Welcome! Great to have you on board.
You may find this useful:
- three tildes: signature with no date, i.e. just the link to your userpage.
- four tildes: signature + date
- five tildes: date only.
Look forward to seeing what you get up to here, and getting any feedback (probably via the Village pump is best) on this wiki. --Singkong2005 talk 08:15, 11 September 2006 (PDT)
Welcome
Hi Curt,
Great blog, and I really like your penpal idea at WinWinWiki. I hope that you find Appropedia useful and fitting, and I greatly look forward to your input.
Thank you, --Lonny 03:15, 12 September 2006 (PDT)
Interwiki
Hi Curt. Good to see you getting active here.
Handy tip: interwiki linking makes it easier to link to other wikis, e.g. use Wikipedia: at the front of the link to link to a Wikipedia article, such as [[Wikipedia:Appropriate technology]] which gives Wikipedia:Appropriate technology. For a wikia site, use wikia: then the wikia's name, such as permaculture: or scratchpad:, e.g. wikia:scratchpad:WinWinNewIdeas.
More examples at Meta's Interwiki map (though it seems Appropedia isn't automatically updated, so some of them don't work... I haven't looked into the details, but I know Lonny can add to Appropedia's interwiki map.) --Singkong2005 talk 20:46, 13 September 2006 (PDT)
You wrote:
===Thanks for the interwiki link tips!=== I assume that was prompted by all the external links I added to the ruleset page. I looked at the interwiki help for some guidance as to how to use an interwiki link with an explanatory text, but could not find it. Maybe it doesn't work? In the Ruleset, there may be a couple cases where "Wikipedia:xxxx" would be acceptable, but several others where it doesn't work.
- Perhaps these were Wikipedia project pages, which already have a Wikipedia:...? Once you add Wikipedia:, it should ends up as, e.g., Wikipedia:Wikipedia:NPOV.
- By explanatory text, do you mean piping? e.g. [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:NPOV|NPOV]], which looks like this: NPOV.
I didn't like the external links when I was done. It occurred to me at that point that the better result would be to revert back to the original with deadend links, then go create those pages, stealing (with pride) from the content on Wikipedia. (If that's allowed, in which case I guess it ain't stealing.) Opinions? ["Steal with pride" was a commonly used phrase within Intel about 8 years back, for some reason.]
- It's certainly okay to use Wikipedia material - haven't read enough of the license to be sure about if and how to credit it (e.g. is it enough to give credit in the edit summary? possibly not...)
FYI, I plan to speak live on the phone (what'll they think of next?) with Lonny this Friday morning. Maybe you and I could talk later on my Friday / your Saturday morning? I can imagine a weekly or biweekly call being pretty productive. After all, you've got a greenhorn here.
- Sounds good - Saturday morning could be okay... evening I'm often more free, and I tend to be a night owl. Try me, anyway - send a gmail chat message (though I may not see it till I'm in the gmail window) or an SMS. I turn off my phone at night, so don't be afraid of SMSing at the wrong time. --Singkong2005 talk 22:14, 14 September 2006 (PDT)
Blogging
Hi Curt,
I've been a bit preoccupied - various personal things happening, helping out a friend in crisis... anyway, I'm just doing the occasional contribution here for now. I've just signed up to Blogger Beta and will get that happening soon... My username is Singkong2005 talk and the address for my personal blog will be http://singkong2005.blogspot.com. Are you still keen to have a joint blog for AT/sustainability/justice/hunger/peace type issues?
Got your note about my outdated AT page on my Wikipedia userspace, and will fix that soon.
Btw, I think I like the idea of putting photos on profiles... it's good to be able to put a face to a name. I had my photo taken floating in a tea-tree lake last new year (water the color of tea)... unfortunately there was a technical problem and so I'll have to find a camera & do something else. --Singkong2005 talk 08:25, 7 October 2006 (PDT)
- I love photos on profiles. This site, just as with appropriate technology and sustainable development, is about the people more than the technology. Nice photo. --Lonny 16:51, 11 October 2006 (PDT)