Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki
Jason, the site is great, maybe greater than I can realize today. I, as a practical computer illiterate, (never learned any computerese courses, not even from books) sat before it with awe, - admiring that it works! I might have missed it when I tried: I did not find a place to look up topics (as in an index) to read about - to my choice. Clivkably, or advised under what name to find it, not 'included' in some topic, but alphabetically. Search seemed to work like a computer: lookiong for 'exact format' only. Maybe this is too hard, however I trust your skills, professor. John Mikes - Original Message - From: Jason Resch To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:57 PM Subject: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki John M mentioned in a recent post that many on the Everything List may have conflicting or poor understandings of all the various terminology used on the list. Hal Ruhl brought up the fact that someone had previously tried to maintain an acronym list and FAQ for the Everything List. I thought that a wiki would suit this role rather nicely, and offered to set one up for the list. I've finished setting up the site and it is currently running on a webhost which I use and have much underutilized space on. The URL is: http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page I envision the wiki being used to explain the various concepts, acronyms, and theories so often mentioned on this list. Every account created on the wiki has its own dedicated page, which I think would be an ideal place for people to describe their backgrounds and the theories they subscribe to. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki
On Feb 9, 7:59 am, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, the site is great, maybe greater than I can realize today. I, as a practical computer illiterate, (never learned any computerese courses, not even from books) sat before it with awe, - admiring that it works! I might have missed it when I tried: I did not find a place to look up topics (as in an index) to read about - to my choice. Clivkably, or advised under what name to find it, not 'included' in some topic, but alphabetically. Search seemed to work like a computer: lookiong for 'exact format' only. Maybe this is too hard, however I trust your skills, professor. John, Thanks, I think too that the site will evolve into something great. You are right the search functionality of pages is lacking, however on the main page ( http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/ ) I included a link to the listing of all pages ( http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Allpages ). There is also a listing of Categories ( http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Categories ) which I think might be what you are looking for. As long as people are good about placing articles into categories then the category system provides an effective organiziation for the site. Clicking any of those category links will automatically show all articles placed into that category. Articles can also belong to multiple categories. I think its up to all of us how useful the site becomes, if we make the most of all the features the wiki provides we should do pretty well. Regards, Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki
Jason, just about the technicalities: I tried the main page with 2-3 topics and the result was no such title. Categories I did not venture into, because to find the right wording/spelling requires familiarity in our lingo and I had in mind to educate the innocent(ignorant) by passers outside Brunoistic or Schmidthuberistic use of vocabulary (and myself also). Those 'blog=like' concentrates of one's positions on topics will be much better than the spread-and-cut remarks in reply-posts containing 6 - 3000 preliminary texts ea. While I find it useful to let the prerequisites run, it makes it difficult to concentrate on the issue on hand - way above. Or: vice versa. I think the use of this 'wiki' would reduce the redundancy and increase the reasonability of the list by knowing what we are talking about. (This last sentence refers to myself). I think what you started is of a huge benefit to all of us. John M On 2/9/07, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 7:59 am, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, the site is great, maybe greater than I can realize today. I, as a practical computer illiterate, (never learned any computerese courses, not even from books) sat before it with awe, - admiring that it works! I might have missed it when I tried: I did not find a place to look up topics (as in an index) to read about - to my choice. Clivkably, or advised under what name to find it, not 'included' in some topic, but alphabetically. Search seemed to work like a computer: lookiong for 'exact format' only. Maybe this is too hard, however I trust your skills, professor. John, Thanks, I think too that the site will evolve into something great. You are right the search functionality of pages is lacking, however on the main page ( http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/ ) I included a link to the listing of all pages ( http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Allpages ). There is also a listing of Categories ( http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Categories ) which I think might be what you are looking for. As long as people are good about placing articles into categories then the category system provides an effective organiziation for the site. Clicking any of those category links will automatically show all articles placed into that category. Articles can also belong to multiple categories. I think its up to all of us how useful the site becomes, if we make the most of all the features the wiki provides we should do pretty well. Regards, Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
