Difference between revisions of "User talk:Martin"

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Welcome to AboutUs, Martin! I saw (and responded) to your note in the SuggestionBox as well, but I wanted to say hello here to make sure you got it. Your site is ready for cultivation and editing at IBESI.org. You can look on the Help pages for references, or you can ask us for help. You can always contact me on my user pages. We're glad to have you here! Drew

welcome!

Martin,

I saw what you wrote on the community portal page, even though you took it off. Very poetic! Let me know if I can help! TedErnst

Martin, I'm responding to what you wrote on Drew's talk page. I'm afraid that the future you want is not yet here. I also want what you want. I want to be able to edit a page using the aboutus.org software and have that change show up at ibesi.org. That day is not yet here. What we have right now is a page ABOUT ibesi.org at aboutus.org/ibesi.org and that actual ibesi.org page at ibesi.org. Some others are working with this now, like http://intentionalnetworks.com. Click that link and see that it actually goes to teh IntentionalNetworks.com page. That's cool, but not exactly what you want. You want what we do not yet have the ability to do. I don't know when. Brandon knows better, I think. Hope this helps, at least with expectations. peace, TedErnst

Yes, I was guessing you had been talking with Brandon, as your desires match perfectly with what he talks about for the future, but we don't know when. He's been promising me to do a test for a few weeks now, but it hasn't happened yet. It will happen, just don't know when.

As for your questions about talk page etiquette, we ought to start a page on that, to document. In most wikis, you simply reply to a comment wherever it was left. So if I asked you a question on your page, you'd answer it there. That makes sense, right? Well, for now, we're using MediaWiki here, the Wikipedia software, and at Wikipedia, they do it differently. I'm not sure exactly why, except that there's a different kind of notification when someone leaves a message on your talk page. Of course there's a software issue and a social issue. YOU are exactly the person to bring this up because those already here before you are already familiar with Mediawiki so don't notice how wrong (not understandable for a person inexperienced in these ways) this way of doing things is. By the way, did you know that a link that is red means the page it points to doesn't exist yet? So clicking on it is actually starting the new page. Hope this helps and look forward to more dialogue.

And unfortunately, if the url is really important and you want a community process, I don't think aboutus.org will meet your needs right now. peace, TedErnst

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 I saw what you wrote on the community portal page, even though you took it off.  Very poetic!  Let me know if I can help!  [[User talk:TedErnst|TedErnst]]
 : Martin, I'm responding to what you wrote on Drew's talk page.  I'm afraid that the future you want is not yet here.  I also want what you want.  I want to be able to edit a page using the aboutus.org software and have that change show up at ibesi.org.  That day is not yet here.  What we have right now is a page ABOUT ibesi.org at aboutus.org/ibesi.org and that actual ibesi.org page at ibesi.org.  Some others are working with this now, like http://intentionalnetworks.com.  Click that link and see that it actually goes to teh [[IntentionalNetworks.com]] page.  That's cool, but not exactly what you want.  You want what we do not yet have the ability to do.  I don't know when.  Brandon knows better, I think.  Hope this helps, at least with expectations.  peace, [[User talk:TedErnst|TedErnst]]
+Yes, I was guessing you had been talking with Brandon, as your desires match perfectly with what he talks about for the future, but we don't know when.  He's been promising me to do a test for a few weeks now, but it hasn't happened yet.  It will happen, just don't know when.
+As for your questions about [[talk page etiquette]], we ought to start a page on that, to document.  In most wikis, you simply reply to a comment wherever it was left.  So if I asked you a question on your page, you'd answer it there.  That makes sense, right?  Well, for now, we're using MediaWiki here, the Wikipedia software, and at Wikipedia, they do it differently.  I'm not sure exactly why, except that there's a different kind of notification when someone leaves a message on your talk page.  Of course there's a software issue and a social issue.  YOU are exactly the person to bring this up because those already here before you are already familiar with Mediawiki so don't notice how wrong (not understandable for a person inexperienced in these ways) this way of doing things is.  By the way, did you know that a link that is red means the page it points to doesn't exist yet?  So clicking on it is actually starting the new page.  Hope this helps and look forward to more dialogue.
+And unfortunately, if the url is really important and you want a community process, I don't think aboutus.org will meet your needs right now.  peace, [[User talk:TedErnst|TedErnst]]