Omaryak

Times Dispatch article

Omar,

I am a reporter at the Times-Dispatch, here in Richmond. Doing a story on Wikipedia, and found you searching under VCU. Please give me a call when you get this. 804-649-6348. I'm looking to interview and photograph someone in the Richmond area that contributes to Wikipedia. Email: jkelley@timesdispatch.com

Thanks Jeff Kelley Business Reporter Times Dispatch

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Hopefully you found someone to complete your story.

GMU logo redesign

In reply to your pointing out the purported reasons for Mason's logo change, I contend that the market-speak type rationale given in the Mason newswire—that is, that the logo was redesigned "to reflect the dynamic changes" GMU has undergone—in fact convey no real information, and have little place in an encyclopedic article. The question one can ask is, if it were omitted entirely, would the reader have actually missed solid information of any value at all? However, as a stylistic choice in which I don't feel very strongly one way or the other, I do not intend to edit the article on this topic any further. —Ryanaxp 02:43, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

Re: Towson University, I think the version that puts the unofficial logo in History and the seal in the infobox is the best looking. Also, you may want to switch Old Dominion University to that style, as it would improve the look there, too. -Howardjp 6 July 2005 16:45 (UTC)

Done -- not sure if I agree with giving a university's official seal such prominence, but it will have to work for now.

RE: hey, im worried that great edits you did to the VCU page might be reverted because some of the images have no tags explaining their source (free or otherwise). the images are yours right? otherwise disregard this comment.

They were not my photos; I simply cleaned them up. Because I am familiar with the VCU Images database and they were not cited, I assumed the person uploading the photos was the author of the images. In retrospect, the aerial photo must have come from somewhere -- I think I've seen it used in an unofficial Myspace group for VCU at one point. Unfortunately, they will probably be removed if the original user doesn't come back to cite their source. If this happens, I will replace them with images from the official VCU database and cite the source as fair use. Thanks for the heads-up though. Update (8/2/06): Still need to get those images. It's going to be a larger project than I thought.

Hey Omar it's Steven from the YD people. Found you on Wikipedia...that's freaky! --StevenL 03:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Your edit

Hi, I just reverted you because your edit made the last half of the article disappear completely. You might have hit a common bug, which occurs when using the FireFox or Google toolbar. Your edit looked okay though, could you please try again? --JoanneB 09:31, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the heads up. --Omaryak 09:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Ubuntu (ideology)

Excellent job recording this article. Clear recording and easily understood. Keep up the good work! --Aguerriero (talk) 15:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :) --Omaryak 18:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Ubuntu (Linux distribution)

Hi Omaryak,

Great job on the recording of Ubuntu (Linux distribution). This has been the first recorded article that I have actually had the patience to listen to some length of, and I have to admit that we haven't been very kind on you in the way we edited the article. It is unfortunate that some of the information in the article is most easily visually represented in a table (in fact, I did fend off one persistent editor who kept inserting another table). I don't know how much leeway you're given to put tables into prose in the recording process, but I'm sure people will be happy to work out solutions with you; maybe we can even take care to avoid parentheses in articles in future (phrasing this deliberately generically as it looks like I'm taking a long vacation, and hence won't be involved). I should admit (perhaps Icey will read this) that I misinterpreted Icey's question - using the header "Spoken version" or mentioning it in the first sentence probably helps avoid this. Unfortunately, we're currently seeing an increasing number of users who come to article talk to ask technical questions that are of interest only to them, and this requires policing, which always includes some false positives.

Best regards,

Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikicast

Hey, Omaryak, thanks for getting in touch with me. Information about Wikicast is fairly scattered at the moment, but if you want ideas for segments and such, you can head over to http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Wikicast where we keep most of our ideas. The best place to get in contact with me or the other Wikicasters is on IRC, on irc.freenode.net in the #wikicast channel. Sorry to repeat what I've been saying on my subpage, but we've only been running for about a week, and we're trying to get organized. If you need any help getting on IRC, or need to ask a question, don't hesitate to leave a message over at my talk page. Thanks! Shadow1 23:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Signpost

Please give me a direct link to the discussion. I strolled down some and didn't find any discussions about an auto link. ForestH2 t/c 22:22, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

All right. Let's wait to hear what Ral says. ForestH2 t/c

WikiCast: Signpost

A change of scheduleing slot may be needed see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About which seems to say it comes out on Monday..

ShakespeareFan00 14:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I noticed – I started working on it last night. Thanks! --Omaryak 18:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, some "listeners feedback"; I have heard you recording of the signpost of August 21. That is very well done, actually the best of audio-articles I have heard. I do have one strong remark. Speak more slowly. It is common that is certain places people speak a lot faster then in other places. Listen to you talk so fast is not easy and even annoying after some time if you are not used to it. It will make it also more easy to understand if you do not understand English very well if you speak more slowly. Take your time. You do not need to pay for some more minutes. And people working on Wikipedia have time. If not the would be working for free on this. I would also recommend to not read it so exactly as it is written. But make it more like a wiki-news report like if you where on the radio. When you are saying things like "start quote" and "end quote" I get the impression I am listening to a computer who is reading autmaticly a text. Greetngs, --Walter 19:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I have struggled with some of the problems of which you speak. I have edited sections of the Signpost to sound more like a radio broadcast, which adds to the production time (and hence why I haven't been able to do one so far this week). These sometimes lead to edits of the Signpost itself. The problem is staying faithful to the original content. If you'd like to help out with writing the script, I wouldn't have a problem with that.

As for the reading style, I am aware I sound a bit like a computer, which is in part why I tried reading more quickly for the latest edition. Normal radio shows have the luxury of using original recorded clips to avoid having to say things like "quote" and "end quote." It is important to distinguish what are not my own words. I do try to leave off "end quote," though, when it is obvious when the quote has ended. As for the speed, I recorded the last one rather quickly for the sake of getting through it. When I recorded it slower it felt more artificial. I will try to see if I can find a happy medium, though. Thanks for the feedback. --Omaryak 06:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your responds and clarification. I would like to help but I have not the time to do it. I have already great difficulty to get my current wikimedia work done. --Walter 20:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Just a quick check, Next Signpost for Friday?

Sorry, I've been busy with the start of the semester. I will have it up ASAP. --Omaryak 06:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Signpost

Thanks for offering to help. If you think there's a story that could be written about something wiki-related, just write up a few paragraphs and submit them in the newsroom. Deadline is Monday at 17:00 UTC.

Let me say one thing though...I would personally prefer, at least for now, your number one priority be the audio feed- I think that's a really cool project. If you have time to write articles too, that's great. Ral315 (talk) 06:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Split infinitive FAR/C

Hi there

I wonder whether you're in a position to help to bring this one back to FA standards. Tony 11:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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--Kemitix 07:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiCast: Signpost..

Hi Omar Yak, Sorry to be a pain, but your recordings of signpost were ulpoaded as CC-BY-SA, whereas the page at WP:POST is GFDL?

Can you clarify why this is or amend the license on commons? ShakespeareFan00 17:20, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hi

I had begun recording for the commonwealth article. I made sure that it was not listed as in progress my another user on the Project Spoken Wikipedia page. However, while looking at the list of contributors, I noticed you seemed to be doing the same thing. I would hate to provide redundant a recording. I am about half-way through the effort - how far are you?

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EDIT. Looking above, I notice that Kemitix asked you the same thing a year ago. Was there any resolution to this?

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