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A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil granulocyte (large yellow cell), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange rod-shaped structures). Scale bar is 5 micrometers. Generally referred to as neutrophils, they are the most abundant type of white blood cells in humans and form an integral part of the immune system. These phagocytes are normally found in the blood stream. However, during the acute phase of inflammation, particularly as a result of bacterial infection, neutrophils leave the vasculature and migrate toward the site of inflammation in a process called chemotaxis. Image credit: Volker Brinkmann, PLoS
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I'd appreciate your participation in the discussion I'm having at User talk:OhanaUnited#Portal:Contents/Types layout. Wdfarmer ( talk) 03:36, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I've started Portal:Indiana/Attractions. I plan to finish it in a day or two. I modeled it after Portal:Texas/Attractions, so you know what to expect. Please have a look at both and lemme know of anything wrong or missing from them, Thanks. Joe I 04:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Was a bit of a shock to find the contents of the contents lists missing.
Took me a few minutes to figure out where the data was located. :)
What's going on with the contents lists, megaportals, etc.?
What's the plan, man.
(Good to see you're still going strong).
The Transhumanist 02:58, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
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Your friendly neighborhood portal contributor here, feel like giving some input on Portal:Criminal justice? It's up at WP:PPREV. Cirt ( talk) 16:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Any chance you'd know how to make the "Show new selections" function in Portal:Oregon stand out more? A comment about this was raised at the WP:FPORTC for the portal. Cirt ( talk) 16:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Human geography requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for someone to host the User page design center. May I move it to your userspace?
It's most appropriate in userspace, and I fear what would happen to it in project space.
The Transhumanist 20:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
See my reply at Talk:Appropriate technology #Use of wikipedia to facilitate development work - see my reply there. If you're interested in the content that doesn't fall in Wikipedia's scope of encyclopedic content, feel free to get in touch via my talk page or use (myusername) at appropedia dot org. Or just check out Appropedia.
Either way, keep up the good work! -- Chriswaterguy talk 00:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Can you tell me why the link to in your text for this was diverted to ? The fact that the link was correct in another page you did a minute later suggests it's not you fault. Did you copy from somewhere? The country category is full of wildly inflated figures for numbers of Buddhists taken from Buddhist propaganda sources. Peter jackson ( talk) 11:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Some of the above doesn't come through in your format. Please refer to edit text. Peter jackson ( talk) 11:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Please don't use the phrase "copy edit" when you make a crucial change in the meaning of a sentence. That's what you did here. list of mathematics articles and lists of mathematics topics are TWO DIFFERENT lists, of very different kinds. Michael Hardy ( talk) 22:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Wrong. It was not a red link. It was a working blue link. You changed it to a different working blue link in a way that drastically altered the meaning. Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:13, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
So someone who points out that you made a mistake is therefore a jerk? I fully stand by my initial comment. Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Can you figure out what is screwing up coding at Portal:Musical Theatre ? Cirt ( talk) 08:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading Image:Indiana_state_flag_detail.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. MECU≈ talk 17:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Would appreciate any input you might have, at the portal's ongoing peer review at WP:PPREV. Cirt ( talk) 08:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your help! Cirt ( talk) 22:03, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you weigh in at the WP:FPORTC discussion? I am not asking for you to support/oppose/comment, though you are free to comment however you wish - but specifically a comment was raised about the idea of rotating images in the Intro section - and in response I referenced some of your work at other Featured Portals. Cirt ( talk) 07:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I have used the codes on Wikipedia:Tutorial/TabsHeader to create Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Deshipidian tabs. But, I can't get the edit tag to show along with headers on the pages I used it in. Can you help? Aditya( talk • contribs) 17:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Okay, now I see that other editors keep messing with Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Deshipidian tabs. It worked when I left it and it appears to work again now. :-) RichardF ( talk) 00:34, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw this and thought it was something that is right up your alley and that you might want to help out with - creating a subpage for the WP:DYK contributors to instruct them on how to add hooks to portal subpages (though those subpages are sometimes organized differently per portal), and also suggestions on some main portals to update and how to navigate to find other portals. Cirt ( talk) 21:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Recently put this portal up at WP:PPREV, as always your feedback would be appreciated. This is a collaborative effort with members of the Textile Arts WikiProject. Also, is it okay that we have (9) articles in the Selected biography section? Cirt ( talk) 09:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your review comments and the color changes. Cirt ( talk) 03:19, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
You are better at color-formatting than I - could you respond to Espresso Addict ( talk · contribs)'s point about the gallery display of the Featured pictures in the "Quality content" section? Cirt ( talk) 11:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Would be interested to hear your input, at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Template:UpdatedDYKportal. Cirt ( talk) 08:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey, any ideas on why I can't get {{ UpdatedDYKportal}} to work when specifying entries for more than just one portal? For example, I'd like to use it to let Susanlesch ( talk · contribs) know I added her recent DYK about Jonathan Zittrain to Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Internet, but I can't quite seem to get it to work right on show preview. Cirt ( talk) 15:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Created a new category at Wikinews, n:Category:Wikinews Importer Bot. Can you check it out and make the necessary adjustments to the steps at the instructions of the User:Wikinews Importer Bot page and if appropriate the other related pages? Cirt ( talk) 19:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.
If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight ( talk) 17:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Encountering some difficulty regarding a randomized feature at the intro subsection for Portal:Chicago. Could you please provide your input at Portal_talk:Chicago#Intro_images, and assure TonyTheTiger ( talk · contribs) that the use of a randomized image in the intro of a portal is not my "gimmick", nor a feature even developed by me, but instead is a feature utilized in multiple other Featured Portals such as Portal:Oregon, Portal:Iceland, Portal:Philosophy of science, Portal:Indiana, and others? I am afraid that the discussion is degrading at this point to incivil comments such as: "I think you are going overboard with your gimmicks." -- Thanks, Cirt ( talk) 07:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
That's cool. It's just a wiki! :-) RichardF ( talk) 18:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I see you only usse the dynamic randomizer feature in two of oine portals. What should I infer from that?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 08:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
The Transhumanist 21:55, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi.
I'm contacting you because you were involved in the discussion concerning the renaming of the lists of basic topics.
I ran into resistance when I attempted to rename the set.
Therefore, the name change hasn't been completed, because the previous discussion wasn't widespread enough, nor announced in enough places.
I've submitted a new proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to rename the pages called List of basic x topics to Topic outline of x.
The Transhumanist 06:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
I have something right up your alley, I think.
It involves animals and userboxes. And anyone who says learning syntax with userboxes doesn't help should see this as an example : )
Anyway, here's the link.
Hope you're having a great day : ) - jc37 07:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Well in your "main" version, you apparently added more links to the top, with a slightly different layout, and removed several sections, including featured picture (which doesn't seem to appear on either tabbed page).
As for the tabbed pages, that looks interesting, but I wonder if users will get confused. Wikipedia already has tabs, as do most browsers these days. That, and I think most people just aren't going to bother looking on "page 2". It's hard enough to presume that they will scroll down.
That said, I like how you repurposed it at main2. (encyclopedia/community)
Makes much more sense. (Though the tabs still could be a concern.)
The sister projects template needs to be on the front page of the main page. (Though at the bottom.) It's simply a navigation issue.
As for "side 2", I like the addition of at least "some" of the various things from the community portal, but the whole thing needs a better structure/layout. (My current monitor notwithstanding : )
I think that there may be several things that could be "pared". I'll try to make a list of everything you have (guessing that the "checklist" you included was not meant for the "final design" but for illustrative usage. If so, it should be moved to the talk page to avoid confusion.)
Also, I've intentionally not read the talk page to see what others have said. If nothing else, this way, you'll have a (at least semi) objective observer : ) - jc37 07:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you can look at the page view counts for any page, including portals, at http://stats.grok.se/ . - Bobet 18:00, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up cocerning Contents. I'll start watching my watchlist again. The Transhumanist 23:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Just curious, is this style correction overdue too? :-) RichardF ( talk) 15:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I suggest we start with a copy of the current Main Page, called
Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal/Main Page Draft, and through edits and discussion transform it via
consensus into the new Main Page that will be proposed to the community for final approval. Competitions won't work (we tried that last time), because submissions that are only slightly different from each other will divide the vote between them which will drive their basic common design out of the competition, obscuring its support as well as support for particular design elements. Each new design element or change needs to be discussed on the
talk page of the community-developed draft, to arrive at a consensus for each as to whether it should be included or not, and what each design element should look like. We need to literally get on the same page and integrate the best features of all those wonderful designs that have been submitted. Let the edit wars editing and discussion begin! :)
The Transhumanist
01:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I took your idea and played around with it. Glad you like it. It's not finished yet, of course. I still don't know what to do with all the featured stuff; I think it should be somewhere on the Main Page, but it doesn't really fit anywhere in the scheme that I'm thinking of. — Kpalion (talk) 22:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, how have you been doing? I have been doing some work on this portal, care to take a look and comment at WP:PPREV? Cirt ( talk) 09:14, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I also responded to your other comments, at the peer review page, Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Russia/archive1. Cirt ( talk) 15:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for all the updates, but I reformatted {{ Russia topics}} to match the portal, so I think that's everything. I'll let the peer review stew for a coupla more days though. Cirt ( talk) 16:40, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think the titles color of this portal ( Portal:Morocco) should be modifed. thank you -- Xiquet ( talk) 16:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Been doing some work on this portal, assisted by some folks off of a subproject of WP:GS. Recently placed it on WP:PPREV - care to take a look? Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 23:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm just thinking out loud here. Are you all interested in trying to put together a serious Main Page redesign proposal that actually has a snowball's chance of getting implemented? My current proposals are deliberately out there in a concept car sort of way - just to look at some possibilities. Obviously, this proposal would have to be very conservative with just a tweak here and there, and not breaking any of David Levy's rules. It's just a thought. Let me know what you think. RichardF ( talk) 15:26, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I really shouldn't do much on this until the weekend either ;-) I noticed some talk about getting consensus, but I doubt there really is any. The closest thing the redesign probably should pay close attention to is David Levy's post I linked above. I'll start a " RichardF3" we can tear up with a to-do list on the talk page. RichardF ( talk) 00:44, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I was about to suggest the portals browse section should include all the sections on Portal:Contents/Types TOC, until I noticed that Carlaude singlehandedly refactored the classification system to eliminate "Philosophy and thinking," create "Religion and Philosophy" and put thinking under "People and self," at least sometimes. I'm tired of this kind of crap, so I'm not sure how much energy I'll put into this activity. So far we have two concrete suggestions from Quiddity. I think the new Types TOC diminishes the Contents pages, but I won't put any any energy into disputing it. You all decide what you want to do. RichardF ( talk) 23:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, my proposal to use a complete twelve-item set of portal links is at this diff. RichardF ( talk) 12:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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Of course, already being on the Main Page is a big advantage! :-) RichardF ( talk) 19:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
After I saw you tag WP:INDIANA with the cleanup tag, I went and put it up on Indianapolis. It was only 6 minutes later, how was I too late? Not angry or anything, just asking. Thanks. HoosierState Talk 18:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Please take a moment to see relevant threads at my talk page and that of Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk · contribs). Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk · contribs) has asked for help with Portal:Featured sounds, and wants it to become a Featured portal itself. I explained my viewpoint that it is an internal-Wikipedia page and thus would be inappropriate to be considered for Featured portal status, but my discussion with him now seems to be going in circles, unfortunately. Perhaps you could share your view on this as well? Cirt ( talk) 12:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on my talkpage. I agree with what you said. As for Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Namespace_for_featured_content_pages that appears to be quite a large discussion/thread, I think I shall take some time to mull it all over. At this point before going over everything in detail that has been said already, I think the most important thing is to be consistent with whatever changes are made/not made. Cirt ( talk) 21:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Just been looking this over again recently and you and Zaui ( talk · contribs) have been doing some incredible work here, quite comprehensive indeed. When will this portal next be up for WP:FPORTC? Cirt ( talk) 03:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rchard, I think my redesign proposal is now practically finished. Not that it couldn't be improved, but it's probably as good as I was able get it on my own. Thanks for your comments; the left tab is now the starting one and I think I finally fixed the padding. I will appreciate any other comments and if you'd like correcting something yourself, feel free to do so. — Kpalion (talk) 18:31, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, RichardF/Archive! Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal was recently cleared of all design entries. You may want to re-enter your design(s), based on the details here. (You can see the old list of designs here). NOTE: A survey was conducted on what users wanted to see in the new main page, you can see the results here. Nick Penguin( contribs) 02:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Thought you might be interested in this: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#Sustainability_wikis. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 20:49, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi RichardF, do you think you could take another look at Portal:Schools to see if your concerns have been addressed. Thanks, -- Jh12 ( talk) 18:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
If you are still looking for an answer to the question you asked over seven months ago at Template talk:Wide image#Overflow scrolling in a table?, you have one. Hesperian 04:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey RichardF, I've updated my Main Page Redesign proposal substantially, and you had some really great points last time you commented - hopefully you'll see the effects of your suggestions. It would be great if you could comment on the new proposal, I'm really proud of how it's shaping up. Many thanks -- Pretzels Talk! 08:43, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll in selecting five proposals before an RFC in which it will be against the current main page. You're input would be appreciated. ChyranandChloe ( talk) 04:13, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I moved the attractions to they're own tab, mainly cause it was making the page incredibly long. Please have a look, tell me what ya think(it should stay or be reverted), and make any tweaks you see fit(the borders of the tabs look weird). Thanks Joe I 06:20, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Drei und Vier ;) blabla... january fifth.. in the evening (Hjältevad time)
I initially tagged this as a speedy delete due to a copy vio. I note that there are many editors of this article none of whom seem to have seen this copy vio so I feel that a major rewrite is now required as the school obviously deserves a page. Paste Talk 14:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you are doing well. Any idea as to why there is no break of space between Related portals and Associated Wikimedia in this portal? Thanks, Cirt ( talk) 17:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi. The Four digit template {{ four digit}} will mistakenly pad zeros for numbers that are already zero padded. See talk page for example and description of fix. This is a low use template, and I am going to make the fix which appears to have no ill side effects. Since you have edited this template, I am notifying you in case you would like to review it. - J JMesserly ( talk) 20:15, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Any idea what is going on here? :( Cirt ( talk) 23:16, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Dear Richard. Thought you might like to know I have posted an article on flat interest rates, which seem a notable topic since a large % of the world's loans are probably structured this way. I notice Kiva still has not changed its own definition of how it discloses interest rates to its users -- the definition you (rightly) found incredibly confusing last year. Perhaps you might like to poke them and get them to come clean on interest rates? Brett epic ( talk) 10:30, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Richard -- you moved quickly and I just discovered you'd answered! Our discussion of this issue has been on the discussion page of the wiki Kiva entry since July 2007, and nothing in the content of the article reflects that. I was very reluctant to edit this article at that time but I think there has now been time enough. So I've taken the liberty of added a separate section to the article called 'Disclosure'. I think it adds balance to what is otherwise a breathlessly unbalanced article. I know for your own comments to me (and your work on Kiva friends) that you favour transparency and the kind of disclosure regime that puts the rights of poor people first, so I hope you support my additions! I would like to see Kiva start taking the issue of truth in lending disclosure more seriously. If senior managemen can't be persuaded to take this issue seriously I will also be tempted to contact a few journalists I know. Kiva can do much better than this! Brett epic ( talk) 10:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Are you seeing a weird alignment here? Maybe it is the computer I am on, but it looks like there is no gap between the two columns (I want it to look more like Portal:Finger Lakes, for example). Cirt ( talk) 07:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Good morning Richard, I have a quick question. How might I recommend an education article to be highlighted on the main page as either the featured item or perhaps one of the Did You Know? pieces? 72.75.10.251 ( talk) 13:29, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Looks quite interesting, perhaps you could show how you envision something like this working in sandbox space? Cirt ( talk) 21:46, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Any thoughts as to why some are centered, but others are not? Cirt ( talk) 12:29, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Portal:Opera/Selected audio/19
<center> {{multi-listen item |filename=Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco_Tamagno,_Morte_d'Otello_(Niun_mi_tema).ogg |title='''1887''' - ''Otello'': Niun mi tema |description= }} </center> [[Francesco Tamagno]], the original Otello, [etc.] {{Portal:Opera/Selected audio/Layout |link=Otello }}
If that doesn't work for you, just try humming the tune. ;-) RichardF ( talk) 21:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I've created a {{ Wikipedia-Books link}} template to make it easier to link to books. Tothwolf ( talk) 10:34, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I've also created a {{ Wikipedia-Books}} template similar in style to {{ Commons}}, {{ Sisterlinks}}, etc. Tothwolf ( talk) 11:51, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
{{Wikipedia books|Love|Love – Yeah, Baby! ;-)}}
Cool! I'm in a "be bold!" mode, so I'm not all that concerned about totally polished books features right now. Given this virgin territory, I'm more interested in setting up a solid structure before it starts to morph all over the place and then needs to be cleaned up later. Right now, I'm in the middle of going through Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia's most popular articles to cover the most likely read articles first. The "books box" is coming in really handy to highlight those articles in their "See also" sections to help spread the word. I also promoted it at Category:Wikipedia:Books. Thanks again for putting those templates out there! :-) RichardF ( talk) 14:21, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I put in a request at WP:RFP to get the templates semi-protected because they are highly visible templates and have now added them to the WikiProject. Tothwolf ( talk) 16:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Richard,
Long time no see.
I've got a problem, and you are the only one I believe can help block bust it.
I've reached a point where I need help on the administrative (not sysop) side of the Outline of knowledge, from someone who isn't reluctant to roll up his shirtsleeves and who knows how to push a project forward.
So I thought of you, and came here.
I just now looked at your contribs, and I have to say "what a coincidence!"
You've been working on and utilizing the OOK.
Cool. Nice job on the Culture and the arts section. I'm not very familiar with Wikipedia:Books, I'm afraid, but some of the books look very familiar. :)
The reason I've come to you is because I'm bogged down.
I'm trying to get the OOK department ready to open up to the rest of the Wikipedia community. At that time, tasks will be placed on every relevant WikiProject page, and notices will be placed on every relevant article talk page and WikiProject talk page. By "relevant", I mean every page corresponding to a subject in the Outline of knowledge, or to a subject listed upon the projected outline (not done or refined yet) presented on the Outline of Knowledge WikiProject page. And each outline will be integrated into the encyclopedia with links leading to them from every relevant article, portal, and index page (many of the outlines are orphans currently). And we're going to go a step further by contacting each member of each relevant WikiProject, with respect to the outline(s) or planned outline(s) matching the subject(s) of their WikiProject. There are 112 members of the Countries WikiProject alone! The number of posts will easily reach into the thousands. The notices won't go out all at once, since we (the OOK project's current team) don't know what volume of responses we'll get. Or the type of responses they'll be.
And that's where the problem is. A lot of editors don't even know what a hierarchical outline is. Over the past few months, we've gotten some weird reactions from editors who are unaware of the concept, from an attempt to AfD an outline to complainty queries on talk pages. Fortunately, these haven't been many, but who knows what will happen when we start contacting people?
One thing is for sure: I won't be able to answer all their comments and queries one-on-one as I have been doing. And most of the notices will be placed by others, which means they will likely get most of the queries generated by this endeavor. We'll need somewhere to point editors to that explains clearly and in detail what an outline is, what an outline of knowledge is, and what they are for. (We'll need guidelines and instructions in project space too, but I'm pretty far along on with those).
The problem is that the article " Outline" doesn't help at all. It just causes more confusion. But it's the most obvious place to point people to for an explanation of the subject.
So I've started a new one as a draft, to replace the existing article once its ready (their histories will be spliced together).
In order to be of any use, it's got to be well written, and well researched, with citations.
The entire project is bottlenecked on the completion of this single article. At the rate I'm going on it, it will take me weeks to finish.
Will you help?
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 04:22, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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I withdrew my speedy rename request in order for us to discuss this issue and hopefully reach some agreement.
I think this should be renamed to Category:Wikipedia:Books by region in order to conform with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories). As that guideline indicates in the first paragraph, Wikipedia style is to not capitalize regular nouns in category names, and region is a regular noun.
In the same way, the parent category Category:Wikipedia:Books on Geography should be renamed to Category:Wikipedia:Books on geography. My intention was to eventually get the entire hierarchy consistent with the naming conventions, but I was doing one category at a time because I wasn't sure the speedy rename process would handle two categories correctly if I ran them through together.
The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia:Books by Region don't need to be changed because Africa, Europe, etc. are all proper nouns.
Do I have your consent to proceed? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 04:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
No rush, I'd just rather get it over with sooner than later. I already changed over the template used to start new articles and categories. RichardF ( talk) 03:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Stepheng3 has suggested I talk to you about his nominations to rename these (just case changes). However I have noted that these are out of keeping with the rest of the category tree and would propose due to their real meaning based on their parent category and content of their child categories that these should be Category:Wikipedia:Books on regions & Category:Wikipedia:Books on countries respectively. Thoughts. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 16:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Sweet. I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to be pretty busy for the next couple hours, though :) -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:55, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Sure thing. Doing... – Juliancolton | Talk 23:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I've been going over your outline additions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Drafts/Outline
While googling like mad to catch up to you, I came across another example of an "outline of knowledge"
The term "outline of knowledge" is in use all over the place. But I haven't yet found a dictionary or encyclopedia entry for it yet. If there is one, I'll find it.
I also ran across the term "Universal Outline", but haven't been able to ascertain exactly what that is yet.
By the way, your outline goes deeper than MediaWiki's heading levels! MW only goes up to six. It will take nine to accomodate yours. Any thoughts?
The Transhumanist 01:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, User:UBX, has been proposed for a discussion. If you are interested, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. – imis ☂ 23:44, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Do you have a few moments to spare to look at the coding of a portal to see why it's not behaving as it should? Cirt suggested that you would be a good one to ask about this.
The "Speculative fiction topics" section isn't displaying the white background like all the others sections. I've looked over the code and compared it to other portals using the same code, but I can't figure out why it isn't displaying properly. Any help is appreciated (and if you can let me know what I did incorrectly, that will be helpful, too). I'm watching this page, so please reply here. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Here to bother you again: I don't understand what "seed" is in {{ Random subpage}} as the documentation doesn't explain it. Thanks for any help. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm contacting you because you have a userbox indicating that you are a Kiva user. I'm just letting you know that I created a Kiva team for Wikipedians, and wanted to invite you to join it, if you want to. The more the merrier, you know. :-) Jon Harald Søby ( talk) 19:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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I'd appreciate your participation in the discussion I'm having at User talk:OhanaUnited#Portal:Contents/Types layout. Wdfarmer ( talk) 03:36, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I've started Portal:Indiana/Attractions. I plan to finish it in a day or two. I modeled it after Portal:Texas/Attractions, so you know what to expect. Please have a look at both and lemme know of anything wrong or missing from them, Thanks. Joe I 04:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Was a bit of a shock to find the contents of the contents lists missing.
Took me a few minutes to figure out where the data was located. :)
What's going on with the contents lists, megaportals, etc.?
What's the plan, man.
(Good to see you're still going strong).
The Transhumanist 02:58, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
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Your friendly neighborhood portal contributor here, feel like giving some input on Portal:Criminal justice? It's up at WP:PPREV. Cirt ( talk) 16:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Any chance you'd know how to make the "Show new selections" function in Portal:Oregon stand out more? A comment about this was raised at the WP:FPORTC for the portal. Cirt ( talk) 16:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for someone to host the User page design center. May I move it to your userspace?
It's most appropriate in userspace, and I fear what would happen to it in project space.
The Transhumanist 20:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
See my reply at Talk:Appropriate technology #Use of wikipedia to facilitate development work - see my reply there. If you're interested in the content that doesn't fall in Wikipedia's scope of encyclopedic content, feel free to get in touch via my talk page or use (myusername) at appropedia dot org. Or just check out Appropedia.
Either way, keep up the good work! -- Chriswaterguy talk 00:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Can you tell me why the link to in your text for this was diverted to ? The fact that the link was correct in another page you did a minute later suggests it's not you fault. Did you copy from somewhere? The country category is full of wildly inflated figures for numbers of Buddhists taken from Buddhist propaganda sources. Peter jackson ( talk) 11:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Some of the above doesn't come through in your format. Please refer to edit text. Peter jackson ( talk) 11:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Please don't use the phrase "copy edit" when you make a crucial change in the meaning of a sentence. That's what you did here. list of mathematics articles and lists of mathematics topics are TWO DIFFERENT lists, of very different kinds. Michael Hardy ( talk) 22:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Wrong. It was not a red link. It was a working blue link. You changed it to a different working blue link in a way that drastically altered the meaning. Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:13, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
So someone who points out that you made a mistake is therefore a jerk? I fully stand by my initial comment. Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Can you figure out what is screwing up coding at Portal:Musical Theatre ? Cirt ( talk) 08:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading Image:Indiana_state_flag_detail.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. MECU≈ talk 17:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Would appreciate any input you might have, at the portal's ongoing peer review at WP:PPREV. Cirt ( talk) 08:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your help! Cirt ( talk) 22:03, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you weigh in at the WP:FPORTC discussion? I am not asking for you to support/oppose/comment, though you are free to comment however you wish - but specifically a comment was raised about the idea of rotating images in the Intro section - and in response I referenced some of your work at other Featured Portals. Cirt ( talk) 07:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I have used the codes on Wikipedia:Tutorial/TabsHeader to create Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Deshipidian tabs. But, I can't get the edit tag to show along with headers on the pages I used it in. Can you help? Aditya( talk • contribs) 17:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Okay, now I see that other editors keep messing with Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Deshipidian tabs. It worked when I left it and it appears to work again now. :-) RichardF ( talk) 00:34, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw this and thought it was something that is right up your alley and that you might want to help out with - creating a subpage for the WP:DYK contributors to instruct them on how to add hooks to portal subpages (though those subpages are sometimes organized differently per portal), and also suggestions on some main portals to update and how to navigate to find other portals. Cirt ( talk) 21:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Recently put this portal up at WP:PPREV, as always your feedback would be appreciated. This is a collaborative effort with members of the Textile Arts WikiProject. Also, is it okay that we have (9) articles in the Selected biography section? Cirt ( talk) 09:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your review comments and the color changes. Cirt ( talk) 03:19, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
You are better at color-formatting than I - could you respond to Espresso Addict ( talk · contribs)'s point about the gallery display of the Featured pictures in the "Quality content" section? Cirt ( talk) 11:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Would be interested to hear your input, at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Template:UpdatedDYKportal. Cirt ( talk) 08:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey, any ideas on why I can't get {{ UpdatedDYKportal}} to work when specifying entries for more than just one portal? For example, I'd like to use it to let Susanlesch ( talk · contribs) know I added her recent DYK about Jonathan Zittrain to Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Internet, but I can't quite seem to get it to work right on show preview. Cirt ( talk) 15:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Created a new category at Wikinews, n:Category:Wikinews Importer Bot. Can you check it out and make the necessary adjustments to the steps at the instructions of the User:Wikinews Importer Bot page and if appropriate the other related pages? Cirt ( talk) 19:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.
If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight ( talk) 17:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Encountering some difficulty regarding a randomized feature at the intro subsection for Portal:Chicago. Could you please provide your input at Portal_talk:Chicago#Intro_images, and assure TonyTheTiger ( talk · contribs) that the use of a randomized image in the intro of a portal is not my "gimmick", nor a feature even developed by me, but instead is a feature utilized in multiple other Featured Portals such as Portal:Oregon, Portal:Iceland, Portal:Philosophy of science, Portal:Indiana, and others? I am afraid that the discussion is degrading at this point to incivil comments such as: "I think you are going overboard with your gimmicks." -- Thanks, Cirt ( talk) 07:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
That's cool. It's just a wiki! :-) RichardF ( talk) 18:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I see you only usse the dynamic randomizer feature in two of oine portals. What should I infer from that?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 08:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
The Transhumanist 21:55, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi.
I'm contacting you because you were involved in the discussion concerning the renaming of the lists of basic topics.
I ran into resistance when I attempted to rename the set.
Therefore, the name change hasn't been completed, because the previous discussion wasn't widespread enough, nor announced in enough places.
I've submitted a new proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to rename the pages called List of basic x topics to Topic outline of x.
The Transhumanist 06:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
I have something right up your alley, I think.
It involves animals and userboxes. And anyone who says learning syntax with userboxes doesn't help should see this as an example : )
Anyway, here's the link.
Hope you're having a great day : ) - jc37 07:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Well in your "main" version, you apparently added more links to the top, with a slightly different layout, and removed several sections, including featured picture (which doesn't seem to appear on either tabbed page).
As for the tabbed pages, that looks interesting, but I wonder if users will get confused. Wikipedia already has tabs, as do most browsers these days. That, and I think most people just aren't going to bother looking on "page 2". It's hard enough to presume that they will scroll down.
That said, I like how you repurposed it at main2. (encyclopedia/community)
Makes much more sense. (Though the tabs still could be a concern.)
The sister projects template needs to be on the front page of the main page. (Though at the bottom.) It's simply a navigation issue.
As for "side 2", I like the addition of at least "some" of the various things from the community portal, but the whole thing needs a better structure/layout. (My current monitor notwithstanding : )
I think that there may be several things that could be "pared". I'll try to make a list of everything you have (guessing that the "checklist" you included was not meant for the "final design" but for illustrative usage. If so, it should be moved to the talk page to avoid confusion.)
Also, I've intentionally not read the talk page to see what others have said. If nothing else, this way, you'll have a (at least semi) objective observer : ) - jc37 07:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you can look at the page view counts for any page, including portals, at http://stats.grok.se/ . - Bobet 18:00, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up cocerning Contents. I'll start watching my watchlist again. The Transhumanist 23:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Just curious, is this style correction overdue too? :-) RichardF ( talk) 15:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I suggest we start with a copy of the current Main Page, called
Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal/Main Page Draft, and through edits and discussion transform it via
consensus into the new Main Page that will be proposed to the community for final approval. Competitions won't work (we tried that last time), because submissions that are only slightly different from each other will divide the vote between them which will drive their basic common design out of the competition, obscuring its support as well as support for particular design elements. Each new design element or change needs to be discussed on the
talk page of the community-developed draft, to arrive at a consensus for each as to whether it should be included or not, and what each design element should look like. We need to literally get on the same page and integrate the best features of all those wonderful designs that have been submitted. Let the edit wars editing and discussion begin! :)
The Transhumanist
01:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I took your idea and played around with it. Glad you like it. It's not finished yet, of course. I still don't know what to do with all the featured stuff; I think it should be somewhere on the Main Page, but it doesn't really fit anywhere in the scheme that I'm thinking of. — Kpalion (talk) 22:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, how have you been doing? I have been doing some work on this portal, care to take a look and comment at WP:PPREV? Cirt ( talk) 09:14, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I also responded to your other comments, at the peer review page, Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Russia/archive1. Cirt ( talk) 15:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for all the updates, but I reformatted {{ Russia topics}} to match the portal, so I think that's everything. I'll let the peer review stew for a coupla more days though. Cirt ( talk) 16:40, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think the titles color of this portal ( Portal:Morocco) should be modifed. thank you -- Xiquet ( talk) 16:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Been doing some work on this portal, assisted by some folks off of a subproject of WP:GS. Recently placed it on WP:PPREV - care to take a look? Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 23:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm just thinking out loud here. Are you all interested in trying to put together a serious Main Page redesign proposal that actually has a snowball's chance of getting implemented? My current proposals are deliberately out there in a concept car sort of way - just to look at some possibilities. Obviously, this proposal would have to be very conservative with just a tweak here and there, and not breaking any of David Levy's rules. It's just a thought. Let me know what you think. RichardF ( talk) 15:26, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I really shouldn't do much on this until the weekend either ;-) I noticed some talk about getting consensus, but I doubt there really is any. The closest thing the redesign probably should pay close attention to is David Levy's post I linked above. I'll start a " RichardF3" we can tear up with a to-do list on the talk page. RichardF ( talk) 00:44, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I was about to suggest the portals browse section should include all the sections on Portal:Contents/Types TOC, until I noticed that Carlaude singlehandedly refactored the classification system to eliminate "Philosophy and thinking," create "Religion and Philosophy" and put thinking under "People and self," at least sometimes. I'm tired of this kind of crap, so I'm not sure how much energy I'll put into this activity. So far we have two concrete suggestions from Quiddity. I think the new Types TOC diminishes the Contents pages, but I won't put any any energy into disputing it. You all decide what you want to do. RichardF ( talk) 23:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, my proposal to use a complete twelve-item set of portal links is at this diff. RichardF ( talk) 12:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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Of course, already being on the Main Page is a big advantage! :-) RichardF ( talk) 19:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
After I saw you tag WP:INDIANA with the cleanup tag, I went and put it up on Indianapolis. It was only 6 minutes later, how was I too late? Not angry or anything, just asking. Thanks. HoosierState Talk 18:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Please take a moment to see relevant threads at my talk page and that of Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk · contribs). Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk · contribs) has asked for help with Portal:Featured sounds, and wants it to become a Featured portal itself. I explained my viewpoint that it is an internal-Wikipedia page and thus would be inappropriate to be considered for Featured portal status, but my discussion with him now seems to be going in circles, unfortunately. Perhaps you could share your view on this as well? Cirt ( talk) 12:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on my talkpage. I agree with what you said. As for Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Namespace_for_featured_content_pages that appears to be quite a large discussion/thread, I think I shall take some time to mull it all over. At this point before going over everything in detail that has been said already, I think the most important thing is to be consistent with whatever changes are made/not made. Cirt ( talk) 21:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Just been looking this over again recently and you and Zaui ( talk · contribs) have been doing some incredible work here, quite comprehensive indeed. When will this portal next be up for WP:FPORTC? Cirt ( talk) 03:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rchard, I think my redesign proposal is now practically finished. Not that it couldn't be improved, but it's probably as good as I was able get it on my own. Thanks for your comments; the left tab is now the starting one and I think I finally fixed the padding. I will appreciate any other comments and if you'd like correcting something yourself, feel free to do so. — Kpalion (talk) 18:31, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, RichardF/Archive! Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal was recently cleared of all design entries. You may want to re-enter your design(s), based on the details here. (You can see the old list of designs here). NOTE: A survey was conducted on what users wanted to see in the new main page, you can see the results here. Nick Penguin( contribs) 02:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Thought you might be interested in this: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#Sustainability_wikis. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 20:49, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi RichardF, do you think you could take another look at Portal:Schools to see if your concerns have been addressed. Thanks, -- Jh12 ( talk) 18:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
If you are still looking for an answer to the question you asked over seven months ago at Template talk:Wide image#Overflow scrolling in a table?, you have one. Hesperian 04:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey RichardF, I've updated my Main Page Redesign proposal substantially, and you had some really great points last time you commented - hopefully you'll see the effects of your suggestions. It would be great if you could comment on the new proposal, I'm really proud of how it's shaping up. Many thanks -- Pretzels Talk! 08:43, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll in selecting five proposals before an RFC in which it will be against the current main page. You're input would be appreciated. ChyranandChloe ( talk) 04:13, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I moved the attractions to they're own tab, mainly cause it was making the page incredibly long. Please have a look, tell me what ya think(it should stay or be reverted), and make any tweaks you see fit(the borders of the tabs look weird). Thanks Joe I 06:20, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Drei und Vier ;) blabla... january fifth.. in the evening (Hjältevad time)
I initially tagged this as a speedy delete due to a copy vio. I note that there are many editors of this article none of whom seem to have seen this copy vio so I feel that a major rewrite is now required as the school obviously deserves a page. Paste Talk 14:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you are doing well. Any idea as to why there is no break of space between Related portals and Associated Wikimedia in this portal? Thanks, Cirt ( talk) 17:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi. The Four digit template {{ four digit}} will mistakenly pad zeros for numbers that are already zero padded. See talk page for example and description of fix. This is a low use template, and I am going to make the fix which appears to have no ill side effects. Since you have edited this template, I am notifying you in case you would like to review it. - J JMesserly ( talk) 20:15, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Any idea what is going on here? :( Cirt ( talk) 23:16, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Dear Richard. Thought you might like to know I have posted an article on flat interest rates, which seem a notable topic since a large % of the world's loans are probably structured this way. I notice Kiva still has not changed its own definition of how it discloses interest rates to its users -- the definition you (rightly) found incredibly confusing last year. Perhaps you might like to poke them and get them to come clean on interest rates? Brett epic ( talk) 10:30, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Richard -- you moved quickly and I just discovered you'd answered! Our discussion of this issue has been on the discussion page of the wiki Kiva entry since July 2007, and nothing in the content of the article reflects that. I was very reluctant to edit this article at that time but I think there has now been time enough. So I've taken the liberty of added a separate section to the article called 'Disclosure'. I think it adds balance to what is otherwise a breathlessly unbalanced article. I know for your own comments to me (and your work on Kiva friends) that you favour transparency and the kind of disclosure regime that puts the rights of poor people first, so I hope you support my additions! I would like to see Kiva start taking the issue of truth in lending disclosure more seriously. If senior managemen can't be persuaded to take this issue seriously I will also be tempted to contact a few journalists I know. Kiva can do much better than this! Brett epic ( talk) 10:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Are you seeing a weird alignment here? Maybe it is the computer I am on, but it looks like there is no gap between the two columns (I want it to look more like Portal:Finger Lakes, for example). Cirt ( talk) 07:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Good morning Richard, I have a quick question. How might I recommend an education article to be highlighted on the main page as either the featured item or perhaps one of the Did You Know? pieces? 72.75.10.251 ( talk) 13:29, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Looks quite interesting, perhaps you could show how you envision something like this working in sandbox space? Cirt ( talk) 21:46, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Any thoughts as to why some are centered, but others are not? Cirt ( talk) 12:29, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Portal:Opera/Selected audio/19
<center> {{multi-listen item |filename=Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco_Tamagno,_Morte_d'Otello_(Niun_mi_tema).ogg |title='''1887''' - ''Otello'': Niun mi tema |description= }} </center> [[Francesco Tamagno]], the original Otello, [etc.] {{Portal:Opera/Selected audio/Layout |link=Otello }}
If that doesn't work for you, just try humming the tune. ;-) RichardF ( talk) 21:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I've created a {{ Wikipedia-Books link}} template to make it easier to link to books. Tothwolf ( talk) 10:34, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I've also created a {{ Wikipedia-Books}} template similar in style to {{ Commons}}, {{ Sisterlinks}}, etc. Tothwolf ( talk) 11:51, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
{{Wikipedia books|Love|Love – Yeah, Baby! ;-)}}
Cool! I'm in a "be bold!" mode, so I'm not all that concerned about totally polished books features right now. Given this virgin territory, I'm more interested in setting up a solid structure before it starts to morph all over the place and then needs to be cleaned up later. Right now, I'm in the middle of going through Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia's most popular articles to cover the most likely read articles first. The "books box" is coming in really handy to highlight those articles in their "See also" sections to help spread the word. I also promoted it at Category:Wikipedia:Books. Thanks again for putting those templates out there! :-) RichardF ( talk) 14:21, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I put in a request at WP:RFP to get the templates semi-protected because they are highly visible templates and have now added them to the WikiProject. Tothwolf ( talk) 16:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Richard,
Long time no see.
I've got a problem, and you are the only one I believe can help block bust it.
I've reached a point where I need help on the administrative (not sysop) side of the Outline of knowledge, from someone who isn't reluctant to roll up his shirtsleeves and who knows how to push a project forward.
So I thought of you, and came here.
I just now looked at your contribs, and I have to say "what a coincidence!"
You've been working on and utilizing the OOK.
Cool. Nice job on the Culture and the arts section. I'm not very familiar with Wikipedia:Books, I'm afraid, but some of the books look very familiar. :)
The reason I've come to you is because I'm bogged down.
I'm trying to get the OOK department ready to open up to the rest of the Wikipedia community. At that time, tasks will be placed on every relevant WikiProject page, and notices will be placed on every relevant article talk page and WikiProject talk page. By "relevant", I mean every page corresponding to a subject in the Outline of knowledge, or to a subject listed upon the projected outline (not done or refined yet) presented on the Outline of Knowledge WikiProject page. And each outline will be integrated into the encyclopedia with links leading to them from every relevant article, portal, and index page (many of the outlines are orphans currently). And we're going to go a step further by contacting each member of each relevant WikiProject, with respect to the outline(s) or planned outline(s) matching the subject(s) of their WikiProject. There are 112 members of the Countries WikiProject alone! The number of posts will easily reach into the thousands. The notices won't go out all at once, since we (the OOK project's current team) don't know what volume of responses we'll get. Or the type of responses they'll be.
And that's where the problem is. A lot of editors don't even know what a hierarchical outline is. Over the past few months, we've gotten some weird reactions from editors who are unaware of the concept, from an attempt to AfD an outline to complainty queries on talk pages. Fortunately, these haven't been many, but who knows what will happen when we start contacting people?
One thing is for sure: I won't be able to answer all their comments and queries one-on-one as I have been doing. And most of the notices will be placed by others, which means they will likely get most of the queries generated by this endeavor. We'll need somewhere to point editors to that explains clearly and in detail what an outline is, what an outline of knowledge is, and what they are for. (We'll need guidelines and instructions in project space too, but I'm pretty far along on with those).
The problem is that the article " Outline" doesn't help at all. It just causes more confusion. But it's the most obvious place to point people to for an explanation of the subject.
So I've started a new one as a draft, to replace the existing article once its ready (their histories will be spliced together).
In order to be of any use, it's got to be well written, and well researched, with citations.
The entire project is bottlenecked on the completion of this single article. At the rate I'm going on it, it will take me weeks to finish.
Will you help?
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 04:22, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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I withdrew my speedy rename request in order for us to discuss this issue and hopefully reach some agreement.
I think this should be renamed to Category:Wikipedia:Books by region in order to conform with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories). As that guideline indicates in the first paragraph, Wikipedia style is to not capitalize regular nouns in category names, and region is a regular noun.
In the same way, the parent category Category:Wikipedia:Books on Geography should be renamed to Category:Wikipedia:Books on geography. My intention was to eventually get the entire hierarchy consistent with the naming conventions, but I was doing one category at a time because I wasn't sure the speedy rename process would handle two categories correctly if I ran them through together.
The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia:Books by Region don't need to be changed because Africa, Europe, etc. are all proper nouns.
Do I have your consent to proceed? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 04:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
No rush, I'd just rather get it over with sooner than later. I already changed over the template used to start new articles and categories. RichardF ( talk) 03:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Stepheng3 has suggested I talk to you about his nominations to rename these (just case changes). However I have noted that these are out of keeping with the rest of the category tree and would propose due to their real meaning based on their parent category and content of their child categories that these should be Category:Wikipedia:Books on regions & Category:Wikipedia:Books on countries respectively. Thoughts. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 16:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Sweet. I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to be pretty busy for the next couple hours, though :) -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:55, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Sure thing. Doing... – Juliancolton | Talk 23:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I've been going over your outline additions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Drafts/Outline
While googling like mad to catch up to you, I came across another example of an "outline of knowledge"
The term "outline of knowledge" is in use all over the place. But I haven't yet found a dictionary or encyclopedia entry for it yet. If there is one, I'll find it.
I also ran across the term "Universal Outline", but haven't been able to ascertain exactly what that is yet.
By the way, your outline goes deeper than MediaWiki's heading levels! MW only goes up to six. It will take nine to accomodate yours. Any thoughts?
The Transhumanist 01:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, User:UBX, has been proposed for a discussion. If you are interested, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. – imis ☂ 23:44, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Do you have a few moments to spare to look at the coding of a portal to see why it's not behaving as it should? Cirt suggested that you would be a good one to ask about this.
The "Speculative fiction topics" section isn't displaying the white background like all the others sections. I've looked over the code and compared it to other portals using the same code, but I can't figure out why it isn't displaying properly. Any help is appreciated (and if you can let me know what I did incorrectly, that will be helpful, too). I'm watching this page, so please reply here. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Here to bother you again: I don't understand what "seed" is in {{ Random subpage}} as the documentation doesn't explain it. Thanks for any help. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm contacting you because you have a userbox indicating that you are a Kiva user. I'm just letting you know that I created a Kiva team for Wikipedians, and wanted to invite you to join it, if you want to. The more the merrier, you know. :-) Jon Harald Søby ( talk) 19:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Book:United States, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:United States and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Book:United States during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JJ98 ( Talk) 06:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)