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WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue I - March 2007

The inaugural March 2007 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter has been published. 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 04:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Mania6

Hi Phoebe,

After some search, I found this: <quote> Finally, 14:15h, I have my BoF-discussion about Localization on a globalizing project. The idea was to discuss the direction the Wiki-phenomenon would go. I gave two extreme alternatives: One big Wiki-Hive with all the content gathered together or on the other side a lot of fractioned wiki's with all specialized content. The discussion did not went as planned at all, we mostly discussed about languages, how the barriers between languages could be closed, how people from different projects, different languages could better cooperate. We came to one conclusion, that there should come a mother-wiki, connection all wiki's. That mother-wiki should link to all wiki's on a certain topic. For instance, when we talk about the topic of Amsterdam, it should link to the Wikitravel-article about Amsterdam, the Misplaced Pages-article (all language-editions) about Amsterdam, the quotations collection about Amsterdam in Wikiquote in all languages etc. Unfortunately we did not discuss who should set that up. </quote>

I wrote this ages ago, and this is the best I can get I think for LG1. Maybe I filled in one of your forms on the spot too, I recall there were forms, I don't whether I filled in one. Maybe I left some info there too. Note btw this quoted text comes from a text that is explicitly CC-BY-SA, and *not* GFDL. effeietsanders 00:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Children's encyclopedia

Phoebe, I apologise for not getting back to you on the Children's encyclopedia notion. I've just been very busy lately and will continue to be so (I'm in Chicago at the moment), but I wanted you to know I certainly haven't forgotten your posting. I'll get back in touch when things quieten down a bit. Hope you're well, Walkerma 08:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

See 2006 Misplaced Pages CD Selection etc --BozMo talk 14:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Grammar on DST page?

Your recent change to Daylight saving time left me puzzled. The original text "Having almost everyone agree about the layout of the day confers…" is proper grammar, just has "Having money makes me happy" is proper grammar. But I can't parse the revised text "Having almost everyone agrees that the layout of the day confers…". Perhaps the original text could stand improvement, but the revision seems to make things less grammatical. Eubulides 20:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I replaced the wording with "General agreement about the day's layout confers…"; hope that suffices. Eubulides 20:55, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

you're right, I botched it; but see rewriting suggestions on your talk page. cheers, -- phoebe/(talk) 01:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, well, the current sentence evidently isn't clear enough, since all the suggested paraphrases missed the point. The intent is that if society has general agreement about the day's layout, then society gets a lot of advantages (due to synchronized scheduling). It's not that we have general agreement that DST is good (we don't), nor is it merely that most of us use DST (it's obvious that we do); nor is it even that we agree that the day's layout confers many advantages (most of us have never thought about it). Admittedly the point is a subtle one, but in my defense I'm trying to use a single sentence to summarize a key point in a long paper by a winner of the Nobel prize in economics. Anyway, perhaps my explanation can help you suggest better wording? Eubulides 16:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you!

Hi Phoebe,

Thanks for helping out with William Astbury! He was one of the first biographies I worked on here, and I still feel affection for him; he seemed so full of life and enthusiastic about science. And of course, he basically did all the pioneering structural work in molecular biology, even if his models weren't quite right.

I'm glad to meet you, too; what a nice serendipity! :) I've been here almost a year, and I can't believe that we haven't crossed paths before. I'm more of a knitter, and I dabble some in science; but I have been working on library science, too, sort of. That is, I've been working on the Encyclopædia Britannica, which is now at FAC. By the way, thank you so much for doing such a beautiful job with Ephraim Chambers and his encyclopedia; it really helped me! :) Willow 23:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

LC

See that talk page. My email is active. I work at WP odd hours, almost always at least 20:00 to 5:00 UDC though not necessarily continuously, but often longer at each end, like now. DGG 09:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Responses to this whole mess are at my talk page. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 02:12, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

And now, another response. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 12:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Whew!

Hey Phoebe,

Thank you so much for your good wishes! It was your Support that turned the corner for me; I was feeling a little despondent then, thinking that hardly anyone liked the article, no matter how hard I worked on it. Your word "lovely" fell like gentle rain upon the parched ground beneath. Now that it's an FA, I feel a wonderful serenity, like when a beautiful story comes to a close — although I know that people will dispute over it, still it feels as though all is right with the world. Willow 10:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

LC Articles

IRT the LC articles, yeah...

I wasn't wild about having it in Misplaced Pages because I wouldn't personally look to see them there. But they definitely do belong in a wiki. Wikisource seemed liked a reasonable place to me. I'm definitely glad they are back in some form. —mako (talk•contribs) 13:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikicite and Wikicat

Hi Phoebe, I hope you're well. You may already be familiar with the m:Wikicite and w:Wikicat library-related projects on meta. We are now preparing to test this system on a password-entry wiki we have at my college - we expect to have things uploaded in the coming weeks. If you would be interested in helping advise in "piloting" this project please let me know here. Cheers, Walkerma 23:43, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Greetings from Covell Drive

Thanks for your Misplaced Pages guidance.... it helped tremendously. I'm informed... and I hope they are... Ben HVX 21:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue II - May 2007

The May 2007 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter has been published. 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 06:25, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

s:Wikisource:Scriptorium#RDF + Wikisource + Zotero

I remember that you are a librarian and I was wondering if you could comment at all on this discussion or direct us to anyone else with a library science background that might be interested in advising us.--BirgitteSB 13:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Just thinking of you

• Hey, sweetie =) I was just trundling through WP-land and I was thinking of you, so I thought* I'd say hello. I hope you're having a lovely and delectable weekend. *hugs and happiness unto you* -Kenllama 17:34, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
  • RecentChangesCamp sounds like fun, and kind of wacky. What does one do at an in-person wiki? -Kenllama 20:37, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

re: DSB template

Hi Phoebe, {{DSB}} works nearly the same as {{cite encyclopedia}} , except that a few of the parameters have already been filled out. Cheers, —Ruud 00:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

reference search

Hi Phoebe, I wandered by your userpage and noticed the line "I will individually work with anyone who needs help finding or verifying sources." I have one that has me stuck. I am currently trying to expand and reference Rwandan Civil War. However, there is a huge block of text introduced by an anon on a rotating IP, and moved into the current article, that is both more detailed than any of the books I'm using while still appearing to be kosher. I would much rather source the statements than remove them, but posts for help on identifying the source at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Military history/African military history task force and Misplaced Pages talk:Africa-related regional notice board have gone unanswered. I don't suppose you can give me a lead? Thanks, BanyanTree 06:17, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

see your talk page -- I'll try, but it's not my area. -- phoebe/(talk) 19:44, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Teehee

I admit, I laughed Raul654 02:42, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

omglatwpaot

cat:del-admins, fools and money (1 2). and don't forget TKO.

+sj +

Nature (journal)

Hi Phoebe, that's interesting. There just doesn't seem to be a good spot for journals on the GA list, huh? It's interesting because on the one hand it's a publication (the media section), on the other hand it's about science (but there's no general sciences, in that list), and even then, it's really largely of academic interest (education section, i guess), even though it has a general audience. Of course, I think the sad thing is that nothing like Nature ever got to GA before, but we have at least 50 manga series (no offense intended if you like Manga, but I think you probably catch my meaning). --JayHenry 15:35, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The fan stuff doesn't really bother me. I'm a little disappointed with the frequency with which it shows up on the Main Page, but other than that, it's not as if I'm forced to look at it. And I think that people who want to improve the seriousness of Misplaced Pages need to focus on improving core topics, rather than AfD-ing accurate, if uninteresting to me, "fancruft." But I digress.

I can't take credit for Nature. I found it in good shape and saw that all it needed was a little polishing. A general sciences category sounds good to me and I'd suggest we propose it at the Good article talk page, although it'd be nice if we could identify a few more members first... --JayHenry 19:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

See you in Taipei!

Hi Phoebe, and thank you for the nice feedback about Can-we-link-it! I'm looking forward to Taipei, although until I saw the Tourism coordination page, I hadn't realised that anyone was getting there early, so I arranged my flights to spend a few days in Hong Kong beforehand instead, to get more used to the heat and humidity (I'm coming from the middle of winter in the Southern Hemisphere). And if any tours do get organized that would be cool, because my partner was looking at the two Hacking Days and wondering what to do in Taipei with them ... I guess if nothing gets organized, there's always the Lonely Planet guidebooks + a sense of adventure! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 09:05, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Onvia

Admittedly, I do have more to learn about companies on here. Sorry for the mishap. (Though I'm wondering why 2 minutes is fast to get tagged; many nn-articles get tagged within 1 minute in my experience.) Also I have been known to double check or have second thoughts on some articles, so in the end I hopefully don't make as many mistakes as I would've. Cheers and happy editing. :) -WarthogDemon 20:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)