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Hi. You removed links to Wikitravel. Why? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 12:44, 24 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikitravel links Per discussion at en.wp as well as Meta to remove links at those projects. If you want to keep links and references here at en.v, I guess that's fine. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:28, 24 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

I see you got it before I explained. Wikiversity is disconcerting to those familiar with the encyclopedia projects, and the other content-oriented projects. While we do have a content mission, we also have a "learning by doing" mission, which is about people. Our product is not just content, it is education, and there is no education without users who are educated, and sophisticated education is always about process and people skills and the rest. I would argue that the encyclopedia projects also need to be welcoming, if the full mission is to be fulfilled, but ... they developed with a very narrow focus and absent the realization that an environment that was easily seen as hostile would damage the mission.

The 20th century saw the development of systems and skills and process for maximizing consensus, and the only reliable measure of neutrality is level of consensus. (I.e., if everyone involved agrees, 100% consensus, while what they agree upon only might possibly turn out, in the end, to be defective or invalid, there is no better measure!). So to the extent that there is exclusion, to that extent, the assessment of neutrality can be warped.

Obviously, compromises are necessary, but "compromise" requires tolerating a level of damage, and that is easily forgotten. When the importance of consensus being as broad as possible is realized, a community will find ways to keep conversation open, on some level, in some place, otherwise the community becomes locked into what I call the "tyranny of the past." There is a children's song that was part of a therapeutic response to Reactive Attachment Disorder:

There is always something you can do, do, do

When you're getting in a stew, stew, stew.

Mostly, it involves simmering down, dropping upset and reactive response, and, when calm, communicating.

While this kind of work has been done on Wikipedia, often in user space -- it's what I did, successfully mediating disputes, such that users at each other's throats became cooperative with each other -- this was mumbo-jumbo nonsense to too many on Wikipedia. For example, see [1], which included many pages of historical function, including evidence presented to ArbCom. I found it very strange that ArbCom did not care that evidence used in a case was being deleted, but ArbCom consists of too many elevated beyond their competence by popularity (as well as many other highly-experienced and thoughtful user; but the system tends to burn them out and they become less attentive.)

w:User:Abd/Dispute over thermoeconomics was particularly educational. In that mediation, a professor was revert warring with Randy from Boise, so to speak, and one or both were about to be blocked. It took very little to develop cooperation, mostly just sitting them down together with some support. Hmmm... I'm thinking of asking that these pages be transwikied to Wikiversity, precisely for historical study.

Looking for the link to that, I came across this. It shows a quick and major clue to what happened on en.wiki. Two three-letter users with a conflict. One was an administrator taken to ArbCom by the other, and the administrator was trout-slapped by ArbCom and then, it is obvious, revenge was exacted, by the admin and his friends. This was long-continued and, while not unnoticed, never sanctioned. Admins can be hostile, this one was more than hostile, he was highly insulting at times, using obscene language, and using tools while involved, was reprimanded, made small adjustments to his behavior, but continued pretty much unimpeded. And, as you know, this is not uncommon. He is even a likeable Guy. I consider this all the responsibility of the community. Blaming people for what comes naturally for them is not productive. Such people generally will modify behavior in a functional community.

Notice the irony. The userbox was "Esperanza returns," referring to the project designed to foster civility and welcome and cooperation. Esperanza, of course, means Hope. So the nominator was saying, "Hope will never return." Esperanza was crushed when it temporarily was inactive. Instead of improving the governance, which was easily possible, it was crushed with vehemence, see the MfD. Why?

To any serious student of human organizational structure, it's obvious.

Wikiversity is the slim thread of hope, and if it is not protected and defended, hope will break.

Thanks again. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:17, 7 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi! I've noticed and appreciated your recent efforts on behalf of Wikiversity. Do you have any interest in becoming a Wikiversity curator? It would give you additional tools to make some clean-up easier. I'd be happy to nominate/support you if you are interested. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:11, 19 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Dave Braunschweig: I'd be delited and honored. I started editing here as soon as it was founded and I've always wanted to collaborate more on philosophy. If I had some more tools here, I think I'd be more active as well. Thanks for the invitation. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:16, 19 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! And thanks for creating the nomination page. I was in the process, but you beat me to it. :-) -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:01, 19 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations! Let me know if you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Dave Braunschweig: Definitely. Thank you again. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:19, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

There's also {{[welcomeip](//en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Template:Welcomeip "Template:Welcomeip")}}. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:25, 24 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Dave Braunschweig: Brilliant. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:44, 24 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hey Justin,

I was wondering if you could delete Module:Color contrast‎, a page I've created accidentally. I was switching between tabs with the intention of creating the page at Beta Wikiversity, and you know the rest. :) Thanks in advance.

Best,

Vito Genovese 23:10, 12 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Vito Genovese: No problem--accidents happen. Happy to help, Vito. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:13, 12 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Koavf!

The Wikidebate Do humans have free will? appears to be well-developed and ready for learners! Would you like to have it announced on our Main Page News? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:12, 4 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Marshallsumter: It's certainly a good start. Go for it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:14, 4 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Koavf!

Does everything happen for a sufficient reason? also appears well-developed! Would you like to have it announced on our Main Page News? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:32, 4 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Marshallsumter: Go for it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:26, 4 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Justin! Just wanted to let you know that I made a new improvement to the software and syntax. It's now even cleaner and more compatible with the visual editor. Hope you like it, cheers! --Felipe (discuss • contribs) 23:58, 5 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Koavf!

Your course Learning bass guitar with Joseph Patrick Moore appears well-developed and ready for learners! Would you like to have it announced on our Main Page News? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:18, 19 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Marshallsumter: Not yet, please. I'm still uploading videos and fleshing out the text portion. I'd be delighted for it to be featured soon, tho. I'll ping you when I'm done-ish. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Most posts relating to boxing or chess are from globally banned user George Reeves Person. Typical attacks come when he gets off work between 2 and 5 p.m. CST, and occasionally later, particularly on Fridays or Saturdays. He uses public libraries for Internet access, and typically doesn't post after 9 p.m. CST. It's unfortunate, but we really have to watch who posts what in the mid-to-late afternoons and be vigilant in blocking the content and not welcoming the user. See Wikiversity:Community Review/Marshallsumter for the damage it causes. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:25, 5 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Dave Braunschweig: Wow. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:54, 5 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

I closed the CU nomination due to the low number of recent additions to the discussion. It just seemed like we wouldn't meet the criteria in a reasonable time. Thanks for offering to help with this and perhaps we can try again in the future. We appreciate your contributions. --mikeu talk 19:45, 29 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Mu301: For sure. Thanks yourself. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:21, 29 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Koavf

I was idly surfing the wsj and suddenly realized all articles I was looking at had a video posted right at the top.(example:https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-covid-19-patients-show-signs-of-heart-damage-months-later-11600866000). The video section is 8:06 minutes long and is a short version of the history of pandemic in the usa.

I don't know how to get the url of the video itself. Can you help? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (discuss • contribs) 15:57, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Ottawahitech: Load the page in your browser and use the networking console--you can usually get this to display by pressing F12. You'll find that this video is served up as a playlist of several bits with the URI https://oms.dowjoneson.com/b/ss/djglobal/1/JS-2.17.0/s04078897862906?AQB=1&ndh=1&pf=1&t=2%2F10%2F2020%2013%3A6%3A8%201%20300&mid=71630168209780702446627362471898499848&ce=UTF-8&pageName=WSJLive_Video_How%20Coronavirus%20Spread%20Across%20the%20U.S.%20to%20Reach%20200%2C000%20Deaths_372&g=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fsome-covid-19-patients-show-signs-of-heart-damage-months-later-11600866000&c.&a.&media.&friendlyName=How%20Coronavirus%20Spread%20Across%20the%20U.S.%20to%20Reach%20200%2C000%20Deaths&length=486&name=AE28508C-C7DF-406E-814F-69C8FAAD1A86&playerName=Web&channel=WSJ&show=Feature%20Explainer&originator=cmccall&genre=WSJ_News_U.S.%20News&digitalDate=original_2020-09-22%2011%3A58_current_2020-09-22%2011%3A58&feed=video&network=115&format=user%20initiated&streamType=video&view=true&vsid=160434036774097779839&.media&contentType=vod&.a&page.&content.&type=Article&.content&full.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fsome-covid-19-patients-show-signs-of-heart-damage-months-later-11600866000&.full&site=Online%20Journal&.page&video.&player.&type=Web&technology=html%203.41.2.205&.player&keywords=CORONAVIRUS%20RESPONSE%7CCORONAVIRUS%20TESTING%7CCOVID-19%20TESTING%7CDANIELA%20HERNANDEZ%7CPANDEMIC%7CTESTING%20SITES&base.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fsome-covid-19-patients-show-signs-of-heart-damage-months-later-11600866000&.base&.video&article.&id=SB11126288623532913915004586647794135594296&author=Sarah%20Toy&publish=2020-09-23%2013%3A00&publish.&orig=2020-09-23%2013%3A00&.publish&.article&ad.&blank.&start=false&.blank&disabled=true&catastrophic.&blocker=false&.catastrophic&.ad&.c&pe=ms_s&pev3=video&s=1600x900&c=24&j=1.6&v=N&k=Y&bw=781&bh=776&mcorgid=CB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%40AdobeOrg&AQE=1 or somesuch (it may not be identical for you). If you open this in VLC Player, you can save playlists as videos. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:09, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to en.wv custodianship User:Koavf. Thanks for helping. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Merci, James. I hope I'm an asset to the community. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:50, 8 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hey there Koavf! I've created that bowling article we discussed at the Colloquium. Do you have any advice on how I can further improve it? Contributor 118,784 (discuss • contribs) 01:20, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Nice. I don't have any particular feedback other than what I mentioned there. I'm pretty ignorant about bowling. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:26, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Fair, thank you! Contributor 118,784 (discuss • contribs) 09:18, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Koavf. You have messages at WV:RCA.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:31, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

A discussion that might interest you has been started at Wikiversity:Requests_for_Deletion#Wikiversity:Deletion_Convention_2024. -- Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 17:54, 15 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:02, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I would like to report this user, who has a COI: Special:Contributions/Oluwadarasimi Morayo

Thank you. Ternera (discuss • contribs) 14:51, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. It's best to leave these at a board like Wikiversity:Request custodian action, but this was obvious spam. Cheers. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Thank you for deleting files once again!

You made a comment about "all local uploads".

Fair-use is not allowed on Commons so the 2,712 files in Category:All non-free media can't go to Commons. But as I understand Wikiversity:Requests_for_Deletion#Deleting_ALL_non-free_uploads_by_User:Marshallsumter the files uploaded by Marshallsumter could be deleted. That would eliminate 1,126 files. Since Wikiversity:Uploading_files#Exemption_Doctrine_Policy allow fair use it would require a vote/discussion to change that.

Young1lim uploads many pdf-files and as far as I know Commons generally do not like pdf-files. Except when it is scans of old books etc. So I do not think those files should go to Commons right now.

There are still many files in Special:UnusedFiles. Right now 1,422 but some are uploaded by Young1lim. But the latest deletion request ended with delete so I think there is concensus to delete files. But some were also found good and moved to Commons. So the question is if we need another discussion about the files or if someone (you?) could just go through the files when you have a little time and either move to Commons or delete. If you think we could make one final discussion about all the files and ask for a go to the "any admin that want to can check the files and either move to Commons or delete". Then noone can come later and complain that you or another admin just deleted a file without warning.

If there are 40k files in total. Perhaps 22k are pdf uploaded by Young1lim. 3k are non-free. 1.5k are unused. That would leave around 13.5k free files in use. That is a lot of files to check. I do not think there are many users that are willing to spend much time checking those files.

But it would help if no more free files are uploaded (except pdf). There is allready a text on the top of Special:Upload suggesting commons. But it could perhaps be made more clear. And perhaps some of the options on MediaWiki:Licenses could be removed. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 18:01, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, to be clear, I appreciate that sister projects like e.g. Wikibooks allow a lot of free-use files because they allow video game strategy guides and there is substantial value in screenshots or Wikipedia allows album covers and film posters as identifying media. I'm not proposing any change to policy and I accept that there are reasons for fair use, so I apologize for that sloppy wording. That said, I definitely think we should have minimal fair use if any at all.

As for PDFs, there are plenty at Commons: I have uploaded dozens and dozens of books, scientific articles, etc. It's not a problem, but it's just not optimal for many kinds of files, such as maps or something.

I'm happy to help and slog thru the uplaods if you start a conversation. Just ping me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes fair use have some benefits. But If we/someone is going to make a cleanup it could perhaps be a good idea to first have a discussion about it. So I will start a post about fair use on wikiversity.

And about unused files I will start a deletion discussion (again) just to be sure.

If you feel like deleting files you could kill the files uploaded by Marshallsumter. :-) --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 09:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I started a discussion at Wikiversity:Colloquium#Fair_use_on_Wikiversity. Lets see what happens. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 21:23, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

With the files of Marshallsumter gone that really helped a lot! Lets see what everyone thinks about the rest of the files. It will probably take weeks the get enough comments. But thats okay. It is summer and vacation time and if the files have been around for years they can easily wait a little longer. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 19:20, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Some files have been moved to Commons if you would like to have. Look 😊 --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 19:35, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

1,587<2,712, that's for sure. I'll try to keep chipping away at these. Thanks for the reminder. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:06, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Why did you revert this argument? I wanted (humorously) to make the observation that the guilty party at the end of a suicide is dead but is the only one that can be punished. Attempted and assisted suicide wasn't included. 176.0.152.191 (discuss) 22:27, 15 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's not really a venue for hilarious jokes about killing. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:44, 15 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

but I remember there was really some law along that line. With a similar explanation. Some king (could be from a fairy tale, but I don't believe so) wanted to outlaw suicide and his advisers had this idea. The judge (or the king himself) would speak the verdict and justice was already done. So the king was famous for his his fair and swift justice. You see I don't remember too clearly, therefore I wanted to compress the essence of this into an argument. I didn't think it was that hilarious, so sorry for injured sensitivity. Now that you know what I wanted to do, could you please formulate an accordingly compressed argument, in the appropriate tone? 176.0.152.191 (discuss) 00:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I think you can. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:56, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm not a native speaker. And that you found it hilarious, where I targeted a slightly levied tone shows me that I can't really do it. 176.0.152.191 (discuss) 01:05, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I believe in you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:10, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, template:Languages does not work properly and I think its because even you states that you have importated Module which this template use from BetaWikiversity, you actually imported it from Commons, so the template is than calling non-existent function subpates. Compare:

*en.wv module Languages

*commons:Module:Languages

*betaversity

So I dont know if removing incorect revisions and importing corect ones will fix it, but the error message is probably delivered because of this mismatch. Juandev (discuss • contribs) 13:25, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Weird, I thought I reverted that. Let me delete that rev. So sorry. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:10, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

How kind. I'm appreciate of your additions and ideas as well. Thanks so much. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:29, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

You seem to have been deleting many templates with the summary "unused template". One qualm I have with this is that, in general, deleting all unused templates is likely to lead to some revision histories (those that used the templates) becoming illegible. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 05:21, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, maybe. Probably not a big deal, tho. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:22, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

In the English Wikiversity, that is plausible enough. On the other hand, in the English Wiktionary, deleting the once widely used wikt: T: term as unused would cause massive harm as for legibility, for no appreciable benefit. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 05:24, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Any examples that really matter can be undeleted or something if really necessary. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:25, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

I have not been long enough around the English Wikiversity to know which of the many (over 100?) deleted templates were once widely used.

Background: In the English Wiktionary, I noticed that someone made the thesarus revision histories completely illegible. There is too much disregard for legibility of revision histories going around. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 05:33, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

It is a concern of some regard, granted. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:44, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi Koavf; as follow-up for this issue, I wanted to mention the Template:Convert links. This is far from being unused, since it's a fundamental tool in importing Wikipedia articles to Wikiversity, e.g. for all the Wikijournals - see step 4 of WikiJournal_User_Group/Editorial_guidelines#Importing_from_Wikipedia.

I just bumped into this issue myself, and I presume it will be relevant for several other users in the future. As far as I know, there are no other ways to convert those links (beside doing it manually one by one). Could you therefore please undelete that template? Francesco Cattafi (discuss • contribs) 07:56, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Of course. My apologies for causing problems. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:01, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Perfect, thanks a lot! Francesco Cattafi (discuss • contribs) 08:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

I was not aware, that unused templates can be deleted without any notice. I think nothing (except obvious spam and vandalism) should be deleted without warning and time to respond.
Please restore 61 of them. --Watchduck (quack) 15:00, 7 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

I undeleted two templates that you asked for above, but one of them is Template:Studies of Euler diagrams/tamino NP table, which is just unused. Why do these need to be here? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:01, 7 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Can you please restore Template:Copyrighted? It is clear why this template would be unused: it is only used when some page is tagged as a possible copyright violation.

I guess there should be a way to tag templates as unused-but-needed, and this would be one of then. These would then be excluded from a clean-up action like yours.

On the other hand, the template is linked from Wikiversity:Copyright issues, so while it is perhaps unused in the sense of not invoked, it is linked to. And a clean-up should ideally not delete pages that are linked to, or consider them on a careful case-to-case basis, no? --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 04:06, 8 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Y Done and agreed that if they have links that aren't from an old talk archive or a userspace or something more trivial, then there should at least be some appropriate action to not leave a redlink. The goal was to go back over those reports the next week or two once they've refreshed to also see wanted templates or wanted pages and try to clear those, so that two-pass system should catch errors like this, but not always. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:46, 8 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

My use of manual numbering in the discussion that you modified (RFD) was intentional. One can find documents using such an approach, I think. I would therefore prefer that you leave it as is next time. I am not going to revert it this time; it's not really a big deal. And thank you for correcting my misspeling of suspition to suspicion; my being a non-native speaker showed here. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 05:13, 9 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Good deal. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:15, 9 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello Justin, Do you think it is alright to move User:RailwayEnthusiast2025/Basic Scratch Coding and subpages to Draft namespace.? Because I Hhaven't fully completed it and would appreciate it if other contributors in the community would like to help out. Thanks, RE —RailwayEnthusiast2025 talk with me! 18:27, 26 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

I certainly think so, but honestly, I think the draft namespace is kind of a joke anyway. But I totally support you doing it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:39, 26 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

In the Lints was User:Octfx/sandbox2.

This was throwing a stripped Small , which I can't currently trace, Suggesting the earlier fix whilst mostly stable, has a very specfic interaction. Perhaps you can take a look and resolve this for robustness? ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 23:33, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Diagnosing it would be optimal, but to resolve the issue, I just commented it out. The page hasn't been edited in years, nor has that editor edited in years, so I just don't have the bandwidth to investigate. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:39, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Can you please look at User:Harold Foppele/sandbox-2 to see whether there is a copyvio, and if there is one, delete the page? --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 18:45, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Koavf Since you are a custodian, can you please put a stop to this? To me it seems like a personal vendetta that should not belong here. As for the page User:Harold Foppele/sandbox-2 i asked Jtneill for advice some 12 hours ago. Since he is in Australia there is minimum a 12 hour delay in response. Would you maybe willing to help me? Kind regards, Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 18:58, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't know what the deal is between you and Dan, but I saw the earlier post he made to the curator's noticeboard and haven't had time to investigate. Since it seems that the two of you have some kind of friction, it may be best for you two to just generally avoid interaction in the immediate term. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:03, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

This was published in the United States with a copyright notice, all rights reserved, so if it's in the public domain is a question of if the registration was renewed in a timely manner. Unfortunately, there is no single database of all renewals, so we can't know for sure if it wasn't/t renewed. We should probably err on the side of assuming that it's a copyright violation. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:02, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I made a request, just to make sure to:: cmgworldwide.com to obtain a license to use it in Wikiversity. As it looks for now i can get the license and will know that end next week. Thanks Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 23:23, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I am going to delete it for now. It can be undeleted as necessary. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:49, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

👍 Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 09:07, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I made a short setup for the page Chess/Play with other Wikiversitans. Is that the way you would like it to go? Do you by anychance play chess yoursef? Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 19:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Great questions. I made that page years ago and User:Mu301 erroneously deleted it. I restored the old revs. As for how it should look, it's all wide open, so I have no objections. I think the notion of somehow playing here on site is actually intriguing. Maybe we could make that work... —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:05, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Help is needed from a specialist in the heart of Wiki. If you look at or know Lichess.org its very complex. However starting a Wikiversitans team there is a piece of cake. Just how do we invite our "members" here? Ideas welcome :) Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 23:49, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Would love to play chess with you. Find me at Chess/Play with other Wikiversitans in Lichess.org or Chess.com. Leave a message or email if you want to play. Cheers Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 11:46, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I saw your invite in my inbox, but I'm a little distracted now and recently started a new job, so I didn't want to agree until I had time to actually play. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:48, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

No problem. just say "When" :) Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 11:51, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Chess/Board Configurations I think you'll like it. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 13:56, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

There is also a Wikiversity chess team created at Lichess.org. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 12:58, 8 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Oh dip. Thanks for the heads up. I'm glad to see you taking initiative about this. If only I had more time myself. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:22, 8 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Koavf: I would like to change the Template:Quantum mechanics to look more like W:Template:Quantum mechanics since the template at WV has almost no contence I could edit that, but better ask you instead of doing it. Btw we should play chess sometime :) Cheers Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 10:54, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the edits to self.

Do you plan to proceed on updating other high-use templates? like {{information}}, and {{article info}}, where I should ideally have resolved the Night mode unaware lint as the same time as the other fixes in the sandbox version you swapped in :(. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 08:42, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please also check my contributions on talk pages for {{edit protected}} requests. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 08:42, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

In principle, yes, I do. When will I find the time??? Note that a lot of those edit request were up for months or a year+. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:43, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

An obvious group to update would be {{Projectbox}} and {{Robelbox}} families, although I would strongly suggest migrating these to use template styles over the current inline approach. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 08:49, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

These are good ideas, but I just don't know when I'll have time to implement them. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:40, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi, hope you're doing good! I just noticed some months ago you deleted Template:Form/wikidebate. The template was indeed unused (and probably undocumented too) but it did serve a purpose, namely to be substituted when creating a new wikidebate via Wikidebate/New. As a consequence, this happened and could happen again. Could you restore it, please? If you can do that, I'll document it properly and tag it with __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to avoid further confusion. Thanks! Sophivorus (discusión • contribs.) 14:39, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Of course. Thanks for your understanding. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:34, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

I am creating semi/full protection categories for various namespace pages, so can you undelete Category:Wikiversity fully protected templates? Thanks. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 16:57, 14 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Y Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:09, 14 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

On Wikiversity:Colloquium when many people reply to the same thing all their posts are jumbled together into one big paragraph.

Is this a well known problem? Is there a gadget I could use/activate to make readability/accessibility greater on Wikiversity or are we still working on that?

Can I do anything obvious in order to help in this regard? ie. manually editing talk pages and adding proper wikitext or edit my own common.js? With the recent activation of a javascript that got up on the news...is there a way I can safely test my own common.js code that I ask an LLM to generate for me? I have a Qubes OS computer where I have access to disposable VMs which I can also turn off the internet on so even if the code goes haywire it won't affect my computer or the internet connection. ThinkingScience (discuss • contribs) 11:45, 27 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

It's kind of surprising that you would write that, since this wiki has CSS with pretty bold background colors to differentiate comments based on how they are indented. Which skin are you using? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:23, 27 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I am reading at Wikiversity:Interface administrators, that "Wikiversity does not have a need for permanent or long term interface administrators". So why you think otherwice? What task should be done? Juandev (discuss • contribs) 08:12, 10 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

I don't know that we need them as such, I just think that if we had x IAs then when things come up (which is inevitable), someone can request or fix it directly instead of having a discussion, then getting a bureaucrat to give someone the rights, and then fix it. I'm just concerned about the overhead. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:43, 10 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Well, yeah. But custodians/curators can just request. No need or discussion. Juandev (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 10 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

That's why I suggested we either keep the current policy, allow custodians to request temporary IA permissions (to amend it), or to have a minimum of 2 permanent interface administrators. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 19:27, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply