User talk:HighInBC/Archive 46

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MSU Interview

Dear Chillum,

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 communityHERE, 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:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• 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 obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. 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 23:09, 17 April 2012 (UTC) --Jaobar (talk)

No thank you. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Have a conceptual cookie

You have been awarded a conceptual cookie for the essay What "Ignore all rules" is not. Nice one. Lord Matt (talk) 17:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I was feeling very meta that day. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 05:03, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Abuse Filter on the Article Feedback Tool

Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.

For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Ok. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

How do I run HBC AIV code?

In a .js file or perl? --MrSkill (talk) 03:19, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

You need to ask one of the current operators. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 07:05, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Update to DustaBot

Hi, I updated a link in Dustabot's source code from Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over to the new name Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues, but please check this. There was a piped shorter name, referring to an even older Category:Usernames editors have expressed concern over, which I did not change. – Fayenatic London 11:54, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Your username is a brand of bong

Though I am sure you know that already. --Zaiger (talk) 16: 25, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Chillum: pipe-style piece
Bowl at the end, mostly stem
Chillum bongs, rare

A lovely poem. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:58, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to do this, but the last line in the above Haiku is missing a syllable. Kurtis (talk) 13:10, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I was not going to mention that, I appreciated the effort. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 06:33, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought it was you who wrote it. I didn't mean to be rude. Kurtis (talk) 21:36, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:ImperialPalaceLogo.svg)

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The non Dalek image has been exterminated due to its lack of perfection. Thank you Hazard-Bot. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 06:32, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

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