User_talk: Chris H/Archive3

Yeah business is good those days :)

ok, thanks. and yes i checked the IT messages. i just need to change all "come si fa" to "come", right?

Is it possible for making nfd,speedy etcetera tags in the Dutch wiki? And if so how we do it, I already translated the correspondent pages with the tags.

I'm trying to make the stubb/incompleet tag and when i save the text , it appears twice or multible times.Its really weird.

Ok thanks

Yeah I already saw it, i just finished the title page http://nl.wikihow.com/Sjabloon:titel

Ok , but thats gonna be for tomorrow i`m getting a head-ache ;)

thanks for answering my questions. also, you i was working on IT, that's why i wrote there. from now on, i'll write on the english one if i have a question ;)

Huh? What was?

also, i have a weird (or maybe even stupid if you ask me, considering i'vebeen here for a while) question. aside from the regular buttons are on the top of the page (article, discussion, edit, history, watch), i also have 3 other buttons (delete, protect, move). have those 3 buttons always been there?

ok. but on english wikihow too (i doubt it though)? i have these buttons on both EN and IT (i havent checked the other languages yet)

ok, you're right. for a second i actually thought i was an admin (wouldn't make a difference). i tried to delete the page, and it said that the button was limited to sysops. thanks for heloping me make sure. maybe the button was there since i'm an admin, but on IT

Hi Chris

Telling the truth I just want to put some information on wikiHow:Polish-wikiHow-Project for Several other speakers of the Polish language that plan to contribute to the new wikiHow who want write their own manual (how to) in Polish now.
Something like this: "Feel free to do this. Some day it will be used". With explanation "You need to place it here: http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Polish-wikiHow-Project/ e.g. http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Polish-wikiHow-Project/mój-artykuł"

I am using IE7 at my in-laws' house, and the Add another category link gives me the "Navigating away" pop-up message, but does not change anything on the screen.

Apparently, having admin privileges anywhere on wH gives the appearance of admin privileges everywhere on wH, but the rights only pertain where they are given.

Yep, that's true. that would cause many problems, and something like that is hard to fix ;)

I figured it out b/c I have the buttons on ES, but I can't use them, then I read your notes from Q about seeing the buttons here. Then I put 2 and 2 together.

Hi, I just registered now and I took a tour of wikihow and would like to suggest a change in the pages of the tour.

In the pages, the orange buttons (Previous), (Tour home) and (Next) appear on the top of the page. It would be better if they re-appear at the bottom of the page, as the reader has to scroll up each time he has finished reading a page to find the link to go to the next page of the tour.

Hope this will help improve the experience of using WikiHow.

Hello Chris… I have a question: + You see in wikipedia contributors have to cite their sources, but I don't know if that's necessary in wikihow… What if I want to teach people from a personal experience how to photograph night photos for example, do I need to cite it? Radiant guy 06:59, 13 January 2008 (GMT)

We must have saved "rvv" just seconds apart, and you beat me to it. I took care of the block and thanking the anon that fixed some of it.

Beat me to it! LOL I was just going through the FA page history when you made the change. hehehehehe we are on patrol.

MA

Hi Chris,

I noticed you did a rollback after I deleted something from my article.

pt:Montar um Cabo de Rede

What does that mean, and what's it for as it doesn't show anything on the page?

Woah, great work ! I'll translate it, but that may take a while.

Oh... right, thanks! :0)

Hi Chris. I have asked an editor to forward a copyright permission email to permissions at wikihow.com it relates to String a Corded Nunchaku. Could you let me know when it arrives and if all is good. Thanks.

fr:Aidez le Développement de wikiHow en Français Do you want me to replace the experimented user with my user_talk page?

Hmm, how about : Nadon is the Best, Do You Want to Join his Legion of Superheroes Editors in the Dark Side of the wikiHow?

...Or perhaps you meant something more like wikiHow en français est en plein développement, pouvez-vous l'aider ?

That would read "wikiHow in french is in developpement, can you help wikiHow?"

And it is a non-breaking space before the question mark ( ).

i haven't been able to get on IT. you might have noticed that i haven't made any edits in about a week. i think now i'm back, andf i'll be back on IT again. ciao!

i just created a page for all of the categories on IT: http://it.wikihow.com/Categoria:Categorie. on the website, next to home page there is a red link called "Categorie". how do i replace that red link page with my new page?

if that doesn't sound clear, feel free to tell me

Hey Chris,

Thanks a lot for the star! I'm really happy with it! :D

Cheers,

Tom

I tried to put the sitenotice on the fr wH but the link appears in bold and in black and can't be clicked as if you were already on the page.

Hey Chris,

Yeah that sounds good, we could give it a try!

Hm, how did I confuse them? :P

Maniac

Ah, I see! I can comprehend some Dutch but can't exactly write or speak it at all, so patrolling isn't that bad, but I can't help to write, sadly. :( I do try to help out equally on the other languages though...emphasis on try... :)

Hope you've been having a wonderful week!

Maniac

Thanks. I know a good amount of Spanish, so it's easier for me to do tasks over there than any of the other languages, except English of course. The Spanish wikiHow does have some good activity though, when it comes to editing by new contributors and anonymous contributors.

Maniac

thanks. and its my pleasure, i enjoy knowing that i can make a contribution. also, i read Maniac's comment about comprhending Dutch. i can do the same for all of the other languages (except arabic and some portuguese), but can't write that much, if you need me to help with vandalism

Thank you. Glad to help:)

Some4one

Thanks, no problem at all. Just out of curiousity: If you don't speak Dutch then how can you know the brownies look good :p

Yes butterscotch is delicious ^^

Thanks for putting the numbers good on my page.

Yes I took them myself a few hours ago. I was going to make Adana Kebab today so thought I'd make a few pictures and type out in steps how to make it. Your saying I should change the ownership of the pictures from free for all to copyrighted?

No problem. I really like the concept wikiHow and I have fun in making a tutorial. I get right on it ;). But is it easy to get your hands on brown sugar (no not heroïn but unrefined sugar) in other countries then Holland? I might also add a recipe for Turkish tomato soup once I make it again. I know what your thinking: Hmm two turkish recipe's perhaps is he Turkish? Nope not Turkish origin, been there a few times though. And I can proudly say that I have come very close to making tomato soup as they make it there.

Yes I took them myself a few hours ago. I was going to make Adana Kebab today so thought I'd make a few pictures and type out in steps how to make it. Your saying I should change the ownership of the pictures from free for all to copyrighted?

No problem. I really like the concept wikiHow and I have fun in making a tutorial. I get right on it ;). But is it easy to get your hands on brown sugar (no not heroïn but unrefined sugar) in other countries then Holland? I might also add a recipe for Turkish tomato soup once I make it again. I know what your thinking: Hmm two turkish recipe's perhaps is he Turkish? Nope not Turkish origin, been there a few times though. And I can proudly say that I have come very close to making tomato soup as they make it there.

Yes I took them myself a few hours ago. I was going to make Adana Kebab today so thought I'd make a few pictures and type out in steps how to make it. Your saying I should change the ownership of the pictures from free for all to copyrighted?

No problem. I really like the concept wikiHow and I have fun in making a tutorial. I get right on it ;). But is it easy to get your hands on brown sugar (no not heroïn but unrefined sugar) in other countries then Holland? I might also add a recipe for Turkish tomato soup once I make it again. I know what your thinking: Hmm two turkish recipe's perhaps is he Turkish? Nope not Turkish origin, been there a few times though. And I can proudly say that I have come very close to making tomato soup as they make it there.

Also biber (turkish pepper?). Here in Holland we have Turkish Evening Stores (its a bit hard to translate because it has a certain style that every dutch person reconises) that is were we buy stuff like that.

I have a question. When translating a page to another language is there something special you must do? Do you just make the same page but then in English and add a link to the original? I have seen some pages have that. How do you do that?

The hard part is mostly using english cooking terms and spices. Wikidictionary is not really helping. We use as measurement in recipe's a spoon with which you eat soup but what is that in English and is it used in recipe's.

Actually the Maki Sushi is not written by me. It is written by Thijs Krens. Though I do know him in real life. He's the one who showed me this site.

The hard part is mostly using english cooking terms and spices. Wikidictionary is not really helping. We use as measurement in recipe's a spoon with which you eat soup but what is that in English and is it used in recipe's.

Actually the Maki Sushi is not written by me. It is written by Thijs Krens. Though I do know him in real life. He's the one who showed me this site.

Thank you very much. Usefull site.

I just got this message from Iruben, from the IT

On 17:47, 20 January 2008 Iruben said:

Hello Q, I'm a mother tongue italian speaker and would like to help creating the italian version of wikiHow. I have some suggestions for better translations of the wikimedia strings, but the dedicated page looks outdated. Do I have to edit it anyway? One more question: how do I use tags in italian version? English ones don't seem to work...

I told Iruben that they could edit the messages (you can edit them on EN without being an admin). I also wanted to know about the last question that they wrote: One more question: how do I use tags in italian version? English ones don't seem to work...

Hey Chris,

I translated the Adana Kebab guide to English.

Greetings and salutations, Wouter

Thanks.

Thanks for making me an admin and for your compliments. I have a question for you: how do I edit templates?

Thank you very much!

i might be able to do that, but should i send the link to it?

Sure, I'll fix it. But piddle pads are generic items. If you want I can change it to "pee pads".

I changed it, but can I leave in the Bamboo feed and toss bowls? That is the only brand that I know of that has that item.

Is it possible to make the main page of IT wikiHow look like the EN one? Because since the most important messages have been translated I started sending e-mails to my friends and putting posts on italian forums and invited people to make requests and/or write articles and a good-looking home would work better if someone came to check out wikiHow...

You can leave messages on EN, no problem! The english code has been copied and then the text translated, but the page looks completely different, as can be easily seen by visiting it... I'm confused...

Hi Chris,

First, I want to thank you for your cooperation, help, encouragements and coaching. Without your assistance I'd still be struggling !!! It is much appreciated.

I have a suggestion to make and I don't know to whom I should talk to. Maybe you can re-direct me if you are not the one who can answer.

When I log in, I get to the French site and that is terrific. My only problem is when I want to go to the English site... I kindda struggle. I finally "search" to find the article I translated and then I click on English and then browse. When I want to go back to French, I have to do the same thing.

What if, at the very top, along with the "Help" link and stuff, there would be links to get to the different Home pages of every language available? Maybe there is simpler way, I dunno ! Do you think that would be doable?

Thanks.

McDuff

ok, so the next step is to translate articles. i admit that i haven't been able to do it as much, but i know that being an admin is supposed to be a time consuming job. i'll start translating articles as well as creating my own. and one more question: have the templates been translated yet? do we have stub, nfd, copyediting, etc. on IT?

thanks. because of you, now i can do a lot more! ;)

i'll try to work on the templates later. right now, i can start with translating articles

do you know how to make another archive? my talk page is getting very long

I find your professionalism in this volunteer work you perform to be worthy of much respect.

Thank you for your time

Was that comment about you in the FA a friend of yours playing a little prank on you?

Even if he's not be productive, at least he's being friendly about it. I can think of a lot of other things he could be doing that would be a LOT less pleasant to see.

thanks ;) how did you do that?

Hey Dr. Chris (just read about your background!),

I'm glad you think there is a need to navigate quickly between languages. I think the more userfriendly wikiHow becomes, better the chances it's popularity will grow.

I guess my professional experience does help as in the last 4 years I worked with the IT team to develop an in-house application. My role was to develop the content, test and suggest ways to make it easy to use. A project I was particularly passionate about.

I'm glad you liked my user page. I wanted something light, yet funny and witty, thanks for the compliment.

Be well.

McDuff

Yeah, sorry. I investigated and found out that the image was released into the public domain by its author. I already added a license too. (:

Hi Chris,

I translated the page on the "Mission" of wikiHow and created a page entitled "Mission de wikiHow" only to realize that I need the labels "Mission" and "Vision" on the French site.

So, when you have a moment, can you please: 1- Delete the page entitled "Mission de wikiHow" and 2- Create a page on the French site with the labels "Mission" and "Vision".

Thanks a bunch.

McDuff

Hello Chris! I've noticed these tags on the EN home:

• < div id="welcome">
• < div id="multilanguages">
• < div id="getting_started">
• < div id='Categories_list'>

I guess they're a sort of templates or similar that set the appearance of the page and I'm quite sure that I have to create them on IT to make the page look better, but don't know how to do so: can you help? Thanks in advance

Thank you very much! now it looks fine: the problem was that the tags had been translated with the page...

I'm translating the wikiHow:Categories page to italian. Should I keep only the main categories or include sub-categories too? Too many categories are confusing and is stupid using too much of them on a wikiHow that doesn't contain articles yet, but too few also isn't good...

Yeah, I agree. I know I'm nagging, but have one more question: is it possible to correct the text under the image on the top left of pages to: "Il Manuale Del Come Si Fa Che Puoi Modificare" or is it too long?

PS Could you leave messages on my EN Talk Page, please?

Thank you very much, Chris!

Hmmm... you know what ? I can't find it either (Mission de wikiHow). I did submit it but I didn't do anything else, maybe that's why ? I surely didn't ask anybody else to delete it, as I don't know anyone else who does what you do... perhaps you could give me some users/admin. names who do... I wouldn't have to bug you as much :)

OK... in reference to my e-mail, Skip #1, pass go and collect $200 ! :)

Thanks for following up so quickly !

McDuff

Ooh, no problem :)
I do have one concern, though... I see many of our newer users on there, some of them dissing the language, people, etc. [1]Really, I don't know what to do... they can't speak Arabic, and they're a wee bit uncivil at times... I don't want to warn them, as I know it's just curiosity and such, but I'm not liking it. WDYT?

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the Barnstar yaay ;), I removed the colours from my Dutch talk page, just in case. And I even wrote my first two English articles, my English is improving;)

Do I need to translate some other stuff to improve the Dutch wikiHow?Also is there a way to promote us?

Greets Meaghann

Thank you so much Chris!!!!!!!!!!! Those vandals were dragging on my mind for a long time.

wikiBeauty Award

A salute for your random acts of beauty. Your contributions are appreciated. Thanks for making wikiHow a special place to be. SudoKing 22:01, 29 January 2008 (GMT)

Same by me thank you for banning them.

Thanks a bunch, it worked !!!

Thank you Chris. Your instructions were right on !!!

McDuff

It seems both tedious and redundant to copy the entire license on top of saving and re-uploading the photo from from an existing wiki just to use it. Why not make wikimedia pictures available directly? That's the idea behind commons.

Chris, thank you for the email.

It appears that I issued the block following this this edit, which I misconstrued as vandalism from his account (i.e. adding "hehehehehehehe" to the front page). This was during a series of vandal attacks, so I used poor and quickly thought-out judgment.

I've unblocked the account and left him my apologies. Again, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

i put the words in italian, thats weird. maybe it's because i have to edit the system messages? But anyway, thanks for changing it

Is this article a copyright violation? It was taken from a blog -- I don't know if the blog is copyrighted.

Thanks I did just not know why that guy posted a thing on my page.

Dziekuje!

I cant wait to start working on Pl.WikiHow.com

May I also ask, do we have any Sysops on Polish Wiki?

Actually, yes I am, Thank you for asking.

Thanks for the Info!

Oh okay, Thank you!

But, Um, how do I rename articles and things like that? And are you an admin?

How do I delete like test pages? I made a test page, and I need to delete it? I really appreciate this!

Oh okay! Thanks SO much! I really appreciate this! Best regards to you!

Are you an admin?

Just wondering do you happen to know if:Do the wikiHow owners own all the wiki websites?

Just wondering do you happen to know if:Do the wikiHow owners own all the wiki websites?

HELLO!!! You have been doing helpful edits and thats why i'm presenting you with this award!

You are doing great edits on wikiHow! Thanks from, Wenonah

I logged out and logged back in on Polish and English... no admin button tools are showing up?

Wait, does it say like: (dyskusja | wkład | zablokuj) in the history for admins or are there like physically buttons?

I am confuzzled as you can see :)

Is Feh an administrator?

Is Feh an administrator?

Okay and is feh gonna be a polish admin forever?

Actually, no I dont... I shall try again.

Hmh... It didnt work again.

Ah, good idea!

Hmm... It seems not to be working.

Do you need an admin for another wikiHow website because I speak some laungages.

Um, I edited it, and it changed that thing on the top... but I still dont have Admin rights?

Ah! But I still dont have the Usun button and stuff? Maybe more glitches?

Hmm... Okay!

I will be waiting for it to be up and running.

How about dutch or is there an italian one?

You are welcome!

Please dont hold me responsible for my post on Feh's page.

Do you need an admin on either one?

Okay. Is there a way to block someone you dislike from posting on my talk page?

User:feh but can you try your best to make a block on a talk page?

Or ask a owner to help because I just dont want him posting on my page.

Okay Ill try do you think after a few days should I revert them off my page?

Hi Chris, I just wanted to let you know that, I never wrote anything mean to Wenonah on WikiHow. He sent me this rude message here: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=User_talk%3AFeh&diff=1630761&oldid=1630752

Please that is after what he was doing to me the whole week what you dont know about.

Okay Thanks! Im actually gonna go now by!!

1 more thing Ill give him space if he gives me some.

Yes we do. It's at school. He goes to my school.

But no information.

Do you need a dutch admin because im always here to help! Or Italian...

Thanks!

ok thank you very much. ;)

ok thank you very much. ;)

Oh okay, thanks.

Hello!!!!!!!!! Do youy need an admin for Italian or dutch?

Please read the user guidelines and FAQ for where's george before posting information pertaining to the site that is incorrect.

I suspect this is just one user as a sockpuppet:

• http://www.wikihow.com/User_talk:Wgemctoo
• http://www.wikihow.com/User:WGdrauka
• http://www.wikihow.com/User:Wgemctoo

You are correct, it is your money and you can do what you like. The sites (WG?) creator, a Mr. Hank Eskin, has repeatedly stated that depositing a single bill into a bank or financial institution will result in the immediate termination of the violators account. He has also stated that though it is your money, it is his domain name and website, and he has the final say on who has access. i feel that the article should reflect that.

I left a message on Zacks article that was reply to his accusation that I am also wgemctoo, I'll post it here as well:

By the way, I am not wgemctoo. This article was posted on the WG forums, and is currently being viewed by a number of regular users. The few of us that are editing are simply trying to make the article acurrate. Some of us have petitioned the WG? creator to alter the rules posted on the guidelines to accurately reflect his wishes, but so far he has not done so. He does, however, routinely ban users from his site for violating the rule about not depositing bills into a bank, despite the lack of clarification in his posted guidelines.

Works decent now. If I can find the exact post in the forums, I'll add an attribute...or someone else will. People dont have to be a member to see most of the forums, hopefully the site owner posted in one that can be viewed by non-registrants.

Well which ones do you need administrators for because I speak some other ones.

You should take away feh's admin's rights because he blocked me because I made a nonsense article. He just takes advantage of his administrator rights.

Chris H, I actually blocked him for writing 2 nonsense articles, with random words, and one article with no content at all. I deleted both of these articles, and blocked him, because he shouldnt be doing that, especially on the dawn of the new PL WikiHow.

Thank you for understanding. It seems Wenonah is angry at me, and is trying to get me in trouble in various ways.

He wrote an article named: "Jak fdgf" and another one. Also: In the search bar, it says "<type here>". How do I change that?

Yeah, my buttons came up this morn. What do you mean "Admin test?"

Oh okay, thank you. I really appreciate it.

How in the world did Feh get admin rights without getting elected?

Thanks! My eyebrows pretty much shot up off my forehead when I patrolled your last message to him... I appreciate you taking the time to explain.

When your are prevented from pasting too many links in a message, you can always "edit" the user talk page after posting to insert as many links as needed.

I got the 3rd PL link you posted, the 1st one I edited but am not sure about that, and the 2nd one... maybe we should make everyone sign their names with the ~~~?

Why arent you talking to me?

Ah...

Oh the talk message when you post something, It always says "<user_said>", but when I made MediaWiki:UserSaid, it still says the same thing... Should it be MediaWiki:User_Said?

Already confuzzling :)

Haha! I got it!

I also got the date to work (Somewhat) It still will like say Feh (Then time + Date), but it looks pretty good ;)

The WENONAH BUSINESS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

I just dont like you saying the wenonah business

Its not as much as Lois wade's business as it is yours.

It doesn't concern you

Is feh a english admin now?

Yay, It looks great.

Its ok but I also dont like the thing that is on his talk page that says he is having problems with a User.

Its ok but I also dont like the thing that is on his talk page that says he is having problems with a User.

Yeah. I really want to thank you for making me an admin. (PL of course)

Oh okay. And also: Is it okay if I delete your Test Page, or do you still need it?

Ok But I am not pleased that he keeps going on about this. its over!

Ok, I deleted it. Actually, I think I will make a WikiHow PL sandbox for everyone to use...

Okay can he delete that thing off his page and then it will be over because that is like it is still going on.

What else do you think we should make?

Well... I dont know.. I mean if I delete it, the admins will think I am doing the reports Wenonah wrote about me (which are not true), they will be blaming me, and it already ruined my reputation. So I may as well... I should just leave English Wiki.

I dont know... I really need someone to rant to... I was thinking about talking to my School Psychologist

Yeah... I cant talk to the school psychologist with out parental consent.. :P

You know what STOP TALKING ABOUT ME!!!!!!! OKAY?

NOT YOU FEH!

Yep.