User:Harvestman

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Have a god time editing your world's beauties!


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The packice zone fluctuating throughout the year.
The packice zone fluctuating throughout the year.
Wikipedia itself often showcases pages like Islam and terrorism as examples of high quality articles, and in truth they are. But those pages have acquired the greatest scrutiny because there are opposing stakeholders ...
The NeutralPointOfView desperately hinges on the very point that no one disagrees with the text, and thus if that bar for disagreement is very low (as in no one cares) then the page will remain low quality.
Meatball Wiki, November 17, 2004

Thanks

To all who expressed support for my ArbCom candidacy or opposed, stating, or not, reasons. I'll edit mercilessly and contribute thinking of you.

Holi of the days - - I'm on vacation soon. please post only if you'll wait 1 month, thanks (4th of July - > beginnin' August). I'm +/- on vacation. Now I'm back (to RDs).

Best man of the day : Bob Ney's wig maker. (as of 25 May).

Fact of the day - User contributions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia sez that : "23:17, 18 May 2006 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics (→Theorem Problem - ianage)" is my thousandth contrib. Champagne! And also, I am not a geometry expert.

Subject of the last month - I launched a "WP million survey" with great success - see subpage.

Subject of the laaast month - I wrote to a dozen people about it ... "Are you aware of this Wikipedia talk:Censorship ?"


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Picture of the day
Victoria Crater

This true-color image, taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows the Victoria Crater from Cape Verde, Mars. Cape St. Vincent is the promontory visible on the left of the photo. On the right is Duck Bay, and beyond that, on the inner crater wall, is the north face of the 15 meter (50 foot)-tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio.

Photo credit: Opportunity rover
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[edit] Guidelines

  1. The picture must already be a featured picture. To nominate a picture for that honor see featured picture candidates.
  2. Featured images are currently selected in the order they were promoted (i.e. a rough First In, First Out order). See the featured pictures candidates archive for this order.
See also: Guidelines for writing Picture of the day captions

[edit] Including the POTD on your user page

You can insert the image on your user page or talk page by adding the text {{Pic of the day}} (this version is shown above). It will be displayed in a box of no more than 600 pixels wide, and will include a small amount of text based on the article in which the image appears. A no-text version is also available via {{POTD}}.

It is also possible to create your own custom POTD layouts, in case the already-existing versions will not look good within your user page design. Mix and match the following components to make your own. This system will only work for Pictures of the day selected beginning January 1, 2007. Be sure to replace [date] with an appropriate date value. For a dynamically updating version, use {{#time:Y-m-d}} (example: {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|image}}).

Template Description Renders as
{{POTD/[date]|image}} The name of the image, without the Image: prefix. Victoria Crater, Cape Verde-Mars.jpg
{{POTD/[date]|size}} The size of the image, without the trailing px. 500
{{POTD/[date]|caption}} The image caption. This true-color image, taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows the Victoria Crater from Cape Verde, Mars. Cape St. Vincent is the promontory visible on the left of the photo. On the right is Duck Bay, and beyond that, on the inner crater wall, is the north face of the 15 meter (50 foot)-tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio.
{{POTD/[date]|title}} A link to the article the image represents. Victoria Crater
{{POTD/[date]|texttitle}} A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute. Victoria Crater

There are two additional pre-defined layouts

  • {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}: This has the image and caption above each other with no borders. Used on some of the Main Page alternatives and suitable for user pages as well.
  • {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|row}}: This has the image and caption encapsulated in (usually) a single table row. This is the version used on the Main Page.

It is also possible to permanently feature a POTD for a selected day. Just add a specific value for the date you want. For example, today's POTD is {{POTD/2008-06-09|image}}. Likewise, you can use date parameters with the other templates as well. If you like the pre-made formats, you can use date parameters there as well, like this: {{Pic of the day|date=2008-06-09}} or {{POTD|date=2008-06-09}}. Again, this system will only work for Pictures of the day selected beginning January 1, 2007.

[edit] Older Pictures of the day

If you want to permanently include a Picture of the day that was selected between November 1, 2004 and December 31, 2006, use the following: {{Wikipedia:Picture of the day/[month] [day], [year]}} or {{Wikipedia:POTD/[month] [day], [year]}}. For example, {{Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 31, 2006}}.

PsOTD selected from May 2004 through October 2004 are only accessible in month-at-a-time archives and can only be placed on user pages by using standard image syntax.

[edit] Commons:Picture of the day

Commons picture of the day

The biggest facility for satellite communication in Raisting, Bavaria, Germany


Information about inserting the Commons POTD on your user page or talk page can be found on Template:POTD commons.

Picture of the day archive
2004: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2005: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2006: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2007: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2008: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December

Today is Monday, June 9, 2008; it is now 01:55 UTC


Ha ! Harvestman here helps hosting hundreds o’highly, horrific, hastily hewn histories. And aims at an awkward appreciated approach at avery awful affair, acknowledging an absurd ardor (ask : Ada_or_Ardor).

Last news (SW ents Al) : A daffodil slid off Ada.

I’m french with interests in computer science, language, beauty and – coherence.

Wish us all success in designing a knowledge world that the world deserves.


[edit] Homework

Tools

WP million survey

My subpage

My boxes

How is made a wiki ?

[edit] what I discovered with WP

"The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language, generally accomplished in the 15th century, although evidence suggests it began as early as the 14th century." And : Grimm's law. Too much!

"Great Awakenings are commonly said to be periods of religious revival in Anglo-American religious history. They have also been described as periodic revolutions in American religious thought. The Great Awakenings appear to form a cycle, with a period of roughly 80 years."

  • List of Great articles ...

Great Britain * Great Lakes * Great Depression * Great Bittern * Great Bowerbird * Great Cormorant * Great Dane * Great Egret * Great Shearwater * Great Snipe * Great Tit bird * The Great Escape * The Great Gatsby * The Great One * Great Purge * Great circle * Great Migration * Old Great Bulgaria

"Klüver noticed that mescaline produced recurring geometric patterns in different users. He called these patterns 'form constants' and categorized four types: lattices (including honeycombs, checkerboards, and triangles), cobwebs, tunnels, and spirals."

"In cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates all of space and has strong negative pressure. According to the theory of relativity, the effect of such a negative pressure is qualitatively similar to a force acting in opposition to gravity at large scales."

Families of flowering plants

The most diverse families of flowering plants, in order of number of species, are:

  1. Asteraceae or Compositae (Daisy family): 26,000 species
  2. Orchidaceae (Orchid family): 20,000 (possibly 30,000)
  3. Fabaceae or Leguminosae (Pea family): 17,000
  4. Poaceae or Gramineae (Grass family): 9,000
  5. Rubiaceae (Madder family): 7,000
  6. Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family): 5,000
  7. Malvaceae (Mallow family): 4,300
  8. Cyperaceae (Sedge family): 4,000

In the list above (showing only the 8 largest families), the Orchidaceae, Poaceae, and Cyperaceae are monocot families; the others are dicot families. The total number of families in the flowering plants is over 460. There are around 95,000 species also.

[edit] Did not discover but checked with pleasure

Art 
Da Vinci's painting
Narnia
Tech 
Spreadsheet
HTML
People 
Eco
Gödel
Tolkien
Beatles
Cavanna [1]

Oh ... what about unbulleted lists ? Help:List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
; Term 1 : Definition 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:List

^ Cavanna was my first (stub) creation.

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[edit] Tippovdedé

Tip of the day...
Cite the source on all image uploads

Regardless of how an image you've uploaded is licensed for use on Wikipedia, please include information on its source. This allows admins and other editors to verify the copyrights. This includes pictures you created yourself: if you took the photo, give yourself credit – you deserve it!

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To add this box to your user page, use {{totd b}}.

[edit] My places

Add California and Louisiana, whose state seals images are fair use when the rule here is (no fair use outside article namespace).

A five years old child might fetch unfair use seals anywhere on the net. Go fetch me that child.