User talk:McCormack/Archive Jan-Feb 2008

home page
yes i tested it   it works good    my alternate fix witch was on  sandbox was like 1-2kb smaller but  same effect      its a hell of alot better than it was Eadthem 17:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

new discussion
You might want to participate at Educational Wikis/constructive interactions. --JWSchmidt 01:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

mw:extension:tree view
Hello. You need a wiki where the extension is turned on. Here is an example for you. If people find it useful, we may ask a developer to install it. I think TreeView is in the same family as the dynamic page list extension. Hillgentleman|Talk 17:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Graph Gadget
Yeah, there are certainly some problems with it. The gaps are there because I turned the updater off for a few weeks while I was trying to diagnose some problems. The counter behavior is quite wild, and that is a result of bugs in the Wikicharts page counter itself. We have posted a bug report to the maintainers of that tool, but I haven't heard yet whether those bugs are being corrected.

If i multiply out the numbers, and try to account for the bugs by hand, It appears that en.wikiversity is getting between 5,000 to 10,000 page hits per day, or 150,000 - 300,000 page hits per month. Compare this to an estimated 23,000 hits per day at en.wikibooks and 750,000 hits per month. Consider that en.wikiversity has about 5,400 edits per month. Each edit is approximately 3 page hits (view the page, edit the page, save the page), so that accounts for about 16,000 hits per month solely from page editing.

I hope this answers some questions that you have. Keep in mind that these numbers are all guesses and estimates, so take them with a grain of salt. I think we can assume that they are at least approximately correct, by some definition of the word "correct". --Whiteknight (Versity) (Books) 02:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

French pages
(Comments by User:Dan4114)

I am not very good at this editing business, are you able to make the move to where you wished it to be?

Thanks for fixing that but there's one more problem, if you look at the table, the je section is fine but for tu to ils it's all in a blue box, can you teach me how to fix that?

www.wikiversity.org template
www.wikiversity.org template/test ? Hillgentleman|Talk 11:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

"Wikiversity" x3 on www.wikiversity.org
The word "wikiversity" appears thrice on the portal. Whilst simplicity is good, I suggest (just suggest, it is not a preference) that the title can be "Wikiversity projects" or "The Wikiversity project" (meaning that wikiversity is one project in many languages), which describes the stuff under itself. Hillgentleman|Talk 00:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

LOL
Cormaggio talk 10:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh no - I didn't mean to suggest Wikiversity might be "losing me"! (Not a chance!) I was just reacting to a query asking why this hadn't be closed ages ago. However, I'm just back from holidays and facing a deadline, so will still be fairly muted here for a week or so... Cormaggio talk 11:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your Help
To answer your question...no I don't know what I'm doing exactly. I was just trying to add content. Thanks for fixing my mistakes, I thought I knew what I was doing. I will read more about the Wikiversity Standards before posting again.

Thanks again!

Sincerely,

Jsswift talk a wikiversity Newbie. 8 January 2008

lists of projects
at Wikimedia projects it says "Please add any missing projects". I think most people try to keep Complete list of Wikimedia projects up to date. --JWS 13:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Greek Wikiversity title and motto
Hi McCormack, we haven't decided yet the title and the motto, I guess this will be done after voting. I guess you could you some temporary ones, like the ones you gave as examples, and then, after they voting is completed, they will be replaced, is that possible? ---- (profile|chit chat|email) 16:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Well as title Ελληνικά and as a motto Ελεύθερη Παιδαγωγική Κοινότητα--ZaDiak 22:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Image licensing
I've been watching the Introduction to Computers pages and "cleaning up" image problems. See my concerns at Notices_for_custodians and the notes I left at Talk:Introduction to Computers/Introduction and User_talk:Areil123. I did not want to delete last night while they were in the middle of a very busy editing session since that would confuse newcomers. I think the best approach is to expalin good practices to the teacher and then I'll clean up after we talk. There are a number of problems with the uploads made by several students in the class. They have been downloading images from commons, resizing, and then uploading here (when a simple thumb or 250px would have done the trick) The wikipedia images are a little more complicated. They have copied images here, but sometimes without a link to wp or with a changed or misleading copyright notice. It is not trivial to migrate and image to commons. I've moved a couple already. Anyway, I don't want to do too much more cleanup until we can do some preventative medicine. --mikeu 16:10, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I suspect that there are some problems with many of the images uploaded for the Introduction to Computers page. See User:Mu301/todo for the list.  Only a couple are copyvio, but there are a number of copies of Commons images, svg changed to jpg, and a few candidates for moving from wp to commons.  Note that the images from wp have munged attribution - some are license tagged "I the creator..." with no mention of the source or original author.  I have not heard back from the instructor who is teaching the class.  BTW, this is the second batch of images that I cleaned up.  I'd like to get them into some good habits since I expect another batch to be uploaded soon.  --mikeu 06:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, the todo list did not exist when you left the first message. I realized I should probably leave a "paper" trail of what I am doing.  I first changed the links in the pages that used the deleted files to point to the copy at commons.  For the files that remain I edited the summary to note the correct license and source of the image.  But they should still go at some point.  No sense in having a copy here when a simple 200px in the link would do the same thing.  I'll probably transwiki a couple images from wp to commons so wv can use the same file.  A few of the images are "fair use" so that won't fly.  I didn't want to tag the copyvio with speedy until the uploaders are informed.  --mikeu 07:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

spam filter
Thanks for the test, McCormack. I hope this message gets through.--Daanschr 12:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I will try the talk pages of Mike and Erkan again.--Daanschr 12:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Mike's talk page is still bouncing.--Daanschr 12:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No, just regular words. I tried to say that i was not able to be online and chat, because i don't have an internet connection yet in my new home.--Daanschr 14:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

re: IRC
Sorry McCormack - didn't see that message until now - and just about to watch a film now. I'll join IRC some time soon and you can fill me in - or just post a message on my talk page... Cormaggio talk 21:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Drat
I can't get the past participle part to go left on the tenses page. I' m rubbish at HTML i know. Please help!

Here's the page URL - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Learning_the_Basics_of_French/Learn_the_tenses

--Dan4114 13:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this what you wanted to do ? Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 22:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Quiz bug
Awesome! Thanks! -LambaJan 17:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)