User talk:TimVickers

 Hello TimVickers, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may


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 Hi , I am Percy. Nice to meet you. I love the beach, swimming, fishing, and I am currently doing some research at Wikiversity on oceanography. I am also learning to play piano. What do you like? Can I be your mascot?

Welcome to Wikiversity
Hi,

It is a delight to see you on Wikiversity. I read your Wikipedia page, and was thrilled to see someone with your credentials joining this project. Nice work on Wikipedia, too. I also edit Wikipedia, where I've met lots of interesting people from all over the world. Wikiversity is built on a very interesting premise--with more liberal research and content policies than almost any of the other Wikimedia wikis, it's basically MIT Open Courseware and a research hosting space rolled into one. It's intended to be a free online wiki-university and already has a number of unique resources such as History of Ireland Through Song.

Do you have any thoughts about what you want to contribute here, and what you want to get out of the site? I'm very curious. I was happy to see that you were a co-author of "A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function." My understanding is that this wiki is mostly intended for professional scientists, which is a bit different from wikiversity's purpose, but it's quite an ambitious and exciting project.

As for me, I am a grad student in New York and I study computational biology. I would like to develop research resources on Wikiversity that lend themselves to participation by non-academics, such as high school students and high school teachers. I'm a while off from that right now, but still thinking about how it could be done. I'd like to fix my own Userpage to make it more interactive--I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out when I created it. There is at least one "citizen science" Wikiversity project already--the Bloom Clock Project--but it depended on a large number of contributors in order to yield useful data and never quite got those people. In my opinion, a better-publicized project that would be able to start out with only a few people might be more successful. --AFriedman (talk) 05:04, 22 January 2010 (UTC)