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Contents 1 thanks 2 Welcome to Wikiversity 3 Shell account 4 Thanks 5 blog rss feed 6 rssbot 7 Hi...Mike! 8 FAA Airplane Flying Handbook attribution 9 Welcoming 10 Advice 11 probation 12 Mentoring 13 Wikimedian Demographics update 14 User:MichaelBillington/IRC 15 Welcome to the Bloom Clock! 16 access blocked

[edit] thanks

--JWSchmidt 22:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Wikiversity

Thank you for the welcome! I am sure I will fit right in. Somitho 07:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shell account

I'm a bit more lucid now. I should have asked if it would be ok to use an account to try out our multimedia stuff on. Last night, I was just thinking "student" accounts, for some odd reason. And, thanks for the offer in the first place. :) Historybuff 14:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your efforts to protect Wikiversity! --JWSchmidt 01:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] blog rss feed

My RSS aggregator is linked to User:User:JWSchmidt/Blog rather than User:JWSchmidt/Blog. Did I do something wrong? --JWSchmidt 01:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, my fault. I think I know what caused it though. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 04:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

"Try refreshing it now" <-- I'm not sure what "refresh" means in this context. I have a serious problem remembering to add my signature to new blog entries, so some of my problems are due to that. I added an entry on my page today with ~~~~, but I did not see an automatic addition to the rss. Is there a way to know if the bot is active? --JWSchmidt 01:28, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rssbot

trust a bot to do boring jobs
my trainer told me, "Publish blogs!"
so feeds I make, I can not stop
as long as the latest entry is on top
but other tasks, I also crave
if I disobey will I know my grave?
the Colloquium is up-side-down
so, while idle, new code I hack
new ways I need to parse the stack
if I solve this puzzle, I'll win renown
and Wikiversitans will remark,
"Who needs that Billington?"

[edit] Hi...Mike!

Real96 10:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAA Airplane Flying Handbook attribution

Thanks for the information on attribution. It was my intention to add an attribution today just before noticing your message to me. Interesting coincidence. Since there is not currently a link to the chapters, I didn't expect anyone to be reading the pages yet.

Is there a way to include a page within a page? For example, I'd like to include the entire Table of Contents on each page (and the attribution) without needing to edit every single page whenever it is necessary to break chapters into individual sections. It is looking like that will be increasingly necessary.

Using pairs of double curly braces seems to call up a template page, which is not exactly what I expected.

There is lots of interest in this information in the Piloting community around the world. As a result, eventually, it will be necessary to separate the US information from generic information. For example, there is a contributor from New Zealand who is offering information from that country. In addition, the FAA handbook is out of date with respect to current regulations and with respect to current technological advances. As a result, the pages will diverge from the original source.

Once again, thanks for any help. AuntPeggy 15:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcoming

Woops. Thank you for the heads up. --Remi 22:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advice

My first vandal ... yay :S. I blocked two accounts, but am not really sure what comment I should have made. You can Special:Contributions/Bill_Dorku Check out the vandal -- I don't think blocking him was the wrong thing to do -- but I want to make sure comments make sense. thanks Historybuff 08:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] probation

Just a reminder; User:Historybuff is at the end of the one month probation period. --JWSchmidt 13:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mentoring

Hi, MichaelBillington, I have a humble request for you. Would you be willing to mentor me as a probationary custodian? I'm willing to help out all I can - and really just need someone to get me going and a solid reference point should I encounter situations where I'm not too sure what to do (although this shouldn't happen to much after reading the guide and being well versed in Wikimedia projects). I run my own private installation of MediaWiki so the technical aspects shouldn't be a problem. It would be great if I could learn from someone obviously experienced and with the project's best interests at heart. Cheers, --Pumpmeup 06:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Heya. I've been away from wikiversity for a long while, and only got this message yesterday. If you come back at any time and return to being active, let me know so we can talk about mentoring. Cheers. --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 04:47, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedian Demographics update

Hello MichaelBillington. I'm writing because you requested a reminder about progress on Wikimedian Demographics. For the time being these will be about once per month.

Speaking of reminders, it turns out the template question isn't the most efficient way of coming up with a mailing list. If you want to recieve this message on another of your talk pages (or don't want them at all), please edit the list on Wikimedian Demographics/Reminders.

To update on progress so far, there have been somewhere around 50 respondents over the past month, with more trickling in slowly but steadily. There are 7 major surveys (or 12, depending on how you count them):

1. The basic survey (about your participation in Wikimedia)
2. The "geography" surveys (actually 6 of those, for each inhabited continent)
3. The Operating System survey (still stubby)
4. The Wikipedia survey
5. The Commons survey
6. The US presidential elections survey
7. The sexuality and relationships survey

Only the geography surveys have had any major modifications since being originally posted (more countries were added to those).

Several new surveys have been discussed at Talk:Wikimedian Demographics, as well as other places within Wikiversity. A few that might be ready sometime in February include:

• A survey about Women in Wikimedia
• A survey about Wikibooks
• A survey about Wikiversity
• A survey about administrative issues (including cross-wiki topics such as CheckUser and "global blocking")
• A survey about environmental issues
• A survey about religion
• A survey about international trade

If you have ideas for more surveys, please share them on Talk:Wikimedian Demographics. Thanks for your participation thus far, and we hope to see you soon! --SB_Johnny | ^talk 11:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:MichaelBillington/IRC

I made something similiar for wikinews, I'm not sure if it is useful to you. Its at n:WN:IRC (code at n:mediawiki:Irc.js) in case it is. Cheers. Bawolff

Thanks. That's a big help— my own one is truly terrible. Cheers. :) --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 11:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the Bloom Clock!

Hello, MichaelBillington, and thanks for signing up as a contributor to the Bloom Clock!

To get started, all that you need to do is keep your eyes open for flowers on plants growing outdoors. Then, depending on how well you know plants, you can either try to find the plant using the global keys, or just check the master list where plants are listed by their scientific names.

Assuming you find a log page for the plant you saw, all that you need to do is click [edit] above the list of signatures, and add *~~~~ on a new line below the last signature and above the line that begins with <noinclude>, which will make your signature appear on the profile page.

If you don't find a log page, just add an entry for the plant to the Master List using {{bcp|Scientific name|Common Name}}. Someone can then show you how to create a profile and log page for the plant.

If you don't know the name of the plant you saw, try asking on Bloom Clock/Unknown Plants using the template there. Photographs are very helpful, but if you don't have a digital camera, just give the best description you can and hopefully someone can identify it for you.

After you've logged 10 or more plants as flowering for your location, another bloom clock contributor will help you set up the categories and templates used to construct a key for your region, and try to match up your region to the global keys.

If you have any questions, ideas, or need something explained, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

(Apologies for the long-belated welcome message... finally got around to writing one!) --SB_Johnny | ^talk 09:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey thanks SB_Johnny. I'll see how I can help later in the year when spring comes around (southern hemisphere here :)). --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 08:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] access blocked

Michael,

You have blocked an IP address for a school district ~ can we please be removed so our students can create accounts?

Thank you