[15:54:46] ok, gotta run to meet yurik at a cowork space, bbl [17:48:30] qchris_away: ping me when is a good time to talk [18:18:48] DarTar: I am in the batcave. [21:46:21] DarTar: Making some bold changes to your MAE page. [21:47:10] I love fridays! [21:47:32] ^ [21:47:50] halfak: I'm helping write an R book and working on that IP reliability tracking. [21:47:57] professional development day is the best day. [21:48:01] I'm jelly. [21:48:07] boring day? [21:48:10] Wait. How do I get to do that. [21:48:15] or have you literally been turned into jelly? [21:48:16] I thought that was Saturday. [21:48:18] halfak: thanks! [21:48:21] hah! [21:48:26] well, it's standard in Product. Talk to toby, I guess? [21:48:47] I think it makes sense as an activity; we probably want researchers/analysts who are keeping on top of humanity's vast and varied ways of gathering and interpreting data. [21:48:52] yeah we totally need to do this [21:49:06] Yes. [21:49:23] I haven't read a paper that I wasn't reviewing in a long time :( [21:49:32] halfak, oh man, there've been some really good ones! [21:49:33] I used to do this in my spare time, just to complain that I have none since #2 arrived and it should be part of my paid professional dev [21:49:33] DarTar hopes that someone will have a look at https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/2 [21:49:42] thanks CommanderData [21:49:48] DarTar, yeah, ditto, only without the kid. [21:49:51] but #2 is not a mingle card [21:49:51] DarTar hopes that someone will have a look at https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/2 [21:50:01] *snort* [21:50:39] I was really glad to get professional development time assigned, because the alternatives are (1) I learn nothing (2) I end up doing it in my personal time and turning into a shell of a human being (3) I end up doing it unauthorised during my work time. [21:51:08] so, really, the best outcome is just to formalise what was happening anyway, which is me mysteriously vanishing into a room only to reappear five hours later mumbling about field locking in reference classes. [21:51:38] I thought (2) was just an accepted reality of the times. [21:51:49] well, sure, I still do that. [21:51:53] but ssssh ;p [21:52:03] :P [21:52:19] in fact, I even don't have time to review papers I promise to review, which really sucks [21:52:22] that reminds me, I owe you a blocking analysis writeup [21:52:26] Monday was a big personal development day for me. [21:52:35] "query running" - the research version of "compiling" - shall give me the time [21:52:37] * Ironholds gets on that [21:52:38] oh? [21:52:42] I have had reminders for 3 weeks from a journal [21:52:45] DarTar: Research critical mass. We can do this. You don't have to be the one man show anymore. [21:53:04] I'm happy to help if I can. I mean, mostly I'm only good for pointing out holes in methodology [21:53:08] rather than "you need to cite paperX" [21:53:14] (oh, and I can copyedit well). But that's about it. [21:53:24] You're already helping IH. [21:53:24] halfak: speaking of which, tell Ironholds about this brand new IRC channel [21:53:29] One of us. one of us. [21:53:54] halfak, I heard that in the appropriate voice ;p [21:54:53] ./join #wikimedia-research [21:54:53] Apparently it has been here the whole time. [21:54:53] I just went looking a couple of weeks ago and found it. [21:54:55] I've been autojoining ever since, but no one joins me [21:55:43] Apparently, someone named Xirzon created -research in 2005! [22:15:15] halfak: you know who that someone is don't you [22:20:27] I don't [22:21:49] oh come on guys [22:22:01] WMF knowledge :) [22:22:17] Xirzon aka ... [22:22:19] our central storehouse of knowledge mostly centres around where the keys to Ryan's booze cabinet live [23:09:44] I don't know Xirzon either :\