Saguaro: Next steps for developing WUaS in Wikidata with a) student application process, b) course catalog and c) WUaS I.T. querying (paralleling Resonator and SQID), English, German, Mandarin and Spanish as first langauges?

Hi Mart, 

Thanks for your nice email and thanks too again for asking about ways you could help develop World University and School when we talked yesterday at Stanford.

And since you asked what you might do as a WUaS volunteer, I wonder if I could mention you to Wikidata as the person who might develop German language WUaS in concert with me developing English WUaS newly in Wikidata/Wikibase/MediaWiki, if they could help set WUaS in Wikidata up, for 1) student applications, as if students were applying to Stanford or MIT (see sign up GDoc here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/), 2) course catalog (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing) and re the beginning example of this multi-lingual WUaS query (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/pudu-wikidata-wikidata-query.html) which would inform how we try to structure WUaS in Wikidata (possibly with parallels to Reasonator, which M.M. wrote, or SQID, which M.K. wrote based on Reasonator). Although English, Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin) are WUaS's pilot languages (since MIT OCW are in this languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/), English and German are our actual first languages, since R.K. and J.Z began these two languages in WUaS MediaWiki on January 6, 2016, at the Wikimedia Developers conference in SF, where I first met L.P. and D.V in person! Here are the 6 WUaS MediaWiki pages in webarchive, with 3 in English and 3 in German - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/coastal-sage-scrub-amazing-concerning.html - and there are a few others as templates. Almost all of the 720 pages of WUaS Wikia are designed around this WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE.

So glad MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira asked WUaS to post the 3 items here at top - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - re WUaS's use of MIT OCW in a correspondence while WUaS was a pro bono "client" in a UC Berkeley Law course this spring, in which course we will again be a pro bono "client" this autumn. Here's re UC Berkeley Law Professor Bill Kell, MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira and UC Hastings' Law Professor emeritus Bill Wang (re accreditation) - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/08/saturday-august-13-2016-open-monthly.html.

And here's the big idea re WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-big-idea-at-world-university-and.html and cross-posted here with more about a single course and a job here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/sonoran-desert-big-idea-at-wuas-1.html.

All the Best, Scott

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Hi Lydi, Mark and Mart,

Martin asked yesterday while we were talking at Stanford what he might do as a World University and School volunteer, and I thought of your July 10th email, Lydia, in these regards:

"Hey :)

Do you already have a candidate? Do you already know what exactly they
should be working on? And what would be needed from the Wikidata
community or the development team?

Cheers
Lydia"

I'd like to suggest Martin as the person who might develop German language WUaS in concert with me developing English language WUaS newly in Wikidata/Wikibase/MediaWiki.

What we'd like to do, exactly, is develop/set up WUaS in Wikidata/Wikibase/MediaWiki for 

1) student applications, as if students were applying to Stanford or MIT (see the WUaS sign up GDoc here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ as a start), with a 

2) WUAS course catalog (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing) and re 

3) and newly with this beginning example of a possible WUaS query - "What are most impt stats issues in earth/space sci that journalists should understand?" (see http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/pudu-wikidata-wikidata-query.html) which would inform how WUaS structures WUaS in Wikidata (with many parallels to Reasonator and SQID). Perhaps Magnus Manske could help build this new tool as WUaS as well. 

Although English, Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin) are WUaS's pilot languages (since MIT OCW are in these languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/), English and German are our actual first languages, since Ryan Kaldari and Jan Zerebecki began these two languages in WUaS MediaWiki on January 6, 2016, at the Wikimedia Developers conference in SF, where I first met you, Lydia (as well as Denny) in person! Although this WUaS in MediaWiki stopped working in March, here are 6 of the WUaS MediaWiki pages in webarchive, with 3 in English and 3 in German - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/coastal-sage-scrub-amazing-concerning.html. Almost all of the 720 pages of WUaS Wikia are designed around this WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE. And developing around this SUBJECT TEMPLATE in WUaS MediaWiki/Wikidata/Wikibase is part of what WUaS would like to ask the Wikdata development team / community to code for. So, WUaS would like to transfer these 720 pages from Wikia to Wikidata / Wikibase in MediaWiki, planning for all 358 of Wikipedia's languages, and in Wikidata. Perhaps Ryan and Jan could also help with the MediaWiki side of things, in particular. All of the above would also include planning for developing the ~10 main areas of WUaS in Wikidata/Wikibase - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. Developing CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages for a WUaS course catalog and eventual AI-informed student learning in multiple languages would be part also of what the WUaS development team would do.

Jeder WUaS Nationalstaat wird jeder eigenen großen Universität in seiner Hauptsprachen werden - bietet Bachelor, Ph.D., Recht, M. D. und International Baccalaureate High School Grad.

As potential candidates, I hope Martin and I might develop WUaS further in MediaWiki in our respective languages once WUaS is begun in MediaWiki/Wikidata/Wikibase - and potentially for WUaS student applicants beginning this September 1st. 

I hope you enjoy getting to know one another :) and thank you!

Cheers, Scott

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/kaldari/

Scott's Wikimedia Foundation lightning talk last November- 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/roses-lightning-talk-about-cc-world.html

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