User talk:Dschwen

I should have probably talked to you about this, but I nominated two of your images at WP:FPC that are already FPs at commons.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am the WP:CHICAGO director and noticed them at commons.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thanks Tony, those are the little things that make my day at Wikipedia :-). I haven't been in the city for quite a while now. As the weather is getting better I'll definetely have to drive up there soon(this weekend is supposed to be nice, but I have to tend my vegetable garden). So many photo opportunities! --Dschwen 12:54, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see you passed by FPC today. I have a lot of your work listed. Do you have any other quality Chicago images that I should be considering. Is there a gallery somewhere of a trip.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:08, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uhm, gee, if you keep nominating more of my pics people will start thinking you are a sock puppet ;-). I've been to Chicago a bunch of times now, but I was too lazy to compile a gallery of my Chicago pictures. I probably still have a few i could upload (some panoramas to stitch). Let me see... --Dschwen 17:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I dropped a few here. --Dschwen 17:45, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to take over nominating all your pics unnecessarily. If you want to nominate some, we have to get them incorporated in WP articles. I could suggest pages if you like.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have just learned at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Willis Tower upward pano that you are allowed to state support or oppose on each of your images that I have nominated. Please visit WP:FPC and WP:VPC and do so if you are in favor of any of the nominations.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I saw that too. I admit I knew this beforehand, but I did not know if it was a good idea. However, it seems to be socially accepted ;-). --Dschwen 13:13, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am sort of surprised that is the only one you support.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just went out for my morning coffee :-). Back at the computer now. --Dschwen 14:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Gary Sinise image I noticed too late, but my support wouldn't have made a difference. Somebody even called it a "snapshot".. :-( --Dschwen 14:26, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Annnnd this just killed the Willis Tower nomination. --Dschwen 14:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Willis Tower is close at FPC. If it fails it will pass at VPC. I am impressed with your Control tower photo and have added it to over a dozen articles on WP. It is going to be among my next few nominations.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:01, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you are coming to Chicago this summer, let me know. I might want to tag along, especially if you are going to redo the skyline pano. I have never seen anyone do a pano. We could use one of the 2010 skyline.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:CTA Night.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 01:56, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Chicago sunrise 1.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! NauticaShades 09:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, time flies! Thanks a bunch :-) --Dschwen 13:08, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 18:11, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, a discussion is going on at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Chicago skyline image replacement.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:48, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to undo your last edit, but I should try and understand it first. Did you just remove the header for "arguments for moral relativism" then? And if so, why? Tesseract2 (talk) 14:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Per my editsummary. The section appeared twice in the article. There still is a section with the same heading left in the article. --Dschwen 14:27, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You recently participated in the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Willis Tower upward pano. You are now welcome to participate in the discussion of both Willis Tower images at WP:VPC.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:07, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, you are encouraged to cast your vote for your work if you feel strongly about whether or not it should be promoted.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:12, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dschwen, because you contributed to FPC's recent review, I'm letting you know that the results of the poll have been posted. We appreciate your contributions to the first stage and hope you take part in this next step, here, to move towards implementing several changes to the process. Regards, Maedin\^talk 18:30, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to let you know that I nominated one of your images at FPC. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to valued picture status Your image, File:Gary Sinise on stage 1 crop.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Jujutacular T · C 03:22, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Off the top of my head here are a few:

1. Updated skyline including One Museum Park and Shedd Aquarium to all the way past Navy Pier. (If you are going to do this one, I would like to tag along if possible)
2. A quality full length shot of the John Hancock Center
3. A quality full length shot of Chicago Water Tower
4. Much less important, but interesting would be a shot that captures the original Pizzeria Uno and Pizzeria Due in one shot with good DOF.

As more pop into my head I will jot them here.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:01, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also Doncram (talk · contribs), who oversees WP:NRHP, always has a few wishes anywhere in the country.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, sure, let me send you an email. --Dschwen 16:52, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are some problems at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CTA Control Tower 18 and loop junction. Not sure if you want to reshoot. Also, there may be a Chicago Blackhawks victory parade to shoot while you are in town. You may also want to do some night shooting in Grant Park. I bet the buildings will be lit to celebrate the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals victory.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:11, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not many people really seem to be voicing opinions at WP:VPC. I have several nominees, but I think two really deserve a closer look: (Chicago Avenue Pumping Station and Demetri McCamey Finger roll). I have not seen you comment on the work of others and don't know how you feel about critiquing the work of other photographers. If you have time look at some of the nominees and commment, especially the two I mentioned.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:23, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you enjoyed Chicago. Let me know when you have a gallery up of images for me to start adding to WP:CHICAGO articles and to start nominating.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:06, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I sure did. I have plenty of material to sort through and stitch together. It will take me a few days to process! --Dschwen 11:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is great work. I am a bit disappointed that only 3 of the six buildings that usually are lighted celebrated the victory. The Aon Center (Chicago) and One Prudential Plaza and Two Prudential Plaza have traditionally also been lit. Nonetheless, I will nominate this tonight at FPC.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:50, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hold on, please wait a bit with that. I might work a some more on that image, and I have a suspicion, that people might be a bit fed up with Chicago images for the time being ;-) --Dschwen 18:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did not see your note. You can see it is already up. Some suggested improvements have appeared. Do you want me to suspend the nomination or do you want to get to these fairly quickly?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Chicago Barnstar
		Your tremendous photography has enabled WP:CHICAGO to illustrate numerous articles with top notch images. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:05, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Chichen_Itza_3.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:45, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just thought you might like to know that some of your pictures have been used on this blog post. I'm afraid I don't have time to add the proper 'Published' template to the talk pages. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 17:09, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Chicago Grant Park night pano.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, could I encourage you to archive some of your old notices? I will not, in future, leave messages on pages that don't load for me, or take ages to do so. Cheers. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:CTA loop junction.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Jujutacular T · C 01:19, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, just letting you know that I've nominated one of your images- I love it! I appreciate I may have come across as a little harsh on some images by you that have been nominated by others, so I apologise if I have. J Milburn (talk) 23:50, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dschwen!

My name is Seth Johnson, and I run a design firm in Minneapolis. I'm interested in licensing your "inside the Statue of Liberty" image for use in a client's print advertisement and would love to have a conversation (email? phone?) regarding just that.

I realize that while the image's use is governed by the GNU Free Documentation License, the layout of our ad doesn't really allow for us to include the full text of the license. That's why I'd be interested in having a conversation about entering into a paid licensing agreement with you, the author, directly.

Please feel free to contact me at your convenience—email or phone: 612.825.4424

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

—Seth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.223.192 (talk) 22:19, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I visited some old haunts in Shampoo-Banana and tried to get the above list fully illustrated. Well, the sun was baking my brain and there were a couple of tricky ones. Is there any chance you could take a couple of photos to complete the list? They are:

• Elm Street Court 1-8 Elm Street Court at 40°6′43″N 88°12′54″W / 40.11194°N 88.21500°W / 40.11194; -88.21500 Urbana. Elm is between Springfield and Green, and Elm Street Court branches off Elm near Coler, about 3 blocks west of Lincoln.
• Metal Shop at 102 S. Burrill Ave. on the Engineering campus at 40°6′43″N 88°13′37″W / 40.11194°N 88.22694°W / 40.11194; -88.22694, Urbana. I believe both Burrill Street and the Metal shop got eliminated during the re-building of the Engineering campus. The usual thing to do in such a case is to take a photo of were the building WAS. I think it was just south of the Engineering library.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. If I wasn't clear on something - please ask. Thanks in advance. Smallbones (talk) 21:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing. But I just mailed my 24-105mm lens to Canon for repair today :-). It might be a few weeks until I get it back. I have a shoddy 50mm lens I could use in the meantime. Btw. i used to live damn close to Elm Street Court, and it is still almost on my way to work (on the Engineering campus!). So taking those pictures will be no problem at all. --Dschwen 21:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great. I'd think the 50mm lens would do a reasonable job as far as the simple documentary content usually found in these lists (Don't look too closely at my photos there!) But higher level "artistic" content is up to you. Thanks again. Smallbones (talk) 23:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How does this compare to your reshoot?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, that was... not such a good quality edit to put it mildly. I just reverted it. --Dschwen 14:35, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Collared Lizard 2.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 01:28, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are being contacted because you have in the past participated in the Valued Picture project. The VPC project is suffering from a chronic lack of participation to the point that the project is at an impasse. A discussion is currently taking place about the future of this project and how to revitalize the project and participation. If you're interested in this project or have an idea of how to improve it please stop by and participate in the discussion.

— raekyT 11:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Chicago Theatre blend.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 18:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• By the way, would you consider adding the version with ghosts to Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?/Examples of technical problems? It's a great example of that specific problem. I considered adding it myself, but I didn't want to put your picture up there without asking. Thanks. And sorry for the trouble with this nom. Makeemlighter (talk) 18:22, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sure, that's a good idea. Feel free to use it, just dig it out of the history. --Dschwen 18:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Socratic Barnstar
		We haven't always agreed, but I just wanted to say that I, and I suspect others, appreciate your consistently reasonable and well-thought out arguments at FPC, even when your work is facing heavy criticism. All too often, I see what I consider poor reasoning in discussion of images, but your comments always add something worthwhile to a debate. J Milburn (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks :-) --Dschwen 22:42, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to comment at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Eisenhower Expressway (2nd nomination).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:50, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How are things coming along with some of the Chicago images like Lake Point Tower and Pizzeria Unos?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I haven't uploaded those? Let me check. --Dschwen 11:15, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to valued picture status Your image, File:Eisenhower Expressway edit1.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! I'ḏ♥One 23:21, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yaaaay! ;-) --Dschwen 03:23, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, any chance you would be in a position to be our guest judge this week for featured picture Choice of the week? It would mean writing a short para on Saturday (or by mid-Sunday) UTC. Tony (talk) 12:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'd love to. --Dschwen 12:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you. After midnight Friday, when the actual number of promotions is specified in the FP lead, you'll know the list is complete. Tony (talk) 05:03, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I saw it and I'm thinking about my choice. I'll write something this evening (CET). --Dschwen 20:14, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's lovely; perfect size too! Just checking, it's "detail shots", not "detailed shots", isn't it. I'm unused to the photographer's lingo. Tony (talk) 03:33, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think it the term is detail shots, because they show a particular detail (Google seems to agree FWIW). A detailed shot would be a picture with lots details (as far as I know, but don't take my word for it as I'm not a native speaker). --Dschwen 11:55, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Tobacco Hornworm 1.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:06, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it's been suggested that since you've been around FLC since early days, you'd be well-placed to provided a few quotable sentences on this milestone of the 2,500th promotion. I see you've not been editing for a week, though ... :-( Tony (talk) 03:27, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, been pretty busy lately. Have you asked anyone else? I feel this should be somewhat of a group effort (there is User:Diliff, who has been around for a long long time as well). What is the timeframe? --Dschwen 22:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The timeframe is rather too short. I can't even find anything previously written about the process, historically. Tony (talk) 02:23, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since you commented at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/M-15 centerline 1917, you might want to comment at Wikipedia:Picture peer review/M-15 centerline 1917. Imzadi 1979 → 22:38, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I read that you are the maintainer of wikiminiatlas :) Can I please ask you to make some changes for ka.wikipedia.org ? We would like to change the letters W N E S to დ ჩ ა ს; W-დ; N-ჩ; E-ა; S-ს. Thank's in advance!--Gaeser (talk) 17:52, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I assume you mean the regular expressions that parse the coordinates? I'm currently out of town, but I'll try to implement this as quickly as possible. Sholdn't be much work. --Dschwen 18:59, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank's a lot!--Gaeser (talk) 19:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a little confused now. The geohack URLs on ka.wp contain NSEW and not the georgian(?) letters [1]. The miniatlas already opens at the correct locations. There doesn't seem to be anything to change for me. I should add the labels though. --Dschwen 14:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to confirm that you and your guest would be in attendance tomorrow at the Children's Museum backstage pass event. We have a great day planned and we're looking forward to having you! HstryQT (talk) 21:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'll be leaving for Indianapolis this evening. See you tomorrow. --Dschwen 21:05, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I just wanted to touch base here a couple weeks after the Backstage Pass event. You of course already know that we're adding pictures to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis category in Commons. Thanks so much for getting your images up so quickly! We also received a little press on both the Children's Museum blog: The Wikipedians are Coming! and the Wikipedia Signpost had the event as their lead story last week. I will be continuing to work on organizing TCMI research content and moving forward with the content donation in the coming months. I will probably have an announcement about the content donation sometime around February, and I could certainly use your help in spreading the word at that point. In the meantime, do let me know on the project requests page if you are working on a TCMI related article, or have any other questions regarding image captions, and I would be happy to keep you connected to the TCMI curators. Thanks again for your help! HstryQT (talk) 20:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you could give Tristine a little nudge ;-). But I'm very busy for the next two weeks. Conference talks. --Dschwen 21:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I have a problem that I believe you solved for me once before. Please see this thread. Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 08:31, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're too clever for me. I was sure I could trick you into doing that for me! Seriously, though, I didn't really know how to do the renaming. I submitted a request, and it's been taken care of. So thanks for making me learn something rather than just doing it for me. :) Best, Makeemlighter (talk) 06:04, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh...super reptile photog, will pleeeeeeeeeze review my featured content? state reptile. Rip it to shreds but help it make FA (or FL, whatevz).TCO (talk) 21:51, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!
I wanted to give you an update on the Children's Museum Wikipedia collaboration. You can check out my brief overview in the Children's Museum blog, which includes details on the Apprentice Program project to create five new Wikipedia articles as well as the image donation and use of the new Wikipedia Widget to link the museum's website to Wikipedia.

Last month we completed our first museum image content donation of 30 images. While this seems to be a low number, what makes the donation unique is the curatorial involvement in choosing and vetting the images for their appropriateness and usefulness within Wikimedia (many of the objects are copyrighted toys and other works that have copyright restrictions.) The curators in the collections department were very hands-on in their involvement, and we'll be outlining this process in an upcoming case study. If you would like to help further this process, I'd be happy for you to help disperse the images into useful Wikipedia articles, or let the appropriate WikiProjects know of the new images. Another 30 will be uploaded in the coming month.

In addition to the collaboration with the Museum Apprentice Program students and the curatorial department, another important collaboration was between User:Ealdgyth and the American Collections curators to significantly update the Broad Ripple Park Carousel article. After an impressive amount of time and work, the article has now received Featured Article status. The museum is absolutely thrilled and will now be adding a QR code to the carousel exhibit Carousel: Wishes and Dreams. In the future, more QR codes will be added to the objects that have had articles written by the MAP students. We're excited by the success of this collaboration & will also be writing a case study on the process.

There is now a recurring Indianapolis Update on the newly minted GLAM Newsletter. If you'd like to subscribe to the GLAM newsletter, you can do so here. Thanks! And let me know if you have any questions! HstryQT (talk) 17:39, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Foot binding shoes 1.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 08:15, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel! I wanted to personally invite you to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis' 2nd Backstage Pass and Edit-a-Thon, which will occur on Saturday, August 20. The Wikipedian in Residence project is coming up on one year and is going strong. While the first year focused on garnering institutional enthusiasm among staff, organizing multiple content donations, and guiding teens in research and article creation, the next year will focus on establishing an E-Volunteer program and more deliberately connecting with local Wikipedians and WikiProjects around the world. You can read a summary of our projects on the museum's blog, or visit the project page.

We hope you're able to attend the upcoming Backstage Pass! If you're not able to attend, but are interested in remaining involved and up to date on the museum's Wikipedia project, please sign up on our E-Volunteer page. There will also be an opportunity to participate in the Edit-a-Thon online, if you cannot attend on-site. If you'd like to make a request for images or research content from our curators, you can add to the Requests page. Let me know if you have any questions and I hope to be in touch! LoriLee (talk) 11:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The Children's Museum's Backstage Pass & Edit-a-Thon is this coming Saturday, August 20th. Please confirm, either here or on my talk page, that you will be attending. Kindly include if you will be bringing a guest.

We ask that you meet us outside of the Welcome Center Security Office between 9:45 and 10:00am. Park in the free garage and make your way across the skywalk (located between the 2nd and 3rd levels of the garage). Come down the ramp and make a sharp left towards the security office. You will be asked to check in prior to starting the day.

We're excited to have you return. Looking forward to seeing you! LoriLee (talk) 15:14, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we are still planning to come. I'll be comig with my family, although my wife and kids will probably tour the museum separately from us. --Dschwen 18:38, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Will you perhaps be going through or by Bloomington, IN on your way to Indy? I need a ride to Indy. :) Awadewit (talk) 15:01, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, sorry. Even though I now have a minivan I also have two kids, a wife and a friend with her kid already in the car. Unfortunately this leaves no more room for further passengers :-(. And I've got to be honest, since we start in Central Time we already have to leave at 6:30 to make it in time, which is probably not going to happen with three little kids... And Bloomington would add 2 hours to our trip (yes, I couldn't believe it myself, but there are no mayor roads on the way), meaning we would have to leave at 4:30am... --Dschwen 19:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's terrible. Never mind. I'm leaving at 6:30 am myself, as it turns out. The things we do.... Awadewit (talk) 22:59, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Children's Museum Edit-a-Thon Rockstar

Thank you for for making another trip down with your family to The Children's Museum's Backstage Pass & Edit-a-Thon. It was so great to have you come take so many great, fabulous photos. You've been a significant contributor to our efforts and I can't thank you enough! Looking forward to our continued collaboration; we'll be in touch regarding metadata. Thank you so much! LoriLee (talk) 23:21, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

I noticed a bug in the IIPMooViewer while handling unicode filenames. I am only writing you since I noticed that you are the owner of the viewer in the toolserver. Should this bug be submitted to the original author on sf, or is it specific to the uploaded version on the toolserver?

--Banzoo (talk) 17:55, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GeoTemplate is throwing an error (for places in France, at least), apparently because your toolserver account has expired. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Frack! --Dschwen 14:49, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Email is sent. Hope this gets sorted out quickly. Thanks for making me aware of the problem! --Dschwen 14:52, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's time again to share the latest news on the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Wikipedia project! In the last few months we have been busy with our third image donation, which was made up of 150 images that were professionally photographed specifically for this upload. We are asking for volunteers to categorize these images and distribute them into Wikipedia articles. Your help is appreciated! Check them out here.

We have also donated our first video and a second GLAM-Wiki Infographic to Commons. In September we were thrilled to welcome Jimmy Wales to the museum. Following our successful Edit-a-Thon and Translate-a-Thon in August, translations have continued with the help of the established QRpedia community, (particularly Russian translations thanks to Lvova!) We have begun to analyze our implementation of QRpedia codes and completed an extensive case study. In November we presented at the Museum Computer Network conference about how museums can effectively collaborate with Wikipedia. You can see more details on the Prezi.

In more general news, in addition to serving as the Children's Museum's Wikipedian-in-Residence, it was recently announced that I will be taking on the role of US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role I will be working to streamline the process of connecting interested US GLAMs with the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know. Be sure to sign up for This Month in GLAM to keep up with the latest GLAM-Wiki news from around the world (subscribe).

We have a listing of High Need and Moderate Need requests on the Ways to Help section on the project page. I encourage you to lend a hand if you're able. While the Children's Museum partnership continues to truck along, we still are in desperate need of volunteers to help disperse our images and update and maintain content. Thank you for your time and help. Happy holidays! LoriLee (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 6, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-01-06. howcheng {chat} 19:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This means you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Chichen Itza 3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 20, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-01-20. —howcheng {chat} 10:01, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed recently that if you Google a city, the Google map in the search results shows an outline of the city. Ideally, if the shapefile idea takes off and is workable, when you click the city center coordinate and look at it in WMA, an outline of the city would be drawn, in addition to the gray blob. Take Urbana for example (40°6′35″N 88°12′15″W / 40.10972°N 88.20417°W / 40.10972; -88.20417 Google search result showing Urbana's outline). In WMA, you can't make out which part of the gray blob is Champaign and which is Urbana.

Anyway, my point is, if we figure out how Google does it, it might make the task of bringing it to WMA easier. –Fredddie™ 16:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How difficult would it be to create a "type:road" for WMA? My idea is that type:road would tell the software to draw a line between neighboring type:road points. We may have to implement something where we specify a beginning and ending point and maybe the order of points, so that the points don't try to complete a circle or look something like this. –Fredddie™ 21:28, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, type:road could be used to tell the WMA to look for a list of ordered coordinates in a previously defined place (a subpage, a hidden element in the article etc). Just connecting adjacent points is a non-trivial task! --Dschwen 22:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: I'm working on something awesome for the WMA right now. Geared at the highway project. --Dschwen 17:45, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Hopefully it can be used similarly for rivers. –Fredddie™ 23:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you ever need inspiration to improve WMA, check out the map on this article. –Fredddie™ 17:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Current development version of WikiMiniAtlas: http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/wma/index_dev.html --Dschwen 03:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I haven't responded recently because I really don't know what I'm looking for with the development version. Where do you get data about the roads? I scrolled the map over to Des Moines and I was dismayed to see the roads and streets were not recognizable. –Fredddie™ 18:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Zoom in further. The new material is only visible at the two highest zoomlevels (and only in the development version linked above!). --Dschwen 02:15, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see it now. Very nice! –Fredddie™ 00:38, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

With the deployment of KML on a few pages now, I can't help but notice that WMA doesn't display it correctly. I can see the KML layer initially, but when the map layer loads, the KML layer is hidden. Zooming in will briefly show the line again, but it disappears soon enough. I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned on other pages, but I had to stop watching the WT:HWY "discussion" because of all the dick waving going on there. I hope you understand. –Fredddie™ 00:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What browser and operating system are you using? I tried it in Google Chrome and Firefox, and it works. Dick wagging has pretty much stopped and productive discussion is going on at the Geocoding project page. --Dschwen 04:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chrome on OS X.6. I'll check out the discussion there. –Fredddie™ 06:08, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Have you enabled hardware acceleration for canvas content? If so, could you try disabling it? I don't see why it would work in Chrome on Linux and Firefox, but not on Mac OS. The code is straight forward, the canvas is repainted during the moving of the map. --Dschwen 16:49, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't even know how to do that, so I doubt that I have done it. I believe another roads editor who has a similar setup as I do was having the same issues. I'll ask him when I see him pop up on IRC. –Fredddie™ 18:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are receiving this because of your current or past association with the Featured Pictures project. Following on from several cases where closers did not observe the prescribed minimum votes required for a delisting, there is now a motion to entirely dismiss the requirement for a minimum. Please participate in the discussion as wide-ranging changes may arise.

Link: Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates#Delist procedure changes Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 14:26, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've uploaded a tilt-corrected version of the nominated image File:Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2.jpg. As you have already voted at the nomination (linked above), could you please give some feedback or show a preference between the original file and the new file? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Collared Lizard 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 16, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-02-16. —howcheng {chat} 17:31, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any pages out there that give a detailed description on how to install WikiMiniAtlas properly? I've checked every single piece of documentation on Wikipedia and about a half dozen other websites I could find, and none of them can tell me how to 1) make the globe icon show up properly and 2) have the coordinates appear in the upper right hand corner of the title. I've installed dozens of templates and made numerous tweaks as per any and all instructions I've been given without success. Any help would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.110.213 (talk) 21:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All you need is to include the line

mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&smaxage=21600&maxage=86400'); 

In your Mediawiki:Common.js file. The globe will get added to all geo-links (those are external links pointing to the geoack page on the toolserver). The bigger deal is copying the {{coord}} template group (it uses a zillion subtemplates!). Which website dou you want to use the WMA on? --Dschwen 05:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That worked wonderfully! Thanks! As for what I'm working on, I'm creating an in-universe Wiki for an anime series, but I decided to use your program to provide links to maps indicating the real-life locations they're based on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.111.220 (talk) 03:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See User:The Anome/code/nhpn_to_kml.py and User:The Anome/code/nhpn_values.py for the NHPN file decoder. You can get the files at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhpn/ . This version has been tested only on the whole-U.S. file: you need to unzip the file into its component files before using it. I run the program in the data files directory at the moment, to avoid file path problems. The mappings of enumerated values in nhpn_values.py were made by munching the metadata text at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhpn/docs/metadata.txt and some FIPS code reference material I pulled off the web.

Note that this is quick-hack prototyping code: I've not yet had time to check things like the coordinate system transforms, so it currently just makes the assumption that the input data uses the WGS84 datum, and the code is very inefficient -- it makes a single pass over the entire NHPN file to extract just one road's data at the moment -- and does not have any of the cross-checking that a production version of the code would have. -- The Anome (talk) 14:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ha thanks, in the meantime here is what I hacked up:

import shapefile import sys, os print os.environ['HOME'] sys.path.append(os.environ['HOME'] + '/dschwen_bot/pywikipedia')  #import wikipedia  fips = {} if len(sys.argv) != 2 :   sys.exit("use state name as parameter!")  state = sys.argv[1] print "Looking for %s state" % state  file = open("all_geocodes_v2009.txt") lines = file.readlines() sid = -1 for line in lines :   p = line.split(',')   if sid == -1 and p[0] == '040' and p[6] == state+"\n" :     sid = p[1]     print "found state"    if sid >= 0 and p[1] == sid and p[0] == '050' :     fips[p[2]] = p[6].rstrip()  print fips sys.exit()  sf=shapefile.Reader( state+"/counties" ) shapes = sf.shapes() records =  sf.records()  #site = wikipedia.getSite('en','wikipedia')  n = 0 for s in shapes :   name = fips[records[n][1]]   kml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><kml xmlns=\"http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2\" xmlns:gx=\"http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2\" xmlns:kml=\"http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"><Placemark>"   idx = s.parts   np = len(idx)   idx.append(len(s.points))   print idx   for i in range(0,np):     kml += "<Polygon><outerBoundaryIs><LinearRing><coordinates>"     for j in range(idx[i],idx[i+1]):       p = s.points[j]       kml += ( "%.5f,%.5f " % ( p[0],p[1] ) )     kml += "</coordinates></LinearRing></outerBoundaryIs></Polygon>"   kml += "</Placemark></kml>"   n += 1    #upload KML to Talk:page/KML 

Not pretty, but getting there. I'll take a look at your code to see if I can steal some improvements. I [Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/DschwenBot|applied for a bot flag] on en (just operated on commons until now). We'll see how that goes. --Dschwen 14:25, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- that's a much nicer shapefile parser interface than the OGR one I was using. Can you tell me where you got that from? -- The Anome (talk) 15:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is http://code.google.com/p/pyshp/ . The interface is actually even nicer, I just found in the docs that you can iterate over records and shapes in one combined object (without that ugly n index I used). --Dschwen 18:31, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Chicago sunrise 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 4, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-03-04. —howcheng {chat} 20:43, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Alamo pano.jpg follows soon after on March 6. —howcheng {chat} 21:09, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Just to clarify things, my comments were not intended to be a denigration of your work. Please see my further comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. -- The Anome (talk) 15:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:15, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm planning on nominating this if you need to upload it separately or whatever for the tool. Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:13, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead, the ZoomView seems to be working fie, but thanks for letting me know. --Dschwen 04:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks. Just following your suggestion at WT:FPC. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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 23:27, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:CTA loop junction.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 15, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-04-15. —howcheng {chat} 16:32, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to inform you about this discussion, just in case they try to invoke legal issues on-wiki. I thought you should know ahead of time. Silverseren^C 21:18, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of bullshit forum is that?! Well thanks for notifying, but crap like Does Commons have ironclad releases for ANYTHING they host? from a "global moderator" tells me what to think of that site. --Dschwen 21:49, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's essentially the new version of Wikipedia Review, with all the same users, if you know what that site is. Silverseren^C 21:55, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The same disgruntled, self righteous people, still lacking a clue. Great, just whet we need. --Dschwen 22:04, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dschwen. You have new messages at Deor's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Tobacco Hornworm 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 14, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-05-14. —howcheng {chat} 20:16, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello -- I just wanted to inform you that I have nominated File:Ggb by night.jpg, which you uploaded and took, to be delisted as a featured picture. See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Golden Gate Bridge. -- tariqabjotu 18:12, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You evil, evil person! --Dschwen 03:29, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just a ping to see if you were aware of something. I was doing the review of U.S. Route 161 for GAN earlier today. Because there are no external links, the {{Attached KML}} is set to |display=title not |display=inline,title. The Google and Bing links appear as intended, but no WMA. Now some New York articles, like New York State Route 17 are using |display=inline, which I would have thought would have meant nothing in the upper righthand corner, but the WMA globe appears there alone. (Also related to that, I have User:Pyrospirit/metadata in use with the projectbanners.js component, and the "[show]" link overlaps the globe when there aren't the Google/Bing links. When the title links are present, there isn't any overlap.) Imzadi 1979 → 01:16, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, no I wasn't aware of this. Unfortunately I have a big conference next week and a workshop over the weekend. Little time to fix this right away. But thanks for notifying me, I'll work on it as soon as I can. --Dschwen 02:17, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK, no worries. At least you know now so it can be worked on when the time is available. Imzadi 1979 → 02:18, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, June. Time flies. Anyhow. I have fixed the WMA to show a globe in articles such as U.S. Route 161. --Dschwen 01:49, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:

• Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at [email protected]. Cheers! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't realise that you'd moved; hope New Mexico goes well but that you'll remember Illinois well also.

Could you please weigh in at WP:VP/T, section "WMA button2b.png displaying oddly"? I raised a question about the image that links to WikiMiniAtlas, and the only response so far has been "what you guessed isn't it; it's likely the result of Dschwen making some changes". Nyttend (talk) 01:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, seems there is an systematic error in List_of_mountains_on_Mars. There is a link to db at the end of List: [2] and this DB is in North/West coordinate system. But list itself is in North/East coordinates by default.

Just fixed Libya Montes in list (they should be antipodal to Echus Montes). And added Warning to the link "it uses West coordinates, and table should be in East coordinates". May I ask you to recheck Mars features lists which was generated from this db (this link is also present in List_of_terrae_on_Mars) and fix this West/East controversy? `a5b (talk) 00:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

PS: User_talk:Bryan_Derksen/Archive_15#List_of_Terrae_on_Mars `a5b (talk) 00:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not even sure the error is systematic. I tried to swap the sign on the EW part of the coordinates

var m,r=/^(.*)\{\{Coord\|([^|]*)\|([^|]*)\|(.*)/,i,nt='',l=$('#wpTextbox1').text().split(/\n/);  for(i=0;i<l.length;i++) { m=r.exec(l[i]); if(m) { nt+=m[1]+"{{Coord|"+m[2]+"|"+(-m[3])+"|"+m[4]; } else { nt+=l[i]; } nt+="\n"; }; $('#wpTextbox1').text(nt)

Though some mons were at their correct positions, most of the features were still badly positioned. This lis will have to be re-generated. --Dschwen 03:56, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just updated the list and coords in linked articles according to two lists by USGS: * USGS: Mars nomenclature: mountains, USGS: Mars nomenclature: tholus. Both are in "planetocentric" coordinates with "east longitude". Could you reextracte coordinates for Mars? `a5b (talk) 00:04, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll start the extraction tomorrow, to be sure that the toolserver db has caught up, and that the intermediate daily extraction step has finished. --Dschwen 04:58, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinate update is running now. It will take an hour or two. --Dschwen 15:23, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my note here. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 19:56, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you consider coming to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes America/Chicago. I finally upgraded from a point and shoot to a Canon EOS Rebel T3i. In addition to a Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens, the kit lens, I have picked up a EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens and a Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens. At some point, I hope to get a EF 50mm f/1.8 II.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Tony, grrrreat to hear from you ;-). Unfortunately I won't make it to Chicago. I have moved to New Mexico half a year ago. Nice change of scenery, though I miss the big city. Hope you have a fun a successful event! --Dschwen 17:01, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please comment at Template talk:Coord#Globe icon. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:17, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See User talk:Dispenser#Media story about WikiMiniAtlas and other geodata features on Wikipedia. — Dispenser 05:07, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Chicago Theatre blend.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 26, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-10-26. —howcheng {chat} 21:55, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I have proposed some changes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#Performance_improvements_to_wikiminiatlas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamw (talk • contribs) 01:22, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel,

it looks like loading a resource from meta.wikimedia.org like you did with WikiMiniAtlas performs very poorly right now. In our monitoring we're seeing requests sometimes take an extra few seconds just to pull the WikiMiniAtlas script. We're investigating why this is happening, but I've commented out the script for now.--Eloquence* 21:01, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The fix proposed in the comment above would be a solution. I don't know why the performance is suddenly impacted. The script should stay in cache after the first load. Were there some Mediawiki changes in this department? --Dschwen 22:24, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]