User talk:Sean T. Smith
Welcome!
Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages
Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via Twitter. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any administrator for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! -- Stephen Ewen 20:06, 15 May 2007 (CDT)
A few words about workgroups
We are indeed happy to have you in the community. We would also like to introduce you to Citizendium's Workgroups and encourage you to--
- Join a workgroup if you haven't already
- Help us add workgroup category tags to articles, especially any articles you create
- Help us spread the word about workgroups within the CZ community
What are workgroups? To answer that question, I'd like to give you a quick tour.
- Start by checking the various workgroups we have at CZ: List of Workgroups. This link can also be found in the left navigation-bar in the 2nd box (Project Pages), 3rd link in that box (Workgroups). The Workgroup Home(s) can be found in the 2nd column in the List of Workgroups.
- For the purposes of this tour, please take a look at the Biology Workgroup Home: CZ:Biology_Workgroup.
- Now let's take a look at the first table on the Biology Workgroup Home (below).
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| Biology article | All articles (1,640) | To Approve (0) | Editors: active (1) / inactive (46) and Authors: active (441) / inactive (0) |
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| Recent changes | Citable Articles (25) | ||||||
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- In the 2nd column, find the link that says, "all articles," which lists all articles that users have placed [[Category:Biology Workgroup]] at the bottom of their articles.
- Now click on the "recent changes" link underneath the "all articles" in the 2nd column in the top table. This lists all recent changes in articles that have been tagged [[Category:Biology Workgroup]]. In one glance, you can view all the changes that happened while you were away! Feel free to click on all the links to get an idea how the information for your workgroup is organized. All these lists are populated by articles that have the categories properly placed at the bottom of their pages.
This completes your virtual-tour of CZ workgroups. I hope you can see the usefulness of having all articles in Citizendium tagged properly with your Workgroup categories. Make sure to add the Workgroup category labels to your new articles. This is an important part of the Approval process.
Be sure to join a workgroup and take part in this opportunity to collaborate with others who have similar interests as you. You can see what others are working on in the Workgroup recent changes and join in! Remember, we want you to be bold in your contributions at Citizendium.
To add yourself to a workgroup, use the form [[Category:Education Authors|Smith, Bob]], etc., and add it to your user page. Substitute the proper work group for "Education" in the example, and your name-Last, First for the names in the example.
Do not add yourself to the Editors list, only CZ staff add "Editors" to user pages after proper review of applications is completed. To apply to become an editor, please see Editor Application Review Procedure.
To add a workgroup category tag to an article, use the form [[Category:Education Workgroup]] at the bottom of the article. Substitute in the proper workgroup for "Education" in the example.
If you are from Wikipedia originally, you may want to check out this article:
-- Stephen Ewen 20:06, 15 May 2007 (CDT)
Welcome Sean
Looking forward to seeing you on the wiki. Hope your topoisomerase is in good order. David Tribe 04:19, 16 May 2007 (CDT)
HELP!!!
Sean, there is a DNA/Draft and a DNA. The system of draft articles is strictly to allow for unprotected versions of approved articles to keep going on the wiki. Now, there are two different DNA articles, and -it's a mess. Please help, we need to put recent edits from DNA into DNA/draft and get rid of the title DNA/draft by moving the article DNA/draft to DNA. If you ever notice an author making a draft article of an unapproved article please stop them. In this case, we could have had no problem by just having named DNA draft DNA in the first place. Anyway, please help? We are trying to focus on getting DNA an approved article. And that DNA is currently DNA Draft Nancy Sculerati 11:04, 9 June 2007 (CDT)
I answered you on my talk page. We do want your version, but inclusively. see my talk, please. You are doing a great job, outside of that damn draft format, and I would like your help because of your abilities to make a great article. Nancy Sculerati 11:53, 10 June 2007 (CDT)
Sorting out confusion
I had been working on DNA , and returned to it recently, and have just discovered a second draft has been created, I imagine the new draft is better in many places but we need to talk and work through the migration of your work to the right page. I'm quite laid back about this but would like to talk through what I had in mind with my edits. cheers David Tribe 17:59, 10 June 2007 (CDT)
- Nice to see you overcoming the annoying need to get those changes up (what an irritating situation for you). Nancy Sculerati's efforts to draw attention to DNA are useful: yes we do need to get it up. It seems now we have 3 or 4 people who especially you, who together can make a big difference. What I was trying to do was make the first part easier to understand. I got way-layed by other things and so didn't finish the job of making the first bit readable and covering only the most important key points. WP articles tend to grow like topsy and have buzz words crammed into the start rather than being really well written stuff. But making it well written is time consuming. David Tribe 19:10, 11 June 2007 (CDT)
DNA/Questioned
Hi Sean. When I placed approval for DNA, I had to overwrite redirects pointing to DNA/Questioned, which you appeared to be working on, primarily. I moved it to User:Sean T. Smith/DNA/Questioned. If you don't want it, just tag it {{speedydelete}}. —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 01:18, 8 July 2007 (CDT)