User talk:Jgoalby

Hello!
Greetings, John! I was alerted to your presence by your thought-provoking questions in the Central Wikia mailing list.

I've added a couple of pages of a "helping" nature and may do some more. My experience is in wikis (2 years), not forensics, which are "things" I read about in newspapers or in the Court decisions I process for a living.

Good to see that you realise there's no need for "CamelCase" in MediaWiki page names.

Robin Patterson 00:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC) (lunchtime in Wellington)


 * Thankyou very much for your help. It is very much appreciated. The Central Wikia mailing list has been most helpful in getting me started.
 * Jgoalby 15:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Text, etc, on category pages
"Moved content over from specific page" has appeared a few times in recent changes, followed by page deletions. NOT a good idea if the page is going to get long, because the text precedes the automatically-generated lists of subcategories and articles, resulting in a long scroll to find them (and greater risk that readers don't even know that those up-to-date lists exist). A Wikipedia standard category has a link to the page of the same name but very little else in the textual part of most categories. You don't even need to say anything like "See main article at...": just ensure that the article is in the category with "|*" before the end brackets, and it will appear listed before names that start with "A".


 * Makes sense. I was experimenting a little and trying to reduce the amount of pages.
 * I have changed it in the way your described. Jgoalby 20:00, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Search - indeed no!
"You searched for: September.

Sorry, there were no results for your search on this Wikia. "


 * Best of luck!

CamelCase
Are you really keen on having category names in CamelCase or is it just a habit you can't be bothered breaking? Robin Patterson 20:21, 28 September 2006 (UTC)