Wikiversity talk:Featured

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I saw it on the wiki homepage and thought I could feature some of my well grown projects. Is this still active? --Golden_burg111 15:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

I'd like to see more courses added as featured content. Since adding the Courses link to the front page, the Courses category has jumped to #11 in popularity. Users visiting Wikiversity are looking for good course content. We should feature some of these. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:21, 9 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

I agree. That is some of our best content and an active course makes a good impression of Wikiversity as a thriving learning space. I would nominate Motivation and emotion and one of the Cisco networking resources as well developed. Cisco certification is likely a topic where there is a great demand for free learning materials. Guy also has some great resources, though I've not had time to read through all the material. We should also update the "Most desired content" section as informed by site activity or search prominence. Is there anyway to get statistics about what our visitors enter in the search box? --mikeu ^talk 18:02, 9 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

I agree on Motivation and Emotion. For the Cisco content, the most popular is the Cisco Networking/CCENT course. Our IT Fundamentals course has the same design, and is almost three times more popular. I've also been contacted by the vendor (CompTIA), saying that they recommend the Wikiversity IT Fundamentals course to anyone who can't afford to purchase CompTIA materials. I also prefer listing that one, because it comes up as one of the top five links in a Google search on that topic. Today it's coming up second. Not bad placement. :-)

Regarding Wikiversity search results, it depends on whether they press "Enter". If they try to go to a page, it shows up in the page hit results. If they don't actually try to navigate to a page, I'm not aware of anywhere that the search information is captured. That might be a good question for Meta. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:50, 9 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Jtneill The Template:Featured Content/Nav appears to be limited to 19 links. Perhaps it's time to roll something else off the list. I'd vote for removing Filmmaking. It was really good content 15 years ago, but I'm not sure it's as relevant now without any updates. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:07, 14 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

@User talk:Dave Braunschweig OK, that makes sense. And agree with the suggestion. Will go ahead and change. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:39, 14 September 2022 (UTC)Reply