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The deaths of the Halls
I pass on information from the Cambridge Uni HPS network about the recent deaths of the Halls – Rupert & Marie Boas Hall, two leading British historians of science. Maybe for your Hist Sci newsletter or whatever. Haven't seen any obits yet.
I personally regard their most important contribution as their 1962 publication of Newton's Unpublished Scientific Papers that revealed Newton himself attributed his first law of motion to Aristotle.
--Logicus (talk) 19:21, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
From: hps-discussion-bounces@lists.cam.ac.uk on behalf of Tamara Sent: Tue 24/02/2009 12:14 To: HPS discussion Subject: Rupert Hall' funeral Sadly, Rupert Hall, one of the founding members of HPS, passed away recently. Details of his funeral can be found below:
From: clarissa thomas [1] Sent: 20 February 2009 13:15 Subject: Rupert Hall' funeral
We now have a date for the funeral, Wednesday 4th March at 12 noon. The service will be at St Nicholas Church Tackley, Oxon with a burial in the churchyard. We are asking that there be family flowers only and that donations are made to the church of St Nicholas, my father was a great supporter of the church building and has helped with many of the previous appeals.
There is limited parking at the church but plenty at the village hall. If you drive passed the church to the village green, may be some spaces along left hand gravel area or kerb, and take the right fork passed the pub , the village hall and shop ate adjacent to the sports field.
We would love as many people as possible to come to the Village Hall afterwards for refreshments and to talk to Marie and other members of the family. For those of you who don't know Marie has been very unwell following a hip fracture in mid December and is still in a wheelchair but I am sure would love to talk to you.
If you would like any further information about the funeral or travel to Tackley please contact me. I would like to ask you also to pass this information on to any of the other colleagues of Rupert's who you may be in touch with as it is so hard for us to contact everybody.
I look forward to meeting you all, Clarissa
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Tamara Hug
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RH
Tel: 01223 334540/Fax: 334554
Mob: 07799405394
www.hps.cam.ac.uk
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From: hps-discussion-bounces@lists.cam.ac.uk on behalf of Tamara Sent: Tue 24/02/2009 12:27 To: HPS discussion Subject: Funeral of Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall In response to the previous notice about Rupert Hall's funeral, I have been sent the following very sad message:
It is with deep regret and sadness that I have to report that Marie Boas Hall, sometime Reader in History of Science at Imperial College and widow of Rupert Hall, died yesterday.
I now have information on the funeral which will now be a joint one for both Rupert and Marie Hall. This will be on Wednesday 4th March at 12 noon.
The service will be at St Nicholas Church, Tackley, Oxfordshire, with a burial in the churchyard. The family ask that there be family flowers only and that instead donations are made to the church of St Nicholas.
There is limited parking at the church but plenty at the village hall. There is also a railway station at Tackley with trains from London, Oxford, and Birmingham.
Frank James
Frank A.J.L. James Professor of the History of Science The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS, England. Direct line 020 7670 2924 Switchboard 020 7409 2992 Mobile 07957 172 123 E-mail: fjames@ri.ac.uk Web page: http://www.rigb.org/assets/uploads/docs/fjames_publications.pdf
Registered charity number 227938
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Thank you!
Hello, Ragesoss;
Thank you for the barnstar! I hope your week is going well! J. Spencer (talk) 00:50, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, read the article again and really like the changes. The new background section gives the reader context, and should be helpful for those university students trying to understand their biochem/micro notes :) I regret failing the article now without giving you a chance to respond, seeing how fast you were able to fix it up. I'll blame my relative inexperience as a GA reviewer. I'm sure it will pass without much opposition now, and with the ongoing GAN backlog drive, it probably won't be sitting in the queue for long. Am looking forward to seeing more of these interesting historical articles on Wikipedia. Speaking of which, I'll be joining the History of Science Wikiproject; I've been organizing sources for a "History of Mycology" article, and think it would be great material for a cross-project collaboration. Cheers, Sasata (talk) 05:04, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
I didn't think about dabifying the article in that particular way; I really haven't seen that type of dab before. Anyways, thanks, MuZemike 08:12, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you!
Gosh, thanks for the Barnstar! -- and for your many helpful comments and edits. Macdonald-ross (talk) 19:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you, Ragesoss; that was most kind of you ! I do enjoy the Dispatches for some perverse reason ... Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:48, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks!
You seem to be making yourself popular by awarding barnstars... Thanks ever so much. JFW | T@lk 09:48, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Talkback
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Wuhwuzdat (talk) 00:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Signpost delivery
I guess while I'm on, need me to deliver the signpost? Xclamation point 07:29, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Re Signpost template
Thank you for your message, it did help. Is it actually normal that the template doesn't update for weeks in a row ? Rosenknospe (talk) 09:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
- For all it's worth, it happens on all three computers I usually use, and I browse with Firefox, IE6 and IE7. Rosenknospe (talk) 19:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Weekly Episode 71
Wikipedia Weekly Episode 71: We have no shame has been released. You can listen and comment at the episode page, and, as always, listen to all of the past episodes and subscribe to the RSS feed at wikipediaweekly.org. WODUPbot 05:30, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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Just wanted to point you to the above on the tipline. This seems to be a unique situation and Jimbo ended up getting involved. Keep up the good work. Thanks! KnightLago (talk) 15:00, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Delivery
Hey there. Sorry again for my lateness, I wasn't actually planning on doing much with it this week after some talks, thankfully Hermione1980 stepped in and saved my butt. If everything's ready I'll be around for the next few hours to send it out if you want. Another good read, §hepTalk 20:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- Sounds good. Should be able to start within the next 30 minutes or so. §hepTalk 21:03, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- Apologies for my absence. I've updated the design at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist/Message. Fingers crossed this will be more popular than the previous format. I hope this is in time for this week's delivery. PretzelsTalk! 19:23, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
- Would you mind checking my title update on the spamlist message? I want to make sure I didn't screw anything up before spamming it. 98.31.12.146 (talk) 21:25, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
- Nvm, I've checked it about 20 times and don't think there are any problems. §hepTalk 21:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Charles Darwin
Hi, cleaning house a little bit. Your restoration on Darwin is really better than mine. Don't see it in the article, though. I'd like to start a delist/replace nomination, because other than its use at rotogravure the current FP doesn't really have any advantage over your work. Great job you did; it ought to be recognized. Best regards, DurovaCharge! 02:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Street newspaper FAC
Thank you for your thorough comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Street newspaper. I have tried to address your concerns, and have left some questions (at that page) where I wasn't sure if the issues are totally resolved yet or not. Best, rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 01:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Re: Thanks
Kind words, and I'm certainly glad the deletionist AfD is over. Happy editing. -- Wikipedical (talk) 04:25, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
You deleted patrick stumps fim page... WHY? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.24.163.203 (talk) 16:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
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In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.
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Signpost
Hi, I'm on the computer for the next few hours, if you need the signpost delivered I can do it. I tested the script on a private wiki, so it shouldn't break this time. *crosses fingers* Xclamation point 20:51, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Laugh-Out-Loud Cats
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rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 00:08, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
WordpRSS and the Signpost
Hey, I'm so excited to see the Signpost on Wordpress, with all its RSS goodness -- thanks for whatever part you played in making that happen! I'm happy to do an announcement on the WikiProject Oregon blog -- if you have any preferences on timing (i.e. if there's more to come soon and I should hold off for a bit), let me know. -Pete (talk) 00:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I've responded. thanks YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:53, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Revolution review
I have finished reviewing this book. Here is my review:
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Full disclosure - I was interviewed for this book, and am mentioned by name in it. I also made a few small contributions to the afterword.
Andrew Lih's book 'The Wikipedia Revolution' is probably the single most comprehensive discussion of Wikipedia's history that has been written. Lih's insider understanding of Wikipedia, along with his cogent explanation of technical aspects of the site (in which his background in computer science is apparent) make this book unique among the many thousands of pages that have been written about Wikipedia.
The book is organized as follows:
- Chapters 1 through 3 are about the early days (Ward Cunningham, Bomis, and Nupedia).
- Chapter 4 is part history and part technical primer (the early slashdotting, server load, etc). * * Chapter 5 describe aspects of editing Wikipedia (dot maps, gdansk, bots).
- Chapter 6 describes how each of the language versions have their own culture and technical issues
- Chapter 7 is about governance
- Chapter 8 is about controversies
- Chapter 9 is about Wikipedia "making waves" - the world's response to us.
As someone who participates only in the english language community, I found chapter 6 (describing the cultural and technical issues facing non-english Wikipedias) particularly interesting. The end of the book includes a novel feature -- an afterword collaboratively written by several high profile users. Although the afterword does, to some extent, repeat some of the things said earlier in the book, it also provides a heretofore unexplored perspective of the community - the community's view of itself.
I don't agree with all aspects of this book. Just to give one example, based on personal observations, I think Lih overstates the influence Sunir Shah's Meatball wiki had on Wikipedia (Meatball was marginally important when I started editing Wikipedia back in 2003. I doubt most of the people reading this in the signpost today have even heard of Meatball.) For the issues Wikipedia is facing today, while the book gives a good overview, it is not comprehensive. It mentions one arbcom case, Wikiprojects exactly once, and featured content of any kind exactly twice (two passing mentions of featured articles, the second of which was in the context of saying that they degrade over time - an effect that, like the Yeti, is talked about much but for which relatively few concrete examples have ever been shown.) In short, Lih has left himself plenty of material to cover should he ever decide to do a sequel. And, in fairness, nobody else has written that book yet either.
'The Wikipedia Revolution' is an excellent retrospective - invaluable documentation of where Wikipedia came from. It's hard not to appreciate the sheer amount of work that Lih put in to sifting through the vast (vast, vast) archives to pull out the nuggets he quotes so liberally throughout the book. For anyone who wants to know where Wikipedia came from, this book is for you. Raul654 (talk) 08:19, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for turning my attention to the scheduling for the chat about assignments. AEG English4994 (talk) 14:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)AEG English4994
Dispatch March 30
I'm not sure we'll have a Dispatch this week: it's almost there, but not quite finished. I hope it's OK to miss two consecutive weeks ... preferable to throwing something together, although I could cook up something tomorrow if I had to. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:00, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- I'll keep you posted (if it gets finished up in the next 12 hours or so). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:11, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
There's a draft posted on my talk page just now that I need to look at ... we may be able to run it this week ... but I'm heading out now and can look at it when I'm home in a few hours. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:53, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
- Ragesoss, I do think it should be a Dispatch (it deals with featured processes, and is the rollout of an important new process); I should be through it soon. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
working on the post licensing article now...
sorry it's so late. phoebe / (talk to me) 22:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Subscriptions
Hi Ragesoss, just to let you know I added a new subscriptions footer to the front page of the Signpost, with links to the RSS and Twitter feeds. The Twitter icon is not quite accurate, but I'll get this sorted soon. Hope this is ok. PretzelsTalk! 01:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
- OK, I'll remove it now. I also updated the series template on the License update article to match the new design, and slightly altered the In this issue formatting. PretzelsTalk! 02:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Today's Wikipedia Assignments Wikivoices?
Hi Ragesoss, Do I Skype in to today's conversation via the Wikivoices page? This is my first Wikipedia podcast. Thanks. AEG English4994 (talk) 15:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)AEG English 4994
- My skype name is j.e.broughton -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:07, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. My skype name is anne.ellen.geller AEG English4994 (talk) 20:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)AEG English 4994
Delivery
Should I go ahead with it? Xclamation point 19:15, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
New Barnstar
Hi. Could you design a new barnstar please called "The Helper's Barnstar"? Use any image you wish and contact me ASAP when you are done. Design it quick because I really need it. Carabera (talk) 16:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)