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Offline Julian

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2011, 12:35:59 AM »
The bit I was referring to is, "B30 is 30% mineral Diesel, 70% Biodiesel", which I think is the wrong way around.

On Wikipedia, there's usually a group of people who oversee a collection of pages on a particular topic and monitor any changes that are made by other contributors.  They will discuss anything that they're not sure about in the page discussion and come to a consensus.  Incorrect or out-of-keeping edits can always be reversed and a reason posted in the page discussion.

I quite understand about not wanting people to mess about with your hard work, which is why I wanted to check before leaping in.  On the other hand, the great strength of something like this is that, with many more people involved, the final result should be better and more comprehensive than any one individual could produce.  The flipside is that an author has to be prepared to "let go" of their work and accept that others might think that they can improve upon it.

Yup, certainly is ... who wrote that page, they ought to be shot.

I'd say that's the sort of thing you should just go ahead and change.

I know wikipedia has many editors and editing seems quite harsh with guide lines being adhered to strictly.

The problem on here is that only a few people contribute ( would be nice if more did, but I hope you'll join the happy little band on a regular basis!), so we don't really have the manpower to run it that way.  That said, every page is and should be, up for review, it's just nice to discuss and agree any changes first.

The way we're operating at the moment seems to be working quite well.  Don't think we've had any major bust-ups apart from processor naming and we generally reach a consensus where everybody has to agree with KH ... (opportunity for smilie, but I'll resist).

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2011, 12:38:56 AM »
Trouble is i tend to do the write ups in the evening downstairs and its right on the edge of my wifi connection,a couple of months ago id spent 3 hours struggling with a page,hit save and lost the lot!,i must admit a tiny wee tantrum ensued and i now have a line down the laptop screen!,so now i hit save after the most minor thing

I tend to do a draft in Word first.  You can stick pictures on the page to jog your ever fading memory as you write, then copy and paste to the wiki.
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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2011, 12:44:05 AM »
Its more the lay out of a page that causes me problems,but ive got a good system going now,i write it then i plead with RM to tidy it up

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2011, 12:46:41 AM »
Yes, that's the bit where I use the preview button a lot.

So when's RM going to tidy up your pages?
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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2011, 12:48:30 AM »

The way we're operating at the moment seems to be working quite well.  Don't think we've had any major bust-ups apart from processor naming and we generally reach a consensus where everybody has to agree with KH ... (opportunity for smilie, but I'll resist).




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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2011, 12:49:57 AM »
Yes, that's the bit where I use the preview button a lot.

So when's RM going to tidy up your pages?
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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2011, 12:57:59 AM »
There.  Change made.  Happy now.  Going to bed.

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2011, 11:25:57 AM »
Looks like that particular mistake was one of mine:

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Biodiesel&action=historysubmit&diff=967&oldid=783

Of course B30 is 30% biodiesel.  That error has been in there for ages, and ironically, the previous definition it replaced was correct.

I was, um, waiting to see who would be first to spot it.  Thats... right.  ;)

Good work MattC, I must've been having a slow brain day that day.

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #23 on: July 28, 2011, 11:35:29 AM »
Regarding editing - maybe there is something we can do with the wiki system itself.

In particular "patrolled edits".  Those of us that are (I think) administrators:

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/wiki/Special:ListUsers

...see a little red exclamation mark by Recent Changes that haven't been patrolled by other administrators.

I don't fully understand how it all works, but it seems the a particular group of users can keep an eye on changes using this system.  Could do with reading the mediawiki manual (yawn).  We should consider expanding the number of wiki administrators to include the major contributors if this is the case.

I wonder if it would be possible to get e-mailed when a page you author is changed?

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #24 on: July 28, 2011, 05:40:42 PM »
There's a "Watch" button/tab at the top of each page.  This looks like a way to monitor pages you're interested in.  Any edits get logged in your watch list.

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Re: Editing protocol
« Reply #25 on: July 31, 2011, 08:45:49 AM »
trolling pages and editing is like making love to a beautiful woman

ah tony

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