I've been watching my computer for the last ten minutes while it tried to send a request to upload the same images in the image galleries with no response. If it doesn't work any better than this, it's not worth my time. I simply don't have time to jump through a lot of hoops for something with so little return for me.
Maybe another time - I've got an engine to decal Bob Nicholson ________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Vivamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand the confusion. Wikis are different from ordinary web pages, in > several ways. Once you get used to them, though, they are very easy and > somewhat addictive. Click on Help in the upper left corner, and you'll open > an excellent beginner's guide. > > For a short introduction, all those question marks mean that someone (me) > meant for those things (American Flyer, Scenery, etc.) to have pages when > you click on them, but there aren't any pages yet. Once you are logged in, > you can just click on the question mark beside Wiring, for example, and > instantly be creating a page on wiring. > > Wikis are meant to be plain text, not with all the fancy html tags you see > when you view a web page. When you edit, you edit plain text, but there are > some special things you put in there to say that this is a link to another > page. (There are some formatting things you can do, too, but see the > beginner's guide.) > > When editing, for example, you create a link by enclosing something in > double parentheses, ((like this.)) That will make it appear with the > question mark after it, and you can create the page by clicking on the > question mark. > > For organization, there are almost as many ways of doing it as there are > people creating content, but it seems to me that a logical tree structure > makes it easiest to keep track of what we are doing. For example, here is a > sample tree that we might use: > > *** Model Trains > *** *** S Scale > *** *** *** Scale Modeling > *** *** *** *** Trucks > *** *** *** *** *** Archbar Trucks > *** *** *** Product Reviews > *** *** *** Layout Planning in S Scale > *** *** AF > *** *** HO > *** *** DCC > *** *** *** Modules > *** *** *** *** Programming Modules > *** *** Wiring > *** *** Layout Planning > *** *** *** Realism vs. Space Considerations > *** *** *** *** Prototype curve radii for various operations and scale > conversions > *** *** *** Political Boundaries (family negotiations) > > and so on. If this really gets going, the tree will have literally > thousands of leaves. One thing that is universal to Wikis is that things > always start out in the wrong place. Some really like to generate content, > and that's great. Others really like to organize the content, and that's > great, too. Once you are registered, you can do either or both. > > Now, please DON'T take that as criticism of Art for creating the Archbar > Trucks material; it isn't. That is exactly what we need up there. We > should probably put it in a different place, but right now, it is fine. It > is EASY to fix stuff that gets created in a non-perfect place. The > important thing is to CREATE it. > > If you are at all interested in this, I urge you to go to the site and go > into the beginner's guide. It is based on the ____ for Dummies series, and > it is amazingly well-written for a free internet guide. > > If something doesn't come out right or end up in the right place, don't > worry. > > Brian > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Don DeWitt > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: The S Scale Wiki is now live > > > > I visited the wiki and I am already confused. > > Perhaps a general education statement should be made here? > > When I clicked on http://www.modeltra > <http://www.modeltrainwiki.com/tiki-index.php> inwiki.com/tiki-index.php > > I found a page listing: > > Welcome to the Model Train Wiki! > Model train content built by and for model train enthusiasts. > > Sections > > S Scale > American Flyer? > Lionel? > Layout Planning > Laying Track? > Scenery? > Buildings? > Wiring? > Benchwork? > > My confusion is: > > Is this entire site for all scales, and the S scale link (folder) is > for us? > > When I clicked on the S scale link > > I found a discourse about archbar trucks and then two links to: > National Association of S Gaugers > > Regional S Scale Clubs > > If this is going to be a general education location for S scale, I > would think that an article about archbar trucks should be in some > subfolder about wheels rather than the first thing we see. > > Thanks very much for getting this started, but I think we need a lot > of handholding, and I think we need someone to be in charge of organizing. > > I look forward to adding my two cents worth regarding modules. > > Thanks > > Don > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Yahoo! 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