User talk:Kils

Best to reach me life and free talking is via SKYPE username uwekils - I live in the USA Eastern Timezone

07:20, November 28, 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Babel

Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

Just saw the great iceberg image. Very very nice, thanks for making this available to wikipedia! -- mkrohn 20:38 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)

I like the images very much (being a biologist myself)! Just a "formal" question: You are aware that by putting them here, you release the images under the GFDL? You do keep the copyright, of course! You might want to move the copyright notice onto the "image:" page, though (the one you reach when you click on the image). This seems to be the common way at wikipedia, to state the source on the image page, not within the article. Thanks! Magnus Manske 21:34 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)

I've just found one of your excellent pages- I liked the photos too. Tannin and I have done most of the bird articles, and we have taken to putting a taxobox classification summary on each page (see Great grey shrike). Some of the mammal and plant people have done the same, and I've added boxes to some other articles to get consistency. I don't have the specialised knowledge to add to taxoboxes to your articles. If you think its a good idea, you could give it a try. I'm not a computer person either. I copied an existing taxobox and changed the words. Keep up the good work. jimfbleak 14:32 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Uwe - brilliant albatross pics! jimfbleak 05:27 23 May 2003 (UTC)

I saw you ask on another page about time stamps. If you sign your comments with three tildes "~~~" you get your name, and with four tildes "~~~~" you get your name plus the timestamp. -- Someone else 20:19 24 May 2003 (UTC)

thank you, someone else Kils 20:26 24 May 2003 (UTC)

Wonderful pictures, Kils. I particularly like the new one at Ice fish. Thankyou! Tannin ---

thank you, Tannin, Wikipedia is a great project

uwe

Kils 19:18 26 May 2003 (UTC)

In a moment I'm off to take some more marsupial photos for the day (up at 4:00AM and another 400km round trip - uuugh!) but it will be my pleasure to work with you on giving a final polish to Eel story a little later. Perhaps I should dust off my field guides and write a companion entry on the Australian eels - which as I'm sure you already know, have a rather similar life pattern and were very significant indeed, as prior to the introduction of northern hemisphere trout and redfin, they were the dominant species in most Austraian streams. Tannin

Uwe, I gather from my on-line reading that there are about 15 Anguillidae species, and that all (?) the northern hemisphere ones are catadromous, but there is some vagueness about the southern ones. From my local sources, however, I discover that at least all 4 Australian species are also catadromous, and spawn somewhere in the Coral Sea or, in the case of Aunuilla bicolor, off Sumatra. So my question is, am I safe in saying that all the anguillids do this? Thanks -- Tannin

Sorry, Tony, I do not know that. I will work on it. Maybe in the meantime you can go to the database of a student who was once in our lab, now a big player: http://www.fishbase.org with info on 27 000 species so far. You can also become a cooperator there (I am no 350)

best greetings "sailor" Kils 15:26 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks 'Sailor'. For the moment I found a workaround - instead of saying "like all" or "like most" I just vaguely said "like other freshwater eels". It would be the easiest thing in the world to develop a serious interest in fish. But (darn it!) there are only so many hours in the day and I'm up to my eyeballs in birds and mammals already. Not to mention the plants, aircraft, and modern history I've been neglecting of late. I think I need to be triplets. But I'll come back to this question, eels have always seemed to me an especially interesting fish. As a child, I used to really enjoy eating them fresh-caught - much tastier than trout, which (in my opinion) is rather bland and over-rated - but now that I know how far they have to swim and how long it takes one to reach maturity, I don't think I would anymore. Best -- Tannin

--- Hallo Toni, you are right. Especially the glassels are fascinating. We are building with highschool children here in New Jersey "eel ladders", because they get stuck in front of weirs when the are immigrating. The kids hollow a tree and put an old fishernet inside. They climb up inside by the thousands - and we image it with an endocope. The class just won from 2000 entries prize 1 in a visit to our university. We had that all on the web, but the server got lost. Maybe I find the CD with a copy of a magazin article about our work with the children, the I will "wiki-message" it to you - in a hurry "sailor" Kils

Hello, I just added some formatting and some content to the oxygen saturation page you started. I put the Weiss formula into TeX markup, but I don't know exactly what it should look like. Can you double check my changes to make sure I got it right? Also, just make sure I didn't mess things up too badly. Jmeppley 19:21, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image license

Hey there, your image of the Icefish: Image:Icefishuk.jpg, can you confirm that it is licensed under the GFDL? As the image description page is a little vague, thanks alot. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 08:55, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Oh wow, man. Amazing shot! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 01:38, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

Krill watercolor

I changed the caption for your watercolor on the bioluminescence page, so it made sense (the other alternative being "bioluminescence in Antarctic krill" --- if I have inadvertently changed the official title of the piece, please rectify my mistake and I apologise. Either way, nice picture.--ZayZayEM 13:30, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

ATOLL (oceanography)

I attempted some cleanup and structuring. Could you fill in the "Research" section? And thanks for the images; great pictures, as always! Lupo 19:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC) (P.S.: Also check the talk page...)[reply]

German

Don't worry about it. I do understand German myself, but I prefer English or Dutch communication. So you don't need to talk German unless it's easier for yourself. Mgm|^(talk) 12:17, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

It's not common practice to leave frozen versions in the article namespace and besides /Temp pages, subpages aren't encouraged either. I've moved the page into your namespace and protected it (it's at User:Kils/Antarctic krill), but be advised you won't be able to edit it either. Let me know when it can be unprotected. - Mgm|^(talk) 15:44, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Faculty patrons and Virtual University

I've moved your Faculty patrons article to Wikipedia:Faculty patrons. Please note that pages concerning subjects internal to Wikipedia belong in the Wikipedia: namespace or, if they are specific to a single user, a subpage in the user namespace—not in the main article namespace. Similarly, Virtual University has also been moved to Wikipedia:Virtual University. Also, please note that subpages are not allowed in the main article namespace. — Gwalla | Talk 21:42, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This has been moved to User talk:Kils/Virtual University/Faculty patrons since the vote at VfD decided to move Virtual University to User talk:Kils/Virtual University. Angela . 01:00, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Antarctic Krill FAC

Hello again! I tightened up the prose on one of the paragraphs, but I am afraid that biology was never my specialty, and my knowledge on the subject is very low. Because I don't know a lot about the article, I can't help improve it, and I don't think I should support it for feature article because I don't know how comprehensive it is. What is there is great, but I try not to vote on things unless I know something about them. Sorry I can't be more helpful Best Wishes Scimitar 21:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Antarctic Krill copyediting

It's a highly informative article, but it remains in desperate need of thorough copyediting. I'll see if I can attend to it soon. Best Regards, El_C 23:48, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

thank you, El, for the fast response - I am from Germany and I know my English is rotten - stil do more on English wiki so more can use it - best greetings Uwe Kils 00:19, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to have something to eat (could it be krill?), then I'm going to forget about the abyss that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles for a little while, and attend to these oh-so a-political Antarctic Krill. :) Best regards, El_C 01:14, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Done. Please look closely at my changes and let me know what you think. Best regards, El_C 02:51, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

hallo El_C - thank you for the fast work, very helpfull. We would like to keep the animations, we were very often complimented just because of those. If we do not get feature status because of that that is ok with us. keep up with the fine work for wikipedia Uwe Kils 03:25, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Glad to help, Uwe! I also hope you are able to keep them, I find them to be very instructive. I'm not familliar with the WP:FAC and never participated in it in any way whatsoever, but you rank very high among my favourite picture contributors. Keep up the fine work yourself! :) El_C 05:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Comments

Hey there, Kills. Your work on Antarctic krill is quite commendable, and I have made a superficial revision of it. At this point, I think you should expand it a bit further, as there are still some gaps on the article. After that, I sincerely wouldn't mind doing an extensive revision of it. I do believe that it might get featured; if not now, at least in the near future. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 01:43, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FAC

Hello, Uwe Kils. I'll be reviewing your FAC (Krill, I think?) soon. Thanks for your patience! Flcelloguy 02:51, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re:Krill

Hi Uwe!

I agree with El_C above, what the krill article is in great need of is copyediting. My knowledge about krill is really meager; however, since you're asking so kindly, I'll modestly try to help out. The Image:Kilsheadkils.jpg was just a merge from antarctic krill head, which I agree with Weyes is not notable. As a first step in helping out, I have created the Image:Filterkrillkils2.gif, since the black areas of Image:Filterkrillkils.gif gave me epileptic shocks, even though I do not suffer from epilepsy.

Regards. --Salleman 04:22, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PS. Is Image:Kilsheadkils.jpg a section of an image of equal quality of an entire krill? In that case, upload it! It could very well become a Featured Picture!

I have already proofread it. :) It did need quite a bit of work. I found it a most interesting and informative article. Well done, Uwe Kils! El_C 05:15, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Moreover, I have uploaded a version of this image instead of the poorer quality image found there before. If you disagree to GFDL it, you can easily change back to the previous version. If you agree, you should definitely make it a Featured picture candidate. --Salleman 06:48, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wow! Great pic! El_C 06:56, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Kils,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Icefishuk.jpg is due to make a reappearance as Pic of the Day on the 20th June. I've used the same caption as last time, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 20, 2005. -- Solipsist 07:43, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Academic board review and peer review diffs

Thanks for your comments, Uwe. I have responded to them here. I wish to congratulate you on the peer review diff. But also, as I mention in my response, I think it is important to note which academic board reviewed which peer review article section, so I wonder which one it was in this case (?). In the future, then, I am of the opinion it should be noted specifically for the benefit of the researcher/reader. Once again, well done! Best Regards, El_C 07:55, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Strong support for Krill eye. Wow. *** Too much weird sex! Not in the articles I edit, though definitely in ones that you do(!). Let me quote you:

In the typical way of all euphausiaceans, the male attaches a sperm package to the genital opening of the female. For this purpose, the first pleopods of the male are constructed as tools.

Yes, I recall some of those issues you raised on the mailing list (which I noticed from links on your RFA). What I was wondering, though, is how the academic board's peer review certificate/notation for the diff can be authenticated (let say, a Wikiversity affiliated certificate would do the trick). Does that make sense? *** I find your Virtual University article to have some interesting and promising potential, but I voted to move it to your user space because it appears to be a policy proposal rather than a guide to using Wikipedia. So, I think that, as such a policy proposal, it would be best to draw people into from there first it so as to be able to get it effectively towards that stage. And as I also said, as per collegues outside of Wikipedia, it of course works the same way. I'm pleased to hear you are getting positive responses from other shcolars around the world. That 's encouraging. Keep up the good work! Yours, El_C 13:04, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I always tried to encourage wiki editors to give their full name and communications and credentials, especially I asked scientists, but they all declined. We can not understand that, also not the explanations they gave. Maybe it takes some more months and media coverages to get peoples trust. An academic board should really be with names and back trackable to the field and reputation of the members. The krill article has been reviewed by experts from Norway, Germany, Danmark, Australia and USA - all found you all have done a great job. I just asked another colleague in Norway to do it again in a week, also translate more to Scandinavian languages (thats where my roots are). I could put the Virtual university brainstorming also on one of our web servers, like ecoscope.com, but we want it in the middle of international discussions (but only if wanted). We think great luctures can also develop if done in a community way (now every professor does her thing, and for high tuition). I still think it would be great within Wikipedia, as it is long the biggest educational motion ever. I am eager to see what the future brings - we got a price for the things we did on free education for the havenots, my students did great things on the web very early - so we feel obliged to share our university education and possibilities - lets communicate accross all boarders and ages Uwe Kils 16:05, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely, I am all for international and interdisciplinary communication and copperation. That sounds very encouraging. The thing with having a record of who reviewed what is not related so much to scientists as yourself. I trust you. But like yourself, I'm thinking about the future: I am concrned that there are more questionable psuedo or quazi scientists out there who may wish to advance unsceintific theories, and who may say an academic review board process had taken place, when in fact, it hasn't (or was, let say, reviewed by their students rather than peers). This is why, in that sense, future standardization is important. Of course, I meant no slight towards yourself; the fact that several of the 'students' you list on your page are peers now, speaks for itself, I think. Yours, El_C 16:34, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

the reader should have the possibility to juge on her own how much the scientist is suited for the field, following independent sources like this and faculty pages. Just to google for the name is not jet very helpfull, because most of the sci material is behind passwords of expensive magazines or not on the web jet. Uwe Kils 16:47, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Just a notice that I have reset the new hi-res image you recently uploaded as per your request. You can now modify it as you see fit. Best regards, El_C 15:46, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I do not. Is it any good? I don't really like using instant messengers (long and somewhat uninteresting story). But I will send you an email soon (I have to go out now), or in the meantime, feel more than free to email me. All the best, El_C 16:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I recieved your email, Uwe. Thank you so much for the very warm words. I have responded to it just now (answering also some of the items you left on my talk page before I had to step out). I hope to hear back from you soon. Yours, El_C 22:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

An image request

Uwe, how about putting Abb 2 from [1] (the schematic view of krill) into the Krill article? It'd be great if you could donate that image to Wikipedia; we could explain so much better what all these technical terms for the various parts of krill anatomy mean with such an image. Don't worry about translating the legends, I can take care of that once the image in on Wikipedia. Could you do that, please? Lupo 08:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Krill

Congratulations on the Antarctic krill article. It improved dramatically. I would be willing to support the latest version, if you ever decide to renominate it. Best wishes and good luck, Meelar (talk) 13:06, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

compound eye 2

Hi Kils,

Well as you have seen, it looks like Mark has beaten me too it and already nominated your Image:Krilleyekils.jpg on WP:FPC - and it looks like it is very popular too. I'm guessing you didn't intend to vote 'neutral' but rather make a 'comment', although there really is no reason why you should't 'support' if you wanted to.

One other thing, at the moment the picture doesn't have a clear copyright tag on the image description page. From the comment there, it looks like you intend to license it as GFDL, but it would be good if you could add an explicit {{GFDL}} or {{GFDL-self}} tag to it. -- Solipsist 17:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I put the gfdl tag - I also uploaded high resolution images to amphipod and copepod and icefish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Icefishuk.jpg but when you click in the image or the high res link the old small images come up - any sugggestions? Uwe Kils 18:12, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

You might be being plagued by image caches. At the moment, I see a version which is 1536 x 1024 pixels, whilst the smaller version from January was about 320 x 240. -- Solipsist 18:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And just now, click on the image gave me the previous small version... reloading the browser page with <CTRL>-F5 got it back to the big one. The file size in the image history looks about right for the larger version. To avoid confusion over licensing, you should probably remove the 'High Resolution copyrighted version...' line too. -- Solipsist 18:36, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

if I click in the icefish image or the high res link it jumps to the 500 pixel image, same with the amphipod and copepod - I cleared all cache Uwe Kils 18:51, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Well I'm fairly sure that you have got the larger version of the icefish uploaded, even if you are not seeing the right result. What browser are you using?

When I follow the link to the full size version I get to this page which is the page to press <CTRL>-F5 (on Firefox, and I think it is the same on Internet Explorer, but it might be <SHIFT> and click on the reload icon in the toolbar)

There are also some server caches on Wikipedia's side. I don't really know how to control these, but modifying the purge link near the top of WP:FPC, you might try following this purge link

safari on mac osx Uwe Kils 19:34, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Ahh, I can't help there. Curiously a quick web search doesn't throw up anything concrete. But you can't be alone, so 'how do you reload the image cache on Safari' would be a good question for the Village Pump. -- Solipsist 20:01, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Krill

Want to take a look? Catch my errors! I could use a fact check... :-) Not being a specialist, I had to stay at a pretty general level (ok, that's also because it's an article subsuming 86 species). I think you could probably add some detail and/or factual corrections. Just keep in mind that this is not about Euphausia superba, but on krill in general. I'm also planning to write a krill fishery article based on the (Nicol 1997) reference given in the article. Do you know of a more recent survey that is available on-line? Lupo 20:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Lupo, I saw that already, you did a great job, I found a typo, will look at it more. My field is really E. superba and herring but I will try. For Fisheries Inigo Everson in GB knows and has a lot. I wrote him already to add or send me for inclusion. It is fun to work with you together ;-) Uwe Kils 20:30, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Antarctic krill

Hi Uwe, I've just done some minor edits to your article on krill. Your userpage is great by the way. Good luck getting articles and pictures featured. I'll talk to my boyfriend about putting articles up in Spanish as he is fluent. Nice to meet you, --Silversmith Hewwo 16:59, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Moving images to Commons

Hi Uwe!

I'd be happy to help with the moving of the images (great photos, btw). However, I'd need your assistance as well. Could you make a list of those images you want to be copied? There are two main requirements for content on the Commons:

It has to be potentially useful to the Wikimedia projects. This excludes purely personal photos (children, students etc.).
It has to be under a free license. This excludes fair use content.

If you could sort out those files which meet those requirements, I'll copy them over. I'll use the image description pages that are there, so you may want to look over them again (the page you get to when you click on an image).

Dank & Gruß, Eloquence * 11:50, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Antarctic krill

Hi Uwe, sorry for the delay, I was very busy with my PhD exam and thus had no time for any wikipedia related things :( Now it is getting better again though I have to move in about a week. Unfortunately I do know very little about Krill and thus cannot contribute to it very much, but I promise that I will read the article within the next few days and try to help making it better - btw the article looks already impressive. -- mkrohn 00:24, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Eel reproduction

Hello, and thank you for your courtesy and decorum. I'm afraid you probably don't want my help on this article, because my biology knowledge is not very extensive. Thank you, anyway. --Scimitar 20:07, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, I took a look at it, and did some basic grammar and word use editting. However, there are a few places where I didn't know for sure what you were saying. Because my biology knowledge is limited, I didn't fix those spots, as my interpretation might be wrong. I hope what I did helps, and best wishes. --Scimitar 20:33, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello Kils

Just would like to state that i have very much enjoyed being involved in a project of this nature. To see the speed of co-operation between various people was (Uwe, Lupo and Salleman and all others) fantastic. It was a complete buzz to go off researching about a scientific subject and coming to some understanding and appreciation of a creature that i would have no knowledge or interest in otherwise. I would like to say that it takes a damn good teacher to get others interested in what they teach and i for one, if only in a rudimentary and general way have found the subject of Krill and sorrounding issues of ecology and environment fascinating. I think that says a lot about your willingness to let others participate in something which you obviously have great knowledge in and could easily have been a lot less humble with. At some point i will put up some informtion on my home page so at least people know a little more about me. Am going to try to extend the article on Ice-algae so any info you may have would be good. I hope the article on Antartic Krill gets featured as i think it is now very good.

Wikiversity sounds like a good idea but will need more time to go through the proposal (not too sure what help i could be).

Once again thanks Uwe! Yakuzai 22:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just posted a little about myself so as not to be so elusive. Yakuzai 00:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome (about those Antarctic krill)

My pleasure to support the article -- it deserves to be featured (as much of your work here does). It's a real pleasure to know that scientists like you take Wikipedia seriously, and that laymen (women?) like me can contribute to sophisticated articles like this. (Glad you liked Duran Duran too -- not quite on the same plane, but we all have our specialties, eh?) Best of luck, let me know if I can help on any more articles. Oh, and I'm a Southern Californian, another unique breed.... ;) — Catherine\^talk 03:12, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: hallo from uwe @ krill eye

Thank you for writing on my user page. I'm more than happy to take a look at the language on the eel reproduction page... not quite yet though since I'm in the middle of exams at the moment! However, I am a little perplexed at what you meant by me promoting your beloved little critter - I don't recall uploading any pictures of eels. Enochlau 04:23, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sure, you're welcome :) Enochlau 04:31, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Commons pictures

Hi,

I just saw the list of images you put on my user page. I'll be in Korea for a few days, but I'll work on it when I get back. I think Antarctic krill is looking excellent, by the way. I personally liked having all the images in the article the way they were, but I guess everyone's taste is different.

One more thing: I read somewhere that you wrote that I proposed Wikiversity. This is not true. I've worked on the proposal recently and I'm trying to help make this happen, however, the original idea has been around quite a while before my own involvement, as has the Wikiversity project on Wikibooks. Much credit goes to User:Maveric149, but I'm not sure who originally proposed it. If you write that I proposed Wikiversity people might get angry at you or me, so please correct this :-)

I believe that Wikiversity should only be started as an official Wikimedia project once we have specialized software for test development and certification.--Eloquence *

WP:FAC/Krill

Thanks for the message, but there is no need to thank me - I vote as I see them. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:06, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Also a thanks from me. Don't know why you would think I was from Spain though. I live in the Los Angeles area. BlankVerse ∅ 14:39, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Picture of the day-yesterday

Hello Uwe! Yes, I did see that picture. Fantastic job, by the way. I put it on my desktop (I usually do that if the picture of the day catches my eye). Best wishes. --Scimitar 13:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There was a discussion at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Icefishuk last November. However, it was listed on WP:FP before that since it was image of the day last July, but I don't know why it was there before if it had never gone through WP:FPC. Angela . 12:13, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Hallo

Thanks for the greetings. I like your signature herring. Is there a list of mini-images we can use, or did you upload that yourself? NoSeptember^{16:54, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)}

I made that from one of my herring images - I can make you one, what do you like? Did you notice you can click on the fish to get to communication Uwe Kils

19:17, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Pics

Hello Uwe. It would be a joy to contribute to both articles that you mentioned.

Two questions:

1. do you or your colleagues have any pictures of exuvaie that you would like to upload to illustrate the short article on Exuvia ? It doesn't matter if it is a picture of insect, arachnid or crustacean exuvia.

2. Will you be expanding the article on Antarctic Paradox at some point in future? I think that could be an interesting article.

Thank you Yakuzai 21:31, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hallo Yakuzai! Great! Yes, I just searched the slide out, my slide scanner is down IEEE!!! interface - horrible - have to go to a friend, have a beatifull exuvia from krill taken under water, all details visible. And I will work on the Paradox - take care Uwe Kils

21:40, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

WP:BAP

Please... no need to apologize. :-) I'm glad you're having fun on the Wiki. Stay in touch. Sango123 23:04, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Krill

I had changed my vote to support just as I recieved your message. Nice work on the article. :) --nixie 00:32, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The US, but I'm curious why you would ask. As far as the explanations of the bio stuff, it would of course be great to have it in the article instead, which is what I think you were getting at, but not sure. - Taxman ^Talk 15:48, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the image of the Krill exuvia (looks very cool). Have busy weekend ahead (the weather is beautiful and the beer will be running freely) so i will get down to editing next week probably. Have a good one! Yakuzai 17:35, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

enjoy the beer - hallo to London Uwe Kils

18:34, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Edit Counter

I use the counter that Kate built, it's on her site. "Kils" has a total of 2827 edits (on en), and another 932 on de!

Plug your name in and you get this: http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Kils&dbname=enwiki

Just copy that URL onto your page and check your edits any time (but as the page warns, compulsively counting your edits can be fatal.....)

By the way, I like your herring too! :) — Catherine\^talk 00:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, you mean Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits? That's a report that's run manually -- it hasn't been updated since April 27 -- I should be significantly higher in it too. Looks like it was last updated by Clockwork Soul; you might drop a note on his talk page to see if there's a more recent version available. — Catherine\^talk 00:58, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ask Clockwork Soul to update the report. — Catherine\^talk 01:03, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Krill

Yes - it loooks really smart now -well done jimfbleak 04:47, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Uwe

Hello across the water (i think i am infringeing on copyright at this point). Thank you for my fish award! Am very happy that article is now featured, excellent work by all involved. Thanks for the exuvia images they are excellent. After a fine weekend of debauchery and beer i feel that i am now ready to begin on helping with getting the next project to feature status. Look forward to working with you again professor. Yakuzai 28 June 2005 18:06 (UTC)

Atlantic herring

Hi Uwe. Have just started making edits on this article (please correct any mistakes i make) also would like for you to see articles discussion box. Yakuzai 28 June 2005 20:50 (UTC)

good idea, maybe it is better when you ask them - tax: we do it this way http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=24&genusname=Clupea&speciesname=harengus%20harengus fishbase is made by a student of our Kiel group, now visited by 11 million a month, 1000 cooperators - amazing what the web can produce - there is also a lot of refs Uwe Kils

June 28, 2005 20:54 (UTC)

Hi Uwe

Just made some grammatical adjustments to the article about your father. He sounds like a very interesting person as are you. It would be great if he would take a serious look at Wikipedia. The more professional scientists we get onboard the better!

As i know that you are trying to get others of your professional standing involved in this project i would like to offer as a member of the public some thoughts for those who are skeptical of such a project.

All too often the general public is left out of contributing to discussions of scientific importance as we are considered by the scientific community in general to be ignorant and unqualified to engage in any meaningful dialogue about scientific issues of importance. If indeed the assumption of ignorance is true then in my opinion it is a fault of the mediums in which scientific knowledge and datum is transmitted i.e. specialist publications, newspapers, television and to a lesser extent radio. These mediums offer no chance of a dialogue to develop between the general public and the specialist scientist. Instead they are in the case of T.V., newspaper and radio the transmitters of spoon fed facts that we have no control over and renders arbritrary those facts in relation to the world we live in.

However with a medium such as the internet and a project such as wikipedia their thus arises a new dynamic between the learned and the layman in that a person with no knowledge of a specialist subject can enter into a dialogue with a specialist and comment on what has been written offering advice to elucidate and make clearer the subject for the general reader. The empowerment that is garnered from this relationship cannot be underestimated as it can have in my opinion many side benefits such as a less alienated relationship to scientific knowledge, a greater appreciation of the information being conveyed, a willingness to actively learn more about the subject you have been involved with.

If scientists truely want to engage with the public and have what they say be understood then they must actively get involved in having a dialogue with them, Wikipedia in my opinion and experience to date is a great opportunity to do this. Yakuzai 1 July 2005 00:36 (UTC)