User talk:Raven in Orbit
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welcome to my talk page. New entries at bottom.
/Mats
Contents |
[edit] Archives
[edit] Canadian Encyclopedia links
Hey, Raven in Orbit This is my first time using the User talk, so please excuse any etiquette blunders. Yes I am adding a number of links to the Canadian Encyclopedia (CE), but they are all absolutely on topic. A professor friend complained to me that her students just went to Wiki to look up a Canadian author and no further. As a Canadian this irritated a bit, but more than that, as someone that whose job it is to sift and find information on the online and beyond, I know that information should be a web (if your intention is to make information available to all, and not protect market share). Wikipedia has become THE information portal and if it does not allow other open, free, reliable, unbiased information sites to link off its pages then it will not be supporting the free flow of information, but hoarding market share. To approach "knowing" something you need to use many different sources. Wiki should not be about stranggling other sources, but promoting them.
Do we want to be Microsoft or Google? Because Wiki is now the elephant in the room.
I am new to Wiki and so if my link edits should be done differently, please let me know. I have been adding a link to the CE itself in each link, I thought it looked more professional (it is graphicly better blue-black-blue) and it was a common style, but if this reeks of spamming, I would happily stop. I have been trying to assess the usefulness of the links on the link list and then place my link appropriately, but again I am new to Wiki, so please let me know if my placements suggest bias. If I misunderstand the Wiki philosophy please tell me how? Thanks for your interest Noahand (talk) 15:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
- Answered on User talk:Noahand.
- / Raven in Orbit (talk) 22:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The Canadian Encyclopedia
Hello Raven in Orbit, I think I am doing this right now. Thanks for the heads up. Although I work with computers, play on computers, access most of my news and information with computers, I don't actually like computers, and so when I encounter a new system on the computer (in this cases the Wiki system) I never spend enough time immersed in the system before I start poking around, sorry.
I reviewed your E. D. Blodgett link, and I can see that this type of edit brings to Wiki the connectivity that is so important, while not seeming to be just links dropped in. I will try to keep that in mind in my future edits.
Thanks for furthering my Wiki education Noahand (talk) 18:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- Answered on User talk:Noahand
- / Raven in Orbit (t|c) 20:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Signpost updated for May 2nd and 9th, 2008.
 |
|---|
|
|
||
| Volume 4, Issue 18 | 2 May 2008 | About the Signpost |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| Volume 4, Issue 19 | 9 May 2008 | About the Signpost |
|
|
||
|
|
|
| Home | Archives | Newsroom | Tip Line | Single-Page View | Shortcut : WP:POST |
|
|
|
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 06:06, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Stockholmsgator
Hej, kan du inte glömma peddotramset nu och komma tillbaka till svwp och skriva alla fina gatuartiklar om Stockholm där också? Du är saknad. /Grillo (talk) 10:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
- Why not bring it up where my case was discussed on that wiki?
- / Raven in Orbit (talk) 21:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Johannes Vermeer
This is an explination for my recent edit. I went through the history of those vandals you where fighting, and came to the conslusion that some may have slipped through. so I found the page that was prior to all that crap and switched it back, only to find that you did a great job (and only one thing was different). long story short, my edit was useless after all, and kutos on your vandal fighting.Coffeepusher (talk) 14:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. Actually, I was wondering what that edit was about.
- Happy editing
- / Raven in Orbit (talk) 14:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Circus article
Hey, Raven - clearly this guy SimplyCircus just wants to rant since he seems unwilling to make any constructive edits. We've both stated our positions pretty clearly. I don't intend to reply to him since I feel he is wasting my time at this point. I'll watch the talk page, but if you'd like me to weigh in on something just shoot me a note. I'll revert his edits if he reinserts his website links as EL's. Interesting you're in Sweden - I'm in US-Virginia. It's great that Wiki collaboration is so worldwide. Thanks Bob98133 (talk) 18:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- I've made a last attempt (again) to make him contribute to Wikipedia. Lets hope he'll understand why anyone can edit this place. However, I don't think there is any risk of edits wars in this case.
- Yes, without geeks from various corners there'd be no freaky contributions around. :)
- / Raven in Orbit (t|c) 20:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Signpost updated for May 12th, 2008.
|
|
|---|
|
|
||
| Volume 4, Issue 20 | 12 May 2008 | About the Signpost |
|
|
||
|
|
|
| Home | Archives | Newsroom | Tip Line | Single-Page View | Shortcut : WP:POST |
|
|
|
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 09:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Signpost updated for May 19th and 26th, 2008.
|
|
|---|
|
|
||
| Volume 4, Issue 21 | 19 May 2008 | About the Signpost |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| Volume 4, Issue 22 | 26 May 2008 | About the Signpost |
|
|
||
|
|
|
| Home | Archives | Newsroom | Tip Line | Single-Page View | Shortcut : WP:POST |
|
|
|
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 06:55, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Signpost updated for June 2, 2008.
|
|
|---|
|
|
||
| Volume 4, Issue 23 | 2 June 2008 | About the Signpost |
|
|
||
|
|
|
| Home | Archives | Newsroom | Tip Line | Single-Page View | Shortcut : WP:POST |
|
|
|
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 07:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: wikipedia is not a joke
What are you talking about? I did no such thing. Bobisbob (talk) 17:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- My bad, sorry about it. I removed images from both Anus and Penis and I apparently mixed various contributors up.
- / Raven in Orbit (t | c) 18:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
