User talk:Herbythyme/Compost3

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Transwikiing
Well, here's the nutshell:


 * 1. Go to Special:Import and bookmark the Import dialog.
 * 2. Find the wikipedia article (hopefully the same name), copy the name, then open the import dialog and paste the name in the window.
 * 3. If it's a Cookbook article, put it in the Cookbook namespace (make sure there's not already a cookbook article first!). Otherwise, just leave it as default (Transwiki). Leave it default oftherwise (you do want all revisions).
 * 4. click Import, and wait for confirmation.
 * 5a. If it's a cookbook article, add the template Cookwork. Then add the template copied recipe or Copied to Wikibooks Cookbook to the wikipedia article.
 * 5b. If it's any other sort of article, tag the module with (you must subst: that template!), and add either Copied to Wikibooks or copied howto to the wikipedia article.

-- SB_Johnny | talk 12:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yer welcome :). You can practice playing on w:Category:Articles containing how-to sections or w:Category:Copy to Wikibooks. It's fun! -- SB_Johnny | talk 12:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * LOL... yeah, fun for me is using the admin tools is a creative manner, rather than in a destructive manner (blocking, deleting, etc.). Keep in mind that what brought me to wikibooks in the first place was a series of run-ins with the "how-to police"... I much prefer preserving material to excluding it.
 * I don't use IM, sorry. I refuse to permit AOL or microsoft programs to live on my machine :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 14:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

New clean up list
Herby, please consider checking out this list, but only when you have nothing else in the world to do. It is a list of images that have the term wikipedia on their image description page. I have a hunch that many of them are likely now redundant to ones at Commons. Granted, dealing with this in an organised manner is definitely instruction creep. Specifically, it is an example of "when someone thinks 'This [project] would be better if everyone was supposed to [clean these up]'...." But if we have extra time, I think it would be appropriate to deal with these. --Iamunknown 05:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Cookbook:Kefir and finding kefir grains
G'day Herby. Welcome to my nightmare - keeping a link to where people can find free kefir grains. I just noticed that you removed the SPAM link from the Kefir recipe, along with a link to where free kefir grains can be found. I get this all the time on WP. I personally think that this is one example where an EL is particularly relevant, because kefir is nothing without kefir grains; you can't ferment milk into kefir without them, and you can't walk into a supermarket and find them.

What I've proposed on WP is a link to a page on my website that has links to all the places people can get kefir grains. See w:Talk:Kefir. Of course, since I'm affiliated with that page, I can't add the link to the kefir article without breaking EL policy - catch 22.

If you think that this is a fair solution, please add this link to the Cookbook:Kefir recipe. cheers, Webaware 21:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, mate. We'll see where it goes from there, I guess. cheers, Webaware 12:42, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Broken Links
Thanks for the heads up. I'm actually editing them as we speak. The \[\[google:...\]\] interlinks don't seem to work correctly. Google will only accept +'s for spaces, and mediawiki will put underscores in the google query. I'm still getting used to the mediawiki interface. In many ways it really abuses the senses. CrazyEddy 17:23, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Comp Security
Here is a link to a free [online book by Prof. Ross J. Anderson about security. You might find it interesting to read in your spare moments (if you have any...)

If you find interesting stuff on Services please give me some pointers. Tortoise 18:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Gosh, I spent the entire day wikiediting!!! My eyes are just about to pop out 8-P! Enough for now... Bye!

Thanks


...for what you've been doing. -- SB_Johnny | talk 14:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

well...
Personally, I think anyone who's making a lot of work for other people (be they vandals, spammers, mass-non-licenced-uploaders, people who ignore naming policy, etc.) should simply be blocked until they make an effort to learn how to do things the right way. Of course there's no policy for blocking people for being a pain in the ass, but there's also no policy about not blocking people for being a pain in the ass. Just use your better judgement and make sure to lay out your reasons, and keep in mind that you might be setting a precedent, so set the bar high. -- SB_Johnny | talk 18:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Blender 3D
I noticed you added Cleanup-NC to Blender 3D, which seems to act more as a disambigious page in a way or a portal for multiple books rather a single book using old naming. It even says its a "collection of books". Is there something I might of missed for adding it? --dark lama  20:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Not sure I completely understand you - the pages of Blender 3D are incorrectly named with ":"? I thought that the "cleanup" template indicated that?  If I'm wrong it would be good to know - haven't had a lot of time today, thanks -- Herby  talk thyme 20:24, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The cleanup template is used to indicate a single book using the old naming convension of "Book Title:Page Name", but in the case of Blender 3D there are multiple books in which the ":" happens to be part of the title name rather dividing book title and a page name. So there is nothing incorrectly named, I don't think. --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 20:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * In a sense I think I understand your point about the "top level" page tho I thought I'd seen similar elsewhere but are you saying that Blender 3D: Noob to Pro for example is correctly named? If so I'm misunderstanding something. I do appreciate your help (& patience!). -- Herby  talk thyme 13:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm saying "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro" is probably correctly named, because thats the entire name of the book. As in "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Chapter". At least thats been my impression. I think where your probably getting confused is "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro" is the title of a book, rather then "Blender 3D" being the title of a book. Everything in "Programming:" on the other hand needs to be properly renamed because it is not the name of a book, it is being used as a pseudo-namespace for a ton of books, which aren't named "Programming:Language". I hope this hasn't confused you furthor. --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 14:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Understood - off line for a bit - if you are around maybe checkout my posting to WK & Johnny and keep an eye?? More later - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 17:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Devon
Hello, I'm Stevebritgimp (not signed in over here on wikibooks - and don't know how this all works - single log in would be nice) - anyway, Herby, you have made noises about Devon stuff, and I was wondering where the action was. I'm only going to be able to make a small contribution, but might be handy as a prodder - I'm on the Wikipedians in Devon page. Steve.172.142.210.236 00:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)(this shouldn't work)
 * Just found this page on Wikipedia and started a Devon section:

Hm?
"If you haven't - get your checkuser status request in" <-- not sure what you mean. Ask one of the others to run checkuser on me? -- SB_Johnny | talk 00:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Mumfum
Hi Herby! There's still a couple pages that need to be fixed. Wikibooks talk:How to make a HUGE fucking Mumfum mess needs to be moved back to Wikibooks talk:General voting rules, and I have no idea where Decision making went. But I know you guys will find it (eventually) :P --Az1568 08:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

PS: Thanks for fixing my talk page. --Az1568 08:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: That user you blocked
I did a checkuser on that username you gave me (Bobobo, or something), and It came up clean. We don't currently have a policy linking our actions against vandals to those taken at wikipedia. I am generally of the opinion that when users come here, they have a clean slate regardless of what they have done on another project. For instance, some people could become very disgruntled with the wikipedia atmosphere, and misbehave on that server, without any intention of similar misbehavior on this project. That's just me though, there isnt a policy on the matter either way. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

What is Wikibooks/Unstable
Would you be interested in taking a look and commenting on it? --dark lama  19:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Happily but it is unlikely to be - what is for me - tonight. Also thanks for the explanation on Blender (must go and remove the tag if you haven't) seems a bit daft but I do understand.  I didn't realise the colon was really part of the name (hope there aren't too many like that). -- Herby  talk thyme 19:36, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hum - ok I've read it thro a couple of times now. Some parts interest me in the longer term but I see little to argue about.  I guess as a (sort of ex) spam fighter I'm interested by the complete lack of mention of external links - doesn't worry me as I would suggest that for something that is intended for readers the pages should not contain them (by & large).  I'll look back again soon.  Regards -- Herby  talk thyme 13:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * So I take it you don't think "Be able to teach and be read without referring to other resources (though books may include bibliographies)" refers to external links as well as other types of resources? There is also "Not be a promotion or advertisements for products, services or companies.", which I think spam qualifies as being. Any other comments? I'm trying to gage what other people think of it right now, before bring it up for more discussion and possibily voting on it. --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 15:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I was actually saying that it implied that ELs were not required which is fine with me. Both bits you quote seem (to me) to allow a rationale for rejecting links.  Me - I could vote for it I reckon.  Feel free to offer opinions on the rather strange goings on today (Johnny & Derbeth's pages) if you haven't already done so on IRC - cheers -- Herby  talk thyme 15:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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A mumfum mess
Herby block this user now! (New user User:Willy with a bag of Mumfum created. Block Special:Blockip/Willy with a bag of Mumfum) --Az1568 07:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! (I use an IRC rc bot) Unfortunately he was able to move a bunch of pages before I could get an admin. So it looks like your going to have to do some cleanup. --Az1568 08:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

proxies list
Hi Herby, See this page on wikiversity for a long (and growing) list of proxies. The best thing to do would probably copy those tables to wikibooks so they can be checked off locally. Obviously you don't been to do the ones on the first list: already blocked.

I chatted with some admins on #Wikipedia about the user you blocked: definitely a good idea, though blocking the proxies should also take care of that. -- SB_Johnny | talk 11:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yup, unselect "anon only"... we want full, indefinite blocks. Try doing one through m:WM:OP/B first, and copy the contents of the comment field so you can add that to the ones you're doing from the wikiversity lists, since this allows maintenance bots from meta to check through it (sometimes an open proxy gets closed, and needs to be freed up again).
 * Yes, keep that user blocked. The clean slate does not apply to this particular user, as she has caused enormous problems on many wikis. -- SB_Johnny | talk 12:15, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

VfD bot...
Block it permanently. I'm on IRC with derbeth now... might block the IP as well. -- SB_Johnny | talk 14:50, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser when you are on please
Willy with a bag of Mumfum occured to be using zombie/OP IP (as Wikipedia says). I think it's worth reporting every IP used by mumfum vandal, as he tends to re-use them.

When it comes to Bobabobabo... Well, I think we can trust Wikipedia here. And I don't have any idea what User:VFDBot may be. --Derbeth talk 14:58, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Unblock request
100% bullshit. Do we have an "unblock denied" template to get it out of the category? -- SB_Johnny | talk 15:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW it wasn't blocked (but it is now!!) -- LOL :D. -- SB_Johnny | talk 15:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

How to add a superscript link to my talk page
I know that four tildes automatically add a link to my own page...how can I create a superscript link like yours?

Kosta —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KostaToronto (talk • contribs) 20:29, 19 Dec 2006  (UTC)

Thanks
For the barnstar! and the link (Those mumfum moves sure are annoying :P ) --Az1568 05:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

... And the vote! --Az1568 07:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

No objections, go ahead :) I think I've only edited from one other IP, but thats about it. --Az1568 08:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

PS: Have you seen Wikibooks new logo? --Az1568(Talk) 08:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

And you too!
Thanks. I'm looking forward to having a break and some time off work. Hope you have a good one too!

Mumfum Vandalism, mailiing list
I sent a message to the checkuser-l mailinglist about the Mumfum vandals, and this is the reply I got:


 * Well, annoying as it might be, if they are using confirmed proxies, it may actually end up better in the long run to let them go at it for a while and just revert quietly, while they bring you a convenient list of open proxies to block, avoiding potential later abuses. What I've seen happen over the last couple months on en.wp in these situations is that they just add whatever the word of the day is to the anti-vandal bots and let them do the reverting, while we sit back and block the proxies. --Essjay

On one hand, we are collecting a list of IP addresses (whether they are open proxies or not I dont know). Also, we don't have any anti-vandal bots. You used to be a wikipedian, do you know of a good anti-vandalism bot that we could get a copy of? something that would just find and destroy instances of the word "mumfum" would save us all alot of work. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 02:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

RyGuy
Hello Herbythyme! You remember me right? Well, If you'd like to see it, my Wikipedia userpage is here. I just want to get off to a good start with this account. Bye! RyGuy 13:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: Meanderings
Hi! Thanks very much. I'm pretty sick of Wikipedia at the moment, so I'm here instead :). I was just wondering, would it be considered bad form to completely replace the current Spanish book for mine: the one that's there at the moment isn't very good (in my opinion). Thanks for the message; I really appreciate it, and it's the reason this community is so much better than Wikipedia. Kindest regards, Celestianpower 13:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The existing one can be found here. Regards, Celestianpower 14:35, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Recipes
Hi! Yes, I'm quite new here, and I would like to ask you a question. Are you allowed to post homemade or family recipes onto this site, even ones hardly ever heard of (i.e. Pork Pot Pie, Orange Pie, Grape Pie)? I'd love to hear from you soon. Marcus2 14:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I got your message. Another question.  Am I allowed to add an alternate recipe if one has already been taken? Marcus2 22:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For instance, I have an alternate recipe for Chicken Pot Pie, but what I would I name the article? Would it be something like "Chicken Pot Pie 2" or "Chicken Pot Pie II"? Marcus2 21:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

*grins happily*
There's no stupid vandalism here! No huge sprawling piles of angry people! No unwieldy templates slapped over everything? No wikideathsquads ready to slap a thousand tags and ban you if you make the slightest mistake!

Yeah, you could say I'm happy. --Elaragirl 19:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Need Bot
Hey, I thought you might know the answer to this. As of today, R.K. Rowling announced the seventh HP book's name, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" which is referred to as "Book Seven" on many, many pages of the Muggles' Guide. Do you know of an automated process to correct this? Thanks. -within focus 21:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Good morning Herby
You've got some mail.

Also, I was chating with someone on IRC yesterday, and apparently the last time checkusers were approved a "talk page spamming" campaign was undertaken to bring the votes to 25+ (it's of course hard to get 25+ people to vote on anything around here :). I wonder if we should set up something like a template? -- SB_Johnny | talk 12:29, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW: Az1568 has a vandal-watching bot that runs on IRC, seems to work :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 12:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * User:Celestianpower was on IRC yesterday or the day before... I think he's planning on just rewriting the spanish book (I still think we need a "news from the IRCiverse" page somewhere, 'cause there's been a lot going on recently). His worry is about "stepping on toes", but I don't think there are any active authors there.
 * Yup, I think you'll be holding the fort a few days :). My FIL only has dialup, so I'll prolly not be surfing.
 * Oh, just in case you're interested in what it is I've been doing at wikiversity: Plant identification/Quiz 1. -- SB_Johnny | talk 13:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser explanation
Hi Herby,

Thanks for the explanation on the Checkuser stuff. BTW, I asked my contributors to vote in the RFA, and two did. They were all for anti-vandalism empowerment. Jim Thomas 15:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser vote
There is one other thing thats minor, that I didn't mention since its not something I would necessary use to vote against somone I don't think. I sometimes have a hard time understanding your reasons for blocking from the reasons you give in the block. The ones that have come to mind are the ones that say something along the lines of 'DNSstuff unknown "writer"'. I had to have someone explain to me that it was referring to the unknown vandal. --dark lama  16:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Meant to say but I've appreciated your help in the past (& hope it will continue!). The DNS stuff - ok, first block I did I got told off by Derbeth (no but you know what I mean) because I was too lenient.  He also pointed me to  and specifically the spam search there - if any of the lines turn red it indicates the possibility of a compromised/spam server - hopefully that helps - if not point me to a log entry and I'll try and do better -- Herby  talk thyme 16:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh I get it now, its just that your explanations in the reason field for blocking, isn't always easy for me to understand. 'DNSstuff unknown "writer"' didn't really explain in my mind the reason for the block was due to 1) being the unknown vandal and 2) came up as potential compromised/spam server. I probably would of said "vandal with compromised/spam server according to DNSstuff.com's spam search", to try to be clear, but I know I'm not always clear myself, like I'm not always sure what to put in the summery field for most of my edits. --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 16:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Herby, I keep meaning to mention that to you. I use "nice site vandal" when blocking those IPs. As long as you use the same reason every time it's fine though... the hope is to make our "probably proxy IP" blocks bot-searchable for our friends on meta. -- SB_Johnny | talk 17:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Bot
You should have received that flag setting already, but now I granted it and got to use my new supercool bureaucrat powers. There is "Category:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter" which should provide a filter for all pages to apply the change to. Anything not in that category we can deal with on our own (and might be garbage anyway). Go try out your new bot. I really will be gone from today until the middle of next week. -<font color="#000000">within <font color="#7A7A7A">focus 16:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * One thing I should have mentioned: on the Characters pages, the link needs to become " === Deathly Hallows === " as that's the style. Thanks. -<font color="#000000">within <font color="#7A7A7A">focus 16:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The characters are not in their own separate category, but they all exist under the "Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/" prefix. I hope that helps. -<font color="#000000">within <font color="#7A7A7A">focus 16:55, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good from a quick glance. Thanks a lot. Talk to you next week. -<font color="#000000">within <font color="#7A7A7A">focus 18:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Go bot, Go! :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 17:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

User page style
Steal away. I've sort of hacked my main en.wiki user page down, since I'm having a lot of persona problems and I don't want to deal with Wikipedia right now, but you can glance over it in the history. I like fiddling with my user page, as it's helped me learn about templating. --Elaragirl 16:29, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good
Sounds good, do you think I should be more conservative with my tagging? And is "unused fair use image" an OK reason to speedy, because come to think of it no mention of it is made on the help page concerning it. If it is there's plenty more of those where that came from, all of those came right off the "unused images" list, many of those also don't have tags (I presume because it's before we HAD the proper tags, since many such pages still list what the licence is, just without the tag). I Regards, Mattb112885 21:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Morning
Good morning to you too :) (btw 12:01 PM in California) --Az1568(Talk) 07:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Good Saturday morning to you!
Good morning, Herby! I just saw your recent edits and thought I'd say hello. I'll be going to bed now as I'm many time zones behind you, and it is late into the night for me. If you celebrate the holidays, have a wonderful holiday season; if you don't, then have a wonderful weekend! Cheers, Iamunknown 10:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Most people who create an account never make any edits at all. So I'm reluctant to do or say anything at present. I have sometimes blocked new accounts before they have edited, but that's only when the name is clearly abusive or is almost certainly created by a vandal (eg the name is very similar to that recently used by a set of accounts to vandalise). In the instance you quote, I don't think that's the case. I do agree with you though that it would be prudent for that person, if they do become a regular contributor, to change their username. If that is the case, we can deal with it easily enough later. Jguk 13:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello again
Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, school was awesome, but now I have a full month break :-) W00t. --Dragontamer 04:01, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Pancakes
Hello again! I'm very sorry if I disturbed you, but if you see the pagemove summary I gave, you'll understand why I moved the page. I was just trying to replace that whole-wheat pancake recipe with one that is more basic. Sorry. Marcus2 15:39, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I do celebrate Christmas. And a Merry Christmas to you too! Marcus2 15:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: Spanish
Hi again, and happy boxing day to you too! Yes, it would be great if you could delete the redirects; it's really odd not being able to do it myself. I hope I'm doing all this right...

Kindest regards, Celestianpower 15:05, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, Sir! Christmas regards, Celestianpower 15:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So you're female! Oops. And yes, I return to school on the 3rd of January. Thanks! Celestianpower 16:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hehe, once again, my bad. Why do you not use IRC? Regards, Celestianpower 18:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Which IM? Which username? :P. Celestianpower 18:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Sysop
Thanks for protecting my user page, and the 2nd welcome. :) --Az1568(Talk) 17:50, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:Path of the Guardians

I think were supposed to use for that. --Az1568(Talk) 08:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh here's the link Template:Deletedpage (it should say what it's for) --Az1568(Talk) 08:18, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips on open proxies :) it took me "at least" three trys to get the block right :P --Az1568(Talk) 20:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Checkuser
I checked that user you sent me, nothing out of the ordinary. For simplicity in the future, I won't send you messages for every user I check for you, I'll only let you know if there is something interesting to report. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 02:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Open proxies
Well... we could do that but, WikiProject on open proxies already has links that auto-fill the user block page. BTW could you give me the link to the Wikiversity page? I haven't seen that one yet --Az1568(Talk) 08:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You might want to take a look at this page User:Az1568/List1 (done) User:Az1568/List2. (we can block them with 2 clicks)

//

addOnloadHook(function{ var x; if (x=document.getElementById('wpAnonOnly')) {x.checked=false;} });

addOnloadHook(function{ var x; if (x=document.getElementById('wpCreateAccount')) {x.checked=true;} });

addOnloadHook(function{ var x; if (x=document.getElementById('wpEnableAutoblock')) {x.checked=false;} });

// And add that to your .js --Az1568(Talk) 23:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well... nothing on list 2 is blocked yet, so feel free to go ahead and start it. :) --Az1568(Talk) 08:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I think he's from Uncyclopedia: (Link) so maybe he just came here to cause trouble.--Az1568(Talk) 08:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd give him one more day - (but it is a vandalism only account). But if he starts to vandalize again, an indef block would be appropriate.--Az1568(Talk) 08:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * List 2 is done! (see User:Az1568/List3) --Az1568(Talk) 05:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Barnstars, etc
there have been a few barnstars flying around here and there recently, but unfortunately wikibooks just doesnt have the barnstar infrastructure that wikipedia has. Maybe we should start creating such an infrastructure? We could upload all the necessary pictures, and create templates, and all that stuff. If i could get the whole "wikiprojects" thing set up, we could do it as a wikiproject too. So many things need to get done around here... --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 15:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar
I have been busy at dmoz recently what with the servers being opened back up, so my editing at Wikijunior has really dropped off. You can see some of what I have been working on over there at the ODP Newsletter. That's really the only reason for my activity dropping off on Wikijunior. I still have personal goals related to Wikijunior though, and am looking forward to launching "Wikijunior Bugs" (crosses fingers) at the first of the year. 8) (belated signature) --xixtas 23:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It's funny you should say that. There's a couple of Wikipedia related projects going on at dmoz now. There's a knowledge-mapping project to place Wikipedia articles within the dmoz taxonomy, and there's a project to mine links from Wikipedia articles listed as having too many links and brush up the related categories so they are good resources for Wikipedia to link to.


 * I'm not one of those who defends dmoz in all situations, but we are pretty good at recognizing search engine spam.


 * I'm not sure what I could do with admin privileges that I can't already and if I'd want to do those things even if I could. ;-) --xixtas 13:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Is it just me or is there a reason?
I am not sure; I just think Wikibooks could use a new logo. --Remi0o 05:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikibooks Logo Iterations
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:blooze.svg http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:blooze2.svg http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:Bavybaby.svg --Remi0o 08:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

OK
Why not?

How went the holidays, by the way?-- SB_Johnny | talk 14:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Would you object if I just took the names out and said "there are 2 nominations"? -- SB_Johnny | talk 14:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * NP then. I'll wait for the gazette :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 15:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Crimbo
Thanks for the messages. Christmas went OK and it's nice to come back to Poland (except for the swarm of fleas that the cats have provided to my flat). Xania talk 22:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Query
Do you send a welcome message to new users when they have made a user page? Regards --Herraotic 20:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes they do ;) --Monotonehell 15:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome wagon. Cheers, Monotonehell 15:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Magick
I attempted to put it in a state so if one was to work on it, then it would conform to the standards of Wikibooks, however, I have no concrete plans to add to it. If you feel it would benefit Wikibooks to delete it, I have no objection. --Remi0o 05:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

"maintanance"
Thanks :). I mis-spell that far more often than I don't (you could probably find 100 more misspellings floating about). -- SB_Johnny | talk 14:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)