User talk:Htonl

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Hey.. just wanted to say, nice work on the UCT article! MDCore 09:36, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Table Mountain National Park 2 Municipalities Project 3 N1 4 Re: SU name 5 South African Bush Telegraph 6 Photos 7 Cape Town FAC 8 Municipal map 9 ZA Municipalities template 10 Help! 11 Job opportunity 12 SA municipalities, PDF to SVG converter 13 Corrections to the DMA list 14 Local muni maps 15 Libya 16 South Africa Provinces.jpg 17 Crime in SA 18 Cape Town Image 19 Hey 20 Maraba Coffee 21 UCT 22 Your vote please 23 Wikimania 2007 24 Oh, this? 25 Sesotho map 26 Wikimania 2008 in Cape Town 27 Cleanup: South Africa 28 John X Merriman 29 FAR 30 Helen Zille 31 Orphaned non-free media (Image:UFH logo.gif) 32 Street Map of Cape Town

[edit] Table Mountain National Park

Nice work! Model Citizen 01:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Municipalities Project

Hey. I've signed up for the project. I actually got interested today, after reading about User:rambot, and thinking about whether a similar piece of software could be used to populate South African municipal pages with census data (which is publicly available from statssa). One issue if obtaining the data - it's all available at [www.statssa.gov.za], but only via a web interface. I don't think they'd be happy if we used a bot to grab data off there (in fact, their sysadmins would probably just block the ip). Perhaps you know of a public source of census data (that's easily computationally usable)? Otherwise, though, maybe we could ask them for it ...

Also, I wouldn't mind a copy of the scripts you're using to generate the maps. Can you put them on a server? (Otherwise, you can pm me at user oneillkza on Yahoo chat) -Kieran 20:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] N1

You're right, that image isn't really GFDL although it is impossible to copyright a map in SA. Could you try re-copying them? Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 18:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey. Nice job on the N1 map. I've noticed that the N3 map ([1]) is in a similar state (taken straight off routes.co.za). Do you think you could do the same for it sometime? -Kieran 20:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: SU name

Thanks for the note. SU has been sharpening up their corporate image, and from the SU corporate identity guide: Sowel die beskrywings "Universiteit van Stellenbosch" as "Universiteit Stellenbosch" is korrek, hoewel die laasgenoemde, meer informele formaat vir bemarking- en kommunikasiedoeleindes gebruik moet word. It is, however, proper Afrikaans to have the "van"; the shorter version is simply to keep it with English, and "markets" more easily, I guess. Thanks for the catch on Chris Brink too, btw. dewet|™ 18:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South African Bush Telegraph

Hi, if you have not yet done so, we could sure use your input on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dewet. Thanks! --Jcw69 16:41, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Htonl, the Africa Award has been proposed as an official award, we could sure use your input at the proposal page - Thank you! --Jcw69 20:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Hello there, since I am working hard to get CT to featured status (like Johannesburg, which I also wrote), I was wondering if you could snap some photos for me. Dewet took some, but his camera isn't that great quality. We definitely need some better photos for the transport section, so here is a photo "wish list"

• The exterior of Cape Town Station, and perhaps a clearer one of the interior
• A photo of the M2 or M3.
• A nice horizontal imge of UCT.
• A good photo of the skyline or the conference centre
• A photo of the airport
• A photo of Newlands Stadium

Thanks! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 04:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cape Town FAC

Well, it's done. I listed Cape Town as a featured article candidate. Take a look on its FAC page and have a vote. Thanks! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 06:15, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Municipal map

Hey there, now that it seems like Cape Town will make it as South Africa's second FA city, I am turning my attentions to Durban. I was wondering if I could beg you to make another beautful map like you did for the Western cape of KZN showing eThekwini/Durban. I would appreciate it greatly! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 05:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ZA Municipalities template

Hi H! See what I've posted on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_South_African_municipalities#Templates. My wish is that data may be produced which would fit the Portuguese wiki as well. -- Tintazul 11:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

Hey there, I saw this question [2] and was very disturbed. Any chance you'd help me by adding to my reply on the user's talk page? Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 21:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Job opportunity

Hi there. The organisation funding my studies have a junior developer position opening up. I realise you're probably still in the middle of your degree, so probably won't be available for full time work until the end of the year, but it might be possible for you to get holiday work in the meantime. The work is in bioinformatics, and one of the projects that needs doing is the porting of all the MeSH annotations in pubmed (of which we have a local copy) into a custom made graph based knowledge representation and querying system. From your work here, I would guess that it's something you're more than capable of doing, and, even if you just did it part time, would look good on your CV, and put you in a good position for student funding/work opportunities with the organisation later on. The organisation is based at the University of the Western Cape, so should be within daily travelling distance for you.

Anyway, if you're interested, send a CV to the manager, junaid (at) nbn (dot) ac (dot) za, asking about the junior developer position. If you want to get in touch with me, my email address is kieran (at) nbn (dot) ac (dot) za. I'd be happy to put in a good word for you. -Kieran 19:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SA municipalities, PDF to SVG converter

Thanks once again for the SA municipality maps! By the way, I would be glad if you created the remaining maps, compare pt:ECM with pt:LPM, for instance. And can you please check if the totals on my municipalities table confer, or if I forgot any municipality? 6 metros, 46 districts, 231 locals, 22 DMAs.

I see you've created an ESRI to SVG converter; can you create a PDF to SVG converter too, please? The ones available on-line are not free. I know it can be done using applications like Corel Draw, which I don't own. -- Tintazul ^msg 09:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your work, I realise this were two very tall orders! All the municipalities, plus a PDF converter! I am trying the link you suggested now, let's see about the results.

I have also been thinking of an SVG graphing tool - for instance, to recolour the municipalities on a map of South Africa in SVG format, according to population density, fetched from a text file. This is because I've noticed that in your SVGs all municipalities have proper IDs. This isn't a request ;-) as I've impinged on you enough already. -- Tintazul ^msg 14:42, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Good! Well, I haven't checked if you have created a map of the whole country with all the municipalities in it, but that would be the map to use. The language data from Stats SA I've sent to Kieran, although he says it's not up to date with the April 2006 changes.

Do you know www.style.org? The guy's into graphs (and the page design is very clean and "efficient", too; quite appealing to engineers and the like.) His Mapping Votes by County provides another way of mapping a fraction of the population to an area map; more interesting, but way more complicated to put into practice as it involves producing a brand new base map, possibly programmatically and by iterations, and intermediate tools like calculating the area of each division as drawn inside the SVG to see how proportionate it is to the division's population. That's the kind of thing I'd like to look into, except we all have our jobs... -- Tintazul ^msg 12:09, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Corrections to the DMA list

Thank you for checking my table! It seems I have derived my information from outdated sources; an easy think to do, because most sources out there seem to be outdated. That includes en wiki; there is a discrepancy in District Management Areas between the table and the corresponding map, and between that and the maps you've generated.

So, I've been through the Old and NewCodes.xls I've got from Stats SA, and in the Portuguese DMA page I've deleted the following:

• Eastern Cape: Oviston Nature Reserve, O'Conners Camp
• Limpopo: Schuinsdraai
• Mpumalanga: Mdala
• Northwest: Pilansberg

Let me know if this is correct (naming, that these natural areas are no longer DMAs.) That would bring the DMA count down to 20.

The map Commons:Image:South Africa Districts showing DMAs.png is wrong - it marks the former Northwest DMA.

Also, where is Eastern Cape's exclave in KZN? Was that changed, too, last April or sometime before that? That means all maps styled after Commons:Image:SouthAfricaNumbered.png are outdated. Those were bitmap too, so no big loss, but it means these have to be replaced. I'll take care of that on pt wiki. Areas and population should now be wrong, too; do you have updated sources?

I see you've overwritten my information on Commons:Image:WCDMA03 locator.svg. You had missed another DMA, so I'm uploading it without any info, please overwrite it as well: Commons:Image:NCDMA09 locator.svg (Diamondfields). -- Tintazul ^msg 11:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Local muni maps

I see you've done these (png files) for the WC. Great! Are you planning to do the rest? --Uxejn 21:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya

Please feel free to evaluate the Libya article which has become a 'Featured Article Candidate' and write you support or opposition on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. Hopefully Libya will become only the second African country to be featured on Wikipedia. Thanks --User:Jaw101ie 12:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I've corrected the references as requested. --Jaw101ie 18:20, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Africa Provinces.jpg

Why do you say this image is not free? --JWB 08:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crime in SA

Thanks for reinforcing my suspicions regarding sock-puppetry by removing the offending crimexpo paragraph in the South Africa article. ALways good to meet a fellow SA-Wikipedian!

Cheers for now,

Stuart Steedman 06:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cape Town Image

That Cape Town flag is again faced with a problem. Someone has put the unsourced tag on it. I am not sure what to do here. Please help! -- Chris Lester ^talk 15:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Just thought I'd drop by. Nice work with that Table Mountain fire. Or was that you? Lol I clicked on a lot of user names so I don't know. But anyway hi. --Adriaan90 16:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maraba Coffee

Hello! As you're a Wikipedian interested in African topics, I'm writing to notify you that the Maraba Coffee article is now a 'Featured Article Candidate'. Please feel free to evaluate the article and write your support or opposition at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. Thanks — SteveRwanda 15:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UCT

Hi - I saw you go to UCT and thought you might be interested in the UCT userbox I created. See my user page for the code and to check it out. If you know any other UCT students, feel free to pass it on. Cheers,Jason Lionchow 18:45, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Glad you like it. I saw all the category work you did for it. Thanks! I have to admit though, I have no idea what and Ikey is! Do you? I'm not from South Africa though so maybe its one of those kind of things where you have to be from here to get it. Cheers, Jason Lionchow 18:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Haha, I'm comfortable being an Ikey, just didn't know I was one. So do you know how the name "Ikey" originated? All I know is we have "Ikey Tigers"... and being a comp sci student with a Wikipedia account, what do I know about rugby and whatnot? - Phorque 21:18, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your vote please

Hi htonl - Please vote on the proposed move of the 'South African farmer murders' page. The straw poll is here. Please also pass this message on to others you think would be interested. Thank you! Cheers, Jason Lionchow - Talk 08:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2007

Hi Htonl

Wikimania 2007, which is being held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 3-5, is offering opportunities for travel scholarships to Wikimania for active users of Wikimedia projects from the continent of Africa. Although the original scholarship deadline has passed, please, if you are interested, you may still apply at http://wm07schols.wikimedia.org/apply.php. Sincerely yours, Cary Bass 20:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oh, this?

I based it off of Template:US county navigation box, with mods. I'm also trying it out with Nigerian states, and maybe LGAs in the future. As for the subdivisions of the districts, lists of the local municipalities are *usually* made available on the district municipality articles, even though that's also threadbare. Don't get me started about the towns and cities, though; takes forever and a day to find anything on the *seats* for the districts (which I found at Western Cape's website), let alone the other towns in the districts. Those articles need help, but I'll try to press on with the other districts. Glad that you like them! --Toussaint 18:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sesotho map

You really shouldn't've edited the map as it is also used in Sesotho language Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 20:15, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2008 in Cape Town

Hi. Would you be interested in helping to ensure Wikimania 2008 is held in Cape Town? If so, please go to the Cape Town bid page, and sign up on the discussion page. Feel free to dive right in with adding suggestions, or fleshing out the bid! I'd greatly appreciate any help, no matter how small. Greenman 00:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup: South Africa

On 14 November 2007 you deleted a whole lot of external links from the South Africa page without discussing or even simply justifying it on the talk page. I believe you should properly motivate every deletion before you do it. Roger 22:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer to the WP:BOLD page. I hadn't seen it before, I'm quite new to editing wikipedia. Roger 08:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John X Merriman

Since you live on the Cape, maybe you can help on adding and possibly rewording text from the public domain 1911 Brittannica for use on the page for John X. Merriman. (I put a link on the talk page and put some text from it in.) Maybe you can start a page for him in Afrikaans--Ted-m (talk) 03:42, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FAR

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[edit] Helen Zille

Sorry for jumping the gun a little bit there. I agree with the changes you made. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 15:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:UFH logo.gif)

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[edit] Street Map of Cape Town

Why have you removed the Street Map of Cape Town ?

AG for rentalsincapetown —Preceding unsigned comment added by Granfara (talk • contribs) 19:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)