User talk:Omegatron/Archive/November, 2008

NYC Meetup: You are invited!
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, finalize and approve bylaws, interact with representatives from the Software Freedom Law Center, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the June meeting's minutes and the September meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikis Take Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wikipedia Loves Art! bonanza, being planned with the Brooklyn Museum for February.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Re. User:Omegatron/Interviews with Normals
In Joe's section you imply that editing the talk page to leave comments is the wrong way around it... it was actually intended to be that way, just like any other article on WP. It wasn't a necessity for the person to press the + in the past nor is 'new section' so extremely important today (not that a person can really respond to some other thread with only a 'new section'). I understand that it may not be perfectly intuitive at first - not for those who aren't programmers anyway - but I don't think it's really as hopeless, or implemented badly, as you may think it is. O_o

And actually, like in Emma's bit, I don't think it's as much the interface's fault as her own personal insecurity. She is obviously different from all the vandals as you point out but I suppose even really timid people eventually try to fix something that's been bothering them for a while. They'd just try to look up the documentation (like Sarah said) and they could learn it pretty quickly, I think. WP may not be intuitive for complete newcomers but then again life itself isn't at birth. -- Menti  sock  14:12, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Electronics collaboration
Hi, I am writing to you because you have listed yourself as a member of the Electronics WikiProject. Sadly, this project is pretty dead, but I propose to resuscitate it with a collaboration. The idea is to have a concerted effort on improving one article per month, hopefully to GA or FA status and nominate the very best of them for the front page. I have prepared a page to control this process at WikiProject Electronics/Collaboration (actually, I mostly shamelessly stole it from WikiProject Mammals where a collaboration of this sort was succesfully run). There you can make nominations for articles for collaboration or comment on the nominations of others.

If you want to take part you might like to place this template  on your userpage which will give you a link to the current collaboration. If you are no longer interested in Wikiproject Electronics, please remove yourself from the members list, which is now at WikiProject Electronics/Members

Thanks for listening,  Sp in ni ng  Spark  14:11, 23 November 2008 (UTC)