Re: [Foundation-l] User talk templates

2012-03-22 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I've read the responses over the past 24 hours and have followed the suggestions made by Pine. I appreciate her proactive manner with addressing issues and lack that she sees. While some may not agree with the automatic welcome template idea, at least she's actively working toward and presenting

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk templates

2012-03-22 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
Very good ideas Nathan. FWIW, I've only been reading this list for about a year and a half or so. I present a lot of welcome messages, but always check the user's editing history first, to ascertain which one would be appropriate. Then, if they are continuing to edit a month later, I try to

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk templates

2012-03-22 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
In Twinkle, we can add a custom Welcome message. Is it possible to create a customized Welcome template that allows the user to insert a personalized message to the Twinkle interface? Or even make changes to the existing templates that allows users to insert a personal message prior to placing on

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk templates

2012-03-22 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I'm gonna hafta (sic) work on my handwriting. It's atrocious. ;) Have to good night! On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: Wow, handwritten? I didn't know MediaWiki was going

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I find pink hearts depressing. Red hearts are okay, though. Mankind. It's a troubling topic. Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words – “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s