User talk:Dalton Holland Baptista

Welcome!

Welcome, new editor! We're very glad you've joined us. Here are pointers for a quick start. Also, when you get a chance, please read The Editor Role. You can look at Getting Started for other helpful introductory pages. It is essential for you as an editor to join the Citizendium-Editors (broadcast) mailing list in order to stay abreast of editor-related issues, as well as the mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and thank you! We appreciate your willingness to share your expertise, and we hope to see your edits on Recent changes soon. Larry Sanger 15:30, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Dalton (or Holland?), don't worry about the specifics of CZ. You can learn as you go. A good starting point for you would be to bring articles from wikipedia over here that you think are high quality. Then you can get the feel of the place here by reformating the articles. Let me know if you have any questions. Chris Day 18:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Another thing, this place is much more quiet than wikipedia and we are very embryonic. On the other hand this has the advantage that we can really make major changes in how things are presented. The tree of life project here had a little lease of life but the original contributors have drifted off, I suspect due to the lack of a critical mass. in short, if you have some unique ideas on how to present botany articles feel free to experiment, you are not obligated to follow the wikipedia model. If you have a look in the forums you will fin there were a few discussion with respect to naming conventions. I think those will be of interest to you. I'll try and track down some specific links for you. Chris Day 18:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Signatures

Just a heads up, you can't customise them here the same way as at wikipedia. So don't pull your hair out trying to find out how to do it. Chris Day 19:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

experiment

I have been experimenting with masterlists on the Leptotes/Related Articles related articles page, see Leptotes bicolor/Related Articles/Masterlist and Leptotes/Related Articles/Masterlist. One difference between wikipedia and citizendium is that we do not use categories. Instead we try and use the Related Articles subpages to give a navigational web. However, when large lists are repeated on multiple pages it makes more sense to transclude them from a masterlist location.

We use the {{R}} template on the Related Articles subpages too; it transcludes a universal definition and provides a link to edit that defintion ([e]) as well as a link to the Related Articles subpage associated with that term ([r]). By clicking through using the [r] links you can envisage how one can wander up, down and across the information within the hierarchy. You can see how this works by clicking the [r] link after Leptotes bicolor on the Leptotes/Related Articles subpages. It's a little complicated and any comments from a new comer on how to improve the user friendliness is very welcome. Chris Day 04:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Gallery

Thanks for the note, a lot to digest. I like the idea of visual navigation too. Did you note I started a gallery at Leptotes/Gallery? i think this is better than the wikipedia options since more pictures can be added than is reasonable on a wikipedia article. With regard to visual navigation another thing I have been experimenting with is using the imagemap feature. You can see some experiments at:

Template:CEC

Template:Biology open house

My thinking was that pictures of metabolic pathways could be clickable, but that could work for phylogenies, concept maps or photomontages too. With respect to navigation tools and usability you can see one discussion at CZ_Talk:Usability. It is a little chaotic but I think that might be quite represent our thoughts at present. Any input you have will be great, obviously you have thought about this and developed tools yourself. Chris Day 17:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)