Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Sipsey Wilderness (Alabama): World Univ & Sch now with edX offers free best STEM CC-4 OCW accrediting online Bach & PhD degrees 9/21 - & CC free open WIKI schools in all 7k living languages https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch * * * WUaS News Q&A M 3/15/21 1-WUaS partnering with edX developments, & re #WUaSPhDs (but not 1-WUaS Minutes https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/xoloitzcuintle-mexican-hairless-dog.html #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting Video: 2/20/21 > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G55613wSpvGie621ZSBrQoHThWzoVMRT/view) 7k Langs @sgkmacleod @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~ * * * WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki, WUaS Opencura WBstack Wikibase, WUaS in Wikidata

World Univ & Sch now with edX offers free best STEM CC-4 OCW accrediting online Bach & PhD degrees 9/21 - & CC free open WIKI schools in all 7k living languages

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

World Univ & Sch now with edX offers free best STEM CC-4 OCW accrediting online Bachelor & PhD degrees 9/2021

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

- & CC free open WIKI schools: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects in all 7k living languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (@sgkmacleod)

World Univ & Sch now with edX offers free best STEM CC-4 OCW accrediting online Bachelor & PhD degrees 9/2021 https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E - https://t.co/1mEu65GXFN
- & CC free open WIKI schools: https://t.co/dLJc25AHA8 in all 7k living languages https://t.co/vPfIrX8DnH (@sgkmacleod)
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 17, 2021

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1371982912929755138?s=20

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Today's

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v_hxjtJhI3XtA8E5tGnV4PK9oNdzV1nA/view WUaS News Q&A M 3/15/21 1-WUaS partnering with edX developments, & re #WUaSPhDs (but not 1-WUaS Minutes https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/xoloitzcuintle-mexican-hairless-dog.html #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting Video: 2/20/21 > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G55613wSpvGie621ZSBrQoHThWzoVMRT/view) 7k Langs @sgkmacleod @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~

Today's https://t.co/Eh19YPBtjw WUaS News Q&A M 3/15/21 1-WUaS partnering with edX developments, & re #WUaSPhDs (but not 1-WUaS Minutes https://t.co/aXRp7QBenE #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting Video: 2/20/21 > https://t.co/E0YSCaSa9z) 7k Langs @sgkmacleod @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 15, 2021

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1371524326365749250?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1371524585938583555?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1371524746895110145?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1371525085517914115?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1371525291147984897?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1371525469850378246?s=20

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and WUaS in Wikidata

. . .

WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki, WUaS Opencura WBstack Wikibase, WUaS in Wikidata

Dear Larry, Lydia, Tito, Jayni, Juan, Yuping, Julian, (WUaS Board), All,

Here's an update on how WUaS MIRAHEZE MediaWiki is structured, as a blog entry -

2021: New Year, New Teams, New Focus, Same Principles
Introduction to Team Restructuring for 2021
https://phabricator.miraheze.org/phame/post/view/12/2021_new_year_new_teams_new_focus_same_principles/

So,

1)

WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki
As you may know, World Univ & Sch has received this WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki in 2017 (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects), after donating ourselves to

Wikidata

Wikidata in 2015 for co-development (and for a structured knowledge database in Wikipedia's 300 languages) -
Here's one of about 725 "front end" WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki pages -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - which you can teach, and learn to, and add to as well ...

... but the WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki as '"front end" and the WUaS access from Wikidata aren't yet interoperable; (and WUaS is only in English here so far too, but will expand to Wikipedia's 300 wiki languages when this all iterates a bit further).

Here's an example of Wikidata q-item number (which WUaS will query information from, SQL-wise) -

Nontheist Quakers
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q7049628
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers

WUaS Opencura WBstack Wikibase

And in 2020, WUaS got WUaS OPENCURA Wikibase (part of Wikidata) also called WBSTACK, I think, where Wikibase is the platform on which Wikidata runs I think. Here are some instances of WUaS in the Opencura Wikibase WBstack -

And,

WUaS seeks to plan, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.8 billion people on planet as wiki teachers and learners in WUaS Opencura WBstack here, for example, re -

INDIVIDUALS

https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q4

(And see these 5 initial reasons too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html )

But none of these 3 WUaS platforms are NOT interoperable yet, or working entirely well together either.

And here's

WikiTree

And WUaS may seek also to interoperate all these platforms with WikiTree, another WIKI, (and with its plans for a single family tree, and regarding GENETICS of all even) ... and presumably for 7.8 billion people too (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524)

So, please check out the Miraheze Mediawiki update - since this will be the "front end" wiki of World University and School, for open wiki teaching and learning (and in 300 initial languages), and as these all become interoperable.

All of this may also be integrated with this new development at Wikipedia, called ABSTRACT WIKIPEDIA, with its focus on lexicographical data -

"[Abstract-wikipedia] Newsletter #18: Two prototype tools to visualize lexicographic coverage in Wikidata"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2021-02-10

I see as a first step emerging INFO BOXES as being central on our WUaS "front end" in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki drawing on our WUaS Wikidata "backend" for information - and regarding potentially CC-4 MIT OCW courses in 4 languages, edX courses in 15-20 languages, etc., and as WUaS begins to build - and for students to take courses from for credit, as well as to TEACH TO and LEARN FROM wiki-wise in a sense especially.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions, questions?

Sincerely,

Scott

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation

WUaS Annual Meeting Minutes from 12/21/2020

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/indiana-bat.html

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2021 Survey of the WBstack User Community
Thank you for submitting your responses!

Which Wikibase(s) do you administer on WBstack? please provide the site title(s). *

https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Main_Page - World University and School

Are you administering any of these Wikibases as part of your role within a research team, an institution (such as a library), or a company? *

Yes, an institution

If you answered "yes" to the above question, please share the specific research team, institution, or company you are a part of.

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in 200 countries, and in their official and main languages, for online free-to-students' university degrees, and in all 7117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning.

Have you ever installed or maintained a Wikibase outside of WBstack? For instance, by using the Docker images or manually installing the software. *

No

Why did you choose Wikibase for your project(s)? *

Suggested I think by Denny Vrandecic, and Houcemeddine Turcki

How did you first hear about WBstack? *

I think from Denny Vrandecic, and Houcemeddine Turcki

Why did you choose to create your Wikibase on WBstack? *
To develop wiki World Univ & Sch further

What are the most important things you think are missing from either WBstack or Wikibase software? *

I'm not really a site database administrator, for one, and WUaS integration with our WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki, Wikidata, and WUaS Opencura WBstack hasn't yet happened.

Do you plan to continue using WBstack in the future? *

Yes

Please provide an explanation of your answer to the above question. *

Seeking to build out further, first for matriculating undergraduate and PhD students this autumn at WUaS, with WUaS newly partnering with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard and Anant Agarwal, MIT Professor of EECS and CEO of edX)

Is it important to you that WBstack does not cost money to use? *

Yes, it is important that WBstack does not cost money

When you have questions or encounter issues with your WBstack instance, where do you usually go for help? Check all that apply. *

Haven't begun doing this, since Houcemeddine Turcki helped install WBstack for WUaS

Do you think WBstack should be officially supported/maintained by Wikimedia Deutschland, rather than run by volunteers? *

Yes

Please provide an explanation of your answer to the above question *

Integration with their other infrastructure has much merit; and WUaS seeks to build out for wiki teachers and learners - as individuals ... https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q4 - in all 7,117 known living languages, and potentially, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.8 billion people on the planet.

May Wikimedia Deutschland contact you with additional follow-up questions? *

Yes

If you said yes to the above question, please provide your email address.
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.