Links

Hey Bill -- so you got the welcome thing happening, that's awesome. I have another tip for you that'll make your life easier -- when you link to a page that's on your wiki, all you have to do is put it in double brackets, like this: [[Iowa]]. You only use the single bracket and http:// address when you're linking to something outside the wiki.

That also works for user pages: [[User:Gil]] will link to User:Gil. -- Danny (talk) 17:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcoming committee

I saw your welcome for Shimaneko -- it's beautiful, it's like watching the baby bird learn to fly. If you want to do some welcomes for the IP addresses too, just click on the red talk link, add {{subst:welcome}}, and then sign it. That adds the Welcome template. -- Danny (talk) 19:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I guess it's fitting that my current user page has a penguin in it? I'm still drowning. :) But you continue to be a lifesaver (and I don't mean the Butter Rum kind). Despite expert late night online instruction from Splarka, I still have a ways to go before I master templates. I was going to cheat and just figure out a way to lift that whole Welcome template from one of your welcome pages. Next stop... dropping your template on contributors with IP address only. Thanks! -- BillK (talk) 20:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's why I'm here! So it's {{subst:welcome}} for IP addresses and {{subst:welcome2}} for people who've signed in with usernames.

If you figure out more things that you want to do, but can't figure out how, just leave a message on my talk page, okay? -- Danny (talk) 23:39, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Two Bills

Hi Bill -- It was nice meeting you at the conference this weekend! I'm home now, and looking at this wiki -- and I noticed that you have two different user names. The one that has your user page is Billk, and the one that you seem to be using to make edits is BillK. The capital letters matter in titles and user names on wikis. If you want to use BillK, then you ought to move your user page over here too.

Let me know if I can help you with any wiki stuff, okay? Take care -- Danny (talk) 02:16, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Danny - Thanks for pointing out the multiple user pages... don't you think it fits my many personalities? :)

I've created my new userpage which I hope you'll take a look at and let me know what you think. I've also put a pointer from Billk to BillK to eliminate confusion.

Thanks! [BillK] (talk)

Beautiful! I have another tip -- when you're signing a talk page post, add four tildes, like this: ~~~~. That adds a date stamp as well as your signature, so you can keep track of when you posted. -- Danny (talk) 19:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I just realized there's something wrong in the signature you created. Try this:

• Click on the "preferences" tab at the top right of your screen.

• On the Preferences page, put this in the Nickname box:

-- ''[[User:BillK|<font color="Blue">BillK</font>]] ([[User talk:BillK|<font color="Blue" size="1">talk</font>]])''

• Then check the "Raw signatures" box underneath, and hit save.

• When you sign your talk posts, type ~~~~, and the new signature will appear.

Gil added to that to be extra fancy, but if you're mostly going to be posting just on this wiki, then this version is better. -- Danny (talk) 19:36, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Danny - Thanks. I definitely see the value of an accurate signature with timestamp on talk pages. But I am not sure I would want signatures on articles. What are your thoughts on that? -- BillK (talk) 19:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, definitely not. Articles should never be signed, because they don't have one author. Someone starts the article, but then other people can come along and edit it -- sometimes so much that it's not even recognizable. Only talk page messages get signed. -- Danny (talk) 21:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice user page

[Gil] ([talk]) 06:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! [BillK] ([talk])

(I left a note before, but I think it was on your "other" user page, so it disappeared.) The Dr. Seuss quote is wondeful! And, the picture is great! Thanks for your note about the Travel Alerts page. I was playing with other ideas for the main page on Main Page/alt. If you like any of them, feel free to use them. I'm sorry we didn't get to meet at Wikimania. Wasn't that a great, but aptly named conference? --CocoaZen 01:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Cannon Beach picture

Hey Bill, thanks for the cudos on my photography. Hopefully I won't forget to attibute other people's photos the way I do my own! See ya, Terry Foote 19:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Taganrog

Hello Bill, I'm a native of Taganrog, just returned from over there a couple of weeks ago. I am fairly familiar with Russian South, not so much with other parts of Russia, although I have also been to Moscow and St. Petersburg on numerous occasions. --EngrProf 11:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Wonderful Prague Discussion

Thank you Bill for the great information on Prague. This is really a wonderful site, and my husband, Bob Schwabach, and I look forward to telling our readers about it for the "On Computers" column. Bob is of Bohemian ancestry but has never been there.

Wikia screencasts

Bill - I've posted another test screencast on blip.tv (I've given up on youtube). It's more legible than the ones I made last night, but I think it's still too small. Ideas? - Leo|Talk 18:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I created another screencast (Editing 01). This video ran 4.5 min, was 105MB, and took forever to upload. Should probably keep clips to around 3 mins. Also created a page to organize my screencasts. I'll post further updates there, so you might want to watchlist it. We can discuss the process, ideas, lesson plans, etc on its talk page. We can create a similar Help page in Wikia later to organize screencasts from all contributors. - Leo|Talk 21:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Egypt Lover

Okay Bill, I think I got it. The formatting will come along I guess, I'm figuring it out. Is there a man page for general style guidelines? Thanks for the help. - Joshjradd 22:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Josh - Keep building up Cairo and Egypt. You've got some fantastic pictures. I'll put some references to formatting help on your talk page. Others may know of better ones and can add them there -- BillK (talk) 22:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Global Warming

Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing it (An Inconvenient Truth). Seems like the discussion would be appropriate to World, Cities, Campaigns or, if it exists, an ecology Wikia.  :-)
Did you know that Jimbo is on Charlie Rose tonight? (I should be sleeping, but I turned on the TV to get my mind off my stomach ache, and there he was on the blurb, so I'm setting up a tape. I'm going to try to sleep again now.) Anyway, after I see the movie, I think I'd like to discuss it... Wanna pick a wiki-place? --CocoaZen 04:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:Welcome to World Wikia!

Your kind message to me: Bhadani - You bring to World Wikia quite an editing reputation and have made huge contributions to Wikipedia. So glad to have you here. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to focus on a specific area. Hope to see you back here soon. Thanks!

Hello Bill, I thank you for your kind and encouraging words. It is the spirit of wiki, which has brought me here; all other aspects are incidental to this central desire. I shall be feeling the water during the week end, and then shall come back again to you with specific queries, particularly as regards the missing links, if any, which we all participants have to connect to make the World Wikia truly reflective of the aspirations of our users. Was I right about your full name? Regards. --Bhadani 14:06, 5 October 2006 (UTC)