User talk:Meekohi

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Meekohi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I must admit, it's a very belated welcome. Your edit history says you first joined us in 2002. Sorry we took so long to offically welcome you aboard ;) -- Longhair | Talk 13:55, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)


[edit] New category

Based on your user page, this may be of interest to you: [[Category:Wikipedians who are pilots]]. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 17:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Cryptography

Just a quick note to welcome you to the project, and to say thanks for your articles on IND-CPA1, IND-CPA2 and Claw. I look forward to bumping into you editing various crypto things! — Matt Crypto 16:02, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Matt, hope to see you around. I'm not really a cryptography expert, but I've applied to MIT's CS department for cryptography, so hopefully I'll be improving articles around here while I learn more.
Meekohi 16:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style remarks

Hi Meekohi. I have some very tiny style remark. It is about links. On Wikipedia, one should not use capitals excessively. So, instead of

Graph Theory, Cryptography, and Complex Systems

one should write

Graph theory, cryptography, and complex systems

(uppercase only at the beginning). This is a small thing, but is good to learn. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, that's a bad habit I picked up living in Germany for a little too long (They capitalize all nouns, I'm not sure how it is in Romanian). Thanks for noticing, and sorry for all the trouble I've been giving you today! I'll get better I promise. ;) Meekohi 20:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
By the way, please feel free to let me know of any mistakes I make. I've been at Wikipedia a while, but haven't edited very seriously until recently and am still quite error-prone ;) The only way to get better is if someone points mistakes out to me. Meekohi 20:34, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
You are not giving me any trouble. :) Thanks for taking the suggestions lightly.
About Romananian language, we capitalize even less than in English. We write countries in upper case, like America, but adjectives in lowercase, like american. So, I had to learn to capitalize rather than uncapitalize. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Math Collaboration of the Week

Hello Meekohi. I will help you as far as I am able to revive the math collaboration of the week. I think it is important to get attention to mathematical topics in visible places like the main page. What are your thoughts on Multiple comparisons? It seems like a dreadfully important topic to me, and I would hate to see it fall by the wayside if other collaborations start to take off. Debivort 21:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Heya Debivort!

I completely agree about Multiple comparison, but I was thinking that if we're going to get people really interested again we should start off with a fresh slate. I would either wait a week, or if you're really excited about it maybe just put a new nomination up. In theory multiple comparison just finished being "collaboration of the past three months", so I'm not sure people will be too thrilled about it.

Meekohi 00:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

True. It just seems a shame that the article is unlikely to reach fruition just because momentum for the project was waning as it happened to be up for collaborative effort. If things get going, I'll re-nominate it after a few cycles I think. Debivort 01:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old MCotW nominations

Are you going to put the nominations you removed on Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/Removed? —James S. 05:56, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually I had planned on not doing that in hopes that someone would be more likely to renominate them, but if you would like to put them there I wouldn't have an objection! Meekohi 21:53, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] current MCOTW

Hello Meekohi - Is Small World Network the current MCOTW? If so, it should be labeled and and advertised as that to get work going. Currently the nomination page says that the next COTW will be chosen on the 14th. If any article will be chosen between now and then, it will have less than a week available to work on it as a MCOTW. Ready to get my collaborate on, Debivort 13:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amitabha's forty-eight vows

Good job! —Theo (Talk) 23:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Ha ha, thanks! Meekohi 01:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moses Liskov

Hi. Just curious - do you know Moses Liskov? I met him at crypto and Asiacrypt. I'm think there was one more person from the College of William and Mary as well. Any idea who that might have been? Arvindn 04:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Heya Arvindn,
I do indeed know Moses I just took a cryptography class with him last semester and he wrote my recommendation letter for graduate school! Hopefully I'll be going to MIT next year to be just like him, ha ha ;) I'm not sure who the other person from W&M was unfortunately, I didn't know someone else was going. I could certainly ask Moses for you though if you're curious.
Meekohi 05:05, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
That's alright; its not that big a deal. Good luck with your grad school applications! Arvindn 06:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IND-CPA1 and IND-CPA2

Hey -- just letting you know, I'm changing these two into redirects to Ciphertext indistinguishability. There is no corresponding notion to the "lunchtime attack" for plaintext attacks: for PK cryptosystems, there's no need for an encryption oracle at all, since you effectively get one by knowing the public key. Mangojuice 01:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me, I had just put those up as stubs months ago so that there was SOMETHING there. :)
Meekohi 01:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MCOTW procedure

Is there some procedure for coordinating the collaborative effort? Something like:

  • first a collective critical examination of the patient, identifying the good, the bad and the ugly;
  • then some discussion resulting in a rough consensus of the main points to be tackled and a basic plan of attack (reorganize structure; add/rewrite/scrap sections; examples; references; whatever);
  • then parcelling this out into manageable tasks that individual collaborators can sign up to.

I just looked at Arithmetic and I must say that, like many Wikipedia articles about very basic mathematical topics, it is pretty awful, in fact so much so that I'd hardly know where to start. LambiamTalk 17:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Ha ha, yeah I understand your pain. There is no procedure in particular, although I see someone helpfully put up a todo list on the Talk page. I would say that your suggestions are a great idea, but we suffer from a serious lack of interest. There are only about 1 or 2 people who usually contribute to a given MathCOTW, so the article tends to be mostly an individual effort. If you can muster up some more support from people it would be very awesome.
Meekohi 17:37, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template talk:Now

A long time ago, you had asked how to convert the UTC time on Template:Now to your local time. The best way to do this is to go to the "my preferences" tab on the top right corner of your screen, click on the "Date and time" tab, and then in the "Offset", put in the amount of time your local time differs from UTC. for example, if you're in India (like me :) , then you would fill in +05:30. So basically the format for filling into the "Offset" is ± HH:MM, and the HH is in 24 hour format. If you don't by how much time your local time differs from the UTC, click "Fill in from browser". Press save, and then go back and check if it's the correct time in "Local time".--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Calling programmers

We need coders for the WikiProject Disambigation fixer. We need to make a program to make faster and easier the fixing of links. We will be happy if you could check the project. You can Help! --Neo139 09:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Current math collaboration

Group (mathematics)

The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Month is Group (mathematics).
Please help to improve this article towards featured article standard.
Last month's collaboration was Set

James S. 01:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:User_Meekohi_Mt_Marshall.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Mathematics CotW

Hey Meekohi, We just had a discussion about the MCotW at the talk page of WP: mathematics. It has been "decided" that I coordinate the CotW. Since you are an integral(pun intended) part of the project, I invite you to read both discussions that we have had,(one is archived, but the link is in the first conversation). Anyway, it has also been "decided" that the Week be changed into a month and the FA as a goal be changed to A class, in the interest of participation. My current plan as "coordinator" is to leave a nice message about the CotW on the participant's in WP:M talk pages, encouraging them to join in to whatever extent they would like. Then I think the priority should be to finish up theorem and encourage voting on new possibilities, as of now nothing has more than three votes. Hopefully your job as moderator will get a little more work intensive;) thanks--Cronholm144 16:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Automeris io

Hello - I noticed you have this moth article an A rating. A-class articles should be practically FA material and cover the article in depth and brilliantly. Though this article is okay, I don't feel it deserves A-class. I rated it as start - it's only around a page and could do with a lot more work. A B-rating would be okay too, I'm just steering on the side of caution, I prefer to rate tougher so we don't overestimate how good an article is. For assessments though, I would very rarely if ever give an A-class. B is basically as high as I will give; if I think the article is outstanding I might submit a GA request for it. Although it's not a formal requisite, I think it's always better for an article to go through GA proceedings before being awarded an A class. Hope you continue you assessing articles, (I assess many myself, often outside the scope I would normally edit) but just remember an A-class is only for the very best. Richard001 08:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem Richard. That's the only article I've ever bothered rating, and only because it was left blank. I was basing the rating off the "complete" qualifier, since I doubt any real encyclopedia would contain more information, but if you feel more can be added you're certainly welcome to! Meekohi 16:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BRDF

Thank god somebody rewrote that article.
—jakarr 21:23, 17 December 2007 (UTC)