User talk:Daniel Mietchen/Archive 2

Nobel laureates interviews
Here's the interview with all of them. And links to, and. Hope you find them useful. /Haxpett (talk) 19:25, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks - cool! -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 11:29, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Your recent GLAM panel talk on Conflict of Interest
Hi,

I was interested in contributing to the conversation on conflict of interest and open science more generally. i have some reservations about the open science model, not ideologically but practically, and i would like to have that conversation in a public forum. the problem is, i can't seem to find the page you were using during the panel discussion. if you could direct me there i would appreciate it.

thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UseTheCommandLine (talk • contribs) 14:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The talk is here. Daniel, UseTheCommandLine has some excellent ideas and has been a huge supporter of me in several key ways. He asked me some questions which I expect he will ask you, and if there is a discussion on open science I would join this also.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   17:54, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks to both of you - looking forward to the discussion. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 03:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Copyright
Why do you say it is unlikely that PloS medicine will publish under CC BY SA? I know Open Medicine is fine with this and this is where the first article is being published. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your talk page please reply on mine) 05:01, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Clarified with Open Medicine and yes the publication will be CC BY SA. They state that all their content is CC BY SA. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your talk page please reply on mine) 00:52, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

UCL report
Hi Dan,

There's a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine that might interest you. Specifically, there's a source that people are discussing, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. According to University College London, it's "open access". Have you got any idea what the licensing is for this document and whether it's reusable on Wikipedia (etc.)?

Thanks. —Tom Morris (talk) 20:22, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Tom, the licensing terms are stated nowhere (e.g. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/open_access.html ), so we have to assume that it's under classical copyright. I just asked them whether that's correct.
 * Cheers, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:08, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. —Tom Morris (talk) 21:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

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Bug in Wikistats plots fixed
Hi Daniel. I was looking over the plots of page view data on http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ after your question about licensing and noticed a bug. The plots were showing 0 page views on the first of the month for all months before May 2012. This seems to have been caused by a new-ish bug in the third-party JSON API used to retrieve the data, e.g. http://stats-classic.grok.se/json/en/201203/DNA.

I've patched the bug on the toolserver tool, so that inaccuracy and visual flaw are now gone. If you want to regather any graphs, the tool should be stable by tomorrow morning (I'll be doing some maintenance/feature deployments today). If you happen to see this message and need to regather graphs today, then I can work around your schedule and defer work until you're done -- just leave a note on my talk page. Apologies for the inconvenience. Emw (talk) 15:41, 22 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note! I took some today but am fine with tomorrow. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 16:27, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Contact
... via email is my username from wikipedia, sans capital letters, plus AT, plus northwestern plus DOT plus edu. Also, look to Flippin-Lodge and Burgi-Dunitz articles for areas of writing and actual research interest, and to CSGID plus DOT plus org for organization with which I have most recently served. Cheers. Meduban (talk) 21:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion for tab system/slide decks
Hi Daniel,

I noticed that a tabbed page on the Outreach wiki (using this header: outreach:Template:Bookshelf/Tab_header/Education/Educators) highlights the current tab with a lighter background. (To see it in action, see here: Education/Case_Studies) I don't understand the CSS involved, but I think this is a better interface -- it makes it easier for the reader to determine "where am I right now?" In the spirit of your interest in making improvements to the interface, I thought it would be nice to incorporate this into the slide shows you do. -Pete (talk) 22:30, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. I had seen such designs a few times and always liked them in principle but hadn't yet seen an implementation that I liked. Anyway, I had started playing around with this myself just days ago, and your comment prompted some further experimentation, the results of which you can see here. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:51, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Cool. I'm having a little trouble understanding how it all fits together, and will try taking a look again later. The functionality looks great; I find the color scheme a little confusing, as it seems that the meaning of light colors vs. dark colors is reversed in the first and second level; but surely colors could be adjusted within your framework, so that's just a minor quibble. I'll take another look sometime when I'm freshly caffeinated, and probably be able to follow the code more easily! -Pete (talk) 06:31, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's a simple edit. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 07:40, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

EduWiki Conference 5-6 September in Leicester, UK
I am writing to you as you have signed up to the Education Meetup at Wikimania 2012 and perhaps are interested in how Wikipedia links to education. Wikimedia UK is now running a education related event that may be of interest to you: the EduWiki Conference on 5-6 September in Leicester. This event will be looking at Wikipedia and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice, including good faith collaboration, open review, and global participation. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area!

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 * Hi Daria, thanks for the note. I have a strong interest in education (see e.g. this recent talk) but I'm afraid the timing won't work out for me. Or would you consider remote talks? -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 19:43, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Translation into major languages
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Welcome

 * Thanks! -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 11:22, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Просьба о помощи
Добрый день, уважаемый Даниэль Митчен. Я являюсь участником Армянской Википедии, и хотелось бы связаться с администраторами Гаитянской креольской Википедии, однако я не смог разбираться в этом языке. Просьба - укажите ссылку на их страницы обсуждений. Заранее благодарен. -- Vahe 20:35, 14 август 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vahe (talk • contribs)
 * Добрый день. Не знаю, что Вы с ними хотите обсуждать, но спросить можно, например, здесь. С улыбкой, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 20:55, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Очень благодарен! -- Vahe 21:33, 14 август 2012 (UTC)

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Some stroopwafels for you!

 * Hi Axel, thanks for the stroopwafels. Pete Forsyth has also given it a try, and I have recently tested a version without frames. We should definitely keep in contact about what works and what doesn't in this kind of presentation. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 04:13, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Semachrysa jade
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DYK for Oblong rocksnail
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 * Hello Daniel, thank you very much for your cooperation, copyediting, nominating and going through the whole nominating process of this article. I did not believe that you will get it to the Main page, but you succeeded. Congratulations! --Snek01 (talk) 19:34, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I also liked the way this developed - looking forward to the next one! -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 20:23, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Ping
Hi. In case you're not watching meta: m:Talk:Wikimedia Medicine. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 00:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pointer! I commented there. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 07:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello Daniel!
Just sayin' hi.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:44, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Have a nice day. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

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Note on today's tutorial
This is a test. I do not want to write much before seeing the consequences of this. Edgar Delgado-Eckert (talk) 10:27, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * One of the consequences is that I can give you the link to the page we have been working on: User talk:Rockpocket/What. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 10:33, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

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Communicate OER
Hi Daniel, we're beginning to ramp up the next phase of Communicate OER. I've moved the page that was previously within WikiProject Education here: WP:Communicate OER. I'd like to begin building it out into a collection of pages in the next few days, and would like to use the header bar format you've built. I copied the contents from my Tufts School of Medicine presentation here: WP:Communicate OER/Header bar, and was about to begin adapting it; but first, I thought I would check with you and see if you have any new suggestions for how to approach this. I am sorry to say, building this kind of thing is very hard for me -- I don't think my brain is well suited to this sort of task, though I do have all the requisite tech skills and can probably get it sorted out in the long run. But I would appreciate any suggestions you might have, before I dive in! Thanks again for your work putting this together. -Pete (talk) 03:11, 14 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Pete,
 * Looks OK to me as a starting point, though I would consider avoiding pages like Readership2 that are not findable via the tab header.
 * I have played around a bit more with the design, and the results can be seen at User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/CoSci12/Tab header, User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/SOL 2012/Tab header and User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/CERN 2012/Tab header. A related design is at w:sv:user:Axel Pettersson (WMSE)/Presentationer/CMS-introduktion/Start. All of these are for talks, and I think WikiProjects have different communication needs. There are quite a few WikiProjects - for instance WP:PHYSICS - whose page design I like better than that of WP:OPEN. Just a matter of time to get this sorted out. The same applies to my WiR pages on meta - most of them are rarely if ever used, so I have started folding them into WP:OPEN, which gets decent levels of traffic.
 * If you run into technical issues or have specific design questions, please let me know, and I will take another look.
 * Off to GLAMcamp London. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 15:17, 14 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all the helpful links and ideas! This will help a great deal. Enjoy GLAMcamp! -Pete (talk) 15:40, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
—Tom Morris (talk) 21:36, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks! --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:45, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

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Galba schirazensis
Hello Daniel, I made an article Galba schirazensis with quite extensive use of open content texts. You have a special ability get such articles to the Main page. If you like the article, then feel free to nominate it. I made also other similar lymnaeid articles in the last week, but this one is probably the most interesting. Maybe this is interesting: ...that although Galba schirazensis looks like a Galba truncatula, a vector of fascioliasis, it does not transfer the disease? I will be improving the article during the weekend. Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 14:36, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. The article is a good foundation, though I don't like your hook very much and haven't yet found a better one. I am on the road (passing through Czechia on the train tonight) but will try to get to this when back online. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 00:51, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Meetup in Budapest
Hi Daniel,

I just saw your comment on hu.wiki, I hope you had a good time in Budapest. Unfortunately, you chose a very unwatched page with you request, and apparently nobody noticed it in time to organize something.

If you ever come to Budapest again, feel free to drop me a line.

Best regards, --Dami (talk) 15:13, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Dami. Yes, it's a pity, but I do not really know my way around on the Hungarian Wikipedia. What page(s) would have been better? Will certainly keep you in the loop next time. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 17:32, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The generic village pump probably. (You kind of chose the index page leading to the actual village pumps, which is not really used by anyone who has found the pumps, and then you chose the talk page of that, which is perhaps seen by even fewer people, alas. Ironically, just above your post is a remark for somebody in similar situation as you, that their notice has been moved to a more frequented place..) --Dami (talk) 19:44, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I expect things to work out more smoothly next time. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 20:00, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Test message
Some stuff. --212.201.100.83 (talk) 14:53, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Catapulting Tentacles in a Sticky Carnivorous Plant
Hi Daniel, how are you?

My friends at the Graphics Lab of the Hebrew Wikipedia have kindly imported the videos from this lovely paper. Enjoy, ליאור • Lior (talk) 18:49, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Lior. I had eyed these videos as well but hadn't yet uploaded them, as I was waiting for the Open Access Media Importer to do it automatically once the article is indexed in PubMed Central. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 14:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you Daniel, I've updated the Hebrew Wikipedia community about the wonderful Importer at hand. I hope they'll slowly assist in incorporating its input into existing articles. Best, ליאור • Lior (talk) 11:57, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

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Where might I get more information to see how the collaboration that led to circular permutation in proteins being co-published (wiki & a journal) is going? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 23:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi - the most visible place is probably http://topicpages.ploscompbiol.org/wiki/Category:PLoS_Computational_Biology_drafts . --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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Pictures from journals
Thanks for your previous reply. Your help/assistance at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine would be the greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Biosthmors (talk) 22:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. Will reply there. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:58, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply. It inspired Pictures for medical articles, which I hope becomes a useful tool. Feel free to clarify if the essay is currently missing the point(s)! Biosthmors (talk) 04:32, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 04:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. It would be nice if there was a database one could search of only journals (and perhaps filter for pictures being present in the publication) that exclusively publish pictures under licenses compatible for Wikimedia Commons. Might it exist already? Biosthmors (talk) 18:10, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * All journals in the list of journals with a SPARC Europe seal are compatible with reuse on Wikimedia projects. Unfortunately, there is no commons search engine available. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:39, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
 * Improved entity selector widget
 * Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
 * Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
 * Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
 * Some PHPUnit test fixes
 * Discussions/Press
 * Behaviour on null edits
 * Events
 * Linuxday
 * Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
 * SWIB
 * foss.in
 * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Chart of item creation progress
 * Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week
 * Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
 * You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite and it shows up in the RDF
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Give the demo system a try

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This Month in GLAM in Germany
Hello Daniel Mietchen, Viewing the contents page of the newsletter this month in GLAM I notice there is no German section yet. I noticed you are one of the authors of earlier versions and maybe you can write this time as well about the GLAM related things happening in Germany in the past month. Also Wiki Loves Monuments can be described. I hope Germany can be written about too. Thanks! Greetings - Romaine (talk) 22:23, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * PS: It would be nice if you are interested to mention your name here (for Germany) if you are willing to write some editions in the future as well. Romaine (talk) 22:30, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Romain, thanks for the note. I am not aware of anything noteworthy from Germany this month but will consider signing up for the team for future issues. Cheers, --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 01:57, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #35
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
 * Added wbsetqualifier API module
 * Added wbremovequalifiers API module
 * New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
 * Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
 * Selenium tests now independent from ULS
 * Selenium tests for statements UI
 * Existing statements can be edited now
 * Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
 * Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
 * Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
 * Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
 * Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
 * Improvements in templating engine
 * Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
 * Set up a fresh dev server for testing
 * Discussions/Press
 * Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
 * “Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects”
 * Disallowing links to locked wikis
 * Sourcing of every statement
 * Events
 * Foss.in
 * Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * WhereCamp Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
 * Announced next office hours
 * Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
 * New admin notice board
 * “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
 * “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
 * Code on one of these
 * Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute