User talk:Cormaggio
Hey. Great thing this finally got started. Now, logo should be applied and everything. But, one thing I was interested in is the admin/bureaucrat status. You should apply now. I think every project should start with at least one bureaucrat and who better than you in this case? Cheers :) --Filip (§) 12:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey Cormac, Welcome to Wikiversity ;)--Özgür 13:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Welcome
Thanks for the welcome! I hope my edit to the Current Events was appropriate. I just think Wikiversity is a really cool idea, and I might be able to help in some way. I have some expertise in a few areas--music, Mandarin Chinese, and perhaps a few other areas. I'm trying to figure out where to start. This is such a big idea; I'm having trouble even wrapping my head around it. :) --Fang Aili 15:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
- what aspect of music would you be interested in working on in Wikiversity? Well, I just created Music. Perhaps it should be called School of Music, though. I'm an advanced classical pianist and have some skill with music theory. I can play a bit of guitar and like to dabble with any instrument I can get my hands on. I can sing in tune. But I don't know how to transfer those skills into an online learning format yet. --Fang Aili talk 16:14, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Course format ideas
Right now I'm thinking that perhaps we can create week-long or even day-long courses. This way we start small and it's not so overwhelming. (A "day-long" course would mean, perhaps, 2 hours of learning and study--a time length reasonable to the average person who works during the day.) There could be "weekend" courses too, which are more concentrated, or something. (I am way late coming to this project; I know it's been in the works for some time and perhaps this has all been hashed out from here to eternity already...) --Fang Aili talk 16:14, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Sysop me?
Hi, I am now also here WiseWoman - can you Sysop me, or do we have to have an election :) --WiseWoman 20:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Portal namespace
I think Wikiversity should have a portal namespace. I wrote a little about how I think portals would function for Wikiversity. I suspect that "schools" will also function like portals, but there are going to be Wikiversity portals that do not fit into a conventional list of schools. --JWSchmidt 01:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Someone already created the Wikiversity "School" namespace. We just need what Wikipedia already has, a "Portal" namespace. The pages in the Wikiversity portal namespace will have names such as "Portal:Learning materials". --JWSchmidt 12:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- I urge we think through the implications of using "school" to title a namespace. I would argue such a name space, if really needed, should be renamed as "subject" (though some might have problems with that term) or "topic" or some other term. Using "school" has problems discussed on the colloq page -- and there are more problems that I don't have time to write about this week. This should be considered before settling on a basic very up front naming convention and structure. Doug 17:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Ok, discussion here please - not here :-) Cormaggio 17:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Okies. Regarding the research page issues - I'll look at those next week. Have fun :) Doug 17:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Help
It appears we're importing from two different projects... -- sebmol ? 18:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
You've...
...got mail! :) -- sebmol ? 11:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Great Success with Wikiversity
Hi Cormac, Wishing you more great success in this effort. --Ermeyers 12:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Interwiki list
Hi Cormac, I proposed that Wikiversity be added to the Interwiki map at meta:Interwiki map, so that the [[Wikiversity:Main Page]] can be fully implemented.:) Eric --Ermeyers 15:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Research page
I added a lot of issues and some bits of content to the Wikiversity:Research page. Reswik 05:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
greetings Cormaggio
Hi. Of course I know User:Dbl2010 from Turkish projects. at many places he's kind of ¨the man¨ :). Well I'm not that much into politics and bureucracy of wiki projects. They bore me! I'm only about contributing with articles and having my say in votings pertaining to policy-rule changes and things like that.
I don't have teaching experience myself but at the third year of med school I have a lot of being taught experience! :) First thing I want to do here is to add my lesson plans (as you said) and teaching material I obtained from university resources. I literally have GBs of material almost all appropriate for this place!
See you around!--Suleyman Habeeb 13:30, 18 August 2006 (UTC)