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New User Page

Mark,

I placed the issues it was too late to get into here -- User:Dclacroix/UserIssues

Feel free to comment or add.

VivaNet

Thank you, I'm just messing around with this stuff. I wanted to see if it would allow me to even add links to those larger sites.

I'll stick to those sites which are actually related to VivaNet. Thank you!

Watch

Keep your eyes on the ContactUs page, especially "# 67 The Real Owner (Aflpa.com) AFLPA". One of them changed your reply to make it seem as if you were taking sides. Drew

suggested_changes

Hello Mark

Thank you for your message.

I am not Christopher. The owner of www.christophernorris.co.uk had permission to use this IP address to create his www.aboutus.org page. From this it can neither be inferred that I am Christopher, nor that this IP address is Christopher's. I think you ought to have been a bit more careful.

I happened to assist the owner in establishing this page, which was implemented less than 24 hours ago, as you can well see. We are by far not done with its overall appearance. Whilst appreciating your having taken it upon yourself to watch out for certain criteria or standards, what you suggest - forgive me - is optically far off the mark in terms of the contents and nature of the website that is portrayed.

You managed to shoot forward twice in just one short message. Please do give a man a chance.

Sincerely

Adminbka

Hello Mark

Did you send this message right now?:

"I stand corrected, thanks for your critique. This is a wiki and reverting is extremely easy, are you familar with wiki? Best, MarkDilley"

If so, thank you - and thank you for your understanding. No hard feeling here. I assure you.

Yes, I know my way about this and other Wiki sites, tho', probably not as efficient yet as you are. Like I said: give a man a chance [grin].

Best

Adminbka

I truly appreciate your response. Thanks. Well, let us learn by fiddling around first. Should we get stuck, we'll turn to you. - A.

copyrights

Mark, Here's the problem with certain copyrights and what some of the sysops don't want to undersatand... i'll start with an example... Lets say your an artist with a recording label.. you have a new song, and you allow a company to use it in an advertising campaign.. so the ad, with the song shows up on various websites.. the song, nor the ad become property of those websites, andanyone who copies it without permission of the owner, is now liable for the damages... Now on aboutus.org, there's a copyright remplate for iamges.. but who see's it? peopel go to a page containing the image, all they see is the image. And when the actual site owner provides content for the page pertaining to their site, they are doing so themselves, for display on aboutus, for promotional and information reasons. I created a template ffor this type of copyright, which was a disclaimer of the information provided by the owner for aboutus.org only, and any redistrubution or copies are not allowed for use anywhere else.. and other sysop's dont agree with it, and insist on removing it. Not only is that template a warning to potential theives and hordes, but it protects aboutus be not holding them resp-onsable if content from that page is taken by a 3rd party without proper permission. Now with my sites, I can't have them on here as I did without that type of disclaimer on them.. some of the images, and content I have permission to use, but other sdo not, I can plae it where I want to, but no one can legally copy it and use it as their own on other sites. This is something you will find with most multimedia, and entertainment websites, as well as some companies that do a great deal to protect what they have (hence, all the engativity about how aboutus 'steals' information illegally, which isn't true, about us uses publically accessable information, and only takes a section of a front page as a quote, which is fair usage).. The big problem lies in the knowledge, or misknowldedge that there is about copyrights among sysops, recent partollers, etc.. (and yes, it's a tough one since it does vaary by locality, and constanty changes so no one can fully keep up with it all).. an dof course, the never ending problem of anyone being able to edit pages.. which may never truly be resolved in a wiki format. You can take my word on multimedia and etnertainment sites not holding back on this. I've been with them for 20 years, and have seen things less than this turn into major court battles. The main thing that needs to be worked out is simple.. ther eneeds to be an easy to find tempalte available for use on pages, such as the one I created that was removed several times.. which keeps aboutus out of the middle of any copyright disputes, and holds whoever may take the information liable by the owner themselves. You all also have to realize.. only a small percentage of people have even heard of wiki's, never mind know how to use them, find them, even with as much news on aboutus that has been generated, it's stilla very small eprcentage of webmasters that even know aboutus exist. In any post I make concerning aboutus, I do stress how the bot does nothing illegal, it's more of wiki problems itself, and that is totally true, and edittors, especailly those with sysop status, do need to be aware of legalities that can and will arrise. My only suggestion would be to have registered and logged in users able to edit pages, and tweak the bot a bit to exlude whois and some alexa information to aovoid those wh go ape about 'stealing my personal information' (again, they jsut dont get it when it comes to that). Perhaps have a new user menu on the left with nothing but a faq on how to add templates, what is available for your page, etc.. so it's easy to find for the completely wiki illiterate.. that's really the biggest problem, wiki isn't all that popular, and isn't liked by most due to it's 'open editting', and aboutus is new in itself, and a format many have come to ahte due to other sites that have been around that horde and 'scrape' from various sites.

again, my main problem is, adding content to pages about my sites (and I know others will say the same), need a copyrighted content template shown, to keep aboutus safe and not liable, and warn off potential theives.. it's really no differant than placcing a watermark n an image or media file stating 'free for personal use, do not redistribute'. I can't make it any simpler than that. One of my largest affiliates, RCA (SonyBMG) would be one of the first and msot costly to hold a grudge about this sort of thing (luckily, I don't think they are very aware of aboutus.org yet, and I'm not going to tip them off, Ray does have a good idea, it just needs alot of cleaning up, and 'staff' to be brought up to speed on legal issues, which again, can be tricky and vary a bit between localities,, for example, it's actually to legal to bootleg music in parts of europe and canada.. but in the US, it's only legal to download, it's illegal to redistribute in any manner.. when a canadian comes to my site, which is us based, they think it's all legal, I have disclaimers everywhere about that exact topic, stating 'this is a us based website'.. making it clear we follow us laws)

I'll be around a bit more later this week.. work is getting the better of me right now, I got ray's voicemail, and jsut wanted to send this to ya's as an explination of the problem.. again, I'm not pissed t you guys or aboutus, or even certain sysops, I've jsut been in the music, tv, and movie biz for a long time and have dealt with these issues on an almost daily basis. Ray making statements on blogs are great, but there needs to be something for everyone to see right away on aboutus to show he's working on the situations, and a link to a page with various copyright, fair usage, and disclaimer information.. trust me, you'll all be glad you have that when you do (and you kind of do already, it jstu needs to be more visable, as does how to use a robot.txt to block the bot until all the robot tutorials start including the aboutusbot.

p.s. Ray should usderstand this exact problem.. what if you all went to say google, and put a full page for aboutus, using specific content from the site liek the logo, and someone decided to take it and create a simular site to aboutus using all he put on that page? wouldn't be right would it? google wouldn't be at fault, but there was no copyright disclaimer on the page, so they used it all as 'fair usage'.. that is going to happen alot from aboutus pages.. I can't stress enough that the template is needed for just such purposes Alan 16:21, 5 February 2007 (PST)

Compassion Club

Mark, I use marijuana for medical purposes and would like to know how I can join the compassion club so I can grow legally. I have all medical records and proof of my condition and marijuana is the only thing that stops my nausea. Where do I begin. Please e-mail me at Thank-you.

sent email

Wikipedia.com etc.

The links to WikiNode and TourBusStop are part of a template that I use when I set up a new user page on a Mediawiki-based wiki. I do it just to see how 'old school' the wiki's administrators are. My personal opinion is that they may have been something worthwhile when there were only two or three dozen wikis, but these days they are pretty useless.

Some of the editors at en.wikipedia.org are going through their interwiki map, and it's pretty amazing the number of the prefix shortcuts in their interwiki map that are 404, moribund wikis, or spam-filled wikis. I have a feeling that most WikiNodes and TourBusStops are just about as useless, with many of the links pointing to problematic websites.

What's the status of WikiIndex, seeing as how most of the people behind that Wiki are involved in AboutUs?

Also: In my rummaging around the website earlier, I didn't see any guidance about categories, or any explanation about how your bot automatically creates categories. Did I miss the page, or is that still on the todo list? BlankVerse 02:11, 9 February 2007 (PST)

Lunch

Marky Mark, what are you up to tomorrow. Do you want to meet for lunch? ScottKeeler

.Ca Domain

Hmm, .Ca domains seem to validate fine now. Maybe it was just a DNS, or something, issue at the time?

We are in beta and sometimes things break around here.  :-) Glad this is working for you now!

Malware Sites

Mark, we need to discuss what to do about sites that attempt to place malware on user machines. I encountered one in RC today. The listing is safe, of course, but when someone clicks through, the site attempts to drop a virus onto the machine. Drew

Yes, this has happened to me once or twice before, but in the edits someone made.... Malware

Not vandalism

User talk:209.53.237.172 From AboutUs - Hello and welcome to AboutUs. Contrary to your first impulse, we don't work for this person. We do want our website to be a professional endeavor and we are not against there being criticism against a person or site, but it needs to be constructive and not vandalism. Let me know if you have questions. Best, MarkDilley

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Hello, Mark...

Thanks for the words about who's who, but

Here's the facts: 1) Michael Love does owe several hundred dollars to a friend of mine he hired to play for a 10,000-seat gig. 2) No one has yet uttered (we - some of Mr. Oxenvad's friends - would rather play honourable hardball than let than Mr. Love remain anonymously dishonourable within his chosen industry, and I'm personally confident hat no one *will* utter) any lies in making our point. 3) When Mr. Love honourably acquits himself of his debt to Mr. Oxenvad, the issue will be considered settled by all parties, and there will be nothing left over which you need bother.

Questions? Yep, I do have two:

- As long as they remain within the realm of facts and honesty, what particular objections do you have to disputes being aired here?

- would you be averse to this reply ending up in the "review" section of Mr. Love's page?

Michael Muirhead

Queen Charlotte, BC

responded here User_talk:209.53.237.172

Adding link to your page

Hi Mark,

We had the following communication last week:

Adding link to Website Hi there,

I'd like to know how (and if) we can have our company website added to the various categories you have listed on http://www.aboutus.org/BilingualJobBoard.com.

For example, we'd like our website to be included on your Bilingual Jobs Toronto, French Jobs Toronto, and Bilingual Jobs links.

Thank you in advance,

Caryn Office Coordinator Bilingual Source/Source Bilingue Hi Caryn, that is easy, check out AddCategory or contact me. Best, MarkDilley

I clicked on your "AddCategory" link above, but still couldn't see how to add a link to any of your pages.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again!

Caryn

Restricted edit for DRVSRS.

Is it possible to restrict the "edit" of this article "DRVSRS>COM" and "Image:DR.VSRS.jpg" to only "Aboutus" and "drvsrs" ? With Regards ""

Hi there, You've left a couple of messages on my talk page, it's nice to meet you. I do have some questions. I'm very new to wiki...I've always been hard core ODP. I'd love some help, and if you have a project for me to work on I'd be happy to help. Right now I'm stumbling around trying to get used to the software.

The most pressing question I have is what do we do about articles that need to be deleted? Sites come and go and it's quite frustrating to come across an article like http://www.aboutus.org/HomeDecorDirectory.com (for example) and there's nothing I can do to correct it. I'd hate to see link rot become a problem and it drives me nuts to leave these pages up that lead to dead sites.

Thanks for the welcome, Annie :)

ps. sorry if I'm contacting you in the wrong way, I really am a wiki n00b.

Thanks for your help. I was really surprised the page was edited so quickly. James - Hayling Hardwoods

Adding link to page

Hi Mark,

Perhaps it would be easier if we spoke on the phone...? I'm sorry, I'm lost. I have no idea how to get our website linked to the various categories on this site.

Caryn

Hi

I'm new to this User Talk thingy... so hope I am getting this right.

Thanks for adding the Wikilinks. I haven't yet gotten down to making that page.

I'll start working on these over the next week to make a more complete User: page.

Ajay

Thanks...

Btw, I need to add thinks to User:Ajay right?

Thanks Mark!

Hey Mark, thanks for the props, and I hope to continue to do some good stuff here. It's an interesting concept. :) Leif Hearne | talk

Remove

The page to my site deleted immediately. Liza Sabater, Publisher culturekitchen

Suggested Edits to Halo2Leagues.com

Thanks for the suggestions, I never had links to other site/wiki pages in the template after the page on Wikipedia got deleted (Admins called it "corporate vanity"). TheChrisD™ - Halo2Leagues.com Head Organiser 02:09, 22 February 2007 (PST)

wordpress.com

Hi Mark

how do I add sub domain to say the WordPress.com page ? the docs are very unclear

eg

HauntingThunder.wordpress.com

Mark, I came across this on RC, and put in the AddSubdomain instructions. I'll leave him a note on his page as well. Drew

Sorry about getting nasty

My sincerest appoligies if i got a little nasty about my site being duplicated. ToddLoewen.com is kinda of a pet project I have been working on for about a year. I would like to have your site show Certain pages from my site. How can I specify what pages to hit? Also, I use wordpress and want to add your badge to the About Page on my site. Problem is WordPress doesnt like javascript too much.

Todd, no worries, wiki is new, we are new and we aren't doing the best job expressing why we think AboutUs is/can be valuable. As far as the AboutUs:Bot is concerned. I don't know the specifics, but I do know it looks for "about us" content. I can go ahead and clear history on the page for you to start with whatever you wish to start with though. Thanks for talking about it! Best, MarkDilley

Hi

Thanks for the welcome :) I hope I am following protocols. I believe we are related to all sites we are linking to. Please send me a message if I am making a mess...DOH! Bobby B. 23:30, 23 February 2007 (PST)

Not exactly sure what a Travel Portal is (cuz I'm new to this whole thing), but I'd be willing to start one if it involves family travel or traveling with children, as our goal is to help traveling families :) Bobby B. 23:43, 23 February 2007 (PST)

Logo

I need a stylish logo, that conveys videogames, and fun.

And yes the new version is great. Thanks.

Thanks

hi, Mark, thanks for the comment. i wanted to correct a few things and add a few more. Trey

Thanks mark. I think this project is in its initial stage. There are group of Somalis from the region living in Europe, Canada and USA who will be working to launch this project. I know about since my parents are from there and since I know some members of this community. I will let you know if there are any developments and how things go, but now i think it is just the beginning of the project.

Thanks for your interest.

Urbano

MilitaryAvenue.com

Mark - Thanks for the help on our page. You made it look much better. All the best - Leanne Kocsis

thank you

I like the touch up you made, I will make all the others ones that i make moving forward like that. thanks Mark! =) John

repopulate

I have no idea how to make this work.. can you walk me through step by step?

I'd like the ability to do it myself. but HannaSofia.com

what do you think?

Ease of Use

Welcoming from last weekend

Hey Mark, just so you know I've gone through the RC and copied names of people who weren't welcomed over the weekend and added the red links to WelcomingPeople, so that list should be current (up to 6 p.m. Monday). -- Tak 18:00, 5 March 2007 (PST)

welcome

mark, hmm...I don't always get an edit summary when welcoming, why is that? Kasey

finally a contact

Cannot get contact info, to ask for help

page shows up with a thousand Domain names instead of contact info. I want some of my private info removed from your site, was shocked it was on a wiki, and registered to do so. I am having huge spam problems, this site might be contriubting to it.

In fact, your about us page shows up with the thousand domain names instead of abou us info, several others do too.

Your showing of private info might be why someone decided to hack you.

So what if other sites do it. Doesn't mean you should too without owners permission, unless you do mean harm. these spammers are email terrorists. get worse everyday. Any site that helps them are terrorists too.

there's your suggestion.

I am the owner of Reneodeay.com and am requesting you remove the page about me and my site and prevent your bots or users from putting anymore up on it.

05:16, 11 March 2007 (PDT)~~ Reneodeay

Mark, I think her page was spammed and has since been cleaned up - Ray

Spammer

Mark, I cleaned up the spammer referenced in the above message with some help from User:Mucbarney. I blocked the offending IP, but you might want to take a look at User:R1motorhead. He seems to be referencing the same site used in the spam attack. Drew

Also, take a look at this IP: 68.115.19.190. I think we'll have to rollback these as well as suspiciously related.

stuff

Mark,

Ray and I have spoken about me assisting with some Aboutus things. I guess he was trying to set up Sysop status this weekend. I am happy to help anyway that I can, just let me know. We can talk about all sorts of stuff. Let me know what you need to set it up, or if you just need to give me the 5 cent tour and give me the list of rules regulations and expectations.

This is great, how much community involvement are you really getting outside of people editing their own sites?

Best, Gregory

NOt sure when i can talk yet.. weekends are best for me until :) .. But i will reach out. also you can see a version of my bio at User:Gregory

Thank You

Thanks very much for the interesting package, its really cool. --Simon | talk 11:53, 12 March 2007 (PDT)

website on aboutus.org

Hi, I came across one of my website listed with this wiki site and it has some strange contact information. How do I get access to this to change it? Thanks Shar

In reference to the post made by me:

I can be reached at .

Thanks Shar

NewYouDiet.50megs.com

Cool, I thought I completely messed that up by posting it up on the wrong site. Thanks again Mark, I really appreciate it. Have a good one! =) best, John

skype and normal net-human-things

Mark,

Normally I am a fanatic skype/irc/yim/aim/msn guy. But I currently work at a large $3trillion dollar swiss bank. This allows for 2 things, access to almost every kind of information I would ever want to know about companies, and no access whatsoever to communications outside of telephone and email. (ie. no instant messaging )

I have been using IRC since 1990, before it was a web client, but alas, today I cannot. At least not from work. Any other ideas?

Alternatively we can do it later tonight or tomorrow night. I am really upset that i can't get out there today.

Gregory

thank you

i really like the about us site. I feel that I'll be able to grow with it and likewise.

Thanks.

Looks pretty strait forward. I see that someone is finally using the keyword metatag! I will have to go back and double check my keywords. Is there an easy way to update the keyword categories once I change my metadata on my web site? Thanks!

-- Captain Dave

Re: Meeting Tomorrow

Mark, I'll do my best to be around. Services for my father are at Noon, and I don't know what the rest of the day will be like. If it's possible, I will be around. Drew

I'll do my best, as I would like to be there. If not, I will review the notes and give my comments later, if that's appropriate. It's been a long week, and I'd like to wrap my mind around something different. Drew

Fair warning and hes not stoping...

After you give him a fair warning, hes still vandalizing stuff.

I know hes not going to stop till hes banned.

http://www.aboutus.org/Special:Contributions/72.72.17.4

Ask Emilyss

Online Magazine/United Foundation For Patient Humanities, Inc.

Hello Mark. Last year as you know, I posted a declaration on the 'askemilyss.com' page protesting that it was a fraud. I had just been able to recover enough after I almost died in a fire which destroyed everything I owned including my non-profit orgination and its files. When I was able I went looking to find the whole fronteer of the internet had changed and my sites were gone from my control and ownership. I was still ill and overwhelmed and powerless so I went back to bed. I now am better and have researched what happened, want to say that the 'askemilyss.com' site and its parent site, 'UFPF.org' were both sold while I was hospitalized but the purchasers did nothing illegal and I have taken steps to deal with those who are responsible. AboutUs.org is not responsible.

I have registered 'Ask Emilyss Online Magazine' now as 'AskEmilyss.org', which it should be anyway since it is charity and not comerce and have regained ownership of UFPH. I am rebuilding now and will simply let those who are using 'askemilyss.com' to sell their products know that I am back and it will be their decision to determine whether or not they wish to be viewed as companies who will use a well-know charity organization's name for thier own profit just because they can - even when the charity organization is operating and *giving* to those in need of its services as before. That is the kind of thing that gets me motivated... I remember one drug company one time who that stopped funding me because I refused to be a sales-rep-by-proxy for them in my sites.... Naturally my response was that they could keep their money and I then published an editorial about it. More to come. Liz Webb (pen name, Emilyss), Founder/Exec. Dir, United Foundation For Patient Humanities, Inc./Ask Emilyss Online Magazine, 1996

Guitar

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the welcome. Not sure how to respond in the discussion so I am leaving one here? What did you change exactly... if my mind serves me right it seems that you added the site into some categories? That is fine with me.

All The Best, Zane

Thanks

Ahh I see :0) Yup that's fine

Regards,

Thanks for the welcome, Mark!

As you may know, Ted Ernst and I are exploring possibilities for using AboutUs as a "metadirectory." Actually, this would not be for ConnectorsNet, which is already in existence, but with limited functionality. Instead, we are collaborating towards a Network Weavers Network. More info over the weeks to come.

Could you send me your email address so that we can connect directly? A Skype call would also be great sometime if it works out. My email is habib -at- connectexpress.com

Thanks!

Hi MarkDilley

Hi Mark! I got your message. You're right, there are other links to the homepage, I guess I just wanted to make the link to homepage visible. Can I place link to other pages? If no, I really apologize.

Slides

Hey Marky, besides not being searchable here's another reason why using slides instead of text and graphics is a bad idea. I can't update the now out of date information on ProtectEmail, a page we send people to hundreds of times per day. Scott

suggest me

i have a problem that, i was made the blog by using wordpress and after now i have a login in wikki page of about us. but how can i edit the blog using about us .

Thank You

Thank you! I would love that (in the not so distant future). I have been meaning to try to get things caught up with setting descriptions and such but have not had a chance until now. So, since I have the house to myself tonight it looks like its a microwavable dinner and maintenance time. ;) De Danann 15:25, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

Welcoming

Mark, I'm confused at the reason for the list, what purpose does it serve? --Simon | talk 16:52, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

Question

What's the difference between the "Shock Sites" category, and the "Shock Site" category? I mean besides the fact that ones plural and the other isn't. Wikiman232 21:35, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

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Hallo Mark,

gern könne wir ein wenig schrieben, um unsere Sprachkenntnisse zu verbessern. Ich habe zwar derzeit wenig Zeit, aber mal sehen was sich so machen läst. Deine aboutUs-UserPage kontte ich leider noch nicht vollständig lesen. Vielleicht kannst du dich mal in ein paar Sätzen beschreieben.

Bis bald

Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Deutschland

Matthias

mark, how do i create the page eliascarson.com

(find out who is squatting that name)

Gregory

when you have a sec

Hey Mark, I'm trying out this new (to me) messaging system... I have a question when you have a minute! Thanks, Julia

Portals, terrible name - cool idea

MediaWiki:New Portal Instructions

that last link

Hey there, Sorry, but that link you sent me did not come through & I can't find that page for the life of me! Julia

Thanks, Just checking it out and updating the information about my company. I am not a web programmer but I learn by playing around, I just got the photo into the about us page..Success..!

Greg

NSC Script

Hey there, I added some info to the page you started. I'm not sure how exactly the whois data contributes to the AboutUs page on a website... might need more there. Let me know if what I did is what you had in mind. Also, I wasn't sure how to "ping" you in the admin side... Anyway, let me know if you'd like me to do more work on the NSI page. Thanks! Julia

Pretty Cool, I will have to play more later! Take Care..!

Greg Mathias

Potential volunteer

Mark,

Here's the info for the user who said he could help with "Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian users." You can see his note on my talk here-- TakKendrick

Hi again markdilley!

I just want to clarify before doing anything wrong like I did last time... So it's okay to put links to the inner pages of the websites? I'll wait for your reply before doing anything like that again. Thanks so much! :)

Watcha think?

http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=204.101.189.174

Love the seize fire Tee

Great photo Mark. Good job on setting up the network weaver pages. Look forward to playing around here with you and Ted, and Habbib and all...

Hi Mark!

Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be here, I love the wiki stuff. A template would be swell... thanks!

Great... nice template! I took your suggestion and changed my user and talk page. I have to look into what exactly being a NetworkWeaver is all about, thanks for the link!

Hee hee... this is fun! -- Alex Ramon

del.icio.us / social bookmarks feed

Idea from our phone call, wasn't sure where to note it. Featured sites + otherwise noteworthy community portal updates bookmarked either by a special aboutus user (del.icio.us/aboutus) or just with some structured tagging (del.icio.us/tag/aboutuswiki (?))

If you use a software posting tool for del.icio.us such as Pukka, it is super easy to tag pages using multiple accounts.

thanks, --Brian Kerr

Another Question

Will AboutUs ever cover subdomains (for example and.it.com) and subpages (for example and.com/it)? Wikiman232 08:08, 28 March 2007 (PDT)

Spammy

Here's another user posting their site logo and link on a bunch of different pages.

http://www.aboutus.org/Special:Contributions/Micoraweb

ScottKeeler | :::talk:::

A problem.

I created a couple articles for subdomains, but the title links to www.test.wikipedia.org instead of just test.wikipedia.org. test.wikipedia.org is the page I want to create whereas www.test.wikipedia.org just leads to an error page. Wikiman232 11:23, 28 March 2007 (PDT)

WWVM

Just got your voice mail, that's an excellent idea. We'll have to talk more about this later. ScottKeeler | :::talk:::

I'm come back !

Hello, Mark. And hello EveryOne I've lost AboutUs.Org for a long time. These's a lot of important problem which happened on that time. I gave up old job (Designer) and establish my own Securities Company. So i have private tuitron about business, management . . .Everything is ok. And I Come Back AboutUs.Org Glad to see you here.

Community portal thingy

I didn't quite get what you meant. Smiddle 13:39, 29 March 2007 (PDT)

Welcoming

Hey Mark, I'm catching up on the welcoming right now, already tabbed out some that were probably from your time. Anyway, consider it done. -- TakKendrick | talk

found nice box!

Back to: Pubsquat 2007

Disturbing or awesome, I don't know

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2622366n

Box

I tried adding backround-color="#FFFFFF" to the box. While previewing, I added some lines to see if they went through the box. They didn't. Maybe the blue "leave me a message" has high priority or something? So that it appears in front of other boxes? I tried clearing my cache, and I use Internet Explorer 7. Smiddle 01:49, 31 March 2007 (PDT)

Rock City

• The Surge is Working ScottKeeler | :::talk:::

abldynasty who is

HI I'm the founder of AblDynasty.com and I saw that on WHOIS link on AblDynasty.com you had posted some personal information about me and the web site. If you plase would be able to remove that information I'd really appreciated. Thank you ABL STAFF

How is that? Best, MarkDilley

Thanks for your attention Mark

Sorry for the delayed reply. Yes, it would bee great to get newsphiles.org featured. However, a slight revamp of our page could be needed (as you mention). Whether I'm featured or not I like your site. Most probably I will post the domains I publish on aboutus.org.

Newsphiles.org (the site) needs attention for the moment since I've been busy with other publishing projects, qubetech.net, djloopez.com and the release of electronic music I'm composing (2 CD's just released on CDBaby.com).

I'll keep an eye on the 'talk' page in the near future, and thanks, keep up the great work.

Ricky - newsphiles.org qubetech.net

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TimeLord.co.uk

Hi, Mark. Re the history section at TimeLord; it seems to have settled, though the whole situation felt a bit like an ego-fest and not very promising for future history sections.

It seems strange not to put the Westlake Films reference in the related domains rather than the main text as, looking at the Wayback Machine there was little at the former TL site that can be found on the WF site. The other site mentioned doesn't have a domain name hence including the link separately. However, you have seen the editing back and forth. Also, the editor in question has not put a corresponding reference to TL on the WF site page; or at least he did and then removed it again shortly afterwards; he is the domain name owner for WF though so I'll leave that be. This comes back to the ego thing again though - the problem with history is one side will always want to come out of it looking better than the other lot rather than attempting some kind of objective overview.

After all this though, we're at the mercy of the domain owner turning up and saying they don't want the history section showing at all as it takes attention away from the current site :-/ But c'est la vie! I will try and start on a new history section for another site in the next week or two. --Faye Dunaway's teeth 03:56, 4 April 2007 (PDT)

Réactivation de ICAE après formatage

Bonjour Je tente en vain de contacter ggcomputer au suje de l'achat ICAE que je ne peux réactiver après un formatage du disque dur. C'est toujours la version d'essai qui s'ouvre . Comment réintroduire le numéro de licence ? et où le trouver ???

Merci de m'aider

Cordialement

J'ai dû formater mon disque dur et réinstaller windows XP et toutes les applications. Mais c'est une version essai qui s'est installée pour Image Converter and Editor. J'avais acheté ce produit le 5 janvier 2006, faxcture n° 1136446955-2169-710539

Où puis-je retrouver le n° de la licence ?

Merci de bien vouloir me répondre.

Joseph Raison

PS : Bonjour Je viens de retrouver ce numéro d'enregistrement 1356586. Faut-il le reporter et où ?

Cordialement

Joseph Raison

Bonjour et me pardonner pour l'usage d'un traducteur en ligne. Je pense que vous pouvez essayer d'atteindre cette compagnie : Ggcomputer.com. Nous à AboutUs sommes la compagnie d'a wiki qui est genre de comme annuaire de domaine. Voici leur page de contact : http://www.ggcomputer.com/contact.htm mieux, MarkDilley

Search Probs

Hey, just thought I'd let you know that the search-bar at the top of the page is leading me to a completely-blank page regardless of what I type (ie: the page loads completely but contains no HTML at all).
Hope that helps,
-70.101.92.179 13:15, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

"'Thanks for the tip! We have it fixed now, I hope! :-)

Revivetherepublic.com

Mark, I own revivetherepublic.com and recently made some changes to the "about us" listing. But the "about us" listing comes up as ReviveTherePublic.com rather than ReviveTheRepublic.com. Can you change that?

Kerry Morgan

Hi Kerry! I easily did it and you can learn how for the future, here at FixName. :-) Nice to have you here! Best, MarkDilley

robins house

Hi Mark, I allways liked this hp. But since more than one year there is no update. Do you know what has happened to the hp or to robin?

onlyme

Welcoming

Yeah, I will definitely do that. I didn't realize that made it a link they could visit, that's pretty sweet. And the IP thing I was just trying out, but if I do it again I will use that template.

Ciao~ KristinaWeis

Still looking for this?

User:Gilehery

Violation of Copyright

Using Copyscape I have found that one of the users of your site www.ask-the-fishing-coach.com has directly copied two of my site pages without contacting me, or asking permission. I get no response to e-mails, but find that there is a link to this site which seems to be promoting this illegal behaviour.

I am extremely annoyed that this individual can claim this 

content as his own, as it has taken me many years to compile it. In fact, of course, the illegal content is out-of-date as it is a constant maintenance effort on my part. But the Search Engines regard mirrored sites rather negatively, so not only is this person infringing my copyright, he is also penalising my ranking on the Search Engines.

I am not sure of your relationship through this website with 

ask-the-fishing-coach.com but I am sure that it is not in your interest to condone or encourage this sort of activity. I would be grateful if you could at least keep yourself on the right side of the law and not act as a promoter for thid individual.

The two pages of mine which have been copied are: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~cckhrb/fish_dealer.html http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~cckhrb/fish_cook.html

I would be grateful for your comments. Ken.

Hello Mark! I found my domain indexed by this wiki.. but I don't wish to have my contact information listed (my home address, email and etc) could you please remove this info? If possible, I would not like my domains here at all though.

My domains are seiyausagi.net and himeko.org

Thanks in advance..

Deleting my account

This site seems pretty dodgy, thats all. Can you please make this site more EASIER TO UNDERSTAND for new people?

Just please delete my account

Thanks

bug rack it replacement cartridges?

any replacement cartridges for sale? Tracy

I am learning to use Aboutus :-)

My real name Uriel Baesso do Prado, for google not to search my name real, nick Uriel Punk. My still bad English I go to improve. I wait to be helping Aboutus;) Grateful for the category...Uriel Punk|(אוּרִיאֵל Send ^Talk 15:16, 10 April 2007 (PDT)

thanks

no Skype :(

MSN

email real:

Grateful exactly for the aid...

I go to install skype again

Privacy Violation

Hi Mark,

I'm the owner of my little silly site mertkan.com My site is listed here, everything are ok except a silly detail! Whenever I go to history page I see my mobile phone number right there and I can't remove. How can I delete it as I didn't put it and I don't want it on there!

Can you remove it for me please ?

Best regards, Mertkan

e-mail:

I took care of it Mertkan.com TedErnst | talk

I've just checked, it's the same;

Could you please check out: http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=Mertkan.com&oldid=6041394

Thanks again, Mertkan

Hi Mertkan, that should work now.  :-) You might also want to make sure the number is not on your whois record currently. Best, MarkDilley

www.azhomestoday.com

Hi- I need some advice. I was the person who originally registered the web name azhomestoday.com. It expired and I don't know if it is possible to get it back, but........ my home address still appears on the info screen, this is all so confusing to me........ any advice?????????//// Tim Hester

Hello Mark Dilley

Thanks for your message. It is 07:00 local time in Israel, and it is about time to sleep. I should go to my office at 11:00 however I would love to have "a tour of the wiki". probably on weekend.

regards

Henryk

Pointers

Hey there Mark!

I'm wanting to polish up both websites that I have listed here, and was wondering if you could point me to a few pages that would lend me some inspiration.

Thanks! Redlake6

Highlight DailyBuzz

You wanted to talk to me about how to highlight the sites I mentioned on the DailyBuzz

What do you want to ask me?--Spacegeek4 21:14, 11 April 2007 (PDT)

You can IM me at my google talk account. Its spacegeek4.

Welcoming

IRC doesn't work for me at home, but is it cool if I welcome and do RC for the next hour or so until I get sleepy? p.s. Why are you up so late working?

Welcoming

IRC doesn't work for me at home, but is it cool if I welcome and do RC for the next hour or so until I get sleepy? p.s. Why are you up so late working?

Kristina

Can you check this out?

This user, Emilleelau, moved a page but the old JoyBachmann.com is actually a different Web site from noelbachmann.net so I think it shouldn't have been moved or that both pages should exist separately. I'm generally confused and not sure what I should be doing with this one. Thanks~ Kristina

changing history.

i.e. by editing existing facts and topics with those I insert. It appears that anyone can enter information into the about us pages, that, if unwatched, would be read and used by readers and understood to be factual.

That is what I mean.

I emailed Raymond King, and he says there is a function where interested parties (owners, etc.) could watch their page. But do you email the interested parties to inform them that an editable 'info' site is out in the open that discusses or describes their business or person?

Or are you editing all the listed sites once edited by external sources (like I edited your page, and you changed it back). That seems extremely time consuming...

you can email me at if you wish. Jon C.

Spiralgiant.com

Difficulty creating website pages with Australian domains

Hi. I wojuld like to create some pages for some Government and Education sites I manage. The auto-create tool doesn't seem to handle the domain names with four parts - eg www.sitename.nsw.edu.au or www.sitename.nsw.gov.au. Any ideas? If you want to check it and see, create a page for the site below ( I will edit the content once it is up). www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au

I also have a series of sub-domain sites that have the same problem - eg. amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au and k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au

I would like to create all of these and edit their content and link to them as a group from a directory page I manage. Cheers Lyndon

Please delete

Mark

Thanks for the replies, but please can you remove Spiritfolk.com from About Us and the relevant images; the website is a great idea but to be honest i don't have the time or energy chasing vandals that ruin my wiki page everyday; for some reason i have been picked on by someone since my wiki page was nominated.

Please can you remove

Many thanks

Dave

Ok, i'll give it a week

Mark

Thanks for restoring the page (spiritfolk.com), i'll give it a week and see what happens.

Thanks

Mark, I've got this one on my watch list. I'll be keeping an eye on it as well. Drew

ActiveMember

Hi, no problem, thank you! :) And how many category does AboutUs have? Bye-bye, katonal

Categories

Hi Mark,

I added a lot of categories to my PersonalPage. But I have a problem.

Why is many in red?

In these categories are the next text:

This is only a preview; changes have not yet been saved!

What time and how will be regular category a preview category? :)

Thx, Katonal

User contributions

Hey Mark,

I noticed that Brandon did a really cool thing on his "Person Page" since it's not a full "User Page" and doesn't naturally have the "User Contributions" link in the toolbox. He added a "What I'm Up To" section to his "Person Page" with a link to his "Special Contributions" list. I thought you might like to have something similar so that visitors to MarkDilley can also see all the great things you're doing as well. -- TakKendrick | Talk

Check it out...

You should be proud of me - check out my talk page and what I "borrowed" from you.

KristinaWeis | **message**

thanks for the reply for feudum.com

Thanks for your reply for the feudum.com issues

---

Zhu Zhe

My name

Hi Mark,

my name is Lajos Katona so I creat my username from Lajos Katona.

But in Hungary we use inverse order of names. :) My name is in Hungary

Katona Lajos. This is a very rare order to use names. :) I don't

know where so similar order still use. :)

Bye, Katonal

Cookies

Knock off sending this PC any cookies - your bull isn't appreciated - - - Osama bin Laden should deal with you "personally", end your nonsense now!

I understand your frustration, I don't like sites that do that either. However - AboutUs does not set cookies unless you ask for it. Let me know if this isn't clear. Best, MarkDilley

Remove from email

Please remove my email from this site and cancel log in. Thank you.

What is your email and login?

Tour??

I'm interested. I'm really courious if I'm doing the right things. Seem I have enter my comments through an edit. This is a bit different from normal threads. Anyway this looks like it works.

I have a few web sites. I'm calling them brother sites. All releated to each other. I've gone on this kick of creating access to all standards. Also having each category with its own domain name. Right now its just a hobby. I figure it will stew for few years. Who knows it may become something big. I'm in no real rush to start advertizing but there may be some in a few years.

Right now I just hope these sites can become a staple in each of the categories.

Thank you for the offer Mark.

BTW. Stan is just my symbol. You can call me Bill.

Tour II

Mark,

Don't let me stop you from what you need to get done. It sounds like you're pretty busy. You also seem to be in touch with quite a few people, noticing all the other entries. I still have to update all my other domains description and contact info as requested. I'm hoping to finish that this weekend. I check out WikiAnatomy also. Looks like you're getting pretty far with that.

One suggestion I might make is if you request someone to add Title, description, address, and contact info you may have a sample page with just that. I found all I need from a few different articles. Now I'm using my first one that Kasey approved to complete the rest of mine.

Bill

Chat

Mark,

I see you have AOL add StandardDevelop as a contact. This might be easier to communicate.

Earth Star Survival

Hello Mark, I am an Air Force Reservist from Pennsylvania and while I was activated for Operation Enduring Freedom my web site, EarthStarSurvival.com, expired and I am trying to figure out how to get it back. Earth Star Survival is a weekend side business of mine teaching wilderness survival to civilians, (free for Search and Rescue teams). It is my hobby and my passion and identity. I had a student who put the site together for me and I do not know much about web publishing but I do know about teaching these skills. My old site now links to aboutus. Could you please let me know what I can do to regain this site. Thank you for your help in this matter, Bob Collins Ambler, PA 215 654-9164

Updating my thumbnail vie of my site

Mark,

I can't see where DomainTools had its "queue thumbnail for update".

I need to update professionalstandards.net image.

Any suggestions?

Bill

Misunderstood Site?

Hi, I joined your site last night, but after going through steps to load my site, thinking the site would aid me in developing PHP ... I read something that said my site would now be for 'public use' once loaded, and that users could utilize it for whatever...? (See Below) By uploading or creating content here, you give us permission to use the content however and wherever we want as well.

I probably misunderstood that, but I tried to cancel out of the program and did not answer the email verification...my site is my business and do not wish for it to be for public use or for changes made. Can you verify that my site is now no longer available for your program? I was looking for help.

I am not a webmaster per say, but built my site on my own -- very tough, novice HTML... but need to add PHP login/register page, for customers to get into their accounts, and to secure my pages, etc. -- really cannot afford to hire anyone to do this for me right now...and need to find a PHP kit for free that works on my Yahoo account. Yahoo offers PHP MySQL but no Apache...any suggestions? Would appreciate any pointers?

thanks very much

emailed you

Domain Tool

Mark, I use DNSStuff.com. As to that IP, weren't we talking about blocking it? Drew

Changes to my User and AnyStandard

I see you have cleaned up my page even more. I think it has a much cleaner look. Nice job. I wish I was more html literiate. I tried the same on my portal but all the sections shifted. I'll just keep bouncing around to other articles and use their methods.

Thanks again, Bill

Talk

trying to get you on skype but no answer and you are not online. Found you under two names added as contact and tried to call. Trying to do a little bit more around the place and want to know how to handle certain stuff - it is 12:37pm CST Randy Penn

VT.edu

Mark, I put a "registered users only" protection on the VT.edu page for the moment. The spammers have been hitting that and one or two other .edu pages pretty hard the past few days. That's so opportunistic as to be in poor taste, so I figured we'd better semi-protect it for the time being. Drew

I like both those templates a lot. They can be very useful. Drew

Hi

Hi Sir,

I am Mr. Tawchu from Bhutan n wish to know regarding the sponsor of doing master.Please kindly response me in web site 

Thanking You, Tawchu

YES When we have reached our participation goals, I am a yes

ok my vote YES :)

I am studying SEO, therefore half it are of the AboutUs.

MarkDilley you have you tip Site Sk8.com.br to improve?

It is Pleasure in helping.

Yours truly Uriel Punk|(אוּרִיאֵל Send ^Talk 04:38, 27 April 2007 (PDT)

Thanks Mark

Thanks Mark for adding to my page. I'm still getting used to the wiki paradigm, and your edits served as a good learning example.

Thanks for Your Welcome Message

With regards to the tour.

How about 8pm today?

If not suggest another time.

John (John Cross 11:26, 27 April 2007 (PDT))

Sorry

I am trying to arrange the tour.

I have Yahoo account mawpa2002. Can you message me?

John Cross 12:34, 27 April 2007 (PDT)

I'm proud of myself...

Check out my badge thing on my user page. I figured one out for active members, but my city/states are still screwy.

KristinaWeis

A couple things regarding our AboutUs directory...

Hi Mark.

We have been attempting to standardize such things as the names and order of city, state/province, country, region etc. I have made a few edits to the badges in your profile. Hope they're ok -- if not, obviously, feel free to change them back or talk with me about them.

Also, could you please add your postal code as a badge before your city?

Thanks!

Looking forward to seeing you next weekend -- we should probably talk soon about logistics...

in community,

Habib

Yeah that looks good

I'm always surprised how many people put their e-mail as their username.

Sweet, duly noted and updated.

How can I make the badge on my PersonalPage appear in the top right instead of oddly at the bottom? Another question, I just tried to change the amount of recent changes from 500 to 5,000 by changing it in the URL bar or whatever like normal and the resulting page was blank save the gray background and this message: function getSearchbarValue() { return 'Enter a domain name or other phrase'; }

KristinaWeis

Oh yay!

That is beautiful! Thanks so much for making my personal page sparkly happy :)

The new way you're viewing wiki changes? I half understand...?

KristinaWeis

I like the name

RealPeoplePress.com TedErnst

Am I still welcome?

Hey Mark, haven't been around for ages I know. Been having trouble with a hacker getting into all my accounts, anyway.. am I still welcome here to patrol (I noticed my name has been removed from the list of patrollers)? MiCCAS 05:15, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

Oh Emp is fine, he helps to clean it up if I miss something and keeps an eye on it, its these anon people who keep editing it that we've had problems with.

Wiki Anatomy

I was planning to be there today, but got sick. But I am trying to remember what cards I had for the Wiki Anatomy thing so I can bust those out today (I must've left them there)...?

KristinaWeis

Hi Marks to Mark

Hello Mark,

In the "Areas of Interest" section you have, I noticed PeaceOrganizng and went to the link.

A website you might like to look at and add to your list is Wwunited.org - they seem to have an incredibly simple plan to fix the very basic needs, food, clothing, shelter, health care and basic education for all humanity- I signed the declaration- that's all they are looking for to make it happen- signatures- Of the People, By the People and For the People, it's very cool and so simple a solution it's always been overlooked.

Regards,

You can help! :-) Add a category to each wiki page that you think deserves it!

Still not seeing image of Page update

Mark,

You had mentioned that I could update www.ProfessionalStandards.net image with DomainTools.com.

The option of "queue thumbnail" is not on the page??

Any solution??

You're right. I don't see it either. —Nathan|(talk)10:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

On UpdateThumbnail I left a note saying that the thumbnail could only be updated weekly, looks like it is longer, I will change the page to reflect it to 3 weeks, and see what happens. Best, MarkDilley

Deleting then restoring seems to work just fine

I deleted the zip code 98115, created the preceding zip codes, then restored it. It seemed to work just fine, coming into the proper sequence. Yippee!

nicety

Mark, just wanted to thank you for the editor's touch, fixing my link like that. I think I could grow to love wiki...

ErisX

:-) - I hope you do! Best, MarkDilley

Change of URL

Hi Mark! My name is Carol and my domain name is CarolUnites.com. Unfortunately, I let the domain expire, registered through Network Solutions. (I know, not smart) and now I've tried to get it back...even pay for it, obviously I haven't offered enough. My question is way to retrieve a domain name I don't know about? Also, I do have a new name which is CarolUnitesArt.com and I would like to change my listing here to that if I can't retrieve my old one. This is driving me crazy because I have so many links going to CarolUnites.com!!!! Ahhh!! Thank you in advance for any help you can send my way. Carol

Hi Carol, this is an open edit wiki, so feel free to make any changes you want, I will place a note on the "old" one for now. Many people run into the problem that you describe because they are not familiar with how the domain name system works :-( - hope this works. Best, MarkDilley

Libelous content regarding Alterama, Inc.

Mark,

I have contacted you previously about libelous information regarding my company Alterama, Inc that appears on AboutUs.org. I want any reference to Alterama, Inc. taken down immediately. There is a disgruntled former employee posting inaccurate and libelous information about my company on your site. I am to understand that this is an open "wiki" and that I should be able to edit the information posted. Since I am not able to change the information posted about my company, I assume that AboutUs.org is taking full responsibility for the content and therefore my only option is to take legal action against AboutUs.org.

Teri Jansen

President

Alterama, Inc.

Hi Teri, I am looking into it now. I see that the wiki page was protected for logged in people only becasue of "Continued vandalism." I have unprotected it and would encourage you to respond to it in a communicative form. We encourage people to try and understand the new internet as a converastion and that people are going to have a difficult time suppressing information, right or wrong, and that the best way to deal with it is in a response that shows you in a better light. MarkDilley

Just a small note, Mark to say thanks !

Just a small note, Mark to say thanks : Thanks a bunch for the Cazania page edits, and especially the featuring thing ! Now look what you've done :)... you make us proud :) Best, Dan irismeister 13:42, 2 May 2007 (PDT)

The SavageHamsters Thank You

Mark - Thank you for the fine editing touches on the [[AboutUs]] type links, and thank you for the MouseMeadows.com page addition.

Best regards,
Wally Wilson | **message**

Hello Mark, yes I do create in Photoshop constantly. It's not the only medium I use but certainly it's the easiest (there is no 'undo' button with my oils! LOL). This was a photo that was taken with a Canon 350 D, then taken into Pshop and gently massaged. ;-P

I thought I'd take a moment and ask a simple question since I have you here (grinz)-- I am trying to add the AboutUs Badge to this page http://www.eris-x.com/conjunctions.html

The badge itself isn't showing up and I wonder if I'm misplacing it on the page, or if there's something else I should do. If you know the answer please let me know!

Have a great whatever-you're-having...

ErisX

First of all, let me ask- am I doing this the correct way? Should I click on 'leave me a message' to answer your messages to me? Or is there a more correct way to do it?

Eye candy: for my eye candy you have to travel deep into the bowels of the beast. Try going to the Visions section and head for Sigils and, if you want the deep background, try Sitework (more variety; sigils is a personal project that is ongoing and tends to follow certain rules of graphic presentation, whereas sitework is just approaches to graphic web design; everything under sitework was, at one time, a homepage).

Thanks for passing my question on to the right person, too!

And what mean, thinking in wiki? I have used Wikipedia (many times) but have never before actually participated in a wiki, it's definitely new to me. What's plural for wiki? wikii? wiki pronounced wik-eye? Hmmm. ;-P

ErisX

I love my website, it's my home in cyberspace. oh god that's so trite & cliche but so true for me. I try to encourage people to enjoy the space visually and because it's my home it's peculiar but likeable. Thanks for stopping by, come back soon. eris-x.com ;-)

I poked around the aboutus website a little, would love to take the tour with you. It'll have to wait til next week because of complications with my phone - but if you want I can instant message through gmail, and that might feel more natural to me. I hate trying to hold my cellphone to my head and type at the same time. (note to self: you really need to buy a handsfree!)

Here's what I grok so far: the concept of wiki encourages community ownership and participation. Very democratic. I like it. I can see how there will be moments when people make things difficult (I have run a few community based websites in my day - they were my life at the time) but there are people on board who know how to handle it, apparently. I think the idea of wiki, the effective use of it, requires maturity from the participants. It's not myspace. Thankfully.

I'm really looking forward to learning more!

EX

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." -Mahatma Gandhi

I just noticed my organization was listed here, so I updated the info. Good luck with the project. KPalicz 10:36, 3 May 2007 (PDT)

Good-aye Mark, thanks very much for in no way 'jumping on me for all my black and white with lack of links'. I am very glad I became convinced to sign-up on my way to find an anonymous way to claim ownership of a certain IP address with one of the caretakers I felt certain to find by going to the root of the page I just had to fiddle with upon sighting.

Looking at contributions to this wiki in general I feel quite welcomed simply not to be told off for just blundering on in. I am completely new to wiki but have at least some understanding of causing action through commands, your edits make it obvious that you are very wiki indeed.

Your suggestions accompanied by the ability to immediately implement almost all (is it actually all and I missed something) of them through the 'command-linked hypertext' you use in your extension of greeting to me is very cool. I would love to have your guidance and assistance in learning more about wiki as I think that a well monitored wiki like AboutUS.org is simply absolutely priceless, what a service to a global community!

If I find a donations/contribute money link I will click it, only meagre-ish circumstances right now, but I'm left with money I would put into this wiki. More likely just enough to keep the electricity to run the server for a day, rather than buy a new server machine, but I know how little drops can make a puddle.

I'm up to my armpits with stuff to do, I'm going to disregard other things I want done till I have something I'm willing for the world to associate with 'robsoles' visible at http://robsoles.getmyip.com till I can get something like www.(Can't say here now, will edit in actual preference once I know it's status for sure).net, I have to take some pictures and try to become pleased with how I'm laying them out for the world to see with appropriate text within the next week!

I've a wireless machine running http:80 and "own chatserver":2000 services to my LAN, only the chatserver is exposed at my gateway to the internet. The current HTML is very personal/family oriented and will be shifted to hidden for the site I will expose. I can prove the chatserver is there, and mine in every sense of the word, by sending you the client and registering you on my server, so don't tempt me (unless you mean it...). This machine is in an enclosure outside of our house and what we call the enclosure is what I hope to get the final url to reflect.

just in case you want to tempt me or something silly like that, I'll give you the address of my 'outlook' inbox if you send something to my hotmail. I always send using my outlook address when I recognise the email address (or am just sure of sender regardless address) that I recieve mail from that comes to my hotmail.

Think I'll go claim the spot for Robert David Thompson instead of Robert Thompson, I've had run ins with two other fellows named Robert Thompson and a near run in on another who could have been either of the other two. I like real people, I won't take their potential spots should they happen along...

Thanks for the heads up about becoming a real person on RealPeople.

thanks

hello...i just wanted to thak you for welcoming me in WIKI world and also for your generous offer for help...

best regards, Sadia Afzal

Go Timer

Sure, I'll help! Should we divvy up the task?

Also, not sure what's going on with this afternoon's meeting. I'm in a bit of a "situation" because my contracted hours are winding up... I need to hear from Ray...but if you'd like me to come in for it I'd be happy to.

Just let me know! Julia

DoneTimer

How about:

Your participating in creating the AboutUs AdultContentPolicy is greatly appreciated. A lot of progress has been made and we have reached our GoThresholds. We are thrilled to announce the start of the 48 hour DoneTimer.

This means you should return to the AdultContentPolicy and review any changes that may have been made since you last saw it.

• If you still approve of the policy, no action is needed.
• If you are unhappy with the policy as is stands you will need to make a change to it soon.

Any edit will reset the DoneTimer. (this is ok as it is part of the process)

This is a critical time for the success of the new AdultContentPolicy. Your continued participation is needed to make sure we make the best decision we possibly can make right now. Please do advocate for the best possible policy!

Best,

MarkDilley

Francesco

I can't get IRC to work from my house for the life of me, but he can leave me a message on my talk page or e-mail me...?

KristinaWeis

AdultContent

Thanks but no thanks. I'm mainly here to edit malicious web site entries. Thanks anyway though.

Regards, Geekosaurus 18:14, 5 May 2007 (PDT)

My fault probably

Hey Mark, I think I should scrutinize the help better than I have immediate time to. I don't think the incident merits chasing through the history, but if you insist at all, I'll do it. I went and read DeleteTest and the contents made me sure I need to study the help already on display before I go asking questions of people about stuff that is usually so well explained in help entries I've checked out. I consulted a mate on constructing a decent website and he is helping me integrate what I do in VB60 into ASP as he insists I should come out with own personal best result in terms of a website this way.

kind regards, again, I think it's me... robsoles.

Hi Mark,

I want to delete this page onetwo and I can't. I am hoping you could do it for me. Just want to see what happens when a page gets deleted. :)

Thanks, Athar

Redirects?

Did we not just discuss this in the office and say we weren't going to do this? Is it not extremely confusing if you were looking up your domain and it put you on VenusTV? Click on your AboutUs wiki page link from DomainTools.com and it takes you to a wiki page about VenusTV? Confusing and spammy. ScottKeeler | :::talk:::

Scott, we talked specifically about redirecting the body of ParkingLots to a single parking lot page. That is much different that redirecting a hosting companies page, which is identical to all its others, back to the hosting company. I have reverted your reverts of mine, because I have a system that I am working through. I will not work on it until we get a chance to discuss. MarkDilley

No, feel free to keep working on it. I was thinking we could make a template or badge to put on pages like that instead of redirecting. I'm curious how you found these though? ScottKeeler | :::talk:::

Hi Mark!

Thanks for all the help:) Looking forward to learning Wiki with you:) Best Regards, Obed Suhail

Cornholio

Mark, do you still have the website for the company that made the corn products at India4U?

Hello

Yes Mark you are right in pointing out that AdultContent should be separated from IllegalContent. I also agree that child porn solidly falls in the realm of illegal content. My concerns are removed. I was confuse only because I haven't come across a page which explicitly states that we are not going to host any illegal content such as ......

Hope you are done with the test and we can start patrolling now.

Asad Butt

Malware stuff

Hey Mark, thanks for pointing out that malware category. I recently discovered the malwaresite template; I'll look into the category thing as well.

And no problem with adding me to a category. :)

Geekosaurus 16:08, 8 May 2007 (PDT)

Thanks

Hi Mark,

It looks great.

Cheers, Athar

Reviews

Uh, dang. I can't remember, but it might be something Isabel knows. It was something like Reviews Need Patrolling...? Isabel actually started a page called CommunityReviewsFormatting that we are going to work on together and direct users to.

KristinaWeis

You mean this this, right? ;) — Nathan 03:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Page is finished - see InterWiki — Nathan ^(talk) / 07:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Reviews

I finished the CommunityReviewsFormatting and there's a link to the category as well - I remembered it!

KristinaWeis

Dunno how I landed there!

Hey Mark, I tried to populate a page named RCMazeracer but it somehow landed here. I don't want people to see 'robsoles.getmyip.com' as my site's URL for too long at all. I'm sure it's all easy enough for someone who has practised this stuff to fix. Catch you, any which way, robsoles is Rob Thompson.

If you don't mind me jumping in, it doesn't look like "RCMazeracer" is a fully qualified domain name (which is why the page was moved). There needs to be a .com, .net, .org or similar at the end. It's not usual to post entire entries on one individual webpage. Post the whole domain name here and we can get started creating your domain page. Best, — Nathan ^(talk) / 06:42, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see what you're trying to do, you're trying to add a page about your game. Mark can explain things a bit better than I can. — Nathan ^(talk) / 07:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Note to Mark: Discussion moved to here. — Nathan ^(talk) / 08:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

AdultcontentPolicy

hey Mark, thanks for inviting me to participate, looks like i missed the deadline. I've been busy with other things, sorry about that. I do think its a good idea and i would have voted Yes. We need to protect children/minors. I hope you have been well man. You guys are doing a great job with Aboutus. have a good one! John

Digital Libraries, French, English, and otherwise

Europeana.eu - the French contribution to the "European Digital Library" project http://gallica.bnf.fr/ - French National Library http://books.google.com/ - Google Books

Google books is easiest to use ;) so try that one first for an idea of how these online archives work.

enjoy!

Remember, this is all part of the bigger project of creating a Mother Brain for organizing Freelance Writing!! Pete

Also: www.ubu.com - UBUWEB Big Archive out of New York, full of art, music, literature, etc. from throughout the 20th century. Lots of downloadable media, lots of avant garde stuff, rare stuff, poetry. William Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Mick Jagger, Samuel Beckett, Guy Debord, on and on and on and on. Name is a reference to Pere Ubu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_ubu).

Also: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Accueil - Wikisource, an online library on a wiki platform (this one's mostly in French)

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - Project Gutenberg, one of the oldest online libraries, in a bunch of different languages

thinking about patrolling and welcoming and everything else

Mark,

I've been thinking about this, and about how much time/energy/effort goes into "zero unpatrolled edits." I'm thinking that to engage non-staff sysops, having unpatrolled edits is good. In fact, I'd suggest that more staff effort towards welcoming and less towards patrolling will lead to more non-staff patrollers. Just a thought.

peace, TedErnst

j4ydh

Hi Mark,

Sorry this is late, I think you wanted to chat about some ideas?

Regards J4YDH

Blood

I'm trying to prove a point to my friends. We were having a discussion about the colour of blood and why is blood red if you cut yourself or if blood is removed via needle. I tryed to tell them that blood is blue but all's I got was laughs. Please respond to . If you could include a detailed discription that I could forward to them to educate them on the topic: colour of blood and how it changes colour's when exposed to oxygen. This would be greatly appreciated thank Marco Ciriello.

Blood is still red. See Wikipedia entry about blood. Nathan ^(talk) / 01:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Nscaol.com

Can you take a look at this article for me, please? The edit history is a bit perplexing - a pile of related IPs making additions to related sites, then removing them, then adding other things, then removing them..it happens seemingly every hour non-stop. I have no idea what the user's trying to do here and I've even tried to leave them a little note (went unnoticed). Thanks, Nathan ^(talk) / 13:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

UpdateThumbnail

A guy named Brian (User:Winxpguy) left me a message on my talk page asking about updating the thumbnail on his wiki page and I directed him to the page UpdateThumbnail and when he couldn't get that to work he asked me to do it for him and when I went to I also could not follow the instructions to complete it... I am in between classes now, could you help him if you get a chance and let me know what I missed?

Thanks Kristina 16:01, 24 May 2007 (PDT)

wiki signs

Hi Mark! Thanks for the message.

In terms of wiki signs, I don't think we have a section for that on wikiHow. It's something that I've talked to KnowItSome and Flickety (Felicity) about and in discussion it will be like "I did this and that makes sense because I am a [insert wikisign here] as I started at wikiHow in [insert month here]. For example, I started at wikiHow in mid-December of 2005 making me a wikiSagittarius and oddly enough that sign is compatible with my actual birth sign (Aries).

We should have something about wikisigns in the namespace (sort of like wikimedia commons does with the wiki moods tool) and we probably should make userboxes for it on wikiHow as well. NicoleWillson 17:16, 24 May 2007 (PDT)

Subdomains

Strictly speaking, domains that are subordinate to cities aren't subdomains. They are assigned by the *.ca or *.us registrar, just like any other *.ca or *.us domain.

Can you manually add www.town.truro.ns.ca and www.cfsc.ottawa.on.ca to the queue for your bot to index, or is it necessary to create the article itself manually?

Individual federal government departments in Canada have their own domains under .gc.ca, and possibly regional or functional subdomains as well. Could you add ic.gc.ca

Also, could you please provide somewhere a shell of a listing with all the possible headings? If I am creating a listing from scratch, I can use an existing listing as a shell, but this isn't an ideal solution. --Iapetus 11:53, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Just opinion: Not only ic.gc.ca should be added, but anything .gc.ca. The idea would be letting any government department have a page, not just one specifically. Ditto for .on.ca, .bc,ca, .sk.ca, .nf.ca, .qc.ca, etc. ;) Nathan ^(talk) / 19:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

RealPeople Considerations

No problem. wikiHow is a little different in terms of how you sign things (on some documents there I'm Elocina and others I'm Nicole Willson), so thanks for pointing this out. NicoleWillson 11:57, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Re: User talk:CatherineMunro

Hi Mark, thanks for the welcome. I am a new-ish staff member at Wikia, and a longtime editor at en.Wikipedia; Angela at Wikia brought the UniversalEditButton to my attention and I thought I might have something to contribute. Still getting my head around the consensus mechanism, but I look forward to more interesting discussion. Best wishes! CatherineMunro 14:01, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Just popped in

Hey Mark, I got my domain name and have something there I feel ok about having on display. I just made a wiki entry for robsfreespace.com which I will update as I add categories to my site. I invite your feedback, tips, advice or suggestions (especially critique if you have any) on both my wiki entry and my site - I completely understand if you will only respond regarding my wiki entries, indeed I haven't checked how that 'adult content policy' business is going and I understand if you can't respond very quickly at all. Best wishes - robsoles.

(Late add:) Thanks for what I see as a very kind review Mark, I hope to make it a very cool place indeed. I sent an email from my new domain to your gmail, if you can't find it please let me know. Best regards, robsoles.

NY Limo People

They're baaack..... Up to the same blanking and vandalism again. User talk:69.123.97.252 I told Nathan, so he's aware too. Drew

Hi

EdgeCC.co.nz I'm laughing so much. Just look at the statement that the "bot" chose to display, from the website.. I'm dying here. It's so funny! Di 19:04, 29 May 2007 (PDT)

DispiracyTheory

Mark, I deleted this and then restored it because I was unsure. Looks like a Wikipedia-type page, but I don't know if it's part of a project, so I decided to let you take a look at it. I'm just not sure about allowing stuff unrelated to the web or websites to remain. DrewMyers | talk

Hey Mark..It's a church..so maybe it's just my Kiwi [1]humor But this looks very funny to me

From the website:If you would like to make regular financial contributions, please contact the office etc

-Not really the main purpose a church exists Laughing Di 19:21, 29 May 2007 (PDT)

Added logos with single color text

Mark, I added two variations with single color text on the design page. Also, I understand the similarities between BP and these marks, but I'm not sure we're "almost there." I think the two marks are significantly different from each other. ..and I don't even like BP.

Cool...keeping it cool!

Hey thanks for the link. Seems like wikihow folks are pretty cool. It's a good statement. Hope to see AboutUs go that route! What do you think?

ToDo

Template:HighTraffic

Portal question

I had a question about the creation of portals such as in Category:AboutUsPortal. What is the requirements/rules/guidelines to start one? Thanks. --Tretter 10:20, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

I think I can probably manage on my own, I just wondered if there was any set guidelines or rules for them. I did see the template, etc. :-) Tretter 14:04, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

One headlight

Hey Mark,

I do have an extra bike headlight. Looks like it's never been opened. Will try to remember to bring to the office tomorrow.

Tak

Remove AlwaysWelcome.co.za

Just to inform you.

We closed our Guesthouse. Can you please remove our contact details. The web site is also not active anymore.

Thank you very much.

Carli

You need to e-mail from the registered contact e-mail address for your domain. Nathan ^(talk) / 19:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Message

This is my real name. As for states, I would use capitals too. In what were you referring? Tretter 11:24, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

You can move them if you want, I don't think it matters really either way. The bot typically messes them up. I don't know if she has a page, I haven't seen one, but I haven't looked for one either. I'd love to have more green editors here, we could really spruce up the portal. I only did a basic amount on it for the time being. --Tretter 11:46, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

With your help, we may be able to get Portal:Green Party up to feature status. Tretter 11:57, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

I removed the DetroitGreens.org and the other sub-state level green link, because I think it'll be too overwhealming if we put every city/county/disrict in. I think if we want something like that, people from each country or even state could create their own portals like was done with LASIK. Tretter 12:03, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

I'm actually Kristel's brother, Peter. I manage her website, and worked on the wiki article. :) Tretter 12:12, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

I like the idea of state/province chapters having good wiki articles. I'm about to start a portal for the Green Party in Canada. Tretter 12:12, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

It is a little convoluted, but in Canada, the federal and provincial parties are separate. They have no direct link except common members and common messages/causes.

un-uploaded images

Hey Mark, I too have noticed that some images seem to missing. I believe they were on the images server at one time, but later 'disappeared'. I've also noticed that we seem to have many of them on our backup server. I've been planning to write a process which looks for missing image errors from our logs and checks to see if we have them in our backup. I'll try to get that done sooner, especially since you guys have been seeing this. I hope that the missing images disappeared from a one-time event (maybe a network or configuration error - that's my suspicion). --Michael 09:49, 8 June 2007 (PDT)

I found over 15,000 images which should have been on the images server but weren't (we have at least 500,000 total). After digging around, I identified a couple causes and fixed them. Then I copied all the images that we had on the backup server (and other places) and now there are only 4 images I can't account for (see below). If you encounter more, please let me know. --Michael 15:49, 8 June 2007 (PDT)

• Image:Logo-annuaire-royaume-uni-com.gif
• Image:Logo-ayalacentercebu-com.jpg
• Image:LASIKPortal.png
• Image:Logo-marksuzi-com.jpg

Categories

Mark, Remember the category edits for MediaMuslim.Info from a few months back? There are some more in these contribs. I can't remember what we decided back then. Drew

Wikiman232

He's already vandalized your user page, and continues to add nonsense here and there. Now he's started an edit war over his vandalism of Nathan's page. I left him a block warning on his user page. If he doesn't cool the childish behavior, we might have to give him a timeout. DrewMyers | talk 12:50, 9 June 2007 (PDT)

HTTP redirects

Hi,

What should I do when a website redirects to another? I.e. http://e-normy.com/ redirects (HTTP 301) to http://enormy.pl/

May I put #REDIRECT[[eNormy.pl]] in E-Normy.com?

– Rozek19 (talk?) 13:39, 10 June 2007 (PDT)

If you don't mind me answering, yes that's how it works. Just delete everything in the page and add that redirect. Nathan ^(talk) / 20:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi Mark. I think I 'll have to revert these spam hit pages manually, may be sometimes to the bot generated version. Thanks for informing me. Waiting for "rollto" to work! Asad Butt

Regarding Portal:ConsensusPolls

Hi Mark, I have added a Related Links box to the portal page and added ConsensusPolling.org to it. Is that what you were looking for? Best Regards, Obed Suhail

BareCoeds.com

I changed this listing: BareCoeds.com about a week ago and discovered today that it listed my name and address again. I never owned this domain and I have changed it to the real owner again. The reason this is of concern to me is when someone searches my name it comes up on the first page in Google and I do not want to be associated with adult content. Please make sure this doesn't happen again..

Your community is very nice by the way. I love wikis.

Live In Abundance, Nick Template:unsigned

I will post this on both pages. I thought I'd answer myself. What you want to do is revert back to the version of page that doesn't have your info on it. Don't just paste an entire Whois listing on the page, as that completely ruins the DomainPage's layout (you've now removed title, description, thumbnail, etc from the page). I've reverted the page back while keeping your changes.

I see the edit by the bot with your contact info but I don't see any correction. I see an edit by User:Nj blanking (vandalising) the page with the word "hello" (in which case, an admin was right to revert that change). If this was you and you would've have changed the contact info with an explanation in the edit summary, nobody would've batted an eye. Best, Nathan ^(talk) / 04:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Mark, I would like to have a Skype call with you; let me know when it will be convenient for you. Have a great day!:-) Obed Suhail

network weavers

Mark, I haven't gone back to edit NetworkWeavers:FlexingOurCollaborationMuscles any more, but was talking with BrandonSanders about your organizing idea and have a new plan to interview the network weavers: Projects:NetworkWeaversNetwork - it's not fleshed otu on the page yet, but I'm starting anyway - the idea is to focus on what they're working on individually, get that on their pages, and start interlinking - the ways network weavers can support each other will bubble out of that, rather than coming top-down, this is a new network with new work we're asking you to do. What do you think? TedErnst

New Active User

Hey Mark- not sure if you've seen the great work User:PenguinPete has done- check out Apple.com,Lear.com. Kasey 11:06, 14 June 2007 (PDT)

You have my real name and my address which isn't on my current whosis

None of that info has been on my whosis since I had any understanding of what blogging is about

Do you understand the ramifications of publishing an address and name? It isn't in the public domain. I am contacting you because I can't find anybody else

Pia Savage courtingdestiny.com

WikiAnatomy and consensus polls

Hey Mark, I see you removed the consensus poll stuff. Is that because it was all redlinks or something else? Brandon and I thought it would give the rest of the staff more buy-in on the whole consensus polling if they saw it being worked on, and they could be working on it as well. Seems you have a different idea? Could we talk about it? peace, TedErnst

You're probabbly really busy with stuff which is why you didn't leave a note somewhere about this removal. No worries. We'll work on the tour on the project page for consensus polling awareness instead. I still wish there were some way for us to be in closer communications. Hope you're well, my friend. peace, TedErnst

Hey Mark, as you know, sometimes my reptile brain hears "You're stupid." But not this time.  :-) I did see your edit summary that you were removing consensus polling tour, I just didn't know why, that's all. The tours moved "below the fold" aren't being worked on, but the CP tour is. It was only on the WikiAnatomy page for a day or two. You're absolutely right that this kind of thing should be worked out on the project page. Maybe it would be good to link to the project page in the EditSummary? Just a suggestion. Also, I really do long for clear priorities coming out of the PlanningGame at some point. Maybe? :-) Anyway, I hope 3:15 today is good for you. I'll also be on the el from about 4 until 5:15 your time, so if later for you is better, cool by me. peace, TedErnst

Storyteller's Bazaar

Hello Mark,

Have you paid a visit to TheStorytellersBazaar yet? If not, please do. It's jam packed with all sorts of writing activities. Read some of the contributions and hopefully they will inspire you to contribute too. The more you contribute the better the site will become. Come and have a look and enjoy. Tanwir Shah

Weekend availability.

Hey Mark, sorry I wasn't available much this past week. Our cable line severely degraded over the weekend has was finally fixed this morning. (Sounds like time for DSL)

I would like to talk about the image I uploaded and see what we can work out in regards to 'Labeling' the immoral/illegal websites.

Thanks - CertGuard

My domain name is askew

Hi Mark

I am new to "About Us" I entered my domain name "www.PrimeSourceComl.com" and it populated it ok however PrimeSourceComl.com became www.primsOUrCEomL.com or something like that. How do we fix it so it reads correctly as "www.PrimeSourceComl.com"

Thanks for the help!

Terry

• I moved the page to PrimeSourceComl.com as User:Tdbarone requested. --Iapetus 13:13, 22 June 2007 (PDT)

Portals

Hi Mark,

Julia asked me to go through the category and remove any portals that aren't portals. All of the portals I deleted either had zero content or they had very little content and promoted one website alone. Sorry for removing the Category:AboutUsPortal tag from PortalPatterns.org. My understanding was the the AboutUsPortal tag was only for portals, not sites about portals, but I can see why I was wrong. I messaged everyone whose portal I removed so if anyone has any questions, they can contact me. If you would like to revert any of my changes, you understand the community better than I do, so please be my guest.

Ciao,

Blake

IRC

Nathan left me a comment on my UserTalk page regarding the IRC, would you like to have a read and let me know what you think and if we should switch to a new system - reply on my userpage please. Miccas 17:14, 27 June 2007 (PDT)

when are you back?

Hey Mark, missing you.  :-) When are you back, or at least, when might we squeeze in a phone call in an airport somewhere? TedErnst

Hello

I have a number of domains that come up when a search is done for my last name. The domains that come up I dont own anymore so I wanted to know if there was a way, you could delete them off my name, as I have kids at school and the names are adult related domains with my whois info directly available to anyone that searches my name.

So my question is, can I opt to not be on your pages at all, or can I get you to delete the ones that I dont own????

Please let me know what I can do as I dont need to see these domains when I do a search for my name

thanks

Justin Australia