Floquenbeam
Joined 13 August 2008
Latest comment: 1 day ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
MEH
 | I'm going to log out and take a break for a few months. I have little time available for WP right now, and I'm finding that the time I do have is increasingly frustrating and does not spark joy; I'm logging in out of habit, rather than because I want to. I won't write a screed about why, at least not now. Some of this is probably my fault; real-world stress bleeding into on-wiki stress. But it's also due to the way this project seems to be evolving, and the realization that I can't really try to do anything about it when I have so little time to contribute. I'll leave WP email on, but email notifications are going to be turned off. See you on the other side. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:39, 6 September 2023 (UTC) |
May music edit
 | |
| story · music · places |
|---|
Some pics around the concert with the basses, and good luck finding a performance ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the flowers, Gerda. Having kind of a shitty day (nothing major, just the usual dozen minor annoyances that I seem incapable of handling gracefully), and seeing a new May music section legit helped. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! - On the bicentenary of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, I remember our recent uplifting choral concert in pictures, on my user page and in my concerts (leading to the two at the church's article). The closest was in the paper. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Today is the Feast of the Ascension for which Bach composed his oratorio, - perhaps watch a bit how the closing movement was performed in Bach's church. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Magdalena Hinterdobler is on the Main page today, together with an opera that reviewers deemed not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - listen and see. - Also on the Main page: a TFA by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- did you listen and see? - today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:50, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- I am at a slight disadvantage in that, when I first see a message that links to music on youtube, I can't access it. By the time I get to my home computer, my deteriorating memory and I have forgotten all about it. I've tried marking notifications about your messages as "unread", but then I forget about that and re-read them thinking they're new when I still can't access youtube. The same happens when I'm in a position to read new messages, but have no time to reply to them right then. I really should see someone about this.... --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:58, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Instead of seeing someone better listen to music - any music you like! - My story today is about a person (born on 15 May) who wrote the lyrics for the one oratorio in my life so far which had me singing in choir in the world premiere. You can listen ;) - I listed the second performance at Frankfurt Cathedral because the author was pictured that day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- I actually listened! Wonderful. Floquenbeam (talk) 18:28, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- I heard lovely chamber music today, and the DYK mentions "profoundly human" singing (that you can watch), connected to a place where we'll sing in September --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:14, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
- I liked seeing Erschallet, ihr Lieder on the Main page today, 310 years after the first performance! We sang it in 2000. Today's program was easier but also spirited. I found a nice video of "I will sing with the spirit", with nature photography, - enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. For easier listening than that dying soldier's song, I recommend the living room concert during the pandemic (in the article), with mom and himself for a partner (she playing piano, he playing clarinet instead of a missing soprano, on top of seducing singing), accompanying sister on the cello in "The Swan", and singing with dad (who was c. 85 at the time). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- ps: you'll recognize the view in the recent pics ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:41, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Indeed! Lovely pix as always. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:06, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! Thought of you when exploring the area with Graham, - Rüdesheim pics to come, but I try chronology, 20 May in progress. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, very cool, you got another WP visitor. Sounds like you both enjoyed it. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- yess --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- last offer in May: photos of the river Rhine, and the adjacent Eltville rose garden, - high water and interesting weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, very cool, you got another WP visitor. Sounds like you both enjoyed it. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! Thought of you when exploring the area with Graham, - Rüdesheim pics to come, but I try chronology, 20 May in progress. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Indeed! Lovely pix as always. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:06, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Instead of seeing someone better listen to music - any music you like! - My story today is about a person (born on 15 May) who wrote the lyrics for the one oratorio in my life so far which had me singing in choir in the world premiere. You can listen ;) - I listed the second performance at Frankfurt Cathedral because the author was pictured that day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- I am at a slight disadvantage in that, when I first see a message that links to music on youtube, I can't access it. By the time I get to my home computer, my deteriorating memory and I have forgotten all about it. I've tried marking notifications about your messages as "unread", but then I forget about that and re-read them thinking they're new when I still can't access youtube. The same happens when I'm in a position to read new messages, but have no time to reply to them right then. I really should see someone about this.... --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:58, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
June music edit
 | |
| story · music · places |
|---|
Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today. The music opens with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:31, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Kafka would have been a good choice for TFA. I assume the problem is it already ran once. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:18, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Lol, nevermind, it's run twice, both times on his birthday. Three would definitely have been pushing it! Floquenbeam (talk) 16:19, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- No need to tell me, I was one of the authors ;) - and I don't like celebrating death dates, but if the Main page has it ... - - The stats were good, 173k+ the day before (no idea which website had it then) and still 31k+ yesterday. The OTD people had no room for the cantata, arguing it had to be 11 June, just because that happened to be the date of the First Sunday after Trinity in 1724. On 11 June, it's no Sunday at all, let alone the correct one, - I can't help. - Did you see that I added another pic of Graham at Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett, after his mother agreed to be seen? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- I hadn't seen, cool. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:33, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- No need to tell me, I was one of the authors ;) - and I don't like celebrating death dates, but if the Main page has it ... - - The stats were good, 173k+ the day before (no idea which website had it then) and still 31k+ yesterday. The OTD people had no room for the cantata, arguing it had to be 11 June, just because that happened to be the date of the First Sunday after Trinity in 1724. On 11 June, it's no Sunday at all, let alone the correct one, - I can't help. - Did you see that I added another pic of Graham at Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett, after his mother agreed to be seen? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Lol, nevermind, it's run twice, both times on his birthday. Three would definitely have been pushing it! Floquenbeam (talk) 16:19, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Tradition at RfA edit
I realize that it's a tradition that came about at some point (although you'd probably understand the when better than I do) but my RfA is a fairly recent example of direct replies being completely fine. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 14:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- [1] ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:10, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Well good on you. I believe I engaged with opposers too. But my feeling is that these days, nominators and friends really drill it into candidates not to do it. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:17, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- I suppose I'm an unconventional nominator too, then. My advice to the candidate was to do whatever she was comfortable with. My point in bringing this up is that there is recent precedent (within the last six months) that this sort of thing won't doom an RfA. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed. If only that was the conventional wisdom. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:28, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- I suppose I'm an unconventional nominator too, then. My advice to the candidate was to do whatever she was comfortable with. My point in bringing this up is that there is recent precedent (within the last six months) that this sort of thing won't doom an RfA. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 edit
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)