Wikiversity talk:Featured/Archive

Well, to open up the discussion, I think it will be a while before we get featured material. What we need is a direct path from the main page to an interesting topic. No going through 2 or 3 pages to find something. And this topic needs to change, maybe weekly, maybe daily. How about a project of the day, which a link can be put on the main page with a short discription. We can then vote here on it, excluding past winners for a set time. Or maybe it could rotate between the major schools, and schools could choose their project they want to be featured. What does everyone think?--Rayc | (Talk) 05:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Featured Content vs. Featured Topics
I do definitely believe that Wikiversity needs some sort of featured content system; however, I wonder if it may be wrong to feature learning materials and activities in the place of featuring, say, topics. It would seem that many learning activites and lessons are structured as a supplement to a full "course," and rarely cover introductory material; thus, it seems that by featuring and advanced physics lab that will be way over the heads of most visitors to the site, we're not really going to be able to demonstrate to users how the site could be of any use to them. On the other hand, if we featured something like Topic:Physics, though not all people will be interested in it, they can at least grasp concepts covered in the introduction and recognize how those interested in physics could get a lot out of it. I think our main focus should be promoting our topics, which are commonly full courses or divisions of schools, rather than individual, out-of-context lessons. AmiDaniel 01:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I think you're already in danger here of imposing a conceptual structure on Wikiversity which supercedes its fundamental goal. Wikiversity's goal is to develop educational materials - not necessarily courses (though it will, indeed, develop courses). The whole point of having featured content is to allow people to see a good example of a single page (or image, soundfile etc) that is particularly good (by some criteria) at facilitating learning. I agree that within (or, perhaps, alongside) "featured content", we could have featured topics, schools, portals etc. But, in my opinion, we should always recognise that our utility will be of use in different ways to different people - not just about providing set-path courses. As for your 'overly-advanced' point - nod - we could probably start breaking our featured content not just by subject and type (ie image, soundfile), but also by level. Cormaggio 09:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

School status
Here is a list of school status I made a while back, User:Rayc/School status. Might be useful.--Rayc 05:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

"content development projects"
What does this phrase mean? The Jade Knight 07:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Short answer: a Topic: (division or department) or a School:... Long answer. -- CQ 20:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Dynamic content
I've started a course about generating dynamic content with MediaWiki as part of the MediaWiki Project which is here to help us get the most from the software application that drives Wikiversity. As Rayc pointed out above, the featured content needs to be changed frequently to make WV more interesting and dynamic and to make sure the Featured stuff gets its "place in the Sun". We have a crude Picture of the Month that we're using as a "pilot project" and hands on training with POTM.

The course will look at monthly, weekly, daily, hourly and eventually even minute-by-minute dynamics for the Main Page and other Portals. We'll need a lot more such activities and exersizes and other ideas for applying what we learn. I think the course should stay tied to Featured to keep it in the "hands on" realm.

I've manually compiled Top100 as a user-friendly version of leon's WikiChart. Using this utility might help diffuse a lot of the chaos and confusion experienced by trying to institute voting systems but there may be other ways. It's a start. -- CQ 20:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

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