User talk:Magnus Manske

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Wikisort Project

Hey, I have started the WikiSort Project. Come on over and check it out!the1physicist 20:22, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

It is worth noting that this project will require some (potentially major) software changes. If you get the chance, would you mind dropping by and letting us know how difficult those changes might be? How long do you think it would take to implement most of them? (If approved, of course) Also, once the proposal has been finalized, how do we actually request software modifications? Thanks a bunch.the1physicist 05:17, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I have seen your feature, but I was wondering how much time and effort it would take to develop/implement the ideas specific to the WikiSort Project. I'm asking because I would like to give everyone a timeframe. Also, technical details aside, what do you think of the project?the1physicist 19:51, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Your understanding of the project is pretty much correct. Regarding vandalism, what we would do is take the last 10-100 ratings, and average them. Then we would exclude the top X% outliers and/or do a weighted average. The value of X should be in the vicinity of 10% and will need some experimentation. Also, it will probably vary slightly by article/category, etc. The impression I'm getting is that this rating system is simply waiting for adequate anti-vandalism techniques/selection algorithms. Is this correct? I think we can figure out some/most of those right now, but all teh sexy ones will have to wait until after the trial data collection phase. Thanks for all your help so far!the1physicist 16:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I haven't heard from you in a few days, so I was wondering if you got this ^ message. the1physicist 16:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Article Validation

I just stumbled upon the fact that the article validation feature will be enable shortly. I'm slightly concerned that no one told me considering my involvement in the wikisort project. Anyhow, I've got a couple of questions and/or couple of comments. How similar will it be to the test page at [1]? (I really hope we aren't using those categories. Excluding NPOV, those categories seem bogus, particularly the 'funny' rating.) What (if any) features/ideas have been included from the wikisort project? Also, will each category have it's own range (1-3, 1-5, 1-7, etc), or will it be standardized? Is this the much anticipated initial data collection phase? This is getting to be pretty darn exciting. Thanks again for all your hard work, it is very appreciated. EDIT: I almost forgot: when exactly is it going to be turned on? the1physicist 03:16, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

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Harrie Irving Hancock

I notice you moved the article H. Irving Hancock to Harrie Irving Hancock. The most predominant form of his name as used in published books is with the inital "H." In fact I don't know if he ever used his full first name. So for wikipedia purposes, is it desirable to use the form of a name a person is most well-known by for the title of the article? Andrew Sly 17:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your vote on my RFA

Now that the voting has officially closed, I would like to thank you very much for supporting my candidacy for adminstrator and as of 18:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC) I am an administrator. I will make sure to use the additional power judiciously and I welcome any comments you may have. --Reflex Reaction 19:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

User:O^O

I blocked this user because he was changing User pages very rapidly, turns out he was doing very efficient sockpuppet labelling. So I unblocked him straight away but later on he was apparently autoblocked. (block log)

The user sent me an e-mail containing the autoblock message:

BTW, I'm still blocked:

21:10, 2 November 2005, RoyBoy blocked #53551 (expires 21:10, 3 November 2005) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "O^O". The reason given for O^O's block is: "Spammer".)

On the advice of someone on IRC I blocked him for 15mins in an attempt to get rid of the autoblock glitch, but I doubt it was successful as the autoblock appeared to have already expired. I'm hoping you would be able to ensure the autoblock doesn't come back. Much thanks. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 16:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading BP photos

Hi, thanks for uploading your Bletchley Park photos to Commons. I'll try and get round to adding some of them to Bletchley Park articles once the image servers are working a little faster ;-) I had been trying to find out more information about a cipher machine on display at BP, and one of your photos included the caption card which had been added to the display since I last visited (the machine was Singlet; I blogged about it here). Cheers! — Matt Crypto 18:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Joris Karl Huysmans in Project Gutenberg catalog

On my talk page, you mentioned that there were two different entries for this author in the PG catalog. Thanks; I'll take a look at it. New entries are being automatically added every day so keeping up with this is a never-ending task, and there are always more inconsistancies that could be found if one wants to look closer. You are welcome to mention any further potentential problems on my talk page, or at the address catalog [at] pglaf. org, which will often get a swifter responce. Andrew Sly 07:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Image:Pcr.png

HI, I tried to upload a higher quality version of this image, redered from the .svg file created by you. It looks fine here, but really bad over here. Do you known what's wrong? Cheers, —R. Koot 20:05, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Maurice Rollinat

Thanks for starting his article! One of those things I've been meaning to do and never got a round to it. I'm frankly surprised to see that he was mentioned at all in the 1911 Britannica. I amended it with some data translated out of French Wikipedia. Smerdis of Tlön 19:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Importing Wikipedia into MySql

I downloaded one of the wikipedia database dumps today for research purposes (20051127_pages_articles.xml.7z), but I'm having trouble importing it into mysql. Google suggested I use Navicat, but the import wizard keeps freezing on step 5. Do you know what could be causing me grief, or is there a better way to import xml into MySql? Thanks a bunch. the1physicist 01:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

It just occured to me that I need to download one of the .sql files also. (There's nothing quite like that realization that you've been running your head into a wall for hours for no reason.) My question is, which one? Thanks again. the1physicist 01:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Encarta

Do you have the original, completely unpruned list of entries in Encarta? I've already gotten your deleted list, but I don't know if it was pruned at all. I need the completely unpruned list. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-10 13:13

What was wrong with the Harold Clifton image?

File:Harold-Wilberforce-Clifton.gif

Hi Magnus, you proposed the image of Harold Clifton for deletion, but failed to notify it on my talk page (I was the uploader), nor did you notify it on the Harold Clifton page. In the deletion process, without anyone looking, this image was deleted. And now we can't find what was wrong with it. Wim van Dorst 21:12, 11 December 2005 (UTC).

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69.145.112.94 (talk · contribs)

Looks like they just made two sneaky number-changing edits on the 24th. That's not good, but it doesn't look like any action is needed now. Jkelly 21:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Problem on your test site with stable versions

Please see here for details. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

PG list pruning

Thanks for the note about the PG list. I've extracted a list, compared them with what's already in the PG catalog, and begun adding links back to wikipedia, checking for inconsistancies as I go. I don't really have any easy way to make a list of "relevant" authors. However, I have started to make a list of PG authors I come across that seem significant enough to be worthy of note (i.e., I can find information about them online in other places) but do not seem to have wikipedia articles yet.

So here is a preliminary list:

• Holmes, Mary Jane, 1825-1907
• Edward Alexander Powell
• Eugene Demolder 1862-1919
• Dallas Lore Sharp (1870-1929)
• Andrejs Pumpurs (1841-1902)
• Connor, Ralph, Pseudonym, 1860-1937 (Charles William Gordon)
• Charles Alden Seltzer (Aug. 15, 1875 - Feb. 9, 1942)
• Rex Ellingwood Beach 1877-
• Augustus Thomas (1857-1934) Playwright

Would more like this in the future be helpful? Andrew Sly 01:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

New crossover lists?

Magnus,

There have been lots of new lists created at WP:MEA and I was wondering if you could cross some of them with the hotlist and general list. I have a feeling that the individual lists won't be very long so can I suggest that instead of separate pages a "GeneralxAll" and a "HotlistxAll" pages be created where the individual subprojects are listed as headers. If you don't have time I understand but I think it would be useful for directing creation. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 16:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Your new list is a much better way to do it. Thanks for creating it and I will look into pruning each of the items from the list. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 06:32, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany is being replaced by a category

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name transcription

Hello, I would like to write your name in Thai language in Mediawiki article. But I don't really know how to pronounce your name. I'm wondering if anyhow I can make a transcription your name. ;) --manop 01:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Magnus Manske available on IRC?

Are you (Magnus Manske) using IRC? I would like to discuss a few things with you regarding the biochemistry wikibook. Laz

Happy Magnus Manske Day!

Today is Magnus Manske Day, isn't it? Because of your incredibly important contributions during the early days of Wikipedia, you are now highly esteemed and considered "a really cool person" by the Wikipedia community. Here's to your godkingship. May your edits be neutral, civil, and efficient today and for many years to come. --TantalumTelluride 21:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh dear, I'm only the second person to wish you a Merry Magnus Manske Day?!?! What is the world coming to? Cheers. Here's to you. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 22:13, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy MM day, dear MM! Thanks for all you've done.  :) — Catherine\^talk 00:17, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

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dbenbenn | talk 18:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

you are studying computer sciences, not informatics

That term is as English as the term "handy" (DE) or as French as "friseur" (DE). -justme 217.91.47.231 13:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Immage of PCR cycle

I'm curious: You show the original primer templates re-annealing to each other and not participating in futher cycles. I was under the impression that they continued to participate in every cycle of PCR. Do you have any references to back this up (I admit that I don't have any to back up my statement)? This would be as much for my own interest as for accuracy. Friedgreenkillertomatoes 16:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for uploading Image:François Quesnay.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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Please dont forget to consider if arbitrary modification is permitted. For most 'public domain', 'copyright free', 'for publication purposes', 'promotion' pictures etc. only the permission for free copying and use in certain contexts is intended, but generally not for unrestricted use (they usually don't want a picture to be commercially exploited for itself for example in a mere picture collection, but only allow commercial use in contexts of an article in which reference to the image is made etc.) and especially not for modification. --Rtc 22:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Shock and Awe

Hello Magnus Manske, I don't want to cause any trouble because I'm new here (at least as an editor), so I'd like to talk off the record to a few good contributors about a problem I see on an article that you've edited. Your contributions seem solid, so maybe you can help me. I've been using the Wikipedia definition of "Shock and Awe" for several months because I like how it described the type of warfare that "Shock and Awe" is and also how it gave a link to a definition of "rapid dominance" (of which it claims to be a subset).

In the last couple of days, however, a user called JW1805 edited the article and I think he made the definition much worse.[2] It now says that "Shock and Awe is a military doctrine," whereas is used to say exactly what type of military doctrine it falls into: "Shock and Awe is a method of unconventional warfare." Isn't the old definition more informative? According to the definition of Conventional warfare, I don't think anyone could call it that. So, I think it's safe and informative to say that "Shock and Awe" fits into the definition of unconventional warfare, don't you?

Also JW1805 removed the link to "Rapid dominance," deleted the "Rapid dominance" article and redirected it to "Shock and Awe." Yet the "Shock and Awe" article still says, "Its authors label [shock and awe] a subset of Rapid Dominance." Does that make any sense to you? According to RUSI Journal 141:8-12 Oct '96, "Rapid dominance" is an "intellectual construct" whereas "Shock and awe" is one "method" of implementing that construct. Obviously they are not the same thing. So, why would JW1805 redirect "Rapid dominance" to "Shock and Awe?" Why would he delete the "Rapid dominance" article and the link to it?

I went to JW1805's talk page to speak directly to him, but I read what others have said to him, and it seems to be the same story: if you are only one person complaining, JW1805 considers you a troublemaker and has his friends ban you, but if more than one person gets together and says the same thing, he listens. If you feel the same way as I about his edits to "Shock and Awe" and "Rapid dominance," I'm sure we can work together to get the best definition back in place. Are you up for something like that? --Larnue the dormouse 22:41, 8 April 2006 (UTC)