User talk:Tucana25

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Happy Holidays all. --Tucana25 02:07, 24 December 2006 (EST)

Eh...you have a different perspective of 'cold' than i do...i believe our high temperature was in the teens today, and i haven't given up shorts yet (granted i did have a wool sweater and hat on, but....). --Tucana25 21:52, 1 December 2006 (EST)

If this give you an indication, my community gets snow, sleet, and/or freezing rain about 1.5 days out of the year and when it happens the community as a whole practically shuts down. We just get dumb-founded when the roads turn white! Two major universities in my area were closed yesterday because it sleeted! We're just not used to cold weather.

Also, I've noticed from various discussions that you've had questions/problems regarding editing. It looks like you've discovered the answers already. If you have any other questions let me know. --Simulacrum 00:14, 2 December 2006 (EST)

I'll be passing through your way in a few months. I hope to be en route to the Kerrville Folk Festival the week before Memorial Day. No snow by then, however. --Tucana25 07:26, 2 December 2006 (EST)

Regarding newsletter, front page, et al

Hey T25, Looking pretty good so far. Here's the answers:

• About external linking: Instead of a verical bar ie | use a space like so: [http://www.microsoft.com/ Microsoft] This makes Microsoft
• Regarding the main page: I think that there is a better way of updating instead of copy and pasting the proposals text we could include it as a template. This is something that I wanted to do with the all rules page but I haven't found the time. ...I have edited the your version of the main page to show you what I am talking about. Now whenever the proposals page is changed it is automatically updated on your variant. By the way, I like the new format.
• Now about the newsletter: I see no problem with how you are doing it. I admit the way that I did was very time consuming. I suggest that older news get placed in the archive, maybe on a weekly basis. Along those lines the article about the new player Mike should have had a more recent date in the title. Now some style suggestions: First off, start the article with top level heading. This is to get the archive to list the article better later on. Also, see how I signed my articles? I think it would look cool for it to look like a real newpaper article complete with by-line. Now regarding the main text of the article, it would be great to supply useful tidbits about the subject. I know that since Mike has not gotten around to creating a user page yet there's not much to go on. Here's how I would have written it:

Another player has come on-board recently. A player of true mystery. Mike Rosoft has been added to the census making the total player count reach 15! After registering this player has been busy by voting for 334, against 341, commenting on 350 and cleaning up the proposals page.

Basically, you want to include any link a reader might want to visit in relation to the subject of the article.

If you don't like my suggestions, by all means do what you want. You're the editor! --Simulacrum 03:57, 8 December 2006 (EST)

• ps: I'll have to catch a few winks before I will be able to incorporate a good workaround for including sections on the page in question. I'll get back to it when I get up tomorrow... later today. --Simulacrum 03:57, 8 December 2006 (EST)

I am totally on board with not copy&pasting on the proposals thing...totally am for that. Thanks for the suggestions...I would like to learn a little more about how to space things and create header looking things...right now it is all experimentation which is difficult. Is there a wiki-edit website you recommend or a place somewhere on the site... --Tucana25 08:18, 8 December 2006 (EST)

The best place to go to learn how to wiki-edit is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Also check out Wikipedia. The coolest stuff is accessable from their community portal. If you see a style that you find nice, then go to the edit tab on that page and see what the source code is. Be careful not to change anything there unless you have some relavent info. If you're looking for a place here to use as a testing grounds then use the Nomicapolis namespace like so: [[Nomicapolis:Page name here]]. --Simulacrum 04:29, 9 December 2006 (EST)

Tucana25; in response to your suggestions, I think a bi-weekly cooperative effort would be better than alternating. The other option that occured to me was to do a 'rolling news' page, like the front page of a newspaper, which could change fairly frequently as things happened. On top of that we could have bi-weekly or monthly overview. Anyway, i shall be happy to help out with contributions, editorials, editing, proof-reading, layout, whatever...

Another good thing to do would be to set up a page to which anybody can contribute 'opinions', or a 'letters to the editor' page, so that all players have the chance to contribute. If you choose a deadline for the next edition (a week or two should do) then we can see if anybody wants to submit anything. Finally, we could get a proposal out there to formalise the position of editor as a semi-permanent commitment. So there's my thoughts. Pending feedback from yourself, I'll probably start implementing one or other of these ideas in a day or two. --Finisterre 14:04, 1 January 2007 (EST)

You now have deleting privs. Simulacrum 14:17, 5 January 2007 (EST)

Dear Mr Editor, as you've seen I've started work on the new edition (1/2/1) which should be ready for press on the 22nd. If its okay with you I'll work on formatting it solo, as I need the practise manipulating wiki-code, but anything you want included let me have. My e-mail is on my User Page if you need to get anything to me. I'll get a final draft 'on your desk' by the 20th. --Finisterre 06:04, 15 January 2007 (EST)