User talk:Remi/Aug '07 – Oct '07

Concrete construction
Hi Remi. Thanks for your message. Probably you didn't get to see the content of the page in question, but it wasn't just Russian - it was auto-generated wiki-spam. If you want to create Concrete construction with welcome-and-expand, of course I have no objection, although perhaps you should reflect on how this page got created in the first place. One of the ways in which wiki-spam is generated is probably by spam-bots specially designed for MediaWiki. They are presumably fitted out with a long list of known MediaWiki installations. The wiki-spam-bot then identifies if IP users can create new pages or not. If not, it fakes a new user account. As a side point, wiki-spam-bots seems to create new never-active user accounts by the bucket-load just for fun anyway - possibly to make it more difficult to distinguish spam accounts from real ones. The spammer buys a flight of wiki-spam, probably specifying title and content. For each wiki, the bot fakes an IP, creates a one-use-only fake account if necessary, and creates a single new page. It probably iterates this over all the wikis on its current list, or a random subset.

What you should consider is that the page title was conceived by a spammer, not an educator, so it makes no particular sense for us to continue to use the title unless it is obviously educational.

-- McCormack 10:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Nice catch
Have you voted yet, BTW? --SB_Johnny | PA! 11:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I have the tabs open atm. Is this place like a democracy now? --Remi 11:14, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately it has to be in the CU case... meta makes the rules there :(. --SB_Johnny | PA! 11:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

:)
McCormack 14:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Intro of Topic:Critical Pedagogy is a 99% copy of the WP article
Hello, could you have a look here please ? Thank you, Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 15:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * {{wps}) - Please make it better if you see that it can be improved. --Remi 09:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I could only rephrase it, since I am not into that subject. But the context of any word could seem to a layman or even experts different. Rephrase the first sentence (see here please). Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 10:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

email
Could you activate the "email this user" feature for this account? Thanks. --JWSchmidt 22:31, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I just did as per your request. Thanks for the reminder. --Remi 22:35, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

leaflet
Do you know what this is supposed to be? Wikiversity leaflet on Meta --JWSchmidt 04:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Woops. I entered the link wrong. It should be here. Thanks. --Remi 04:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Apptitude Test
You are invited to visit this project and explore/contribute to its parameters. Thank you, Shir-El too 15:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

WV as free hosting for political propaganda
Hi Remi. I see you've also been looking critically at the Palo Alto "learning project". The question has been running round my mind since this page was started: is it political propaganda, thinly disguised as a learning project, using WV as free hosting? What do you think? --McCormack 04:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I know which page you are referring. I was simply moving a comment that was located in a page ending in "index.php" (a bug I think?) to an appropriate talk page. The opinions expressed by the author were not mine.
 * Personally, I have no opinion. I would need more information on the matter. I lean towards assuming good faith. --Remi 04:34, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes - I realised afterwards you just moved an edit, and the edit meant something different anyway. The page is rather on the edge of my radar. --McCormack 04:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by "Sub pages"?
I am still not sure what people mean by sub pages? ~ Robert Elliott 16:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
...for the support at b:WB:RFA. – Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 17:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Mentoring
Hi, Remi, I have a humble request for you. Would you be willing to mentor me as a probationary custodian? I'm willing to help out all I can - and really just need someone to get me going and a solid reference point should I encounter situations where I'm not too sure what to do (although this shouldn't happen to much after reading the guide and being well versed in Wikimedia projects). I run my own private installation of MediaWiki so the technical aspects shouldn't be a problem. It would be great if I could learn from someone obviously experienced and with the project's best interests at heart. Cheers, --Pumpmeup 06:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)