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I am SO confused... I doubt there's anyone who can unconfuse me either. Serves me right for going away for six months... I've been skimming talk pages and discussions and trying to figure out how everything works, but I'm just getting more confused. |
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So now there are no recipes or food stuff in the wikipedia? That goes in Wikibooks? (which btw, sounds something like the Gutenberg library to me, and is not a place I'd be looking for cooking info at all...) Not ANOTHER wiki for me to register for and then lose track of... and no 'how-to's' or 'lists'? And anything to do with etymology goes into the wiktionary... (sighs) I think I'm going to fade into the woodwork again because it's just too darned confusing. |
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February 2004 - Somebody told me that things were improving around here and so I came back to look. I'm impressed, especially by the twenty new servers! It's great to see that my predictions of last year were entirely wrong, because the Wikipedia project has become an all-encompassing empire! Well done everyone who's made it happen. |
February 2004 - Somebody told me that things were improving around here and so I came back to look. I'm impressed, especially by the twenty new servers! It's great to see that my predictions of last year were entirely wrong, because the Wikipedia project has become an all-encompassing empire! Well done everyone who's made it happen. |
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I am SO confused... I doubt there's anyone who can unconfuse me either. Serves me right for going away for six months... I've been skimming talk pages and discussions and trying to figure out how everything works, but I'm just getting more confused. So now there are no recipes or food stuff in the wikipedia? That goes in Wikibooks? (which btw, sounds something like the Gutenberg library to me, and is not a place I'd be looking for cooking info at all...) Not ANOTHER wiki for me to register for and then lose track of... and no 'how-to's' or 'lists'? And anything to do with etymology goes into the wiktionary... (sighs) I think I'm going to fade into the woodwork again because it's just too darned confusing.
February 2004 - Somebody told me that things were improving around here and so I came back to look. I'm impressed, especially by the twenty new servers! It's great to see that my predictions of last year were entirely wrong, because the Wikipedia project has become an all-encompassing empire! Well done everyone who's made it happen. I'm trying to spend more time on reallife crafting projects (I started scrapbooking and card-making...) and less time online, but I'll be around every now and then... Now I'll have to try and remember my wiki-code - I've forgotten it ALL :( KJ 10:00, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
AUGUST 2003 - Sigh... I thought that the performance bugs would have been fixed or at least worked around by now. But I see that there is not even a basic search function activated, which makes the wikipedia to all intents and purposes utterly unusable. An encyclopedia is USELESS without an index. As I said way back in April, at which point improvements were promised, this project is collapsing under its own weight. It makes me very sad to see it because I thought it was such a Good Thing to be participating in. I have several thousand photos from my US/Canada trip that I was going to add to relevant places, but without an index I can't even find the relevant articles so they'll have to stay unpublished. I'll come back in a few weeks and see if things are looking any brighter... until then, goodbye! KJ 03:43, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)
21 June 2003 - Hi honey, I'm home... I'm far too jetlagged to try to do any contributing as yet but I'll be getting back to things soon - it doesn't even feel as if I went anywhere! KJ 09:04 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)
April 2003 - I am temporarily withdrawing from this project because it has obviously failed in fundamental respects. If the database is not even searchable, then there is no point in having it at all. You CAN'T have a hundred-thousand page book without an index and expect people to use an outside index to find information in it... I'll be back from America at the end of June and hopefully matters will have improved considerably by then, so that the wikipedia will be properly usable. KJ 01:14 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
March 2003 - Busy busy busy!!!!!!!! I'm off to the US of A and Canada in three weeks time, and I won't be back (or have net access) until the end of June 2003. This is my first overseas trip, and I'm looking forward to it! See you all much later :) KJ 11:45 Mar 21, 2003 (UTC)
November 26th 2002 - I'm off again. Canberra this time. I'll be back next week... December 7, 2002 - I'm back! This is the first moment I've had to open the wikipedia since I got home... Canberra was surprisingly interesting, and I took lots of rolls of film and will hopefully be able to scan in some pics of my nation's capital for the wikipedia once they're developed...
I'll apologise in advance for my typoes - the fingers move quicker than the brain and I don't always notice, especially since I'm mildly dyslexic. There are some words esp. with double letters, that I can NEVER remember how to spell correctly. I hope I'm not leaving too long a trail of misspelt headers behind me...
I'd like to write articles for the mental health, Australian and Cookery portions of the Wikipedia, and I steer clear of science/mathematics - my eyes glaze over when I even see those headers ;P
I was quite a keen photographer in the past, but I have boxes and boxes of photos of Australian plants, animals and scenery in my cupboard and I'm going through some of them and finding illustrations suitable for wikipedia articles. These are the articles I have illustrated with my own images thusfar:
Articles I have contributed substantial content to [usually by starting from scratch or adding to a stub article] Because I've started them from scratch they still need a lot of work, so if you have any information to add please do! Note - this list is kinda old now... I haven't been keeping it updated. It should probably be twice as long by now:
Books and Writing
Arts and Crafts
Australiana
Health Issues
Cooking/Food
Animals'
Other
Plus a whole lot of administrative shuffling, copy-editing and link/title-correcting... boring but necessary!
If you would like to see more of my [other] work, visit my homepage http://www.kajikitscorner.com
Please leave any comments/queries on my talk page - http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/User_talk:Karen_Johnson otherwise known as User talk:Karen Johnson
Karen Johnson, last modified Sunday 15 February, 2004
