User talk:Sj

Summarized discourse

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

• Get Back - another look please? Thanks. Johnleemk
• POTD - what does the {{{1}}} do? Solipsist 9 Feb 2005
• Anne Frank - another look? thanks Rossrs 10 Feb 2005
• Wikipedia:Peer review/Hayyim Nahman Bialik - being archived from PR. Ta bu shi da yu 03:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• BZFlag - another look? See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/BZFlag.

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)

• I am proud of this notafish }<';> 16:42, 1 May 2005 (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)

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)

Podcasting link

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)

• 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)

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)

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)

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)

• 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)
  • 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)
    • 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 +
      • I'm interested, by google. See my post on Wikipedia_talk:Bootcamp Quinobi 16:26, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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)

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)

Re: Signpost

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

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)

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)

• 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)

One more thing... Don't you think your discussion page is a bit long? -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

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)

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)

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: theodoranian@gmail.com

--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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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/User_talk:Sj and thought I'd drop by to say hello. =) -- Sy / ^(talk) 05:15, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

(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)

  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 +

Hmm.. I have no idea what you're talking about.. could you give me some links to pages where you're working on this stuff? Drop me a note on my talk page, because I won't remember to come back here. =) -- Sy / ^(talk) 07:43, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

Steward related

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)

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)

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)

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)

Brandt

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 | W_S 00:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

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)

FireFox RFA

Sj

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

*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)

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)

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)

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)

delayed reaction

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

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)

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)

Hello again. Can you send me an abstract covering what you would like to include? There is a librarian at Fredonia who would like to contribute the librarian's view on this topic, so it would be the three of us on the panel. She is going to supply an abstract to me by Monday. I think we would each present on our specific topic, and each take questions, then open things up at the end for general discussion. Does this sound good? I think the Nature review and the recent letter in C&E News indicate a growing interest from academia in both Wikipedia in particular and Wikis in general. Thanks, Walkerma 00:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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)

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)

And again here if you don't mind! --Fir0002 06:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Image:BoycottWikipedia.jpg

Please vote to keep my image on Wikipedia. You may voice your opinion on whether or not to have the image deleted at [Dec 10th images]. I also wanted to let you know that it looks like my WBC personal subpage will remain on Wikipedia.--JuanMuslim ^1m 23:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection

Sj and those reading this page; there is a pretty big debate going on over at Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy, and I was wondering what you thought of the issue. This is a pretty important and big step, and anyone who is reading this, please voice your opinion. Thanks, Mysekurity^{(have you seen this?)} 03:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for coming over to the discussion. It's always good to have a higher-up knock out the bugs and help with the proposal. Thanks for reading it, and if you have any further questions, any one of the editors active there would be glad to help, I'm sure. On a less impersonal note, seriously, thank you. Is there anything else that should be done re: ideas? Did we address your complaint to your liking? Hope to see you soon, Adam 03:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

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Hi Sj: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005.

Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December and all Esperanza members are encouraged to join in.

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An uncommon welcome

So whats it feel like to welcome a Wikimedia foundation board member? :) --Gmaxwell 05:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Much like it feels to welcome any other new user -- you hope they come back and edit again the next week... and perhaps someday find those random links on their talk-page useful. It's a bit more odd welcoming long-time editors from some other wiki project to a new wiki -- then there's always the chance, however slim, that they already know more about the wiki they're joining than you do. +sj + 05:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Please, Mega Troll possibility needs to be looked at here

I am coming to you because there is nowhere else to go with this. I fear a mega troll (administrator) has been able to so firmly entrench himself within wikinews with meatpuppets and sockpuppets that he has obtained virtual control of the site. Now he is attempting to expand his power into Wiktionary. [8]. He simply uses his authority and extreme time availability to wear down and force contributors who are in his way off the site. He has also managed to drive a wedge between Admins and non-admins (basically forming a club-like clique among admins) to the point where a reasonable Rfda. [9] sits with 6 admins on one side and 8 non-admins on the other side of the Rfda. Amgine's dedication toward prioritizing group loyalty is manifest with this edit of his; "Your approach to Wikinews, in my opinion, is focused on articles. This is a common approach, but probably not the most valuable. I suggest you reconsider that Wikinews is not about articles, but about developing and maintaining an online community; the articles are secondary. - Amgine / talk 14:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)". Amgine also uses multiple signatures leading to different sites and one that leads nowhere.Amgine Amgine[- Amgine  03:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)]

The administrative abuses are historical fact and are listed below and although the "troll" accusation is based on circumstantial evidence; I am also showing it at the bottom. The section below is from [10]

Regarding Amgine's activities as an administrator for en.wikinews, I have checked and double checked the information/links below and find the statements accompanying them to be true. Amgine abuses administrative authority consistently and has done so for at least 6 months. His user page comments even show he has a troll-like connection as an administrator with the project[11] as he openly announces that he has "left the project" while being the most active in terms of conflicts and blockings[12]; acting as a foreman or "boss" rather than in a collaborative fashion.

• Here are the examples of administrative abuse. Amgine has had multiple long lasting disputes with many editors with Neutralizer being the most recent and intense. Amgine has not hesitated to abuse his admin powers by blocking/punishing editors like Neutralizer who disagree with him; even though wikinews guidelines clearly state that an admin should NOT block an editor with whom they are having a dispute (they should,instead, allow a different admin. to apply any necessary blocks to that editor). It now seems that the wikinews contributors can not get rid of Amgine no matter how hard they try; Amgine is able to deflect and explain away his misdeeds in a fashion that puts Shakespeare's "Artful Dodger" to shame. You may expect that he will become increasingly accusatory and employ vicious attack methods to get what he wants. Re Amgine; its a lot easier to get him in power than to get him out of power. Fair Warning !

1. Amgine displayed his arrogance by summarily rejecting the resolution,suggestions of a mediator, Ilya (a wikinews Bureaucrat) after a mediation. "I do not accept your suggestion that I limit my administrative privilege use either to "vandalism or very clear violations of objective policies only, and to explicitly let some other admin deal with Neutralizer" or "submit a self-de-admin request." [13]
2. Dan100's list.[14] of Amgine's "bullying and poor behaviour" (Dan100 is an admin.[15] in good standing at wikinews).
3. Apparent vendetta blocks:

   A shows 4 of the spurious blocks Amgine levied against Neutralizer which were all later rescinded when other admins got involved [16].

   B shows the last block against Neutralizer done after Amgine and he clearly were in conflict

   02:13, 6 November 2005 Amgine blocked "User:Neutralizer" with an expiry time of 6 months

4. Admin abuse; blocking Ed Brown for 1 month [17] 04:27, 11 December 2005 Amgine blocked "User:Edbrown05" with an expiry time of 1 month ; Amgine soon withdrew that block as he claimed a "software problem" had been the cause of the unjustified block. This time selection of 1 month for a long standing good contributor like Edbrown shows an abusive use of blocking
5. talk page blanked and frozen by Amgine ( in the middle of ongoing disputes with this same person) [18] This is especially interesting as he did it just one hour after the talk page was made to prioritize the question of whether Amgine and another admin. are the same person.[19] As you can see below (6); Amgine has no problem accusing others of being sockpuppets but when he stands accused? Hell; just delete the evidence.
6. More Disruption by Amgine; not assuming good faith:

   Amgine accused vonbergm of being a sockpuppet; "I do not have reason to believe you are not a sockpuppet."[20]

   Just a few days ago he accused Edbrown of being a sockpuppet[21]

Additional "Troll" indicators

1. Enigma = Amgine backwards

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/enigma •nig•ma (-ngm) KEY NOUN: One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable. A perplexing speech or text; a riddle. Anything that arouses curiosity or perplexes because it is unexplained, inexplicable, or secret: conundrum, mystery, perplexity, puzzle, puzzler, riddle. Definition sounds a lot like a definition for "troll" to me; "puzzler,perplexing,conundrum"

2. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Amgine says “left the project”

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Log/block shows the opposite

64.229.30.171 19:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

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Argh!

Stupid, stupid me! I wish I had known about the meet up last week, I was around. Both Kim Bruning and I could have gone. Oops! Oh well, I guess I'll get to see everyone in Boston. Speaking of which, do you need any help with that? I have a perfectly good car and can help get people from NYC to Boston, as well as probably find a place for one or two people to stay (perhaps the more well-known editors. My grandparents have a house in West Newton, Massachusetts, but it's quite, euh, luxe, and I would hate to have anything be stolen). User:PZFUN/signature 17:55, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikiversity

Hi, you left a notice at [22]

Seems, that this user isnt active at the moment.

I am trying to get the german wikiversity a bit forward, but is nearly inactive. I requested bureaucrat status, still waiting for an answer :)

So, to answer your question, i think, that the discussion did not go very deep, there was just a little bit of talking...

i would appretiate if you could contact me and tell me if you are still interested in the project

Cheers Tomen 80.108.91.243 14:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Ed Poor

Just thought you might like to know I couldn't stand by and watch Ed be railroaded. I've nominated him for adminship again.Gateman1997 04:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

List of all thingys

Hey, I found WP:RULES... is that what you had in mind? Talrias (t | e | c) 18:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, Sj! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Cyberlaw

I am interested in helping out with the Cyberlaw project. However, my cyberlaw know-how is that of spending many decades in the computer professional trenches, having been a computer programmer since around 1960, and had computer security responsibilities since ome time in the 1970's, but have no formal training in the law, and very little academic credentials. User:AlMac|^(talk) 04:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I put the project and each of the groups on my watch list, said hi to the other people who had volunteered to help, then took a look at what they had done so far. I made a few comments on some of the group's talk pages, of a welcome nature & perhaps one or two links of relevant places they might want to visit. I used the "what links here" to see what articles they been working on, and am amazed with the wide ranging interests. I also posted a few random remarks on the project talk page.

So what kind of stuff would you like to have on the project talk page, that I can add?

• Links to issues of relevance to cyber law ... a lot of which in my opinion is people like me with no formal legal training, trying to function in an evolving technological legal landscape.
  • Links outside of Wiki ... due to my career, I have a number of sources on computer security topics ... I just have not yet been successful so far in presenting what I know about the topic on Wiki in a style that meets Wiki high standards.
• Links to computer subjects which have legal ramifications.
• Links to issues on Wiki that have legal ramifications.
• More links to tips for navigating Wiki, and adding to its contents. User:AlMac|^(talk) 05:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page :) +sj +

Rereading the main project page, I see it says that they not plan to do articles about cyberlaw, but that is listed as an example topic, and when I visited there, I saw they'd been active there, with a statement that their professor assigned them this article as one of the ones they need to fix up.

Another Suggestion / Idea Where there is the list of class teams, now in the format of TEAM-WHATEVER, I suggest right there to add TALK:TEAM-WHATEVER to each entry, just after it for navigation convenience, then if they do any secondary pages, also link them at the same place as ** indents. I can do this if you like, I just wasn't sure

1. What's appropriate by outside helper
2. Whoever's in charge approval
3. Leaving some stuff to the students to learn, as opposed to illustrating how some Wiki stuff works

User:AlMac|^(talk) 06:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

User:TeamLessisMore has a link to the Harvard Law Wiki on Cyberlaw, which I joined, using the same username as here. I not yet done anything there as yet. I am approaching end of week, which is usually more hectic for me than middle of week because of various reports people want based on, and digesting, recent activity where I work. User:AlMac|^(talk) 01:14, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

You know how a picture is worth a thousand words? Well I have a bad habit of using the thousand words when a picture will suffice. So I altered my user page at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Wiki to link to individual sub-pages for each of several sub-topics I wanted to comment on based on assignments the groups are tackling. For example, I saw a reference to not knowing if something is technically feasible so I added an short piece here about state of art of protecting a network from unwanted stuff, then as I see various groups tackling relevant issues, I will put something on their talk page linking to that. User:AlMac|^(talk) 12:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Are the Student Group Accounts at risk of being found in violation of the Wiki rule? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#.22Public.22_accounts User:AlMac|^(talk) 01:44, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I plan to post this to the talk pages of the two administrators helping out with the project: +sj + and The Land User talk:The Land. Since I been burned a few times stepping on toes with different views than mine about what's appropriate, I have become a little less bold, and stated stuff on Talk pages before some input, giving folks a chance to encourage me, or say No. Acting on Sj guidance, I went ahead and made some comments on the various student group user pages, to try to help them out, and also on the Harvard site. (here I am there.)

I request that you first visit Wikipedia:Wikiproject Cyberlaw, noting the links I placed under Teams and Participants, and also in Structure, Note that Frontleft has added a couple of images. I have doubts that there has been a correct statement of copyright permission from Harvard students to Wikipedia. This may be a test to find out how soon WP finds out that there is a copyright problem, or it may be a student inexperienced in what needs to go on Image pages. User:AlMac|^(talk) 07:30, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I hope I have not violated WP:SPAM by promoting Wikipedia:Wikiproject Cyberlaw a few places such as suggesting that it be included in the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions and did you know there was a Wikipedia:WikiProject Law? Well, I put the project into the company of Category:Lawyer Wikipedians in hopes that some of them would notice this, without me needing to point it out to them individually. User:AlMac|^(talk) 15:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I sure hope you have the cyberlaw project page on your watch list, because I am regularly adding more stuff there. User:AlMac|^(talk) 04:34, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania 2006 grapics

>*ping!*<

You wrote: "We have banners to stick on the top of your user talk page; and are making little web-buttons to link to the conf. Ping me on-wp for details."

I'm interested, not only for myself, but for some newsletter announcements, too, perhaps. j 17:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Bootcamp instructors/members

Hi. Just wondering if you need another member/instructor on WP:BC? Wouldn't mind helping out, and have already helped some on WP:CN. Let me know if you're interested! Bjelleklang - talk 00:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've added myselft to the list, and will be available on IRC as often as possible, normally use #wikipedia and #wikipedia-en, but will also have #wikipedia-bootcamp running in the background. Will normally be online around 0900-2400 GMT+1. Bjelleklang - talk 14:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. Just wondered if there's any possibility on me becoming operator on #wpbootcamp? Bjelleklang - talk 23:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Hello Sj. Thank you for supporting my Rfa and your nice comment! :) I will try my best to be a good administrator. Please ask me if you need any help. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 17:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi, I just want to say thanks for supporting me on my request for adminship! It passed by a 58/3/0 margin, so I am now an administrator. If you need me to help you out, or you find that I'm doing anything wrong, please don't hesitate to contact me. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 19:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

AMA

Hello, you are receiving this message because your name is on the list of members of the Association of Members' Advocates. There is a poll being held at Wikipedia talk:Association of Members' Advocates for approval of a proposal for the revitalisation of the association. You are eligible to vote and your vote and input are welcome. Izehar 22:30, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

SJ, master of toilet holders

SJ, thank you for your kind words and support for my RfA! I am now an admin, and promise never to be tempted to the rouge side. If I can help you in any way, just say the word at any time. Boston is a good city. I live in Dublin. Dublin is like Boston in some ways, for obvious reasons. If you were a contributor to Bishonen's wonderful, brilliant nihilikartel on toilet paper holders, then I stand forever in your awe. Thanks again! Babajobu 15:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

project invite

Hi Sj, I'm messaging you because I see that you are in Wikipedia:WikiProject Community, and so might have interest and expertise to lend to this small project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Fast OrgDev Advisory on Userpages, which will write advisory document in support of the new Wikipedia:Proposed policy on userboxes. Herostratus 07:04, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Conspiracy Neutrality Voting

Hey SJ, there seems to be some dispute over the neutrality of the term conspiracy theory as applied to title pages. See here and Wikipedia:Title Neutrality. It seems to me that the process is not proceeding in the most useful manner and I wish to draw on your thoughts and experience. the issue seems to have appeared on the 9/11 conspiracy theories talk pageTalk:9/11_conspiracy_theories#Request_to_change_title. imho, preceding any valid fact with "conspiracy theory" evokes tin hat wackos, thereby deligitimating the fact and violating NPOV policy. emphasis on valid, provable fact. word, TitaniumDreads 22:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

old test templates

(Template:Wikipediatoc-main and Template:Wikipediacats)

Do you still see any need for these? Can they be deleted? -- Netoholic @ 09:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Re Globe

Hi Sam. About the Globe, I'll be out of town until Sunday, I suppose I could talk to them then, however I'm not sure I really know much about WP from a Boston perspective, whatever that means. Paul August ☎ 16:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Cyber Illegal allegation

You might want to pursue the comment added at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#Cyberlaw_project to ask what User:BlankVerse is getting at. User:AlMac|^(talk) 18:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

re: Fifteen minutes

Globe reporters want to talk to you :) Drop me a line, or get in touch with them directly : mehegan or mfeeney at globe.com Sj

Nice! Umm sure, why not? Should I e-mail them directly, or go through you? My friend's dad is an op-ed columnist there, so he might be able to help out with something too. -Mysekurity 20:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

vote here

Hi Sj, Please Vote here "keep" : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosario Poidimani (3 nomination). Regards, M.deSousa 24 January 2006 (UTC

Validation - centralization

Yes. I've refactored Wikipedia_talk:Stable_versions and added my ideas. Kevin Baas^talk 23:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Now you know who's working on WP:MF. Cheers. -- WB 08:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. (lack of things to say) -- WB 09:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Anything going on in the juriwiki? Thanks. -- WB 00:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting!

Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 22:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Article improvement

It might be worth mentioning to the Cyberlaw students that some articles on the law are up for possible improvement, such as

• The Patriot Act. The current article is too long, needs to be split into secondary articles.
• HTTP cookie
• Family Guy of interest because it has been edited by User:Frontleft and now is up for featured article, although the votes currently running heavily against.
• In fact it may be worth scrolling thru the whole thing from time to time, to see what other people need to be done with some pretty good articles.
  • I periodically visit here, link to some of the articles mentioned, put on my watch list, then return later.

User:AlMac|^(talk) 03:29, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Maria Pia

Dear Sj,you have asked "What works has Toledano authored under that name? They should be mentioned in the article...". In the wiki article she is mentioned because she was daughter of the king Charles of Portugal and she was considered a pretender to Portuguese Crown. When she claimed this dynastic rights her name was Maria Pia Saxe Coburg Braganza. This name is riported in her baptizimal certification and also in all her offiacial certifications [[23]],[[24]]. In her youth she assumed the name Hilda Toledano, a pseudonym in a dictatorial salazarist period in Portugal because she was pursued in this dictatorial period but she fighted Salazar for the return of democracy in Portugal. So for politic reason she assumed the name Hilda Toledano. With this name she was also a writer and she wrote many books. The names and the story of this books you can find in this site, wrote by an important french hystoric *Maria Pia: The Pretender,part I; part II; part III: part IV; part V. Her oppositors, the miguelist supporters, want hide the presence of her rights and mystify her story. Can you help me to give again the title "Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza" in her wiki page and change the name Hilda Toledano. The miguelist supporters with a user Muriel@pt have delete also the Rosario Poidimani page. Muriel has asked other her wiki-fiends to vote to delete this page. I think this people know nothing about this pretender but only for friendship they have voted! Please help me . Thankyou. M.deSousa 26 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower ^háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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WikiRPG

Hello

Let WikiRPG run as WikiFaktoria in pl wiki - look for Related changes here. It is beatiful. More that 40 WikiRPGers, 30 pages with various quests. Yeah WikiWhacking - it has been big idea :). I want to start it in all Wikipedias, especially quests with Babel. Good day to you. Przykuta 20:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Bootcamp

The best way to draw people in my opinion, would be to mention it in the various tutorials, the helpdesk, clueless newbies and so forth. Have added a link to the channel on WP:ASK, and will take a look at the others as well.Bjelleklang - talk 22:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, modified an IRC webclient to be used on bootcamp, but due to some problems with the sourcecode, it can't autojoin #wikipedia-bootcamp, only #wpbootcamp. Would it be possible to add a redirect from #wpbootcamp to the other?

Never mind the redirect, I managed to fix the source now.

The client is found at my site for now, but Commander Keane suggested that we could host it on the tool server in the future. Bjelleklang - talk 22:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Harvard Cyberlaw

Is it my imagination, or has the class taken a break? When it ends, perhaps the activity should be archived at Wikipedia:School and university projects, but I imagine that the class will be offered again to future bunches of students, but at what kind of time intervals? User:AlMac|^(talk) 20:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

1. What do you mean "class is broken"?
   1. I suspect that there may have been an effort to teach some stuff for the first time, and the educational process ran into some unexpected snags, or complications, which outsiders (like myself) may be unable to assist with.
2. The kind of stuff I have done on the project here, and on the Harvard Wiki ... should that also take a break, or am I welcome to continue to lurk and speak up similar to my past contributions?
3. I recently tried to help Wikify the article on Sarbanes-Oxley Act only to discover that it refers to an enormous volume of important topics (which I will identify on the TALK page of that article) that lack corresponding Wiki articles, so here is another area (like I found with ERP articles) that is absolutely critical to contemporary business, that Wiki has largely ignored. I suspect that this is because a lot of the Internet appeals to consumer interests and largely ignores other interests.

User:AlMac|^(talk) 05:37, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

AMA Coordinator Election

Dear AMA Member,

You are entitled to vote in the AMA Coordinator election, set to begin at midnight on 3 February 2006. Please see the pages on the election and its candidates and the procedure and policy and cast a vote by e-mail!

Wally 11:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

1.0 Collaboration of the Week

Hi, I noticed you signed up as a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. Recently, a 1.0 Collaboration of the Week was created to work on essential topics that are in need of improvement, which will ultimately go in a release version of Wikipedia. You can help by voting, contributing to an article, or simply making a comment. Thank you for your support. :) Gflores ^Talk 08:04, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

More WP1.0 stuff

Hi Sj,

Besides confirming that our proposal for the Fredonia panel was approved, I wanted to recruit your help an a WP:1.0 related matter (though it could be used right across Wikipedia). Things are really beginning to move over at WP:1.0 (User:Gflores has been great, and the WikiProjects are waking up to it too). You've seen his post about the new 1.0 COTW, right before this message. So we need to consider the next stages, including how we organize the articles, see discussion here. I am interested in how we visualize the organization of articles. If we picture the navigation of WP as a journey, I regard categories as being like road signs -useful, but rather limited. I'd like to see something more like a map. I've been playing with something I call a "tree" which covers a small piece of the hierarchy in chemistry. My tech skills are very poor, so my attempts are rather crude. You can see the top level of the tree here, click on the arrows to go up or down a level.

What I would like to know is:

1. Is this approach the best way to organize a "map?" If not, how would you do it differently?
2. Can you make the code more efficient, or else make things look nicer? I'm asking you since I know you're familiar with the wiki software. I used simple characters as navigational buttons, but I expect one could make something much nicer.

I'd like us to draw up a complete "map" of the articles to go (potentially) into WP 1.0. I don't want to invest a lot of WP1.0 project time on doing something the wrong way, so if you have time to take a look at this (and give help/suggestions) I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Walkerma 17:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

DMCA Takedowns

WB says you posted a message about DMCA takedowns to juriwiki. Could you provide an update on that situation at mirrors and forks? Thanks. Superm401 - Talk 03:04, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure, and done. No update yet . +sj + 07:15, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I think we might have to consider looking for people to send e-mails again. -- WB 07:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, I contacted User:BDAbramson about the same issue, it's a good thing he's interested. Anyway, is there anything new going on at juriwiki? Just checking. -- WB 10:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

209.66.124.150 on Harvard wiki

I keyed this comment there first then cut & pasted it here also, and also a few other places, with my last posting to http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php/Talk:Main_Page#.5B.5BUser:AlMac.7CAlMac.5D.5D_thinks_Harvard_Wiki_has_been_vandalized

I have a suspicion that this user-id has been used to do some vandalism to the Harvard Wiki. My suggestion to you is that you check out what their "contributions" have been, and see if you agree with me on that point.

What User:AlMac|^(talk) is seeing:

• Useful tools are deleted, such as the link on top of your talk page at Harvard that people click on to add comments to your talk page.
• Correct urls are sabotaged
• Text inserted that is invisible to human eye but do things on the Internet
• Huge chunk of text, that people worked hard to create, have been wiped out.

Obviously I am inexperienced in fixing vandalism, so this might also be true of others at the Harvard Wiki, so it might pay to add something to an appropriate place explaining how we revert vandalism. AlMac 02:07, 8 February 2006 (EST)

Retrieved from "http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Sj" User:AlMac|^(talk) 07:08, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

More explorations on "209.66.124.150" such as http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&sa=G&q=%22209.66.124.150%22

• According to veteran's guest book
  • Name: gfhaafajg <gfhaafajg>
    • which may be phony
  • Host: 209.66.124.150
• Same IP address shows up a lot on various other guest books and web statistics for various nations blogs and has apparently been banned or black listed from a number of places and is a visitor to porn sites

I visited the Internet Storm Center which tracks worldwide malware & other troublemakers, like TV weather channel tracks ugly real world other than human bad stuff. That got me to http://www.dshield.org/ipinfo.php which told me that this IP address is in the USA and has as its ISP Abovenet Communications, whose Autonomous System account number is 6461, this ISP can be contacted via abuse@above.net and so far there have been only 11 hits against this IP, some of which may be false positives. Presumably for privacy reasons, the owner of this IP address is not identified.

Googling for Abovenet Communications, Inc (the ISP of 209.66.124.150) got me to:

• http://www.abovenet.com/ and http://www.above.net/about/index.html located in USA and UK to serve businesses, so if I got the right place, our vandal is connecting from work ISP not home ISP.
  • The USA offices are in White Plains NY
• Abovenet Communications

User:AlMac|^(talk) 11:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

67.15.179.13 Vandal # 2 on Harvard Wiki

When it rains, it pours. I found another one, when I was trying to fix the Main page. The damage was to add a bunch of links such as

• Buy Viagra

which were coded to be invisible to the naked eye visiting the web site, but are no doubt intended for some kind of mischef. http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=67.15.179.13 not as many articles messed with as the other vandal, but you got a problem here that is going to mushroom, as more vandals arrive and mess with you.

I posted about this at both here and also at your Talk page at Harvard, because it seems to me high probability that a lot more of Harvard wiki is going down the tubes unless you figure out how to cope with this, pretty fast. For example, change the policy on people joining the Wiki that they not get to edit until after their e-mail address is confirmed.

I keyed that IP address into the same D Sheild link that was so helpful earlier, only to learn that it is an INVALID IP address, meaning ANOTHER problem here ... I got the number by cut & paste from Harvard Wiki history of articles vandalized. User:AlMac|^(talk) 14:35, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandals # 3 at Harvard Wiki

• Check out Main Page:about at Harvard
• Click on History ... you got major problems there

User:AlMac|^(talk) 15:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandals Mushrooming at Harvard Wiki

I was on Feb 10 Fri but did not get much done, mainly because my connection to the site was so sluggish. I do not know if you have any way of measuring what's going on with the servers and demand on them, like if most of the disk space been eaten, you got more users than you anticipated, you got a runaway job, a backup is trying to save while active, or other suspects. I considered the possibility that the problem was at my end, but I reboot my PC, visit other applications and web sites. It is only the Harvard Wiki that is experiencing sluggishness to the extreme.

My visits now have the pattern

• Patrol to see if there is any new vandalism, since my last visit, then document it on Talk:Main Page/Spam ... I added evidence of new ones Feb 10, including one that hit home on your page ... there's quite a bit where the students created a page, vandals trashed it, they did not notice ... I think that if they could get into the habit of signing their posts, it would be easier for them to tell what was done by a team mate and what was not
  • I also plan to add a piece on back tracking the vandals using Google LINK: to see if there is any place dispatching them to you
• Add to my News page more stuff I think is relevant to the classes and students in general
  • I have some more on Privacy NOT on the Internet, big time
  • e-week has an article with the provocative title Insecurity on Demand plus their labs did a comparative analysis of major anti-spyware-places ... I just going to link to the article and outline the major risks and problems
  • Duke University did a study on risks of outsourcing against careers of college graduates
• I also skim over new articles of students to see if there's stuff they studying that
  • I think I can make a positive contribution, like I been doing
  • I am interested in the stuff

User:AlMac|^(talk) 04:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Saturday late nite & into Sunday wee hours, the site went extremely sluggish again. I figure either

• Backup is run "save while folks allowed on" which causes the computer to go slow for the folks allowed on, because the backup process is not well balanced with respect to what resources are used.
• The vandals are hogging the site.
• You are in the midst of the blizzard, and it has taken some of the communication connections down.
• You took my White List advice, and since I am from outside the Harvard area, it is very slow to get a round TUIT to check my cookies, then when I try to switch pages, it has to do same routine again.

User:AlMac|^(talk) 09:21, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Harvard Wiki week of Vandalism

1. Visit the evidence page
2. Print first 2 pages
3. Note format I am now using
   1. Date some vandalism started
   2. IP addresses of vandals on that date
   3. Link to contribs for each of them
   4. Append that date if this one is a mult-day visitor
      1. Many IP addresses show up, do their dirt on that day, to one or more pages, then we not see again
   5. I want to particularly draw your attention to the IP addresses that show up one day, do their dirt, then show up another date to do some more
   6. If you check out the contribs on some of them, and agree that what they are doing is unwanted, then the multi-day visitors are top candidates fro blocking, before they come back yet another day.

Your new pal, User:AlMac|^(talk) 22:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Tunes

See Wikipedia:Sound/list. Tuf-Kat

Fir0002 FPC

Hi Sj!
It's been a while, but here's another batch. Thanks! --Fir0002 05:56, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Userbox humor

Was spending time developing a foul mood re: userbox wars, and ran across this lovely quote from you. Thanks! (the answer: it would have more than one; "is a member", "is a founding member", "is not a member"...) cheers, +sj + 06:15, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

This argument goes around and around so often, we may want to consider a creating a series of templates for it. Something like {{whatsthebigdeal}} to which one may reply {{becauseitmakesittooeasy}}. The number of questions/responses being finite, it may make a reasonable wikiproject. The questions remains, however: would that project have a corresponding userbox template?

I'm glad you enjoyed that! I have to admit, it gives me a little bit of pleasure to read it over again. Oh, me. – ClockworkSoul 06:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

• I just had a thought: April Fools Day is coming up... – ClockworkSoul 06:21, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

No problem, sj! :) --Celestianpower ^háblame 18:02, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Yellow Pigs

Thank you so much for broadening our horizons, sj!!!

Wikitopia

Sorry, but I'm not really good at photoshop. However, if you have better pictures, feel free to use them.--TBC^{??? ??? ???} 07:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania

Dear DL, are you planning to come to Wikimania this summer? I was checking out some of your work today, and notice you live in the area... Rest easy, +sj + 23:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello! I haven't made any definitive plans yet, but I do hope to attend. —David Levy 03:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiWax

Hey Sj, can you shed any light in what's going on with Wikiwax? They've been down for some time now and I'm hoping they're not gone forever. hydnjo talk 20:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I was surely missing them.  :-) hydnjo talk 02:24, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikispecies updates

What did you have in mind? I don't know anything apart from what I'm doing myself, or know anything about reporting tools. And I'm a bad person to choose for a regular commitment because I'm quite likely to get bored with the whole thing and go off to do something else! Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 21:11, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship nom: thanks for the thought, but I think not. Some reasons on the nomination page and I have struck my name out on the Non-admins etc. page. Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 23:34, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Draft?

Thanks, it is always nice to feel apreciated. However, I don't know what you are referring to when you speak of my "draft". If you are talking about the re-write of Wikipedia:Categorization that was completed a little over a month ago. --Samuel Wantman 23:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Hi there

The only term that I can think of off the top of my head is "spur", but I don't think that's what you're looking for. I'll ask around some fellow model railroaders today at the Mad City Model Railroad Show where I'm exhibiting this weekend to see if I can come up with something else. Slambo (Speak) 11:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Fir0002 FPC

Sorry to be back so soon after the last batch, but I'd appreciate your input in these photos. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 23:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Article assessment

I just noticed Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality spot check and thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Article assessment. Take a look - if you want to help out then great, otherwise thanks for your time. violet/riga (t) 22:13, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. Replied on-ml and on-talk. +sj + 08:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:30, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very mach, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Place names considered unusual

Why did you delete Place names considered unusual when the result of the afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Place names considered unusual was no consensus? -- Astrokey44|talk 08:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

History merge. See your talk :). +sj + 08:57, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Merging histories of distinct articles is generally a "A troublesome case" (see Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves#A troublesome case). Please avoid doing this in the future.

BTW, have you seen Wikipedia:Deletion review/List of interesting or unusual place names (2nd). -- User:Docu

These weren't the canonical pair of 'distinct' articles. I think that the 'apparent' edit war one can see now in the article history is rather apt. There was little interesting history to the new article that needed much preserving... and the great bulk of the history of the old article was quite old and well-preserved by the merge. I think we should focus on restoring the useful old content and perhaps finding a better title, and on getting the 'two' communities of editors who were working on two different articles working in the same space. Just commenting on that DRV summary now; funny how there aren't enough serious people looking at the review process. +sj + 00:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania information

SJ - this weekend I'm going to put my travel arrangements for Wikimania in order. However, there doesn't seem to be much information about accomodations available.

I heard they were going to offer dorms neaby the center at low prices? Is this true? Also, I have a friend (a non-wikipedian) who may want to attend. If she does, would it be possible to get a double? Lastly, I may come up a day or two early to help get things up and running - is that a problem? (If it's OK, then what day should I come up?)

Also, is there someone who I should be directing these inquiries to? Raul654 08:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

SJ - Thanks for your notes on my talk page and particularly for the personal reminder about Wikimania. I will go to one of these events soon, and its possible that Boston will the one - just need to convince my new wife that WP is worth the Atlantic crossing! Fortunately you can go humpback whale-watching from Boston, so that might be enough to twist her arm. As for the poker: I have accounts on several of the big networks, and struggle to beat the rake on any of them :). Pcb21 Pete 12:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Fir0002 FPC Orb Weavers

Hi Sj!
I'd appreciate your input in these
Thanks! --Fir0002 www 23:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: translations?

I am definitely interested, although I must confess that I approach the subject with very little knowledge of any other languages apart from my own. My interest is more in the numbers, and what they mean on a social level. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 06:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the same statistical interest that grabs many of us :-) There's a need for that interest more pressing than the need for language skills. +sj +

Answer from Mauro Bieg

<Greeting! still around? I saw some useful images you uploaded a long time ago re: stable revisions... +sj + 22:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)>

Hey! yeah, I'm still around! altough I haven't tooooo much time for wikipedia. but I follow the stable version discussion and tell you guys how things look from the view of a wikipedia user, more than from an editor. I'm glad to see that my images have been used by other people! (Wikipedia:Why_stable_versions) Mauro Bieg 10:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

university wide wiki

hey, i met you at the meetup at Christopher's. What would a university-wide wiki be used for? perhaps you could explain a little bit. sounds like an interesting idea.--Alhutch 04:32, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

One wiki per university. What could be better? Maybe a network of same... +sj + 19:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

there really isn't anything quite like that at BU at the moment. we have a course info website where instructors can post assignments and syllabi and grades and the like, but students can't edit it. for students, there's the BU livejournal community, that's pretty much it :-) sounds like a good idea, perhaps i can find someone in the dean's office who would be amenable to this sort of thing.--Alhutch 17:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Athlete-stub

There already is a generic stub: {{sportbio-stub}}. See Template talk:Sportbio-stub for the discussion of why {{athlete-stub}} was rejected as the generic stub. As to why {{athlete-stub}} redirects to {{athleticsbio-stub}} instead of being the root stub template, view Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/Archive10#Subcats_of_Sportbio-stub to see why {{athleticsbio-stub}} was chosen as the stub template for people involoved in track and field. Hope this helps. Caerwine Caerwhine 20:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

What Caerwine said. Another reason for the naming is that in a lot of the world (almost all Commonwealth countries, to start with) "athlete" only means a track and field athlete. If you go to the UK, you will never hear a soccer player or cricketer being called an athlete unless people are specifically referring to their running skills - say athlete in the UK, Australia, India, or any of a load of other countries and people will instantly think of runners, jumpers, and throwers. Grutness...wha? 22:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Raspberries

Hi Sj!
I was wondering if you could look through these. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 08:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi! Thanks for your support in my request for adminship (did you know that "adminiship" is not an English word? Unbelievable!). It ended with a tally of (51/0/0). As an administrator, I hope to better help this project and its participants: if you have any question or request, please let me know. - Liberatore(T) 12:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

1m press release

Hi there. No, I don't mind at all. I've given my name to Raul654 already, and it's on the initial press release. If you need anything else from me, I'm on Freenode IRC at the moment. If you don't catch me tonight (it's late here) I'll be around tomorrow as well. Nach0king 23:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Off-line advice?

Hi. This is your cousin Dvd. I'd like to do significant updating and creation of 1970s (and more recent) New Jersey politicans' pages, but would like to get some private advice from you before goign much further. Which is a better way to contact you; phone or email? I'm at dvdavins at pobox dot com. Dvd Avins 04:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Talkpage reversion

No problem - I'll try to be less over-zealous in the future! --Evan C (Talk) 02:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

still around

Hi Sj, you left a message on my talk page in December asking if I was still around, well, I am (just). :-) Claudine 01:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Nope, no email, though I did confirm my address yesterday. Claudine (talk) 03:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Time to archive!

Hi, "This page is 152 kilobytes long." It's mighty long and time to archive it I reckon :-) I was going to do it for you but I see you've got things nicely organised so I thought it best left well alone! --kingboyk 01:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedians/Massachusetts page as living in or being associated with Boston. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Boston for instructions. bmearns, KSC_(talk) 15:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:

Come out and play? Sorry, I didn't understand.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 14:56, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

That's quite all right. Greetings to you too!--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 06:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

New Acct

No, really, I love the new acct. I'm very happy with it. I just don't want it widely known yet that it exists. I really appreciate what you did with it. = ) Jkbaum 23:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Main page at WP:1.0

Hi Sj,

Just noticed your changes on the main page, I'm really glad to see you pitch in. I thought I should let you know that we are planning on completely revamping this page sometime in the next few days. It should reflect where we are now, rather than where we were in September when these subprojects were mere proposals. We also need to consider what new sub-projects might be created, as well as coordinating with FA, GA, AA, peer reviews etc. - I plan on adding a box of links to help that. One thing I should mention, the WVWikiProjects group is planning on doing more than general metrics - we are all keen to start requesting lists of sub-specific core topics, this should help spawn even more worklists (and perhaps trees, too?) and help us tie the core topics in with the WikiProjects. Can you let me know what you think should be on the main WP1.0 page, thoughts on layout, etc?

A couple of other things - User:Vir has just joined 1.0 and been working on your suggestion of a "microproject" on organising categories - see the core topics talk pages and core topics tree. Second, if you can spare the time I would really love to get some of your technical help to make the trees looking nice, so we could use them more!

While I'm here, did you get the packet from Fredonia for June? Cheers, Walkerma 05:28, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hawaiʻi

This discussion has been gone over before. Though the state is named "Hawaii" according to Washington, the state calls itself "Hawaiʻi", and is the sole name of the state in Hawaiian English, which along with Hawaiian are the sole official languages of the state. (The only time in Hawaiian English when the ʻokina is omitted is when the name is given unseparated English suffixes, such as "Hawaiian" itself.) As the United States has no national official language, and Hawaiian English is the form of English standard in Hawaiʻi, the Hawaiian English name "Hawaiʻi" takes precedence. It's used by the state government and in all its publications. Please revert your moves, such as 'Aiea, Hawaii back to 'Aiea, Hawai'i, or it'll take the {{nothaweng}} template until it does. - Gilgamesh 08:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Article request

Greetings Sj! Can you please help me create a stub for,this article - which is based on this Spanish article. 2-5 would be sufficient enough. Please. Your help would be appreciated. (I do not know what the correct Nahuatl title should be)

Regards -- Jose77, 02:20 Tuesday 5 November 2024 (UTC)

RE:Around

Glad to be around :-D Moe ε 21:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you so much for supporting me in my recent RfA, which passed with a final tally of 56/1/0. I thank you for your confidence in my abilities. If you ever need anything or find that I have made an error, please let me know on my talk page. — Scm83x hook 'em 21:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thanks

Sj, thank you you so much for supporting my RfA, which passed successfully 49/6/3. I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have taken people's suggestions to heart. I will do my best to live up to people's expectations. If I can ever make any improvements or help out in any way, please feel free to let me know! Thanks again for your much appreciated support.

¡Dustimagic! ^(T/C) 05:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

DaGizza's RfA

Thanks!

Hi Sj, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something with me, you are always welcome to talk to me. Gizza^{Chat ©} 11:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Design Comp

Hi Sj!
I would like to have a lend on you artistic senses. Could you please have a look at and leave comments on this page? The matter is of some urgency as I have to email my entry by tommorrow night. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 11:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment, could you look at the revisions please? Thank you v. much --Fir0002 www 23:55, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Version 1.0 "Release Version Qualifying"

Hi, I'm interested in your feedback on Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Qualifying. It's essentially an idea to use a process similar to WP:FAC to identify and handle articles and lists that would go in a release version. Maurreen 19:35, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0

I thought since you are interested in this project you might be interested to see a CD version of en now exists see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download & 2006 WP CD Selection. This is being discussed on the 1.0 project pages but progress breeds enthusiasm so I thought I would let you know. --BozMo talk 09:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania series

I have to publish the Signpost in about an hour. Will you have your article done by then, or should I publish without it? (If you don't get it done in time, I can add a CfP-related note to the top of this week's News and Notes) Ral315 (talk) 23:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Working on it... +sj + 23:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Sole proprietorship

No the delete was fine. I found a dead link in an article for sole-proprietorship and couldn't believe there wasnt an article on it. Apparently there was. OSU80 23:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

MessedRobot

THANK YOU! —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 00:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Blessed editions

Hi Sj,

Is anything happening with this project? I was very interested when I saw it proposed, but I haven't seen activity yet, I wondered what was going on. Cheers, Walkerma 08:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

around

Hi SJ. Yes, I'm around on IRC, if you were meaning that :P You can also catch me sometimes on MSN (username AT hotmail PUNTO com), but of course IRL, i stay in NL ;). You too a Happy easter! effeietsanders 19:34, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Contest 2006

Hi Sj! I would like to help out, but I wouldn't be just on my own would I? Anyway I think I'd better not be a judge, at least not for photography as I would be biased towards my own photos! I like to idea of doing some judging thoug, and am honored that you asked. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 23:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Wikimania volunteer meeting?

Thanks for the invite. I'll see if I'm up at the time :D because that's 8am on Monday morning in Sydney *yawn* Cheers. enochlau (talk) 01:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, sorry I didn't make it. Is there a transcript or a summary online that I can read? Thanks. enochlau (talk) 00:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Budget/hardware updates

Sure, sounds good. - Taxman ^Talk 11:12, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Signpost

Take your time. I hope to publish by about 00:00 UTC/8 p.m. EDT, but I can delay it to as late as about 02:30 UTC/10:30 EDT as necessary. Ral315 (talk) 22:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't wait any longer. I'll publish an editor's note about why it won't show this week. Good luck with your computer troubles. Ral315 (talk) 04:30, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for getting it out, albeit a few hours late. What I'll do is publish this week's article with next week's, with a short explanation of why it didn't make it to press originally. Ral315 (talk) 20:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your kind words Sj. Oska 09:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Dragonfly on Fir0002 FPC's

Hi Sj!
I've got a quite a large batch to choose from this time... --Fir0002 www 11:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops

Missed your mail again as it went to the unused address. I'll reply from my regular id now. Tintin (talk) 17:23, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

DMCA

I'm back again asking for DMCA. Even after months, we have yet to find anyone interested in helping us out with the DMCA takedown letters. I was wondering since you are a law student, and your name is somewhat public, you are interested in sending DMCA takedown letters for us. Thanks. (by the way, any progress on juriwiki at all?) -- WB 04:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• I think Superm401 and I will come up with a list pretty soon. We'll let you know on the progress. Thanks so much! -- WB 08:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Looks like Superm401 is rather busy these days. I think you can basically start on GFDL Compliance page. I suggest, however, contacting Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zdnet.co.za's ISP ASAP because we try to contact him numerous times, but he continues making new non-compliant mirrors. Let me know if there are any questions. Thank you for doing this. – WB 02:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
    • (moved again, sorry) Are you still able to help us with this problem? Let me know. Thanks. -- WB 06:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)