Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/February 2020

step by step
hello there, I'm a new member here, could you tell me step by step for a beginner like me?

--PutriAmalia1991 (discuss • contribs) 04:48, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * See the welcome message on your talk page. I'm encountering the same message from you at many WMF projects and I'm wondering if there's a reason you're posting it everywhere. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:52, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * everytime I've joined one Wikimedia projects, I've always searching for help desks and posting the question because I wanna know the mechanism on the project --PutriAmalia1991 (discuss • contribs) 06:20, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds fair. Each is certainly different in its own way. I've been on all of them since 2003 or later if they were founded later and they've all gone in different directions and have different cultures and that's just in English. The nice thing about this project is that it's still very small and doesn't have much in the way of fixed rules, so you have a lot of options but that can also be a bad thing if you need structure to give you guidance. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:21, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * what do you mean by 'can also be a bad thing'?, I don't understand --PutriAmalia1991 (discuss • contribs) 06:42, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * When there isn't a lot of content or structure and only a small community of editors, it is hard to know what to do (as you yourself are asking): it can also be giving one enough rope to hang oneself. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:46, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I've guess I'll starting to get it now, thanks --PutriAmalia1991 (discuss • contribs) 06:59, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Again, happy to have you. I'm one of the very few editors who works across most WMF projects in English, so I can give my insite if it's ever helpful. If you want to dig into some simple minutiae, you can always go to Special:SpecialPages and work on the maintenance issues. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:00, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Hacker News thread on distance BA/BA/MA/MS programs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22404989 —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages
''Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.''

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:14, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Figure upload difficulty
I tried to upload figures for the review article I wrote for Wikiversity on Non-canonical Base Pairs, as suggested by Thomas Shafee. I could successfully upload few figures but for most of the figures when I tried to save it, the page says indicates there is already a figure on that name, which is of some other subject. As a result I am not able to complete my project for quite some time now.

Thanks,

Dhananjay Bhattacharyya

--Bhattasinp (discuss • contribs) 09:02, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * There's no record of you uploading files to Wikiversity, so I'm not sure what files you've tried to upload. The figures that have been uploaded to support the WikiJournal article you created were all uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. You would need to follow up with Wikimedia Commons regarding any error messages received there. Please check with one of the WikiJournal editors for further assistance. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:00, 29 February 2020 (UTC)