User talk:Avsa

Please do not move pages by copying and pasting, as it loses the page's history. There is a "Move" function available and it is displayed with the other tools on all article pages. -- Cyrius|✎ 18:18, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

All skins should have the page move tool. If yours doesn't, that's a bug and should be reported as one.

As far as you using my alterations to monobook, they're available at User:Cyrius/monobook.css and User:Cyrius/monobook.js. I make no guarantees, warantees, and if it doesn't work I'm not going to help you. It's one of those "use at your own risk" sorts of things. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:09, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

how to pick a piece of the wikipedia

i've been searching this on the faqs. i'm writing a open software and want that in a certain moment it picks displyas information from pages in the wikipedia. i want to control it's appearance, and also add one image if there's one. so three questions:

1-where do i learn how to do it? is it a crawl? shall i use a simple bot or what?

2-well some images are copyrighted. i'm not making money of this soft, how do i know if i can use them?

3-in the end i want to link back to wikipedia. what precautions should i have to avoid bringing a horde of barbarians (i don't know who is using my soft but could be a bunch of crazy teens) who don't know anything about wiki?

thanks. i promise to move everything to the right section after. --Alexandre Van de Sande 16:44, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I personally can't help you with the technical side, but I can tell you that image use shouldn't be a problem. The vast majority of our images are under the GFDL licence. Some are used with the concept of "fair use", and if we can get away with it, so should you. If you want to play it safe and not have fair-use images at all, then don't use them; they are clearly marked. If you know how to write bots, it should be easy to automate their exclusion.

I wouldn't worry about barbarian hordes. We get huge amounts of traffic from Google already. This isn't an lite thing. If people commit vandalism, we'll just revert it. — Chameleon Main/Talk/Images 17:08, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Avsa. I've moved the above from the village pump as it was time to clear the page. You might find it easier to download the database rather than crawl the site for the content. I would also advise you be wary about the images. Those released under the GFDL will contain a {{GFDL}} tag on the image description page. Others are marked fair use, and many are not tagged at all, so the copyright status is unknown. There is a separate download for images linked to from http://download.wikimedia.org/. Angela . 02:24, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)

Oscar Niemeyer

Glad you liked the images. It's a nice article, and deserves some images. The site which had the public domain images had some more, in case you need them. Check the image pages for the link to the source. Search for Niemeyer, most of them are PD, others you have to ask the author. About Image:Work of Oscar Niemeyer.jpg: I wasn't quite sure which building that is, but found a similar image titled as Praça da Liberdade. Is this correct? Does this have an english translation? Thanks. And good luck with the featured article nomination. -- Chris 73 Talk 15:12, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

Wikitravellers in portuguese

I am searching for contributors to make a portuguese version of wikitravel ( a wiki travel guide)

wikitravel Language_version_policy

Wikitravel:Expeditions

Wikitravel:Portuguese_Wikitravel_Expedition

The English Wikipedia is probably not the best place to look for contributors for the Portuguese Wikitravel. Have you tried the Travellers' pub on Wikitravel or the Esplanada on the Portuguese Wikipedia? Angela . 19:50, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

A note to Muriel Gottrop might be a good idea, though -- she's the only contributor I know here who speaks Portuguese, but you'll find her more quickly if you leave a note at pt.wikipedia anyhow. :-) Jwrosenzweig 15:00, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You might want to contact the people listed at Wikipedia:Translation#Portuguese-to-English -- Jmabel 19:13, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Avsa. I've moved your question here as it was time to clean up the village pump. Angela . 14:35, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Setting up your own wiki

I have a website witch i only have access thru FTP. Is there a way to set up a personal wiki over there?

In fact I am not even trying to set up a real open wiki, but a personal wiki, to use the potential of ease of creating and maintanig pages..

Alexandre van de Sande 10 set 18:22 gmt-4

Alexandre, one person to ask is Anthony DiPierro, who has run his own wiki for some time. I know a number of others here do also, but I can't recall specifics right now (hopefully they identify themselves here or someone else remembers who it is and lists them). I imagine it will get pretty complicated, and it's probably best to discuss it in a talk page (yours or theirs) rather than here. Good luck! Jwrosenzweig 21:28, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Different Wiki software can be found on the article wiki software. Your website will need to support scripting languages for them to work. There is also MediaWiki, the Wiki that Wikipedia uses. I sometimes use it myself. Norm 23:21, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

If you want something that isn't as complicated as MediaWiki (which requires some SQL administration experience), try OddMuse. (Note to self: write article on OddMuse!) OddMuse supports free linking (i.e., [[article link]] instead of ArticleLink) and most other aspects of the MediaWiki syntax; it's just a giant Perl script, so it's simple to set up; it's mature and the EmacsWiki runs on it. One interesting application is disabling edits for non-priveleged users and then making yourself the only priveleged user. A little CSS to make the editing tools invisible and voila! A website that looks like a website, but is edited as a Wiki.

The website is http://www.oddmuse.org. If I ever run my website as a Wiki, that's what I'm going to use. --Ardonik.talk() 00:57, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

There is a section at Wikibooks on how to start a wiki that you might find helpful. Angela . 02:26, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Excellent writeup on I am Cuba!

Fascinating... I had no idea! I hope you don't mind, but I've cleaned it up. It seems a bit unfinished, however. Are you going to keep going? If you are, I am quite happy to help with copyeditting. Perhaps we can collaborate on this one together and try to make it a featured article? - Ta bu shi da yu 12:43, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Nice Garamond image!

I really like the Garamond comparison! I have two questions:

Did you intend to license it under GPL? The relationship between GPL and GFDL is unclear, so Wikipedia prefers GFDL images. GPL applied to images really doesn't make much sense, since they're not "software".
Could you make the files you used to create it available (excluding the fonts, of course)? That would facilitate future editing of the image (see User:Chmod007/Alternate_version_proposal for a draft of a policy / guideline on this. Comments welcome!) — David Remahl 05:49, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

David Vetter

I received this by email.

shaun blair

I stumbled upon Wikipedia tonight by doing a random search for a topic mentioned in my friend's e-mail.

I am very happy to have encountered what seems to be a meeting place for thinkers across the world. Having been out of college for several years now, I find myself searching for intellectual discussions. I also love to write & hope to contribute as motivation inspires me.

I work a lot of hours so I don't know how much I will be contributing to the site, but people like you are making it very valuable resource. You should keep contributing because you seem to really support what the site is about. Your article choices seem to be varied and interesting and that's what makes a good encyclopedia -- or wikipedia. And the way you invite others to participate in what you've provided is great.

Thanks for your contributions and happy wikiwiki. Shauney

Alexandre Van de Sande to shaun blair

Well thanks a lot.

I understand what you mean by "searching for intellectual discussions". I personally think wikipedia is the most intelligent thing invented in the last a hundred years, and the most influential potential since the invention of freedom of speech.

When I want to know about a topic (even something that has recently happened), and want to read a unbiased, complete report about the subject, I come here.

Rare are persons who've got free time today, but I do suggest you to come by wikipedia often. Remember that you do not need to write a complete article to contribute, I have had many positive when editing an article to write one or two sentences, or simply to rewrite something.

Wikipedia is a work of love from those who love knowledge to the rest of the world.

Alexandre

Image resizing

Hi. About the resizing of images: you listed your images as frame, i.e. [[Image:MyImage.jpg|frame|CAPTION]]. This frame displays all images in the original size without a border around, and the caption is the tool tip. If you want to resize the images, either remove the frame tag and add a size 200px or so, to get a resized image without frame, and the caption will be the tooltip, or add thumb to get a default size thumbnail with a frame, which can also be made non-default size using 200px or so. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial and Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. I took the liberty of thumbnailing one image on your user page to show you, hope you dont mind, and of course you can change it back anytime, its your page after all -- Chris 73 Talk 23:42, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Image copyright tag?

Howdy! I'm here because of the Humungous Image Tagging Project, and I'm curious about the copyright status of an image you uploaded. The picture in question is Image:14-bis-wth-air-ballon-aid.jpg, and it doesn't currently have an image copyright tag on it. If you could tag it with something to let us know what the copyright is, that would be great. A couple of common tags are {{gfdl}}, if you made the picture and release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use. For a full page of these, you can go to the image copyright tags page. If none of this makes sense, you can leave a message describing the coypright status on my talk page, and I'll tag it for you. Thanks much! ^_^ --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 00:03, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Vote on Main Page intro

Hi Avsa, there's now a vote on the new Main Page text. Drop by if you can! Ta, Dan100 09:35, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)