Talk:LifeHand

Okay so, I'm almost completely new to this. I don't even remember why I signed up for Wikipedia in the first place, but it was a while ago now. That said, I'm overwhelmed by all the rules, policies, and unknown cultural norms of Wikipedia. A bot removed my YouTube link. The thing is the YouTube clip seems to have tons of valuable information about LifeHand, but it's in Italian. I was hoping we could find someone to translate it and then we could link to that. Are there Italian Wikipedians who could perform this service to humanity? Would an externally hosted transcript pass the bot test?

Also can you help me with formatting? I'm not trying to butcher the Engadget and Physorg external links' formatting on purpose. I just don't know how to properly formatting. I'm surprised at how archaic the Wikipedia word processor is. We need some Google Docs up in here.

Not a bot. Not trying to cause trouble. Just trying to build this article. It seems like it has the potential to be a really compelling article.

Please don't verbally beat me up for betraying a vast ignorance.

Ted Wheeland (talk) 03:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Confusion continued
I searched it.wikipedia.org for "LifeHand" and it didn't turn anything up. Perhaps it's called something else in Italian although the researchers kept referring to "life hand" it sounded like in the YouTube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKICNClKxI) It seems like there would definitely be a Wikipedia article for such a cool 3 million dollar research project funded by the EU. Am I wrong? Does an Italian Wikipedia article exist? When do I get to read about this in Wired? Ted Wheeland (talk) 03:26, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Source Question
Breitbart and Physorg are hosting the same AP press release, I guess. What source should be kept and which should be deleted in this instance? It seems redundant for Wikipedia to host both links when one will work just fine. Although this question alone is more data than hosting an extra hyper-link.

Ted Wheeland (talk) 03:26, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

How do we show the world what LifeHand looks like?
LifeHand isn't something to just read about. It's something to experience with pictures and video. It's something impressive that deserves a proper article. I came to Wikipedia hoping to learn more about it and was amazed when there was only a stub about it. That said, how can I link or upload a picture of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ted Wheeland (talk • contribs) 03:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Technical problems emailing the Italian researchers
So I emailed a bunch of the Italian's listed on Lab Robotica Biomedica's website.

This is what I emailed them.


 * A chi può interessare,
 * To whom it may concern,


 * Wikipedia può avere il permesso di utilizzare l'immagine di LifeHand per il suo articolo inglese LifeHand? <<== Tradotto da Google Traduttore
 * Can WikiMedia Commons have permission to use your image of LifeHand for its English article on LifeHand?


 * Ovviamente non conoscono l'italiano. Sto cercando qualsiasi immagine di LifeHand di utilizzare nella nostra lingua inglese di Wikipedia LifeHand. Sapete :se il progetto LifeHand abbia un sito o un blog o qualcosa? C'è qualcuno che potevo e-mail? Funziona Google Traduttore abbastanza bene per voi per :capire me? Mi dispiace che non so nulla di italiano. Vi prego di scusarmi.
 * Obviously I don't know Italian. I'm looking for any image of LifeHand to use in our English Wikipedia article of LifeHand. Do you know if the LifeHand :project has a website or a blog or anything? Is there someone I could email? Does Google Translate work well enough for you to understand me? I'm sorry :that I don't know any Italian. Please excuse me.


 * Wikipediano che pensa che la ricerca è stimolante!
 * Wikipedian who thinks your research is inspiring!


 * Theodore Wheeland

Unfortunately when I emailed them, I got this wretched auto-response.


 * Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

a.benvenuto@unicampus.it


 * Technical details of permanent failure:
 * Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further :information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 501 501 5.5.4 Unrecognized parameter (state 15).

The email address is of one of the researchers interviewed in the YouTube video.

Anyone have any ideas on what the error message means? I Googled it, but there were no easy answers -- just mumbo jumbo.

I emailed "info@unicampus.it" explaining the problem. Maybe that will help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ted Wheeland (talk • contribs) 05:51, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Alessandra Tarantino and more picture questions
I added Alessandra Tarantino as one of my Flickr contacts because the AP cited her as a photographer of one of the images. I also sent her a Flickr mail asking for permission for an image. Is it a good idea to have one large format image of LifeHand under a CC license? What should I be asking for exactly? Am I going to get in trouble for hosting this on WikiMedia? I've already read a bit about the legal rules of uploading, but what about the "inclusion vs exclusion" rules? Am I just wasting my time? When can an article get its own image? What are the conditions to qualify an article to get is very own picture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ted Wheeland (talk • contribs) 06:01, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi. There are different kinds of permission for posting images. As long as you make a good faith attempt to follow the rules, I don't think there will be any problem.

As far as which source to use for an AP article, that's up to you.

The best way to learn formatting is to look at the source code of articles, and see how people do it.

Grundle2600 (talk) 20:43, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

External links modified
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