User_talk: Mdotley

Hi,Mdotley

Thanks I just might do that I owe you one.

Cool, what has your experience been like on other wikis? Anything we can learn from them?

I see you already signed up at wikiHow:Wikimania2012. It would be fantastic if you could come. We are probably getting vouchers for some members of our community to attend, in which case we can cover the cost of attending for you. I'll be sending out a formal invite in the next few weeks with more details. It'd be great to meet you in person!

Krystle

Thanks for your edits on User_talk:5yearoldperson. Actually, just an excuse to say hi, I haven't seen you in ages!

I certainly understand the work/kids routine...grandkids are much easier to deal with.

And I remember your unique way of creating articles, not to mention your enviable knowlege... I do miss some of the old crew (although since I am 5 years older than DaveC...), and it is great to see you dropping by on occasion!

Best!

Bob

I didn't say anything to you!

I never did that. OK?

that's my thank you note! If you can maybe YOU can make one then if you think I'm so dumb!. I'm sorry ok!?

ohhh, sorry, the things you said confused me at first.

Hi Mdotley! How are you? I just wanted to know, if you wanted to nominate me for the Wikihow Admin elections? If you will that would be amazing and I wouldn't be able to thank you enough! If you won't, I understand and maybe next time!I also read about 3 times Wikihow's mission and the deletion policy. If there is anything else you want me to read, send me the link and I will read it so many times! :D

Thanks! GG

Thank you very much for your time. I completely understand all that you are saying and thank you for taking the time to reply to my message.

Have a nice day! GG :)

Thank you! :)

GG

You Make our wikiWorld Go Around! Thanks for your impressive edits today and everyday in wikiHow! You're helping create an even more beautiful place to be! Mdotley!

GG

why

Thanks for contributing here! I was patrolling recent changes just now, reviewing all the edits made on wikiHow and deciding which ones stay and which ones go. I think your edit to Discussion:Defend Evolution Against Creationism might be inconsistent with one of wikiHow's policies, so I undid it. But, I could be wrong! Reply if you'd like me to put it back, we can talk about it.

Sorry, I don't know.

Hi, Webster!

Just wanted to give you a shout, I haven't seen you around in ages. BTW, I restored you very relevent comments to the evolution VS creation article!

I don't know how to revert a revert.

You're an admin!

Sorry about that!

Great to see you back on wikiHow!

Oh and thanks for your edits on Treat a Broken Tooth too!

I actually don't get the notifications from forum comments. But I did hear you were around, so was happy to stop by and say hello!

Haha, well, I do spend a lot of time on here, and can spot an "old timer" in recent changes pretty easily :)

We secretly microchip our best contributors and get an alarm on our phones whenever they come anywhere near a computer, duh :P

Hi Webster!

Not only is it great to hear from you, that sounds like a great pizza idea! I have two grand daughters who will be the victims of it when I get a chance. I hope you have started out a great new year!

Hey there!

We haven't met yet, but I've heard great things about your contributions - I'm Anna, one of the newer folks working at the wikiHaus. I just wanted to give you a heads-up about this forum post and wish you a happy wikiBirthday! 7 years is pretty darn impressive! Thanks for all your efforts and contributions!

Haha, thanks Webster. Don't worry, I've cottoned on - this one and that one are particularly squirrelly. I take most of my cues from that guy above me, so don't despair. :)

PS Now I want to try the ham yam pizza - and not only because I like the idea of a food that rhymes.

Hey! Nice job on How to Make Ham Yam Pizza :) How have you been?

I just chose your article on how to Make Ham Yam Pizza to be a Rising Star. That means it is one of the best new articles on wikiHow. Congratulations, and thanks for the great contribution!

No, it's not new :) We have so many "old" articles in the NAB backlog in need of boosting, even some from over a year ago!

Hey Webster - I saw your note on Discussion:Bake Eggplant and wanted to let you know that this __PARTS__ magic word will make the change you're looking for. See here. Hope it helps!

Hey great to see you back on the site. How are you?!

Hah, yep - always something new to keep you on your toes! Anyway, glad to help, and nice to see you around :)

Well I hope the IRL stresses get better soon. You deserve to be happy! Wishing the best for you.

Hey you old timer, welcome back :)

Cheers!

Adelaide

Hahah -- edit clash! Do you think that fix does it? I sent Lojjik/SudoKing a Skype about it, too, and he's trying to remember why he added that bit anyway, but can't recall right now :P

Looks like the articles are still being categorized in the right spot, so I'm not sure if the extra category listing is necessary (and it does seem to mess up the formatting with the extra brackets). If you think otherwise or have another way to untangle, please do!

Hahah, how funny that we were editing at exactly the same time... Literally, I removed Sudo's edit as a test thinking, "This probably won't fix that" -- and then it fixed! Great minds mess with things at the same time, or something? :)

Thanks for adjusting it, anyway! I'll let Sudo know, too. Much appreciated!

Hah fair point! Happy Monday :)

Follow-up Q for ya! I noticed that the "C" in the Copyvio and related (notifiedcopyvio, copyviobot, etc) templates has gone big. I think that's new? I'm pretty sure it used to be smaller... Is that related to your changes at all, or some other tweak that's happened somewhere?

I undid the image change you made for now, because the copyright ones ({{copyvio}}, {{copyviobot}}, {{notifiedcopyvio}}, {{notifiedcopyviobot}}, and {{CopyvioNotified}}) were coming out like this: http://screencast.com/t/g5hpl2XT

But I'm not very good with the "behind the scenes" templates, so if there's something different you want to do with it, go for it! Feel free to undo my edit :)

No worries - back-end mysteries happen around here, hah!

Welcome back, Webster! You were featured here this week - big kudos!!

Hey Webster! Nice to hear from you. I don't think we have any plans to be at Wikiconference- not that I know of. A couple of folks went to Wikimania this year but I haven't heard any talk of Wikiconference. Might have just missed it of course. If I hear otherwise I can let you know!

Nice! I'll def let you know if I hear anyone is going :)

Thanks for your edits on User:Lojjik/notice.

Part of wikihow formatting is avoiding personal references, but you're right that the flow isn't right that one sentence.

Don't get discouraged.

Have a happy day!

-Hal Marie

Thanks for your edits on User:Lojjik/notice.

quick reminder: We don't edit other's user pages without permission. :)

Feel free to edit articles and your own user page though!

Have a happy day!

-Hal Marie

Welcome back Webster!

You're more than welcome to give Anna ( http://www.wikihow.com/User_talk:Anna#post ) a head's up ;)

Sure- what's going wrong?

Sure, what is it?

Yeah that's fine

Hey Mdotley, thanks for removing that inappropriate message from my talk page.

It was sorta funny for me to see that I got two notifications, and went I went to my talk page, there was nothing there. So I check the view changes page. I guess someone was spamming. You totally reminded me of a police officer chasing a criminal before the victims eyes! LOL. Anyways, thanks for doing your job!

P.S. I'm planning on receiving Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice training. Maybe I can use my skills here! LOL!

I didn't know that was a thing. Thanks!

Hey Webster,

I remember someone else on a Kindle having issues with the forums too but I think that when the devs looked into it, they found it was a known Vanilla issue. We juggled a lot of bugs at the time so I may be misremembering and I can check in case I'm wrong, but I know in general we don't do a whole lot of fixing when it comes to the inherit bugs that come with Vanilla, unfortunately, so if it's that, we might be able to do much. Have you tried the mobile version of the site on the Kindle (or vice versa, if you're on mobile)?

Thanks for the MW fix! Oh, and I noticed you told Danielle, "When you undo a bad edit while patrolling, don't forget to go back and mark the bad edit as patrolled." - that's not actually how RCP works anymore. RCP is republishing the old edit, so we actually want both edits to be marked patrolled only as a pair, the next time a patroller sees them come through RCP. Otherwise, in the meantime while the vandalism has been patrolled but the fix hasn't, the vandalism goes out live to readers. Best to wait and have the next patroller mark them both at once so that the previous good revision is the one that's fully approved and live, until both the vandalism and the rollback are marked patrolled at once. Let me know if you have any concerns - cheers!

It's no trouble. :)

Ah yeah, I do the old school patrolling myself sometimes and find myself click-crazy! Anywho, it has its drawbacks for old school patrollers, but I'm told the way that the patrols are marked as a pair now is the best way to allow unpatrolled edits to be combined in the RCP tool (an efficiency perk) without risking any unhelpful edits going live. It's definitely a twist on the MW original functioning - but the efficiency of the RCP tool itself is nice, once you get used to it :)

I talked wit Lojjik, who worked with Reuben to put the Vanilla forum updates live in the first place, and he doesn't know much about a fix potential there, especially given that I've found some reference to it on other Vanilla forums here or there too. Since the forums are so secondary to most of the site/functioning here on wikiHow, I'm afraid it's rarely highest priority for fixing, especially if it is a Vanilla bug (despite the growth, our team of devs is still pretty small!), so in all honesty, it might be best to see if you can access it from another device? For the mobile site, I have a very small link at the bottom that allows me to go "back to mobile" when I've switched to desktop... but it looks like it's device dependent since I don't see that on the desktop version, so hopefully it's there for you to give it a whirl!

I can put forth the suggestion of the desktop default. I'd find that pretty handy, too! You know how to switch, in the meantime, though? If you click on the hamburger menu, there's a "Switch to desktop view" link at the bottom. It seems to remember my preference at least some of the time but it's not foolproof - nothing ever is, eh? :)

PS In poking around right now, after switching to "Desktop Site", it actually does seem to remember it even after I change articles and close Safari and reopen, so I'm wondering if we do in fact have a cookie or similar for that... Is it not "behaving" for you? Could be buggy, or limited in how "smart" it is, of course!

Yep! Thanks again.

No worries Webster, I love seeing your edits whenever! How are things going for you? I hope you are well. :)

Hi there Webster! Congrats on being featured in this week's Community Achievements!

Okie doke, no prob!

For the forum thread, I just saw you were one of the admins who helped with reports on the Admin Notice Board this week - cleaning up a report that was dealt with. I try to use that section to list the folks who do the often more "unnoticed" tasks around here :)

I'm so sorry about those issues, I hope they pass soon.

Ah gotya- no worries!

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