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Signpost
Hi, I have added a short note about your "encyclopedia of life" paper to this week's issue of the Signpost (the English Wikipedia's community-edited newspaper): Wikipedia Signpost/2010-07-19/In the news. As a non-biologist, I hope that I haven't introduced any errors, and that the side remark about Wikispecies isn't too misguided.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 23:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for doing this, you've done a nice job summarising the paper. I still don't know quite what to make of Wikispecies, which is one reason I didn't discuss it in the paper. But I hope to meet up with one of it's most active contributors in the next week or so to talk about the relationship between Wikipedia and Wikispecies. Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And another (brief) one in this week's issue. To be honest, I didn't quite understand the precise meaning of the number 53,000; I hope the wording in the Signpost article is sufficiently vage to be correct ;)
 * Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:51, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

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Entomologica Americana
I'm confused: The BIOOne page says that volume 108 (!) was published in 2000, meaning that volume 1 was published in 1893 or earlier. The two societies merged. It looks to me that there are not two journals but just one. Perhaps you can have another look at the sources. --Randykitty (talk) 13:47, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It's confusing I agree, and that's one reason why I created these pages. There are two quite distinct journals with different publishers. The current Entomological Americana is the successor to the Journal of the New York Entomological Society (which ended with volume 107). So, the Society renamed their journal using the name of a journal published by the society they joined with. Why they'd choose to do this is anyone's guess. But the two journals are quite distinct. Hope this helps. See also http://www.nyentsoc.org/#!publications/drci2
 * Well, if this is the case, than the article on the current EA should be adapted to state that it was established many years ago and had a different title, until it merged with the other EA and adopted that journal's name. It might be least confusing to merge the two articles (there's not that much to say about either journal anyway) and explain this history clearly. BTW, see WP:JWG for helpful tips on writing journal articles. --Randykitty (talk) 00:37, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify, the two EA journals NEVER merged, the publishing societies merged, then some time later one adopted the name EA for its journal. When I've time I can flesh these details out. Merging the articles won't help distinguish between these two journals, which is my goal. By way of background, I spend a lot of time locating articles that describe new species my BioStor and BioNames projects and it took me some time to realise that the two EA journals were quite different.--Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 06:58, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, as you see from my comments above, you need to do a better job of explaining the differences... :-) The way I interpret all this is: there were two societies, each with its own journal. At some point, the societies merged (or one absorbed the other) and one journal was discontinued and merged into the other journal, which took its title. Meaning we should have one article on them, to adequately explain this and prevent confusion. --Randykitty (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It's even more complicated than that, I'm working on a timeline to show the different journals and societies involved. --Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 12:07, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Please don't delete a page I'm working on! --Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 12:48, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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Jurors for WikiScienceCompetition 2017
Hi, I see from this query that you are wikimedian working in the academia.

I am helping to organize the Wiki Science Competition. As a New Zealand citizen working in UK you would represent two countries without national jury. Would you like to join as a juror? We are thinking of adding two additional main jurors, you could be one of them.

We start in few weeks, but international jurors work later, from January 2018.

In any case I hope you can spread the news. Let me know.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:49, 22 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Alexmar983, yes, I'd be happy to serve on the jury. --Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 09:37, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Great! Can you tell me your best email? I inform Ivo from Wikimedia Estonia! I feel really lucky, it is great that you can accept so fast, really--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:39, 22 October 2017 (UTC).
 * The best email address is [remove just in case for the spam] --Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 09:43, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ok!--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:49, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Prof. Page, many finalists are declared in these days, so the work of the final jurors is going to start in circa four weeks. I am verifying that they are all available as planned. You will use the tool Montage to trim and rank the national finalists, please take a look to this page when you have time.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:13, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Alexmar983, yes, still happy to do this. --Roderic D. M. Page (talk) 09:12, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ok I'll inform you when we are close. Next week at least two countries with juries will reveal their finalists.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:24, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Could you please reply to my mail of last week? The voting has started on montage. You are one of the missing juror to vote.--Alexmar983 (talk) 19:47, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Alexmar983 I've done my voting now, sorry for any delay.
 * No problem, we still miss few jurors. I'll send another email with another category of images in few days, or even tomorrow. Thank you for voting.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:34, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bother, but I remind you to cast votes for some of the campaign on Montage.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:30, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you please vote? It won't take you too much time.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2018 (UTC)