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hi there, i am very confused by the portals and categories. how should i catalogue ICT - for secondary? hope u can help!! thanx!!! Kakamora 18:43, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that - I've added ICT to the Secondary portal Kakamora 16:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

templates?

Brent,

I've just come back to Wikieducator and have not set up a template for ages; I know the syntax of the template but how do I start one? Where do I generate it so that it sits with all the other list of templates please?

Regards Sue

!Hi Sue; just saw your question; if you pop up to the web address in the browser and type http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:sample; hit enter, it will take you to a blank template and you hit the edit tab and off you go. (where 'sample' is whatever name you like for your template. Cheers, & Brent, I hope I have not violated any wiki conventions by answering in your discussion page; CheersDmccabe 03:27, 27 November 2007 (CET)

Editing

Hi Brent, I am placing some anatomy and physiology worksheets on Wiki Educator to support my Wikibook called The Anatomy and Physiology of Animals and have come across a number of editing issues I am stuck with. I wonder if you could tell me:

1. How to underline script

2. How to centre tables on the page

3. How to make the column size/cell size the same in tables

4. How to make a blank cell in a table that still has margins

Cheers Ruth Lawson, Otago Polytechnic

Ruth, have responded to your questions here: User_talk:Ruthtlawson. brent 01:43, 27 November 2007 (CET)

Although mining policies have increased mining investment in Ghana (formerly Gold Coast), environmental policies have not been enacted to prevent deplorable living conditions in these mining communities. Due to the country’s richness in mineral resources, the mining sector in the economy holds the highest multinational investment venture. This is evidenced in Ghana’s production of significant amount of bauxite, aluminum, manganese, diamond and gold, with gold being the dominant mineral operation in the country. Apart from South Africa, Ghana is the second largest producer of gold and the third largest in the production of aluminum and manganese in the African continent (Coakley, 2000).

My Sandbox is colored red

I can not figure out why the word My Sandbox in my User: Ptauriki is colored red. Did I miss something out?

Regards, Paul

Oops.. I broke something

http://wikieducator.org/Category:Invitation_to_collaborate

I was adding the above description, hit save. Now pages with this Category are displayed as blank. I can't get back to fix it.

Sorry about that. ..Valerie

include one page in another

I remember the discussion. I don't remember if you can include/embed one page in another. If so, what is the syntax?

I want to put all the text of the specific guidelines for this semester http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learning_student_guidelines/SPRING_2009

into the wrapper page which is the same each semester http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learning_student_guidelines

Thanks ..Valerie

unable to access user page

I am currently unable to access my user page. Is there any way to get it back?--Benjamin Stewart 20:49, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


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Centering The Man with the Golden Arm (1)

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Hi Brent,

Yes I was trying to centre it! Thanks. What was the command you used?

Cheers,

David

Badger: I used |center inside the image tag ... so something like

[Image:this.jpg|center]

Guidance for the Perplexed (24)

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Congratulations on your election to the Council. Also thank you for contributing a response to my Guidance for the Perplexed page. I have summarised the useful points made by contributors as follows:

Summary of points:

  • Mechanism for raising points with Council
  • Council sets priorities

Suggestions:

  1. Establish Taxonomy
  2. Standard naming conventions as part of the style guide
  3. Increase range of sysops and bureaucrats
  4. Create Tools
    1. E-mail newsletter with guidance notes
    2. Tutorial for newbies
    3. Portal pages
    4. Creation of bots
  5. Integration of categorisation into training
  6. Development of users with advanced skills in categorisation and organisation of site
    1. Advanced Tutorials
    2. Barnraising
  7. Promote use of "MyTitle"
  8. Encourage wiki gardening

I hope this proves useful.Leutha 15:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

National and Transnational Curriculum Framework for WE (20)

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Hi Brent,

Leigh Blackall working with Otago Polytechnic in Educational Development has set up a page for discussions on WE framework of National and Transnational curriculum in the WikiEducator gorup on Google Groups. The discussions are very much interesing and constructive. All WE community members are warm welcome to make it a permanent venue for discussions on Curricula. The intermediate outputs on the discussions will be added/ linked to the Curriculum Project Node ( http://www.wikieducator.org/Curriculum_INDEX ) on WE

http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/74c36ce5b7f6aaf

Warm regards Anil

Biology category (1)

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Hi Brent,

The biology category is a good idea. I'll pop a few more pages in there when time permits. A possible downside of including it in the BES template is that it picks up some of our less useful procedural pages like shopping lists. Granted the shopping lists are transient so not a big issue. On the positive side, it beats having to enter the category on all of the sub-pages we have. I think we need more categories! Nice organizational tool. Cheers Dmccabe 03:50, 13 February 2008 (CET)

Dmccabe ... yea, but I suppose that the shopping list is still related to a previous biology lesson though so thats not too bad. I was going to add it to all the pages manually, but got lazy and added it to the template instead - it's a nice trick when working with templates. I'm about to launch into further categorisation and creating some portal pages for the different types of education, secondary, tertiary, etc... so watch this space. Great stuff too by the way; really well developed and useful.

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Great work on Audacity! (1)

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Nice Job Brent! Very inspiring

Bots for adding a margin to an iDevice (1)

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Hi Brent,

As you may have seen I have been updating the default margins for the iDevices. Unfortunately, there is one case where the default fails. I was wondering if a Bot could clean up those cases?

As far as I can figure it would need to search for something like:

== {{iDeviceName

and replace the next instance of

}}

with

|TopMargin=10px }}

or replace the aforementioned with

==
{{iDeviceName

I am thinking that a bot that requires user confirmation would be the safest way to go.

Any thoughts on if this is possible?

PS I'm in Auckland for a 6 month contract at UofA -- could discuss over a lunch...

Subject Clssification of WikiEd (1)

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Dear Brent,
I liked the idea4content page and its concept of classification. Being a trained librarian working as distance education professional, I think, would be able to support this activity. The world of indexing has changed over the years, and with the social tag based indexing the whole conept of library subject classification has received a new dimension. I alway believed that a web without prooer indexing is less useful, and I am happy that there are various projects going on semantic web that deals with this problem. But, as for wikiEd, we can simply apply a scheme like Dewey Decimal or Universal Decimal system.

with regards,Sanjaya

--Missan 05:30, 27 December 2007 (CET)

Sanjaya: Thanks for taking a look and please feel free to jump right in on the project. I've just taken a look at all the sites listed and made some notes under the name/link for each one on how they are categorising their content. I'll take a look at Dewey and any other classification systems that you might recommend.

Collapsible Tables (2)

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Hi Brent,

It was good to chat the other day.

I found this Collapsible Tables link today. It looks more robust that navbar and it does not break when you select the third javascript editing preference (I think it is double click editing).

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