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Journal Access?

Hi OhanaUnited, I saw your name come up on the Wikipedia Resource Exchange page. Do you by chance have access to this article? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23175647 Thank you! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 20:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

My bad, I know you're supposed to leave comments in the user talk page, just an honest mistake. I was wondering why when I checked here again I couldn't find my comment. Thank you very much for passing along the article. I appreciate it very much. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 07:48, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
P.S. Sorry to bug you again, last time I promise, but do you possible have access to this article? Outcomes of intratympanic gentamicin injection to treat Ménière's disease. Otology & Neurology 33(5) 706-714 PMID: 22699980 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22699980 Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 19:48, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
I appreciate the offer Ohana, thank you very much. If you have access to this one, it would help me out greatly since I'm working on the bronchitis article and the history section is currently empty: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19343614 [200 years of bronchitis--from 1808 to 2008]. Klippe,HJ Kirsten D Pneumologie 63(4) 228-230 Apr 2009 Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 00:41, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ohana, I tried to open the link you left me for my previous request which you were able to find for me but I couldn't open the link. Could something have gone wrong with it or did it expire perhaps? Thanks. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 06:10, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I was trying to access the intratympanic genamicin for Meniere's Disease article you found for me.TylerDurden8823 (talk) 19:17, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
That was fast! Thank you!TylerDurden8823 (talk) 20:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi again, I tried to get this article from Phoebe, but I don't think she has been around lately. Do you happen to have access to this article so I can work on the history section of bronchitis? Ziment, I. History of the treatment of chronic bronchitis. 1991 Respiration 58 Supplement 1 Pages 37-42 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1925077?dopt=Abstract Thank you! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 19:01, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Re: Old request

Hi,

I haven't had a chance to scan the Byzantion articles yet, but I will mark the request as resolved when I do. GabrielF (talk) 02:25, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Broken Featured Portal

Hey. I was going around looking at featured portals and stumbled on Portal:Literature. It looks rather unmaintained, and has two dead sections. I just wanted to bring it up to an FP director, and you're the one that's edited more recently. Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 16:31, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Your comment on Images as a source

Hi,

Please forgive me for this intrusion. This comment of yours at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#Images_as_a_source appears to have caused some offence, whether intentionally or otherwise. It does appears to me to be contrary to the assumption of good faith. Dare I suggest that an apology to those offended might be appreciated? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 14:13, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

The WikiProject: Good Articles Newsletter (January 2013)

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
Volume IV, No. 1 – January 2013

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Bureaucrat OhanaUnited - are they right, am I wrong?

Hi,

First, I should like to apologise for dropping a rude word when deleting your post on my user talk page. For my rationale at the time, you might wish to follow up on the notice below.

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. See Bureaucrat OhanaUnited - are they right, am I wrong?

— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 13:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

user rights for instructors

Hi! Please see this discussion on the education noticeboard about which advanced userrights to give to instructors who are newcomers.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 02:29, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Could you please take another look thanks? -- Cheers, Riley 20:26, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
And another. Also, barring a reply from you and/or a response that the editors involved are satisfied with, a few of them and I have come to an agreement that it will be best to have an uninvolved administrator remove extraneous rights for the time being, pending further discussion. This will not be requested until it is felt that you have had ample time to see this message and either take action or reply yourself. Thanks. gwickwiretalkedits 23:23, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Way too many manual closing steps

Way too many manual closing steps at WP:FPORTC and at Wikipedia:Featured portal review, any ideas on how to make this process for closing these simpler? — Cirt (talk) 15:05, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Update: I've implemented some suggestions that were quite helpful, from Bencherlite (talk · contribs) and Espresso Addict (talk · contribs). Just wanted to keep you posted, — Cirt (talk) 16:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Okay, sounds good, no worries, but I think we've gotten lots of helpful suggestions and I've implemented most of them already, so the discussion was quite fruitful. :) — Cirt (talk) 04:06, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

JBLM/Fort Lewis

There is a post which needs your input at Talk:Joint_Base_Lewis-McChord#non-controversial_move. Thanks. ((((( ((( (In Stereo) ))) ))))) (talk) 00:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Signpost question

Hi Ohana, as an active delegate at WP:FPOC would you be willing to give a write up about your favourite new FPo of 2012, or the one you consider most representative of Wikipedians' work during the timeframe? Something like this maybe, but for portals. If you're interested, just reply here and I'll set some space aside. (Note: I am also asking Cirt, because the more the merrier). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Journal Article Request

Hi Ohana, I hope you're doing well, do you by chance have access to this review article? I'm working on the gynecomastia article now since it needs a lot of work. Drug-induced gynecomastia: an evidence-based review. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22862307 Expert Opinion on Drug Safety 11 (5) 779-795 doi: 10.1517/14740338.2012.712109 Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 05:23, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost stuffs

Check out my comments at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-02-04/Featured content and feel free to leave your own when you get a chance. :) Hope you're doing well, — Cirt (talk) 00:39, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

April - National Contribution Month

Good day OhanaUnited,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Benoit Rochon (talk) 00:11, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - February 2013

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
Volume IV, No. 2 – February 2013

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In This Issue


hi

hi. sorry for Disturbance. can you send me this and entire articles of this book please ?--بیکار (talk) 19:48, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

hi again. from this book, can you send me
  • 1 - The resources of Late Antiquity by John Haldon
  • 3 - The late Sasanian Near East by Josef Wiesehöfer
  • 4 - Pre-Islamic Arabia by Michael Lecker
  • 5 - The rise of Islam, 600–705 by Chase F. Robinson
  • Bibliography

and from this book :

  • 6 - Iran under Safavid rule by Sholeh A. Quinn
  • 15 - Conversion to Islam by Richard W. Bulliet
  • Bibliography
please ? --بیکار (talk) 19:33, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
sorry for Disturbance again. can you send me this and this and this please?--بیکار (talk) 02:33, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
ok. thanks for your help.بیکار (talk) 14:30, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
hi again. can you give me " 4 - Apostasy " from this book, please ?بیکار (talk) 13:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

IPBE query

Hi Andrew, I am just wondering why you assigned Rosieredfield (talk · contribs) IP block exemption, as I was not able to see any need for it from the CheckUser side of things. Feel free to e-mail me if it depends on RL info which you'd prefer not to discuss on wiki. Cheers. WilliamH (talk) 11:09, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Good Article Nominations Request For Comment

A 'Request For Comment' for Good Article Nominations is currently being held. We are asking that you please take five to ten minutes to review all seven proposals that will affect Good Article Nominations if approved. Full details of each proposal can be found here. Please comment on each proposal (or as many as you can) here.

At this time, Proposal 1, 3, and 5 have received full (or close to) support.

If you have questions of anything general (not related to one specif proposal), please leave a message under the General discussion thread.

Please note that Proposal 2 has been withdrawn and no further comments are needed. Also, please disregard Proposal 9 as it was never an actual proposal.

Education noticeboard

Your comment regarding Joordens class don't square with his own admissions. Please explain on the noticeboard what your involvement is and why these students are still wrecking Wikipedia on a large scale. Colin°Talk 08:28, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:SAT Airlines logo.gif)

Thanks for uploading File:SAT Airlines logo.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hazard-Bot (talk) 04:49, 30 March 2013 (UTC)


Edit assessment

Would be great if you could assess some of the students here [1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:58, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Good to know. Is this being done in an official capacity? Is it taking place on Wikipedia? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:50, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

little help

hi. how are you ? can you give me these articles please  : The Problems of Qūmis , Excavations at Shahr-I Qūmis, 1967 , A Sasanian repository at Shahr-i Qūmis , Appendix: The Sasanian coin from Qūmis , Āpapāta (Qūmis commentaries no. 2) , Excavations at Shahr-I Qūmis, 1971 . thanksVenindad (talk) 19:49, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

ah, that's not english, i will try to edit on perisan. Venindad (talk) 18:34, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
don't expect for english, because my english is terrible, and others will undo my edit's ... until improving english, edit in here is wasting time ... but i will try. thanks.--Venindad (talk) 15:06, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello Ohana

Could you possibly give me a hand on the Chinese wiki? In order to have a unified login at commons, I need to have my user name (User:Ched) registered at the Chinese wiki as well. I don't speak the language, and don't know how to request such a thing. Any input would be greatly appreciated. — Ched :  ?  21:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Based on the wikischolar outcomes...

I think a simple guideline for teachers may be of the form:

  • Assign one "moderator" for every 9 students in your class who are asked to edit. The moderator's task should be reviewing the edits of the others, helping them to meet editorial, copyright, and citation standards.
  • Assign one "meta-moderator" for every 9 moderators in your class. The meta-moderator's task should be to follow discussions about the class's work on the wiki (on meta-pages and project-pages), and to update a page describing the class project and summarizing its progress and outcomes.

I think any uni student - even a first-year with limited writing experience - could be an effective mod or meta-mod. They simply have to think about being one; and then other students in the class need to understand that their fellow-students work depends on the quality of their own. It's a simply matter of asking each class to capture the whole vertical editorial process. – SJ + 23:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:FPOC#Portal:Sports

Hello. I have secured the support of two experienced portal reviewers (AGK and Cirt) and believe that Portal:Sport is ready for promotion. I would greatly appreciate it if you could process it in in the next day or so, as it may be the difference between staying in the Wikicup and bowing out in this round. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

re About closing steps for featured portal promotions

I respectfully disagree, they add unnecessary work output and haven't historically been well maintained in the past. — Cirt (talk) 19:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Addendum: Of course, feel free to continue to maintain those pages if you wish to, it's not a prohibition by any means, just no longer a mandatory closing step, is all. :) — Cirt (talk) 19:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps so, but it's a lot to maintain Portal:Contents, and unfortunately it's not actively maintained enough for it to be worthwhile to make it a mandatory step of the promotion process. If others wish to do so, that's more the better, however. :) — Cirt (talk) 19:43, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Here was one of the older discussions. I think Bencherlite (talk · contribs) had some good ideas about this, I've asked for comment again. Maybe we should move this discussion to a more central location? — Cirt (talk) 19:47, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
If it's highly visited, maybe we could do a quick fix and redirect it to WP:FPORT. :) — Cirt (talk) 19:58, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Discussion now at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_portal_candidates#Featured_Portal_closing_discussions. — Cirt (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Zorotypus impolitus

Hi OhanaUnited,

In this link, the writer wrote about Zorotypus impolitus an obscure but extraordinary ground louse that it does not have a Wikipedia article.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23585-zoologger-the-tiny-insect-with-the-massive-sperm.html

So in response to his indirect plea I created it. It has awesome DYK potential. However some basic info is not available from the article or from the journal article abstract which is the only thing I can access from India. I need the full text of this article to search for essential details such as "author" & 'Year described" etc.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-013-1055-0#

It appears that this is open access in some places. I tried with proxy but had no success. Can you please help?

AshLin (talk) 03:18, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, so good to hear from you again, my friend. My editting is limited now :( and I try to do things which I feel add more value, if I can. My last DYK was from an article made at the request and cooperation of a Facebook group on Bats of the Indian subcontinent. And likewise for other things. Great to see you contributing to a wide variety of environmental issues. I'm sure you and others like you are making a big difference. The world needs all the help it can get. :) AshLin (talk) 04:10, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Andrew, GabrielF has obliged and I now have the paper. :) AshLin (talk) 18:17, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Not an issue! :) You can be sure that I would ask for your help! AshLin (talk) 00:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Recruitment Centre

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for coming to visit the WMF office today! It's always so great to see you! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 21:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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  • Nominators, please read this: If you are not interested in becoming a recruiter, you can still help. In some cases a nominator may have an issue with an "inexperienced" editor (the recruitee) reviewing one of their nominations. To minimize the chances of this happening, if you are fine with a recruitee reviewing one of your nominations under the supervision of the recruiter, please add your name to the list at the bottom of this page. By adding your name to this list, chances are that your nomination will be reviewed more quickly as the recruitee will be asked to choose a nomination from the list of nominators that are OK with them reviewing the article.

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i need your help

hi dear. can you give me this article please? i want for my persian language's project. --Eyingewers (talk) 05:58, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash‎

Hello OhanaUnited. According to the article's talk page, the article have been delisted from GA status in 2010. Why is it still appearing as such? Moreover, the talk page also says that a DYK for the article appeared in the Main Page, but I cannot find anything related in the link I'm directed to. What's going on here? I'd appreciate your help.--Jetstreamer Talk 14:34, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I've marked it as delisted. HOwever, the DYK issue still persists.--Jetstreamer Talk 14:48, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Unprotect Meerkat and add to pending changes

You semi-protected Meerkat because the pending changes trial ended. It is now used and should be put back or unprotected. I see no reason why to keep semi-protected. Surfer (talk) 06:47, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, OhanaUnited. You have new messages at Jetstreamer's talk page.
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DYK-Good Article Request for Comment

Hi, would you like to elaborate your rationale in the General Discussion section?--Gilderien Chat|What I've done 09:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Request for assistance - Portal

Hello! You are listed at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Portals as providing assistance with review/renovation. I have a newish portal Portal:Globalization, for which there are 3 "selected" components. Each has a pool of 12 subpages. I would like to set-up to use CURRENTMONTH variable (no year) to select from the 12 subpages. The examples I've looked at have much more complex Portal pages than our setup and I've not been able to determine how to use the CURRENTMONTH variable to select subpages. Could you help? Regards, Meclee (talk) 21:58, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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A cookie for you!

Thanks for your help on Portal code! Meclee (talk) 23:33, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK RfC

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FPOC

Portal:Judaism has been nominated for featured portal status. Would you be able to leave a few comments? -- Ypnypn (talk) 22:40, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Bird?

Sorry, Ohana, but I don't understand this. Are you saying the bird project doesn't care for depictions of birds and cultural contexts? Drmies (talk) 23:27, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Airphil Express

An article that you have been involved in editing, Airphil Express, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. adkranz (talk) 23:50, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Welcome section for HMB436 students

Hey I am Wendy. I am currently a 4th year student in University of Toronto. I am double major in Genetic and CSB. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wangyue1405 (talk • contribs) 02:03, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I am currently working on a project with Dr. James Scott at the University of Toronto on creating a wikipedia page for the fungus Aspergillus Ustus as a part of my Genes, Genetics and Biotechnology major. I am happy to be able to contribute to Wikipedia and I hope this helps in creating a starting point for this topic to expand on in the future.

--Tanha Mahmud (talk) 04:00, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello I am a student from Dr.Scott's class.Ria99 (talk) 16:41, 27 September 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.121.67 (talk)


Hello, my name is Victoria and I am also a student from Dr. Scott's HMB436 Mycology course. My current topic for a Wikipedia page is Malassezia pachydermatis. Mccull44 (talk) 02:12, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

AHK barnstar

All human knowledge
Thanks for expanding User:Emijrp/All human knowledge with data for universities. emijrp (talk) 23:26, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Sandbox disruption

For some reason, helpful editors continue to migrate my students' draft articles out of their sandboxes to AfC, and then into the main space, despite the presence of the sandbox template and the course template. This is a major pain. Can it be prevented? Or at least reversed? Medmyco (talk) 04:13, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I'd just rather not have unvetted info go up on the main page. Also, if they work in the sandbox, random helpful editors should not be touching their stuff as they develop it. Ideally. Problem is that some of these very bare stubs have already been selected for speedy deletion by other helpful editors. I'd rather not have a student working on an article that promptly gets deleted before they've had a chance to finish their work. That's why I thought the sandbox was a better idea. I'd hoped that having course banners on the talk pages of articles would help, but its not clear that it does. Anyway, I'm trying my best to keep it all together! Medmyco (talk) 19:00, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

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Requesting your opinion

Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this consensus discussion? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:05, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Argh

Hi, can you possibly help me out again? I've just had some sort of major blip on my PC and I've lost the copy of Hiley, Nicholas (1994). "“You can't believe a word you read”: Newspaper‐reading in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914—1918". Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History 2 (1-2). doi:10.1080/13688809409357904 that you provided a couple of days ago. Worse things have happened - see the mess I got into at Valentine Williams - but I really could do with seeing that journal again. For reasons unknown, I seem not to have lost the later journal that you so kindly provided. Weird or what? I'm going to flip to an alternate PC until I can work out what has gone wrong - suspect a faulty disk. - Sitush (talk) 15:51, 16 November 2013 (UTC).

I've grabbed it again. I apologise for having put you to so much trouble. - Sitush (talk) 09:05, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Argh for me too

I have a similar problem. Downloaded the article you so generously posted, but when I wanted to start working on the species I found out the document is broken. Probably a problem when I downloaded it. It's this one:

  • Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2008: Notes on Ernocornutia Razowski, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) with descriptions of seven new species from Ecuador, Zootaxa 1720: 46-56 [2]

If you could upload it again, I would be very thankful... Sorry for the trouble. Ruigeroeland (talk) 18:24, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Got it, thanks! Ruigeroeland (talk) 22:48, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Sister projects

Hi Ohana, as the editor of the Signpost, I stumbled on this old page today. Would you be interested in reviving it and maybe redoing some of the older interviews to see what has changed in the last few years? Kind regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:51, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

For all the help you do on WP:RX. Keep up the wonderful work! Yobol (talk) 17:43, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Thanks, Andrew! Also, I had to give you some strawberries, since you once gave me delicious strawberries. :) Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:00, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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Your possible experience with graph apps

Hello OhanaUnited; Recently, I had noticed that you are an advanced programmer and I was wondering if you have ever created graphs for use in illustrating high traffic wikipages? My interest is in creating a four color graph of 8 columns of different heights. Do you have any similar experience with such visualization graphics? BillMoyers (talk) 23:54, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello OhanaUnited; Thanks for getting back. The table of numbers is below and I meant it to go on the high traffic page for "Wikipedia" in the new sub-section for "Internal Quality Control". Putting in the table of numbers alone looked stale and I thought a 4-color graph would be more visual and graphic. It seems that the 4-colors could be used for wikipedia "Importance" for the four levels (1 to 4, best to lowest), while the Y-axis would be eight columns (FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub) from 1 to 8, best to lowest, with the graphed height corresponding to quantity of pages for each one, respectively. The idea was to use a 4-color graph on each of 8 columns in 2 dimensions. The eight columns would be for each quality gradation, and the 4 colors would be for each level of importance. The 4 colors on each column would be over-lapping, tough slightly staggered, to avoiding "blurring" of one color directly on top of another color. If I need to clarify, I can do this as needed, since I am trying to describe a picture using words. Here is the graph:
All rated articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low ??? Total
FA 1,558 2,448 2,375 1,894 180 8,455
FL 179 665 761 696 108 2,409
A 355 681 785 579 83 2,483
GA 3,166 7,191 14,519 19,011 1,732 45,619
B 16,575 32,174 53,107 65,611 20,528 187,995
C 16,557 53,110 132,376 296,771 84,451 583,265
Start 18,476 91,842 411,712 1,576,572 396,353 2,494,955
Stub 4,224 31,618 278,159 2,773,567 760,649 3,848,217
List 4,757 16,863 53,079 188,358 66,762 329,819
Assessed 65,847 236,592 946,873 4,923,059 1,330,846 7,503,217
Unassessed 120 485 1,251 19,242 425,922 447,020
Total 65,967 237,077 948,124 4,942,301 1,756,768 7,950,237
About this table

BillMoyers (talk) 04:27, 24 December 2013 (UTC)


Hello OhanaUnited, and good suggestion. I am not an expert programmer and was told that Excel does not import to Wikipedia in any convenient way. This link (below) in its various figures show the Excel options and given that you're an advanced programmer possibly you could look especially at figure 3. My original thought was to do a 3D graph of this kind of "skyscraper" type of graphs (for lack of a better description) which would have one "skyscraper" of different height for each element in the 4 by 8 matrix I previously described of importance versus quality at wikipedia. That is, the first "skyscraper" height would be the number of high importance FA articles, followed by the second "skyscraper" height which would be the number of high importance FL articles, etc. Anyway, I am getting ahead of the main issue. Is it easier to do in 2D or in 3D? And, do you know if the import problem of excel to Wikipedia can be solved? Here is the link: When Graphic Design Goes Badly. BillMoyers (talk) 07:31, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello OhanaUnited, and thanks for your insight on using Excel. My knowledge is nothing like an expert programmer and I have never made anything like this. Could I offer to do all the tedious typing of the data from this table above into any format you like, and appeal to you to take a stab at either the 2D graph of 4 colors I described, or the "Skycraper" graph I just mentioned? Which ever one is easiest. My thought was to put it on the left side of the high traffic page for "Wikipedia" in the new "Internal Quality Control" subsection. It would be only for the first 8 rows and the first 4 columns. I understand your point about the other info having value, yet the smaller version would still be informative and highly graphic. Can you help, maybe in your spare time or whenever time allows? (Good holidays for New Years either way.) BillMoyers (talk) 22:48, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Fungus photos

Andrew, thanks for cleaning up the photos I posted. However I can no longer see them in any of the articles. Does something need to be changed with the path? Medmyco (talk) 18:36, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

I double-checked a couple of the articles and the thumbnails still do not display, but when you click on the place-holder icon it takes you to the photo. Does it need a |thumb| or something? Medmyco (talk) 00:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Sure, try Aphanoascus fulvescens and Chrysosporium keratinophilum. Medmyco (talk) 03:27, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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