User talk:Nkocharh

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Plasmawr

Hi, do you actually go to Ysgol Gymraeg Plasmawr? Because the school's pupils are not all mostly disicples of Islam. Cf38 (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Nope, I do not. I was simply doing some disambiguation link repair on the subject of rowing. -Nkocharh (talk) 00:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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Thanx

Thanx for pointing out the signature issue. I did that when signature was not on by default, circa 2006 ;)
An update, I saw that u cleaned up the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Images_to_improve & made it very nice/easy for people to state. How did u do that? If you could guide me to the process, would know what to do as & when I want to add something to the basket of icons already done. --Shirishag75 (talk) 14:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey, you're welcome, glad you got the sig figured out.

As for your other question, I wasn't the one who moved things around. But are you talking about the <gallery> tag? We use that a lot at the Graphic Lab to collect a bunch of images. Click "edit" on one of the tasks that has a group of images and you'll see how it works.— ʞɔıu 07:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Cool, would have to try that sometime --Shirishag75 (talk) 12:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Open-sourcing the Fed graph

Response on my talk page. --Kbh3^rdtalk 21:15, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

the rest of the electoral college maps

you've done great work on the 2004, 2000, 1996, and 1992 electoral maps. However, I notice that the maps from 1836 to 1976 have the inverse color scheme we have come to know and society has eventually standardized, with red=Democrat and blue=Republican. I believe that having maps with that scheme is extremely confusing and also has the effect of making historical studies and comparisons difficult. I notice the modern color scheme is used on the 1980-1988 maps, but they have the old style png.s. Would it be possible you could update all the maps from 1836-1988 to not only the svg format, but also the standard color scheme red=Republican, blue=Democrat? I know the old scheme was once used, but having it on maps looked at today is obselete, and anachronism, and confusing. thank youTallicfan20 (talk) 04:55, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

hey, I'm wondering if you could possibly make those electoral maps in the style of 1992-2004 with the svg. I have no idea how to do them.Tallicfan20 (talk) 08:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

The Confederate States map, could you tweak it?

Hi, I was wondering if you could rework your CSA map a bit. It's a little inaccurate, the states in dark green are shown as "formally" seceding from the US, and actually about 2/3's of West Virginia formally seceded from the US. If you look at the map I made (not very good, I'm afraid) on the History of West Virginia page, the green & white map in the "Civil War" section, you will see what I mean. Perhaps a third color would work. If it's too much trouble, don't bother about it. Thanks. Dubyavee (talk) 06:04, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

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Question about choice of colors

Are you the person who originally made the Electoral College maps like this one? If so, I'm just curious about how you decided on the particular shades of red and blue that you used. Was there a discussion about it somewhere? Were you inspired by something? Did you just like the way it looked? Äþelwulf Talk to me. 10:51, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I am the person who made the first couple of those EC maps. IIRC those colors are slight variations on the colors from another map, which I cannot now find. The reason I chose the pastels over the primary colors was that the places where the two met just looked so much better. You can see it, I think, in the primary color maps that remain: the red and blue really just do not gel at the edges. There was never a discussion; I decided to be bold, and one person questioned it, but no community discussion ever came of it that I saw. I lost interest after making several maps and then it looks like someone else took over. — ʞɔıu 08:56, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Chunnel traffic: Request for an update

If I followed the right link, you are the creator of the Channel Tunnel traffic figures diagram. This is a notification for my update request at the file's Talk page. --Rontombontom (talk) 19:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Yep, that's me! Thanks for the update, I'll create a new graph. — ʞɔıu 23:24, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Done!— ʞɔıu 06:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I updated the Summary and the actal traffic data table.--Rontombontom (talk) 10:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Lost negation in article on thread safety

I'm a little confused about this change to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_safety: 20:22, 26 January 2008 Nkocharh (talk | contribs) (5,708 bytes) (→Implementation: grammar, punctuation fixes) (undo)

You remove the "not" from this sentence: These variables retain their values across subroutine and other code boundaries, and are thread-safe since they are local to each thread, even though the code which accesses them might not be reentrant.

I'd like to restore that "not", because even in functions which are NOT reentrant, the code remains thread safe if thread local variables are used. Reentrant functions are by the definition already thread safe.

I'm not a native English speaker so maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but then maybe the sentence needs to be rewritten so it's clearer what's really meant.

85.112.166.110 (talk) 09:14, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi 82,

First off, sorry for the delay! I was on vacation for a month and wasn't checking Wikipedia.

You are correct, that change is technically accurate, but obscures the point that clause is trying to make. I was 80% through a rebuttal before I figured out what the sentence was meant to say, though. :-) So I think your suggestion of rewriting the sentence is a good one. How about:

"Variables are localized so that each thread has its own private copy. These variables retain their values across subroutine and other code boundaries and are thread-safe since they are local to each thread. Because of this, code which accesses only local and thread-local variables can safely be non-reentrant." — ʞɔıu 08:52, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

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File:Chunnel_traffic.svg

Hello,

I’ve uploaded a French version of the graph File:Chunnel_traffic.svg you’ve made some time ago, and slightly adapted your file, due to a minor purple/cyan issue (Firefox complied to the SVG code: purple line with cyan crosses, but Wikimedia interpreted it in a nicer way: both the line and the crosses are drawn in purple). This avoid visitors to see different result according to the way they look at the SVG file (and maybe Wikimedia will fix its SVG-to-PNG module some day). I assumed you won’t mind this change (feel free to revert it otherwise).

Note that given I don’t have the software you’ve used to create the SVG, and to avoid messing it up, I haven’t updated the graph with 2009 data. Feel free to edit the French version File:Chunnel_traffic-fr.svg in case you wish to update both your English version & my French translated version.

— MetalGearLiquid ^[chat] 02:29, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Note : in case you wish posting a message on my French wiki discussion page, feel free to use either English or French.

I have added the 2009 data to the tables on the graph's commons page. Seeing that you (Nkocharh) weren't active on Wikipedia for some time but hoping that you are still lurking, I ask: could you update the graph now? --Rontombontom (talk) 08:41, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

In the end I downloaded Gnuplot and ran your script to create the updated version myself. If you have some problem with that, you are of course free to revert it. --Rontombontom (talk) 10:04, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I hadn't logged in for over a month. Thanks for taking the initiative and DLing gnuplot! — ʞɔıu 08:32, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Wrong licensing

Hi, please remember that you cannot release a derivative image of a file licensed under a Creative Commons license into the public domain. I fixed the license and added attribution, which is required. Please be careful with possible copyright violation (especially of maps, you have made many of those), thanks. Hekerui (talk) 18:01, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

And please remember, when someone modifies a public domain image and puts it under a cc-by-sa license, that license has to be used for a new derivative work of that image because of the share-alike portion of the license. Hekerui (talk) 18:21, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out and for fixing it! Oversight on my part. — ʞɔıu 14:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I forgot I wanted to thank you for creating this map. So, thank you. Regards Hekerui (talk) 21:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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