User talk:Mu301

Astronomy award

My wikimedia accounts are User:Mu301 (SUL), User:Mu301Bot (SUL, Bot on en-wv) and User:Mikeu (SUL except for en-wp)

I have created the test account User:Test dummy.

I am a Bureaucrat and Custodian on en-wv.

IRC cloak request: I confirm that my registered freenode nick is mikeu or mu301 (@wikimedia/mu301)

Any of my original images uploaded to Wikiversity (or Commons, other Wikimedia sites) may be relicensed as {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}}

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• 2011: Jan. - Jun. & Jul. - Dec.

Slide show

Thanks for your suggestion of Commons:User:Dschwen/Slideshow. For the reason you mention, and because I'd rather keep the slide show to a fraction of the screen, however, I'd like to keep looking.

 darklama  has offered me an implementation that seems likely to meet my needs. I need to experiment with it to see how far I can push it.

Thanks for your help and interest so far.

BillBell 13:06, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Great, yeah Darklama is very adept at working out solutions to these kinds of things. Let me know if there is anything else that I can help with, though. --mikeu ^talk 15:43, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

For you

		The Original Barnstar
		For speedily reverting vandalism, and for being a super awesome editor in general! --AFriedman 00:36, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

What next then?

Greetings. Peter Damian 21:55, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

• Thrilled you are here. Can you convince Milton Roe to join us, too? —Moulton 22:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

To answer a question and relate it to the above, we need to write a pile of policies so that we can ignore them. Welcome, I assume that Mike won't mind my welcoming you here. You can come on over to User talk:Abd if you need any doorstops. --Abd 02:12, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Welcome

Hey, thanks for welcoming me to Wikiversity. Well, I've been looking at things here for the last days, and I liked a few things. For example, I signed up for a Breton course (School of Language and Literature under Faculty for Humanities. I'll come back here and post if I need help - though I hope that won't be necessary. Will that be okay? --User:Scorpio March 18, 2011 5:41 PM (IST)

science communication

Folling up on what we discussed the other day, this podcast has a lot of starting points: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2011/3089284.htm

--SB_Johnny ^talk 17:58, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Welcome Message

Thanks a lot mike, It was really nice to meet you. The information shared by you is really useful. Lets learn a lot about meteors. --Venkyzealous 16:20, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Philly astronomy night

Thought you'd get a kick out of this. --SB_Johnny ^talk 08:38, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Biblical RfD

Hi Mike, I reopened an RfD you commented on previously: Wikiversity:Requests_for_Deletion#A_Translation_of_the_Bible. –SJ+ 03:54, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Belated Thanks plus Question

First, Mike, belated thanks for your welcome!

Second, I would like to be able to put a slide show within a topic on wikiversity using, say, [1], and perhaps some other javascript libraries. Would you please tell me where the rules for using such things are outlined--if indeed they are permitted at all?

BillBell 18:55, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice so far.

BillBell 15:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Changing username

Mu301, I see you made an edit today. If you have time, would you mind looking at Wikiversity:Changing username? I've clerked the page to make it easier, and have made recommendations. If any of my recommendations are improper, I'd love to know. It should now be practically one-button to handle good rename requests, and two-button for usurpations that are ready. Let me know what you think, okay? Thanks. --Abd 16:03, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

User:Marshallsumter

Mu301, I'm contacting you because you're a bureaucrat here. We've had some problems over at en.wikipedia due to the activities of Marshallsumter, who has been creating very problematic articles as part of a "research project" he's been writing about over here - see Dominant group. Although Marshallsumter is now blocked at en.wikipedia, and is likely to receive a ban, he continues to contribute here. All of his contributions on Wikiversity relate to his own original research on creating meaningless pages about combinations of words on Wikipedia, and he's now using Wikiversity to host versions of these pages, which have since been deleted at en.wikipedia. I am unfamiliar with most Wikiversity policies, but I don't think it's acceptable for a user to coordinate disruption of another Wikimedia project from here. Would you please look into a way of preventing this activity ? Thanks. --S Larctia 10:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

I was aware that the user had been active at Wikipedia with "problematic articles." However, original research is allowed at Wikiversity. "Coordinating disruption" would not be allowed. Can you explain what you mean by that? What activity is it that you wish to prevent? We have no control over what users do on other projects. --Abd 13:57, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

If you read through Dominant group, it is clear that Marshallsumter's "research" here involves creating large numbers of problematic articles on Wikipedia to see how the Wikipedia community responds. All of his Wikiversity activity relates to creating the said disruptive articles. I'd like Marshallsumter to be prevented from writing about this particular "research" on Wikiversity and using Wikiversity as a place to store drafts and copies of deleted Wikipedia articles (you can find them as subpages of Dominant group). This is clearly an abuse of his privilege to edit Wikiversity. Thanks. --S Larctia 14:55, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Larctia, it seems you are trying to prevent a user from writing material that may be allowed here, not being satisfied with arranging his block on enwiki. If there is a specific problem where Wikiversity inclusion policy is being violated, please point it out; however, "deleted Wikipedia articles" are not prohibited content here, per se, depending on details and how they are placed. Frankly, I'd prefer to arrange for transwiki for deleted articles that may have some educational value, to preserve contribution history, but if he's the only major contributor, that's not a problem. The user can surely "store drafts" off-line, but he can share them here. There are possible concerns, to be sure.

Do you have the idea that material not appropriate for Wikipedia is therefore not appropriate for any WMF wiki? In any case, Mu301 is quite inactive. I'd suggest we not continue to discuss this here. There is your user Talk page and mine, if you have any specific concerns, or there is Wikiversity:Request custodian action, if you believe a user is being disruptive here, and we have speedy deletion tags ( {{delete|(deletion reason) --~~~~}} ) and Wikiversity:Requests for deletion. --Abd 16:43, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Much as it's sort of funny watching you try to convince this person, Abd, I'm pretty sure you've met him before ;-). --SB_Johnny ^talk 20:06, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

You may be pretty sure, but I'm not. Maybe you know or have noticed something I haven't, beyond "deletionist," and the one that would come to mind for me, I haven't seen specific signs. I did comment on the user's Talk page. To put it politely, this is a "highly experienced returning user, not disclosing prior account." As to "convincing" him or her, I'm giving the person an opportunity. I'm not relying on him or her accepting it. --Abd 01:55, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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Comments

This is a device for allowing thorough deliberative process while not requiring massive participation, which, without attention to process details, can become enormously inefficient and confusing. The proposals may look complicated, but they will, in practice, be simple. I hope you will consider this. Thanks. --Abd 19:41, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

FLOSS4Science

Hi :-)

A couple of years ago on my talk page:

I hadn't noticed Portal:FLOSS4Science until just now.  
This is a great idea, and I would like to see this developed.
--mikeu talk 11:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

and I responded

Great! I would love to see a community grow around this project. 
Please go for it (i.e. do whatever you want to take it further) 
and let me know if there is anything specific I can do to help. 
K 20:30, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Someone seems to have taken the idea further (www.floss4science.com).

This is a good thing ... just wish they had not decided to impose NC-ND on all the content on their web site (scroll down to the foot of the front page) - breaks the spirit in which the knowledge was shared.

Of course it is entirely possible they came up with the idea independently.

- K 12:19, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Closures needed

Hi Mike. I have offered to mentor a new arrival. Are you available for button pushing?

Also, Abd's confirmation is on it's 5th day now. I'm too involved to close (as is James, I would imagine).

Thanks! --SB_Johnny ^talk 11:20, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

That was handled by agreement. --Abd 17:53, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Mu301Bot at Astronomy

Hi Mu301!

Your Bot has kindly stopped by the Astronomy article that I have been contributing to pointing out apparently problematic links. I wanted to update you on these.

Dead link - has been deleted.

Dead link 2 - "Reference checked and link works fine. No clue why bot's having a problem!"

Dead link 3 - "Section of article is a cited quote from Wikipedia article "Andromeda Galaxy", which contains the broken link even now."

I cannot leave messages at WP, but perhaps you can if you wish to verify and notify accordingly.

Just FYI Marshallsumter 20:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note. I'll take a look at the bot logs to see what is up. --mikeu ^talk 14:29, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

I just changed link 2 from https to http which the bot seems to like better. w:Andromeda Galaxy already has that link tagged as broken, but I'll need to look around to find a reliable source as a replacement. Let me know if the bot is incorrectly reporting any other broken links. --mikeu ^talk 15:18, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mu301!

Your Bot has again kindly stopped by the Dominant group/Astronomy article to report the following link to be dead:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168822708003355.

When I click on the link it takes me to the Abstract on ScienceDirect, which I believe should be okay. I've added a pmid from Pubmed to this same link. No idea if this is a problem with the bot. Marshallsumter 17:39, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012821X80900047, does the same thing. Is this a problem? Marshallsumter 17:54, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

It seems like the problem occurs when the bot tries to check an url for a website that does redirects, ie. when the wiki page has a link to http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168822708003355 but the Science Direct webserver rewrites the url as http://www.diabetesresearchclinicalpractice.com/article/S0168-8227%2808%2900335-5/abstract One solution would be to try to the second url. Another option is to try the [[doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2008.07.017]] syntax which gives a link to the same article that looks like this: doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2008.07.017 or this: Global complication rates of type 2 diabetes in Indigenous peoples: A comprehensive review. Also, please let me know if the bot is annoying ;) I can tell it to ignore specific pages. --mikeu ^talk 00:10, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Mu301Bot at Dominant group/Planetary science

Hi MikeU!

The bot didn't like another sciencedirect abstract: url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103500963589. These sciencedirect abstracts normally do not allow the wikiversitian to get to a free copy of the article, which I would prefer the reader to have access to. Usually, Google scholar can give me the complete quote which I put into the article. If I need to do follow up I just interlibrary loan (ILL) (usually for free, so far) a copy of the article. Any suggestions? I don't mind an occasional message from the bot. It did find one dead link at Dg/Ps, but these sciencedirect abstracts are a bit annoying as is the demand for $s. Marshallsumter 17:02, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491606002557 is another one like above at radiation astronomy found by the bot. One possibility is to leave these sciencedirect abstract urls out of the citation. Another might be a bot scan command that skips the process when it finds "... sciencedirect ...". This way if the user wants to ILL a copy they have all the info they need. A third may be to put a note with the citation indicating that the quote is obtained by Google scholar. Marshallsumter 17:20, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Okay link

The following link url=http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/m87/m87.html works fine. No clue what bot is having trouble with. Marshallsumter 17:06, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Username rename request: White Cat -> とある白い猫

I'd like to request a username rename per SUL. -- Cat ^chi? 13:26, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

My flowers pics

Hi. I'm sorry I post in a wrong section. -- Best regards!