Vicia faba: Wikidata installation re World University and School, Is there a way to integrate Google's AI software "TensorFlow" with Wikidata?, See the upcoming free course on TensorFlow from Udacity

Jeremy, 

Thanks for information about how to install Wikidata below.  

Is there a way to integrate Google's AI software "TensorFlow" with Wikidata? See the upcoming free course on Google TensorFlow from Udacity - https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730 and http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/teach-yourself-deep-learning-with.html. 

Scott

Hello everyone,

I'm having some issues with my wikidata installation, any help would be appreciated.

I'm getting stuck on an "Internal server error" after a Mediawiki + Wikibase repo installation via GIT + update of wikibase via composer, the wikibase is functional but after adding 1 element or 1 property, any other add of elements returns an Internal server error, and I have to wait for several minutes before it's fine again, for only 1 addition of element and then error again.

I have no particular errors in my php logs or apache logs, just - error 500.

Here are the versions installed :

MediaWiki       1.27alpha (b3a82ca)
PHP     5.4.45-0+deb7u2 (fpm-fcgi)
MySQL   5.5.46-0+deb7u1-log
ICU     4.8.1.1
Wikibase Repository     0.5 alpha (62c267)

I can add some wiki pages (non-wikibase stuff), modify them, no problems.

When I try to add an element or property, the first time I try it works, then a few seconds later I can't add a second element I get an "error 500 - internal server error", and I can't get it work until about 30 minutes / 1 hour then I can add another element and then again nothing !

I think I might have a namespace problem but how to configure it and keep my other wiki pages ?

Thanks in advance !

Regards,
Jeremy

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http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/ -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki/ -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Template:SUBJECT_TEMPLATE

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Peas in a pod: On studying enjoyment in relation to your service/work science system framework, and re educational systems, particularly with WUaS in mind, Some key aspects of "flow: the psychology of optimal experience" based on Csikszentmihalyi's research - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm. This is research that is build-able upon and even operational-izable in terms of coding and in a new service /work system university platform I think

Hi Steve (http://www.stevenalter.com/work-system-basics-2/ and http://www.stevenalter.com/service-system-basics-2/), 

Thanks very much for your email. I'm going to respond with a focus on studying enjoyment in relation to your service/work system framework, and re educational systems, particularly with World University and School in mind. 

In terms of enjoyment and studying this over time (and rigorously online and inter-lingually at a growing all-languages' STEM-oriented wiki CC World University and School, accrediting to offer CC MIT OCW-centric university degrees in all countries' main languages - and with many students, faculty and employees - where the customers may first be governments paying some portion of the $44,000 per student per year to WUaS that it costs to pay tuition to go to MIT or Stanford for example) and your service system as work system framework, I'd return in my thinking to (the long time University of Chicago Professor) Csikszentmihalyi's rigorous research on how enjoyment works (in his 1991 book "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," for example, and numerous studies in academic journal - where he gives subjects pagers and surveys and he asks them what they are doing in terms of enjoyment when they are paged - and it turns out that it's challenge at the appropriate level that leads to being in the zone), that seems extensible to the web for further research and in new ways. Enjoyment as "flow" experiences, in the work situations you study are explicitly a focus for Csikszentmihalyi, but don't go far enough in my experience, in terms of a very wide variety of qualities of bliss, happiness, etc. 

As a starting place for studying enjoyment within the context of a service/work/education system - and in all countries' languages - Csikszentmihalyi's academic approach could be one important baseline, and an approach we could build into the WUaS AI software. 

But, on a personal note, I noticed that music-making (since I see you play the cello and piano), occasionally possibly as work, may be enjoyable for you as well, as is music-making for me - (and I wonder if this could be understood as an aspect of a service/work system?) - and I'm curious too how to build on music-making model as service system/work system in the context of your framework, for learning and applying what we've learned musically about music-making, to work/service systems in new ways in terms of enjoyment and really great enjoyment (e.g. neurophysiology of bliss in my language). (Improvisational music in particular leads me to highest enjoyment - e.g. Grateful Dead, Raga and JS Bach in some ways - and in what ways could aspects of music that lead to these experiences, further inform a service system, and perhaps apply too to your framework?) 

In terms of Gardner's research on multiple intelligences, I haven't read or seen the literature, for example, where specific kinds of intelligences at a Reed College (for example, where I went to school) or any university, leads to specific kinds of academic majors, and where enjoyment for students who are beginning to enter the service/work system with these academic majors has been studied and written about in the scientific literature, but I will keep my eyes open for this. 

How to apply the "Flow" research to work situations in terms of students and knowledge workers enjoying their work and then grow enjoyment from this is another question I'm interested. How would such enjoyment affect their production/service as knowledge workers? (This literature may be extensive, but I haven't heard of companies being transformed by this). As an anthropologist I'd then explore various companies' cultures where long time employees report enjoying themselves most, and where customers also report great satisfaction, and derive from these companies understandings of company cultures for further approaches to understanding service / work / enjoyment and culture as a system. Stanford, although not perfect, is a model combining (my subjectively) understood enjoyment there both by knowledge workers there and faculty, in my thinking - of excellence and enjoyment, partly thanks to laid back California and even the legacy of the 60s - and the students as customers seem also to enjoy Stanford. And Google is another for-profit (yet IT, Stanford and Burning Man) culture where its 50,000 knowledge/IT workers seem like they're both enjoying work and are being productive.

In terms "of the issue of improving educational outcomes can be addressed based on existing knowledge in the education and psychology communities and without a great deal of attention to service systems," from my Reed College liberal arts' education perspective, the lack of service / work system thinking suggests to me that at least there is some further service systems' work to do (but I think Reed will continue to focus on its liberal arts' approach). In comparison, MIT and Stanford seem to generate much closer ties between education and industry (with budding service systems' thinking) in my subjective experience. 

In terms of "that work systems exist in order to produce product/services for customers," the study of enjoyment of knowledge workers as well as customers seems potentially profitable for companies, but these tradeoffs won't disappear as well. Yet CC WUaS's wiki side, as just one of many examples, may well facilitate eventually "extensive interactive tutorial with a world expert on a topic of interest," given that there are ~2300 CC MIT OCW courses in English and 50-100 courses in 6 other languages, not yet interactive, but WUaS hopes to move in that direction. 

How to build in the study of enjoyment and greatest enjoyment into the software of WUaS itself in all 200 countries' main languages and all 7,938 languages as wiki schools - and in terms of operationalizing a service system / work system as a university employer is a fascinating question. 

Apologies if my reply is a little disorganized as a reply to your helpful response, but I need to focus on editing my 400 page actual / virtual Harbin ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - which I'm planning to publish around Valentine's Day. 

I enjoyed your enjoyment in making your excellent ISSIP presentation. Thank you. 

Best regards, 

Scott

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Steve and All, 

As a follow up, here are some key aspects of "flow: the psychology of optimal experience" based on Csikszentmihalyi's research - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm. This is research that is build-able upon and even operational-izable in terms of coding and in a new service /work system university platform I think.

Cheers,

Scott 

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Indian chameleon: Canadian Studies' at UC Berkeley and WUaS

Hi Irene, 

Very nice to meet and talk with you yesterday at the Canadian Studies' "Thomas Garden Barnes Lecture: From the Forest Primeval to the Spell of the Yukon: Literary Tourism in Canada" talk at Cal - http://canada.berkeley.edu/. 

As the chair of the Canadian Studies' program at UC Berkeley and a Professor of Sociology there, here's the beginning Canada World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Canada - which is soon moving to the new WUaS in MediaWiki with Wikidata/Wikibase. And here, for example, is the beginning French language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language - with both MIT OCW courses for language learning, as well as other CC MIT OCW courses about French culture - and potentially courses about French Canadian culture, sociology and so much more. We're planning in Canada WUaS to offer online bachelor, Ph.D. law and MD degrees as well as IB high school diplomas in English and French+, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all languages in Canada. Here's the Sociology wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sociology - and interestingly, MIT (OCW) doesn't seem to have a Sociology department. Much of the learning will take place in group video. 

And here's the main WUaS page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - with the new developing WUaS MediaWiki in English - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/ - accessible from - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. WUaS hopes to develop in the new Wikidata / Wikibase database (written for Wikipedia's ~300 languages and developing with machine learning/AI) this spring, and then develop in all 7,938 languages, with accrediting universities in all ~200 countries' main languages. 

One great thing about Creative Commons' licensed WUaS is that anyone can add a wiki subject about something they love and in any language - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - to facilitate open teaching and learning about this. For example, there's a Tourism Studies' wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tourism_Studies - as well as many subjects about music-making.  

See you perhaps at this Canadian Studies' event in Berkeley Law - Fossil Fuels and Radical Sovereignties - http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/can?event_ID=95655? (I can't attend today so may not attend the whole thing actually).

By way of further introduction, I'm seeking to publish my 400 page actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnography around Valentine's Day - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. 

Best regards, 

Scott

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university

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West Usambara two-horned chameleon: How best will WUaS be able to pair individuals of different Languages (in all 8k) who want to learn the other's http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Languages ? … Begin a school in your language with this SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Template:SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as this list of languages populates to all ~ 8 thousand languages, Send WUaS an email, Now how best to turn WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE and related, and into real templates probably with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in MediaWiki (which would have to develop to support HTML 5 I think), and then begin to develop in Wikidata / Wikibase? What would some initial (defining even) querying re SQL, and inter-lingually be?, Here are the retiring Languages and SUBJECT TEMPLATE wiki subject pages in Wikia, All languages as wiki schools - and for a universal translator - and questions of consciousness re the brain even - at WUaS is far-reaching, I'll add language learning pairing section to WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE ...

How best will WUaS be able to pair individuals of different Languages (in all 7,938+) who want to learn the other's? http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Languages …

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Begin a school in your language with this new SUBJECT TEMPLATE in MediaWiki - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Template:SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as this list of languages populates to all ~ 8 thousand languages, from the page above.

Send WUaS an email - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - since WUaS in English in MediaWiki is currently restricted to reduce vandalism. It's possible to begin a WUaS language wiki school in German in MediaWiki at the point, however. 

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Now how best to turn WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE and related, and into real templates probably with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in MediaWiki (which would have to develop to support HTML 5 I think - When will MediaWiki fully support HTML5? I think this suggests it doesn't yet - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTML5), and then begin to develop in Wikidata / Wikibase? What would some initial (defining even) querying re SQL, and inter-lingually be?  This latter aspect could develop with a universal translator where wiki-additions could inform the development of the universal translator due to Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikibase and new WUaS contributions to such applications.

Making beginning a wiki WUaS subject page very easy will be key - and inter-lingually.


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Here are the retiring Languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - and SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - wiki subject pages in Wikia.

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All languages as wiki schools - and for a universal translator {http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator} - and questions of consciousness re the brain even - at WUaS is far-reaching.

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Panther chameleon: Meeting process - Friendly-informed "Recording Clerk" as WMF scribe for ArchCom and MediaWiki?, What a Clerk does re WUaS, Actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book editing, What translation focus does the Wikimedia Foundation Architecture Committee have? CC WUaS would like to develop a universal translator which would focus on commercial translation (e.g. textbooks) first in terms of countries' main / official languages ... something like Content Translation / Google Translate and anticipating developments with AI machine translation, Particularly interested in exploring translation for WUaS's academic wiki pages from English into other languages re MediaWiki, Google Translate as machine translation, As an example of incorporating beginning machine translation into the creation of this online University at WUaS in all countries' main languages (seeking to become the Harvard of the internet), would/could please ArchCom be looking at related translation questions tomorrow?

Hi Rob and All,

Thanks for your email about "being scribe for the ArchCom meeting" online for the WMF today. I'd be happy to try to be a "recording clerk" in a role possibly similar to scribe tomorrow at 1 in the Architecture Committee meeting. Since the conversation in a Google group video Hangout will be recorded, it might make more sense (to me), instead of transcribing every word spoken (is this what a WMF scribe does?), to highlight and record key minutes (of action or decisions). I have a fair amount of experience as recording clerk at World University and School's monthly business meetings (2nd Saturdays of the month at 9am PT for an hour) and also as clerk there, in a f/Friendly/unprogrammed Quaker sense - I'm a nontheist/atheist - and secularly, where the clerk is the listener, moderator, facilitator (and also kind of a leader in a receptive way) and thus "receives/interprets" a "sense" of the business meeting or committee meeting (taking in to account the unfolding group understandings including its history, personalities, previous decisions, unfolding goals, etc.), and tries with the recording clerk to provide a sense of where the group is, and what it has decided, and in writing.

Would you possibly be able to be the clerk in this experiment tomorrow Rob (since you know ArchCom's history and goals thus far etc.) and help me distill the language for possible minutes, if we decide to experiment with this?

I'll be at UC Berkeley during the Hangout, have a live academic talk to attend which will begin at 2pm, and so would finish up the minutes later.

M or R, should I come into the WMF tomorrow morning (when I'm also heading to the WUaS hive meeting space at AFSC / SF Friends Meeting on 9th - which generally meets MW from 10a-noon but is also somewhat flexible) to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)? Someone else would have to set the permissions in the Hangout to private obviously.

How does this possibility sound, Rob and All?

Cheers,
Scott

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Hi Rob and All,

Sounds good ... glad WMF has good unfolding meeting decision-making process (process as culture e.g. Google's seems so important for a company's success) ... Facilitators/scribes as the thinkers can have a lot of influence in informing an organization's discourse via minutes and notes ...

I'll keep editing my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - which I'm seeking to publish around Valentine's Day in a new Academic Press at WUaS, instead ... What translation focus does ArchCom have? CC WUaS would like to develop a universal  translator which would focus on commercial translation (e.g. textbooks, academic books, etc.) first in terms of countries' main / official languages ... something like Content Translation / Google Translate and anticipating developments with AI machine translation. And I'd like to explore translating my Harbin book in such software as it develops.

Have a good ArchCom meeting tomorrow.

Cheers,
Scott

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Hi Rob and All,

Thanks again for inviting me to be scribe tomorrow at the Wikimedia Foundation Architecture Committee meeting at 1 and sorry it didn't work out.

As a followup to my textbook/academic book translation question earlier this evening re ArchCom tomorrow, I'm particularly interested in exploring translation for World University and School's academic wiki pages from English into other languages re MediaWiki - e.g. see
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/01/naja-naja-indian-cobra-wuas-is-coiled.html - as beginning universities, and in preparation for high school students around the world applying this autumn 2016, and not only in English, to matriculate online in autumn 2017 for free, CC, (MIT) OCW-centric university degrees at accrediting WUaS. There are 720 current WUaS Wikia wiki pages and WUaS would like to move them all into WUaS MediaWiki - e.g. http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki. Thanks to Ryan Kaldari at WMF for helping to configure the English version at Wikimedia Dev 16 on Jan 6, and to Jan Zerebecki for helping to configure the German version - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki/ - then too. Knowing intermediate German, I nevertheless translated much of the German WUaS's 3 new pages in MediaWiki with Google Translate, which improved the translation. As an example of incorporating beginning machine translation into the creation of this online University at WUaS in all countries' main languages (seeking to become the Harvard of the internet), would/could please ArchCom be looking at related translation questions tomorrow? And could it possibly please begin to address a modality for helping WUaS move the ~720 WUaS Wikia into Wikipedia's ~300 languages in WUaS MediaWiki/Wikidata/Wikibase? Would translation such as this be something ArchCom would consider tomorrow (and with related WMF/MW committees)? Thank you, Rob and All!

Best,
Scott

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Protea cynaroides: The wiki-Harvard of the Internet in all countries' main languages, and for university degrees - in African countries, Latin American countries, Asian countries, in the prosperous countries?, Universal Education - and significantly as wiki and with best STEM CC OCW?, In All Languages Too? WUaS is a "client" in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" class beginning Sunday, CC WUaS like CC Wikipedia w best STEM CC OCW (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 langs and CC Yale OYC) has a CC School, And Friendly Quaker-informed too, for the values of caring, in part ... Feel free to start teaching and editing and learning ...

The wiki-Harvard of the Internet in all countries' main languages, and for university degrees - in African countries, Latin American countries, Asian countries, in the prosperous countries - and accrediting in their nation states?

Universal Education - and significantly as wiki and best STEM CC OCW?

In All Languages Too as Wiki Schools?

WUaS is a "client" in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" class beginning Sunday.

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Universal Education, Creative Commons'  licensed, 8k Langs, wiki, AI & accrediting on CC OCW with business plan here ...

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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/691745499490025472

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This is the beginning of WUaS in MediaWiki in two languages -
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Clover: WUaS in Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum," WUaS business overview, WUaS is exploring planning to develop with MIT's BitCoin and BlockChain

Hi Bill (and Kevin), 

Thanks very much. I'll consider further what other relevant material World University and School may want to share with the students in your "New Business Practicum" besides these 14 planned revenue streams - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html. If becoming a publicly traded company around WUaS's 501 c 3 Creative Commons' core is a possibility, and sooner than later, it would be great to explore how this would work legally and financially in your course. Could one student focus on each of the 4 501(c)(3) CC planned revenue streams and a 5th student focus on a long term strategy toward a publicly traded company, and the remaining ten planned revenue streams - and in the context of UC Berkeley and all of the University of California system? Would a publicly traded company be a first for your course or Berkeley Law (or one of a few)? 

And I'm RSVPing that I plan to attend the UC Berkeley Law "Practicum Entrepreneur-Student Brunch Reception" on behalf of WUaS on Sunday, January 31st. I may also invite incoming WUaS Board Member YC to this event as well, and will let you know (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation) if he can come or not. 

Greetings, Kevin.

Thank you.

Regards, 

Scott

Thank you again and looking forward to seeing you on Sunday at the Berkeley Law New Business Practicum reception. 

- In terms of additional relevant material I'd like your students to review: for accounting purposes, WUaS would like to possibly use Intuit Quickbooks with its Multi-store (for bookstore/computer store planned ~ 200 countries' main languages and indeed potentially in all 7,938+ languages) - especially for multiple language and tax support, until WUaS learns further of similar off-the-shelf or other software with even a greater number of languages and tax systems supported. But perhaps collaborating with UC Berkeley or UC might be an important business partnership to explore here especially.

In addition, WUaS is exploring planning to develop with MIT's BitCoin and BlockChain (http://blockchain.mit.edu/ -http://enigma.media.mit.edu/ - http://blockchain.media.mit.edu/syllabus.html ) and perhaps even do WUaS payroll in all ~200 countries' main languages partly with BitCoin connecting this with banks (WUaS has a Wells' Business account) and via our planned 200 law schools in countries' main languages if possible. Developing a plan with Berkeley Law, Cal, UC and MIT here could be an important part of this as well.

So for planning purposes in terms of "New Business Practicum," WUaS is potentially heading for Quickbooks with Multi-store and TurboTax in many languages, and Bitcoin - but this would also be on WUaS's commercial side, and not just on WUaS's CC 501 c 3 Core side of our planned revenue streams - see, again: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html. 

- WUaS would like to seek 200,000 applicants this autumn say by January 1, 2017, to matriculate online in the autumn of 2017 first in English (e.g. 200 from India, 50 from Japan, 225 from China etc, 75 from Brazil, 50 from Korea, Turkey, etc.) for online CC Bachelor, (and then Ph.D. Law, M.D. and I.B.) degrees, first in English but also especially also for a single course which could then lead to a job in WUaS university-industry collaborations and in all countries' main languages- see: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-single-mit-ocw-course-might-be.html.  

To this end, I wonder what collaboration possibilities again there might be with UC Berkeley re Dean Rich Lyons' recent Tweet that UC Berkeley had just gotten 100,000 applicants for the first time - https://twitter.com/richlyons/status/690721986704584704. Could a Cal-WUaS collaboration lead to doubling this number in the autumn of 2016?

- WUaS would also like to explore "New Business Practicum" WUaS outreach approaches with your students. There might be an opportunity here to hire Reed College undergraduate online student interns for 10 hours/week for Berkeley Law student management experience, for example, as well as especially UC Berkeley undergraduates in countries' main languages to start, if WUaS had the money for this. Could students in your course reach out to faculty across the UC campus in different departments to share this WUaS Cal GSI teaching opportunity - and also for funding sources from these respective departments, and thus create Cal Law student jobs beyond the parameters of your course this spring? 

- Furthermore, the University of California's 10 campus model in one system is potentially an excellent model for WUaS's plans to be in each countries' main language as an online accrediting (on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) university - accrediting in that countries' official/main languages. This could potentially lead to 200 universities in their main languages (where governments would contribute for their students some portion of the $44,000/year it costs for tuition to attend Harvard/MIT/Stanford and to otherwise cover the costs for these CC MIT OCW degrees, as well as possibly UC-informed degrees). WUaS would like to become the Harvard of the internet in all 200 countries' main languages and in all 7,938 languages and wiki schools for open teaching and learning. 

- Lastly, in terms of your "New Business Practicum" course - and a) WUaS CC 501 c 3 Core and b) a possible commercial, even publicly traded, company - here's WUaS's main IT development plan: WUaS plans to develop in the CC interlingual Wikidata/Wikbase database, which has been developed over the past 3 + years for Wikipedia's ~300 languages as our "back end." Wikidata/Wikibase is growing with machine learning and AI, and will make WIKI WUaS further unique relative to most online universities - so WUaS will be a) MIT OCW-centric in 7 languages, b) wiki, c) in all 7938 languages and d) developing with machine learning/AI. WUaS's "front end" will grow in MediaWiki. All of this has potential business as well as coding implications as well. 

So this is the front page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.

This is the beginning of WUaS in MediaWiki in two languages - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki and http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki.

And WUaS hopes to install and develop in Wikidata / Wikibase - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page - soon. 

WUaS looks forward to coming into conversation with your students about some of these developments. 

Thank you and see you Sunday at the reception.

Sincerely, Scott

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Abutilon menziesii: On with "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book editing ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... looking for the music in book editing ... and I'm planning to publish around Valentine's Day, Editing Wikipedia is one of the potentially most interesting things to do, Scottish Small Piping for a Scottish Evening in Marin last night was fun ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ... Free, upcoming online Robbie Burns' course begins 1/25 ... I'm enjoying this Song of Seikilos and it reminds me in little ways of our time in Greece, To Ethnomusicology, Erotism, Sexuality or Ancient Greece at WUaS?

On with "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book editing ...
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... looking for the music in book editing. (I mean, editing Wikipedia is one of the potentially most interesting things to do on it - because it's a form of writing and idea-sharing - and about subjects one is interested in - and editing Wikipedia can at times be a form of teaching - all music for some) - the finicky music of editing is there but I haven't found it yet ... :) ... and I'm planning to publish around Valentine's Day ...

(Fun though to play a gig in Marin last night at the Marin Country Club - where the Scot Rick Darbie was the organizer, and kind of the evening's visionary ... played Scottish Small Pipes {from sheet music} for about 1 1/2 hours on a little dais ... and for ~100 people at a Scottish evening who all enjoyed this, and as well as getting together ... it wasn't a Burns' night, but his portrait was on the bar and it's close to this Scottish celebration. There's also a free 3-week Robbie Burns course with Glasgow University Prof. Gerard Carruthers starting Jan 25 https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/robert-burns if you might be interested).

Get well soon ...

Scott


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Happy birthday, Cosmos!

I'm enjoying this these days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERitvFYpAk - and it reminds me in little ways of our time in Greece :)

Seikilos Epitaph - Song of Seikilos

These too: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RjBePQV4xE

Happy Birthday! 

Love,

Scott

Hi L! 

Also found these interesting in a related way 

The Ancient Greek Kithara

 

Peter Pringle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adj7Xoo9Us

Scott

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To

Ethnomusicology - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ethnomusicology -

Erotism - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Erotism -

Sexuality - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sexuality -

Ancient Greece - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Greece - at WUaS?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abutilon_menziesii

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Thale cress: From the Whole Earth Catalog to the 1966 Trips' Festival ~ Good 2008 documentary by Eric Christensen

From the Whole Earth Catalog to the 1966 Trips' Festival ~

Trips Festival 1966 [1/6]

 

Psychedelic Education Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDuEjr7ta0

To Hippies at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hippies
planned in many languages

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Eric Christensen on Trips Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZbqlS6vAc

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http://www.thetripsfestival.com/eric.html
http://www.thetripsfestival.com/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4xXMmhjG6Q

The Festival Tapes 1.0: The Grateful Dead & Friends

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50th Anniversary Acid Test Montage (Dedicated to the Merry Pranksters)

 

Inspiring Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlJH0pso0_U

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabidopsis_thaliana

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Myristica fragrans: Can music be taught as transformation?

Can music be taught as transformation? ...  In what ways further, besides, for example, teaching the techniques for making music moving in Scottish Trad Music in Scottish music schools, could this be learned? 

(And how also do the cultures of a Stanford or a MIT do this as well, I ask as an anthropologist :) ... and re WUaS's online music schools and and universities would like to combine transformation and online university ethos to inform a far-reaching approaches to teaching and learning ... 

The Grateful Dead actually did this with their shows, and Mickey Hart and all of them were conscious of this as well ... 

And living in the SF Bay Area and in Canyon, these transformation "memes" (replicating cultural units) are still in the air for me ... as we get further and further from the 1960s and 1970s ... 

Interested here in exploring transformation through music-making re the Grateful Dead's inspirations and perhaps in playing music for Scottish Country Dancing ... and then in exploring this in WUaS's online Music Schools ... 


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Canna: Liking GD drummer's Mickey Hart's Twiter description: "I play the drums. Transformation is the object. Member of the mind bending, spiritual adventure known as the Grateful Dead," Great too to see at least 3 other Grateful Dead band members on Twitter: Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann (Check out a picture of many of them here) and Phil Lesh, Check out too the Grateful Dead wiki subject page at World University and School, which will grow with time and wiki-ness, How can WUaS even teach and learn the "transformation" Mickey Hart writes about in online jamming and even in the WUaS music school ...?, Such transformations can be most enjoyable ... :), See too this recent "Viola: 3 great recent articles about Harbin ... " blog post re some articles about what the Grateful Dead were doing in the Harbin Hot Springs' kitchen ... (and about my upcoming Harbin ethnographic book), Start here at 47:15 for Mickey Hart on drums into a kind of transformation

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/01/canna-liking-gd-drummers-mickey-harts.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristica_fragrans

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Canna: Liking GD drummer's Mickey Hart's Twiter description: "I play the drums. Transformation is the object. Member of the mind bending, spiritual adventure known as the Grateful Dead," Great too to see at least 3 other Grateful Dead band members on Twitter: Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann (Check out a picture of many of them here) and Phil Lesh, Check out too the Grateful Dead wiki subject page at World University and School, which will grow with time and wiki-ness, How can WUaS even teach and learn the "transformation" Mickey Hart writes about in online jamming and even in the WUaS music school ...?, Such transformations can be most enjoyable ... :), See too this recent "Viola: 3 great recent articles about Harbin ... " blog post re some articles about what the Grateful Dead were doing in the Harbin Hot Springs' kitchen ... (and about my upcoming Harbin ethnographic book), Start here at 47:15 for Mickey Hart on drums into a kind of transformation

Liking GD drummer's Mickey Hart's Twiter description a lot:

I play the drums. Transformation is the object. Member of the mind bending, spiritual adventure known as the Grateful Dead.

Mickey Hart: https://twitter.com/mickeyhart

(Began this here ~ https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/690327551978287105)


Great too to see at least 3 other Grateful Dead band members on Twitter, some of whom are posting:


Bob Weir: https://twitter.com/BobWeir

Bill Kreutzmann: https://twitter.com/BKreutzmann
(Check out a recent picture of many of them here)

Phil Lesh: https://twitter.com/PhilLesh


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Check out too the Grateful Dead wiki subject page at World University and School, which will grow with time and wiki-ness ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead ...


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How can WUaS even teach and learn the "transformation" Mickey Hart writes about in online jamming (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Musical_Jamming) and even in the WUaS music school ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School?

Such transformations can be most enjoyable ... :)

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See too this recent blog post re some articles about what the Grateful Dead were doing in the Harbin Hot Springs' kitchen back in the 1970s I think ... (and about my upcoming Harbin ethnographic book)

Viola: 3 great recent articles about Harbin after the fire, "Harbin's Robert Hartley aka Ishvara," "The Fire at Harbin Hot Springs," "Everything Gone but the Water," Interesting observations about the Grateful Dead at Harbin in these articles, Interview too with the publisher, Rob Sidon, of Common Ground Magazine from 2011, Re a new Academic Press at WUaS and publishing my actual / virtual Harbin ethnography, here's a poetry book published through CreateSpace affiliated with Amazon. And the 2nd Twitter post has CreateSpace's choices for ISBN book numbers. To add the new Academic Press at WUaS, I'll probably use the Universal ISBN option. Furthermore, to anticipate publishing my and others' poetry, WUaS may create other parts of the WUaS Press, Distinguishing between becoming a Publisher and Imprints, Kindle conversion

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/01/viola-3-great-recent-articles-about.html
(See, too, in a related vein ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Grateful%20Dead)

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Grateful Dead 12-31-87 Oakland Coliseum Oakland CA

 

voodoonola

Start here at 47:15 for Mickey Hart on drums into a kind of transformation
https://youtu.be/ldiZ1pNA7us?t=47m15s
(Great interview of them here with fans a little after this ...)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_(plant)

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