I found the tutorials helpful; our local computer folks usually say
you don't know what you don't know and it is true, I have learned
new things by running through the tutorial. Also, I think that the
number of new Sand boxes is a good reflection of use.
On Nov 24, 12:48 am, mackiwg
copyrights, images
created by government agencies and placed in the public domain).
Any thoughts? I can't claim any expertise in this area, but I see
Wikipedia as an example of one approach to handling these issues.
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I love the .pdf feature. The end product is very professionally
formatted and looks great. I like the page numbering.
There are some image issues. The text wrapping is sometimes a little
off such that text sometimes overlaps the bottom of framed images
(example [[An_Inside_Look_at_Apples!]]).
I quickly tried the video feature yesterday and moved a clip of mine
from Youtube. Because editing was slow on wireless at home I tried it
today at work, and the feature has vanished. It's a great feature and
I hope it returns or is just a temporary quirk of my network. Cheers,
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in a simple line graph with day on the horizontal and
height on the vertical. What can I tell you, I want it all? So, is
this technically difficult? Is somone doing this already? (I'm not
above 'borrowing' their code; I'll cite them of course.
Thanks,
Declan (=user:dmccabe
Thanks for the suggestions folks, these are interesting options. If I
come up with any other alternatives I'll post them. In the past we
had kept it fairly simple and just uploaded finished student plots:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:Mush_Graph.jpg
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learning the editing process, but it's an exciting
addition to the tool box. SO thanks. Declan McCabe
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I have placed a note in my template that should act as a flag for my
students, but it is certainly not fool proof.
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Thanks Wayne,
I'll add the category as you suggested; then I can do a history check
on the flagged pages.
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On Feb 25, 8:35 pm, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i should say... that it looks like a larger network problem. There are a few
sites in Europe that are currently unavailable.
bren.t
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I just noticed that we have exceeded 3,000 members; wow, congrats to
all involved. This is quite a group. Are there stats on distribution
accross countries?
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-looking, page numbered PDF.
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So, is it a problem at my end?
Maybe. :-) But it is a very new extension, so there could be some problems.
I have fixed a problem
at this wiki stuff since January 07, and the more I ask
questions, the more I find the community has answers. Previously in
wikia I had a lot of help from that community also.
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On Apr 6, 7:28 pm, Robert Kruhlak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Declan,
I added your image as the default for the template so you should not
have to use |Image=Video_Clip.png in the template call any more.
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Hi Rob,
Now that I have seen your Template:Kaltura_print I have more
On Apr 4, 5:38 pm, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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The person who uploaded the corn pic would have had to have pushed past a
prompt saying there is already a file by that name, overwrite?...
Leigh Blackall
Hi Leigh,
yes, they did push by the prompt (as I said, no big
the limits of
capability, the answer might be lack of resolution.
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Possible solutions:
[...]
2. keep the original file in the history just like all
users and alienate others, but it would likely result in a
decent measure of quality. Of course it would also mean increased
work load for all concerned. One can't expect peers to review unless
one is also willing to serve as reviewer.
Cheers,
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that could still be rated, but it
would even out the work load for a peer review system and not put us
on the months-to-review path of conventional scholarly journals.
My thought for the night.
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I think a web conference is a great idea. The terminology is a little
wasted on me, but I'm sure the tech folks at my end would be excited
to help out. I'd love to take part in some way, and I'm all for
reducing carbon emissions.
Cheers,
Declan
Hi folks,
I'm on a slow connection, so there is little I can do from here, but I
noticed that the Kaltura videos I have uploaded have been replaced by
a music video thing from the Artic Monkeys. Any thoughts on a repair?
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, congratulations to all on this next milestone. The growth
of the community and the addition of new talent and imagination
greatly increases the potential and value of what WE can achieve.
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for the statistics, very illuminating. I wonder if seasonal/
academic calendar patterns will emerge.
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Even when deleted by a sysops, the thread is replaced by a note
explaining that this thread has been deleted and is visible only to
sysops... So, not tidy, and gone. Perhaps it is a cost of the
insurance that comes with wikis; you can get lost stuff back, even if
you meant to delete.
in
question would sort it out.
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abandon them and
haven them taken off WE.
3. If it is a wash then perhaps we could have a switchable option or
toggle on each discussion page (don't know if that's technically
possible).
More than anything, I'd like to see an outcome.
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structure. And because it's a wiki, folks can chose to
depart from the structure if it does not meet their needs. If there
is interest we can set it up.
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Hi all,
Would it help WikiEducator to develop a course like
I added a note to the 'hello' template:
If you choose to have a profile page, please establish it by opening
your user page, editing the URL directly in the box at the top of the
web browser, and adding /profile
You can then edit your profile.
An input box would be better, but I'm not exactly
I also added a note to the multiple-user profile page:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Talk:My_profile#lqt_thread_6262
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edited profile page to help the users in question. I hit this one
just now: My_Profile, but there are others and I'm out time.
As always, feel free to make my template more elegant!!
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, or may already
be editing the same profile page.
Improving all the time; symptoms of a helpful community!
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students have created several dozen pages right from the
root directory. It has not been a problem because I encourage them to
choose kid-friendly catchy names, but I wish I had started them in a
sub page. I wonder is there a mechanized way to do that now and fix
the links also?
Declan
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deleted pages can be restored. It's a start; if it becomes useful, it
could be incorporated into the tutorials.
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mishandles hotlinks resulting in words being
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Never mind! it seems my computer was pulling up a cached version of
the category
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Unfortunately the 'Deletion requested' category remains active after
the page has been deleted. Looks like the tag will have to be removed
prior
Unfortunately the 'Deletion requested' category remains active after
the page has been deleted. Looks like the tag will have to be removed
prior to deletion. Any clever solutions?
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Gladys,
here's a first stab at this: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Personal
Let me know what you think! Edit away to improve it.
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I think the phone angle is interesting. Perhaps we also need a '15
things to do with a wiki' list. Just 15 won't cut it, but a top 15
might be useful. Perhaps we can add that polling feature that some
wikis use.
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, Helena, and the many other contributors to
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Hi all, one of my students stumbled onto our .com alter ego. I
noticed a lot of familiar users. Has there been discussion here that
I missed in my off season (June through December)?
How will it work? Do we anticipate that the products will be
generated mostly by WE users?
Declan
here.
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Congrats on all you have achieved in a short period of time. Congrats
also on the well-deserved recognition.
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Hi Wayne and Randy,
I appreciate the thought and planning going into this exploration.
Ultimately we all need to make a living and if there is some payback
for for WE then so much the better. I don't see an immediate way to
jump in, but I hope others do!
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does not seem to work for me. Has this been a
problem for others?
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Good thought! My students currently develop and tag their projects
based on U.S. grades. However, that does not translate universally
and an age rating would be universal.
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back this direction. Most important, I would not let the technical
learning curve get in the way of content.
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Most journals I have published in permit me to post a pdf file
online. Google scholar links to those pdf, so I recommend that when
ever possible and legal, we should post the pdfs online to facilitate
access. It is important to check however, because not all publishers
permit posting of pdfs.
Hi folks,
Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down
so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic
for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects.
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Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down
so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic
for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects
interest that we should link it from a
tutorial?
Your thoughts would be welcome.
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://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/ It's a complete change of
gears and I focus on it for my summer; it leaves little time for WE,
but I tend to return refreshed.
See you all in 2010!
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gratifying to be listed among such
excellent company on the UPE site!
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On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Declan,
I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community
wikify it?
Anil
We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a
great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring
model for other
collaborations and more importantly to increase usability.
Anil, and Sarita, thank you both for your interest. Let's see who
else we can recruit! This may well keep me in WE in my off season.
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recruit your
friendly neighborhood biologist to the project and let's see what can
be done. Let's have something excellent before the text books can
catch up with us.
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Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for
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OK then, I blocked 4 user names. If any are in error,please let me
know. I did not fix the sites; I'll leave that to the site authors.
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When I discussed the free resources available on WE with a grade
school teacher just back from Tanzania, she gently informed me that
reliable electricity and even more basic needs were larger issues for
her former school than access to even a very basic computer. I wonder
what we can do about
(or discussion page); type {{citations}} and hit save.
Similar templates can quickly be made for other common writing
mistakes.
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I am tasked with creating an open access toolkit on scientific
writing
it. If the images are of broader use to biologists
let us know; we'll 'Wikimedia' them.
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I recall that there is a WE link that ranks all pages by hit counts.
Can someone point me in the right direction please?
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Congrats Nellie,
amazing work and well deserved.
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A delete template will cause some admins to take a peek! Seems like
as good a use of the template as any other.
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in the classrooms of our partner schools in
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be signed electronically. Others would be very
welcome to take our wording, develop their own and link them from this
starting page.
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found my own images in wikimedia that were
uploaded to wikipedia and no trace of attribution or whatever
(arbitrary) license I had used. Simple transfer among the wiki
resources would make it easier.
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that's perfect!
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terrestrial specimen
collection, but the college's teaching collection would be more than
adequate to get many of the images needed to populate a general
entomological resource.
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Hi folks,
this is a new resource that may be of use to the science educators out
there:
http://www.nature.com/scitable
It's a free science library.
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the attribution have been handled in this situation?
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Hi Elizabeth,
some primary school science resources here:
http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools
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These will be black ink line drawings: what format is best? PNG?
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on this in the new year.
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).
But I just looked at the listed files today, and all but one of the
pages were created by one user and the deletion was requested by a
different user. I'm not comfortable deleting them in this case; I
agree that adding a stub template would be more appropriate.
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Agreed; most of the pages in question were long-since abandoned and I
deleted them. I left the U Auckland logos for the user to take care
of the licensing.
I admire Anil's Herculean effort. People are busy and it is a
challenge to attract their time and energy to even worthy projects.
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. But I think it has some potential if the
WE community feels that it has a place for something such as this.
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to see if this might technically
work and I'm confident it would:
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Clearly I'm ahead of my grading if I can do this tonight.
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would be very useful! It would give control to the teachers. Right
now I make a static web site and if the schools find a new bug they
must send it to me to get it added to their web site - so rather
clumsy.
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of staffing changes I no longer offer
the program. Feel free to use any of the lessons; that's why they are
on Wikieducator.
It is a wonderful thing you have planned. Enjoy.
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Declan , do you think , if suppose to let you to do that , any future
challenges you might think of ?
leo
Hi Leo,
I did not attempt to organize the older children to work with the
younger ones. I do know that one of our partner schools (Mater
Christi School in Burlington Vermont) runs very
Happy holidays all,
thanks for the many suggestions and help with this project. It is now
coming along and I should have the first river pages running in the
early new year. It's great to be back and active in the WE community
once again.
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I noticed that the navigation bar on the left side of Wikieducator
seems to have slipped down to the bottom of the page. The problem
seems to occur only in Firefox (I use 9.0.1). All appears fine when I
dust off MS Hexplorer :)
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Thanks Jim, you fixed it indeed! Cheers, Declan
Thanks for the report. I only use the newer Vector skin, so I hadn't noticed.
Firefox 9 confused our old version of Mediawiki's browser detection
code which made it think it was the KDE browser and applied some
fixes to the layout that were
interested, we'd welcome collaborators.
We are adding more photographs as time permits and will shortly add
more rivers.
Thanks Jim T for all of the support in getting up and running.
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analysis you may
be interested in teaching. Continuous/discrete/categorical.
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There was an interesting article comparing scientific accuracy in
Wikipedia with Britannica published in Nature: Internet encyclopedias
go head to head. Giles, Jim; Nature; Dec 15, 2005; 438, 7070;
Britannica rebutted the article and Nature fired back. Fascinating,
but ironically you'd need
Jim,
I would say you are exactly on topic. If we can engage students, get
them thinking critically about new material, and considering the
quality of sources, then we will have taken an important step.
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the number of points under 15
so that the work could be done in spread sheets.
Lots of possibilities :)
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Hi folks,
I recall that there was a way to build booklet-scale PDFs by somehow
collecting a series of WE wikis. I think you could make a single page-
numbered PDF from 2 or more wiki pages. Do we still have that feature
and if so what is it called so that I can relearn.
Cheers,
Declan
Thanks Wayne!
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Thanks again.
Declan
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