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Wikiversity webpage often have multiple sections such as the Learning objectives section of this page.

Welcome to Introduction to Wikiversity, a learning project for first time visitors to Wikiversity.

First technical term: page section. You can identify page sections by their larger text with a horizontal rule (a line) below it. Most Wikiversity webpages contain a lot of information and have their contents divided into multiple page sections. To quickly navigate to a particular section you can click on a link to the section in the Table of Contents. The Table of Contents is located above the first section of the page by default. On this page, the first section is called "Learning objectives". The Table of Contents for this page is immediately below this paragraph.

Learning objectives

What you can learn on this page

What a wiki website is.
What the Wikiversity project is all about.
How you can participate.
How to ask questions and get help.
How to find existing learning resources at Wikiversity.

Help with jargon: Wikiversity participants use many technical terms that have special meaning within the Wikiversity project; see the glossary of terms.

What is wiki?

The edit button.

A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change the content of the webpages. Wikiversity is a wiki website. Wikiversity webpages have an "edit button" that you are invited to use. Everyone can edit and improve Wikiversity webpages. The openness and ease of editing page content makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.

Q. Where can I learn more about editing Wikiversity webpages?

A. Click here for an introduction to editing.

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The discussion button.

Q. Where can I learn more about wiki?

A. Click here to learn more about collaborative webpage editing.

Q. Where can I discuss the contents of the page with other users?

A. Every wiki webpage has an associated page for discussions. For example, when you are at this page, click the "discussion" button to go to the Talk:Introduction to Wikiversity page where you can ask questions about this webpage.

Q. How is the content that I contribute to Wikiversity licensed? Who can use it?

A. Every time you use the "edit button", just below the edit window it says, "You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL." GFDL stands for "GNU Free Documentation License" and is the license that is applied to all the text added by editors to Wikiversity pages. Before you edit Wikiversity pages you should have a basic understanding of the GFDL. See: The GFDL and you.

What is Wikiversity?

Wikiversity is for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. The mission of Wikiversity is to empower people to achieve their educational goals using resources produced by the free culture movement. The goal is to create a community of people who support each other in their educational endeavors.

See: Wikiversity:About <-- Answers to ten frequently asked questions about Wikiversity.

Asking questions

As a new visitor to Wikiversity you probably have many questions. First, try asking at the Colloquium page or at the Wikiversity live chat channel. You can also ask questions that are about this page by editing this page (example) or by editing this page's discussion page. There are also other options for asking questions.

Your questions

Ask questions here:

Explore Wikiversity content

Browse our main subject areas: Humanities · Physical Sciences · Life Sciences · Practical Arts and Sciences · Mathematics · Engineering and Technology · Interdisciplinary Studies · Social Sciences · Education · Media · Professions · Other portals

Categories. Every Wikiversity learning resource should be in at least one Category. You can browse Wikiversity by category. See: Category:Content.

Search. Try using the search feature to find learning resources. See: Wikiversity:Searching.

Exercises

1. Edit your Wikiversity user page and add hypertext links to some Wikiversity pages that are of interest to you. Hint: make a link to this page so that you can keep returning here until you complete this introduction to Wikiversity. See: Making links.

2. Not yet registered? See: Wikiversity:Why create an account.

More about Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a wiki-based learning community. Here you can use online courses and also create courses yourself. See this page for some ideas about what the Wikiversity might become. Also, see more of how Wikiversity supports learning.

Different entry points and rough theory, as well as example forms are also available.

How can I learn even more about Wikiversity?

The edit button.....use it. Wikiversity is a website where you can learn by editing the webpages.

True of false? B is the new C <-- A short lesson about learning at Wikiversity and learning by editing wiki website pages.

Try stuff! Learn by doing. Please make mistakes. If you make your edits in good faith, the worst thing can happen is someone coming along and saying that that is not the way things are standardly done, or that what is being done is outside the scope of the project. However, we try not to bite.

Still not sure about using the edit button? Watch a two minute-long video that offers encouragement to people who are new to editing Wikiversity and other wiki websites. Join the Web 2.0 revolution! Wikiversity uses the Ogg video format --> view Web 2.0 video, 9.3 Mb download. (Help with Ogg video file play.)

See also: Wikiversity computer skills <-- includes a tutorial for how to play Ogg format audio and video files on your computer.

Things you can get started doing

Add or tweak some notes at a course portal. The School of History is now seeking students! The School of Mathematics is now seeking students: School of Mathematics:Calculus.
Tweak a random text for readability.
Create an interesting topic portal.
Create a random lesson plan.
Assemble an initial list of links useful to others interested in the topic.
Add an outline bullet
Add a factual paragraph or bullet to an article or its associated discussion page.
Publish an essay question and answer or a term paper at an appropriate location.
Write a draft quiz regarding a random Wikipedia article or other subject of interest and publish it as an appropriate link in a learning trail.
Review the standards of educational standards organisations.
Publish your course notes (Students please note that the copyright of handouts belongs to their creators and permission is required prior to submittal. Personal notes with short quotes compliant with fair use provisions of U.S. Copyright law, short quotes and citations, created to study the course material are very welcome. It is exactly what we wish to edit mercilessly and improve to leave behind published under the FDL for others to encounter along the learning trails.), lesson plans, topical essays, or reference works for others to review, modify or fork.
Come discuss how to improve Wikiversity at our current mailing list.

Keeping track of discussions

How do you know when someone has replied to a comment or a question you left on a Wikiversity discussion page? Be sure to add pages you are interested in to your watch list. Either use the "watch" button or set you user preferences to automatically add pages you edit to your watch list. Periodically check your watch list to keep track of changes to pages you previously edited.

Find a course

Browse the courses listed or requested of the various Wikiversity Schools. If you cannot find a particular course, you can request it or start building it yourself.

Discussing Wikiversity

For previous discussions see the Meta page on Wikiversity. Since there is now a formal proposal to set up Wikiversity as a new Wikimedia project, try to keep discussions of Wikiversity's scope and goals centralized at Meta. In the future we might utilize a #wikiversity IRC channel as well. If you're interested, you could add your name to the participants list, and see who else is involved.

Wikiversity Core Courses

One way of moving Wikiversity forward is to create a set of core service courses that will meet the needs of existing Wikimedia projects. Since Wikibooks does not want to host Wikiversity, the Wikiversity Core Courses are being developed at the education wikicity. Hopefully, there will be an actual Wikiversity project with its own domain name in the near future.

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 Welcome to '''Introduction to Wikiversity''', a learning project for first time visitors to Wikiversity.
-First technical term: '''page section'''. You can identify page sections by their larger text with a horizontal rule (a line) below it. Most Wikiversity webpages should have their contents divided into multiple '''page sections'''. To quickly navigate to a particular section on a page you can click on a link to the section in the Table of Contents. The Table of Contents is located above the first section of the page by default. On this page, the first section is called "Learning objectives". The Table of Contents for this page is immediately below this paragraph.
+First technical term: '''page section'''. You can identify page sections by their larger text with a horizontal rule (a line) below it. Most Wikiversity webpages contain a lot of information and have their contents divided into multiple '''page sections'''. To quickly navigate to a particular section you can click on a [[link]] to the section in the Table of Contents. The Table of Contents is located above the first section of the page by default. On this page, the first section is called "Learning objectives". The Table of Contents for this page is immediately below this paragraph.
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