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| | I like to keep conversations together. If you leave me a note here, I'll usually respond here. If I've started a conversation on your talk page, I'll usually check your talk page for a reply. (There may be exceptions, but that's the general pattern.) If a conversation jumps between pages, I'll often copy it over so that the whole thing appears on one page. |
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| Greetings Josiah, and welcome aboard! I'm very pleased with your enthusiasm for the project and greatly apprecaite the input you've given and the edits you've made.
| | == Working out the new and old == |
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| To address some of your questions, I had thought of calling the site "The Matrix," but that might lead people to think this was a wiki about a certain Keanu Reeves film trilogy. "Amplified Panatropic Computer Network" would have been too cumbersome a name, plus it would make the URL too long unless I specified "APCN" as the desired URL. Plus, folks who have only recently been introduced to ''[[Doctor Who]]'' or had not seen
| | I'm also still finding my way around, it's strangely like the old days of the wiki (even saying stuff like that reminds me how long I've been editing on the wiki!). Everything seems to work similarly, but I think there'll need to be a review policies etc, now we're not under the auspices of those over there, and just a lot of historical stuff that's come and gone. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 00:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC) |
| "[[The Deadly Assassin]]" might not recognize either "Amplified Panatropic Computer Network" or "APCN" as Doctor Who references. I wanted a name that would be instantly recognizable as being related to Who, and since "TARDIS Information System" had the word "[[TARDIS]]" in it, and referred to a searchable database, I chose that. Of course, I've since changed the project name to "[[TARDIS Index File]]," for reasons mentioned in the
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| As for the first order of business, I honestly haven't a clue where to begin. Though it would seem to make since that if we expect people to contribute to this wiki, we should give them some idea of how to do it, since not all of them will be familiar with wiki, and also make it easier for them to find their way around the site. Yes, the [[Help:Contents | Help]] section needs to be developed further. The [[Tardis:Community Portal | Community Portal]] needs work. Articles on the [[Doctor]], [[Gallifrey]], [[List of Doctor Who stories | the stories]] and so forth, can probably get done as we get to them. Conventions can also be worked out later, but not too much later, else we'll have a truckload of entries that will need editing to bring them within the confines of these conventions.
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| :Thanks for the input, Freethinker! --[[User:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] 17:49, 23 Feb 2005 (GMT)
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| == Sysop Status? ==
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| In light of your contributions and familiarity with wiki, I am considering granting you sysop status. Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks.
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| --[[User:Freethinker1of1|Freethinker1of1]] 20:38, 8 Mar 2005 (GMT)
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| <small>(copied from [[User talk:Freethinker1of1]])</small>
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| ===Your kind sysop offer===
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| :I might be interested (although my wiki skills are really only fair-to-middling). However, I can't guarantee a constant presence on the boards. My work schedule is such that I'm likely to have a week with lots of free time, then a couple of weeks with no time at all. (I'm an on-off moderator at Outpost Gallifrey's Forum for the same reason.)
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| :So if you don't mind if I'm occasionally absent for a long stretch of time, I'd be happy to become a sysop (although I've still got a lot to learn about wiki stuff). --[[User:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] 06:44, 12 Mar 2005 (GMT)
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| ==Was it you?==
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| I have been on Whoisdoctorwho.co.uk and looked at the guestbook. I was wondering if the entries were put there by the BBC or if they are actually sent in by real fans as there are entries from Mr. Yates and I wondered if they were official. Then I saw the name Josiah Rowe and wondered if you sent it in? --[[User:GingerM|GingerM]] 17:52, 1 Sep 2005 (UTC)
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| === Yep, it was me. ===
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| :An age ago, you wrote:
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| ::I have been on Whoisdoctorwho.co.uk and looked at the guestbook. I was wondering if the entries were put there by the BBC or if they are actually sent in by real fans as there are entries from Mr. Yates and I wondered if they were official. Then I saw the name Josiah Rowe and wondered if you sent it in? --[[User:GingerM|GingerM]] 17:52, 1 Sep 2005 (UTC)
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| :The answer is yes, that was me. I don't know whether the entries from "Mr. Yates" and "Sarah Jane Smith" were written by the web team or other fans, but the Josiah Rowe entry was me.
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| :(Sorry it took me so long to get back to you— I hadn't been on Wikicities for a while, having sort of defected to [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who|WikiProject Doctor Who]] on Wikipedia.) —[[User:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] 20:57, 23 Oct 2005 (UTC)
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| {{Please see|Can we disable visual editor please?}} <br> {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">18:09: Tue 20 Dec 2011 </span>
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| == Featured article system ==
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| Hey Josiah! I notice you've stopped by recently, so I'm gonna try leaving a message here before going to {{w|user talk:Josiah Rowe}}.
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| Since you have experience both on Wikipedia and Wikia, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how we could best implement some sort of featured article "process" here. Would a straight import of the Wikipedia system — with {{w|Template:ArticleHistory}} and all that — be advisable? Or is that system overly ambitious for a Wikia wiki, due to its smaller userbase? I've looked at what Wookieepedia and MemAlpha do, and there are lessons to be learned there. But I'm kind of hoping that since you're a Wikipedia leader with experience over here, you might have some thoughts on how to get smaller communities to build articles in a more cooperative and purposeful way. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">21:29: Sat 14 Apr 2012 </span>
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| :I'm honored that you'd ask for my input, but I'm afraid that I'm really not very knowledgeable about "process" matters like this. ("I know so very little about telebiogenesis.") In fact, I've severely cut back on my Wikipedia contributions in part because I don't have the time or the inclination to fight through all the red tape over there (not to mention real-life stuff, like the birth of my daughter).
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| :That said, my gut feeling is that there's no need for the FA process here to be as formal and stultifying as it is at Wikipedia. The key is to establish a core group of reviewers, who can determine appropriate criteria and apply them to candidate articles. Once that's in place, there could be incentives like the Triple Crown over at Wikipedia to encourage users to bring articles to FA status... but I think that has to come later.
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| :I hope that's helpful. Wish I could chip in more myself, but for the foreseeable future I'm afraid my contributions both here and at Wikipedia will be limited to fixing the occasional typo. —[[User:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] <sup>[[User talk:Josiah Rowe#top|talk to me]]</sup> 04:11, April 22, 2012 (UTC)
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| ::That's good advice! Thanks for taking the time to give it. Congratulations on fatherhood! And whatever edits you can give here between feedings will be gratefully accepted. Remember: you're still an [[admin]] here — whether you like it or not! {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">21:32: Mon 23 Apr 2012 </span>
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| :::I wasn't even sure I still had the admin bit here. "So many parts! And hardly used!" —[[User:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] <sup>[[User talk:Josiah Rowe#top|talk to me]]</sup> 11:22, April 24, 2012 (UTC)
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| I'm glad that you are back editing here at TARDIS. Just to let you know, if you are staying, which I hope that you are, you might want to change your status from inactive to active [[Tardis:Administrators|here]]; at the list of administrators. Thanks. [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 00:27, April 25, 2012 (UTC)
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