User talk:Jkasd

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Rollback

After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Rollback can only be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
Rollback may be removed at any time.

If you do not want rollback, then contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some information on how to use rollback, you can view this page. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, just leave me a message on my talk page. Happy editing! Malinaccier (talk) 00:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- J kasd 00:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. If you have any questions, just ask. =) Malinaccier (talk) 00:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I do have a question about rollback: when I go to a Special:contributions page, there is a rollback button on some of these. What exactly happens if I click on this one? Thanks in advance -- J kasd 22:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It reverts all the edits the user made to the article to the last version not edited by the user. If I'm not being clear, then just tell me :). You can try testing in the sandbox if you'd like. Happy editing, Malinaccier (talk) 22:51, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can you look at these edits here [1]? When I rolled back the edits, I thought that it was vandalism, but afterwards I realized that they were a new user and probably just were experimenting or trying to find their way around. Could you please let me know what I can do to fix this. J kasd 16:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm guessing they were confused by the wiki-syntax and tried to remove it. You should undo your edit with an edit summary explaining your error, and then add the information back to the article in a separate edit. At first glance the anon's edits appear to be vandalism, but you are right that they were trying to edit in good faith. Thanks for catching your little mistake and taking the time to fix it rather than leave it! Malinaccier Public (talk) 16:24, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Mathematics

I've started a discussion on possibly putting up knot theory for FA status: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#knot_theory_for_FA.3F. By the way, welcome to Wikipedia. Feel free to stop by my talk page if you have questions. --C S (talk) 20:33, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conway's paper on his notation

I think if you want to learn this stuff, it's better just to read his paper, which is delightfully written. You can get it from Andrew Ranicki's website [2]. It seems to be down at the moment, but should hopefully be working later. Otherwise let me know and I can send it to you. If you're interested in learning by writing the article, I think you shouldn't have any major difficulties doing so with this paper in hand. I don't really have time to work seriously on this (although I somehow managed to spend a lot of time thinking and writing about supercompact spaces for no good reason). --C S (talk) 05:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great, it works! Thank you. J kasd 14:19, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

some comments on the FA proposal

Hi Jkasd, I hope you are doing well. I asked User:Salix alba and User:ArnoldReinhold to take a look at the thread on WT:WPM; they have worked on the article before and previously showed a lot of interest in improving it. Note also that User:Hans Adler indicated support and I believe User:Rick Block will probably show up with some comments if the article gets nominated. I think it may be best to hold off on nominating for about a month; I have a lot of things to do in the meantime, and I've also become dissatisfied with various aspects of the article (which I will describe in the ongoing discussion at WT:WPM). --C S (talk) 08:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AIV report on 66.30.123.232

Please reformat that vandalism report. It's a mess. Doczilla _STOMP! 19:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. Well done. Doczilla _STOMP! 19:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't use Twinkle. Sorry. I use VP, which is not nearly as good as Twinkle but I haven't gotten around to learning Twinkle myself. I like your approach, though. You caught your own goof, you realized it wasn't actually something to report to AIV yet, and you've asked for help so you can improve. When it comes to posting warnings about vandalism, consider using the templates at WP:UTN instead of messing with a program like VP or Twinkle. Best, Doczilla _STOMP! 19:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For combatting vandalism of Wikipedia pages while learning quickly and striving to become an effective, efficient vandal fighter. Doczilla _STOMP! 19:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! My first barnstar. J kasd 19:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Admin coaching

I actually have someone else in line next for admin coaching before you. I may be able/willing to coach you in a few months. In the mean time, I have some suggestions:

Try to comment on two or three XFDs per day.
Edit in the mainspace a lot more.
Consider moving articles out of your userspace into the mainspace (like User:Jkasd/Cinquefoil knot)

It's in, Cinquefoil knot. J kasd 04:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit less in your userspace.

I like to draft articles here, but I've discovered the {{construction}} template. J kasd 04:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I hope these help! Malinaccier P. (talk) 12:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template or table?

Sorry for the delay in replying to your query at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers‎. PrimeFan (talk) 21:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, its only been one day. Thanks. J kasd 21:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now it's a longer delay because my weekends includes Mondays. I've put the infoboxes (Docuan tables, as we call them) into the templates for 101 (number) and 102 (number), a prime and a composite. I will wait a day, see if anyone makes adjustments to the infobox, and take what I learn to finish doing this for the 100s. If you continue with the 20s and we each do about a dozen each weekday, we can finish this in a fortnight. PrimeFan (talk) 22:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna join in on this. I pledge to do five a day. Today I started at 99 and went backwards to 95. So if you keep going upwards from the twenties, we should eventually meet at some point around the sixties or seventies, at which point you can just keep hitting the right arrows to verify they're all done and viceversa I can keep hitting the left arrows. Anton Mravcek (talk) 22:58, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! Just do as many as you can at a time, as you can see, I haven't done any for a while, but I'll do a whole bunch when I get the chance. J kasd 05:28, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Knot table

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status

Your image, Image:Knot table.svg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 10:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Climbing Portal

Not sure we need one! There is not much happening at WP:CLIMB. Routes are always going to have a notability problem. Might be an idea to canvass websites such as summitpost and ukclimbing (see also USA eqivs) for new editors who can contribute references to paper media regarding the subject. Cheers, Nk.sheridan Talk 00:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was kind of disappointed by the lack of interest there, but I don't think we need to delete it or anything, I'll keep working on it and hopefully more people will become interested. Thanks. J kasd 06:42, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The first 1, 701, 936 knots

I can send you the Math Intelligencer article via email if you can receive large attachments (2.2 MB). --C S (talk) 09:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, that would be great. J kasd 16:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{Number}} and {{numtext}}

I wrote that it would be possible to get the rounding turned off on {{numtext}}. It'll take a rewrite of the template, which I was going to do anyway. I've had a look at the code for and some of the transclusions of {{number}} and a couple of ideas/questions came to mind.

I saw the and in square brackets on some of the pages (e.g. one hundred [and] one), whilst on other pages it was omitted. Why the square brackets instead of plain round ones?
{{Numtext}}, when it's up and running, will be able to spell out ordinals as well as cardinals (it does now but only up to 100).
I notice you've got a parameter {{{numeral}}}. What's the difference between that and {{{number}}}? I guessing {{{numeral}}} should be formatted whereas {{{number}}} should not. If that's the only difference use {{formatnum:{{{number}}}}}.
I also notice you've got a parameter {{{range|none}}} which calls one of a great number of other templates, the sole function of which are to fill in their spot in the infobox. Instead of that, how about something along the following lines? Calculate this range from the {{{number}}} input. Send the result to a subtemplate which will display the ranges in the desired format. This would require only two or three subtemplates as opposed to your couple of dozen odd templates. This way it'll be easier to maintain a consistant display format, the pattern won't have to stop at 200 for fear of going overboard with templates and there'd be one fewer parameter for users to skip. Note that I use the term subtemplate by this I mean templates of the form {{number/range}}, this just keeps things organised so your metatemplates are neatly squared away in the subspace of the template which uses them instead of floating around in the main template space.

Just some ideas. I'll see what I can do with {{numtext}} though it won't be ready for use right away. JIMp_talk·cont 07:33, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't write Template:Number, but I've added substantially the last couple of weeks. My goal for Template:Number is for most numbers, it will only be necessary to add the template itself to most numbers, unless they have some other special fields that require mention. I don't know if this is even possible for the factors and divisors, but I've already made the roman numerals, and the hexadecimal, duodecimal, octal and binary numbers automatic.

The [and] is because of an American vs. English spelling difference. I personally think something besides the square brackets should be used however.
Ordinals will be nice to have too.
Numeral is actually the Numeral system i.e. for 16 (number) it is hexadecimal. This field is only needed for a few numbers, so I'll just keep it manual for now.
I was thinking of working on this next actually, I think the reason it stops at 200s is because that's approximately where the number articles end, with only "special" numbers having their own articles after that. Generally, "non-special" numbers redirect to the next lowest hundred i.e. 562 (number) redirects to 500 (number). But I still think that it would be worth it to make it work like you said.

Hopefully these suggestions will help. One more thing that might be useful is Names of numbers in English. Thanks for the ideas. J kasd 17:05, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Physics participation

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Implementation of equation reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive_37#Templates_for_numbered_equations Has this been implemented? TomyDuby (talk) 00:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

Hi Jkasd,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Knot table.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 8, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-12-08. howcheng {chat} 01:47, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some nudging

Hi Jkasd. How are things going? Busy with school? Looking over the previous work we did on the knot theory stuff, I think we got side-tracked off of the FA nom. I think it's a reasonable FA candidate, but it will take work to satisfy various formatting and referencing criteria. Expansion of content can wait until a later time (and possibly a much later time). --C S (talk) 21:27, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Things are going fine, thank you. Yes I have been busier with school than I expected, it's hard to find time to edit nowadays. I did a quick check on the knot theory page, and I think that besides the formatting and referencing criteria you alluded to, that it is ready for an FA nom. Unfortunately, I will probably not have the time to "guard" the page during the nomination, although I will make an effort to assist whenever it does finally occur. (Actually, it will probably not occur till the summer so nevermind in that case.) I only have a few comments on the article which I will leave on the talk page. Sorry for the long delay, I get to lazy to log into wikipedia sometimes, so I didn't get this till a few minutes ago. J kasd 06:37, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I went ahead and nominated it. Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Knot_theory. Stop by if you get the chance. --C S (talk) 22:57, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Climbing

Portal:Climbing, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Climbing and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Climbing during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. B (talk) 06:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, this portal is worthy of deletion. J kasd 06:30, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Red links

Concerning this edit: You shouldn't comment-out a red link merely because it's a red link. That is against Wikipedia policy at WP:REDLINK. Among the reasons for that are:

A visible red link is an invitation to write an article;
When the article is created by a person who didn't know the link was there, the link then automatically works without anyone needing to uncomment it, and if that person or anyone else clicks on "what links here" for the new article, they then find out about it.

Michael Hardy (talk) 04:52, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, I think I understand the policy now. J kasd 08:52, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sixth dimension

Thanks for fixing my mistake at Sixth dimension. I guess I misremembered... CRGreathouse (t | c) 19:07, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'm not really seeing what your mistake was though... you still did a lot to clean up the article. J kasd 03:25, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake: [3] Actually, it looks like it was John who fixed it and not you! Regardless... CRGreathouse (t | c) 17:18, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There it is... :-) J kasd 21:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Climbing Portal

Hi Jkasd!

I just thought that I'd drop you a quick note to inform you abou the Rock Climbing Portal is up and running.

Should you happen to stop by and decide to contribute, please:

Pick a new selected article and picture every two weeks or so.
Update the 'Did You Know?' box every week.
Check and update the 'Tasks' box regually to help develop climbing articles.

Thank you

Cj005257 (talk) 21:57, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New binary template

I think I've got a much better version of the binary template, with a maximum input value of 134,217,727. If you want to replace template:binary, just copy it from User:Vanisaac/template/bin. VI_WS ^talk 11:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The template documentation page still says "if you want to add functionality for them [larger numbers], go ahead or drop a note at Jkasd's talk page". If that is no longer the case - and your response seems to indicate a lack of further involvment to me - I would encourage you to remove that content.

It is now done. The template even converts up to ten decimal places now. VI_WS ^talk 04:17, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to New Orleans developers' meeting

New Orleans Wikimedia Hackathon

Hi, Jkasd. I'd like to invite you to come to the New Orleans Hackathon 2011. It's an opportunity for MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers to come together to work on advancing Wikimedia's tools and infrastructure, focusing on Wikimedia Labs (starting with the dev-ops virtualization cluster), and to train and to squash bugs.

The theme of this event: "the infrastructure of innovation". We're going to improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness. We're going to work on our gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking.

It's mostly going to be dev sprints and bugsmashing, with some discussion and workshops. The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with senior MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments.

If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list. Thanks! Sumanah (talk) 20:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC) (Volunteer Development Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation)[reply]

Sumanah (talk) 21:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Generated values for binary, ternary, etc. broken

See, for example, 101 (number) and 201 (number). I've made similar comments on the talk pages of these documents.

Dr Smith (talk) 00:59, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

After 5 yrs unnoticed

... and people possibly being misdirected, removed "Nor-" from Template:Orgchemsuffixes, because it does not mean "no residue". See Nor-. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 05:05, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Duodecimal

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Nomination for deletion of Template:InterTransWiki

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Wild knots and arcs

Hi, I am trying to create diagrams for Wild arc and I am fascinated by how good your diagram

looks in Wild knot. Can I ask how you made this? Did you use Inkscape or some other svg software? Or was it some software made specifically for knots? Mathwriter2718 (talk) 11:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I just used Inkscape. I don't remember specifically what I did but I don't think it was anything fancy (probably just drew one "link" by hand, copied and shrunk it a small amount, tweaked it to line up with the shrunken version, copied and pasted it while shrinking it by a small amount each time, and then drew the first link and connecting loop by hand again). Jkasd (talk) 22:38, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]