User talk:Karen Johnson

see also User talk:Karen Johnson (old)

I hope that the children had fun arguing on my talkpage while I was on holidays... These comments have now been removed and the argument is closed. Please take it to the relevant Atlantium article/s if you wish to continue the debate. KJ 07:49 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)

As one of the children involved in the debate I would like to apologize. My initial response was to defend you from a nasty message left by George. --mav

He was rather unprovokedly nasty, wasn't he... thank you for defending me when I wasn't here to defend myself! I'm glad I wasn't here actually, because I would have gotten rather upset about it at the time... but since I wasn't here I didn't read it until it was all over. :) KJ

Thanks for your typo correction :-) -- Youssefsan

Hello, & welcome back! I look forward to seeing the pics. :-) best, KQ

Thanks KQ! I've been back for awhile but this was the first day I've actually been inspired to add useful new content intead of just dithering around correcting typos :) I was actually surprised that these basic 'skeletal' entries haven't been done long agoKJ

Yes, wikipedia has some odd omissions still. Just a few days ago I was surprised to see on Outkast that Erykah Badu still has no article. (and, having just done a fair amount of research, didn't care to write it myself). --KQ

A complaint!!!!!! How the @#!@## am I supposed to wikipedia-weed if all of the access pages are disabled? And how the !#@$%^%% am I suppose to know when 02 UTC is in Australian time? I am NOT impressed... my major method of wikipedia contribution (correcting typos, editing badly spelled articles and mending/deleting stubs) have all been disabled for 12 hours of the day. KJ

See UTC and Time zone for help with times. If the fact that our database performance crashes to *utter unusable crap* when we leave the heavy lifting functions enabled during the busiest times (day in North America, evening in Europe) bothers you, I suggest you remember that this project is maintained by volunteers, very few of them, who have other things to do in their lives and receive not one penny and little thanks for their efforts here keeping this site up and running for you. --Brion 23:59 Jan 19, 2003 (UTC)

Hey - I try to thank you every so often. Here it is again: Thank you Brion! :) --mav

Karen, if you're in Eastern Oz, add 11 hours at the moment, 10 normally, to UTC to get local time. It's 10.5 hours in SA/NT (9.5 out of daylight savings), 10 in Queensland (all year), and 8 in WA.'

I'm a volunteer too, doing a job that nobody else can be bothered with (or has the time to do)... and if you want me to bloody well go away and leave you all alone I WILL. I'm pissed off at the world today and ready to tear my hair out or to hit somebody very VERY hard.

I would argue that slow access is better than no access, and that disabling functions for any reason other than that they plain don't work is a bad bad BAD idea. KJ

The trouble is that when these options are available then the whole website goes down - including the other language editions. I vote for having these functions static during what are now blackout periods. This would mean that right before the site is hit with heavy traffic a static page is made of the current view on each maintenance page. This should allow people to do what they need to do while at the same time keep the server load minimal. Of course, there needs to be a note saying that the page will not be updated until x hour. --mav

I see your point. And I think I agree with you Mav. One of the most frustrating things is coming to do a job and not being able to even start (hence my explosion)... If there was a static display I'd have some kind of starting point and some idea of what was going on. Couldn't these pages be updated maybe once an hour or once every two hours intead of constantly? It's always seemed kind of unnecessary that it updates the 'short entries' page every single time you make a change to it. To avoid that I try to remember to right-click and open stuff in a new window until I've made 20 or thirty changes to the original listing. KJ

Mav just said everything I was gonna say. :) Note that the other day Magnus put in an experimental static result display for Special:Wantedpages; we hope to get this or a smoother system rolled out to the other pages as well soon. --Brion 02:00 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)

Hey Karen,

Hi!

Thanks for being here.

Please don't be angry.

Please don't be hurt.

Love, Love, Love (is that part of a beatles song?)

with friendliness and joy,

Me. :-)

Thank you Me... (boy, that sounds schizophrenic :)) I'm sorry I'm in such a foul mood today... the whole city is wreathed in smoke from the bushfires in north-eastern Victoria, and I think it's poisoning my mood as well as my lungs :( I promise to stop screaming and having tantrums, for today anyway... and Brion, of course I appreciate everything you do for the project - without you there wouldn't BE a wikipedia. I'm just being an ungrateful b##ch today, but I'll try to stop. KJ

Back to the disabled page subject - now it seems that the function pages have been permanently disabled. Or at least every time I come to try to use them I can't access them and get the 'this is temporarily disabled during peak hours' message, which now doesn't say when those hours are at all. Are 'peak hours' 23 hours a day? I've tried at nine o'clock in the morning and it's 'peak hours', I've tried at midday and it's 'peak hours', I've tried at five o'clock in the afternoon and it's 'peak hours' and I've tried at about ten o'clock at night before I got ready for bed and it was STILL peak hours... Right now it is 6pm on a Friday night in Australia, which is about three or four am Friday morning in America, so the majority of internet users are sleeping like babes... (and no, I'm not going back to the mailing list to raise this discussion because there was too much 'discussion' there that was of zero personal interest to me and that I didn't BEGIN to understand.) If the function is permanently disabled then please change the message to reflect that fact, and I'll stop trying to do anything useful... KJ 07:17 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)