User talk:Jimkloss/archive01

Please forgive any newbie silliness here or questions that aren't appropriate for Wikipedia. I'm so overwhelmed by all the information that I'm having a hard time locating what I need. Feel free to just point me in the right direction and I'll take it from there.

I just set up a [wiki] on our Whole Wheat Radio website today. My question is this: the software does not come populated with, for example, help files. I am wondering if:

1) I'm supposed to (and allowed to) download the help files from the Wikipedia database dump? (Doesn't seem likely.)

2) I'm supposed to configure my wiki to somehow point to Wikipedia's help section. If so, I could sure use a link that explains how/where I'm supposed to do this.

If I'm crazy and have a totally non-wikipedian idea about sharing the help files, please let me know!

Thanks!

Answering help request

Hello. I'm here to answer your help request. Well, yes, you are allowed to download the help files from the Wikipedia database dump (as long as you follow the GFDL), but just linking to relevant wikipedia help pages might be easier for you. See Template:Welcome for some useful links. Henrik 08:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

There's a project at Mediawiki working on creating public domain help files. >>sparkit|TALK<< 17:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Sparkit From A Wheaty Wikinewbie

I hope it's okay that I'm communicating with you this way Sparkit. I spent a little time looking at your contributions and subpages. I'm impressed! I was wondering, if I have some quick questions for you as I learn my way around wikiland (particularly with templates which I haven't used yet) would it be alright if I ask them here? I completely understand if you'd rather I not ask them here though - just say the word. All this wiki stuff has been pretty exciting to learn over the last 2 days. And thanks again for your response on the WWR article (which I resonded to). Oh, one more thing since you're the only person I know on Wikipedia ... if I do something stupid or non-wikilike, please let me know. Thanks! Jimkloss 14:25, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

LOL! Of course it's OK. Thanks for the compliment. I've learned a lot about editing and writing here, and it's been like a self-taught course in art history for me. As well as fascinating observation of people interaction in internet interfaces.

Ask anything you'd like to here, Jim, or on the WWRwiki. I'll likely be more candid on WWRwiki.

Templates are easy. Just enclose them in {{}}. I just learned the other day about WP:SUBST templates.

You are learning wikis quite rapidly. I'm not going to follow you around and read your edits, but if you step into some muck give me a shout. >>sparkit|TALK<< 17:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Village Pump question

Just wanted to let you know I added some more information about your question at the Village pump. Superm401 - Talk 05:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Just a little something...

{ { User:UBX/WWR } }

--sparkit^TALK 04:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

WWR userbox "Wheathead" category

Hey Sparx --- the people you meet here.  :-) I added the [ [User:UBX/WWR|WWR userbox] ] but was wondering if it was possible to add another category something like Category:Wheathead that would allow us all to click and see who else is a WWR user? I don't know Wikipedia's geist over creating categories willy-nilly so I didn't just do it. Whatcha think? Jimkloss (talk) 13:31, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Sure, we can do that. I dunno all the Wikipedian categorization rules. So, being bold I just did it and we'll see how it shakes out. Wikipedians interested in Whole Wheat Radio. All three of us are there. :) --sparkit^TALK 16:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Howdy

Good to see you here! Perhaps we'll start building a small but steady presence on Wikipedia - and recruit some editors. I added a WWR link to Antje's and Christine Kane's page to test the waters just as you did for Mikael. For the artists we have more info on at WWR, it seems worthy and not too self-promoting to me. (We're not commercial like Myspace and we're wiki and pretty compatible with the Wikipedia world.) But big-time caution to anything that smacks of self-promotion etc. here (and I agree with that or else the entire geist of Wikipedia is for naught) so I go slow. See you 'round! Jimkloss (talk) 14:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Well Howdy Bro! I've been feeling the waters, reading what I can, and caution is indeed necessary. I realized that what I may not see as self-promotion would definitely look that way to somebody else. So I'm trying to look at wikipedia as I would at a classroom discussion of philosophy. I'm trying my best to put my head in that neutral position and see things through the eyes of someone else. ;-) I don't know if you noticed or not, but I added WWR to wikipedia's List_of_wikis. It seemed to fit really well on that page! For a couple of weeks now...really since I began noticing which artists had a presence on wikipedia...I have been thinking quite a lot about the very thing you mentioned. And I agree that linking heavily supported artists seems worthy because these artists have a huge presence on WWR as well. Personally, I would much rather have Wikipedia and WWR as reference on my page than I would a consumeristic site such as myspace! But that's just me! At least Wikipedia and WWR are communities in a much more truer sense of the word, than any of the I or MY spaces scattered across the web! Anyway, it's good to see you in the neighborhood and I'll see ya around Bro! Atuuschaaw (talk) 00:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

WWR Links

Thanks Jim! Yes, I will follow your lead my friend.! Atuuschaaw (talk) 09:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

You may be spamming

Have you read WP:SPAM? Your conflict of interest indicates that your actions may be construed as that of a spammer. I'd suggest you stop adding links to your own site until you've read the following impersonal template. If another member of WikiProject Spam sees your edits, they may revert all your additions on sight, but I don't have the time to look into it right now, so I'm giving you this friendly warning instead. Thanks. Katr67 (talk) 23:35, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

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Thanks for contacting me and for your spirit of good faith and cooperation you wrote your comment with.

"Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail; or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its accuracy." I think the Whole Wheat Radio wiki pages that I've been linking fit that definition admirably - perhaps better than the commercial pages (Myspace, Allmusic, etc.) that are frequently included in the External Links sections. Our non-commercial "good faith" mission statement

If you are in a position to determine if these links to a well-established, long-term, non-commercial, all volunteer supported Mediawiki collaborative site where a large database of additional information about these artists, albums and songs can be found is considered spam, please let me know. If the spam concern is because I was the principal founder of WWR, then it would be extremely helpful for me to know that so I can further encourage other WWR listeners to do the actual linking. I understand if you are personally unable to do that since it appears you have an active life outside of Wikipedia.

Once again, I sincerely appreciate your pointing out the potential problem - it's not entirely unexpected. I decided, as I significantly reduce my personal involvement with WWR (it is definitely no longer "my" site but a fully-volunteer supported wiki collaborative site I help facilitate), I would at least give it a shot with the independent artists found here. I have notified WWR listeners that I need their help in posting these links and I will cease doing the linking unless I am given some assure from the Wikipedia community that this good-faith cross-pollination of two non-commercial wikis is not going to be called out as potential spam again. I despise spam as much as...no...more...than anyone.

Thanks again for your input and any comments you may have. Jimkloss (talk) 00:10, 23 October 2008 (UTC)