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User talk:Daniel.inform

Wikipedia Translation
Interested in UNL (Universal Networking Language), and using it to translate Wikipedias? Well then post your name and/or ideas here and lets start the Wikipedia UNL community:

 * 1) Djbaniel July 9, 2005 10:48 (UTC)

International Auxiliary Language Ideas
Have ideas for international auxiliary languages? Post them here:

Examples
 * 1) I am not opposed to the creation of such a language.
 * 2) If such a language is to be created, perhaps we could use symbols from languages all over the world to create a new version of the International Phonetic Alphabet that is not western biased.
 * 3) Along those lines, let's learn from Esperanto, but start fresh so as to not carry along any unnecessary biases.
 * 4) For such a project to work, we would need collaborators from many different cultures.
 * 5) I say we keep the number of characters to a minimum. Even so, I see no reason why we couldn't have some degree of international representation...
 * 6) If we're going to create a new international auxiliary language, it may as well serve a potential purpose beyond spoken communication. Thus, develop in parallel a sign language, a braille system, and... anything else?

Cultural appropriation
Hello, Djbaniel. How ya doin'? :) Thanks for stopping by my page to drop me a note and for getting cultural appropriation off to a really good, running start.  I rewrote portions of it and, hopefully have improved it a bit.  I added text relating to the power relationships between originating and exploiting cultures, as it is central to the meaning of the term.  (After all, we don't speak of "cultural appropriation" when commenting on the wearing of Western dress by other cultures. :p) As an African-American whose culture has been pimped mercilessly and virtually universally, I share your viewpoint about people looking foolish and what not, but I had to rework that portion a bit.  It's probably not as effective, but at least its NPOV (neutral point of view) -- Wiki policy 'n' all.  I see you're relatively new to the project, so WELCOME!  Peace 2 u. :D  deeceevoice 15:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hey, early riser/night owl. :) Your suggestion sounds intriguing.  While I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to contribute, though, from an "American perspective," I'd be more than pleased to contribute what I can from an African-American perspective :p -- the two are quite different.  I need a better sense, though, of what you have in mind.  Drop me another note, and I'll ponder it over the weekend.  Meanwhile, this night owl is off to bed to catch a few z-z-z-z-zzzz's. Forgot to mention that your comment about "trustlocks" in Dreadlocks made me chuckle.  Hadn't heard that one.  Peace. deeceevoice 09:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

AID project
On this week's Article Improvement Drive voting, an article you supported was selected. This week we focus on improving Abortion to featured article status. Hope you can help. -- the wub (talk) 12:50, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Improvement drive
You nominated abortion to be improved by the WP:IDRIVE. The page is currently protected from editing however and is an extremely controversial subject. I have to remove the nomination for now. Try to nominate it again when the seas have calmed at this article. Sorry, I hope you understand.--Fenice 9 July 2005 12:38 (UTC)

In this context, I have another idea: there is no article on Wikipedia on Human embryogenesis. This is information that is often needed in the edit wars on abortion. There is a new collaboration, Science collaboration of the week, for which this would make a good nomination (and I would support it, btw).--Fenice 9 July 2005 12:42 (UTC)

IDRIVE
Can you explain what you are doing to the IDrive topic?--Fenice 04:54, 9 August 2005 (UTC) Maurreen did the rollover last sunday, and it was done correctly.--Fenice 04:59, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I do not mind the ordering, but for all I can tell, you also deleted spice trade from the nomination. That is why I reverted it.Napoleonic wars should be given the full week, because it has a good chance of achieving featured status. If you can find images and fix everything else, we can talk about a rollover to a new topic, but leave it on for now.
 * The topic Napoleonic wars is absolutely correct, worthy a.s.o. The rollover was done on Sunday 7 by Maurreen and the next topic change will be next sunday, the 14th. The projects always stay on for one entire week. Why did you change it? I assume it was a misunderstanding?--Fenice 05:11, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Putting the nominations in order is a lot of work - if you want to do it, I think it is a good idea.--Fenice 05:59, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Please contribute to the collaboration!
Girl is the collaboration of the week! Please come grow this article... Mamawrites 03:22, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: Sandbox
Thanks for your edit to my sandbox. Yes, I understand the problem that could occur, and my sandbox is most definitely not from Texas! So I appreciate your initiative! Thanks once again! —Eternal Equinox | talk 20:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

The proposal on your userpage
Hi! Your user page invited me to leave a comment re:article translation, so I'm doing so. I think setting up a project to do this would be a great idea. Sadly, I have neither the technical knowledge to have anything to do with This nor the language skills to manually translate something, but I do feel that this is a worthwhile project and maybe you should try making a suggestion at the village pump. Blood red sandman 01:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Szechuan vs Sichuan
The debate is on again at Talk:Szechuan_cuisine. See what I've had to say. Djwatson 05:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Clean Energy
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Speedy deletion of Fig (band)
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 * I don't know why this is on my talk page, but I agree that it should have been deleted long ago in accordance with Criteria_for_speedy_deletion. Djbaniel (talk) 15:41, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion notification

 * Again, I don't know why User:Tealwisp put this notification on my talk page, but I agree that the article should have been deleted long ago in accordance with Criteria_for_speedy_deletion. Djbaniel (talk) 15:45, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of List of oldest religious organizations
A tag has been placed on List of oldest religious organizations, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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 * I have declined the request for deletion for now, since it's a viable topic and you obviously know your way around the wiki. Please add some substantive content (other than a self-description of the article and stub tag) soon, or it will be deleted as empty. Thanks, Steven Walling  02:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of oldest religious organizations

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Wikipedia Campus Ambassador needed
Hi! My name is Annie Lin - I'm the Campus Team Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm contacting you because you're listed as a resident of San Francisco, and we're currently looking for a friendly Wikipedian to teach students in a University of San Francisco class how to use/edit Wikipedia. This is a role titled the "Wikipedia Campus Ambassador," and you'll basically be doing in-class presentations about Wikipedia, running Wikipedia labs/workshops, and in general providing face-to-face Wikipedia help for the professor and the students in the class. The time commitment is about 3-5 hours a week (with variations throughout the semester), and for this particular University of San Francisco class, most of the workload will be between March and May.

Please let me know if you're interested!

Thanks. Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 19:05, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

The Great American Wiknic
Hi there! In the past, you've expressed an interest in local meetups of Wikipedians. Well, here's your chance! On Saturday, June 25, we'll be joining Wikipedians in cities all over the country for the first annual Great American Wiknic -- the picnic that anyone can edit! We'll meet up at a park in SF -- hopefully in the sun -- all other details are still in deliberation!

If this sounds fun, please add your name to the list: Meetup/San Francisco/Wiknic and add that page to your watchlist. (And of course, feel free to edit that page with your ideas, questions, etc.) I look forward to wiknicking with you! -Pete (talk) 00:40, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events
Hi! As part of Wiki Loves Monuments, we're organizing two photo events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Yosemite National Park. We hope you can come out and participate! Feel free to contact User:Almonroth with questions or concerns.

There are three events planned:

 * September 15, Saturday - A bike ride along San Francisco's waterfront
 * September 22-23rd, Saturday-Sunday - Wiki Takes Yosemite
 * September 29, Saturday - A sunset and harvest moon bridges, palace, boats and tower tour

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:43, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Women's history editathon
Hey - Sorry for the late notice, but since you have yourself tagged as living in the Bay Area, I thought you might appreciate notification that we’re having an event Saturday! It’ll be held at Hoyt Hall, an all-women's house of the Berkeley Student Cooperative from 3 to 6 pm tomorrow. The main event page is here. Anyone is welcome to show up, but we’re expecting a significant number of people to come who have literally never edited Wikipedia before. If you’re an experienced Wikipedian who would be able to provide useful help to some of the newbies, your presence would be especially appreciated (and it might be a good idea for you to show up at 2 or 2:30 instead of three. Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC) I’m AWB’ing this message to all Wikipedians who have tagged themselves in the bay area.  I’m sorry if the message isn’t of interest to you; feel free to delete it.   I’ll be unlikely to send future messages in a similar way, but if really don’t want to receive future messages of this sort, please let me know.

Wiknic 2013
"Wiknic 2013 Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland Theme: Hyperlocal list-making" This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

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

EdwardsBot (talk) 04:49, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

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

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:00, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Use of force law in Missouri
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 * Thank you CorenSearchBot, yes, it is in the public domain. Tag deleted. Djbaniel (talk) 07:09, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Use of Force Doctrine in Missouri for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Use of Force Doctrine in Missouri is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Use of Force Doctrine in Missouri
If you want to bring more people into the deletion discussion because you hope that will help it's chances, that's one thing, but don't do that by adding links to it in other articles. Linking to a faulty article on life support does no improvement to those other articles. – JBarta (talk) 23:28, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Why do you think it is a "faulty article on life support?" How can we work together on this rather than against one-another? Djbaniel (talk) 12:50, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

 * If by some egregious lapse in the general common sense of Wikipedia that article survives deletion review I will drop the stick and you can link to it all you want as far as I'm concerned. How's that for working together? – JBarta (talk) 13:05, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. (Except for the claim that it would require an 'egregious lapse in the general common sense of Wikipedia.') Djbaniel (talk) 13:45, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Use of force doctrine in Missouri for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Use of force doctrine in Missouri is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Use of force doctrine in Missouri until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. StAnselm (talk) 21:36, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the notification StAnselm, and thank you for your contribution to this topic. I assume that you reviewed the previous deletion discussion (Articles for deletion/Use of Force Doctrine in Missouri) before nominating the article again. How can I help? Best, Djbaniel (talk) 10:21, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8
Thank you for the invite Rosiestep! Unfortunately I will not be in the Bay Area during those dates. Next time :-)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27
Please join us in San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:

 * The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
 * Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see here: Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016

We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series on May 25
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:

 * A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
 * What topics might we cover in a follow up?
 * Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)
 * Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
 * Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
 * Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)
 * Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

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REMINDER/invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.
Please join us in downtown San Francisco tonight!

If you cannot join in person or want to view portions later:
 * To join via Hangout on Air
 * Via YouTube Stream

We will have:

 * Light snacks, and time to mingle
 * A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Public Library, that was coordinated by Wiki editor Merrilee
 * A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
 * Join in on a brief in person Wikidojo!
 * Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E/viewform and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

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Late breaking invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, July 27 (Wednesday) - change of venue - tonight
Please join us in the Mission at Noisebridge (one time change of venue)!

We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bay_Area_WikiSalon_July_2016 All info here]. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! ([//docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHtIIcEtUPqLtbG6BXCAs-A6u6bdK6aW3z_jBNiA5lnTHKog/viewform Registering] ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)

Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.

Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, August 31
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have a brief presentation for your education and possible enjoyment:

 * Former EFF intern Marta Belcher will discuss crowdsourcing her Stanford Law School graduation speech using a wiki. The "WikiSpeech" was the subject of prominent national media attention in 2015, and more than half of her classmates contributed to writing and editing the commencement address via a wiki.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, August 2016

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Tonight: Live and archived links for Bay Area WikiSalon
Bay Area WikiSalon, Wednesday, August 31:

If you cannot join us in person tonight, we are streaming (and later archiving) the presentation by former EFF intern Marta Belcher. We expect her to be live starting between 6:30 or 6:45 p.m. PDT and talking and taking questions for about 30 minutes thereafter.

Here is the YouTube stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8V79s2-og Here is the link to join the Hangout on Air: https://hangouts.google.com/call/ezrol7dafjfwxfh2ilpkjyxoaue

You can search for it on the Commons and YouTube later too.

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.

Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official dealine is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

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Good to see you!
Hey Daniel, nice seeing you the other night. Sorry you've kind of been spammed you with those invitations. :) II  | (t - c) 01:43, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

You are invited to a Wednesday evening event in SF
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

Please copy and share this on other talk pages. We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather at the Wikimedia Foundation lounge to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no meaty agenda this month, but we will allow a brief period for:

 * Open mic for anybody who attended [//wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page WikiConference North America 2016] in San Diego last week and wants to share their takeaway
 * Question & answer
 * Open mic for announcements
 * Maybe a focus on some topical election article editing with Ben?

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, a stool or counter and do your own thing.

Please note: You should [//docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E register here], and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, October 2016. PS: Mark your calendars ahead now for the 3rd Wednesday in November, the 30th (the week after Thanksgiving), at 6 p.m. when our WikiSalon will host a super awesome top secret mystery guest mingling in our midst. We will announce specifics at the upcoming WikiSalon.

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Everybody is invited to the November 30 Bay Area WikiSalon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Details and RSVP here.

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Bay Area WikiSalon series: Everybody is invited this Wednesday evening at 6
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki and open-source enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

Before and after the brief presentation we allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks.

In addition, this month we will have:
 * a brief presentation from (Jim Heaphy) about the Wikipedia Teahouse
 * spontaneous lightning talks from the floor
 * community announcements from the floor

For details and to RSVP see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, December 2016

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P.S. Any help spreading the word through social media or other avenues is most welcome! We plan to announce this on various sites and invite various groups; if you would like to join in, check our meta planning page, and please note any announcements you are sending out: Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco

Please feel free to add to, refine, reorganize or edit the above linked page: it is a wiki!

We need more helpers and organizers, so if you see a need, please jump in, or talk to us about it! You can add your username to the meta page where appropriate, or create a new role! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Reminder invitation to the December Bay Area WikiSalon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi, everybody.

We are excited to remind you of the ninth in the Bay Area WikiSalon series that is coming up this Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.

 * Details (RSVP suggested) here (RSVP helps us know how much food and drink to bring in)

What is a WikiSalon? A monthly safe and inclusive meatspace event conducted in organized chaos and we all clean up the mess afterwards. Livestream links for the presentation are available during presentation months, and will be forthcoming for those of you that cannot attend. December is a presentation month. Hope to see you there! (and ) - co-organizers Any last minute questions or suggestions? Please ping or email Ben or me. | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:10, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Archived link for December Bay Area WikiSalon
Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy [[User:Cullen328]]

 * [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeJim1n2uiY Archive link] (also includes intro, announcements, and a lightning talk)

 * Details about Bay Area WikiSalon for December here

The full title of Jim's presentation was: Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Wikipedia Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016

Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at [//wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page WikiConference North America 2016] in San Diego, California.

Cheers! Co-organizer - and co-organizer  | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Wikipedia's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

You are invited to a birthday bash to Celebrate Wikipedia's 16th Birthday!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district.

For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Wikipedia Day 2017

The San Francisco gathering is one of a number of Wikipedia Day celebrations worldwide.

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PS: We need volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add your name to the Project page, and what you can offer. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the page.

Bay Area WikiSalon usually meets the last Wednesday evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch and learn about new projects and ideas. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Reminder invitation to the Wikipedia Day 16 birthday bash & edit-a-thon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district and everybody is invited!

See you Sunday! , and

PS: We still need more volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add what you can offer and your name to the Project page or Talk about it. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the Project page. The event is already growing due to volunteers that have stepped up so far.

 * Bay Area WikiSalon meets one evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch or learn about new projects and ideas.

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for February 22
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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017

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Bay Area WikiSalon February reminder
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6 p.m. For details and to RSVP: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017 See you soon! and (co-coordinators) | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:58, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Your invitation: Bay Area WikiSalon series at Noisebridge
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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are meeting at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace in the Mission near 16th Street BART (temporary change of venue). The good news is this means that you can bring spontaneous guests if you forget to RSVP!

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. If possible, please RSVP as it helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, March 2017 See you soon! Co-coordinators and  (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Reminder: Tonight is Bay Area WikiSalon at Noisebridge
Please join us in San Francisco!

Details and to RSVP: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, March 2017 (optional, but helpful for food and special needs accommodations)

We are meeting at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace (temporary venue change) near 16th ST BART in SF.

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Concerning WP:Translation
While I applaud your enthusiasm and boldness, I took the liberty of reverting your edits there. I do not agree with your unilateral change(s) at all. I'd rather see this discussed on the talk-page or at WP:PNT, to get more eyes on it. Regards. Lectonar (talk) 21:25, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * And sorry, I just now saw . After having been reverted by me, the onus is on you to gather consensus before making the changes. And I just want to remind you of WP:AGF: to imply that someone might revert without giving due consideration, and warning them off via edit-summary, is exactly not assuming good faith. The more I look at your edits, the more I find your approach rather high-handed. Lectonar (talk) 21:30, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Lectonar's revert of your change to WP:Translation was appropriate, as are their comments about the edit summary.

 * Your knowledge of foreign languages and translation is relevant to any changes you wish to make to Translation policy. Please consider adding language badges to your user page, as explained at Babel. Or if you don't wish to do that, can you briefly sketch out what your foreign language skills are and what experience you have in translation? I checked out your translation of the section  from  and the translation of  from, and they look like MT to me.  Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 07:23, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Sidenote: Just glancing at the Gloria Fuertes article, I see errors that appear to have been introduced by the translation. "A mediados de los años 70" was translated as "In her mid-70s" when in fact it should have been translated as "In the mid-1970s." And "Aunque ella siempre se definió como" was translated as "Although she always was defined as" when it should have been translated as "Although she always defined herself as." I don't know the root of these errors, but they illustrate the need for a good understanding of the original to write a good translation. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:13, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

 * That's just for starters. Or a 'popular' neighborhood (≠ es:popular, a rube mistake; in this context it's more like 'working class').  Or 'drew [illustrated] her own story'.  Or this gem:   And, we're only ¼ of the way through that section, but basta. Mathglot (talk) 23:44, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

 * It's also undesirable that the names of several magazines, Rumbos, Poesía Española, and El Pájaro de Paja, were translated indiscriminately into English, leaving the impression that they are English-language publications with those titles. Then there's the half-done translation, Coletas y Pelines into ''Pigtails and Pelines". Largoplazo (talk) 15:19, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Switching to French: in from, you wrote: :  ; :  ; :  ; :  ;  :  ; :  ; :  . Comment? Mathglot (talk) 20:59, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Reply from daniel.inform
My fellow more-multilingual Wikipedians, thank your comments above. All I can say is that this has been a somewhat embarrassing learning experience.

I am still not quite certain that worse than nothing is strictly correct, assuming we're talking about this or this type of machine translation.

On the other hand, some machine translation errors are indeed very bad. (Of course the examples in the section above were from the old even-less-accurate version of Google Translate.)

Currently when I think about all of the great articles which are  nonexistent  in other languages, it makes me cringe. I suppose that one prudent thing to do is to monitor the machine translation technology as it seems to finally be progressing quickly, after about eight years of stagnation.

The universal claim of worse than nothing is still logically a very high bar in the context of an 87% reduction of machine translation errors. Daniel.inform (talk) 05:02, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * My intention certainly was not to embarrass you -- just to illustrate the limitations of machine translation. By the way, many of the errors noted above are still present (in that form or some variation) in the current Google Translate machine translation of the Spanish article. (I have not checked the French article, but I assume the same may be the case.) And just a side note re the "worse than nothing"/"does not aid the reader": readers are perfectly capable of using machine translation tools themselves.  Of course machine translation in that context does aid the reader!  But the extra step of copying and pasting a machine translation here is not helpful because it gives the reader nothing s/he didn't already have, it freezes in place errors that might be corrected when the machine translation improves, and readers may not know they are reading a machine translation--with potential attendant factual errors--particularly if grammatical mistakes are edited out by Wikipedians trying to be helpful.  Perhaps one day Wikipedia can have integrated machine translation--with disclaimers about accuracy--where machine translation is viewable within Wikipedia itself.  But I think we have a ways to go before we get there, and I don't think that copy/pasting machine translation in the meantime is a good solution. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:15, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Just a little more why I think "worse than nothing" is not that bad; for the moment, an article that does not exist in the english-language wikipedia creates no work for the editors of the english-language wikipedia, as it is per se non-existent here. As soon as it enters "our" Wikipedia, it becomes (as explained above) rather a net-negative, as it might contain factual errors (which are imho worse than grammatical or orthographical ones) which we assuredly do not want in an encyclopedia, and who are difficult to weed out. Lectonar (talk) 09:35, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Wednesday night you are invited! Bay Area WikiSalon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather for the Bay Area WikiSalon series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. We will have some announcements and lightning talks from the floor, and a breakout session. This is our one year anniversary, so there will be cake! Please RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. See you soon! and (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:19, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Will you be attending? Hope to see you there. Mathglot (talk) 07:03, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Spoke to another user about translations at the Salon, could've used your thoughts about it along the lines of what you have on your user page. Will you be able to attend the next one?  It's on the last Wednesday, which would put it on 5/31, but since that's a holiday, not sure if it will be held or moved. Mathglot (talk) 08:11, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Everybody is invited to the May 31 Bay Area WikiSalon series!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are taking it on the road to Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace!

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. There will be periodic guided tours of Noisebridge. You can stay late, on your own! YeeHaw!

For details and to RSVP, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2017 See you soon! and (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:07, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

The Bay Area WikiSalon is an unSalon this month!
Please stay where you are for an unSalon!

We are taking July off! Please gather your thoughts for changes that you would like to see in the next 10 months and present them at our July 26 WikiSalon.

Ordinarily, the last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We normally allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Mark your calendars now for Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m.! The venue will be the Noisebridge hackerspace/makerspace on Mission Street in San Francisco. Sincerely, and  | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:44, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

The Black Woman is God Edit-a-Thon in San Francisco, July 22
You're invited to The Black Woman is God Edit-a-Thon at SOMArts in San Francisco on Saturday July 22, 1-4 pm. It'll be at 934 Brannan Street (between 8th & 9th). Everyone is welcome to join this editing event, held in conjunction with The Black Woman is God exhibition to raise the online visibility of Black women artists and challenge the gaps in art history that erase or minimize Black women’s contributions as artists, activists and social change-makers. (Message requested by Dreamyshade and delivered on 14:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC). You can subscribe/unsubscribe to San Francisco event talk page notices here.)

What is Talk Page Theatre? Come find out!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Come find out what "Talk Page Theatre" is all about! The last Wednesday evening of every other month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.  We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. We will be at the NEW Wikimedia Foundation offices! w00t!!!  Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in.  For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, November 2017  See you soon! ,, and | ( Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice ) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

SFMOMA Edit-a-Thon in San Francisco, March 8
You're invited to an Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon at SFMOMA in San Francisco on Thursday March 8, 5-9 pm. It'll be at 151 Third Street, 2nd floor, free to the public. Everyone is welcome to participate in an evening of communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art, and feminism. (This message is from User:Dreamyshade. You can subscribe/unsubscribe to San Francisco event talk page notices here.) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Bay Area WikiSalon invitation!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is images!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).
 * For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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UPDATE! Bay Area WikiSalon moved to June 6!
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Our apologies, but we are rescheduling to Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. due to a WMF host scheduling conflict.
 * For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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REMINDER: Bay Area WikiSalon is Wednesday, June 6
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When: Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m.
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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for July 25!
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Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Kid/family friendly. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is reliable sources!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).
 * For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, July 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for September 26!
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Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Kid/family friendly. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months' focus is '''Did you know ... ?'''

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).
 * Details and RSVP here (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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Last call for RSVPs for Wednesday evening
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Hey, folks. Reminder: Wednesday evening at 6 is the Bay Area WikiSalon series.

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You are cordially invited to Stanford University to celebrate Wikipedia's birthday
Join us in celebrating Wikipedia's 18th birthday at Stanford University!

 * I am delighted to invite you to the 2019 Wikipedia Day party at Stanford, which will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 5:00-8:30pm.

 * There will be pizza, cake, and refreshments; both newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome! We will have a beginner track with tutorials, and an advanced track with presentations, lightning talks, and tips and tricks. Admission is free, and you do NOT have to be a Stanford University student to attend.

 * Details and RSVP here • register here

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You are cordially invited to the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon on 02.02.2020
Join us for the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon this Sunday, 02.02.2020!

 * I am delighted to invite you to the SPIE Photonics West 2020 edit-a-thon, at Park Central Hotel (Franciscan I, 3rd Level / 50 Third Street / San Francisco, California), on Sunday, February 2, 2020, at 5:00-7:00pm.

 * Newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome to participate alongside SPIE conference attendees. Admission is free. Training will be provided.

 * Details and sign-in here

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Proposed deletion of Decentralized finance

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Invitation to Local Wikimania Event in San Francisco this Friday
Hi!

Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out Wikimania 2022/San Francisco Meetup.

The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand workshops/learning sessions.

In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.

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City College of San Francisco

City College of San Francisco (CCSF or City College) is a public community college in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded as a junior college in 1935, the college plays an important local role, enrolling as many as one in nine San Francisco residents annually. CCSF is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC).

CCSF, the only community college in San Francisco, offers tuition-free education for all residents of the city. The Ocean Avenue campus, bordering the Sunnyside, Westwood Park and Ingleside neighborhoods, is the college's largest location. The college has five other locations around the city.

CCSF offers Associate degree programs and certificate programs. City College of San Francisco has articulation agreements with the California State University system, the University of California system, and other private and public universities in California and across the United States. Free non-credit courses in subjects such as ESL and citizenship as well as adult education classes are also provided.

San Francisco Junior College
The founding of a junior college in San Francisco had long been the dream of Archibald Jeter Cloud, the Chief Deputy Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). In response to Black Tuesday and the ensuing Great Depression, Cloud worked to convince the San Francisco Board of Education of the necessity of a junior college in Depression-era San Francisco and of the District's financial ability to form one. Cloud's presentation of fiscal studies in 1934 convinced the Board of the availability of Federal and State funding for a junior college. City College of San Francisco was established by the Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District on February 15, 1934, and officially opened on August 26, 1935, as San Francisco Junior College. The college had no central campus at the time. Instruction began on September 4, 1935, with morning classes held at the University of California Extension building on Powell Street and afternoon classes held at Galileo High School. The long distance between the two locations gave the college the nickname "Trolley Car College." Increasing enrollment gave way to the college's expansion to Lick-Wilmerding High School, Samuel Gompers Trade School, Marina Junior High School, and other locations. A permanent main campus near Ocean Avenue was approved by the San Francisco Board of Education in 1937 and opened in 1940 with the opening of Science Hall.

City College of San Francisco

In February 1948, the name was changed to City College of San Francisco. It now consists of eleven campuses, the Ocean Campus being the primary one.

In 1970, the college separated from the San Francisco Unified School District. The college continued to hold noncredit education programs throughout San Francisco's neighborhoods. However, as a result of CCSF's rapid growth, the San Francisco Community College District divided the programs between a division for credit courses at the Ocean Campus and one other division for noncredit courses throughout locations in San Francisco. The two educational divisions merged as a single division in 1990 with program locations held at campuses of City College of San Francisco.

Since the 1990s, the college has significantly renovated and expanded its locations and developed new buildings and facilities throughout San Francisco.

Since its founding in 1935, City College has evolved into a multicultural, multi-campus community college that is one of the largest in the country. CCSF offers courses in more than 50 academic programs and over 100 occupational disciplines. There is a full range of credit courses leading to the Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees, most of which meet the general education requirements for transfer to a four-year colleges and universities.

Accreditation crisis
In 2012, the college began experiencing significant public turmoil. On July 2, 2012, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), gave the college eight months to prove it should remain accredited and ordered it to "make preparations for closure". As summarized by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2015, "the commission has never found wrongdoing or substandard instruction, but has said the college should lose accreditation because of tangled governance structures, poor fiscal controls and insufficient self-evaluation and reporting." In September 2012, the state chancellor's office warned that a special trustee would be appointed to oversee the institution's finances if the college did not voluntarily invite one; the board of trustees voted to invite a special trustee, despite student protests and objection. A report issued by California's Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance team in September 2012 found the institution to be in a "perilous financial position" caused largely by "poor decisions and a lack of accountability.

In July 2013, the ACCJC elected to take action to terminate the college's accreditation, subject to a one-year review and appeal period. The decision was based on a variety of deficiencies in standards. A Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team report was expected to be released by the end of July 2013. Nearly two months later, San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera filed two legal challenges to stop the ACCJC from revoking City College of San Francisco's accreditation alleging conflicts of interest, a faulty evaluation process, and a politically motivated decision-making process. The 2013 decision to revoke accreditation in 2014 was put on hold pending the legal challenges. In January 2015, with the legal conflict still ongoing, ACCJC said that CCSF remained out of compliance with standards in 32 areas but granted the college a two-year extension for resolving these issues and avoiding a shutdown.

In 2017, ACCJC reaffirmed the college's accreditation for seven years. It operates with approximately $22M annual Stabilization funding from the California legislature which will expire in 2021. For the 2017/18 Fiscal year, the Board of Trustees approved a $49M Deficit budget.

Free City College
After the accreditation crisis in 2012, CCSF was having low student enrollment issues. In the years that followed the crisis, student enrollment went from 90,000 students down to 60,000 students by 2017. In February 2017, the City of San Francisco began offering free tuition at CCSF for San Francisco city residents in a two year pilot program called “Free City College”. The money for the free tuition was raised from Proposition W, a transfer of properties tax on property sold over $5 million. By Fall 2017, student enrollment was increased by 16% (4,900 students). However, a financial audit in 2019 showed that the college was still in dire straits with deficits for at least three years and nearly $14 million more in spending than revenue during the previous fiscal year.

Organization and administration
CCSF is part of the San Francisco Community College District which is independent and co-extensive with the City and County of San Francisco and part of the California Community Colleges System. The district's board of trustees is elected by San Francisco residents. District funds are allocated from the state legislature, local property taxes, student tuition and fees, lottery funds, sales tax funds, and miscellaneous sources.

Unique to California Community Colleges, CCSF support staff are pooled in the County of San Francisco's Civil Service system, so they may transfer between the community college and other City/County of San Francisco departments and participate in the City and County's benefit programs. This is an exception to academic independence enabled by Education Code section 88137. College administrators do not have control of the hiring and placement of classified staff. Although it allows for benefit and seniority portability, CCSF classified staff are not paid at the same rate as their equivalent in other cities/county departments, so transfer to the college is effectively a demotion.

City College of San Francisco is located in an urban environment and has the associated crime rate. All campuses are maintained by the San Francisco Community College District Police Department (SFCCDPD). The SFCCDPD has twenty eight police officers and nine civilian employees.

Although most colleges and universities have auxiliary foundations for fundraising, the foundation of City College's assets were frozen in 2010 for illegal use, leading to felony money laundering charges against the college's chancellor. The Foundation subsequently made a break from the college, and today, the college has a quasi-endowment of a little over $1M that it does not control.

Academics
City College of San Francisco offers 16 Associate of Arts degree programs, 34 Associate Degree for Transfer programs, and 47 Associate of Science programs. In addition, CCSF also offers 108 certificate programs, including eight that are not for credit.

CCSF has a transfer rate to four-year institutions of 62.7% and most students transfer to universities in the California State University and University of California systems.

While the CSU doesn't offer a guaranteed admission program, 35–40% of CCSF's transfer students enroll in San Francisco State University.

7.1% of CCSF transfer students enroll in University of California, Berkeley, making it the second most common transfer destination. UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Santa Cruz offer Transfer Guaranteed Admission contracts to CCSF students.

Schools
CCSF consists of eight schools that are divided into departments.
 * School of Business, Fashion & Hospitality (5 departments)
 * School of English, World Languages and Cultures, and Communication Studies (3 departments)
 * School of Fine Applied Communication Arts (10 departments)
 * School of Health, Physical Education & Social Services (8 departments)
 * School of ESL, International Education & Transitional Studies (3 departments)
 * School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (13 departments)
 * School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies & Social Justice (12 departments)
 * School of Library, Academic Resources, Educational Technology, and Online Programs (4 departments)

Notable programs
The Department of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies was founding in 1936 as the Hotel and Restaurant Department and was the oldest hospitality program in the United States. At the Ocean Campus, students and staff in the department operate the school's cafeteria, City Streets, a quick-service outlet in the cafeteria featuring international cuisines, and Chef's Table, a fine dining restaurant. At the Downtown Center, students and staff currently run Educated Palate Cafe, a pop-up bakeshop. Educated Palate was fine-dining restaurant at the center that served American cuisine. The restaurant is temporarily closed.

The school offers courses in nine languages with full courses including American Sign Language, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Degrees available for these language programs include an Associate of Arts degree (AA), an Associate of Arts for Transfer degree (AA-T) or a Certificate of Achievement in languages.

The school also offers Cantonese language classes. In December 2021 there were budget cuts which threatened the status of the program. Alan Wong, a member of the CCSF board, stated that since the Cantonese class does not result in a certificate, the class was in jeopardy. At least two "Save Cantonese" campaigns were created to save the language classes. Ultimately the school's Cantonese program remained.

Campus and academic centers
CCSF officially opened in 1935, during the Depression era, at the Industrial school, a school for juvenile delinquents, at the Ocean/Phelan Avenue site. Instruction began on September 4, 1935, with morning classes held at the University of California Extension Division building on Powell Street and afternoon classes at Galileo High School with students moving between sites using the trolley system at the time. As the student population grew, classes became available at other sites across San Francisco at a variety of sites. As Juila Bergman writes in the book City College of San Francisco, "Thus, in a real sense, the history of the college is a history of San Francisco and its transportation system."

Today, CCSF provides courses at Ocean Campus and five satellite locations around San Francisco. They are commonly called "campuses," but are officially "academic centers" in the state-approved framework of the California Community Colleges System, having less than the range of educational facilities and services offered at a typical community college campus. Courses are also offered online and are available to all residents of California.

Active locations
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 * Chinatown/North Beach Center, 808 Kearny Street
 * Downtown Center, 88 4th Street
 * Evans Center, 1400 Evans Avenue
 * John Adams Center, 1860 Hayes Street
 * Mission Center, 1125 Valencia Street
 * Ocean Campus, 50 Frida Kahlo Way (main campus)

Former locations

 * Airport Center, San Francisco International Airport, Bldg. 928
 * Civic Center, 1170 Market Street
 * Fort Mason Center, Fort Mason Center, 1934-Bldg. B
 * Gough Street Site, 31–33 Gough Street (administration)
 * Southeast Center, 1800 Oakdale Avenue

The Airport Center closed in 2020, following the expiration of CCSF's lease at SFO. The other centers are grandfathered but would not have been permitted to open under the 2012 California Community College guidelines.

Art on campus
Most of the early art on CCSF campus was due to the work of Timothy L. Pflueger, the architect in charge of designing CCSF in the 1930s. Pflueger was on a committee of well-known Beaux-Arts architects organizing and designing the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE). In 1940, he organized Art in Action, an exhibit showcasing work by multiple artists. Many of these pieces from GGIE are now permanently housed at the Ocean Campus.

Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera's work Pan American Unity, originally created for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1940, has been displayed at the theater at the Ocean Campus of San Francisco City College since 1961. This large mural stands, 22' high and 74' long made up of 5 panels. The mural was entitled by Rivera, “Unión de la Expresión Artistica del Norte y Sur de este Continente” (The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and South of this Continent) but now commonly called ''Pan American Unity. ''There are three self-portraits and a portrait on his wife, artist Frida Kahlo within this mural. As of 2014, City College is in the process of supporting The Diego Rivera Mural Project, with goals to return the mural to the position of public importance, stabilize the environment in which it is set, and secure funding to make the project self supportive.

Frederick Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Olmsted Jr.'s 1941 Theory and Science mural is located at CCSF's Ocean Campus in the Science Hall's west entrance. This is two 12′ x 8′ tempera fresco murals and depicts a range of careers in the sciences, featuring men, women and people of color doing things such as viewing bacteria through a microscope, conducting field research, and excavating dinosaur remains. Olmsted also created two large, limestone sculptures of Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison heads that are on display in the Ocean Campus middle courtyard. The giant Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison heads were created in 1940 as part of the Golden Gate International Exposition's Art in Action exhibition and later given to CCSF for care and display.

Beniamino Bufano
Beniamino Bufano was a California-based Italian American sculptor, best known for his large-scale monuments representing peace. Bufano's sculpture Saint Francis of the Guns of 1968 stands at San Francisco City College in front of the Science Building. It is a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi—San Francisco's namesake—made from melted-down guns mixed with bronze to prevent rust from the city's dampness; this work was inspired by that year's assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. The sculpture is of a 9-ft tall figure of a robed Catholic saint, his arms spread in peaceful greeting. On his robe, Bufano created a mosaic tile mural showing the glowing heads of four of America's assassinated leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. This was one of Bufano's last works before he died.

Dudley C. Carter
Dudley C. Carter has three works at the CCSF Ocean Campus, including The Ram sometimes called Mountain Ram, Goddess of the Forest, and The Beast sculptures''. ''Dudley had donated The Ram because he knew it was the school mascot and it had been part of the Golden Gate International Exposition's Arts in Action exhibition. The Ram sculpture stood outside on the campus periodically changing locations from time to time, students would coat it in paint with campus colors red and white. Sometimes rival schools would repaint The Ram in their own school colors. By 1980 The Ram had many layers of paint and damage and in Spring of 1983 it was restored by Carter with use of a pick axe and its original, natural redwood. Currently located in the lobby of Conlan Hall, on the Ocean Campus. The Goddess of the Forest is another redwood sculpture created during GGIE, it is very large standing at 26 feet tall and had a girth at the base of 21 feet. For years this piece was located at Golden Gate Park, until 1986 when it began to show distress and decay. It was then moved to CCSF to an indoor location awaiting restoration.

Ignacio Perez Solano
In 2004, the then-Governor of Veracruz, Mexico, Miguel Alemán Velazco, presented CCSF with a reproduction of an Olmec colossal head in honor of the new Pan-American Center. The gift, a 14-ton, 9-foot tall replica of “El Rey” (The King) San Lorenzo #1 created in volcanic tuff is now the centerpiece of the proposed Frida Kahlo Garden next to the Diego Rivera Theater at City College of San Francisco. The artist who carved the replica was Ignacio Perez Solano, also known as “il Maestro.” This is only one of five Olmec head reproductions in the United States. The Olmecs are viewed by some as the "mother culture" of Mexico.

Herman Volz
Two 50′ x 45′ low-relief polished marble mosaics by the Swiss-born artist Herman Volz are located in the south portico of San Francisco City College's Science Hall, located on Ocean Campus. The murals are named Organic and Inorganic Science. The imagery of the mosaics represent fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics with text accompanying the mural that reads ‘Give me a base and I move the world.’ These murals were originally part of the Golden Gate International Exposition’s Art in Action show in 1940 on Treasure Island before they were moved to the college. The two mosaics took two years to install with a staff of eight workmen, Juan Breda served as assistant mosaicist for the project. The murals were restored in 2005.

Student Activities Office
The Student Activities Office provides resources, support and leadership training for eight Associated Students Councils and more than 80 clubs and student organizations. It sponsors a wide variety of concerts and lectures throughout the year. It funds the Book Loan Program, Dr. Betty Shabazz Family Resource Center, Multi-Cultural Resource Center, Queer Resource Center, Student Health, Students Supporting Students mentoring program, and Women's Resource Center. Performances given by students in music, dance, and theater arts further enhance campus life.

Students can also avail themselves of the Fitness Center, nationally ranked intercollegiate sports, and participate in the college's award-winning intercollegiate Speech and Debate Program.

Media
The Guardsman is the college's student-run newspaper. CCSF's journalism students also publish Etc. Magazine.

The Free Critic was an alternative paper.

LGBT community
Currently, there is a Queer Alliance student group and a Queer Resource Center on campus. The Queer Resource Center is an informational and advocacy resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender queer, intersex, questioning, and straight allies. The Queer Resource Center aims to empower and celebrate its demographic as well as its community, part of which they have supported the addition of new queer studies classes and a new queer-focused associate degree in 2019. The center has participated in anti-violence, anti-homophobia, and anti-transphobia rallies and workshops. The center has struggled with funding although this has caught the attention of politicians, notably the Green Party, whose candidate for board of trustees John Rizzo promised in 2006 funds for more LGBT studies and the Queer Resource Center.

Women
On campus, there are numerous student activity groups, gender-specific courses, and health services. For example, the Women's Resource Center and Library (Smith Hall, 103–104) offers women on campus an opportunity to network with academic support services and resources, and Project Survive is a campus peer education group working to promote healthy relationships and end abuse and sexual violence.

Teams
Intercollegiate athletics are offered for men and women. College teams compete in the CCCAA Coast Conference North Section. Intercollegiate sports include baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, soccer, softball, tennis, track, badminton, volleyball, and judo. These teams are all nicknamed the Rams. City College of San Francisco football teams have won ten national championships. The 1994 CCSF Rams football team compiled a perfect 11–0 record and was ranked No. 1 nationally in the USA Today/National Community College Football Coaches Alliance Poll.compiled a perfect 11–0 record and were ranked No. 1 nationally in the USA Today/National Community College Football Coaches Alliance Poll. The annual rivalry football game is played against the College of San Mateo Football team.

Sports facilities
All of the CCSF Rams teams are based at the Ocean Campus. The home venue for baseball is Carter Field. Football and track and field use the George M. Rush Stadium. The Soccer Practice Field is north of the stadium. The Wellness Center, south of the stadium, houses staff offices, weight rooms, a swimming pool, locker rooms, classrooms, and an indoor gym. The north and south gyms were located east of the stadium but were replaced with bungalows and a parking lot. Tennis courts are further east.

Alumni
This is a list of notable alumni from City College of San Francisco, listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Actors
• Bill Bixby, (1934–1993) Actor

• Barbara Eden, (1931) actress and singer

• Danny Glover, (1946) American actor, film director and activist.

• Lee Meriwether, (1935) actress and former model

• Pat Paulsen, (1927–1997) comedian

• Pat Sheehan, (1931–2006) actress and model

• Hilary Van Dyke, (1970) actress

Artists and designers
• Lenore Chinn, (1949) a queer Chinese-American artist and activist, best known for her American realist paintings

• Patrick Cowley (1950–1982) queer disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist.

• Kenn Davis (1932–2010), surrealist painter and mystery novel writer associated with the Beat generation

• Emory Douglas (1943), designer, illustrator, and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s.

• Chris Johanson (1968) painter, attended CCSF from 1989–1992.

• Freda Koblick (1920–2011), American acrylic artist and sculptor.

• Barry McGee (1966) a painter and graffiti artist.

• Manuel Neri (1930) artist, attended CCSF from 1949-1950

• Win Ng (1936) ceramics artist, designer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Taylor & Ng

Baseball
• Joe Angel, radio sports announcer for professional baseball

• Doug Davis, (1975) professional baseball pitcher

• Stan Johnson, (1937–2013) professional baseball outfielder

• Dick Nold, (1953) professional baseball pitcher

• Mike Norris, (1955) professional baseball pitcher

• Walt Williams, (1943–2016)

Basketball
• Justin Brownlee (born 1988), player in the Philippine Basketball Association

• McKenzie Moore (born 1992), player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League

• Travante Williams (born 1993), player in the Portuguese Basketball League

Football
• Natey Adjei, (1988) CFL Wide Receiver

• Joe Ayoob, (1984) Arena Football Quarterback

• Tim Brown, (1984) CFL kick Returner/punt returner

• Desmond Bishop, (1984) NFL Linebacker

• Allen Chapman, (1991) Arena Football

• Al Cowlings, (1947) NFL Linebacker

• Vernon Crawford, (1974) NFL Linebacker

• DeJon Gomes, (1989) NFL Safety

• Larry Grant, (1985) NFL Linebacker

• Lavelle Hawkins, (1986) NFL Wide Receiver

• Cole Hikutini, (1994) NFL Tight End

• James Hundon, (1971) NFL Wide Receiver

• Jeremiah Masoli, (1988) CFL Quarterback

• Maurice Purify, (1986) NFL Wide Receiver

• Nick Rolovich, (1979) College Football Head Coach

• O. J. Simpson, (1947) Retired Football Player, Broadcaster, and Actor

• Dick Stanfel, (1927–2015) NFL and Pro Football Hall of Fame

• Lenny Walls, (1979) NFL Cornerback

• Gibril Wilson, (1981) NFL Safety

Journalists and writers
• Joe Angel, American radio sports announcer for professional baseball

• Monica C. Lozano, (1956) newspaper editor, the publisher and CEO of La Opinión a Spanish language daily newspaper

• Richard Lui, (1972) journalist and news anchor

• Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis, writer and poet.

Politics and civil service
• Allen Broussard, (1929–1996) an African-American judge and justice of the California Supreme Court

• Saeb Erekat (born 1955), a Palestinian diplomat who previously served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee.

• Martin Jenkins, (1953) former federal judge

• Ed Jew, (1960) former Chinese-American politician, who was convicted of extortion, bribery, and perjury in 2008

• Fred H. Lau, (1949) former chief of police for San Francisco from 1996–2002

• Peggy Pierce, (1954–2013) Nevada politician

Other
• Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, Palestinian American activist

• Dubee, Northern Californian rapper.

• Maxime Faget, (1921–2004) Belizean-born American mechanical engineer and designer of spacecraft

Faculty
This is a list of notable faculty from City College of San Francisco, listed in alphabetical order by last name. • Margaret Cruikshank, (1940) lesbian activist and educator

• Keith Kerr, (1936) retired brigadier general, gay activist and as of 1995 retired CCSF faculty

• Him Mark Lai, (1925–2009) activist and historian of Chinese America

• Helene Mayer (1910–1953), German and American Olympic champion fencer

• James Torlakson, (1951) printmaker, artist, CCSF professor from 1999 until 2017.

• Doug Siebum, professional audio engineer

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'Early' vs 'Individual' computers
Please see my new discussion on the Early Computers category discussion page. thank you. --Bubba73 00:43, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, thanks for the constructive suggestions; see my reply. --Wernher 05:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Uses?
What were the main uses for the EDVAC? I tried to look it up but I can't find it.166.127.1.11 (talk) 21:26, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * "EDVAC was delivered to the Ballistic Research Laboratory..." suggests that a main use was ballistics calculations, like ENIAC. But of course it invited many more application experiments since it was much more general purpose. Dicklyon (talk) 05:31, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

34-bit or 44-bit?
Article contains both:
 * ultrasonic serial memory[1] capacity of 1,000 34-bit words
 * ultrasonic serial memory[1] capacity of 1,000 44-bit words

Jamplevia (talk) 20:03, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

 * I changed 44-bit to 34-bit, since 34 at least appears in the cited source Automatic Digital Computers, as the size of multiplication operands. If the memory word size is different, I don't find that. Dicklyon (talk) 05:29, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

 * The BRL report says 44 bits. It gives details, so I believe it is correct.  The fractional part of a floating point was 33 bits plus a sign bit.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 05:46, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That makes sense with 34-bit multiplier then. Dicklyon (talk) 21:35, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

 * Right, with floating-point. And then 10 bits for the power of 2 - including a sign bit. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:20, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Computer or Calculator?
I couldn't find which the "First Draft" uses. But the Progress Report, page 3 says "computer". The Computer from Pascal to von Newman also says "computer". In the article where it talks about the contract, it says "calculator". Does the contract actually say "calculator"? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:22, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

 * The BRL report (linked above) also says "computer". Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 05:52, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Artificial Intelligence
Such a machine, which can not only carry out calculations of extremely complicated mathematical problems with essentially the speed of light, but which also can exercise some degree of free choice and initiative, is under construction at the University of Pennsylvania for the Ballistic Research Laboratories at Aberdeen, Md.

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Hi, I'm certainly interested in the lace project. I have some questions that I ill put on the projects talk page! pcr 01:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Lace-stub
Hi Julie - since there may not yet be enough lace stubs for a completely separate category, I've made a compromise suggestion at WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria. Have a look and see whether you think it's a reasonable idea. Grutness...  wha?  12:03, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

thanks
Hi Julie, thanks for alerting me to the lace project. I'm sorry i can't participate right now, because i'm really busy in real life at the moment, but i'll contribute more as soon as i can. Also i'm not really a lace expert. I've been dabbling in several lace making techniques as offshots of crochet and embroidery, and might be able to contribute pictures of such works, but i don't know that much about historical lace. Lady Tenar 13:32, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Happy New Year! WikiProject Textile Arts is starting 2008 by initiating a project newsletter. The project had 7 new articles at Template:Did you know in December and we hope to see more of you in 2008. Cheers, Durova Charge! 20:56, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, the textile arts project had an exciting month in February: 7 featured pictures, 2 good articles, and 4 Did you know? entries. There's still time to join our featured portal drive. Our March newsletter has all the developments. Regards, Durova Charge! 00:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Review request
Hi!

I am been doing quite a lot of additions to Wikipedia in the field of bobbin and other lace, and would appreciate friendly (or otherwise) eyes to check over what I've done and change or add to them as necessary.

I am a bobbin lacemaker and have a site teaching people how to make lace, with my own patterns on it as well: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/index.htm As you can see from those patterns, I am not necessarily a rigorous follower of accepted styles! I also have a lace collection, from elderly relatives and bought from chairy shops. I have recently put it online: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/collection/index.htm In trying to identify the collection, I naturally started with Wikipedia, to find a lack of information, and worse still, pictures. So I had to look else where, but then thought I ought to supply what I now know to Wikipedia. So you can see that the additions are not from an expert in lace styles! But a start is better than nothing, and I have been careful about supplying references, etc. I have also added pictures, usually from my own collection, since that is OK about copyright, or from out-of-copyright books. Unfortunately, this means that I am only about 90% sure of the accuracy of the pictures, and less than that on their quality. Still, something is better than nothing. Here is what I've done...

New articles: Genoese lace, Cluny lace, Maltese lace, Barmen lace machine, Princess lace, Renaissance lace, tape lace

Expanded from stub: Bedfordshire lace, Lace machine

Added existing picture: Metal laces, Maltese lace (the pillow)

Added picture from my own lace collection: Barmen lace machine (lace), Cluny lace, Maltese lace, Princess lace, Renaissance lace, tape lace, Bedfordshire lace, Limerick lace, Bucks Point lace (simple example), Chemical lace

Added picture from elsewhere (out-of-copyright books): Barmen lace machine (machine), Genoese lace, Antwerp lace, Bucks Point lace (multiple examples)

--Joedkins (talk) 15:34, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Reply
Jo, thanks for your contributions! I'll take a look, and see if I think any changes are needed. Perhaps we can encourage more participation. Julie E. (talk) 19:07, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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