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user: tdmj here can u please make a Whitgiftian userbox. Reply to my talk page
Just a note.
A robot with teeth.
Heyo, just noticed you around, and decided you seem interesting. I hope you find things nice and addicting. The people around here are usually nice, too, but mind some of the people that can get a bit cranky at times. Leave me a note on my talk page if you want, cos I'm a bored kid waiting to help anybody who wants it, if I can. Anyway, just leaving you a strange robot, cos I feel like it, and hope you have a good day. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)07:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Images of browser windows
In response to your question about the image in the Halfbakery article, I probably just have a bigger screen than the person who made the original screenshot. I was able to get the whole site into one Firefox window. I just used GIMP to crop off the browser controls. You could do it the sticking parts together way, too. At one point I used a Firefox extension that made a screenshot of the entire website without the browser controls and without having to scroll. However, I've forgotten which one it is. If anyone finds it, can you stick it on my talk page?
Wikipedia welcomes contributors
regardless of age, but it would be nice to see you actually
contribute. So far most of you (with the exception of
Dbmag9) seem to have been more interested in building
and editing each other's userpages. If your interests go mainly in
that direction, perhaps your needs would be better served by getting
MySpace or LiveJournal accounts? Remember that
Wikipedia is not a free host, blog, or webspace provider.
It is OK to have a Wikipedia account without editing (e.g., in order to
keep a watchlist or a non-default skin). But to maintain an elaborate
userpage without actually contributing to the actual encyclopedic
borders on being a waste of project resources.
(End of canned text. I can see from your contributions that you really do contribute to the encyclopedia, but I thought you should see what I'm sending to your classmates(?). Perhaps you could help direct their energies in a more constructive direction?)Henning Makholm21:56, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. I do try to encourage the others here to contribute, but often to no avail. The allure of posting rubbish on other people's userpages seems too great for them, I'm afraid. Daniel (☎) 23:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
No sweat. Ultimately you're not responsible for what they do. By the way, I seem to have hit a wrong chord with "classmates", seing how you and Tristram both put it in scare quotes in your responses. As you all are the same age and go to the same school, I speculated that you probably had classes together. Apologies if my attempt (as a non-native speaker) to express this ended up sounding strange or offensive. Henning Makholm21:17, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
No, no it is fine. To be honest, we don't share any classes, but it was a reasonable assumption. As a non-native speaker your English is wonderful (I wouldn't have thought it foreign in the slightest). I put it in scare quotes for no particular reason, they just seemed appropriate at the time. I'm sure Tristram was anxious to dissassociate himself with me. Daniel (☎) 21:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience:
"No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention."
The Stress alertsprogram aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them.
Note from the editor
Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!
The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date:
"Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated."
The Stress alertsprogram aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them.
Information
Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!
The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly.
A plea from the editor...
The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there.
Hi, I got your name off the Esperanza user list. I was wondering if you could he lp me to get my userbox list and 'places ive visited' list onto my userpage, but over to right next to the text like you have. Cheers. --JoeTalk!WorkEspMail00:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
The requested modification has been done. Glad to be able to help a fellow Wikipedian! I hope you don't mind if I copy your idea of having seperate subpages for userboxes. Daniel (☎) 11:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for that! I sort of adapted what you'd done to get it how I wanted. Feel free to copy the subpage thing; I probably copied it off someone else originally :P. --JoeTalk!WorkEspMail15:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Daniel! I have separated the film article from the book article, so if you would like to fill out the book article, feel free. Thanks - Her Pegship00:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service.
This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome!
Note from the editor
As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!
Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel.
A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect.
Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct.
Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop.
Wow, at least two people have actually read the thing. Thanks :) Quite a while back I did actually make a pretty obvious deliberate mistake to see if anyone would fix it. They didn't, but now I've made some non-deliberate ones people have noticed! Thanks, Petros47120:15, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.
As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.
Hi! Would you consider changing your vote to support C2 instead of E? It also doesn't put "TEST" in big letters through the logo, but makes it very clear that you're on the Test Wikipedia, while still being very elegant -- replacing "The Free Encyclopedia" with "Test Wiki", and in red, too, to make it more obvious. :) —Nightstallion(?)05:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential!
What's New?
In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs.
To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List.
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Not quite at your IQ but would still like to be an Ifriend
Love the page my IQ is only 158 but hope you still will associate :)
What‽ You expect me to associate myself with an individual of mere centiquinquagental intelligence? How could you presume such a thing? Disgraceful. Sure - thanks for asking :). —Daniel(‽)19:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you take care of informing the Board of the ongoing three logo contests at meta? It seems they're likely to overlook it the same way they overlooked the Incubator logo vote (despite the fact it was advertised quite clearly in the information thread, Signpost, Wikizine...) Thanks! —Nightstallion(?)10:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Of course- don't assume that I have some special influence with the Board, however - the best I can do is to post it on the foundation-l mailing list. —Daniel(‽)20:01, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it has a location at the moment. I deleted it because Wikisource tests should not be placed on Incubator at the moment (Wikisource has its own place for that). Ask at the discussion on Meta, where I'm sure that people will be more informed than me. —Daniel(‽)09:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors!
What's New?
September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves!
Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there!
The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
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Hi, I'm a long-time user, first time contributor. :) Your page looked very interesting, and I'm extremely bored, and I have Latin homework which I'm avoiding doing, so I said to myself, "Myself, why don't I leave this stranger a comment?" And there was no compelling reason not to, so here it is.--Stercus.caput03:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
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About being an administrator
Hi.
The [Pangasinan wikipedia] is now a full pledge wikipedia. I was the main contributor and administrator for the Test-wp/pag, I was wondering how can I become a bureaucrat of the Pangasinan wiki. Thanks.
I suggest you contact Timichal, as he seems to be helping sort out the newly created languages. He should be able to get you sysoped on the new language quite soon. —Daniel(‽)21:09, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
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Whitgift School Vandalism
Daniel, (I'm Bhaveer) I have reconsidered my views on the continous vandalising incidents at Whitgift, and now agree with you in your proposal to permanently ban the priveledge of editing for the IP. I shall back you up, and please leave a reply on my user page User:Bhaveer
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Ferdinand II's plaque in Florence
Hello Daniel,
I see that you have both Latin and Hebrew interests. If you can read this inscription,
would you like to edit the description of this wiki Commons image? (Image:Firenze-Ferdinando-II-plaque-1116.jpg;
just click on the image to get there)
I took the picture in Florence, where this plaque is mounted next to the entry to some kind of institution (Istituto San
Salvatore, probably very Catholic), and would love to put it to good use in an appropriate wiki article.
But as I don't know either of the two languages involved, I don't know what Duke Ferdinand II (one of Medici rulers
of Tuscany), and his Mom the regent, wanted to say there -- though if it was
something about the Jews, it is probably nothing good. They sounds really angry in their last sentence :-)
Please just ignore this note if you don't have time.
I tried, but to be honest I don't have the skill in either language to translate it properly for you. I can tell you that the Hebrew is almost certainly a Biblical quote, beginning approximately "In the name of God have mercy". I'll put it up on the Languages Reference Desk to see if anyone there knows, as it seems intriguing. Sorry. —Daniel(‽)16:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach.
Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
What's New?
The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one!
A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
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The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested!
In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias.
Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello.
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Hello there Daniel!
Hello, i'm jewish and it is so great to find other Jews my age, great! I just wanted to ask you how do you all your userboxes in a neat line like that? mine are all over the place! I'm quite new here, so that might explain it! Thanks, Shalom
I just added a comment to Talk:Two Weeks Notice about the grammar thing. Your comment on that page is totally wrong, referring as it does to "Two Week's Notice" (instead of "Two Weeks' Notice"). I'm guessing that was a typo, and maybe you'd like a heads-up so you could fix it. You know, for posterity. :) --Quuxplusone04:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
This guy is your personal B-day red panda! Congrats for being one year older and staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Happy B-day! —¡Randfan! {{subst:CURRENTTIME}}, {{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC); so how does it feel? :)
Happy b-day! Hope it's a good one! Cheers!:) —Randfan!! {{subst:CURRENTTIME}}, {{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC)
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