Xerxes2k
Welcome
editWelcome!
Hello, Xerxes2k and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump. Happy editing! --NymphadoraTonks 17:51, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
P.S. You can also stop by my talk page if you want to ask me any questions directly or just want to say hi! :-D
Thanks
editHi Xerxes2k,
I saw what you di for the H5N1 article, and just wanted to say thanks! That was marvelously nice of you. I do wonder if the graph might not be the best way of representing that data, since they change so often—the same data are in the table, incidentally. Also, could you let me know what was your source for the (very beautiful) map? It's probably best that the source be stated at the bottom of the graphic itself. Thanks! encephalon 22:29, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for updating Image_BirdFluWorld. If you have the time and desire, here are some ideas for improving it even further (if I may be so bold):
- Iraq has also had a "confirmed human death from H5N1".
- Countries that have reported one or more H5N1 outbreaks in poultry are: Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Turkey, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Iraq, Nigeria. You don't include all of these.
- An eagle in quaranteen in England is no reason to label it a country with a "poultry case". Greece and Italy and many other nations have had an incident with a one to a handful of wild birds with H5N1. Not poultry. not an outbreak. not just greece and italy. WAS 4.250 18:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- The UK "case" was a single imported bird, in quarantine as is the normal practice. There was never any risk of an outbreak from this. Harumphy 15:33, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Graphics Lab
editI saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 00:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Graphics Lab Announcement
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Attention All Wikigraphists!
editA new Wikigraphist Abilities Page has been created within the Graphics Lab so graphists can specify their graphics skills. To add your entry to the page, simply go the template documentation page and follow the instructions there. If you have any trouble please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Have Fun !
Graphics Lab Announcement
edit Attention All Wikigraphists!
editAs you may or may have not noticed, the Graphics Lab pages have gone under a massive cleanup by User:DTR, User:Rugby471 and various others (sorry if I missed you out). Some of the things that have happened are.
- All pages in the Graphics Lab have had, where sensible, templates, substituting elements. For example, the main Lab page was a large chunk of around 100 lines of pure code. It was not very easy to edit the main page, so the various sections of it (eg links, welcome) have been separated. Therefore the main page is now only around 20 lines of user friendly text. If you wish to edit the main page, you must look on the main page for the correct template to edit. (Fore example if I wanted to edit the links section, I would go to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/links and edit the text there). This has been done to all of the pages, in an attempt to make them more user-friendly.
- As you were notified of early, the Wikigraphist Abilities page has been set up and has been beginning to get populated. If you haven't already setup your own entry, you are advised to go and do so now.
- Due to a comment from User:DTR. A template for Graphics Lab announcements has been created. It is at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement. If you ever need to issue a message to Wikigraphists, please use this template in the form
{{Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement|message ~~~~}}
Where message is the announcement you wish to issue.
- On the Images to Improve Page, an issue was noticed where that when requests were completed, people were adding {{Did}} but forgetting to add <!--werdnabot-archive--> so that the request would be archived. Therefore a template has been created (yes another one!) to help with this. When a user creates a new request instead of putting the usual code, they shall put
{{Request Title|title=Lorem Ipsum|done=false}}. Now when a request is completed, all you will have to do is change done to true
done=true
and the template will add the {{did}} template and also <!--werdnabot-archive--> to the title, so it will get archived.
As always, if you experience any issues with the new changes, or are just a bit confused, please don't hesitate to contact me or DTR on our talk pages.
Image:EastTimor.svg listed for deletion
editAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:EastTimor.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Lokal_Profil 12:31, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
