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100 Geeks

Ray, hi. I'm Tony, from the "100 Geeks" gathering - this is my usual screenname. It's good to see that the site's live; I've already got a few pages on my watchlist. I guess I should just dive in and start editing descriptions that I see need editing? -GTBacchus 15:35, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

re HookahForum.net

I didn't know about the add missing domain utility, so I just copied another page's code and changed the details. I hope that was ok... -GTBacchus 12:53, 14 July 2006 (PDT)

thanks - still grasping this

Think I am understanding better why you just wanted me to organize union websites... ;-)

Doing something wrong with Automagical Linking?

Hi Ray: please can you check http://www.aboutus.org/Category:Stubbington ... why does the link to the "Domesday Book" page not work in this line > Thanks, Robert.

Ah ha ... the help did not say to also put a colon before Category too: [[:Category:Domesday Book|Domesday Book]]  ;¬}

yeah, that confused me at first also :-)

Disambiguation pages

Hi Ray: how do I create a disambiguation page? I am thinking here about geographic location names such as "Crofton", "Hill Head" and the ubiquitous "Springfield" of Simpson's fame. How do you see that side of the site developing? ... am I putting effort in the totally wrong direction? Regards, Robert.

you can just create a page such as Crofton and then link subpages such as Crofton - something to it.

You're on the right track, although the site currently contains mostly website articles, over time I'd love to see people create pages around those pages, such as disambiguation pages, terms that are uses by multiple sites, category pages that direct users interested in a certain area, etc. If you're interested I could really use some help with welcoming new users and helping them along -- but only if that is of interest.

On disambuguation, I think my answer assumes that you were referring to a normal article. Crofton is a category page currently, so in that case, other articles with that category can be subcategorized so they show up in subcategories (see Table Tennis as an example. Also, we are currently trying to create some tools which help manipulate categories across multiple articles more easily. I will keep you posted on that.

Request Delete

Whoops: please delete page "http://www.aboutus.org/Hill_Head".

There's still some stuff on this page? So just double checking....

• Its a duplicate of http://www.aboutus.org/Category:Hill_Head ... my bad ;¬[

AboutUs question

How would I go about removing a listing that was created without my consent? Simply deleting the html in the editor didn't stick (looks like it was restored by AboutUsBot.) Thanks kindly for your response.... - JB :)

We've just posted an article on the AboutUsBot and there will be more information shortly.

Recommendation for Removal Procedures

Might I recommend honoring robots.txt (this may require the AboutUs bot being designated as a specific user-agent, if you haven't done so). If a site owner wants to be removed on the next crawl, he can simply add the appropriate entry to robots.txt. Furthermore, you may want to honor the META tags for robots in individual pages, in this case "noindex" and "nofollow" might apply for exclusion from AboutUs. --RKrause 03:55, 18 August 2006 (PDT)

Absolutely. In addition, obeying a meta robots tag for nocache/noarchive would help eliminate cached info as well as instructions to remove all history entries/references to the domain.

AboutUs question

Is there a way to communicate that isn't public, since I wouldn't want to advertize which domain I want removed by posting it here (plus, that way I could also answer privately any questions that ya might have to confirm me as the likely owner of the domain.) Thanks.... :)

sure, please e-mail me at

Create

Your create button doesn't seem to like subdomains, or for example, the website cantatasingers.ottawa.on.ca which is perfectly fine, but it won't create it. Tretter 00:31, 9 August 2006 (PDT)

yes, I know :-( we're working on it. --User:Ray King | talk 09:07, 12 August 2006 (PDT)

how to categorize

Hullo Ray, I can't seem to add articles to relevant categories.

Add the category such as "[[Category:Kayaking]]" to the article and then it will appear in the category page --User:Ray King | talk 09:08, 12 August 2006 (PDT)

Thanks Ray! It's just the first version. I'm not really familiar with wiki's and About Us, but I like the concept. You've done a great job!

re delete please

Request Delete of page for ai p pg.net (remove spaces to get correct domain name) I own that and would want the pages , history deleted including my personal information. can email to sitename@sitename.com to confirm. I deleted them once but the bot restored that

ok i've removed history and replaced with a shorter record without contact info to prevent the bot from recreating the original. --User:Ray King | talk 00:12, 28 August 2006 (PDT)

Thanks for the recognition

Hi! Thanks for the recognition on the front page. I'll try to be involved as I have time. This looks like it could be a worthwhile resource for the Net community. And I have a lot of ideas to share. --RKrause 03:58, 18 August 2006 (PDT)

 :-)

Nice meeting you

Hi Ray, nice meeting you at the WikiSym conference. It is very interesting to explore this site you've started building here, and I follow it with great interest. I'm also very curious to know how you managed to prepopulate the wiki, like you did? --Morten 16:41, 23 August 2006 (PDT)

Great meeting you also and sorry I wasn't able to stay for more video taping. Nice work on your wiki! --User:Ray King | talk 15:40, 24 August 2006 (PDT)

deletion request

Please delete Aeronaut.ca. Thank you. Aeronaut 11:56, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

history removed and much shorter page in it's place.

Please delete Entartete-Kunst.com. Thank you.

done