User talk:GNUtoo/windows vs linux

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user of the windows vs linux page[edit]

i will create a username but i need to search a good one...lol oops i'm stupid...i have already an acount... (i had one with a joke about wikipedia and the WWW thing but it looked like a staff username so i changed it that's why i didn't remember having a username)
do i need to sign comment if they are for evry users??? generaly you sign them if you give your opinion
what is the prefered way of making an article when having contreversed subject such as windows or microsoft

splitt the article in 2 part with pro and counter
include all in one part

—This unsigned comment was added by 00 tux (talk • contribs) .

Great questions!

Regarding siging posts, in general, you should sign any post to a talk page (either a user's talk page, like this one, or on discussion pages of articles, found by clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of the screen). Although edits to any page, talk or article, are logged in the same way, it just makes discussion a bit easier to follow. There is even a guideline sign your posts, but just about everyone forgets to sign occasionally, and often other people will add the {{unsigned}} tag (as I have done above).
About Pro and Con, I am unaware of any format specifications for such a page; they are pretty rare on Wikipedia. Often, such pages are not not neutrally written. The outline you have created seems pretty effective, although you may want to replace teh section "The reality of the facts and the explanation of certain facts" with footnotes from each disputed fact. If you're not sure how to integrate specific ideas, you can also discuss it on the article's talk page. Does this help?

Thanks, and keep up the good work and welcome to Wikipedia! --TeaDrinker 00:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Response it helps a lot... the problem here with the talk page is that i changed this page a long time ago and it was reverted... but after having viewed the cleanup thing i decided to commit a proposal of change to the talk page... some time after nobody replyed...so i decided to change the page...

mabe i'll do an hybrid design haivng both things inside the page --User:00_tux

I see; sorry for the revert (it may have been someone who was fighting vandalism, working too fast, and somehow caught your edit by mistake--probably not someone who was otherwise interested in the page). It looks like a tag was placed at the top of the Windows vs. Linux article indicating that you're doing major rewriting, so hopefully people will see that. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 01:07, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

others questions i have one big question about the GFDL... i haven't understood well the licence... if you have gfld content how can you use it in another wiki??? such as a gfdl and a non gfdl one? is there any examples of pages where there is gfdl content from another autor???

i've searched inside wikipedia but there were not such instructions

Copyrights are a bit outside my field of expertise, however as I understand it, material used in Wikipedia should be (with a few exceptions) under GFDL, and thus available for copying to other Wikis which use GFDL or versions of it. The official policy on it is at Wikipedia:Copyrights. The exceptions to GFDL is the use of "fair use" media (such as a picture). Determining what is and is not Fair use is tricky. You may have some luck posting a specific question to the bottom of Wikipedia:Copyright issues (new posts are usually posted to the bottom of a talk page). Thanks, --TeaDrinker 01:07, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment tags[edit]

you have NO message...but thank a lot...i never know if it's better to thank people(loose their precious time+ incrase trafic on Special:Recentchanges) by the way is there any "very advanced" mediawiki howto for doing things such as < ! -- -->

No problem, and I think many people appreciate a user saying "job well done." The commenting feature of HTML (the bracket exclamation point business) makes text invisible. For instance, if you were to look at "edit this page" you could see a sentence here: . This is occasionally done in articles for a variety of reasons:

Put in a notice about vandalism (such as is done on Chuck Norris, which is also, at present, semi-protected), or when the same mistake is made by many users,
Automated bots sometimes also "remove" an image by enclosing it in comments, when the image may be added incorrectly.
In rare cases, text additions are put in comments so that other editors can see them, before the material is added to the article properly. This is usually a bad use of the comments, since it makes things confusing to edit.
They often appear at the end of semi-automated template messages, to indicate which message was used (that is where the "Template:Unsigned"). So, for instance, I wrote {{subst:unsigned|00 tux}}, and the unsigned template was added. If you want to try out some templates (which are always enclosed in two curly-braces) in the Wikipedia:Sandbox, a pretty good list of common template messages is available at WP:TM.

Thanks, --TeaDrinker 01:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

response[edit]

oops i didn't told you that i knew a little bit about wiki, i new what that means but what i tryed to explain is "where is there a page explaning advanced features of wikimedia" because i don't want to use html inside the wiki...,by the way i learned some use of this feature with this post...great
is there any way to have shared content between 2 wiki such as a comparison tab?
i see that your response apears on both pages...how do you do that?

00 tux 02:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You may have better knowledge of the subject than I, my Wiki code abilities are pretty much limited to what what I use frequently (just kind of picking it up as I go). Most of the advanced stuff is on pages specific to what you're trying to accomplish: Wikipedia:Extended image syntax covers complex image placement issues, Help:Formula covers how to script math, etc. I don't know of a central list of all the help in great depth, other than Wikipedia:Help.
I'm not sure; I'm not aware of any such feature on Wikipedia (although we do have a page, InterWiki about doing simialr things). We do have links to sister projects at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Links#Sister_projects as templates, which can be handy sometimes, although I don't know of anything that sophisticated.
I just cut and paste...

Best wishes, --TeaDrinker 03:47, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]