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Is there a way for your bot to do this, without moving the administration subcats or single article? (And without deleting the source category, of course. Keeping it as the parent.) - jc37 21:52, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 October 2012

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Nobots

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Is Cydebot currently {{nobots}} compliant? If not, could you make it so? Nikkimaria (talk) 16:12, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It should be compliant, since it uses PyWikipediaBot, and I haven't made any localized modifications to that part of it. --Cyde Weys 19:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know. It's not on the list, so I wasn't sure. Thanks, Nikkimaria (talk) 02:16, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Cydebot repeating a category on a CFD merger

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Hello - just a query re this edit. I closed the relevant CFD as "merge" (it was said that the articles were already in the parent category, but I thought a merger was best just to be on the safe side in case some had slipped through in the past). I thought that the bot wouldn't add the category again if it was already there, but it seems that I was wrong. Is this an unavoidable feature of the bot's operation, and / or sufficiently rare that it can't reasonably be prevented? It appears to make no difference to the categories displayed at the foot of the article (and certainly doesn't now that I've removed the duplicate), it just adds to the wikitext, but checking to see if the merger target is already present in the article would seem to be a worthwhile step. Regards, BencherliteTalk 12:37, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Odd move by Cydebot

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Hi Cyde, I stumbled across Category:People from Hennepin County, Minneota, [sic] which was populated by one article (Milt Bruhn). Cydebot moved it from Category:People from St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, which was accurate for Bruhn (the category merge discussion is here). I'm not sure what went wrong; the misspelled version doesn't quite qualify for C1 speedy deletion, so I haven't tagged it. I was hoping you could delete the misspelled category for me, and I thought you might want to see if something went wrong with the bot. Thanks, BDD (talk) 20:34, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

{talk-page stalker) - Nothing went wrong with the bot - the admin commanding the bot to make the change made a typo. Category deleted as housekeeping. Well-spotted! BencherliteTalk 20:42, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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RFD/W

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A new proposal : ) - jc37 09:36, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Howdy - a bot-issue for you. Cydebot does a great job dealing with with 'red' category links following the deletion/move of categories, but doesn't seem to see non-category links ([[:Category:Foo]] rather than [[Category:Foo]]). At a guess, I'd say it's operating from the categorylinks table rather than pagelinks. There may well be a good reason for this, but it's leaving oddities behind - see for example the Men's clubs links on Template:Football in Angola, Template:Football in Anguilla and a few more. - TB (talk) 15:41, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(self reply) Hum .. actually, this might be a bigger issue than I had thought :( - TB (talk) 17:47, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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You've got mail!

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Hello, Cyde. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 16:55, 27 November 2012 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Armbrust The Homonculus 16:55, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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DC Meetup #33

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December 10 is Ada Lovelace's birthday! Not only was she the world's first computer programmer, but also the world's first female open source developer! Come celebrate with Wikimedia District of Columbia at Busboys & Poets for an informal get together!

The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.

Kirill [talk] 14:20, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

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Wikimedia DC Holiday Party and Wiki Loves Monuments Exhibition

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Please join Wikimedia DC and four other local media nonprofits—the National Press Club's Young Members Committee, 100Reporters, IRE and the Fund for Investigative Journalism—in winding down another year with a night of well-mannered frivolity.

The festivities will take place on Friday evening from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM in the Zenger Room on the 13th Floor of the National Press Club, located on 529 14th Street NW, near Metro Center. There will be meat and vegetarian appetizers as well as a cash bar with specially reduced drink prices all night long. In addition, we will be exhibiting the finalists of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest at the event.

Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 04:44, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

clydebot actions

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hi. i'm puzzled. this edit http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:15th-century_crimes&diff=528588144&oldid=528221624 carries over "talk page" edit history, whereas on the category itself side, this edit http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Category:15th-century_crimes&oldid=528588143 creates a new page without carrying over "article page" edit history. i would expect for edit histories, when a namespace is moved, for an edit history for both the category namespace and its related talk page. this is not first instance i've seen. regards.--96.232.126.27 (talk) 19:06, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is an ages-old MediaWiki limitation at work. It's not possible to move category pages. See mw:Help:Categories, specifically this: "Unlike other wiki pages, it is not possible to rename (move) a category. It is necessary to create a new category and change the Category tag on every page. The new category will not have the older category's page history, which is undesirable if there are many revisions." This comes up quite frequently, and alas, until MediaWiki itself changes, I can't improve how Cydebot works. --Cyde Weys 20:21, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Robot - Moving category People associated with Ibiza to Category:People from Ibiza

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For your information as posted at Category talk:People from Ibiza

Hello Cyde Following a long and lively debate at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 1#Category:People_associated_with_Ibiza, I thought this issue was concluded with no-consensus as to the correct categorization to proceed with. Regardless of this, this Bot has re-categorising this list. Once again I must comment that some people on this list cannot be said to be from Ibiza. But have a very strong connection with the island. It is may be necessary for these people to be found, in connection with the island by anyone with an interest in the subject and who wishes to Navigate around the articles. This Category title doesn’t really cover these people and the Bot which has re-organised this, Not only removed it from its parent Category:Ibiza (Now restored), has no differential and I thinks has destroyed the original easier route in which readers could have navigated and searched this category.  stavros1  ♣  19:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

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The Signpost: 07 January 2013

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File:Gradiente 04.png

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Hello, you have been uploading this file above, instead, the name of the cpmpany has changed. Now they name under IGB Electronica. They have a webpage,[see here http://www.igbeletronica.com/]. Could you upload the logo from this page and put it into the article. Thanks.Cruks (talk) 15:22, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Esma Sultan (1873 - 1899), the daughter of Abdülaziz

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I got this source, also in the Turkish Wikipedia she had four sons and one daughter...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/turkey/i396.html#I396


She died giving birth to her fifth child, a son: Sultanzade Abdullah Bey Efendi (1899 - 1899) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.46.99.69 (talk) 21:15, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Non-free trademark/doc

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A tag has been placed on Template:Non-free trademark/doc, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Redriect not used in meaningful fashion

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clydebot problem.

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Looks like Cydebot was creating duplicate categories today for Category:Montreal Impact (1992–2011) players. See [1] [2] and [3] for examples. The articles ended up in this error list. My bot goes thru the list and corrects the problem, so no big deal an no harm done. Bgwhite (talk) 06:12, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Move / Rename category

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Hello, is it possible to move or rename Category:Ghanaian MPs 2009–? Do the related pages have to be changed by bot or manually?--Natsubee (talk) 00:26, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Use WP:CFD to nominate a category for renaming. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:01, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks--Natsubee (talk) 01:53, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

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Cydebot only makes lists (again)

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Hello Cyde! Cydebot has some problem with processing the renamings at WP:CFDW and are doing only listing since over a day. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:55, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pokémon species

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Umm, the Pokémon did not need to be moved up in the categories, they existed in both. Now you have duplicated the categories. If you could fix that, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Blake (Talk·Edits) 18:40, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

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The Signpost: 28 January 2013

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Cydebot is down...

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...since 18:52 UTC. - The Bushranger One ping only 07:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Back up now, thanks. - The Bushranger One ping only 19:18, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

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Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

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Dear Cyde/Archive028,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, — Hex (❝?!❞) 12:32, 8 February 2013 (UTC).[reply]

I'm pretty sure that having organizations with non-open membership requirements is frowned upon. Remember what happened to Esperanza? --Cyde Weys 17:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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A Barnstar for you

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Bot Operator's Barnstar
I thereby award you with this Bot Operator's Barnstar for creating and maintaining Cydebot (talk · contribs). Long live the bot. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) Cyde Weys 17:08, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!

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Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:30, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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Invitation to a discussion: Wikipedia and legislative data

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Hi Cyde, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:03, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!

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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 14:06, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

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File:CydeWeys userpage.png listed for deletion

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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:CydeWeys userpage.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly hi! 05:42, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

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Updating interwiki for renamed categories

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I think that when your bot renames a category, it should make sure that if the category has a Wikidata entry, the entry is updated. More details:

  1. The bot should check if the old category name has an entry in Wikidata. If not, skip the rest of these instructions.
  2. The bot should check if the new category name has an entry in Wikidata. If it does, skip the rest of these instructions (to avoid possible conflicts/mistakes).
  3. Update the enwiki name for the entry found in step 1.

Please note you would have to get the bot approved at wikidata:Wikidata:Requests for permissions#Requests for bot flags. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:10, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Hello, Cyde. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Today's_articles_for_improvement.
Message added 07:24, 17 March 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

TheOriginalSoni (talk) 07:24, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Again. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 10:33, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cydebot down

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Since 21:52 UTC on the 16th. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:42, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Back up now. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29

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In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 March 2013

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Updating interwiki for renamed categories

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I think that when your bot renames a category, it should make sure that if the category has a Wikidata entry, the entry is updated. More details:

  1. The bot should check if the old category name has an entry in Wikidata. If not, skip the rest of these instructions.
  2. The bot should check if the new category name has an entry in Wikidata. If it does, skip the rest of these instructions (to avoid possible conflicts/mistakes).
  3. Update the enwiki name for the entry found in step 1.

Please note you would have to get the bot approved at wikidata:Wikidata:Requests for permissions#Requests for bot flags. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:38, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 March 2013

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, April 13!

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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:11, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DC meetups on April 19 and 20

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Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:16, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 April 2013

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Hi ! I´m from the German Wikipedia and I have a question to your Castle Crashers article. The picture in the right top corner. How did you get the license for it ? I´m working at a German article about Castle Crashers and asked The Behemoth support if I´m allowed to write it and they agreed. But I don´t know what I have to write in the license part of the picture uploading. Please help me ! Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sperzelp (talk • contribs) 15:54, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 April 2013

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, May 11!

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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 23:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 May 2013

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The Signpost: 13 May 2013

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DC WikiSalon on May 24

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Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of May 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 18:31, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

cat. Anosy => Anosy Region

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cyde, why the hell did you rename the Category:Anosy to Category:Anosy Region ?

Please refix this and rename it back ! It's me who's doing 99% of the articles there - and there is no logical reason for renaming it. There is no other "Anosy" in the world, so that this needs further precision. Thanks & regards Tonton Bernardo (talk) 09:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The bot just processes the instructions on the woring page which was the result of an uncontested speedy move. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:11, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 May 2013

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Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

organized by Wiki Project Med
On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.

If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho (talk) 00:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete User:Dan56

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Hi, please delete User:Dan56, because the user has contributed without complaining. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.177.13 (talk) 02:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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DC WikiSalon on June 6

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Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Thursday, June 6 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 12:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Have time on Saturday?

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I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

I hope to see you there!

(You can unsubscribe from future notifications for D.C.-area events by removing your name from this list.)

Harej (talk) 04:18, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the Base58 page is now worth reopening.

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When this was originally deleted, there were no other outside references.

Now there are.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding

Thanks.

-Peter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lectrick (talk • contribs) 15:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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