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melanotan

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:20:42 +1200

How did the subject of "melanotan" get mixed up in the initial post of this thread??

Cheers,
http://melanotan.org/ – afamelanotide

Ross Howard

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:29:24 +1300

I've added a new entry to baacamp.org to get a record of the sessions given (and relevant links to supporting material on the web).

Obviously right now the wikipedia is a bit to unstable to commit this type of material to, only to have it lost through deletion. If any…

Don Christie

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:25:24 +1300

So, to cut to the chase there are now a couple more foo entries in my blog. Also included is a PDF of the slides I presented. Given at least 112 folks missed my talk I expect there will be a lot of interest in this :-)

Don Christie

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:07:45 +1300

Foo envy is everywhere...

Juha Saarinen

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:27:00 +1300

I think the Wikipedians know who Russell and I am. The ones who called the article spam appear to be Kiwis, one of whom claims to have arranged government functions even.

Russell Brown

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:48:47 +1300

Now, I find both you, Russell, and Juha, completely legitamate and "above board" and I dont want to suggest any improprietry on your behalf, but it seems a strange position for Wikipedai to be taking that essentially encourages "forging" of proof, to continue the existance of the entry.

I know,…

FletcherB

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:34:23 +1300

Having followed the links and read the "discussions" at Wikipedia.... it strikes me a slighlt bizzaire/ironic, that one of the main things that will help justify and ensure the continued availability of the kiwi Foo Camp wiki entryl, is references to articles in the MSM that help to prove that…

Don Christie

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:59:40 +1300

Russell, many thanks to you Nat and Rod. I have a day one write up over at planet.catalyst.net.nz.

I plan to do a complete write up by the end of today (Wednesday).

David Cunliffe was good but I fear that the filters of officialdom were girding their loins prior to…

Paul Campbell

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:13:06 +1300

ah I see .... so we I think we should all go away and work on 'improving' the wikipedia "pavlova" entry ....

Juha Saarinen

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:41:02 +1300

Found this Edit Wars article on Wikipedia, courtesy of one of the Administrators... illuminating.

Russell Brown

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:20:21 +1300

Wiki update: I think we're alright now. gadfium, a prolific NZ-based editor, has come in and been helpful and constructive, and there's no sign of our hostile editor from yesterday.

Essentially, we have five days to improve the article to the point where no one will want to delete it,…

Russell Brown

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:58:00 +1300

(puts up hand for invite next year, want someone to do a how-to-hardware-hacking talk? :-)

Oh yes. We like the hardware hackers ...

Russell Brown

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:54:13 +1300

Note that you should not post anything in defence of the article or otherwise comment on things there, as it appears that that is frowned up on by the Wikipedians.

Yes. When I went back to the page and saw their big box reading ...

ATTENTION! If you came here…

Paul Campbell

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:18:26 +1300

Damn – something I'd have loved to have attended – except that I'm in Seattle for a couple of weeks and um wasn't invited anyway (puts up hand for invite next year, want someone to do a how-to-hardware-hacking talk? :-) – and I could have said 'hi' to Quinn

Anyway…

Juha Saarinen

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:54:52 +1300

It was several hostile Administrators/Edtors, all anonymous, plus someone from NZ who deleted everything within minutes – and accused us of spamming. Looks to me like a vendetta of sorts, as there was no good explanation given.

This wasn't quite how I thought Wikipedia works. :

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kiwi_Foo_Camp|Here's the link to…

Russell Brown

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:41:04 +1300

Only hitch so far: a ridiculous Wikipedia edit war yesterday, which began when someone hit the new article on Kiwi Foo Camp with a speedy deletion tag (which should be reserved for spam, vandalism and "utter rubbish") and then ignored the "hangon" tag to contest deletion and deleted first the…

Robyn Gallagher

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:45:40 +1300

It sounds like a brilliant weekend. I'm been eagerly following along with people's blogs. I hope the ideas from Foo weekend will inspire many choice things.

matthewbuchanan

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:59:58 +1300

Big thanks to Nat and team for the organisation, as I said to him before leaving, I learned a great deal and hopefully contributed a little too.

Russell seems to have the greatest hits nicely accounted for. A particular highlight for me was an impromptu discussion with Robert O'Callahan and…

Rachel Cunliffe

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:06:26 +1300

Inspiring weekend! I blogged briefly about it on my blog but plan on blogging about it some more when I recover.

Juha Saarinen

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:51:13 +1300

It was very, very, very inspiring – tiring, too, but in a good way. The coffee machine helped a lot. :)

Everyone were really as you say in "Foo Mode" in that you only needed to appear and the discussion would start. Or, the demo of an app someone was…

Russell Brown

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:38:02 +1300

Juha has more pics:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/2149

Idiot Savant

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:14:33 +1300

Judith Tizard played Werewolf?

Maybe we can get her to play some real LARP sometime...

Public Address

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:14:33 +1300

Discussion from blog post.