User talk:User4

Also when you have questions about editing add to your user talk page. It's better:) --Etenne 14:58, 27 February 2014 (GMT)

Please see: http://en.boywiki.org/wiki/Category_talk:Encyclopedia

user4

Lets talk here. Use the user page just for discussing article content.

Some of this will become apparent to you as you get better at this video game:)

Connor set up the BoyWiki:Agora but I have never used it since no one ever wants to talk to me:)

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I don't want to talk to you, I want to fuck mess with you a little, and get this place working. ;- )

I mean, I'm a "quick study" (have you noticed?) but for others trying to edit here, I can see them giving up pretty quickly. :- (

So, what's with the http://en.boywiki.org/wiki/Category_talk:Encyclopedia index? I don't want to waste my time (like it's so valuable, you know)

user4

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I have BoyWiki set up in zones. Therefore Acolyte Press‎ is in Index > Entertainment > Literature > Publishing houses

So how come this page does not show up in:

https://en.boywiki.org/wiki/Category:Encyclopedia

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It's in Category:Publishing houses

That come to something I was just about to tell you. When adding pages from Newgon, you need to edit the categories at the bottom of the page and add it to the correct BoyWiki category. Our categories are different than theirs. Once you have been doing this for a while, it will become second nature to you. A year and a half ago, I had never even seen a wiki before:)

--Etenne 14:52, 27 February 2014 (GMT)

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Uh... uh... uh...

Etenne - folks come here without knowing much about the wiki. I seriously doubt that someone is going to search through all available categories when they want fast info. They will start with the encyclopedia. If they don't find what they are looking for, they will leave. I suggest that a way should be found that entries appear in the encyclopedia as well as in whatever minor category they also may belong in.

"Common sense is an uncommon commodity." -- some famous guy, maybe M. Twain

user4

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That's what the search function is for:) Everything can't be in one category. The bigger the wiki gets the more and more specialized each category gets. Ref: go look at how Wikipedia is set up.

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We are not Wikipedia, with millions of articles. With luck, we will have a few thousand (and that's with a lot of luck!) I strongly feel we need a central index - people are not always smart enough to search correctly. You saw Kristofor's response? (Thanks for advising him.) He doesn't know how to search archive.org - the posts didn't "magically become available again when they weren't a month ago" - no, they were there all along. But I did the search correctly.

As for BoyWiki, please see: http://www.newgon.com/wiki/Category:Official_Encyclopedia ... with 360 pages. It is quite manageable - even if there were 2000 entries it still would be manageable. And clear, and easy. So could be BoyWiki, couldn't it?

"Redundancy provides for a variety of access, as well as merely being redundant." - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

user4

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I don't have a problem if you want to add a category like that, so long as everything is organized. When the upgrade happens, we will be able to do more because we will have collapsible categories like Newgon.

--Etenne 16:03, 27 February 2014 (GMT)

Yeah, if you get CategoryTree. Leucosticte 03:26, 27 March 2014 (GMT)

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Editing an article - easy! Adding an article - hmm, took me a minute to figure out. Adding a category - uh... I guess I could figure it out, but how about a hint? ;- )

user4

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at the bottom of an article you see [[Category:Category name]] that adds it to that category.

To make a New category you just add the [[Category: new category name]] to the bottom of a page ( then every page on BoyWiki that you want added to that category.) The new category will appear as a red link so you have to go to that page and hit save. All so add {{CH}} which adds the category header:)You add the category description in the same way as you would add text to a page.

--Etenne 16:20, 27 February 2014 (GMT)

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Thanks. I'm going to take a break for awhile, and do something different. Like eat. Maybe even sleep. After all, I do have to follow the doctor's orders, and do those stupid things sometimes.

So, see ya later.

--user4

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Let me know which pages you no longer need (or plan to use) and I will delete them.

Etenne 11:03, 21 March 2014 (GMT)

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User4 account

I created an account, User4, for you over at CW. Let me know what password you would like to use. Thanks, Leucosticte 05:27, 26 March 2014 (GMT)

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@ Leucosticte

OK. No problem.

@ Etenne

I'll let you know.

Patience is a virtue.  :- )

User4 05:56, 26 March 2014 (GMT)

Images

I've been thinking of how to set up a system for uploading images to sites like these, without requiring people to email the images to someone. Maybe an image escrow system could be set up in which the images can't be viewed until they've been approved by a sysop. It seems like I saw an extension that did that; however, I tried to find it and got lost in the matrix. Leucosticte (talk) 09:53, 5 April 2014 (CEST)

Maybe this?

https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Uploads

Or a google search would find the information?

https://www.google.de/search?q=wiki+images+restrict+upload+template&btnG=Suche&hl=de&gbv=1

(Sorry - I really don't understand this stuff yet - maybe the above is irrelevant.)

User4 (talk) 10:31, 5 April 2014 (CEST)

PmWiki is a whole different wiki software. Yeah, I did a keyword search for "image" on the matrix, then went halfway through with a search for "file" and then went to bed, so there's still more poking through the matrix to do, plus I can search the extension namespace. Leucosticte (talk) 18:12, 5 April 2014 (CEST)

ChildWiki

Hey User4, I took down ChildWiki but I still have a copy on my localhost. If there's any content you need to retrieve, let me know. Or I can do a dump of the whole database and give that to you. Thanks. Leucosticte (talk) 20:43, 13 July 2014 (CEST)

note to self

It's very easy to make some words **bold** and other words *italic*. You can even [link to Google!](http://google.com)

It's very easy to make some words **bold** and other words *italic* with Markdown. You can even [link to Google!](http://google.com)

[code]

1. This is an

   tag

[nowiki]## This is an

Anti-gay quote

There's a quote somewhere, by David Thorstad or someone, saying that in this day and age, he almost feels like being anti-gay, because of how the gay rights movement is acting. It was a line in an essay or email or something. Have you ever seen it? Thanks, Leucosticte (talk) 01:58, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Uh, yes. Somewhere. And I have a copy on disk, I'm almost sure. Somewhere...

Ah, but where? Searching my saved materials for the keyword "Thorstad" will give thousand of hits. Hoo, boy...

My FireFox is maxed out at the moment (it's using half a gig of my computer memory, and my CPU is going crazy with all the other processes running... Have you tried googling:

Thorstad ashamed gay rights

OR

Thorstad gay rights site:nambla.org

OR

Thorstad ashamed gay rights site:nambla.org

... or something along that line?

I really wouldn't mind helping, but my computer is super maxed-out at the moment...

If you can wait a few days, I can work by "google search magic" when I am forced to reboot because my Windows (as it will) goes crazy, and try to find it for you.

Aw, fuck it! I did the googling myself. Now my cursor is acting all funny - lack of memory...

Anyway, maybe what you want is here:

http://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.htm

Search the page for "gay rights"...

Hoo, boy... there goes a little more of my RAM to FireFox... Sheesh!

RE: COPY OF CHILDWIKI

I can't access Google Docs. And, as you say, without a running Wiki installation, it is probably worthless. If you can, I suggest you put the wiki up somewhere temporarily, then run some website-downloader program -- Windows Website Downloader comes to mind, but there are others -- and save a copy of the wiki to disk. This makes browsing the wiki really easy. It's great!

BTW - Nice to see you back at BoyWiki! When I have the time, I'd like to make some suggestions about BW improvements...

User4 (talk) 03:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Categories

I created Category:Scientific literature‎ for you which is a sub-category under literature. You are free to create any sub-categories you like so long as you think you will have enough entries to populate them.

It just a question of adding {{CH}} to the page and adding the new sub-category to the main category where it belongs and hitting save. --Etenne (talk) 13:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)