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Fir, top-posting - User:Fir0002/FPCandidates — DNC objection - Nevermind, it was just promoted anyway. --Gregb -- Good! I found some more photos also; will add soon. Sj 13 Aug | Business Ethics -- re: your note that it needs attention, I'm volunteering to reshape it. (Wish me luck).--Psients 18 Aug | Hi there! --magius | thank you for your warm welcome at wiki books - i did have a project on wikipedia but even my home/user page has been removed - ah well . . . --[anon] — Edit attrib - re: xx.163.192.38, pls verify User:Kate Sep 4 (UTC) — | Hasu2.jpg - license/source? | — Phantasie : I replied on my page :-) Fantasy | UN lobby I noticed you changed to #wikipedia topic to some info about wikipedia in the UN lobby. more concrete info? Burgundavia Jun 27 - Yes indeed... see m:Golden Nica Awards 2004. — Here is what I have accumulated so far on Categories... see Category talk:Fundamental and Wikipedia talk:Categorization - Ancheta Wis 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) — Thanks for your Bday-message, it was really nice to read after waking up... Re: images: please reply soon, I am going on vacation :-) Fantasy 容 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) — Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated! --Alex756 (17 Sep) — Um, thanks for such praise of my pix... call me fir or Peter. 25 Sep 2004 — URGENT: Opposition to "Sam Spade": IZAK — Now I've got some homework to do. Thank you for your supportive RfA vote Fire Star 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) | Slowking Man Oct 13, 2004 (UTC) | User:Ta bu shi da yu 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) — The JPEG Cleaner program decreased Jackdaw file size by 29 kb.... -Hapsiainen Oct 20, 2004 — High-Energy Metaphysics?: High-Energy Metaphysics <-- (request) JWSchmidt 04:28, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Google Wikipedia
Google Wikipedia

I'll try to think of something encyclopedic to say on the subject... ... ... ...+sj+ — PS: I'm sure you'll be amused to hear that when I looked at your user page (curious), my head started to emit springs and gears. I'm a very straightfoward sort of person (see mine)... Noel 4 Sep 2004 | PPS: I was wandering around some dusty back alleys, and came across this:

in a flurry of preverts, Ril was inverted and cast from the cast of _Heavy En:_ into an archaeo-social list of helpful flames. &mdash Very funny! Noel

It is not a high priority thing (the sooner the better, though :) ). Thank you very much. --Lan56 Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

  • NPR : You on NPR singing the praises of Attalus I... was nice. Paul August Feb 24
  • WP:HC - I like the idea, but it has practical problems. (See the talk page) Grutness 9 Mar
  • See this description of the conversion tool. Zhengzhu, Mar 11
  • RfA Thanks: SlimVirgin, Mar 24.
  • Colors: Thanks! I'm pleased with how it turned out. Mero, Mar 24.
  • Hugs: point me to the 500k release article? Notafish, Mar 25.


Through Jan 2005

Press release

Since you're listed on the Wikimedia Press Team, I wanted to let you know (though you may already be aware) that we're working on a 1,000,000-article press release. I'm hoping to get the press release written by 7 September, then allow a week for translation, as we should reach the milestone mid-September. Right now we're working at Wikimedia press releases/One million Wikipedia articles if you want to join us. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. --Michael Snow 22:57, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Press release translation

Thanks for your help, and your efforts to coordinate translations generally. I don't mind at all if people get a jump on translation, I just want to be sure that they do update translations to the final version. I will try and bring it to a final version soon, so that the translators can finish their work without worrying about last-minute changes. --Michael Snow 02:37, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I have no problem with the creation of a separate British English version of the press release, although Chameleon could have done a better job of making it clear that he had left the original intact, instead of redirecting everyone to the "translated" version. I was fooled when I first went there, and obviously so were others. As for substantive changes to the text, in my opinion it should stay frozen. There are already people saying the press release is too long, and frankly they're right. It's inevitable that in a project like this, some people will have good ideas that there just isn't space to include, and we can't allow everyone who lobbies for a particular sentence to get their way. So I'm not thrilled about shoehorning stuff in after the writing part was supposed to be finished. I would prefer to let the translators do their work and have people start to focus on where to send the press release, instead of scribbling madly away on their exams after time has already been called. --Michael Snow 06:02, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Articles financiers

Bonjour Sj,

Il s'agit de monter en français un dossier transparent à l'intention des donateurs éventuels. Les articles en. sont énumérés ici :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Wikipédia_et_l%27argent

Cependant, rien ne presse. Merci de me proposer ton aide. Roby 10:08, 2004 Sep 9 (UTC)

Merci pour ton envoi (newsletter). Je lis et corrige s'il y a lieu. Je m'en occupe immédiatement et te rappelle dans une heure ou deux. Roby 06:49, 2004 Sep 19 (UTC)

Tribble Trouble

No wait, that's not right. Transient Trouble! No, that's not it either. Translation Trouble. Yes, that's it: I don't know whether you had anything to do with that system-wide notice, this time. But having seen the annoucement, this time I didn't just start translating just to find the translation would not be used. No, sir, I first checked to see whether Fy: was on the list. No, it wasn't. OK, so no source text, no place to put the result, we'll have to assume we won't be bothered this time. Well ... . Apparently the one throwing an English message at Fy: used a different list. Apparently, this translation process still doesn't function properly. Aliter 20:10, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You asked me to clarify what list I talked about since you knew only about m:Translation_requests/Fund-Sep. Exactly, that's the one. And you told me that that list was, of course, not comprehensible. So in what way would the individual wikipedian know this course? Wouldn't anyone not closely tied to the events assume that if a list was used to organise the actions of those involved, everybody involved would be on that list? Anyway, not all that important. Just what gets written when suddenly all the pages in a wikipedia get a header in some foreign language. Aliter 18:09, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Fact and reference check

Good work on the Attalus I article, esp. with the comments. Hopefully people will see that the ability to turn off fotenotes, for what ever reason, is what should be worked towards instead of deleting fact checking work.

Please get people interested in the project, and feel free for you or other people to massively edit the project page if you think you can improve it. If you know some coders that can help, please let them know :). --ShaunMacPherson 04:16, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Náuahtl

Hola Sj. Lee por favor nah:User talk:Piolinfax#Main Page como eres el único administrador tendrás que hacerlo tú. Gracias Guillermo 08:01, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Gracias por el aviso, Guillermo. +sj+
Gracias por el arreglo. Guillermo

department of fun

hey there just wanted to invite you to be a member of the Department of Fun as i saw you on a linked page we have as a judge, feel free to add your sig./timestamp in the members section. --Larsie 17:33, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wiki on a stick (WOAS)

Thanks for your support last month of WOAS, which I have finally moved out of user-space. --Zigger 03:24, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)

Meetups

NYC: Thanks for noting the NYC meetup... Andrevan | maybe. don't always work a standard 9-5. Dante Alighieri... just realized The Incredibles premieres tonight, so that's where I'm headed after work.  ;) another date though... Dante. Nov 6. — NYC: Where is Argosy? PZFUN 00:16, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC) — NYC: Sure, that works for me. I don't know how long I can stay, but I'll at least make an appearance! And 2 pm is fine. I'm a late riser so 2 pm is fine. Any earlier and I might not be awake! PZFUN 00:34, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC) — Hi. Got your message and read the wrap up. Sounded like fun. Sorry I couldn't make it. --Pdurbin 22:46, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bay Area: What time? East Bay's User:Kukkurovaca (don't know any of the other locals).

Boston II

I don't know exactly how I can help. Should there be an agenda? Should we hand out action items? Or just get together and have an enjoyable afternoon, like the last Boston (Cambridge) meetup? Ortolan88 02:12, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi there. I've never been to a wikimeet before, but I might be able to make the Boston one. Since I'm a minor, getting my parents to let me go will be like pulling teeth...except much harder :). I wanted to know what is expected to happen in this wikimeet before I attempt this monumental task. What mood do you anticipate this wikimeet to be like? Do I need to bring anything with me? What (if anything) is going to be accomplished? Thanks in advance. I tried to find out on IRC, but I was told that it differs greatly between each wikimeet, and since you were in the last Boston wikimeet, I felt you were the best person to ask :). -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 02:54, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the personal invitation. I simply couldn't get out of my other obligations this weekend, but sometime in December sounds really good. Also, let's form an agenda; I could help with that. --user:Ed Poor (talk) 15:04, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

Got your message about next weekend - I like to plan a little farther in advance than that. Maybe some time in December or January? (Just not during the IAP Mystery Hunt.) DenisMoskowitz 16:51, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

I'll personally be busy on the 5th, but I'm not required - I can come to the next one or something. (The more notice, the more likely I'll make it.) DenisMoskowitz 20:08, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

NYC: *laughs* I'll be there! - UtherSRG 13:11, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC) — NYC: I was wondering if a place had been decided for the next New York meetup. I'm still ticked off at myself that I wasn't able to get to the last one, so I'll be coming to this one, come hell or high water! PZFUN 17:56, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC) — Coming to the NYC meetup scheduled for Sunday, December 12?

Hiya

Hello. I miss you terribly Sj. I hope my internet connexion will be restored end of next week :-( I need to come back to daily quiet activities. Not ones where I am called a vandal :-(

Hope you are well SweetLittleFluffyThing 18:09, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Survey

Hey, I got your message about creating a survey. The thing is that I've already asked some 500 users about whether they'd give permission to multi-license their contributions. And in at least one of those cases I managed to get a user who is no longer editing here anymore. Because this is such a large scale thing, I really need to ask everyone and a survey will not exactly serve our purpose here. It is not enough to ask "Do you multi-license?". Based on responses I could calculate the percentages of who feels what. About 10% opt out, but most of those are very nice about it. But I'd say about 1% of people asked get upset at the fact that I asked and say something (semi-)nasty back to me. The rest agree to multi-license in either PD or CC-by-sa, mostly for the latter. Of those people, about 20% will only go for U.S. states/cities/counties at this time. I've already got the rambot adding the notices to people's pages, after I did the first 350 by hand. Of course I don't mind having a question in a survey about it. It might be nice to know how popular the idea of a move to CC-by-sa is, but so far I've not wanted to bring up the question because it is so controversial. You can keep me apprised of the situation with the survey, but I'm not sure how much I can put in. It might be nice to ask a few multi-licensing questions anyway, just to feel the water. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 13:01, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Let me know when you have a draft of your survey. Maybe we need some questions like "Would you consider multi-licensing to CC-by-sa" (or maybe something less specific or with more options). And also: "If yes to the previous question, would you consider at some point agreeing to change Wikipedia's license to another license (such as CC-by-sa)?" Of course if you do the latter, be prepared for the nuclear fallout that the ensuing controversy will cause. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 14:46, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject: JesseW 23:27, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A hunch

/me thinks you might get a kick out of this and maybe that. Just a hunch. May be wrong. Very. Never mind. It's late, even on your side of the ocean. Cheers. notafish }<';> 05:34, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Graph of statistics

Umm, I read someone's opinion on the rate of increase of article size, did not agree with the expressed opinion, and figured a graph and, indeed, an article would be a good thing. I'll doubtless update the graph sometime around the christmas break; I don't often update it since the trend is, more or less, no change. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Wikidemia

Hi Sj, Cormaggio here - having just found 'Wikidemia' today, am wondering what your involvement with the project is, ie. whether active or just interested? Have added a link to a page with my own questionnaire which was a tentative step into getting people's opinions - I see your involved perspective would be of help to the project, and possibly to my own inquiry (for my M.Ed). Basically, I can see these projects bouncing off eachother, if not conjoining to an extent. Talk to me, or email me if you prefer (through user page). Cheers Cormaggio 01:29, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

See recent updates.

Barnstar

I give you a Barnstar for your good editorship on Quarto and your fine organization of translators. --Aphaea 09:11, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Whole Earth Catalog

Would you be offended if your "Whole Earth Catalog" were deleted from Wikisource? The problem with it is that it is encylopedic. :-) While this would be a perfectly good stub in Wikipedia, I don't see it going anywhere on Wikisource. It would be an excellent introduction IF we were going to carry material from the Catalogs in Wikisource but I presume that very little, if any, of this material could be included without infringing copyright. Eclecticology 04:54, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Now I know that more than that stub is planned. I don't know if page images are the best way to go, but I'll wait until a few are up before I make further comments. Eclecticology 17:16, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)

List of Young Global Leaders

I've noticed that you've begun (what I'm going to assume) is a complete List of Young Global Leaders. This leads me to a few questions:

  • Why the odd, non-standard formatting?
    • What is the standard?
      • You're reading it. As opposed to:
Making a list by indenting a space.
This renders as an ugly monospaced font.
Enclosed within a box.
  • What is the value of a yearly list of a few hundred names?
    • Note the wikification.
      • Note the pointless wikification. Of the 97 listings you've so far posted, only 10 individuals have active links (at least half of whom are as stubs), not to mention only 31 companies have links. So the value of duplicating in whole a 237-item list just to add red links is, at best, minimal.
  • Why no explanation of the list at the top of the list?
    • It has one.
      • It does now, I grant.
  • Why have a list of members/honorees of an organization that doesn't even have an article about itself?
    • It has one.
      • Okay, I missed that, though I note it's only nine minutes older than this list.

--Calton 20:54, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC) Updated comments by Calton 01:23, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)


Jan - Jun 2005

Boot camp

Hi Sj — the boot camp sounds like a great idea. Let's see if it gets off the ground. One question: my welcome messages are in templates ({{User:Asbestos/Welcome}} and {{User:Asbestos/Welcome2}}). I included the bootcamp template in the first of them, and everything seems to open out ok. It should update as the bootcamp template is edited, right? I don't want to start posting out-dated information. Is the bootcamp only going to be held this week? Thanks! — Asbestos | Talk 11:32, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

W00T! Let's start it back up.

Draft survey

I'm not the best at scripting and the like, so I wouldn't be able to run any survey with fancy options and privacy to boot. But to be honest, when I made my draft I really had no idea what use it would be in the end and how it could help Wikipedia as a whole, it was more of a playing-around-with-the-idea thing. But I'm sure a large scale survey, especially of new users, but also of established users, would be very, very useful once it was finished and the results collated. Have you already tried to get yours off the ground, or is it still in draft mode? And would I be able to see it too :) I think the idea could get somewhere if there were enough momentum built up behind it. T.PK 05:32, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Blogging

You asked me about my interest in good blogging software in Frisian. Did you want to bring software localized for Frisian to my attention, or did you want to enlist me in a translation effort? Aliter 13:46, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I asked around but didn't find anyone interested in taking on the additional load of translating even more software. Aliter 20:43, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

BTW., the wiki complains that "This page is 64 kilobytes long. This may be longer than is preferable; see article size."; you might want to refactor, excerpt, summarize, archive, or delete some of the talk here.

This would probably help when trying to return to a previous conversation, reduce people's phone bills and keep the browser from crashing. Aliter 20:43, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your Q about Community Feedback

Hi Sam,

Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. I understand you are doing research in the development of community feedback for Internet base encyclopedia (particular Encarta and Wikipedia) and would like to ask me a few questions. Fire them away!

PS: My surname is Siu (pronounce Sue) hence the subtitle of the blog as in "sue me"

Quarto design chat: Sunday?

Hi zanimum. Lockeshocke proposed an interesting icy cover for the next Quarto; I thought perhaps you two could work together on it. And are you free sometime this Sunday to discuss the internal layout of the next edition? +sj + 03:05, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Sj... sorry, I'm overflowing with year-end homework projects this weekend. I guess I'm willing to work with LockeShocke on the cover design; there are quite a few things Wikimedia needs to iron once and for all, to keep designs consistant, between issues and languages. Would any weekday/night be okay to chat with you sj, or should we just set up a talk page somewhere and discuss over the course of a few days? -- user:zanimum
Monday (tomorrow) would work for me; also Wednesday. Let me know... see the very top of the source of my talk page for contact info if you can't find me on-wiki. +sj + 02:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wednesday is best, I'm cramming today, too many deadlines. Is there anything we can start to discuss now, so that I can leave my input here and there? -- user:zanimum

Blackberries fir0002 semi FPC

Hope you can come vote on this selection: [User:Fir0002/FPCandidates#Blackberries] Thanks--Fir0002 06:18, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

Thanks for the offer, it's most welcome. In fact, since you're editor-in-chief for the Quarto, you're sort of the perfect candidate to serve as "guest editor" for The Signpost, if you're willing.

I'm planning to set up a "newsroom" page that will facilitate coordination. To make things easier for you, I think it might also be beneficial to have a deadline for reporters to get their stories done. Any suggestions on when we should set the deadline, to allow you enough time for editing?

About the style guide, I'm happy to answer any questions, it may force me to think more clearly about what I've been doing. Names of Wikipedians are sort of a complex issue, since it can involve real names, nicknames, pseudonyms, and even sigs. My usage has been flexible according to context, depending on their role and how the person is best known. For things with implications outside Wikipedia itself, I prefer real names. Some samples of how I tend to think:

Jimbo -> Jimmy Wales for most things, Jimbo Wales when actually using his account on the site
Anthere -> Usually Anthere, sometimes even when acting as Trustee if it's about interaction with the community, Florence Devouard if there's outside contact involved
Mav -> Pretty clear role break, mav as an arbitrator and user, Daniel Mayer as CFO
Brion -> I use (English-style) Vibber rather than the Esperanto all-caps VIBBER in his username
I don't necessarily mimic people's sigs, but if the sig is different enough from the username and kept consistent, I'll follow the sig. For somebody like User:Dbachmann, I wouldn't refer to him as anything but dab.

Fortunately, linking helps fill in the blanks, so I always make sure to link the name of any Wikipedian when it's first used. --Michael Snow 18:32, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nahuatl as written

Thank you a lot for the heads up, but could you please provide the actual URL? I've looked for hours in the depth of wikisource without find a hint of the document. Circeus 23:58, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Titanic

There is enough in the plot description to indicate that a nude portrait, a jewel, a pretty girl and an artist are involved. The picture you attempted to remove shows all four. For the rest, you really have to see the move--so it's fortunate that the company that made the movie has licensed its distribution on DVD. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:40, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Danny's user page

Why have you reverted all of the changes User:Danny has made to his user page for the past 8 months? Jayjg (talk) 17:33, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, good question... how odd. I wasn't editing anything at 10am today when this edit was made. I *was* looking for a link to Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics this morning, which I finally found via Danny's contribution-history... I must have followed a "rollback" link in the process. Thanks for catching it. Following a rollback link apparently requires no confirmation and doesn't give you any indication of what has happened; it looks as though you just followed a normal link to the target page. I submitted a bug report to fix that...
Unfortunately, I didn't get your message until Danny noticed the change himself and reverted it; how embarrassing. +sj + 04:59, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What is a "rollback link"? Jayjg (talk) 14:06, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Graph of statistics

You asked a few months ago; I've updated the graph at Wikipedia:Words per article --Tagishsimon (talk)

Chinese WP

Sj, saw your question to Zhengzhu about a desription of Chinese WP's new system. Thought you might be interested in the writeup here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese

Also, I've posted a link to the GlobalVoices wiki, but you may want to make it more significant. Thanks! Fuzheado | Talk 10:49, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Quarto

Hi Sj I'd love to be part of the production. Do you use ICQ? My number is 312-555-973, so that would be a good way to chat. --Fir0002 09:58, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

I've just finalized the first draft of my second Signpost article this week. Could you please head over to the newsroom and give them a quick check and copyedit. I've listed them at the bottom of the page. (Can't reach Michael Snow yet). Mgm|(talk) 11:05, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Contest

I won't be joining that online chat: it's after midnight for me, and I'm working something like "normal" working hours these days. I think my comments speak for themselves; obviously, my top choices can be gleaned from the stars I gave. I'd hope that the four articles to which I gave two stars will be at least serious contenders, and the ones to which I gave no stars will not get top ranking, but if there is, say, one exception in either direction I won't scream. If there is much more than that, I'd appreciate one more chance to weigh in before this is final.

Thanks for pushing for this all to happen. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:02, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Quarto news review

Hi sj - thanks for the invite to help out with news coverage for the Quarto, I'd be very happy to get involved. I've been doing articles about Wikipedia in the press for a few weeks now on the Signpost, so it would be quite easy to keep track of the major coverage worth including in a quarterly. Just let me know what you'd like me to do, and when! Worldtraveller 12:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi - have put together a first draft of a news article covering Jan-March, it's at User:Worldtraveller/Quarto:In the news. It's not a finished product by any means, but thought I would check if it's the kind of thing you're looking for before honing it further. Any thoughts or suggestions? Worldtraveller 16:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

More Signpost notes

I'm basically signing off for my vacation now, but I've left a few last-minute notes on the newsroom page, including an explanation of the steps to cover when publishing, in case it may be useful. Thanks for your help, and good luck with it! --Michael Snow 07:08, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

I know. No matter what I turn in, Michael can always whip it into shape. :) Hopefully, the experience will help me to do better next week. But so far I haven't seen much to include in my FAC/FPC/RFA article. Mgm|(talk) 09:12, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Carpentry-stub

Hi Sj - I note you've created a new stub category. Did you realise that stub categories should normally be cleared by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting before creation? That way they can be vetted to check that there are a viable number of stubs (at least 60-100) and that the category does not cross the existing stub hierarchy before the stub is created. In the case of carpentry-stub it looks okay (at least as far as the second point is concerned), but if you're planning to make any more categories, we'd like to know first! Oh, and if you're interested in helping sort stubs, we're always looking for new members of the project! One more thing - the single most important thing a stub template must have is a category. otheriwise, you're just consigning the stubs marked into the void, probably never to be seen by the editors who should be seeing them. I have created a Category:Carpentry stubs for the template, and am busy doing null-edits on the articles with the template to make sure they go in there... Grutness|hello? 09:39, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

On looking at the articles, things are a little worse than I thought. Most of them are about joinery rather than carpentry, and one of them is a neologism which is almost certain to be deleted by vfd. There is also no Category:Carpentry, which make a subcategory of it (Carpentry stubs) extremely unviable. I've redirected this to Joinery-stub, which does at least have the benefit of a parent category (Category:Joinery). Grutness|hello? 09:54, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Why did you recently add the move to Wiktionary tag to User:203.173.161.41's talk page? This is inappropriate use of the tag, which is important because pages with the tag get added to a category to be moved. I'm assuming it was a mistake, and I've removed it. --Dmcdevit 23:27, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Thought it was something like that. No big deal, it's just that the program I use to Transwiki goes by those tags, so I have to manually clean them out first. Plus, did you consider telling the newbie? Most don't realize their mistake. --Dmcdevit 05:35, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cyberarts Festival

I saw you at the Cyberarts Festival. You totally rocked!

The Report On Lengthy Litigation

I'm ready to begin work, but it seems little significant activity has occured on ArbCom cases this week. Alas, our justices grow weary of their duties, methinks. Nonetheless, I'm putting up a first draft tonight and plan to improve it right up to the deadline so that it might be as complete as possible.

That 1200 UTC Saturday deadline; I take it that that's noon Saturday? Wally 04:34, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Right-o. My rough draft may be found here. Wally 05:40, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Absolutely. I'll have it up today. Wally 14:27, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
My draft is up in the appropriate location. Unlike last week's, it is current up to the very moment (I literally added material that had developed while I was writing the first draft!). Wally 02:06, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

I read your message about your request for me to stop adding a link to the podcasting directory potkast.com. First off I am confused about not adding a relevant link. I hope you can clear this for me.

Greet, Eddie Adams

Signpost article

Sorry for being late with the article again, I had loads of stuff to do today. I'm now going through some pages to find something to write about in my featured items/new admins article. If you've got any ideas, I'd love to hear them. I should have something up in about 12-13 hours. Hopefully you'll still have enough time to edit it after that. Sincerely, Mgm|(talk) 21:11, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

  • Bah, I couldn't find much to write about. Hope this is okay. I've got an initial draft at User:MacGyverMagic/In_Progress/featured16. I'll add something on the voting for the featured images, but I don't think I can tell something about the new admins. I already reported on Mindspillage who received a total of 41 votes. Wasn't there a banner because Phils' admin nomination had too few votes to reach concencus? Mgm|(talk) 15:24, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Signpost articles

Hi sj, it sounds like you hadn't seen that I'd put links to a couple of articles in the 'ready for editing' section of the Newsroom. I'd done one about the IWC and one about the Sanger memoirs. Been delayed doing press coverage but am drafting it at the moment, see User:Worldtraveller/In the news. Also, I mentioned above but you might not have seen my message that I've drafted a press coverage article for the Quarto, at User:Worldtraveller/Quarto:In the news. It still needs a bit of work but I hope it's the kind of thing you're looking for. Worldtraveller 19:17, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

By the way, are you already writing an article about the pope news coverage? If you need someone to write it, I'd be happy to put it together. I noticed it in the suggestions section but no-one seems to have claimed it. Worldtraveller 19:27, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
No, not yet. That would be wonderful. +sj +
OK, news and pope article are now also up there for editing at the newsroom, all yours to hammer into shape and make publishable! Worldtraveller 21:22, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Afrocentrism

Hey Sj! You suggested that since I made changes to Afrocentrism that I talk about the changes on its discussion page. This makes a great deal of sense, so after I made the changes I actually added a section summarizing why I made the changes I did. But that section disappeared--I assume it disappeared when the changes reverted. I will attempt to resummarize what I wrote. Thanks!

Signpost

I've noticed the signpost hasn't been updates yet while Michael usually does it around noon my time. Worldtraveller's articles look fine to me and you already checked mine. Can I update or is there anything I'm not seeing? Mgm|(talk) 17:34, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

  • Since it looks like you'll be offline for a while. I decided to be bold and update the signpost to make sure it's not delayed too much. Hope you don't mind. Mgm|(talk) 18:49, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
    Thanks, MGM! You rock. There were some bits that still had to be fixed, but it was good to get the content out there. +sj +

3 => 3 (year)

Please see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Move_3_to_3_(year). -- User:Docu

Proposed New Beat

Hi, I would like to cover a weekly roundup of new proposals found at the Village Pump in an new article.

Lotsofissues 11:33, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC) ›››Leave Me a Message‹‹‹

Featured`17

I was unavailable to write yesterday. I'll add the new pics, articles and admins to Blankfaze's article as soon as possible. If you have to you can publish the Signpost and put up a delay notice like Michael did for late T.R.O.L.L. articles. User:MacGyverMagic - 82.172.23.66 08:58, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Blankfaze was kind enough to provide this week's article at [[1]]. Mgm|(talk) 21:29, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Quarto and press

Hiya dearie.

Basically, I think the board report page is all set. I asked Jimbo and Angela to review it for accuracy (in particular hosting offers...) 2 days ago... and no feedback probably mean all is well :-)

So, I put all parts of it in proofreading stage and once Ruth is happy with it, it can be translated anytime.

Another point : Personally, I am very proud of this article [2] and I would love to have it cited in Quarto. How to say... it is one of the first time we really go beyond the usual presentation of wikipedia, to try to work out some big issues, related to our interaction with the outside world... It is unusual journalists ask such questions, so it was a great opportunity and I hope it can have some impact on freeing information in Europe somehow. A little additional stone.

Still... I do not know where to put it :-)

Last point : the board letter. I asked Angela if she wanted to write it, and she did not answer. So, I decided to did it myself. Then I changed topic 3 times and am still undecided. I think the topic I wish to talk about is elections or rather past year. But I am not sure it is wise. So.... I let my holidays rest on that and will come back on the matter. Ideas welcome. user:Anthere

Signpost article

I'll have my article ready late tonight or tomorrow morning (GMT). Since you're updating the Signpost on Tuesday's I don't think it'll be a problem. Just letting you know. Mgm|(talk) 17:25, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

  • Damn, I slept in. I hate it when I can't act on promises. I should have it done in less than 10 hours. Sorry about yet another delay. No need to call in blankfaze. I really want to do this before I'm gone next week. Mgm|(talk) 11:05, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
    • I'm waiting for some feedback from Raul654 and Evercat before finishing the article. Hopefully they'll get in here soon. If they don't reply by tonight, I'll go with what I know and finalize the article accordingly. Mgm|(talk) 14:13, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • My draft is in the review section of the newsroom. Mgm|(talk) 21:25, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

Press coverage

Was just starting work on my press coverage article, but I see Lotsofissues has listed a press coverage article under work in progress. If Lotsofissues is doing it, then I'll not bother working on mine, but if you still need it, I'll finish it off tomorrow morning. Worldtraveller 23:02, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and by the way, a while ago I did a round-up of press coverage in the first quarter of 2005. I mentioned it ealier to see if it was the kind of thing you had in mind for the Quarto but hadn't heard back from you. It's at User:Worldtraveller/Quarto:In the news, all yours to use if you want. Worldtraveller 23:04, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Forty-seven Ronin

Hi, Sj, would you like to comment on it (frage); recently I added some comment on Kanpei ... --Aphaea* 07:19, 10 May 2005 (UTC) (sorry for late, it was just last December we talked on that)[reply]

Bootcamp

Hi Sj —
I've been leaving bootcamp templates on my welcome messages since the beginning of February: is it still happening? I left a message on the project's Talk page a while ago, but it seems that no one keeps that on their watch list, which seems to confirm my suspicions.
I remember I noted a while back on your talk page that I didn't want to start posting out-dated information. Perhaps if the boot camp is no longer occuring the template ought to be blanked and then deleted, so that any instances of it lying around don't mislead people (and any fools like me who are still posting it will no longer have the template on their welcome messages, not having realized that the message went out of date months ago...).
— Asbestos | Talk 08:11, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Aha! I keep it on my watchlist, which is too long... there have been sporadic bootcamps when publicized, and I keep an eye on the IRC chan. But there has been no spontaneous interest in it. I wonder how to reinvigorate it. The idea is certainly more useful now for having some initial content... +sj + 19:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Ok, that's cool. I'm hardly ever on IRC, so I wouldn't have noticed: it was just the apparent lack of activity on the project page that made me wonder. No idea how to raise interest levels in newbies, though, though of course from my experience the learning curve here at WP is fairly steep, so maybe by the time they've figured out what "IRC" means they've already written their first article. Anyway, good job keeping it up. — Asbestos | Talk 21:33, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, the initial idea was for it to be on-wiki. With courses for users to pass through... I think wondering about how to do that best diverted attention from getting people to come chat on IRC. But since it was the same crowd of IRC users each time; maybe an on-wiki correlary would be better. With an IRC session as one of the last steps. +sj +

Signpost

Hi SJ, hope all's well. Sorry about temporarily stealing control today :) I meant to let you know what I was up to, but was fitting in editing between real work and got distracted by a meeting. Was glad to see the counter-coup later on! I'd like to think of myself as a kind of Thomas Sankara of the Signpost, but I fear I may be more like the Captain of Köpenick...

I didn't have time to do anything more than the press coverage for this week's Signpost, but should be able to produce a few extra articles for next week's. Glad the press stuff for the Quarto was useful as well! Worldtraveller 22:31, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Date on Wikipedia

Is it correct that the Wattenberg et al. study you say was done in winter of 2003 was, in other words, done in late 2003? Seasonal neutrality, just checking... 119 03:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Signpost

Excellent! I enjoyed reading it! — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:13, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fabi

Following on from my reply on my talk page, I didn't notice you were a contributor to the signpost until I went and read this week's edition after I wrote that. So, please take it as an unprompted compliment. :) fabiform | talk 17:58, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DC

Hey there! I didn't, sadly, end up getting to go. I had planned to go to Brickskeller and wherever for the balance of the evening, but there was a sudden minor pet crisis I had to deal with that took my time instead... did you have fun? Where did y'all go? · Katefan0(scribble) 14:57, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Polls and surveys on SIGN

After doing a little work awhile back trying to fix up and better organize the Wikipedia:Current surveys page, I realized that polls and surveys on the Wikipedia are a real mess. Some never get announced except on their talk page. Others may only be announced on a WikiProject page. Some are posted to WP:RFC and/or Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), but not to Current Surveys; or vice versa. Only very rarely do they get the sort of attention and participation that Gdansk/Vote got. I realized that to do things well, that it would take the entire amount of my free time that I've budgeted for spending on the Wikipedia. Quite frankly, I'd rather spend that time on Japanese poetry, and Southern California articles, plus the occasional drop-in at the Stub-sorting WikiProject and WP:TFD. If I ever did anything more bureaucratic on the Wikipedia, it would probably be to organize a California or Southern California WikiProject. What you probably should do instead is find some young, enthusiastic, slightly obsessive Wikipedian who is looking for a big project to tackle. If you find somebody like that, I'll be the first to award them a Wikipedia:Barnstars. Perhaps you should suggest it to someone like Netoholic—a large task like that might help keep him out of further trouble. ;-) BlankVerse ∅ 02:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi there! I was discussing some policy-related things with BlankVerse, and he mentioned this column on SIGN and suggested that I consider writing it... so I'd like to ask you for some more information on what the general idea is, but in principle I'd be interested. Yours, Radiant_* 14:06, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
    • Okay, done. The article is in the newsroom (along with another article by a new editor); please take it from there. Thanks! Radiant_* 14:57, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Three step process

Thank you for beautifying the three step process that I help to make. It looks so much better. I should let you know some people want Template:Vfd2 to be unprotected. They claim it can be improved upon, but little do they know of the history and the background of the template. (And why it was protected in the first place.) -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:44, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing... Don't you think your discussion page is a bit long? -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Very welcome. Cutting the pagesize down a bit :)

Catching up

Well, content wasn't reduced too drastically, and I've had weeks before where I wasn't able to do as much as usual. Considering that when I planned this vacation, I feared The Signpost might die entirely, I'm very pleased with the result, even with hiccups. I don't know that I could manage for long without Worldtraveller either. Thanks again for all the work you put in, hopefully now you can have a little more time to spare for the Quarto.

With respect to your layout mockup, have you checked it in skins other than Monobook? The visual effects (particularly colors) might not work as well in Classic, I'm not sure. I like the calendar idea more than I expected, though. When I saw it discussed initially, I thought it would disrupt the layout, but you've worked it in nicely. --Michael Snow 17:34, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

With foot planted firmly in mouth

I just read your message from almost two weeks ago about the TROLL report, and I admit that it slipped my mind which is absolutely inexcusable. I had a ton of relatives in the last two weeks and to top it off I had to run to attend to my mother for several days after she gashed her leg, and when I got back I zoned out completely. Is it too late for me to do some or all of this? I could do a sort of two-week wrap-up? Wally 19:17, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Since Jun 2005

writing history on Wikipedia

Hello,

I’m an historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. In connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement, we’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on history articles in Wikipedia. Another Wikipedian recommended that I contact you. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu


Quarto

Hi Sj, I'm translating some bits of WQ2 in Dutch. There are few mistakes in the Dutch table of content ("Inhoudsopgave"), and I don't know how to fix them, it seems to be some kind of template, but I can't find it. Can you tell me how I can edit the Dutch table of content? Fruggo 19:45, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Bureaucracy

Appears that I've been beat to setting MikeH to sysop. Glad to help, though. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 14:30, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


Hello to you too

Hi, Sj, thanks for the note on my talk page. I think the "are you a Jesuit" question was the first note I had on my talk page, and I've kept it because I figured someone else would probably come along and ask it. (I actually was a Trappist for a very short time.) I got an email the other day from User:Essjay-R who wanted me to know he wasn't plagarizing my username! Apparently "S-J" or some derivative is a very common username! Good to know there's another non-Jesuit around! -- Essjay · Talk June 30, 2005 08:14 (UTC)

Hi from zh.wikipedia

Hi, Sj, I am Theodroanian from the Zh.wikipedia. I am going to present Zhengzhu's article about auto-conversion system in Zh.wikipedia on the wikimania. He told me there's a potential scholarship for the presenter's traveling. It costs a little bit much to go to Germany from Taiwan, and the scholarship sounds helpful. How should I apply it? Thanks!--Theodoranian 2 July 2005 06:22 (UTC)

My info is below:

  • Name: CHIEH(given name)(Chi. char.:傑), DENG(family name)(Chi. char.:鄧), a.k.a Titan Deng
  • Nationality: Taiwan, R.O.C.
  • City I live in: Taipei
  • Languages I speak: Chinese(native), English(high intermediate)
  • Wikimedia projects I work on: Zh.Wikipedia(main), En.wikipedia(not very much)
  • Days I am planning to go: 4-8, Aug.

Thanks. You can contact with me via email: [email protected]

--Theodoranian 2 July 2005 06:58 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer

Hi Sj, I can't edit this article because I'm not an admin, but I'm asking you because I noticed you were the last to edit it. Can you correct the (ironic) misspelling of "MISSPELED" in the sentence "PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND IN WIKIPEDIA MAY BE INACCURATE, MISLEADING, DANGEROUS, MISSPELED OR ILLEGAL". Thanks. Deus Ex 3 July 2005 00:24 (UTC)

Quarto stats

I thought that big yellow banner would get your attention...:) Here's a rough draft I did this morning for the quarto stats. Really not sure what's appropriate [3] --Alterego July 3, 2005 20:09 (UTC)

Hebrew

Hi. Several of your pages have links to the disambiguation page for Hebrew (specifically User:Sj, User:Sj/pages, User:Sj/sand, and Template:Sj-header). It would make it easier for me to catch new erroneous links to that page if you could point them to more direct uses of the term. Cheers! -- BDAbramson talk July 8, 2005 18:54 (UTC)

Welcoming template

Hi there! I was told you're one of the frequent welcomers of new users. I was wondering - since this is a rather frequently asked question, would you please add a link to Wikipedia:Merge to your welcoming template? Thanks. (by the way - since mainspace has {{welcome}} already, wouldn't it be logical to put your version in userspace? Not that I mind really but just a thought). Radiant_>|< 20:45, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Pronounciations

I see you are in the midst of configuring a large batch of pronounciations. I wonder -- have you ever tried the text to audio conversion standard on all macs? It's quite accurate. Would it be possible to auto generate a whole dictionary list of pronouncatons using that program and have editors hand verify the accuracy? lots of issues | leave me a message 03:17, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[4] What's the next step? lots of issues | leave me a message 07:35, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary & Quarto

Thanks for the wake-up on my en:wiktionary talk page. You're right a report from the project would be a good thing. I'll give it some thought, and put some paragraphs together in the next few days. Eclecticology 19:01, July 14, 2005 (UTC)


Vandalism on sw:

Hi, are you an admin on sw: or know anyone who is? There's an IP who keeps adding spam links to the main page who should be blocked: [5]. — Matt Crypto 16:39, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've accepted the nomination, and I've attempted some translation (although we really need to get some fluent speakers involved!). — Matt Crypto 00:14, 23 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Contest

I have uploaded some sound files and am thinking of entering one or more in the Wikimania contest.

You note in the contest requirements that submissions must be GFDL or public domain. I ordinarily license my audio contributions CC-BY-SA only, because I think that the GFDL is inapplicable to audio clips. The reason for this is that we don't have any provision for supplying a transparent copy ("preferred form for modification"). This would vary from one audio clip to the next, and would at a minimum be a high-resolution two-track audio file, using lossless compression (or none at all). Such files aren't even permitted on the commons, making GFDL compliance problematic.

Did you intend for this provision to apply to audio files, or just to other types of media?

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 05:30, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bootcamps

I'm about to prune the Tutorial a bit, and noticed that there's a prominent link to Wikipedia:Bootcamp. A look there didn't make it obvious whether that's still an active project. Are you (or others) still organizing those? Isomorphic 03:22, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. Thanks to all of you for your work on this. Isomorphic 02:03, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WP:USCOTW

Hi. I just wanted to drop you a note to inform you that a project you started is currently being reactivated: the US collaboration of the week. I have made some suggestions to improve it on its talk page. Best wishes --Fenice 15:37, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The constitution, Iran, Hoder and others!

Hello Samuel.

I wasn't aware of the initiative, if I may call so, on the constitution. I had a look at ur pages —user page and sth— and the links u provided, took me some time in total.

Now, let me know how many others —not Persians indeed— are curious to keep track of the progress. There are, as I saw, more than hundreds of changes in the page only for August. So if there are others like you who r interested, shall we make a page so I, or any other person, may make reviews of changes in English. Otherwise I would give you an informal report on the topic so far. And ah! The current constitution is full of jurisprudence terminology —the new is 180dgrs around!— That imdpedes makin accurate translations to provide others with comparisons.

--Downtownee 13:02, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Currently I come to wiki intermittently. I saw ur msg today, hence the delay.


Wikimania Media Competition

Hi Sj, I left a message with User:Aka on the commons recently and I saw he had on of these little things saying we won a prize for his winning entry. I know this sounds really selfish, but do I get a prize for my winning entry Image:Misty morning03.jpg? Thanks --Fir0002 09:17, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Of course you do :-) It's a choice of DVDs from Directmedia... Bdka has the complete list of titles. +sj +
Awesome! --Fir0002 23:19, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
I've wrote to Bdk (is that who you meant?) five days ago and he hasn't yet replied, maybe you could ask him for me. The other thing I was wondering is if I could swap those DVD's for some wiki merchandise, like a t-shirt. Thanks! --Fir0002 22:39, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania writing contest

Wow! That's pretty incredible; I sure wasn't expecting that. Sorry I didn't write sooner; I've been only infreqently checking out my "babies" (the welding articles) of late. What info do you need from me? --Spangineer (háblame) 04:24, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Hi again Sj, I'd like to verify that you got my email from a few days ago. Could you let me know? Thanks. --Spangineer (háblame) 20:00, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Year boxes

Great work on the year infobox templates. I know people had concerns about their size and I hope your recent edits have fixed all that. I think we are ready to go ahead and put the templates on the year pages. I had the templates linked up to make them the same size but this way works even better. Thanks again. On another note I'd like to get your opinion on this matter. I accept that it may not be to everyones liking, but I think it deserved a try. I appreciate any help with administrtive actions, Trevor MacInnis(Talk | Contribs) 21:18, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Spam blacklists

You were very innacurate in the recent blacklisting. Some of blocked templates are free hosting providers - e.g. narod.ru is as popular in Russia as geocities or livejournal. As a result some hundreds of articles had been locked.

Please review m:Talk:Spam blacklist and revert ASAP MvR 06:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for unblocking. shengen.ru and visa-usa.ru are real spammers, but newmail.ru isn't. I don't know about 2x4.ru, their site looks like a provider - it would be better to unblock it too. MvR 15:01, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Iran constitution and Jambel letter

Hi there. Excuse moi! for the delay. I have been really clueless 'bout the constitution, wants one who's already involved. I tend to suggest check with the Hoder, perhaps. About the jambel's letter and all the quarto stuff. Though I personally was not in favour of persian wiki, I would have helped with the quarto. But i'm alone and perhaps if someone who is free in time enough and active in wiki would do better. However I did translate the interesting Jambel's letter that very week we spoke of it. And since it was short I edited it. But where to place it? And how reader's are get noticed? needs much more attempt than my tight schedule and short interest permits. Tell me what you think if u like. thanks.

Greetings from jrandomhacker.info

I noticed your presence at http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php?title=User_talk:Sj and thought I'd drop by to say hello. =) -- Sy / (talk) 05:15, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(moved from [6]) Nice to meet you, on both wikis. I see you've been interested in [wiki] platforms for a while. There are a few features I'm working on specifications for... you can see them among my userpages. I would appreciate feedback and related good ideas. Sj 02:51, 25 September 2005 (GMT)

I'm working on different ways to present blog posts, on en:wp, based on templates of yours... you might check that out as well. Sj
  • What do you mean by "various platforms"? When you say that, I think c64, Amiga, DOS, etc.. I honestly don't know what to make of levelup. What is it? What is your vision? What are your goals? What problems are you trying to solve? I'm not sure what I can do to help, but if you shine a flashlight on a particular topic or problem I can try to help. -- Sy / (talk) 14:10, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Various wiki platforms. My goals are to describe how MediaWiki can reach the next level of usefulness, and to work out a sensible notion of 'level' in the process. Each of the bullet points there reflects a single feature which wants developing, or which has been requested often in the past. +sj +

Admin nominee charts and Quarto

Hi. I saw your comment on the discussion page of my User:Durin/Admin nominee charts. Thanks for the compliment :-) I looked up Quarto, not having seen it before. I assume you are referring to Wikimedia Quarto? I didn't see a stats page. I did see a reports page, but I'm uncertain as to how it is I could contribute. Could you explain please? Thanks, --Durin 21:12, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked users

Hi Fvw, thanks for all your great vandal-fighting. What is the policy wrt blocking open proxies? Some people seem to think they should never be blocked indefinitely. I haven't been following the relevant policy changes too closely... Cheers, +sj + 21:10, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Do they? I think there's at the least a pretty strong concensus that anonymous proxies can be indefinitely blocked and all other blocks on IPs should be limited, though perhaps I'm just out of touch. Nobody's challenged that part of the blocking policy yet anyway. Just make sure you verify that it's really an open proxy, I've seen far too many "oh, it's probably an open proxy let's block it indef" blocks. --fvw* 21:21, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I've started a discussion of this on that page? I seem to recall unfinished discussions about this when the auto-blocker was being worked on, and some of your recent blocks have been unblocked. I don't feel strongly either way; but I did block what looked like a proxy earlier today only to discover that it has special "only block for 15 min at a time" status... (see User_talk:24.71.223.140) +sj + 21:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be with you there in a minute, just got to finish my watchlist. Thanks for pointing out those unblocks, Danny didn't have the curtesy to let me know he'd undone them.
Keep in mind an open proxy and a proxy are two entirely different beasts as far as we're concerned. Normal proxies are used by many ISPs and though they can make blocking vandals more difficult they aren't a major problem. Open proxies on the other hand are a major problem as they allow vandals to hop from random IP to random IP without any blocks sticking. --fvw* 21:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Swahili

Thank you for telling me about it! I have added my name to the list. I plan to learn more Swahili, because at the moment my Swahili is only at basic level. I hope I will be able to contribute better then, but I will try to contribute while learning. --Revolución (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sj, I think that even sw-1 is overstating things for me :-) I can understand a fair bit though. Thanks for the intro - however, I cannot pretend to be writing. I hope wikimedia went off OK - sorry I couldn't be there. Wizzy…☎ 18:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks from me too for mentioning about this, although I'm a bit late with this answer. I'm afraid my Swahili language skills are a bit too weak, but I'll keep an eye on the project! --Oghmoir 21:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]


IRC

From the bootcamp page i see that you are on the Bootcamp channel on IRC. Do you know where i can download or install IRC, I cant seem to find it anywhere. Thanks. JobE6 01:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks i went to their site and couldnt find anything. JobE6 03:23, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey SJ. Sorry, I fell asleep while in the bootcamp there. It was my first time on IRC, can you explain to me how IRC works in a nutshell? It seems so complicated. Karmafist 21:30, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the message about Meta the other day. I have an account related question. Awhile back I tried to create an account on wiktionary and it wouldn't let me. I checked to see... I'm sure the person who used it either doesn't check their hotmail, or doesn't care. I'm pretty sure it wouldnt have been me, only because I would have never created a hotmail account with my realname. Err, well unless it was "Bruce Wayne", or "Nevaahe Laura", which I doubt it is either.

It wasn't 12 July was it? Thats when I tried to create all my other accounts.. I think, yup, that's when I sent Brion VIBBER the message. «»Who?¿?meta 07:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
right around then... +sj +


Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop

You, or any Wikipedia user, can contribute your suggestions and comments to the /Workshop page of any active arbitration case. Comments on evidence or proposals can help in understanding the import of evidence and in refining proposals. Proposed principles, findings of fact, or remedies may be listed on /Proposed decision and form part of the final decision. Fred Bauder 19:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2006 dates

Hi Sj,

Congratulations on your successful Boston bid! Thanks for the hard work. I live 7 hours from Boston in upstate New York- so upstate we call Albany "downstate," but I will probably be in Boston teaching during July/early August. I'd like to present a paper on the WP1.0 project and article assessment, as well as the chance to meet up with people like yourself and Stirling Newberry. Earlier dates may be possible for me, too. Do you know the exact dates when Wikimania will be held? And when are you going to put a 2006 banner at the top of your talk page?

Thanks, Walkerma 15:43, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for getting back to me so promptly on my talk page, and even updating the banner! My tech skills would probably limit my contributions to any meeting (once people start talking about transclusions I'm lost!), and I don't even know what IRC stands for, but I may listen in if that's OK, particularly to get the exact dates. I think things are just beginning to get interesting on the WP1.0 team pages...Cheers, Walkerma 02:57, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Brandt

Hi SJ, long story. I'll e-mail you with details. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 20:50, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I saw. I've e-mailed you, by the way. SlimVirgin (talk) 08:09, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Polish translations

Sj said: Thanks for adding translations to Wikipedia :)

Thank you, Sj, it's actually becoming quite a good project to do, attempting all of these Polish translations are yet to be done. Since my pet project is biographies of soccer players, I thought the best place to take regional ones was from the own country's Wikipedia.

I just never realized that translating from Polish would turn from something casual to something I'm strangely enjoying.. I'm not sure at what point I should start to worry..! All the best. Bobo192 02:07, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You made it! More helpful pages:   Wikimania | 2005 website +/-

Wikimania chat

Definitely....I'd be interested in doing what I can now that you've roped them into doing it at Harvard. I assume it's in the #wikimania channel, in which case I'll be there; if there is a room I don't know about let me know. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:24, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the invitation. I would have liked to attend, but I'm going out this evening. I still would like to help out, though I question how useful I can be. - SimonP 20:18, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

To my great chagrin

The first request of the this auspiscious service can't be fullfilled. I assume you are outside of the Harvard domain for some reason, are you able to access this source list: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/marketsource/productTitles.asp ?

lots of issues | leave me a message 20:21, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Wikipedia:Recentchanges

I've never seen discussion indicating that it should serve as an announcement board. Admittedly, important announcements have gone on there and and on the watchlist header in the past, but those were exceptional cases. We have other places to put announcements, and Wikimania, while certainly an important topic, doesn't impact the day-to-day editing of Wikipedia now. If we allow some announcements on the header, what will prevent it becoming cluttered? Anyways, those are just my thougts. I admit, though, that I probably should have contacted you first, and I apologize for that. But I just don't think that the RC header should serve as a message board. Many thanks! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 00:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Have you considered archiving your page? It took a mighty long time to load... :-)

Archiving now :-) And the RC header has survived just fine for a long time without special protection, and generally without becoming cluttered. No need to optimize for problems that don't yet exist. +sj +

My RFA

Thank you very much for supporting my rather contentious request for adminship, but now that I've been promoted, I'd like to do a little dance here *DANCES*. If you have any specific issues/problems with me, please feel free to state them on my talk page so that I can work to prevent them in the future, and thanks once again!  ALKIVAR™ 07:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

FireFox RFA

Sj

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!

FireFox 18:44, 8 November 2005 (UTC) [reply]

Guilty

Hi Sam -- I just got this:

Hi SD, long time no see :-) Didn't you used to hang around aD one summer? At any rate, Boston is putting out a bid to host the next Wikimania con; see m:Wikimania 2006/Boston. Any interest in helping out? We also have regular meetings around here, so drop me a line if you want to join us for food or drinks one of these weeks. +sj + 07:42, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

I am feeling absolutely horrible right now, because I cannot remember who you are! Nor, indeed, do I remember who or what "aD" is. I have indeed been seen in the environs of Cambridge in years past, as you can probably tell by my articles on Café Pamplona, the Tasty Diner and Grolier Poetry Bookshop, but am now elsewhere. If you could remind me of who you are (preferrably by e-mail -- I sometimes attract stalkers when I stick my hand in beehives) I promise lots of guilty apologies and free beer.

Yours, Sdedeo 05:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WQ notes

Sj,

I'd be glad to help with the Quarto, and will try to do as much as I can with the other work I have to do. (I assume you got my name from a list of people interested in proofreading, right?) Cheers, bdesham ★ 13:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, count me in too - though Wikiversity is a bit of a tough one to sum up these days. I'll happily pitch in though (possibly, maybe interview Sunir). Wait a minute, is Quarto not being cancelled/transmogrified? Cormaggio @ 16:18, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, got that - I agree. So is this the place to brainstorm ideas? And what time frame are we talking about? I'm pretty much gone for a week after Tuesday (15th).. Cormaggio @ 23:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Sorry for not replying to your last message, I read them all, I just don't have time to reply to them. I wish I could help with Quarto but my schedule is terrible, I haven't even been able to read the 2nd edition and didn't even know we published a 3rd! All good stuff, but I really don't have the time. Dreams and wishes clash in a reality bound by time. :( Kudos, —Joseph | Talk 15:42, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but I'm very busy lately. I have barely time. With Q3 I had plenty of time and was not able to finish that. All the time I have for Wiki I spend to nl.wikisource and nl.wikipedia (little)

Ahh, so. Thanks for the quick reply :) +sj +

getting involved/wikimania

hey, i'm a boston wikipedian (college student) at Northeastern, i definately want to get involved in wikipedia (moreso anyway) and the boston wikimania for 2006. i have no idea how i can best contribute to wikimania, that said, i may have space avaiable for people to crash and speak (or will anyway) a fair amount of french. should i just start showing up for the boston meet-ups (they're weekly correct)? they look pretty cool. also, i have subscribed to the mailing list and have briefly read over the wikimania 2006 page detailing volunteers and teams. thanks. --Gozar 21:49, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. Responding on your talk. +sj 01:38, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ive signed up on the attendees list but im not sure what i want to do yet. im planning on attending the meeting on wednesday, but i take it a time has not been finalized? ill keep checking the wikimania meeting page(or is it on the boston meetup page) for updates. also, could explain what "hacking days" are? thanks--Gozar 21:16, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

main page news!

man, i managed to get a news article on the main page of en! check out 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum, i've done most of the article (im pretty damn excited about this, obviously). also, i noticed you are involved in the (ki)swahili wp, what is your proficiency in swahili? im attempting to learn myself right now, hopefully i can be useful on the sw wp at some point.--Gozar 23:08, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I knew I recognized you!

From the first time I saw SJ in Tosci's, I knew I knew you from somewhere. Reviewing the contribs of User:Michael, my attention was directed to an article, and I realized you look exactly like Alan Cumming! Crazy or what? No? Fine. Hope the meetup went well, and I'll see you at the one upcoming. Happy 'giving. -Mysekurity 05:22, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

*g* you're not the first to say that. Alan himself disagrees, however... +sj +

Swahili wp

Hi SJ! I nominated Ndesanjo to be an admin on Swahili wp. I hope that's OK. He's doing a great job writing articles, and now sw has passed the 100 article mark (finally!) I think there should be a fully fluent admin there. --Chamdarae 02:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Note from User:Monagz

This request was erroneously left on your user page:[7]

can't figure out where I am supposed to "talk" so I'll just do so here. Need help. How to find a place where I can write an article? Monagz 23:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Moving it here and reverting your user page; hope you don't mind! —HorsePunchKid→龜 2005-10-24 01:30:33Z

..and I went ahead and replied. —HorsePunchKid→龜 2005-10-24 01:39:32Z
Neat. Thanks! +sj +

To talk to me in IRC

You need to set your filter off: /msg nickserv set unfiltered on

Lotsofissues 02:50, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Black RfA

Thank you very much for your support of my RfA. Thanks, in part, to you, I am now an Administrator, and I pledge to use my newfound powers for good rather than evil. Thanks again!--Sean|Black 08:24, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

delayed reaction

Heh. Thanks. User:Zoe|(talk) 01:18, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed conference session near Buffalo, New York

Hi Sj,

The State University of New York system, for which I work, is holding a conference May 30 - June 2, 2006 at the State University of New York at Fredonia near Buffalo, New York. The high flying title for the conference is "Envisioning Tomorrow's Classroom: Learning without Limits." There is a track on "Open Source, Collaboration, and Information Sharing," and I would like to set up a panel of "experts" to lead a 75 minute sequence of short (10-15 min?) presentations with questions from the floor, and possibly a discussion afterwards. I think the theme should be, "Wikis for teaching and academic collaboration." I can think of a few presentation topics: "Wikipedia as an information source," "Article validation and peer review in Wikipedia" and possibly "Wikis for research collaboration." Would you or anyone you know care to participate? I know that you live in the North East US, albeit a long way from Buffalo, and I know that Wikimania will probably take over your summer. If you are interested, can (you) suggest a topic for (your) presentation (possibly one of the ones I mentioned, or maybe Wikimania?)? I'd be particularly interested in a presentation on the more technical side of a wiki, something I know relatively little about. See the CIT website for more information. There will probably be about 600 SUNY faculty attending. The abstract is due January 20th. Cheers, Walkerma 16:12, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting back to me on my talk page, I'm glad you are interested. Can you suggest any other knowledgable Wikipedians who might want to present? I think there is a lot of interest now from academia, ao it's important to "spread the word". I suspect that the academic community will find a lot of interesting new ways to use wikis in the next year ot two. Great news about the 1.0 developments. Cheers, Walkerma 05:10, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Important AfD

Hello again. I am contacting editors applies NPOV and NOR standards rigidly for their input on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators, where a consensus has yet to be established. I think this AfD is particularly important because it has been bringing to light some fundamental differences in interpretations of content policies among editors. If you have time, please take a look at the page and add your input. Best regards. 172 07:53, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vote on Fir0002 FPC page

Hi Sj!
Hope you can cast your vote on this batch of photos! Thanks --Fir0002 10:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

have you seen Wikipedia:Articles for Creation?

Canberra Photos

Hi Sj, I would very much appreciate your input in the following argument. There seems to be a gang of users unwilling to allow anyone to interfere with there Canberra project without invitation. It was risky to take my camera on our school excursion to Canberra, but I did for the sake of the photos I could upload to Wiki. Needless to say, I'm deeply distressed over the reaction that has taken place. In particular, I would like to ask if the removal of all my photos off the Lake Burley Griffin article was a step forward in the usefullness of the page. Please either voice your opinion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canberra or write back to me. Thanks for your time (and I hope) support. PS, have you heard anything about the prizes from the 2005 Wikimania Media Comp? --Fir0002 08:54, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

nah interface

Hi Sj, I left You a message on nah.wikipedia, maybe you visit that page seldom, therefore I just wanted inform you here o:)

greetings --birdy (:> )=| 10:33, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

École Mondiale World School

I have rewritten the article turning it into an Indian school stub. I believe that there is enough verifiable information in the article to warrant a standalone article. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 18:54, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Private use of categories...

Please gather your private Categories (e.g. Category:Sjk 2005, et. al.) into a private "root" category so that only one of them shows up on the "Uncategorized categories" report. Better yet, find a category to put your root into also.

This report shows that you have seven: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedcategories&limit=500&offset=500

69.181.82.102 07:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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