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SCIFIPEDIA:Editor's Journal/April 2006


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Welcome to the Archive for April, 2006

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You should also note that this page shows the excerpts only (which are fed to the Main Page automatically). A link to the full-length entry for the day follows each excerpt shown below.




April 1

20060405:

General Business

The invitations are out and feedback should start to trickle (or flood) in soon….


Formatting

Sections. Want to create a section in your Article? …


Today's shout-out

Young K….

Thought for the day

Try not to think too much about what you're doing today when you're trying to pretend that it's a week from now. Go with the flow.

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April 2

SCIFIPEDIA:Editor's Journal/April 2, 2006/Ex

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April 3

General Business

Am I deluding myself when I begin to think that I'll actually be able to do this Journaling thing? I have enough ideas to keep me going for a while and I've come up with a structure that should help keep generating more.

Today's shout-out

John Wetsell. A voice of calm and reason when the technical glitches are flying thick and fast. A terrific problem-solver and a very funny fellow when he let's himself speak out freely. Dry and very sharp, that wit. Some major logjams on our wiki way got broken up by his deft programming.

Thought for the day

First we'll get a thousand Articles up on SCIFIPEDIA. We're almost there. Then, all we have to do is multiply that number by itself and…. It shouldn't take very long if you pitch in and help.

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April 4

General Business

Is there anybody out there? Feedback is the one thing I'm counting on the most...

Formatting

Piping. I've done a lot of piping in the last few days because I hadn't learned it properly when I started putting in articles....

Today's shout-out

Paula M. Probably our most knowledgeable wiki user...

Thought for the day

Scrambling to get something going is the wave of the present....

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April 5

General Business

The invitations are out and feedback should start to trickle (or flood) in soon…


Formatting

Sections. Want to create a section in your Article? …


Today's shout-out

Young K….


Thought for the day

Try not to think too much about what you're doing today when you're trying...
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April 6

General Business

New contributions wanted…


Formatting

It can be the hardest part or the easiest part – writing the actual article…


Today's shout-out

Eyal K.


Thought for the day

If you don't learn something new every day…


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April 7

General Business

I sometimes lose track of the fact…


Formatting

Linking. Links are trickier than you might think…


Today's shout-out

Peter M.


Thought for the day

Rome wasn't built in a day, but a wiki…


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April 8

General Business

Think about it: a corporate wiki that's also a public wiki…


Formatting

Fixing links…


Today's shout-out

Dan H…



Thought for the day

If we promise not to tell the authority figures…


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April 9

General Business

Be the first on your block to do something wiki and wonderful….


Formatting

Signature (Link to Userpage).


Today's shout-out

Marlon J.


Thought for the day

If there's a wiki way and another way…


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April 10

General Business

We want the world, or at least the genre world


Formatting

Text – italic, bold, bold italic


Today's shout-out

Matthew C.


Thought for the day

I don't know much about design…


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April 11

General Business

Now that the site is up and running…


Formatting

To create a horizontal line…



Today's shout-out

Falon W.



Thought for the day

Defining SCI FI =…


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April 12

General Business

Worried that what you want to write won't come out…


Formatting

To create a numbered list…


Today's shout-out

Chris N.


Thought for the day

It's a sign of maturity to be…


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April 13

General Business

Links, links, links…


Formatting

External links…


Today's shout-out

Vanitha F.



Thought for the day

Another day, another…


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April 14

General Business

Categories are the way that we…


Formatting

Here are a couple of useful and quick things …


Today's shout-out

Gillian L.



Thought for the day

Never put off until tomorrow…


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April 15

General Business

If you see something….


Formatting

If you want to indent…


Today's shout-out

Randy M.


Thought for the day

Be Prepared. It's a motto…


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April 16

General Business

I'm putting out a call for specific attention to the dates…


Formatting

What else but a date entry?...


Today's shout-out

Anne N.


Thought for the day

There's lots of legal talk…


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April 17

General Business

Launch date! Welcome one and all…


Formatting

Blank spaces. You'd think a blank…


Today's shout-out

Chris N.


Thought for the day

New beginnings are always…


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April 18

General Business

If you see something….


Formatting

If you want to indent…


Today's shout-out

Randy M.


Thought for the day

Be Prepared. It's a motto…


Read more...


April 19

General Business

I'm putting out a call for specific attention to the dates…


Formatting

What else but a date entry?...


Today's shout-out

Anne N.


Thought for the day

There's lots of legal talk…


Read more...


April 20

General Business

It has been a busy few days doing last-minute fixes, proofing and checking text and articles…


Formatting

What did I use most today? That's often the spur for my lessons in wiki formatting and today…


Today's shout-out

Blaise S. A very acute and assiduous proofreader…


Thought for the day

As a writer, you're only really as good as…


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April 21

General Business

Now that the site is up and running, the effort to get about a thousand sample articles in place seems pretty modest compared to the ambitions…


Formatting

If you want to indent a line or a paragraph to set if off from the main text of an article, start the new text with a colon…


Today's shout-out

Matthew B. From classic movies to producers to studios, Matthew's knowledge…


Thought for the day

Change is the lifeblood of SCIFIPEDIA. Almost everything that's here will look different…


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April 22

General Business

Now that the site is up and running, the effort to get about a thousand sample articles in place seems pretty modest compared to the ambitions…


Formatting

If you want to indent a line or a paragraph to set if off from the main text of an article, start the new text with a colon…


Today's shout-out

Matthew B. From classic movies to producers to studios, Matthew's knowledge…


Thought for the day

Change is the lifeblood of SCIFIPEDIA. Almost everything that's here will look different…


Read more...


April 23

General Business

Now that the site is up and running, the effort to get about a thousand sample articles in place seems pretty modest compared to the ambitions…


Formatting

If you want to indent a line or a paragraph to set if off from the main text of an article, start the new text with a colon…


Today's shout-out

Matthew B. From classic movies to producers to studios, Matthew's knowledge…


Thought for the day

Change is the lifeblood of SCIFIPEDIA. Almost everything that's here will look different…


Read more...


April 24

General Business

Launch date! Welcome one and all. We've done everything we can to make SCIFIPEDIA ready for the world. Come on in, check us out...


Formatting

Blank spaces. You'd think a blank space would not be a big deal but it can be depending on where it's placed...


Today's shout-out

Chris N. Our first repeater, for overcoming Internet Explorer's foibles...


Thought for the day

New beginnings are always special…and at SCIFIPEDIA you...


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April 25

General Business

There's a new wiki in town and its name is SCIFIPEDIA. Come, look around, read an Article or two, learn an interesting fact…


Formatting

Text – italic, bold, bold italic. You're going to need to know how to do these type formats. We recommend…


Today's shout-out

Arthur H. Arthur knows his classic science fiction authors backwards and forwards; he knows publishers and he knows how to talk about…


Thought for the day

Every journey begins with a single step. Once you've taken your first step into…


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April 26

General Business

New contributions wanted. Fanatic, energetic, dogged, detail-oriented, wiki-familiar (or quick-to-learn) writers with knowledge, an objective turn of mind…


Formatting

Correctly alphabetizing an entry. When you create an Article (entry) that starts with an article (part of speech), that is, A, An or The, if…


Today's shout-out

Alyx D. She knows and loves her Connie Willis, chapter and verse. She's got Neal Stephenson down pat. She loves


Thought for the day

Why isn't SCIFIPEDIA exactly like Wikipedia? Glad you asked…


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April 27

General Business

Be the first on your block to do something wiki and wonderful. You know something about a topic that fits…


Formatting

Internal linking. One of the big strengths about wikis, and one of the most interesting ways in which they function involves the internal connections…


Today's shout-out

Gillian H. She has only written a small handful of articles but what a fascinating range of subjects…


Thought for the day

We're starting off with around a thousand Articles up on SCIFIPEDIA. Now, all we have to do…


Read more...


April 28

General Business

Now that the site is up and running, the effort to get about a thousand sample articles in place seems pretty modest compared to the ambitions we're setting ourselves…


Formatting

Linking. Links are trickier than you might think, because they seem so simple. Just slap a set of square brackets…


Today's shout-out

Matt C. He didn't write many articles but the ones he did are splendid. The Rebirth Of The Videogame piece is fascinating...



Thought for the day

If we all promise not to tell the authority figures that we're having all this fun…


Read more...


April 29

General Business

Now that the site is up and running, the effort to get about a thousand sample articles in place seems pretty modest compared to the ambitions we're setting ourselves…


Formatting

Linking. Links are trickier than you might think, because they seem so simple. Just slap a set of square brackets…


Today's shout-out



Thought for the day

If we all promise not to tell the authority figures that we're having all this fun…


Read more...


April 30

General Business

Now that the site is up and running, the effort to get about a thousand sample articles in place seems pretty modest compared to the ambitions we're setting ourselves…


Formatting

Linking. Links are trickier than you might think, because they seem so simple. Just slap a set of square brackets…


Today's shout-out



Thought for the day

If we all promise not to tell the authority figures that we're having all this fun…


Read more...

 

 

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