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December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)
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January 2017
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 * Thanks, . Actually I already knew how to do it properly in Source Editor. I assumed that learning to learn how to use Visual Editor to change that part would be very easy. Indeed, after pasting in the material given in Commons, the box looked okay to me. Apparently the proper method is more complicated, requiring pasting the filename and then retyping the caption. Next time. Jim.henderson (talk) 20:19, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Bixi (company)
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February 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Reference errors on 16 February
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Hi Jim.
Thanks for the Wikipedia tutorial at the Schomburg Library, New York City.Dorisrodgersrobins (talk) 20:48, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

A pie for you!

 * Thanks, . At the time I only noticed a few failings in clarity of my explanations, but then I realized, without me it would have been just you, and we had a mix of things you know well, and things I do. It makes me proud of my contribution. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:59, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Are you interested in the Electrical history of Morningside Heights
Somehow, I thought that was going to be a red-link.

If you are interested, I ran into the following, and immediately wanted to put this intriguing info into the Morningside Heights article. Nothing there at all related, though. Well, it might not be of general interest, but I thought if anybody would have an interest in this you would. If you want some help including somewhere it as an external video, please let me know, but note there is a tab for a transcript.

My interest in this website has more to do with the videos than anything else - I like videos in Wikipedia. It was a pretty odd website though - and I just looked at it for the 1st time in several years. They seem to have some of the kinks worked out now.

If this doesn't interest you, it's likely that it won't interest many others (except me) so please let it drop in that case.

Thanks,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:15, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks, this topic indeed tickles my fancy, especially remembering my father's tale of the electrician at NYU who repaired a fluorescent desk lamp that had been killed by DC, and tested his work by plugging it into the office outlet, which of course was DC. Phht! A quick Google search fails to find citable reports about Washington Heights, just this one about the final Midtown switchoff of DC by Con Ed. Oral History, in this case the reminiscences of a witness ignorant of technical matters, is great fun but a wobbly support for an article. On an electrotechnical note, it hadn't occurred to me that TV makers wouldn't provide a way for DC to feed the horizontal sweep and driver circuits to drive the flyback transformer. I doubt I'm going to find any useful refs about that, but I must find time for more intensive searching to involve possibly relevant topics such as Columbia Physics Dept and Michael Pupin. Now the thunderstorms seem to have paused, so it's time for me to rush off. Jim.henderson (talk) 17:35, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, whatever you think is best. Certainly the video or transcript's not enough alone for an article. I will say that I was surprised to find the Walter Murch considers himself technically out of touch with such matters. I must be a total technical incompetent, but sound engineering and film editing strike me as being in the same ballpark.  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:45, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * As a former telephone worker and repairer of televisions and computers, I'm in the infield but don't expect to find time to chase this particular ball, tempting though it be. Jim.henderson (talk) 17:27, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Eventbrite
Good morning, Jim. I need to compile a list of the real names of all non-FIT folks coming to the Intl Women's Day Editathon on Wednesday, March 8. Eventbrite has this really nice feature that creates a sign-in sheet that would be perfect for handing over to the security desk. Would you do me the favor of signing up via Eventbrite? http://fashionedtwiki.fitnyc.edu. If for some reason you don't want to do that, please just let me know and I'll ad your name by hand. Thanks. --Librarianhelen (talk) 14:51, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Gladly, . The link is broken but a search at the Eventbrite site found it. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:28, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Jim. Sorry about the bad link. I am correcting it now on other talk pages. --Librarianhelen (talk) 16:59, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)
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Verizon Fios Telephone section
Hi, Jim.henderson. In the distant past of 2013, you were kind enough to respond to a request of mine for Verizon Communications and since you're still listed as a full-time member of WikiProject Telecommunications, I thought to reach out again. I was wondering if you could take a look at my edit request for the Telephone section of Verizon Fios. I'm hoping to streamline Telephone by focusing on Verizon Fios' telephone service, since this is an article about the fiber optic service. I work for Verizon and have a conflict of interest so I ask others to look and make these edits on my behalf. Thank you, VZBob (talk) 20:58, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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hi
Scottkearney (talk) 23:46, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi
Freda120 (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Yonkers
Hey I'm not sure how easy it is for you to get to Yonkers, but this nice 1927 art deco building really should get a bunch of photographs before they tear it down: link. It's been the Yonkers fire heqdquarters, and they're tearing it down to replace it with a much uglier building. What do you think? ɱ (talk) · vbm  · coi) 18:15, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, Firehouse 1 is pretty easy to reach at 40.93375°N, -73.89486°W. I took a couple minutes to locate it in Google Earth because it's not on Palisade Avenue but a block south at John and New School Streets. Anyway Sunday looks like a nice sunny day to take the subway most the way and bike the rest. It's facing west with a parking lot across the street, so there's no need to wake up early. If strong enough, I'll bike home through Van Cortlandt Park and Harlem River Speedway or something. I need the exercise, having biked little more than a hundred miles since December. Thanks for the demolition alert,.
 * Quickly getting lost in Yonkers, I had a pleasantly interesting day and got thoroughly worn out even though I did only 10.5 miles biking. I immediately uploaded the cellphone picture; the ones from the real camera will be later. For me it doesn't seem a splendid piece of period architecture, yet the conservative in me feels a bit of a pang to think it will soon be gone. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Haha, nice, awesome. I may misjudge it as I'm not sure I've seen it IRL, but I definitely love the design a ton more than the proposed new building, in that photo in the article above! Thanks so much for doing this! ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 19:23, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

photos from last week?
hi jim

would you be willing to share with us some photos from the wikiD workshop last thursday at the center for architecture? we forgot to take any! please email lori, loribrown@mindspring.com, and kate,kate.reggev@gmail.com.

thanks! loriannbrownLoriannbrown (talk) 18:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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Panoptes
using DSLR for exoplanet study ETENDUE = ((N units) x .... figure of discovering Jim.henderson (talk) 19:38, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

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April 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Location maps
Jim:

Thanks for your comments on Cd california's talk page. Please feel free to revert any rollback I made which, in your judgment, was not an improvement to the article, it's no problem on my end.

Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:03, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposal for a page
Dear Jim.henderson,

As previously you have contributed to Wikipedia in regards to financial articles, would you, please, consider writing an article on Creamfinance? It is a global financial services company that provides personal finance products in emerging markets. The company was ranked as the second fastest-growing company in Europe in 2016. Creamfinance is employing over 220 people and operating in 7 countries both within and outside of Europe – Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Denmark and Mexico with an IT office in Austria.

I believe it corresponds to the Wikipedia notability rules as it has been talked about in legitimate third party sources:

If you wish I have put together a first draft for the page and can send it you.

According to Wikipedia guidelines I want to underline that I am a Project Manager at Golin Riga and I have been approached by Creamfinance to help with their representation on Wikipedia. Aozolins-golin-riga (talk) 09:08, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
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May 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Misuse of rollback
Please do not use rollback to undo good faith edits, as you did here. 137.205.183.70 (talk) 12:48, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Sunday July 9: WikNYC Picnic @ Governors Island
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July 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Sunday July 30: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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NPP
This is absolute splitting hairs over a linguisitic cultural dichotomy, Jim. Please don't use accusatory es. Just change it quietly if you think AE rules the word ;) Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:01, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

August 30: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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September 27: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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 * P.S. On the weekend before the annual meeting, you can join: Action=History @ Ace Hotel (Sunday, September 24, 2017)

Store-and-forward switching center
Hi, I'm puzzled by what happened here. Did you try to create the redirect using the visual editor? It appears that you need to use the source editor to create a redirect. — Smjg (talk) 22:48, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Exactly, ; I have been teaching VisEd to newbies, as it much more easily does newbie things, and using it myself to become accustomed. Looks like this is one of the jobs it does poorly, or else I failed to figure how. Anyway, clearly I failed to examine the result sufficiently. Thanks. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:57, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

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Sunday October 15: Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition
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October 18: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Dooring/Avoidance/Dutch Reach : Corrections, Updates re: DR method & advantage: History, Still taught in NL; Coinage certain, & not b/c "NL has a lot of cyclistists"
Dear Jim Henderson

Greetings again. One year ago you assisted in digesting my 'treatise' on the Dutch Reach into a sub-section of Dooring, which replaced Door Zone as the main subject -- all for which I am most grateful.

I have revisited the entry now, under Dooring / Avoidance, and drafted and annotated a corrective update.

As the Dooring/Avoidance section has apparently had its problems and been blocked or restricted, I myself cannot, and do not wish to alter it without it going through appropriate vetting.

I have placed my draft text (10/22/17) in my sandbox. It appears below the aforementioned 'treatise'! with the subject/headline as given above.

May I ask you to take a look at it and help it reach the appropriate Wiki pro's for Cycling or Dooring that they may take a comb or axe to it?

I have included bracketed comments as supplementary explanation for my draft content.

I have entirely refrained from citing my Dutch Reach Project website's pages, though were you to browse the site today (dutchreach.org) I believe you will find it comprehensive and authoritative - as much so as one neither Dutch nor Dutch-speaking might assemble.

Should there be correspondence or collaboraton between the cycling editors of the English Wikipedia with those of the Dutch Wikipedia, it might be quite valuable in both directions. In particular to learn more of the back history of the far hand countermeasure, its introduction and eventual incorporation into driving instructor standards. For there is controversy about it both inside and outside Holland - and Denmark.

For during this year of research and international interest, I have found that knowledge of the Stop de Kindermoord years of the 1970s are no longer known or remembered my many Dutch citizens, including some cycling and transport specialists. But the documented reports I included by cycling historian Ruth Oldenziel, Boston Globe reporter Martine Powers, & RoSPA UK & RijlesHulp.nl's videos, cannot be denied.

So please if you will, visit my sandbox at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcha6677/sandbox and, hopefully, take a look!

Best wishes,

Michael C Mcha6677 (talk) 16:59, 22 October 2017 (UTC) Mcha6677


 * Oh, wow,, this looks like something that will require me to think. Alas, for the coming week my thinking powers will be soaked up by the photos coming from WP:Meetup/NYC/OHNY, and somewhat by teaching newbies at Bronx Botanical Garden or maybe City Tech. While dodging doors in the Bronx today I met a photographer whom I hope to recruit as a WP editor. So, I must hope the good folks at WP:WikiProject Cycling or someone else will be able to help you. If not, I'll probably find time for it, eventually but not this week. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:57, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Nov 1, 12:41 am - update on 10/22 attempted sandbox contribution Jim, Turns out the text and commentary I posted to my sandbox on Oct 22 was apparently deleted by an algorithm which determined either I was violating copyright or there was some 'mirror site' issue. KGirlTrucker81 sent me notification of this action or was in herself in some way involved in the decision. The (presumed) algorithm censor apparently doesn't provide documentation of exactly what portions of my text and commentary is allegedly in violation - and as 'it' threatens to permanently ban me if I re-post the same material (whole or in part?) I am in a quandary as to how to proceed. I

I sent KGirlTrucker81 a Talk note today requesting reconsideration and am awaiting her response/action. I encouraged her to contact you to confirm I am legit and am a worthy source of knowledge on this subject.

As the entry for Dooring / Avoidance has at some point been locked - and this may account for some part of this complication - I am neither allowed, nor would I want to make significant changes without the cycling editors vetting my claims and citations which support them.

I welcome any advice or help you might provide - but you might also just wish to wait and see what KGirlTrucker81 does or explains to me re: my text. M

ind you, several things I take issue with in the current version are merely about provenance and (my own!!) motivation & logic behind the Dutch Reach meme, and about the far hand reach's place in NL road culture. These issues are but dressing on the countermeasure itself, and not particularly important except as interesting background for the curious or skeptical. But I provide documentation for 'my' version of events, vs what's currently posted there on those points which are unsubstantiated claims & inferences (& which I find erroneous or laughable!).

(btw the District of Columbia it about to start a November-long far hand reach anti-dooring and road sharing safety campaign starting Nov 1, and calling the maneuver the 'DC Reach'! - adding to the confusion!) You can find this development under New & News on the DR website dutchreach.org )

Bottom line, I'd like to find a way to show you what I've written and let the cycling editorial group slice, dice & inspect it, and add what they find valid and useful.

Thank you again for taking an interest!

Best wishes, Michael C Mcha6677 (talk) 04:39, 1 November 2017 (UTC)Mcha6677 Mcha6677 (talk) 04:42, 1 November 2017 (UTC)Mcha6677

NOV 2, 2017 UPDATED REVISIONS

Dear Jim Henderson - Today I have revised my (wiki-deleted) revisions of several paragraphs under "Dooring/Avoidance/Dutch Reach.

- But for fear of running afoul again of alleged copyright infringements and threatened dire consequences, I dare not add it to my sandbox at present.

- Instead, I have made it available for your inspection at this Google Share link (in Word 2010): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwvSQwrmJMekWVF5bHdLMDBJVW8/view?usp=sharing

- I have also formatted it as a plain .txt file should you consider it safer (though far less readable: the Word 2017 version is formatted with indents & colored type to distinguish text from citations & comments: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwvSQwrmJMekbDdmVnVJTzhONHM/view?usp=sharing

- You are welcome to share the link, copy, paste and do with the draft or substance thereof as you & your colleagues see fit to correct and improve the current 'Dutch Reach' entry.

If viewing the Google Share doc or txt is not acceptable or appropriate, please advise me how I might safely proceed using my sandbox...[I have no clue as to what in my earlier version was deemed a violation, and the algorithm apparently makes a wholesale, non-specific judgment.]

Thank you ever again for considering this attempted revision, much as you did with my original submission.

Yours truly, Michael C Mcha6677 (talk) 20:12, 2 November 2017 (UTC)mcha6677

October 30 session
Hi Jim! Thank you for your email with advice for our edit-a-thon at Berkeley College. We do have the necessary infrastructure ready to go. It is difficult to project attendance as our program attendance varies widely. We can expect people to be "drifting" in and out over the 1.5 hours, though. Since it is a short time frame, we have pre-selected pages which are marked as needing updating in some way. We will be encouraging students to look at what is marked as needing attention and talking about how to improve the articles based on those markings. If you are able to stop by on Monday (even for a short bit), we would be thrilled to have you! Thanks again for your email and support.

Samanthack (talk) 23:41, 23 October 2017 (UTC)


 * The amount of time staying is not a problem,, for an old retired mechanic. One hour or four; it's more a matter of getting there than how long. Except, we seldom do these things so close to my home; just a trip across Times Square and a bit more; not like tomorrow afternoon's session at the City Tech library on Jay Street.
 * Thus far, I don't know of any other experienced editors who plan to show up on Monday. Usually we have a good speaker or two, plus time to lecture on technical matters, but we can wing it. When all are logged in, a short speech can address things like who is Wikipedia and WP:Pillars of Wikipedia and how to run away from WP:Content disputes and what is WP:Notable. Maybe not all those points. Then comes WP:User page and start doing the things on your to-edit list. The rest is coaching, like how to insert a ref and suchlike.
 * Another thing that sometimes happens is to play a few introductory videos on a projector, but mostly the videos are not very good and I haven't identified the ones that are not a waste of scarce time. If some of my colleagues are watching this conversation and can suggest something, I would be pleased even if it doesn't happen due to no projector or too little time or whatever. Oh, can I show up half an hour early and talk with you? Or longer? Jim.henderson (talk) 00:51, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Fortunate that we are fairly close to you, then! We do have a short introduction planned about Wikipedia and the 5 Pillars, but I'm interested to hear your thoughts on content disputes. Our goal is to give students a better understanding of the Wikipedia environment and have them complete light edits to articles with our instruction. Yes, please feel free to come a half an hour before the session is set to start at 2pm. I will email you directions for where we will be setting up. Thank you again for your support! Samanthack (talk) 02:18, 25 October 2017 (UTC)


 * incidentally it's not necessary to ping me on my own talk page. That's for other talk pages that I might not be watching. Last couple days have been busier than expected, but I ought to expect that. Today was biking 34 km (20 miles), snapping pictures on the way.
 * For such limited time, we can use some of it to mention Dispute resolution and to say, if someone undoes your hard work, let it go and find something less controversial until you have some experience that can give perspective. Hundreds of edits, for example. More of our minutes should go to the WP:Watchlist. Also I have found that audiences like it when I explain who Wikipedia editors are, for example how I am typical and how not, and what kinds of career path, or hobby path, are commonplace.
 * After a few minutes of speeches it gets down to editing. Usually I say to make sure the VisualEditor is enabled. When tutoring one on one, I may talk them through enabling the Wiki markup editor, which is better for some jobs such as pictures and tables. But mostly, once they find something they want to do, it's a matter of them calling for help and old-timers responding, looking over their shoulder, saying "Yeah, that looks okay" or "no, not so good" and explaining.

Jim.henderson (talk) 01:10, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi
Thank you so much for helping me to put the picture of a high school in my neighborhood page
 * Hridi7 (talk) 21:44, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello!
Hi Jim, you're sitting next me as we speak! Thank you for guiding us today at Berkeley. - @lilyjay

Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)
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November 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP
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December 13: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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