User talk:David D.

"In your opinion, what are the advantages of focusing edits here compared to wikipedia?" <-- It is natural for wiki participants to go where they feel most comfortable. From my very first edits at Wikipedia I struggled to restrict myself to editing within the rules for that project. My major problem is that I find known facts to be of less interest than remaining mysteries! For the topics that are of interest to me, I think a good encyclopedia article should say as much about what we do not yet know as it does about what people think they know about the topic. However, my attempts to include at Wikipedia more about the unknown and how we might explore it are not welcome there. Since back in 2004 I have been interested in the idea that there can be a WikiMedia project devoted to learning and exploration. Now that Wikiversity is finally in existence, it needs some help to get off the ground. I think there is some exciting work to do here in exploring just what wiki technology can do. We are trying to determine if it will be possible to include some original research at Wikiversity. I hope we will be able to do so but I suspect it will require some system for making experts more central to Wikiversity than they are at Wikipedia. I hope that by being more welcoming to experts Wikiversity will open up a new path towards high quality content related to serious academic topics. --JWSchmidt 16:38, 5 October 2006 (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 David D.. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name David D.~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 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Since this account is now part of the corresponding global account, you can continue using this nick. This account will not be automatically renamed. Savh (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)