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Maybe you know this person

Pete, I was doing a quick search for a picture for Norma Paulus, and came across this one on Flickr and I think I recall you mentioning at some point you worked with the Bus Project, and I know you know Jefferson Smith. We can't use the pic as is, since the license doesn't allow for commercial use, but I was wondering if you might know the photographer (could have just been hired for the event) or know of someone else who was at that party and might a pic they might upload. If you know the photographer, we would only need a cropped headshot version of Paulus. Let me know, thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 23:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know both Smith and Paulus (though I suspect Paulus doesn't "know" me ;) Don't know the photographer though. I've had pretty good luck just approaching random Flickr photographers directly though (see, e.g., LeGarrette Blount), and would suggest you send the guy a message. I generally send them to OTRS rather than having them set up a Commons account and learn all the ins-and-outs. Let me know if you want some more help. You're right, it's a great picture of her! (You also might approach her directly, I could help with that.) -Pete (talk) 00:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll try her first directly, as we both went to the same law school. Send me an email with any contact info you have. Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nav box

That would be better, methinks, than a list. Two other thoughts come to mind: (1) If the navbox appears in the Johnson Creek article, shouldn't it also appear in the other articles linked to in the nav box? (2) Eventually someone will decide to complete the list by adding all of the named streams (like the Johnson Creek tributaries) in Portland that don't have separate articles. Do we want to go there? Finetooth (talk) 17:26, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try my hand at creating a nav box (my first ever). "Watersheds managed partly by the City of Portland" is as good a title as I can come up with this morning. (I don't believe the city has full control of any water body; state and national regs, for example, apply to all streams.) I think I should include Columbia River and Portland Water Bureau. I'll try this out with Johnson Creek and see how it looks. Finetooth (talk) 17:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Since this is my first navbox experience, would you mind looking it over before I save it as a template in the main article space (or whatever it's called)? I assume I do that in the same way I would create an article that does not yet exist. The navbox is at the moment only at User:Finetooth/Sandbox2 at the top of the page. Thanks for the nudge and the ideas. Finetooth (talk) 20:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking and the kind words. I think PWB is close to GA, but I'm aware of a couple of missing things. I'm working on Bull Run as well; I'd like to take one of the PWB tours next summer and get some photos from inside the restricted zone. The Willamette still needs a lot of work; I keep edging up to it and nibbling every once in a while. Finetooth (talk) 19:03, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: Proposed 'Motion to Close' at Wikipedia:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC

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PGE report

That link worked but only intermittently. Frustrated by its slowness, I found a version at the PGE web site with yet another url. This one works smoothly, so I'm using it in the Sandy Basin articles. Alas, the PGE website says of everything on the site, "All information, documents, products and services, trademarks, logos, graphics, images and other proprietary materials provided on this site are subject to trademark, service mark, copyright and/or intellectual property rights or licenses held by PGE or by third parties who have licensed their material to PGE." Still, I was interested to learn about Wikisource, which I had never looked at before. Finetooth (talk) 03:36, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thumbs up

		The WPOR .
		Thanks for leading the way in last week's Collaboration of the Week! For your work on Geoff Petrie and Gambling in Oregon over the last couple COTWs. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:47, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for William Lair Hill

On DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Al-Durrah

Thanks for your note, Pete. Yes, I do feel exhausted. :) SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 01:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History merge needed

Pete, could you do a history merge on

User:Eino81/Bela Huntigton? The editor there apparently copy and pasted from the user space version instead of using the move feature, which as I did extensive editing on the user space version means there are problems with the licensing and attribution. Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:12, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Hooboy. I don't know how to do that. I'll try to read up and figure it out, but it may be a job for a more tech-savvy admin! -Pete (talk) 00:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you can do it, great, if not just let me know as I'm sure there is a notice board somewhere for it. Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK boss, I'm

going in. If you don't hear from me within 12 hours, send in the Editor Rescue Squadron. -Pete (talk) 21:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply

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OK, I think it's set. I did not follow the complete instructions, just step 1 -- because I believe no edits had been made after the copy-paste. Is that correct? Or am I missing something? -Pete (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, there were some edits after the copy paste on the pasted article, and they need to be restored as it is for the DYK nom. Minor items (added some cats and info about 1897), but should be in the history. Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, think I finally got it. (Is this some sort of elaborate test to see whether I really deserve my adminship??) Turns out that the initial user page had a typo I didn't notice, so I initially tried to move it to Huntigton instead of Huntington. I believe it's all squared away now. Take another look? -Pete (talk) 23:02, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I finished up, everything looks good, thank you. And now you have the experience too! Aboutmovies (talk) 03:10, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh good. Sorry if I missed some stuff, but glad to hear it's back on track. I think maybe I can improve the instructions a bit at

Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves to make it clearer what the overall method is; so yes, valuable experience indeed! -Pete (talk) 05:12, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Images in Scott's History of Portland

Hi Pete. Maybe you can help me with a puzzle. I've used the link you've provided on the Oregon project's reference desk page to thumb through Harvey Scott's History of Portland on various occasions. The book has a list of illustrations but, apparently, no illustrations in the Google Books version. I'd like to upload mug shots from Scott, but where are they? I can't tell if I can't see them because of a setting on my computer or whether they really aren't there. Scott's book is here, and the list of illustrations is on page 13. Finetooth (talk) 17:05, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chiming in. Looking at that book, it is listing the images as "facing p. ##". Which means they don't have an actual page number, so either Google couldn't process it properly (I have noticed other similar errors in Google Books) and the images were left out, or the scanning people just didn't scan them since there were no page numbers. Nonetheless, there are no images in the Google version. But, this version does. If you click on the title link in the reader you can get the other display/version options so you could download the PDF and pull out the pics. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:02, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thanks. Brilliant. I did not think of trying the Internet Archive. I've now got what I was looking for (Frank Dekum's mug). I saw that Rootsweb had posted a 32kb copy from Scott, but going to the original source is better. I've been looking for a free George Weidler mug too but haven't found one. I wonder if I could talk the Oregon Historical Society into releasing its entire holdings into the public domain. Probably not. Finetooth (talk) 19:57, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On the last bit, LOL. Unless they get new leadership/funding they will never do that, too much revenue for them. It's really funny. If you haven't had the dis-pleasure of visiting their library for research and wanted to get a copy of something, they charge a fair amount just for the copy, and then they are sure to stamp the thing trying to claim copyright. Problem is, the one thing I was getting was a hand written letter from 1850 from someone who died in 1850, so not really in copyright, and I seriously doubt they even ever would have had the rights since I'm pretty sure the letter was donated by the estate of the recipient and not the author. I'm sure they get donations of physical pictures/letters all the time, but I doubt that they actually get the copyright handed over to them very often. It's actually kind of sad that our premiere historical society has so many resources tucked away going largely unused, when they could easily be used to better cover our collective past. That at I'm annoyed that the

Hillsboro Argus doesn't have an online archives. But, time to get off the soapbox. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:38, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Yeah, despite being 1.5 blocks from OHS, I walk further to go to libraries instead. It's sad they have a sort of anti-community bias :-/ tedder (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great discussion -- sorry to miss the earlier bits. On the topic of interacting with the OHS: in case any of you is unaware, I did a presentation along with

Oregon Encyclopedia

, who are closely linked with the OHS. I think it's fair to say that they look favorably on our work, but (as AM suggests) are not inclined toward releasing their holdings, etc. But if/when people want to contact them, I think it's a great idea; and it might not be a bad idea to talk with me, Steven, or Cacophony first, to get a feel for the history between our groups.

By the way, to clear up a strong misconception I've had about copyright -- I think AM always knew this, but I think there are many people who don't quite get it. If a publisher (e.g. OHS) publishes something that's in the pubic domain (because it was originally published before 1923, or is a work of the federal gov't, etc.) -- they cannot claim copyright unless they have added something creative to it as a derivative work. So, if you go to their library, for instance -- and can get past their draconian prohibitions on scanning, etc. -- don't be too intimidated by the © symbols you see on things that you think are in the public domain. Just use your best judgment! -Pete (talk) 22:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject State Legislatures

Hey Pete, I am looking to jump start the

WikiProject State Legislatures again. If you would to help set goals and recruit members I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks, --ilamb94 (talk) 06:19, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Assistance request

Hi. I'm looking for someone to help assist a famous engineer (unconfirmed, but likely), with the editing of Wikipedia. All the details can be found by a quick perusal of his contributions and our brief discussions at his talkpage (See the pre-blanked state in this April diff, and this May diff). I'm hoping you could either help him out, or help me find someone else appropriate to do so. I'm watchlisting everything, so reply/act wherever (and please let me know if I've done anything terribly wrong, so far :) Much thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 04:03, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I told Quiddity they should come to you. The experience with paid editing/wikipedia-conforming autobiography (and being at WMF) are what made me volunteer you for this. tedder (talk) 04:30, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quick update: I had previously asked admin User:EncMstr the same question, and he has now had time to respond to the user at their talkpage. You're still welcome to watch or comment in the future, if that seems useful, but it is no longer at all urgent. Thanks again. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:06, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Portland Parks Photo Blitz!

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Hey, Pete! Hope all is well with you. It's been a while since we chatted, and I am still sorry that I did not get back to you sooner when you asked about establishing a WikiProject. I realize you are not in Portland, but I thought I would include you in case you had pictures you took in the past that you could contribute, or if you knew of good resources online with pictures that can be uploaded to Commons and used for our lists. The Portland parks list I am working on will take a LOT of work, but it will be such a great resource when it is complete. Take care! --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:53, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your Wisdom has been Noted

I just wanted to let you know that one of your comments has been included (and attributed to you) as part of my Nuggets of Wiki Wisdom . Thanks, and if you object then let me know :o)   Redthoreau -- (talk) 07:15, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks Redthoreau -- nice to have that dredged up, glad it strikes you as "wise"! I had to hunt a bit to find the diff, I couldn't remember where that came up. -Pete (talk) 18:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Outreach request

Hi Pete. Somebody I met in Arizona this fall took an interest in my interest in Wikipedia and sent me an e-mail today asking if I knew of any Wikipedian who might be willing to give a talk to members of Creative Albuquerque. She says the group has guest speaker luncheons on a quarterly basis and an annual symposium. Her note was short, and I have no further details. I responded to her by saying that I'd ask the one Wikipedian I know who might be able to answer her question. I can send you her e-mail if you want to talk directly to her, or I can relay a message if that works better. Thanks. Finetooth (talk) 02:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Population growth table and graph for Eugene

Hi, Pete— I'd like to ask you a quick question about whether or not it's best to have here both the historical population table according to U.S. Census data as well as this graph of the same data. And on the graph, it looks rather awkward for the scale to break at the end because of 2008's population estimate. I asked about this before here, so feel free to answer over there. Thanks, Jsayre64 (talk) 00:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Also, I most recently created and uploaded this for the Lane County article. I replaced the table in the article with the graph. Oh, and thanks to your vast knowledge of HTML code, I copied the table on the description page of the previous graph on to this one's description page, and I filled in the corresponding data. Anyway, I didn't want to miss any additional suggestions from you, because I'm now interested in creating more of these graphs. Thanks! Jsayre64 (talk) 03:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Online Ambassadors

Now that you aren't working for the foundation anymore, would you be interested in helping as one of the WP:Online_Ambassadors? We are a few short of our goal for this next semester Sadads (talk) 02:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pete, You are no longer working for WMF!? —EncMstr (talk) 02:51, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's true -- I just finished the contract I came down here on. I'm likely to continue working on a few grants on a part-time basis for a while, though. And the rest of the time? I'll finally have a little time to get back to wiki writing =) Sadads, thanks for the offer -- I've talked to Sage about it a bit, and will probably take you up on it. -Pete (talk) 15:32, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back, Pete! :p --Another Believer _(Talk) 19:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great! Sadads (talk) 22:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

17 August 2010 Baghdad bombings

Article: 17 August 2010 Baghdad bombings

Yes I did try asking one of the WikiProjects listed on the articles' talkpage just a few minutes ago, because I've totally forgot about this article. Unfortunately silly old me "Peer Review" isn't a place for any feedback on the article to assess it even though it's in that WikiProject. No problems with you, thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate it. Thanks Adamdaley (talk) 07:14, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of

Columbia Gorge casino

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Now you may want to see

this. Jsayre64 (talk) 02:18, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply

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Review of new article

Hi Pete, I noticed you're an admin on WikiProject Oregon and I thought you can help me out with this. Don't want to waste too much of your time; maybe there is a section in that project where I can ask for help regarding this instead? I saw one discussion page with potential but the last entry was in 2007. Anyway, I recently created the article Oregon Ducks track and field and think it could be close to a good article nomination; I figured I should ask someone to look at it first. I looked over the criteria and I'm mostly concerned about 4, 5, and 6a. 4-I think there may be some bias in the article but I think I adequately referenced anything that can be construed as an opinion. 5-Well, the article has only been up for a day, so I'm not sure if there needs to be a certain period of time before nomination? I don't foresee any potential edit wars. 6a-A bot posted a possible copyvio on the Bowerman image. I'm not sure how to address this though (or even if it should remain), aside from deleting the image altogether. Thanks, I appreciate your help. Cluskillz (talk) 17:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

wikistrategies

Hey Pete, what is up with wikistrategies.net? I hope that the editors under that website will follow

WP:COI guidelines. Phearson (talk) 00:50, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply

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Fixed spelling to make the URL functional. tedder (talk) 02:39, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Phearson, yes -- absolutely! As we have on the front page on the site: "we hold the site’s policies and culture in high regard We require the same of our clients, and only take on work that is compatible with Wikipedia’s mission." And we mean it. -Pete (talk) 06:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ted Ferrioli

Ran against Harper in the primary? I can't find anything on this, since it appears he ran unopposed. Have any insight? 3rd party candidate or ??? Valfontis (talk) 02:17, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, wiki pop-quiz! I think I just fail this one.

I can only say I must have read it somewhere, but have no recollection where that might have been. But if it looks like he ran unopposed, my best guess is that this Harper fellow filed, and then withdrew. Or died. Or moved to Mars. I think it's safe to cut -- obviously, it wasn't a race worth remembering, even if it *did* happen. -Pete (talk) 06:29, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I've just emailed another one

Eliko (talk) 19:07, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed you made an edit

or more; I guess your day job isn't keeping you too busy. Are you back in Puddletown? Or are you gone from here for good? -- llywrch (talk) 06:03, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have been wondering the same thing: what are you up to? —EncMstr (talk) 07:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great to hear from both of you! I've been really enjoying the opportunity to get back into a little encyclopedia work -- my work at WMF had mostly taken me away from that. It's good to be back, and great to see WP:ORE still thriving. I'm still based in SF and am planning to stick around here, but getting back in touch with Portland a bit too -- have been talking a fair amount with Kotra and Dave about their efforts with PortlandWiki and the ongoing WikiWednesdays and Monday Meets. Professionally, my next main gig will be working to establish a research and learning center focusing on Wikipedia, pedagogy, and

Open Educational Resources

at a major university. I expect to get back into blogging in the near future, so I should have more details for you soon :)

Hope you're both doing well? Maybe I'll run into you on a visit some time soon! (Llywrch, did you see this? Act fast if you wanna weigh in!) -Pete (talk) 20:50, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

tks

• Hey thanks for the kind words on my talk page! See ya 'round! • 
  Ling.Nut (talk) 04:15, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Flood Control Acts

Pete -

Saw the category changes you made for the Flood Control Acts and am curious as to why you deleted the categories for water laws and environmental laws. I know that some of the relationship may be a bit tenuous, but .... Just curious. Don'tKnowItAtAll (talk) 18:21, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Netball FAC: Thank you for the review

Thank you for helping to review Netball. I've never been through the FAC process and I found your edits and comments regarding what needed fixing to be extremely helpful. While the article may have failed, the feedback was insightful, on point and offers a clear route to addressing issues in the article. Speaking for myself and other regular contributors, we'll definetely be addressing the problems raised so that at some point in the future we can renominate it and get it passed. Thanks again for the assistance! --LauraHale (talk) 00:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Oregon Triple Crown

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Campaign and Legislation Finance Data

Hey Pete, so word on the grapevine is you want to work on a large-scale historical project concerning legislative information? Either way, this is an awesome project idea. I think most people can agree there isn't good coverage of legislative information on Wikipedia--and historical info is often the least contentious and so very useful.

Do you have an idea for how this project will take shape? I am interested because I wanted to discuss with you the potential for working on integrating campaign and legislative finance data into Wikipedia. I think a good way to approach this might be to create a project group, add a few changes as tests, expand as is natural to more and more articles, and aim toward setting up a bot (or bots) to regularly update this type of information (as necessary). However, if your project is concerned with the general coverage of legislative information (including campaign finance), then perhaps this works as a sub-goal, or sub-task.

I think it would be great to get the ball rolling on organizing a group of people who are interested in seeing this information become more accessible, and to provide space for growth as tasks come to completion. Let me know what you think. It may make sense to organize smaller groups, but you are the veteran here, so I'd love some advice ;).

I've solicited and garnered a bit of feedback on running a bot to update the type of info that is accessible from maplight.org's API on the village pump.

Mattsenate (talk) 08:46, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject US State Legislatures

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A Sighting!

Who was that masked editor? Valfontis (talk) 20:25, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

:) -Pete (talk) 20:35, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US National Archives collaboration

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WP Oregon in the Signpost

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Description/annotations/attribution for a photo?

Hey - I haven't been on here in ages, but today I ran across something I don't understand. This photo needs to be identified better (it's really not clear - at least to me - just what this dancer is spinning). I put an "annotation' on the Commons page, but not sure that's the right way to do it, or the right place. Advice? Martha (talk) 19:24, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Forget Aunt Betty

This is your new favorite band. Valfontis (talk) 01:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder

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King Saud University

Hi Pete. I worked really hard on this page and I would like you to give some suggestions. I appreciate your help.Abrnkak (talk) 14:44, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Political cartoon about Oregon direct democracy, 1912.png

I think you got the year wrong (except the guys in tweeds would also be holding a Pabst or obscure micro and riding a bike). Great image! Valfontis (talk) 03:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! I'm so glad you noticed that. I was pretty pleased with that one meself :) -Pete (talk) 03:38, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A beer for you!

Sorry it's not a Jaegerbomb! ;) I think it's pretty swell you and I both have DYK's up at the same time...(even if it's at some ungodly hour). Cheers to being awesome and hopefully sharing beers again (minus Lady Gaga in the background) soon!! SarahStierch (talk) 04:07, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply ]

DYK for Vallejo (ferry)

DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 07:48, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply

Hi, Pete. Vallejo got 3,500 page views on its DYK date! In my experience, that's pretty darn good for a (small) article that is not in the top-of-list, with-photo spot in DYK! Nice work.
However, I wanted to let you know, for the next time you nominate for DYK, that you accidentally forgot (or didn't realize it was required now) to transclude your nomination on the main DYK nominations page after creating it. That step only became necessary when changes to DYK were put into effect in late July, or about one month before your Vallejo nomination. It's in the new instructions, but you may have missed it. As a result, your nomination went virtually unseen for almost 5 days after you created the page for it, because it wasn't being displayed on the DYK nominations page. At that point, I discovered it, only because I was checking your User Contributions page (take that as a compliment; I sometimes check those pages for users who do interesting editing in subjects that interest me), at which point I transcluded your nomination onto the DYK nominations page (initially under the wrong date, which I fixed a few hours later). Only then, when the 5-day time limit was about to expire, did your nomination appear in a place where other people would be likely to see it. I could claim to have "saved" your nomination at the last minute, but I'd like to think that if someone else had discovered the oversight after the 5 days had run out, they'd have reset the clock from the time it became visible on the nominations page. Who knows .... but it worked out well this time. As I said, this is a new step only recently added to the nominations process. Having a separate nomination page/template for each individual nom has the great advantage of allowing individual noms to be watchlisted (which I believe may have been the main reason for that change), but it added that step that you overlooked. I'm surprised that (evidently) no one has created a bot to do that transclusion automatically. SJ Morg (talk) 06:04, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, SJ Morg -- both for rescuing my nomination, and for the detailed explanation! I had missed that part of the instructions, apparently. You're right, it sounds like something a bot should look after. But regardless, I'll watch out for this next time. Thanks again for your insights in the nom. I will probably do a little more expansion soon, and will add a lead section at that time. -Pete (talk) 17:21, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. By the way, here's another article that may be useful; I haven't checked it. I stumbled across it while looking for an ISBN for the Sutter book (it doesn't have one, evidently). I'm moving on to other subjects now, but wanted to pass this on before that. SJ Morg (talk) 20:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The article is great! I do not own the houseboat but have lived on her recently. The owner is as you may know very protective of his privacy, and there are some hull issues that mean right now the boat should only be accessed by people familiar with its structure until it's repaired. Ciao! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.20.206 (talk) 06:39, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

	GEESE Award
	Geese Pete, how did I become so lucky to have such a Wiki-pal like you? SarahStierch (talk) 00:45, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply ]

And listen to Teddy's adorable Wikipedia song that he made up out of nowhere. >> Teddy's Wikipedia song. I figure it's beyond time I send some WikiLove your way. Might as well start out with some Wiki-greetings from my little one! LoriLee (talk) 21:56, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now in audio format on-Wiki! (Thanks to Sarah.)LoriLee (talk) 23:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Song by Teddy

Teddy (Age 3) made up his own song about Wikipedia.

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Not beautiful but video. I have higher quality but it doesn't appear to want to upload. If you want to try to include in the relevant article, awesome sauce. :) --LauraHale (talk) 05:40, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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/me averts his eyes! -Pete (talk) 22:51, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

	Oui Oui...
	This is Monsieur Toby' he's the French Toby, and likes to remind that he's watching you...everynight..when you sleep. AU REVOIR PETE. SarahStierch (talk) 02:16, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply ]

	Geese louise
	The geese are running wild and I need your help to wrangle them! I miss you Pete! *sniff* SarahStierch (talk) 20:58, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply ]

Not sure if you noticed, but a review has been conducted of Netball. I can work through it tonight if you are busy, it looks like reasonably simple stuff to fix. AIRcorn (talk) 22:14, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

	The Surreal Barnstar
	for this edit, with my thanks. -Philippe (talk) 04:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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An award for you!

	The Netball Award
	I, SarahStierch, hereby award you, Peteforsyth, with the SarahStierch (talk) 15:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply ]

Many thanks Sarah! But of course, so much of the credit goes to User:LauraHale, who did nearly all of the research and writing, and the many other people who contributed to the process in various ways. But I appreciate the award nonetheless. -Pete (talk)

I'm sucking you in *evil laugh*... LoriLee (talk) 17:35, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's time again to share the latest news on the

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

Hi Pete. I don't know how closely you're watching commons:User talk:Sociabull, so I just wanted to give you a heads up that Sociabull has replied there to your offer of assistance. Although I can recognize a copyvio when I see one, you are much better able to help where someone needs guidance on obtaining permission from a copyright holder. See also User talk:Sociabull. Thanks very much! (By the way, at commons:User talk:Peteforsyth, you have a link to this page, but I think "Talk" needs to be changed to "User talk".) – Wdchk (talk) 14:43, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A request for comments

Hi Peteforsyth,
5 albert square directed me to you about the following question: I have reverted this edit and issued a warning on the user's talk page. User has been blocked before, but despite warnings adds 'official websites' again. Since I'm not sure what next step to take, if any, would you be so kind looking into it? Thank you, — Quibus (talk) 10:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you reverted the edit, so I'm assuming this is resolved for now. I don't see any problem with the web site being there (the Facebook page is of course a problem though). This user clearly has some learning ahead, but if you're looking for a block or something, I'm not sure that would be appropriate; after a few reverts, I'm sure he/she will start to get the idea. Thanks for asking. -Pete (talk) 13:40, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for having a look. I assumed since this user was blocked before, some kind of action was needed. I'm not that familiar with the whole websites policy; is Facebook not done anyway, or just this one? Homepages seem ok as long as they're not all about selling product and advertising, is this similar? — Quibus (talk) 19:21, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For external links, you will probably find this page informative:

WP:EL

. In general, it's fine for a page to have one link to the subject's home page, but not to multiple profiles on various sites (Facebook, blog, MySpace, etc.) Generally the advice would be, put those links on your own web site's home page -- don't clutter up Wikipedia with a bunch of promotional stuff just to drive traffic to those sites. (The central idea is, what's actually useful to the reader? If the reader's trying to find the Facebook profile, they can probably go one extra click to the web site to find it.)

For blocks, there is a page on the blocking policy here:

WP:BLOCK -- again, most basically, it's not something that needs to be done unless there is active harm that needs to be interrupted. A block isn't used as punishment, but as a way to interrupt real problems. If a user made one or two bad posts, it's not really a big deal; just fix the problem and move on. Hopefully, they will notice and start to learn what is and isn't accepted. -Pete (talk) 03:45, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks again, your reply is very useful for me. Take care, — Quibus (talk) 09:23, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help a stub out? Valfontis (talk) 18:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice start..and nice to see my buddy Slowking has jumped in too! From a quick googlin' (about all I'm able to manage at the moment, as I'm in the throes of GLAMcamp DC) I wonder if a further stub about the Oregon Investment Advantage might be worth working on, to add some context. Sigh..a wikignome's work is never done… -Pete (talk) 05:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:Slowking4 has given you a pawn! Nothing promotes WikiLove more than the advancement of pawns to K-8 becoming a Queen for open knowledge. thanks for the masterful facilitation at glamcamp dc 2012.

Spread the goodness of pawn's p0wnage by adding wikilove to someone's talk page with a friendly message! Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 03:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It was great fun working together in person -- and I greatly appreciate the pwn. Heh. I nice throwback to my pre-Wikipedia days -- I don't think pwnage has crossed my linguistic radar in many moons :) -Pete (talk) 21:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

yes, i couldn't resist the pun, and the non chess players go huh?; i do have a reaction to "corporate pawn", we should go easy on all the "melt the phone" etc. rhetoric, since it will be coming around again and again. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 23:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

	The Real Life Barnstar
	I, SarahStierch, hereby award you, Peteforsyth, with the Real Life Barnstar for your excellence in co-planning and facilitating GLAMcamp DC. The event was an inspiring success, thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 16:44, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply ]

Hey Pete, I'm thinking about going to Washington. Are you? (I guess so, from the barnstar above.) I'm wondering--I had a lot of fun doing that GA thing with you in Boston. Shall we update, revise, and reprise that? It's a very different audience, I imagine. Drmies (talk) 19:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, I expect to -- though a lot could change between now and then! It's nice to hear from you. We should catch up sometime. Have you joined the new-ish email list for educators teaching with Wikipedia? -Pete (talk) 21:41, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Peteforsyth,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

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• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at [email protected] (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at [email protected]. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 03:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pete--your name came up in Wiki-Oregon group discussion regarding use of official Oregon photo images in Wikpedia. May want to review discussion and add comments. Question is do these use conditions meet Wiki-image standards.--Orygun (talk) 04:29, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, could you drop by again? The Archives is willing to change their conditions, but I'd like to hear your opinion on whether or not they will meet Wikipedia's standards. Thanks! LittleMountain5 01:43, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pete, I saw your message on my Commons userpage about the video I upload. In fact it was a mistake when I use commonist to upload pictures massively. It is a video of us when we were at

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OH NOES!

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	I really don't have anything clever to say but holy crap check out TOBY! SarahStierch (talk) 23:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply ]

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Hi Michael, thanks for the note, and for encouraging people to bring any concerns to me directly! I can't say I see a lot of benefit to jumping into the discussion on Jimmy's talk page, but I'm certainly willing to answer questions about my work. I'm not sure what the specific concerns are, but two things might be relevant: I haven't edited Wikipedia articles on behalf of my clients, and I only work with clients that agree in advance to clearly disclose their COI when making any edits. I'd also encourage anyone interested in how I approach my work to take a look at my blog, my Twitter streams (under my personal name and my business name), my Quora account, the Outreach wiki, Meta, WikiEducator. I tend to be pretty transparent about my work (to the extent time permits!) and tend to use the same username most places. Also, for whatever it's worth, working with corporate clients seeking to influence articles about themselves is a pretty tiny percentage of the work I do, and not something I'm actively seeking out these days. I'm much more engaged in the education and non-profit areas. -Pete (talk) 00:47, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I see you are an electrical engineer. I am electrical engineer myself and I've proposed a new wikiproject, Electrical Engineering.

You've been holding out on us Pete. Valfontis (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Heh..perhaps I got mistaken for my dad somehow? Electrical engineering..always interested, never had the discipline. Good luck starting the WikiProject! -Pete (talk) 14:37, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there! I just wanted to touch base about the OER wikiproject that you're working on. I'm with

Hello, I am involved with a research project for Michigan State University and am wondering if you would be able to answer a few questions regarding tool sets on Wikipedia. What were the tools you mainly used prior to becoming an admin, and after becoming an admin? Here is a link to the project if you are interested Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Wiki-Project Management (Jonathan Obar) , and if you have any questions please let me know. Thanks! Ltezl (talk) 22:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not exactly sure how your name came up, but it's there now at

Funny, I was actually just dropping by to let you know I'd used you as an example again, in a different discussion. I'm sure there are other people whose user pages would serve as examples just as well, but yours was the first one to spring to mind. I am not suggesting that you need to change your user page, I'm simply using it to help people focus the discussion a bit more. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:37, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for the notes. I've looked through both cases. Glad to know, if nothing else, that my user page presents a useful example for discussion. For what it's worth: I don't regard my mentioning my work here as advertising, but as part of telling my Wikipedia story. I think it's useful for readers interested in me, to know about it among the other things I've done here. (Please note that it's mentioned in text, at the end of a pretty straightforward bio -- not in a big bright box, or anything like that.)

Also, in case it's helpful in any way, I just checked -- this year, about 7% of my web sites's visitors have clicked through from Wikipedia. Not sure what that might prove, but there it is :)

-Pete (talk) 21:17, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think?! Valfontis (talk) 04:58, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that you presented yourself very professionally in your interview for the Signpost. I wish that some other editors with COIs held themselves to similar ethical standards for honesty. Pine^(talk) 10:14, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! -Pete (talk) 14:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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		Thank you Pete for being a great ally to women in tech and for your great contributions related to women's history (especially in Oregon!) on Wikipedia. Sarah (talk) 16:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply ]

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How ya like me now Snarfa (talk) 18:18, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Pete, I have mentioned you and the Communicate OER project in starting a discussion about paid Wikipedia consultancy work on Jimbo's talk page: User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#For-profit_projects_managed_from_within_Wikipedia.

For your reference, there is also a related off-wiki discussion here on wikipediocracy.com, a discussion forum that I help moderate, and you are cordially invited to register an account and participate in this and other discussions there. Best, Andreas --JN466 12:49, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note! -Pete (talk) 14:16, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

October 16 - Ada Lovelace Day Celebration - You are invited!
	Come celebrate STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer. The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome! You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 19:53, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply ]

Hello Pete,
Thank you very much for your message, I am very honored to be part of this great team and I hope to share, soon, my experience in open education. Regards, Dyolf77 (talk) 21:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Pete, thanks for the update! I am trying to update the History section of the main Portland meetup page as well, so if you think of anything else that needs to be added just let me know. Talk soon! --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thanks for jumping in and helping with the Multnomah County Library stubs! There remains work to be done, but hopefully we have successfully rescued all of them from deletion. Another Believer (Talk) 17:22, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks AB -- it's been a pleasure to work on it! And, I didn't realize the library offered the full Oregonian history now -- I thought the 1987–present collection was all it had. So I've learned something really useful from this too. Cheers! -Pete (talk) 18:31, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating the Vanport Library article. Vanport... fascinating. --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks for noticing it! Yes, a fascinating story. Actually, this article's a rather direct outcome of learning about that Oregonian archive. Did you know it's possible to make a publicly viewable permanent link to the articles there? I'm kinda hooked on that archive now! -Pete (talk) 17:40, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012 Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104 Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand. Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki. Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration. Yours, Maximilianklein (talk) 03:41, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all :).

I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).

You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want: this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).

If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:07, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for setting up the East Bay Edit-a-thon. I mentioned that Parable of the Sunfish was just promoted to GA. I'd like to send it along to FA eventually but would like a few extra eyeballs on it first. I'll certainly send it along to peer review as well.

Thanks much,

GaramondLethe 23:59, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Garamond, I started reading this yesterday, and find it fascinating. I'll try to get you some good feedback shortly, but first I have to absorb a topic that's new to me, so it might take a little while. -Pete (talk) 18:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear you're enjoying the topic. Prof. Squirrel (who was the other experienced editor in our group) made a pass earlier today as well. No rush, of course. Thanks! GaramondLethe 21:52, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aw, I just checked my email/talk page and didn't know about the Oakland meet-up. I'm in next time! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 17:58, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bummer! In better news though, I think there was good energy for doing more of 'em. So I'm sure I'll see you at one soon! See my blog post about it here. -Pete (talk) 18:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I had seen the Edit-a-thon but just couldn't make it this time. Thanks for keeping me in mind, and do continue to do so. — iFaqeer (talk to or email me) 01:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help with

As a visual token of the anniversary, I am adding today's Open Access File of the Day. Feel free to nominate files yourself. As of today, commons:Category:Open access (publishing) contains more than 15,000 files, of which about 2/3 are video and sound files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.

Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction. With a smile, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WIKIPEDIA EDIT-ATHON! You're invited to the upcoming Wikipedia edit-athon, scheduled for Saturday, February 9 from 2–5pm in Old Town. Sponsored by Wiki Strategies and Prichard Communications, the event will begin with an introduction to Wikipedia, followed by an edit-a-thon focused on Portland's food scene, all things that "Keep Portland Weird", and local startup businesses. Details and signup here!

If this looks okay, I will begin distribution. --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:06, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The simplified version looks great (I've replaced the draft here as well). --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:19, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ack, sorry, I got crossed up -- I thought I had replied to this! I think this looks great, thank you so much for making it. Yes, please do distribute -- but you might want to hold off until tomorrow, when the email announcement goes out. I doubt we'll get overwhelmed, but I don't want to "scoop" our sponsor :) -Pete (talk) 20:25, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great! --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:25, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I had planned to submit a geonotice request, yes. I can send a link in case you wish to update the wording for any reason. --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:44, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I'm fine with however you want to word it -- you can look in the history of that page for how I've worded recent ones for Oakland and Boston. I think Aude's point is a good one, i.e. we should probably leave sponsorship names out of the geonotices for brevity. -Pete (talk) 21:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See diff here. I've submitted one or two geonotice requests in the past; this one is worded similarly. I had not planned to include sponsors as I assumed this was considered advertising. Feel free to make any edits you see fit. I will start sending invitations tomorrow. Looking forward to the event! --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, if you need any examples for the "Keep Portland Weird" portion of the event, here are three "interesting" Portland-related articles of mine:

All looks good! Some might feel the announcement is too long, but we can deal with that as it comes. Feel free to add these article ideas to the wiki page of course. Thanks! -Pete (talk) 22:11, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info today. Great session. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by KellyMike (talk • contribs) 00:46, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nice comments on AFT. Worth chipping in to help make it work out in the end, I think. I'm going to dig in next week; hope you'll join me. – SJ + 03:52, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, SJ! If possible, this is the sort of thing I'd like to pitch in on. Glad to see you taking it a step further. -Pete (talk) 01:29, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just checking in from India (as promised throgh Facebook), as Feb 9 is dawning here. Will try to turn up online as my sun crosses Portland's zenith tomorrow the same time This template must be substituted, see Template:Smile for instructions ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭ^talk 21:49, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Viswa, I'm so pleased you are interested in participating from afar! I do not have plans to live-stream the intro session, but I will see if I can find an easy way to do it (maybe with Google Hangout). I'm sure you will be able to find people editing Portland-related articles (and maybe some others) after 15:00 local time, maybe you can help people out via their talk pages etc. I will try to let you know when I do another of these! You may also be interested in the

live Wikipedia trainings and editing sessions we are doing with Communicate OER, focusing on open educational resources etc. -Pete (talk) 23:23, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks for such prompt response and consideration :)ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭtalk 00:08, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind words. It's great to back editing! --Rich — Preceding unsigned comment added by White359 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is a strange note to have to write. I went downtown this afternoon, parked near the Post Office, and walked to where I thought the meeting was. Nobody seemed to be about. I walked around, puzzled. After a while another person came down the street looking for the meeting. We exchanged introductions, tried to figure out what the problem was, and waited a while longer for others to show up. Eventually I said to User:EncMstr, the other person, that I was going home, and I did. Where he went, I don't know. Perhaps he found you. When I got home, I discovered to my horror that I had been looking for you at 322 N.W. Seventh rather than Sixth. I hope this mistake was a one-off and not the start of a trend. Sorry. Finetooth (talk) 03:47, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am so sorry we missed you both, was looking forward to meeting you. It's a shame, one of the topics someone proposed to work on was stream ecology -- so I suppose you were there in spirit! My apologies if I typed the wrong address somewhere. Hopefully we can make up for it before long! -Pete (talk) 17:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't make any mistakes with the address. The mistake was entirely mine. Finetooth (talk) 17:18, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, perhaps you will enjoy this -- further proof that you were not entirely absent: https://twitter.com/PeteForsyth/status/300657058657730560 -Pete (talk) 17:27, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Like --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. Finetooth (talk) 21:30, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday, March 9 - Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon - You are invited!

Come celebrate Women's History Month at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, on March 9! This event, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, is hosted by the Fembot, in collaboration with ASOU Women's Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication, and the UO Libraries. Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is March 9, from 1-4 PM, at the University of Oregon Library. You must RSVP SarahStierch (talk) 20:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply ]

Pete, I mentioned you in this discussion. I recall there was such a project and I thought you were the lead. If my memory is faulty, can you please point these folks in the right direction? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 18:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(Further to above) Peter, your name was mentioned at Jimbo's talk page

I have interest in this area, and just threw together User:Sphilbrick/Yes,_we_can_have_too_much_help. That doesn't look like overlap with OER, but maybe OER is only one aspect of your work. If you aren't the right person at WMF, do you know who is? I can ask Maggie or Philippe if you don't know.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 18:34, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Replying to you both in one -- the Wikimedia project I assisted on as a staffer was the Bookshelf Project, the results are here: http://bookshelf.wikimedia.org

SP, glad to know you are interested in improving opportunities to educate oneself about Wikipedia! Yes, Communicate OER is one of a number of projects I'm working on, but it's not really exclusive in its OER-ness. You may be interested in a six week course we are developing at Peer to Peer University's School of Open. Still in early development, but should be launching March 11. Let me know if you have thoughts/feedback/ideas! -Pete (talk) 18:57, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A lot to digest. I see several things in the bookshelf I need/want to review. I'll get back to you.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 19:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looking forward to hearing back from you. I should also point out this fellowship, which did result in a nice reorganization of the help pages on English Wikipedia. At the moment, I'm not sure the Bookshelf is the best place to focus -- some of those materials are worthwhile, but as you can see the page overall is pretty disorganized and difficult to navigate. I only linked that because DC was asking specifically about the work I did for WMF, and that was the relevant piece. (But it wasn't my project, I was only playing a small support role on that, contributing contents to a couple of the brochures.) -Pete (talk) 19:11, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your invitation! The event sounds interesting, but since I live in California and won't be traveling anytime soon, I will be unable to make it. Hope the event goes well! --Kurykh (talk) 06:11, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Will do! Can you get me a rough area for the DC one? I'm always a little hazy on coordinates for the east coast. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:26, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I went with [40, -74.9], [37.3, -78.3] which is the one currently being used for the DC history event - I hadn't realised it was already there to crib from :-) Does the rectangle on this look okay, or would you prefer larger? It catches Richmond and the outskirts of Philadelphia, but doesn't stretch as far down as Norfolk. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:38, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

thanks. See my talk. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pete,

I am the campus ambassador for two classes in the Boston area this semester. One is in the middle of their wikipedia assignments and one will be starting soon. Some of the students might benefit from some extra help with syntax and formatting. Can I invite them to the March 9th editathon? There are about 25 in the Boston College class and I'm not sure how many in the Tufts/SMFA class (I am presenting there on Monday), but given that its a Saturday, I don't know how many will come. I'll try to make it myself if I'm on top of my own schoolwork.

Thanks, GabrielF (talk) 21:36, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have responded to your post on my talk page here. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institute for Cultural Diplomacy until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Dear Peter Forsyth, you deleted a previous version of this article when it was up for speedy deletion. As I understand it, it has arisen again but a request for speedy deletion was denied. Might you look into it again?

SkaraB 15:18, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The related . You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.

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On behalf of WikiProject Basketball and WikiProject College Basketball, please accept my apologies for the belated notice of the CfDs above. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:59, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there :-) I knew about the course, I apologize I did not have the time to write/spam about it! About your request, please note that the page was fully in English, which is not actually a very good idea, plus there were only a few lines of real bio and all the rest were many kb of text about the course itself, which were not appropriate there - and I guess it is released under some free license but there was no mention of it too... So, if your students must edit their home wikis, please remember it should be done in their local language :-) plus they must use sandboxes not userpages for everything else which is not strictly related to who they are. The user was warned and the sysop offered to send him the text so that you can double check as well. Ps, i have some humble experiences of wiki teaching as well and I learned a few things from them: a) maybe live editing a real wikipedia can get really tough, it.wiki users are considering using test2 wiki for that and i really, really, really recommend informing the community in advance before starting any activity so that patrollers and sysops can "whitelist" a few usernames - b) wikipedias do have different rules and behaviors, you may find for example italian ones are particularly strict about certain aspects, from notability to what is suitable in a userpage. Elitre (talk) 08:58, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Elitre -- very helpful! -Pete (talk) 16:47, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

hi, i was lurking a little, good show. about videos in external links - smallbones has been using the Template:External Media, for example in A Visit from the Old Mistress. if it's about the article subject or section that might work better than an EL. Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 01:52, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Our boy Fabrizio needs you

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Oklahoma House of Representatives

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Some stroopwafels for you!

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Wiknic 2013

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

• Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
  • Nearest BART: 19th Street
  • Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
  • Street parking abounds

EdwardsBot (talk) 04:45, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Email

I replied earlier today, would you consider tomorrow for our chat, please reply via email, thanks! --Elitre (talk) 13:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Peteforsyth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.220.221 (talk) 15:27, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted edit to

Q Continuum

Just a comment on a recent edit of yours to

References}} template (a redirect to {{Unreferenced

}}) doesn't apply.

Actually, I used to use the {{Unreferenced}} template all the time myself until I found out about this. I've been having to slowly replace them as I encounter them... — Cbbkr (talk) 22:24, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, neither of the 2 external links are Reliable sources (open wiki =

Memoryalpha}} is for EL sections only, not for citations. –Quiddity (talk) 22:59, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply

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Yep. Thanks for explaining Q :) -Pete (talk) 21:42, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited...

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

• Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
• Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:26, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Service awards and copyright

The link you gave on my page was to an image that I did not submit, and have not edited. I would suggest you confirm that you did not accidentally alter the copyright of an image that you did not have permission to change. As I've said before, at the time of upload, I placed my service award images under the most permissive copyright tag that I was allowed, based on the copyright of the source images which I had modified. I continue to give permission to you or any other editor to change the copyright of my service award images to as free a license (up to absolute release into public domain) as can be, provided the copyright of source images allow derivatives to be released that freely. VanIsaac_{WS Vex}^contribs 00:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding P2PU Writing Wikipedia Articles Course

Hello Peter, I will have problems to conect tonigh 22 hs, but I will continue the course the other weeks, sincerely,--Fernando Lopez Anido (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A Pie?

How did you send a pie?Lorrie (talk) 18:00, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]