User talk:Nanobug

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Thanks maveric, I will stay. I seem to be getting addicted to this thing. It appears that is a common problem among Wikipedians. Nanobug 17:27 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hello. When creating an article, could you be sure to highlight the title word or title phrase where it first appears, like this? Thanks. 131.183.84.166 19:18 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Will do. After your change to The Practice Effect I went back and reread the style guide. Thanks for the tip.

One thing I am confused about though: Sould it be bold and italics or just bold? You had the former and most articles seem to use the latter. Or is it different depending on the type of article? Nanobug 17:27 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Depends on the article; if it's something that would ordinarily be italicized, like a book title, then you'd want bold and italics in the subject line. But always at least bold on first mention. - Hephaestos 17:30 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Are you sure you shouldn't have been adding yourself to Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial rather than Wikipedia:Confessed Wikipediholics? That didn't sound like much of a "confession" to me. ;) -- John Owens 20:41 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I noticed a few others seemed to be somewhat in denial too on Wikipedia:Confessed Wikipediholics, so it seemed I was in good company. Here I am at home now checking Wikipedia again after reading it off and on during the day in work hours (don't tell my boss!), so I guess I can't really deny it any longer.

On the other hand you, I see, are way past being a Wikipediholic - I am just a relative newbie and occasional user, but having fun here anyway.

I love your passing comment to Michael helping your ratings - I wonder when (if ever) he will get it and grow up or go away? Nanobug 02:46 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi, welcome. Nice work on the CSI article. -- Zoe

Why thank you Zoe. Coming from someone with as much experience on the Wikipedia as yourself the notice is appreciated. -- Nanobug

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Hiya Nanobug, sorry about the delayed response, but time has been in short supply of late. Hope you're having fun in CT. Yay for the Australian presence! Neolux 23:26, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Ditto on my delayed response. I have been spending all my Wikipedia time in Wikiquote lately, so I hadn't noticed a message was waiting for me. I will be coming back to Australia one of these days. Couldn't stay away for ever from God's own country now could I? Nanobug 19:23, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I saw your message that you would like a copy of the main page wiki-code to use for the WikiQuote page. I have put a copy of it at http://quote.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_of_Wikipedia_Main_Page Angela 23:14, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thank you very much Angela. I will copy it and modify and make an alternative Wikiquote Main Page so we can all compare the two diferrent versions and decide which we like best. Nanobug 02:55, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Poof! You've got sysop rights. Use them well. As your first act, let me suggest that you update Wikipedia:Administrators, Wikipedia:Recently created admins and Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to reflect your new status. --Uncle Ed 18:45, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thank you very much, magic wand wielder. I will. Nanobug 02:20, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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That's a good formating change you made on list of legal topics. I use that list often and adds legal topics when I find it; the TOC was getting unweildly; your compact TOC will save me a bit of time. Thanks. Alex756 06:32, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. I copied it from somewhere (can't remember where), and have applied it to 31 pages so far, with plenty more to go, all linked on or via List of reference tables, which has lots of lists with alphabetical sections. I have also used a variation of it for lists of years or decades in such pages as List of years in literature. The automatic table of contents introduced with the latest version of the software is a great idea, but for some of these pages you don't get to see the actual text of the page unless you scroll down (or add a compact toc). Nanobug 16:18, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I've mentioned it to another list fanatic (like myself) and also added it to a few lists myself. Perhaps you should put it somewhere on a style page if not already explained. Also, I don't know if the #SECTION command is very well known. I have used it a few times linking to specific sections of pages, I saw it being using somewhere, but I am not sure if it is well documented either; it is sometimes very useful to direct someone directly to a specific article section in another article. Alex756 19:11, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Good idea. I searched around and couldn't find anything, so I added some explanation to Wikipedia:Section, and a link to the details in Wikipedia:How to edit a page. If you see any other good places to add links to Section to, please do. Nanobug 23:29, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Also, I joined the Wikitech mailing list recently and noticed they were taking about automating the horizontal tocs, so don't spend too much time fixing them by hand, as the problem may go away. Assuming of course that they get time to do it, which is not guaranteed considering all the other enhancement requests they have. Nanobug 00:37, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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You are now a sysop on Wikiquote. -- Tim Starling 08:24, Sep 17, 2003 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Nanobug 12:47, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Not much activity on my part lately on Wikipedia or Wikiquote as I've been a bit busy lately installing MediaWiki on my machine (which is probably good considering all the performance problems Wikipedia has been having lately - kudos to Brion and helpers for all their hard work). Took a while but I eventually got MYSQL, Apache, PHP, and the MediaWiki (Wikipedia) software installed and up and running. Now I just have to get it installed on a proper server... Nanobug 11:44, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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Nick, what techniques have you been using to get buy-in from the Aperture Technologies employees?...

So far it is just being used by our development group for project management.

• This group has not been happy with our current method of distributing project outlines and documentation which is to E-Mail them around. The E-Mails get lost and outdate off our server after 35 days if you don't reset their expiration date.
• E-Mailed documentation can't hyperlink each other.
• If the author updates the document everyone sees it immediately on the wiki.
• The documentation is easy to find on the wiki.
• Each developer has to write a weekly status report. The wiki is a good way to do this.

So these factors create a ready made market for our wiki, which we named Aperture Lightbox.

Another factor is the head of the department is going gangbusters over it and has decreed everyone to use it as much as possible. Top down influence has a big effect in getting something adapted.

A good way to get something like this adapted is to target it for a very specific application. For example to get people to use the E-Mail system at the Westport, CT public schools, we got the superintendent of schools to use it as the only way to distribute meeting announcements. It seems to me that at Gartner, you may want to target this for creating and distributing certain kinds of reports. (Is Gartner still in Greenwich, CT?)

Once it is being used for a specific application it should naturally spill over to other uses.

NickP 04:03, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

Nick, yes Gartner is still in CT, in Stamford (next to Greenwich). We have actually had our research people adopt the wiki in a big way, collaboratively authoring research articles, and it is working out well. It is slowly being adopted by more and more people within the company. We have upgraded to Mediawiki 1.3, have it running on a decent server, and it looks set to become a permanent fixture. That is why I haven't been doing much Wikipedia editing lately, I'm too busy with Gartnerpedia. ~ Nanobug 13:50, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Hi, I was just curious as to why you seem to have vandalized Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links) to say Gartnerpedia instead of Wikipedia. Any reason for this? Quandaryus 05:57, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

My humblest apologies, it was not intentional. I was obviously too tired late last night. I was copying the tutorial text for our own Mediawiki project, Gartnerpedia, to help some of our newbie users with the basics, and accidentally copied it into Wikipedia instead after doing a search and replace in my text editor version. I won't let that happen again. ~ Nanobug 13:50, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Article Licensing 2 User Categorization 3 AfD Nomination: Gartner 4 Survey Invitation

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia page as living in or being associated with the Australian Capital Territories. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in ACT for instructions. Rmky87 22:16, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Gartner

An editor has nominated the article Gartner for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the nomination (also see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on why the topic of the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome: participate in the discussion by editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gartner. Add four tildes like this ˜˜˜˜ to sign your comments. You can also edit the article Gartner during the discussion, but do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top of the article), this will not end the deletion debate. NickelShoe (Talk) 04:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 21:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}