User talk:Dcljr

Wikiversity
Hello Dcljr,

I apologise for stating my position forcefully before contacting you.

You made some tweaks to the front page of Wikiversity which are probably mostly improvements because I did not notice anything objectionable except:

you inserted a phrase stating that materials were wanted only from teachers not students. I would like this phrase deleted or a correcting bullet added to this page immediately.

This a very large error that gives a totally incorrect impression of Wikiversity. Some of us intend to start with whoever shows up and proceed. If a student chooses to publish his chemistry, college literature, or phy. ed. game rules and asks me for assistance in improving and placing them along a learning trail I intend to help them out because their use of site is supercritical to its success. Wipipedia succeeded because it attract the assistance of hundreds of thousands after it hit critical mass and some of its initial contributors when it was at 39K were uninformed dilletantes like me or lower level students.

We can certainly discuss it some more if you disagree but I would appreciate at least the countering view added alongside your current interpretation of what we intend to do at Wikiversity if it is approved by the Board.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

I go now to see if I can find an admin to make the change as I realize you may be an infrequent user or on wikibreak or unavailable for a few days and I view this as important. Please take no offense and merely make the changes requested at bottom of the discussion page if you get there first. Thanks! user:lazyquasar


 * I've responded at Talk:Wikiversity. - dcljr 08:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I have responded to your response there. 8) We have some further work.  It appears perhaps the root of the problem is our personally interpretation of "course notes".  In the U.S. schools I attended  at the high school level "course notes" or "student notebooks" were graded in "college prep or track" classes and typically up to ten to fifteen percent of the course grade.  They were explicitly expected to be personal notes and not merely large verbatum chunks of repetition of available materials.  Later in the college the term "course notes" was also used for a comprehensive set of handouts to a course typically available from a copy center for a charge.  Clearly these are instructors copyrights and may not be posted without permission of the copyright holder.   The term "course notes" was also used synonymously with "notebook" after the course was completed and the student notebook was presumed to be a complete snapshot of the course presented as interpreted by the student creator of the set of study materials.  user:lazyquasar

Anonymous Editing
I appreciate the information user:Dcljr but I often prefer to be editing anonymously. If someone sees a mistake or has better wording they are welcome to change it. I experienced a rather severe level of wiki stalking early in Wikipedia's startup and have no desire for all of my inputs to be easily targeted by my editing handle. In my view people often need to learn to evaluate the content rather than who provides it. Lazyquasar 03:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)