User talk:MJCdetroit/Archive 13

Kudos
Enjoyed your updates to Robbinston, Maine; cleaned it up nice. --Fraulein451 (talk) 08:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Berkley, Michigan
Hi there. I ran across Berkley, Michigan while doing commons stuff and was surprised to find it semi-protected indefinitely, and nothing in the edit history seemed to explain it (I admit I didn't spend that much time looking). What's the background? Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 22:40, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * History says edit warring/content dispute. I've unlocked it.  &mdash;  MJC detroit  (tell me) 17:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear MJCdetroit,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.206.39 (talk) 03:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Professor Obar,


 * Sorry, but I would not be able to accommodate you or your students at this time. I don't have much time these days for much of anything.  I go for long periods of time without internet access (it's job related and complicated).   Sparty on!   &mdash;  MJC detroit  (tell me) 17:28, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted
I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, 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.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 02:54, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

A question
Hi there! I'm a freelance writer with Hour Detroit magazine, and I'm working on a piece about Detroit's Wikipedians. Would you be willing to talk with a bit about your work and experience on Wikipedia for my story? You can reach me at patrickpdunn@gmail.com, or let me know what's the best way for me to get a hold of you. Thanks so much! PatrickPDunn (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like I could have gotten a free lunch out of this. Andiamo's in the Ren-Cen maybe.  I just don't sign on to this much anymore.  &mdash;  MJC detroit  (tell me) 01:11, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:04, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Joliet
Quite a while back you made a correction regarding party affiliation when I changed the Joliet mayor from Arthur Shultz to Thomas Giarrante. I spoke with him personally on his office line and he essentially refused to give me a party affiliation (he cryptically skirted the question, not saying but acting as though he had no party affiliation) even though I told him the purpose. From another source I was told it was Republican, and you made the change to Democrat, which I don't doubt is correct - I would just love to know your source of that info, since it is of course not listed on his own website or the Joliet City Council website. That lack of transparency maddens me (if it is true one has no party affiliation, that's one thing, but to have one and not be transparent about it is my problem). soco_79 —Preceding undated comment added 15:15, 23 August 2012 (UTC) I don't remember this edit in the least bit. Would you provide the before/after edits to confirm that it was me?&mdash; MJC detroit  (tell me) 01:33, 14 September 2012 (UTC)