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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 03:38, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:13, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Meet up with local Wikipedians on September 14!
Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:29, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 14:29, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Signpost reviews
I was happy to have recently come across the cache of book reviews done for the Signpost a few years ago. From the looks of things the [column?] died off after Einbender. Is that due to lack of reviewers, lack of reader interest, priorities of the Signpost...? Mainly curious but would also be willing to toss my name onto a list of would-be reviewers. --Rhododendrites (talk) 18:34, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know that you liked the book reviews. That was an area of the Signpost that I tried develop more strongly while I was the editor. I'm sure the current editor, The ed17, would be happy to consider book reviews. Is there something in particular that you're keen to review? (It's often possible to get a review copy sent to you if you contact the publisher.)--ragesoss (talk) 17:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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Introducing myself for a college course
Hello Mr. Ambassador. My name is Peter Simon Van Gorp, and I am enrolled into a History of Science course at University of Oklahoma with Dr. John A. Stewart. Nice to virtually meet you. Petesimon2 (talk) 02:20, 2 September 2013 (UTC) (signed by me)

HI
So my assignment for this week was to learn how to use talk pages, and find other wikipedians out there. This thing isn't the easiest to to use, but I guess I'll get use to it. Anyways, how are u related to this course exactly? Meganjeanne1 (talk) 20:26, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi there! You're right about talk pages being difficult to use (at first). Improving that is one of the big software projects that Wikipedia's developers are working on. You've got the gist of it now, though. One useful this is that if you link to someone's userpage when you leave a comment, they will get a notification that you mentioned them (like you hopefully will from this message).


 * My relation to this course is that I know John&mdash;we're both historians of science&mdash;and I have a lot of experience with Wikipedia, so I offered to help out. Good luck with the class, and if you have any wiki-related questions, let me know.--ragesoss (talk) 22:44, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Pseudoscience discussion
Hi,

Its been a while since we chatted but I recently let myself be drawn into an ongoing ArbCom request for clarification and amendment concerning the ArbCom's earlier decisions on Pseudoscience. One element of the resulting discussion concerns the recent insertion of a lengthy, critical template on the talk pages of a large number of articles that are categorized as Pseudoscience. Most of these talk pages concern articles providing historical discussions of, but not advocacy of, specific pseudosciences (see e.g., Talk:Flat Earth; Talk:Astrology). For more on my concerns see my comments to that ArbCom Request.

I see from the archive that you've been involved in ArbCom's past discussion of Pseudoscience. Perhaps you'd be willing to weigh in again. Thanks SteveMcCluskey (talk) 21:15, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note, and I'm glad that you're still around these parts! I agree with your basic point that ArbComPseudoscience is unneccessary on primarily historical articles that don't have a history of bad editing behavior, and it does set a bit of a hostile and intimidating tone for perfectly normal articles, and thus will probably do more harm than good. I don't think it's an ArbCom issue, though, and I doubt they will try to do anything beyond leave their individual opinions as they have started to do. I'll leave a comment on Talk:Flat Earth.--ragesoss (talk) 23:02, 4 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Since Brangifer indicates that he doesn't have time to edit the banner, I've taken a go at it myself. Would you take a look at User:SteveMcCluskey/sandbox2 where I have two draft templates and a discussion.  I plan to drop one of them on the talk page of the current template for comment.  Would you take a look and see if my discussion makes sense, whether it's likely to be productive, and which (if either) of the banners you prefer.  SteveMcCluskey (talk) 04:08, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 September 2013

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

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Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 05:23, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 September 2013

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

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Help test better mass message delivery
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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

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Are you free on Sunday? Join us for a special Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!

Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.

If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 01:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

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Writing a summary for my article assignment in "History of Science from Antiquity to Newton" (Fall 2013)
I have to write about a 4 paragraph summary of the content I intend to add to my chosen wikipedia article for a college course. The assignment is detailed in this page: Week 7. I have chosen to improve this article: Corpuscular theory of light. Some tentative sources are on the talk page of that article. I have never edited any kind of article, especially online, so do you got any tips for what content and how much to add? Thanks. Petesimon2 (talk) 00:41, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 October 2013

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The Signpost: 30 October 2013

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Science holidays
Long time no chat. Hope you are well. I thought you might be interested in helping populate Template:Science commemorative events, seems like something that the community would have written upon ad nauseam, but having trouble finding many more articles for it. Hope all is going well, and happy editing! Sadads (talk) 15:44, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 November 2013

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Talkback
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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013
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The Signpost: 11 December 2013
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Book review for The Signpost
I'm interested in writing a book review for The Signpost before the college Spring Semester starts in January. I'm looking at The Plugged-In Professor: Tips and techniques for teaching with social media by Ferris and Wilder. I'm not opposed to other books already on the list. Any recommendations? Chris Troutman ( talk ) 05:44, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey Chris. The ed17 is currently the editor of the Signpost, so he's the one to work with on the details of doing a book review. I'd certainly be interested to read a review of that one!--ragesoss (talk) 00:33, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 December 2013
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