User talk:Tobacman

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[edit] WikiProject Automatic Archival Notification

Hi, by the suggestion of User:Radiant!, I am in the progress of programming a bot that will remove any project listed within Category:WikiProjects, and place {{inactive}} at the top of the page should the page has not been edited within a period of 6 months and the discussion page has not been edited for 2 months. If you have any objections, please let me know on my userpage. This notification is because you have a WikiProject that resides on your own User space. As I prefer not to touch people's user spaces, I would very much like your input in the matter. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

ICan you take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Keywords? I think this should be discussed at Wikidemia. I have a moderated forum set up there for a similar topic. Thank in advance. Quinobi 22:56, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More on stats?

Statistically speaking : an agenda for tomorrow would be grand. +sj + 16:35, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fundraising committee

Greetings! I have been tasked by the board of the Wikimedia Foundation to select the initial membership of the newly-created Fundraising committee. Your qualifications in this area have convinced me that you would be a perfect candidate for advisorship. If you accept this nomination, then do nothing. If you would instead prefer to be a consultant or volunteer or not involved at all, then please move or delete your name accordingly at meta:Fundraising committee. Thank you. --Daniel Mayer 04:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crash space during Wikimania

Hello,

You have put an information on Wikimania webpage, that you are offering crash space.

I'd like to attend Wikimania, and I am wondering if you can accomodate me. I have no big demands. Just a place on your floor is absolutely OK.

Polimerek 22:02, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Some info about me:

I am the treasurer of the Wikimedia Poland Society and its board member for the first year, elected on August 2005.

I am a chemist from Centre of Molecular Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, involved in editing Polish Wikipedia, sometimes English and recently uploading chemical pictures to Commons.

My story with Wikimedia projects begun one month after launching polish edition of Wikipedia (at 2001), as a 7th registered user. Several weeks later I have also joined English Wikipedia, but I have registered there one year later, and have never been very active there.

In Polish Wikipedia I was mainly involved in editing chemical articles, translating basic meta articles from English Wikipedia, and also many articles for various other areas of knowledge. I don’t know exactly how many articles I have written from 2001 but my estimation it is in between of 1000 serious content additions and much more minor editions. Currently, I am responsible for maintaining Chemistry Wikiportal and category chemistry on Polish Wikipedia.

I am also admin of Polish Wikipedia almost from its beginning. I am administering articles for deletion, featured articles and Questions of newbies. I am also a member of informal "cleaning department" on Polish Wikipedia.

my e-mail polimerek at gmail com

Cheers,

Polimerek 20:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Crash space

Hi! It's not sure yet, but I hope to be at Wikimania 2006. I'm going to present some ideas about starting a political party based on wiki ideas, some software to access Wikipedia on the Nokia 770, and possibly tell something about Wikipedias in languages such as Quechua, Wolof, Bambara and Fulfulde. Currently I'm living in Lima, but after Wikimania I will continue my travels in the US and Canada, hitchhiking and CouchSurfing. Please let me know if you have some couch or place on the floor for me during Wikimania, possibly At kasper DOT souren AROBASE gmail dotcom. Guaka 23:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Guaka, I expect it would be fine to crash on my couch during Wikimania. Let me confirm with my roommates. What was your email address again? I was not able to decipher from your post. Also, what would your dates of arrival and departure be? I hope to meet you in August. Tobacman 18:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Great! Ok, here it comes again in a different variation: kasper D O T souren A T gmail D O T com. I am not sure about my date of arrival, but I was planning on at least attend some developer days. And I will at least try to arrive hitchhiking, from NY, so it's hard to give an exact date. I wanted to stay till the end of the conference. Guaka 18:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Room for one more? (Wikimania)

Tobacman,
I was wondering if you have room for one more during hacking days? I'm staying in the Cambridge dorms for the main event, but I need a crash space from July 31-August 2. Can I stay at your place? :)

Kyle
Credentials:
Personal Webstite
Wikimedia Staff

Kyle, I will be madly busy those days, but it will be fine for you to stay at my place. I look forward to meeting you then. Jeremy
Great, Thanks so much! Can you email me so we can exchange contact information? kyle at xkyle dot com. KyleAnderson 06:13, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images rather than / as well as PDFs for stats?

Hi Tobacman, Saw your post on wikitech-l about the stats. I like the graphs (who doesn't?!), but can I maybe suggest making them into images rather than (or if you prefer as well as) PDFs? That way they can be embedded straight onto the report page and viewed all at once, rather than having to be downloaded one-by-one and viewed individually in an external app. Just a thought :-) -- All the best, Nickj (t) 05:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. They're now all up here, which is somewhat better; we'll try to get them in-line somewhere soon. Tobacman 21:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Looks good. If it helps for inlining, there's an upload script that can be used to make uploading data from a command line easier. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 02:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crash space for a mum with a baby

Hi Tobacman, My name is Rani, a mummy geek from Indonesia. I'll be coming down to Cambridge for wikimania, expect to be in Cam from 2 aug to 7 aug. I wonder if the crash space offer is still available? Note i will be coming with my 1 year old baby, but we're pretty much flexible in terms of sleeping arrangement. Thanks! Meutia Chaerani 07:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Rani-- Tiga orang sudah mau menginap disini selama Wikimania. Silahkan gabung juga, tapi mungkin kalian lebih nyaman di tempat lain. Tolong kasih tahu...
Sampai ketemu! Jeremy
Hi Jeremy, terimakasih banyak. Saya sudah hubungi SJ dan dia bilang saya masih bisa dapat kamar di Gropius Dorm. Kamar di Dorm cukup bagus karena dekat dengan Wikimania, dan juga ada "privacy", khususnya untuk bayi saya. Terimakasih atas balasan anda, dan semoga kita bisa berjumpa di Cambridge. Salam! Meutia Chaerani 06:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FundCom

Would you also be interested in being a full member? We are a bit short in that area. The board nixed one of the people on my suggested list due to him already being on two other committees. --mav 11:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Mav, I am honored by the invitation. Any special skills I have are in designing and conducting statistical analyses. As a committee member, what would I be expected to do? If my responsibilities would be focussed around statistical work, I would accept enthusiastically. Jeremy

[edit] Crash space...

All sorted, thanks, I'm staying in the dorms. Sorry I put my request in the wrong place, not sure how or why that happened... after 9000 edits you'd think I wouldn't make that sort of mistake! ++Lar: t/c 18:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Congratulations!

A klein bird told me congratulations are in order. Wow! What great news! Best wishes & all that! Jkbaum 01:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!! Jean and I couldn't be happier :) Jeremy 23:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Ahh, so the actual wedding will be anticlimactic? (: +sj + 01:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the note, but all I did was automatic unicodification. - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 01:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fundraising graphs

Hi. For the translation of the fundraising report graphs, I wonder if you could be so kind to provide versions without text, and with dates in YYYY-MM-DD format, and "x 1000 USD" instead of "Thousands of USD", etc. Or, if that's not possible, maybe you could provide the raw data, so I or someone else can plot the graphs again. TIA. Greetings. --Angus 18:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Angus. Thanks for your help with these translations. I've created versions of the figures without text and with YYYY-MM-DD dates, as you suggested, and will upload to <figname>_blank.png, for each of the <figname>s that are currently in the fundraising report. However, while preparing those figures, I realized the easiest thing may be for the translation request to specify the text in the figures that needs translating, and then for me to create figures with the translated text strings. I put the list of those strings at meta:Translation_requests/WMF/Fundraising_report_figuretext; I trust your judgment about whether to use the blank png's or to translate the strings. Jeremy Tobacman 00:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! I'll be translating the strings later today. Maybe in the future, when we have more people editing WMF pages, we'll switch to the blank ones for accessibility reasons. But for now, if we aren't going to write a description of each graph (an I think we have a lot more important things to do), it doesn't make any sense to be blind-accessible only on the titles, and it looks better with the labels inside the graph :). Greetings. --Angus 10:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fundraising graphs II

Hi, I couldn't find out what utility did you use to create those graphs? I think they are really nice and I would like to create something similar for my thesis. :) Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nejko (talk • contribs) 23:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC).

Nejko-- Thanks! I used the (commercial) statistical software package Stata. As of v8 and v9, the graphics packages are all right. Jeremy Tobacman 23:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] commons:User:Tobacman

I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Tobacman Jeremy Tobacman 01:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Style note

Hi, just a small note based on your edit at orthogonality. One should not put links in section names, they should be put in the text where appropriate instead. This is a small thing, but I thought I'd let you know for the future. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In re: Category:Information economics

Hello Tabacman. I don't mind if you move or delete this category, but before you take any further action, I would like to know: Are you going to delete the information economics article and/or move and merge its contents into contract theory and its related articles? Or do you simply wish to delete the category? Please let me know. --Eastlaw 07:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

All right then, feel free to put the category up for deletion. If you need any help in editing any of the articles, let me know. I'm not sure how much new information I will be able to contribute though, as I am not an expert in this particular branch of economics. --Eastlaw 05:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I suggest NOT deleting information economics yet. Please see my comments on that Talk:Information economics and Talk:WikiProject_Economics. --Rinconsoleao 15:02, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SatyrBot and Logic

Hi, Zvika - Thanks for the comments. I've asked WP:Logic to review some of the categories for misplaced banners (see here). Sorry for the over-tagging! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ill logic

Sorry for this. Completely uncalled for. Paul August ☎ 02:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

/me tips his hat again, in solidarity. Jeremy

[edit] customer tiering redirect to price discrimination

Hi Tobacman, I think you put in the redirect, no? Was hoping you could explain a little. Seems to me that price discrimination might be one manifestation of customer tiering, but there could be others too. E.g. a service organisation might choose to provide different levels of service based on expected duration/profitability of the customer relationship, without charging different prices per se. One example would be an airline choosing to upgrade a frequent flier rather than an infrequent customer, although both might have paid the same price for their tickets for that particular flight. Another would be a hotel chain offering additional facilities, eg use of a gym or snack facility. Net, I think price discrimination could be a good "see also" but it's an incomplete explanation of tiering. Regards, --AndrewHowse 15:02, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, Yes, I put in the redirect. I was concerned that "Customer tiering" may be a neologism, as it has only a couple hundred google hits, and so thought it might not yet deserve an article of its own. Plus, the redirect seemed better than a red link, as the concepts are closely related. If you can make a good article out of it, go ahead. Jeremy Tobacman 16:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
hi there. No good deed goes unpunished, as they say! I guess you saw the request at Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Business_and_economics; I wrote a couple of lines there but didn't go back and write a bit more for a stub. I'll do that and add a see also for price discrimination. --AndrewHowse 19:32, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki_talk:Anonnotice#Feedback_on_the_idea

Neat stuff going on there; log out and view the new randomized messages. A couple people are working on adding the ability to measure click throughs on a per message basis. There is no limit to the number of messages that can be displayed either. --mav 16:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contract theory#Moral Hazard

Hello again, Tobacman. On the above subsection, which you kindly added a while ago, would you consider defining (or even just labelling) terms in formulas? It don't think it would be hard to track them down in the usual sources (though I could certainly be mistaken here), but I believe in honoring the Wiki source (you in this case) by so requesting. (One little WP:Style point: headings are standardly [without a good reason othewise, such as a book title] in lower case after the first word, thus "Moral hazard" above.) BW, Thomasmeeks (talk) 13:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Thx for the suggestion: Done. Jeremy Tobacman (talk) 23:51, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Search cost

Hi Tobacman. You'll see that I've put some text on the "Search cost" page. I've replaced your "redirect" with a "see also". I expect you know a lot more about the subject than me so please check that it's OK, if you have time. I was aiming for a plainer and briefer introduction than the more complex and theoretical discussion in Search theory. --Northernhenge (talk) 21:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting your input at Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Featured Article drive

Since you are a member of WikiProject Economics, I would like to direct your attention to Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Featured Article drive. We are currently deciding on an economics-related article to bring to Featured Article status and we would like your input. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 15:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)