User talk:Tehreem
Welcome
Hey Tehreem! My name is Andrew and I'm an editor for the site, my coworkers and I are here to help you along the way with the batch and then also to edit it once it is complete. Please feel free to use my "discussion" page to talk with me. Also, please keep track of your batch as you work on it on your user page, I see you've already started this - in case you're wondering what the goal is, it should look like this (the picture is not required, but a nice personal touch): here. Add every article you write after you finish writing it. Also, please mark your pages as "under construction" by doing this: place [[Image:UnderConstruction.png]] at the very beginning of every article you start. It will end up looking like this.
I'll keep sending tips and instructions your way, please feel free to holler back at me. I look forward to working with you, we love all the good help we can get. Andrew
Help
- Okay, for some it is only possible to find very little information. Do your best and always represent what you find on the Internet, if there is little then the article will be short,if there is a lot, the article should be extensive.
- The automatic country category is a program on the site, we want that to happen. Make a separate category box right near it for "People".
- Can you give me more info on photos? specific photos to look at?
-Re Photo: hmm, not sure. Once you resized the photo you saved the resized version on your computer, but did you upload that new one to the site and then place the new one in his profile?
Also, sometimes when you create profiles with multiple sections a table of contents automatically appears (like in Jonathan's case), we remove this unless the article is VERY long, the way this is done is : __NOTOC__ those are two underscores (_) on each side.
I'm unsure about the photo, though I'll ask about it. City yes, phone number no.
Forwarding Links on ICANNWiki.org
Tehreem, yes you're right about that. We'll try to get that cleaned up and a better process in place. Thanks for bringing it to my attention Ray
Intro
I've noticed that you usually italicize the name at the beginning of an article. Each article should start out with the person's name bolded, this take 3 apostrophes, not two. Looks good though Andrew
Hello from Lahore
Hi Tehreem.
I see you are from Lahore. You are the second Lahorite to be working on this city (first one being me). Its nice to see people around from my own hometown. So, how long have you been freelancing? From your work it appears that you have prior experience working with wiki interface. Do you like this site?Muhammad Ali Khalid
Mturk that service of Amazon? I also tried working there in the beginning but they don't send money so I quit from there and joined vworker. If you don't have no prior experience with wiki, then you are doing amazing. You are using all the discussion pages, and things wiki like you have been working with this type of interface for years. Are you enjoying working on this site? Any problems using the site? Muhammad Ali Khalid 04:45, 12 April 2011 (PDT)
I have the same issue, sometimes it very very very hard to find things. Some people do not even have a word about themselves on the internet. However, there is this one way, I do not know how you search, but this helps me. While searching put commas around the name like "Ali Khalid", then you can also search for phrases like "Ali Khalid" ICANN, or if Ali khalid has worked at NADRA, you can search "Ali Khalid" Nadra. First you can start with the name only, and the you can narrow down the results by using company names in the search. However, sometimes putting commas can create problem. For example, if I use my name Ali S. Khalid all over the net, then "Ali Khalid" won't turn up any good result, so make sure with what name the person is known on the internet and do check the spellings, sometimes you can be searching for incorrect names.Muhammad Ali Khalid
Your welcome
Style Guidelines
I've been updating the Style Guidelines to specifically address issues that our new writers face, please take a look at it and let me know of any suggestions you have. Also, I'd like to bring to all of our writers' attention the section on Forwarding Links. Tehreem, I've seen some of the forwarding links you've made; first of all, I'm glad your making them, but I hope in the future you can use stronger language and explain the situation more than just saying "New article can be found [(link) here]". Thanks for your attention to this:
"It is the writer's responsibility to wipe the old pages from icannwik.ORG and create links to the new icannwiki.COM. An example of this can be seen here. Explain in similar terms that the site is moving, that this particular article has been moved, and then point to it with a link. Something like: "ICANNWiki.org is being moved to ICANNWiki.com, this article has already been moved can can be found [(link) here]"."
Also, please take note of the rule below, it also addresses the procedure for wiping and linking from the old site that we will expect from everyone from now on. Thanks for you attention to this, we're trying to get a clearer system in place so please follow these new rules as you continue working. Thanks for your patience as we get this all systemized and explained! So,:
The wiped page should contain the disclaimer & link to the new site but it should also contain the category "ICANNWiki.com" (with that exact spelling and capitalization). As you know, the formatting for this is: [[Category:ICANNWiki.com]]. This is the only category that the wiped pages need, it should no longer contain a "People" category. This will help us to track our progress of moving over the old site.
categories
Every people article should have a category for the country and one noting that it is a people article. There is no other category required at this point, but every article should have those two. Andrew
Also, as I'm sure you've noticed, I've been checking up on how your doing with the articles. It looks good. I'm impressed with how quickly you became used to our style of formatting, our insistence on references, and your ability to write original material. I have been turning up more sources to use for your articles, take a look at these and try your best to include them in a meaningful way. You may have found these sources and not have known if they were important, that is one main reason to do this; the goal is that you will begin to recognize what is a useful reference. You are already good at this but I want to help your further. Thanks for all the hard work and be in touch! Andrew By the way, I'm finding these sources by searching google with the person's name in conjunction with their company name, and sometimes refining it further by entering their name with the word "internet" or "icann".
That's a great question about bullets vs. writing it out. It's nice to have a mixture of both, as it makes the article dynamic. I think it's important to have at least a few sentences in the intro explaining what they do now and other important information, usually the stuff most related to ICANN. Then if there is a bulleted section for past experience or kind of random stuff that doesn't fit well together that's fine. It's important to not rely too much on bullets and create VERY LONG lists, as those just get boring. That's why switching it up and using both full sentences and paragraphs and bullets works so well. If I find specific examples to draw your attention to I will. Andrew
Company Template Changes
Hi writers,We've updated the Company template. Please make note of the changes, and pay attention to the specific formatting. We'd like the appearance of the template to be as standardized as possible. Do not delete empty fields, as they will not show up anyway. I have gone through all of the old company articles and changed them to the new template.
Additionally, if you are writing an article about an organization (sometimes these are categorized as "glossary" or "company" to begin with), please use the company template when the organization has a logo. If it does not have a logo, you do not need to use the template.
Thanks, Caterina
Same articles
Yeah, that must been because of the small "m" and capital "M". The editors will just redirect one to the other. :-) Muhammad Ali Khalid
You are again writing my article carlos patino
This is getting problematic now.. How about if we select alphabets to work on..?? In this way we won't be writing same articles twice..Muhammad Ali Khalid
Mmmmm.... Okay.. I have gone throught a,b,c and d. You will not find much there. You take E and I will go with F. Then when you do E let me know which alphabet you are taking.
It already happened with Carlos Patiño. See the N? that cause the problem and there can be many such cases again because there are french, mexican and spanish names there with these types of alphabets. Then there can also be the problem that we are working on the same article at the same time i.e that we create the page at the same time... So should with the "E" alphabet for you and "F" for me?
Yeah sure.. Go ahead, you can take N and M and I won't step in your territory :-)..
Response
no to the facebook page, but those other two pages seem to match up. Andrew
Editing
I've begun your editing, I will keep a running list of tips and help to better prepare you for your next batch:
- Make sure you are always emphasizing any direct connections to ICANN. Your article for Hector Ariel Manoff tended to bury his ICANN related work in the middle of the rest of the content, it is important to highlight this by putting it as one of the first sections or mentioning it right away in the intro.
- Put lists in some sort of order, usually chronological and usually starting from the most recent and working to the least recent events.