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For teamwiki account access, please add a request at OLPC:Requests for permissions (the #Teamwiki requests section below is now deprecated). Thanks! --Sj leave me a message 14:55, 29 January 2008 (EST)

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Interwiki to meta-languages... wikipedia

Everything works again

Thank you, dear Samuel and OLPC-Team --Papillon 20:34, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

OLPCO2e, et al

Hi Sven,

I was cleaning up the wiki this morning and found all of the CO2 pages, which blossomed over the spring. There were about 12 pages which all had the same content, ... so I merged them (without the use of any gang :) into OLPCO2e. Sj talk 13:00, 8 December 2009 (UTC) I cannot find the page: OLPCO2e link Agenda 21 anymore. How can I recuperate it? It is a very important page for all in OLPC and OLPCO2e. Thanky--SvenAERTS 11:20, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

I also replied - but on my talk page - on your other paragraphs. This tool notifies you of that or do I just have to mention and you go there and have a look then or I have to do like above and copy/paste parts- topic per topic - to copy/paste here in your User talk page? Do I have to Watch this page? How are these "message" alerts being activated? Ty --SvenAERTS 11:20, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Counter does not work

Since Saturday 8/1/09 the counter does not work. Now it is not possible to see how many users has been accessed the pages. I’m not sure but I think all pages have the same problem --Papillon 10:43, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Your OLPC Map on Google Maps, how do we collaborate in it?

I wanted to but couldn't figure out how to add the location of The Elaine and Nicholas Negroponte School Location of School Province:Preah Vihear District:Rôvieng Commune:Rôssmei Village:Trâpeang http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Cambodia My father is visiting my wife's (she's an adopted Cambodian living in Brussels Belgium) Parents. My father created www.lzg.be - Teachers without Frontiers and I'm on the pay-roll of http://www.olpceu.org/content/aboutus/aboutus_staff.html] - http://www.olpco2e.org --SvenAERTS 09:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

broken link

Your "Official work page" returns "Sorry. This page is currently unavailable."

Content meeting request

Hi SJ - Wanted to check in and see if some of us could meet with you for additional questions about wikislices. For example, who builds the slices? Also, who insures the content is accurate and appropriate? How do those slices get deployed on the XO machines? Do teachers have a way to request or build a wikislice themselves (would he or she just request it on the wikipedia wikislices project page?) Thanks! annegentle 13:54, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Right now wikislices are determined by the editors of the relevant page; and they pull the latest content from the wiki in question. Future features include identifying specific revisions of pages, having a 'reviewed' flag for each article+revision, and contribution to a wikislice from an XO (say, by posting a set of words + a topic to a requests-for-wikislice page). Zdenek is a good person to talk to about how that might work. We're having a wikislice related discussion tomorrow aft EST, if you're around. --Sj talk 22:58, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Thanks for the info and pointer to Zdenek, very useful, especially the bundles of xol files, good to know and peruse. Michael Priestly and a few others at IBM wanted on the call but I probably can't get everyone notified by tomorrow, but I'm hoping Monday would work. Cjl is also interested so please do send call info for tomorrow's call, and also, please check availability on Monday (sorry for repeat requests but the interest is high). Thanks! annegentle 23:09, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

ALC request

Old account was Aclaver (not Aculver as you listed). I created a new account Alc to match your request that the TeamWiki user id match the RT and Wiki user ID.

Kids encyclopedia

Dear Samuel,

Thanks for taking the time to send me a comment on my blog. Im available most days of the week, as I currently am working for myself. Im based in Swansea in the UK. So phoning maybe rather on the expensive. However I would be happy to talk over skype. If you are willing to suggest a time I will be happy to chat. Preferably I would prefer to be in bed by 3am here.

So if you could give me an email back at jonhurlock/at/gmail /.com or add me on skype using jon_hurlock (yes theres and underscore in there, so please dont remove that, just remove slashes from the gmail account.).

Kind regards,

Jon Hurlock

Google SoC mentor for E-mail activity

The individual who wrote the Email_Activity wiki page asked me whether or not I would be interested in becoming a SoC mentor. I created a small page about me at PhilipVanHoof. I'm the author of the Tinymail framework, frequent GNOME contributor and foundation member. I'm on the team of software developers who developed the Modest E-mail client by Nokia, which uses the Tinymail framework. I also wrote TMut (a minimalistic E-mail client that uses Tinymail). Tinymail is a library/framework for building mobile E-mail clients (http://tinymail.org).

My E-mail is spam@pvanhoof.be, my GMail (which I don't use) is philip.vanhoof@gmail.com

Hola!

Hi! As usual you're monitoring recent changes! :) Great!

Yes, I'm coming back to life and noticed Lauren's notice in my talk page so I decided to answer that one asap, and then try to fully resurrect. I'll keep you posted (was writing en email to re-introduce myself). Xavi 21:19, 14 January 2008 (EST)

Video - Human Computation

SJ, happen to glance through one of your older versions of your User page. Cool video about human computation. Quite intertaining... hmmmm... interesting.. Thanks for sharing, --IainD 04:46, 15 January 2008 (EST)

Violent Games in the Activities?

Hi SJ,

What's your opinion on this issue? http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-January/009849.html

--Chihyu 12:36, 17 January 2008 (EST)

table test

Name	Surname	Height
John	Smith	1.85
Ron	Ray	1.89
Mario	Bianchi	1.72
	Average:	1.82

see datasheets.

I'm just kicking myself...

for not paying closer attention and getting an OLPC XO during the GIGO... I like what you all have done with this wiki, it has some neat touches! ++Lar: t/c 22:31, 18 January 2008 (EST)

PS, I just added added [[OLPC:]] as http://wiki.laptop.org/go/$1 to meta:Interwiki map (that is, to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map )... if that's not what you all had in mind please pop by the talk page. It looks like you're not using the interwiki map here though??? ++Lar: t/c 22:37, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Hello there, and welcome :-) not yet! see OLPC:Wiki and its talk page. --Sj leave me a message

a request

Contact OLPC page is protected with cascading option, so its translations bar cannot be modified now. Would you please change it? -- LeeSI 00:04, 19 January 2008 (EST)

done. --Sj leave me a message

de nada?

Just curious - which front page links? I've been in sweep mode -- cleaning my home for sale and trying to make the wiki, um, moderately readable ergo informative ~~Katie~~Style Nazi 11:49, 21 January 2008 (EST)

mediawiki extensions?

Moved to ... OLPC_talk:Wiki

I and others are gearing up a wiki welcome team (and supporting docs/pages). Can we get the Newuserlog extension installed to more easily welcome newbies? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/Newusers for an example usage you've probably looked at thousands of times over. ;) Mchua 14:57, 25 January 2008 (EST)

Also see Wiki getting started, which I think you'll appreciate. Mchua 15:43, 25 January 2008 (EST)

New info file spec

info file ---> bundle metadata

1pm sunday

Just confirming to check if you get my message regarding 1pm conference call on Sunday 27th. thanks. --Arjs 22:30, 26 January 2008 (EST)

yes, cheers. --Sj leave me a message

Teamwiki requests

This section has moved to OLPC:Requests for permissions. Please leave requests for teamwiki access and rt and other permissions there.

Health content xls files

With regard to the recently added support in wiki for viewing excel (xls) files created in google spreadsheet to be viewed as simple html tables within wiki. It'd be great if we could copy paste the contents of the various xls files there and use the wiki plugin to easily view them. See content section on health--Arjs 01:47, 29 January 2008 (EST)

GM clarification?

After our conversation on the nature of GM today, the GM section of the laptopfoundation.org website is not very explanatory according to my OLPC:Webpage_corrections_needed#laptopfoundation.org current understanding, and is something Walter or someone else with editing privs may want to fix. Mchua 00:32, 30 January 2008 (EST)

Community project review process

My notes from our talk over IRC today are on teamwiki at User:Mchua/Developers_program. Let me know if I'm still misunderstanding what you proposed. (I'm not wholly sure I agree with it yet, but I don't think I fully understand it yet - see the "cons" section of the community proposal - and want to make sure I "get it" before I voice an opinion.) Mchua 00:32, 30 January 2008 (EST)

University programs

Yeah, the page needs updating and more resources, as do grassroots groups. University program - or rather, Talk:University program - has some notes from today's conversations (not just with you, with other support-gangers and Arjun too) that need to be cleaned up and moved into mainpage eventually. Mchua 00:32, 30 January 2008 (EST)

dev program community implementation moved to public

here. Mchua 14:09, 30 January 2008 (EST)

re: repair center stuff on teamwiki

I'm hesitant to push all of that to public wiki, since Adam said he's like to work with me and Kim to port it (there's some stuff not ready to go public, though I don't know what that stuff is - I've asked). If Adam/Kim says ok, I would love to push it public. (Heck, I've been trying to do that for at least 2 weeks.) Can you poke them about this since you're physically adjacent? Mchua 14:12, 30 January 2008 (EST)

Music

I cannot but agree. My duties? Maintain the music wiki page and find people interested in helping us with new music content? Andriani 2:05, 31 January 2008 (EST)

peer-review for Health

How/what might be the first steps for peer review for the health pages ? thanks. ? --Arjs

RfA

The OLPC version of an RfA I would like to apply for admin access on the wiki. I am frequently getting math-based captchas which are really slowing down my wiki-editing. It has been reported that Admins do not have this problem. Also, I would like to be an admin for the purposes of mass revocation of vandalism. is for Insects 17:18, 4 February 2008 (EST)

RE: zine work

You mean from the wiki? Not really, most of the cool stuff is in isforinsect's flickr group. Not exactly sure what you mean... ffm 19:33, 5 February 2008 (EST)

OLPC Europe.

Sj, great idea.... new section created.. Weekly_zine/0/OLPC_Europe have them update with summary of what they are working on.. Thanks for keeping your eyes open to new ideas! :) --ixo 03:03, 8 February 2008 (EST)

Zine - translations and /About page. :)

sj,

Added zine/About page, put an area to acknowledge translators..

 Weekly_zine/About#Translations_by

Please have translators update the acks, when they do translations so they can get recognized. :)

Thanks for the idea on the /About page, --ixo 03:54, 10 February 2008 (EST)

off grid power notes are up

Off grid power should be up to date with the stuff I've pieced together. care to take a gander? Mchua 04:21, 10 February 2008 (EST)

Math logo

Hi SJ,

Here is an XO math logo (that is perhaps too clever for its own good). —Joe 23:54, 10 February 2008 (EST)

how to use a wiki page

discovered today that we have a How to use a wiki page, which may or may not fit into your/FFM's grand scheme of policy-creation (which I will subsequently add large "CHANGE THIS!" headers to.) possibly redundant with Wiki getting started. I'm trying to figure out how regulated/anarchic you want this place to be... 66.108.80.238 19:07, 15 February 2008 (EST)

I've translated the call to free content

It's at [1]. It is in european Portuguese, but it's also understandable by brasilians, as I didn't use fancy portugal-specific terms. HoboPrimate 14:21, 16 February 2008 (EST)

Color corrected images

Image:NleeXOman.svg
Image:NleeXOman.png

--Nikki 01:22, 17 February 2008 (EST)

Remove dormant account

SJ, I have 2 accounts on the wiki. I'm not using the DMSerley account. Could you remove it?

--AuntiMame 14:18, 17 February 2008 (EST)

Millenium Village Project

I contacted some people at Columbia U, who does Millenium Village Project. They said that plans are underway to introduce XOs to Millenium Villages.

--User:Mika 12:57, 18 Feburary 2008 (EST)

(actually, they're just thinking about 'computers' in general, not specifically XOs..)

--User:Mika 15:05, 18 Feburary 2008 (EST)

remove fetchInterwiki.pl from mediawiki

maintenance/fetchInterwiki.pl is ancient, removable. poke Aevar.

update interwiki.sql to include wikipedia?

Translation subpages

I've been looking at Uncategorized Pages and I see a lot of subpages in the form of:

http;//wiki.laptop.org/go/SomePage/translations

Am I correct in my belief that using these subpages are created by the use of the templates, Translation or Translations?

If so, would it be possible and/or desirable for that subpage to be created with a pre-existing category of some sort so that it doesn't end up in Uncategorized?

Cjl 23:25, 24 February 2008 (EST)

Clarification: I grok the DIY ethos of the wiki, but making temmplate modifications goes beyond my personal wiki-wisdom and a change that could effect so many pages should probably be done by someone with more expertise.

Cjl 13:39, 25 February 2008 (EST)

work on translation templates

{{translations}} now tells you to copy/paste a reasonable default to the translation list page if it's missing.

{{translation}} now includes an optional "none" argument that should makes it function like a quasi-redirect. This uses a subtemplate which only exists for Spanish.

See participate in Spanish for an example of using the latter.

It would be good to have a template for the translation list page which did the same "paste me" instructions trick as I did in translations.

I did some initial changes to the translations how to page to explain this but it is far from finished.

Going to bed now without finishing all the cleanup involved.

Thought you might like to know. Homunq 22:08, 26 February 2008 (EST)

summer of code?

hi Sj, i'm asking if there's any hope for olpc support for twext in summer of code 2008.. thanks! Duke 11:54, 27 February 2008 (EST)

olpc userbox templates

SJ, how does one create a user box template similar to:

This user is in educational technology.

. Or is that something that only an admin can do? I was thinking about templates that link a user to any local/regional grassroots groups they might be a part of (i.e. OLPC_Boston). -- User:AuntiMame 13:05, 17 Feb 2008

To see that template's wikitext, go to Template:User edtech. You can edit it there; or create your own template, say, Template:User Boston. --Sj talk 14:15, 27 February 2008 (EST)

I created a template, but seem to get the username as well as the box in the OLPC Boxes section. Any idea why? -- User:AuntiMame 15:00, 17 Feb 2008

Summer projects for HS

Find local school with a teacher who wants to run an OLPC summer school; field trips here, instruction and a local XO lab ---> connect them with studetns who are too young for SoC.

Partner wtih schools in each deployment -- Boston sister schools in MX and Peru and India.

Aruba footnote : beware of small tropical islands.

Consider SoCon projects as well.

spanish language poetry bundle uploaded

La paquete de poesia en espanol esta... [aqui!] (And gosh, the language is pretty. I can't get over how gorgeous it sounds.) Mchua 00:16, 2 March 2008 (EST)

By the way - can you please ping me when you grab this, so I can take it down? Mchua 00:18, 2 March 2008 (EST)

Wikiosity

SJ, I'm trying to learn more about wikislicing and I've been exchanging e-mail with Zdenek. In my wiki-wandering, I've come across a few broken links to the Wikiosity activity. Is there such a thing yet or is it just in the concept phase? Cjl 17:53, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Haiti

SJ, I sent an e-mail to Jim about next week but haven't heard back. Mika 13:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)

Mozambique OLPC

Hi SJ--I've added some material to my page about the Mozambique intervention. I am eager to hear any comments or suggestions you have. Thanks a lot! --Jumpbean 16:58, 8 March 2008 (EST)

Planning for the summer

What if Tank and I came on Sunday, during our normal office hours time?

--Nikki 18:37, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

Boston Meetup

SJ,-- the next meetup is this Tuesday (March 25 6-8Pm at Cosi across the street from 1CC. The next meetup is a play data on April 2nd, also at Cosi. --User:AuntiMame 20:37, 23 March 2008

Comment on talk page.

SJ,

Not sure what you mean... respond in email better than leaving notes back and forth in wiki. --ixo 16:19, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

request for MP

where can i put my request for MP machine ? i heard there is something thru RT now for that ? thanks. --Arjs 00:58, 29 March 2008 (EDT)

Food Force 2

I've had the opportunity to download and play the original Food Force game and I'm starting to read my way though FF2's meeting notes. I've posted a reference on Talk:Food_Force that I think makes excellent backkground reading. I can't really contribute anything to the coding effort, buy I am interested in seeing that the lessons taught by the game have a solid foundation in evidence-based scientific and development principles. Cjl 00:33, 30 March 2008 (EDT)

WikiBrowse

I want to know how you convert the wikipedia xml dump in .html pages usable by WikiBrowse or any browser because I would like to make the same this you have done in wikibrowse but in French. Do you have some script or process? PatrickHetu 12:54, 3 April 2008 (EDT)

Mozambique OLPC

Hi SJ, Thanks for your note. It's great to hear about the lady from Lesotho joining staff. I had heard some interest from people in South Africa and Lesotho as well about this kind of project, so perhaps we could scale up the research after initial work in Mozambique. It sounds like the CAA people are waiting to get their laptops before discussing any coordination...I'm exploring some other funding options as well in case the CAA implementation is one we can work with further down the line. If I have funding for a first pilot study this summer, would I be able to get the machines for it?? Thanks, Jumpbean 08:52, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

OLPC Philippines (4-discussion)

?? Just because people were asking me for photos of local User's and I finally received a machine

Filipino Children have first XO-1, DTD April 4, 2008
Newly constructed
OLPCPH Provincial Board-Room
Newly constructed
OLPCPH Provincial Board-Room

Summer of Code

Hi SJ, do you know yet if I can mentor for the Summer of Code? I've got a couple students here at the University of Toronto who are submitting applications, and it would be nice to know if I will be able to mentor them. -- pdubroy 16:49, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

on openness and privacy

That conversation we had two months ago on IRC transcripts for meetings? I wrote an essay, finally. It's relevant to a lot more than whether to log "internal" meetings here, though. Mchua 15:40, 5 April 2008 (EDT)

Vandalism

Sorry, don't know how to report this. Please, keep an eye on 62.141.48.212 as, for an unknwon reason, they keep modifying The OLPC Wiki/index.php which should be deleted and/or protected IMHO. Thanks. 82.235.61.124 19:10, 6 April 2008 (EDT)

usergroup starting guide

How to start a usergroup - yay for pycon people!

office hours

Are we on for tomorrow?

--Nikki 21:59, 19 April 2008 (EDT)

Permissions...

Sj,

Thanks for getting the permissions setup. First couple of times, before I do anything I'll check with you... to see if that's what should be done. Will check with you, until I figure out the trends.

--ixo 03:07, 26 April 2008 (EDT)

reminder: adminship privs

OLPC:Administrators#user:cjl has 3 votes of support now - if that's enough, could you take a moment to swing by and grant Cjl magical powers? Mchua 16:59, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

Ah, yeah, you're right. Revising procedures in the middle of executing them isn't a good idea. Thanks for pointing that out. Mchua 22:24, 8 May 2008 (EDT)

Flocking together

I've refined the definition of Category:People. I think that wider use of this category can have particular benefits with regard to assisting on-wiki communities grow by making it easier to quickly find birds-of-a-feather, particularly for "outside parties" that we want to convert to "new participants". If you agree that this tag could be an aid to lowering the first barrier to participation (finding someone to reach out to on a given project), I'd like you to consider how to best promote it's use (going forward) and to get existing wiki pages tagged (retrofitting). I've already done some tagging and as I wander the wiki I always try to leave improved trail-markers behind, but there are a lot of pages out there for one person. Cjl 13:30, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

Page for you...

User:Mchua/Braindumps/For SJ - You may want to watchlist this one. I'll pile up messages on here so we can be functional while asynchronous - feel free to tell me to watch a similar page so we can have bidirectional communications (yay symmetry)! Mchua 19:20, 14 May 2008 (EDT)

Question about olpcboxtop template

Hey, what's the correct way to fill in the OBX xobundle field of {{{olpcboxtop}}}? It doesn't seem to support Media: links. Question arose while updating Terminal, whose olpcboxtop is broken for the time being. wade 05:59, 23 May 2008 (EDT)

Boston in early June

Who/where are we coordinating travel and lodging for those of us visiting Boston next month? Should I just email you off wiki, or? -- Adricnet 21:52, 25 May 2008 (EDT)

Adminship

Thanks for nominating me for adminship. I'll be continuing to work with Leejc on vandalism (in particular learning the "sentencing guidelines" for various offenses). I have a long-held philosphical stance to "only use my powers for good", which would naturally extend to wiki adminship. If I have any questions, I'll be sure to ask. Cjl 20:56, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

Mozambique investigation

Hi SJ--I was wondering if I could touch base with you sometime on the set-up I'll be doing for the Mozambique intervention in July. Thanks! Jumpbean 00:13, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

Planning to be there all weekend for the events and the SG meeting

Planning to be there all weekend for the Grassroots_unconference events and the S-G meeting and I'm still trying to determine exactly how long I'll be able to stay in Boston. I'd like to take a few minutes to just look around if at all possible since this is my vacation :).

If there's any dorm/barracks plans for the weekend, I'd be interested. Worst case is I'll have to get a hotel room, which is expensive. Splitting hotel costs is a good plan if it comes to that. Thanks!

-- Adricnet 06:23, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

Improvement for blind readers of OLPC Wiki

Hello. User Mchua pointed me to you. Here you can find info about a desired improvement for blind readers of the OLPC Wiki. It would be nice if you could have a short look on it and perhaps leave a comment. Thank you. -- Per 06:25, 2 June 2008 (EDT)

Moving pages between wikis

Hi SJ,

Community Jabber Servers is moving to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/A_list_of_Jabber_networks_around_the_world. What's the best way of reflecting that? Removing the content from the former and putting some sort of template to say it has moved? Can we do redirects between wikis?

Thx, --morgs 10:39, 3 June 2008 (EDT)

UN publications

Is there anyone at OLPC that can render a meaningful opinion on this Licensing_petitions#UN_Publications question? These represent a huge and highly valuable potential resource, but only if OLPC takes clear and thoughtful position on the license term question. Cjl 00:26, 6 June 2008 (EDT)

need edit for localization of protected templates

See my notes in Template_talk:OLPC regarding Template:OLPC and Template:Users. @alex 16:01, 6 June 2008 (EDT)

images

--Nikki 19:16, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

Activity handbook @ library

update the activity handbook in the library with the current May edition

ChristophD 11:34, 11 June 2008 (EDT)

Weekly Updates - OLPC-GSoC'08

Hello,you asked to post Weekly Updates on your talk page,so here it is Rajan's Weekly Updates on Atlas America project(earlier known as Geography with Environment Awareness Application).Thanks !

Activity-summary template gone wonky

Yama pointed out something strange about Books on my talk page, but it's just that page. Something seems to have gone strange with one of your Template:Project-summary or Template:Activity-summary templates. You can see other examples linked from this page Category:Activity_summary. I think a move of the template was handled badly or something. You seem to have done the most (and most recent) owrk on that series of templates, do you have time to look at what is going on? Cjl 17:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

First pass at ethiopia design

The colors don't really... go with one another. So I didn't use all 3.

Anyway, a couple of different ideas: Image:Ethiopiatest1nlee.png. Shoot me some feedback.

--Nikki 17:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

--Nikki 22:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Note from Lidet; Any image you choose to use about Ethiopia is usually extremely politically charged. The Yellow star on blue is no exception. The safest and only real representation that we can use for Ethiopia are the colors of the flag superimposed on an XO-man. Seth 17:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

binaural mics for g2

don't forget: two mics for sound placement and stereo recording... see why barry thought unnecc for gen1. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sj (talk • contribs) ?

+1. As we discussed, binaural microphone placement (working cooperatively with the shape of the device for the best effect) would open many possibilities for engaging applications for a small increase in price. The XO-2 design is promising for kinesthetic learners... I'd love to see it work with the auditory / musical types as well. Let's talk more on this. --Bjordan 21:56, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

User rights review

I was looking through the user rights log and I noticed a few that a bureaucrat should probably review.

Nia (talk · contribs) no user page, still sysop
Tracy (talk · contribs) no user page, still sysop
Danny (talk · contribs) no user page, still sysop, bureaucrat

Cjl 15:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Good point. Can you put all three up for review on OLPC:Administrators ? --Sj talk 22:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Already did so [2] Cjl 22:16, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Images not being thumbnailed

SJ - I unfortunately don't have the time to look into this right now but MediaWiki usually thumbnails images for you, (especially if you throw them into GALLERY tags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial#.3Cgallery.3E_tag ) and I'm getting fed lots of full-resolution images that have just been scaled down with the browser (I.e. being sent full multi-megabyte images that are being squeezed down) - you may want to check if mediawiki has access to either the PHP 'gd' library or imagemagick or whatever it uses to make thumbs ... see User:Hobart/thumbnails20080709 for example of problem

—Hobart 23:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Cleanup post wikimania

Could we get together after wikimania and work on some wiki-structure and index's? Seth 03:07, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Could you add the "Musical Look at Waste" to collections grid?

Hi SJ, I've updated the library.info file of the content bundles I mantain, so that they go into the Activities category in the library. Could you add them to the main grid of the collections grid, or point me to where I can learn how to do it, as it is not as simple as editing that wiki page and adding text and link to bundles. The bundles address has kept the same, but here they are just in case, tested in Update.1 and latest joyride, the English and Portuguese versions.

Portuguese - File:Olhar-musical-pelos-residuos.xol
English - File:Musical-look-at-waste.xol

A nice idea would be if kids in countries where one of these languages are taught at school, would translate the content to their mother language. It's cc-sa-by so no authorization is needed.

Ok seeya, keep up the good work Eduardo. P.S. - I would even endeavour to request you to make this collection part of library core. I've seen kids get great pleasure and a feeling of achievement from making and playing these instruments. I know it is really Portugal-centric, so I'll understand if you don't want to put in library-core as it could be a bit of "culture-pushing". HoboPrimate 17:55, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

708?

Hi SJ, last night I could have sworn that 709 was the build suggested to me... but I can only find 708. Am I delusional? Hope you guys had fun last night. Sorry I had to skip out. --- AuntiMame 31 July 2008 16:08 UTC

$100 laptop project

http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=OLPC_on_free/open_source_software&curid=1288&diff=150253&oldid=145903

Mako used the term $100 laptop. Odd. Seth 07:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

That's an old essay, from the days when that was its name. He was reverting vandalism that you and cjl hadn't noticed on a previous partial revert. --Sj talk 18:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Possibly "Variable Quality" Exchange on Sugar List

Hi SJ,

Following up on your question about the quality of posts to the public lists. See this exchange: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-August/017568.html

I do not want to discuss the substance of the exchange and I do nto begrudge Erik for answering. He gave a good answer and it helped and Bastien went away happy. Please do not re-open the subject of this exchange or I will feel that my raising it here was a mistake.

I say its an example of Variable Quality responses because I'm not sure the information exchanged was correct or definitive. It may well be correct and it may not be. I'm just not sure as it stands today. Its an example for consideration as we try to flush out how best to run this project on public lists and wikis.

Thanks,

Greg S Gregorio 13:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

to upload

nts: screenshots of pdb for pia/jw. 
wk reps with wiki traffic stats, rt influx, mailing list # and traffic (link to wikipage)
wk rep including mail-out, contrib prog update

sad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkman_Center

ya :/

But I like your rename. :) Remi 02:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Twinkle & bot account

being a complete n00b, how does one get a bot account? And reading the Wikipedia page on Twinkle confused me... is ti something loaded on teh OLPC wiki that I call to? Or it loaded on my machine and it reaches to the wiki? AuntiMame 13:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I tried adding the full URL to the Wikipedia twinkle to my monobok.js, but still no go. Do you know if anyone on the OLPC wiki is using it, so I can look at their monobook.js and see how its done? AuntiMame 23:58, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

adult activity pack

I can create the basic pack, but can't add stuff like midnight commander 'cuz that's installed via yum. (If there's a way to get packages to auto install during formatting or in a pack I don't know about it). AuntiMame 18:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

8-10 wikilinks

http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/enwiki/8k-10k-diff and w:user:sj/en-g1g1 and [3].

Unu Enciklopedio Por Junulo

How much interest has there been in your Esperanto OEPC effort? I'm willing to offer what little help I can, so if you have anything in particular that needs to be done, just say the word.

I was also thinking a Project Page on Vikipedio like the one that the English Wikipedia has, would be useful. --Tomas SATIRLSEY

hey! let's have coffee....

Hi sj -- my friend Delisile mentioned you were working here, and I just haven't gotten around to saying "hello"

I'm now the director of the Cambridge Peace Commission, and I'd love to catch up -- and see if there are any areas for collaboration or working together. My schedule is pretty flexible, and I'm happy to come to Kendall....

Peace, Brian (Bcorr 00:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC))

Sorry about the delay -- was in Philadelphia for a few days. What about Dado Tea on Church St. in Harvard Sq.? I could do it next Monday or Tuesday morning (9/22 or 9/23) or the following week any morning except Wednesday .... Bcorr 14:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your welcome message. Greetz JoGnet 17:15, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

user rename

I just noticed this:

(User rename log); 17:31 . . Sj (Talk | contribs) (has renamed User:Fucking idiot to User:Fid: 10 edits. Reason: )

"Fid" is a nice username. It's a shame to make it unavailable. If you must rename, something like u154970135 would be a good choice.

IMHO there is no need though, since nobody is going to go digging through the list of users.

72.40.45.79 18:14, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

hi SJ,

Honestly, I was never an admin at NWE, so it'll be new. I just made templates or fixed templates that wasn't working. For vandalism, I could check recent changes and catch one, or if you are developing a bot, I can vandalize on purpose to see if the bot will catch it. Am I already an admin now? It'll be great if you can post me something like welcome to OLPC but for admins so I could read how to use my powers :P. --Hiro 12:19, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi SJ, ok no problem. Is there something specific you will like for me to work on? I wish the main page could be changed to be more... easily viewed instead of bunch of links, but I wouldn't be able to design it from scratch. Just thought I'll throw in the idea. Are there pages that need clean up or with broken templates? Feel free to let me know. --Hiro 17:17, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, is this a vandalism or is it there on purpose? Special:Contributions/201.221.32.126 I'm talking about what this user did btw. Is there a specific place I could report all this? --Hiro 18:34, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Ping :) --Hiro 17:58, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi SJ!

I'm Prakhar Agarwal. I recently took my GRE exam to pursue Master's in US. I was really waiting for my certificate. I have to send a copy of that certificate to many universities. I wish if I could talk to you regarding that. Cheers! -- Prakhar 14 September 2008

wiki adminship

this was a surprise, cuz I didn't know I'd been nominated. the wiki admin pages are the only parts of the wiki that I usually ignore! i'll strive to use my new powers for truth, justice adn the ~~American~~ OLPC way ;-) AuntiMame 00:15, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

en alianza - in py

http://enalianza.org.py/v2/

Re game jam Peru

sure, I can come..pls see your email! User:RafaelOrtiz

Bot account created

User:AuntieMameBot created. AuntiMameBot 23:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

TOC/heading question

On a page like Sugar Almanac in a section like Sugar Almanac#Package: sugar how would we link to the headings on Sugar.env? --erikb

I'm not sure quite what you want to do. The TOC comes from the {{Sugar Almanac TOC}} template... which is long and can't easily be compressed into that three-line section for the sugar Package. Can you explain which headings you want to link to? the same ones that are currently in Sugar Almanac#Package: sugar, but with a different format? --Sj talk 22:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I would like to create a new TOC which can list the headings on different pages. For example, in this new TOC, I would like to list all of the subheadings on linked-to pages.

Sugar.graphics.toolbutton

Sugar.graphics.toolbutton#How_do_I_create_my_own_custom_tool_button.3F

Sugar.graphics.toolbutton#How_do_I_connect_my_tool_button_to_a_callback.3F

Sugar.graphics.toolbutton#What_is_a_tooltip_and_how_do_I_set_it_for_my_tool_button.3F

Sugar.graphics.toolbutton#How_do_I_reset_the_icon_displayed_for_my_tool_button.3F

Sugar.profile

Sugar.profile#How_do_I_get_the_user.27s_nick_name.3F

Sugar.profile#How_do_I_get_the_XO_colors_set_by_the_user.3F

Can I provide a TOC with a list of pages and have the wiki automatically list the subheadings on those pages? We would like to see all of the Almanac's answered questions on one page.

Jedierikb

Any ideas or pointers? Thanks -- jedierikb

Hello

I am new to the OLPC wiki. I was assigned to prepare a Deployment guide for OLE Nepal. I created the page but I don't know if it meets the standards of the OLPC wiki. Could you take a look and leave suggestions at the talk page. Thank you. Pradosh 05:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLE_Nepal:_Deployment_guide

Checking up

Hi SJ,

I recently made an application for some development laptops through the contributors' program, which I understand was approved. I was hoping to get started soon and just wanted to check if the laptops have been sent and if not when I could expect them.

Thanks,

Gerry Healy

I'll be leaving Nepal in June 2009 so I have some time constraints to work on the Dhading project. I have had delays at my own end also, but for it to be realistic in this time frame. I need some development machines soonish. I may be able to borrow some from OLE. Would that be a better option? Nickel chrome 11:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

There's no problem getting them from us -- check back next week on the status of your machines. You might consider applying for a Nepali contributors-pool as well. 24.61.14.99 20:27, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Health Content Poster

Hello SJ,

Not sure if this is already taken care of, but I'm writing about the health content poster post in the Art Wanted section. If you're still looking for contributors/helpers, please let me know. I'll be glad to help.

Best wishes,

--Gabriel --98.217.72.125 21:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Bundles vs. collections

These days there are

Activities, .xo files which show up in the Home view
Collections, .xol files which show up in the OLPC Library.

So I think Category:Activity_bundle should only be for the .xo file put on wiki.laptop.org , not for the wiki page it comes from.

I'm not sure what Category:Bundles is for.

all bundles, activity, library, generic. --Sj talk

Also, Category:Activity_bundle says:

Activites that provide a .xo bundle should declare so ...

but I thought all Activities provide a .xo file.

If you define it that way, then this is true. That's probably clean; it leaves items such as individual etoys projects in limbo until they are packaged.

BTW, I'm adding all Collections I find to Category:Collections and it seems other categorizations of them are redundant.

Which other categoriations? That category should itsefl be in Category:Bundles. Thanks for the update! --Sj talk 18:52, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

??! -- skierpage 11:33, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

in case you miss it in chat

[4] :) -- phoebe

Decisions about Projects

The workflow for new projects is not clear to me. Who decides about a project and how often? AFAIC decisions are made on weekly meetings, but my project has not been touched in the projectdb for 5 weeks. And why are projects hidden in the projectdb? If there is nothing happening for weeks someone else might submit a similar project, or even the same. This is a duplication of work for both the submitters and the decision makers. Is there a way to make the process more transparent? --Cwickert 14:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

the plan is to move the whole thing, minus the sharing of address/phone info at the end, to the wiki and projects page. --Sj talk 14:42, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Communication

What are the official channels for development related communication? #olpc and #olpc-help were not very helpful because noone was able to answere my questions. #olpc-devel is orphaned. Also I wonder if editing wiki pages is a good way for direct one on one communication. Isn't there something else if I wanted to reach you? --Cwickert 14:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

You can use #olpc-devel in irc.oftc.net -- that just chanegd irc networks. 24.61.14.99 20:25, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Postal address

Please mention yours on your page - not everyone has email. Thanks!! --Arjs 14:11, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Activity web pages vs. Projects/ subpages

Hey sj, as I wrote devel@lists.laptop.org I wrote Maintaining activity web information.

If activities remain on w.l.o and use the [Edit with form], anyone can make a lists of activities that stays up-to-date instead of messing with templates and fragments and transclusions. See Activity queries. To me, this is clearly the way forward.

But there's a lot of stuff I don't understand.

Many activities also have an Activities/Name page that's got an ugly summary template. Often it's a link to Projects/Name, e.g. Activities/Etoys. I believe these are confusing and redundant. Can I delete them? If not, is there an explanation of what these pages are for?

Creating an activity has buttons to Create activity summary and [Create an activity]. I don't understand why there are two buttons and I don't think either is an appropriate template for an activity. What should an activity's page look like?

Some of the Projects/ subpages aren't activities, e.g. Projects/Translation_dictionary is a collection. What are/were you trying to achieve with Projects/ subpages? I see references to a projects DB, is there such a thing?
- If you want to make a list of projects e.g. on the Projects page, semantics are the way to do it.
- So I'm not sure if all the project template machinery is redundant. I don't know whether to mark it obsolete or update it to set semantic properties.
Is any clean-up and improvement on w.l.o irrelevant if activities are moving to sugarlabs.org ?!

Like so many areas on wiki.laptop.org, I see the results of an idea but not the plan for it, so I'm not sure how to improve on it.

Thanks for any elucidation!

-- skierpage 00:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Mail of Jan 30, 2009

Please be so kind as to answer to the mail I sent you on January 30th, 2009.

--Cwickert 15:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

User_talk: page message notifications

Hi Sj, I'm having trouble finding information on the implementation of the notification service that generates a orange-spanned message on my current page when a new message on my talk page is saved. Any pointers would be appreciated.

I'm actually thinking about this in relation to a possible utility to generate small message flags that would appear on main pages on the border of sections that have corresponding talk_page comments (configured by the commenter to match an anchor placed on the main page section.) --FGrose 00:51, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Now I see. It's a good idea... some hacking would be required. --Sj talk 03:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Invitation/Brandeis/Social Justice and Technology Conference

Dear Mr. Klein,

Charles Nesson suggested I be in touch with you. The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University is hosting a conference called TMI (Too Much Information): Social Justice in the Age of Facebook on September 10 and 11, 2009. We would like to invite you to speak at the main session on September 11 from 9-11 am, "Does Digital Deepen the Divide?" We believe that you, with your role at One Laptop Per Child, would present a unique and valuable perspective on the question of technological access for children internationally, and whether access to new technologies and computers helps bridge the divides among individuals and societies, or whether it increases the gaps.

I would love to talk to you further about this conference and give you additional detail. Can you contact me at sgwilson@brandeis.edu? I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Best, Stephanie Gerber Wilson, PhD Brandeis University sgwilson@brandeis.edu

Thank you for the invitation. I've responded via email. --Sj talk

Template:test-case-query question

Greetings SJ,

I'm slowly getting familiar with semantic+mediawiki in an effort to determine if this will meet my needs. I'm using the laptop.org QA pages as a reference for sample queries, forms and templates. However, I'm stuck trying to understand a particular problem where mediawiki will not expand a nested template properly using the {{fullurl:...}} parser function.

As one of the original authors of the Template:Add-test-result and Template:Test-case-query pages, I thought you might have insight to this mediawiki-ism. This is likely a new-user problem, but any experiences you can share around the SMW implementation for laptop.org would be appreciated. You can see the page that currently is presenting difficulty at https://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing_SMW. I can be reached at jlaska AT fedoraproject DOT org. I hope to hear from you soon :)

Thanks, James

I don't think you can embed parser functions the way you were trying to. But the extension is coming along quickly - you should drop a question at the SMW central wiki for the most accurate answer. --Sj talk 05:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Adminship thanks

thanks for the nomination. Whatever happens, I'll try and behave to expectations... --Martinlanghoff 14:26, 17 December 2009 (UTC)