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D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.)
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Request to participate in University of Washington survey on tool to quickly understand Wikipedians’ reputations

Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington. In April, we met with some local Wikipedians to learn what they would like to know about other editors’ history and activities (within Wikipedia) when interacting with them on talk pages. The goal of those sessions was to gather feedback to help design an embedded application that could quickly communicate useful information about other Wikipedians. We have now created a few images that we feel represent some of what our participants thought was important. We would appreciate it if you took a few minutes of your time to complete an online survey that investigates whether or not these images would be useful to you. Your quick contribution would be very valuable to our research group and ultimately to Wikipedia. (When finished, the code for this application will be given over to the Wikipedia community to use and/or adjust as they see fit.)

Willing to spend a few minutes taking our survey? Click this link.

Please feel free to share the link with other Wikipedians. The more feedback, the better! The survey is completely anonymous and takes less than 10 minutes to complete. All data is used for university research purposes only.

Thank you for your time! If you have any questions about our research or research group, please visit our user page. Commprac01 (talk) 01:00, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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Additional details about our research group are available here.

Usage of 'Slated'

Hi:

I reverted back to editing 'Order of the Phoenix' to remove the word 'slated', and thought I'd explain:

1. My dictionary (Chambers - well-respected authority in the UK) says 'slate' meaning heavily criticise is established British English, deriving from Old Norwegian. It lists the verb 'to slate' meaning 'to schedule' as specifically an American usage (though, as with much US usage, it is spreading).

2. There doesn't seem anything wrong with using an unambiguous phrase in Wikepedia. If one phrase is controversial (even if correct) but another is uncontroversial and correct, let's go for the second.

Cheers,

Martin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Martin S Taylor (talk • contribs) 16:00, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Martin, thanks for the explanation. I agree with you, I was simply ignorant of British English in this case. :-) I've done a slight rewording, which I hope proves uncontroversial. Best, faithless (^speak) 19:13, 30 June 2009 (UTC)