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January meetup - Minnesota Historical Society?

Hey! Nice meeting you at the HCL edit-a-thon in November. Per your suggestion, I've been organizing a Wikipedia Day meetup at MHS in January. But I haven't heard that anyone else is interested. I've posted about it in a few places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Minnesota#Wikipedia_Day_Meetup_at_MHS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota#January_2, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Minnesota#Wikipedia_Day_meetup_at_the_Minnesota_Historical_Society.3F. I also requested a Geonotice.

Is there anywhere else I should posting it? We're excited to host it, and we'd like to have a bigger, more public edit-a-thon in March, if the meetup goes well. But I'm getting a little nervous that I haven't heard from anyone yet. Mhsrc (talk) 16:37, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

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Your change was wrong

I live with The Alf, son of Sir Michael Wheeler Booth. He used to be called radical Mike because of his strong left wing ideas. He was labelled that by a newspaper. The Alf also produces a lot of dubstep under the name Cadenza. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.212.106.254 (talk) 20:58, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

If you want your changes to Michael Wheeler-Booth to stick, you'll have to come up with a reliable source that supports your claims. Also, if you are his flatmate, you should review our conflict of interest policy. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 21:13, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #37

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Your request at WP:RM/TR

Hello Gobonobo. You're proposing a move in view of the author's change of name. Can you link to a confirmation of her change of name? See http://www.alisavaldesrodriguez.com/ where I couldn't discern anything of that nature. She uses both forms of her name there, and Amazon shows Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez as the author of her impending book. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 19:38, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Sure thing. At her website you just linked, if you click on the 'Bio' section of her site, it says 'About Me', then "Alisa Valdes (formerly Valdes-Rodriguez)". I imagine she hasn't updated the rest of her site yet. Her newest novel just has her name as Alisa Valdes. Also see her twitter. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 19:42, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hey, I wasn't sure if the image uploader is suppose to comment on the deletion discussion, so if I wasn't suppose to, feel free to give me a hand-slap ;-) CorporateM (Talk) 20:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi CorporateM. You are always welcome to comment on deletion discussions. You identified yourself as the uploader as well, which is always good when !voting. If you have the ears of the PR people at Playtex and don't mind, see if they wouldn't be interested in releasing an image or two under a free license - that way we can house the images at Commons and any language Wikipedia could use them. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 13:45, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #38

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The Chris Gethard Show Edits

Hi Gobonobo, I know I did not post links to these claims, but it is impossible to find claims since this a public access single episodes are not written up, I can send you links of episodes and the blog to show you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.219.4 (talk) 04:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. If there's a transcript available, you could link to that. Otherwise you might be able to source it by using the {{cite episode}} template. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 20:38, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #39

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  • Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
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  • More work on AbuseFilter
  • Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
  • Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
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  • Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
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MHS meetup 1/12/13

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Greetings from WikiProject Open Access

Dear Gobonobo,

SEM of bacteriophages.

it is now one year since WikiProject Open Access was started by User:Bluerasberry on January 10, 2012. Since then, the project has advanced modestly, but we have not interacted much. For the coming year, we certainly want to improve on that.

We also plan to overhaul the project pages to make them more conducive to collaboration, and we are pondering the idea of expanding the concept of a WikiProject Open Access to projects other than the English Wikipedia, e.g. to other languages or to Wikimedia Commons. You are warmly invited to add your voice to all that. We would also appreciate if you would share some of your OA-related activities by way of our news ticker or via the monthly Open Access report that is part of the GLAM newsletter (to which you can subscribe here), or as you see fit otherwise.

As a visual token of the anniversary, I am adding today's Open Access File of the Day. Feel free to nominate files yourself. As of today, commons:Category:Open access (publishing) contains more than 15,000 files, of which about 2/3 are video and sound files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.

Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction. With a smile, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:45, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #40

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• Development
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  • Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (bugzilla:43828)
  • Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
  • Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (bugzilla:43301)
  • Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (bugzilla:43814)
  • Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
  • Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (bugzilla:42064)
  • Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
  • Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
  • Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (bugzilla:43124)
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Lesbian Herstory Archives

Hi, I loved how you supplanted the 'his' with 'her' in herstory.

Kindest regards

(MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 16:10, 15 January 2013 (UTC))

Given that the organization's name uses herstory and its nature, it seemed antithetical to use 'history' as a section header, though I did not go so far as to replace all instances of the word throughout the article. I've seen this sort of use disputed at articles like the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, so we'll see if it sticks. Thank you for the note. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 22:07, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hello, Gobonobo. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Margaret McKenna.
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Guerillero | My Talk 03:02, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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