Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/November 2017

Participate in Dispute Resolution Focus Group
The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program is working with the Wikimedia Foundation to help communities develop tools to resolve disputes. You are invited to participate in a focus group aimed at identifying needs and developing possible solutions through collaborative design thinking.

If you are interested in participating, please add your name to the signup list on the Meta-Wiki page.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn from the Wikimedia community. We value all of your opinions and look forward to hearing from you. JosephNegotiation (discuss • contribs) 16:25, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiScienceCompetition 2017
Hi! As I have informed few months ago, Wiki Science Competition has started, sitenotices have appeared for sure in Spain, Austria, USA, Russian Federation and Ukraine, and Italy will be join very soon with a massive national campaign.

As a member of the academic committee I did my best to reduce the gap between countries both in the composition of the juries and now in the outreach. I did inform many platforms during the preparation of the event, now I am informing all national institutions, associations and federations of teachers or scientists I can contact, especially those located in countries without national juries... and so on. That's why I am here.

We started to prepare banners for many countries but on meta they say it is not wise to use them all, so if you want to use the style and do one here on your wiki for few days, just inform us.

Otherwise, if you have social media and you want to inform your friends and colleagues, the twitter hashtags are #WSC2017, #WikiScience2017, #WikiScience

Plus, if you want, take a look at the files to help sorting them and to spot something worth to be used. For example is a nice diagram for a school textbook. i hope we'll get more.

Thank you in advance and whatever you do (join, inform, ignore) have fun!--Alexmar983 (discuss • contribs) 08:09, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * creative of the Wikimedia Foundations--will see if I can participate. Thanks for leaving this notice here! -Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 01:43, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Atcovi without a banner not even for few days my only hope to get people from some countries it's to spam everywhere. Not just here. I have sent mails also to teachers unions.--Alexmar983 (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey 2017
Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until November 20. The communities will vote on the proposals between November 28 and December 12. You can read more on the 2017 wishlist survey page. /Johan (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 20:19, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Making Mediawiki MOOC-ready
Hi

I just created Making Mediawiki MOOC-ready to the wishlist. I foster everybody here to react to it and feed it further.

I also encourage you add any proposal idea you might have for Wikiversity.

--Psychoslave (discuss • contribs) 12:29, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this. Note that I fixed your link above. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:54, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you . Indeed the previous link was deleted because I had created a dedicated category for Wikiversity, but category creation is not part of the feedback process. So it might come back later if the team decide to do so. Cheers, Psychoslave (discuss • contribs) 22:51, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Changes to the global ban policy
Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 00:34, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

courses
Are there any art courses on here? I've been trying to search for any art courses, since I'm in art at my school. So, isn't there any art courses I can go to?

--Joybeautynezzfan88 (discuss • contribs) 01:19, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * See Category:Art. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:41, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

courses
Is there any middle school courses on here? Since I'm in middle school. I've been searching for math courses.
 * Of course! There several courses relating to middle school topics. Which ones are you interested in? Speak Math Now! (Algebra) is a course... but there are also notes/papers... one example is this science page I created, Geosphere... This page deals with Earth Science... BTW, this is coming from a former-middle schooler. ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 00:00, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * You may also want to check our sister project Wikibooks which has textbooks. Is there anything in particular you were trying to learn? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:50, 26 November 2017 (UTC)