User talk:Nereo Preto

Welcome, Nereo! --Larry Sanger 02:35, 1 November 2006 (CST)

he fungii

There's actually an explanation--I had deleted the html code in the line above, and when I found the page didn't work without it, I apparently reinserted it wrong. :)DavidGoodman 16:57, 27 November 2006 (CST)

Well, typos always escape to the author. I just cannot believe my eyes when I see my proofs sometimes... and I am statistically sure there is something incredibly wrong in the articles I posted in CZ, too.

BTW, do you need some pictures of mushrooms for that article? I have my own collection, and I can upload it under any kind of licence. Just need to take the time of getting good scans from slides.

Nereo Preto 04:27, 28 November 2006 (CST)

Big Speedy Delete

In the process of tagging articles for the BSD, it can happen that we mistakenly tag an article for deletiøn. The check on that proceedure is if it is on somebody's watch list and they are still interested in it. If this happens to an article of yours, don't take it personally. Just go to the article and remove the BSD tag. James F. Perry 10:07, 18 February 2007 (CST)

Yes, it's only I just realized of this BSD business, thanks. --Nereo Preto 10:10, 18 February 2007 (CST)

Nereo, I'm sorry for any inconvenience--we don't want to cause people to have to go through the work (again) of grabbing an article from Wikipedia. However, you must admit that this isn't much work. Moreover, if one hasn't worked on an article here in CZ very much, and we are simply mirroring the Wikipedia version, then this creates two problems: (1) the CZ database is diluted with WP articles, allowing people to correctly accuse us of being "just another mirror of Wikipedia"; and (2) people who might be inclined to work on an article on a topic are discouraged from doing so because they don't really want to edit an amateurish WP article.

I would ask you to upload an article from WP only when you are ready to really change it significantly here on CZ, and not before that.

Thanks --Larry Sanger 11:15, 18 February 2007 (CST)

Never mind, I'm not getting mad about this! I was offline for several hours because of... well, a flu, so I missed that the BSD project was launched. I just did not understand was going on for some minutes...

About those two articles (Stage (geology) and Chronostratigraphy), I don't follow you. Stage (geology) simply does not exist in WP; Chronostratigraphy was substantially wrote from scratch (compare CZ and WP). Not that I believe it is much of a work, but it's no doubts something done into CZ... I didn't contribute further because I hope other authors will complete it - I'm not here to rewrite geology, I'm rather interested in the collaborative aspects. Besides, I'll probably be the editor in charge for those articles, I does not make much sense if I eventually approve an article to which I was the only substantial contributor.

Anyways, again, never mind: I cancelled the template and everything is settled now. :)

--Nereo Preto 01:40, 19 February 2007 (CST)

Offline Mediawiki

Hi Nereo, that offline wiki editor I saw requires scripts to transfer the html to a browser, so it is technically quite challenging. I've been working through some of the other offline wiki installations, and there is one combination that one can install in about 15-30 mins, fully working (I've tried it). You'd need some space on a hard drive, 30+ megs, but if you wish I can walk through the setup with you and we can write it up as an article for a Citizendium help page. I am sure there will be many persons who would find it valuable, for different reasons, e.g. dial-up connection, expensive lines, mobile computer. If you are not comfortable with servers and php and all, then the working through step by step is the only way to go, and we are in similar time zones, so it should not be too disturbing (using a chat client). Let me know how you feel. --Christo Muller (Talk) 17:00, 18 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks a lot. I can't do it right now (trying to getting out of a flu, and I have very little time to stay connected), but I'll appear on your talk page as soon as I'll be back. Ciao. --Nereo Preto 07:48, 21 February 2007 (CST)