User talk:Karen Johnson
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This isn't too important, but several of us have decided on what to rename the / pages of countries. Here it is:
History of * Geography of * Demography of * Government of * Economy of * Communications in * Transportation in * Military of * Foreign relations of *
Note the signficant name changes for the former /People and /Transnational issues. --mav
Karen, there is a vote on the city naming issue at Wikipedia talk:Naming convention (city names). Since you participated in the debate, you may want to let your vote be counted as well. Jeronimo
"LE PUNCHING-BALL & LA VACHE A LAIT: La critique universitaire norde-américaine face au Surréalisme": this does not combine French and English in one title; it is all French. This is the title of the book (the book is not available in English translation), moreover, so whether it combines English and French in one title is a moot point. --Daniel C. Boyer
- Whatever... there wasn't anything in the miniscule article that said that. I don't recall anything particularly wikipedic in the article at all, and it was orphaned, which was why I suggested deletion. KJ
Karen, you said you steer clear of maths, but you worked on the pentomino article, which is most certainly maths!!
Or is it just math notation that you hate? I am like that too.
Anyway, cool pentomino graphic. -- Juuitchan
- That wasn't maths... that was a drawing task to go with a game I rather fondly remember having when I was a kid :) I thought that a proper graphic would do more justice to the article than the original asci art set that wouldn't display right on my screen. Thanks for the compliment :) KJ
That's a great dandelion photo you found. :-) --KQ 19:37 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
Isn't it just! I wish I could say that I took it, but it came from the GIMP photo library - there are some great images in there but you have to know what you're looking at, because they're not indexed! KJ
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You're finding some great photos, Karen. If you find a better one for marigold, feel free to upload over the one I put up. I'm not completely happy with it myself--that's how it looked, though. And if you don't find a better one, that's fine--don't go out of your way for it--I'll reshoot the plant when I get a chance. Best, --KQ 20:19 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
Thanks for the compliment KQ, but I'm not really much of a photographer... I'm raiding the GIMP copyright free photo library to find these images! One photo of mine that I WAS going to put up was my canna lily because I had a picture I was proud of... but you beat me to it and yours is much better! KJ
- Oh ... sorry about that. I've liked the pictures you've put up so far.
- Last time I visited the GIMP, it was a mess and so I decided DIY would try my patience less. I think I'll revisit now, to browse and to see if it accepts direct contributions. :-) --KQ
- You're right... GIMP is a massive mess! But it also has fantastic photos hidden in the junk heap. I wish somebody who really knew what they were doing had catalogued it... but such is life. When I want a particular subject picture I try doing a search for it, and sometimes it brings up a decent image. This afternoon I typed in 'plant' and I'm just running through the images trying to see what I recognise and can use... so far I've recognised a pitcher plant, a night-blooming cactus, a pinecone and a couple of flowers. I'm still trying to fully identify an iris I downloaded. It was labelled 'flag iris' but I don't think it IS one and I want to put it in the right place in the pedia! When it comes to my own photos I've got 6 boxes of them sitting on top of my cupboard waiting for a rainy day. I started scanning useful images but only got a couple of rolls done in a day because it just takes so long! KJ
- Well now we're even. I was going to go take a picture of an iris down the street tomorrow, actually. :-) And I could have shot some great pitcher plants when I went home (there's a swamp down the street) ... oh well. So many subjects, so little time. :-)
- Yes, scanning does take a long time. And then if you adjust levels in Photoshop and burn the corners, it's about 20 minutes a picture. But I'll do it in the sacred name of wikipedia. But piecemeal, at my leisure. --KQ
- You're right... GIMP is a massive mess! But it also has fantastic photos hidden in the junk heap. I wish somebody who really knew what they were doing had catalogued it... but such is life. When I want a particular subject picture I try doing a search for it, and sometimes it brings up a decent image. This afternoon I typed in 'plant' and I'm just running through the images trying to see what I recognise and can use... so far I've recognised a pitcher plant, a night-blooming cactus, a pinecone and a couple of flowers. I'm still trying to fully identify an iris I downloaded. It was labelled 'flag iris' but I don't think it IS one and I want to put it in the right place in the pedia! When it comes to my own photos I've got 6 boxes of them sitting on top of my cupboard waiting for a rainy day. I started scanning useful images but only got a couple of rolls done in a day because it just takes so long! KJ
Since you mentioned in the Dandelionlarge.jpg article that you didn't know how to link an image without displaying it, here's how; use a media: namespace instead of an image one. [[image:picture.jpg|alt text here]] will display an image with the text after the pipe as its alt string, and [[media:picture|click here!]] will create an ordinary link to the image using the text after the pipe. Bryan Derksen
- Thank Bryan :) KJ
Karen, as Wikipedia's foremost Australian, do you have any opinion on what to call the to-be-separated articles for Australia's Highway 1 and Central Coast? --Brion
- I've never heard of the 'central coast'... but judging by the contents of the article I'd call it Central Coast (NSW), and Highway 1 (Australia)KJ
Yay! Karen's back. --mav
Hi, good work on fixing that nonsense Fen article. I noticed it, but didn't know what to do other than just deleting it. Is there a page to list suspected nonsense pages that you can't be bothered to action yourself? -- WillSmith (Malaysia)
- Hi Will. There are a few things you can do with a garbage article - a)move the contents of it to Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense if you think it's mildly humorous; b)replace the garbage with a stub of real information instead; c)just delete the junk and leave the article blank; or d)list the article on wikipedia:votes for deletion and someone else will take care of it. KJ
- There's Wikipedia:Pages needing attention. See also Wikipedia:Utilities -- Tarquin
If you can't edit the Village Pump in Netscape, download a new browser... -- Anonymoues 10:14 Oct 27, 2002 (UTC)
- That's a wrong-headed and snobbish attitude - if Karen is having trouble then many other people are too. We needn't limit people's freedom to choose their browser over something that can be easily fixed via an archive. It is normal around here to archive old talk anyway. --mav
- When I saw the recent changes page I wondered why you thought I was rude Mav... now I see :) I may be a stubborn holdout, but I am generally quite happy with netscape 4.79. In most ways it meets my needs quite adequately, and I don't often have problems with it. When a page gets particularly long it overflows the buffer of the edit box and Netscape won't let me add anything to it. However, at this point the page is usually getting too long and tangled it to be easy to follow the conversation, or to find the particular part of the article that you want to add to/edit, so I don't see anything wrong with a request for the page to be split. Just because I was the person who noticed the problem and made a note of it, that doesn't mean that it's just MY problem! KJ
- This is true. I'd recommend mozilla now over netscape 4, but it uses about 50MB while running: it may not be suitable for an old machine.