User talk:Joe Quick/Archive 5

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Kind Regards, Robert Tito | Talk 18:32, 14 February 2007 (CST)

Your undergrad anthro thesis

Let me know if you'd like another set of eyes on it (email it). I wrote one of those in 2003. :-) Stephen Ewen 00:57, 25 February 2007 (CST)

Don't feel a need to wait for too much polish. I fully understand the concept of drafts and even very rough working papers (just the first paragraph gives the gist). :-) I thought your undergrad thesis might reveal areas where we share some collaborative foci. Stephen Ewen 03:42, 25 February 2007 (CST)

Despite my handicap lacking my anthro books

Lets give anthropology a go. Stephen Ewen 22:57, 26 February 2007 (CST)

IB

Yes, I am currently attending an IB World School (Somerset College) and am on the MYP program (previously done the PYP and plan to start the Diploma course in 2010). I would also love to work with you on the IB article :) I'll see if I can get a start on the MYP section in the morning (AEST time) Ryan McCue ^{Let's have a chat} 03:15, 27 February 2007 (CST)

Last name, first for abc field

--end of message. Thanks for all your work on the Big Cleanup, Joe! --Larry Sanger 19:41, 25 March 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for the heads-up. It never occurred to me. I went back and I think I caught all of the ones that were my fault plus picked up a few others along the way. --Joe Quick (Talk) 19:56, 25 March 2007 (CDT)

Lyceum (Aristotle)

Living up to your name here... Thanks for catching my typo, and the clumsy construction (which I'd seen, but had a mental block about). --Peter J. King  Talk  16:58, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Somerset College page

Joe, I'm sorry to report that I've recommended delation of the Somerset College page. You might want to modify your user page into an external link from your user page over to Wikipedia. I saw that you wanted to change the article here, but that was a couple of months ago and the article did not appear to have changed substantially, not are any non-user pages linked to it (and then, only yours), so unfortunately I believe that it should be deleted for now. I'm participating in the Big Cleanup and every page of this sort causes us work which takes away from more important work. Best regards--Pat.Pat Palmer 17:31, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

oops! I see it's not you at all...now I'll try to track down the correct person. sorry about that!

Tecum Umam

"Thanks for your edit on Tecum Umam but I think you misunderstood my presentation of the legend."
Yes upon closer inspection I realize I should stay in my "Computers Workgroup" playpen hehe :) --Eric M Gearhart 18:27, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Check your email regarding the mask image. Stephen Ewen 18:37, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

copyright templates

They look much better now, nice work. Chris Day (talk) 20:24, 2 May 2007 (CDT)

CC images

Joe, where'd you find Image:Cc-sa.png? We need to upload Image:Cc-nc.png and Image:Cc-nd.png. Stephen Ewen 01:56, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

I just uploaded those about half an hour ago. --Joe Quick (Talk) 01:57, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Cool, thanks. Stephen Ewen 21:21, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

{{mediaflag}}

Feel free to use it. :-)

Visit the page to see its usage with operant.

Stephen Ewen 02:47, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

I will ;) --Joe Quick (Talk) 02:50, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

Help templates

I thought you might like to see these two ideas: {{help}} and {{mediahelp}}. Stephen Ewen 05:19, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

viral plaques

thanks so much, it's such a good feeling to have such great help. Nancy Sculerati 13:00, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

Upload dropdowns

To Stephen Ewen:

With the drop down menus, is it possible to code them so that when a person chooses an option, a second drop down appears with options for refining their choice. I know this is common elsewhere, but I don't know if it is possible with wikimedia.

• A person might choose Public Domain and then be prompted to specify the details.
• Or maybe that person chooses CC-BY-SA and is then prompted to choose the version.
• Or chooses Bypermission and then specifies whether the permission allows or does not allow reuse.

This should reduce the clutter significantly if it is possible.

If this process is automated, I think we can combine the several versions of each CC license into a single template, similar to what I did with the PD template. We could do this even without a sophisticated drop down system, of course.

BTW, the drop down menu in its current state forces me to scroll over to use it. That's probably not a good thing. --Joe Quick (Talk) 01:45, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

I am going to forward this to a tech who may know. It'd be plum sharp if possible. I do know that they are doing NO new custom coding now until after the new version of MediaWiki (in release candidate 2 status) comes out. Stephen Ewen 01:51, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Sounds good. Happy Cinco de Mayo. --Joe Quick (Talk) 01:56, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Y tu! Stephen Ewen 02:10, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

I have not followed this discussion but the checklist badly needs drop down functionality too. Let me know how this progresses from a mediawiki perspective. Is this even possible or a pipe dream? Chris Day (talk) 15:36, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

It looks like it is at least possible: http://jspwiki.org/wiki/BrushedTemplateDropDownMenu but I can't follow that stuff well enough to know how much work it would take to modify that system for implementation here. --Joe Quick (Talk) 17:11, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Image_talk:FranzBoas-Eskimo.jpg/Permission

Just have me unlock it when you need to add more. Stephen Ewen 14:03, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Thanks. Do you think it makes any sense to start collecting hard copies of these official permission pages in some central location, or are scanned versions enough? --Joe Quick (Talk) 14:32, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Scanned images for CZ. I'd keep the hardcopies for your records as the uploader. Stephen Ewen 19:05, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Okay. Maybe we should at least make it a practice to categorize the scanned images so that there aren't legal documents spread out all over the place? I think we're doing a good job of following the rules on these but should someone disagree, we're going to want to be able to say, "Look here." --Joe Quick (Talk) 19:15, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Reply

User_talk:Stephen_Ewen#Yet_another_image_question --- Stephen Ewen 11:45, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Reply #2 Stephen Ewen 12:41, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Hi Joe: Just a copy of a message I left on Stephen's Talk page: You are safe to use this image. Joel Emmons Whitley died circa 1870 according to Craig's Daguerreian Registry, which is an excellent, documented, research site for collectors of daguerrotypes and early photography. By the by, the image is from CDV (Carte de Visite), which was produced in multiple copies, so the LOC and other images may indeed derive from completely different originals (both copies). Cheers! Russell Potter 20:01, 12 May 2007 (CDT)