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:Steve, there is actually a template function in the GUI view.  It's the {T} near the top right.  It even lets you browse available templates, with information about how to use them. [[User:BenGreenberg|BenGreenberg]] 19:01, 16 January 2011 (EST)
 
:Steve, there is actually a template function in the GUI view.  It's the {T} near the top right.  It even lets you browse available templates, with information about how to use them. [[User:BenGreenberg|BenGreenberg]] 19:01, 16 January 2011 (EST)
  
Wow, I will try that out!  (Not here though.)  
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I don't see how to indent yet, but I'll pick that up.  
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::I don't see how to indent yet using Tab, but I'll pick that up.  
  
The only flaw I see is that when I enter <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Free Geek|Free Geek]]</nowiki> it&nbsp;saves with an error message as [[wikipedia:Free Geek|Free Geek]]. I have to test this more. [[User:Shollingsworth|SteveH]] 19:10, 16 January 2011 (EST)
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::The only flaw I see is that when I enter <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Free Geek|Free Geek]]</nowiki> it&nbsp;saves with an error message as [[wikipedia:Free Geek|Free Geek]]. I have to test this more. [[User:Shollingsworth|SteveH]] 19:10, 16 January 2011 (EST)
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:::Now it works okay.  That just means more testing! [[User:Shollingsworth|SteveH]] 19:12, 16 January 2011 (EST)

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Hi Ben!

Yippee!! Now we can post to each other.

I'm at user talk:Shollingsworth. Stan is at user talk:Stan. Thanks! Shollingsworth 14:19, 15 January 2011 (PST)

Participants Wanted

Now we need to get some of the planning people on here. 207.245.115.121 16:02, 15 January 2011 (PST)

A couple of things I'd like

Hi, Ben --- Are the following two things possible?

  1. Can we put an automatic lock on "personal stories/blogs" so that only the original author or administrators can edit them?
There is a plugin that I think offers functionality like this. But the problem is that then people can lock any page they create, which can be abused. I wonder if there is a plugin to lock only the user's user page, which then could be used as a blog. Does that make sense? BenGreenberg 12:17, 16 January 2011 (PST)
  1. Special:CreateTemplate - I'd like to create a template that says {{help me}} which would alert administrators somehow that help was needed on a page. They have that in Wikipedia. I just don't know enough about templates. See Wikipedia "Help Me".
Shollingsworth 17:05, 15 January 2011 (PST)
Is it okay for me to try to make the {{help me}} template? I think I see how to do it. I'll probably only have to enter a name, a field entry, and a category for the page to be listed to. (Of course, the Category will probably have to be created too.) Shollingsworth 17:12, 15 January 2011 (PST)
I'm going to try it. I think it can be done, and then we'll know how to make one kind of Templates. I think I can blank the entries if I have to. Shollingsworth 17:52, 15 January 2011 (PST)
Test successful. Putting {{help me}} in an article {preferably at the top) will now cause that article to be listed in [[Category:Help me]]. I'll leave an article with a {{help me}} in it as an example. Shollingsworth 18:00, 15 January 2011 (PST)
Great. BenGreenberg 12:17, 16 January 2011 (PST)

The new text editor

Hi Ben,

The new text editor is pretty cool!

By the way - there's a "wikitext" button in the upper left corner so that we can switch back and forth between WYSIWYG and Wikitext views -- all our old tricks still work.

In particular, I can still enter {{help me}} and get a message in Category:Help me --- Also, the ~~~~ still work!  SteveH 18:20, 16 January 2011 (EST)

Steve, there is actually a template function in the GUI view.  It's the {T} near the top right.  It even lets you browse available templates, with information about how to use them. BenGreenberg 19:01, 16 January 2011 (EST)
Wow, I will try that out!  (Not here though.)
I don't see how to indent yet using Tab, but I'll pick that up.
The only flaw I see is that when I enter [[Wikipedia:Free Geek|Free Geek]] it saves with an error message as Free Geek. I have to test this more. SteveH 19:10, 16 January 2011 (EST)
Now it works okay. That just means more testing! SteveH 19:12, 16 January 2011 (EST)