User talk:Craigbutz

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 17:45, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] School Project

I have some concerns about your students' projects. As a freely accessible, user-editable website, not only is it possible your students' work will be editted by other users or by each other, it has already happened. Also, it would be nice if your students used the Wikipedia conventions to link to other related topics via the [[]] tags around important words, used '' and ''' for italics and bolding, etc. Please see some other peoples concerns at School Project. Thanks! - UtherSRG 15:35, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) ⊙

Craig,
It's a simple matter to create sub-pages. One need simply make the link for where you want the page to be, then edit it. For instance, let's say we wanted to move this discussion to a sub-page of your talk page. Since your talk page is User talk:Craigbutz, I can create a sub-page at User talk:Craigbutz/School Project. After I save this edit, I can then enter into the new link and edit there. You could have a whole tree of pages off of any page: User:Craigbutz/School Projects and User:Craigbutz/School Projects/Session 1 (and Session 2, Session 3, etc) and User:Craigbutz/School Projects/Session 1/John Doe. An alternative would be for your students to create their assignements as sub-pages off of their own page. To keep track of their assignments, you could continue to keep the tree I described above (down to the Session level) and then link to your students work sub-pages from there. Many options! Use what works best for you. I think you've created a really neat project, now that I understand it better.

I'm guessing you had to prepare your students not just for writing on Wikipedia, but also the nature of writing in a public venue, as well as some Wiki elements like italics and bolding. Sub-pages can make the writing more private. One of the further benefits to using sub-pages and the (relative) privacy sub-pages engender is the ability to more slowly bring new Wiki elements in to play after some of the initial writing has begun.

Best of luck to you and your students. I do not envy the task you have set for yourself, but I think your students are luck to have you.

Sincerely,
UtherSRG aka Stacey Greenstein

And once such a personal subpage has grown into a valid article it can be easily moved into the main namespace, with all the editing history kept - just use the "Move this page" link. andy 10:37, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I've moved the Eyebrow makeover article to your user space as it was suggested on VfD that this be deleted. If it becomes encyclopedic, you can move it back the main namespace. It is now at User:Craigbutz/Eyebrow makeover. Angela. 19:50, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Zeer pot

Hi. Hope you don't mind, but I merged Zeer pot into Pot-in-pot refrigerator. It's a very cool device which I only recently discovered. In case you find more things like this that are useful for the 3rd world, I'll let you know that there is now a category for such things: Category:Appropriate technology.

btw good on you for getting your students into Wikipedia. Cheers, Singkong2005 00:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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