User talk:Wittylama

Contact me please?

John Horner at the ABC. We spoke after your recent presentation. Call the ABC on 8333 1500 and ask for me or horner.john[at]abc.net.au — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.2.218.132 (talk) 00:46, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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Barnstar

		The Real Life Barnstar
		For convening the most amazing GLAM conference, I give you this! I hope that you continue to organize many events to come! Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 16:14, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

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GLAM OTRS

I saw that you are looking for volunteers for glam@wikimedia.org OTRS queue. I would like to help.Thelmadatter (talk) 13:24, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

We're recruiting art lovers!

Archives of American Art Wikimedia Partnership - We need you!

Hi! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about art to participate in furthering art coverage on Wikipedia. I am planning contests and projects that will allow you access, no matter where you live, to the world's largest collection of archives related to American art. Please sign up to participate here, and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 00:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Check your blog security

I've not visited http://www.wittylama.com/ for a while and wanted to check it out. Avast! warns me the page is infected and doesn't let it go any further - this is very rare. I then disable it and proceed anyway thinking it was a false positive, but just to check, I look at what it's loading in AdBlockPlus. It tries loading stuff from http://gpjgnrhytn.cz.cc/ and http://zfqseenlwy.cx.cc/ which is as dodgy as fuck. Avast! classifies it as Threat:HTML:IFrame-OZ[Trj] - hahnchen 22:24, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Hahnchen, I've been trying to get it fixed but can't seem to get anywhere :-( Witty Lama 02:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

You have so much goodwill from the Wikimedia community. Just give root access to your site to one of the techies you trust and I'm sure they'll sort it out. - hahnchen 20:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, it looks like you have sorted it out. - hahnchen 20:05, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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—Tom Morris (talk) 16:32, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Your contributed article, 2011 Oslo bombing

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Click tracking

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Click tracking template. — Dispenser 01:56, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

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Your trip to South Korea

This is Tomo from Japanese Wikipedia. We had a short talk after the GLAM presentation at Wikimania 2011. As for your trip to South Korea in October, I wonder if you can make a stop in Japan. There are a couple individuals who make contacts with GLAMs, but their progress is rather unclear because the movements are not shared publicly. I am sure there are many GLAM professionals who are interested in collaboration with Wikipedia, but in my opinion, they just don't know hot to get started. If you can cone, I will do my best to arrange your stay in Japan, so keep me updated about your schedule. Thanks. --Tomo_suzuki ( talk ) 13:30, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

There will be a Library Fair & Forum in Japan from November 9 to 11. All kinds of GLAM people (25,000 of them in 2010) gather in one place near Tokyo. We probably are able to book a time for your lecture. Please let me know if you are available. --Tomo_suzuki ( talk ) 17:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikimania!

	Wikifriends Award
	So happy to see in Haifa. See you again soon my friend. <3 In #wikilove, SarahStierch (talk) 11:37, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Museums external links templates

Hi,

Allison from the Israel Museum asked me to create a template like {{MoMAartist}} to link to her museum's site. I created {{IMJ-IAC}} and i was surprised to find out that there's no category for such templates. I created Category:Museums external links templates and put these two there. Do you know any other templates that would fit?

Thanks. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:20, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

I just saw the template you did. I put it on Nahum Tevet's article and informed User:Drkup(IMJ) about its use.

Maybe a template for the collection's search, ie for this.

Maybe a category for keeping track of the IMJ articles called "Artists at Israel Museum"? Bgwhite (talk) 21:12, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Wow Drkup(IMJ) (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Norway!

	Main speaker
	Hello Liam! We have invited you to speak at our Museums conference at Lillehammer, Norway on November 16. Your web site has been down the last days and I'm not sure if you got my email. Please email me back on bjorn.olav.tveit@kulturrad.no cheers, Bjørn Olav Tveit Arts Council Norway Bjørn Olav Tveit (talk) 08:32, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Ted misses you

	Presenting: Teddy's Wikipedia song
	Since you're a real-life friend of Theodore Phillips (and because he's actually cried over you leaving), you're much deserving of this Teddy WikiLove. LoriLee (talk) 23:35, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Changed one of your edits

I moved Auk back to high importance - we typically rate all family level articles as high importance (genus are mid and species generally low). This isn't reflective of the overall importance of the article to Wikipedia, just to the project. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Understood. Sorry for the confusion. But I reckon it's still better than a 'start' so I'm glad to be able to push it up to 'C' at least! :-) Wittylama 21:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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GLAMCamp Amsterdam

Hi

I met with Fæ a couple of weeks ago and he recommend me come to GLAMcamp Amsterdam, I've set up WP:GLAM/MonmouthpediA . I think it fairly certain I can get a travel sponsorship from Wikimedia UK. I went to sign on the list, it said to contact you. Is there any space left at the camp? I'm guessing there is no space left on the boatel?

All the best

Mrjohncummings (talk) 11:29, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Office Hours

Hey Wittylama! I'm just dropping you a message because you've commented on (or expressed an interest in) the Article Feedback Tool in the past. If you don't have any interest in it any more, ignore the rest of this message :).

If you do still have an interest or an opinion, good or bad, we're holding an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 GMT/UTC in #wikimedia-office to discuss completely changing the system. In attendance will be myself, Howie Fung and Fabrice Florin. All perspectives, opinions and comments are welcome :).

I appreciate that not everyone can make it to that session - it's in work hours for most of North and South America, for example - so if you're interested in having another session at a more America-friendly time of day, leave me a message on my talkpage. I hope to see you there :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Hey, Liam! Acknowledging that office hours sessions are normally pretty...what's the polite word...shit for those in the south-and-right-a-bit-hemisphere (what with being held at around 4am) I'm holding a session on Saturday at 3am UTC in #wikimedia-office on the Article Feedback Tool. Hopefully that fits nicely into the middle of the aussie day, and you can attend :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 05:40, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

November 2011

Please do not spam facebook groups with links to wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to your latest DYK, invitations for people to give you wikilove, and links to some obscure wiki project in which you are involved. If you feel that your friends on facebook could be interested in some link to something on wikipedia, then please be aware that someone is likely to wiki stalk your talk page and/or leave a humourous message in greeting. Please take this realllllly seriously and keep this in mind when considering that this is a humourous warning in flagrant breach of WP:DTTR. Thank you. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 07:40, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Don't beat yourself up about it and I promise I won't either. :) I'm really just saying 'hi'. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 03:02, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Florence Violet McKenzie‎

Wow. Amazing piece of work. Thanks! — Hebrides (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool newsletter

Hey, all! A quick update on how version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool is developing. I'm sending this to both newsletter recipients and regular participants, because I appreciate we've been a bit quiet :).

So, we're just wrapping up the first round of user contributions. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed ideas (a full list of which can be found at the top of the page); thanks almost entirely to contributions by editors, the tool looks totally different to how it did two months ago when we were starting out. Big ideas that have made it in include a comment voting system, courtesy of User:Bensin, an idea for a more available way of deploying the feedback box, suggested by User:Utar, and the eventual integration of both oversight and the existing spam filtering tools into the new version, courtesy of..well, everyone, really :).

For now, the devs are building the first prototypes, and all the features specifications have been finalised. That doesn't mean you can't help out, however; we'll have a big pile of shiny prototypes to play around with quite soon. If you're interested in testing those, we'll be unveiling it all at this week's office hours session, which will be held on Friday 2 December at 19:00 UTC. If you can't make it, just sign up here. After that, we have a glorious round of testing to undertake; we'll be finding out what form works the best, what wording works the best, and pretty much everything else under the sun. As part of that, we need editors - people who know just what to look for - to review some sample reader comments, and make calls on which ones are useful, which ones are spam, so on and so forth. If that's something you'd be interested in doing, drop an email to okeyes@wikimedia.org.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions so far. We're making good headway, and moving forward pretty quickly :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2011

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DYK for Florence Violet McKenzie

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

GLAMcamp

Hi Liam

Just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into GLAMserdam, you guys did a super job.

--Mrjohncummings (talk) 18:09, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Office Hours

Hey Wittylama; another Article Feedback Tool office hours session! This is going to be immediately after we start trialing the software publicly, so it's a pretty important one. If any of you want to attend, it will be held in #wikimedia-office on Friday 16th December at 19:00 UTC. As always, if you can't attend, drop me a line and I'm happy to link you to the logs when we're done. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum update

Kit Cat Klock

It's time again to share the latest news on the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Wikipedia project! In the last few months we have been busy with our third image donation, which was made up of 150 images that were professionally photographed specifically for this upload. We are asking for volunteers to categorize these images and distribute them into Wikipedia articles. Your help is appreciated! Check them out here.

We have also donated our first video and a second GLAM-Wiki Infographic to Commons. In September we were thrilled to welcomed Jimmy Wales to the museum. Following our successful Edit-a-Thon and Translate-a-Thon in August, translations have continued with the help of the established QRpedia community, (particularly Russian translations thanks to Lvova!) We have begun to analyze our implementation of QRpedia codes and completed an extensive case study. In November we presented at the Museum Computer Network conference about how museums can effectively collaborate with Wikipedia. You can see more details on the Prezi.

In more general news, in addition to serving as the Children's Museum's Wikipedian-in-Residence, it was recently announced that I will be taking on the role of US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role I will be working to streamline the process of connecting interested US GLAMs with the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know. Be sure to sign up for This Month in GLAM to keep up with the latest GLAM-Wiki news from around the world (subscribe).

We have a listing of High Need and Moderate Need requests on the Ways to Help section on the project page. I encourage you to lend a hand if you're able. While the Children's Museum partnership continues to truck along, we still are in desperate need of volunteers to help disperse our images and update and maintain content. Thank you for your time and help. Happy holidays! LoriLee (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut

Hi there, I've responded to the concerns you had about the DYK nomination for this article at the nomination page. Thanks for dropping by! Arctic Night 15:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)