Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage
Thanks Savithri blush WE're equally proud to have a senior university leader -- a Principal of a college at the University of Delhi -- pioneering and supporting the growth of OER in India. Wow -- the vigour and extent of your ambassadorial activities for WE are amazing! I know that the Indian Ministry of Education has expressed interest to extend L4C training opportunities for all state universities. WE should follow up this year and see how we can progress this ideal :-). WYSIWYG editing will reduce the learning curve for newbies and progress OER development by an order of magnitude! Cheers Wayne 2010/1/27 Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com Dear Wayne, Congratulations. We are proud of you and the Wikieducator. WYSWYG will help bring in many more people into the OER community. Will do the testing and report. Am continuing to talk about the Wikieducator all over the place - conducted a 2-day workshop at Dhaka, made a presentation to M.Ed students at RIE, Mysore, one to teachers at a Workshop in Maitreyi college (they've asked me to conduct a full fledged workshop for them soon), Delhi Univ.. Best, Savithri 2010/1/27 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Patricia, Thanks for your kind words. There's been a big team working on this helping with testing, feedback comments etc. WE are also very appreciative of the patience and understanding from our community in the lead up preparing for this move. Also BIG thanks to the Free/ Open Source Software model -- none of this would have been possible without the gifting culture and sharing of so many coders dedicated to making the world a better place. WE all benefit from their work. 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne 2010/1/27 Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org This is wonderful news for our Wiki Family! Congratualations for this accomplishment to the both of you!! Cheers, Patricia *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Wayne Mackintosh *Sent:* Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:51 PM *To:* WikiEducator; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-t...@googlegroups.com; oe...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage *IMPORTANT MESSAGE GOOD NEWS FOR ALL WIKIEDUCATOR USERS* We're pleased to announce our long awaited migration to Rich Text Editing as well as important software updates for the WikiEducator website . This is a great way to start the new year! In this message: 1. Help with final testing of our Rich Text / WYSIWYG Editor implementation and software updates 2. Scheduled read-only outage of WikiEducator site starting: *Saturday 6 February 20:00 UTC* (Sunday 7 February 09:00 NZDT) or confirm the start time for your region here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7month=2year=2010hour=9min=0sec=0p1=22 *1. We need your help with final testing of the Rich text editor* *and software upgrades* *before going live* The WikiEducator technical team has been testing the Rich Text Editor and a number of important software updates. We are very happy with the performance and this will add considerable value to our project. To the best of our knowledge everything is working as it should. However, we would appreciate a little help from our advanced users for final testing and identification of any problems we may have overlooked. 1. Please visit your favourite and/or more complicated pages on the test wiki site (http://we4.wikieducator.net/Main_Page ). 2. Login with your existing Username, 3. Click on the Rich Editor link to activate the WYSIWYG editor 4. Test the functionality of the editor using your favourite pages (note that this is a test site and your edits will NOT be preserved. Real work must be done on the live WikiEducator site) 5. Please let us know if any if there are any user created templates which are not working, missing images etc. 6. Report any problems you experience with the editor on this list by Wednesday 3 February 2010. With any migration of this size, we anticipate that there may be a few teething problems. WE will address in good time. We will try to fix any problems before the go live date, but we may need to schedule some fixes according to priority after the go-live date. However, we feel that the advantages of Rich Text Editing outweigh any teething problems we may experience. Known issue: 1) Templates for print-specific behaviours will not work with the wiki-to-pdf feature at this time because of changes Pedia Press have implemented in the wiki syntax used for this feature. We need to update these templates within the first weeks of the new installation. Any help from advanced users for these updates is well received :-) *Scheduled read-only access of WikiEducator site *
Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage
dear Wayne , My self is looking for something like this for a long time My friends and I are looking for a wiki platform to collaborate working on Chinese book ( teach Chinese to Foreigner ) , which is going to be used as a platform so that we can work together to create materials for teacher who are interested in offer Chinese lesson ( either on line or ofline to ) foreigners who want to learn Chinese . Leigh and I was talking abt this before abt design a curriculum to students in Newzealand , So can I ask that how much funding do you need to install it to WE I mean WYSIWYG function , I am not a techie person , so would you mind to help us with this . if we can convince teacher to USE WE here , then we don't need to build our own platform Thanks Leo 2010/1/28 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com James, Olugbenga Thanks for your words of support -- the OER Foundation and WE look forward to extending the reach of OER in your parts of the world. Cheers Wayne 2010/1/28 Olugbenga Ojo gbenga_ojo2...@yahoo.com This is great. More grease to your elbow. OER will definitely be the main thing the way its going. Weii done Olugbenga --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Subject: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc: wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com, wikieducator-t...@googlegroups.com, oe...@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 8:32 PM Hi Patricia, Thanks for your kind words. There's been a big team working on this helping with testing, feedback comments etc. WE are also very appreciative of the patience and understanding from our community in the lead up preparing for this move. Also BIG thanks to the Free/ Open Source Software model -- none of this would have been possible without the gifting culture and sharing of so many coders dedicated to making the world a better place. WE all benefit from their work. 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne 2010/1/27 Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org This is wonderful news for our Wiki Family! Congratualations for this accomplishment to the both of you!! Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:51 PM To: WikiEducator; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-t...@googlegroups.com; oe...@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage IMPORTANT MESSAGE GOOD NEWS FOR ALL WIKIEDUCATOR USERS We're pleased to announce our long awaited migration to Rich Text Editing as well as important software updates for the WikiEducator website . This is a great way to start the new year! In this message: Help with final testing of our Rich Text / WYSIWYG Editor implementation and software updates Scheduled read-only outage of WikiEducator site starting: Saturday 6 February 20:00 UTC (Sunday 7 February 09:00 NZDT) or confirm the start time for your region here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7month=2year=2010hour=9min=0sec=0p1=22 1. We need your help with final testing of the Rich text editor and software upgrades before going live The WikiEducator technical team has been testing the Rich Text Editor and a number of important software updates. We are very happy with the performance and this will add considerable value to our project. To the best of our knowledge everything is working as it should. However, we would appreciate a little help from our advanced users for final testing and identification of any problems we may have overlooked. Please visit your favourite and/or more complicated pages on the test wiki site ( http://we4.wikieducator.net/Main_Page ). Login with your existing Username, Click on the Rich Editor link to activate the WYSIWYG editor Test the functionality of the editor using your favourite pages (note that this is a test site and your edits will NOT be preserved. Real work must be done on the live WikiEducator site) Please let us know if any if there are any user created templates which are not working, missing images etc. Report any problems you experience with the editor on this list by Wednesday 3 February 2010. With any migration of this size, we anticipate that there may be a few teething problems. WE will address in good time. We will try to fix any problems before the go live date, but we may
Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage
Hi Leo 2010/1/28 Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com So can I ask that how much funding do you need to install it to WE I mean WYSIWYG function , I am not a techie person , so would you mind to help us with this . WE are planning to go live with the installation of WYSIWYG editing on 7 February 2010 -- won't be long before this is operational. Would be good if you can test whether this will work with Chinese characters on the test site: http://we4.wikieducator.net/Main_Page Cheers Wayne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage
Dear Wayne, Congratulations. We are proud of you and the Wikieducator. WYSWYG will help bring in many more people into the OER community. Will do the testing and report. Am continuing to talk about the Wikieducator all over the place - conducted a 2-day workshop at Dhaka, made a presentation to M.Ed students at RIE, Mysore, one to teachers at a Workshop in Maitreyi college (they've asked me to conduct a full fledged workshop for them soon), Delhi Univ.. Best, Savithri 2010/1/27 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Patricia, Thanks for your kind words. There's been a big team working on this helping with testing, feedback comments etc. WE are also very appreciative of the patience and understanding from our community in the lead up preparing for this move. Also BIG thanks to the Free/ Open Source Software model -- none of this would have been possible without the gifting culture and sharing of so many coders dedicated to making the world a better place. WE all benefit from their work. 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne 2010/1/27 Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org This is wonderful news for our Wiki Family! Congratualations for this accomplishment to the both of you!! Cheers, Patricia *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Wayne Mackintosh *Sent:* Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:51 PM *To:* WikiEducator; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-t...@googlegroups.com; oe...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage *IMPORTANT MESSAGE GOOD NEWS FOR ALL WIKIEDUCATOR USERS* We're pleased to announce our long awaited migration to Rich Text Editing as well as important software updates for the WikiEducator website . This is a great way to start the new year! In this message: 1. Help with final testing of our Rich Text / WYSIWYG Editor implementation and software updates 2. Scheduled read-only outage of WikiEducator site starting: *Saturday 6 February 20:00 UTC* (Sunday 7 February 09:00 NZDT) or confirm the start time for your region here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7month=2year=2010hour=9min=0sec=0p1=22 *1. We need your help with final testing of the Rich text editor* *and software upgrades* *before going live* The WikiEducator technical team has been testing the Rich Text Editor and a number of important software updates. We are very happy with the performance and this will add considerable value to our project. To the best of our knowledge everything is working as it should. However, we would appreciate a little help from our advanced users for final testing and identification of any problems we may have overlooked. 1. Please visit your favourite and/or more complicated pages on the test wiki site (http://we4.wikieducator.net/Main_Page ). 2. Login with your existing Username, 3. Click on the Rich Editor link to activate the WYSIWYG editor 4. Test the functionality of the editor using your favourite pages (note that this is a test site and your edits will NOT be preserved. Real work must be done on the live WikiEducator site) 5. Please let us know if any if there are any user created templates which are not working, missing images etc. 6. Report any problems you experience with the editor on this list by Wednesday 3 February 2010. With any migration of this size, we anticipate that there may be a few teething problems. WE will address in good time. We will try to fix any problems before the go live date, but we may need to schedule some fixes according to priority after the go-live date. However, we feel that the advantages of Rich Text Editing outweigh any teething problems we may experience. Known issue: 1) Templates for print-specific behaviours will not work with the wiki-to-pdf feature at this time because of changes Pedia Press have implemented in the wiki syntax used for this feature. We need to update these templates within the first weeks of the new installation. Any help from advanced users for these updates is well received :-) *Scheduled read-only access of WikiEducator site * We have scheduled a 5 - 6 hour period on insert date and time, plus fixed world time zone link when WikiEducators will not be able to edit on the WikiEducator site. (Users will still have read-only access during this outage.) We have planned this outage to coincide with the weekend for most users around the world. In the event of any unforeseen problems the outage may be longer. However, we are aiming to complete the migration within the scheduled time frame. Users with a more technical background and/or interest may want to: - join the #wikieducator channel on irc.freenode.net (or use Web chat link in sidebar of the English WikiEducator) -
