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Joe Pecore, A [[Paul Harris]] fanatic.  
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'''Joe Pecore''' is a  [[Paul Harris]] fanatic.  
  
 
[[Special:Contributions/Jpecore|Contributor]] to MagicPedia.
 
[[Special:Contributions/Jpecore|Contributor]] to MagicPedia.
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You can also email me information, changes or corrections you would like to see on MagicPedia.
 
You can also email me information, changes or corrections you would like to see on MagicPedia.
  
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== Pages to monitor ==
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* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=newbie&target=&namespace=&year=&month=-1 New contributors for spamming and vandalism]
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* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AActiveUsers&limit=50&username=&hidesysops=1 Active Users]
  
== Working on ==
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* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] (try to fix until 0 left)
* Random stuff like making pages for [[Special:WantedPages]]
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* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] (try to fix until 0 left)
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* [[Special:WantedCategories]] (try to fix until 0 left)
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* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] ([[Main Page]] is OK)
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* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] ( [[:Category:MagicPedia]] and [[:Category:Special]] are OK)
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* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] (help make pages for these categories)
  
== Badges ==
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* [[Special:DeadendPages]] (these need a wiki link to another article)
{{User Badge|a subscriber of |Genii}}
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{{User Badge|an|Amateur magician}}
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{{User Badge|a fan of |Paul Harris|File:TA icon.jpg}}
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{{User Badge|an|Administrator}}
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* [[Special:WantedPages]]  (help make these pages, which have links on other articles)
  
== Bad Titles to fix ==
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* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10  All templates  ]
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* [[Special:LinkSearch]]Check for Bad Links
  
Feel fee to add page titles that need to be fixed here:
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* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
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* [http://www.magician.org/resources/broken-wand IBM Broken wand]
  
== Tests ==
 
{{#len:Icecream }}
 
  
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== Working on ==
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* Today in Magic History Android App
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** http://files.appsgeyser.com/Today%20in%20magic%20history.apk
  
* http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Jpecore/Authors&oldid=27624
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== Things to do (feel free to help ;) ==
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* Add more [[Template:TOTD|Featured Tips]]
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* See if this works http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Transwiki
  
[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=purge}} Update date on {{FULLPAGENAME}}]
 
  
[http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge Update date on Main Page]
 
  
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http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=47616&p=321185#p321185
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*[[David Bourne]] (75)
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*[[Cashetta]] (Scott Weston) (44)
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*[[Peter D'Arcy]] (88)
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*[[Tim Deremer]] (65)
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*[[Don Desfor]] (87)
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*[[Mike Hilburger]] (75)
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*[[Maki Kitami]] (74)
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*[[Damon Reinhold]] (77)
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*[[John Scanlan]] (71)
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*[[Troy Spiers]] (11)
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*[[Liz Tucker]]
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*[[Dan Waldron]] (90)
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*[[Carl Williams]] (93)
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* [[Claude E. Crowe, Jr.]]
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http://themagicwordpodcast.com/
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*[[Andrea “Andi” Diamond]]
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*[[Gary D. Jennings]]
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*[[Woodrow “Woody” R. Pittman, Jr.]]
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*[[Donald F. Stiefel]]
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== Items to fix ==
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* [[René Septembre]] (done)
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* Convert any "See also" templates http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:See_also to "hatnote" where needed.
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* Please change the title page of Dr. Theodore Beal to the correct spelling "Dr. Theodore BAEL". Thank you.
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** Done. Thanks!!!
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== Tests ==
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* current time: {{LOCALMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALTIME}}
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* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User%3AJpecore%2Ftest&timestamp=20121218231324 Author test list]
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* http://pagesperso-orange.fr/universimmedia/geo/loc.htm
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* [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=purge}} Update date on {{FULLPAGENAME}}]
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* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge Update date on Main Page]
 
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* Number of MagicPedia users: {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
 
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* http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Books&cmlimit=100
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* http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Ed%20Marlo&blfilterredir=redirects
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* [[Today_in_magic_history]]
  
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== Extensions for MagicPedia ==
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* http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation
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* Skins:
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** http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_user_styles
  
== Extensions wanted for MagicPedia ==
 
 
From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Alterego/ExtensionMatrix/AllExtensions
 
From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Alterego/ExtensionMatrix/AllExtensions
  
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategorySuggest
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BrokenLinks
 
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree
 
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InterWiki
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InterWiki
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:KML_Export
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:KML_Export
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_%28GISWiki%29
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_%28GISWiki%29
 
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiTimeLine
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Done:
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CSS_image_crop
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite (update) - cite arrows now show up instead of being black diamonds with question marks. You may have to purge or edit the files for them to show up 
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Article_to_Category
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== Wikipedia magicians to bring over ==
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*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
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*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nimbus
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Tag_cloud_extensions
  
== Magicians to research ==
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== To research ==
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* http://www.woodlandway.org/Psypioneer_Journal.htm
=== [[Daniel  Stashower]] ===
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* http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?fi=subject&q=Magicians.&co=var
Author and semi-pro magician published two novels about conjuring. Also wrote  Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)
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* http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=3072&page=2
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* http://www.march.es/bibliotecas/ilusionismo/biblioteca-digital-de-ilusionismo.aspx?l=2
  
== Pages to monitor ==
 
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] (should be 0)
 
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] (should b 0)
 
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] (should be 0)
 
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] ( [[:Category:MagicPedia]] and [[:Category:Special]] are OK)
 
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] ([[Main Page]] is OK)
 
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] (help make pages for these categories)
 
 
* [[Special:WantedFiles]]
 
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]]
 
 
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] (needs a wiki-link added)
 
* [[Special:ShortPages]]  (needs more content)
 
* [[Special:WantedPages]]
 
 
 
* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10  All templates  ]
 
  
 
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== Want List ==
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I'm looking for these magazines to complete my collection:
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* Magic Manuscript - Volume 11 Issue 3 - November / December 1989 - Cover - The Tenyo Team
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* Magic Manuscript - Volume 12 Issue 2 - September / October 1990 - Cover - Women in Magic Pt. 1
  
 
== Did you know? ==
 
== Did you know? ==
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* the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
 
* the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
 
* David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
 
* David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
* That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's 'More Collected Magic" in 1921. The single colour-change handkerchief using a 11 esh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's ' More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.
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* That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's "More Collected Magic" in 1921.  
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*The single colour-change handkerchief using a flesh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's "More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.
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== Badges ==
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Revision as of 14:22, 22 March 2017

Joe Pecore is a Paul Harris fanatic.

Contributor to MagicPedia.

Please feel free to add comments and ask questions on my discussion page or email me at: Special:EmailUser/Jpecore.

You can also email me information, changes or corrections you would like to see on MagicPedia.

Pages to monitor


Working on


Things to do (feel free to help ;)


http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=47616&p=321185#p321185

http://themagicwordpodcast.com/

Items to fix

  • Please change the title page of Dr. Theodore Beal to the correct spelling "Dr. Theodore BAEL". Thank you.
    • Done. Thanks!!!

Tests

Extensions for MagicPedia

From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Alterego/ExtensionMatrix/AllExtensions

For mediawiki 1.21:

To research


Genii index replace

Want List

I'm looking for these magazines to complete my collection:

  • Magic Manuscript - Volume 11 Issue 3 - November / December 1989 - Cover - The Tenyo Team
  • Magic Manuscript - Volume 12 Issue 2 - September / October 1990 - Cover - Women in Magic Pt. 1

Did you know?

  • The Ring in Nest of Boxes dates back to 1751?
  • The Rising Card Effect first appeared in print in 1626?
  • The Sympathetic Silks trick was invented by Edward Victor?
  • Spring Flowers were invented by Buatier de Kolta?
  • The Vent Talking Hand was first performed in 1796?
  • A Cigarette Act was first presented in Paris by the Spanish magician, Franz-Klint, in 1916?
  • With the exception of a short description of the Pass and the Force by Guyot in 1769, Henri Decremps (1746-1826) was the first writer in any language to explain the basic card sleights?
  • The Sliding Die Box was invented by Alex Davis, an Englishman, who first performed it in the U.S.A. about 1886. The Rights were sold to Otto Mauer, a New York Dealer, who advertised it in 1897?
  • Bill Stickland published a method a Balloon Penetration?
  • The 20th Century Silks effect was first performed by David Devant, and his method later explained in Hoffmann's ' Later Magic' (1904)?
  • The Wild Card was invented by Peter Kane of Manchester, and shown by him months before it was ' invented' and marketed in the U.S.A.?
  • David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchief Through Paper Tube and first presented the trick in 1893?
  • A Vanishing Cane made of spring steel, was described in the July 1899 issue of Mahatma?
  • Selbit was first to perform the Magic Bricks?
  • Buatier de Kolla was the first to produce flowers from a Cone, and Billiard Balls at the fingertips using a half shell?
  • the shell stack of coins was in the 4 Anatomie of Legerdemain 1634?
  • the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
  • David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
  • That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's "More Collected Magic" in 1921.
  • The single colour-change handkerchief using a flesh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's "More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.

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