Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/March 2018

Unblock of Abd
Abd is asking to be unblocked on the user talk page. I am not familiar with the situation or circumstances that led to this user being blocked. Statements made on the user talk page suggest that positive contributions will result from the unblock. I will unblock this user unless there is a consensus against. Please feel free to advise. Comments, criticisms, questions, and concerns are most welcome. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:05, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

The statement above is either disingenuous or incongruous. If you are not familiar with the situation or circumstances that led this user being blocked, you are not in a position to evaluate the unblock request. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:58, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It is neither disingenuous nor incongruous and I am "not familiar with the situation or circumstances that led [to] this user being blocked" except for what is now on the user's talk page. The same was the case with Unblock of JWSchmidt; hence, why it is here. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 18:05, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * For what reason, he would like to be unblocked?--Juandev (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 12 March 2018 (UTC)


 * In the history of Abd's talk page at is the unblock request. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 19:39, 12 March 2018 (UTC) -- edited by Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, I had a look on it and I am against it. Abd has some good points, but his long discussions where more like tiering. And maybe he was also walking often on the boarder of rules? Thats not what wv needs to be tested.--Juandev (discuss • contribs) 20:25, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Please note that Abd is now globally banned from all Wikimedia projects. "Foundation global bans are final; they are not appealable, not negotiable and not reversible." -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

MetaWiki research Importation
Hello, Working on the state of art in the frame of my PhD thesis, I'm founding plenty of research papers about Wikimédia movement on Meta-Wiki site. These researchs don't seams well presented structured and referenced on this site. Should we import them on Wikiversity to increase the project contain and present them in a more structured, visible and attractive way ? Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 12:53, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what is best.  But if you import without making major changes, I am fairly certain that the Wikiversity community strongly prefers that you instead use the permalinks. For example,link
 * meta:Research:Academic_perceptions_of_Wikipedia_and_its_impact_on_online_research
 * as
 * meta:special:permalink/17656099
 * I am a strong believer in the use of permalinks in academic research. Someday there  should be journals that rely exclusively on peer reviewed permalinks, with the understanding that permalinks to articles not yet reviewed are improper.  In that spirit, my current project (at special:permalink/1821205) uses only permalinks, but will contain a disclaimer that these permalinks have not yet been refereed. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 21 February 2018 (UTC)


 * If well take them here, will be there somebody to take care of them?--Juandev (discuss • contribs) 19:31, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Enrollment
Hello, I'm fairly excited about the prospect of doing a course with Wikiversity, but I want to enroll, how can I do that? Or does it not happen in the traditional way? Could you advise me how this takes place please? Thanks davegoodo

--Davegoodo (discuss • contribs) 07:08, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking us. Wikiversity's classes are really all over the place when it comes to enrolling or taking them: many of the classes are written by a single person or maybe a couple, so if you were interested in learning about a certain topic, you would probably interact on a single page with the active editors on that particular topic. Some pages use Wikidebate which allows users to enter into a kind of conversation&mdash;maybe you have something to add to one of those pages right now. Do you have any particular topics in mind that you want to explore? Are there any topics where you feel like you're knowledgeable enough to help teach others? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:24, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure I know how to use this, but anyway, I'm interested in the Visual Basic for Applications course. I'm learning VBA and this could be a good way of doing it further.

Now I'm trying to find my way back to my "home" page, any help?


 * By "home page", I assume you are referring to your user page at User:Davegoodo. Select that link, or select your name in blue at the top of the page whenever you are logged in. If you are asking about a different home page, what page are you looking for? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:39, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Self Promotion and Gains in Education?
In traditional university and college settings are students, researchers, and teachers allowed to self promote and/or financially gain from there educational and research related endeavors, at least in certain ways? Yes. Right? Might this wiki start to thrive (in terms of amount of Creative Commons content available) if certain forms of self promotion and/or financial gain are allowed or even encouraged for some or all contributors/users?

This may be incompatible with Wikimedia Foundation, in which case this question is irrelevant. Have a good weekend! 🖖 Michael Ten (discuss • contribs) 03:38, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I consider your question highly relevant, and have a simple personal answer with two parts:
 * Yes, self-promotion is an integral part of human nature that the WMF needs to incorporate on one of its wikis. That is why I am so enthusiastic about both the WikiJournal User Group and a Miraheze collaboration.
 * I think we should draw the line at financial gain. I am not against capitalism.  But allowing any form of economic incentive into a wiki would open the floodgates and clutter the effort with efforts to collect money.  I just can't see how we can allow that. I might add that Miraheze has a similar approach towards commercialization.  I urged them to send my university a small invoice for services they rendered at https://wright.miraheze.org and they refused.  --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 07:59, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikiversity:Username policy
Suggestion: redirect Username policy to Username and page protect it. It is currently linked to from the "Help me choose" link on Special:CreateAccount. 49.3.127.35 (discuss) 12:57, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Why protect? But anyways, ✅. I had a thought about doing this years back but I completely forgot about it. Happy to see that this has been dealt with. Thanks. ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 15:28, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Open Education Week 2018
Happy Open Education Week 2018! Spread the word. https://www.openeducationweek.org/ -- Jtneill - Talk - c 09:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Word Break
User:Efex3 is working on English-Chinese translations and discovered an issue with how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters break on long lines. Apparently, CSS handles CJK text separately from other languages. According to CSS Tricks,  only applies to CJK text, and is the same as normal for others. I have added this setting to MediaWiki:Common.css. Let me know if you notice any unusual line breaks. Most obvious would be text going beyond the right margin. See Mozilla: word-break for examples. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:53, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Nice work Dave! So far no problems! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 29 March 2018 (UTC)