User talk:FKOL

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to MidrangeWiki! Thanks for your contributions. Since I don't know anything about WDSC, I'll leave the contents to you experts, but will probably pop onto those articles for minor wikisyntax cleanups. Grab a shovel, lend a hand, there is plenty do to. :) Holler if there is anything you need.— MrDolomite • Talk 11:47, 9 January 2008 (CST)

You are Welcome

I will do what I can. I am still learning Wiki protocols. I dont really know how to use these Talk pages. It seems to me that a Wiki is not really a Talk medium. Also I have not updated a section that ascribes acknowledgement and references for bits of info I posted. Mostly I got stuff from the Midrange mailing list archives other than the stuff I personally added. I saw a reference from David about not to use Copyright stuff, but anything posted on Midrange could be 'mercilessly edited'. I try to use links to references rather than copying from them and in the few cases where I copied from a reference I used only a few lines to indicate what might be found if one saw the actual article and I tried to acknowledge it. I think there is a 'fair use' clause that allows some use of copyright material provided that the it is used within the context of original work and is not a blatant use without any acknowledgent and a claim or implied claim of original work. FKOL 22:00, 9 January 2008 (CST)

Yep, the wiki is not nearly as easy to use for discussions as say, any of the forum or bulletin board software. There are several semi-agreed upon ways to manage the talk. For user-to-user communication, I find the easiest way to to it is to leave a note on someone else's talk page (so they see the You have new messages) and then know that they should respond back onto your talk page. It can make the history of the conversation hard to follow, because you have to jump between two pages. I'll do an example later using the question you left on my talk page about the CLP Category on the Main Page.— MrDolomite • Talk 09:59, 10 January 2008 (CST)

OK GOT IT. how to add a signature

OK got it. 4 tildes ~~~~ is a signature

FKOL 22:07, 9 January 2008 (CST)

Yeah, sigs can be tricky. I have added MidW:SIG which should be one stop shopping for all about signatures. Please leave any feedback about signatures over on MidrangeWiki talk:Signatures, it is always good to have a new set of eyes look things over. Thx.— MrDolomite • Talk 09:53, 10 January 2008 (CST)

Reply to User_talk:MrDolomite#CLP_Category_and_others

Since the Main Page is the first page anyone sees, the wiki software, known as MediaWiki, has the page configured to be one of a small set of pages which only a user with administrative edit privileges can edit, to prevent spam or vandalism.

The Main Page could definitely use an overhaul to make it easier to navigate and give the face of the wiki a little pizzaz. Ack, I sound like one of those web designers :) See Main Page/Draft as a page anyone can edit and use Talk:Main Page/Draft as a common discussion area.

Like any other programming code, the wiki syntax is a matter of style, function and opinion. Rather than have people remember to type the [[:Category: text to link to a category, the template {{ccl}} does it automagically and is a consistent way to make the link, and to show that the destination is a category link instead of a regular page. Oh, and did I mention that I'm deep rooted as a lazy programmer (tm) from way back? {{ccl}} is much easier to type than all that colon, Category, brackets and whatnot (-:

— MrDolomite • Talk 10:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)