User talk:Dc987

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:06, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Your Idea for a bot.

Dc987, I am sorry to say that I borrowed your idea. I was impressed by the crm.py library that you included, so I went ahead and made a bot. Shirik and I have been working on a project called CollabRC, where bots flag edits for review by humans. There are currently 4 live bots here.

• DASHBot-1 uses crm.py and heuristics to list bad edits. The CRM114 bot responds to !good <diffnumber> or !bad <diffnumber> or !assess <diffnumber> which do obvious things.
• DASHBot-2 adds users to the blacklist, if they are reverted by Huggle or Twinkle. They can also be added thusly: !add "<user>" or removed !rm "<username>" and are automatically removed from the blacklist after 6 hours of not being reverted. You can force a purge of users older then 6 hours by saying !purge or empty it completley by saying !empty. To list the number of blacklisted users, type !bl.
• DAHSBot-3 lists edits flagged by the edit filter.

I really hope that you can build a bot to include in the CollabRC family. Shirik is building annother AI bot, and a client that uses the channel's input. Good luck! Tim1357 (talk) 22:15, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Excellent. I'm glad you've liked the CRM114 lib! I thought it was a good find. There is a manual on the CRM114 web site, I'd recommend skimming through it. You may find it interesting. I've especially liked the 'bit entropy' categorizer, I really think it all should come down to entropy in the end.

Would you be willing to work on the User:Dc987/Dataset_for_the_Rocket_article I've created? Run it against your bots, etc? It's a lot of manual and semi-automatic labor, but the result is going to be very valuable. --Dc987 (talk) 23:31, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Irreversible QM

Regarding time-irreversibility in QM, a source is Ch. 6, "Time Asymmetry in Quantum Mechanics" in _The physics of time asymmetry_ by P.C.W. Davies. JLM (talk) 20:33, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I've summarized my understanding of the argument in the article. I don't want to cross over from summarizing the argument to making it. Yet links between the arrows do seem important for the article. Always welcome someone with a better understanding of QM clarifying it. I'm unconvinced that it's a good place to go into microstate "fine-grained" vs. macrostate "coarse-grained" entropy -- it's used in making the argument, but do we want to do that? That might be best kept to the "Further Reading". JLM (talk) 13:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

Hello, per your request, I've granted you Rollback rights! Just remember:

• Rollback gives you access to certain tools, including Huggle, some of which can be very powerful, so exercise caution
• Rollback is only for blatant vandalism
• Having Rollback rights does not give you any special status or authority
• Misuse of Rollback can lead to its removal by any administrator
• Please read Help:Reverting and Wikipedia:Rollback feature to get to know the workings of the feature
• You can test Rollback at Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback
• You may wish to display the {{User wikipedia/rollback}} userbox and/or the {{Rollback}} top icon on your user page

If you have any questions, please do let me know.

--Just remember to warn the vandals you revert and let me know if you need help. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:44, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. --Dc987 (talk) 08:02, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Reply

@A930913: 930913(Congratulate/Complaints) 05:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Manual Account Confirmation Request

Would you please add me to the CVN database... Cit helper (talk) 03:04, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I've updated the auto confirmation code, now it should work for new Wikipedia users as well :) --Dc987 (talk) 00:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Karma query?

Can I query WPCVN to get the karma of a user? 930913 (Congratulate/Complaints) 00:34, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes. For users registered before Mar/2010. Type-in the user name into the Check Karma box. Positive karmas are somewhat reliable, but don't rely on negative karmas too much... Fix for that is getting there, but there's still a lot of work. AI development is tough. Even with python. --Dc987 (talk) 00:41, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

I meant by an API or something such as wpcvn.com/karma.php?user=A930913 930913 (Congratulate/Complaints) 00:43, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, http://www.wpcvn.com/s/karma?username=Dc987 the reply is in json. --Dc987 (talk) 00:47, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Another idea, is to be able to filter by multiple criteria such as, "unpatrolled, IP edit, large removal" 930913 (Congratulate/Complaints) 00:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

It is already doing that to some degree by integrating MitzaBot IRC feed... Check/sort by MitzaBot labels in the Labels column. And if you can propose/integrate a feed from another bot - you'll be very welcome ! --Dc987 (talk) 01:01, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Uhh.. wait.. you are asking about filtering/sorting.... Mmmmm..--Dc987 (talk) 01:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

I guess we can enable sorting by multiple columns. Or filtering by Labels column. Would that do? --Dc987 (talk) 01:03, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Kufi

Hi, I've reverted the change you made on the page kufi as 'kufi' does not mean crown in the yoruba language. Are you able to provide a source on another wikipedia page or outside wikipedia where this is the case. As a native yoruba speaker, I would be surprised to and interested in any sources suggesting this. Please also refer to this page in aidining you on this topic. Thanks Tdoublenineone (talk) 20:04, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Glossy display

Hi, the adverse health paragraph you have added for the glossy display page is unsourced with the exception of the last sentence with an article which is entirely unrelated to VDUs. The article is wholly concerned with migraines. Are there any papers mentioning adverse health effects of glossy displays? If so, they should be included but I am unaware of a single research paper stating this to be the case. Unless you can actually find research supporting claims of adverse health effects, is it not best to state that there are no known adverse health effects? Thanks Tdoublenineone (talk) 20:15, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

The "human visual system" cannot "focus" on more than one image at a time. It can be aware of input from both eye the eye that relates to the same position in Panum's fusional area. This results in either a single "fused" image or double vision. Provided both visual axis are aligned (as is the case in people without strabismus), consciously looking any object in a mirror (whether full or semi transparent), irrespective of whether it appears on or behind the plane of reflection would result in a single image. Objects people are aware of in the background/foreground so to speak, may be perceived to be double. This is due to physiological diplopia. This being the case, can you clarify whether the last sentence of the paragraph on "competition between two images" refers to physiological diplopia (by definition, unproblematic) or misalignment (or innadequate alignment as the case may be in convergence insuffiiciency) of the visual axes? I have also edited the first sentence of the section to better reflect the findings of the study cited. Thanks. Tdoublenineone (talk) 17:58, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Pending Changes Template!

Big improvement. It's much easier to read, which is critical, because I'm pretty sure that before no one would have read it. Thanks! Ocaasi (talk) 19:09, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For your work with WPCVN, thank you! RandomAct(talk to me) 20:09, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

WPCVN

Problems

WP:CUV/T#Monitoring has a link to wpcvn.com, so I clicked on it. The website doesn't seem to be doing anything. Yes, I know, I probably have to do something first ☺ but there are no instructions. There was a link for bug reports, so I tried that and came here. I assumed that since the link went here, you probably know something about WPCVN. ☺ Anyway, how does it work?? Thanks! ...Dynamic|cimanyD... (talk|klat) ☺ 02:05, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. It's working great now! Dynamic|cimanyD talk·edits 20:16, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

WP CVN isn't marking edits to certain pages as patrolled by me, even after I click "diff..." and look at the diff. It seems to be pages with strange characters in the names. For example: Popé and Les Misérables (é), Wrocław (ł) and Model–view–controller (–). It doesn't matter much, though, since no one else is there to see it. Dynamic|cimanyD talk·edits 22:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Now it doesn't seem to be updating at all! All the edits on there are from when I was on there earlier, over an hour ago. Dynamic|cimanyD talk·edits 13:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Seems to be working now... Dynamic|cimanyD contact me ⁞ my edits 14:49, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Something wrong with wpcvn or is it just me? Raquel Baranow (talk) 02:32, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Working now Raquel Baranow (talk) 01:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Other

Is there a userbox for WP CVN? If there isn't, there should be. Also, please reply here this time. It's less confusing :) Dynamic|cimanyD talk·edits 13:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Um. Userbox? Like 'I use wpcvn'? Sure. Dc987 (talk) 01:28, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks for the WP CVN tool. A help page would be nice; I have a couple of questions:

• What does the Nick box and the column with Nicks on the left do? Am I supposed to enter my Wikipedia user name?
• How does the tool know when a page has been patrolled, and by whom?
• What does the "likely patrolled" label mean?
• Are all users presented with the same list of edits to check? There must be a lot more edits in RecentChanges than the tool shows, where are the others?

Thanks, AxelBoldt (talk) 01:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

"How does the tool know when a page has been patrolled, and by whom" -

- it knows users with bad and good reputations (based on very old dataset of mine, from 2011). so when it sees an edit from a user wih bad reputation reverted by a user with good reputation it assumes that an edit was "likely patrolled". Dc987 (talk) 21:39, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 01:46, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Is CVN dead?

wpcvn.com hasn't been working for a while. I miss it. Mojoworker (talk) 16:02, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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