User talk:Rayc/Archive3

OLPC
Yes, by the time we have finished studying, assembly, panel beating, spray, painting and polishing it will be a paper. --Ian Kennedy 16:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

OLPT== ==

The paper currently contains 85% content from me (Ian), 10% from Delia, 5% pulled out of Roxan's Masters thesis. Co-authors who persist in a state of breathless silence will be excluded from the author line next week. The author line is still open for anybody wishing to contribute. It is not a closed user group. Since it is going to reside at Wikiversity, any nitpicking, discussing and editing would be welcome. The deadline for submission to SITE2007 is 15 December 2006! Wikiversity has enabled co-authors around the world to work around the clock on assembling and writing it.

It is also a call for participation in populating the framework we are proposing, which can link off our paper. --Ian Kennedy 17:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

ABCDE
Hi Rayc - can you make an ABCDE template too please? --HappyCamper 01:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks :-) --HappyCamper 04:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Link to Math Trainer (By JWSchmidt's suggestion)
http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Speed_Math_Trainer_Program_126_2006.php

Game Maker
Game Maker - thanks for the link, I'll try to remember to look at it on Saturday. --JWSchmidt 05:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, Rayc. I looked at the online advertisement. It is initially crippleware but the pricing seems reasonable. I have used tools like this before, it can be frustrating when you encounter buglock between versions of it and versions of windows (or other operating system). Can be very useful for initial prototyping, particularly if the artists are ahead of the programmers on the production teams. So yes! Looks like it can be incredibly useful. I will try it out soon and add links as appropriate. Thanks! Mirwin 08:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...
I'm trying to get the questions to appear in between the 2 photos, but not having much luck :(. Should be fun once it's set up... I'm off to take some photos now. --SB_Johnny | talk 18:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Quiz
Thanks! From what I saw, you answered the questions correctly, but there was a few instances where I got the same question twice/three times in a row. This could just be my computer (most of the times it is :] ). Muchas gracias (Thanks!) -- J.Steinbock 22:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Stellarium
I replied to your note about free software and screenshots on my talk page. I put my comments there to keep the thread on the same pages.--mikeu 15:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for Help
Hi, in August you left this message. I'm new here, so I'm not sure if this has been solved -- but let me know if it hasn't. Historybuff 06:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, the "it depends" answer -- always one of my favorites. :) I have no idea how to code it -- in fact, I have no idea what it's even part of. But, I'm always for learning something new. Any info you can provide, like how to try it out, what it's written in, etc, can be useful. If I can't do it all by myself, I'll post it as a research project. I do think that the CS area has a lot to contribute to the rest of Wikiversity. Historybuff 02:21, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, code is better then speculation. :) It's written in Javascript. It would be inappropriate to include in the .css file, as that would include it in all pages as a style, and it's certainly not a style. My suggestion would be a page template would be the right spot for this. Now, I don't know how templates are composed, but my guess is that they include HTML elements. Now, I'm pretty sure Javascript needs to be included in the &lt;head&gt; portion of the page, and I don't know if that's accessible through a page template. Someone with better knowledge of the Wikimedia software might be able to help us. Now, it's something that's within the realm of possibility, and it's something that I think is a "need to have" in an educational setting. So, we might want to start a formal list somewhere for Wikiversity enhancements of the Wikimedia software. Does that all make sense? Historybuff 06:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Quiz tool for wikimedia
Hi,

I've written a quiz tool for mediwiki that can be found at : wikiQuiz. I would like to know if it can be interresting to wikiversity project. If you think so, I would be proud to help you as the best as I can to make this extension a part of wikiversity.

Regards. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.225.63.29 (talk) 21:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

Re:Hola
I don't know if you still interested in my script (a Mediawiki PHP extension would be much better), but since you asked: I took a look, and it works nicely with the default skin here. Which skin are you using? I tried to make it only dependent of the content of the page, but something could had slipped. --Comae (talk) 21:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

ABCD Template
Great ABCD template! User:Cormaggio suggested I contact you about some problems we are having with the implementation of the ABCD template on wikieducator.org. Brent Simpson on WikiEducator copied the ABCD Template and sub-templates to Wikieducator. Unfortunately, the answers render and there is no Expand/Collapse feature. This is also the case if the Expand/Collapse code is tested outside the template. Another minor point is that WikiEducator is rendering the ColBreak differently than on Wikiversity -- which causes the ABCD template to render several  tags  as text. Any wiki settings, tricks, etc. that you needed to execute to get the ABCD template to work on Wikiversity? I am hoping that once we have some common ground we can break some new ground on the pedagogical templates. Cheers Rob

kruhly 06:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Our Admin fixed up the ABCD template on WikiEducator so that the Expand/Collapse is working. He did not give any details on the fix. It looks like he took out the ColBreak and MultiCol templates because we are having a problem with the  tag. The wiki is rendering it as less than and greater than symbols in unicode instead of html. You mentioned  two templates that were "failed" experiments? How so? They looked like they were working properly ...

kruhly 22:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Quizworks
Hi-- Quizworks looks great! When I go to the url on the Quizworks.png it shows up as static text. Is this due to my account settings? I also noticed that you can create input text fields (I think it was on your discussion page). How did you add this to the wiki as it does not work on wikieducator? Cheers Rob

kruhly 23:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks Rayc -- I don't have any admin privledges on wikieducator but I will see what I can do with regards to installation and beta testing it. kruhly 06:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Rayc -- There are some security concerns at wikieducator about the wikiquiz extension. Are you using it as is or have you modified it to make it more secure? -- kruhly 20:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

IRC meeting
Hi Rupert, just to remind you that the IRC meeting about research will be this Saturday (10th) @ 22:00 UTC (see, ) in freenode channel #wikiversity (not #wikiversity-en). Details on page on Beta. Hopefully see you there.. Cormaggio beep 00:29, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Photos...
Image:Rayc-flowersite1-1.JPG has daffodils (Narcissus) and Daylilies (Hemerocallis). I'm guessing the center of that bed will be annuals, which aren't useful for bloom clocks (their bloom time depends entirely upon when they were planted or how they were grown, so it doesn't tell you much about the plant or the climate).

Image:Rayc-flowersite2-1.JPG is Pachysandra terminalis, sometimes called Japanese Spurge, but usually just "Pachysandra".

BTW, you know about making links to images using colons :-)? --SB_Johnny | talk 15:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Heh, yeah, I've been in the biz for about 21 yrs now... most gardens use the same 50 species or so :). I get confused by plants that grow south of here though. Human faces and names I have a hard time putting together, but with plants and bugs I'm pretty good. --SB_Johnny | talk 03:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

concept classification
Thanks for your help with my concept classification pages. I believe my professor has taken care of the threatened deletions at this point.

As for the structure of the course, I'm still trying to work that out. I'm using Dr. Reigeluth's material as the starting point, but will probably have to link to an external site in order to add some interactivity to the lesson.

This is all sort of new to me, so I'm surprised anyone outside my team has even seen the site at this point. I guess I'll have to try to work faster. Rdubrayj 01:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Flash cards..
I see how that could work, but I can't figure out how to make it work. --Remi 23:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Rayc. Do I do something wrong with the flashcards of El Salón de Clase Flashcards? Do they work properly? I don't find the way to see the English translation. --Javier Carro 06:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

from IRC
"Mike42: wherever rayc is right now, I need to tell him to stop.... I've already got the rest of the list open in Firefox, in a few hundred tabs"

Wikiquiz is now Quiz and works on the wikiversity
The quiz extension is working on the wikiversity in a beta version. I'll try to give you some examples and explanations but the syntax is quite the same as the syntax used in Wikiquiz. mw:User:Lrbabe

got 'em :)
I altered the quizzes to add the names. I'd really like to figure out how to add pictures to the actual clock as well, without making the page completely undownloadable. --SB_Johnny | talk 13:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Quiz extension
Just letting you know that I'm working with User:Lrbabe and another on the quiz extension, and starting a documentation at Help:Quiz. Had a word with User:JWSchmidt before starting. I'm a bit new here, so I'm unaware of any previous history of quiz module development at Wikiversity, but User:JWSchmidt said you were one of the key quiz people. Happy to hear from you. McCormack 14:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

What happened to your drop boxes?
I noticed your post on the colloquium, and have also noticed that all your drop-box quiz widgets have stopped working. I hope you can shed light on this. I don't know what the programming side of it was, but I'd like to know what's going on. I think we need a variety of interactive widget thingies on Wikiversity. Lrbabe's quiz extension is probably going to be the main quiz thing, but there are still other things we need. If I remember correctly, the most interesting thing about your technology was its "drop box" concept. I think there's still room and need for a very simple way to have wiki-hyperlinks which can hide/reveal sections of information. McCormack 06:50, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. User:Sebmol was editing this at the time. Might help shed light on what he was doing. McCormack 04:48, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Ladd Observatory
I was looking through my talk page and saw that early in the year you asked about pictures of Ladd Observatory. I just uploaded an image from an old postcard (the obs. was built in 1891) and added it to the Ladd article. --mikeu 14:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)