User talk:Joe Kress

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1 Welcome 2 Time Zone 3 Article Licensing 4 I have subscribed 5 Good Call 6 Transliteration on Ethiopian calendar 7 French Republican Calendar

Welcome

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! You'll find we're always happy to see more good contributors; if you have any questions, you'll find lots of helpful links on the Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers page.

Anyway, thanks for your historical work on Chinese calendar. I just wanted to let you know that according to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for China-related articles, "if a term is Wikified and has an article, do not provide characters or romanization again." I've made the appropriate changes in the article.

--Lowellian 23:45, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

Time Zone

Thanks for the excellent update to Time zone. I hope it clues some people into the fact that "Central Standard Time Zone" (for example) is a US designation, although it just happens to pass through several countries. Mackerm 02:37, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

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

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

I have subscribed

I would enjoy reading and participating as I can in the mailling list, and have subscribed. I would like to learn more about the history of calendars (and google is not exactly the most helpful in that regard), and why they were constructed. Far from being a historian as yourself, I am always looking for new applications of past methods. In the instance of my own work, I was a bit disappointed actually to learn about 6 months ago that the Yi had beat me to the basic concept, but I've since found that taking the historical works of the Greeks and other mathematical figures of the past (and still looking) and that of the Yis' basic concept that I share has produced something that I find rather interesting and encouraging. I have no doubt that discussing the history of Calendars will give me no end of the same. Thank you. --DeWayne Lehman 19:15, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Good Call

Kudos on the Appomattox Court House edit - I completely missed that. --Nick 17:30, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

Transliteration on Ethiopian calendar

Hi Joe,

I've been looking into the history of the Ethiopian calendar page, and I was wondering what motivation you had for changing the transliteration of the month names? (Meskerem -> Maskaram, etc) Is there a standardized transliteration from the Ethiopic script on Wikipedia?

By the way, all your calendar stuff is really interesting. :)

Cheers, --babbage 05:52, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I doubt that there is any standard Ethiopian transliteration method, either within or outside Wikipedia. My changes were made to conform to the spelling used by Otto Neugebauer in Ethiopic astronomy and computus, which is the best discussion of the Ethiopic computus (Easter calculation) and the associated calendar I have found. Unfortunately this book is organized alphabetically, not topically, so the reader has to read virtually the entire book to find nuggests of information. Nevertheless, Neugebauer was the recognized expert on the Ethiopic calendar and computus until his recent death. I doubt that few even within Ethiopia could equal his knowledge, since he was fluent in Amharic. — Joe Kress 19:12, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

French Republican Calendar

Hi Joe. Thanks, for your wording and your corrections. --Peter 2005 08:45, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)