[17:48:36] mornin' halfak :) [17:48:51] Hey Ironholds [17:49:00] :) [17:52:08] how goes? [17:56:05] Not bad. Just catching up on work that I promised. Enjoying my coffee and being inside on this cold and snowy morning. [17:56:07] :) [17:56:16] How about you, Ironholds [17:58:06] halfak: pretty good! Spent my weekend unwinding, building furniture and catching up on my backlog of FOSS tasks. [17:58:39] It was a great reminder of why I love the R community; we're really tight-knit and we're always trying to make things better. Just typed "I'm in a conversation with Dirk, Karthik, Jeroen, Hilary, Hadley and Scott" - there are zero name collisions there; nobody reading it would go "Wait, which Scott?" [17:58:49] the topic is "replacing R-bloggers with something less eye-searing and ad-filled" [17:59:04] Your apartment full of furniture now? [17:59:08] R-Bloggers? [18:00:34] blog aggregator for R; it's...not great. [18:00:47] and, mostly! I still have another bookcase and some slats to show up, and I need to cut the wood for my worktable [18:01:00] but I got my bow rack up yesterday, which was the last big thing [18:01:23] I put it up, looked idly out the window of the wall I was putting it on, and realised I was an inch away from drilling into one of the building's transformer lines. [18:01:37] so, added a stud/EM detector to the to-buy list before I do anything else involving walls. [18:03:09] hoping for a proper holiday soon. That'll be good :) [18:23:19] Hello, Is there somebody free to reply ? [18:24:13] Hi LionelScheepmans [18:24:19] How've you been!? [18:24:47] Oh wait. I might be thinking of another Lionel. Are you U of Mich? [18:28:09] No problem, I'm :https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lionel_Scheepmans ( I'm French speaker. so appologize for misatke ok ?) [18:29:43] No trouble. :) How can I help? [18:31:30] I come here to colect information about Wikimedia research activities. The laste was on 2011 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2011-12-22) so i'm not sure if the group is still alive . Also I would like to know how to join the group ? Is anybody welcome ? [18:32:33] LionelScheepmans, you're very welcome. [18:32:55] We're not so much as a group as a community. We don't have regular meetings, but we do all hang out in this channel. [18:33:06] Do you also know about wiki-research-l, the mailing list? [18:33:29] See https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l [18:33:56] No, I only use the news letter until now. [18:34:45] So, well I will propose my subscription for the mailing list rignt now [18:35:25] Great! :) [18:36:05] done :) [18:36:26] How many members are you aproximatly ? [18:41:39] Hmm... I suppose you might consider ~50-100 people regular scholars in the Wiki/Open collaboration space. [18:42:05] But there are lots more who are interested an publishing periodically about Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects. [18:42:16] Maybe 1000 if you count grad students. [18:43:30] Waw ! But what's about pesons realy actives on the mailing list and on this IRC chanel ? [18:44:51] Hot topics on the mailing list might get 20 responses (many will get 1 or 2). [18:45:28] The IRC channel is most active for the WMF Research Staff (myself included) and those who we directly collaborate with. That ends up being ~10-15 people speaking on a daily basis. [19:41:24] Thanks for this information halfak, do you have a link to inform me about your activies or maybe a place where I can found a list of member with link to user pages ? [19:42:27] LionelScheepmans, regretfully, we don't really maintain a WikiProject anymore. [19:42:27] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research [19:57:25] Ok, halfak. So I will present my self on the mailing list and keeping touch with this. Do you have a user page some where to read about your activities ? [19:58:11] LionelScheepmans, sure! My volunteer page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail [19:58:22] my staff page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF) [19:58:40] !!! I need to add a paper to the list. [20:01:03] Perfect, I gone check it and lurn about. Thanks. [20:26:15] oh, halfak, I made a new pun [20:26:16] https://github.com/Ironholds/rwars [20:38:31] halfak: All your activity are very interesting, realy ! And use full I hope. Unfortunatly every things look like not compatible with french wikipedia :/ If you know some compatible tools, pleas just send me linfs. also on last thing :Do you know some french speaker on the research team ? If yes could you give me links to there user pages ? [21:51:27] guillom, are you french speaker ? [21:51:27] halfak, is it true that in Minnesota you call Duck Duck Goose "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck"? [21:51:54] I don't know how this horribly lie got started. [21:52:07] Well, Doomtree are perpetuating it [21:52:21] It's called Duck Duck Goose and some noobs convinced the world that we talked funny here. [21:52:35] you DO talk funny [21:52:39] ;p [21:52:51] Well oofta! [21:53:14] see? I don't even know what that means! [21:54:02] I dont know what it means either [21:54:04] halfak, I got my Chicagoan friends to translate. We're cool. [21:54:07] Duck Duck Grey Goose [21:54:14] also, something I learned recently [21:54:19] Americans call frog eggs, frog eggs [21:54:21] mind, blown. [21:54:28] lol # Duck Duck Grey Goose [21:54:37] Frog egg? [21:54:41] Frog leg? [21:54:46] like, the gloopy masses frogs lay in ponds? [21:54:51] we call it frogspawn [21:54:56] Oh. What else might you call 'em? [21:54:57] apparently y'all just call it "frog eggs". Far more boring. [21:54:58] That seems more appropriate [21:55:07] Frog spawn lawl [21:55:13] I am trying to do work despite having one (1) beer with lunch. [21:55:23] (1) [21:55:34] Americans had kermit in fear for his life. Its hard being green... [21:55:47] halfak, you're in DC, so I have to assume that that sentence should be read as "I am going through alcohol withdrawal, having had 1 beer with lunch" ;p [21:55:54] harej* [21:55:59] that's the one [21:56:09] I'm entirely sober, the house just smells like chemical fumes [21:56:10] I almost never drink in the afternoon [21:56:13] I spent my weekend scrubbing /everything [21:56:18] I'm still in San Francisco [21:56:29] ew [21:56:57] harej: overstaying his welcome since 1992 [21:58:09] 1992? [21:58:12] oh god, that's scary. [21:58:16] 1892 [21:58:42] Ironholds I'm only two years younger than you [21:59:21] LionelScheepmans: I am indeed. [21:59:25] or to put it another way, I have memories your age ;p [21:59:26] So harej has been is SF as old as baywatch? [21:59:56] I don't remember anything from when I was 2 [22:00:04] My oldest memory is from when I was either 3 or 4. [22:00:13] Most people dont [22:00:23] mine is the birth of my younger brother when I was two [22:00:27] that's the oldest one [22:00:33] * guillom waves at the weekenders. [22:00:59] halfak, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose#Duck_Duck_Gray_Duck look it's in Wikipedia and everything! [22:01:03] hey guillom :). How goes? [22:01:31] Ironholds: Good, good. Getting some stuff done on the week-end is weirdly rewarding. You, feeling better? [22:01:33] Ironholds please tell me you didnt get an md at that age [22:01:42] White_Cat_mobile, what? [22:01:52] guillom, yeah, pretty good :). Just tidying like a mad thing before company comes over [22:02:00] ...oh god, the company is ~1992-era too [22:02:01] * Ironholds cries [22:02:18] mind you, halfak was in the education system before I was alive, so. [22:02:35] :P [22:02:51] They don't wait long to put you in the education system. [22:03:22] In my case, I think I was 3? [22:03:35] really? huh. I was five, excluding pre-k [22:04:13] halfak, well, I was born when you were...6? 7? [22:04:15] ;p [22:04:54] when does the US education system start, actually? [22:05:02] (subtext: if I spawn how long do I have to deal with the blighters for) [22:05:24] around 5, unless you send your child to a pre-school [22:05:57] * Ironholds nods [22:25:34] Ironholds, I was 6/7 in 1990 [22:27:00] My body still thinks it is in sf [22:27:11] This is terrible [22:27:16] halfak, yep! [22:27:24] * YuviPanda waved [22:27:32] * YuviPanda waves [22:27:41] Hey YuviPanda [22:29:40] hey YuviPanda :) [22:29:45] Hey YuviPanda [22:29:51] Okay, I have scrubbed my entire apartment [22:29:53] * Ironholds nods firmly [22:30:51] I'm considering pros and cons of trying to go back to sleep vs giving up and writing some code [22:31:19] I'm pretty close to calling it quits for the day. [22:38:36] I'm older than y'all. [22:39:15] Not much older than halfak though. We can sit on a bench together and rumble about the youth. [22:40:04] lol. That's starting to feel more natural all the time. [22:40:11] +g [22:40:37] (grumble) [22:40:37] Goddamn loud music and ill informed political views. [22:40:43] Right! [22:40:43] :P [22:41:05] And all the laziness [22:41:40] don't forget the ill-fitting clothes [22:41:56] my clothes fit me well :( [22:42:06] Clothes? When they wear them! [22:43:10] ha! [22:59:40] * Ironholds grins [22:59:59] harej, wanna throw stones at a lake and talk about guillom and halfak keeping us down with their outmoted worldview? [23:00:21] i'll join you in a minute i have work [23:00:28] square [23:00:34] scab! [23:00:45] wikimedia foundation grantees are not unionized :( [23:00:52] they should be! [23:01:00] (though i'm actually doing wikimedia dc work right now, which pays even less!) [23:01:06] wait, we pay you? [23:01:10] I wasn't aware we paid people [23:01:15] does everyone ELSE get paid? [23:01:18] I should really talk to Toby. [23:01:21] you do pay me as an IEG recipient. you do not pay me to run a chapter [23:01:30] I've been doing it for free all this time! [23:01:57] No. Shhh. We all work for free. [23:02:10] He was just talking about the free food they give us sometimes. [23:02:37] Running Wikimedia DC does come with a considerable amount of free food. [23:03:46] ohh [23:03:52] harej, well, that's why they call it pork, right? ;p [23:04:28] Unfortunately we have not embedded ourselves in the federal appropriations process yet. [23:04:55] you should get on that! you're uniquely located [23:04:57] Just other parts of the government. [23:05:01] wander into some senator's office and be like [23:05:26] "I'm not saying I could vandalise your article. I'm not saying I couldn't vandalise your article. I'm just saying that it's election season, I'm a Wikipedia editor, and nobody's given me a Congressional Gold Medal this week." [23:07:55] The standard Wikimedia DC joke is, "That's a nice article you got there. It would be a SHAME if something bad were to happen to it!" [23:13:22] haha [23:23:23] This is a test [23:24:14] Yeah, voice recognition baby!