Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/November 2018

Space for the teacher in a WIKI?

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This might have been mentioned before, but I thought I would share it: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1149466 A paper titled "Is there a Space for the teacher in a WIKI?" I thought it was an interesting title, and right now my University library isn't allowing me access to the ACM collection, but I'll post a synopsis and thoughts when that gets worked out. I just didn't want to forget about it. Historybuff (discusscontribs) 20:23, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This was published right as Wikiversity launched. It would be interesting to see what has changed in 12 years. —Justin (koavf)TCM 20:55, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There's a copy available from PennState. -- Dave Braunschweig (discusscontribs) 13:45, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I finally got a chance to read through the paper (thanks for the Link Dave!). It's an interesting study of high-school aged students, and it characterizes two projects undertaken by classes using wikis. The authors observe how the two subjects evolve from student participation, and detail how the teacher interacted to encourage and motivate use of the wiki. The observation the article makes that parts of content are "owned" by single students is interesting -- it shows how wiki authors view their work, and how others might approach their contribution.
I think a study of Wikiversity would be interesting. It's not something I have capacity for in the short term, but it would be a great learning and research project. I think a study such as this would make a good contrast. Historybuff (discusscontribs) 06:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Open call for Project Grants

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals until November 30 to fund both experimental and proven ideas such as research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), or providing other support for community building for Wikimedia projects.

We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through November 15.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 19:46, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how much time I'd have to write a grant proposal this year, but in the past I've worked on trying to get a Sandbox Server. Might be worth doing something like this to go through the process to learn the ins and outs. Anyone else interested? Historybuff (discusscontribs) 05:59, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ghost

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I need help with this. --Sunofkings0 (discusscontribs) 13:20, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sunofkings0: How can I help? —Justin (koavf)TCM 18:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ghost is this appropriate for wikiversity? Sunofkings0 (discusscontribs) 19:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
All you really have here is a definition, which would belong at en:wikt:ghost. If you were going to write an article about ghosts, it would go at en:w:ghost. This would be a learning resource about ghosts--some homework, self-directed experiments, public debates, etc. I'm not sure what you could say about ghosts, as they don't exist but it's not impossible to have a learning resource about ghosts. —Justin (koavf)TCM 19:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Community Wishlist Survey vote

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18:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

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Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 10:57, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]