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Wikibreak[edit]
Due to limited access I am forced to take a break. For about a week I shall do very little. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
- Nope. Just yesterday and the day before. Mostly I'm properly connected this morning, and doing some catchup. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:46, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Friday Jan 15: ONLINE Wikipedia Day NYC[edit]
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| February 6th, 11am-1pm E.S.T: Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE | |
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.jpg) Hello Jim.Henderson! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 3rd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - Saturday, Feb 6th, 2021 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how information on wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. We'd love to see you Jim.
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February 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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Thursday Feb 25: ONLINE Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center[edit]
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If I were not put off by the reception my idea got, what would I do next?[edit]
I replied to you kind comment on my user page, but I am not sure how to make sure you see it.
I haven't figured what the @ sign does in front of someone's name. Also, I realized that I forgot to ask you the most important question, which is what do you think I should do next?
I find it strange that there is no way to communicate privately on Wikipedia, unlike on social media.
There was some discussion about me on the page of the person that closed the discussion on the MOS talk page. And I then started a discussion on EEng's page with very mixed results, to put it mildly. Had you already looked at those?
Hope you are keeping well. Arctic Gazelle (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Sat Mar 6: Met Women's History Month Virtual Edit Meet-up[edit]
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Hello Jim! Thank you for your collaboration![edit]
RE: Counterfeits Despite the popularity and proliferation of BBS systems used for construction and architectural projects in the technology' early years, it is not known to the general public to what extent the smartmodem and on-board BBS applications remains cloned with respect to insider terror and influence of home satellite communications technology. [citation needed] In the final years of consumer production, the General Instrument VideoCipher line was used extensively in areas at least known to be within Ontario, Canada concerning marking homes and individuals for organized crime.
- I saw you edited the section of "Smartmodem: Organized criminal counterfeit satellite terror can await citation" recently on Bulletin Board System. I am a collaborator as well on that section and would appreciate further assistance concerning establishing effective citations for that entry on the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- Although I sense some comparisons in your storied 12 year history on Wikipedia, I must mask up my own history I do not know how to confirm this entry other than 'personal research' and cannot at this point provide EPROM samples rather than simply the included text.
- How would you suggest adding this section again without triggering involvement with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Interpol without hooking my own paper trail from this location in homicide and sexual assault trails that would jeopardize the safety of both reader and contributor?
- It's International Women's Day in a few hours and time keeps on slipping away. What is your "informed' response?
- I'm including a tag to Jimmy Wales for dispute resolution to remark that some stations of satellite BBS'ing might have included adulterated cocaine and poppers use on KU Band dual LNB. For Bill Blair, how would this user know the places I've been and the things I've seen? Spadina/Dundas change collection...know whatti mean? (I would consider further editing of this section or deletion to be whitewashing giving no historical access to satellite cameras or enhanced 3D)
EntertainingDollopOfGel (talk) 10:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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March 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Wikimedia Community Ireland for St Patrick's Day[edit]
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COI Editor Seeks Assistannce[edit]
Hello User:Jim.henderson, this is Santina from Vonage. The article is in need of maintenance, mainly updates and revising the structure to better reflect Wikipedia:good article criteria. Since I am an employee of Vonage, I know it’s a best practice to propose edits and revisions here and ask for help from the volunteer community. Found you on the WikiProject Telecommunications group and am looking for help from an editor that understands this space. Please let me know if this is something you would consider. Thanks in advance for any feedback! SStankevich (talk) 16:11, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
New Biographer (of long departed authors)[edit]
You can't know how much I appreciate your help. To help bring home the concept, an example:
Sewell Peaslee Wright references a communication device called the 'Menore' in several of his works. Wikipedia has a couple of pages on science fiction communications devices. My mission, should I choose to accept it, would be:
Step 1) to reference an article (written by an author on the subject of all-things-science fiction) that goes into great detail about Sewell Peaslee Wright's 'Menore' device, in the most relevant of these science fiction communication device Wikipedia pages
Step 2) wait to see how long it lasts (if at all) then, if it has staying power, I have a 'notability' reference, yes?
Again, Thank you. Every little bit helps. ~Tchula65 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tchula65 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Splendid @Tchula65: perhaps I have happened upon the right approach. As an ancient communication technician, I took a look at the appropriate section of Technology in science fiction and ugh, it needs a great amount of copyediting and maybe some rewriting. From the small sample I've seen of your work, you show a much clearer idea of good writing. As it happens, a badly written article is often a good candidate for expansion if the new writing is better. Adding anything to well-crafted prose is trickier, as I learned a few years ago when revising the Constitution of the United States.
- I meet a great many smart people when teaching, and each kind have their strength. When it's a bunch of art historians, citations start out being well done and quickly become perfect. Journalists explain things very clearly and easily grasp the idea of a manual of style. Scientists figure a better way of doing what I'm telling them before I can finish my sentence. But the things I told you about biography are a mental draft of my lessons on that topic for when the plague further relaxes its grip.
- Oh, if your refs are acceptable in a poor place like that there sci-fi tech article, it still may not be good enough for a biography, especially a new biography, where our watchers are generally pickier. Trial and error; y'know. It takes a delicate touch, pushing hard enough to make something happen but not so hard as to provoke a storm.
- I keep on thinking of things that should be added before I close and go to the grocery. Some old-timers are cynical; for example we say the Articles for Creation process is Wikipedia's La Brea Tar Pit where articles go to die. We tell our students, give us a few looks at your draft during the afternoon and if it's good enough to survive in Article Space, we'll midwife it out and the old-timers will act as nurses rather than predators. Jim.henderson (talk) 16:43, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Remember to sign your Talk Page posts with ~~~~ as it gives the impression that you know what you're doing. Of course most of us are wandering in a daze but we don't let our fellow editors know that. Jim.henderson (talk) 16:43, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
I appreciate your guidance and I'm happy to try anyway and fail and study and fail and learn and repeat and eventually succeed --Tchula65 (talk) 17:29, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Here is my answer. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:40, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
- I appreciate the break-out with yourself and Rhododendrite. It gave me food for thought. At this point, I think it best to step back from a biography of Sewell Peaslee Wright and, instead, do as you suggested and edit Wikipedia pages like Technology in Science Fiction, Universal Translators, and a new one I found, Pulp Magazine with information about the author and his contributions. I am considering Wikidata but always having been someone who shied away from databases in my professional life (I'm pre-tired but worked as a tester of clinical information systems), I will approach Wikidata timidly and allow myself time to get used to the idea. Sidebar: I walked through the source code on this talk page and figured out indenting based on # of colons 😉). Thanks again Tchula65 (talk) 15:54, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
May 19: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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June 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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Help with page cleanup?[edit]
Hi Jim.henderson, would you be able to take a look at the suggested edits I posted on the Vonage talk page? The acquisitions section needs a bit of cleanup. Thanks! SStankevich (talk) 20:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Jim.henderson! Let me know if you would you be able to take a look at these suggested edits. Any help much appreciated. Thanks! SStankevich (talk) 14:56, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
A well-earned "Thank You" from User:Tchula65[edit]
Jim. You helped me understand how to write biographies and your advice paid off. I was able to successfully publish my first biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_A._Glazebrook?markasread=222346135&markasreadwiki=enwiki My first subject lacked the 'noteworthiness' to continue so it was with sadness that I had it deleted. But not a loss, I learned much from the exercise. Much Thanks, gratitude and appreciation for your help and support. Dolly Tchula65 (talk) 21:55, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
- I pleased and proud to have helped, @Tchula65:. I keep telling beginners, new biographies are an especially difficult place to start, and unfortunately that's where many want to start, instead of with improving existing articles. I seldom make even minor improvements on biographies anymore. I do notice that Special:WhatLinksHere/Harriet A. Glazebrook shows almost no incoming links except from userpages and other internal Wikipedia pages not intended for readers. If your subject is important to something already discussed in a Wikipedia article, then she should be mentioned in those articles, with a link so readers who are interested will be sent to your article. More outgoing links from this article to those can also help. One frequent problem with new articles or those that barely clear the notability bar is, they get little attention. Remember, Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit, including stupid, lazy or nasty people, so anyone who sees it can inflict poor editing or downright vandalism without being noticed by anyone who cares. Linking more tightly with other articles can attract the right kind of attention. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:57, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
- I'm going to have to take some time to learn what Special:WhatLinksHere/Harriet A. Glazebrook is along with everything on Harriet's 'Talk' page before I pursue any other projects 🧐. So far as I understand it appears my article barely made the cut and needs more work but I'm game to make it better and raise the bar Tchula65 (talk) 00:41, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Tchula65: since you have been looking at the article Talk Page Talk:Harriet A. Glazebrook I'll answer there.
- I'm going to have to take some time to learn what Special:WhatLinksHere/Harriet A. Glazebrook is along with everything on Harriet's 'Talk' page before I pursue any other projects 🧐. So far as I understand it appears my article barely made the cut and needs more work but I'm game to make it better and raise the bar Tchula65 (talk) 00:41, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
July 14: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration[edit]
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SCCS Entry[edit]
Hello Jim. I am the former AT&T Network Systems product manager for CompuLert. In your article, shouldn't "3B5" be "3B2?" - Sue Kenen Sak5481 (talk) 09:17, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, Sue, or @Sak5481: and welcome to Wikipedia. Minor misunderstanding, it's not my article; nobody WP:OWNs an article even if they wrote the majority of it. This is how I escape blame. Getting down to the point, the error in question was made here by an editor who hasn't edited anything in Wikipedia in the past few years. I just plain didn't know what kind of 3B the system was ported to, having only worked directly with it for a couple of its early years. And not so directly; I mean I never saw the PDP-11 even then. Anyway I was happily transferred back to my usual job at the switch where I could get my hands into its dusty guts. As a major author of the article ought I have caught the error anyway? Maybe so, but it stayed there, waiting for years for your sharp eye. A quick Google check suggests that you are right; nothing but a handbook using excerpts from Wikipedia agrees with the "3B5" version. Since you are the one who found it, I suggest following the usual, simple procedure, which is WP:SOFIXIT. Just click "edit" and correct it yourself. I mean, get used to doing that. There are tons of errors in Wikipedia and we welcome any new editor who knows important things that we don't, which means just about anyone. There are lots of little tricks like Ping and internal and external links and indents and such, mostly used by old-timers like me, but you don't need them to fix a simple error. If you don't do that in the next couple days, then I will. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:44, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Jim! Thanks for the speedy reply. I wasn't sure what to expect. This whole Wikipedia thing is foreign to me, apart from simply reading an entry in it. You were a switch guy? Did you ever use SCCS, or am I correct in assuming you were the hands-on guy, and the people using SCCS were in the data Center? To be frank, I didn't know much about SCCS, except that CompuLert used much of their code. I loved CompuLert. We had hundreds of customers, including some true believers who adored the product. One used it to great effect during the 1989 San Francisco area earthquake, as he had hooked up a seismograph, which tripped and automatically spun down all of his hard drives, preventing massive damage. (Remember those old hard drives that looked like washing machines?) We got some nice coverage in the press for that. Then some guys at the labs in Holmdel added some nice performance graphics, which we productized, and they helped to modernize us a bit. It was a powerful product. We had U.S. security agencies, Lawrence Livermore, Wright Pat AFB (these customer names have all been previously published). Lots of interesting customers were doing lots of interesting things with the product, but in the end, what got us was our cross-elasticity with SCCS. CompuLert had the same code, plus enhancements, and apparently, a more powerful and flexible user interface. Unfortunately, our price point was much lower than SCCS's,and people started to use CompuLert to monitor their switches as well as their general purpose computing boxes, which is what it was targeted for. So, as the last Product Manager of CompuLert, I was directed to sell the product. It was not a happy experience for me. Having so many customers who adored CompuLert, and who really flexxed it, so to speak, but to still be told to sell it, was tough. I did not want the code to leave U.S. hands, although we had interest. We made a good profit, but the issue was scale. No matter how much we enhanced that product, our price point would always be undercutting SCCS's, so sell it we did. I still wish that somehow, that could've been handled differently, but such is life. My developers in Columbus wanted me to take the product and start my own company, but I was simply too young and inexperienced to realize the possibilities.
My development manager actually sent me a 3B2-400, our lowest end platform, which I ran in my house. Eventually, I junked it. But now that I'm retired, I wish I hadn't, because something inside me wants to get back onto Unix, and do a little C coding!
At any rate, I've been up all night fiddling around, so I'll work on editing the article later today. Thanks so much for your direction, and my apologies for the "OP" trip down memory lane! Sak5481 (talk) 11:14, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
- Sure; @Sak5481:; glad to see someone who saw this thing from a completely different perspective. I knew next to nothing about what made the SCCS work; it was merely a tool for my job. In the late 20th century I was one of the almost a hundred techs tending the dozen or more telephone exchanges that handled phone traffic in Midtown Manhattan. SCCS monitored the TTY channels by which the switches reported every call failure and various other events. SCCS counted how many of what kind of failures were happening and alerted us when a particular part of an exchange had more than a threshold rate of failures, or when the switch reported and especially serious failure. Also it made scatterplots of certain kinds of failures to aid in finding devices (mainly among the millions of crosspoints) that had worn out or otherwise become unreliable.
- Anyway your reminisces certainly do make an interesting perspective upon what I still see fondly as the good old days when I was one of Ma Bell's happy little dingalings, young, cute, quick-witted, and useful. What a contrast. Now, retired, I am merely a humble and nostalgic Wikipedia editor, picture archivist, and coach for new editors. So, yes, you should go ahead and fix any problems you can find in Switching Control Center System and any other article. Many people complain about Wikipedia, and others say it's splendid. The former are right; we need all the help we can get. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:22, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Sat Aug 14: Wikimania Wiknic NYC[edit]
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August 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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September 29: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC[edit]
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Sunday: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference NA, Oct 8-10)[edit]
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Hi @Jim.henderson: Just a quick thanks for identifying that APO numbers link. I spent several hours on that, trying to identifying it back in the day. Just could not find it anywhere. scope_creepTalk 14:15, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
Hmm, is there a new feature for replies in Mobile? Anyway half a century ago I got out of the US Army and a few years earlier I was a postal clerk in Brooklyn and handled a fair amount of APO mail. And a couple years ago I visited the Brooklyn Army Terminal where APO was. So, I’m more aware of it than most Wikkans. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
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Dec 15: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
| December 15, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page.
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--Wikimedia New York City Team 18:53, 13 December 2021 (UTC)