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Welcome to my talk page! Please feel free to leave me a message, use the [+] button above to start a new section. I prefer to reply here to keep conversations together in one place, so please watchlist this page. I will also try to leave a brief note on your talk page, informing you that I have replied. Also, please realize that I am occasionally out of town, in the mountains and away from internet access for days at a time, so response may sometimes be very slow. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience that may cause.
Hello. If you haven't noticed, I've started a structural reorganization of WikiProject Volcanoes. So far, I've beutified the head page and moved a lot of the stuff to subpages of the project, so as not to bulk the main page. As an active member of the project (and its founder...), this is just a notice about what's going on. Comments go on the talk page. Happy holidays, Res Mar 14:08, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your constructive criticism. I'm sorry for being impolite in my edit summary. I concede the point about high latitude pressure. Precipitation of dry ice snow still seems unlikely, but, on reflection, CO2 crystals may sometimes form at the top of the troposphere and fall to ground. However, looking at the sublimation curve for CO2, it seems temperatures of 130K are required to compensate for the low partial pressure of CO2. On the other hand, the polar night may allow for radiative cooling, which would not occur in a test freezer with very cold air but somewhat warm walls. Anthony717 ( talk) 14:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
What do you thank about this? The intro to the article will be place under 2009 to his main page! BLUE DOG TN 15:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Skier,
I have a concern for the fact that you have been erasing my concept on Kinetic Architecture, a concept that I created in since 1989 privately and I really appreciate it if you keep my definition as I found your today´s text adding part of my definition, so, I undertand you are a professional on Glaciars and I feel upset for your discussion comments without asking me privately. I created the design concept in spanish language in 1989 as "Arquitectura Cinética" and kept it privately like that until technology provided more adaptable materials to build structures in that way. But also I incorporated and created a tool that I called MDS ( Multidirectional Displacement of Structure ) to make possible the transformation of the building inside and outside and since 2004 I ´ve been on the design of an experimental project I called: The Arkinetic House.
So, please understand that I did created the design concept and wanna you to keep my statement at the definition of Kinetic Architecture to permitt its promotion around the globe. It is not making any damage to anyone who are applying the concept, it is just an Historical information that might help others to keep going into better use of the concept.
Best regards,
JOSE LEONIDAS MEJIA Architect Lic. Col. 1989 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.254.226.147 ( talk) 13:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I seen your deletion of the Franklin Glacier complex in Template:Cascade volcanoes. Because if this, I have restored it for several reasons. Just because the volcano has a lower elevation of other volcanoes in Cascade volcano template does not mean it is not a major volcano. The Franklin complex is 20 km (12 mi) wide and 6 km (3.7 mi) long. [1] This indicates Franklin is larger than Rainier, St. Helens, Meager, Garibaldi, and many others in the template. You are also incorrect about Franklin being a small outcrop of volcanic rock during one of our last discussions about it. As far the type of volcanic feature it represents, it is more likely a large caldera complex similar to Silverthrone. [2] If you have a problem with Franklin being a major volcanic complex, deal with it. I doubt there are sources that state Franklin as a small volcanic complex because of its size. Also, your mention about the large gap between Franklin and Meager is quite normal in the Cascade Arc. Similar gaps exist elsewhere thoughout the Cascade Arc, and the area between Silverthrone and Meager is largely unexplored. More about this discussion can be found on the template's talk page. BT ( talk) 01:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Just a note I added more notes on my user page to help avoid stuff like your annoying notes you added on my talk page in February and so on. Before our discussion in February I added the {{ User DGAF}} user box on my user page. I only remain civil with users that I truely get along with and my apologies to you were actually a bunch of sarcasm. The main WP stuff I follow and get along with are ignoring all rules and being bold. I am not dealing with nonsense anymore and I actually have been against your sense of view since 2007. So there is my warning. Also, the stuff you mentioned about the Cascade volcano list seems to be a bunch of conflict of interest. I do not care if my Canadian volcanism interest can be problematic, or if the Canadian portion of the Cascade Arc is very small and insignificant compared to the American partion of the arc. In fact, I did not even create the Cascade volcano list, nor did I greatly expand it. See the history for proof. The Milbanke Sound Group on the central BC Coast might be a product of Cascadia subduction as well.
Also, if you or someone else has a problem with the list or whatever else they should be WP:BOLD and fix it. Doing nothing won't solve the problem. I only edit whatever I feel like editing and I do not care if there is more information about Canadian volcanism than American volcanism. I told this to another American user during a discussion. Before I started making large contributions to Canadian volcanism topics on Wikipedia, American volcanism had a broader scope than Canadian volcanism. My main area of interest on Wikipedia is expanding and creating articles related to Canadian volcanism. If people want to step up and add more information to American volcanism articles they will do so. But I am not really the one to do that, meaning my area of interest ends at the border. Everyone has their own area of interest. Volcano guy 01:33, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. --- kilbad ( talk) 05:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Seattle Skier, I just created this article, so go and tell me what you think of it? BLUE DOG TN 20:21, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Seattle Skier,
You may be interested in contributing at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_22#Category:Volcanoes_by_Volcanic_Explosivity_Index. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 13:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
You haven't been terribly active with the volcano project recently, but I just stopped by to say that you might be interested in the progress I'm making on Mauna Kea. Res Mar 19:30, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry...didn't recognize that you gave a reason and that it was actually vandalism.-- Jerzeykydd ( talk) 16:20, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
In this edit summary you asked if the clean-up was over-zealous. No, it wasn't. Disambiguation on Wikipedia tries to be very straightforward: if the linked article indicates the ambiguity, we include it; if the linked article doesn't indicate the ambiguity, we don't. External references or other info might be useful, but they should be used to add the appropriate information to the article space (not to the disambiguation pages), where the usual mechanisms of review and oversight would be applied. Once the information is in the article, then the topics would be added to the dab pages. This helps reduce surprise for the readers (who might otherwise land at a page from a disambiguation and find no information on the topic they were searching) and in theory reduces problems for the editors, by making the criteria easy to apply. I hope this explanation helps. -- JHunterJ ( talk) 18:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Seattle Skier,
I noticed you've been turning some of my contributions into proper English (thanks by the way).
Now I just discovered the "English version" of a wiki about the most successful Alpine Ski World Champion ever, and I think this would deserve some improvement as well, to me it sounds quite German translated word by word into English - would be great if you could find some time to do so; it's on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christl_Cranz
-- No Kangaroos in Austria ( talk) 18:38, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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The graphical views of main wikipedia sizes are really interesting (TopTenWikipediasGraph.png and PercentWikipediasGraph.png). Are you able to update them? I would do it myself, but without the source data file, I will spend time... Borvan53 ( talk) 00:25, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello Seattle Skier,
I would like know if you can update File:TopTenWikipediasGraph.png. I would like to use it in w:fr:Wikipedia:Statistiques, but it's very old.
Regards
-- Juanes852 ( talk) 16:00, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
PS excuse me for my bad english, but I'm a French contributor
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Hi Seattle Skier. I have tried my best to come to grips with your understanding of the Coriolis Effect. I have also re-read all the texts at my disposal on the subject. The result is that several things bother me about your exposition of the Coriolis Effect. Firstly you jump from one frame of reference to the other (i.e. from the “rotating” frame of reference to the “stationary”, and vice versa) without warning, or explaining why the one takes precedence over the other in one circumstance and not the other. Obviously when discussing the Coriolis effect both must be described side by side, equally weighted, to explain how the one is represented in the other frame of reference. To me all instances of the Coriolis Effect are simple examples of uncomplicated Newtonian motion when seen by the “stationary observer”, who can then apply some simple geometry to derive what that motion will look like from the rotating individual’s point of view. Things are a little bit more complicated for the person on the rotating platform. If that person assumes that when an object moves from A to B it should, according to Newton’s Laws, follow a straight line unless acted on by an external force. Thus when an object in his world follows a curved trajectory it must be acted upon by a force which he calculates can be derived from the formula .
But now consider the diagram which appears in the Coriolis Effect article of an object moving frictionlessly over the surface of a very shallow parabolic dish. The object has been released in such a way that it follows an elliptical trajectory. If the rotating person applies the formula to the motion of this object (as seen from his perspective), assuming that it would be moving in a straight line were it not for the “Coriolis Force”, derived from his formula, he would obtain the wrong result for the motion he sees. He would need to know what a “stationary” person sees: portions of an elliptical trajectory, and apply the Coriolis formula to that motion to explain what he sees. Without that knowledge, to which he might not be privy, the motion seems inexplicable, and not governed by the Coriolis formula. (I know that you will maintain that the Coriolis formula is still in force, but in order to establish that, you have to move your frame of reference, in which case it is probably easier to use simple geometry to predict the object’s motion across the rotating frame of reference, which, if I have understood you correctly, ensures that it is no longer an instance of the Coriolis effect.)
You mention that when in the formula is zero then the Coriolis Force must be zero as well, and the phenomenon cannot be stated to be an instance of the Coriolis Effect (because it is the force that defines the Coriolis effect). But consider the following situation. An object moves in a straight line at uniform speed right across a rotating turntable, from one rim to the other. It does not cross the center point of the turntable. The velocity of the object is adjusted so that it crosses the rim (onto the turntable) at the same point as where it leaves the turntable a short while later. The track of the object on the turntable forms a loop. At the point on the loop nearest the center of the turntable the object is, for an instant, stationary with respect to the turntable – its velocity is exactly the same as the angular velocity at that point on the turntable. Thus, for that instant in time, is zero, and the Coriolis Force is zero. So, for a moment the Coriolis effect is suspended, which sound very much like the contention that when a missile is shot vertically upwards and its velocity slows to zero at the apex of its flight, the force of gravity acting on it is zero.
I hope you understand my concerns, which I, furthermore, hope are not due to unjustified prejudices. Cruithne9 ( talk) 11:56, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I would like your permission to copy our discussion of the Coriolis Effect on to the Talk page of the Coriolis Effect article, as someone needs to take note of your comments and edit the article accordingly. As it stands it leads inevitably to the types of misconceptions and misunderstanding I express in my discussion with you. What do you think? Cruithne9 ( talk) 07:17, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I agree that what is in the "Coriolis Effect" article does describe the phenomenon with adequate illustrations and formulas, but in the light of our discussion it is deficient in what it leaves out, in terms of what you CANNOT apply the term to. In science, if you coin a term such as "oxidation" then that definition applies to ALL instances where a chemical substance loses an electron to another substance. Similarly in physics: "gravity" is applied to ALL bodies with mass (whether it be a kilogram bag of flour, a mountain, or a galaxy), as well as in ALL instances of acceleration. "Evolution" has shaped and affects ALL living organisms. The "Coriolis Effect" seems, from what you have written to me, to be an exception. That is what confused me, and is not mentioned in the Coriolis Effect article or in any of the textbooks on physics and meteorology that I have consulted. I have formatted our discussion to make it easy for someone to follow our exchanges, and then highlighted in red your last "Key points to remember to unravel and understand the Coriolis effect". Hopefully someone will take note of that and adjust the text accordingly. Cruithne9 ( talk) 05:40, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Tuesday evening, January 15, 2019, 6-9pm at Wayward Coffeehouse, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104, Seattle WA 98115 Wikipedia Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia. This year in Seattle, Cascadia Wikimedians' celebration of Wikipedia Day will focus on a different closely related project: Wikimedia Commons, which (among other things) functions as the media repository for Wikipedia. When you see a photo or map in Wikipedia, or hear an audio clip, etc., it usually is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and "transcluded" into Wikipedia. Wikimedia Commons is a mix of users' own works and curated third-party content, either public domain or free-licensed. Our event is a hands-on workshop in curating third-party content, mostly early 20th-century photos of Seattle and other West Coast locations. Currently, Wikimedia Commons has two intersecting sets of older photos, one from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company and the other a more general set of Seattle images. At this meetup, we will celebrate the 18th anniversary of Wikipedia by further curating these images by the creation and addition of categories, adding ImageNotes where useful, linking other versions of the same photo, enhancing the descriptions, and identifying and correcting errors. User:Jmabel has already categorized over 1000 images and corrected several hundred wrong dates, misidentified buildings, and etc., but there is much more to be done. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos. |
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Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.
Let’s change that. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is continuing a series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn and gender non-binary artists of color. Childcare, snacks from local businesses, and editing tutorials will be provided. All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required! Everyone is welcome. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants. Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. RSVP through this Facebook event link. When: Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, 1–5 PM |
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
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focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
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Hello Seattle Skier, I see that you changed the geographic categories for this species. Not a big deal in this case because the continental category Category:Flora of the Antarctic only has two geographic subcategories. But I've used the continental category because the sources indicate that the species is found on numerous subantarctic islands in addition to the mainland. And mainly because I'm following the guidelines at WP:WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions#Using the categorization hierarchy. The idea is to use the broadest category that makes sense.
Also, in your edit summary, you mentioned that Category:Flora of the Antarctic had only a single species. Since then, I've reviewed articles in Category:Flora of Antarctica and found that some of them are better placed in the parent. A number of these articles are stubs which predate the implementation of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) categories. So while some articles referred to the Antarctic continent only, others indicated a broader regional distribution. Like Wikipedia broadly, WikiProject Plants is a work in progress! Declangi ( talk) 05:28, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Welcome to my talk page! Please feel free to leave me a message, use the [+] button above to start a new section. I prefer to reply here to keep conversations together in one place, so please watchlist this page. I will also try to leave a brief note on your talk page, informing you that I have replied. Also, please realize that I am occasionally out of town, in the mountains and away from internet access for days at a time, so response may sometimes be very slow. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience that may cause.
Hello. If you haven't noticed, I've started a structural reorganization of WikiProject Volcanoes. So far, I've beutified the head page and moved a lot of the stuff to subpages of the project, so as not to bulk the main page. As an active member of the project (and its founder...), this is just a notice about what's going on. Comments go on the talk page. Happy holidays, Res Mar 14:08, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your constructive criticism. I'm sorry for being impolite in my edit summary. I concede the point about high latitude pressure. Precipitation of dry ice snow still seems unlikely, but, on reflection, CO2 crystals may sometimes form at the top of the troposphere and fall to ground. However, looking at the sublimation curve for CO2, it seems temperatures of 130K are required to compensate for the low partial pressure of CO2. On the other hand, the polar night may allow for radiative cooling, which would not occur in a test freezer with very cold air but somewhat warm walls. Anthony717 ( talk) 14:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
What do you thank about this? The intro to the article will be place under 2009 to his main page! BLUE DOG TN 15:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Skier,
I have a concern for the fact that you have been erasing my concept on Kinetic Architecture, a concept that I created in since 1989 privately and I really appreciate it if you keep my definition as I found your today´s text adding part of my definition, so, I undertand you are a professional on Glaciars and I feel upset for your discussion comments without asking me privately. I created the design concept in spanish language in 1989 as "Arquitectura Cinética" and kept it privately like that until technology provided more adaptable materials to build structures in that way. But also I incorporated and created a tool that I called MDS ( Multidirectional Displacement of Structure ) to make possible the transformation of the building inside and outside and since 2004 I ´ve been on the design of an experimental project I called: The Arkinetic House.
So, please understand that I did created the design concept and wanna you to keep my statement at the definition of Kinetic Architecture to permitt its promotion around the globe. It is not making any damage to anyone who are applying the concept, it is just an Historical information that might help others to keep going into better use of the concept.
Best regards,
JOSE LEONIDAS MEJIA Architect Lic. Col. 1989 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.254.226.147 ( talk) 13:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I seen your deletion of the Franklin Glacier complex in Template:Cascade volcanoes. Because if this, I have restored it for several reasons. Just because the volcano has a lower elevation of other volcanoes in Cascade volcano template does not mean it is not a major volcano. The Franklin complex is 20 km (12 mi) wide and 6 km (3.7 mi) long. [1] This indicates Franklin is larger than Rainier, St. Helens, Meager, Garibaldi, and many others in the template. You are also incorrect about Franklin being a small outcrop of volcanic rock during one of our last discussions about it. As far the type of volcanic feature it represents, it is more likely a large caldera complex similar to Silverthrone. [2] If you have a problem with Franklin being a major volcanic complex, deal with it. I doubt there are sources that state Franklin as a small volcanic complex because of its size. Also, your mention about the large gap between Franklin and Meager is quite normal in the Cascade Arc. Similar gaps exist elsewhere thoughout the Cascade Arc, and the area between Silverthrone and Meager is largely unexplored. More about this discussion can be found on the template's talk page. BT ( talk) 01:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Just a note I added more notes on my user page to help avoid stuff like your annoying notes you added on my talk page in February and so on. Before our discussion in February I added the {{ User DGAF}} user box on my user page. I only remain civil with users that I truely get along with and my apologies to you were actually a bunch of sarcasm. The main WP stuff I follow and get along with are ignoring all rules and being bold. I am not dealing with nonsense anymore and I actually have been against your sense of view since 2007. So there is my warning. Also, the stuff you mentioned about the Cascade volcano list seems to be a bunch of conflict of interest. I do not care if my Canadian volcanism interest can be problematic, or if the Canadian portion of the Cascade Arc is very small and insignificant compared to the American partion of the arc. In fact, I did not even create the Cascade volcano list, nor did I greatly expand it. See the history for proof. The Milbanke Sound Group on the central BC Coast might be a product of Cascadia subduction as well.
Also, if you or someone else has a problem with the list or whatever else they should be WP:BOLD and fix it. Doing nothing won't solve the problem. I only edit whatever I feel like editing and I do not care if there is more information about Canadian volcanism than American volcanism. I told this to another American user during a discussion. Before I started making large contributions to Canadian volcanism topics on Wikipedia, American volcanism had a broader scope than Canadian volcanism. My main area of interest on Wikipedia is expanding and creating articles related to Canadian volcanism. If people want to step up and add more information to American volcanism articles they will do so. But I am not really the one to do that, meaning my area of interest ends at the border. Everyone has their own area of interest. Volcano guy 01:33, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. --- kilbad ( talk) 05:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Seattle Skier, I just created this article, so go and tell me what you think of it? BLUE DOG TN 20:21, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Seattle Skier,
You may be interested in contributing at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_22#Category:Volcanoes_by_Volcanic_Explosivity_Index. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 13:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
You haven't been terribly active with the volcano project recently, but I just stopped by to say that you might be interested in the progress I'm making on Mauna Kea. Res Mar 19:30, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry...didn't recognize that you gave a reason and that it was actually vandalism.-- Jerzeykydd ( talk) 16:20, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
In this edit summary you asked if the clean-up was over-zealous. No, it wasn't. Disambiguation on Wikipedia tries to be very straightforward: if the linked article indicates the ambiguity, we include it; if the linked article doesn't indicate the ambiguity, we don't. External references or other info might be useful, but they should be used to add the appropriate information to the article space (not to the disambiguation pages), where the usual mechanisms of review and oversight would be applied. Once the information is in the article, then the topics would be added to the dab pages. This helps reduce surprise for the readers (who might otherwise land at a page from a disambiguation and find no information on the topic they were searching) and in theory reduces problems for the editors, by making the criteria easy to apply. I hope this explanation helps. -- JHunterJ ( talk) 18:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Seattle Skier,
I noticed you've been turning some of my contributions into proper English (thanks by the way).
Now I just discovered the "English version" of a wiki about the most successful Alpine Ski World Champion ever, and I think this would deserve some improvement as well, to me it sounds quite German translated word by word into English - would be great if you could find some time to do so; it's on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christl_Cranz
-- No Kangaroos in Austria ( talk) 18:38, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Template:Cascade volcanoes has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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Dear Seattle Skier,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
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The graphical views of main wikipedia sizes are really interesting (TopTenWikipediasGraph.png and PercentWikipediasGraph.png). Are you able to update them? I would do it myself, but without the source data file, I will spend time... Borvan53 ( talk) 00:25, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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I would like know if you can update File:TopTenWikipediasGraph.png. I would like to use it in w:fr:Wikipedia:Statistiques, but it's very old.
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Hello Seattle Skier. I'm a user at the Dutch Wikipedia and I was writing the page Lijst van hoogste gebouwen van Seattle (that's Dutch for "List of talles buildings in Seattle") at the Dutch Wikipedia. Of all the buildings I could find a picture at Commons or Flickr, but from two ( This one, and this one) I couldn't. So, if you've time I would appreciate if you can make a picture from those buildings. Supercarwaar ( talk) 18:05, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Seattle Skier. I have tried my best to come to grips with your understanding of the Coriolis Effect. I have also re-read all the texts at my disposal on the subject. The result is that several things bother me about your exposition of the Coriolis Effect. Firstly you jump from one frame of reference to the other (i.e. from the “rotating” frame of reference to the “stationary”, and vice versa) without warning, or explaining why the one takes precedence over the other in one circumstance and not the other. Obviously when discussing the Coriolis effect both must be described side by side, equally weighted, to explain how the one is represented in the other frame of reference. To me all instances of the Coriolis Effect are simple examples of uncomplicated Newtonian motion when seen by the “stationary observer”, who can then apply some simple geometry to derive what that motion will look like from the rotating individual’s point of view. Things are a little bit more complicated for the person on the rotating platform. If that person assumes that when an object moves from A to B it should, according to Newton’s Laws, follow a straight line unless acted on by an external force. Thus when an object in his world follows a curved trajectory it must be acted upon by a force which he calculates can be derived from the formula .
But now consider the diagram which appears in the Coriolis Effect article of an object moving frictionlessly over the surface of a very shallow parabolic dish. The object has been released in such a way that it follows an elliptical trajectory. If the rotating person applies the formula to the motion of this object (as seen from his perspective), assuming that it would be moving in a straight line were it not for the “Coriolis Force”, derived from his formula, he would obtain the wrong result for the motion he sees. He would need to know what a “stationary” person sees: portions of an elliptical trajectory, and apply the Coriolis formula to that motion to explain what he sees. Without that knowledge, to which he might not be privy, the motion seems inexplicable, and not governed by the Coriolis formula. (I know that you will maintain that the Coriolis formula is still in force, but in order to establish that, you have to move your frame of reference, in which case it is probably easier to use simple geometry to predict the object’s motion across the rotating frame of reference, which, if I have understood you correctly, ensures that it is no longer an instance of the Coriolis effect.)
You mention that when in the formula is zero then the Coriolis Force must be zero as well, and the phenomenon cannot be stated to be an instance of the Coriolis Effect (because it is the force that defines the Coriolis effect). But consider the following situation. An object moves in a straight line at uniform speed right across a rotating turntable, from one rim to the other. It does not cross the center point of the turntable. The velocity of the object is adjusted so that it crosses the rim (onto the turntable) at the same point as where it leaves the turntable a short while later. The track of the object on the turntable forms a loop. At the point on the loop nearest the center of the turntable the object is, for an instant, stationary with respect to the turntable – its velocity is exactly the same as the angular velocity at that point on the turntable. Thus, for that instant in time, is zero, and the Coriolis Force is zero. So, for a moment the Coriolis effect is suspended, which sound very much like the contention that when a missile is shot vertically upwards and its velocity slows to zero at the apex of its flight, the force of gravity acting on it is zero.
I hope you understand my concerns, which I, furthermore, hope are not due to unjustified prejudices. Cruithne9 ( talk) 11:56, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I would like your permission to copy our discussion of the Coriolis Effect on to the Talk page of the Coriolis Effect article, as someone needs to take note of your comments and edit the article accordingly. As it stands it leads inevitably to the types of misconceptions and misunderstanding I express in my discussion with you. What do you think? Cruithne9 ( talk) 07:17, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I agree that what is in the "Coriolis Effect" article does describe the phenomenon with adequate illustrations and formulas, but in the light of our discussion it is deficient in what it leaves out, in terms of what you CANNOT apply the term to. In science, if you coin a term such as "oxidation" then that definition applies to ALL instances where a chemical substance loses an electron to another substance. Similarly in physics: "gravity" is applied to ALL bodies with mass (whether it be a kilogram bag of flour, a mountain, or a galaxy), as well as in ALL instances of acceleration. "Evolution" has shaped and affects ALL living organisms. The "Coriolis Effect" seems, from what you have written to me, to be an exception. That is what confused me, and is not mentioned in the Coriolis Effect article or in any of the textbooks on physics and meteorology that I have consulted. I have formatted our discussion to make it easy for someone to follow our exchanges, and then highlighted in red your last "Key points to remember to unravel and understand the Coriolis effect". Hopefully someone will take note of that and adjust the text accordingly. Cruithne9 ( talk) 05:40, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Wikipedia is one of the most wide-reaching repositories of shared knowledge, yet a 2011 survey found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female, suggesting an alarming absence of voices. What and how information is shared is skewed by this gender disparity. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing a quarterly series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn artists of color.
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Hello Seattle Skier, I see that you changed the geographic categories for this species. Not a big deal in this case because the continental category Category:Flora of the Antarctic only has two geographic subcategories. But I've used the continental category because the sources indicate that the species is found on numerous subantarctic islands in addition to the mainland. And mainly because I'm following the guidelines at WP:WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions#Using the categorization hierarchy. The idea is to use the broadest category that makes sense.
Also, in your edit summary, you mentioned that Category:Flora of the Antarctic had only a single species. Since then, I've reviewed articles in Category:Flora of Antarctica and found that some of them are better placed in the parent. A number of these articles are stubs which predate the implementation of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) categories. So while some articles referred to the Antarctic continent only, others indicated a broader regional distribution. Like Wikipedia broadly, WikiProject Plants is a work in progress! Declangi ( talk) 05:28, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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should not.
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
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RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
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You are invited to the
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mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
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1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi!
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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
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Distant Worlds Coffeehouse. For the address and to RSVP, please click here. |
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user_global_editcount
is a new variable that can be used in
abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (
T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
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to the end of an IP in
Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and
consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
You were previously listed as a participant of WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding, which was an inactive project until recently. It is currently being revived to continue improving content within the project scope and to conduct assessments. If you are still interested in participating, please move your name from the "Inactive Members" section to the main list on the new participants page, then helping with the revival of the project by providing any suggestions you may have and restarting work efforts. If you are no longer interested, please remove your name from the participants page completely. VarietyEditor ( talk) 02:02, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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Distant Worlds Coffeehouseas they have resumed their normal operating hours at their new location. For the address and to RSVP, please click here. |
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This is a reminder that established
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Inactive administrators are encouraged to reengage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to be engaged with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.
Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:17, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
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There are a couple of events this month that we hope are of interest to you. |
Tuesday, March 12 2024 3pm – 7pm (PDT), Seattle articles edit-a-thon, Seattle Public Library University Branch | |
This edit-a-thon is based on importance or popularity (as determined by pageviews, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle/Popular pages; or main articles, such as those linked in Template:Seattle; also see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Seattle articles by quality statistics). | |
Tuesday March 19 2024 6pm – 8pm (PDT), March monthly meetup, Little Oddfellows Café—new location!!! | |
Since our previous meeting place, Distant Worlds Café, now closes at 6:30pm, we will meet this month at Little Oddfellows café inside of Elliott Bay Book Company in Capitol Hill. |
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