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== Geohashing ==
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G'day Joannac, welcome to the Canberra group. [[User:Polysylabic_Pseudonym|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 :-) --[[User:Kieran|Kieran]] 00:47, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 
  
*stalk* --[[user:Nemo|nobody]]
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== Spam users ==
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Please put all spam usernames/IPs here. Please '''do not''' create their userpage with the spam tag if it doesn't already exist. And please only add them if '''they have multiple edits''' -- most spam accounts are single use and never get touched again. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 19:38, 21 November 2011 (EST)
  
Hi :) I'm tired.
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*[[Special:Contributions/Hodjiatchtuabbit|Hodjiatchtuabbit]] has created spammy pages several times. --[[User:Fippe|Fippe]] ([[User talk:Fippe|talk]]) 04:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
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*[[Special:Contributions/Spencxioneyles|Spencxioneyles]] has created spammy pages several times. --[[User:Fippe|Fippe]] ([[User talk:Fippe|talk]]) 14:29, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
  
Anyway; things I'd like to see the dedicated ACT geohashing nerds try and accomplish:
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== To-do list ==
 
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* <del>update [[All Graticules]] with any stray pages</del> reletbot did this I assume?
* Try and find / stalk / photograph noted political figures.
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* <del>Map NSW and Victoria</del>
* Try and find / photograph a drop bear.
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* Tag images -- [[User:benjw|benjw]]'s job!
* Try and find / pick death cap mushrooms.
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* <del>Fix retro hashes</del> done
 
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* <del>Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion</del> YAY!
Congratulations on accomplishing the first raptor geohash :)
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* <del>Fix inconsistent Swedish grats (mainly around Stockholm)</del> -- [[User:Ekorren|ekorren]]'s job! and he did it months ago.
 
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* Tag expedition pages properly (Coords reached, Coords not reached, meetup on ..., meetup in ..., retro, failed, etc)
PS: Did you guys claim the pub geohash achievement for that time you went to the pub?
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* Check all the day pages are well-formed
--[[User:Luke|Luke]] 06:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
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* Does [[:File:Boatless.PNG]] have the error message we were seeing on the history page? [[User:Jiml|Jiml]] 00:57, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
 
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* <del>as per irc discussion: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit] --[[User:Crox|Crox]] 01:50, 13 October 2011 (EDT)</del>
== No trespassing award ==
 
 
 
Thanks! --[[User:Polysylabic Pseudonym|Psud]] 09:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Random ==
 
 
 
/me gives love to Joannac Anorak. [[User:Ginnybee|Virginia]]
 
: I love you too Virginia! moins que trois --[[User:Joannac|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. --[[User:Ciel|Ciel]]
 
 
 
/me is impressed by your spam removing mights. i happen to prove way too slow. --[[User:Tomtom|Tom]] 07:53, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 
 
 
[[User:Patrick|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.  :-)  --[[User:Excellentdude|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! [[User:Hessophanes|Hessophanes]] 02:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 
  
== Great minds think alike ==
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== Embedded maps ==
  
I was editing *both* those pages to clean up, and you beat me to it. Huzzah!
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I don't have IRC right now, but it seems the maps are broken again - eg. [[Berlin,_Germany]] does not show the Berlin graticule, and since it is >30W, it should always show some kind of geohash. The <30W templates also still show a blue square whenever the geohashes are not published yet. I know it's a code and a wiki thing, but maybe you can trigger whoever helped with the templates in the past. -- [[User:relet|relet]] 08:21, 17 April 2012 (EDT) --
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:For the record, that was apparently caused by the template "dow" returning an empty string for 2012|04|16, as seen on [[User:Crox/Test]]. It was solved when Zigdon fixed the value returned for that day. --[[User:Crox|Crox]] 14:20, 17 April 2012 (EDT)
  
==Freeway Geohash==
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== More admins? ==
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? -[[User:Robyn|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. --[[User:Joannac|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 -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 23:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 
  
The Raptor and Picnic achievements have ribbons now, if you're interested.
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Could I gently suggest asking if any of the well-regarded, trusted users would mind taking on admin privileges -- we've got over 50 items in the deletion category; it'd be nice to get that cleared out... I'm willing to volunteer, and have considerable experience being an admin at WP some years ago, but I don't know if I'm well known enough around here yet. [[User:JesseW|JesseW]] 00:00, 17 May 2012 (EDT)
  
==Thanks for the encouragement!==
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==Edit page clarification==
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!
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< Hijackal> joannac, please add the info that "by submitting, you agree that everything you post is GDFL" to the editing form
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<&joannac> Uh
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<&joannac> What's GDFL?
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< Hijackal> I think that does not become sufficiently clear by looking at the page right noe
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< Hijackal> [[Geohashing:Copyrights]]
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< Hijackal> Says some things. Which should be _absolutely_ made clear to _anyone_ clicking save ;)
  
==Spam games==
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== File:Drag-along2.png ==
Yours again. but now with a different behaviour. the system is strange, you are fast... --[[User:Tomtom|Tom]] 19:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 
==Couch Potato==
 
Wow, I would flip out if the geohash came that close to me. Congratulations! -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 03:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 
  
== Geohashing on IRC ==
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Thanks Joanna, I don't know how I ended up uploading a duplicate. Anyway, I've cleaned up the remaining links to the duplicate.  --[[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] 11:00, 29 August 2012 (EDT)
  
Thanks for your help getting the typo on the map fixed, I didn't know how to "ping" Zigdon. --[[User:James H|James]] 03:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
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== Problems registering ==
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Hi! Sorry, I'm new here so I'm not sure this is the right way to do this kind of thing. Someone at the IRC said you were the one to contact :-)
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The problem: My brother is trying to sign up for geohashing but gets the error
  
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Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
  
== Graticule template hack for UnwiseOwl ==
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when he requests the confirmation code. It seems it's some kind of internal error with the wiki??
{{graticuleV
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Hope you can help! Thanks very much!!  [[User:lizwiz]] 25 March 2012
|map = [[Image:adelaide_GraticuleN.png|thumb|300 px|The Adelaide [[Graticule]]s]]
 
|wn = [[New York]]
 
|n = [[Boston]]
 
|en = [[San Francisco]]
 
|nw = [[Los Angeles]]
 
|ne = [[Paris]]
 
|w = [[Berlin]]
 
|e = [[Amsterdam]]
 
|sw = [[Sydney]]
 
|s = [[Portland, Oregon]]
 
|se = [[Melbourne]]
 
}}
 
  
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:Working on it. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 18:27, 25 March 2012 (EDT)
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::Fixed. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 08:17, 26 March 2012 (EDT)
  
Joannac, you are a priceless flower. --[[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 3/10/2008
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== Is it possible to change username? ==
  
In fact, since it now works, you're even more so. Happy Birthday. --[[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 3/10/2008
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I am currently changing my username across internet - is it possible to do it also here? [[User:Bulwersator|Bulwersator]] ([[User talk:Bulwersator|talk]]) 15:30, 21 July 2014 (EDT)
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:Sure, let me know what you want it to change to, and I can do it. I'll be using [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser the Renameuser extension]; just check its effects are okay with you. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 18:37, 21 July 2014 (EDT)
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::I would like to change it to mkoniecz. [[User:Bulwersator|Bulwersator]] ([[User talk:Bulwersator|talk]]) 17:33, 22 July 2014 (EDT)
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:::Done. Sorry for the delay, I didn't get a notification that you answered :( --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 02:11, 5 August 2014 (EDT)
  
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== Delete Photos and Pages ==
  
Talking of putting people out of work... have a look at [[User:Mattyk/GraticuleV|this]] and [[User:Mattyk/GraticuleH|this]].&nbsp; ;) --[[User:Mattyk|Matty]], 10:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hello Joannac,
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you seem to know how to delete an own uploades photo or may be a wrong created page. Could you please write a short easy-to-understand instruction for me or send me a link to an instruction?
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<br />
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Thanks very much!! --[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 06:27, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
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:Mark it for deletion with <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> and I'll eventually get to deleting it --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 06:59, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
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::Marking pages in the first line of the edited text? <br />Hmmm, but where could I mark a Photo?<br />--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 09:42, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
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:::You can mark pages anywhere; first line of text is possibly easiest. You can edit photos; that's where the caption is stored. See [[:Category:Tagged_for_deletion]] for examples. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 17:01, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
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:::Thank you very much!!--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 05:44, 17 October 2014 (EDT)
  
Hehe...more work for you...check your email. -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 15:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
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== Names of Participants (if not users) ==
  
No mibbit, for some reason, tonight. I'll keep trying, but rest assured I'm working on the project. See you round, Wol. -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 07:45, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
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There exists a problem with participants' names,  
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if the names contain special characters or spaces and the participants are not registered users.  
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<br />Examples:
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<br />a) [[2014-10-22]]_63_28 and [[2014-10-22]]:  
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<br />"Pastori's daughter" becomes "Pastori's"
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<br />b) [[2014-10-05]]_48_7 and [[2014-10-05]]:
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<br />"Q-Owla" becomes "q"
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<br />May be, you know someone at xkcd who could fix this bug?
  
I'm here, but the internet hates me. No chattsies. Have a good night. :( -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 05:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
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Names are shown in full length, if one uses <nowiki>[[User:Pastori's|Pastori's]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[User:Q-Owla|Q-Owla]]</nowiki>. But this looks strange (and red).
  
==I Love...==
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:Hey, I didn't see anything in the actual expedition pages (all the names show collrectly), but I saw it on the date pages e.g. [[2014-10-22]]. Is that the same thing you saw? If so, I think it's an aperfectbot parsing problem (since that's the thing that generates those pages). --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 18:09, 22 October 2014 (EDT)
''I love your commentary''... (no seriously - it makes the wiki fun at night!) --[[User:CJ|CJ]] 11:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 
  
== Countdown ==
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::Greetings, I am the friendly bot maintainer!  I am the guy responsible for the robot that maintains the expedition list pages, and will happily answer your question. I have looked into the issue, and it is one I've run into a whole lot in the past. It is very easy to programmatically parse out a user name from a user link, but much less so from a normal list of users.  Because of this, I had restricted non user-link participants to a single word.  The '-' character was not considered to be a part of a word, which is why that name was truncated after the Q.
I'm having a party when I reach 1337 edits. I'm on 1055 at the moment. 282 to go! --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 02:35, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
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::So there's some good news here.  After looking through the parser, I've figured out a way for the bot to handle multiple word participants.  However, I still will be truncating after the '-' character.  In the past (and maybe even still today) people would list themselves as a participant, and after that use a dash and write some comments. e.g.
: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... --[[User:CJ|CJ]] 03:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
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* [[User:Aperfectring|APR]] - Met up after lunch
::It's in your preferences :) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 04:08, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
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* APR's friend - Came with APR
:::Oh cool. Well you're 1337, and I guess I'm n00b by comparison. Haha 548 edits to date. Woo! --[[User:CJ|CJ]] 04:12, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
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::I will continue looking for a way to address that, but for now, unfortunately, that is going to remain. If you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to contact me directly on my user talk page. --[[User:Aperfectring|aperfectring]] ([[User talk:Aperfectring|talk]]) 21:18, 22 October 2014 (EDT)
::::I shudder to think what Robyn's up to... --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 04:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 
  
1109 edits now! 228 to go! Also, 1109 is prime! Hooray! --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 23:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
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== SiteNotice obsolete ==
  
1137 edits. 200 to go! --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 10:02, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for putting up the [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice|Sitenotice]]! Since [[User:Zigdon|Zigdon]]'s DJIA source works again, it can be removed now. --[[User:Calamus|Calamus]] 13:53, 7 March 2015 (EST)
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:Cheers, I've removed it now. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 21:05, 7 March 2015 (EST)
  
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... --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 10:47, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
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== Next deleting sessions ==
  
==User to Block==
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There are a lot of items in Category:Tagged_for_deletion. When will someone really delete all these things? Does this happen eg. monthly?--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 04:32, 4 November 2015 (EST)
 
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:I used to do it manually, but got lax about it. Will do a batch now. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 21:47, 7 November 2015 (EST)
All requests up to date :) --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 20:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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::Thank you!--[[User:Q-Owl|Q-Owl]] ([[User talk:Q-Owl|talk]]) 10:18, 9 November 2015 (EST)
 
 
At the deleting again? Must be bored or something...-- [[Special:Contributions/114.30.114.23|114.30.114.23]] 10:18, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 
 
 
== coordinates ==
 
 
 
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 :)
 
--[[User:Thomcat|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 :) --[[User:Joannac|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) -- [[User:Ekorren|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. -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 02:30, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 
:That would definitely be a good thing. -[[User:Robyn|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. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] 00:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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== Thumbnail creation has stopped ==
  
: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? -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 01:04, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Since May 9th 2016 thumbnail creation has stopped. [[Special:NewFiles]] demonstrates the problem nicely. Any chance or working some of your magic? Thanks. --[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) 09:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
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: Yea - working again. Was that you? Thanks anyway. --[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) 00:26, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
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:: Yeah, that was me. I left you some messages in irc. It was a security issue http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/250519, and it took this long for the patch to be available in the stable packages. --[[User:Joannac|joannac]] ([[User talk:Joannac|talk]]) 00:47, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
  
==Zurich Trip==
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==HTTPS==
You still have a reference to it in your about me section.
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Hi Joanna! [[Talk:Main Page#HTTPS|There currently is a discussion]] about that this website should have an HTTPS certificate. It would be nice if you could install one, if you have the necessary rights. --[[User:Fippe|Fippe]] ([[User talk:Fippe|talk]]) 19:11, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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:Agreed!. Any site with a login should be on https these days. --[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) 18:37, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 16:23, 3 March 2020

Old talk has been moved to User_talk:Joannac/OldTalk

Spam users

Please put all spam usernames/IPs here. Please do not create their userpage with the spam tag if it doesn't already exist. And please only add them if they have multiple edits -- most spam accounts are single use and never get touched again. --joannac 19:38, 21 November 2011 (EST)

To-do list

  • update All Graticules with any stray pages reletbot did this I assume?
  • Map NSW and Victoria
  • Tag images -- benjw's job!
  • Fix retro hashes done
  • Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion YAY!
  • Fix inconsistent Swedish grats (mainly around Stockholm) -- ekorren's job! and he did it months ago.
  • Tag expedition pages properly (Coords reached, Coords not reached, meetup on ..., meetup in ..., retro, failed, etc)
  • Check all the day pages are well-formed
  • Does File:Boatless.PNG have the error message we were seeing on the history page? Jiml 00:57, 9 July 2011 (EDT)
  • as per irc discussion: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit --Crox 01:50, 13 October 2011 (EDT)

Embedded maps

I don't have IRC right now, but it seems the maps are broken again - eg. Berlin,_Germany does not show the Berlin graticule, and since it is >30W, it should always show some kind of geohash. The <30W templates also still show a blue square whenever the geohashes are not published yet. I know it's a code and a wiki thing, but maybe you can trigger whoever helped with the templates in the past. -- relet 08:21, 17 April 2012 (EDT) --

For the record, that was apparently caused by the template "dow" returning an empty string for 2012|04|16, as seen on User:Crox/Test. It was solved when Zigdon fixed the value returned for that day. --Crox 14:20, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

More admins?

Could I gently suggest asking if any of the well-regarded, trusted users would mind taking on admin privileges -- we've got over 50 items in the deletion category; it'd be nice to get that cleared out... I'm willing to volunteer, and have considerable experience being an admin at WP some years ago, but I don't know if I'm well known enough around here yet. JesseW 00:00, 17 May 2012 (EDT)

Edit page clarification

< Hijackal> joannac, please add the info that "by submitting, you agree that everything you post is GDFL" to the editing form <&joannac> Uh <&joannac> What's GDFL? < Hijackal> I think that does not become sufficiently clear by looking at the page right noe < Hijackal> Geohashing:Copyrights < Hijackal> Says some things. Which should be _absolutely_ made clear to _anyone_ clicking save ;)

File:Drag-along2.png

Thanks Joanna, I don't know how I ended up uploading a duplicate. Anyway, I've cleaned up the remaining links to the duplicate. --Jevanyn 11:00, 29 August 2012 (EDT)

Problems registering

Hi! Sorry, I'm new here so I'm not sure this is the right way to do this kind of thing. Someone at the IRC said you were the one to contact :-) The problem: My brother is trying to sign up for geohashing but gets the error

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

when he requests the confirmation code. It seems it's some kind of internal error with the wiki?? Hope you can help! Thanks very much!! User:lizwiz 25 March 2012

Working on it. --joannac 18:27, 25 March 2012 (EDT)
Fixed. --joannac 08:17, 26 March 2012 (EDT)

Is it possible to change username?

I am currently changing my username across internet - is it possible to do it also here? Bulwersator (talk) 15:30, 21 July 2014 (EDT)

Sure, let me know what you want it to change to, and I can do it. I'll be using the Renameuser extension; just check its effects are okay with you. --joannac (talk) 18:37, 21 July 2014 (EDT)
I would like to change it to mkoniecz. Bulwersator (talk) 17:33, 22 July 2014 (EDT)
Done. Sorry for the delay, I didn't get a notification that you answered :( --joannac (talk) 02:11, 5 August 2014 (EDT)

Delete Photos and Pages

Hello Joannac, you seem to know how to delete an own uploades photo or may be a wrong created page. Could you please write a short easy-to-understand instruction for me or send me a link to an instruction?
Thanks very much!! --Q-Owl (talk) 06:27, 16 October 2014 (EDT)

Mark it for deletion with {{delete}} and I'll eventually get to deleting it --joannac (talk) 06:59, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
Marking pages in the first line of the edited text?
Hmmm, but where could I mark a Photo?
--Q-Owl (talk) 09:42, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
You can mark pages anywhere; first line of text is possibly easiest. You can edit photos; that's where the caption is stored. See Category:Tagged_for_deletion for examples. --joannac (talk) 17:01, 16 October 2014 (EDT)
Thank you very much!!--Q-Owl (talk) 05:44, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

Names of Participants (if not users)

There exists a problem with participants' names, if the names contain special characters or spaces and the participants are not registered users.
Examples:
a) 2014-10-22_63_28 and 2014-10-22:
"Pastori's daughter" becomes "Pastori's"
b) 2014-10-05_48_7 and 2014-10-05:
"Q-Owla" becomes "q"
May be, you know someone at xkcd who could fix this bug?

Names are shown in full length, if one uses [[User:Pastori's|Pastori's]] or [[User:Q-Owla|Q-Owla]]. But this looks strange (and red).

Hey, I didn't see anything in the actual expedition pages (all the names show collrectly), but I saw it on the date pages e.g. 2014-10-22. Is that the same thing you saw? If so, I think it's an aperfectbot parsing problem (since that's the thing that generates those pages). --joannac (talk) 18:09, 22 October 2014 (EDT)
Greetings, I am the friendly bot maintainer! I am the guy responsible for the robot that maintains the expedition list pages, and will happily answer your question. I have looked into the issue, and it is one I've run into a whole lot in the past. It is very easy to programmatically parse out a user name from a user link, but much less so from a normal list of users. Because of this, I had restricted non user-link participants to a single word. The '-' character was not considered to be a part of a word, which is why that name was truncated after the Q.
So there's some good news here. After looking through the parser, I've figured out a way for the bot to handle multiple word participants. However, I still will be truncating after the '-' character. In the past (and maybe even still today) people would list themselves as a participant, and after that use a dash and write some comments. e.g.
  • APR - Met up after lunch
  • APR's friend - Came with APR
I will continue looking for a way to address that, but for now, unfortunately, that is going to remain. If you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to contact me directly on my user talk page. --aperfectring (talk) 21:18, 22 October 2014 (EDT)

SiteNotice obsolete

Thanks for putting up the Sitenotice! Since Zigdon's DJIA source works again, it can be removed now. --Calamus 13:53, 7 March 2015 (EST)

Cheers, I've removed it now. --joannac (talk) 21:05, 7 March 2015 (EST)

Next deleting sessions

There are a lot of items in Category:Tagged_for_deletion. When will someone really delete all these things? Does this happen eg. monthly?--Q-Owl (talk) 04:32, 4 November 2015 (EST)

I used to do it manually, but got lax about it. Will do a batch now. --joannac (talk) 21:47, 7 November 2015 (EST)
Thank you!--Q-Owl (talk) 10:18, 9 November 2015 (EST)

Thumbnail creation has stopped

Since May 9th 2016 thumbnail creation has stopped. Special:NewFiles demonstrates the problem nicely. Any chance or working some of your magic? Thanks. --Sourcerer (talk) 09:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Yea - working again. Was that you? Thanks anyway. --Sourcerer (talk) 00:26, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, that was me. I left you some messages in irc. It was a security issue http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/250519, and it took this long for the patch to be available in the stable packages. --joannac (talk) 00:47, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

HTTPS

Hi Joanna! There currently is a discussion about that this website should have an HTTPS certificate. It would be nice if you could install one, if you have the necessary rights. --Fippe (talk) 19:11, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Agreed!. Any site with a login should be on https these days. --Sourcerer (talk) 18:37, 3 September 2018 (UTC)