Apart from seing de visu that you are a creative, hard-working, competent, polite and reliable young man, I don't know much else about you. Why don't you have your homepage here and why don't you tell us more about you?
Or if you don't want to give information publicly, you can e-mail me. I'd be honoured to receive an e-mail from you. I'm: [email protected]. You can also call me on AIM if you wish. I'm: pnb120.
Hope to hear from you!
Thanks Peter for your excellent presentation on the "Answered Questions on ..." pages. The idea to put trails on each page (Home, back, and forward) was grand. The idea for a table of contents for each page was also very appropriate.
The same goes for the excellent presentation on the [Answered Questions Index Page].
This is very professional work which makes those pages a pleasure to read. Thanks again!
Hi again Peter,
I am not a programmer, I'm more a designer, an architect and I modestly don't have the required knowledge to identify the subject, to put the title to any of the answered questions without a little help from my friends (as the Beatles songs went) :-).
But I surely can move them on the right page and create new [Answered Questions on:] pages!
Can you please write the title and the category of the 10 questions I have moved to Answered Questions to be classified. From the info you'll give me, I'll move them to the appropriate Answered Questions on: pages afterwards.
If on the other hand you feel like doing all the moving work by yourself, it's also fine by me. Just let me know.
Best regards.
-- Robert Abitbol
Peter Newman 30 October 2004: Thanks Robert. But I don't think I could handle doing it that eay. The problem is that each question and answer takes 2 or 3 minutes to do. And that's the time you need to read it, and try to figure out what's really being discussed, and what category it's to go in. Having decided on a category, I move it there. But then, where it goes on that page, and what title I'll give it, depends on where other related things on that page are, and what they're called.
So all the time's in the thinking - which is both before and after the few mouse clicks needed to physically move it. And whilst I might decide that it should go on a certain page, it's not till I actually get it there - and then look at the other questions/answers on the page - that I can really decide that that's definitely where it should go (and what it should be called). Obviously I can't do it all myself. But moving an individual question and answer is really an all or nothing thing, that one person's got to do - and you can't really sub-divide.
But you've been doing a great job with the other bits and pieces. And if I think of some other thing that you might be able to help out with, I'll let you know. Thanks, Peter.
Robert Abitbol OK! Sounds good! Just tell me and I'll be glad to help.
About the work to be done, there is no rush! I recommend you go slowly but surely: do 10 answers a day and that's 3650 a year! Slow but often is the way I've been working for many years and I hate myself for not starting sooner!
Now one of the best advantages of your system is that if you don't know where an information is located, you can "jump" from one table of contents to another using your trail system starting with the first "Answered Questions on:" page and right away you'll get your information (if it's there of course).
Your system is the proof that Wikis are not just a tool to create independent pages helter skelter without any hierarchy but it lends itself well to well-organized work.
It's a pleasure to see clear, well presented information.
I hope others will be inspired by your work, will follow and give you a hand.
Again, many thanks!
I can't blame you for leaving
I know how you feel, Peter. You've been putting many hours on this project and not only you didn't get the credit you deserved but your work was called "shit" by the Supreme idiot Colin Mac Cormack.
Not only he criticized you but he didn't lift a finger to move one single page into an appropriate page. All he could do is talk, harass and stalk users ten times more competent than him. This guy is lazy and incompetent. He only can open his big mouth and he does nothing.
You were right to leave. Some projects are just not worth for us to spend any time and energy and this is one of them. I have also chosen to leave. I couldn't take Mac Cormack's stalking, harassment, silliness, monomania, and his incessant effeminate babbling anymore.
Do send me an E-mail! I'd love to hear from you.
It was a pleasure working with you! It's with guys like you that things get accomplished.
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