Talk:Main Page

Welcome!

This is the Talk page for the wiki. pbacsich (talk) 13:28, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Help for contributors

Key points:

• Always sign your name after your comments. Use the "four tildes" ( ~ 4 times) wiki syntax.
• Start a new discussion with a Level 2 heading (use the == syntax) at the bottom of the current contents (or use the "Add topic" tab next to "View history" above the page).
• Indent replies with colons (:) at the beginning of the line.
• Happy chatting! pbacsich (talk) 13:32, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Plan E for Education: open access to educational materials

Richard Heller has just released Plan E for Education: open access to educational materials created in publicly funded universities.

• What do people think?
• Does it apply to most universities in UK? or your country?
• Are student loans public funding?
• If a private university gets public research grants, does it make it "publicly funded" for the purposes of Plan E?

Tricky areas! pbacsich (talk) 13:37, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Minor changes to layout of wiki pages - 20 July 2023

As part of the preparation for a substantial upgrade of the functionality in the Open Education Wiki this August, some experiments are being carried out on the live system to make the context and the copyright situation clearer.

These involve editing pages in the MediaWiki and Virtual Education Wiki namespaces.

So far, users may notice:

1. a new header banner "Welcome to the Virtual Education Wiki ~ Open Education Wiki"
2. Revised footer entries for Privacy policy, now called Creative Commons 4.0, and the About page, which currently says "About Virtual Education Wiki ~ Open Education Wiki"

There are also behind-the-scenes modifications to:

• key System Messages for Login, Logout and Request account
• a series of investigations on modifyging the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that control many parts of the wiki layout.

There is nothing to be concerned about. The main operational impact is that requests from new users who ask to register will not be processed. This is because they are being swamped by a torrent of spam registrations. A new registration process for qualified users will be rolled out shortly.

pbacsich (talk) 20:17, 20 July 2023 (UTC)