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| − | ==[[Portal:AboutUsWelcome|Welcome]] to [[AboutUs.org]]!== | + | == About About Us == |
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| − | Hello Steven, my name is [[KristinaWeis|Kristina]] and I'm across the room from you. Hey!
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| − | I'm excited that you've joined us for "Wiki Wednesday"! [[Welcome]]! Let me know if you have any questions along the way (I'd love to hear from you!) - please leave a message on ''my'' [[TalkPage|talk page]] via the "talk" link in my [[How do I improve my signature?|signature]] below. You may also join the [[WebIRCHelp|AboutUs WebIRC]] to chat or ask a question, and below are some links that I have found helpful...
| + | Thank you very much for the feedback you gave me in the audit. I was aware of the text on the landing page and will work on that immediately. This is a great service and should really help me. |
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| − | * The [[WikiAnatomy]] tours: Three step-by-step tours to understanding and using [[WikiWiki|wiki]] and [[AboutUs.org]] to the fullest. ''*Highly recommended!*''
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| − | ** [[TheWikiWay:WhatIsWiki|The Wiki Fundamentals]] Tour
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| − | ** [[TheWikiWay:Edit|Wiki Basic Editing]] Tour
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| − | * [[Portal:AboutUsHelp|Help Portal]]: The umbrella resource for all things help-related.
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| − | * [[WikiSyntax|Wiki Syntax]]: Basic [[WikiWiki|wiki]] formatting guide, from ''italics'' to [[WikiLink]]ing.
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| − | * [[ImageHelp|Image Help]]: Help with uploading and getting your image onto your [[WikiPage]].
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| − | * [[How to improve AboutUs website pages]]: Ideas on how to spruce up a [[DomainPage]].
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| − | * [[HowYouCanHelp|How You Can Help at AboutUs]]: Ways that you can help out, from flagging [[PossibleAdultContent]] pages to [[revert]]ing [[spam]] to [[WelcomingPeople|welcoming]] new users.
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| − | [[Portal:AboutUsWelcome|Welcome]] to the [[AboutUs]] [[Portal:AboutUsCommunity|community]] - it's great to have you! <br>
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| − | [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | <small>[[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 19:09, 3 October 2007 (PDT) </small>
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| − | We have various templates ({{TemplateLink|ComingSoon}}, {{TemplateLink|ParkingLot}}, {{TemplateLink|ForSale}}, {{TemplateLink|PossibleSpamSite}}, etc.) for this sort of thing. It's not a big issue really but it can add to the informativeness (is that a word?) of the [[DomainPage]]. [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 16:46, 4 October 2007 (PDT) (p.s. I used to work for the [[Clark.edu|Clark]] paper as a copy editor back in the day.)
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| − | == WikiMan232 ==
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| − | [[User:WikiMan232]] is an interesting one, for sure. I'm not sure exactly what to do with him. We are now a casespace insensitive wiki so [[WikiLink]], [[wikilink]] and [[wiki Link]] all work, and go to the same page, so if he feels it's better to have a space, I don't necessarily see a problem, even with a less-than-friendly edit summary. On the other hand, if you see edits that are [[unconstructive]], please feel free to keep doing what you've been doing, and undoing those edits. You might also want to use an edit summary that explains, like [[RevertTest]] or the like. A list of these that we have so far is here: [[Glossary]]. Hope this [[help]]s! peace, [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 21:46, 5 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | : Thanks for the note. Please see [[User_talk:Wikiman232#Blocked]] [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] <small>([[User talk:TedErnst|talk]])</small> 09:31, 20 November 2007 (PST)
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| − | ==Yay for [[WelcomingPeople]]==
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| − | I was happy to see you joining the very elite club of [[:Category:AboutUs Welcomer|welcomers]]! It's kind of my specialty/favorite thing to do, so let me know if you have any questions. [[WelcomingPeopleIdeas]] has a lot of, well, ideas on the topic. [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 02:56, 6 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | :I actually have a leaning towards non-template welcomes because I like to do what I can to personalize them. But um, [[Template:Welcome]] is the only template one that I know of. My personal one that I copy and paste from and tweak (which this template was largely borrowed from) resides at [[User:KristinaWeis/Welcome3]] and most everyone else makes up their own shorter ones individually for each welcome they do. I'd recommend checking out how others are welcoming on [[WelcomingPeople Log]] (just tab out some of the [[TalkPage]]s) and create your own variation that works for you. Cheers, [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 23:57, 6 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | :: I need to dig up our conversation on this. We've tended not to simply drop {{TemplateLink|Welcome}} on talk pages, instead going for a more personalized cut/paste version, where we put in the person's first name, if we have it, and a link to the [[DomainPage]] they've been editing. Wish I could remember where we discussed this. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 08:57, 8 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | :::I'm planning to make my own template, but I haven't had the time yet. Besides, I personally found all the links in the standard template helpful as a newbie, and I wanted to suss out what questions people were most likely to have and what I should add or remove to a template I made. Thanks for the helpful suggestions, [[User:Steven Walling|Steven]] | [[Steven Walling/Talk|talk]]
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| − | :::: Sorry, I wasn't clear. Using <nowiki>{{subst:Welcome}}</nowiki> can work, because then when the new person edits their own page, they see all the wikitext, not the template. Know what I mean? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 19:16, 8 October
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| − | :::::Oh! Yeah, I know what you mean. We have to subst all templates on WP too, but I forgot here. Thanks for the head's up! [[User:Steven Walling|Steven]] | [[Steven Walling/Talk|talk]] 10:58, 9 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | The Development team has a couple of bots that are doing that right now, until they are totally finished those tasks, I have my bot doing other things. When they are done that, we can come up with some ideas to get the rest of the pages. --[[User:Simon Koldyk|Simon]] | <small>[[User talk:Simon Koldyk|talk]]</small> 17:20, 6 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | By the way, Ray got me interested in go last year, and I've been playing like crazy. I'm still pretty awful, but it's fun to see all your go links together and the Go Congress next summer. I'll have to see if I can be in Portland that week. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 15:29, 7 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out. [[User:Kasey|Kasey]] 18:13, 7 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Hi Steven! Great to see you in full name mode :-) Just wanted to point you to a couple of ideas:
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| − | # the weird talk page cross over we developed there, we actually use [http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Steven_Walling&redirect=no talk pages in the user namespace] - well most of us do. Anyway, stuff to think about! :-) Best, [[MarkDilley]]
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| − | ## also Steven, when welcoming, you might think about using <nowiki>{{subst:Welcome}}</nowiki> as it looks a little less mystical if they look at the edit page. Best, [[MarkDilley]]
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| − | * ack! :-) I actually liked the weird cross over. I don't think it is nice to call people "users" :=) So if you want = please keep [[Steven Walling]] :-) sorry for being confusing! - short hand, I am a pain in the butt! :-) Best, [[MarkDilley]]
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| − | [[User:Kasey|Kasey]] came up with a great idea that I'm in love with for tracking new people that are welcomed as opposed to the old [[Welcoming People Log]] page. Essentially by month every new user welcome gets a category like [[:Category:2007-10 Welcome to AboutUs!]] (as you have) so they can easily be tracked and sorted by year/month on [[:Category:Welcome to AboutUs!]]. So you can see that I just added this to my deal-y at [[User:KristinaWeis/Welcome3]] and if you could do the same to whatever you use and hopefully remember to change it on the first of the month. Cheers, [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 12:29, 16 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | :Ooh, "subst"-ing [[Template:Welcome]] is great! Would it be possible for you to add the category I mentioned above to your welcomes so we get "credit" for them, if you will. [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 16:05, 18 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | ::I noticed your welcome page earlier today and that's all great and fine - probably easier to keep it there so you can make it your own. Will you be joining us in November (e.g. [[WikiWednesday]])? [[User:KristinaWeis|KristinaWeis]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 20:18, 23 October 2007 (PDT)
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| − | :::Haha, well... it ''is'' a very elite club of [[WikiWiki|wiki]] enthusiasts and you know how exclusive those sort of people can be ;) (Translation: Yes, you're definitely still invited.)
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| − | *Hi, Steven! I want to invite you to WikiWednesday tomorrow evening at the AboutUs offices @ 107 SE Washington Ave #520. Anytime after 530 or so; I know that [[BrandonCSSanders]] will be crafting plans for RecentChangesCamp 2008..not sure what others are planning to work on. Hope you can make it. [[User:Kasey|Kasey]] 12:17, 6 November 2007 (PST)
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| − | ==[[WikiWednesday]] chatting==
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| − | Hey, I feel like I'm IMing a classmate during class or something... haha. [[TakKendrick|Tak]] is the [[Portal:AboutUsFeatureMe|FeatureMe]] guru and I'm guessing that these two haven't been "processed" yet. I'm taking a look at them now and will try to add some coherent feedback to the feature discussion. Telepathic high five, [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 20:01, 7 November 2007 (PST)
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| − | :Um, there's a [[WelcomingTool]] in the works for the dev team but I think it's been a low priority for a while. So I primarily I go off of [[Special:RecentChanges]] and go way back to look for any red [[TalkPage|talk]] links, and there is always the box on the [[Wiki|homepage]] (although I'm not sure how useful it is). [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] | [[User talk:KristinaWeis|**talk**]] 20:05, 7 November 2007 (PST)
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| − | ==Hey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel<span title="Seriously, I really can't find a defference between you two. Although the fact that I actually like Steve Urkel could be an indication.">Steve!</span>]==
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| − | Just saw [[User_talk:TakKendrick#Wondering_if_this_is_an_issue|the pow wow]] ya had with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay your guy pal] behind my back. Ya know, If you want to say something about me you can say it right in my face. I'm out
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| − | [[User:Wikiman232|Wikiman232]] 21:48, 18 November 2007 (PST)
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| − | == Redirect to [[Steven Walling]] ==
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| − | Hey Steven,
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| − | [[MarkDilley]] and I noticed that you had both [[User:Steven Walling]] and [[Steven Walling]] and that different people were making edits to one (but not the other), creating slightly different pages.
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| − | Anyway, we look at the differences and decided to create one "uber" page that was a combination of the two, and redirected [[User:Steven Walling]] to [[Steven Walling]].
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| − | Naturally, if you prefer it the other way, go ahead and change it.
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| − | Best,
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| − | See you tomorrow? [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] <small> [[User talk:KristinaWeis|..talk..]] </small> 23:31, 4 December 2007 (PST)
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| − | :Would you want to be one of the people with pictures on [[:Category:CommunityMember]] and/or if you can do screen shots the "Some of our Active Community Members" section on the [[AboutUs.org]] page? [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] <small> [[User talk:KristinaWeis|..talk..]] </small> 20:00, 6 December 2007 (PST)
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| − | ::Beautiful!!! [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] <small> [[User talk:KristinaWeis|..talk..]] </small> 16:34, 8 December 2007 (PST)
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| − | Hi Steven, you have a good eye for languages - that was Urdu! Kristina had already welcomed Khawar but I [http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=User_talk%3AKhawar-king&diff=12988133&oldid=12961745 welcomed him again in Urdu]. Have a very nice day! Best, [[User:Obed Suhail|Obed Suhail]]
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| − | Hey Steven, I can show you the bookmarklet for this if you want [http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=DailyBuzz&diff=12993210&oldid=12985770] - Cheers! [[MarkDilley]]
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| − | <pre>javascript:(function(){var%20x,t,i,j;t=location.href.replace(/[%]3A/ig,':').replace(/[%]2f/ig,'/');i=t.lastIndexOf('http://');if(i>0){t=t.substring(i);j=t.indexOf('&');if(j>0)t=t.substring(0,j)}window.location='http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink?q='+t})();</pre>
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| − | Hey Steven, just wanted to point you to the [[ContentLog]] which is one of the ways we deal with Content Team communication. We also have a subsection on [[OurWork]] with details the team's [[:Category:Content_Task|Upcoming Tasks]] as well as a [[:Category:Content_Team|Team Page]] with who we all are (I'm going to be reformatting this page today or tomorrow, it needs help. I'll add you to the list at that point). {{TakTalk}} 17:37, 13 December 2007 (PST)
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| − | Hi Steve! Just a quick hello from a cool, sunny, smoggy, smoky Lahore. Looking forward to working with you - [[User:FatimaRaja|FatimaRaja]] 22:12, 13 December 2007 (PST)
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| − | Steven, one problem we have that maybe you can address with Vinh, is that anon IPs have no way to know that they even have a talk page, let alone know that they have a message. Log out and see what I mean? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] <small>([[User talk:TedErnst|talk]])</small> 14:51, 17 December 2007 (PST)
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| − | Steven:
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| − | In response to [[User_talk:JDCohen#Your_comments_on_PortlandTech | your message]], my comment about the Calendar in [[PortlandTech/Suggestions]] was directed to the calendar extract, which extract appears on the [[PortlandTech]] portal home page. --[[User:JDCohen | Joe Cohen]] | [http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=User_talk:JDCohen&action=edit&section=new Leave me a message] 10:12, 2 January 2008 (PST)
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Thank you very much for the feedback you gave me in the audit. I was aware of the text on the landing page and will work on that immediately. This is a great service and should really help me.
