the kid let loose in the candy store, who wants to sample everything but doesn't have time to read all the descriptions. WV is overwhelming in conception and scope!

1. Thanks for 'stub' and 'history'; they will be put to semi-immediate use.

2. I don't know enough about what's going on to update community notices, and I don't speed read; the best I can do is spot some discrepancies.

3. The first version of this letter got lost in pasting to your talk page (my inexperience), but it lead to an insight. According to one of the chat pages the bulk of 'wikians' are white, male, forty-something, degreed computer-nerds. I am none of these things. At first I was going to suggest a Windows '95/'97 type tutorial for beginners, where the user is taken step by step through demonstrations and exercises ; i.e. a controlled environment, a beginners' wading pool until they could jump into the deep end. THEN the underlying difference hit me: 'wikians' by and large have prior experience in programming whereas the average user (me) is accustomed to working with limited, pre-programed options. In other words I'm intimidated by the wealth of options, and that despite a good command of English and being computer friendly!

Both provide too much and too little information to be really helpful" Thanks - do you have specific ideas for how it could be improved... Yes: create a visual 'map of the campus' introduction. Mark “Home page” in the center of a large circle with “You are here” underneath it. Then group various options around the circle: Community, Tools, Communications, Resources, Mission Statement. Each time an option is pushed it becomes the name of the next circle with 'you are here' under that. I can't be more specific because I still don't know/understand what does what to whom with which. Its the best I can do.

4. I know its much easier to de-struct than con-struct, so I'll try not to comment so much. Meanwhile, may I contact you if I find myself really up a tree?

Thank you again, Shir-El too 00:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


 * It looks like I'm going to be doing a lot of 'thanking' in the near future. For the third time: Thank you. :-)

User:God
Hi Cormaggio. What's the procedure for user:God? Is it a bureaucrat thing where the account name needs changing? Thanks! McCormack 04:14, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Correction and help request

 * In the statement "I am none of these" I uncosciously forgot that I am white-skinned; somehow, I don't 'see' colour except as a cultural "tag". Example: I was talking to a Philippino I've worked with closely for 3 years when I asked him if he'd been to the beach, he looked tan. He laughed - I had never seen his skin colour!

Forget the cry for Help: I FIGURED IT OUT!!! Wheee! Shir-El too 08:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Ad hoc medical advice on Wikiversity
You may be interested in a debate on the wikipedia reference desks - W:Wikipedia talk:Reference desk - in which it appears that a user is directing reference desk questioners who have asked for medical opinions, to the Wikiversity help desk, where an ad hoc answer is given. W:Wikipedia talk:Reference desk is also worth a read.

You may wish to consider whether Wikiversity should put in place policy relating to the answering of legal and medical opinion questions, as has Wikipedia. (e.g. # Do not request regulated professional advice. If you want to ask advice that "offline" would only be given by a member of a licensed and regulated profession (medical, legal, veterinary, etc.), do not ask it here. See Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer and/or Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer. Ask a doctor, dentist, veterinarian or lawyer.) --Tagishsimon 23:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Dionysios is in the Process of Composing a Comment for McCormack Re: Deletion Request Templates & Consensus.
Greetings Cormaggio! Your servant is in the process of Composing a Comment for McCormack re: Deletion Request Templates & Wikiversity Consensus. He will send you a copy. Best regards, -- Dionysios  (talk), Date: 2007-09-12 (September 12, 2007) Time:  1737 UTC

10-4 -- D  (talk), Date: 2007-09-12 (September 12, 2007) Time:  1751 UTC

This can be deleted ?
What do you say ? Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 16:31, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Moved below. Cormaggio talk 01:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Goodiok
Hello Very interesting information! Thanks! Bye

Your detailed user-page dosen't show log-ins at the top.
I wanted to mark the page so I could continue reading another time and the top line showed no long-in: when I tried to log-in on it, I got something like 'no such user'. Only when I backtracked to 'about cormaggio' did it show the log-in. BTW, I came to find out how to open a sub-page, but got lost as usual. :-}? Shir-El too 14:22, 18 September 2007 (UTC)  PS Would it be inappropriate to add quotes or mottos or jokes at the top of my page from time to time? (i.e. What do a woman and a tea bag have in common? You don't know how strong they are until you put them in hot water...). PPS Did you look up the Guardian article on how Wikis are changing economies? I left a link on the Colloquium a couple of weeks ago - it may be usable in your research: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2162394,00.html - thirty -

You really must be working hard! May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door. Shir-El too 11:06, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

What did you do about hackers?
I am sending you this by ordinary email too, cc: to the Sysop at a UCLA wiki: at http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page click "recent changes" and the edits by unidentified IPs

this hacker seems to want to go after my large undergrad class home page...but is using a program with
 * 1) different IP each time
 * 2) always new "name" at top
 * 3) automated substitution... e.g. 's become 'AAAAAs etc which doesnt occur in some pages hacked.

What did you do beyond "Protect" the home (and thus all Mediawiki pages) to prevent hacking?

Connexions
Hey, just got back from an [education conference http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2007/] and I thought I'd drop you a line on some of the resources I found while I was there:


 * MERLOT
 * JORUM
 * CETL (I think this is the right CETL)
 * APROA (In Spanish)
 * Connexions

I was mainly excited about Connexions, which looked like it had a compatible license, but it looks like you already hear about that one. Any progress in communicating with them?--Rayc 05:23, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello again... and goodbye
In the last few weeks I've become more and more active on WP {same user name}, together with the realization that I don't learn well in this WV environment; I've been too unstructured for most of my life, so the stimulus of a buffet works better for me. But I didn't want to leave without saying goodbye - and thank you - and hope to meet you around the Wiki-verse 'sometime again.' Be Well and God Bless, Shir-El too 19:09, 21 October 2007 (UTC) PS please de-activate my username here, if such is possible. TKS

Mentoring
Hi, Cormaggio, I have a humble request for you. Would you be willing to mentor me as a probationary custodian? I'm willing to help out all I can - and really just need someone to get me going and a solid reference point should I encounter situations where I'm not too sure what to do (although this shouldn't happen to much after reading the guide and being well versed in Wikimedia projects). I run my own private installation of MediaWiki so the technical aspects shouldn't be a problem. It would be great if I could learn from someone obviously experienced and with the project's best interests at heart. Cheers, --Pumpmeup 06:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikimedia NL
Cormac, thank you for your talk. I found it interesting.

I'd like you to take an opportunity to participate on another Wiki Project, namely Wikinews. I have made a start on an article about the conference. I left at about 15:30, so if you can add something about what went on after that I would greatly appreciate it. --Brianmc 21:12, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Article is now published, a few other attendees chipped in bits from what I missed and what was after I left. Also got some pictures from the conf. I'm sure many people were putting their presentations online. Can you add a link to yours in the External links section? --Brianmc 10:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome aboard :)
Hi Cormaggio. I got all but a few of those ID requests: not sure about three of them, but I'll give a shout to the commons/wikipedia people if no-one pops in soon. I'm amazed that some of those things are flowering, actually... England's climate is very different from ours (despite the fact that we're way south of you... I think Philadelphia is on the same latitude as Barcelona!)

I've set up a category marker ( bcpm/mane/11 ) for you to use on the profile pages: see this diff for how it's used (more or less... I also added to New Hampshire on that one). I'll try and get the bot to come through within the next couple days to add "| Manchester, England = " to the middle templates.

Just fair warning, I'm about 1/3 way through switching out the old templates to the new ones, so if you run across a profile page that uses one of the old templates, let me know and I'll update it (unfortunately it's very difficult to switch them, but the current template is designed for robotic editors, unlike the old one).

Judging from what you saw so far, I'm guessing your best keys will be the October ones for SEPA (perhaps even September, but not quite sure). Bloom Clock/Keys/Southeastern Pennsylvania/October has the list. --SB_Johnny | talk 11:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool :)! BTW: when something is identified, there will be links to wikipedia, wikibooks, and the log page, any or all of which (if they exist) will have the common names on them.
 * The bot has run through now, so the "Manchester, England = " field will be present on the updated templates. I'll check the other plants you saw and update if necessary later today. If you want to add bcpm/mane/11 to any that aren't updated, just add it under the "REGIONAL DATA" header near the bottom of the old templates and I'll grab it while I update (just make sure it's above the noinclude tag!). --SB_Johnny | talk 16:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Cormaggio. Viewed your page, and I think it's great what you are doing. keep up the good work.- Judith

Wikibooks and Wikiversity
Some thoughts. --JWS 16:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * "Care to notify the wikiversity-l list about this post?" <-- I basically did a brain dump on my user page. I hope to have time to create a shorter and more coherent comment for the mail list. --JWSchmidt 22:29, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I tried to post a comment to the email list but I guess I used the wrong email account. I hate email lists. I wish we could use better technology.....maybe some day we will have a real threaded discussion system at Wikiversity. --JWS 13:54, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Liquid Threads - we were just discussing it again on IRC...with the hope that some $$$ could be put into it...make it a more complete system. --JWSchmidt 19:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Copying Materials

 * I just came here to comment on something you'd written that I stumbled across here: "Take the time to learn the material (if you aren't already an expert) and share (but do not COPY) it with others on Wikiversity through this course." Are you suggesting people can't people copy material here on Wikiversity?

Cormaggio, in that comment I am referring to verbatim copying from external sources. In the resources section of the EE_414_Integrated_Circuits page you will see links to many outside sources. I don't think it is OK to copy material from other websites without leaving a reference (giving credit). Since the material I have seen so far here on Wikiversity does not contain references, I am assuming the material is original.

I think it would be relatively easy for me to copy materials that others have developed. I have tons of notes from university courses. I think I would feel bad about dumping it all here on Wikiversity. These people have worked hard to develop a course that you will pay to go to. Is it fair for me to give their work out to world for free (even if I give credit)?

My opinion: No, you should not copy materials from others without their permission, and you should leave credit.

What are your thoughts? -Neurondev 71.214.51.139 04:58, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Discussion with head of WikiEducator
Hey again! :) We had said that we would do a discussion with you and the WE top guy, on WCR, and I think it would be a good "kick off" to a new bit of programming there. He says that Dec 15-20 would work, so I was wondering if that might work for you too. He's in Vancouver it seems, so that is PST (3 hours difference from me, and I think I'm GMT-5 now, so 8 hours diff to GMT). Would you be available at all during that timeframe, and could you suggest a time that might work? If we can't do a discussion, I'd still like to talk to each of you and maybe have a couple questions that you could pose to each other (or common questions we ask both of you) so that we can mix them together into a program. Let me know what you think and if you have any time. Historybuff 20:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

לערי ריינהארט
Hi Cormaggio! You are a « [ bureaucrat]» at « : ». Can you please rename my account clicking [ here]. Thanks in advance! Best regards Gangleri

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learning in Wikiversity
I found your Learning and learning about learning in Wikiversity interesting. FWIW, I've resumed my learning blog where I've started to reflect on the approach that I have taken so far in creating learning projects here. I'll also be documenting a new tactic for developing future projects that I'm working on. Some of these thoughts tie in with things you have written about.--mikeu 19:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


 * One way to reduce the churn rate might be a wv customized attempt at Mentorship. My approach will be to work with a captive audience in person and walk them through a learning project.  Maybe this example will give other editors ideas on how a project could progress.  It might also attract people outside of my group to the project when they see the activity.  Then I will encourage my group to work together amongst themselves on new projects.  I'll be around and doing some stuff over the holidays, but things will likely not get too far along until Jan. or so.  I'll take a look at that book ref.  Thanks.--mikeu 15:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Changing names
Hi! I would like to change my user name to User:Artur. Could you please do this? a.z. 01:31, 22 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, I replied on my talk page. a.z. 15:32, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

"... and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest..."


May you and yours have all the best of this Season's Greetings: a


 * Very Merry Christmas


 * and a


 * Happy New Year.

Shir-El too 00:59, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

New Year, new talks
Happy New Year!

I seem to have fallen out of the loop sometime in December -- not quite sure how that happened. Maybe it was holiday season fever? Anyway, it's now time to get things back in gear. I'd like to do a chat with you and Wayne, at least individually if not in a group session. So, let me know what might work for you, and we'll see if any of that correlates to when Wayne is available. Hope you had a good holiday. Historybuff 22:58, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've been thinking a bit, and it might be good to have one chat with you first about what wikiversity is -- sort of a foundation and direction idea, maybe a bit about the pre project stuff. I'm busy early next week for most of the day, but later in the week should ease up a bit. I figure it's easier for us to schedule a time (the two of us) and then invite others. It'll give me a chance to make sure the tech stuff is working for both of us, because we have a new server we'll be trying. Let me know when it suits you, I can probably swing something. Historybuff 22:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Cormac, I really have to write the mapper from random timezones to UTC and back. 17-23UTC means 12-18EST. Tuesday I could do an earlier chat (up to about 17EST==22UTC). Wed and Thursday would work ok, but I might be "on the road" in the later half of those timeslots. I'm not sure if that would complicate things or not. Let me know if these times are still good with you. Historybuff 03:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm studying at a local College, There is lots of practical, but our workbook and text do touch on the Theories, and it's pretty amazing to get everything coming together and syncing up in a context.
 * Is your IRC issue a connectivity problem, or a client software issue?
 * I'm not sure if we are too late in the week to have a WCR session -- I should have a block of time today and tomorrow, in your timerange, if you have time. If not, let's set up a hard date for next week. Historybuff 15:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year too
IRC seems to be down at the moment - so "happy new year" by a more conventional method. I hope your sudden haste over new bureaucrats doesn't mean that we are losing you. --McCormack 10:59, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucratship
I responded on the Colloquium. --JWS 16:38, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

IRC
You may wish to join IRC now for a chat. Hope to see you. --McCormack 19:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikimania pictures
Howdy, Cormac. These are almost 6 months late, but - I have pictures of you giving your presentations at Wikimania, which I don't believe I ever actually gave you. Now that I'm out from behind the lovely Great Firewall of China, how would you like me to send them over? Mchua 00:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)