User talk:Alfio

I'm most active on the Italian wikipedia, please leave messages there.

Welcome to Wikipedia! I just responded to your comments over on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical Objects, thanks for the input and getting a start on the minor planets like that. :) Bryan 02:28 Feb 2, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, great work. I hope you like the place! --mav

Yes, edit conflicts get confusing. I was deleting and moving the content while you were writing to tell me to do so.... Sometimes it turns into a bit of slapstick comedy routine. Tokerboy

Congratulations! Great contributions. -- looxix 19:56 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I haven't asked for permissions before using the table, but it seems it's still OK :-) At18

I think Eclectiology put that Newton thing in there in a fit of pique. Mintguy 12:52, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * At least until now, no one is complaining... :-) At18 15:44, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the eagle eyes on the C-16/116 stuff, but I can assure you the C-116 does exist. It's just really obscure. See my talk page. Dave Farquhar 03:44, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Not your fault, but creating the Slogan 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead redirect is going to cause no end of trouble... see votes for deletion and Talk:Slogan 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead/redirect. I did much the same thing with a list of soccer players once. Martin 19:17, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * I see, but the redirect points to Slogan 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead', which appear to be a long-running article with lots of edits. So if redirects are problematic, the page should be too. I have no strong opinions on redirects, as long as the main page is not touched. At18 19:38, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

WikiProject Programming languages
Would you be willing to join WikiProject Programming languages, I could really use your help. &mdash;Noldoaran (Talk) 03:56, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)

Name decoration and name mangling
Hi. I see that, back in the day, you're the originator of Name decoration. User:Lady Lysine Ikinsile and myself have been working on a (super-detailed) version, currently at User:Finlay McWalter/name mangling (I confess I started it would properly searching for "name decoration"). I think we'd like to integrate name decoration into that new article, and (once the whole thing isn't a bunch of TODOs) post it into the main namespace, with both ...mangling and ...decoration pointing to the same place (I'm not particular which). Would you be interested in contributing? Also, the specific example you cite in name decoration doesn't seem to match any of the decoration schemes we've found to date (and you may notice that Lady Lysine Ikinsile has been particularly dilligent in rooting different ones out). Do you remember which complier you based it off, or is it a deliberately didactic example? Thanks -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:22, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * This ...func@X scheme is the Windows "stdcall" mangling, I believe. It's not a C++-specific mangling, but rather a general one applied to symbols from all languages (including C) which use the stdcall calling convention (normal undecorated symbols are cdecl).  It's probably worth mentioning it in the article, but I have no idea how it works or what it's for...    &mdash; Lady Lysine Ikinsile 00:50, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)

Press kits

 * from the pump

While browsing the official web site of the Cassini space probe (that will arrive at Saturn in three weeks), I downloaded the press kit, which is a 400 kb PDF file. In my opinion, this sort of thing is a goldmine for Wikipedia articles: it lists each and every detail about the probe, the planet and its moons in a plain language, designed for journalists who aren't experts on the subject. It includes lots of pretty pictures that are also very informative (in this case, the orbit layout, the planet interior, the ring structure, the probe schematic, and so on). The press kit has no copyright statement on it. Coming from the JPL, I suspect it's public domain. So wouldn't be a good idea to harvest press kits from the various gov. organization that are trying to show off? What's the actual copyright status on them? What could be a proper WikiProject procedure? This press kit is so well done that it could be splitted into two articles: Saturn and the Cassini probe, that could be almost wikified and left that way. Would others be the same? Alfio 18:51, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The JPL is a division of Nasa - ''NASA images generally are not copyrighted. You may use NASA imagery, video and audio material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet Web pages.'' - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html &rarr;Raul654 18:59, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)


 * "generally" is correct, but you do find some images with non-NASA copyright notices on the NASA websites. For example: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_166.html  http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/58496main_image_feature_166_jwfull.jpg - Bevo 19:43, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * JPL is not a division of NASA, it is a division of Caltech, and therefore does not strictly fall under the standard NASA/government "everything's public domain" policy. Be careful. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 22:15, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * JPL images are "pretty close" to public domain. In most cases, only a credit is required. See JPL Image Policy -- Curps 22:42, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Static copies
Alfio, You put up some links to wiki2static script but it seems to be a broken site now? If you are linked to the site owner you might tell them. I have left one link but replace others with an equivalent link. Thought I'd let you know --BozMo|talk 15:16, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Ah, so it is not yours? Nice code. No major improvements no. The search stuff was a bit funny (didn't quite work as written but might have been the way we named the files), and they've changed the database a bit recently (possibly the new skin?) so it needs modifying as the old program comes out with lots of /n everywhere. We haven't quite solved all the new database problems yet its a couple of days work. Incidentally if you put up copies ensure you have the band width... there are a lot of search engines these days and they all want to trawl 900 M :o( --BozMo|talk 19:46, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Lance Armstrong
Hi Alfio. Your Lance Armstrong edit puzzles me, so I have made some changes.. Simeoni was a part of the breakaway six, not chasing it down. Armstrong went across, then back into the peloton. What are the sources for "..... Armstrong said that he would relax only if Simeoni would do the same. So they both stopped pedalling hard....."? Armstrong co-operating with Simeoni, who he was supposed to be angry with, draws a very long bow indeed. Also, your addition, "....and Armstrong was heavily criticized in most of Italian TV and newspaper coverage." -- there is nothing remarkable about ITALIAN news media criticism when an ITALIAN rider is humbled by Armstrong in front of the whole viewing world, but I guess, if it happened, we should say so. Also, I have removed your word "American" re tv commentators. I heard this on the ITV feed. Cheers Moriori 22:35, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)


 * Hello again Alfio, Tks for response. Have no fears, I'm NOT entering an edit war. You are correct,now, when you say Armstrong was not co-operating with Simeoni, quite the contrary. He sure wasn't, he was deliberately showing Simeoni who was boss, and if the peloton caught Simeoni's six, then added bonus. Maybe the fact the whole US postal team gave Simeoni grief on the last stage was to remind him that they didn't appreciate Simeoni trying to implicate somone else when he confessed to being a drug user. It certainly wasn't to prevent Simeoni from winning, because he couldn't.. Cheers Moriori 22:56, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

bambina Americana
I thought it was weird when I hadn't heard about it, but she was known "all over Italy." Here is a list of newspapers she appeared in: Il Messaggero Pesaro, Corriere Adriatico and Il Resto del Carlino. I have a feeling that these are just regional newspapers, and no American who wasn't Italian themselves would know the difference. Mike H 22:33, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Wikistatic html archives and Windows bug
Hello Alfio, I found your user name linked from Database download and went to look at http://www.tommasoconforti.com/wiki/ to download the Simple wikipedia archive from http://www.tommasoconforti.com/wiki/simple.20040727.complete.tar.gz

Winzip does ungzip the the file and produce a tar file, but on Windows XP a bug/feature prevents the tar file being fully extracted. The bug is that Windows refuses to accept files named "con" (it's a reserved word for a device).

I can workaround the bug by selecting all but the con.js file, but I wonder if it's possible to make a special version of the html archive where con.js is renamed, to "_con.js" maybe?

When I'm next on a Unix machine I can fix my copy, and try a simple change to search.html for Windows users (var threeletters = "_"+searchterm.substr(0,3); etc)

See DOS for a partial list of filenames reserved by Windows/DOS. -Wikibob | Talk 22:38, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

Ah, I've just seen you have seen one manifestation of this bug already in wikistatic.pl: "on Windows systems, the article called "CON" is invariably written on the console." -Wikibob | Talk 22:55, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

Image tagging
Hey, I just noticed your table on Image copyright tags. It's very helpful information to have. Nice work! --Michael Snow 22:03, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The table is nice, would it be hard to modify the script so that it displays total numbers of tagged images and perhaps total number of images at the bottom? Nikola 10:52, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nice job! Would it be possible to add the new templates for Possibly unfree images to your script? They're and. Thanks! Whosyourjudas 02:19, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Whosyourjudas 20:11, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the total numbers! :) I also noticed that you are counting PD_USGov as tag. It should be PD-USGov! There are a LOT of US Gov't images. Nikola 07:37, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wow, that's a great chart of images! Do you think you could update it? Pretty please? – Quadell (talk) (help)  00:33, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! You're awesome.   – Quadell (talk) (help)   21:00, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Tables of images
Would it be possible for you to update the table at Image copyright tags? &rarr;Raul654 05:14, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)


 * I second that request. And, not to make it more difficult for you, but there are a lot more image tags than there were last time you ran the report. Need any help?   – Quadell (talk) (help)   17:31, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Slovenia highligted map
Yes, you can use Image:SVN_highlighted_map.png under GFDL. I shall put copyright tag in it. Thank you for your notice. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 22:26, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Thanks
I appreciate the comments, but I've been getting stalked by those two for a while and try to revert almost every edit I make. They are very politically motivated and a long time wikian I know suggested to me that one was the sockpuppet of the other. If I am vehement it is because they were trying to rapidly escalate the situation and never tried to mediate, because they refuse to accept that anything but their opinion is NPOV. I felt like I was getting railroaded.Mlorrey 05:07, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You were listed on the Wikipedians/Italy page as living in or being associated with Italy. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Italy for instructions. --Army1987 10:29, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/European Union member states at the 2004 Summer Olympics
You might be interested to have a look. Regards. --Pgreenfinch 18:36, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

"Raggio mezzano"
Hi Alfio! I'm the one that made the Terra radii edit yesterday. Needless to say, I don't speak Italian, so I might have made a bad translation. "Raggio mezzano" was meant to be "average/mean" radius (actually its the "average great circle radius", but average/mean is good enough P=). Likewise, "circonferenza mezzano" was supposed to be "average/mean circumference", based on the average/mean radius. ~Kaimbridge ~16:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Multilingual ranking February 2006
Hi!

I found You in hostory listing of some older ranking pages. Can You tell me when we could expect to see ranking for February at Multilingual ranking February 2006? :)

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WikiProject C++
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Naming fix in rankings
Must be done Taiwanese -> Latvian naming fix in ur data. I saw and fixed it maybe 3 times (3 months data). --Pontiakas 22:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

July rankings?
Hi there? Any chance of getting the July rankings on the Multilingual statistics page done? If you need a hand, I'll try to help you:-)David Cannon 11:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for doing that! Cheers, David Cannon 00:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm most active on the Italian wikipedia, please leave messages there.

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Isarco-Eisack
could you express an opinion with regard to this move request? Icsunonove 20:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics
Hey Alfio -

if you could update the stats, I'd be ever so grateful - I think we'll hit 10M across all languages soon, and it would be good to know. :-) Cheers,--Eloquence* 23:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I noticed that your script uses 'chr' instead of 'crh' for the Crimean Tatar wikipedia. Could you fix this? I think it's wrong on all the stats pages too. —Firespeaker (talk) 04:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Request for multilingual stats script
At a couple of points in the talk page it looked like you had been the one updating the multilingual stats page. I may or may not be able to automate it, but at the very least if you wouldn't mind I could run the script and load the page so the processing is distributed. Is there any special access needed to run it? aremisasling (talk) 15:05, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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