User talk:Onoreno

Just started fooling around, and was looking for some easy stuff to learn the system with. I've got a book on my desk, "The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy" by Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich. I noticed that it isn't mentioned on Si Kahn's page. Elizabeth Minnich isn't found.

So how to start? First, conventions for titles, also ISBN reference, then thoughts on who much to summarize the book. Then should I think about categories?

So, what might be intesting work with a few hours per week? I'm not a subject expert in any area, but have a good background, and a reasonable ability to write. Neutrality and encyclopedic style might be a bit more work to reach that stage of quality, but I may be willing to take a shot.

I've been looking around, and find the new user information way too detailed for general use. (You REALLY need this stuff cut to a bare minimum. I.E. How to make simple edits, (A type or two of common edit needs, 'along with' a link to the list needing this kind of editing.) How to author a simple article. (Perhaps with a template of common tags already loaded, such as review requested, wikify, stub, etc. Indicate in comments what would justify taking out the common indicators such as cleanup spelling, cleanup links, etc.)

This looks like it might be fone for a bit of time a week, but you need to cut the learning time down to about 15-30 minutes for the first task the user is going to do, 5-10 minutes would be much better.

I will attempt to answer some of your concerns :) First relax, if you edit something that isn't 100% perfect no one is going to bite your head off, and if they do you can safely ignore them :D There is a significant learning curve before you are editing articles like a pro, everyone learns more everyday, you shouldn't feel like you have to know everything before you start editing, in fact if everyone thought that we wouldn't have an encyclopedia at all! Wikipedia:Be Bold is a very important idea here.

The first thing I would look at is probably Wikipedia:Introduction which will show you how to edit a page, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style for how to format things. For your specific question, Wikipedia:ISBN is there and a semi-random list of tasks is Template:Opentask. If you don't want to do any of those though, by no means feel obligated, I don't think many people use that to guide them in their work. Just write about what you know, or copyedit if you'd like.

The tags like wikify, cleanup, etc are usually put on an article after someone makes it to tag another group that it needs attention, you can use these if you want but you don't have to right away either. So I hope that answers some things anyway, don't worry too much, and feel free to get your feet wet :) If you have any more questions feel free to ask on my talk page :D - cohesion★talk 09:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Help

Yes?You need help?Go ahead and speak! Tan DX 08:27, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

thanks

All right! Thanks for adding that book to the Si Kahn page. --Allen 23:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

CFM

CFM standard is defined in IEEE 802.1ag and not as mentioned by you. I am correcting the same. 802.11 is wireless standard specifying WiFi.

Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
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Thanks and I hope you join up! Cbrown1023 talk 04:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)