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[edit] MIT

This is completely off-topic but do you know about MIT OpenCourseWare? Basically, you can take MIT lectures without paying ridiculously high tuition at home. It's very nice. -- Taku 00:02, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japan election chart

I moved the talks to the talkpage of the article and made a reply. Please pardon me for my late reply. -- Taku 23:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ADSvote

Hi! I have noticed your semi-circular graphs around Wikipedia, and I wondered whether it is possible to get a copy of your ADSvote programme, to cover some regional elections. I would greatly appreciate it. --Earthquakeweather 16:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure! Just give me a day or two to find it (it's one of my eternal-beta projects) and I'll send it to you right away. If you want the source, it's LGPLed, so you can even use it in your own apps if you want. Habbit 17:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thank you, that would be fantastic. --Earthquakeweather 18:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey can you send this to me? Thanks! Matty1019@aol.com Matty

[edit] European Parliament

Hey there. Love the semicircular graphs, and just wondering if you could find time some time in the next while to knock the European Parliament one up to date. There's been a bit of shuffling of the groups since last autumn. On that note, I'd personally prefer to see the NI group bumped to the far right, considering the general tendency of its membership these days. Anyway, its not biggy, and thanks again for your work thus far. The Tom 04:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the EP graph, but I'd like you to suggest a complete group distribution scheme Habbit 14:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks muchly. The EP itself sits in a L-R order, and while I haven't seen a floorplan in recent years, in one from the last term it was (from L-R) GUE-NGL, PES, Green-EFA, ELDR, EPP-ED, UEN, NI. EDD (todays ID) was in there somewhere, a small block at the outer edge of the centre between ELDR and the Greens is my hunch, but far from a strong one. The smaller groups are at the outer (upper) edges of the arc, so UEN, for instance, might in fact be completely surrounded by EPP-ED--I actually think that's the case at the moment.
I dug through a few academic papers that discussed how citizens placed parties on L-R spectrums when putting together the columns in Table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation, and found that Greens and the EFA regionalists both clock out as further left and much further left, respectively, than mainline social democrats, and the parties that are in the NI pack today are overwhelmingly seen as far-right. Although some Christian Democrats in places like the Netherlands are apparently fond of describing themselves as in the centre between liberals on the right and socialists on the left, liberal=centrist seems to still largely hold up.
So with that in mind, my personal preference would be (L-R) GUE-NGL, PES, Green-EFA, ALDE, ID, EPP-ED, UEN, NI. There's no ironclad empiricism behind it, just a weighing of the placement of each group based on my sense of both of those above measures. The Tom 17:42, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I've posted the new grouping, but what do you think about this kind of images? I've just written a new graph renderer and I think they can be pretty self-descriptive (maybe more for rectangular parliaments than for the EP, which, as you said, is itself semicircular). Sorry for the legend going out of the image, it's a bug in my app I'll try to fix. Habbit 21:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
The European Parliament as of January 2007
The European Parliament as of January 2007
Hey again, Habbit. Just wondering if I could get you to ADSVote up a European Parliament semicircle reflecting the group numbers when it reconvenes in two weeks or so. There'll be new Romanian and Bulgarian members, as well as a new far-right group, so things ought to move around a fair bit--numbers are here. As the formation of this new far-right group is basically going to mop up all the hard right sorts (Le Pen, Mussolini etc.) that are giving a political tilt to the NI group as of now, I'd suggest sticking in the far-right where the NI's are right now, and then wedging what's left of the NI's as close as possible to the exact centre, which I figure is going to numerically shake out as between ALDE and IND/DEM. Thanks so much. The Tom 08:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Aye, Tom's right. Would be great if you could do that! —Nightstallion (?) 12:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Like this one? Habbit 23:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Surely ID should be to the right of EDD-EP, and perhaps even to UEN. Especially since one of the largest components of ID is UKIP, which is quite far to the right, of, for example, the Conservative Party in the UK, which is on the right of the EDD-EP. BovineBeast 15:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ADSVote (again)

Hi, I'm interested in obtaining a copy of your ADSVote program for some personal projects. Can you send it to me somehow (download link, e-mail, etc...)? Thanks in advance. JJE 19:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, why haven't you responded? JJE 19:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Xtremely sorry, I've been a bit absent from Wikipedia this week... About ADSVote: I can email it or put it into MegaUpload whenever you want, but since I received the first message concerning it, I've been doing quite a few changes in it, especially in areas related to its file format. As the app was only designed for my personal use, its data was saved with the .NET binary serialization formatter, which nearly tied it to a concrete version of the program (in fact, whenever I changed any class related to data, all files saved with prior versions would fail to load). I'm currently implementing an XML file format to work around this and allow users (that plural sounds well :P) to actually work with the program without worrying about what the hell developers do. Habbit 17:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Please say when you've done the work on it! I'd be happy to use the old version for now though, if you're willing. JJE 18:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Any progress on this? JJE 18:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I'm nearly done with the damn xml format... I hope it'll be on the net in a week ^_^ Habbit 19:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I think I'm done with ADSVote 1.1 beta 1... Just give me an email, or, if you don't want to, I'll upload it somewhere (I'm even considering SourceForge). Please, tell me anything that goes wrong and I'll do my best to fix it. Habbit 14:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'd prefer it if you'd upload it, but if you wish to email me my email is chaosman312@hotmail.com . Thanks! JJE 13:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I have a copy of this now and it is SUPERB. Well done! JJE 19:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, what can I say... Thank you! ^_^ Habbit 18:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Could you possibly send me a copy too? My address is halfthefts@googlemail.com. Thanks --Earthquakeweather 18:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, Gmail keeps returning me the mails to your address. Says "no such recipient". Habbit 10:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, that is weird, I thought for a minute that there might be a period missing or something, but no, the address is 'halfthefts@googlemail.com'. Could you send it to lunar-rose@hotmail.co.uk instead? Thank you --Earthquakeweather 17:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Sent. Have fun! Habbit 05:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More ADSVotery

IMAO, the graphs are great. I don't know if there are other such applications, but I strongly suggest getting it out there, maybe SF, so it can be used and improved. A standardized legislative block image representation standard would be the greatest thing ever for WpA... 68.39.174.238 12:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, dammit... I have sooo many active projects. Ok, I'll post it ASAP, but I don't want ADSVote to suffer the same fate as HashSum, of which I am promising a new version since August 2005. I think I'm starting to look like Cervantes with the second part of La Galatea Habbit 16:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, whatever, but it's a cool program. You should hit the State legislatures with it ;). 68.39.174.238 23:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I hate to be the next person to bug you, but if its not much trouble I would love to get a copy of this program as well. Is it uploaded anywhere or would you send it via email? ~Rangeley (talk) 23:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I have to jump on the bandwagon and ask if you wouldn't mind sharing this program with me. :D Byland 19:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Email me and I will sure share it. However you'll have to wait a bit, since I don't have a stable compiled version by now.Habbit 01:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey can you send this to me? Thanks! Matty1019@aol.com Matty
Could I have a copy please, patrick.mannion@gmail.com --Saint-Paddy 19:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I'd like a copy, as well...I do a lot of work with legislative elections and always wonder how some articles have them so perfect... lockesdonkey@gmail.com Lockesdonkey 21:37, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, everyone, calm down... It's been quite long since I did anything related to this program. IIRC, I was doing an improved remake, so I'll try to put the remaining threads together and create a stable release. ETA: a week or more. Habbit 11:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ADSVote + Spanish elections

Hey there -- saw ADSVote on the Spanish election page -- would love to use it for governments here in Oz

m.incerti@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au

Thanks! Australian Matt (talk) 01:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ADS 2008

My e-mail is scottjgaspari1@sbcglobal.net and I would LOVE a copy of ADSVote! Looks phenominal! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scotters712 (talk • contribs) 14:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, since I've answered to similar requests before, I've finally decided to create a SourceForge project for ADSVote and publish everything there, under free licenses. As there is no such thing as a "stable version" now (not even feature-complete, though it renders graphs, saves and loads election data), I will publish all the code through SVN for developers and a "development release" compiled binary (actually, a Java JAR file) for users. Everybody is free to comment and suggest, and even modify the program to the full content of their heart (I'd however, request fellow programmers to keep the saved data format compatible), but please don't stalk me about it. Thermodynamics already take too much time from me ¬¬.Habbit (talk) 01:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I cannot find it on SorceForge. I'm sorry to be a disturbance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scotters712 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I've already requested the creation of the SF.net "project". However, it takes some time for it to be judged appropiate and accepted, and then some more for me to configure it and upload the files. I suppose you'll be able to download it by the weekend. Habbit (talk) 08:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok, done, first "development release" published. A lot of things are missing, but I'm facing three weeks of midterm exams right now. The "render graph" dialog box is topping my priority list, however. Feel free to send bug reports to SF.net or directly to my email (including a patch if you feel you can help). By the way, all discussion regarding ADSVote in this page might be archived soon so it does not becomes useless clutter. Habbit (talk) 01:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Prime Minister of Spain

I can see you have been introduced to User:Ivan Bogdanov. Philaweb T 19:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

"Introduced" seems to polite a word to describe someone that performs edits without leaving rationale of his huge changes and blanks his talk page when someone points it out. For now, the page has not been re-reverted, but the only thing I can think about if he does it again is MedCom. By the way, it's nice to have a comment which is _not_ about that f**** election program. Habbit (talk) 19:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ADS Vote

How do I use it? It is really confusing. 72.85.140.223 (talk) 13:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I have not written anything near to a manual yet, but I think the interface is pretty intuitive: set the general election parameters (including the seat apportionment to use) in the "totals" tab, then go to the "constituencies" tab and add data as needed (add a constituency, set the # of seats up and fill in the results), then return to the "totals" tab to see everything summed up. By the way, questions about ADSVote should be brought up in its SourceForge project page, maybe in "Public Forums->Help", or even by sending me an e-mail. Definitely not in my Wikipedia user page. Cheers! Habbit (talk) 14:32, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
What if an election allocates seats using a method that is not d'Hondt or Sainte-Lague? Also, wouldn't it be simpler if one could just input in the number of seats that allocated to each party/group only, without having to put in all that other info?--hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 06:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
To the first question: new proportional seat allocation methods can be added. The program is not designed to work with STV and such, tough, and I don't plan to include them in the near future because the size of changes to make would be enormous. To the second: what you want is not the full ADSVote, which is an election results analyzer/plotter, but just the plotter part. I have thought about creating a separate dialog inside the program with the interface you mention, but I don't really have a lot of time currently. Once again, this is not the place for discussing ADSVote. There are forums in its SourceForge project page. Habbit (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zim Elections

Have you managed to get any further with the map at all? Mangwanani (talk) 16:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Not too far: I've been held by a lot of college assignments due for this month. Besides, I could not continue your work, because I could not devise a coherent structure: the way you did it, it won't be reusable at all (i.e. some constituencies are painted with squares hidden by other constituencies, etc.), so I started a new version with hand-drawn constituencies (as opposed to the Inkscape vectorisation approach). Last time I worked on it, I had some 3 and a half provinces done. Habbit (talk) 23:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Philippine elections

Could you make a map for the Philippine elections (legislative and parliamentary only) 03:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Of course. However, I've taken a look at the page for the last elections and they're a bit messed up, so I don't really know what should I put into the app. Thus, either you get a copy of ADSVote (thus raising the # of downloads on SourceForge ^^) or send me a "compiled" results table with the colors you want and the effective number of seats. Habbit (talk) 17:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)