User talk:Estreya
Hi Estreya, I saw you editing out the forward slashes in the Series By Multiple Authors-- they're important, so I'm gonna put them back. It's no problem at all! I was just being a bit lazy and not making the link pretty. :) Logista 13:37, 20 May 2006 (PDT)
(this talk thingy is weird) ;) -- Ok, I just learned this one myself: the / in an internal link sets up a subpage. So, the main page is [[Series By Multiple Authors]], and by making say, English Men of Letters as [[/English Men of Letters]], the English Men of Letters page has an automatic link to the Series By Multiple Authors page. Sometimes these are called "breadcrumbs" so you can find your way home again ;).
What I was being lazy about was not making the link pretty (and thereby confusing us all!). This you do by adding a bit more information, like this: [[/English Men of Letters|English Men of Letters]]. This formatting, while I don't do it here, can make links to long-titled pages a little more appropriate to the page you're on. It could have been something like [[/English Men of Letters|That Series by John Morley, Viscount]], but would have still had the true title.
I hope this helps! Logista 13:49, 20 May 2006 (PDT)
- Oh, sure, we can have threaded discussions. But just how the heck do you follow the thread? Like how would anyone know that I'm now responding to a comment you made to me on Logista's page? I just don't get these talk pages!
Good question. You might do a few things (and I'm still discovering them, too):
- You can quote the thing you're responding too and post the response elsewhere
- You can post a response in some random weird place (you got that one already) ;)
- You can (and should, maybe) add pages where you're involved in a threaded conversation to your watchlist (click the "Watch" in the gray toolbar at the top of any page. This will alert you (see "my watchlist" in the upper right) whenever anything there changes. Which is handy for threads.
- You can treat the "talk" like any content, and move stuff around so it looks better!
I'm working it out myself. The point is, we have a dozen tools we could obviously use in any given situation. If you wanted, for instance, to create a new Category, and label all threaded discussion pages everywhere in the wiki "Threaded", I suppose you could. What happens in the next few weeks, as we all explore and pick and choose, is that collectively we establish social norms. And tell other people to do them, or demonstrate the norms so they pick them up subconsciously.
A good example is this Periodicals thing that's unfolding. I think Malcolm started it early yesterday with a short list. Look at how organized it's gotten. I see maybe 10 people working on different parts at the same time. Nobody explicitly told anybody how it should look.
It'll play out that way with the Talk pages.
OK? -- kraester 15:27, 16 November 2006 (PST)
Categories
Estreya, I've added the Content Providing and Project Coordination categories to the Missing volumes page. Personally, I think that the Project Coordination category should go on all the "pools" pages, but I was concentrating on getting at least one category on most pages that didn't have any categories yet before I started tweaking categories on other pages.
It's really easy to add categories to a page; you add them just like other links, you just type the Category namespace in front of them, using a colon to separate it: [[Category: Content Providing]]
Categories are usually added at the bottom of the page, but they'll appear on the bottom of the page no matter where they are typed.