User talk:Jimmy 2004

2004 Archive Jimmy: talk
Hello Jimmy, I'm amazed with what you are doing in the mathematics School. I think you are doing a great job. I have no almost Idea about mathematics, but I'd like to help you if you have some doubt about how Wikimedia works. May i give you some advises about the work to do? (they are just some opinions of my own, don't take them as if i were the commander who you must obbey, ok? :)
 * Wikiversity is a baby so we don´t really know what it is going to be. It depends mostly on our work.
 * We must be careful so that we don´t make a mess. I mean, I think we should be careful making a clear distinction between the Wikiversity contents and the contents from other wikis. But, don´t forget that they exist and wikiversity may/should/have to/or even must get profit of their contents in order to save time and to make them more useful. Ah, of course, i also think that external links may always be very useful when Wikis do not cover an specific area.


 * Another idea i had about Wikiversity is that we may enable discussion forums for the students where they may ask specific questions. The forums could be the discussions pages of each page in Wikiversity. It seems obvious, but I think it is very important.

So, until here, some ideas. I only wanted to share them with you, but, I will be glad to read your opinions, (excuse my terrible English, I'm spaniard)Chao, and continue with your great job. --[Javier Carro] 13:21, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

How can we solve the problem to separate School and resources?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that you would save much time if the theory part of the courses is filled with links to Wikibooks and articles of Wikipedia dealing with those topics, or with pedagogical resources of internet. I think that the content to study has got a right place in both projects. Wikiversity could be the place to meet those who want to study these topics and where may be described what a person may study, how, in which way, where can this person search for answers, ...

I don't want to discourage you at all. You do it great, but i think that in a wikischool we don't need to follow the same patterns as in a conventional school sometimes. For example, if somebody wants to learn maths, but he doesn't have the time to do it in a semester, as it is said in the divisions stablished by the conventional educational system, they should be able to study in the Wikiversity anyway, what do you think so? It's just my opinion, but in general terms your work is great. Continue, we will see the results in a few years of a free education which breaks many borders :) --Javier Carro 13:11, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think the idea of problems, questions, answers and solutions is great. --Javier Carro 13:14, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, you should do it as you think so. Eventhough, sometimes, you may consider adding some link to support your course with optional resources, for those who want to contrast different views or to complement, somehow as if it were additional bibliography.--Javier Carro 13:34, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Content issues
Jimmy, you seem to be duplicating a lot of content. That in itself is not a big deal, it seems to be the norm here so that's not really the issue. The problem is that we should be trying to include as much of the differing content here as possible, to go in the Wikiversity sections, perhaps. I'd like to move your Pure Mathematics sections elsewhere, but I don't want to do this in case I move it to a name you don't like. Do let me know what name you'd prefer, or you could move the stuff yourself. I'd like to rework the Pure Mathematics section to integrate all the existing content and add room for expansion Dysprosia 10:35, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Firstly, please sign your posts. Secondly, I'm talking about pages like Pure Mathematics 4 which says nothing that it involves integration. I'm not trying to obliquely make a reference to your work ,but since everyone here seems to go off and write their own books, then what we can do is have a gatewy page for the Pure Math section or whatever, or have another seperate gateway page, and link to all the books and courses. Or we can simply pool resources and work on the content we have. I don't know.

But for the moment, we should make the several content pages as compartmentalized as possible, and that means that your pages such as Pure Mathematics 4 should be moved. If you want to create a title for your structure, you can either let me know ("Pure Mathematics"?) and I'll move them, or you can move them yourself. Dysprosia 12:13, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)