[13:03:18] bleeeh [13:56:57] hey halfak :) [13:57:10] Hi Ironholds [13:57:25] Just sent you an email about Malaysia :) [13:58:59] ooh [13:59:52] I don't see it yet [14:00:01] TL;DR: Guy wants to drum up more interest in editing articles about Malaysia from Malaysians [14:00:21] Wants our help getting a sense of what the status of Malaysian content is. [14:00:40] I figured you'd be able to come in from the angle of the geography of editors. [14:00:45] I have some quality models that work well. [14:00:47] aha [14:00:52] yep, happy to help :) [14:01:12] And Leila & Ellery have some datasets that correlate articles between languages beyond wikidata's links. [14:01:16] cool [14:01:43] So, I wanted to know if you had the time & interest to be looped into the thread. [14:01:49] :) [14:04:48] Do you know if we have anyone who works with people who want to do initiatives like this? [14:05:10] I suppose Daniel could apply for a PEG for any programs he wants to get involved in. [14:05:42] But I imagine there should be some best practices for "drumming up interest in Wikipedia" in . [14:05:49] Ironholds, ^ [14:06:03] * Ironholds thinks [14:06:33] I...don't. I mean, there's the CIS in India who should theoretically be interested and we can put him in touch with Shilad/Brent/Heather etc, but those are all of my ideas [14:06:39] I sort of think of them as the Geography Cabal [14:06:49] CIS? [14:07:47] Center for Internet and Society [14:08:00] I'm not sure how reliable they are, though; I'd check with YuviPanda or Sucheta who have, I think, worked with them a bit [14:09:37] Sucheta? [14:09:52] Sucheta Goshal; she's in language engineering, does a lot of community work [14:09:57] She's neat [14:10:12] !!! Not on the staff contact list [14:11:13] >:( [14:17:47] aww [14:17:49] well, you know [14:17:56] gmail has a dropdown when you type names into the 'to' field ;p [14:18:39] * halfak updates it because it is a wiki [14:21:31] * halfak tries VE in office wiki [14:21:55] bah... you can edit tables now -- which is awesome -- but I can't figure out how to put an image in a table. [14:21:59] Back to wikitext! [14:28:51] {{done}} [14:29:30] I wouldn't be so excited about this incoming request from Daniel, but it looks like he did *a lot* of background work. [14:29:48] * halfak likes people who do their homework. [14:30:30] yay! [14:38:40] o/ Nettrom [14:52:28] o/ halfak [14:52:37] * Nettrom finally back in the mid-west [14:52:37] Squash? [14:52:46] played last night, sorry :( [14:52:51] squashy squashy squishy squash? [14:52:54] Boo [14:52:55] k [14:53:13] play next Thursday though? [14:55:05] Yup. Looks like I'm in town [14:55:26] * halfak invites Nettrom to calendar event [14:55:37] awesome! [14:57:36] "My Friend Dario" just came up in my music queue. [14:57:39] * halfak jams [14:59:16] how is Dario? [14:59:30] We've not really spoken in a while [14:59:55] He's on vacation [15:00:01] Probably driving a super mega car [15:00:13] I'm sure that red Ferrari I was at CSCW was his [15:00:26] Most definitely. ;) [15:00:45] * Nettrom office hours [15:29:09] okay, I'm calling it [15:29:19] saddle your horse, ride to the common and inform the people: [15:29:24] it is NO LONGER MANDATORY SNOW BOOT SEASON [15:31:11] Ironholds, if Boston is anything like the Northwest, I wouldn't consider the snowy season gone for another month :/ [15:31:36] North-mid-west [15:31:41] I'm safe! [15:31:50] and yeah, you're not the northwest [15:31:59] you are uninfected by the cute 20sickness! [15:32:08] wut [15:32:40] it's a Blue Scholars song about Seattle called "North by Nothwest" [15:32:44] and it contains the verse... [15:33:03] "Nine eight double-one eight, the alphabetically 2nd to last state/Never finished in last place, like the Mariners for 3 years straight/From prescriptions we administer the medicine for people still afflicted with acute two-oh-sickness" [15:33:09] because the 206 area code [15:33:19] I don't think that Missouri & Kansas should be allowed to be in my Geographical region. [15:33:45] I'd like to start referring to my Geograpical region as the "North Shore" [15:33:52] Because we have seaports in the great lakes. [15:34:09] I suppose "North Coast" would be more apt [15:34:29] MN, WI, MI and maybe IL. [15:34:47] I know some lovely Kansans [15:35:12] also, the technical term for MN, WI, MI and IL is "Canada's socks" :P [15:35:12] Oh yeah. Nothing against the people. Just not the same climate/economy [15:35:27] you're fifth columnists trying to make America nice! [15:35:29] well, Minnesotans [15:35:32] Chicagoans, not so much [15:35:33] No way, canada is the hat and we're the forehead of america [15:38:18] I accidentally just saved 150 MB worth of outgoing HTTP traffic from my laptop because I left the monitor running for a day. [15:39:23] hahaha [15:42:03] Hadoop is a crazy land of magic [15:42:08] In the worst ways [15:42:36] Oh! [15:42:46] I know what's up! [15:42:48] Bah! [15:43:08] Still magic [16:12:37] Hi folks [16:12:53] yo guillom :) [16:12:55] how goes? [16:12:55] looks like the research group meeting isn't happening? (the agenda is empty) [16:13:04] oh we're just lazy [16:13:40] just came back from a run, feeling invigorated [16:13:41] you? [16:14:12] pretty good! Popping out to buy some noms [16:14:19] writing the meta doc [16:14:24] getting distracted by -en users [16:15:06] Ironholds: I updated the task description at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91423 yesterday. Today I was thinking of writing down action items I'm thinking of for this, so we can compare notes and avoid stepping on each other's toes. [16:15:24] Does that sound good to you? [16:15:37] yep, I saw! [16:15:38] sure! [16:15:44] great :) [16:16:12] * guillom goes to prepare a quick breakfast before the perhaps-meeting. [16:42:07] Woo! Got some time back. [17:11:09] Ironholds: she is actually in VE [17:20:12] oh yes! [17:20:14] * Ironholds headslaps [17:22:39] As for CIS I have no opinions atm because all my interactions with them were years ago... [17:22:52] But they are fairly well respected in the local community [17:28:30] cool! [17:28:55] * Ironholds counts, sighs [17:29:03] "can we meet at 3pm PST" == "Good luck having an evening" [18:41:07] Deskana, could you reply to my emails so Erik does not, like...put on his disappointed face at me? [19:22:09] anyone know anything about cocktail making? [20:13:11] Ironholds: Hey, just a quick note to let you know that I might not make it to the meeting later today. I'm having an allergy attack so I'm going to lie down for a bit. Go ahead with the meeting without me if I'm not around. [20:17:26] guillom, bummer dude -- feel better [20:25:45] guillom, that's okay! I hope you feel better soon :( [21:59:37] woo hour long meeting about the NSA