Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/January 2015

Top 100 Learning Projects of 2014
The top 100 learning projects of 2014, as determined by total requests for the page and all subpages, are posted at Statistics/2014 Projects. I've also added monthly top 1000 requests for the rest of 2014 at Statistics. Congratulations and thanks to those who have helped create this popular content! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 05:04, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Porting Wikiversity Quizzes to other wikis?
Does anybody know how they built the Quizzes for Wikipedia, and in particular, how the code could be ported into another wiki? I have been talking to the folks at http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/, and they seem interested in having quizzes. It would be good if both systems had the same syntax for writing quizzes. If Wikipedia is a "sister" to Wikiversity, then ChemWiki is a first cousin with whom we should interact whenever possible. --guyvan52 (discuss • contribs) 01:00, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * This is the extension used for the quiz: I had a quick look at chemwiki but they seem to use another wiki software? Anyway, the extension link above has the code, so someone could convert it to non-MW-software. Erkan Yilmaz 13:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That page doesn't make sense to me, but I have no doubt the people who developed the ChemWiki will understand it.  --guyvan52 (discuss • contribs) 18:24, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Where to put a Physics or Physics/Astronomy labs page
I wish to start to write labs for physics and/or astronomy courses. The two labs belong under the same namespace because many of the labs could be used for both purposes. I will create a name space called Physics labs, but hold off putting too many labs there until it is decided if this is where it belongs. I will also create a category so that, for example, MATLAB or Python projects could be included (since most physics labs require mathematical processing). Should I call the category Category:Physics labs? --guyvan52 (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


 * The school name for this content is School:Physics and Astronomy. Physics and Astronomy Labs (or other capitalization) and a corresponding category seems appropriate to me.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:52, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ The first resource is Physics and Astronomy Labs/Angular size, which contains a link to this recent edit on an Wikipedia article that contains this image co-authored by myself and a student. In a departure from custom, I decided to capitalize Physics and Astronomy Labs to put "Physics" and "Astronomy" on equal footing.  The category will be a subcategory called Category:Physics_and_Astronomy/Labs.  When the project is complete, I will attempt to link to it out of the Wikipedia article Angular diameter. There are many images on the internet that show how to use your outstretched hand to estimate angular size, but up till now, none of these images are open source.  Also, none of the websites that mention this method address the question of the method's accuracy -- Wikiversity will fill both gaps.--guyvan52 (discuss • contribs) 01:15, 23 January 2015 (UTC)