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==Possible bug?==
Daniel, would you be able to take a look at this page here: [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Dabdef_Subpages]. I don't know if its my browser or not but the defintions don't appear to be sorting alphabetically. They are all grouped under '0'. [[User:Meg Ireland|Meg Ireland]] 02:10, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
:Except for three that lack the subpages template which adds the category (and probably also the 0 somehow, though I could not yet figure out how). And within the "0" subcategory, they do not follow the alphabet either, hmmm... Anyway, standardizing disambiguations is certainly something for the wishlist. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 11:18, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

== a new member ==

We have a new member ([[User:Karsten_Borgmann]]), who is apparently editor of a German wiki connected to Humboldt-University Berlin: http://www.docupedia.de/  I don't read German, but I'm wondering if it is a project we'd like to partner with in some capacity.  Could you look the site over and see what it's about?  Thanks much. --[[User:Joe Quick|Joe Quick]] 20:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
:Will do. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

== Why  do my website's 4000  visitors per week include visitors only from the CZ forums and none from CZ wiki? ==

Daniel, I have had my own domain website for over 12 years now. It consistently gets about 4000 visitors a week, including about 150 per week from <nowiki>http://forum/citizendium.org</nowiki> ... but not a single one from <nowiki>http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/(any of the 100+ articles I've written)</nowiki> .

It makes me ask how many people actually read any of our articles? Is there any way to find that info? [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 04:29, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

:No idea. I just went there from your user page. Can you see that? --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 10:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

::Yes, I will be able to see that, but it will be next Sunday. My log report is a weekly one received each Sunday. Does CZ have any such log reports that tell us how many visitors we've had? [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:41, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

== Please look at this forum thread ==

Daniel, this thread might be worth bringing to the attention of the charter drafting committee. See [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2968.0.html here] [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 02:13, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

== CZ:Buglist examples ==

Hi Daniel. I noticed you changed the Image references in CZ:Buglist example1 and example2 to mediawiki links. The reason I presented them as http links is when a user uses cz-bugs (which is an email list), the mediawiki link syntax doesn't work. Since these are examples of how to report a bug or enhancement request using email, I think we should leave them as http links. However, I am open to arguments against this if you have some. [[User:Dan Nessett|Dan Nessett]] 21:28, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

:OK, fixed. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 21:47, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

== German ==

Daniel, I translated a small piece by Clausius from German into English, could you please check it? See [[entropy (thermodynamics)]]. As you know neither language is my mother language. --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 13:33, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
:I put my version directly on the [[:Image:Text_entropy.png|image page]] but think the article may merit a shorter version. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:56, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

::Yes I had some doubts myself about the length of the inset. On the other hand, I have seen so many mistakes in the quotation and also because  Clausius thought of the name ''Verwandlungsinhalt'', that I thought it would be interesting to have it. Maybe just the translation is sufficient and a good compromise?--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 07:05, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

:::That would be a possibility but I am generally in favour of showing excerpts from original sources, and ''Verwandlungsinhalt'' is certainly instructive. So I pasted the whole translation in for the time being. Let's take another look at this after a while, or ask others, and decide then. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 08:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

== German ==

Daniel, do you agree with this translation:
M. Planck, ''Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge'' [On irreversible radiation events], Annalen der Physik, vol. '''1''', pp. 69–122 (1900)? --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 13:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
:I would go for "On irreversible radiation processes". --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 14:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
:: You may link to the original [http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/bibliothek-digital/digitalequellen/schriften/anzeige/index_html?band=10-sitz/1899-1&seite:int=454 source]. [[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 17:02, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

:::I had a link to a scanned version in the Ann. d. Physik, but it was the wrong paper of Planck, so I changed it. Question: the two links give different spellings ''Über'' and ''Ueber'', is there a historical difference?--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 17:09, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

::::Both spellings were equally valid in his time, though now ''Über'' would prevail (at least as long as the umlaut is available to the typist). --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 00:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

::::: In particular, "Ue" is sometimes used for the uppercase umlaut. In any case, I prefer using the spelling of the original source. [[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 00:09, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

==Trials==
I removed it for now. As to being back, I hope.  Still very busy but I want to contribute here more. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

== About [[Fahrenheit and Rankine temperatures]] ==

Daniel, I note that you revised [[Fahrenheit and Rankine temperatures]] so as to move the section about conversions and comparisons to a catalog subpage of the [[Temperature]] article. I certainly agree that those two sections make a good subpage for the [[Temperature]] article. However, they were really some of the core content of the [[Fahrenheit and Rankine temperatures]] article and I think they should '''also''' remain in that article. After all, there is no harm in having that content in both places, is there? Accordingly, I am going to reinstate a copy of that content in the [[Fahrenheit and Rankine temperatures]] article. I hope that you have no objection to having it in both places.

Also, in a brief scan of the [[Temperature]] article, I saw no place where readers are told that information about conversions was available in the catalog subpage ... and many newcomers to CZ probably will not think to look at the catalog subpage. Perhaps, you should add a sentence somewhere in the [[Temperature]] article pointing to the conversions in the catalog subpage ... or perhaps it would even better to change the subpage from "Catalog" to "Temperature conversions". What do you think? [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 22:14, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

:I was hoping for feedback on this, since I think it is core content but currently not very consistently organized. So thanks for being so quick! My preference would be to have a separate article for each unit (i.e. also separate F & R), to have the conversions all in ''one'' place, possibly even a separate article (I set up several redirects). A subpage ""Temperature conversion", i.e. with a non-standard name would not be allowed by current rules and also cause the subpages template to choke. Of course, there should then be links to it from everywhere relevant (I started with that for several of the articles but was not done yet when I saw your comment). --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 22:23, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

== redirects ==

Daniel, it is not necessary to redirect uppercase/lowercase versions: Go and Search find both. (And in links, the "correct" link is preferable.) [[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 16:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Partial correction: As it seems, this is true only for titles with at most 3 words. Curiosu. [[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 17:20, 11 December 2009 (UTC)