User talk:Adam Carr

Adam -- To answer your questions as best as I can. The photo issue has been discussed and is being worked on. The problem is copyright; so many of the wikipedia images have dubious status. I am not sure of the exact status of this work, but the technical people have been working on it. Check out the forums, http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/board,18.0.html, someone there can almost defintely give you more info.

Your live article looks fine to me.

Send the bug to http://forge.citizendium.org/gf/project/caesarwiki/tracker/ . I suspect there are more pressing bugs, but the technical people are keeping track at least.

cheers Fred Salsbury 15:33, 5 January 2007 (CST)

Oh yes, plenty of teething problem. You need to register separately for the forums (and probably for the tracker, I haven't used it). However, the registration is easier for the forums as manual activation isn't required. Just register, I think there is a confirmation email, and you are set. Fred Salsbury 14:20, 7 January 2007 (CST)

RE Photos: There a photo upload facility.

http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Imagelist

http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Upload

It will accept gif and jpg files but not .svg or .png CORRECTION NOW ALSO .png Keep them below 150k approx

Im in Melbourne BTW U Melb David Tribe 07:02, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Saw your note, and would enjoy collaboration, although I'm a bit out of HIV this last ten years. Strangely I have 12,000 photos of Italy, mainly buildings, cities, statues, but not Roma regrettably, which Ill have to fix the expensive but best way. David Tribe 08:54, 26 January 2007 (CST)

A comment here was deleted by The Constabulary on grounds of making complaints about fellow Citizens. If you have a complaint about the behavior of another Citizen, e-mail constables@citizendium.org. It is contrary to Citizendium policy to air your complaints on the wiki. See also CZ:Professionalism.

Sources template

I saw your message at User_talk:Larry_Sanger#Sources_category and was able to answer your question. Stephen Ewen 05:35, 22 February 2007 (CST)

Wannsee Conference

Adam, I can understand how you might feel about the extremely well researched and valuable article that you've imported from WP (to which I assume that you've made substantial research contributions), but mass reversion of good faith edits without debate is a practice we want to discourage, as it it prevents effective collaboration. It's my intention (after a short wait to allow some deliberation) to reverse your reversal. Can I ask you to then dialogue via the talk pages about the issues involved. Constable David Tribe 07:59, 25 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks for your response Adam. The issues touched on by this discussion go to the heart of this matter of collaborations and collegiality at CZ. I am acting as a Constable, and would ask that you work with me to promote an atmosphere that allows interaction. I do not see this as favoring 'one side' or another and and apart from expressing my personal admiration for your obvious scholarship, have left aside content matters, the 'qualifications' of the other participant, and the quality of the stylistic suggestions. The very high quality of your contribution and the coherency and importance of the topic is without question. We have to consider the effect of your actions on other participants, and the basic ground rule that individuals do not 'own' topics. That said, can I respectfully directly request that you work hard at being open to the other author's inputs, and that you consider what you can personally do to remove this as a confrontation? I will leave the ball in your court for a decent interval.

Can I also mention that I have direct experience of the value of accepting the influence of different styles of writing even when the new stylist is sometimes making scholarly errors, but also I have personally experienced the frustration of comments that are insensitive to a complex context. Yes, its not easy, but it is very rewarding and can be productive. In my experience, out of such openness comes opportunity, and sometimes refreshing change. David Tribe 15:31, 25 February 2007 (CST)

Vandalism

Apologies that vandals created strange results in your watchlist. Be assured it was vandals; I was one of the Constables dealing with them, and the new registration procedures and other security measures were introduced to stop them. Fortunately that distressing period is over now. David Tribe 08:10, 25 February 2007 (CST)