User talk:ChristineBushMV

Congratulations on a job well done!

	WikiSOO Burba Badge
	Dear Christine: through your work on the open educational resources article for the online course Writing Wikipedia Articles, you have earned the WikiSOO Burba Badge. Thank you for taking our class, and congratulations on a job well done! As a badgeholder, you are now able to award the badge to others who earn it, as well. Happy editing! Pete (talk) 22:04, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on the WikiSOO Burba Badge, Christine! - Sara FB (talk) 00:28, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Encyclopedic knowledge

Christine, I just read encyclopedic knowledge. Fascinating survey of an important concept! Thanks for this contribution. -Pete (talk) 18:07, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar

Hi Christine, I wanted to congratulate you on achieving your badge (and taking the course a second time around) as well as to say, you are the kind of editor of whom we need more. Your calm inquisitiveness, unwavering diligence, and refreshing humility are all traits which are conducive to a productive, collaborative environment. I hope that when your course is over, you will still stick around and contribute to what I think you aptly described as an audacious mission. If you would ever need any help or support, I would be happy to assist you at my talk page, at the Teahouse, or via email, or try to pair you with a mentor who has similar editing interests as you. The great thing about editing Wikipedia is that you can come and go as you wish; there is no deadline, so even if you don't want to make a long-term commitment, pop in once in a while and find an article on which to work. I apologize for the lack of brevity, but I do sincerely hope you stay around after the conclusion of the course, and please don't hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance in any way. Sincerest regards, Go Phightins! 03:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help in class with the PhET article.

Christine, Congrats on the badge. Thanks for all your ideas during the Wikisoo class. I personally appreciate your active involvement in the class, labs, and have enjoying following your ideas on the OER article. I wonder if you would consider adding an ideas to the PhET Interactive Simulations article? For one, I shared your ideas for changing the title of the section OER Teaching Community, which you gave in lab, with some PhET team people, but it would be interesting (in my opinion) if you added to the talk page to see if we can get any input from others. Also, someone commented: "It seems that the “design and educational impact” could be greatly expanded, including a bullet list of design principles and a description of relevant learning theories (cognitive load, etc.)" I wonder if you have ideas that you could use to expand the article in this direction? I thought of asking you about this after reading the talk page on OER. thanks, Trish Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 00:49, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Good luck with your PhET article. ChristineBushMV (talk) 16:19, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

OER inquiry

Hi ChristineBushMV, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:37, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

About Hessy Levinsons Taft

Hello ChristinBushMV, my name is Howicus, I was there when you came in to the Wikipedia live chat channel. I discussed the article with Huon and other helpers, and Huon noticed that not all the sources agree on when the photo was taken. The Holocaust Memorial Museum says 1934, the Washington Post says "at six months" (which would be 1934), but the Bild and the telegraph say 1935. Also, the Bild has a less than stellar reputation. So it's probably a good idea to fact-check the sources. It's possible there may be other errors. Anyway, just a heads up, and keep up the good work! Howicus (Did I mess up?) 00:25, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for following up with me. We have no choice in the matter of referencing Bild because the subject herself has decided to give her story to that publication. The Telegraph is simply providing English-language coverage of the Bild article so it is not surprising their dates match.

I've plugged what appears to be a gaping hole in the implementation of the Articles for Creation process by simply creating a "real" page for this topic with a redirect link to the Draft version. It seems like WP could eliminate a lot of ill will and friction by making this standard practice. ChristineBushMV (talk) 18:39, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Gerardus Mercator

This extended thread has been archived here. ChristineBushMV (talk) 18:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica locator map

Hi Christine,

I'm working on an article about Phal. hieroglyphica and found your map with the known locations of Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica in the Philippines. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phalaenopsis_hieroglyphica_locator_map.png) It's great! Thank you. I'd just like to know how you got this data about these quite precise locations. Maybe there's also data for other species from the Philippines..?

Best regards from Germany,

--Involuntarius (talk) 21:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Methodology

Hello, Involuntarius. I'm glad you're curious about this map.

My methodology was derived from information on the English-language Wikipedia's article, where it mentions in the section on habitat where the plant could be found: "...it is found growing on and hanging down from trees in shady locations on the islands of Polillo, Palawan, Mindanao (in Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur) and Luzon at elevations below 1700 feet (500 meters)." I performed geospatial queries (using QGIS) and derived feature layers based on elevations < 1700 feet. Apart from the national boundaries, etc. all that was required was an elevation data set.

Admittedly, this could be improved if one also performed an analysis based on multi-band photgrammetric data and knew enough about the signatures of Phillipino trees to filter by vegetation type, but that is above my pay grade. (And you would still be showing results for trees upon which the plant does not grow.)

The important thing to keep in mind is that this map shows known locations where the plant can be found, not where it has been discovered. (If I had confirmed locations, I would be presenting point data with attributes.) In this regard, as with any mapping project, there is a trade-off between the data at hand and the story being illustrated. This is a "generalized" known location. I struggled with the title for the map for this reason and apologize if you find it misleading. I would appreciate your letting me know if this is the case.

Please don't hesitate to follow up with further questions. Should you find GIS data for populations of this plant, I would be glad to create a different map telling that story. ChristineBushMV (talk) 23:29, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for that answer. This is a fully reasonable method, I just needed that explanation. Now I'm just wondering where the information from the Wikipedia's article came from. I'm checking the information in the references. Seemingly reference 9 ist misleading to a website about Dendrobium lomatochilum, not Phal. hieroglyphica. Maybe I find Phal. hieroglyphica on that website too. --Involuntarius (talk) 06:46, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

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Please note: I tried to add a reference to this methodological information to the article itself, but a review of the History will reveal that it was reverted for reasons which strike me as somewhat circular. So, I have placed it on the Discussion page for the map itself where hopefully others will be able to find it more easily.

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