User talk:LockeShocke

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Hi! I saw your post on User:Jimbo Wales. That sounds great. I'm going to be at USF this fall. Mike H 22:27, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hi. You had listed yourself as interested but unable to attend this weekend's meetup. I just wanted to let you know that I cancelled it for lack of participation; it would have only been User:TheCustomOfLife and me. But we should all get together on an informal mailing list or something to plan some activity for the future. Jimbo Wales 12:35, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wikiflorida/ [[User:Gamaliel|Gamaliel Image:Watchmensmiley20.gif]] 22:21, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Fantasy/Reality

I see that you have started adding articles on Halo. That's fine we've got plenty of articles on other games so no problem there. You must be careful when adding these articles though. You've got to make sure that each article looks as if it's describing the game. I say this because the article Delta Halo has been written as if it is describing the real world rather than the game world. On Wikipedia we have to be careful to draw the line between real life and fantasy and in the case of articles on fictional universes like Middle Earth or the Star Trek universe, we have to make sure that phrases like "in the fictional world of Middle Earth" or "in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe" appear near the beginning of each article. Please review your Halo articles to make sure that they have some such phrase to cue the reader on what sort of material he is reading. Cheers -- Derek Ross | Talk 02:33, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)

I didn't make the page on Delta Halo, but I edited it to fix the problem. To the beginning of my Halo articles, I usually add: In the video game Halo: Combat Evolved...

Excellent. Glad to hear it. Thanks. -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:16, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)

[edit] Halo 3

Would you mind weighing in on the nonsense content of certain revisions of Halo 3 at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Halo 3? -- Cyrius|✎ 19:13, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Off Topic: Your Designs

I saw your page layout suggestion for Big Cats over at Wikijunior, and your crayon-like logo ideas, and really liked your designs. Do you mind if I e-mail you something you might be interested in? Let me know. - Defunkt (talk) 09:20, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Image recreation requests

Greetings. I just started the Wikipedia:Image recreation requests project, and I thought you might be interested. Your help would be greatly appreciated. (I got your name from the list at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Graphic Artists.) Best regards, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 03:12, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cover design suggestion

Hi Locke,

Your snowy-mountain cover draft for WQ-3 is pretty fab. Where is the image from? What license is it available under? Do you have access to international fontsets to handle all the translations? I'd love it if you and zanimum (who designed the last cover) could work together on this.

There is important design work beyond the cover that needs attention: working on print layouts (printable pdf versions in 8-pg or 16-pg formats), designing a background-image for the retrospective page to distinguish it further from the rest of the newsletter. Longer term, developing a consistent page framework which is recognizably "Quarto," within which we can play around each edition.

We could also use help in picking internal images that suit the theme of the cover; I like the idea of a winter theme (something we discussed for WQ-2 but didn't end up going with).

Rock on, +sj + 12:20, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We're thinking about the internal layout now; do you ever come onto IRC? We are thinking of having a meeting this Sunday to hash out design ideas. +sj + 03:01, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I never come onto IRC, I'm more of an AIM man myself, but go ahead and give me the info. I'm sure I could figure it out. What are we looking at, like 8 pages or so? I've got a couple designs I've made in Illustrator goofing off, usually just black and one color. LockeShocke 00:28, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
Either way works. You can find me on AIM too : rad sklein . Yes, it will run to 8 pages or so. We have the added bonus this iss of having a special Wikipedia retrospective section to play with... which you could do anything with, and which has lots of freeform content. How does Wednesday evening EST sound? I'd like to have a m:WQ/Design ideas showing all the different layout ideas for individual pages; just sketches of the graphical parts of the page. You can see that we didn't change almost anything between WQ1 and WQ2. New icons and page navigation, at least, are in order... +sj + 03:47, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I looked for you on AIM, you're on my buddy list now. My screenname is Quoth Ryan. It's Wednesday night and I'm game for a chat, waiting to hear from someone. LockeShocke 22:05, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Foundered and Floundered

Hi, Just thought I'd point out (regarding the Social issues of the United States article -- both ["foundered"] and ["floundered"] are words and more or less fit in the context you edited... Reboot

Oh, thanks. I've never heard the verb "founder" before in my life. You learn something every day :) LockeShocke 17:04, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum

[edit] Octavos et al

Hi LockeShocke, here's my reply to a post from sj...

Relatively strong (and extremely reusuable) design, thumbs up to it. First thing I've noticed though is bleed. If there's ever going to be a print version of the print version, tons of the content is way to close to the edge to print. We could print a bleeding Quarto, but that would **at least** quadruple the price for a short-run. Anyway, here's some recommendations. Many actually lie with the articles themselves, not LockeShocke's design, but there's a little bit of everything.

Adjusting text for print
In Wikimania, one editor is protecting themselves from spambots with the cfp--at--wikimedia.org. I doubt spambots can harvest from PDFs, and the certainly can't harvest from print. The TIC article is just confusing, with the "The article was sent..." stuff.
Notes on style
Personally, I'd take away the indents on the first paragraphs of each article, make it more readable. The Cebit, which has --, should be changed to an em-dash. The *asteriks* (page 3) are of debatable relevance in offline publications, perhaps just italicise or bold the word. The end of Jimmy's editorial might benefit from a horizontal line before the bio bit. Also, that should read "Wikimedia", only one capital. Finally in this section, there's very little if anything you can actually do to fix it, but one line at the top of a column is usually a no-no for readability.
Jimmy's pic
That film negative looks is a perfect extra touch. However, I wonder how it would look on a 5 or 10 degree angle, if that would boost the effect to the next level of cool.
Credit sources?
Perhaps with these pictures in the design, we should credit the users that created them, and what Wikimedia project they uploaded to first, just for sake of personal and lingual pride.
International Conferences
Perhaps "Seveal conferences were attended during this trimester, as reported." or "Seveal conferences were attended during this trimester, reports follow."
ISSN
Also, I just registered an ISSN for a local community art group's newsletter, do we want one for Quarto? Do we have a definitive list of the languages for this edition?

There's a lot of grammatical things I want to change in general, from the contributors.

Is it too late for that sort of thing to get published?

I personally do think the pages have enough similarities to work as one; since they'll never been seen apart, I think the "feel" will develop into Quarto's look.

I've had bad experiences with transparent images, I'd avoid those as much as possible.

Otherwise, I'd say that LockeShocke should record all the fonts you used, sizes, colours, column placements, all that, and we can make that into not only the Wikimedia Quarto style guide, but the style guide for any publication (Wikijunior excluded) from our Foundation. I'd be more than glad to help you with that all.

Other than the minor bits about, it's all quite pleasing to the eye. I'd love to see some more pages, if they're in progress. -- user:zanimum PS I've CC'd LockeShocke

[edit] WQ3 Cover

Hello,

I'm translator of a polish Quarto. We're almost done with the proofreading stage, so I'd like to know about the cover. What sentences should we translate and when do you want to take care of it? Please contact me at Meta. -- kocio 20:28, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Well, I don't have Photoshop and I have strong preference for Free/Open Source Software, like GIMP for bitmaps (see also GIMPshop - GIMP for Photoshop users) or Inkscape for vector graphics, which should work with texts in different languages; if not polish then for example chineese edition could bring you some trouble... But there's another problem: the content of WQ3 has changed:

WikiMedia Quarto
Wydanie 3 • Kwiecień 2005 (Issue 3 • April, 2005)

Zbiórka pieniędzy w pierwszym kwartale (Q1 Fundraiser Report)

Spotkania w Tokio, na Tajwanie i w Niemczech (Tokyo, Taiwan, Germany Meetups)*

10 nowych serwerów (10 New Servers Arrive)

4 lata WikiMediów! Retrospekcja (WikiMedia turns 4! Retrospective Inside)*

(*) - these things are not in WQ3. As far as I know, retrospective will be in WQ4, and I know nothing about the mentioned meetings.

Please, put the correct version on cover translations page, so the other translators will also see it. -- kocio 08:17, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello, nice to see the cover! I really liked the iceberg (and it's officially mentioned in WQ3, on page 1), why did you change this? ={ I found a typo I made (there should be no "," in "Kwiecień 2005") and an orphan you made (should be: "Zbiórka pieniędzy/ w pierwszym kwartale"), everything else is OK. -- kocio 11:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the ice berg thing. I made that cover a long time ago, and couldn't find that picture in the commons when I went to go make a print-quality one. Assuming the one I had saved on my computer was full size, it was nowhere near print quality. So, I found another wintery picture as best I could. Apologies—someone should change that mention on the Table of Contents, perhaps I will. I took care of the typos, try refreshing. LockeShocke 16:18, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikijunior Solar System Needs You

Danny Wool has challenged us to get Wikijunior Solar System out to hurricane evacuees by October 3, 2005. This is going to be tough!

You expressed interest in WikiJunior. Would you be willing now to join the push to get Wikijunior Solar System completed? Come see Wikijunior Solar System!

Thanks --SV Resolution(Talk) 17:37, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Graphics Lab

I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 02:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Label.png

Hello, LockeShocke. An automated process has found and will an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that is in your userspace. The image (Image:Label.png) was found at the following location: User:LockeShocke/Why did Socialism fail in early 20th century America. This image or media will be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. This does not necessarily mean that the image is being deleted, or that the image is being removed from other pages. It is only being removed from the page mentioned above. All mainspace instances of this image will not be affected Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 17:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Speedy deletion of Halo 3

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