User talk:Magnus Manske

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Wikisort Project

Hey, I have started the WikiSort Project. Come on over and check it out!the1physicist 20:22, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It is worth noting that this project will require some (potentially major) software changes. If you get the chance, would you mind dropping by and letting us know how difficult those changes might be? How long do you think it would take to implement most of them? (If approved, of course) Also, once the proposal has been finalized, how do we actually request software modifications? Thanks a bunch.the1physicist 05:17, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen your feature, but I was wondering how much time and effort it would take to develop/implement the ideas specific to the WikiSort Project. I'm asking because I would like to give everyone a timeframe. Also, technical details aside, what do you think of the project?the1physicist 19:51, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your understanding of the project is pretty much correct. Regarding vandalism, what we would do is take the last 10-100 ratings, and average them. Then we would exclude the top X% outliers and/or do a weighted average. The value of X should be in the vicinity of 10% and will need some experimentation. Also, it will probably vary slightly by article/category, etc. The impression I'm getting is that this rating system is simply waiting for adequate anti-vandalism techniques/selection algorithms. Is this correct? I think we can figure out some/most of those right now, but all teh sexy ones will have to wait until after the trial data collection phase. Thanks for all your help so far!the1physicist 16:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't heard from you in a few days, so I was wondering if you got this ^ message. the1physicist 16:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Article Validation

I just stumbled upon the fact that the article validation feature will be enable shortly. I'm slightly concerned that no one told me considering my involvement in the wikisort project. Anyhow, I've got a couple of questions and/or couple of comments. How similar will it be to the test page at [1]? (I really hope we aren't using those categories. Excluding NPOV, those categories seem bogus, particularly the 'funny' rating.) What (if any) features/ideas have been included from the wikisort project? Also, will each category have it's own range (1-3, 1-5, 1-7, etc), or will it be standardized? Is this the much anticipated initial data collection phase? This is getting to be pretty darn exciting. Thanks again for all your hard work, it is very appreciated. EDIT: I almost forgot: when exactly is it going to be turned on? the1physicist 03:16, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Pieta.jpg has been listed for deletion

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Harrie Irving Hancock

I notice you moved the article H. Irving Hancock to Harrie Irving Hancock. The most predominant form of his name as used in published books is with the inital "H." In fact I don't know if he ever used his full first name. So for wikipedia purposes, is it desirable to use the form of a name a person is most well-known by for the title of the article? Andrew Sly 17:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your vote on my RFA

Now that the voting has officially closed, I would like to thank you very much for supporting my candidacy for adminstrator and as of 18:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC) I am an administrator. I will make sure to use the additional power judiciously and I welcome any comments you may have. --Reflex Reaction 19:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:O^O

I blocked this user because he was changing User pages very rapidly, turns out he was doing very efficient sockpuppet labelling. So I unblocked him straight away but later on he was apparently autoblocked. (block log)

The user sent me an e-mail containing the autoblock message:

BTW, I'm still blocked:

21:10, 2 November 2005, RoyBoy blocked #53551 (expires 21:10, 3 November 2005) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "O^O". The reason given for O^O's block is: "Spammer".)

On the advice of someone on IRC I blocked him for 15mins in an attempt to get rid of the autoblock glitch, but I doubt it was successful as the autoblock appeared to have already expired. I'm hoping you would be able to ensure the autoblock doesn't come back. Much thanks. - Roy Boy ⁸⁰⁰ 16:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploading BP photos

Hi, thanks for uploading your Bletchley Park photos to Commons. I'll try and get round to adding some of them to Bletchley Park articles once the image servers are working a little faster ;-) I had been trying to find out more information about a cipher machine on display at BP, and one of your photos included the caption card which had been added to the display since I last visited (the machine was Singlet; I blogged about it here). Cheers! — Matt Crypto 18:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Joris Karl Huysmans in Project Gutenberg catalog

On my talk page, you mentioned that there were two different entries for this author in the PG catalog. Thanks; I'll take a look at it. New entries are being automatically added every day so keeping up with this is a never-ending task, and there are always more inconsistancies that could be found if one wants to look closer. You are welcome to mention any further potentential problems on my talk page, or at the address catalog [at] pglaf. org, which will often get a swifter responce. Andrew Sly 07:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Pcr.png

HI, I tried to upload a higher quality version of this image, redered from the .svg file created by you. It looks fine here, but really bad over here. Do you known what's wrong? Cheers, —R. Koot 20:05, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Maurice Rollinat

Thanks for starting his article! One of those things I've been meaning to do and never got a round to it. I'm frankly surprised to see that he was mentioned at all in the 1911 Britannica. I amended it with some data translated out of French Wikipedia. Smerdis of Tlön 19:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Importing Wikipedia into MySql

I downloaded one of the wikipedia database dumps today for research purposes (20051127_pages_articles.xml.7z), but I'm having trouble importing it into mysql. Google suggested I use Navicat, but the import wizard keeps freezing on step 5. Do you know what could be causing me grief, or is there a better way to import xml into MySql? Thanks a bunch. the1physicist 01:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It just occured to me that I need to download one of the .sql files also. (There's nothing quite like that realization that you've been running your head into a wall for hours for no reason.) My question is, which one? Thanks again. the1physicist 01:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Encarta

Do you have the original, completely unpruned list of entries in Encarta? I've already gotten your deleted list, but I don't know if it was pruned at all. I need the completely unpruned list. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-10 13:13

What was wrong with the Harold Clifton image?

File:Harold-Wilberforce-Clifton.gif

Hi Magnus, you proposed the image of Harold Clifton for deletion, but failed to notify it on my talk page (I was the uploader), nor did you notify it on the Harold Clifton page. In the deletion process, without anyone looking, this image was deleted. And now we can't find what was wrong with it. Wim van Dorst 21:12, 11 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Image:Lorenzo II de Medici.jpg has been listed for deletion

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69.145.112.94 (talk · contribs)

Looks like they just made two sneaky number-changing edits on the 24th. That's not good, but it doesn't look like any action is needed now. Jkelly 21:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]