User talk:Chuck SMITH
Hey Chuck, your reverting of Greyhound racing convinces me that there is some type of bug in the wiki software. Somebody already reverted the page from the "3333333333" stub. Check out the original stub again, and then try to view another revision. Do this a couple of times and you will see "33333333" displayed as the "current" version (even though the text is fine in edit mode). I am having the same problem with the Beryllium article -- I will make some changes, preview them, make sure they render OK, then save. But then what I see displayed is a previous revision of the page -- even though the code for the page looks fine in edit mode. This same thing happens even when I totally disable caching on several different browsers on both my wintel and lintel boxen. --maveric149
Hey Chuck, on your page you have this:
- "I don't think I'm very good at writing content unless I'm really passionate about something (which I'm told I'm not supposed to do on here)."
I beg to differ. I'm very passionate about film, especially Ingmar Bergman, Joel & Ethan Coen, & Francois Truffaut films, but I just try to keep my opinion or any unverifiable info out of my writing (I don't always succeed, and people invariably come and mop up, as should be done). It's just a different kind of writing than most people are used to; have you kept at it? (I will note that I've started avoiding anything explicitly political--those discussions quickly become more than they're worth, IMHO). just curious, Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, March 31, 2002
- Well, I've probably written half of the articles about Esperanto (meaning half of each article, not half of the number of articles) :-) so I do keep writing about stuff I'm passionate about, although I do occasionally get beat on for editing pages too boldly! (which is good) I have to admit though that most of my energy lately has been going into the Esperanto wikipedia and then I write about whatever I feel like. :-) It's quite interesting seeing a wikipedia through its early stages of development again... --Chuck Smith
Which reminds me: Hey Chuck, are you going to the ELNA Kongreso in Sacramento in June? We should have a Vikipedio presentation or something... Brion VIBBER
- No, but I nominate you to speak about the Vikipedio at the ELNA Kongreso. :o) I am however planning to go to the Internacia Junulara Kongreso and the Universala Kongreso in Brazil this year (and I hope to speak about the Vikipedio at the UK). Afterwards I plan to travel Europe for a year using Esperanto as my main language (like Amanda Higley)... I'm gonna save a fortune since I won't to pay for lodging because of the Pasporta Servo. :) --Chuck Smith
- Ooh, sounds like fun! That unruly thing called airfare is keeping me close to home for the forseeable future, alas. I'll try to come up with something for the EK, hopefully based around the brochure-to-be. I may want to bring some pamphlets in English as well for people to give to friends, relatives, strangers on the street. All Wikipedia is good wikipedia, no? Brion VIBBER
- Well, through the Esperanto travel services you can get roundtrip airfare to Brazil and back for less than $800. It's quite amazing really. I'm also subscribing to a travel service that does the same thing in English, but it cost me $100 for a lifetime membership. :-( Probably at the seminar you will want to show how easy the wikipedia is to edit as well as showing some of the other language wikipedias.
- Now that I'm thinking about it, would a multilingual wiki about Esperanto work well? I mean would it be possible to have multiple languages in one wiki? We need more national language resources about Esperanto for people who don't yet speak the language. What do you think? --Chuck Smith
- Hmm, that could be interesting. Might be nice to have something to supplement or take the place of the aging Multlingva Informcentro... Could link to the wikipedia articles too. :) Brion VIBBER