User talk:Puellamala

Catullus
Hello there Catherine! Yes I welcome any help at all, as you can see its a lot of work for one person! A latin teacher? Well thats great, I'm just a student myself so it would be good to have some authority on the subject here.

If you familiarise yourself with what I'm aiming for by looking at two model examples:


 * Poem 51
 * Poem 7

Also have a look at various codes and formats that I'm using, be sure to read my User page to find out what needs doing, and to read the Instructions at the beginning of the Textbook. I assume as you are "wiki-mad" that you are familiar with the more basic types of formatting?

And also, how did you find this? As far as I know this is not on any bookshelf so were you searching specifically?

And I hope to see you contributing sometime soon! :D Btw, do you use MSN? If so, we can talk there. Thanks again for taking an interest. Alakazam38 19:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Some Instructions
Sorry, I misinterpreted wiki-stupid, as being obsessed with wiki, so I assumed you knew most format. Here are some basic ones for you:

text = text

text = text

text = text

*text =


 * text

If you click on edit page ^^ up there, you can observe the code of a page and work out how to show something that you can see the page has:

Here are some more advanced ones for you:

enclosing a page title in two pairs of square brackets creates a link

User:Alakazam38 = User:Alakazam38

Placing a straight line after this and writing something else changes what the link appears as:

Click here = Click here

=

=

=

Model Examples:

Here is a model example of a page.

As is the way we format obscene poems here.

I hope all this is useful. Obviously you won't have to use the more advanced ones very much, but the Linking is a good one to learn.

The different amounts of dashes ['] are helpful though, as you can emphasise different text.

One more thing

If you'd like the numbers of lines in Catullus poems that haven't been written up yet, I've got his full works in books. So feel free to ask, and I'll get back quickly.

Might I ask your current country of residence? Then I'll know roughly when you might be online. I'm in England. :D

Oh, and if you want to sign your name on my talk page after a comment its four tildes ~ which makes this! Hope to see you much more active in the summer. :D Alakazam38 16:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Claim your Credit! :D

 * Write a bit about yourself in the authors section! :D Alakazam38 19:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

New Team Member!
 Al ak  az  am  |  Talk  11:41, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd like to inform you that User:Medellia has just joined this project. He is a Latin language specialist, as well as learning at least 5 other languages. His main work will be on "WikTionarying" vocab.

Sorry for the delay
Hey Catherine, good to see you back.

Of course you may start on 36 and 40, since I haven't studied them myself in such great detail - I assume you are a uni prof/lecturer? I can see that the notes already made are of very high standard - I'll just go and tidy up here and there. Keep up the good work! Any help you can enrol from your students would be a fantastic addition. :D

I'm in Kent, about 30 miles away from London.

A couple of points:

All these questions will make for a better and critically analytical study of Catullus' work.
 * Try not to include too many links to Wikipedia - on WikiBook's own policy it does reccommend that the books should contain all relevant detail. This stops distractions for the reader. Instead, try to explain within that sentence, or if it is assumed to be knowledge to the audience leave it as normal text.
 * You don't need to capitalise vocabulary - and as for the wikitionary links - not all of them have that exact word, so I'll go through and ammend those.
 * Try to give a little more detail when commenting on the value of lines - what effect does this add to the poem? how does it fit in with other Catullan themes? what is Catullus trying to get us, the reader to feel?

Other than that, it's great.

 Al ak  az  am  |  Talk  19:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)