User talk:Phoebe/Archive5

The Resource Exchange help desk

Hey. New year, new start? Well, I recently added a navigation box to the Resource Exchange. One of the features is a help desk, where I'd like to put a couple names of people willing to answer questions about searching for resources. Since you already described yourself as someone willing to help in the 'Direct contact' section, I thought you might be interested. What do you think? Key (talk) 00:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy newyear for you too. Key (talk) 00:13, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Documentation links

Added some documentation links at User talk:Phoebe/book.

The project namespace has a lot of text, but in some ways isn't comprehensive. I guess there's entire volumes to be said about wikipedia. --Kim Bruning (talk) 06:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Library, Archives, and Web 2.0 Research Guide Template

Consider giving your opinion on the research guide template.Shannon bohle (talk) 06:35, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

done. -- phoebe/(talk) 20:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Jury E-List Address

Hi Phoebe,

I'm afraid that I managed to lose that email address for the Wikimania Jury list. Would you be able to give it to me again? Thanks! Lankiveil ^{(complaints | disco)} 12:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC).

sent! It was helpful, thanks. :) -- phoebe/(talk) 20:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

my name is denis, and I will be your guide...

• User:Eloquence/Tour_01 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sj (talk • contribs) 16:24, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Request to delete List of songs featured in Dance Praise

I have included a third party source, and strive to include more. I have also redesigned the tables, removing black backgrounds. I ask you to reconsider your vote. Thank you. Alex Perrier (talk) 02:18, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

i feel i owe you an explanation...

...but first, an apology. I wrote the article on TVG, Turpis Vomica Gland, and as you suspected, it was a hoax. However, i wrote it with the intention of playing a prank on a friend, please believe me when i say i intended (and still do intend) to remove it once it's served its purpose. it wasn't very well written anyway ;)

anyhow, sorry to have wasted your time with it, but elaborate pranks are a lot more fun than whoopee cushions or squirty flowers :) hope you're in good health (and a good sense of humour!)

Al —Preceding unsigned comment added by StudiousPerson (talk • contribs) 18:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I've put a CSD template on the article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:45, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I just saw my msgs. -- phoebe/(talk) 01:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: MMM

(Copied over from my talk page:) Many thanks for your interest. Yes, go ahead and post to the list. I'd be interested in more details about it, too. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 07:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue IV - May 2008

A new May 2008 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter is hot off the virtual presses. Please feel free to make corrections or add news about any project-related content you've been working on. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse--ragesoss (talk) 23:31, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

re:hi!

Great to meet you too! I'm looking forward to reading the book soon. Thanks for the kind offer on RCC09 too, I'll drop you a note if there's anything. See you around, VanTucky 20:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

The Phoebe Edition of User:Messedrocker/Unreferenced BLPs is now available. MessedRocker (talk) 18:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

hee! Thank you :) -- phoebe / (talk) 22:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Concerning the vandalism of Saab Lofton's page (and the sources as well)

Since I couldn't find a way of e-mailing Steve Dufour, please forward the following to him:

http://www.saablofton.org/announcement.html

For the record, I never asked to have a Wikipedia page ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Saab_Lofton

Is this guy notable? 68.230.135.102 02:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I'd say he's notable, he wrote a few books. I met him today, quite an interesting character. Decided to look him up. 24.22.229.243 10:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Chris Jr.

... but if you'd rather delete my page than deal with this stalker by simply, permanently locking it down, fine. Just make sure NO other Wikipedia page has the name Saab Lofton on it. Believe it or not, whoever this STALKER is is that obsessed ...

Steve Dufour: "I've looked into the books listed in the bibliography... The first was published by a small defunct anarchist publisher which describes itself as publishing 'pamphlets', sold out and was not reprinted."

III Publishing printed novels as well. Half of the first printing of A.D. sold within its first year. Granted, the first and only printing consisted of two thousand copies, but don't punish III Publishing or myself for being poor. Besides, look at these reviews ...

http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/books/iiirevs.htm

http://www.slimeworld.org/innerjourneys/ij06fant.html

http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/adreview.htm

http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/politics/practicl.htm

Steve Dufour: "The second was described by Pop Occulture Magazine as 'obviously a low-budget and quite-possibly home-printed affair'."

Jarvis Marlow is the man who paid out of his own pocket for the second printing (one thousand copies) and third printing (two thousand copies) of Battle Neverending. His phone number is 702-469-9188. I sold all three thousand copies of Btl Nvrg within the span of a year. Tim Boucher's Pop Occulture review was a petty act by someone gratuitously snide and stuck-up. As you can see ...

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-neverending-Saab-Lofton/dp/B0006R7DVQ

http://www.theseattlesinner.com/Pages/books/neverending.html

... Boucher's in the extreme minority.

Steve Dufour: "I'll keep an eye on it. I also find it a little hard to believe that he was kicked out of San Francisco State for writing a novel that was 'too radical.'"

Believe it ...

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19981101&slug=2781130

Lofton wrote "A.D." while a student at San Francisco State University and spent so much time hawking the book when it was published three years ago that his grades began to fall and the university cut off his financial aid.

... too radical means I "spent so much time hawking the book" because I had to overcompensate for all the censorship surrounding the book. CORPORATE censorship, NOT the stereotypical Stalinistic kind all too many assume is the only kind that exists. Had I an easier time "hawking" the book, there'd have been more time for classes. Of course, plenty of wayward students have had their financial aid renewed after having missed classes for far less substantial reasons, so one wonders why was it so important for me to be dismissed ..? Unfortunately, I'm no stranger to censorship ...

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2005/03/31/letters/letters.txt

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2005/04/28/letters/letters.txt When you start censoring yourself and others, e.g. Saab Lofton, because you’re afraid you might upset some rich white assholes then you might as well give up any claim to being liberal and progressive because you’re not. MICHAEL C.O. WAGNER

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2005/06/09/letters/letters.txt

---

I cut the cut and pasted letter, above, which was a copyright violation to post; and various recrimination back and forth between the two IPs. I'll thank both of you to stay civil on Wikipedia and on my talk page. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 19:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

YOU'RE MORE WORRIED ABOUT CIVILITY AND THE INCLUSION OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES THAN THE DAMAGE THIS STALKER CAN DO, HOW INCREDIBLY SAD. I INCLUDED THE E-MAIL ADDRESS SO IT'D BE CLEAR THAT REAL PEOPLE SUPPORT ME; PEOPLE WHO COULD BE CONTACTED SHOULD ANYONE ACTUALLY BE STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE STALKER FOR ONE MILLISECOND. EXCUSE ME FOR BEING THOROUGH ... BY THE WAY, SHOULD YOU PEOPLE DECIDE TO NEGATE MY PAGE, THE STALKER WILL CONSIDER THAT A VICTORY AND HAS REPEATEDLY ADMITTED TO THE VANDALISM.

Saab Lofton sources

Greetings! I posted some links and a question to the Saab Lofton entry's discussion page. I'm hoping the links fill in some missing citations, but I can't add them due to the page lockdown. Thanks for all your time, patience, and consideration! Potemkin01 (talk) 10:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Katanada

Hello, Phoebe. You have new messages at Katanada's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

SF Meetup #6

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 6
	Date: Saturday, June 28th, 2008
	Time: ~1:00PM
	Place: Glen Park Branch Library
prev: Meetup 5 - next: Meetup 7

You received this invite because you added your name to the Invite list. If you don't wish to be invited any more, simply remove your name. Thanks. --ShakataGaNai ^Talk 05:36, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Adminship

Hey. I've seen some of your work, both on and off-wiki, and was wondering if you'd like to consider adminship at WP:RFA. Let me know if you're interested. I still have to look through many of your edits and get a good idea about you, since your wikiparticipation is quite different than most i nom. Wizardman 00:44, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

thanks but not now! replied on Wizardman's talk. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:21, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Hola

Hey, Phoebe, good to meet you. It's always nice to meet another librarian who doesn't think that Wikipedia is the end of the world. :) María (habla conmigo) 12:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikimeet UK

Nice to meet you in London today!!! Gordo (talk) 22:27, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

How Wikipedia Works

Hello Miss Ayers. --Efe (talk) 13:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

LOL. This is referring to this book, for the curious. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 00:12, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Any idea when it will be released on Amazon US? I've pre-ordered it because I'm going over there, but if it isn't being released in the next few days I'll cancel and reorder from Amazon UK! Thanks Doug Weller (talk) 12:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Not yet! Not in the next few days, anyway. Please feel free to email me if you're interested in news. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 13:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Looks like it is out now [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcurious (talk • contribs) 00:25, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Question

Hello Phoebe, I see you declined adminship above. Well, I've looked through some of your contributions, and saw that you revert vandalism. Would you like me to grant you account rollback rights to help you revert vandalism more easily? Just remember that rollback should only be used to revert vandalism, and that misuse of the tool, either by revert good-faith edits or revert-warring, can lead to it being removed. In addition, you don't have to go through any RfA-like process to obtain the tool: I can grant it to you right here. Tell me what you think. Thanks. Acalamari 23:39, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Not really necessary; the undo button is fine :) replied on Acalamari's talk. phoebe / (talk to me) 23:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually, there isn't a special "edit review" screen with rollback. Instead, you can still check revisions manually using the "diff" button. The rollback button appears in diffs, so you'll be able to tell the difference between a good-faith edit and someone inserting "sdhiasbhdsfbsdsd" into an article without having to worry about making a mistake. With need, that's not too much of a problem: I have more trust in an administrator who uses the tools occasionally and effectively than one who uses them often and abusively: I hold that view with rollbackers too. :) Anyway, I'm not going to press the issue, if you'd rather revert vandalism without rollback, then that's fine. :) Best wishes to you. Acalamari 00:04, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I know where the rollback button is! I run a few wikis of my own :) What I meant is, because you're not forced to check the diffs on rollback -- you can do it from the history page etc., rather than from an individual diff comparison -- it is easy to either revert good changes along with bad, or miss subtle vandalism that was spread over more than session. For this reason, I'm not a fan. Rollback is useful in very limited vandal-whacking circumstances, which is usually not something I take part in... Anyway, it's hardly a big deal one way or the other. Cheers, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:25, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that. :) Thanks for your response and civility. :) Happy editing and best wishes to you. Acalamari 16:33, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice meetup!

Why don't you come back for the August UK meetup!!??!?!? Very nice to meet you too. Gordo (talk) 09:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

SF meetup in mid-December to help scientists become Wikipedians?

Hi Phoebe, this is Bill Wedemeyer from Wikimania; we met on the last night in Alexandria? I hope you got home alright; my trip to Cairo was a small adventure, but after that, it was pleasantly uneventful.

I'd like to get your opinion (and possibly help) on something pretty important. The American Society for Cell Biology is holding a "hands-on" workshop on December 16th for two hours (12:30–2:30pm) to teach its interested members how to edit scientific articles on Wikipedia. In the absence of anyone else initially, I volunteered to help out, although luckily for me and for them, Tim Vickers is now able to come, too. We'd both like this workshop to go well; for one thing, success with the cell biologists could lead to other opportunities for Wikipedia with other scientific communities. We don't know yet how many scientists will show up for the workshop.

Tim had the excellent idea of a "buddy system" for the scientists, organizing online Wikipedians to help the scientists in their first forays into the Wiki-world. A natural extension of Tim's idea is to invite real-world Wikipedians to meet up there and help scientists through their first editing. I think it would help build friendly bridges between two communities, Wikipedians and scientists, who share a common goal of making their science accessible to the public. Since two hours is such a short time to explain Wikipedia and give them some "hands-on" experience, having enthusiastic, friendly Wikipedians helping out could make it a much less stressful and more enjoyable experience for everyone.

What do you think of that idea? Is it feasible or sensible? I'd appreciate your suggestions on that, or other aspects of the conference; if I remember correctly, you're experienced in running workshops such as this one, aren't you? I started this skeletal subpage as a central place for discussing/planning the workshop. Thanks for your help, Proteins (talk) 21:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

yes, yes! replied on protein's talk. phoebe / (talk to me) 14:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

SF Meetup #7

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 7
	Date: September 6th, 2008
	Time: 3 PM
	Place: Freebase HQ, San Francisco
prev: Meetup 6 - next: Meetup 8

You received this invite because you added your name to the Invite list. If you don't wish to be invited any more, simply remove your name. Thanks. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 06:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

A librarian's specialist knowledge is needed at Philip Larkin

I spotted that you're a librarian; may I draw your attention to this? Thank you! almost-instinct 08:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the note dear..Hope all is well:)--Moshirah (talk) 13:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Article needed

Hi Pheobe,

I need "A review of the genus Lycophidion (Serpentes: Colubridae) in northeastern Africa". Do you have access to the article? My "email me" link works, so if you can get it, please mail me; I'll mail you back and you can send me the article by email. Thanks, Slashme (talk) 13:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the list. --Slashme (talk) 05:17, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

cleanup help needed!

can you review / improve / shepherd through afd Satish Jha? thanks :) +sj + 22:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

oh reallly?

[2]

I'm pretty sure the article has moved beyond this edit at this point :) and I don't understand it well enough to help out. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 03:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

It's just a much earlier tipoff to market watchers than appeared in any major news media. You could have gotten out of your lehman engagements 1.2 trading days early without violating any laws if you'd been eyeing WP. +sj + 18:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Looking for Adoption

Hi Phoebe - Saw your name on the 'willing to adopt' page and I'm a brand new (timid) user in need of mentoring. I have some questions about the 'rankism' page and would possibly like to make some (minor) edits to it. I read the history of the page, though, and am thoroughly intimidated. I'd rather send my questions to you via email. Is there a way to do that? I'll try the 4 tildes, but if that doesn't work, I am Bluebiz. Bluebiz (talk) 04:27, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 03:47, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

Hi phoebe,

I got a message telling me about "adoption" at wikipedia. Next, I went through the list of adopters and thought of dropping in a line here.

My edits are generally in music or in fields related to computer networks. I am hoping to improve my understanding / using different features of wikipedia.

Please let me know if you can help me out

Cheers Alla tedesca (talk) 15:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 03:50, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, yes

A section on wikihumor is needed in the future. cf. Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency

Was that title chosen to fit the page title limit, or was the limit chosen to allow this page to continue to exist? :-) Compare:

• Wikipedia:12345678901Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency
• [[Wikipedia:123456789012Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/Votes for deletion/WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency]]

This also cunningly means that a correctly-formed MfD title is not possible! Carcharoth (talk) 01:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC) Thanks for the book list!

Writing a Biography and looking for a mentor

Hello i'm writing the biography of Bruno Cote,

M. Cote is now almost 70 years old and i'm meeting him on a friendly basis almost once a week. he asked me if i can write an article about him on wikipedia, and i need help.

Thanks

Cybergarou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cybergarou (talk • contribs) 12:08, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk phoebe / (talk to me) 04:47, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Aw

I just saw the get well page, thanks. *Hug.* Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 18:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

On purpose?

Was the timing of this edit deliberate, or just happenstance? Enquiring minds want to know.LeadSongDog (talk) 17:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Phoebe! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Added book to GNU list

Hey Phoebe, it was good to hang out a bit at the FC2008 conference. I did add the listing for your book at http://gnu.org/doc/other-free-books.html. Let me know if anything should be different about the listing there. Johnsu01 (talk) 17:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Scripts

Hi Phoebe, congratulations on your book! The reviews seem to be excellent, don't you think? I somehow missed the fact that you and Charles had written a book on Wikipedia. I ordered a copy already, along with the new book on the MediaWiki software.

The Wikipedia seminar with the cell biologists is coming in December (less than 2 months away), and I'm beginning to prepare in earnest, now that I've finished off some grants and teaching. In particular, I've started to think about how to make editing as easy as possible for them, using scripts. For practice, I've written a few basic scripts, and if you have time, I'd appreciate your feedback on them. There's information on how to install them on my user page. They (1) translate the interwiki links into English, (2) analyze the structure of articles, such as the amount of prose in each section, and (3) remove the hyperlinks from an article so that they can be heard spoken smoothly using Fire Vox (a Firefox add-on) or another screen reader. You might enjoy listening to your favorite articles in Fire Vox, which is free and pretty easy to download and install.

I'm still working on script (2) ("articlestructure.js"), so be warned that it may stop working from time to time. It's mainly for my research, but if you have any article properties you'd like to have analyzed, please don't hesitate to ask.

Longer-term, I'm interested in making scripts for accessibility and scripts that facilitate the writing and analysis of Featured Articles, perhaps even a WYSIWYG editor. I'd appreciate your suggestions for scripts, although I might not get to them quickly. Thanks! Proteins (talk) 17:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

SF Meetup #8

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 8
	Date: November 8th, 2008
	Time: 2PM
	Place: Metacafe, Palo Alto, California
prev: Meetup 7 - next: Meetup 9

You received this invite because you added your name to the Invite list. If you don't wish to be invited any more, simply remove your name. Thanks. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 18:23, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Governance

Dear Phoebe!

I hope that you are fine!. I am Mayo Fuster Morell, we met at the fascinating Free Culture Conference. Here there is a picture of me in case you do not remember my name: http://www.onlinecreation.info/photos/ I just finalized reading your book. My deep complements, it is very well written and a pleasure to read. Following what you put me in the cover, it is making me enjoy even more Wikipedia. As I mentioned to you I am doing a Phd action research on Wikipedia Governance at the School of Information - UC Berkeley and the European University Institute. And I would be very happy on making you an interview and exchange with you impressions on my hypothesis. I would appreciate if you could let me know if it would be possible that I make you an interview. If by any change it would be possible to do it in the Bay Area, it would be easier for me. However, I also can come to Davis for the interview. The results of the research will be availeble open access (More on the research: www.onlinecreation.info).

Thanks in advance. In solidarity! Mayo >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lilaroja —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.143.92.200 (talk) 03:17, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Two favors

Hi Phoebe, two quick favors. First, if you're going to the SF meet-up on the 8th, could you please invite people to help out with the American Society of Cell Biologists on December 16th? Just to refresh your memory, it'd be great if there were up to 20 good editors to help the scientists start their first articles and to give them a positive impression of Wikipedians. The organizers of the conference have kindly offered to take all the volunteers out to lunch beforehand — free food, yum! We'll meet at the Mosconi Center at 11am to go to lunch. The workshop will be over by 2:30pm, but if people need to leave early, that's cool, too.

As for the second favor, I've been writing a few more scripts that Wikipedians' might find useful, as listed on my user page. If you have some time, I'd appreciate your and Charles' help with one in particular, User:Proteins/expandWPacronyms.js, which expands Wikipedian shortcuts/acronyms such as WP:NOR for newbies. For example, it replaces "WP:NOR" with "WP:NOR (Wikipedia's policy that no Original Research should be published in Wikipedia)". I was trying to find a happy solution that would allow expert Wikipedians continue to use their shorthand without making newbies feel excluded. I got the idea for the script from reading your (excellent!) book and from Liam's interview with Sue Gardner on the Wikipedia Weekly. I'm writing the summaries in parentheses according to my best understanding of the acronym, but I'm aware that I might make mistakes. I've also been expanding the dictionary of shortcuts, but I'm getting only about 90% of the acronyms so far. If you find that I'm missing common or important shortcuts, or that I've explained shortcuts inaccurately, I'd appreciate your suggestions. I had no idea that there were so many shortcuts in common use! But writing the dictionary is a good way to become familiar with Wikipedia's policies, guidelines and structures.

Your book is a lot of fun and very enlightening. Two suggestions: for the next edition, you might want to include a list of shortcuts in another appendix, and to mention the possibility of definition lists, when you start a line with a semicolon. I'm biased in this, but you might also want to mention how scripts are great for enhancing and customizing one's experience on Wikipedia. :) Proteins (talk) 00:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

EC green paper?

Hi Phoebe, I just read your well-written report on "Wikimedia events". In the intro, you reference a person who was helpful with responding to "the EC green paper". I'm really not sure what that refers to, could you elaborate/point me towards more info to satisfy my curiosity? Thanks!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 15:38, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Aervanath, I don't know too much about it myself (I got the summary of topics from the conference organizer), but there was discussion of it recently on the foundation-l mailing list: [3]. Best, phoebe / (talk to me) 21:22, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Phoebe, thanks for the quick reply, and the link! Cheers,--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 21:27, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

OK to use some images from book?

Hi Phoebe, I was wondering if you'd allow me to use some figures from How Wikipedia Works in my workshop slides for the scientists. I know the book is covered by the GFDL, but I felt I should ask for your blessing, especially considering that you'll be in the audience. Thanks! Proteins (talk) 01:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

yes of course; sent you an email. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much, Phoebe. :) Can I ask yet another favor? In preparation for the workshop, I'm trying to find good instructional videos for common Wikipedia tasks, such as creating a user account, general editing, images, references, etc. Do you know of any, or do you know people who could point me in the right direction? I'm not finding many in English, although I've found some delightful videos in Icelandic and French. If my luck doesn't turn, I might have to bust my Camtasia out of mothballs and prepare some myself. Thanks for your help, Proteins (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Phoebe! I would be grateful if you could ask around about instructional videos. I managed to eke out a tutorial video today, with my rusty Camtasia skills. How does it seem to you? I could probably dash off a few others before the workshop... Proteins (talk) 00:42, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Wish to Create New Wiki Article/Biography

Phoebe,

Though I am somewhat savvy when it comes to the Internet, I am admittedly a green pea when it comes to what might be required in order to add a new article/page to Wikipedia.

I work for a nationally-renowned speaker/author/trainer, whose expertise is on the recruitment and retention of the newest generation of workers. We have been advised by some experts in the speaking industry to add his profile/bio to Wikipedia.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me and would love to be "adopted" by someone as well-versed on this process as you. I can be reached at christie@generationwhy.com.

Thank you!

ChristieGenwhy (talk) 17:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Preparations for the ASCB workshop

Thanks for your advice on the workshop, Phoebe. I'm sorry that the tutorial video didn't download. :( It's pretty long (19 MB) in the OGG Theora format, especially when compared to the MPEG-4 format (6 MB); perhaps that's a sign that something went awry in the translation?

I've prepared a PDF of my slides for the workshop; may I e-mail it to you? You shouldn't feel obliged to look them over. But if you have an idle moment, I'd appreciate any comments that occur to you. Your book and earlier suggestions were helpful in thinking through the presentation. Tim has looked the slides over already, and I've incorporated his suggestions.

Thanks for the tip about wikEd! One of my slides uses the wikEd coloring, without mentioning it by name. We may suggest wikEd to the scientists, once they get their feet wet with editing. Tim and I will probably play it by ear, depending on how well the workshop is going. Proteins (talk) 12:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

USF

Thanks for your note. I try not to bite the newbies, but I also wanted to clear out the cruft that can accumulate if unchecked. I left a note on the USF talk page about other resources that should be incorporated. I've also gone through and tagged some sections with cleanup templates. I look forward to seeing how it turns out. Madcoverboy (talk) 04:04, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Phoebe - you really need to talk to the students. They have now resorted to vandalism (see Madcoverboy) because they are so attached to their blatant cruft.Iulus Ascanius (talk) 00:53, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Will do, via the professor. Note that it's not actually my class, but I'll do my best. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 04:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. The way you said you'd help clean up, I thought you were the professor. Thanks!Iulus Ascanius (talk) 05:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

np. It's not my class but I did give them a lecture about wikipedia and offered to keep an eye on the whole project, which is why I said I'd help clean up :) best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 05:26, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

That's pretty cool of you, helping infuse new blood. Here's the contrib list for the winner:

[4]. Thanks! Iulus Ascanius (talk) 14:50, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game2/game2.swf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.14.99 (talk) 07:03, 25 December 2008 (UTC)