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 * Thanks for the invitation, but I prefer to stick to my core topics of science and sustainability. My educational focus is on the tertiary level. -- Mietchen (talk) 18:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation
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 * Thanks for the invitation, but I prefer to stick to my core topics of science and sustainability. However, I do so on de:Wikipedia, too, and that's perhaps the best way I can help the Wikiproject Germany. -- Mietchen (talk) 18:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Transparency_(research)#move_opposed
Hi, i oppose the move, pls, see Talk:Transparency_(research), so we can discuss the matter there. thanks. Mion (talk) 19:54, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Mion wants to move this article back to its original name, then split out parts of it into a new article called Transparency_(research). If you agree to do so, please leave a note on Talk:Transparency_(research) so that I or another admin will do the move. I instructed Mion on how to request the correction in that case. Regards  So Why  11:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

images used outside licenses
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 * Thanks for the note. I have moved the logo to en, so it can be deleted over at Commons now. -- Daniel Mietchen 02:30, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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 * Thanks! ---- Daniel Mietchen 02:39, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks!
Skoch3 (talk) 03:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC):Good to run into you on Wikipedia & thank you for fixing my typo on the glomus tumor photo!
 * You're welcome! ---- Daniel Mietchen 06:03, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the note - I am fine with the proposed deletion. ---- Daniel Mietchen 00:04, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

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http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/55771006/ --84.62.68.9 (talk) 22:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I see that Gregor already replied, and I share his views. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 04:18, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikiproject Open Access
Your proposal for WikiProject Council/Proposals/Open Access is great and I appreciate the work you put into the Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science position. I want to set up the Wikiproject Open Access page. Have you or anyone else done any work preparing a draft for this? I do not want to duplicate work, but am happy to do all the setup.

Also please help me define a scope. I just made this navbox - Template:Open navbox - because I was interested in organizing all articles about the concept of "openness". Can you tell me what you think is the overarching term which describes every kind of open topic? For example, is "open access" the top-level descriptor for all other terms, such as "open science", "open source", "open communication" and the rest?

How would you feel about this Wikiproject being about improving all articles on the topic of "openness", and not just science or journal-related articles? I have a list of such articles here; in your vision, would they all be included in this wikiproject to be formed?

Thank you for your attention and I hope we can work together. After this is set up I think that I can recruit others to join.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   06:53, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Lane,
 * thanks for dropping in so productively!. It is indeed not simple to put "all things open" into a hierarchy or to define an overarching term. Transparency (behavior) may be worth a look in this regard, though. As for the title and scope of the WikiProject, I am open to both options - "keeping" it under "Open Access" (and thus limited in scope) or starting something under a broader heading (on Twitter, I use "Open X").
 * As for navboxes, I have so far primarily used Academic publishing (which could do with a more open illustration than File:Scientific journals.jpg) but having this complemented by Open navbox is certainly a good idea. I also maintain a list of OA-related topics that probably merit articles on the English Wikipedia, I have started an open access userbox that could be used for recruiting further participants, and I am looking for ways to get community engagement with Open Access File of the Day. Currently under consideration are a DYK for Research Works Act and a Wikipedia ad for the Wikiproject OA and/ or the Open Access File of the Day. Any help with that would be appreciated.
 * Looking forward to fruitful collaboration!
 * -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 11:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Open access file of the day
I saw that you put the OAFD on WikiProject Open Access. How will this work? Is there any template that we can use to make this file and its description change automatically every day? If it did that, then I think a lot of people would put such a template on their userpage and look at it every day. Have you heard of such a thing? It seems like you just manually inserted today's picture, right?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   19:14, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It's manual for the moment. I am looking into template systems in use at commons:Commons:Picture of the Day, at WP:DYK and similar but didn't yet have the time to set something up for OAFD. It would be good if you could take a regular look at OAFD and make some nominations or recommendations. The criteria for selection have to be defined too - so far, I was the only participant, so it didn't matter, but getting a wider involvement is certainly desirable. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 19:28, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I can help with this, but I have a lot to do just now. I setup the project but I am in the middle of a lot of other work just now, and I really need to focus on other things. Give me a couple of weeks and let me meet with some of my friends here and talk about all this. I also want to get other people involved and I already meet with local people about these things. If you have other ideas or other problems, please present them on the project page. If you put problems out then at least there is some chance of someone accepting them; if there are no problems posted then there is no chance of someone taking the task.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   19:44, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries, and thanks for the help so far, especially the article assessment. I am eyeing Feb 14 for the official launch of OAFD - that's the 10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative going public. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Remind me what happens on February 14.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   19:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Time for a chat perhaps? See email. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 19:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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OAFD
Hey, I split the open access file of the day to its own template: Open access file of the day. You can edit that page each day to change the image, instead of directly editing the pages which include it, which will make for cleaner edit histories. It'll also make it easier to add the image to other pages, like user pages, if desired. i look forward to working together on this "open" stuff! – Pnm (talk) 02:10, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I checked it out and it is cooler than the past system. I put the template on my userpage so now I will see it often.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   04:51, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, we definitely need to work on a system of templates for the whole OAFD process - thanks for getting us started, Pnm! -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 09:18, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the tools overview
Thank you for the GLAM tools overview! I really appreciate it.

If you have the ability to request it, I would love for someone to submit a talk about the open access media importer at Wikimania!

Thanks. Sumanah (talk) 19:20, 2 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Sumanah - it's on the list of things that I am considering to submit a talk about. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Daniel, glad to hear that. Also, you might want to know about other some upcoming MediaWiki & Wikimedia developers' events, where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes.  We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.  For example, there's a hackathon in Berlin scheduled for 1-3 June.  Best wishes! Sumanah (talk) 13:26, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, will try to attend the Berlin hackathon as a power user. Thanks for the hint. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. I agree with your point that this violates the attribution requirement and does provide no argument against the use of CC BY. Potentially an interesting case study, and I suspect there are similar cases out there. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 16:13, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Paedophryne amauensis
Why do you keep adding WikiProject Open Access to Talk:Paedophryne amauensis? The article has nothing to do with open access. Yes, the species was announced in an open access journal, but that's merely a citation and open access isn't even mentioned in the article. You can't go adding WikiProject Open Access to each and every article which cites an open access source. <b style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:maroon;">Modest Genius</b> talk 11:27, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. As things stand (and we are just finding our way), WikiProject Open Access has two aims - one is the WikiProject-typical one of improving coverage of the core area and related topics, the second is, as stated on the template, "improving other articles with the help of materials from Open Access sources", which is rather unusual for a WikiProject. In any case, using such templates is one way of tagging articles to keep track of them. I agree that it may not be the most suitable option for tracking articles under the second aim but it's the only one we have explored systematically so far for this WikiProject (though mainly for articles under the first aim).


 * We haven't yet defined what the boundaries are for inclusion of articles under the second aim in the WikiProject. We certainly do not plan to "go adding WikiProject Open Access to each and every article which cites an open access source", but lemmata that have originated in an Open Access publication would seem like a good first guess. Other options would be articles that use a large number of files or large amounts of text from Open Access sources.


 * Yes, Open Access is not mentioned in the article but in contrast to many other articles started about new species, Paedophryne amauensis uses the original paper for more than a mere citation - it displays images taken or derived from figures in the paper, and there may even be text passages that have been imported or closely paraphrased, all of which would not be possible if the journal would not be (Libre) Open Access. It is this kind of reuse that WikiProject Open Access aims to encourage (e.g. by uploading the files to Commons when such articles are being started), and suggestions for a better way of signaling and tracking that are most welcome. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 13:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That sounds like a very broad remit for a wikiproject. Even if the article does include information from the OA article, that's no more a reason to include it in a wikiproject than text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britanica, or any other public domain source, would. The image description page has information on the source of the image, there's no need for something on the article talk page too. Perhaps this is an argument for using something like Category:Articles incorporating material from an open access publication? <b style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:maroon;">Modest Genius</b> talk 14:58, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * For text, we experimentally have Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from open access publications - we'll see where that goes. Not sure yet what is the best option for images - Special:GlobalUsage is not ideal, nor is GLAMorous. I actually made a request last night for a tool that "gives me a list of pages on a given wiki, ranked by the number of times files from a Commons category are being used therein", and I just added one for a related tool that "lists pages on a given wiki that recently had files from a Commons category (or subcategory) added or removed." There is also the possibility of moving the second aim to a companion WikiProject on Commons. In any case, the purpose of tracking file usage goes beyond the mere collection of stats and clearly includes the stimulation of editing in areas where those files are being used or could be. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 16:07, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, have fun and good luck. I just don't think you should be tagging the talk pages of articles with no obvious relation to open access, that's all. That category seems a much better solution to me; other opinions may differ of course. <b style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:maroon;">Modest Genius</b> talk 20:43, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback - it is much appreciated in this time when much is still in flow. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:07, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. Certainly plan to dive in on occasion. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. I don't normally do stub tagging and will take a closer look before I do it next time. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 09:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

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Science COTM
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DYK for Access2Research
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This Month in GLAM: May 2012
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Please comment on Talk:Astrology
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Making the Wikipedia Education Program Meeting better
Thanks for expressing interest in the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. I'm investigating ways to make the meeting more effective, and I'd love to get feedback from you as to what we could do to improve the meeting. Please weigh in on the discussion there! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)

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Another useful paper
Hi Daniel, how are you?

I believe this paper and its videos could be useful on Wikipedia. For the time being I've just cropped its leading result for display on the main page of the Hebrew Wikipedia. Have a good day, ליאור • Lior (talk) 09:16, 7 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Lior - a fascinating paper! --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 10:02, 7 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I uploaded the videos and noticed that rapid inversion does not exist yet. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 13:14, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you Daniel! The main page now features the gecko's lateral video, at least until other headlines take its place. Of course I wasn't aware of rapid inversion until this very morning. ליאור • Lior (talk) 13:24, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Signpost and WikiProject Fungi
A collaboration with the MSA sounds like a great idea. I can definitely get the project an entry in next week's news sidebar as well as the weeks before and after your talk. We're currently working on a special series of interviews with sports projects which will take up all of July and most of August, so the earliest I can get WikiProject Fungi scheduled for a full-blown interview will be late August to early September. -Mabeenot (talk) 02:14, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Please let me know if I can help. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 05:15, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

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Template:Did you know nominations/Polish Federation of Engineering Associations
Daniel, in order to finish off the review—I'm assuming you meant to formally approve it—you need to add an approval icon. If it isn't approved, then use one of the other icons to indicate where you think the review is. In order for the software to pick up what the review status is (which it does through the icons), please be sure to put your icon (and explanation) below the red arrow icon I inserted. Many thanks, and good job on the hook rephrasing! BlueMoonset (talk) 13:57, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for the reminder. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 14:59, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

GLAM-WIKI 2012
Hi Daniel,

You registered your interest for GLAM-WIKI 2012 a while ago - this is to let you know that registration, and the call for papers, are now open. Hope to see you there! Andrew Gray (talk) 22:31, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. I definitely plan on submitting something. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:40, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Great! My next task is to track down the people who suggested topics for papers and ask them to submit something more detailed, so you're one step ahead of me ;-) Andrew Gray (talk) 22:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

PeerJ
I have approved your nomination of PeerJ for DYK here. Would you not like to include yourself as joint creator of the article? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:30, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks, done. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 11:07, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Request for peer review, biophysics bio
I put the Fred Richards article up for peer review but have gotten no takers so far - I'm hoping maybe you'd be willing to give it assessment as an experienced wikipedian who can help the fledgling WikiProject Biophysics figure out what really counts as GA or above in our field. As a possible inducement, Fred had a history as an influential early advocate of open access for coordinates (and even of data) from protein crystallography. Any help you can manage will be very greatly appreciated! - Dcrjsr (talk) 23:21, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Jane, thanks for the pointer. Had a brief look and liked what I saw. Will try to dive deeper soon - please nag me if not. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 00:45, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for PeerJ
The DYK project (nominate) 00:14, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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