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Tech News: 2015-0116:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-0316:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-0418:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)Thanks...Thanks for your welcome. I'd appreciate any advice you have to offer in respect to edits. Have a great weekend, what's left of it... Bill. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wbrook (talk • contribs) 19:17, 25 January 2015 (UTC) (moved Something to add to Harmine article to here so it is in chronological order)Tech News: 2015-0516:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Learning Quarterly: January 2015L&E Newsletter / Volume 1 / Issue 3 / January 2015 Frontpage: #EducationCollaborative #CrossingBorders Stay tuned Leave your mark on Meta! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC) If this message is not on your home wiki's talk page, update your subscription.
"Trust but verify"Thanks for leading me from your userpage down an interesting path of Russian proverbs. I didn't realize "Trust but verify" was even one of them (and I can read just a little Russian). - Brianhe (talk) 06:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-0616:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-0716:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-0817:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-0916:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-1016:42, 2 March 2015 (UTC)Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Portland Oregon (March 7, 2015)You are invited!
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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! APerson (talk!) 14:40, 5 March 2015 (UTC)Leonard'sI started a Hawaii-related article that you might be interested in: User:Brianhe/Leonard's Bakery. You're welcome to contribute! — Brianhe (talk) 06:47, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
commas and semi-colons?Hello Peaceray. I see you edited my article on Marianna Schmidt. I am wondering why you changed the semi-colons to commas. As I see it, both Chicago Manual of Style (6.60) and Wikipedia's own manual of style (9.7) suggest the use of semi-colons to separate items in a run-in list when the listed items have internal punctuation, as with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima Peru or Museum of Modern Art, New York. Do you see it differently? Cantabile3 (talk) 08:45, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-1115:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-1215:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)Coldplay backlinkHi, Peaceray. I am making an article for Coldplay's newest album A Head Full of Dreams, but there is a backlink for it. I want it to be removed because: 1. I am new to this coding. I can't find it. 2. a. The Coldplay article is semi-protected to protect against vandalism. b. I am not an autoconfirmed user. Thanks for understanding and I hope you can delete it soon. Sheldon.andre (talk) 00:58, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
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Peaceray (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock) Request reason: We are editing at the Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Privacy and security themed editathon with Seattle TA3M at the Montlake Library 4-19-2015 event. Instituting this IP block has prevented the edit-a-thon from moving forward.
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Tech News: 2015-1815:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)Support request with team editing experiment projectDear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta. Learning Quarterly: May 2015L&E Newsletter / Volume 1 / Issue 4 / May 2015 Frontpage: Stay tuned Leave your mark on Meta! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:57, 1 May 2015 (UTC) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC) If this message is not on your home wiki's talk page, update your subscription.
You said it, comrade! And not just grammar: the anon doesn't seem to have realized that the two words mean entirely different things. Their change made it meaningless. Thanks. Hey! I just looked at your user page. I moved to Philly in 2002, but only joined GLAM a couple of years ago. Nice ta (e-)meetcha!* --Thnidu (talk) 21:42, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-1915:22, 4 May 2015 (UTC)Wikipedia Women's Health Information Edit-a-thon: Tuesday, May 12 at OHSUYou are invited!
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To unsubscribe from this newsletter, remove your name from this list. Is this still important?Sorry if I'm doing this the wrong way. I just wondered if the message you posted on my Talk page was still important. I didn't really understand it when it appeared, and didn't know what I'd done to prompt it or what to do about it:
– AndyFielding (talk) 23:24, 9 May 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-2016:00, 11 May 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-2115:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-2216:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-2315:43, 1 June 2015 (UTC)A barnstar for you!
Merge & Original research templatesDo you know where I could find the samples to use like "needs merge" or "original research detected"? Hail knowledge (talk) 23:16, 1 June 2015 (UTC)Hail knowledge
A barnstar for you!
Tech News: 2015-2418:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-2515:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-2615:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-2715:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)Weather update for WiknicHi, weather update for Wiknic: the forecast is now for 91 degrees and a high UV index. Peaceray is bringing icewater, but everyone do please take appropriate precautions for the weather, such as sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, and staying hydrated. There will be some shade in the trees. It's ok for those of us who are more temperature and/or sunlight sensitive to come but leave early, or skip the event if you think that you should; people who are very young, elderly, or have other health issues are more vulnerable to heat stroke. Health and safety first. Cheers, --Pine✉ 15:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-2815:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)The Wikipedia Library needs you!We hope The Wikipedia Library has been a useful resource for your work. TWL is expanding rapidly and we need your help! With only a couple hours per week, you can make a big difference for sharing knowledge. Please sign up and help us in one of these ways:
You're invited to the Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania!You were suggested as someone who might be interested in the Ally Skills Training Workshop at Wikimania! The workshop is designed to train Wikipedia admins to be more aware of sexism and is funded by an Inspire grant. The workshop will focus on teaching specific skills and techniques directly relevant to Wikipedia admins and editors, and in particular will teach people about the psychology of trolls. The workshop will be on Thursday July 16 from 2pm to 5pm in Don Diego 3. If you are attending Wikimania, you are invited to apply to the Ally Skills Workshop! Space is limited and we may not be able to accept all applications, so apply now. More information, including a link to the application form, is here: Ally Skills Workshop description and application form People of all genders are welcome to attend. Unfortunately, travel scholarships for Wikimania are already closed and we don't know of any other sources of travel funding. If you know anyone else attending Wikimania who might be interested in attending this workshop, please encourage them to apply! Thank you for your time, Valerie Aurora (Instructor and Interim Executive Director of the Ada Initiative) Valerietai (talk) 22:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-2915:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3003:06, 21 July 2015 (UTC)Meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle
Need help with user pageHello, Peaceray. You might know me from asking for a redirect to A Head Full of Dreams, which still isn't created due to it not being released yet. But, I need your help. You have an awesome userpage, no doubt about it. Now, I don't mean to spam your talk page of any sort, but I need help with my userpage. It's just two sentences: one, two, the end. Can you at least send me some advice on some templates that I can use? Thanks, Sheldon.andre (talk) 01:59, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Learning Quarterly: July 2015L&E Newsletter / Volume 2 / Issue 5 / July 2015 Frontpage: Stay tuned Leave your mark on Meta! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-3115:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)Zeus (malware) and KoobfaceFYI... The "only Cisco certified technician can clean this" spamming is because Technical support scammers are referring people to the Wikipedia articles as "proof" of infection. That's why you keep seeing new editors trying to re-add it and why most of the anonymous edits are from India. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:48, 30 July 2015 (UTC) Looking for editors to help with an Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon in Honolulu
Aloha!
Recently, Adriel Luis, Curator (Digital & Emerging Media) at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, contacted me about setting up an edit-a-thon like the previous Wikipedia APA edit-a-thon. In addition to discussing one for Seattle, he wrote:
As I was working two jobs while I lived on Oahu, I did not have the opportunity to meet your or any other Wikipedians at the time. Hence, the reason why I am contacting you now. If you would like to help, please contact me through one of these methods:
Tech News: 2015-3215:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3314:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3416:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3513:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3621:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)Re: Conflict of InterestHi Peaceray, I wasn't sure how to respond to your message so I hope I am doing this right. You messaged me about my edits to the Greg Gianforte page. I am his son so I understand your concern and appreciate your message. I was aware of my biases and tried to be careful with my edits. My father is a controversial figure so there was already some charged language and misinformation on the page. I intentionally left in any information that casts my father in a negative light as long as it was true. I merely eliminated untrue, uncited statements (e.g. that his nickname is "Baldy") and added balancing information to certain topics. For example, the only previous information about his charitable foundation was a single gift to a creationist museum; so I added general info about the foundation's scope and aim of benefiting education, protecting the vulnerable, etc. I did not remove the mention of the museum gift. I'm sure you will find that the article is more balanced and unbiased than before. If there are specific edits that you are concerned about, please let me know. Thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia and your efforts to make it a better place. -adamwg333 Adamwg333 (talk) 20:00, 2 September 2015 (UTC) NoticeYour account has been granted the "template editor" user permission, allowing you to edit templates and modules that have been protected with template protection. It also allows you to bypass the title blacklist, giving you the ability to create and edit edit notices. You can use this user right to perform maintenance, answer edit requests, and make any other simple and generally uncontroversial edits to templates, modules, and edit notices. You can also use it to enact more complex or controversial edits, after those edits are first made to a test sandbox, and their technical reliability as well as their consensus among other informed editors has been established. Before you use this user right, please read Wikipedia:Template editor and make sure you understand its contents. In particular, you should read the section on wise template editing and the criteria for revocation. This user right gives you access to some of Wikipedia's most important templates and modules; it is critical that you edit them wisely and that you only make edits that are backed up by consensus. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Useful links:
Happy template editing! Swarm ♠ 07:36, 3 September 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-3717:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3816:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-3918:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)Scott Fischer revertI deleted that URL because the citation has two different URLs in it and was giving an error message; the 2nd URL (the one I didn't delete) was the better source. Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:07, 24 September 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-4015:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)Wikipedia Lab at the UW Research Commons
Scott FischerHi, No problem with replacing the image of Scott Fischer. I just want the page to have images, as pictures are always better that thousands of words. Lamro (talk) 07:00, 5 October 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-4118:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)ACC tool access requestHi and thanks for your interest in joining the Account Creation Team. I haven't acted on your request yet in case your identification is in-progress but not yet posted to the noticeboard. If you have not identified to the WMF, you will have to do so before access to the ACC tool can be granted. Once identified, please complete your registration per the ACC Guide. I or another ToolAdmin will act on your request. Take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 17:46, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Movement Wide Finance Report 2014Dear Peaceray, I’m Alex, currently a finance fellow (i.e intern) at the Wikimedia Foundation. I worked before for Wikimedia France, planning the Hackathon Lyon 2015 mainly. I'm today contacting you because of your activity for Wikimedia Cascadia User Group. Last year, Finance Fellows produced a financial report that included financial activity from every chapters. It was great and has been presented at the Wikimania in Mexico. If you haven’t seen the results of the Report 2013, here they are: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-wide_Financial_Trends_Report_2013 We’re currently starting the Report 2014 and this year we also want to include user groups to improve the scope of our work. I want to tell you that I’ve tried to make the process as short and easy as possible, so that shouldn’t require a lot of your time. The aim of such a report is global. It helps having an idea of how the money is used across the movement, it helps chapters and user groups to learn about best practice and finally it leads to more transparency through a qualitative work, which I believe is important. Could you briefly tell me if you had any income and expenses in 2014? If you are not the person responsible for this, please tell me who is the user the most likely to know this information. I’ll be your contact for this project this year, I’m looking forward to working with you! Cheers, ACella (WMF) (talk) 23:25, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
List of errors :Currently, both the 111th and 112th slots are incorrect at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
That was changed to a reckoning of the counting of the slots with regard to the actual names in the St. Malachy prophecy. So the older 267th and 268th slots correspond to the current 111th and 112th slots, respectively. The following edit, which was done several years ago, is correct regarding the 268th slot, the current 112th slot, in the list : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prophecy_of_the_Popes&diff=prev&oldid=306281384
The matter has been addressed with similar results but not without further elucidation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prophecy_of_the_Popes#Double_Error
http://risen-from-the-dead.forumotion.com/ as all other editors are murdering the actual person who is "Gloria oliuæ", that is "Glory of the olive", that is, the 111th (the former 267th) in the list. - -Exodus2320 (talk) 16:55, 8 October 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-4216:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)Disambiguation link notification for October 13Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited List of women astronomers, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page David Williams (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:22, 13 October 2015 (UTC) Personal acquaintances projectRegarding WP:Personal acquaintances, I noticed that Doc James just became confirmed. Have you ever met him? Maybe he could confirm you. I think you need just one more to become confirmed [347], then you will be enabled to confirm other people in Cascadia. — Brianhe (talk) 02:48, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-4316:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)October 19 meetupPeaceray, would you mind sending me a quick list of editors who are / will be at the editathon today? I am not able to attend tonight but just wanted to help track the articles created like I did the last couple of times. - Brianhe (talk) 00:07, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
A photo from HawaiiI think that you might enjoy this photo. (: --Pine✉ 02:51, 25 October 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-4418:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)Learning Quarterly: October 2015L&E Newsletter / Volume 2 / Issue 6 / October 2015 Frontpage: Stay tuned Leave your mark on Meta! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-4516:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-4617:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Something to add to Harmine articleI have no idea how to do wikipedia edits, but this article may be something you want to add to the harmine page, and you were the last to edit it, so I figured I'd dump it in your lap and hope the info got to where it needs to be Harmine may cure diabetes... of course its more complicated than that but here's the research link http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v21/n4/full/nm.3820.html Thanks... I'm so horrible at this, this probably isn't even in the right place. Ah well, have a great day! 2602:304:CEC5:9C00:6C08:A13D:1451:A1FB (talk) 15:11, 13 November 2015 (UTC)Jeff
Tech News: 2015-4719:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-4820:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)ArbCom elections are now open!Hi, What on earth is wrong with the neo-liberalism edit?I'm just telling the truth? It is a conspiracy theory and highly POV to say that there has been a "resurgence" of "neo-liberal" ideas without any source for that. The size of the state has grown in the vast majority of Western countries since lefties claim that there has been "neo-liberalism" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.91.21 (talk) 23:22, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Peaceray. You have new messages at Pigman's talk page.
Message added 20:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC). You can at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Pigman☿/talk 20:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC) good eveningCan we talk Adie canice (talk) 20:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-5117:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)Tech News: 2015-5218:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Re : link colorI added an internal link to an article a few minutes ago at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Clement_III and noticed that the text color appears more of a magenta hue than the light blue in most other internal links. Can you explain here why this is so?--Exodus2320 (talk) 15:58, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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