User talk:Susurrus

Hello Susurrus and welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you've been around for a week already, and no welcome! I think we must be getting lax. Anyway, I hope you decide to stay. If you do, tell us something about yourself on your user page. Are you Australian? If so, add yourself to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia -- I like to keep track of everyone. Have fun. -- Tim Starling 11:32 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

Hello, Tim, and thanks for your welcome. I am glad to be here. I have added my name to the list of Australian users as per your request, and I have added a little bit of biographical information onto my user page. -- Susurrus.

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Yes, I've noticed the problem with the search feature. Personally, I've just been using the "go" button for most things, and the google search where that isn't enough. The usual way to report a problem like this is to email wikitech-l -- see Wikipedia:Mailing lists. I'll do it myself if you want. -- Tim Starling 23:53 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)

If you would do that for me, that would be great! In the meantime, thanks for the tips for workarounds. -- Susurrus

There's been some discussion of this at the Village pump, and it was then moved to Wikipedia talk:Searching. To sum up, it was deliberately turned off to try to speed up the server performance, but nobody bothered to put a sign on there saying it wouldn't work. :-\ -- John Owens 09:24 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)

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It's not quite that easy to block a logged in user. Ordinary sysops like myself can block IP addresses, but there's no simple way to find out the IP address of a logged in user. There's about 50 users at my rank. Only the developers (of which there are 5) can ban a user by username, or find out their IP address. Most of the developers only read the mailing lists, they don't watch RC (recent changes). What we would usually do in a case like this is revert whatever the annoying user does for a while before we take further action.

In the future, report things like this to Problem users or Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress, rather than to me. -- Tim Starling 00:42 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)

Incidentally Susurrus, the user you were worried about doesn't seem to have made any edits since early February, so I don't think there's anything to worry about. --Camembert

Thanks, Tim. -- Susurrus

Contents

1 Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney 2 Article Licensing 3 Image copyright 4 Portuguese language 5 CPU cache address translation update

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney

Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Incidently, there is a message board Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the offer, Ta, but I think I'll be right for now. =) --Susurrus 08:56, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Good changes on Origins of the American Civil War. 172 01:30, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, 172. =) --Susurrus 05:06, 29 Nov 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:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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)

Image copyright

Thanks for uploading Image:Panopticon.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, — Edwin Stearns | Talk 17:49, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt, Edwin. I'm claiming fair use on that one, as a straightforward photographic reproduction of a historical document. --Susurrus 23:31, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Portuguese language

Hello. I see you've been doing some work in the Portuguese language article. I'm curious about something, so I thought maybe I could ask you. Right now, there's a part at the Grammar section that reads "Portuguese is considered the third hardest language to learn, after Chinese, and Japanese, because of its grammar, and grammar variation especially in standard European Portuguese". Now, I know it wasn't really you who added that. It was user:82.155.36.236 (a Portuguese user, apparently).

Anyway, I'd like to know if you have any idea of the reliability of that information. Looks like it's been there in the article for some 4 days already, and nobody took it away (just some minor alterations), so maybe it's really true. I don't doubt it, if you're wondering. I actually agree with that statement, despite maybe the European part. All I want to know is if it's well, really "true". If it's somewhat reliable or if it's just that user's assumption.

I understand if you really don't know. I'm just curious anyway. =]

Thank you.--Kaonashi 23:11, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your question, Kaonashi. You should really ask it on the Portuguese language's Discussion page, however. I was just reading the Portuguese language article for pleasure, and am not really an expert on Portuguese. --Susurrus 01:37, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Eh, yeah, you're right. I'm sorry, though. My bad. Thought maybe you knew a thing or two, but that's okay. I'll see if I ask it there on that talk page now. Thanks for your attention. =] --Kaonashi 02:49, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That's okay. --Susurrus 02:56, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

CPU cache address translation update

Hi Susurrus.

I rewrote the first bit of address translation. Could you take a look and tell me if I've clarified the explanation at all?

Thanks. Iain McClatchie 00:18, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ian,

I haven't tried to look at the whole section right now. From what I've seen it's getting better. But the basic problem is introducing technical terms without properly unpacking, defining, or at least linking to, them. For example, what is 'virtual tagging'? --Susurrus 23:02, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)