Friday, November 27, 2020

Pelargonium: World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation


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Houcemeddine, Lydia, Markus, Denny, and All, 

Thank you so much! And great to video-conference with you yesterday in Tunisia on Thanksgiving in the USA, on Wednesday, and on Monday, Nov 16, 2020. I hope these video meetings and installation of WUaS WikiBase will lead, initially, to the emergence of a WUaS Course Catalog with courses for the 1st year for 6 majors beginning next week - and the beginnings of a professional university website - worlduniversityandschool.org! Happy Thanksgiving, All!

Thanks especially, Houcemeddine, for both installing (with me, who doesn't know Wikibase) the following, as well as all those beginning languages' items in WUaS Wikibase yesterday!

But did I understand you to recuse ('excuse oneself from a case because of a possible conflict of interest or lack of impartiality') yourself, Houcemeddine at the end of our conference yesterday, from further coding? - that is, regarding your adding that M.Sc. degree? - when WUaS is not planning, at this time, to offer any M.Sc. degrees, but only free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric, and newly with edX, courses, Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D., and I.B. high school online in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages, and we neither want to de-value our planned degrees, nor make it possible for anyone in the system to grant WUaS degrees without coming to WUaS Monthly Business Meeting and making the proposal for example. Am I misunderstanding whether you were recusing yourself or not? Larry Viehland is the head of the Academic Accreditation committee, and this committee will make decisions about what degrees WUaS will eventually offer. I'd like to make sure I'm understanding correctly - since I think you said, "I have to go" "or "I can't work on this project anymore" or similar. Thank you. 

So with these beginning installation of WUaS Wikibase newly in WB Stack, WUaS has created the beginnings of a course catalog, coded I think in SQL, and with these items to begin  

Courses -
course - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q1

People -
individual - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q4
instructor - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Property:P5

Languages - 
language - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Property:P11

accessible from - 
You - Scott MacLeod - Scott_WUaS 11:02 AM
recent changes - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

and also from yesterday, 
Houcemeddine Turki - Csisc - 11:34 AM
Institution: https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q368

Country: https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q114

Houcemeddine Turki11:36 AM
Source: https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q369

Houcemeddine Turki11:53 AM
I see.


So in waiting to see what an emerging edX Online Campus DASHBOARD looks like - 


EECS:
Computer Science - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science 
Electrical Engineering wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electrical_Engineering

GENG: 
Engineering - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering

GSCI:
Science -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science

ENG:
English -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature

HIST:
History -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History

BUS:
Business - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Business

Before we begin to add some of all ~2,400 courses from edX, regarding the XLS spreadsheet which edX representative Matthew Gusching (above) shared with WUaS recently, to our new WUaS Wikibase database, it would make sense to begin to plan for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in our database - and for all ~300 of Wikipedia's languages - as well as to see how the emerging edX database will interoperate with WUaS Wikibase. 

Thank you so, so much Houcemeddine!

Friendly regards, Scott


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Dear Sir,

I thank you for your answer. Please choose ten languages that you will support.

Yours Sincerely,

Houcemeddine Turki

 

Thanks so so much, Houcemeddine, 

 

Very appreciated! - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Main_Page -... which is the beginning of WUaS installation of Wikibase / Wikidata in WB Stack! It seems like we got a good start on a data model for both courses, and course selection by students, and people (instructors, matriculated students, Wiki Universitians anticipating all 300 languages of Wikipedia)! And it seems like WUaS will be able to migrate our approx. 725 pages from WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - after we get our students course catalog and registration process going with this new Wikibase Installation. 

 

So sorry you were cold in Tunisia in the University of Sfax room, I think you were in .... 

 

Just found these 2 USB heaters one could plug into one's computer (first one requiring USB 3A), as examples, and while they're probably still an inefficient & early technology, they could help in some situations through a cool winter - 

 

Myonaz Pro 4 In 1 Space Heater with Heat and Natural Wind Reading Light, USB 3A
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Myonaz-Pro-4-In-1-Space-Heater-with-Heat-and-Natural-Wind-Reading-Light-USB-3A/780938528

OCOOPA 7800mAh Hand Warmers, Electric USB Hand Warmers Long-Lasting Heating Type-C/Micro Charging Rechargeable, Festival, Idea for Women, Men, Older, Raynauds ect.
https://www.amazon.com/OCOOPA-Electric-Long-Lasting-Charging-Rechargeable/dp/B07YC6727R/

 

And I just found this article on "A Walmart for Libya," your country's next door neighbor -

 

A Walmart For Libya
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 PAUL SULLIVAN

https://lobelog.com/a-walmart-for-libya/

 

And WUaS seeks to develop our WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - in all ~200 countries and their main languages, and for all 7,117 living languages engaging an Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital approach (and becoming as big as Walmart with about 2.2 million employees in many many countries, with an on-the-ground Big-Medium-Small Box approach, rather than just a Big Box approach, which I think is the name of the strategy which Ikea and Walmart engage) ~ and see, for example - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html. And WUaS seeks for many of these WUaS jobs to be 10 hour / week academic and bookstore internships, for example, first probably for matriculating students planning 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor's degrees, who might be interested (I have Reed College undergraduate internships in mind in these regards too, as one example). But we need to set up also the reimbursement process to WUaS from all ~200 countries' departments of education for this - and our having created this WUAS Wikibase installation is the very beginning of this! 

 

Thank you, Scott

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 9:47 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Hi Houcemeddine and Larry, 

 

Since WUaS is now focusing in this data modeling project in WB Stack on 6 majors (down from 29), today, possibly as 'place holders' I'll probably add some of the courses from our previous course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/6/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (which we stopped posting  just a few weeks ago) - if we get that far, and as WUaS begins to search for, and vet, the new edX courses in the other 5 majors I've been mentioning besides the CS courses you've identified from edX so far. 

 

Reed distribution and CS major requirements again - 

 

 

See you in 15 minutes, Houcemeddine!

 

Cheers, Scott

 

 

 

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 1:23 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Houcemeddine, 

 

In terms of data models, WUaS seeks to create these models with something like these Reed College distribution requirements, which it looks like I haven't sent you before - https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/distribution-requirements-effective-fall-2019.pdf  ( https://www.reed.edu/computer-science/requirements.html ) - and which increases the complexity and makes much more interesting the data modeling - including planning for a senior thesis (which involves writing an undergraduate dissertation, as well as junior - 3rd year - qualifying exams, for rising students). But please remember that categorizing edX courses and MIT OCW courses, or using their categorizations, in our WUaS upcoming data models in WB Stacks, will not be the same as Reed's, but may be close however! Creative opportunities ahead ...



Scott

 

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 1:09 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Great, Houcemeddine! I've added you to my Google calendar, and, as you've probably seen, already sent the Google Meet invitation for tomorrow, W, 11/25 at 10am Pacific Time from there. Thank you! - Scott 

 

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 1:03 PM Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr> wrote:

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your answer. Tomorrow works for me. We can meet as on Monday.

Yours Sincerely,

Houcemeddine Turki

From: Scott MacLeod
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 10:01 PM
To: Houcemeddine A. Turki
Cc: Larry Viehland
Subject: Re: World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation

 

Dear Houcemeddine, 

 

Thanks so much! And good to learn more details about WBStack. WUaS will 'seed' Lydia and Markus with long term planning for WUaS beyond WBStack and its 10,000 prospective Universitians. I have 2 items scheduled already on Thanksgiving day on Thursday morning Pacific Time at 7am and 10 am PT, but could meet possibly at 11 am PT on Thursday. What are some good possible times and days to meet? I could also meet tomorrow, Wednesday, or Friday, at 10 am PT (like on Monday) too. 

 

As I wrote in WBStack just now, and re data models: A meeting in a day or two sounds like a plan, @Csisc1994 If we have further questions about WBStack installing, I think we can ask here! Am curious how to go from adding edX and MIT OCW computer science courses in WUaS Wikibase / Wikidata, and have them appear here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science - in an 'info box' - and so that students can choose a first year's course of study of 10 courses from options and add them to their eventual transcript after matriculation - while leaving the rest of this CS wiki page open for wiki teaching and learning. Thanks! 

 

Let's focus on the first year of courses for 1st year Bachelor degree students, and (Larry and) I will begin to put together 10 courses in 5 other majors (both for distribution requirements as well as a declared major) to add to the new database and data models. At Reed College, however and by contrast, students don't typically declare their major until the 3rd or 4 years of study, but WUaS will seek to ask prospective students for the possible proposed major as they apply.  WUaS seeks in our data models to make it very easy to add new courses, for student choice, such as initially 3 first year 15 week-long WUaS Lego Robotics' courses with Scratch programming in the CS major, for example.

 

Thank you,

Scott

 

 

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:44 PM Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr> wrote:

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your answer. Please find attached to this email message the updated edition of the Computer Science Program. I have considered what you said and updated the courses. Concerning WBStack, we cannot use it to involve 7.8 billion people. If we would like to create a Wikibase instance for this high-scale information, this will require installing servers. WBStack can include up to 10000 students per year. I think that we should give up the project of supporting all people and just be interested in succeeding this new educational model that can be a revolution. Concerning what do you next, I propose to have a meeting within two days when we can create the new database and finish data models.

Yours Sincerely,

Houcemeddine Turki

From: Scott MacLeod
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:21 PM
To: Houcemeddine A. Turki; Larry Viehland; Lydia Pintscher; Markus Krötzsch
Subject: Re: World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation

 

Hi Houcemeddine (and Larry), 

 

I'm glad to say that WUaS is in WBStack now, thanks to you Houcemeddine! And I'm trying to invite you to the WBStack group in Telegram where there's an active conversation happening. Does this work for you - https://t.me/joinchat/FgqAnxNQYOeAKmyZTIId9g - with turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr ... 

 

What would be the next step? 

(And how best to plan, Lydia, eventually to scale beyond WBStack as WUaS's wiki teachers and learners grow in number ... and even toward 7.8 billion people, brainstorming-wise?)

 

Thank you!

 

Regards, 

Scott

 

 

 

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:09 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Houcemeddine and Larry,

 

Thanks for our conversation today.

 

Per your suggestion, and to begin a WUaS Wikibase installation, I just emailed the following request:

 

Hi, at Houcemeddine Turki's suggestion, and after video conferencing this morning, I'm writing to apply for an invite code to create a WBStack Instance for WUaS. (Houcemeddine Turki said he met you online at EMWCon Spring 2020 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020) . What's the best way, please, to proceed with this? Thank you. Best, Scott

 

to

Applying for an invite code to create a WBStack Instance

Houcemeddine Turki met you Adam online at EMWCon Spring 2020

Houcemeddine, the high school degree I mentioned is really the GED or general equivalency degree. But an AP Computer Science high school background is what WUaS would be looking for from US students, partially. (And a Baccalaureat as you were using it, I think, is a high achieving high school degree in most of Europe, and around the world). WUaS is also seeking to begin innovation online IB high schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in all ~200 countries and in their official languages with time too, FYI.

Larry, let's begin to put together a list - for coding purposes - of about 10 first year introductory HarvardX and MITx + courses in our old 6 majors, and include courses for distribution requirements for a WUaS Liberal Arts' Bachelor's degree (like Reed College's distribution requirements - https://www.reed.edu/computer-science/requirements.html) . Any missing edX courses necessary for a WUaS degree, like a required first year 'Discrete Mathematics'' course per Houcemeddine, we can begin to get from here - https://ocw.mit.edu/search/ocwsearch.htm?q=discrete%20mathematics - for CODING purposes.

Thank you.

On with beginning to install Wikidata's Wikibase, then developing info boxes (which read Wikidata) in our 725 WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki pages - and focusing on our 6 majors at first - in the The_College_at_World_University_and_School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School .

Seeking to get a professional website up and running for student registration, and majors' selection, - with a database, by December 1 or so - to begin to reach out to prospective students. Thanks so much, Houcemeddine!

Sincerely,

Scott

 

 

 

 

 

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:05 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Houcemeddine, and Larry, 

 

Thanks for your reply, Houcemeddine. I'd like to introduce you and Larry to one another; see your web pages below. Larry is the head of the Academic (Accreditation) Committee at World Univ & Sch (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation), and has been directly involved in all of the past WUaS course catalogs (with 6 majors, based on MIT OCW courses, and most recently 29 majors, based on the edX searchable catalog), and related course development approaches. Thank you, Houcemeddine for offering to install Wikidata / Wikibase for WUaS and potentially regarding academic majors. Thank you too Houcemeddine for suggesting that WUaS focus on MITx and HarvardX courses in our recent WUaS partnership with edX and regarding edX's catalog of ~2500 courses, per your: 

 

" ... I have several proposals concerning the entry requirements and the undergraduate curricula.

  • Entry Requirements: As WUaS will begin delivering courses in English, it should have a language requirement for the undergraduate students. I propose to have 61 out of 100 in the EF SET Certificate (https://www.efset.org/ef-set-50/) as an entry requirement.
  • Recognized courses: I think that we should put more emphasis on selecting courses delivered by the same institutions to prevent courses' overlapping. I propose that WUaS focus on HarvardX and MITx Courses.

When answering this email, please do not send it to many users." 

 

(I've rewritten 1 or 2 of your sentences for clarity, Houcemeddine, for Larry). And your ideas here Houcemeddine - to use HarvardX and MITx courses - may also help with selecting courses with a similar course length.

 

Thanks, too, Houcemeddine for focusing on ONE specific academic major in your email this morning, Computer Science, in your coding planning for the WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase installation, and using the University of London website (https://london.ac.uk/) as a kind of template for WUaS coding with Wikidata / Wikibase and for our WUAS upcoming majors. Since I think the HarvardX and MITx courses will change in upcoming years a lot, I'd like to focus on just the first years' worth of courses at WUaS at the introductory level. 

 

Larry, what are your thoughts, and what courses would you choose from edX's catalog, and in conversation with Houcemeddine's helpful 4 years' Computer Science program (attached), for our WUaS 1st year undergraduate courses for a CS major?  

 

Similarly, Larry, what 10 courses or so (like MIT OCW courses) would you choose from edX / MITx / HarvardX for the FIRST YEAR for our other 5 majors (back to the initial 6 majors - in this coding planning for the WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase installation), namely, besides EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English literature, History, Business - so Houcemeddine can begin to develop our new WUaS website? Larry, this will allow you to VET the WUaS first year intro courses further as we talked about in the WUaS monthly business meeting on Saturday. 

 

In seeking for WUaS to become world class, I'm particularly looking for a kind of Stanford ethos in courses per former Stanford CS chair Nils Nillson's response to my question (below) at Stanford - and for our WUaS students in January 2021 - over a MIT ethos - and many of our WUaS first year students will be speaking English as a second language too. 

 

"African flower mantis: Romania WUaS A) @WorldUnivAndSch B) @WUaSPress, Online culture at WUaS? - ie. to become world class - I think one of former chair of Stanford CS Nils Nilsson's points is that Stanford CS ADAPTED to what students wanted/what kept their interest, whereas MIT, for example, might not have (see his transcribed text in my blog post), It's a kind of excellence, smart empathy and connecting academically

 

Houcemeddine, in your coding planning for the WUaS Wikibase installation, could you please come into conversation with Larry about WUaS's first year of a Computer Science major? I'm seeking too here to set up a communication process re Larry selecting WUaS edX courses, and you Houcemeddine coding the World Univ & Sch website for January 2021. I'll be in the WUaS News and Q&A in an hour to talk further about all of this, if you'd like to talk.  

 

And how is the installation of WUaS Wikibase coming along, Houcemeddine? And when would you need the first year of about 10 15-week long courses in each of the initial WUaS 6 majors for website development from Larry? Thank you so much.

 

Sincerely, Scott

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:48 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Houcemeddine, 

 

Thanks so much, - and your coding plans look good as a starting point, since these 'variables' could be adjusted with time, and I think also that HarvardX and MITx courses will increase in number, and in possible academic majors, with time as well.  

 

I had thought to reply to you with thank you, and include a small group of Peter Norvig, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Markus Kroetzsch, Matthew Gusching (of edX) and Larry Viehland (chair of the board World University and School) who might be of service or help to you in different ways, but will explore doing so in the future (ie in planning for machine learning, or even in fixing "your data now for when quantum computing is fully ready" - https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1330280834570579968?s=20 - https://youtu.be/6owgfE2r5Fo - where Robert Zembowicz is the Chief Technology Officer of the great and large Philadelphia-based Vanguard Mutual Fund group, and even for Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed  by most central banks, albeit with WUaS starting very small, as you suggest). As WUaS proceeds with planning, brainstorming-wise, for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each living person not a Wikidata Q-item #, but a related forked Wikidata Pin # or similar, WUaS is also seeking to interoperate with WikiTree, as you may have read in item 4 here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - (eg https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524) with its plans for a SINGLE family tree, presumably of 7.8 billion people, and regarding genetic and avatar bot electronic medical records, information too.  

 

How many academic undergraduate majors might you envision, Houcemeddine, beginning with MITx and HarvardX courses, if not newly our 29 planned majors (based on the 2,550 courses in the edX courses' spreadsheet), or the previous 6 majors?

 

World Univ & Sch is seeking to matriculate our first undergraduate class beginning in early January 2021 - 50-400 students from all ~200 countries in English - 

 

 

- and since this is soon, WUaS would be interested in reaching out to large groups of prospective students with a professional online university website fairly soon after M November 30th (and public and private high schools in the USA and around the world could begin to share this website with their students during Covid-19 if it was heading in the direction of becoming WASC accredited and BPPE licensed in the state of California, as we've talked about). Do you think WUaS could begin to reach out to a large group of people about this in early December please?

 

And will the WUaS wiki Subject pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki, with what you suggested updating on Mon. Nov. 16 2020 regarding WUaS Majors and the CC-4 MIT OCW on these pages - become integrated with Wikidata after the Wikibase installation, as OPEN WIKI SCHOOLS (a bit like Wikipedia) too? 

 

So may I share with you the hosting information for our computer server for - worlduniversityandschool.org - per our conversation, and if that would be helpful?

 

And if you would like to talk further, I'll be in the WUaS News and Q&A tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 at 10 am PT like last week. 

 

Thank you for your incisive thinking, great ideas, and understanding in this next big development for World Univ & Sch (as well as potentially for Wikidata / Wikibase, since WUaS seeks to scale in all 200 countries and all 7117 known living languages, for wiki teachers and learners), and by starting small. Thank you, Houcemeddine!

 

Sincerely yours, Scott

 

 

 

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod  
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch  
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress  
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook  
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

 

Robert Zembowicz @rzembo
Don’t delay, fix your data now for when quantum computing is fully ready
#Security #CyberSecurity #QuantumComputing / video via @ZDNet
https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1330280834570579968?s=20

 

 

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 3:33 AM Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr> wrote:

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your answer. I was honoured to attend the meeting. Concerning WUaS, I think that we should not think broad. We should rather think of beginning and succeeding WUaS before changing our field of interest. I have several proposals concerning the entry requirements and the undergraduate curricula.

  • Entry Requirements: As WUaS will begin delivering courses in English, it should have a language requirement for the undergraduate students. I propose to have 61 out of 100 in the EF SET Certificate (https://www.efset.org/ef-set-50/) as an entry requirement.
  • Recognized courses: I think that we should make more interest to courses delivered by the same institutions to prevent course overlapping. I propose to interest to HarvardX and MITx Courses.

When answering this email, please do not send it to many users.

Yours Sincerely,

Houcemeddine Turki

From: Scott MacLeod
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 3:17 AM
To: Lydia Pintscher; Markus Krötzsch; Peter Bothe; abdelwaheb turki; Nicolai Gaspar; Prem Kumar; Denny Vrandečić; Peter Norvig; Katherine Maher; Matthew Gusching; Marissa DePaolo; Andrzej Rucinski; MariuszS; Petros Kalligas; WUaS - World University and School; Rohit Sharma; Rohit Sharma; Rohit Sharma; Scott MacLeod; Nidahas Vidyalaya - Freedom College | Admin; nidahasvidyalaya@gmail.com; WUaS LiveStream; mazumdarp@gmail.com; Marisol Necochea; Scott MacLeod; Shahbaz Sanjer; Shahrzad Shirvani; Sri Lanka WUaS; Juan Mendez; tito dimas; Kyle Wagner; Yuping-CASPA California; Jayni Shah; Ajit Mishra; Mircea Sabau; Andrzej Olszak; Iulian Dumitraşcu; Mohamed Saad; Milos Pesic; Ants; Koh Fujinaga; Tomato; Fritz Lebowsky; Bill Roberts; Sainani; Viehland, Larry; ks3649@columbia.edu; Yuping-CASPA California; Juan M. Mendez; Edward Gerwer; Lukas Saville; Scott McLeod (worldunivandsch@scottmacleod.com); Charles Yurek; Sid Mazumdar; Joan Okitoi; Kat Bronte; Tanya Price; michaeltsaimilpitas@gmail.com; Flying J; Andi Chaidir; Kristal Ray; Hashim Mohamad; Steve Whetstone; Edward Smyth; Raphael Berchie; utopiaforever@mail.com; disisjw242; Royal Khalid; Rema; Rafael Araujo; Julio Saldaña; Hiền Nguyễn; Rick Ho; Cj Junior; Felipe Magalhães; Syed Ali; Suzana Andjelkovic; Artur Stengert; Satoe Yokoyama; Zahra Sy; Nurcan Topal; Aswin Poudel
Subject: Re: World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation

 

Dear Lydia, Markus, Denny, Houcemeddine, All, 

 

Thanks for attending the WUaS News and Q&A on Monday, Houcemeddine, and for talking for about 1.25 hours. I'm writing to offer to share with you the hosting information for our computer server for - worlduniversityandschool.org - per our conversation, and if that would be helpful. Thanks too for saying you think you might be able to have the beginnings of a new WUaS web site with a Wikidata / Wikibase installation in about 2 weeks from last Monday, I think - so Monday November 30th. And thanks also for showing me the University of London website as a kind of template from which to build the new WUaS website, beginning with this updated information -- worlduniversityandschool.org - and our wiki, here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for example, and potentially for our new 29 majors. Please remember that WUaS is seeking to plan for our matriculating students in all ~200 countries, wiki Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and, brainstorming-wise, wiki teachers and learners among all 7.8 billion people on the planet with time. And WUaS is seeking to retain our students' names, contact information, registrations and similar, even as we partner with edX, and potentially each a Wikidata Q-item # or related forked Wikidata Pin #, and for accreditation and licensing purposes in the state of California, among the 5 reasons I've already shared with you - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - to begin. WUaS is seeking to matriculate 50-400 students for free-to-students' Bachelor (licensing and accrediting) degrees beginning in January 2021, so we'd love to get this new WUaS web site development up soon, so we can reach out to the 8 or so heads of WUaS is a variety of countries, in seeking about 50 students from each of their countries who speak English then. 

 

Is there any other information I can provide you potentially? Thank you so so much!

 

All the best, Scott

 

 

 

 

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:32 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Houcemeddine, Lydia, Markus and All, 

 

Thank you for joining the WUaS Google Meet today just now, Houcemeddine, Prem and Nicolai!

 

Houcemeddine, I'm attaching the edX .xls file with its 2,500 courses, which World Univ & Sch is now partnering, and per your planning to develop WUaS's website further with an installation of WikiBase / Wikidata. Thank you! 

 

I recently today went to a number of WUaS's Miraheze MediaWiki pages, and saw this new DIALOGUE BOX message: 

 

"his wiki has been closed because there have been no edits or logs made within the last 60 days. This wiki is now eligible for being adopted. To adopt this wiki please go to Requests for adoption and make a request. If this wiki is not adopted within 6 months it may be deleted. Note: If you are a bureaucrat on this wiki you can go to Special:ManageWiki and uncheck the "closed" box to reopen it."

 

here, for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - _ but I have edited this a number of times within the past 2 months, and here - - but while I've visited these pages many times recently - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects and 

 

What is happening, and, Houcemeddine, could you possibly begin to adapt WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in new ways per what we just talked about for 1.25 hours in the Google Meet? 

 

And how to plan for WUaS registering students in a WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase franchise, each a Wikidata Q-item # or similarly forked Wikidata Pin # (and for 7.8 billion people eventually for these - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - and other reasons).

 

I haven't ever been able to log in as Admin to the WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki, and also can't make the changes this new DIALOGUE BOX suggests, which changes I might be able to make if I were able to log in. 

 

Looking forward to further communication about this, and to getting the WUaS home page - worlduniversityandschool.org - going for matriculation / registration for free-to-students' CC-4 best STEAM OpenCourseWare-centric edX courses and Bachelor degrees beginning in January 2021. Thank you again for joining the Google Meet, Houcemeddine, especially. 

 

Best regards, Scott

 

 


 

 

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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Wed, Nov 25, 3:15 PM (2 days ago)
to Houcemeddine, Larry
Thank you for your response, Houcemeddine ... Initially UN languages including Russian, Chinese ...
(and possibly Japanese, - & Swahili since it's an important African language), German & the 4 Swiss languages (since Romansch doesn't have a country it's the official language of - German is I think), Farsi and Indonesian (because it's huge, and a board member Tito is Indonesian ... and potentially the MIT OCW LANGUAGES (present & past) - including Korean, and formerly Portuguese, and edX languages, and California educational system languages ...  to begin with ... 

 And since WUaS Wikidata with its 300 languages is just a beginning ... There are about 6800 KNOWN LIVING LANGUAGES https://www.ethnologue.com/
to go at WUaS with machine learning, and hiring for careers ! :) The ISO 639 is a good list too standards-wise as is Glottolog  ... You could start with the first 10 above if helpful.   

Thank you and we can talk further about this tomorrow at 7pm Tunisian time (11am) PT.

Best regards, Scott 

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urkiabdelwaheb

Wed, Nov 25, 3:39 PM (2 days ago)
to me, Larry
Dear Sir,
I thank you for your answer. I consider Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, German, Italian, Persian, Indonesian, Korean and Portuguese.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki

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Date : 26/11/2020 00:15 (GMT+01:00)
À : "Houcemeddine A. Turki" <turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>
Cc : Larry Viehland <viehland@chatham.edu>
Objet : Re: World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation


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Great! I was going to mention explicitly Hindu and all the 22 official or scheduled languages of India, Finnish (as a Finno Ugric language), it's neighbor Swedish, and Scots Gaelic (in order to grow a very small living language of a country which could gain sovereignty or independence in coming years ), but your choices are great! Thank you, Houcemeddine !


Thank you, Scott

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