Hi Wayne, [?] I understand. Thanks for the info. I will remember that. --
Malisa Richards +15926990458 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Malisar On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Malisa, > > I understand now.... that makes sense. I thought you may be refering to an > email. I like the way you accept challenges --- its the best way to learn > about wikis. > > Wow! I've just seen your user page --- I'm very impressed. You're a > natural wiki editor :-). > > It's not unusual for new users to be surprised when someone else edits > their user page. Some people don't mind, while others prefer to keep their > personal space to themselves. Once you get to know members in the community > -- you will learn who doesn't mind edits on their user pages. > > In the case of individual user pages -- a good rule of thumb is to treat > user pages as a "personal space". That is to refrain from making edits on > someone else's user page. If you see an opportunity to help out someone > with layout or editing, a good way is to leave a note on their talk page > suggesting that you might be able to help with layout etc. > > We keep almost all pages open for editing. However, there are a few > selected pages which are protected. For example the home page of > WikiEducator -- however this is not really locked down because all the > content on the home page is provided using templates which are all > editable. > > WE is committed to building wiki skills for educators and we prefer to do > this in a live wiki environment, we want Newbies to experience the feeling > of community. Sometimes newbies make mistakes -- that's fine. For instance, > In Feb 2007 -- a Newbie attending a training workshop posted the following > on the home page of WikiEducator: > > "i'm roza from Maldives. editing is fun when you know how." (See: > http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=next&oldid=21783) > Obviously an innocent mistake. As the home page is a "high risk" page it > is protected from direct edits (but can be changed through the templates.) > > Fortunately in the wiki --- we can fix anything which goes wrong :-) > > In WE were committed to keeping our pages open -- its the wiki way. > Technically it would be possible to develop features that would enable a > user to lock down edits on their user page -- but this hasn't been a problem > for us in the past, and I don't think that investing money for a feature > like this is necessarily the best utilisation of scarce resources. > > On the positive side -- you've had the opportunity to start exploring the > history pages and how to revert back to previous versions of a page -- a > very powerful feature in the wiki. > > See: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Collaborative_Editing/Diff_and_History > > Keep up the good work and appreciate your post to the main list. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > Thu, 2008-12-04 at 00:16 -0430, Malisa Richards wrote: > > > > Hi Wayne, > > No I am not referring to email notifications. I am referring to individual > user page and setting restrictions at various levels so that the user of the > page decides whether or not a wikieducator can edit their page and make > changes. Basically what happened is that I received a post stating that > karen6095 wasn't getting her outline on her user page. Seeing it as a > challenge i began to compare edit tabs to see where exactly the problem was. > So what I did, I copied the codes into notepad and stage by stage i was > checking to see if they were same. So every step I was copying codes and > saving. Subsequently, Karen informed me that I was causing her great > distress by making changes to her page. I explained to her the email I > received and apologised. However, the questions that i am trying to ask is: > does wikieducator have any user restrictions? if this feature is existent, > how is it activated? > > > > Malisa Richards > > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Malisa, > > I'm not sure that I understand your questions -- Are you refering to an > email notification you received from the WikiEducator server regarding a > page you have on your watch list was updated, or are you refering to a post > from the WikiEducator list hosted by Google groups? > > I little more detail would help us in answering your questions. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:22 -0800, Malisa Richards wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > This evening something very interesting happened. I received an email > from the forum stating that someone wasn't getting their outline. I > really enjoy working in wikieducator and some how no challenge seems > to back me down. Later down i was contact and realised that it was an > old post i received. Stemming from that, the first question that came > to mind is: > 1. some where later down in the advanced stages of wikieducator, can > there be some amount of user restrictions in terms of editing other > user pages? > 2. is this feature existent and at what level of certification is it > activiated? > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Malisa Richards > +15926990458 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Malisar<http://console.mxlogic.com/redir/?2OqekQnCkmjrbNEVvd79EVd7bVI04oAlBW3tJDmf00s2tfyAdWvaCNdTWXbXxEVp7fLLCXCOci5mUmYKOjAImcdXKW8M8PaAWAO3MuW7IMsc5FxUUUMHJyIEjHgCtqF_00gkhHkyvV6dmRGsKrhhujhdEFFLcKenKOrpsdCBI1p5p3i3tJDm9Ftd40bZ8QgdQ-9EwzZ9NBqsGMErDUvf5zZB0SyrhdIL6zBYQsKf6zASXgMzLdFH3LV> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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