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I have so many questions
-I found a link to an article on netiquette
 * 1) What is the most active that Wikiversity has every been?
 * 2) Is this place mostly populated by like adults??? As in adult teachers and/or professors that just want to help out?? Is that why the assistant teaching course is one of the featured courses? (It's a good one :))
 * 3) Is there a creative writing program that showcases work? Because I would love to share old writing in a place like this.
 * 4) Why are Wikimedia projects formatted the way that they are? It's not super easy on the eyes. Why is darkmode only on Wikipedia?? Why to I have to manually change the proportions of the websites in preferences?? Is there an archived survey I can find that shows that in the early 2000s people preferred a format that gave the highest possible amount of confusion and headaches??
 * 5) Doesn't Wikimedia give access to photos of anything in the public domain? Why is multimedia so under utilized in lesson plans?
 * 6) Is Dave Braunschweig the only active person these days?? And according to the records it seems like he's been editing since I was in elementary, there's no way he gets paid for this, so what keeps him so dedicated??
 * 7) It truly feels like the default settings of Wikimedia haven't been updated all that much since Jan 2001 when all of this stuff started, and yet code is accessible on almost every page and I'm no where near an admin, so what's keeping stuff back?
 * 8) I understand that there's a certain level of academic decorum you need to live up to in order to interact with others on these websites but where's the passion for what you're doing or working for?? I've seen userpages for people who have been editing longer than I've been alive, but like, idk maybe I'm not looking in the right place but I'm so curious about the stories of some of the people here, this place has so much history.
 * 1) Don't you think it's interesting that the internet has a history now? It was only created in the 90s but that was well over 30 years ago and I am just wandering through archived discussions marveling at it all like I got the keys to a closed museum in an abandoned town.
 * 2) Can you tell I have ADHD?
 * 3) Has anyone ever considered a Wikimedia history lecture?
 * 4) Why can I only edit this through the source material?
 * 5) Why do I have to add a signature if it puts my name and a timestamp down anyway? Do I just click the signature and leave it? Am I supposed to manually type out my username in there?
 * 6) A large amount of different colleges offer free courses for certain subjects,is there a list of them that I can find here? Or maybe some kind of spreadsheet of resources of that sort?

I'll keep adding to this list overtime, unless I can't, I'm not entirely sure what the social, professional boundaries are here but I'm learning. I'm trying to be bold and stuff. But I have so many questions. GreenTeaForPreT (discuss • contribs) 15:42, 12 November 2021 (UTC)


 * WIKIMEDIA HAS GRANT PROGRAMS??? GreenTeaForPreT (discuss • contribs) 15:56, 12 November 2021 (UTC)


 * See Statistics.
 * Wikiversity is populated mostly by teaching professionals who believe in open content. Set learning free.
 * There is a Creative writing project. Feel free to enhance it.
 * Wiki software is almost 20 years old. It's purpose is to support an encyclopedia. How we use it doesn't quite match the initial design or any of the other improvements in user interface design over the last 20 years. But, they are trying to improve it. Most of that discussion is at either MediaWiki, Meta, or Wikipedia.
 * Yes, there is media available. See Commons. It is very difficult to license correctly and difficult to manage. Also, most people creating wiki content are left-brained and don't think about the multimedia or aren't skilled at creating it. For example, the amount of time where multimedia has been available through high-speed Internet is probably your entire lifetime. It wasn't an option until long after I had developed my first dozen courses.
 * I'm not the only editor. But I am one of the few who is currently active in engaging new visitors. No, I am not paid for this. It is my give-back to the educational community. It has a world-wide impact. It is my way of helping make the world a better place and encouraging learning as a way to improve lives and communities.
 * It's designed as an encyclopedia. The encyclopedia works. It is the other uses which struggle, and have only minimal impact on Wikimedia design discussions.
 * There is a lot of history. But a lot of it is negative. Wikiversity, in particular, draws people on the Autism spectrum who don't play well with others. It also used to draw and accept people who were forced out of Wikipedia. We've tried to eliminate most of the drama, but that also eliminates most of the interaction and interesting stories.


 * Yes, reading the historical discussions can be interesting.
 * Yes, your attention moves quickly to different subjects.
 * History, by itself, would be a Wikipedia article. Rather than a lecture, think about how you would engage participants in active learning. How would you encourage them to research Wikimedia history themselves and help build the story?
 * See VisualEditor. It is only available in certain namespaces. At the time this was last researched, it didn't work in user space.
 * Automatic signing is new (within the last year or so).
 * See Open Educational Resources. There are lists of free courses there.


 * Please create a new list following this response rather than adding to the list above. Make it easy for others to respond.


 * Yes, there are grants available. I don't know anything about them. You'll need to research those on your own.


 * Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:41, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The visual editor should work in the User: namespace (e.g., User:Whatamidoing (WMF) or User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sandbox, but not User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)). If it is disabled in the User: namespace and you all want it working there, then I can ask the Editing team to change the config for you. Whatamidoing (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 05:14, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * That would be great since I am mostly on here. :)) GreenTeaForPreT (discuss • contribs) 15:49, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

More Questions
Good evening Professor Braunschweig, I hope you are having a good day, I come bringing another series of queries (Ba dum tss) GreenTeaForPreT (discuss • contribs) 03:56, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) Where do I find the code for the default welcome message?
 * 2) I've been listening to a podcast about the Wikipedia community recently  called "Dot com: Wikipedia". Are you familiar with it? Do you have any recommendations for resources about the Wikimedia community?
 * 3) Is there a Wikimedia page dedicated to community surveys where I could nosily read through the "origin stories" of other wikimedians?
 * 4) How would you go about making a bibliography for your user page?
 * 5) Who originally programmed the wiki open source software?
 * 6) Do you have a recommendation for a programming course to start as a beginner? I've done a large amount of research into comp-sci, but I'm not going to properly learn without practice.
 * 7) What are your opinions on all of the recent talk about the concept of the 3rd generation of the internet? Or the metaverse?
 * 8) I have made a prototype wikiversity specific discord server. I need to add bots, but I would like to upload pictures of what I have so far, would I have to upload that up to the wikimedia foundation and then add it to the wikiversity:Discord page?
 * 9) Have any long time editors considered adding a tip jar hyperlink into your user pages so y'all can be recognized for your work by other wikimedians from time to time?
 * 10) Who develops the website and the wiki software if this is a 20 year old nonprofit and if the software is open source?


 * A few answers for @GreenTeaForPreT:
 * 1. It depends on which welcome message you're thinking of.  If you post the text, I can probably find it for you.
 * 5. MediaWiki was started by Magnus Manske.  The names of some significant subsequent contributors is posted at the top of Special:Version.
 * 9. This idea was discussed a few months ago at Commons, where it was very unpopular.  It is possible that the English Wikiversity would have another view.
 * 10. Both volunteers and paid staff develop the software. The Wikimedia Foundation is biggest, but not the only employer, who pays people to improve MediaWiki software.  If you are interested in helping out, see How to contribute.  Other work is done on the individual wikis, e.g., writing user scripts in Javascript. Whatamidoing (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 21:59, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed this thread. Finals week. If you could, include usernames when you reference us so we get a notice. I usually use something like.
 * 1. See . Use to add it.
 * 2. There is a wide range of resources. It depends on what you are looking for specifically. Most of the content would probably be on Wikimedia.
 * 3. Not that I know of. That's probably going to be spread around a variety of pages.
 * 4. You may add anything you want (within reason) to your user page. I would add bullet points (using *) and then links to the resources.
 * 5. Answered above.
 * 6. See my course at Programming Fundamentals.
 * 7. I understand Web 3.0 is about applying blockchain technology to resources to, at least in theory, provide better anonymity. I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. Anonymity and the ability to misrepresent your identity is a root cause of many of the social and online issues we currently have. There are also significant energy requirements for blockchain processing that may make it unsustainable. But I haven't studied the full implementation details of Web 3.0 yet to see the benefits.
 * 8. Please stop. As posted in the Colloquium, we have a Wikiversity channel added to the "official" Wikimedia Discord server now. See Discord for details.
 * 9. Adding a tip jar or similar would lead to immediate blocking of your account. Our motto is "Set learning free". If you want to be paid for your contributions, you would need to contribute elsewhere.
 * 10. Answered above.
 * Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:00, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Motivation and emotion/Book/2021
Just FYI, Motivation and emotion/Book/2021 is an active real-world course project that students are being graded on. Feel free to edit any of the previous years. I'd recommend leaving 2021 edits until after the semester ends. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:57, 16 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Whoaaa cool, sorry about that. GreenTeaForPreT (discuss • contribs) 16:56, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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