User talk:Joannac/OldTalk

Geohashing

G'day Joannac, welcome to the Canberra group. Psud has setup a mailing list for Canberra geohashers to organize car pooling, be sure to join! http://millie.adamhelp.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geohashing . There is also an IRC chatroom, #geohashing on irc.foonetic.net. Have fun :-) --Kieran 00:47, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

*stalk* --nobody

Hi :) I'm tired.

Anyway; things I'd like to see the dedicated ACT geohashing nerds try and accomplish:

• Try and find / stalk / photograph noted political figures.
• Try and find / photograph a drop bear.
• Try and find / pick death cap mushrooms.

Congratulations on accomplishing the first raptor geohash :)

PS: Did you guys claim the pub geohash achievement for that time you went to the pub? --Luke 06:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

No trespassing award

Thanks! --Psud 09:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Random

/me gives love to Joannac Anorak. Virginia

I love you too Virginia! moins que trois --Joanna 07:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

/me is impressed by your talk page. You're all popular and stuff! I wish I were that cool. --Ciel

/me is impressed by your spam removing mights. i happen to prove way too slow. --Tom 07:53, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Patrick says thank you for your thoughts...we've been so lucky to have support from all quarters. Find a particularly picturesque geohash, and send a pic; my friend Keith goes hiking and sends us the beautiful vistas to give Finn his "mojo"!

Thanks for that fix on Lansing. I was copying and past things and just missed that little bit.  :-) --excellentdude 18:52, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey Joanna, I finally managed to include the regiohash data for the US. There are 48 subregions now; there's no data for Connecticut (it's in the colour key of USA5, but there are no cells in that colour ;-) ), Hawaii and DC. Thanks for spending so much of your time on this! Hessophanes 02:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Great minds think alike

I was editing *both* those pages to clean up, and you beat me to it. Huzzah!

Freeway Geohash

I've been cleaning up the achievements pages and made the Freeway Geohash go away because it seemed to be the same as the Speed racer achievement. But I see you've claimed both, so perhaps you see a difference. Would you like to defend it, or enlighten me? -Robyn 22:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

I see Speed Racer as "on a road, drive past at the speed limit" (so would apply on even tiny suburbia roads). Freeway hash means you have to be specifically on a freeway, and possibly stop in the breakdown lane to get a photo :) I don't care if it stays or not, I claimed it more because it was there. --Joannac 22:55, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. So Freeway Geohash is a subcategory of Speed Racer. I guess if you were in a traffic jam on a freeway, or operating a vehicles incapable of the speed limit, you could get Freeway without Speed Racer. maybe I'll put it back. Thanks -Robyn 23:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

The Raptor and Picnic achievements have ribbons now, if you're interested.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Thanks! That means a lot coming from the Canberra region! And I know what you mean about the biking, there seems to be a lot of that going on in the part of Europe. Here's wishing you happy geohashing!

Spam games

Yours again. but now with a different behaviour. the system is strange, you are fast... --Tom 19:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

At the deleting again? Must be bored or something...-- 114.30.114.23 10:18, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I've gone through the whole opening of Star Wars and the spammer won't lay off 2008-05-24 41 -87. Can you reprotect it please? -Robyn 05:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Lots of spam today with a new IP every time. The page 2009-03-08 40 -104 has been multiply targeted. -Robyn 14:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Couch Potato

Wow, I would flip out if the geohash came that close to me. Congratulations! -Robyn 03:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Geohashing on IRC

Thanks for your help getting the typo on the map fixed, I didn't know how to "ping" Zigdon. --James 03:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Graticule template hack for UnwiseOwl

Los Angeles	Boston	Paris
New York	Joannac/OldTalk North	San Francisco
Berlin	Joannac/OldTalk South	Amsterdam
Sydney	Portland, Oregon	Melbourne
The Adelaide Graticules

Joannac, you are a priceless flower. --UnwiseOwl 3/10/2008

In fact, since it now works, you're even more so. Happy Birthday. --UnwiseOwl 3/10/2008

Talking of putting people out of work... have a look at this and this.  ;) --Matty, 10:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hehe...more work for you...check your email. -- UnwiseOwl 15:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

No mibbit, for some reason, tonight. I'll keep trying, but rest assured I'm working on the project. See you round, Wol. -- UnwiseOwl 07:45, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm here, but the internet hates me. No chattsies. Have a good night. :( -- UnwiseOwl 05:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I Love...

I love your commentary... (no seriously - it makes the wiki fun at night!) --CJ 11:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Countdown

I'm having a party when I reach 1337 edits. I'm on 1055 at the moment. 282 to go! --joannac 02:35, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

You're so 1337! How do you find out how many edits you have made? Oh and yeah you should have a party at a hashpoint... --CJ 03:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

It's in your preferences :) --joannac 04:08, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh cool. Well you're 1337, and I guess I'm n00b by comparison. Haha 548 edits to date. Woo! --CJ 04:12, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I shudder to think what Robyn's up to... --joannac 04:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

1109 edits now! 228 to go! Also, 1109 is prime! Hooray! --joannac 23:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

1137 edits. 200 to go! --joannac 10:02, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I made it past 1337! I think I'm on 1346 now. So I've been having fantasies about have a global geohasher meetup at some stage. Probably not in the near future though. But, Randall got hundreds of people to congregate in Boston for the mystery dream girl, I'm sure I can organise something similar, given enough time... --joannac 10:47, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

User to Block

All requests up to date :) --joannac 20:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Please don't send me spammers to block unless they've hit >1 page. There are a few spam networks that keep changing IP addresses, and there's no need to ban an IP if it's never getting used for spam again. --joannac 22:39, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Joannac, I uploaded a pic for Sat 12/20, used the coords of 32/111, but the location of Tucson, Az. I think you 'corrected' the coordinates to 32/110. The 32/111 WAS correct. I said Tucson because it's where I live and the closest large city. The boundary for 110/111 actually passes through the west side of town. I live on the 111 side and thats the quad we explored in. It looks like it is called the Casa Grande quad on here.

I think that puts us (I have an adventure partner) as the first posters for that quad.  :)

We tried another spot today in that quad, but ran into "private property" signs and a gate across what we thought was a public road and ended up spinning tires in a sandy wash going around. It took us an hour to get out while watching the sun go down, but we managed without too much trouble. Didn't make it to the hash spot, but its more about the adventure than the destination. We're even going to try another route that we found to get there. Not because we were 'beaten', just because we're damn curious to see if the alternate route is open.

Thanks for you efforts in supporting this site. It's a great incentive to do the random destination road trips that we love to do.

Coyote

corrected coords

No problem Joannac. I think I even managed to correct it myself. woo hoo. I also wrote up a blog entry about the adventure. Hope I did that right. Look forward to more geohash expeditions.  :)

red links

Darn, and I was saving that batch of red links for valentines day! Now I have to go make some more :) --Thomcat 04:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry :( Next time I see one I'll save it for you. P.S. wiki edit 1500 oh yeah :) --joannac 04:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

To-do list

• update All Graticules with any stray pages
• Map NSW and Victoria
• Tag images
• Fix retro hashes
• Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion
• Fix inconsistent Swedish grats (mainly around Stockholm) -- ekorren's job!
• Tag expedition pages properly (Coords reached, Coords not reached, meetup on ..., meetup in ..., retro, failed, etc)
• Check all the day pages are well-formed

Other People's Comments on Your To Do List

Hey joanna, you're clever. If you get some time, figuring out a way to do a rotating taglines thing for the quote on the front page from Geohashing Quotes would be pretty cool. We talked about it a while back, if you remember. -- UnwiseOwl 02:30, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

That would definitely be a good thing. -Robyn 03:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, right. I forgot to comment about this. I talked to the database admin guy. He's not that keen on installing new packages unless there's justfied reason for it. I said it would be a nice way of making users see expeditions they might not otherwise see, and letting newcomers see the coolness of past expeditions. He didn't seem too convinced. Someone else can try and sweettalk him into it, if they want. --joannac 00:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Yet another example of geohashers not thinking the same way as normal people, I guess. We're just not normal, and can't expect the database boy to understand. How about we decide to rotate them randomly but manually until he can be convinced? -- UnwiseOwl 01:04, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

How about put a new one from a recent expedition on the main page, with a note more great geohashing quotations, and then after a week if you still think the new one is funny, add it to the quotes page. -Robyn 05:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Zurich Trip

You still have a reference to it in your about me section.

Yay for pity!

I'm fine.. I just parted ways with my appendix. :} -- relet 20:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll make you a special ribbon if you bury it at a geohash location. -Robyn 04:48, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Bah! I just saw that comment now. :P -- relet 23:00, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

So what did you do with your appendix? Do you have it? -Robyn 23:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Psh, I was going to send you a hash-appendix, but they wouldn't let me keep it. -- relet 23:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I thought there might be rules about that. Should we let Joanna get an achievement for her teeth?

Yay for pity! (2)

Just read your report from yesterday. Good luck with the teeth.  :-( Hope you're feeling much better again soon! -- Benjw 17:04, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: broken rediercts

Whoops, I was doing what I used to do for double-redirects. Thanks for restoring them -- Jevanyn

Re: Quotes page

Obviously I meant 2008 :-). And the quote is in a photo on that page. I printed out a sheet for the pictures, knowing we'd be in Vineland at 11PM. It's the Wiley Coyote in me -- Jevanyn 14:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Recent Changes

It would be nice if there were a way to get a recent changes list that only showed expeditons, or a random page that only chose from expeditions. While I do haunt the wiki enough, and I do care about Relet redoing obscure ribbons, sometimes I just want to know "so who's been geohashing lately and where did they go?" and I don't want to have to pick the last week's geohashes out of pages of photo uploads and user page tweaks. Is this remotely possible? It could be driven by the "Expeditions" tag. -Robyn 04:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

In recent chages, change Namespace (last line before the date and then list of pages) to Main. Is that close enough to what you want? --joannac 05:26, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

It's an improvement, as it eliminates mass uploads of photos and new users editing their pages fourteen times. I'll take it! -Robyn 05:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Main Page Photo Redlinks

It worked! I made the guy who uploaded that mystery picture a Userpage and left a note on his talk and he came back and wrote a great expedition report. So I'll watch for those and keep doing that. -Robyn 18:49, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Photo Categories

Can the MediaWiki:Edittools text be changed to the below to encourage people to put graticule AND date categories on images? The date instruction is working well.

Note: Images can be categorised. Please add "[[Category: Meetup on YYYY-MM-DD]] and [[Category: Meetup in LAT LONG]]" to the summary of geohash meetup photos. This will then automatically generate galleries for that graticule and date (for example: Category:Meetup on 2008-06-01 and Category:Meetup in 49 -123)

78.159.112.96 for the block

Jevanyn 15:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)