User talk:Information Ecologist

Mesopotamian Marshlands
Note that the Mesopotamian Marshlands book is under a Vote for Deletion right now. You should answer that at least. The book appears to be abandoned.

It is generally a good idea to finish a book before you start on a new one. If you have abandoned a book, you should place it on the Vote for Deletion page yourself, so that people aren't left to wonder if it will ever be finished.

AlbertCahalan 03:39, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

database wikibook
"DataPerfect" may have been a nice piece of software at one time. But I suspect it is no longer available. Perhaps it would be better to make a wiki book discussing a more easily available database. Doesn't http://OpenOffice.org/ have a simple database ? Or perhaps one of the other databases listed at http://osdb.sourceforge.net/. --DavidCary 05:44, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * DataPerfect is freely available and is alive and well - as is its author, Lew Bastian, the Data Oefect Users Discussion Group, and a dedicated group of DataPerfect practitioners who gathered in the 2004 DataPerfect Developers Conference in September 2005 in Huntignton Beach California. A video of the conference is available - in a set of seven DVDs of almost the entire proceedings.


 * Lew's latest modifications to the database include the ability to run - and manage web sites - from directly on a web server and to translate accented ASCII chanacters, line field, bold, underline, italic, special characters, etc. into their html equivalents.


 * DataPerfect is being used in many creative ways for such diverse purposes including managing domain registration, an online store and a community web site as well as increasingly to generate web sites based on extensive sets of pages - in conjunction with a design based on elementary html with tables, cells and cascading style sheets. DataPerfect remains, imho, unsurpassed as a relational database in its elegance, power, robustness and integrity. Information Ecologist 23:51, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

VfD
I moved some text down from speedy deletion to the regular area, where you may have missed an ongoing discussion about your books. I hope you will soon explain how your books fit in here. It appears that you expect to update them in large chunks, likely replacing text from other contributers. Wiki books are normally hand-edited by the whole community. This is not a place to dump data with the expectation that nobody else will touch it. This is a place for non-fiction works, generally being educational and factual in nature. AlbertCahalan 23:45, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I hope by now you will have read my several responses to the Vfd discussion, including my response to your comment about this issue there. Since writing that, I have realized that it might make sense also to make use of forms that contributors can use to edit and add to the Wikibook - essentially an experimentl hybrid - so that they can participate without having to learn the ins and outs of wiki codes. I am also planning to devote what will effectively be a common Appendix with guidance on how to work in a Wiki platform; this section would build on the framework I had been developing under User:Information Habitat in wikipedia.

VfD Again
Sorry to push this up, but I'd like to know what happened to the Wikibook Information Ecology? It is currently up on a vote for deletion (or at least the remaining pages of it). I'd really like you to try to defend your work here, and what the purpose of this Wikibook can serve. Seriously, I'd like to see you continue to contribute to Wikibooks, but inactivity on some of these Wikibooks may lead to their removal. It is more about the fact that we don't really understand the content, and would like you to try and explain what it is all about. --Rob Horning 05:02, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

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You cannot upload noncommercial images to Wikibooks. --Derbeth talk 09:23, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Missing license information
Please fill license information of the following images: Image:T-square-cube-0-474x747.png, Image:Light-cube-0-0579x0830.png, Image:Apex-r-409x480.png, Image:Apex-l-409x480.png. --Derbeth talk 09:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)