User talk:Douglas R. White

Where to put practice pages
Hi there. I moved your practice page to User:Douglas_R._White/Sandbox. Please keep test pages out of the main namespace, it keeps it tidy. Thanks! : ) --Remi 22:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)


 * No, thank you, Remi, you have a great site. What did you follow to implement Latex characters for math symbols. Seems to be quite alot of perplexity about this on google-search sites.Douglas R. White 23:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula ← I think that is the page you are looking for. I found it on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Editing_Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a sister project of Wikiversity (which could probably be considered a much younger less mature sibling); both projects are run by the Wikimedia foundation. I hope that helps. --Remi 23:31, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks ← I had found Ocaml and unzipped but then passed to our tech to work the magic in unix, but now I know that was right. Did find out about Captcha from your wiki and installed it myself, solves the big problem of spammers. Feel free to sign onto our site, Remi, you help (and the synergies between them) can be invaluable and I can help with yours.


 * Also my items 3 and 4 are things I will need to work on if you know of easier ways to do them.

New question: you do not mind if I borrow from wikiversity, correct? I borrowed your be Bold and crafted my user pages using your models. --Douglas R. White 00:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC). Look at my http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Category:InterSci_Authors and follow the be bold link to let me know.
 * In many respects it is difficult for me to fully convey how open Wikiversity is (at least the way it seems to me). Everything is licensed under the GFDL. As I understand it that basically means that you can copy anything as and use it for most any purpose you see fit as long as you provide the GFDL (or perhaps just a link) along with the material (and maybe credit too?). Please though, if you see something you like here, copy it, play with it, improve upon it, and go wild. : D Please use the structure of my userpage if it suites you well, and make it how you like it. I saw your Wiki, and it looks quite interesting. I'll have to join up... --Remi 05:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi Douglas, and welcome to Wikiversity. Your academic interests sound fascinating (though I wasn't expecting so much Maths!) - were you planning to start a resource or even community in any of these fields? If you need help, feel free to message me on my talk page anytime; alternatively, you can raise questions and discussions on the Colloquium, or through "chat". Cheers, Cormaggio talk 23:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I needed the maths 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.
 * Thanks for replying - you seem to have got the wiki etiquette for replying back and forth between user talk pages (though some people prefer to keep it all on one page - ie the one where the discussion started). As for your activity, Wikiversity is here for whatever you have to give (or learn), whenever you have the time for it. If your time is limited and you want to help others teach/learn, you might want to upload some materials you already have and wish to make free. And if you want to start more participative learning projects, then Wikiversity can also serve that purpose. Let me know if/when you ever need to bounce any ideas. Thanks again (and sorry for the delayed response). Cormaggio talk 16:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)