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I like File:User contributions detail.svg but it was removed from Help:User contributions today as outdated.[1] Can you make an updated version with the red and green numbers described at Wikipedia:Added or removed characters? Also, "diff" and "hist" have swapped positions. An often overlooked detail is that the arrow at a section edit summary is a link to the section. It's a minor issue but perhaps this could be mentioned. PrimeHunter (talk)

San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! See you there
	The San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 is this Saturday at the Wikimedia Foundation! We look forward to hosting you! If you'd like to bring a family member or friend, please sign them up on the event page or Eventbrite! Also, don't forget to bring your laptop! And we also need your help! Check out the Etherpad to learn more! Please arrive as close 1 PM as you can. We'll see you Saturday!

echo = marco polo ;> Slowking4Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 16:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Peteforsyth. You have new messages at Theopolisme's talk page.
Message added by Theopolisme at 20:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

• Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
  • Nearest BART: 19th Street
  • Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
  • Street parking abounds

I replied earlier today, would you consider tomorrow for our chat, please reply via email, thanks! --Elitre (talk) 13:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Peteforsyth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.220.221 (talk) 15:27, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just a comment on a recent edit of yours to Q Continuum that I reverted ("Popups" doesn't always give me the opportunity to append a reason): The text of the {{No footnotes}} banner says "This article contains a list of references, related reading or external links...". So, as the article does have external links, the {{References}} template (a redirect to {{Unreferenced}}) doesn't apply.

Actually, I used to use the {{Unreferenced}} template all the time myself until I found out about this. I've been having to slowly replace them as I encounter them... — Cbbkr (talk) 22:24, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, neither of the 2 external links are Reliable sources (open wiki = WP:USERGENERATED), hence they could never be used as citation, hence Pete's edit was correct. {{Memoryalpha}} is for EL sections only, not for citations. –Quiddity (talk) 22:59, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. Thanks for explaining Q :) -Pete (talk) 21:42, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

• Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
• Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:26, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The link you gave on my page was to an image that I did not submit, and have not edited. I would suggest you confirm that you did not accidentally alter the copyright of an image that you did not have permission to change. As I've said before, at the time of upload, I placed my service award images under the most permissive copyright tag that I was allowed, based on the copyright of the source images which I had modified. I continue to give permission to you or any other editor to change the copyright of my service award images to as free a license (up to absolute release into public domain) as can be, provided the copyright of source images allow derivatives to be released that freely. VanIsaac_{WS Vex}^contribs 00:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Peter, I will have problems to conect tonigh 22 hs, but I will continue the course the other weeks, sincerely,--Fernando Lopez Anido (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How did you send a pie?Lorrie (talk) 18:00, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Pete, I'm not sure I would consider myself and experienced Wikipedian although I have been interested forever and would love to do more. I am just watching the recorded lab session right now and I know I will learning a lot.

I teach ICT for Teachers in graduate and undergraduate courses. In most classes students have to do a final project. I offer them the choice of doing a presentation, writing a paper or creating a Wikipedia article of substance that sticks. The occasional person takes me up on the challenge adding good quality entries. I hope to direct more people to this wonderful collaborative work. Regards Glen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gating (talk • contribs) 08:08, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Peter; I remember you, I think, as taking part in the discussions a few years ago about indigenous article and category names/structures in the PacNW; Pfly also suggested you as someone who had taken part. I know NorCalHistory was around for that, not sure who else; both he and Murderbike are on extended wikibreaks btw; recent unilateral changes by User:Kwami on many have resulted in arduous CfDs trying to revert to the indigenously-correct names, which are now common fare in Canada. It's beyond acrimonious now into the absurd, with citations produced and then picked apart on irrelevancies, and though there's others that support the moves I've proposed, they're ignored. And I'm being made the issue, and snotted on right and left, I'm an old man, I don't need this bullshit. I came back into Wikipedia last December or so because of anti-indigenous/POV edits on Idle No More and Theresa Spence, which have since been fixed and other experienced editors are now watching them; it's ironic and disturbing to me that indigenous preferences and accepted modern usages (e.g. Secwepemc vs. Shuswap people) are now being dismissed in favour or retrenchment of the discredited/outdate names despite tons of sources being produced to demonstrate the points demanded; they'll even say I haven't produced cites that I have, and presume to call me "childish" and accuse me of being parochial, when it's their attitudes that are parochial. A further problem with the RMs in question is that, like what's happened at Category:Squamish, which resulted from changing the Skwxwu7mesh article to Squamish people, and is a disaster in terms of the vagueness of the category's name now (as you know, I'm sure, Squamish's primary usage is for the town), the imposition of main article titles onto categories, and eventually bypassing redirects and substituting the outdated/discredited/"colonialist" names in texts in other articles, is going to cause a lot of problems because of the other uses of those older names, i.e. Chilcotin, Lillooet, Shuswap, etc....and "Thompson" for the Nlaka'pamux. Picayune silliness has ensued, I've spent over a week, as a professional writer who's around me during that time has pointed out, and more, on these, and I don't get paid for all that time, and my knowledge is being not just dismissed out-of-hand but treated very derisively. I don't need this shit, quite frankly, and may leave Wikipedia once again, though I'm pondering where in the hierarchy to take t he whole matter; not ANI, there's more than one editor involved in the "attack" mode and t he picking-apart obstructionism that's going on.....not an RfC, as more t han a comment is needed; ArbCom maybe, though I'm not clear on what they do. These RMs need closing, persuasive citations are rife, but ignored by those opposing the move or just being fussy, and who derogate Canadian and native sources saying "we don't care what your parochial local perspective" etc.....reason I'm here is because if I could locate the old discussions about all this, and the conventions that evolved by consensus, it might help. These usages are official now, most of them anyway, but we're hearing "we don't do official names at Wikipedia"....fact of the matter is the Queen Charlotte Islands->Haida Gwaii RM was finally clinched when the name was made official i.e. by government naming bureaus in Victoria and Ottawa. What's arbitrary is the nature of all the objections, and typically they demand cites without providing any of their own; Kwami has ranted he doesn't have to produce cites, it's not about disproving what he says, but about me proving what I'm saying; but his claim that these are the "most common" usage is complete horseshit, and he won't produce any cites to back that up, instead he dwells on whether or not they can be English words because "nobody knows how to pronounce them". The "article titles not in English" line has also been used, as if native-name articles don't exist (e.g. Mi'kmaq and its category, among hundreds of examples. Sorry for the rant, just fielding the problem and wondering if you can recall those discussions that we had while trying to sort out all the Pacific Northwest Coast/Northwest Plateau people/government articles and categories.....guidelines need to be established about all this; but right now, as I sad, the frustrations and insults and patronizing attitude from people who don't even know the subject matter at hand is so tiresome and degrading I'm considering leaving Wikipedia again for somewhere I might get paid for all this kind of time I put in on such matters and where I don't have to put up with the gamesmanship and obstructionism that's going on, and the ongoing attempts to make the RMs about me instead of the cites provided. These are, for your reference, to be found at Talk:Lillooet people, Talk:Kutenai people, Talk:Chilcotin people, Talk:Thompson people and Talk:Shuswap people. Amazingly, the CfD at Category:Sto:lo people looks like it's doing just fine....[the diacriticals on the current form of that are why This CfD).I'm finding it really grating, viewing my watchlist, which as you can guess is huge, seeing so many category fiddlings and code-fixes and bot-activity and very little in the way of actual article writing; people rearranging deck chairs on a ship, as it were. And here I am, the person who's probably done t he most in the way of FN articles and categories, not just being treated as if I'm stupid (gag) and that my extensive experience with these subjects has no value at all....the chauvinism towards native peoples in some of these RMs is also very shocking. Sorry I couldn't have been more succinct here, there's a lot that's gone on, as you'll see; Pfly, Montanabw, KootenayVolcano, OldManRivers and others have all made strong comments in support, they just get ignored......Skookum1 (talk) 08:18, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See also, if you care to, the CfD at Category:Nuxálk (er, gonna have to copy-paste the accent onto that on a further edit, it's because of needing to do that I want it in the usual English form without the accent marks, same as at Sto:lo, and also Category:Cree nations, which is way lengthy now than it needs to be; and even more frustrating.....Skookum1 (talk) 08:34, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the St'at'imc one, the Sto:lo one is below it on the same log-page, the Nuxálk one above it.Skookum1 (talk) 08:57, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, our pupil Javier has started a Spanish translation of the course and asked me for feedback! Check out my response on his talk page. Your views? - Sara FB (talk) 19:18, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pete and Sara on this moment I just finished the translation of the page WIKISOO/week 1. A greeting --Cazalinks (talk) 22:37, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]