User talk:Pierremenard

Nanako Matsushima

Thanks for contributing the article on Nanako Matsushima. --DannyWilde 03:49, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for improving it! How do you get wikipedia to display the Japanese? --Pierremenard

I don't do anything special, I just type it in. I'm using a computer with a Japanese input thing in it, so inputting is no problem. 松島奈々子. I think I copy-pasted that name, actually, though. The standard for Wikipedia is UTF-8, so if you have a problem it might be with the encoding. If you need any more help with inputting Japanese, put a message here and I'll do my best to help. --DannyWilde 00:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Link on Pierre Menard Page

Thanks for restoring the link...I should have thought of using the wayback machine! --Pierremenard

I always try doing this on references or other apparently worthwhile links if they go dead. On references, this is pretty much policy, on ones like this it's just a good idea. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Sockwhacker Barnstar

Awarded in recognition of diligent attention to duty during the LottClone Wars of 2005

Gzuckier 20:23, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

John Lott

Your attention is request at John Lott. Sockpuppetry Reigns. Hipocrite - «Talk» 00:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for letting it know - by the time I looked at its page it seems to have been protected. Problem solved (temprorarily). Is there any way to get emails every time someone changes the JL page? -Pierremenard 01:45, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

After editing the page, check "watch this page." Then the most recent edit will show up in the "my wathclist" tab. Hipocrite - «Talk» 03:49, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Xweb ??

- Just zis Guy, you know? can be a fiesty one. give me a message if you get into a nerve racking conversation. Sorry about my "lack of good faith." I've striken some of my comments off. --CylePat 02:51, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem! It is such a convoluted thread. --Pierremenard 03:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Lott

Accept I'm not convinced that it can be cited and I still think it has otehr problems, but am willing to compromise. Let's see what happens.Gator (talk) 20:36, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Why not? The Mary Rosh postings are still available. --Pierremenard 20:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

List of electrical engineers

Thanks for your recent contributions to this list and its discussion page. When you get a moment, I'd appreciate it if you could add your thoughts to the discussions on the inclusion of scientists who laid the groundwork for electrical engineering -- for example: Faraday, Volta, and Hertz. Thanks! Engineer Bob 15:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about this discussion - I was unaware of its existence. I'd love to expand the List of electrical engineers, though I think this would make the list heavy on my own interests (which are communication theory/signal and image processing/control theory). --Pierremenard 16:07, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

I'm hoping I can maybe get you to rethink your oppose vote. Derex' comment in the "Comment" section of the RfA is on-point here. Basically, I agree it was a beginner's mistake (made a long time ago) to copy the original version of the David Mertz article from another Wiki (I did not write it, despite a bunch of mischaracterizations of this); but even then, I did it to fix redlinks, since I was mentioned in several other articles prior to that (for my computer programming writing). Nonetheless, the article overwhelmingly survived AfD (twice, the second time with no argument for delete ever made other than WP:AUTO; i.e. no claim on non-notability, and no claim I had ever made a POV or unverifiable edit on the page).

FWIW, I also created List of animals, which surely you should like :-). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 16:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. I changed my vote to neutral (because I am not well informed about your RfA, and the autobiography thing was my only reason). By the way, kudos on the list of animals!!!!!!! --Pierremenard 16:27, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your willingness to reconsider this. I appreciate the open mind. Btw. your user page says you're doing grad work in math: what area(s)? I guess for practical the question is less abstract than for pure, but I'm curious. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 16:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your interest. Basically I work in probability theory/discrete math studying things similar to belief propagation. I don't know if I'll be working forever on this - a lot of my interests lie elsewhere - but this basically is what i'm doing for the next few years. --Pierremenard 19:29, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

It's been a long time since I did graduate level math, and in very different pure areas (transfinite set theory, model theory, etc), but I recently read a more popular Science News article on the surprisingly recent improvements to ECCs in reaching the Shannon Limit (e.g. Turbo codes, hence your field). Btw, have you been at MIT very long? Did you meet Shannon before he died? I wrote this little "data compression primer" just around his death, with the publication schedule letting me get in the little dedication at the end. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 19:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC). Hmmm... somewhere over the years, IBM seems to have messed up the formatting on their copy; it's baby stuff for you either way, but this is formatted better: [1].

Unfortunately, this is only my second year at MIT, so that I have missed Shannon by quite a while. Your compression article is quite good. For a while now I've been wanting to spend some time figuring out which compression algorithms are used in practice (as my knowledge of it is only theoretical).

Oh, thank you. It's just a baby introduction to compression; but there's an audience of people for whom that is relevant, I believe. I actually have done a slight bit of original research into compressing XML documents (published by IBM and Intel; and I have reason to think possibly now being used being used by the army, not to my pleasure exactly... if for no other reason than I didn't get the SBIR money :-)). Take a look in a search engine for "xml compression" (maybe add "mertz" to get there quicker). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 22:17, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

About the science news, I think you mean this article. One thing this article does not emphasize thats absolutely maddening from a theoretical point of view is that no one can write down a sequence of these codes that provably perform well. Theres just experimental results with randomly generated codes - which from the practical point of view is sufficient - but no theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. Incredibly frustrating.

Yeah, that would be frustrating, huh? I guess it's not quite the same type as frustration as, e.g. just having a strong hunch (and lots of empirical data) about the absolute normality of Pi. But I do kinda wonder if there could be any Chaitin type irreducibility issues here. Or maybe it's just that I really don't know enough math to know why that question is silly.

By the way, what is the relation between Foucalt's Order of Things (a book which I have not read) and the list of animals? --Pierremenard 20:13, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Short answer: Foucault discusses the list near the beginning of the book. Long answer: well, Foucault was a complex and funny guy. I guess you could say he was interested in the arbitrary constructedness of all categories, but that's still quite a simplification of what he's really doing. So really long answer: it's in books and academic papers on Foucault. I'm afraid I can't really recommend any by me on this topic (I like Foucault, but he's not really my "main guy" in my philosophy doctoral work, or since then)

Btw. Not to try too hard to belabor the point; but if you felt like actually reading a little of my edit history and whatnot (beyond my initial autobiography mistake), and moving your vote in an even more positive direction.... well, it's up to you. No hard feelings, and hopefully we'll intersect on some articles either way. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 02:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: equation labels

I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:07, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't see an equation label in

$\int _{0}^{t}3x^{2}\,dx=t^{3}$(2)

Do you? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:40, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Nope. Somethings not working. --Pierremenard 02:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Got fixed, see again my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 19:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

List of animals

Someone asked a question on the talk page, which probably understandably amounts to "I don't get it" :-). The questions suggests that the page might better be a real list of existing animals. There actually had been such a list at some point, but it was deleted on AfD/VfD (I think back in the old days when the "V" was used), probably correctly since it is absurdly overbroad (as opposed to literately absurd).

Now I quite admit the page is slightly frivolous, since it indeed insinuates something different.. but then, that's the point of the Borges story itself too. I thought as a Borges fan you might want to chime in briefly there. In creating it, I recognized that the page might wind up getting deleted, but I don't think a bit of literary levity hurts Wikipedia. A few charming little quirky corners seems sort of fun to me, as long as they are not just outright hoaxes like some people write (e.g. a bio of a fictional person... i.e. not of a fictional character in a real book, but invented just for WP; you sometimes see this on WP). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 17:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. And if foucalt discusses the list at some length, then the concept definitely merits inclusion in wikipedia. If it ever comes to an AfD vote, you ought to include something in there that describes the connection. What do you think about the name change? --Pierremenard 02:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from Lulu

Going through my list... how did I forget to give you a thank you note yet? Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 21:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

68.199.110.255 issues me a vandalism warning

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.110.255 (talk • contribs)

Sorry - what page are you referring to? I make a habit of deleting a lot of uncited content on wikipedia that falls under WP:NOR. --Pierremenard 16:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Would you kindly point to the place on WP:NOR where it gives you the right and the authority to go about deleting content contributed by other users, just because you personally feel that the content violates the "No Original Research" policy? Jimbo Wales has explained that the "No Original Research" policy was implemented to slow down "physics cranks". Nowhere has Jimbo Wales stated that a general user has the right to take it upon himself to delete biographical content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.110.255 (talk • contribs)

I can't say what page the anon might be referring to, of course. But I looked at his/her edit history, and noticed Charles Weldon. That was started by a User:Sam Sloan, whom the anon claims to be on his/her talk page (and edited as anon also). I made a heroic effort at getting it slightly more encyclopedic in tone, but I'm guessing you did the same on some other fan-fluff bio the editor created (perhaps under the username rather than the IP address). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 19:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, that explains it! Almost all of the content of Sam Sloan was just stuff copied from his webpage. I deleted all the content from that article that lacked reliable sources. --Pierremenard 21:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Certainly: WP:CITE states "any material that is challenged and has no source may be removed by any editor." --Pierremenard 21:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from adding nonsense, as you did to Charles Weldon, to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Rv. Vandalism by User:Pierremenard Weldon's death and the unfortunate circumstances of his death were revealed in an obituary published in Chess Life magazine in February, 1994. User:Pierremenard is strongly encouraged to stop his repeated vandalism of subjects he obviously knows nothing about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.110.255 (talk • contribs)

I suggest you review the definition of vandalism over at WP:Vandalism. It says, among other things, "While having large chunks of text you've written deleted, moved to the talk page, or substantially rewritten can sometimes feel like vandalism, it should not be confused with vandalism." --Pierremenard 00:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Rv. Again. Who appointed you as the Wikipedia Policeman? Your repeated vandalism of the obituary of a deceased person is especially reprehensible because he will be remembered by your last words with no chance to improve or correct the record. I suspect that User:Pierremenard has been blocked under another user name, because his User Contributions show that he just started editing on 26 December, and most of his edits concern Neo-Nazis and White Supremacist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.110.255 (talk • contribs)

I'm bringing the article up to the standards described in WP:CITE and WP:RS. It is ridiculous on your part to claim that the material can be cited, without actually citing it. If you would actually find the citation and insert it into the article, everything would be solved. Until then, however, the material is unsourced and may be removed from the article.

If you feel my edits are vandalism, I suggest you leave a message on WP:VIP. --Pierremenard 19:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

And, by the way, your info above about the date I started editing is way off. See here for my first 50 edits. --Pierremenard 23:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Sam Sloan

A lot of what you removed is documented on Sloan's web site (which apparently is not good enough for you), but I suspose its importance is marginal. -- Pinktulip 09:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I have decided to add back in just the custody paragraph. The custody case and Sloan's felony conviction are well documented. -- Pinktulip 09:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I replied on your talk page. --Pierremenard 19:53, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your approach. You might want to take a look at: Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles and apply your approach fairly to all of them. -- Pinktulip 23:33, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm basically in the process of doing so...most of the time, the problem can be solved simply by finding the citations oneself; however, in the case of Sam Sloan and Charles Weldon I've been unable to verify the information myself.

All I am doing is applying wikipedia policies already in place. And, personally, my view is that if wikipedia is going to include entries with uncited information, based only on the say-so of the editors, there is no way it will ever achieve any kind of reliability --Pierremenard 23:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I am going to ask you to use a little more judgement (as in, wisdom). Look at all of the Sloan's contributions since he started with Wikipeida six months ago. He has added a lot to the online knowledge of Khowar and that area of Pakistan. He may be a joker and occasionally POV, but he has lot to offer in his areas of expertise. He is not loading up Wikipedia with information about garage bands, TV shows or discographies (which are much more easily verifiable but ammount to little more than mass-produced informational junk food) but he is a genuine and reliable expert on Pakistan culture, chess and chess biographies and some aspects of his Supreme Court case. He is a bright, honest and civil person and he can provide this information because that is how he lived his life rather than waiting for it to appear on television or in some book. It is very easy for you to go butcher some obituary that he has written, but I can assure that it is not-so-easy for him to write those obituaries because he met and gotten to know these world-class chess players before they passed. He is simply trying to preserve some of the more obscure aspects of the World's civilization before they get buldozed into a parking lot by the great homogenizing force of Western civilization. I think even you can see that now that the best Chess players in the world can be beaten by machines, that Chess' as an aspect of our civilization is waning. I am asking you to cease your contribution that that obliteration process. If you give it a moment's thought, I think that you will see that that inexorable obliteration process is part of what Wikipedia was supposed to try to slow down. -- Pinktulip 01:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree that his intentions are good. And I agree that wikipedia needs more chess biographies (I even created one chess stub myself). But the information needs to be cited. --Pierremenard 01:35, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone- You have admitted that you know nothing of the game of chess and are not familiar with the literature of the game. You are just a crackpot. Who appointed you as an Wikipedia policeman? They have administrators for that, and you are not one of them. What gives you the right to delete content just because you, who know nothing, have "been unable to verify the information" yourself? Sam Sloan 12:04, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Your statement "You are just a crackpot" is a personal attack in violation of WP:NPA. I've left a message on the administrator's noticeboard. As for the rest of your questions, I have already answered them in the preceeding paragraphs. --Pierremenard 22:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

3RR

Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. (okay, so you probably already know that but just be careful... and remember that even if you do let 24 hours lapse, it's still "gaming the system" sometimes and that's not very good either...) Sasquatcht|c 10:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I was a bit overeager. I apologize. --Pierremenard 10:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

He apologizes and is polite to you, because he knows that you are an administrator and can block him, but to the rest of us peons, he is nasty. Sam Sloan 03:53, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I have no problems admitting that I am wrong when it happens. Please indicate a single time when I've been personally rude to you. --Pierremenard 04:29, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

tinyurl

I added some hyphens the the tinyurl URL. You must have a firewall issue on your side. -- Pinktulip 22:00, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --Pierremenard 22:17, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

That whole Japanese entertainer thing? To me, it is just entertainment. The veracity of some statement about a specific entertainment product does not recieve much of my time. It is nice that the page links to some of her works. You and Sam seemed to have concerned, but with differing perspecives on the matter. This not like the Eternal Trvths of Math. I am usually of the opinion that entertainment is vastly overrepresented at Wikiepdia, relative to its Importance. I am an unusual U.S. guy: I have not owned a TV in my adult life. For me, the exciting part of Wikipeida is biography of living people. My advice: forget about Nanako Matsushima and give me a critical review of this page: Elizabeth Morgan. -- 03:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

All right, I will go through Elizabeth Morgan sometime tomorrow. And yes, entertainment is not really important. But still, my perspective is that if there is an unencyclopedic statement somewhere on wikipedia, then some day someone will stumble upon it, notice that its unencyclopedic, and as a result will be less inclined to think wikipedia is reliable. --Pierremenard 03:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

AEL

I am not trying to censor valid accusations but I would like to see specific accusations attributed to specific sources rather than very general and vague POV accusations documented in a very sloppy way ("all the unsourced labels can be found in this Salon article"). --68.214.59.196 02:18, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. I will try to make a new version of the article that addresses your concerns. --Pierremenard 02:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Also, note that my sloppy documentation was an attempt to improve on the current state of the article, which had no documentation at all! --Pierremenard 02:21, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

And now that I've inserted a source for every statement, you've reverted it back. --Pierremenard 02:56, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Complaining about 3RR

This is called wikilawyering. When you do not like someone's edits, instead of working to improve the article, try to manipulate the rules and processes to get them blocked. Then you can have your way. Good luck. --68.214.59.196 05:18, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I've been trying to work to improve the article, but you keep reverting to versions biased in favor of AEL. --Pierremenard 05:19, 6 February 2006 (UTC) After 9 reverts on your parts in less than 4 hours, I see no other option but to complain to admins. --Pierremenard 06:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Billbrock

You wrote:

I am leaving this message here because I see from User:Billbrock's talk page that you have reprimanded him in the past. He has left a link to all the women User:Sam Sloan has had sex with on the talk page of the [[Sam Sloan] article in this edit. Surely this is vandalism? I'm hesitant to remove it myself given the stigma associated with removing others talk page comments, and my own uncertainty about what constitutes vandalism. You seem to be an admin familiar with their dispute so I thought I'd request you to look at it. --Pierremenard 10:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk pages are held to a different standard than articles. I don't consider this vandalism. Regards, howcheng {chat} 16:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, you know better than I do. But still, if there are no rules against these sorts of comments, I think there ought to be. The list of Sloan's sexual partners has no relevance to any of the issues being discussed, and was clearly posted in order to provoke. Comments like this get in the way of building an encyclopedia. --Pierremenard 18:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

This is a special case in that the article happens to be about someone who is a contributing editor to the article. The links could be used to discuss the subject in question IMHO. It's a borderline case here, although I know there's bad blood between Brock and Sloan so it would be easy to assume bad faith here as well. If this starts to blow up some more, let me know. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 22:52, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Information

I think you try to use the template {{fact}} more often. It signals to the reader to the skeptical w/o destroying so much information. -- Pinktulip 11:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I sometimes do. I only delete information when I cannot see a way how one would verify it. In the case of the Sam Sloan article, the only source of information about Sloan I could find was (i) his webpage (ii) usenet postings (iii) his books - which were published by ishi press, and when I went to the ishi press webpage, I saw that it functions also as Sam Sloan's personal webpage. And if I do make a mistake, the information is not destroyed - its right there in the history where anyone can re-insert with appropriate info.

By the way, if you are interested in biographies of living persons, please take a look at Jacques Pluss when you have some time. Its an article I wrote with so far no input from other editors, and I'm concerned my POV is present in the final version. --Pierremenard 22:35, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Dispute between Sam Sloan and Howcheng

I have opened a dispute before the Arbitration Committee regarding his blanking of the Tom Dorsch Article at the request of Bill Brock.

It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#User:Sam_Sloan_against_User:Howcheng_regarding_Tom_Dorsch

You are invited to respond. Sam Sloan 18:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you listed me as indirectly involved - I did not even know of the existence of the Tom Dorsch article before reading the link you have pasted here. Anyway, this is a matter I'm not familiar with so I would prefer not to comment on it. --Pierremenard 22:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

independence of the 13 colonies

when did you decide to start recognizing this political entity as independent from the british empire? Lotusland 09:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

earlier today, when i was listening to "proud to be an american" on repeat for hours :) -- Pierremenard 23:18, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Gar Alperovitz and Academic notability

I didn't see your response to my comment at the Gar Alperovitz AfD until the Afd was closed, so I thought I'd respond here. Google Scholar is a relatively new tool, and I don't have a good idea of what is and isn't found on it. I was thinking more of the fact that he had several books, many papers, and was something of a public intellectual (having had things appear in the New York Times, etc.). Inspired by your use of Google Scholar, I checked his citations on the Institute for Scientific Informations's Web of Science index (a proprietary index-- college and other institutional libraries usually have subscriptions), and found over 100 citations. Since some of his major books were from decades ago, and ISI only goes back about 20 years, this seemed OK (although not phenomenal). In the end, we both agreed, and I think as you said his book publishing record was the most notable thing. Cheers.--MayerG 21:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. I'll make sure to check both Google Scholar and ISI in the future. I agree that his book publications make him notable. -- Pierremenard 22:29, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

DSP

As you seem to know something about the subject, would you care to have a look at Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm and related articles that I created today? --Disavian 21:13, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

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Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial edit-a-thons

Adrianne Wadewitz edit-a-thons in Southern New England

As you may have already heard, the Wikipedia community lost an invaluable member of the community last month. Adrianne Wadewitz was a feminist scholar of 18th-Century British literature, and a prolific editor of the site. As part of a worldwide series of tributes, New England Wikimedians, in conjunction with local institutions of higher learning, have created three edit-a-thons that will be occurring in May and June. The events are as follows: May 21st at Northeastern University's Snell Library, in the Digital Scholarship Commons on the second floor May 22nd at Brown University's Rockefeller Library, in the Digital Scholarship Lab June 25th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exact location TBA), where we will also be hosting a "how to conduct an edit-a-thon" session beforehand We hope that you will be able to join us, whether you are an experienced editor or are using Wikipedia for the first time. If you have any questions, please leave a message at Kevin Rutherford's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list.

New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested: Cape Cod Wiknic and Photography Blitz on June 14th in Barnstable County, with complete travel reimbursements available for those who participate Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-thon on June 25th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exact location TBA), where we will also be hosting a "how to conduct an edit-a-thon" session beforehand 3rd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, which will feature at least one guest speaker, and possibly many more Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August: Wikimania 2014 in London If you have any questions, please leave a message at Kevin Rutherford's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list.

New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested: Cape Cod Wiknic and Photography Blitz on June 14th in Barnstable County, with complete travel reimbursements available for those who participate Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-thon on June 25th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exact location TBA), where we will also be hosting a "how to conduct an edit-a-thon" session beforehand 3rd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, which will feature at least one guest speaker, and possibly many more Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August: Wikimania 2014 in London If you have any questions, please leave a message at Kevin Rutherford's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list.

This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA

You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA on October 16! (drop-in any time, 6-9pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:29, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:54, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Sunday July 16: New England Wiknic @ Cambridge, MA

Sunday July 16, 1-5pm: New England Wiknic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" at John F. Kennedy Park, near Harvard Square, Cambridge, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. Sunday July 16 New England Wiknic (also on Facebook) 1–5pm - come by any time! Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia banner! We hope to see you there! --Phoebe (talk) 16:33, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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