User talk:Msannakoval

Hi. I'm new to Wikibooks.
Hi. I'm Anna. :) I just joined Wikibooks. Last night I baked a special bread for a cultural holiday, and when it turned out pretty good, I wanted to share what I'd learned from consulting half a dozen cookbooks and blogs and consolidating their recommendations. I'm interested in contributing to Category:Cookbooks and I want to do it right. :) I created a sandbox for a recipe page I want to start: User:Msannakoval/Sandbox/Cookbook:Česnica. I modeled it after other similar recipe pages in WB. But I've got a couple of questions and I'm wondering if anyone can provide some insight and instruction? I looked at Special:RecentChanges in Cateogry:Cookbooks and User:Kellen and User:QuiteUnusual seem like they might be good people to ask. :) Kellen and QuiteUnusual, it's nice to meet you both. :) I hope you can help. Please let me know what is the best way to reach out to other volunteers here. Thanks so much. Msannakoval (discuss • contribs) 16:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi! I don't use wikibooks much any more. The most visible place to ask for cookbook-related help is at Cookbook_talk:Table_of_Contents Cheers, Kellen T 20:41, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Kellen. I do appreciate you getting back to me, especially if you're not very active anymore. I'm curious to know why that is. But it's really none of my business. So, I'll wish you well, and thank you for the link to the best place here for cookbook help. And if you have any other advice for a new editor on wikibooks, I'd love to know. All the best, Msannakoval (discuss • contribs) 04:49, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The cookbook needs some pretty harsh quality control for it to be generally useful, which is quite difficult on a wiki. The barrier to entry is (intentionally) low, which encourages drive-by recipe submission and since recipes don't function in the same way as an encyclopedia article which can be iteratively improved, the only solution is to leave all of the recipes as they were when submitted and therefore have many recipes which are full of errors, or to delete most submissions which is a never-ending cleanup task. Many recipes were exported from wikipedia in a weird sort of NIMBY action rather than deleting the often poor-quality content.


 * I think the more potentially useful thing the cookbook could do is to catalog basic preparation of a wide variety of ingredients and leave out all recipes beyond this scope. Cheers, Kellen T 20:39, 31 March 2014 (UTC)