User talk:Erik hammerstrom

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I've written a basic template for article editors. You can use the template to give a particular article a particular editor, as is the case with 戴季陶, or you can set the editor to the default for an entire section, for example as on the 月霞 page. We would need add the template manually to every page though, I don't think there's any way around that.

The template automatically includes the page into a category of articles edited by that person, whether they are specified or just referenced by section. This can have a link to the editor's user page, something that doesn't seem possible yet within the template itself.

Clearly it needs a lot of work, and I would like the line stating the article editor to be part of a standardized table of article information, but I think for now it works quite well.

--Greg 06:38, 20 November 2009 (CST)

I've looked through all the periodical entries, many of them still need work but it's not material that I can access from home at the moment.

Re: the section I changed on your user page, that covers photographs for both the PRC and the ROC - and since photographs are primarily what we're reproducing here I thought it would be handy to have.

--Greg 10:33, 17 June 2009 (CST)

Great ideas on both accounts. Any outside sources for more information on institutions? It might be worthwhile to search the MFQ(B) and see if there are any announcements regarding them that might offer some more information.

--Greg 00:02, 19 June 2009 (CST)

I'll run through the institution articles today, then I'll help with looking through the biographical ones. The guidelines you've written up look great, I'll keep those in mind as I look through them.

If you find that Haichaoyin might have a photograph of someone for whom we need an image, I can scan from the original 2003 reprint, which is very good quality. The DDM index does indicate whether a piece is a written article or a photo, so a quick search for the person's name might turn up a photograph or two.

Also, we should think about making up redirect pages for each person's alternative names, at least the more popular ones. Although the search engine does a great job of producing the main article when you input a style or dharma name.

--Greg 22:48, 20 June 2009 (CST)

I installed the GoogleMaps extension - check it out on the 南京 page. It's really versatile, could be really useful for geographical and institutional articles.

Note that the "make a map" function doesn't work in this version of Mediawiki.

--Greg 23:13, 20 June 2009 (CST)

Working through the biography articles. I made up a template for a resource that I cite quite often: Template:ZJFRZ. I could make up similar templates for other sources too, if you think they'd be useful.

--Greg 09:11, 22 June 2009 (CST)

That's precisely how it works. I'll make up templates for the other major source we use, including Welch.

I'm trying to finish my article draft by the 1st though, and working part-time now, so my contributions may come at a slower pace than before. I think we're still in a great position to open by August though!

--Greg 20:44, 24 June 2009 (CST)

I haven't been able to find a listing for a multi-volume ZJFRZ. If we do have a multi-volume bibliographic template though, we can always use X:YYY in the citation, where X is the volume number. I think you've already done this for other citations.

For the ones that have 續編 and even 再續編, they should definitely have separate templates, because the year will probably be different, and the publication info may be as well.

--Greg 03:35, 26 June 2009 (CST)

Draft Announcement

I think the announcement is good to go. The two paragraphs regarding content are important, I think, and will help to put the idea of CC-licensed content in the minds of the readers. I edited the main URL slightly to be shorter, it still works and automagically redirects to the main page.

--Greg 20:24, 13 July 2009 (CST)

Ah yes - sorry about that. It's been some time!

I've drafted a sample table for displaying biographical information. It's on the 楊文會 page for now. It can't really been extend to other pages until we get thumbnails working, or unless we resize all the portrait images to a standard size. Any thoughts on the Yang infobox as it stands right now?

--Greg 00:36, 22 November 2009 (CST)

Heh - how about "Notable Associates"? I think that the most pertinent information can be displayed in the box, while extra info can be put into a section in the article. At least if there is a name by which they're commonly known (as is the case with Yang, also Ouyang Jingwu and Zhang Binglin) then it should appear at the top of the box so there's no confusion as to the identity of the person. Putting the important colleagues in the infobox allows for quick navigating of social networks, but you're right that if we put too many then the boxes will just get too big.

I think we should figure out the basic form for the infoboxes before we start adding Editor templates everywhere, if they are indeed to appear in the infobox. I can make up some guidelines for maximum number of items included in each section (e.g. no more than 4 notable associates).

--Greg 21:55, 23 November 2009 (CST)

Not sure if you've noticed, but I've started to create redirect pages for the common romanized spellings of article titles. I don't think it's really something we need to commit too much energy to doing, but it helps with directing searches to the appropriate page. It doesn't take too long to do either.

--Greg 03:07, 28 November 2009 (CST)

Hey - I made some additions to the Article Editors page, under editing policies. I'm trying to head off potential conflicts here, without getting too autocratic in terms of laying down the law. Any thoughts now that you're back from across the pond? I defend my prospectus on Friday and should regularly have time to contribute after then!

PS - just read over the Policy Statement again. I'm honestly really proud to be a part of a project that upholds these ideals.

--Greg 22:28, 8 December 2009 (CST)

I kind of like the way it appears at the bottom of the biography infobox right now, but if you think it would be best for it to appear at the bottom of the article then let's do that. Be sure to change the infobox template though, and feel free to make up a new template for the editor information if you think we need one.

Sorry about not contributing the past few days but I just arrived back in NYC after an interesting journey from Toronto. Hoping to get back to it later today!

--Greg 02:07, 7 January 2010 (CST)

Considering that our application will hopefully be reviewed soon, what do you think about both of us going through the articles and trying to fix any typos and other small errors? I was planning on continuing with the chronology articles but this might be a worthwhile project that shouldn't take too much time.

--Greg 02:20, 22 January 2010 (CST)