Wikiversity talk:Welcome, newcomers

On Welcome, newcomers: Over-reaching Principles
Currently there are four: Civility,Learning, Contributing, Neutral point of view Before them should be Honesty/Integrity: We must not intentionally deceive. Mistakes appear, and we do not know everything. And We must acknowledge so. That is how a school works.--Hillgentleman 08:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And also indepentent thinking?--Hillgentleman 18:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC).Ok

Newcomers Talk Page
The Wikiversity Newcomers page is in active development and editing. Your comments and contributions are very welcome. This page is for discussion of what should/should not be on the live Newcomers page.

Post your recommendations and comments here. Much thanks. morley 21:00, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Search preferences...
Not sure where it should be done, but newcomers should know about setting the search preferences to include the Topic: and School: namespaces, since I'm pretty sure the default setting is main namespace only.--SB_Johnny | talk 21:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe the default should be changed to include "Topic" and "School"? The Jade Knight 23:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * That would be good, too :).--SB_Johnny | talk 23:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe we can plan a big celebration for when Wikiversity finally has more main namespace articles than content development projects in the "Topic" and "School" namespaces. --JWSchmidt 01:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Eventually people will run out of new schools to create. =þ  The Jade Knight 01:55, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

above the table of contents
The current section above the table of contents seems to shunt visitors who are new to wiki off to Wikipedia. Will they ever return? Maybe we need to develop a page such as Introduction to Wiki so that we can keep new visitors at Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 17:42, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Differences
Can any one tell that is there any guideline-article here related to the differece between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. If not it's better to add a guideline as Difference between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. - Vaikunda Raja 21:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Russian Wikiversity
I have came here by link from Russian Wikipedia, but Wikiversity is in English. Will Wikiversity speak Russian?
 * You might be interested at betawikiversity, see here.
 * As I see it was once rejected, see Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiversity_Russian, but perhaps a new request was transmitted ? Better ask there, since:
 * To have a new Wikiversity site, you need ten active participants for the project. Then you can request (at meta) for a new language domain to be set up. Meanwhile, please add your project's main page to Template:Main page.
 * see Main Page
 * Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 10:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)