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May 12

Sky News Channel: Paul Murray Live

I would like to know what the nightly viewing audience is of Paul Murray Live. 152.91.9.167 (talk) 02:12, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about this year, but this Google will show you 2013. About 35-55,000. Probably still about the same, unless more people are watching him online somewhere. InedibleHulk (talk) 18:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Color ID

Pity my colorblindness please: what's the color of the lilac bush at right? Commons:Category:Syringa by color lists seven colors, which apparently are the standard terminology. Nyttend (talk) 02:58, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The flowers are of the eponymous color lilac itself, intimately associated with the plant, and ultimately deriving through Frech and Persian from the Sanskrit root nil- for a bluish color. μηδείς (talk) 03:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly paler than the sample at the top of Lilac (color), or those in Commons:Category:Lilac Syringa cultivars. —Tamfang (talk) 04:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I couldn't tell whether it were lilac, bluish, pinkish, or purple, let alone the magenta and violet options. Nyttend (talk) 06:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, there's a chance you might be able to distinguish some of these colors in the future! Check it out [1] [2]. Seems to be legit at helping at least some colorblind people see somewhat closer to people with normal color vision. SemanticMantis (talk) 13:21, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agree that Tamfang has accurately described what you see in the article Lilac (color) and the sample cultivars, but the problem is that the color named as lilac at the article for the color matches the color of the unopened buds, which are much purpler (have a stronger red component). The open flowers are clearly a paler, bluer shade. The Cultivars shown are all darker (more richer, or saturated) than the native wild type you see when you google "native wild lilac". Basically the shade is not quite as pale as sky blue and has a notable red component, making it a "purplish" pale blue. I have seen white lilacs, and deep blue and purple lilacs, the last two only in photos. The plant is nativized in New Jersey (I spent this and last weekend pruning them at my parents), and the "lilac"-colored lilacs spread readily by runners and from seed. μηδείς (talk) 00:33, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I pulled the photo into an image processing program and cropped out several 'typical' clusters of the flowers that are not in shadow (example at right). The color in these crops average out to 75% red, 67% green and 80% blue - which is (191,172,204) on a 0..255 scale. It's dangerous to try to match this against pure color swatches because the picture was taken in natural light - with who-knows-what camera settings - and it's stored in JPEG format, which isn't great for perfect color reproduction. But, our Lilac (color) article says (200,162,200)...which is a reasonably close match.

Notice that I was able to do this comparison numerically - I didn't have to use my eyes to judge anything. That is a useful path for colorblind people to make color comparisons. You can download the GIMP image processing program for free (it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac) and use the 'eye-dropper' tool to click on any point on any image. If you do a shift+click on the image, it'll display the color values in any of a half dozen representations. You can use the resulting three numbers to gain an appreciation of the color values - even though you can't directly perceive them. You can even get fancy and pick areas of the image that interest you and show charts that indicate the range of colors present there...numerically...and it's easy to get the average color over a larger area (which is what I did) by cropping out that area and using the Filter/Blur feature.

Our article List of colors has RGB numbers for a vast array of named colors...and you can do the kinds of comparisons I did from those tables. You do have to be a bit careful though - photographs are generally either brighter or darker than the real color - although the ratio of the Red to Green to Blue will generally be reasonably close.

In this case, lilac (color) suggests that there are roughly equal amounts of red and blue, with somewhat less green - which is what we see in your photograph. If you look at (for example) Lavender (color), you see equal amounts of red and green, with a little more blue - which is clearly a less good match.

Even for people with good color vision, assessing color matches is an extremely imprecise matter - even when seeing the colors 'live'. The distortions caused by photography and digital color representations can mess thing up considerably. If evidence of that is needed - check out The dress (viral phenomenon) - a recent gigantic internet-wide argument about the color of a dress in a photograph.

SteveBaker (talk) 15:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to disagree to the extent that the image provided in Lilac (color) shows open illuminated blossoms that are much less red in content (anything that's pale in color actually has high RGB numbers in all three hues) than the closed buds, and the color that is named as lilac in that article. I took a snap of this picture and blowing it up I can find pixels anywhere from white to purple to pale red to pale blue. I think the bottom line as far as Nyttend is concerned is that this is the lilac colored variety of lilac, not another named variety. μηδείς (talk) 02:13, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The color named as "pale lilac" is much close to what's pictured by Nyttend. μηδείς (talk) 05:21, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Where can I buy the japanese series Jikuu_Senshi_Spielban on dvd subtitled

Venustar84 (talk) 04:16, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

According to this archived Usenet posting, a DVD was released in Japan in 2005 or thereabouts (I'm not sure how precise "10 years ago" is). Apart from that, it doesn't appear to be available. Tevildo (talk) 20:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can still buy those DVDs at amazon.co.jp, which ships internationally. But I don't see any evidence that they have subtitles, even Japanese subtitles. -- BenRG (talk) 09:55, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Indonesian Wikipedia administrator or regulator?

Can I actually know who is the regulator of Indonesian Wikipedia ( id.wikipedia.org )? I tried to contact them but not succeeded. There is a vandalism that caught my eye and I did tried to change it at there, but it seems to be "on review" that no further changes can be made to the page unless approved. Based on editing history, seems like many other users tried to change it in good way too but their edits also seems to be "on review" and the latest "approved review" revision used is dated in 2012. The page is here: id:Anna Iriyama

The "latest approved review" is a trash, they were writing in the Indonesian Wikipedia that Iriyama Anna (English Wiki: Iriyama Anna) stated she had a dream and in her dream, she marry an Indonesian guy, which the guy is a hacker. This is not true, there is not even single evidence that she stated like that, I follows all AKB48's news in Japanese, raw format and I get many sources, none is writing about she had a dream like that, the content of the article is purely fictions, and absolutely not following Wiki regulations!

Thanks in advance. -- やつこ／Muhammad Nur Hidayat／喜达亚 ^{(talk | contribs | email)} 16:27, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't read Indonesian at all, but I believe that this page is the way to contact administrators at id.wikipedia. Please note, there is not one administrator, there are likely hundreds of them. English Wikipedia, for example, has 851 admins. But I am pretty sure the link I included above is the noticeboard where you can contact an administrator at id.wikipedia. --Jayron 32 16:54, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How can I get a passage from the book "International handbook of universities"?

I cheeked in my country and I didn't find even 1 duplicate of this book (from years 2014-2015) in spite of we have the greatest libraries. I just need to see a passage on one university. I'm looking for any service for free or for money, that will enable me to reach this passage. Thanks 149.78.38.232 (talk) 19:26, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Try WP:REX, Wikipedia's "resource exchange", which is designed exactly to meet this kind of request. Good luck! --Jayron 32 19:32, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'm going to try it now. 149.78.38.232 (talk) 08:17, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]