User talk:Rocki01

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Federal Writers Project -- Life Histories -- Fall 2015
Thank you for adding the anchor page for this project. Are you the instructor (or one of the instructors)? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:13, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Student content pages have been moved to their corresponding sections, with redirects left behind so they can find their content based on the previous name. The duplicate section placeholders have been deleted. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:54, 2 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Dave. Thanks for your help on this. Yes, I'm the instructor for these two sections. We're just getting started on drafting these histories and figuring out how to use wikiversity as we go along. Thanks again.--Rocki01


 * These projects are a great example of how student writing can be public and provide a legacy for others. Let us know whenever you have any questions.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome back! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:15, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dave, I was wondering how to send my student content pages to their corresponding sections?


 * I'm guessing you already figured this out. If not, please let me know. Also see Data Networking/Fall 2017 for an example of how to add a feature to a page that makes creating subpages in the right place easy for students. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:05, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for writing back. I actually haven't figured it out yet and I was going to have them to do it manually. I'll take a look at the link you sent me however. Thank you.


 * See Federal Writers' Project - Life Histories/2018/fall/section 2. I think that will help. Feel free to test it. You don't have to save the page it creates just to see what it does. If students use that, their subpages will be included automatically in the page listing. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Duplication of Content
Two different students are working on Hester Frye, one as Hester Frye and one as HesterFrye. I went to rename the second one and noticed the issue. Are you allowing students to select the same person in the same section? If so, we should move both pages to a subpage of Hester Frye. Otherwise, let me know which one gets to keep Hester and I'll make the appropriate cleanup. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Also Bessie Mae Boatwright‎ and BessieMaeBoatwright‎. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:01, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

I am allowing them to do this time: they were pretty set on that. Any way you suggest to make this work would be really helpful. Thank you so much.


 * Maybe we'll just leave them for now. I'm not sure anything I do with them will be better, and it will just make it harder for the students to find them. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:02, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

A physics prof from Ohio says hello
Your effort at Federal Writers' Project - Life Histories/2017/Fall/Section 26 recently came to my attention. Since our fields are so different, we will probably work independently of each other on Wikiversity. But if you need any help with Wikiversity, let me know. One possible overlap might involve students who wish to prepare term papers for a given section "in private" so that competing students don't "borrow" each others' ideas. With its dependence of equations and figures, it is especially important that efforts in Physics and Astronomy be performed directly in wikitext, while in your more prose-oriented field, they could probably compose in MS Word and copy/paste/format onto the public Wikipedia at the last minute.

Anyhow, if you ever want to create a little wikifarm for private student efforts, let me know. My students work on private wikis at wright.miraheze. I am so comfortable with wikitext that I prefer to write my research papers in wikitext, and later submit a pdf file to the journal. See my submission on Bell's Theorem to the American Journal of Physics.

--yours truly --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 18:58, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Help with deleting a subpage
I was testing something out and I added my name but I'd like to delete it now if possible. Thanks for anything you can do. rocki01


 * You can add at the top of the page to request deletion. The reason in this case would be either author request or test. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:59, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Dave. We're teaching several sections of this project this summer and I was wondering if you knew what this message meant: "Warning: this action has been automatically identified as potentially harmful." It goes on to talk about unconstructive actions. This was on a site a student created himself. I appreciate any advice you could give. rocki01


 * Wikiversity has been under attack by an unstable individual posting random attacks and useless content everywhere. We have had to implement filters to restrict edits by new users. If you can provide usernames, we can tag their accounts as confirmed users and they should have less difficulty getting started. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:16, 12 July 2020 (UTC)


 * That's good to know. Unfortunately, their projects are due tomorrow and I'm only the instructor of one of the courses, so I can't get the usernames in time. We'll see how it goes, but if it helps, they're all working off of the sections on this page: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Federal_Writers%27_Project_%E2%80%93_Life_Histories/2020/Summer_II -- rocki01


 * I adjusted the filter so that if they are working under the Federal Writers' Project, they should be okay. They may still have problems if they are editing in their user space or sandbox. Of course, students who wait until the last minute don't follow instructions, so we know how that will turn out. :-) -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:08, 13 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you again. I really appreciate it. Yeah, students are waiting until the last minute, which is tough since we're doing a 15 week semester in 4.5 weeks. -- rocki01


 * I looked through the abuse log. For anyone who tried to create a page with content that was never successful, I've copied what they tried to add and created the page for them. Some are in their sandbox. Most are under their FWP-LH section.
 * Going forward, it would be best to have students either create their person pages first with some type of template, or have them edit their sandboxes first with some type of template. Either approach would give them a page to start with, and make them more likely to be successful in adding content afterwards. It also establishes their account history, eliminating another barrier. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:17, 14 July 2020 (UTC)