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Great American Wiknic for Topeka in June

Howdy! I would like to invite you to again join with a local edition of the Great American Wiknic this June :) Also, please add any preliminary details to Wikipedia:Wiknic#2013 Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 17:15, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I will see what we can do here in topeka! James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:58, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Could you add something preliminary to the main Wikipedia:Wiknic#2013 Wiknic page now to help raise awareness? I hear Sadads is down for it!--Pharos (talk) 17:47, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I may be out of town that weekend... Will check calendar! FYI, will have some events coming up in August and Sept. at K-State, Sadads (talk) 17:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can always do it the next weekend if needed, Wiknic is after all the picnic anyone can edit :)--Pharos (talk) 17:54, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rootstrikers-related WikiProjects

Re: your post on my talk page. So far, all I've got is WikiProject_U.S._Congress. WikiProject_Politics and WikiProject_Elections_and_Referendums could also be related. It's not a WikiProject, but Campaign_finance could definitely use some work. (links omitted because the preview was looking way not right) Will Hopkins (talk) 02:47, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Call for research participants

Dear Mdupont, we are a Croatian team of researchers who are looking at the editing dynamics on different language Wikipedias and are focusing specifically on the topic of Kosovo. We are looking for editors who have participated in editing, or discussing, articles about this topic, and who would be willing to be interviewed for the purpose of this research project. This is a project approved by the Wikimedia Foundations´ Research Committee and you can find more information on this meta-wiki page. Research results will be published under an open access license and your participation would be much appreciated. If you would like to participate you can reach us at our talk page or directly at [e-mail] and we will set up an interview in a way that best suits your needs. Pbilic (talk) 11:49, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CongLinks

Your work on External links is appreciated. When you copy from Ballotpedia, remove the nm prefix from the imdb value in CongLinks. Change the wikipedia param to ballot and make sure it works as not all use identical names. Wikipedia doesn't use social media links at all. Use GovLinks for state government offices. Hope that helps. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 20:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update. https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/congress-legislators contains the most up to date and best source of data in yaml format (leg currrent.yaml) I am working on a bot to update and check the cong links and other data on my test wiki (rootstrikers.wikia.com) so I wont be updating wikipedia in a while. thanks!

mike James Michael DuPont (talk) 00:22, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're certainly entitled to your own opinion on that. I did notice: "thomas: The numeric ID for this legislator on http://thomas.gov and http://beta.congress.gov. The ID is stored as a string with leading zeros preserved" However, beta.congress requires the name in the url, not just the id. As for c-span, I talked to the earlier about using the name vs. id format, and went with the name because of fewer errors. There are still some old ids out there. 184.78.81.245 (talk)

Ok, I am willing to fix any specific points, just tell me where you found the problems specifically. For thomas you can see an example of its usage on rootstrikers.wikia.com i have autogenerated the conglinks there from the yaml and thomas works as a search. will look into beta.congress.gov, thanks James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:07, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your tip, confirmed that the beta site is not usable without names. Created the new field betaname that you can use with the thomas field. please test. I will run a autoscan of the wikipedia articles with my scripts and look for bad conglinks in the next days. James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It turns out that you can use the thomas id like this beta.congress.gov/member/ignore/1460 and just ignore the name. James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I got the scanner working. [e-mail]:h4ck3rm1k3/rootstrikers-wikipedia.git wikipedia_conglinks.py. will remove the nm prefix from imdb in the articles Jim_Inhofe John_McCain Matt_Salmon, if you find any more let me know. James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removing wikipedia field which was copied from ballotpedia, it is not the ballot field from Andy_Barr_(U.S._politician) and Jim_Inhofe let me know if you have any more issues, i have the tools to find and fix them. James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:42, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Who's paying for this project? 184.78.81.245 (talk) 14:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Who is asking? you can send me a mail [e-mail] and we can talk about that. James Michael DuPont (talk) 23:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Monsanto

What are you doing? 184.78.81.245 (talk) 00:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am working on documentation of campaign financing. James Michael DuPont (talk) 00:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Unless you can put the information into context, it should not be added. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 01:53, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This has a context, and the context is S.510 - FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act and many other GMO issues. James Michael DuPont (talk) 02:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Monsanto Citizenship Fund for deletion

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Hirolovesswords I am missing any discussion with you, you are not answering any of my talks. James Michael DuPont (talk) 11:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Monsanto

Wikipedia is not a Soapbox. An attempt must made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view. Biographies of living people in particular must avoid overstatement and claims that rely on guilt by association.

Also, the idea that "we will cover all campaign finance in wikipedia one day" is most likely incorrect, as Wikipedia is not an excessive listings of statistics. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 14:48, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, I am working on a project to do just that and one day we will have that in wikipedia. This is not about attacking any one at all, it is about documenting the influence of money in politics. James Michael DuPont (talk) 03:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

Wikipedia is not Ballotpedia. The website parameter in the Infobox, if used at all, is for the person's one official site. Social media sites are not listed in the Infobox or External links. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 14:12, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for you feedback I will keep that in mind for the future. James Michael DuPont (talk) 03:53, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:Prizren 1943.jpg)

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William Blake Editathon at KSU

The GLAM-Wiki Collaboration with the William Blake Archive would like to invite you to join us either digitally or physically in Manhattan, Kansas for a William Blake Editathon at the Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University on Oct. 11. For more information or to sign up go to the editathon page, Sadads (talk) 13:22, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Block of the library

I apologise for the vandalism of one of my students here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Excirial/Content&diff=prev&oldid=613598394 I will have a talk with him next week. we are doing a wikipedia course for teens www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/news-events/events/wiki-warriors-2014-06-05/ and they are learning. last lesson was ruined because the entire ip of the library was blocked and we could not continue. If you look we are working on adding pictures and content to articles in lawrence kansas. Can you please unblock it for next thursday for our next lesson? that would be awesome. thanks mike James Michael DuPont (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hiyas Mike,

I did already remove the autoblock that was present on the IP yesterday, about 30 or so minutes after the block was initially made. I blocked the account for vandalism but from my perspective it sure was an unusual situation: The account seemed to be part of a larger group of about 10 editors who were somehow all new and interrelated to each other. Once i noticed that i wasn't sure if this was something akin to a class project (Which could take flak damage from my block) or a rather oddly operating sock puppeteer so I asked a checkuser to look into that for me. The CU managed to figure out what i couldn't, and pointed me towards the Wiki Warriors page a little while after the block. I removed the autoblock from that IP address as soon as i figured what was going on but unfortunately that was about ~30 minutes after i blocked the account (And 20 minutes past the end time of the library activity mentioned on the library website).

For a moment i considered forwarding a message that the block was removed, but i did not feel like finding out where the "Chat with a Librarian" option on the website would take me (Quite frankly i figured someone might end up thinking i was some form of prankster if i were to state i was looking for the Wiki Warriors program, stating that i just blocked and unblocked the libraries IP). Aside from the auto block i just unblocked the Bubs92 account as well. Seeing the situation i don't think there is any malicious intent here, just a bit of... well, lets call it an overenthusiastic start of a great editing career. Excirial ^(Contact me,Contribs) 00:51, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PS: As there are multiple people editing from the library there is always a slight but unfortunate change that the IP gets caught in an autoblock. If that would happen again you might want to drop by on the #wikipedia-en-unblock IRC chat channel to request it to be unblock. The activity is publicly documented and you're a long time editor, so i doubt many people would fuss over a quick unblock if it were ever to be needed. Aside from that may i add on a personal note that i find the Wiki Warriors programs quite the lovely initiative?

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Students attracting attention from recent changes patrollers

Hi there,

I've noticed that you're running a class teaching students how to use Wikipedia. I think that's wonderful! However, some of your students are making probably harmless edits to pages in each other's userspaces (such as blanking user talk pages) which are being tagged as vandalism, and showing up with giant red flags (not literally) in recent changes. To experienced editors who aren't familiar with your project, this looks like either a vandal flame war, or possibly sockpuppetry, and I'm sure you know that neither are looked upon very favourably around here. If other editors start to take notice, it's possible that your students' accounts might be blocked for disruptive editing, or your school's IP could be autoblocked (as I see has already happened once).

I see that someone has created a Wikipedian category for your project, Category:Wikipedians taking part in the Wikiwarriors project at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas, and at a minimum it's probably a good idea to make sure your students' user pages always keep the wikilink to that category so that other editors know what's going on.

Best of luck! Ivanvector (talk) 20:11, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Upcoming event at the WWI Museum in Kansas City

Hello! I would like to invite you to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming event at the WWI Museum in Kansas City

Hello! I would like to invite you to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Art+Feminism in the Kansas City Area

Join us for the fight for free and equal knowledge!

I want to invite you to two upcoming Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism meetups in the Kansas City Area, as part of Women's History Month. The first event will be on March 7 in Lawrence from 10:00am to 5PM and the second on March 28, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM at the Kansas City Public Library. Join us either digitally or physically for these events! Of course, like other Wikipedia events, editors are more than welcome to edit about topics of their own interest, but our hope is to help close the gender gap on Wikipedia! Join us for both these welcoming events! Sadads (talk) 01:31, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of List of school districts in Kosovo for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Deleted text on Vojsava Kastrioti

Thanks for the message. This subject has been discussed for years, if we include discussions in Skanderbeg. I am sure you know very well that the Serbian origin of Vojsava is supported by dozens of highly reliable sources. The article should not change every few weeks when a new Albanian user decides to "discuss" everything allover. YOU have to discuss before you delete. Thanks. --Euzen (talk) 17:46, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Rebol open sourced Dec 2012

Hi James, I was just reading the archive on the Rebol talk page and noticed you once took an interest in helping warn people it was proprietary. Good work, people should have been warned, I did the same whenever I blogged about it.  :-) However, I am happy to say that this nagging issue was fixed last year; the reference implementation is open source and protecting the name/brand itself is pretty typical (think Firefox, Chrome); make your own variant just don't call it Rebol, that's par for the course. So I think we don't need the big disclaimer in the first paragraph anymore. It's a language with an Apache 2.0 licensed reference implementation, and a friendlier treatment on Wikipedia is warranted. (Yes, it was way overdue, and opportunities lost in the meantime...but...better late than never?) Feel free to come discuss in the Rebol StackOverflow chat room, we're sort of trying to figure out how to adapt the Internet presence of a kickass language that had been proprietary, but is now being steered by a community that is struggling with little things like... even stopping capitalizing REBOL, for instance. (That's something else, moving the page and doing like with LISP where it is "Lisp (historically LISP)..." -- could use some help. HostileFork (talk)