EdMercer

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WikiProject Industrial design (announcements)

• NEW! The meaning of all this is that the 'startup' phase of the ID project is finished. The project now switches to its 'mature' phase. I encourage you to put your name in the todo page after one of the remaining tasks. You can also aim to be Coordinator if you so desire. Thank you again and see you around, --AlainR345^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 05:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

• Great day kids! All 2022 ID pages are now importance-assessed. From now on, let's increase article quality! (2010-05-20)

• NEW! We reached another important milestone: all ID pages are now quality-assessed. Let's finish importance assessment! (2010-04-15)

• Hello guys and dolls, good news! Our first meaningful Cleanup listing is now available. (2010-03-24)

• Auto-assessment is finished: 1719 pages are now assessed. We now move in the manual edit mode phase of the project as of... TODAY. So, no more excuses for laziness, let's get to work, all of us... (2010-03-20)

• Big news again, we now have 1000 images within the project scope with more to come soon! (2010-03-04)

• The Design Cafe is now opened! (2010-03-03)

• Current monthly ranking stats for the WikiProject Industrial design articles is here. (2010-03-01)

• Great news folks! We recently got our first-ever Featured Article rating. (2010-02-27)

• Good news team: the first automated tagging yielded 530 articles for the project, let's grow this number! (2010-02-14)

• Hi everybody! We just opened the WikiProject Industrial design (and Design portal) for business. So enjoy! (2010-01-31)

• Hello everybody! Now that we are at least 5 members, we are able to officialize this thing. Don't you think it would be great if each one of us proudly displayed his membership by placing the Industrial design Userbox on its user (or talk) page... (2010-01-24)

• Good news folks! We now have Assessment statistics for the Industrial design articles (albeit reduced to the one Industrial design article, the only tagged so far with the project banner); See: Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Industrial_design_articles_by_quality_statistics (2010-01-05)

• Hi supporters of the WikiProject Industrial design! And thanks for your support. Now that we are more than 5 supporters, I gather from the Wikipedia guidelines that we CAN proceed with the groundwork, for releasing the project and portal in the open soon. To that effect, we would appreciate it very much if you could copy your name in the List of participants page. (2009-12-31)

• For better and faster discussion between WikiProject Industrial design members a IRC channel could be created at: irc://irc.freenode.net/##WikiProject-IndustrialDesign. For instant access click here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##WikiProject-IndustrialDesign. Please use your Wikipedia nickname. (2009-12-23)

• All members of WikiProject Industrial design are urged to install the Centralized Announcement System on their talk page. (2009-12-23)

Hello EdMercer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing!  ♥ Kylu  (talk • contribs • email • logs • count) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Wikipedia Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Cite your sources Neutral Point of View Point of View Verifiability Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Wikipedia rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikipedians Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Conflict resolution Getting technical Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

Hello EdMercer. You have been invited to join WikiProject Industrial design, a WikiProject dedicated to improving the Industrial design-related articles on Wikipedia. You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits relating to or within the scope of the project. If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of project members. You may also wish to add to your userpage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Userbox}} and to the top of your talk page: == WikiProject Industrial design (announcements) == {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/Announcements}} Know someone who might be interested? Please pass the message to others by pasting the code in their talk page: == WikiProject Industrial design == {{subst: Template:WikiProject_Industrial design/Welcome|~~~~}} Thanks, --  Alain  R 3 4 5  Techno-Wiki-Geek 19:45, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Glad to have another expert here on Wikipedia to keep us all in line! :D
Hey, think you can sneak Kylu in as a character on your next game? *laughs* ~Kylu (u|t) 03:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Wiki:pt

Olá EdMercer, Eu reparei que está a contribuir em artigos relacionados com a lusofonia e gostaria de convidá-lo para participar na Wikipédia em português, actualmente temos mais de 135 mil artigos. Sua ajuda será muito bem vinda. Se por acaso tiver algum problema ou dúvida deixe uma mensagem na minha página de discussão. Continue com esse bom trabalho, Rei-artur 22:21, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I have edited and then redacted a comment on the article 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. It happens that I was so madly infactuated to Ayrton Senna's career that every May 1st I get slightly delusional and forget what year we're really in (among other things). It's obvious we're not in 2005 to everyone else but me, my bad. Ed Mercer 16:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

hi

Hi. I found you in categories of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 21:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Industrial design and Design Portal

I recently posted the following text on Wikipedia regarding the creation of a new Visual arts/Technology-related project in Wikipedia:

WikiProject Industrial design is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to Industrial design (also called Product design).

• If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 1850 articles on Industrial design in Wikipedia...
• At least, it's more than for Typography, and there IS a Typography WikiProject...
• And it's more than the Fashion WikiProject with 482 articles...
• There is also an Urban studies and planning project and a Video games portal so...
• Now you can also see a proposal for the Design Portal. (that portal would be for Industrial design AND Graphic design/Interior design)

Please support this initiative,
--  Alain  R 3 4 5 
^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 23:59, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Muito obrigado por su apoio, Eduardo; o meu Portugues nao e tao bono como querou. E mais do Portunhol...
--  Alain  R 3 4 5 
^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 19:45, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi again Ed; I did transfer your name from the proposal page to the Industrial design project. We are now in the process of launching this thing for good. Please contact me as soon as you can to discuss what you would like to do to help... --AlainR345^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 18:33, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi again Eduardo. I hope your health is now good. Schluum is working on the List of uncategorized articles and Intelligentsium on the Portal. Until we get our Cleanup listing and Project tags, I think the best you can do now is take a look at the New articles page: you have to check each article in the list and determine if it is really related to Industrial design as a category; if it is, you tag it with the most precise subcategory. By the way, could you please put these two tags in your talk page:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Userbox}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/Announcements}}
Muito obrigado, --AlainR345^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 08:34, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Scope questions

This text is extracted from here. Please give it a thought as a member of WikiProject ID and put your ideas back there:

The first tagging operation of February 13, 2010 revealed some lingering scope questions that we want to discuss with each member of the project:

• The {{WikiProject_Industrial_design}} tagging gave 530 articles.
• We had previously estimated the number of potential ID articles to be around 1850...
• So the difference is this (those articles that Mr. ZooFari did no do with automated tagging but are part of the Wikipedia Industrial design category hierarchy):
  • Category:Automobile designers (455 articles);
  • Category:Cycle designers (25 articles);
  • Category:Motorcycle designers (25 articles);
  • Category:Textile designers (33 articles);
  • Category:Computer-aided design (510 articles);
  • Category:Furniture (around 1250 articles).
  • Note 1: Keep in mind there are overlaps, so numbers do not add up.
  • Note 2: I had previously decided to exclude non-furniture categories from the ID project because: by looking at some of the Category:Consumer goods articles, I thought they were not 'a good fit' as a whole, although some of them could be included later on an individual basis. (but that can also be reconsidered by the team)

The question is... What do we do about that?

1. We keep that situation 'as is'.
2. We ask somebody else to possibly automate all the rest of it.
3. We reselect some of those categories for automation (which ones?) and do the rest by hand on an article-by-article basis.

As always each solution has its advantages and inconvenients... So, team, what do you think?

--AlainR345^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 19:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikimedia Stories Project

Olá!

Meu nome é Victor e eu trabalho com a Fundação Wikimedia,organização sem fins lucrativos que apóia a Wikipédia. Estamosnarrando as histórias inspiradoras da comunidade Wikipedia em todo o mundo, incluindo os dos leitores, editores e doadores. As histórias são absolutamente essencial para qualquer organização sem fins lucrativos para persuadir as pessoas novas para apoiar a causa, e nós sabemos que a vasta rede de pessoas que usam a Wikipedia tem muito a compartilhar. É importante transmitir a incrível diversidade de pessoas que vieram a contar com a Wikipédia todos os dias.

Eu gostaria realmente a oportunidade de entrevistá-lo para contar a sua história, com a possibilidade de usá-lo em nossos materiais, em sites de nossa comunidade, ou como parte de arrecadação de fundos este ano para incentivar outras pessoas para apoiar a Wikipédia.

Eu vou estar em São Paulo a partir de 1 - 2 de Março de 2012, e eu vou estar presente:

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Encontros/WikiSampa/WikiSampa_12

Eu estou esperando que você vai elaborar sobre a sua históriacomigo. Peço desculpas por qualquer mal-tradução nesta mensagem (talvez possa inspirar uma risada?) Estou usando oGoogle-traduzir no momento, mas o plano de ter tradutores disponíveis quando estamos no Brasil.

Por favor, deixe-me saber se você está inclinado a participar doProjeto Histórias Wikipedia!

Abraços,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

_____

Hello!

My name is Victor and I work with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. We're chronicling the inspiring stories from the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade new people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who use Wikipedia have so much to share. It's important to convey the incredible diversity of people who've come to rely upon Wikipedia every day.

I'd really like the opportunity to interview you to tell your story, with the possibility of using it in our materials, on our community websites, or as part of this year’s fundraiser to encourage others to support Wikipedia.

I will be in São Paolo from the 1st - 2nd of March 2012, and I'll be attending:

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Encontros/WikiSampa/WikiSampa_12

I'm hoping you will elaborate on your story with me. I apologize for any mis-translation in this message (perhaps it might inspire a laugh?) I am using Google-translate at the moment, but plan to have translators available when we are in Brazil.

Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project!

Thank you,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 20:34, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Signing up!

Hi Ed,

That's Great! Thank you for your interest in helping! I see you put your name on the 'who wants to go' list on the signup page. Are there things that might deter you from coming? Do you have any questions for me? I'd like to help! :)

Victor

Victor Grigas (talk) 23:55, 8 February 2012 (UTC)