User talk:Slambo/Archives/2016/February

Edit-a-thon in Madison

 * ART+FEMINISM EDIT-A-THON


 * Saturday, March 5th, 9:30 a.m. – noon
 * Madison Public Library (Madison, Wisconsin)
 * Bring a laptop! There will be snacks and daycare

RSVP on the event page if you plan to attend or have any suggestions. czar 00:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)


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Template for edit-a-thon
I made User:Czar/template/Madison as an invite template for the event, if you're up for some circulation czar  23:29, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks great. I'd say send it out (I haven't done that before, but I know there's a bot that will do it). Slambo (Speak) 23:34, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, that was an adventure, but I figured it out czar  01:04, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Cool. I see we have 17 people who checked in as "going" on the Facebook page... Slambo (Speak)  01:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Wholesale conversion of RDTs
Please read WP talk:RDT before converting any more diagrams from BS-map to Routemap. Useddenim (talk) 00:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the heads-up. I hadn't seen any of that discussion before (but where is the archived RFC?).  I was changing maps as I found them during my normal editing, following the suggestion that is at the top of both the BS-map ( "Use the superseding  for shorter loading time and smaller template size" ) and routemap ( "This Lua-based template replaces the older parser-function-based  (and deprecated ,  and  ) templates" ) template pages.  Those statements, without knowing of the other discussion, plus the assertions that routemap loads faster and places less template strain on the display engine, seemed pretty clear-cut that routemap was an accepted replacement.
 * I do have a programming background, despite not programming professionally for about 9 years, and find both systems relatively easy to understand. The only part I don't like is that the icon names are still using their legacy German words and have not been translated to English (i.e. bhf [an abbreviation of bahnhof] for station, brucke for bridge and grenze for border).
 * The most important factor in my editing is that I can add parameters to collapse transclusions and to easily display them within infoboxes. Both BS-map and routemap support these, but I find routemap simpler for inclusion within infoboxes because it is just through 1 instead of wrapping the route template within and adding a few more parameters to suppress headings. Slambo (Speak)  16:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * - Okay, I found the RFC and read through it and skimmed the rest of that archive page. There doesn't seem to me to be a compelling reason not to make the conversions.  The biggest problem I saw mentioned was that of documentation and the new template has what I consider adequate documentation today.  The only real against vote I saw was the RFC creation, and the comments that were there seemed more positive than negative for conversion.  I still think routemap's inline and collapse options are very simple and they make the tranclusions easier to read. Right now life is happening (I've got snow to shovel and a car repair to manage), so my editing time is limited today.  I'll be back online later. Slambo (Speak)  20:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Union Station (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and  Pittsfield Depot
Articles that you have been involved in editing&mdash; Union Station (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and  Pittsfield Depot &mdash;have been proposed for merging with Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. RES2773 (talk) 13:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Fold3
You should have gotten an email from me about this - could you please either fill out the linked form, or email me if you didn't get it? Nikkimaria (talk) 19:39, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I have the email but had a crazy week or two recently. I have time to catch up on things now and will work on this today.  Thank you! Slambo (Speak)  12:23, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Ping. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:19, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, doing it right now before my next meeting. Slambo (Speak)  12:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)