User talk:Robert Bowdidge - Revision history

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Calton: /* Greetings! */

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Greetings!

Robert Bowdidge at 06:33, 24 October 2013

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Robert Bowdidge: /* Greetings! */

2013-10-24T06:32:26Z

Greetings!

Calton: Example of redirect

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Calton: greetings

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==Greetings!==
Thanks for the note. I followed a link from one of your tweets, saw a syntax error, and logged in to correct it. Then I got carried away.

The formatting is easy for me because:<br>
#I have experience as a copy editor
#I've racked up 68,000 edits on Wikipedia, which uses the same wiki software (MediaWiki)

If you'll be getting more editors -- and people from various Santa Clara County historical societies seem like a good bet -- you might want to think about setting a "backstage" area for discussions, suggestions, sources, bibliographies, problem-solving, etc. On Wikipedia, it's a separate namespace (with the prefix "Wikipedia:", as in '''<nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard]]</nowiki>''' (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard here] for the actual link).

On this wiki, the namespace is '''<nowiki>[[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:xxx]]</nowiki>''', but if that's too long you can easily create shortcuts (called "redirects" in Wiki parlance).

I'll create one as a demonstration, which, of course, you can easily delete if you don't want it or Move to a better title. I'll try [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources]].

--[[User:Calton|Calton]] ([[User talk:Calton|talk]]) 05:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

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 [[PHSC:Sources]]
-<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources:Sources]]</nowiki>
+<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources]]</nowiki>
 --[[User:Calton|Calton]] ([[User talk:Calton|talk]]) 05:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

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 On this wiki, the namespace is '''<nowiki>[[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:xxx]]</nowiki>''', but if that's too long you can easily create shortcuts (called "redirects" in Wiki parlance).
-I'll create one as a demonstration, which, of course, you can easily delete if you don't want it or Move to a better title. I'll try [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources]].
+I'll create one as a demonstration, which, of course, you can easily delete if you don't want it or Move to a better title. I'll try '''[[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources]]'''.
 --[[User:Calton|Calton]] ([[User talk:Calton|talk]]) 05:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
-==Thanks, Cal!==  I don't know how many other editors I'll get, but I've been happy to get all my notes some place easy to edit and polish.  You're welcome to edit and kibitz; I hadn't done any Wikipedia editing before setting this up, and so I've been experimenting to figure out the correct style.  You'll see some of my older pages with "Details" sections containing raw notes; I'm slowly cleaning these up and replacing the raw notes with more polished text.
+==Thanks, Cal!==
 [[User:Robert Bowdidge|Robert Bowdidge]] ([[User talk:Robert Bowdidge|talk]]) 06:33, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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 --[[User:Calton|Calton]] ([[User talk:Calton|talk]]) 05:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 Thanks, Cal!  I don't know how many other editors I'll get, but I've been happy to get all my notes some place easy to edit and polish.  You're welcome to edit and kibitz; I hadn't done any Wikipedia editing before setting this up, and so I've been experimenting to figure out the correct style.  You'll see some of my older pages with "Details" sections containing raw notes; I'm slowly cleaning these up and replacing the raw notes with more polished text.
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		+	Thanks, Cal! I don't know how many other editors I'll get, but I've been happy to get all my notes some place easy to edit and polish. You're welcome to edit and kibitz; I hadn't done any Wikipedia editing before setting this up, and so I've been experimenting to figure out the correct style. You'll see some of my older pages with "Details" sections containing raw notes; I'm slowly cleaning these up and replacing the raw notes with more polished text.

	==Example of redirect==		==Example of redirect==

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		+	==Example of redirect==
		+	Here's a shortcut and the syntax. I (more or less randomly) chose "PHSC:" as the short version of the prefix (on Wikipedia, it's "WP"), just to demonstrate.
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		+	[[PHSC:Sources]]
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		+	<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources:Sources]]</nowiki>
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		+	--[[User:Calton\|Calton]] ([[User talk:Calton\|talk]]) 05:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)