User talk:Quinobi

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Community Project

As discussed on IRC, here is the text that will be deleted from the Build a Strong Community page. Angela. 15:04, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC) --snip--

Thanks Angela

Sorry for the confusion.

Quinobi 16:28, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

--snip--

Quinobi 22:11, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Community Project Scratchpad

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community started. Quinobi 20:26, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Community/Strategy opened Quinobi 9 July 2005 07:08 (UTC)

Community Project

New Project WikiProject_Culture

Are these the same?

• wikipedians - Wikipedia:Community Portal
• Wikipedians - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community

Are they related? Should they be? Quinobi 9 July 2005 01:04 (UTC)

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Hi - you have added a template to the talk page of the Wikipedia:Community Portal. According to the project-page this must be a mistake: it is not on your list of articles that are supposed to have this template, and vice versa, it says on the project page that only articles on this list are supposed to have a template. So I will remove it for now. (The community portal is the main page of wikipedia for those who are not just readers.) Other than that: interesting project, many sociology-articles absolutely need to be improved. --Fenice 20:35, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

DOH! Broke my own rule, I did. Thanks Fenice Quinobi 20:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They are on the list now. I'll try another WPN soon:

Module:WikiProject banner/doc
This page is a soft redirect.

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Wikipedia Bootcamp

Bootcamp is a very nice place to hang out. It's an experience!

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WikiProjects

WikiProject_Computer_science

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science is now open and looking for a founder and core members.

(please respond here ^^^)

Once a WikiProject's page has been created, now comes the hard part—filling in all the different sections and trying to turn the WikiProject into a functioning group instead of the all-too-many dead-on-arrival WikiProjects that fill up Wikipedia:WikiProjects. I am still populating the Southern California WikiProject, but so far only a few people have signed on to the project. I'm hoping that at the SoCal meetup in a few weeks that I'll be able to get a few more people interested. BlankVerse ∅ 04:37, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject_Culture

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Culture and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Culture opened at the same time from two completely separate people that were working independantly.

I was finishing the table for Template:WikiProject_Wikiportal for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikiportals architecture task. Both the project and the portal links for the Culture topic were red when i left the template to go drop the newly revamped Template:WikiProject onto a blank Wikipedia:WikiProject_Culture page.

I gets back to the table to check if the link went blue - it did - and so did the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Culture Link!!! Timalsameously! I thought that was kwite kewl. But then again, I'm easily entertained :) Quinobi 9 July 2005 07:27 (UTC)

WikiProject_Counterculture

WikiWhat?!

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Counterculture is a page now here. It will be deleted if now one shows. Really who needs it? Quinobi 03:57, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikicite project page

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite To add a card catalog and citation features. Stirling Newberry 23:50, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Looks neat at a glance. I'm transient (as in homeless) at the time, but I'll be back in a few weeks, maybe. Up in the air. Quinobi 01:33, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm still a vagabond. Please pray for me.Quinobi 18:27, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

template:WikiProject

Since I have recently created two new WikiProjects (California and Southern California) and am going to try to get the currently dead-in-the-water Templates WikiProject jump-started, I figured that I would try to copy and/or adapt some of the additions and deviations from the template:WikiProject that I've liked in successful WikiProjects and add them into the new WikiProjects. Since I was doing that, I figured that I might as well as add those additions to the WikiProject template at the same time so that others might also be able to take advantage of those ideas. BlankVerse ∅ 4 July 2005 20:48 (UTC)

I'm glad you did - nice thoughtful work! I'm going to write an article for the Signpost under the new WikiPraxis column I'm starting to maybe help generate some excitment and participation in an overhaul of WikiProjects, which I want to give the mematic name - WikiProject Central. Is that too corny? Hopefully, also we can make a sort of subportal to place on the Community_portal with that same name or a better one. see the discussion on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community/Strategy and let me know what you think. Thanks for the prompt reply :) Quinobi 4 July 2005 21:15 (UTC)

WikiProject_Wikidemia/WikipediaIRC

IRC:The definitive guide to WikipediaIRC is here. The study I'm doing is here #wikipedia = sux | #wpbootcamp = rox

WikiProject_Keywords

I like tractors and the mathemematital constructs that describe traction. (getting somewhere). I have an idea to generate and manage keyword files see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Keywords

WikiProject_help_desk

I think this is a timely project: Wikipedia:WikiProject_help_desk and works well with WP:BC! Quinobi 04:30, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Memphis Sound

I'm working on an article The Memphis Sound and associated Aticles: Mar-keys, Don Nix, Duck Dunn and others... Some, I thought may criticize me for writing about a relative in an encyclopedic context. Silly me. I've found that nobody seems to mind, care, comment, or even notice, so that's that. I'll do what i think is right. I have fond memories of visiting Stax at it's peak. See Talk:Stax_Records On second thought, don't.

Question about the Mar-keys/Mar-Keys page

Hi, late last night I stumbled on the "Mar-keys" page while doing some research on other articles. I added a discography to the stub you started. I looked at several Mar-Keys album covers via graphic scans of the covers shown at allmusic.com (although I do have at least one of their albums in my collection too) because I thought your spelling looked odd. I saw that all of them but one spelled it "MAR-KEYS" so that it was hard to tell the right capitalization for regular text until I found the Damnifiknow/Memphis Experience double reissue cover, which spelled it "Mar-Keys." I then proceeded to try to use the Move tab to move the page from Mar-keys to a Mar-Keys page. I think I did it incorrectly somehow because now there are two pages for the band with different spellings instead of one.

I also have just now discovered that you noted "this is the right spelling" in the edit History for the original Mar-keys page stub. Before I take further action by asking an administrator how to correctly merge the two pages into a single Mar-Keys entry, I would like to first make sure we agree I am right about the spelling since you seemed to have some reason for spelling it the way you did. Please advise. Nice to meet another person interested in Memphis music. Bebop 19:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)Bebop

I concur that the spelling should be Mar-Keys. I'm not sure how to move a page either, but yes, it's nice to find another Memphis music fan! Quinobi 13:48, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think they took care of it per a request I put up. Glad to know you are ok with all that. I was afraid I'd learn I made a mistake. Thanks for the reply. Bebop 19:14, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Space race

see Space Race references: Arrows to the Moon (2001) Gainor ISBN 1-896522-83-1

A suggestion: Unless you are going to expand the Avro team article sometime soon, you should merge the info into the main Avro article and do a redirect from Avro team to Avro. gK ¿? 22:23, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the suggestion. Quinobi 15:21, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Classification of Wikipedia Content

List of discuusions on this topic

• Wikipedia_talk:Browse perhaps the definative top-level
  • Wikipedia_talk:Wikiportal
  • Wikipedia_talk:Category
  • Wikipedia_talk:Category_schemes
  • Wikipedia talk:Template messages:
    • Template_talk:Categories
    • Template_talk:Wikiportal
• add another

Projects underway

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject WikiProject Central
  • Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Usability most active
  • Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories admirable effort
    • Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Main_Page my hairbrainda schema
      • Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Wikiportals A consortium of WikiProjects

Comments

(reactions, flames, support ...)

KERA

Hi, thanks for your nice note about the category on the Kentucky Education Reform Act. But I think you gave me too much credit. I just added the Kentucky category. I wanted to take it out of the Personal Life category, but I couldn't figure out how. Maurreen 04:41, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Fact and reference check

Hello, many people want to move forward with the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check project instead of waiting for 'smart' footnotes to be coded into MediaWiki. The first step is agreeing upon a formatting template used to fact check new articles. Several candidates are up for vote, and everyone is encouraged to vote and/or submit their own proposal. Comments on proposals are also very much welcome.

Thanks for your interest in our project, I hope you will vote :o). --ShaunMacPherson 10:19, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Voting has officially begun

Hi there. I noticed that you voted before it had officially started, so I just wanted to remind you to review the proposals again if you want- since it counts now. We didn't get a proposal for the tooltips idea, as suggested on the talk page. While I am not sure of why, I think it's most probably because it isn't default for all users, so only a few people will appreciate it. There is another proposal that allows for multiple references per footnote, but only one footnote per sentence. This will reduce clutter. -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 04:57, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Biweekly special article

Dear Fact and Reference Check member,

After many months, the biweekly special article has been brought back! The article we will be referencing is Titan (moon). Please do your best to help out!

I'm asking all members to verify at least three facts in the article, and I'd really appreciate it if you could try and help with this. We have about 19 members, so if even 3/4 of us try and fulfil this 'dream', that'll be 45 references!

If you need some information on how to use footnotes, take a look at Wikipedia:Footnote3, which has a method of autonumbering footnotes. Unfortunately, they produce brackets around the footnotes, but it seems to be our best alternative until they integrate the footnote feature request code into MediaWiki. You may be interested in voting for the aforementioned feature request.

Cheers,

Frazzydee|✍ 20:03, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Yeah OK. What next? Quinobi 06:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

LiquidThreads

Morning to you too Quinobi :) Zach 23:52, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Problems with articles

Sometimes I mess up a bit. If/when you find a problem with an article I started or an edit I made, please place it under here. Also, please observe the established formatting and sign/date your post. Quinobi 03:35, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• WikiProject Time

I don't think this article belongs in the main namespace (looks like a personal essay). Thue | talk 20:25, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well it is a bit of an essay. Basically I was a little peaved because I want to learn more about wikipedia strategies for representing timelines as in development timelines, histories, and especially maps that relate time to the building of infrastructural things like railroads, canals and communication links. I guess I learned how to get peoples attention. You folks should be more mindful of newcomers' needs. It's extremely difficult to get strait answers around here.Quinobi 13:20, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What i do when I experiment is make subpages in my user space. Like User:ShaunMacPherson/Timeline :) --ShaunMacPherson 10:19, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, Shaun Quinobi 03:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Miniaturization

You've got a 'disputed' tag on this article (along with a promise to correct it dating back to October of last year). Can you please take a look and see if you can correct it, specify what it is, or remove the tag? I don't know the issue, I'm just trying to close out old disputes. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Cheers, -Willmcw 08:58, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

oops. I forgot all about that one. (I guess it was too small to remember ;) I removed the disputed tag and put it on my watchlist. I'll try to get back to it soon. Quinobi 03:35, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

• Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

I have now reopened the notice board, if you are interested in contributing new topics, or in nominating articles for the Collaboration of the Week, which also received a revamp. Please post on the project's talk page if you show interest. Mike H 02:48, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Mike. It looks a lot better Quinobi 03:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Template:WikiHash (directory)

Heads up on template deletion

In case you haven't noticed, someone has nominated your Template:WikiHash (directory) for deletion. You might want to go comment on it at WP:TFD. - dcljr (talk) 2 July 2005 00:32 (UTC)

Your template

Since the template was considered a work in progress on WP:TFD, and several people didn't want it deleted outright, I have moved it to your userspace here: User:Quinobi/WikiHash (directory). It looks promising; please continue working on it, consider advertising at the village pump for feedback, and use the 'move' tab to put it back in mainspace when it is complete. Yours, Radiant_>|< July 7, 2005 09:45 (UTC)

Thanks for removing it from the limelight, Radiant. I didn't know it would create such a fuss. Quinobi 7 July 2005 14:23 (UTC)

Wikipedia research

Hey there Quinobi, thanks for your message on my talk page. Sorry if it's taken me a little while to reply to you, I've been doing a lot of paper reading and working on my project plan (5000 words for a 20,000 word topic), so I though I'd start posting about academic stuff once I'd revamped my research page, which I did today take a look if you're interested. I'm getting a lot cloer to an idea about what I want to write about, although the difficulty at the moment is finding the books - tracking down Ted Nelson's stuff is proving to be an absolute nightmare, and Pierre Levy isn't much easier - I suppose this shows that there needs to be a lot more academic work on the subject, so I'm taking it as a good thing.

I've got a lot of ideas regarding your topic 'Is the term community worn out', so i'm going to take a look at Wikidemia now, thanks again for your message, and hope to have more discussion at some point.illWill 7 July 2005 16:44 (UTC)

The paper is looking great! Let me know if I can help. I'm tracking you on Nelson and Levy. Got Ciffolilli pinned to the board though I believe.

I've started on Wikidemia - NotReady-forPrimeTime version and an encyclopedic review of Phantom authority. I hope to get ALL the Wikidemians working on these "objective" self-references that may just be OK to put in the main namespace.

Feel free to scratch on the community scratchpad. It's fer group-thinkin' and brainstormin' see up there ^^^. Quinobi 9 July 2005 07:50 (UTC)

Wikipedia Culture

Objective direct study of Wikipedia:Village pump in nearly Real Time:

Thank you, I try to do my level best. [1] Uncle Ed July 9, 2005 16:07 (UTC)

Yes the Village Pump, I Imagine was quit different back in the day, Eh? Quinobi 9 July 2005 16:15 (UTC)

/join

That sounds like a *great* idea. I am interested to see your draft. Thanks for your idea. Triddle 04:40, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Ok dokie! I'm on it :) sorry I missed you at #wpbootcamp. Next time stay longer! Quinobi 04:44, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Comp sci project

I'm honored that you'd ask, but I really shouldn't accept such a responsibility as I would not be able to give it my full attention now or likely in the near future. In the upcoming couple of months there will likely be several weeks where I will be without internet access, and I really need to get back to PMEX, which I put on hiatus while working on CDVF. You may want to ask someone like Dysprosia or GMaxwell. CryptoDerk 18:36, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

garbage tag in scope for wikiproject

You put a garbage tag around a certain portion of the scope section in WikiProject Bangladesh. I am not sure why this was needed or what it was intended for. Would you mind explaining a bit? -- Urnonav 03:34, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

I actually removed some garbage that was in the scope portion left there by the old template. Back before I knew what was going on, I inadvertantly placed irrelevant content on the template rather than on the WikiProject I was creating. The template carried the irrelevant content to a whole range of WikiProjects that used that template. The list ofeffected projects is on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject. Sorry for the confusion. Does this explain, OK? I was trying to repair some damage I caused. The WikiProject Bangladesh looks to be coming along well. Quinobi 04:10, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Yeah I know how it feels to go switch a whole lot of things back. Thanks for the comments on our projects. Hope we can do some good work for our wiki-community here. -- Urnonav 04:39, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Your help

Hi Quinobi, I sincerely appreciate your help. Btw, I really like your initiative to clean up the orphaned Wikiprojects and provide the motivating force to bring them together in a cohesive unit. Keep up the good work =) Triddle 01:13, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Media Project

Hi, thanks for getting your name on the Media project. I see you have a good amount of experience on projects, that's great. I'm having trouble getting the template namespace working correctly on project. I'll explain in another message on the project discussion page, perhaps you can help me there. I'll post more on that porject there. I'm going to look at adding this and another project to the journalism template. The Media Project and the Journalism Project should be added. I'll look at some of the ther things you've been doing, project wize. These Projects, they say, need at least 10 people or more. I have some editors you might might take some interest, at some point. Let's advertise it. Cheers, Calicocat 11:13, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

I did a lot of updating on the Media project, take a look. I think I finally am starting to understand about how to create templates. Calicocat 05:36, 29 July 2005 (UTC)