User talk:Kernigh/Archive 1

User talk:Kernigh Archive 1 November to December 2005

Colour-code a string
Is there any method on wikibooks to colour-code a string? Specifically, I want to colour-code the entries in The Computer Revolution: A Timeline into either hardware, system software and internet. There needs to be a way to follow each individual thread but there also needs to be a way to easily see where they fit in between each other. Thanks for the earlier advice btw. 24.200.176.92 08:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Most format stuff is documented in m:Help:Editing, and they have color in m:Help:HTML in wikitext, but for this you might need CSS. Things like orange ( orange ) and green ( green  ) work in my browser. CSS seems to work the same way on this wiki as it does in HTML. --Kernigh 20:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Ciao.

Programming:Serial Data Communications
I'm trying to understand your motivation on why this Wikibook needs to be merged with the bookshelf that it is part of. You havn't posted a reason on the discussion pages, although I am presuming there is a motivation. There are distinctly different motivations between the Wikibook and the other proposed (or stub) Wikibook modules on the bookshelf. One thing I am trying to avoid doing (but seems to be happening with this Wikibook, unfortunately) is to turn this Wikibook into a macropedia, or a smaller encyclopedia about a specific topic. By eliminating the serial programming bookshelf, this is encouraging even more the effort to turn this Wikibook that I have organized into chronological chapters intended to be read sequential (or at least reference previous chapters heavily). By dumping the reference material into this Wikibook, it just encourages more of the macropedia philosophy.

I have it listed under computer network topologies due to my desire to eventually turn this book into an introduction to simple computer networks. I think serial programming techniques are a good laboratory way to introduce the topic that can teach many levels of the OSI network model where a student can experiment and perhaps come up with other networking models, or at least understand why things happen the way that they happen in current networks.

In addition, there was an earlier VfD discussion about this topic on the VdD page. The discussion was removed on October 8th if you want to go through the VfD history and find it.

I appreciate you efforts to try and clean up Wikibooks, and this is certainly something that needs a little bit of attention. I just think that merging the contents of this bookshelf into the Wikibook is not the best approach and will do more harm than good. I do want to raise the standards of not only this Wikibook but also Wikibooks as a whole. Work with me to get the serial communication bookshelf cleaned up, and I think there is a compromise that can be accomodated. --Rob Horning 19:36, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


 * The cause of my (now removed) merge suggestion was a misapplication of WB:NC/WB:NP (neither enforced) and the Serial Programming redirect. See my comment at Talk:Serial communications bookshelf. --Kernigh 03:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Mass, gravity, weight, etc, etc in Wikijunior Solar System
Re all the above, I'd appreciate your thoughts on SV Resolution's comments here on my talk page, especially his highlighting Wikijunior Solar System/Solar System; thanks in advance. Best wishes, David Kernow 16:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Have just responded to your comments on the About weight and gravity talk page – thank you for your thoughts. Meanwhile, I'd appreciate your pointing out what you found to be obtuse language in the About weight and gravity module itself, so I may try to avoid it in future. Thanks, David Kernow 14:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

De-indenting
Thanks for your effort to try and keep Wikibooks clean and usable by fixing the indentation on some talk pages. However, you didn't do it correctly everywhere. In many cases, a direct response (one more : than the previous comment) was changed to a brand new comment (no :s at all). That is not what the talk page help page means by cleaning up and refactoring. In the future, please read the discussion and see what the content of the comments are, not just the user who made them. For example, Wikibooks talk:Dispute resolution was fine the way it is, but now you moved my responses to Whiteknight out to the left and the discussion is now broken up. I would appreciate a little more caution in the future. Thank you, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark) 16:33, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I was not reading the "refactoring" section of Talk page, I was reading the section that says "use indenting to keep the conversation straight". I thought that was consensus on this wiki, but apparently Talk page is only a proposed policy, and something that was copied from Wikipedia. --Kernigh 16:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleting a Wikipage
It has been noted on [Engineering Acoustics] that I need to clean up or remove some pages. Problem is that I am not able to remove old pages that have been accidently unlinked. Any idea how to fix this or delete the pages(old pages are not needed)? Thanks Mpspence


 * This is a FullHistory wiki, so we keep a page history of all previous versions of every page here. If there is an old orphan page Acoustic:A which was replaced with Acoustic:B, you should make a redirect from Acoustic:A to Acoustic:B - see Help:Redirect. (But first check that there is no new material in Acoustic:A missing from Acoustic:B .) Then, on talk page for Acoustic:B, add a comment that some old page history is available at Acoustic:A . Any wiki user can do this, so I might make the redirects if no one does it before when I would.


 * With a redirect, if there is an external link to Acoustic:A from outside Wikibooks (for example, in a search engine), the link works because Wikibooks redirects it to Acoustic:B.


 * If you actually need to delete page, read Deletion policy. --Kernigh 18:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Question from my RfA
You had wondered if I had any experience as an Admin on another MediaWiki. The answer is no, but I feel I should qualify that. I am a very active participant at Wikipedia, including working on the AN, the AN/I, and the AN/3RR. I have followed Admins and know what the task requires. Quite a few people at WP already think I'm an Admin there. A couple of people have discussed nominating me over there as well. I know a few of the tasks can be tricky (IP range blocking, etc.), therefore will start off slow and work my way up to doing the more complicated things. I hope this adresses any concerns you may still have. Cheers. -- LV (Dark Mark) 18:07, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Stewards election
Hi. Thank you for your vote on meta. I'm actually the same person as on Wikibooks :-). Traroth 09:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Gross-out songs
Kernigh, the lyrics for these songs went onto paper (or rather cyberspace) from my own head. The songs are written down as I recall them. There may be an error or two in the words. Hoishand182 04:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)