California tiger salamander: WUaS in MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons in the process ... potentially in 3 or 4 languages to begin, British Friend Programmers, Guidestar Gold level, Erinn Andrews, Former Stanford Admissions Officer who is GuideStar’s "Senior Director of Nonprofit Strategy," Inspiring Stanford University's Guidestar profile

Juan, Sach, other developers among sporadic Universitians,

Great ideas for a course of yours, Juan ...

From across the Atlantic and the USA - from Spain to the SF Bay Area - would you like to co-develop WUaS in MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons in the process ... potentially in 3 or 4 languages to begin ... possibly En / Es / De (which I speak some) and Hindi together?

The new World University and School website - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - has database capabilities.

Have any of you installed MediaWiki before?

Might we get started this week?

Best regards,
Scott

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Dear Ti, 

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, and very nice to meet you at Quaker Meeting at SFFM some years ago. I'm writing to inquire whether you might be able please to help develop Friendly-informed MIT OCW-centric World University and School as we move from our current Wikia to MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons in the process, perhaps in the role as lead, or as a facilitator, and perhaps by identifying Friendly British programmers and coders, in the Cambridge, England, area and beyond, who might be interested in WUaS as a service project. 

This could occur in potentially 3 or 4 languages to begin ... possibly En / Es / De (which I speak some) and Hindi together (some people on the sporadic Universitian list are from/in these countries)? 

The new World University and School website - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - has database capabilities. 

Do you know Ffriends who have worked with MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons or who might be involved in the Wikidata / Wikitech / Semantic Wiki email list communities? 

Three germane ones are: 

Wikidata: 

wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Wikitech: 

wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Semantic Wiki: 

semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net

WUaS would like to start growing as an organization from the SFFM Meeting House itself during weekdays (when it is mostly unoccupied) if at all possible. 

Thank you. 

Friendly regards,

Scott

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Dear Universitians, 

New WUaS Board member Jayni and I began addressing the following questions last night toward getting the Guidestar Gold level ...

"The Gold level gets at qualitative programmatic data, specifically asked via the Charting Impact questions: What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your strategies for making this happen? What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? How will your organization know if you are making progress? And what have and haven’t you accomplished so far?"

These questions are from a blog entry at Guidestar by Erinn Andrews, who went to Stanford, was an admissions' representative at Stanford -

Erinn Andrews, Former Stanford Admissions Officer, Video Case Study #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XL8vBBB7o -

and who is GuideStar’s "Senior Director of Nonprofit Strategy" - http://trust.guidestar.org/2014/06/30/guidestar-exchange-june-25-webinar-follow-up-questions/ - and who has responded to me in email directly. After obtaining our Gold level designation, Erinn might be able to highlight in one way or another specific foundations for WUaS to apply to. Maybe she could become head of Admissions at WUaS even and across languages eventually. I've added Erinn's video to the Admissions' page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#Select_Video_and_Audio.

Guidestar is an information exchange for philanthropies to learn about WUaS (e.g. such as the Gates' Foundation). 

Feel free to join this Guidestar conversation by responding to these questions via email. 

Sincerely,

Scott 

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Here's inspiring Stanford University's Guidestar profile ... with an unusual Mission Statement - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/94-1156365/stanford-university-board-trustees-leland-stanford-ju.aspx - and which is more a narrative than statement. 

And here again is World University and School's Guidestar profile -  https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx - to which we added last night, especially vis-a-vis the key words of "free degrees." 

Regards, 

Scott

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