User talk:Indiana

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Good luck! --Panic (talk) 09:19, 1 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the welcome! I'm actually not a "Wikipedian" (or from any of the other Wikimedia family of projects), but I have helped maintain two other MediaWiki wikis, and even run one. For the time being, my focus here is on the Esperanto wikibook - I intend to try and clean it up to the level of featured status.
 * I did take your advice about watching the bulletin board. Thanks for the tip. --Indiana (talk) 21:34, 1 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm also keeping myself active only on Wikibooks. If you get interested in some of the politics of the system, most important if to keep the project evolving according to your needs, start by looking on the WB:RFD discussions and in future policy discussions as they are announced. This projects is very distinct from any other on Wikimedia, the closest one would be Wikisource and we recently decided to move most of our images into Commons (keeping on system only the images that are fair use), this reduces the need to duplicate efforts and augments the usefulness of those resources across all Wikimedia projects.
 * We also have an attached project Wikijunior for kids, take a look into Wikijunior:Languages/Esperanto. Another related project is Wikiversity this can be interesting to keep original research information or to interactively explore and study any subject. --Panic (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, now I have two projects on Wikibooks: the Esperanto Wikibook, and the Esperanto chapter of the Languages Wikijunior book. ^_^; I intend to bring both up to featured-level status, and I've already started contributing to the latter. Thanks for the tip! Also, thanks for the tip about Wikiversity. --Indiana (talk) 01:32, 4 February 2010 (UTC)