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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة, shibhu l-jazīra l-ʿarabiyya, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, jazīratu l-ʿarab, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. At 3237500 sqkm, comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.

Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the classical era, the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia.

The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the southeast. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas.

Before the modern era, the region was divided into primarily four distinct regions: the Central Plateau (Najd and Al-Yamama), South Arabia (Yemen, Hadhramaut and Oman), Al-Bahrain (Eastern Arabia or Al-Hassa), and the Hejaz (Tihamah for the western coast), as described by Ibn al-Faqih.

Etymology
In antiquity, the term "Arabia" encompassed a larger area than the current term "Arabian Peninsula" and included the Arabian desert and large parts of the Syrian-Arabian desert. During the Hellenistic period, the area was known as Arabia or Aravia (Αραβία). The Romans named three regions with the prefix "Arabia".
 * Arabia Petraea ("Stony Arabia" ): it consisted of the former Nabataean Kingdom in the southern Levant, the Sinai Peninsula and northwestern Arabian Peninsula. It was the only one that became a province, with Petra (in Jordan) as its capital.
 * Arabia Deserta ("Desert Arabia"): signified the desert lands of Arabia. As a name for the region, it remained popular into the 19th and 20th centuries, and was used in Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888).
 * Arabia Felix ("Fortunate Arabia"): was used by geographers to describe the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, mostly what is now Yemen, which enjoys more rainfall, is much greener than the rest of the peninsula and has long enjoyed much more productive fields.

The Arab inhabitants used a north–south division of Arabia: Al Sham-Al Yaman, or Arabia Deserta-Arabia Felix. Arabia Felix had originally been used for the whole peninsula, and at other times only for the southern region. Because its use became limited to the south, the whole peninsula was simply called Arabia. Arabia Deserta was the entire desert region extending north from Arabia Felix to Palmyra and the Euphrates, including all the area between Pelusium on the Nile and Babylon. This area was also called Arabia and not sharply distinguished from the peninsula.

The Arabs and the Ottoman Empire considered the west of the Arabian Peninsula region where the Arabs lived 'the land of the Arabs' – Bilad al-'Arab (Arabia), and its major divisions were the bilad al-Sham (Levant), bilad al-Yaman (Yemen), and Bilad al-'Iraq (Iraq). The Ottomans used the term Arabistan in a broad sense for the region starting from Cilicia, where the Euphrates river makes its descent into Syria, through Palestine, and on through the remainder of the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas.

The provinces of Arabia were: Al Tih, the Sinai peninsula, Hejaz, Asir, Yemen, Hadramaut, Mahra and Shilu, Oman, Hasa, Bahrain, Dahna, Nufud, the Hammad, which included the deserts of Syria, Mesopotamia and Babylonia.

Geography
The Arabian Peninsula is located in the continent of Asia and is bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on the northeast, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on the southeast, the Gulf of Aden, and the Guardafui Channel on the south, and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait on the southwest and the Red Sea, which is located on the southwest and west. The northern portion of the peninsula merges with the Syrian Desert with no clear borderline, although the northern boundary of the peninsula is generally considered to be the northern borders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, also southern regions of Iraq and Jordan.

The most prominent feature of the peninsula is desert, but in the southwest, there are mountain ranges, which receive greater rainfall than the rest of the peninsula. Harrat ash Shaam is a large volcanic field that extends from northwestern Arabia into Jordan and southern Syria.

Political boundaries

The Peninsula's constituent countries are (clockwise from north to south) Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the east, Oman on the southeast, Yemen on the south, and Saudi Arabia at the center. The island country of Bahrain lies just off the east coast of the Peninsula. Due to Yemen's jurisdiction over the Socotra Archipelago, the Peninsula's geopolitical outline faces the Guardafui Channel and the Somali Sea to the south.

The six countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia covers the greater part of the Peninsula. The majority of the population of the Peninsula lives in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Peninsula contains the world's largest reserves of oil. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are economically the wealthiest in the region. Qatar, the only peninsular country in the Persian Gulf on the larger peninsula, is home to the Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera and its English-language subsidiary Al Jazeera English. Kuwait, on the border with Iraq, is an important country strategically, forming one of the main staging grounds for coalition forces mounting the United States–led 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Population
Despite its historically sparse population, political Arabia stands out for its rapid population growth, driven by both significant inflows of migrant labor and persistently high birth rates. The population is characterized by its relative youth and a heavily skewed gender ratio favoring males. In several states, the number of South Asians surpasses that of the native population. The four smallest states (by area), with coastlines entirely bordering the Persian Gulf, showcase the world's most extreme population growth, nearly tripling every two decades. In 2014, the estimated population of the Arabian Peninsula was 77,983,936 (including expatriates). The Arabian Peninsula is known for having one of the most uneven adult sex ratios in the world, with females in some regions (especially the east) constituting only a quarter of people aged between 20 and 40.

Cities
The eleven most populous cities on the Arabian Peninsula are:

Landscape
The rocks exposed vary systematically across Arabia, with the oldest rocks exposed in the Arabian-Nubian Shield near the Red Sea, overlain by earlier sediments that become younger towards the Persian Gulf. Perhaps the best-preserved ophiolite on Earth, the Semail Ophiolite, lies exposed in the mountains of the UAE and northern Oman.

The peninsula consists of:

 * 1) A central plateau, the Najd, with fertile valleys and pastures used for the grazing of sheep and other livestock
 * 2) A range of deserts: the Nefud in the north, which is stony; the Rub' al Khali or Great Arabian Desert in the south, with sand estimated to extend 600 ft below the surface; between them, the Dahna Mountains
 * 3) Stretches of dry or marshy coastland with coral reefs on the Red Sea side (Tihamah)
 * 4) Oases and marshy coast-land in Eastern Arabia, the most important of which are those of the Al Ain emirate (Tawam region) and Hofuf/Al-Ahsa (in modern-day Saudi Arabia), according to an author
 * 5) The southwest monsoon coastline of  Dhofar  and Eastern Yemen (Mahra).

Arabia has few lakes or permanent rivers. Most areas are drained by ephemeral watercourses called wadis, which are dry except during the rainy season. Plentiful ancient aquifers exist beneath much of the peninsula, however, and where this water surfaces, oases form (e.g. Al-Hasa and Qatif, two of the world's largest oases) and permit agriculture, especially palm trees, which allowed the peninsula to produce more dates than any other region in the world. In general, the climate is extremely hot and arid, although there are exceptions. Higher elevations are made temperate by their altitude, and the Arabian Sea coastline can receive cool, humid breezes in summer due to cold upwelling offshore. The peninsula has no thick forests. Desert-adapted wildlife is present throughout the region.

A plateau more than 2500 ft high extends across much of the Arabian Peninsula. The plateau slopes eastwards from the massive, rifted escarpment along the coast of the Red Sea, to the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. The interior is characterized by cuestas and valleys, drained by a system of wadis. A crescent of sand and gravel deserts lies to the east.

Mountains

There are mountains at the eastern, southern and northwestern borders of the peninsula. Broadly, the ranges can be grouped as follows:
 * Northeast: The Hajar range, of UAE and Oman
 * Southeast: The Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman, contiguous with the eastern Yemeni Hadhramaut
 * West: Bordering the eastern coast of the Red Sea are the Sarawat, which can be seen to include the Haraz Mountains to the east of Yemen, as well as those of 'Asir (once part of Yemen) and Hejaz  the latter including the Midian in what is now northwestern Saudi Arabia
 * Northwest: Aside from the Sarawat, the northern portion of Saudi Arabia hosts the Jabal Shamar Mountains, which include the Aja and Salma subranges
 * Central: The Najd hosts the Tuwaiq Escarpment or Tuwair range

From the Hejaz southwards, the mountains show a steady increase in altitude westward as they get nearer to Yemen, and the highest peaks and ranges are all located in Yemen. The highest, Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jabal Hadhur  of the Haraz subrange of the Sarawat range, is 3666 m high. By comparison, the Tuwayr, Shammar and Dhofar generally do not exceed 1,000 m in height.

Not all mountains in the peninsula are visibly within ranges. Jebel Hafeet in particular, on the border of the UAE and Oman, measuring between 1,100 and 1,300 m, is not within the Hajar range, but may be considered an outlier of that range.

Land and sea
Most of the Arabian Peninsula is unsuited to agriculture, making irrigation and land reclamation projects essential. The narrow coastal plain and isolated oases, amounting to less than 1% of the land area, are used to cultivate grains, coffee and tropical fruits. Goat, sheep, and camel husbandry is widespread elsewhere throughout the rest of the Peninsula. Some areas have a summer humid tropical monsoon climate, in particular the Dhofar and Al Mahrah areas of Oman and Yemen. These areas allow for large scale coconut plantations. Much of Yemen has a tropical monsoon rain influenced mountain climate. The plains usually have either a tropical or subtropical arid desert climate or arid steppe climate. The sea surrounding the Arabian Peninsula is generally tropical sea with a very rich tropical sea life and some of the world's largest, undestroyed and most pristine coral reefs. In addition, the organisms living in symbiosis with the Red Sea coral, the protozoa and zooxanthellae, have a unique hot weather adaptation to sudden rise (and fall) in sea water temperature. Hence, these coral reefs are not affected by coral bleaching caused by rise in temperature as elsewhere in the indopacific coral sea. The reefs are also unaffected by mass tourism and diving or other large scale human interference. The Persian gulf has suffered significant loss and degradation of coral reefs with the biggest ongoing threat believed to be coastal construction activity altering the marine environment.

The fertile soils of Yemen have encouraged settlement of almost all of the land from sea level up to the mountains at 10000 ft. In the higher elevations, elaborate terraces have been constructed to facilitate grain, fruit, coffee, ginger and khat cultivation. The Arabian peninsula is known for its rich oil, i.e. petroleum production due to its geographical location.

According to NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data (2003–2013) analysed in a University of California, Irvine (UCI)-led study published in Water Resources Research on 16 June 2015, the most over-stressed aquifer system in the world is the Arabian Aquifer System, upon which more than 60 million people depend for water. Twenty-one of the thirty seven largest aquifers "have exceeded sustainability tipping points and are being depleted" and thirteen of them are "considered significantly distressed".

History
Stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic age along with fossils of other animals discovered at Ti's al Ghadah, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, might imply that hominins migrated through a "Green Arabia" between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago. 200,000-year-old stone tools were discovered at Shuaib Al-Adgham in the eastern Al-Qassim Province, which would indicate that many prehistoric sites, located along a network of rivers, had once existed in the area. Acheulean tools found in Saffaqah, Riyadh Region reveal that hominins lived in the Arabian Peninsula around 188,000 years ago. Human habitation in Arabia may have occurred as early as 130,000 years ago. A fossilized Homo sapiens finger bone found at Al Wusta in the Nefud Desert dates to approximately 90,000 years ago and is the oldest human fossil discovered outside of Africa and the Levant. This indicates human migrations from Africa to Arabia occurred around this time. The Arabian Peninsula may have been the homeland of a 'Basal Eurasian' population, which diverged from other Eurasians soon after the Out-of-Africa migration, and subsequently became isolated, until it started to mix with other populations in the Middle East since around 25,000 years ago. These different Middle Eastern populations would later spread Basal Eurasian ancestry via the Neolithic Revolution to all of Western Eurasia.

Pre-Islamic Arabia
There is evidence that human habitation in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to about 106,000 to 130,000 years ago. The harsh climate historically prevented much settlement in the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula, apart from a small number of urban trading settlements, such as Mecca and Medina, located in the Hejaz in the west of the peninsula.

Archaeology has revealed the existence of many civilizations in pre-Islamic Arabia (such as the Thamud), especially in South Arabia. South Arabian civilizations include the Himyarite Kingdom, the Kingdom of Awsan, the Kingdom of Ma'īn, and the Sabaean Kingdom (usually considered to be the biblical land of Sheba). From 106 AD to 630 AD northwestern Arabia was under the control of the Roman Empire, which renamed it Arabia Petraea. Central Arabia was the location of the Kingdom of Kinda in the 4th, 5th and early 6th centuries. Eastern Arabia was home to the Dilmun civilization. The earliest known events in Arabian history are migrations from the peninsula into neighbouring areas.

The Arabian Peninsula has long been accepted as the original Urheimat of the Semitic languages by a majority of scholars.

Rise of Islam
The seventh century saw the rise of Islam as the peninsula's dominant religion. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born in Mecca in about 570 and first began preaching in the city in 610, but migrated to Medina in 622. From there he and his companions united the tribes of Arabia under the banner of Islam and created a single Arab Muslim religious polity in the Arabian Peninsula.

Muhammad established a new unified polity in the Arabian peninsula which under the subsequent Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates saw a century of rapid expansion of Arab power well beyond the Arabian peninsula in the form of a vast Muslim Arab Empire with an area of influence that stretched from the northwest Indian subcontinent, across Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, southern Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula, to the Pyrenees.

With Muhammad's death in 632, disagreement broke out over who would succeed him as leader of the Muslim community. Umar ibn al-Khattab, a prominent companion of Muhammad, nominated Abu Bakr, who was Muhammad's intimate friend and collaborator. Others added their support and Abu Bakr was made the first caliph. This choice was disputed by some of Muhammad's companions, who held that Ali ibn Abi Talib, his cousin and son-in-law, had been designated his successor. Abu Bakr's immediate task was to avenge a recent defeat by Byzantine (or Eastern Roman Empire) forces, although he first had to put down a rebellion by Arab tribes in an episode known as the Ridda wars, or "Wars of Apostasy". On his death in 634, he was succeeded by Umar as caliph, followed by Uthman ibn al-Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib. The period of these first four caliphs is known as al-khulafā' ar-rāshidūn: the Rashidun or "rightly guided" Caliphate. Under the Rashidun Caliphs, and, from 661, their Umayyad successors, the Arabs rapidly expanded the territory under Muslim control outside of Arabia. In a matter of decades Muslim armies decisively defeated the Byzantine army and destroyed the Persian Empire, conquering huge swathes of territory from the Iberian peninsula to India. The political focus of the Muslim world then shifted to the newly conquered territories.

Nevertheless, Mecca and Medina remained the spiritually most important places in the Muslim world. The Qur'an requires every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it, as one of the five pillars of Islam, to make a pilgrimage, or Hajj, to Mecca during the Islamic month of Dhu al-Hijjah at least once in his or her lifetime. The Masjid al-Haram (the Grand Mosque) in Mecca is the location of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, and the Masjid al-Nabawi (the Prophet's Mosque) in Medina is the location of Muhammad's grave; as a result, from the 7th century, Mecca and Medina became the pilgrimage destinations for large numbers of Muslims from across the Islamic world.

Middle Ages
Despite its spiritual importance, in political terms Arabia soon became a peripheral region of the Islamic world, in which the most important medieval Islamic states were based at various times in such far away cities as Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo. However, from the 10th century (and, in fact, until the 20th century) the Hashemite Sharifs of Mecca maintained a state in the most developed part of the region, the Hejaz. Their domain originally comprised only the holy cities of Mecca and Medina but in the 13th century it was extended to include the rest of the Hejaz. Although, the Sharifs exercised at most times independent authority in the Hejaz, they were usually subject to the suzerainty of one of the major Islamic empires of the time. In the Middle Ages, these included the Abbasids of Baghdad, and the Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks of Egypt.

Modern history
The provincial Ottoman Army for Arabia (Arabistan Ordusu) was headquartered in Syria, which included Palestine, the Transjordan region in addition to Lebanon (Mount Lebanon was, however, a semi-autonomous mutasarrifate). It was put in charge of Syria, Cilicia, Iraq, and the remainder of the Arabian Peninsula. The Ottomans never had any control over central Arabia, also known as the Najd region.

The emergence of what was to become the Saudi royal family, known as the Al Saud, began in Najd in central Arabia in 1744, when Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the dynasty, joined forces with the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, founder of the Wahhabi movement, a strict puritanical form of Sunni Islam. The Emirate of Diriyah established in the area around Riyadh rapidly expanded and briefly controlled most of the present-day territory of Saudi Arabia, sacking Karbala in 1802, and capturing Mecca in 1803.

The Damascus Protocol of 1914 provides an illustration of the regional relationships. Arabs living in one of the existing districts of the Arabian peninsula, the Emirate of Hejaz, asked for a British guarantee of independence. Their proposal included all Arab lands south of a line roughly corresponding to the northern frontiers of present-day Syria and Iraq. They envisioned a new Arab state, or confederation of states, adjoining the southern Arabian Peninsula. It would have comprised Cilicia – İskenderun and Mersin, Iraq with Kuwait, Syria, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Jordan, and Palestine.

In the modern era, the term bilad al-Yaman came to refer specifically to the southwestern parts of the peninsula. Arab geographers started to refer to the whole peninsula as 'jazirat al-Arab', or the peninsula of the Arabs.

Late Ottoman rule and the Hejaz Railway
The railway was started in 1900 at the behest of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was built largely by the Turks, with German advice and support. A public subscription was opened throughout the Islamic world to fund the construction. The railway was to be a waqf, an inalienable religious endowment or charitable trust.

The Arab Revolt and the foundation of Saudi Arabia
The major developments of the early 20th century were the Arab Revolt during World War I and the subsequent collapse and partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The Arab Revolt (1916–1918) was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Empire and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. During World War I, the Sharif Hussein entered into an alliance with the United Kingdom and France against the Ottomans in June 1916.

These events were followed by the foundation of Saudi Arabia under King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. In 1902, Ibn Saud had captured Riyadh. Continuing his conquests, Abdulaziz subdued Al-Hasa, Jabal Shammar, Hejaz between 1913 and 1926 founded the modern state of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis absorbed the Emirate of Asir, with their expansion only ending in 1934 after a war with Yemen. Two Saudi states were formed and controlled much of Arabia before Ibn Saud was even born. Ibn Saud, however, established the third Saudi state.

Oil reserves
The second major development has been the discovery of vast reserves of oil in the 1930s. Its production brought great wealth to all countries of the region, with the exception of Yemen.

North Yemen Civil War
The North Yemen Civil War was fought in North Yemen between royalists of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and factions of the Yemen Arab Republic from 1962 to 1970. The war began with a coup d'état carried out by the republican leader, Abdullah as-Sallal, which dethroned the newly crowned Muhammad al-Badr and declared Yemen a republic under his presidency. The Imam escaped to the Saudi Arabian border and rallied popular support.

The royalist side received support from Saudi Arabia, while the republicans were supported by Egypt and the Soviet Union. Both foreign irregular and conventional forces were also involved. The Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, supported the republicans with as many as 70,000 troops. Despite several military moves and peace conferences, the war sank into a stalemate. Egypt's commitment to the war is considered to have been detrimental to its performance in the Six-Day War of June 1967, after which Nasser found it increasingly difficult to maintain his army's involvement and began to pull his forces out of Yemen.

By 1970, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia recognized the republic and a truce was signed. Egyptian military historians refer to Egypt's role in the war in Yemen as analogous to the United States' role in the Vietnam War.

Gulf War
In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi forces led to the 1990–91 Gulf War. Egypt, Qatar, Syria, and Saudi Arabia joined a multinational coalition that opposed Iraq. Displays of support for Iraq by Jordan and Palestine resulted in strained relations between many of the Arab states. After the war, a so-called "Damascus Declaration" formalized an alliance for future joint Arab defensive actions between Egypt, Syria, and the GCC member states.

2014 Yemen civil war
The Arab Spring reached Yemen in January 2011. People of Yemen took to the street demonstrating against three decades of rule by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The demonstration led to cracks in the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) and Saleh's Sanhani clan. Saleh used tactics of concession and violence to save his presidency. After numerous attempts, Saleh accepted the Gulf Cooperation Council's mediation. He eventually handed power to Vice President Hadi, who was sworn in as President of Yemen on 25 February 2012. Hadi launched a national dialogue to address new constitutional, political and social issues. The Houthi movement, dissatisfied with the outcomes of the national dialogue, launched an offensive and stormed the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 21 September 2014. In response, Saudi Arabia launched a military intervention in Yemen in March 2015. The civil war and subsequent military intervention and blockade caused a famine in Yemen.

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Information transfer

In telecommunications, information transfer is the process of moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink via a communication channel. In this sense, information transfer is equivalent to data transmission which highlights more practical, technical aspects.

The information transfer rate may or may not be equal to the transmission modulation rate.

Bidirectional information transfer is called information exchange.

Non-technical meaning
In a non-technical context, information transfer is sometimes used to signify knowledge transfer or teaching.

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Data stream

In connection-oriented communication, a data stream is the transmission of a sequence of digitally encoded signals to convey information. Typically, the transmitted symbols are grouped into a series of packets.

Data streaming has become ubiquitous. Anything transmitted over the Internet is transmitted as a data stream. Using a mobile phone to have a conversation transmits the sound as a data stream.

Formal definition
In a formal way, a data stream is any ordered pair $$ ( s, \Delta ) $$ where:

 * 1) $$ s $$ is a sequence of tuples and
 * 2) $$\Delta $$ is a sequence of positive real time intervals.

Content
Data Stream contains different sets of data, that depend on the chosen data format.
 * Attributes – each attribute of the data stream represents a certain type of data, e.g. segment / data point ID, timestamp, geodata.
 * Timestamp attribute helps to identify when an event occurred.
 * Subject ID is an encoded-by-algorithm ID, that has been extracted out of a cookie.
 * Raw Data includes information straight from the data provider without being processed by an algorithm nor human.
 * Processed Data is a data that has been prepared (somehow modified, validated or cleaned), to be used for future actions.

Usage
There are various areas where data streams are used:
 * Fraud detection & scoring – raw data is used as source data for an anti-fraud algorithm (data analysis techniques for fraud detection). For example, timestamps, cookie occurrences or analysis of data points are used within the scoring system to detect fraud or to make sure that a message receiver is not a bot (so-called Non-Human Traffic ).
 * Artificial intelligence – raw data is treated like a train set and a test set during AI and machine learning algorithms building.
 * Raw data is used for profiling and personalization to customize user profiles and divide them for segmentation, e.g., per gender or location (based on data point).
 * Business intelligence – raw data is a source of information for BI systems, used for enriching user profiles with detailed information about them, e.g., purchase path or geodata. This information is used for business analysis and predictive research.
 * Targeting – processed data by data scientists improve online campaigns and is used for reaching the target audience.
 * CRM Enrichment – raw data is integrated with customer-relationship management system. CRM integration allows to fill the gaps in users' profiles with demographic data, interests or buying intentions.

Integration
Core integrations with data streams are:
 * Data streams are integrated with systems such as customer data platform (CDP), customer relationship management (CRM) or data management platform (DMP) to enrich users' profiles with external data. It is possible to expand the knowledge about existing users by using external sources.
 * Data streams are used to enrich business intelligence systems and make analysis more precise and conclusions more accurate.
 * In the case of content management system (CMS) integration, Data Stream is used to identify the users and personalize their visit, even if it's their first one. By data analysis, the actual content of the website is adapted to the user.
 * Data streams are integrated with demand side platform (DSP) within programmatic advertising ecosystem. Parties (e.g., advertisers) can exchange the users' IDs and concatenate with them existing profiles.
 * Data streams are used to choose respective user segments (e.g., people interested in the automotive industry) and use them in an online campaign. Segments are enriched with more user characteristics out of data stream and then sent to DSP.

Data sources visible
In a data stream it is visible what device has been used by the user side – it is visible on user agent: The following information is shared out of used device:
 * mobile – when a user uses a mobile browser to explore, it has narrow screen resolution and mobile app version, respectively;
 * desktop – when a user uses a desktop browser or app version.
 * Actual URL to the visited website, where an event occurred
 * User Agent
 * Geolocation
 * Internet Protocol (IP)

Formats
A data point is a tag that collects information about a certain action, performed by a user on a website. Data points exists in two types, the values of which are used to create appropriate audiences. Those are: Segment is a logical statement, built on specific Data Points using AND, OR or NOT operators. Hybrid data – raw data out of both Data Point and Segment data formats. URLs – is a set of information about a particular URL that has been visited.
 * 'event' with information about occurrences of the specific event (e.g., click on a link or displaying ad)
 * 'attribute' with numerical or alphanumerical values.

GDPR
Information gathered out of websites are based on user behavior. Data providers deliver both personal or non-personal information. There are two types of user data available in data stream:
 * Personally identifiable information (PII) – information that allows clearly or by combining with data identification methods identify a person. Examples of PII are: insurance ID, email address, phone number, IP address, geolocation, biometric data.
 * Non-personally identifiable information (non-PII) is information that can't be used to identify a person or to track a location. A cookie or a device ID is an example of non-PII.

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About methionine and disulfide bonds: If methionine tried to form a disulfide bond X-S-S-Y it would no longer be methionine, since it would have to lose its terminal CH3 group. So I'm 99.99999% sure the answer is no. -- Marj Tiefert, Monday, May 20, 2002

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Good work ploughing through taxonomy! One suggestion: this comes from looking at your entry on fouquieria. The article is about a genus, and it would really be helpful in such cases if you provided a link to the family where it belongs. Eclecticology, Tuesday, May 28, 2002
 * Not linking the sub-classes in magnoliopsida was actually intentional. My hope was to limit the overall number of articles (could be VERY big) by restricting them to the principle classifications, and discouraging articles in the most sub-, infra-, super-, etc. categories.  Any opinions? --Eclecticology

Interesting point that you make about what ITIS has done with those birds. I've been so focused on setting up the 67 orders of magnoliopsida, that I haven't given much thought to the animal kingdom. What you say about the birds does make sense. The book that I quickly put my hands on by the International Council for Bird Preservation seems to agree with you. The overriding problem in taxonomy is that no single source will always be right; ITIS is no exception to this. My thinking in using ITIS was based more on its broad comprehensiveness than any belief in its unique correctness; I'm already getting flak from cladists on my choice. For me ITIS becomes more a reference system to draw things together. My approach would be to use their system of ciconiformes as a starting point with adequate explanations of alternatives. Not everybody that uses this order name cuts as broad a swath. Some use "ciconiiformes" with a double "i" for the term as used more or less by ITIS, and reserve the single "i" form for a narrower subset. May I suggest the order "plasticiformes" for the various flamingoes and vultures that appear on lawns for certain festive occasions? --Eclecticology, Saturday, June 1, 2002

No problem about those two genera. I've used a "piping" format [Augusta (plant)|Augusta] -- This would appear as Augusta in the list but would direct to an article called "Augusta (plant)". This is a usual disambiguating technique in Wikipedia. 600 genera! while ITIS has only 79!! That should get somebody's attention! I look forward to your writing every one of them up:-) ...as if it madders. --Eclecticology, Saturday, June 1, 2002

Your last pointed red comment proves how important sleep can be. -- Ec. -- "Censored.jpg" was a good article illustration at the time. After it served it's purpose it was deleted.

Space Cadet - Just wanted to drop a note saying "thanks" for cleaning up after me on the Semitic stuff, and for adding in the triconsonantal roots information in Semitic languages -- I saw it and went "D'oh! Why didn't I think of that!" :-) Pgdudda, Friday, June 21, 2002

I'm sure you were right about "femtofortnight", so I removed it from Femto-. On the other hand, see overhand knot, and particularly Talk: Overhand knot for my observations on "spontaneous generation". Best regards, Ortolan88

Most acronyms, especially short ones, stand for several things. The extremely helpful acronym and abbreviation database at http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronym gives Utah, the Universities of Tennessee and Texas, and User Terminal as alternate meanings of "UT". Please be careful about redirects from acronyms. Vicki Rosenzweig, Monday, July 8, 2002

Thanks for pointing out the articles giving the convention for the tree of life. I've taken a look and the suggestions are very reasonable, so I'll try and format my future submissions according to this template. Ramin Nakisa, Sunday July 14, 2002. - The version of Bennelong that The Epopt deleted was a blank page. Nothing wrong with deleting blank pages created by newbie experiments. --maveric149

Thanks for deleting my requested blank page. Starting yesterday, I have moved dozens of articles from "Middle Earth/Gandalf" to "Gandalf" or "Gandalf (Middle-earth)", leaving behind empty pages. Is there a better way to mark empty pages for deletion than simply writing "please delete" in the edit summary? Ed Poor 08:05 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

Pierre; when going through the orphan images, you might try putting the filenames into my multilingual Wikipedia meta-search page. (Note that sometimes the individual searches time out, if you don't see an "X pages found" message for a language, click the individual link to load it up separately.) --Brion VIBBER 17:42 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

Hello Pierre, I see you're working on the Wikiproject Tree of Life. What kind of advice would you give someone who's not knowledgeable about biology? I'm taking pictures of flowers, veggies, and fruit periodically, and wanted to contribute them, but I don't want to make things more difficult for others. For instance, I just wrote a brief article on canna lily so the picture had a home, but it's an orphan and I'd love it not to be. --KQ

Ok, thanks for the tip. I'll look into it--not tomorrow, probably, and so probably also not until I get back from L.A. on August 18. --KQ

Hi Pierre. My Aramaic is definitely rusty and it could be a dialect difference, but I would have said leshana de'arama (with a shewa after the d). I could certainly be wrong though. Danny

Pierre, your change of the French characters in the Lyapunov article was unnecessary, but harmless; you are incorrect about the Cyrillic requiring UTF-8 encoding. The English wiki is encoded in ISO-8859-1, and is best viewed with ISO-8859-1 set as the default encoding. The character repertoire of the pages is, however, Unicode--but don't confuse the character set with the character encoding. So any characters you want to use that are outside the ISO set must be encoded as HTML entities, but those entities will be sent across the wire as plain old ASCII, and the browser will render the correct Unicode character, regardless of what encoding it is set for, so everyone with good fonts installed should have seen both the Cyrillic and the accented Latin characters just fine. It is only characters that are not coded as HTML entities that care what the browser encoding is, and that's always ISO-8859-1 in the English Wikipedia. Just thought I'd save you the future work. --LDC

 * I believe this has come up before; Pierre mentioned he uses Konqueror 2.something. At least the older Konqueror versions had terrible font management support; as I recall, unless you enable font smoothing, character references outside the document character encoding don't render, because it blindly follows that encoding when requesting a font from the X server and silently drops anything outside that range (as boxes or question marks or some such). With font smoothing enabled it was a little better; everything was Unicode internally, so as long as the currently selected font had glyphs for those characters, they got rendered... but you had to choose a font with a big enough repertoire to cover anything you expect to see, it still wasn't smart enough to check other fonts. I don't know if the 3.x Konqueror is better, I've long since given up on it in favor of Mozilla (which unfortunately is slower and hogs more memory, but work on more things that I want/need). Anyway, as explained before forcing your browser to read ISO-8859-1 pages in UTF-8 is not a good solution to your browser's bug; it's like driving on the sidewalk because traffic is slow on the street. --Brion 18:41 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)

Sorry about missing the entire URL on coleus. I didn't remember that that was how we were supposed to do it. I'll check for other I may have missed and copy your format. --KQ 19:38 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT) --- You ask why allotropy is a misnomer! The existence of various ALLOTROPES of a given element is not the result of any particular phenonmenon other than the well known principlesof chemical bonding and structural chemistry. Allotropes can be in any state(Gaseous, Liquid, solid) as in C2(gaseous), graphite vapor,solid graphite, solid diamond,solid Fullerene, gaseous fullerene. The difference is of chemical bonding and not some pheno which is the same for all of these. Please see Macmil;lan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Ed.J.J.Lagowski,1997, Simon Schuster. User:Mercury610 22:36, Aug 23, 2002 (PDT)

Thanks for your Greek work in the Septuagint article, and for adding the etymology note. Well done! Wesley 07:52 Aug 26, 2002 (PDT)

Pierre, do you think the dynip info is relavent on the Sarnia, Ontario page? Surely they are not a significant company to the Sarnia economy or history? Frank Warmerdam

Pierre, Dynamic IP ISPs might be important to you, and I am happy that Dynip is listed on the Dynamic DSN page, but I don't feel it belongs on the Sarnia page. Every city has thousands of service companies but generally only a few would be important enought to appear on the city page.

PS. coming from Sarnia, I know that locals take great pride in the NHL hockey players that come from the area.

All this said, I am not going to remove the dynip item from the Sarnia page, but I would encourage you to reconsider it. Frank Warmerdam

Thanks, Pierre. I was too timid to do the redirect myself...... user:renata -- Here is the link to the copyright violation template along with some other stuff; Boilerplate text --mav

I wonder if you have been keeping an eye on the Aria Giovanni talk webpage. The situation there is out of control.

Matters have deteriorated to a highly abusive level over a website link. Of special concern is the general conduct and attitude of someone called NetEsq, who claims in his details to be a lawyer.

He has repeatedly abused anyone who opposed the idea of the website link with such tactics as net misettiquete ( eg the use of the word 'you' in capitals and bold to emphasise shouting), a poor grasp of history, the unrepentant use of such termsas Nazi, out of context quotes and attempted alienation ("only YOU opppose it").

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his beliefs, it is very advisable to bring this most unruly and arrogant person into line.

Given that your name is on the list of persons who can ban users, I thought it advisable to bring this to your attention, before it leads to persons leaving the wikipedia - something likely to stroke Netesq's already aggressive actions.

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Hey, I'm not sure what a "box character" is. The only punctuation I remember using in those new redirects was a comma, apostrophe and circumflex (all of which I've seen in other titles). What did I do wrong? I made redirects rather than change the original because they are each alternate spellings, or at least really common typos, that I've seen in multiple places. Tokerboy 03:35 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)

Hello Pierre, you suggested that I shall delete nonsense articles on my own. First, I'm not an administrator, thus I can't delete an article. Second, after many discussions on the mailinglist I hold the opinion that a 4-eye principle of proposal and deletion is best to avoid errornous deletion. -- JeLuF

give it some time. Im pretty sure they got them. Lir 11:22 Oct 24, 2002 (UTC)

Re the "Lyapunov" article. I'm a little puzzled about your change for the french accents. I have my browser set to UTF-8, and I always use "Alt+0233" for the e-acute. I never have anym problem with it appearing correctly, it's certainly more convenient than the ampersand format.. Eclecticology 23:17 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)

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I'm confused- what box characters??? quercus 05:47 Aug 31, 2002 (PDT)

re box charcaters- I didn't know I was- all the pages that I've put up look fine in my browser (IE 6), as far as I'm aware I havn't entered any unusual characters???

where abouts are the boxes appearing?

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About Aztec mythology (and various other kinds), I group together individuals if they come in some sort of logical group on their own. I wouldn't want to give the impression that a half-dozen random gods are connected when they're not, and I think putting unrelated gods on the same page would do so. Plus, all of these may be expanded in the near future (by myself or someone else); there is probably more to say about all of them, and making a separate page for each god makes that easier--especially with variant spellings, trying to move a god about whom I just recieved new information to a new page, and moving all his alternate-spelling redirects from the old page would be complex. User:Tokerboy

Did you get permission to use the Drexel logo's? I am almost certain that if you didn't they would not approve of it. MB 16:24 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC)

LOL..

"I wish I had more to add!"

Wladimir C. Mourao Jr. wrote those famous words in self-reflection at his life's accomplishments, right before his momentary fame as the wikipedia censors came sweeping through.

My thoughts, exactly!! You're an amazing psychic, or I'm an extraordinary communicator :-)

Wladimir Mourao

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Howdy Pierre:

I just created a WikiProject for math; aka WikiProject Mathematics. I'd love to see any input comments, etc. you might have. Cheers. Chas zzz brown 00:00 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)

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Thanks for the definition of Chiaroscuro... I'll have a more complete article coming _soon_. Annie

Ah. I was a bit confused by Vandalism_in_progress which reads "If you don't want to call attention to your report, be sure to check the box marked "this is a minor edit" (so it won't show up in most users' recent changes)". I can see this should apply only to the "Vandalism in progress" change. Sorry. I'll leave vandalism alone then. -- Someone else 04:36 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)

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I left a note for you at talk:Farnsworth Hirsch Fusor (or whatever the spelling is). User:Ray Van De Walker

Hi Pierre, you wrote about the meaning of Lifter in signal processing. Someone wanted to rename it to filter. Which one is correct? Please be not offended, but you seemed to have been a bit dyslexic when you wrote that article, because you also wrote gamnitude and quefrencies instead of magnitude and frequencies. -- Stw 17:09, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry, it seems that not only you, but all mathematicians are dyslexics ;-) I just read about Cepstrum and now I understand why it's gamnitude and quefrencies -- Stw 17:15, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

--- Image:Front Elev.jpg is the front view of Carnegie's home in Scotland, Skibo Castle. Picture taken by me, soory for not replying earlier User:Rjstott

IE Tree
Regarding the numbers and confusing language names, I have very little knowledge of what any of those mean –– I merely copied the information from an earlier JPG file to an SVG. I was curious myself as to what they meant, but couldn't find any info on it. I'll ask around – thanks for checking up. Murraybuckley 06:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Tulip tree
Hi Pierre - wish I could cool it! The majority preference is for the commoner usage Tulip tree, but one person keeps trying to change it back to tuliptree, insisting that is the only permisssible orthography (and ditto for Cucumber tree and cucumbertree). I'm trying to at least keep the contents of the conflicting pages the same, except for the name orthography. There's a discussion started at the end of the Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life page, any thoughts you have would be welcome - MPF 12:17, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tok Pisin
Bonjour Pierre, Je voudrais créer une Wikipedia en Tok Pisin. J'ai demandé qu'un domaine soit ouvert, cf. Complete_list_of_language_wikis_available; mais je ne sais pas ce que je dois faire maintenant. Comme je voulais commencer à y travailler, j'ai ouvert une page provisoire a partir de la page d'accueil du domaine bislama. Est-ce que tu pourrais y jeter un coup d'oeil et corriger mon Tok Pisin? (Je suis un débutant complet). I see you are very busy, but I hope you would find a minute to help me.
 * Best.

Jean-Luc --Milaiklainim 13:22, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

coi
coi .pier. mi'e .filip. -- pne 12:37, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Bonjour, Pierre

Thank you for the note of welcome. You may have possibly seen my name in connection with some Perl web sites I participate in, such as Perl Monks. Or it's possible you're thinking of another person with my name; believe it or not, my name (first and last) is very common among Armenians.

Vahe Sarkissian -- VSarkiss 17:46, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi; I'd just like to say thanks for catching that etymological error on Tetraodontiformes. How embarrassing. ;) Cheers, -- Hadal 04:23, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board
Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:07, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Cornish Rex photo
The image you uploaded of a Cornish Rex (Image:CornishRexRopey.jpg) in June, 2002, doesn't have a copyright tag on it. Please place the appropriate tag on the photo's page. Thank you. Lachatdelarue [[User talk:Lachatdelarue|(talk)]] 21:55, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I just updated your entry on Elisabeth Elliot - you had her name spelled, "Elliott," and it appears that her name only carries one t. I also linked the page to the page I just created on her husband, Jim Elliot. Let me know if there's a problem! --Spangineer 22:32, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:41, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * Quoth: Being a Wikitraveler, I'm going to dual-license, but does that affect images too? In particular Ropey the Cornish Rex is not mine, he belongs to a friend of mine, I just uploaded the picture
 * Pictures that you create are not automatically included when you use a template, but you can add any special notes to the text directly before the template explaining your purpose. For instance:

 * I agree to multi-license all my image and text contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

 * For each picture, you must still place the proper image licensing template just so those who click on the picture can track its license, but this example would probably do what you want. Make sure on WikiTravel that you also multi-license so your changes can also be used here.  See my example at wikitravel:User:Ram-Man. Hope that helps!  For all pictures that you do not own you cannot relicense them without permission of the author.  Make sure that you make a special note on the image page alerting them to this fact.  The template that you use on your user page will necessarily exclude those contributions (image and text) that you do not own the copyright to.    – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   03:21, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Image license
Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Draw1.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you.

If you uploaded other images, please clarify copyright for them as well, otherwise the images will eventually be deleted.

Thanks, Denni ☯ 01:39, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

 * The only track we can follow is the History, and you are the one and only name there. With no permissions, this image is probably doomed to erasure. Denni ☯ 03:03, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

Language file
Sorry, but it's not something I can do. There's a page to request this at Requests for languageXX.php update. I tried asking on the #mediawiki IRC channel but no one was available to do this at the time. Angela. 21:27, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * You could look at the CVS archives to see who else updates language files and ask them. I think Hashar has been involved with this a bit recently, so he might be a good person to start with. Angela. 18:13, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)

LanguageJbo
La Wikipédie lojbane n'a pas de fichier de langue au présent, et je voudrais faire marcher le choisisseur de format de date (il y a deux systèmes de nommer les mois, et selon le grammaire on doit mettre "ca" avec une forme de date et "de'i" avec une autre). J'ai mis le fichier sur meta. Pourriez-vous m'aider? -phma 01:23, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bonjour,

Tu peux envoyer un message dans la liste de diffusion wikitech-l et demander une mise à jour du fichier.

Je regarderais çà dès que je peux :o)

Hello,

You can send an email to the wikitech-l mailing and ask a file update for LanguageJbo.php.

I will have a look at it as soon as possible :o)

Hashar 06:32, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Wikiportal
I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Project Participants List
Hello Pierre, in case you missed the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I wanted to let you knoiw, in case you wanted to update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 20:40, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Project Participants List
Hi Pyrop

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 15:03, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Lojban wikipedia
There have been 2 request for sysop status on Lojban wikipedia. As you are the bureaucrat there, would you look at it please: m:Requests_for_permissions Thank you, it is also handy if you would make a second bureaucrat. Waerth 17:18, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

I am related on my mother's side to Alicia Lardé, who married John Nash.
Which one?

Wikipedia in Tetum

 * Help building a Wikipedia in Tetum, the national language of East Timor. Give your contribution to the improvement of its test page -- Regards, 195.23.53.121 11:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC) Manuel de Sousa

Wiktionary adminship
I, an admin at English Wiktionary, would like to ask if you are the same user as wikt:User:PierreAbbat with no activity for long time there.--Jusjih 07:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you still interested in keeping your adminship at English Wiktionary?--Jusjih 23:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Survey Invitation
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 21:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

Image:Astroid.svg listed for deletion
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Klinefelter's syndrome
Hey there, we're looking for a citation for the sentence "These triploid genes in XXY males may be responsible for the symptoms of Kleinfelter's syndrome." which you originally provided to the older "Klinefelter syndrome" article. I know that if I did a little research myself I could probably find a good justification/citation for it, but if you happen to have a reference handy, we'd love to see it there in the article. --MalcolmGin 14:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

jbo.wikipedia
Hi. I understand you are a sysop for jbo.wikipedia. Can you please have a look at jbo:Category:sutra vimcu and delete those pages that should be deleted. The index.php spambot has taken a liking to jbo.wikipedia. --Jorunn 21:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Barí language
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Khemed
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AfD nomination of Hyote
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jbo.wikipedia
As your interwiki link is broken, are you the same user as jbo:User:Pier? If yes, please take a look at jbo:Wikipedia:bende_ckupau. Thanks.--Jusjih (talk) 23:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

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Articles for deletion nomination of News.admin.net-abuse.email
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Moles
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Proposed deletion of Categories (game)

The article Categories (game) has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
 * The game is not notable. There are no sources for it. A google search does not come up with much. On a personal note, I have played game with the same name with totally different rules.

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Nomination of Hardic for deletion
The article Hardic is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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4twenty42o
''Threatening another person is considered harassment. This includes threats to harm another person, to disrupt their work on Wikipedia, or to otherwise harm them. Statements of intent to properly use normal Wikipedia processes, such as dispute resolution, are not threats. Legal threats are a special case of threat, with their own settled policy. Users who make legal threats will typically be blocked from editing indefinitely.''

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======= '':Ahh don't give me that bullshit. I get so sick of single purpose editors telling me this shit. No where in your extensive edit history have you reported a problem nor sought dispute resolution. Now take your complaints to the proper venue before you really piss me off and I say something you regret. - 4twenty42o (talk) 21:49, 20 August 2011 (UTC)''

Is that an appropriate example of Wikipedia Policy for an Administrator with regard to civility and threats? Is this user an administrator or just posing as one? JohnLloydScharf (talk) 23:09, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear PierreAbbat,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.206.39 (talk) 03:50, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Center pivot irrigation
Just a note, the article Center pivot irrigation that you created is currently a WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening Collaboration of the month. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Upright position (electronics)

The article Upright position (electronics) has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
 * According to the external link this article is about "a position of a translated channel [in a in a frequency-division multiple access multiplexer] in which an increase signal frequency in the untranslated channel causes an increase signal frequency in the translated channel". I really don't think that's a suitable subject for an encyclopedia. There are no significant in-links. I'd have no objection in this article being replaced by a redirect if there's a suitable target article.

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

lojban
coi I heard that you know about Lojban? I was working on a "person" infobox on the Lojban Wikipedia, and was wondering how to translate "native name" into Lojban (as in the name that a person has in their native language). Thank you. Bradshaws1 (talk) 20:53, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Pau d'arco listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Pau d&. Since you had some involvement with the Pau d'arco redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Cnilep (talk) 02:48, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Your admin status (Pier)
Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy.

You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on jbowiki, where you are an administrator and a bureaucrat. Since jbowiki does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies.

If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights.

We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Best regards, Rschen7754 02:13, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Muzzle (firearms)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Muzzle (firearms), has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Lightbreather (talk) 19:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

jbo:User_talk:PierreAbbat
You have someone pinging you at JBO. If you do not wish to continue to undertake your 'crat role at JBO, then please let the stewards know at SRP — billinghurst  sDrewth  02:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I've been busy with other stuff and was not logged onto Wikipedia or Wiktionary for a few weeks. phma (talk) 04:12, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Garbanzo

A tag has been placed on Garbanzo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about something invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally, and it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, 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 from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Julietdeltalima  (talk)  19:47, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

The mysterious garbanzo!
That garbanzo thing was, indeed, procedurally really weird; I appreciate your clarification and have no reason whatsoever to question your explanation. It popped up at the top of my new-pages feed at lunchtime (Pacific U.S.) and I saw what appeared to be typical random trollery and speedy-tagged it. Only later I realized that I actually had my feed set to OLDEST pages first, and the random "garbanzo" neologism page had a creation date sometime earlier than 2/2014. NO clue re: what random database maintenance or other Wikiblip led to its popping up in May 2016 as an unreviewed new page, in that particular version. Again, I have no reason at all to question your explanation, and I'm happy to explain the above to anybody who ever raises an issue with you about it. If I hadn't been eating hummus for lunch we might not even be here! Deepest apologies; I'll back you up if there's a problem, sir. Take care. Julietdeltalima  (talk)  02:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Pholidota
Hi, I didn't write the article only reviewed it, I see your point though Atlantic306 (talk) 21:40, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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CAN you please help
when copyrigthed photos are uploaded,we have to fill up many answersin quite different procedure.but i saw one file File:Bepannah.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bepannah.jpgis copyrighted.but the file is mentioned as free work done through upload wizard posted by Usernameace.Is it correct?--Manavatha (talk) 07:35, 22 October 2018 (UTC).

ArbCom 2019 special circular

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:13, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Hey
Back in 2003 (!!!) you added an unsourced statement to the article on the Cornish Rex. As a result, no sources from after 2003 can be trusted. Do you have any idea where you got that detail? DS (talk) 18:27, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * And, actually, some further research indicates that the origin story you proposed is not actually true. I'll be replacing it later with something properly sourced. DS (talk) 01:48, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * If your friend can supply a source from earlier than 2003, I'll accept that (although it doesn't correlate with the "Castorrex" story I found in older journals). DS (talk) 05:00, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Jean-Pierre Abbat for deletion
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Nomination of Bilingual pun for deletion
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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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How we will see unregistered users
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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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New administrator activity requirement
22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

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Nomination of Tinfoil Hat Linux for deletion
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User talk:Kimberlyhogg

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. Cheers! --maveric149

Hey Kimm(b)y. I'll do a little digging and put in my photo requests very soon. However, if you can get any of Panmunjon (legally! Don't lose your camera!) I know I (and Wikipedia) would love some. -- Stephen Gilbert

How did you get hired in South Korea? I'd just like a suggestion about an agency. How is life there? The pay, food, lodging, etc.. dave

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