User talk:Magnunnr

be bold
"dissagreement between the 'be bold' statement and the 'but don't modify this page unless you know you're right' statement" <-- Often there is a "happy medium" between recklessness and timidity. If you do not mind my asking, how did you find Wikiversity? --JWSchmidt 00:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

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That makes perfect sense to me. But I try to ask the question even when I agree with the lay of the land. I am having trouble finding a footing as to where to start looking for the happy medium. Particularly since this seems to be very new, and I've not been involved in any of these before, I am very shy of swinging way too far in some direction. Incidentally, I noticed a couple of changes there today that I like.

re: finding wikiversity. I had heard many bad things about wikipedia, and had been generally avoiding it, without having a proper look, I just never really thought about it enough to notice. Then someone sent me a paper on wikipedia as it relates to academia (specifically historians), and I thought "wow, if that alowed original work, it would be exactly the kind of thing I'd want to be part of." Then I spent a half hour or so pouring over the paper in a coffee shop noticing the similarities to what I like about (some) living history versus standard academic history, and decided to go try and get into it. At which point I went to look, and found that wikiversity was exactly what I'd been imagining as thing I'd be interested in, and maybe I should go there... And you guys told me to be bold, so I did as I was told :)  Things rarely come out so tidily, and so I wanted to grab it while it was near.

I'm not sure what the correct way to reply to your question is (yeah, newbie), I hope this works!

(the paper is at: http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42)

Unnr 00:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Experimental Methods
I'm afraid I don't entirely understand how this could be a Department/Division in the school of History; but I'm sure I don't understand what you mean by it. Mind explaining to me? Jade Knight 09:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC)