User talk:Ockham

2009-04-18T20:06:25Z

Benwbrum: Transcription wiki hacks

{{Greeting}}

== Lovin' what you're doing ==

It is very exciting to see someone taking the bull by the horns, as you're doing, and laying the groundwork for what could be a great semantic sub-encyclopedia. You've already created an integer attribute, too! Phew! - [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:49, 28 January 2008 (PST)

:Gack! Some excellent advice [http://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=User_talk:MyWikiBiz&diff=53523&oldid=53517 found here]. I'm too junior a SemWeb noobie to remember things like this -- I just see the strategic beauty of doing things semantically. - [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 08:55, 28 January 2008 (PST)

== Since when? ==

Igor Alexander has never been suggested to have been responsible for setting up www.wikipediareview.com. You must have gotten confused of that. Igor doesn't claim that, I don't claim that, Selina doesn't claim that, nobody claims that. Igor Alexander set up the ProBoards site. A group of 6 founding members set up the domain name. This included Igor, but it wasn't his idea. Lir, Blissyu2, Qwerty, Igor Alexander, Selina and Blissyu2 are your 6 founding members, who set up the new domain name. I haven't seen anywhere that anyone has disputed that. Is it being disputed? Perhaps Somey is suggesting that he went back in time to do it? Gosh darn it, these pesky time machines! [[User:Blissyu2|Blissyu2]] 04:04, 13 October 2008 (PDT)
: So fix it then, as it is in MWB mainspace. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 04:05, 13 October 2008 (PDT)

== Revolting suggestions ==

[http://www.mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory_talk:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View&curid=39216&diff=71641&oldid=70479 See here] for my suggestions. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 06:08, 14 October 2008 (PDT)

== Google cache ==

I hope that you'll see [http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory_talk:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View/FT2_on_Animal_Films my note]. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 10:28, 26 November 2008 (PST)

== [[Kenneth Freeman]] ==

I am new here (though I've been here once before as User:bluevictim, I wanted to create an account under my real name), so I have just created an article, [[Kenneth Freeman]]. Is this how articles are done here, properly? What should be improved?

[[User:Jonas Rand|Jonas Rand]] 15:33, 1 January 2009 (PST)

:Jonas, I've made a note to you on your Talk page. I'll look for your response. I am not big into managing headaches on a repeated basis here. That's not a threat or anything... just giving you my perspective. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 16:51, 1 January 2009 (PST)

== Thank you, once again ==

Ockham, thank you again for all the good, quality work that you're doing here under the subject of medieval philosophy. It certainly lends an air of respect to our site. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 11:57, 4 January 2009 (PST)
: My pleasure. I am keeping up the account on Wikipedia see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petrus_de_Ibernia&diff=261943476&oldid=245335938 here] for example but the article [[Peter of Ireland|here]] is going to be better, of course. Is there any benefit in linking the Wikipedia articles here? [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 12:01, 4 January 2009 (PST)
::I believe that if you create here a hyperlink to the Wikipedia article, that has the net effect among search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) to "enhance" the reputation and PageRank of the Wikipedia article. If you create a hyperlink from Wikipedia to the article here on MyWikiBiz, it will not have a net effect among the search engines, because back in early 2007, Wikipedia selfishly put "nofollow" on most of their external link functions, on orders from Jimmy Wales. I immediately pointed out that the exceptional few links that remained impervious to "nofollow" happened to be to Jimmy's Wikia.com profit project. For that, I was again blocked from editing Wikipedia.
::Even with Wikipedia's "nofollow" effrontery, it is still helpful to link FROM there TO here, but only if you're actually doing so to assist Wikipedia users to find more helpful, authoritative information, and you are not doing it to boost your own ego or profit margins. Don't worry, others who hold power on Wikipedia will decide for you what your motives are. If you disagree with their decision, you may be blocked for daring to hold such an opinion.
::As a note, MyWikiBiz has about [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&target=%2A.mywikibiz.com 40 links to it] from Wikipedia article and talk space. From these links, we garner about 4 or 5 "hits" per day. Nothing to break a sweat over. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 18:45, 4 January 2009 (PST)

:::Oh well. On a positive note [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=siger+de+courtrai&meta= this search] brings in Siger at #3 on Google, above the The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy. Ulrich of Strasbourg comes #3 also. It is also interesting to compare the Wikipedia version of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Interpretatione On Interpretation]' with the [http://mywikibiz.com/On_Interpretation MWB version]. Notice the MWB is complete, the Wikipedia is not. This is not because anything was deleted from the Wikipedia version, but because the author of that article was banned for a period from Wikipedia and completed the article on MWB instead.

::: Which is rather unfair because when you Google [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Of+contradictory+propositions+about+the+past,+one+must+be+true,+the+other+false%22&hl=en a phrase from both versions] it comes 3rd after Wikipedia and a scraper, and to add insult to injury, it comes the omitted portion of "in order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 2 already displayed!". Yet if you Google a phrase [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Aristotle+enumerates+the+affirmations+and+denials+that+can+be+assigned+%22&meta= only in the MWB] it is #1 of 1, naturally. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 09:42, 6 January 2009 (PST)

== I replied ==

I replied to your Google issues, on my Talk page. Just thought I'd leave you a note here, while you're beavering away on the site. Feel free to erase this. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 10:11, 25 January 2009 (PST)

== Transcription wiki hacks ==

I'd like to ask you some questions about your manuscript transcription wiki hacks. I'd looked at modifying MediaWiki for that purpose about 4 years ago, but had very little luck. Please drop me a line via the wiki email address.

[[User:Benwbrum|Benwbrum]] 13:06, 18 April 2009 (PDT) [http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/] [http://beta.fromthepage.com/]

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