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A Very Happy (belated) New Year to you Keilana! Enjoy the Whisky ~TheGeneralUser (talk) 23:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, happy new year to you too! :) Keilana|Parlez ici 00:44, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Hi Keilana, I'm back and caught up with email. I'd love to take you on your offer to teach me the ropes on editing properly including referencing, and use some of any other editing tools. I'm excited about contributing to the WikiProject Women Scientist. IF we are in close timezone I can do Skype, Google hangouts or other, let me know what works best for you. Thanks again for your time and generosity! Cheers! Sylvia slv 19:54, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Re Ann Bishop

Firstly congratulations on getting this article up to GA standard. That takes a LOT of work. Well done. I have made a few minor changes to the article since which I hope you wont mind too much.

One minor niggle: In English the semicolon is similar in function to the comma. It is not (as far as I know) supposed to be used to join two (or more) sentences into a single sentence. That instead is the function of a colon or a conjunction.

Example:

'The cat sat on the mat; the dog joined it there.'

This is more properly

'The cat sat on the mat: the dog joined it there.'

An alternative is

'The cat sat on the mat and the dog joined it there.'

As I (currently) understand the use of a semicolon it is used as an alternative to a comma but can also be used to separate subordinate clauses within a sentence. The distinction here is between subordinate clauses which may separated by a semicolon and sentences which can be joined by a colon. The initial letter of the phrase following a semicolon should be in lower case while that following a colon may be either in upper or lower case.

The uses of semicolons and colons may differ considerably between languages and have VERY different uses in programming. It also is quite possible that English is not your first language: if this is the case please accept my apologies.

I'm probably sounding like a 'Grammer Nazi' here which I'm not usually. Lord knows I make enough 'mistooks' myself (typos are my speciality). However the misuse of a semicolon is (sadly) common and IMHO detracts from an article.

Please keep up the good work. DrMicro (talk) 14:12, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Addition:

According to WP the asyndeton is an use of the comma to coordinate separate sentences and is an exception to the usual rule governing the use of commas. Don't you just love WP :)

DrMicro (talk) 14:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey DrMicro, thank you so much for this! As it turns out, while spelling is my strong point, punctuation is a bit hit or miss for me. Thanks again! :) Best, Keilana|Parlez ici 17:41, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Tea House New Users help

Hello Keilana, I am a new user and would like your help. A user has started demanding an article layout be changed according to his desire against the vote of everyone else who has reverted the changes. It is really odd. I am a new user and have no idea how to handle the situation. And is this type of thing a regular occurrence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_people_who_have_been_called_a_polymath

I am also updating the page of Patrick M. Byrne which has extremely confusing Talk page requirements.Bhalluka (talk) 18:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Canis Minor

Okay, have listed this at Peer Review as I felt like it was a bit awkward. Looks better now. Do you want to get stuck in and help and be a co-nom or find another one to work on together..either way is ok..Only thing is, I think I probably prefer the simpler layout of the referencing for Canis Minor as it is now as opposed to Leo Minor. Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:35, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Cas, I'd love to get involved in this one! I'll do some work on it today and this weekend - whatever you want for the references is fine, I'll go with whatever you've got. I did notice that there's some Harvard-style and some full citations, I assume you want the full citations? I'll be going back to university this week so I'll be able to get some non-Western mythology sources in there soon. (That all said, after this one I'd love to work with you on more constellations, I've got big plans for them in 2013!) Keilana|Parlez ici 18:15, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
My original rule is that I'll use a harvard style if I have a book with different pages that I am using for different segments of text. Hence the one book with refs to different bits of it, with the full book ref at the bottom. I find this the most straightforward in appearance yet allows me to be exacting.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:59, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, that works for me. :) I've watchlisted the PR, are you thinking of taking it to FAC as soon as that's concluded? Keilana|Parlez ici 21:03, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes indeedy (wipes sweat off forehead and runs back outside...watering plants as hitting 39C here today) Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:27, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good, I'll be there! (If only it were that warm here in Chicago...freezing rain and general ickiness the past few days...) Keilana|Parlez ici 22:38, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Gosh darn....all these sources, maybe we'll just have to buff Procyon as well for GA/FA....a few of us worked on Sirius a few years ago so there is a model for how to lay out a system with a main sequence star and white dwarf......Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:34, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh no, whatever are we going to do? ;) I'd love to collab on Procyon after/while we do CMi! Especially since there's such a lovely example all laid out for us... Keilana|Parlez ici 06:49, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's a nice day here, I was feeling good and looked at the article, and thought, "we're in the home stretch here so bombs awaaaaay......Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:12, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I've watchlisted and I'll keep plugging away in between responding to comments. Keilana|Parlez ici 03:34, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Have been tinkering with Circinus (constellation), which (again a small one) should be a straightforward buff too, if we're serious about buffing alot of them for GA/FA.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:46, 15 January 2013 (UTC)4[reply]
Hmm, looks good, I'll try to start some work on that once I've gotten through this pile of CMi sources. I'm quite serious about doing them all for GA/FA; I burned out on my own but company makes it quite doable! I figure, they're articles in practically every Wikipedia, they're on the vital list...it's a pretty important project. :) Btw - I found several non-Western astronomy sources in my library, plus one more Greek myth that I typed up but my computer ate. So more coming on mythology in the next couple days. Keilana|Parlez ici 16:38, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Yeah, funny how having two really allows for a good momentum to build - sort of more than twice easier than solo...Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:35, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
True, I think I'll burn out WAY more slowly with company. I'm adding in the prominence information on CMi and the rest of my online sources. One of the two non-western astronomy sources came in from ILL today so I'll probably swing by there and start in with that tomorrow, if that's alright. Go team! Keilana|Parlez ici 03:23, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be willing to help too on some of the more important constellations, such as Perseus (constellation). StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:42, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Right - we can try and figure next candidate to work on.......Orion (constellation) was one which I figured out a way of detailing out all the stars and things without it being too listy (one source did it by region and hence I've divvied up the Orion_(constellation)#Notable_features section into belt , head, club etc. Still needs a stack of reorganising and I fear the mythology of the main pattern could be...ummm...huge. I did have a hankering for Canis Major (done one dog, may as well do its chum)....Bootes we've had a bit of a go at but it's also huge....it'd be nice to do Pegasus to pair up with Andromeda, or Corona Borealis (maybe get both crowns on the mainpage as a double-header..). Or plough through the zodiac constellations, I'd be up for that. I also buffed Circinus (constellation), Pictor, Pyxis and Phoenix (constellation) for DYK so far - all of these are pretty small so are good starters for FAC just to get us used to them...I find I'm still finding my feet a bit with these articles...but then again they can be a bit boring...while the biggies have lots of cool things in them.....given I live in Oz I am lean a bit to southern hemisphere thingies......oh but there's also Eta Carinae...and Procyon...and Canopus and Rigel.....damn, spoilt for choice....So we can measure communal enthusiasm and take it from there....Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:18, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

StringTheory, it'd be *awesome* to have your help! I'm really keen on doing the other Andromeda myth constellations (Perseus, Cetus, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus). There's a ton of interesting features in all of them and I think it'd be nice to have that little suite done. But I'm up for whatever, I plan to get to all of them at some point so it's just a matter of order. :) Keilana|Parlez ici 21:41, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Perseus is cool - ­any constellation whose alpha star is an F-type supergiant is fine by me :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hehehe, so Circinus then Perseus? :) Keilana|Parlez ici 03:52, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like a plan.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:08, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'll try to do some preliminary work on Perseus while you guys are doing Circinus, such as layout, etc. StringTheory11 (t • c) 06:44, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Go team! Keilana|Parlez ici 20:48, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You may be interested in my comments on Talk:Perseus (constellation), about notability of a section. StringTheory11 (t • c) 00:16, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

Care for a cup of tea?

Thanks, and a belated happy new year to you to! Thegabster (talk) 15:05, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost

Hey! I saw you in the signpost, and I remembered from when I reviewed Andromeda. How is your long-term project going with all of the constellations? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:38, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Good to hear from you again! It's actually going pretty well, I got Casliber into writing them as well and he's done a few. I finished Auriga (constellation) and Aries (constellation) before I took a break - burnout and my first semester at university and all that. Now I'm doing Canis Minor with Cas and it's going great! How have you been? Keilana|Parlez ici 02:15, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hah, I know about burnout. Every so often I try some big topics, and although I usually get them done (newest one being 2002 Pacific typhoon season), they're quite gruesome and take a lot out of me! Nice work with those other constellations. I've been busy IRL, which oddly makes me more productive on here. Since I have less time, I spend it more wisely on content building, and on stuff I know I can't just finish in a day. Congrats on the first semester of university, keep that up! When you get all of the constellations to GT, I'll be the first to support :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:45, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ooh, nice job on the typhoons! I'm totally fascinated by meteorology but don't know nearly enough about it. Hit me up if you ever want me to take a look at a GAN/PR/FAC/whatever. I get that counterintuitive productivity effect - I also tend to procrastinate by working on content, so the more homework I have, the more I write. Thanks for your stellar support, I'll definitely let you know when we get through all 88. Last I checked there's a few dozen left... ;) It may be awhile! Keilana|Parlez ici 17:05, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WWC

Hi Keilana! Hope all is well. I wanted to let you know that the WikiWomen's Collaborative has recently underwent renovations to make it visually more attractive and easier to find resources. I'd love for you to be involved - since you are a founding member, of course. You'll find resources about getting involved in blogging, Facebook, and more. I also encourage you make an introduction, which is easy to do with a click of a button. I'm moving back to volunteering at the end of the month, and I really hope the project can continue to thrive and grow with volunteer support. See you there, i hope! SarahStierch (talk) 23:40, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Interested in helping ambassador a molecular biology course?

Hi, Keilana, I had a look at your OA profile, and was wondering if you'd be interested in helping me to OA a section of Molecular Biology for this semester (course officially starts right now). The course pages are here: Section 81 and Section 82. Right now I am the only one for both sections. I think ideally I could recruit three others, for two OAs per section -- then the work would be spread out and pretty easy, I think. It's not a whole lot of work, but the professor is not an experienced Wikipedian, and I do try to help her not only with answering student questions, but also with evaluations -- just checking to make sure the students did the assignments. Please let me know if you are available. Thanks! Klortho (talk) 05:21, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

BPS wiki-edit contest

I've got the contest page up now, and would be very appreciative if you'd sign up as a judge - unless you decide you want to be a contestant! In any case, please check it out to make sure I didn't do anything silly. We'll see you that Saturday, with a button for you to wear! Dcrjsr (talk) 03:31, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It looks good, I've moved it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Biophysics/Biophysics wiki-edit contest as it was in the mainspace before. I'm so excited! :) I'm happy to judge, I'll add my name now. Also, do you want to see the presentation I worked up for the edit contest? I can send you an email if you'd like. Best, Keilana|Parlez ici 04:06, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, that would be both interesting and useful. Thanks very much for the move - it didn't occur to me to check what space I was in. Dcrjsr (talk) 04:10, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm about to go to sleep but I'll send it in the morning. Let me know if there's anything you want tweaked/added/removed! Keilana|Parlez ici 04:34, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also an encyclopedia course

Meant to let you know that I'm helping a bit with the wikipedia part of a course on encyclopedias (including early European ones in Duke's rare books collection) being given by Mattia Begali in the classics dept. He will probably contact you about getting advice if we need it, esp. since some of his folks want to work on articles about women. I'll meet his highly varied 13 students next week. Dcrjsr (talk) 03:36, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds fabulous and very interesting, I'm happy to help on-wiki or off! Keilana|Parlez ici 04:09, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks - we both appreciate that! Dcrjsr (talk) 04:15, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Thank you so much!! I am very excited about this class, but since it is an experimental class I would really appreciate to have some suggestions by an expert Wikipedian. Maybe we can be in contact by e-mail? My email is mb242@duke.edu Thanks again!!! Mbegali (talk) 23:43, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much

Hi there Keilana, I just wanted to come by and say thanks very much for your kind comments about me at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2012/Candidates/Keilana/Questions, regarding my quality improvement efforts at the page I'd created, Dan Savage bibliography. I'm sorry I hadn't noticed that until now.

It's really much appreciated and meaningful to me that you noticed my positive quality improvement contributions to Wikipedia.

Thanks again, — Cirt (talk) 20:32, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Aw shucks :) Keilana|Parlez ici 20:53, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help with a tedious task?

Hi, I've just assigned all the students to groups, and created a "groups" table in each of the course pages (here and here. Now I'd like to create each group page, using this one as a template. Do you think you could do that? It's a little tedious because you have to make sure the "81" and "82", and other bits of data, are correct for each one -- 13 pages altogether.

If you need help, could you solicit User:Serendipodous? If you are too busy, let me know and I will do it.

Feel free to amend the group template if you think anything is missing. Thanks! Klortho (talk) 04:45, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Had to finish up some reading before I got to this and now it's 1 AM and I can't be trusted to do it right. I should get it done before noon tomorrow; I have some free time. Keilana|Parlez ici 07:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks! I always hesitate to ask for help, but I just want you to know I did a lot of work myself the past week: welcoming each student, setting up the groups, and assigning the students. I really appreciate anything you or Serendipodous can do! Klortho (talk) 13:08, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh for sure, I want to ease your load as much as possible. I'm getting started on this now. :) Keilana|Parlez ici 16:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

WikiCup 2013 January newsletter

Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader (Irish Citizen Army Grapple X (submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. Florida 12george1 (submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:

Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.

This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:

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Wikipedia Course: Women Scientists

Dear Keilana,

I am currently in Mattia Begali's course on Wikipedia and I am very interested in working on one of the biographies included in your project on women scientists. I have a science major and would appreciate any guidance you have.

Thanks, APTNM (talk) 15:46, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Moustache team

Hey Kei, me and a few male Turkish Wikipedians did a good job for WP. Please check this new article: Women in Turkish politics. Best wishes for the exams at university and for life out of college. (It exists, I have been proving that since long time... :-) --E4024 (talk) 15:52, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bonjour Kei. I hope you saw my response to you in my TP. I would be very happy to receive your contributions to the said article. In the meantime we also opened Turkish women in sports and the next step is Turkish women in literature. (I am proud of the Turkish women but they could lend me and other moustached -or not- Turkish editors working on these articles in WP. :-) Seems like they are busy in politics, sports and literature etc and the Turkish men are trying to write down their girl power in WP all alone... Best. --E4024 (talk) 11:53, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Mary Katharine Brandegee

Nyttend (talk · contribs) 08:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

Canis Minor and Procyon

It struck me that while you had been searching for stuff on Canis Minor and entering cutlural material there, that dumping some Procyon-only material into Procyon would be prudent to avoid re-researching it later on. I am starting to get intrgiued about some of these stars..Procyon just starting tl leave the main sequence etc....and maybe it'd be a good collaboration sooner rather than later. Structure of article should be similar to Sirius maybe..? Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:40, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's true, I'd love for none of that to go to waste. I'm fascinated with Procyon and I'd love to start doing some work on it. I have started to get involved in Circinus and Perseus, maybe we can start doing Procyon a little and push it through FAC after we get the other two? Keilana|Parlez ici 04:41, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, Circinus is looking near for GA nom. I was n't talking about actively doing Procyon jut yet, just if you had a book or article and had something right in front of you, just stick it in and we can do later. Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:53, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, if you don't mind holding off for a day or two, I've got a few things I want to add. Maybe Monday for GAN? (Hey, WikiCup question, do you get a fraction of the points if it's a collab? Just wondering.) Keilana|Parlez ici 16:02, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No they don't bother with fractions - I figure that often the collab articles are trickier or longer, and we're supposed to be promoting collaboration anyway. Monday sounds good. Circinus looks to be within striking distance of GAN, but still a little slim (not surprising really as it is pretty tiny..). Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:50, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, even JSTOR and my other trusty databases are failing me. It seems that pretty much everybody up to Lacaille ignored it. But I still have some interesting DSO tidbits to add, those will be coming tonight (US Central time). I can nom when I get up Monday morning - your Monday evening I believe? Keilana|Parlez ici 22:11, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Marie LaChapelle

 — Nyttend (talk) 16:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Keilana

I'm also in Mattia's course. Wondering if you could help me find some good neuroscience stubs. Found copropraxia but there isn't too much room for expansion. Also, I would appreciate it if you could check out my contribs at mushroom bodies and nociception assay. I am also a biologist, but somewhat new to Wiki. Appreciate your time! Mikecf10 (talk) 19:42, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry *snif snif* *coughing*

Sorry I haven't been on in awhile. I have a horrible fever and headaches galore! I just stopped by to tell you my sense of feeling that I have nothing to fix in Wikipedia. Nothing to create. Nothing to help out with. RaidenRules! (talk) 15:56, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Deidra. Sorry to hear you're feeling sick! I hope you feel better soon. If you feel like there's nothing to do, why not check out some of the backlogs. There's tons to do there! You could also sign up for SuggestBot, which will give you suggestions for articles you may be interested in working on. Let me know if there's anything I can do. :) Keilana|Parlez ici 16:04, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'm pretty bored. So I'm just going to snoop around Wikipedia. See what I can do. RaidenRules! (talk) 16:06, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like a plan, that's usually what I do when I'm bored or procrastinating. Keilana|Parlez ici 16:08, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I rarely get bored...but, if I did...I would go to Wikipedia:Sandbox, watchlist it, and see what foolishness some editors waste their precious time with. "Im not sayin, Im just sayin!" (Chicago-ism) ```Buster Seven Talk 22:52, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely Buster. I'm constantly on my watchlist. RaidenRules! (talk) 23:06, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Just want to introduce myself.

Hi, My name is Autumn and I am one of the students taking the AAP Molecular Biology course. We were told to introduce ourselves to one of our online ambassadors. I have never edited anything on Wikipedia before, so this format is new to me, but hopefully I'll be able to figure it out along the way. If not, then I have you to be my guide. Thanks! Autumn Zack-Taylor (talk) 20:34, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven

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My name is Chris and i'm part of a Molecular Biology class at Johns Hopkins. I am new to the Wikipedia community. However, I'm looking forward to interacting with you and learning more about how to operate on and contribute to Wikipedia as the semester progresses. Nguych01 (talk) 01:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction for Molecular Biology

Hi Keilana, How are you? My name is Jason Evans I am a spring 2013 Molecular Biology student. I'm enjoying the class so far, this is my first experience with Wikipedia beyond being just a consumer. I'm looking forward to working on this assignment. Thanks. Dugalmaguire (talk) 14:57, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Keilana. I am also in the SP13 Molecular Bio class for which you are an OA. My name is Christine. I just wanted to say how lovely your username (or real name?) is. Nice to meet you! -MonopterusAlbus (talk) 02:13, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Hi Keilana,

My name is Cdunca12 and this is my first introduction to an Online Ambassador for my Wikipedia project for the Molecular Biology course. I am very excited as I use Wikipedia on a daily basis to obtain general information for a number of years, and this is the first time I have an opportunity to contribute to my own article. I hope we can work together in the near future. Thank you!

Cdunca12 07:00, 13 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdunca12 (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

Greetings

Hello, Keilana. I'm checking in with you as part of the AAP Molecular Biology class. Hopefully, all will go smoothly this semester and I will not have to trouble you with many questions. Although it is nice to know that help is at the ready.Jakodak (talk) 17:18, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of discussion

A few months ago, you participated in a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Did you know about Gibraltar-related DYKs on the Main Page. I am proposing that the temporary restrictions on such DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012, should be lifted and have set out a case for doing so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. If you have a view on this, please comment at that page. Prioryman (talk) 21:55, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction

Jgould1400 (talk) 01:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC)Hi Keilana, Thanks for your message welcoming me to Wikipedia. I look forwarding to working with you. Since this is my first message ever on Wikipedia, please let me know if this came through okay. Also, please note that I originally set up my user page as jgould140 but couldn't get into it, so I created a new user page under jgould1400 (which BTW is the page you used for sending me your message, so that worked fine). However, I see that on our course's page, I'm still grouped with my partner (cdunca) as "jgould140". Is there a way to change this so there's no confusion?[reply]

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Jim

Jgould1400 (talk) 01:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC) Jgould1400 (talk) 01:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Ynes Mexia

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GOCE February 2013 newsletter

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GAN review?

It was nice meeting you at the conference! I was wondering if I could trouble you for a quick GA review for Caltech–MIT rivalry; I'm probably going to need the points for WikiCup before the round is over. Of course, I'm happy to return the favor in the future. Thanks! Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 22:39, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Tilly Edinger

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GOCE news: February 2013

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

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It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric Control group Teahouse group Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit) 5.02 weeks 8.57 weeks 1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited 58.7 articles 116.9 edits 2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits 36.5 edits 85.6 edits 2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits 129.6 edits 360.4 edits 2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces) 182.1 edits 532.4 edits 2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 17:30, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Responded. Keilana|Parlez ici 12:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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I'm sorry

I'm so sorry, Keilana! I really must apologize for not being on Wikipedia for at least a month!!! I have to be more responsible about my co-workers here on Wiki.!!! I would love to go through with our lessons this week because this week is Terra Nova and I have no homework because of that. So I'll be more free-handed. Also- I need to talk to you about something sort of serious on our adoption page. Again, I'm sorry Keilana for the inconvienience. I'd also like to talk to you about what would help me work harder in Wikipedia. Thanks. I'll see you on our adoption page. Just type the message, "I'm here" on the adoption talk page so I know your listening. Then we'll have a long and quite complicated discussion. Thanks. RaidenRules! (talk) 22:54, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Deidra, I'll see you there. Keilana|Parlez ici 03:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Canopus

Hello
I notice you added some detail to the Carina page on mythology associated with the star Canopus. As it was on the star in particular, rather than the constellation as whole, I'm thinking it would be better placed on the Canopus page. What do you think? Would you have any objection to it being moved? Moonraker12 (talk) 21:38, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Moonraker, I think that all of it should definitely also appear in the Canopus article. I'm not sure all of it should be removed from the Carina article, though I'm not adamantly against it, maybe just the major mythologies should be kept (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Greco-Roman, Aztec, and Maori)? It's a hard balance to strike and I do think the focus of the article should be on the constellation, but I don't want to neglect mentioning Canopus and how it fits in. Keilana|Parlez ici 03:13, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've copied the content over to Canopus#Other names and jiggled that page a bit; I've also copied some of it to a page on Atutahi that I found. I've also roughed out a summary for the Carina page, but will hold off posting it until you've seen it. What do you think? Moonraker12 (talk) 16:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looks great, I've got some more non-Western astronomy that can eventually go in that section. Thanks for this! :) Keilana|Parlez ici 20:08, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, done.Moonraker12 (talk) 12:16, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

wikipedia class

Hi Keilana, How are you? I am writing to you because I have some questions about the class I am teaching.

-Enrollment: I assume that the next step it will be to have my students enrolled in the class. I see that they need "a token provided by your instructor or one of the ambassadors for your course". What exactly is this "token"?

-Schedule/feedback: If it possible I would like that my students could get feedback from other editors. What strategy do you suggest? When do you should post a first version of their entry? Where should they post it? (sandbox?) Students picked an entry and they collected the bibliography. The last day of class is April 24th. Please let me know and thanks again for you help! Mbegali (talk) 21:59, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, it's been a while

Hello. I just logged into my account for the first time since 2007. We used to talk a lot while working on the U2 WikiProject and newsletter. I'm amazed to see you are still so active here. I've really enjoyed reading back on all our messages and ideas from so many years ago. Hope to hear back if you remember me. Smithcool 01:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Everything is good with me, I've grown up a lot over the years lol, what about yourself? Smithcool 16:09, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello for the first time. i see that you have been inactive since 2007?... i was searching on Members of the Wikiproject U2 List and I saw you. The thing is that the wikiproject's believed to be inactive, and i was looking for people that contributes to it so it doesn't remain inactive. Please, reply if you are agree on that. Regards MissBono (talk) 15:19, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New Project

What's that project about??U2_Girl! (talk) 12:27, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I just want to get all of the U2 albums in a Featured Topic at some point. There's not that many.... :P Keilana|Parlez ici 13:41, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

Images

Hi Keilana, I'm having a number of problems adapting to all this Wikipedia-speak and Wikipedia processes and really need some help -- most immediately I need help with downloading images. I'm merely trying to download some simple images that are already on Wikipedia Commons (and also on Wikipedia pages) -- and in fact I'm trying to download the images directly from Wikipedia Commons, yet this is taking a ridiculous amount of time and still no luck. I have to say that the Wikipedia instructions are extremely unhelpful. Please help me out. I may be over 50, but I'm also an Ivy League grad and have been a lawyer in high tech fields for over 20 years, so I doubt I'm wrong about Wikipedia's problematic formats and instructions. Sorry to bother you, but this is really frustrating. I'm spending a large sum of money on tuition to learn molecular biology and not to be a Wikipedia expert. Please help. Thanks, Jim Jgould1400 (talk) 05:15, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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