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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2017 September 15

= September 15 =

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I like to have a look at the section of Wikipedia called "Wikipedia: Articles for deletion", but I am not sure how you get "Delete" "Keep" or "Merge" in bold letters, as other Wikipedians appear to be able to do. Also, I believe that, by using quote marks, it is possible to get some of one's letters in italics, but I was not sure how to do this. Any help and advice here will be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance for any assistance, Vorbee (talk) 08:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * To use bold type three straight apostrophes either side of the words you wish to highlight. To display italics, use two. Eagleash (talk) 08:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Hello, Manual of Style/Text formatting might assist you further, specially MOS:BOLD and MOS:ITALIC. Warmly.  Lourdes  08:21, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Dr. imam M. Jowad Al-Ansari
M. Jowad Al-Ansari,, Imam, Chaplain, Dr. of Clinical Pastoral Psychologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‹ The template Infobox religious biography is being considered for merging. › Jowad Al-Ansari Religion	Twelve Imami Shia, Shia Islam

Other names	Arabic: محمد) جواد الانصاري)

Personal Born	1952 Kuwait, Arabia

Senior posting Based in	Dearborn, Michigan

Religious career Website	imamberry.org (Arabic, English)

M. Jowad Al-Ansari (Arabic: م جواد الانصاري ) (also Sheikh M. Jowad Al-Ansari), (also Dr. M. Jowad Al-Ansari). Dr. Sheikh Al-Ansari was born to a Bedoon (stateless) family in Kuwait, Arabis where his father the late Kathem Abdullah Lary Al-Ansari was a business man. He wrote several books on Islam and established the Islamic: 1- Twelver newspaper, 2-The first Muslim Spiritual Care and Hospice Network, and 3- The National Association of Moslem Chaplains. His permanent office is in Dearborn, Michigan.[1] Contents [hide] •	1Biography o	1.1Early life o	1.2Return to Kuwait o	1.3Migration to America o	1.4His doctorate in Psychology •	2References Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Al-Ansari was born in the city of Kuwait in 1952. His Father, the late Kathem Abdullah Lary Al-Ansari who was a business man in Kuwait was born in Kuwait, and his grand father immigrated to Kwait between 1913 or 1917 from Lar, Dr. Al-Ansari studied and graduated from the high school at Kuwait as well as the (Houzah) the first level, Moqaddemaat in Islamic seminary in 1974, then he travelled to United States. All of his academic studies were at US, where as up to his Kharej level of his seminary studies were in Kuwait hoping to receive his Kuwaiti citizenship he travelled back to Kuwait, Return to Kuwait [edit] After two years of studies at US, and becoming married at US with his American wife and returned to Kuwait at 1976. He is one of the highest speakers of the injustice in Kuwait where there are about 700,000 stateless (without nationality), being tortures psychologically, Kuwait is not giving them the nationality or that sense of belonging to their country, as well as their rights to many other issues as ownership, license, jobs, schools, in some cases the birth certificates. Migration to America[edit] Dr. imam Al-Ansari migrated again to the United States in 1976. He established, the Imami Association at Memphis, Tennessee, also istablishe the American Islamic Community Center at Sterling Hights, Michigan and the As-Sojood Muslim Association in which a branch of it was the Muslim Spiritual Care and Hospice Networl, later when he graduated as a chaplain he opened the The National Association of Moslem Chaplains. But he always fought the rights of the Kuwaiti bedoons (stateless), all over the world, he taught Islam, Digital electronics, computer software, math ethics, Islamic Psychology, the Islamic Cultural Society in Dearborn, Michigan while contributing to Islamic conferences in various U.S. states, Canada, Europe and Asia. He was the first to establish Muslim Spiritual Care and Hospice as well as The National Association of Moslem Chaplains. He taught the Arabic language, both conventional and slang, the language of the Holy Quran: The daily Afternoon Arabic Schools in Henry Ford Community College and University of Detroit Mercy as well as the Saturday, Sunday Religion School. Humbly he considers himself as student of knowledge and studies with Imam — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:23, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Hello, this is the desk for asking for help in editing Wikipedia. It seems you may be wishing to create an article. Please see WP:WIZ, WP:AfC and WP:YFA. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 08:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

ma uias a asasm maqsa sada asa dam na
Ââ — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
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Entry for "Rafey Habib"
Dear Wiki editor,

I would like to modify the entry on "Rafey Habib" (which is about me), but I feel unable to do this myself. If I send you some text, could you please substitute it for the text that is currently in place?

Also, on the page it says that more citations are needed to "verify" the information. What exactly needs verifying and what would count as "reliable sources"?

Thanks for your help, Rafey Habib. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:33, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Rafey, since the article is about you, you are strongly discouraged from directly editing it anyway: see WP:COI. You are free (and encouraged!) to add your proposed text to the articles talk page Talk:Rafey Habib, where other editors can look at your proposed changes and then edit the article. Since Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, we must insist that stuff is verifyable: see WP:V, using reliable sources: see WP:RS. We have our own speific definitions for "verifyable" and "reliable source", so please do not assume you know what we mean. When you fine reliable sources, the syntax or adding them can be difficult for newcomers: don't worry about that, just stick them on the talk page any old way and another editor can do the dirty work-Arch dude (talk) 15:07, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Dear Arch Dude, Many thanks for your response. In accordance with your suggestion, I will post some proposed text so that other editors can look at the changes. My purpose is merely to have an article that is somewhat better-written and more accurate (and, as you say, verifiable). By the way, I always thought that I was the arch dude; and now I find that someone else is... Many thanks, Rafey Habib. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:40, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Pop Ups
I noticed today that if I passed my cursor over a link, a pop up appeared. Is there a way to turn this off? It is distracting.

Bruce — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:54, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You can disable it with the cog wheel that is inside the popup. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * When I see the popup, there's no cogwheel, but the word "popups" in it produces a menu which offers "disable popups" as an option. Maproom (talk) 15:10, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That is Navigation popups, which is not available to IP users. The IP likely encountered and A/B test for Page Previews however. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 15:25, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Logo
The logo that is shown when you search National Board for Respiratory Care is an old logo. How do I add the new logo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Watcher303 (talk • contribs) 15:44, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Daylen (talk) 19:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Avner Halperin
Hi, Everyone. I am concerned about a maintenance tag placed on article Avner Halperin, which reads "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies." It means that tag has been placed because Wikipedia suspects that it was edited in exchange of money. But the user who created article has already disclosed here that he was paid for this article. Then the question arises, If paid editing is disclosed, then why still UDP (Undisclosed Payment) tag be placed on the article? It should be removed when paid editing is clearly disclosed. Someone, please help to remove that maintenance tag. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The editor made the disclosure after creating and repeatedly editing the article. In any such situation, the content is suspect and the tag should remain until the consensus is reached to remove it. I don't have time to go into it thoroughly, but in glancing briefly over the article I am uncertain if the subject meets notability guidelines in the first place. Rivertorch   FIRE WATER   16:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

I am not aware about why did the user not disclose his all paid works and also not much aware what was case exactly. But user has initially disclosed this article to be paid then UDP tag doesn't apply. I asked here for help but no one came forward to help me out. So, now I decided to do it by myself. I have prepared my version, did clean up, added more references, considering all Wiki guidelines. So, I am trying myself best to resolve the issue. If you find something wrong, help me to fix it.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:34, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Request comment on a non-admin Afd closure
Hello, I would like to know if we have a noticeboard where I can broach the subject of an afd closed by a non-admin. For the record, the case is Articles for deletion/Thiripuram.--SamHolt6 (talk) 17:41, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The first step is to discuss with the user who closed the discussion. Often pointing out error can result in them realizing the close was problematic. After that, the right forum is Deletion review where despite the name, you can discuss things that weren't deleted like this case. Crow  Caw  17:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Digging deeper, that close was inappropriate (performed by article creator who had also opined in the discussion). Per WP:BADNAC I think an uninvolved administrator should re-open the discussion due to these factors. Crow  Caw  17:56, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the prompt response.--SamHolt6 (talk) 18:23, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Religion
Before there was the word Muslim the Quran they were called Ishmaelit's they credited this religion and faith like the Christian's so any one from any nationality and bacround can join them but descendants of Mohammed consider every one less than they are well not all but radicals do and there is no proof that Mohammed was a true blood descendant of Ishmael — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C4A:717F:EC9C:C5D3:13DC:E417:E2B2 (talk) 19:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This page is for questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia. Do you have such a question? Maproom (talk) 19:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

If you have an issue with the title of Muslim I suggest you take it up at Talk:Muslim. (you may also want to register for a user account). Α Guy into Books ™ § ( Message ) -  21:57, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

How do i create an entry for my company?
How do i create an entry for my company? — Preceding unsigned comment added by M. Isabella (talk • contribs) 20:01, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest starting by reviewing Wikipedia's guidelines on conflicts of interest before venturing further. Pure RED  |  talk to me   | 20:04, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Also please see WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTADVERTISING.  General Ization  Talk   20:05, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol move vote.svg|20px]] Please wait before creating a page about a company or organization. Since you have a close connection to the company or organization, you have a conflict of interest. Please read the FAQ first. If you still think your article is appropriate, you can submit it to Articles for creation. Just click this link and follow the instructions.  P p p er y 21:31, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You can add your company to the list at WP:Requested articles, and another editor who is neutral may create a page about it. You should read WP:GNG and WP:CORPDEPTH to see if it is notable enough for inclusion first. Α Guy into Books ™  § ( Message ) -  21:54, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Samsung galaxy j5 smart phone
My mobile phone problem :security notice

Unauthorised actions have been detected.Reset your device undo unauthorised any changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Md Zulet (talk • contribs) 22:47, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, we are unable to provide technical support for your issue as we only help with Wikipedia issues at this board. --  Dane talk  22:51, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Please, see this. Ruslik_ Zero 18:52, 16 September 2017 (UTC)


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User:KarlyKerod/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1 Food history

 * Article Evaluation

These subtopics need the following changes:

The Middle Ages: This article doesn't show the "worldwide view" of cuisine from the Middle Ages. My idea for editing this subtopic is to separate cuisines by region and then explain their eating styles, cooking methods, etc. I think this section would make the most sense that way because there is no worldwide cuisine of the Middle Ages.

Early Modern Europe: I want to add to this article and include more of the eating habits and cooking styles from this time. Currently it only talks about agricultural products.

 * Sources
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1. Selby, Anna. Food Through the Ages: From Stuffed Dormice to Pineapple Hedgehogs. Havertown: Remember When, 2009. Internet resource.

2. Gentilcore, David. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015. Internet resource.

3. Clarkson, Janet. Food History Almanac : Over 1,300 Years of World Culinary History, Culture, and Social Influence, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/templeuniv-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1632034.

Option 2 American cuisine

 * Article Evaluation

This article has issues related to its credibility– I would like to add sources to verify the information. There is also information included in this article that doesn't necessarily relate to the main focus of American cuisine. I would like to read it over and look for informational flaws, then change them if needed based off of data from my sources.

 * Sources

1. Smith, Andrew F. Eating History : Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine. Columbia University Press, 2009. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=584661&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

2. Liberman, Sherri. American Food by the Decades, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/templeuniv-ebooks/detail.action?docID=745316.

3. ENCYCLOPEDIA (I will cite articles I use): https://search-credoreference-com.libproxy.temple.edu/content/title/bloomfood?tab=contents

Option 3 History of Japanese cuisine

 * Article Evaluation

The main issue with this article is that it relies too heavily on one source. I want to use additional sources from the library to round out the article as a whole. It appears that some of the text was translated from Japanese as well, so I will probably read it through to check for fluidity.

 * Sources

1. “Japanese Food Culture.” Web Japan, Web Japan, https://web-japan.org/factsheet/en/pdf/36JapFoodCulture.pdf.

2. Kim, Kwang-Ok. Re-Orienting Cuisine : East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century, Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/templeuniv-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1707810.

3. Rath, Eric C. Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan. 1st ed., University of California Press, 2010. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pq0m7.

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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
[11/10] The article contains in-depth information about the CCBA existing in New York, Seattle, and a link to information about the association in Vancouver. For San Francisco, it provides information about the Six Companies, but does not discuss them in length. I would like to do more research and expand on these families, their functions, and their accomplishments in San Francisco. Below are some of the articles that I am using: [11/17] Further additions:

I plan to elaborate more on the cultural climate that existed in Chinatown, San Francisco in relation to what they experienced in America: The Six Companies served Chinatown as ambassadors for China by speaking on behalf of the Qing imperial government. They felt that the United States government did not protect their interests. As a result of this, the Six Companies acted as a safety net by providing services for Chinese workers as soon as they arrived to San Francisco. The services provided included: settling disputes, available remittances for relatives in their home villages, and school for the Chinese-language. I added the previous edit into the Wikipedia page for this topic, and I have also expanded on the CCBA's influence during the 1960's:

Immigration in the 1960s
Though the Six Companies discouraged the continuing immigration of Chinese to America, it continued throughout the years. In the 1960s, discrimination began to arise within these Chinese communities. Assimilation of Chinese communities increased through the years, and caused a cultural clash within the Chinese communities between newly-immigrated people and those who were American-born and have assimilated to the culture. Many new Chinese immigrants often came to America without savings because most of their money was spent on their transportation to the Untied States. Many immigrant children were also affected by these conditions, having to work when they are not in school and struggling to learn English. This led to many of the children of new immigrants dropping out and joining gangs. These gangs were often involved in numerous acts of violence that occurred in Chinatown. Though this was the life that was led by many of these gangs, they also asked for help. In 1968 during a Human Rights Commission hearing held at San Francisco, the Wah Ching gang asked for a community clubhouse and a two-year program to help them gain vocational skills and earn high school diplomas. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association advised the Human Rights Commission: "They have not shown that they are sorry or that they will change their ways. They have threatened the community. If you give in to this group, you are only going to have another hundred immigrants come in and have a whole new series of threats and demands." As a result of this, the Concerned Chinese for Action and Change was founded in 1968 to emphasize the social issues that existed in their community and to push the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association to make changes in the system.

Peer Review of Brett Reichman Additions
Edited by JuslopezCSUEB: The addition to the article flowed smoothly with the existing information provided, so it did not stick out and still provided new information. The article is neutral and unbiased. The edits are neutral and unbiased, but still adds more information in the article. The information is cited correctly and the links work. The additions are cited correctly. The information is up to date. Overall, the addition to the article was good. If possible, I think putting in an example of his collected works can further support Reichman's position in the politics of gay culture.
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check the citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact supported by an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that should be added?

Slava Mogutin
''' I plan to talk more about his most recent work, Bros and Brosephines, and discuss more about what his inspiration was in creating that work along with various other artists. The book covers 15 years of work, which can document the various experiences that he and the other artists have had with their perception of sexuality and gender fluidity during that time period.

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Jelica Komnenović

Jelica Komnenović (born 20 April 1960) is a former basketball player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Asta Hampe

Asta Hampe (24 May 1907 – 22 October 2003) was a German electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, economist and statistician. According to The Woman Engineer, Hampe was the first German member of the Women's Engineering Society, which she joined in 1929.

Early life and education
Ata Hampe was born on 24 May 1907 in Helmstedt, one of four children of Hans Hampe and Emmy Busch owners of the Hampe worsted spinning mill (founded in 1823) and the Friedrich Hampe soap factory. She had two sisters, and her older brother was reported as missing in action in the First World War. As a child her father and uncle encouraged her to get involved in the family businesses.

In 1924, Hampe began to tinker with a small radio set which she had found the plan for in a trade journal. Fascinated by the new technology, she announced her intention to become an engineer, although her father did not approve, expecting her to learn to type then get married.

Asta Hampe's secondary education was at the Klosterschule, Hamburg, where she graduated in 1926. She then attended the Technische Hochschule, Munich, where she studied physics and engineering and was one of five women among 500 male students.

After preliminary exams and company internships, she transferred to Technische Hochschule in Berlin to study telecommunications engineering. The 200-300 male students were more welcoming to the three female students than in Munich. While still a student here Hampe founded the Gemeinschaft Deutscher Ingenieurinnen (Association of German Women Engineers). She took her Diplom-Hauptprüfung in the field of telecommunications engineering from the mechanical engineering department in 1931. Between 1929 and 1935 she improved her English language skills during stays abroad in London, Exeter and Sheffield.

Her further studies were financially supported by her grandfather and uncle.

Engineering
Hampe went on to work as an assistant at the Research Laboratory at Friedrich Krupp AG, in Essen. Following the rise of the Nazi party to power in 1933, women's rights began to be suppressed and she was fired from her job at Barmbek Hospital for being a woman, with the dismissal stating that "Physics is no profession for a woman, therefore, Hampe must be dismissed".

Hampe then joined the East Asia export company Kunst & Albers as a supply engineer. In 1938, she wrote to the Women's Engineering Society about her position at Philips' radio. During the Second World War, Hampe was recruited to work as a physicist for the Kriegsmarine at the Nachrichtenmittel-Versuchskommando in Kiel. She undertook the laboratory work and a man would field test it for her which always annoyed her.

Economics
In 1943, she returned to Hamburg and began her second career in economics at the University of Hamburg. After the end of the Second World War, with the process of reorganisation and denazification, Hampe's expertise is thought to have made it simpler to continue her career. In 1947, she received her doctorate for her dissertation on "The Influence of War-Related Building Destruction on Urban Land Credit". She became a staff member in important housing associations and, from 1951, assistant to Prof. Dr. Albert von Mühlenfels and a lecturer in statistics at the University of Hamburg.

In 1957, Hampe habilitated (post doctoral work) with the economic theory paper: 'Die freie Mietpreisbildung'. She then became an associate professor at the University of Hamburg, and in 1962 she was awarded the newly created chair of 'Economic Statistics' at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Philipps University in Marburg. There she had the unique opportunity to completely rebuild this subject, which she did with passion. A generation of economists was shaped by her.

From 1968-69, she held a professor position at the Philips University in Marburg.

Membership of the Women's Engineering Society
Records from the Women's Engineering Society (WES) show that professor Hampe was an active member. She provided a listing for herself in the 1935 Register of Women Engineers and, in the same year, attended the thirteenth annual conference for the society speaking to delegates about her experiences as an engineer in Germany. In response to the toast by Amy Johnson (under her married name Mrs. J Mollison) to women engineers across the world, Hampe is reported to have outlined some of the changes for women in engineering in Germany following the election of the National Socialist party, though mostly there were training opportunities for women and some employment options. In The Woman Engineer in 1986, there is a listing for Professor Dr. Asta Hampe as a full member.

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Talk:Nicholas Gonzalez

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Wasn't Nicholas in the made for TV movie, "A Fairytale Christmas"? Lhonstine (talk) 23:44, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

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Citations:notwithstanding

Adverb

 * 1594 — Willliam Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, iii 2
 * But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay: We may effect this business yet ere day.
 * 1599 — Willliam Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, i 4
 * I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been throughly moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding, man, I'll do you your master what good I can;
 * 1857 — Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 11
 * "You have not seen her looking down then?" said he. "No." "It is a treat, notwithstanding."

Conjunction

 * 1594 — Willliam Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, i 3
 * The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient.
 * 1594 — Willliam Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, iii 2
 * Notwithstanding, use your pleasure; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.
 * 1690 — Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend
 * And therefore the Stoicks could not but think that the firy Principle would wear out all the rest, and at last make an end of the World, which notwithstanding without such a lingring period the Creator may effect at his Pleasure: and to make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he need but put out the Sun.
 * 1724 — Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, ch. XXX
 * Upon which Amy had said, that notwithstanding I was angry with her and had used her so hardly for saying something about her of the same kind, yet there was an absolute necessity of securing her and removing her out of the way;
 * 1775 — John Adams, Novanglus Essays, no. 10
 * Another instance to show, that the king, by his sole authority, whenever he pleased, made regulations for the government of Ireland, notwithstanding it was annexed and subject to the crown of England, is the ordinatio facta pro statu terrae Hiberniae, in the 31 Edward I., in the appendix to Ruffhead’s statutes.
 * 1830 — Book of Mormon, Mormon 2:1
 * And notwithstanding I being young, was large in stature; therefore the people of Nephi appointed me that I should be their leader, or the leader of their armies.
 * 1841 — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 49
 * That which went through the City greatly exceeded the others in number, and was of such prodigious extent that when the rear began to move, the front was nearly four miles in advance, notwithstanding that the men marched three abreast and followed very close upon each other.
 * ...There was silence immediately—even among the people in the passages without, and on the other staircases, who could neither see nor hear, but to whom, notwithstanding, the signal was conveyed with marvellous rapidity.
 * 1861 — Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. XII
 * And notwithstanding Mr. Soloman is forever sounding Mr. Keepum's generosity, the said Keepum has a singular faculty for holding with a firm grasp all he gets, the extent of his charities being a small mite now and then to Mr. Hadger, the very pious agent for the New York Presbyterian Tract Society.
 * , — Emily Dickinson, To do a magnanimous thing
 * Not to do a magnanimous thing Notwithstanding it never be known Notwithstanding it cost us existence once Is Rapture herself spurn —
 * 1918 — John Muir, Steep Trails, ch. XII
 * To the farmer who comes to this thirsty land from beneath rainy skies, Nevada seems one vast desert, all sage and sand, hopelessly irredeemable now and forever. And this, under present conditions, is severely true. For notwithstanding it has gardens, grainfields, and hayfields generously productive, these compared with the arid stretches of valley and plain, as beheld in general views from the mountain tops, are mere specks lying inconspicuously here and there, in out-of-the-way places, often thirty or forty miles apart.

Preposition

 * 1776 — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. 1
 * The corn of Poland, in the same degree of goodness, is as cheap as that of France, notwithstanding the superior opulence and improvement of the latter country.
 * 1779 — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, part 12
 * You, in particular, CLEANTHES, with whom I live in unreserved intimacy; you are sensible, that notwithstanding the freedom of my conversation, and my love of singular arguments, no one has a deeper sense of religion impressed on his mind, or pays more profound adoration to the Divine Being, as he discovers himself to reason, in the inexplicable contrivance and artifice of nature.
 * 1788 — James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 58
 * Notwithstanding the equal authority which will subsist between the two houses on all legislative subjects, except the originating of money bills, it cannot be doubted that the House, composed of the greater number of members, when supported by the more powerful States, and speaking the known and determined sense of a majority of the people, will have no small advantage in a question depending on the comparative firmness of the two houses.
 * 1826 — James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, ch. 26
 * Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur.
 * 1841 — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 49
 * The noise continued, notwithstanding his appearance, until Gashford looked round.
 * 1901 — Swami Vivekananda, The Religion we are born in
 * First, in discussing the scriptures, one fact stands out prominently — that only those religions which had one or many scriptures of their own as their basis advanced by leaps and bounds and survive to the present day notwithstanding all the persecution and repression hurled against them.
 * 1938 — H. P. Lovecraft, Ibid
 * His remains, notwithstanding the troubled state of Italy, were taken to Ravenna for interment;
 * 1949 — Constitution of India, Article 331
 * Notwithstanding anything in article 81, the President may, if he is of opinion that the Anglo-Indian community is not adequately represented in the House of the People, nominate not more than two members of that community to the House of the People.

Postposition

 * 1679 — Habeas Corpus Act, section 11
 * And be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that an Habeas Corpus, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, may be directed and seen in any county Palatine, the Cinque Ports, or other privileged places within the Kindgom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
 * 1876 — Henry M. Robert, Robert's Rules of Order, Parliamentary Law
 * Thus in every American deliberative assembly having no rules for conducting business, the motion to adjourn would be decided to be undebatable, as in Congress, the English parliamentary law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Noun

 * 2003, Banesh Hoffmann, The Tyranny of Testing (page 53)
 * It is not for nothing that our language has its ifs and buts, its yets and howevers, its neverthelesses and notwithstandings, its possiblies and probablies and perhapses, and its on-the-other-hands.
 * 2004, Trevor Carolan, Down in the Valley: Writing in British Columbia (page 107)
 * Letters from the English usually contained very formally typed documents with lots of heretofores and whereases and notwithstandings.
 * 2010, Richard Marcinko, Red Cell (page 149)
 * The agreements were filled with wheretofores and herebys and hereafters and notwithstandings.

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Foundations of calculus

This class is also called Freshman Mathematics. The subjects below are copied from the list for Ma 1 class in Caltech Institute.

Subjects

 * Function
 * Mathematical Induction
 * Sequences and Series
 * Completeness

 * Integral for Step Functions
 * Integral for More General Functions
 * Applications of Integration
 * Limits
 * Continuity
 * Intermediate Value Theorem
 * Inversion
 * Extreme - Value Theorem
 * Integrability Theorem
 * Mean Value Theorem for Integrals
 * Derivatives
 * Implicit Differentiation
 * Extreme Values
 * Mean Value Theorem for Derivatives
 * Curve Sketching
 * Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
 * Integration by Substitution
 * Integration by Parts
 * Logarithm
 * Exponential Function
 * Integration by Partial Fractions
 * Real Numbers
 * Complex Numbers

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Syed Muhammed Taifoor

Syed Muhammed Taifoor (সৈয়দ মোহাম্মদ তৈফুর; 3 June 1885 – 25 February 1972) was a Bangladeshi historian, antiquarian and writer.

Early life
Taifoor was born on 3 June 1885, to a Bengali Muslim family in Dhaka, Bengal Presidency. His father, Syed Abdul Aziz, was a zamindar in nearby Sonargaon. Through his paternal grandfather Mir Ghulam Mustafa Al-Husayni, he was a descendant of 16th-century Islamic scholar and zamindar Syed Ibrahim Danishmand. Taifoor was educated in madrasas in the cities of Dhaka and Kolkata, and gained fluency in Bengali, English, Urdu and Persian.

Career
Taifoor joined the government service in 1909 as a sub-registrar. He awarded the title Khan Shaheb by the British Raj in 1941. He retired in 1942, Registrar of Kolkata. During the anti-British movement in India, he renounced his title, Khan Shaheb, in 1947. He served as the director of Eden Mohila College and Jagannath College. He was a member of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka. He was a member of Dhaka Improvement Trust and Dhaka museum's Trustee Board. He donated over 200 artifacts to Dhaka Museum. He donated rare books and manuscripts to Asiatic Society of Pakistan (Today Asiatic Society of Bangladesh). He supported changing the spelling of Dacca to Dhaka. He published "Glimpses of Old Dhaka", on the historical evolution of the city, in 1952.

Personal life
Taifoor was married to Sara Taifoor. They had three daughters, Leila Arjumand Banu, Lulu Bilquis Banu, and Malka Perveen Banu.

Death
Taifoor died on 25 February 1972 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Perl Programming/About Perl

Perl is a programming language designed by Larry Wall, known today for its strong community and module archive CPAN. It was originally developed to process text and produce reports. As a result, a backronym has been formed from its name: Practical Extraction and Report Language. It makes extensive use of significant punctuation, and highly chaotic-looking code has been written in it. This has resulted in a less complimentary backronym (which is still embraced by Perl users): Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (said to be a quote from the language designer himself).

Perl is Free Software, available under the Artistic License and the GPL. It was developed on Unix, and its Unix roots are pervasive. Perl is available for most operating systems but is particularly prevalent on Unix and Unix-like systems, and is growing in popularity on Microsoft Windows systems. However, it has been ported to a multitude of environments (some say as many as Java). It's a popular systems administration tool in Windows. Most of the things done in Perl transfer well from one operating system to another (provided suggested conventions are followed).

As an example of Perl in action, until January 2002 the software running Wikipedia was a CGI script written in Perl.

Another example is Slashdot, which runs on the Perl-based Slashcode software.

When used on the web, Perl is often used in conjunction with the Apache web server and its mod_perl module. This embeds the Perl binary into the webserver so the CGI script need not fire up a new copy each time it's accessed. Other features such as database connection persistence greatly reduce the access times to the page.

History
The Perl programming language was created by Larry Wall in 1987. It borrows features from C, sed, awk, shell scripting (sh), and (to a lesser extent) from many other programming languages as well. The name is normally capitalized ("Perl") when referring to the language, but not capitalized ("perl") when referring to the interpreter (e.g. "Only perl properly parses Perl.")

Rationale
Perl was designed to be a practical language to extract information from text files and generate reports. One of its mottos is There is more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI - pronounced 'Tim Toady'). Another is Perl: the Swiss Army Chainsaw of Programming Languages. One stated design goal is to make easy tasks easy and difficult tasks possible. Its versatility permits versions of many programming paradigms: procedural, functional, and object-oriented — though purists object to Perl as it is not a cleanly designed language. Perl has a powerful regular expression support built in directly to the syntax. Perl is often considered the archetypal scripting language and has been called the "glue that holds the web together", as it is one of the most popular ../CGI/ languages. Its function as a "glue language" can be described broadly as its ability to tie together different systems and data structures that were not designed to be tied together.

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Boston Terriers
Boston Terriers are little dogs that are commonly black and white in color. They are known as the "tuxedo dog" because of the pattern that their colors form. There names come from the word.

History
Boston Terriers used to be trained as fighting-dogs.

Facial Appearance
Boston Terriers have a usually black facial appearance and have very stout snouts. They have a white line in the middle of their face usually and there snout is usually surrounded by white fur.

Overall Appearance
Boston Terriers are mainly black and they have a white triangle on the back of their neck. There fur is not at all long and it is more smooth than shaggy. They have a small tail and small legs and paws.

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Weyl scalar

In the Newman–Penrose (NP) formalism of general relativity, Weyl scalars refer to a set of five complex scalars $$\{\Psi_0, \Psi_1, \Psi_2,\Psi_3, \Psi_4\}$$ which encode the ten independent components of the Weyl tensor of a four-dimensional spacetime.

Definitions
Given a complex null tetrad $$\{l^a, n^a, m^a, \bar{m}^a\}$$ and with the convention $$\{(-,+,+,+); l^a n_a=-1\,,m^a \bar{m}_a=1\}$$, the Weyl-NP scalars are defined by

 * $$\Psi_0 := C_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta} l^\alpha m^\beta l^\gamma m^\delta\, $$

 * $$\Psi_1 := C_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta} l^\alpha n^\beta l^\gamma m^\delta\, $$

 * $$\Psi_2 := C_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta} l^\alpha m^\beta \bar{m}^\gamma n^\delta\, $$

 * $$\Psi_3 := C_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta} l^\alpha n^\beta \bar{m}^\gamma n^\delta\, $$

 * $$\Psi_4 := C_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta} n^\alpha \bar{m}^\beta n^\gamma \bar{m}^\delta\ . $$

Note: If one adopts the convention $$\{(+,-,-,-); l^a n_a=1\,,m^a \bar{m}_a=-1\}$$, the definitions of $$\Psi_i$$ should take the opposite values; that is to say, $$\Psi_i\mapsto-\Psi_i$$ after the signature transition.

Alternative derivations
According to the definitions above, one should find out the Weyl tensors before calculating the Weyl-NP scalars via contractions with relevant tetrad vectors. This method, however, does not fully reflect the spirit of Newman–Penrose formalism. As an alternative, one could firstly compute the spin coefficients and then use the NP field equations to derive the five Weyl-NP scalars

 * $$\Psi_0=D\sigma-\delta\kappa-(\rho+\bar{\rho})\sigma-(3\varepsilon-\bar{\varepsilon})\sigma+(\tau-\bar{\pi}+\bar{\alpha}+3\beta)\kappa\,,$$
 * $$\Psi_1=D\beta-\delta\varepsilon-(\alpha+\pi)\sigma-(\bar{\rho}-\bar{\varepsilon})\beta+(\mu+\gamma)\kappa+(\bar{\alpha}-\bar{\pi})\varepsilon\,,$$
 * $$\Psi_2=\bar{\delta}\tau-\Delta\rho-(\rho\bar{\mu}+\sigma\lambda)+(\bar{\beta}-\alpha-\bar{\tau})\tau+(\gamma+\bar{\gamma})\rho+\nu\kappa-2\Lambda\,,$$
 * $$\Psi_3=\bar{\delta}\gamma-\Delta\alpha+(\rho+\varepsilon)\nu-(\tau+\beta)\lambda+(\bar{\gamma}-\bar{\mu})\alpha+(\bar{\beta}-\bar{\tau})\gamma\,.$$
 * $$\Psi_4=\delta\nu-\Delta\lambda-(\mu+\bar{\mu})\lambda-(3\gamma-\bar{\gamma})\lambda+(3\alpha+\bar{\beta}+\pi-\bar{\tau})\nu\,.$$

where $$\Lambda$$ (used for $$\Psi_2$$) refers to the NP curvature scalar $$\Lambda:=\frac{R}{24}$$ which could be calculated directly from the spacetime metric $$g_{ab}$$.

Physical interpretation
Szekeres (1965) gave an interpretation of the different Weyl scalars at large distances:

 * $$\Psi_2$$ is a "Coulomb" term, representing the gravitational monopole of the source;
 * $$\Psi_1$$ & $$\Psi_3$$ are ingoing and outgoing "longitudinal" radiation terms;
 * $$\Psi_0$$ & $$\Psi_4$$ are ingoing and outgoing "transverse" radiation terms.

For a general asymptotically flat spacetime containing radiation (Petrov Type I), $$\Psi_1$$ & $$\Psi_3$$ can be transformed to zero by an appropriate choice of null tetrad. Thus these can be viewed as gauge quantities.

A particularly important case is the Weyl scalar $$\Psi_4$$. It can be shown to describe outgoing gravitational radiation (in an asymptotically flat spacetime) as
 * $$\Psi_4 = \frac{1}{2}\left( \ddot{h}_{\hat{\theta} \hat{\theta}} - \ddot{h}_{\hat{\phi} \hat{\phi}} \right) + i \ddot{h}_{\hat{\theta}\hat{\phi}} = -\ddot{h}_+ + i \ddot{h}_\times\ .$$

Here, $$h_+$$ and $$h_\times$$ are the "plus" and "cross" polarizations of gravitational radiation, and the double dots represent double time-differentiation.

There are, however, certain examples in which the interpretation listed above fails. These are exact vacuum solutions of the Einstein field equations with cylindrical symmetry. For instance, a static (infinitely long) cylinder can produce a gravitational field which has not only the expected "Coulomb"-like Weyl component $$\Psi_2$$, but also non-vanishing "transverse wave"-components $$\Psi_0$$ and $$\Psi_4$$. Furthermore, purely outgoing Einstein-Rosen waves have a non-zero "incoming transverse wave"-component $$\Psi_0$$.

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Blairadam railway station

Blairadam railway station is a disused station in Fife, Scotland which was open from 1860 to 1964 on the Kinross-shire Railway.

History
The station opened on 20 June 1860 by the North British Railway. To the southwest were sidings and to the south of the northbound platform was the signal box. The station closed on 22 September 1930. The signal box closed in 1957. It closed to goods on 23 March 1964.

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Roquetas Pidgin Spanish

Roquetas Pidgin Spanish is a Spanish-based pidgin spoken among agricultural workers in Roquetas de Mar in Spain. Immigrants attracted to work in the greenhouses of the area come from many countries in north and west Africa and eastern Europe, and few speak any Spanish before arrival. The resulting pidgin has such typical characteristics as an avoidance of antonyms.

Social and geographical situation
Roquetas Pidgin is spoken by migrant workers working in the greenhouses in and around Roquetas de Mar, which constitutes Andalusia's largest agglomeration of greenhouses. These workers represent more than 50 different nationalities and live in neighborhoods at the edge of or sometimes even among the greenhouses. Most are undocumented and live in precarious conditions. The majority are single men aged 20–29 who have been living in Spain for less than a year. As a result of these conditions, the migrant community is very marginalized, and suspicious of mingling with other social groups. Most immigrants leave Roquetas after a few months.

Most migrants with very little education come from the Maghreb and the Sahel, where literacy rates seem to be lower. At the same time, many immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, and Romania have completed secondary and sometimes even higher education. The most widely spoken native languages are Sunnike, Bambara, Arabic, and Romanian. Although the migrants are divided by nationality and native language of origin, they maintain relationships marked by a high degree of solidarity familiarity, and there is no internal hierarchy among them. Their common life circumstances make them form a social group within Almería and lead to a homogenous pidgin language.

These immigrants typically have studied no Spanish before arriving in Andalusia, but have been able to adopt it to maintain a minimum of communication with fellow workers, with employers and with native speakers on the bus and in stores. Their speech has a simplified grammar and vocabulary, but this has also resulted in the creation of new structures, such as this variety's spatial deixis. This contact situation, where people from a variety of language backgrounds are in contact and need a common language for certain contexts, is the typical background for a pidgin to form. This common pidgin language is generally restricted to the work environment and to the few other interactions migrants have with native Spanish-speakers.

Roquetas Pidgin Spanish has been studied by Alexander Haselow who worked for three months in the greenhouses with these migrant workers.

Pronunciation
There are some cases of phonemes being replaced by others in Roquetas Pidgin, such as the pronunciation of abajo 'down' or trabajo 'work' with a instead of an. The general preference is for words with simple and transparent forms. Particular aspects of some words, such as the trilled in arriba 'up', the palatal nasal in pequeño 'small', the  sequence in izquierda 'left', the hiatus in ahí or the palatal fricative in allí, may be a reason for the use of alternate terms.

Grammatical gender
Roquetas Pidgin speakers exhibit a large degree of confusion of grammatical gender. Forms such as el trabaja 'work', instead of Spanish el trabajo, as well as mucha trabajo, are widespread. The word mucho 'a lot' is almost always used in its feminine form mucha when describing nouns.

Plural nouns
Identifying any possible plural nouns may be difficult in Roquetas Pidgin Spanish due to the influence of local Andalusian Spanish, which tends to reduce syllable-final. In the local native variety of Roquetas de Mar, the elision of syllable-final is compensated by lengthening of the preceding vowel. No such compensatory lengthening is found in Roquetas Pidgin Spanish. In any case, it is clear from the lack of inflection of surrounding elements and especially of the verb that plural nouns are not present in Roquetas Pidgin Spanish. Some example sentences demonstrating this are: Todo habla español 'we all speak Spanish', and, in response to a question about mountains in Mali, Sí, tiene muntaña. Mucho 'Yes, it has mountains. A lot'. The word papeles or 'papers' is unique in that it quite often is used in a plural form.

Adjectives
Roquetas Pidgin Spanish is noted for having very few qualifying adjectives: bueno 'good', grande 'big', rico 'rich', and rápido 'fast'. Adjectives do not agree in person or in gender with the nouns they describe, and are typically expressed in their masculine form. To intensify an adjective, mucho may be said after it, as in Mi casa no grande mucho 'my house is not very big'.

Indefinite pronouns
Three indefinite pronouns in particular are widely used in Roquetas Pidgin Spanish: todo 'all', mucho 'a lot', poco 'few'. They are used without gender or number agreement, and they may be reduplicated to express intensification.

Verbs
Verbs are almost used in their third-person singular present indicative forms. Also, Roquetas Pidgin Spanish is not a pro-drop language. Unlike in native Spanish, subject pronouns like tú 'you' and yo 'I' are rarely dropped. Haselow speculates that the preference for the third-person singular form, rather than the infinitive, could be because the third-person singular forms are a kind of "least common denominator". That is, the third-person singular is the stem of a verb, bearing no inflectional morphemes, and other present indicative forms share all or most of the third-person singular's content. This preference for the third-person singular is also found among many second-language speakers of Spanish in other areas, such as the US, and among transitional bilinguals or semi-speakers of Spanish. It is also found in some current Afro-Hispanic dialect pockets and in attested Bozal Spanish. A categorical use of the third-person singular is found in basilectal forms of the creole spoken by many Afro-Bolivians living in the Yungas.

The verbs comer 'eat' and duchar 'shower' are often used in the infinitive, typically in the expressions para comer 'for eating' and para duchar 'for showering'.

The only reflexive verb is llamarse 'to be called', which is really only said in the set phrase se llama 'is named', as in ¿Cómo se llama? 'What is your name?', or Se llama... 'My name is...', although me llama 'My name is' is also attested.

Syntax
Roquetas Pidgin Spanish has a strict subject–verb–object word order, which has been speculated to be due to a mental model inherent in the immigrants' brains. The strictness of Roquetas Pidgin's word order may also be due to a greater degree of analyticity compared to Spanish, due to the lack of verb conjugations or noun-adjective agreement. The language's syntax has to compensate for the lack of grammatical information carried by inflectional morphology.

The prepositions a 'to' and de 'of, from' are frequently dropped, as in ¿Tú es dónde? 'Where are you (from)?', Él es Mali 'He is (from)'. The copula ser is also frequently dropped, meaning the zero copula is common in Roquetas Pidgin.

Deixis
The spatial deixis of Roquetas Pidgin Spanish shows some notable differences from that of standard Spanish. Whereas standard Spanish has three different spatial deictic adverbs, aquí, ahí, and allí, reflecting three degrees of spatial proximity, Roquetas Pidgin uses just two, aquí and así, which reflect the criterion of visibility. That is, aquí is used in reference to locations within the field of view, while así is used in references to places outside the field of view. Proximity plays no role. When standing atop a hill overlooking Roquetas de Mar and asked ¿Dónde está tu casa? 'Where is your house?', one of 's respondents replied aquí, which would mean 'here' in standard Spanish.

When giving directions, immigrant workers in Roquetas also use physical gestures such as pointing their finger or glancing towards a certain area. These physical gestures are in many cases the only way for an interlocutor to know what location or direction is being referred to. For example, when asked to give directions to the nearest bus stop, an immigrant worker in Roquetas may say Marcha así y a la derecha 'Go there, to the right', accompanied by a gesture pointing to a certain area.

Reduplication
In the phrase Llueve, poco poco 'It rains very little' documented by, the speaker expresses intensification by reduplicating the adverb poco instead of by using the adverb muy 'very'.

Vocabulary
Most migrants in Roquetas have an active Spanish vocabulary of no more than forty different words. The most commonly used nouns have to do with either aspects of work, or with the physical environment and directions. While most verbs are exclusively used only in the third-person present singular form, the verbs comer 'eat' and duchar 'shower' actually are quite often used in the infinitive, especially in the expressions para comer 'for eating' and para duchar 'for showering'. only found two interjections in Roquetas Pidgin Spanish, hola and ¡hombre!, and no profanity.

Lack of antonyms
The speech of the migrant workers in Roquetas generally avoids antonyms, instead preferring simple negations. For example, while abajo 'down' is widely used in Roquetas Pidgin Spanish, its opposite arriba 'up' is almost entirely absent. Instead, speakers of Roquetas Pidgin use no abajo to mean 'up'. Similarly, a la izquierda 'to the left' is replaced by no a la derecha 'not to the right', and pequeño 'small' is replaced by no grande 'not big'. Some other examples are bueno/no bueno 'good/not good' and todos/no todos 'all/not all'. The one case of antonymy found in the lexicon is that of mucho 'a lot' and poco 'a little'.

Semantics
Given the general paucity of words in Roquetas Pidgin, many terms have had their meanings expanded. The term marchar is used for any human movement. The preference for marchar may be due to its regular conjugation, since most other verbs related to human movement are conjugated irregularly, and Roquetas Pidgin Spanish eliminates all verbal inflection, using verbs only in the present third-person singular form. Similarly, hablar replaces all other verbs related to communication. For example: Yo habla no 'I say no', with a third-person verb form and use of hablar instead of decir 'to say', Yo marcha mañana aquí 'I am coming here tomorrow', with a third-person form and marchar instead of venir 'to come'.

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Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Archive 2

Main Page | talk | archive

 * Please archive conversations from August at Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Archive 1
 * Please do not edit these archived sections

New page design
Trevor has done extensive work to create a very nice design for the main page, moved to new page: Main_Page/Design (old page User:Trevor MacInnis/MainPage). It could still be tweaked but it is better than what we have. (See original discussions above in "new page format") Shall we take a quick head count on using the new design -- 24 to 48 hours? Enough time for sense of no objections? Reswik 18:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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Do you support or oppose using this design on the front page: Main Page/Design (new location)?
 * -- tweaking needed; can go up; design 2 has more code cleanup done so prefer that Reswik 18:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * - Sure. Looks great, why not? This is a new place, should be able to experiment with a few things. --HappyCamper 20:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I would prefer larger fonts across the board. Scrolling is better than squinting. However, it does provide a crisp image of professional design and will no doubt continue to evolve.  Mirwin 04:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I like it; very unique, but also clean and functional. There are some minor usability issues, but I'm sure they could easily be resolved. --Aepex 06:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * . I support Trevor's efforts, but this design isn't ready for implementation.  (Please see User talk:Trevor MacInnis/MainPage for some of my objections.)  It has the potential to evolve into something better, but it would be a mistake to rush it onto the main page before it's ready.  (I'm not saying that it can't be tweaked after it goes live, but it should be further along than this.)  —David Levy 07:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's definitely better than the current Main Page, but I think it could do with some tweaking. I don't like that overlapping globe thing, for a start – Gurch 12:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * - Great work! Think marketing guys, a great design like his can enhance user experience thus attracting more users and make people more willing to contribute. Rayshan 14:14, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Like Gurch, I don't like the overlapping globe, nor the overlapping boxes. I feel like there are too many boxes, and this moves away from my vision of Wikiversity, which in my minds aims at being user-friendly and intuitive. Well done for your work however. guillom 14:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * - Wikiversity is still too small to have something like the wikipedia main page redesign.  If you don't like it, work up your own design.  I think we all can agree this is better the the present one.--Rayc 02:05, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No, not all of us agree that it's better. The issue of aesthetics is subjective (and I'm clearly outnumbered on that front), but the time/date stamp feature is sometimes broken (due to caching), and I guarantee that the text is more difficult for people with visual impairments to read.  (This is an area in which I have some degree of expertise.)  Accessibility is of the utmost importance, and I'd like to think that it would be considered before any new design is rushed into use (even if it looks good to most people).  The current design isn't flashy, but it's quite functional.  Can we please not take a step back in this regard?  The problems that I've cited can be addressed (and I truly see a great deal of potential for a nice design that sacrifices no usability), if only we can be slightly patient.  —David Levy 03:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that usability is important. I think a few days of review is a good thing for a really new design, even in a good project. Trevor has tweaked the design. See below. Reswik 13:13, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * - I know I just joined, but I must say that from seeing the link to the design from the home page, I must say that it is quite nice for this site. It would really look well as it would show our own Wikiversity creativity, and not just use the standard setup.--Hd.G 06:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * - better than current one. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Talk) 16:18, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Awesome job! I love the colors and the concept! -Yorktown1776 16:32, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Modified version
Please post opinions regarding Main Page/Design 2. Do you support or oppose its adoption, and how does it compare to the original version?

 * Note: I'm aware of a minor display bug in Internet Explorer 6. (The image is off-center and lacks a right-hand border.)  Please assume that this issue (which does not exist in Firefox or Opera) will be corrected when the code is refined.  —David Levy 09:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * As they are now, I like Main Page/Design 2 slightly better than Main Page/Design- even though "Design 2" is quite plain, it 'gels' nicely - looks seemless. If I had a (very minor) tweak, it would be to centre the Browse box text under the "Welcome to Wikiversity" - as well as changing the motto/byline (but that's being worked on elsewhere). Good work everyone :-) Cormaggio 10:43, 26 August 2006

 * -- On a discussion string on his talk page, David points out that he cleaned up template formats and CSS code in working on Design 2. For this reason, I think we should post Design 2. Once the usability issues are addressed in Design 2, I think it can be posted. I prefer a few design aspects of both versions. We can polish and negotiate design features over time. A few design issues: I think it is important to include a sizeable graphic or photo (which could have a link to a blurb about how that item relates to wikiversity) near the top in whatever design evolves. I would like to see more white space in the main top title box. I prefer the mix of blue/tan in heading bars in Design 1. I like a "menu" line centered under the main title box but a top right box menu can work too. Reswik 17:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * - I'm sorry guys but I have to say that the 1st design is better and here's why: The use of icons helps to make the content graphically stand out. Graphics could generally be comprehended faster than words alone. (Although I don't think all the icons correctly represent the content, such as the broom). As far as color and layout goes, 1st design nicely group sub-content together in "boxes", but it may sometimes look a little "too much". 2nd design looks a lot cleaner, but I recommend something between main content and "Wiki in other languages" so everything don't blend together with the background. Also how about making "Wiki in other languages" and "Sister projects" centered? <IP_ADDRESS> 17:36, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * thanks for points. I agree that some of design elements of Design 1 are more desirable (as I mention just above). But, we need to go with Design 2 code clean up or recreate that in Design 1. Perhaps it is easier to adjust graphic elements and reintroduce icons in design 2. Not sure. Reswik 17:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * In modifying the design, I drew upon the comments expressed here and those expressed by literally hundreds of users during the English Wikipedia's main page redesign process. Over there, the use of icons (including these exact images) was rejected by a clear majority of respondents (many of whom noted that they created an "unprofessional" or "childish" appearance).  As you noted, there is no strong connection between these images and the content that they accompany.  They serve purely as decoration, not as navigational aids.
 * The non-stylized Wikiversity in other languages and Wikiversity's sister projects sections (present in both versions) reflect an overwhelming consensus that emerged during the aforementioned English Wikipedia discussion. The idea is to visually differentiate between the dynamic and static content.
 * Indeed, one of my goals was to make the design cleaner and easier to read (which also entailed the use of larger text), and I believe that I've succeeded. —David Levy 18:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I like Design2, but didn't notice a link to the tour. Would be nice if one were added, or made starker if it's there. Dev920 14:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've added the link. :)  —David Levy 15:17, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thankyou. :D Dev920 15:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

 * again, better than current one.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Talk) 19:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

 * looks better than both the current one and option 1, and is more organized than option one.--Hd.G 03:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * It looks good to me. Thanks for larger text. Mirwin 06:57, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * i agree that design version 2 is clearer and more to the point (although i do like the wikitrek blurb in design 1) --Smithgrrl 16:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The overlap between the blue and orange where the "About • Browse..." links are is bothering the hell out of me, probably because I'm a web designer. I would support if that were changed.--  digital  _  me   16:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Were you thinking that we would have two separate columns, one blue and one orange (tan)? Or, were you thinking something like what is now on Design 2 -- a blue bar across the top. Reswik 01:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I oppose either change (and I've reverted).
 * As I noted on your talk page, the logic behind my configuration is that readers tend to notice solid elements of the same color that they're already looking at. If the left side of the page is predominantly blue and the right side is predominantly tan, they'll be more likely to concentrate on one and ignore the other.  By placing blue section headings below a tan header (and vice-versa), the users' eyes will naturally be drawn to both sides of the page.
 * One thing that became clear during the English Wikipedia's main page redesign process is that it usually isn't a good idea to rush to make major changes in response to a single criticism (especially when the status quo has generated generally positive comments). Nine times out of ten, you'll only end up upsetting more people than you please.  :)  —David Levy 01:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The tan is drawing my eyes away from the main content, what we need is something to counterbalance it. Perhaps adding blue borders would help, but right now, the right side is too visually heavy.--  digital  _  me   02:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Did you see what the page looked like with the all-blue header? The left side completely dominated.  Then, with blue on the left and tan on the right, it looked like two isolated entities (with the left side still dominating because it's much wider).
 * To me, the page looks fairly balanced now. If anything, the left side still stands out slightly more (because of the aforementioned width).  —David Levy 02:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the current design looks better than the variations I explored last night. However, after trying to simplify the top, I think the approach of the new design in general has yielded looks that are too "busy" and distracting up top. If anyone wishes to play with the design, perhaps further work will resolve that. (I am not going to work on the design until after this passes). After this new design (which is certainly an improvement) is approved, I'm going to start working on further revisions on sandbox pages, perhaps variants of this design (or other another similar one), that have the masthead only across the top with two columns underneath. Reswik 14:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I love the second page design. It looks wonderful and easy to organize new information into. It's inviting. OneWomanArmy --Diana 01:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Comments

 * Summary of discussion (revised): This needs revisions for usability, then this can be posted. A strong majority would like to see this design posted (10 or 11 of 13, including 2 comments on Trevor's design talk page), and some say tweaking is needed first. Almost all would like to see the design tweaked somehow. In response to feedback, Trev has done extensive tweaking now, two rounds at least, including in response to above comments, to improve this. A few minor things remain to do. This is almost ready. ...
 * A longish discussion string from here moved to: Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Design.
 * See section above for Design 2 comments. Please share your comments about design 2 above.

Feel free to adjust the design:
 * Trevor moved the current version of the design to: Main_Page/Design.
 * Forked version of the design: Main_Page/Design 2
 * To do:
 * [Done] The right column text still needs work.
 * [Done--problem found--see comment below] Can someone check usability in JAWS or Window-Eyes.
 * Can someone check readability in the Safari browser at various screen resolutions?
 * Thanks, Reswik 20:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I've been attempting to adjust the design, but the style templates are making this very difficult for me. If Trevor (or someone else) could move most of the code into the page itself, it would be much easier to edit.  I tried substituting some of the templates on a test page, but that broke much of the page.  —David Levy 21:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * [We figured out how to work with the templates.] Due to right column text size issues, I think the right hand Communication blurbs needs to be edited into shorter length at each bullet point. Reswik 21:31, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Problems found via JAWS with new design -- these need to be addressed. See discussion on Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Design
 * Graphic/photo issue -- Should there be a photo or graphic in the top right area of the new design page? (The current top page photo is there and needs to be resized and/or centered if it stays.)

 * This is a comment that should be registered, but probably not acted on yet. The front page fails this accessibility checker - can we get a user familiar with accessibility issues to take a look at the new page and see if they can navigate through it? --HappyCamper 15:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Contrast is disappearing: Design 1 and 2 are converging in appearance (due to Trevor adopting some of David's revisions). Design 2 code is partly revised for usability issues and being revised further. Reswik 15:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Don't forget to include the new stuff that was recently included on the orginal main page. The drafts are starting to become out of date.--Rayc 04:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Strafing
If i understand right, the goal of this project is to teach a man all the things (positive ofc) possible. Look, and if I have some Defrag strafing (computer sport game) skills? Is it forbidden here to teach people such things? Thank you.
 * I've no idea of what that game is, but I don't see a problem in uploading material that teaches people about how to play computer games - we haven't set policies yet on delineating our content (such as exists, for example, on Wikibooks). Just a side thought, but I think it would be really interesting to see what computer games can teach us about the world - if that could be developed, it could be a fantastic resource. Cormaggio 19:32, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, ok, thanks. I haven't played it for about a year, but i can ask world champion for it. Thanks!
 * Or, you oculd be a stunt coodinator for Wikiversity the Movie. Great gameplaying skills put to good use!--Rayc 01:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

And hopefully we can teach women too! I really get tired of the sexist language. It's so embedded in education as well as everything else. I can't be silent about it. It DOES matter. Already I feel excluded. No, the goal of this project is to share, collect and strive to educate human beings.User:OneWomanArmy--Diana 01:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. I feel terrible that you feel excluded. Of course it matters. I just didn't respond to this part of the sentence, because there were other things that the questioner (whoever he/she is) wanted to know about. But you're absolutely right to bring it up. Wikiversity is education for all. Cormaggio 14:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I feel it important to note, in a pure and strict sense of education, that Latin is a root of English. The use of what appear to be masculine pronouns are also neuter pronouns based on context. Man, as in mankind, should not be misunderstood to mean only male humans, but the idea of all of humankind is expressed in that single word as best as possible. We shold also note that language begins verbally and becomes a written language after, logically but not necessarily chronologically as they can happen simultaneously. Some contexts provided druing speach may not be as easily communicated through written word. In any case, I don't think colloquial habits should be maligned, as over time any individual who increases in education naturally revises their use of language to an extent. To immediately highlight errors or discourteousness in the way in which a question is asked in lieu of adressing the content of question seems to me to be agaisnt the intent of Wikiversity. I also feel at this point that in order to not be misunderstood, I need to qualify that this is not not meant to be a personal attack of any kind nor truly a correction of previous behavior, but to highlight that a certain tolerance of each other will make the education process itself go more smoothly. And I hope we can all see that education will help each of us to refine ourselves from our current sate. Talonhawk 01:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Favicon Suggestion
Your favicon is currenlty identical to wikipedia's... I keep links in my toolbar with only the icon, and I think having the hat would make more sense in any case. Just a random thought. <IP_ADDRESS> 12:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, thanks, and fully agreed that we'll have to change that icon. We're currently in the process of changing our logo, though - details of which here. Maybe we should wait until that's decided? Cormaggio 16:28, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Cooperation with Wikihowto
I would like to invite everyone to cooperate with Wikihowto. I think we nead a way to make Wikihowto an Wikimedia project. Andi think Wikiversity could, maybe not replace Wikihowto, but at least evolve hand in hand. I think the both Wikiversity and Wikihowto are made to evolve together, don't you think? Please think about it if you do and tell other people about this two projects. (moa3333) <IP_ADDRESS> 12:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC) hm... there is one of these (insert link to Wikihow)--<IP_ADDRESS> 01:38, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I made a link to Wikihowto at Educational Wikis. --JWSchmidt 02:05, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I cant sign up!
It wont show me the security code, and i only see the dreaded little red x. :( --<IP_ADDRESS> 01:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)Geobeedude
 * Account creation seems to be working now. --JWSchmidt 01:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

i still cant see the verification code.
 * There must be something wrong on your end, because other continue to be able to sign up, and I just checked and saw the codeword. I suggest trying to create an account from another computer, after that you'll be able to login from home as normal. - Trevor MacInnis 00:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Signups are working fine. I suggest you try accessing Wikipedia through a free web based proxy, as these may alter the image as it is passed on. --Draicone (talk) 07:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandal fighting unit
Similar to wikipedia:WP:CVU, I've established this page to co-ordinate vandal fighting efforts (although I doubt this is very important right now). I'm a developer for wikipedia:WP:MWT and I intend to alter it slightly to work with Wikiversity. Input would be appreciated. --Draicone (talk) 07:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Please take a moment to read WV:SHRINE before you consider starting a vandal fighting project here. -- sebmol ? 16:06, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I understand, and the goal of VFU is to identify vandalism, as once we reach a few thousands articles there will always be edits that go unnoticed. Any system established would include at least a couple of sysops and focus around recording vandalism attempts and reporting them to sysops (/custodians/admins/bureaucrats) so that appropriate action can be taken. --Draicone (talk) 12:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your enthusiasm but I also want to point out that vandalism and dealing with it is not supposed to be a big deal. People report it or notice it, it gets taken care of, we move on. By creating pages like the VFU, we're just creating yet another place for vandals to feel like they get any attention from us which presumably is exactly what we're trying to prevent. -- sebmol ? 18:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I understand. However, I've clarified VFU and I really just want to establish a system in place and educate users on how to deal with vandalism - currently, there's no way of knowing what to do with vandalism besides revert it unless another user tells you what to do. There's nothing saying, "Contact a sysop at [ [here]  ]". Just reverting vandalism is good, but if vandals continue to compromise pages, people need to know what to do about it - in fact, they need to know what to do about it in the first place. I suppose a 'unit' is a bad idea, as it gives the impression of many vandal fighters actively reverting vandalism (which, unlike en:wp, is clearly not the situation). I simply felt that having a few users develop a page to educate the public on dealing with vandalism was useful. --Draicone (talk) 09:12, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

3/4th
We have spent 3/4th of wikiversity's existance redesigning the main page. Could we just throw one of the designs up there and call it good? It can always be reverted.--Rayc | (Talk) 04:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * We've got some content started, there's hundreds of pages listed at Special:Allpages. --Draicone (talk) 08:10, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If we are talking about a "design change" then the new main page should have the same content as the current main page....just with a new design. I'm reluctant to switch to either Main Page/Design 1 or Main Page/Design 2 because they have content changes. It is not easy for me to follow the trail of of past discussions starting at Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Design 1 that might explain the content changes. There was a request made at  (Request custodian action) that "Design 2" be used, but there are no discussions at all at Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Design 2. If there are going to be content changes (new image, "where you can teach to learn and learn to teach", etc) then I would like to see a summary of the content changes and a description at Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Design 2 of how those changes were selected. --JWSchmidt 13:57, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The bulk of the new design discussions are described here: Wikiversity_talk:Main_Page, with links in that discussion to points elsewhere. The discussion includes various summaries as does the admin request page. JW, since you have objected to the new design in the past (on the Design 1 talk page) and as you are responsible for many of the recent new content changes/tweaks on the old front page design since the new design was developed (and hence you can best summarize those), I do not think you should serve as facilitator on this issue. Just my opinion, Reswik 14:26, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I have only had a few comments and suggestions about the new main page design. I originally wondered if what looked like an overlap in rectangles in the upper right corner was a an error. I was told that it is a design feature. I requested that there be efforts made to make it easy to read any blue text placed on a blue background. I think it is reasonable that any page content changes existing in the new design be summarized and justified all in one place. There is a difference between making changes to the main page (the most observed page of the wiki) and making changes on a page that ranked 92nd in terms of page views during the last week of August and 246th so far during September. --JWSchmidt 15:51, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Another summary: Of expressed views about posting the new design, there is a strong majority in favor of posting the new design. Usability issues seem to have been addressed. I do not wish to summarize this further or put work into reconciling the old main page and new main page. If you want to revise Design 2 feel free. A further review of the details of summaries provided already in several places and how to deal new emergent issues due to edits to the old main page will be hopefully a task that a custodian or other volunteer who posts Design 2 will take on, whenever. Personally, I believe Design 2 is ready to post and be adjusted by the community. It is past time for that. Reswik 20:51, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm just talking about the main page. Lot of other stuff has been done, improved, etc, but the main page, the most visable page, is pretty much the same as it was a month ago. Is there anything I can do to help out with the redesign? Have you considered the three click rule?--Rayc 18:26, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I've implemented the main page as set out on Main Page Design 2. I've also refactored it a bit so individual parts can be edited by users without custodian privileges. Should this not work, the subpages can be protected as needed. -- sebmol ? 22:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

project page picture
why were Image:South African classroom.jpg chose. Is wiki international? I mean that it which explain all people should be choose.
 * It was changed from a bunch of dead white guys. It's an exact opposite picture and a stop gap until we get a random picture function or a logo to put their.--Rayc 18:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Engineering PORTAL
the engineering link on the main page needs to go to Portal:Engineering and Technology, not School:Engineering
 * Changed it. Now the comSci people will have a 3 click path to there page from main.  --Rayc 18:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That is ok, since before it was a 5 click path because you kept getting redirected to the wrong place. Damien Black 22:04, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

the engineering link was changed back to School:Engineering... why is it the only school there and why isn't it pointing to Portal:Engineering and Technology? Damien Black 23:27, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, It might of been because of the main page switch over, though if not, there probably is a good reason for it. Math also has a school on the main page.--Rayc 03:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Main Page picture
This new picture on the Main Page is certainly looking better than the previous one, and it associates on school and learning more efficiently, but its big problem is that there are no people in it at all. And since this aspect is very important, if I had to choose between them, I'd choose the old happy corridor instead of this sad abandoned lonely classroom. The old picture reflects the Wikiversity's openness and community way better than this looking-good, but wrong-message-sending one. --George D. Bozovic talk 23:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, I see, the pictures are changing daily. Good idea! --George D. Bozovic talk 01:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

An empty lecture hall isn't very wiki-ish, in my view, but I understand what "beta" means and will be back to see the steady improvements. Thanks for all the efforts. | Gardner Campbell 18:02 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Main Page: New Design
Nice design. Congratulations to the designers. <IP_ADDRESS> 01:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, thank you very much to Trevor MacInnis and David Levy for their talented and extensive work in creating and refining the new main page design. Thank you also to everyone who shared input and comments. :) --Reswik 01:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Motto for Wikipedia?
"Help create a motto and a slogan for Wikipedia." It should be Wikiversity, shouldn't it? –Dilaudid 21:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hint, I've changed it. How embarrassing...-- sebmol ? 21:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That makes me laugh. <IP_ADDRESS> 02:18, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk archive
Done talk needes to be deleted or archived to give focus to current talk. Archiving done talk for a month on a separate page provides users a place to check up on done talk they initiated, more graceful than deleting directly. If you can improve this, please do. Ideas? Thanks! :-) Rogerhc 04:27, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you mean by this. Most of the time I just make a page like Wikiversity talk:Main Page/Archive 1 and place all of the non-current talk on there. You shouldn't ever completely delete anything.  --Mateo 18:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll see if I can write a bot to auto archive the talk page, or better yet, find a bot that's already been written. --Draicone (talk) 23:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * w:User:Werdnabot might be useful, operated by w:User:Werdna – <IP_ADDRESS> 22:39, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If somebody is willing to give me approval and operate as a liason, then I can activate Werdnabot here. Werdna 09:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Currrently I'm the only person authorised to give bot status on Wikiversity - the only unfortunate thing is that, when it comes to all things technical, I haven't a clue :-). But you could liaise with User:Sebmol (who, as far as I know, is working on a similar bot). Cormaggio 10:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

relation to wikipedia?
Does participation in this project require participation in wikipedia? I don't support wikipedia for a variety of reasons, but would like to edit here. What is the nature of the relationship between the two, beyond that they are owned by the same people. thanks. --Mateo 18:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, a number of editors here, including myself also edit Wikipedia, so that's a definite connection. Also, many policies, and indeed articles are adapated from Wikipedia as the project gets started.  This project requires no participation in Wikipedia, so you shouldn't have to worry about that.--  digital  _  me   01:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

UC Berkeley offers courses and symposia through Google Video
UC Berkeley offers courses and symposia through Google Video. Should each Wikiversity course link to the relevant videos, if any are available? --DavidCary 05:57, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not. We encourage the use of learning materials, including those which cannot (due to technical or legal restrictions) be offered directly through Wikiversity. I'm not sure how many videos we'll actually have, however. --Draicone (talk) 09:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

General layout suggestions
I would like to suggest the following: I think Wikiversity should, as a general layout devide in accordence to the following hierarchy : ( the arrows are directed from high to low hierarchy.) general schools(e.g chemistry, psychology --> more specific schools(analytical chemistry or developmental psychology) --> courses --> lectures . Under that hierarchy I think each lesson/lecture page should have side pages (like "edit this page" and "discussion" ) in which a Q&A page from actual students and proffesors would be held. I'm only suggesting a discussion on "the general layout" and not making a pinpointed suggestion. If there is already a discussion on General layout somewhere then I'm truly sorry for I did not find it anywhere. in that case, please move my suggestions to the right place. --(User: Eshy, Israel - unregisterd Wikimediaist.)

 * A way of using "schools" was developed during the period of time that Wikiversity existed at Wikibooks (see b:Wikiversity:Wikiversity Schools). In that system, one school does not contain other schools. The curent system for a hierarchy of academic subjects is described at Namespaces and Naming conventions.

 * "each lesson/lecture page should have side pages (like "edit this page" and "discussion" ) in which a Q&A page from actual students and proffesors would be held" <-- I agree that Wikiversity needs to find good ways to promote discussions, question and answer sessions, debate, etc among participants. It is easy to make links to subpages that can hold discussions. Hopefully the wiki software will be improved so as to provide additional features such as threaded discussions that are easily searchable. --JWSchmidt 22:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

 * "I completely agree with you that each topic should have a virtual classroom with it so that students can interact, since the classroom weather virtual or real is where the true learning takes place. :)"

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