User talk:David MacQuigg

Welcome!

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at CZ:Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list (do join!) and the blog. Please also join the workgroup mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. 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 have fun! Ruth Ifcher 02:14, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to the computers group!

Trust-related issues are definitely of high priority. I definitely would appreciate any comments on Domain Name System security, and there's just a start on messaging application protocols. There's also something of a start on the broadest level of information security.

Of course, original contributions are very welcome as well. Let me know how I can help. Howard C. Berkowitz 03:24, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Created a personal sandbox for you

I have taken the liberty of creating a personal sandbox page for you. To access your sandbox, just click on the link labeled My sandbox in the upper, left-hand corner of your User page. Once you get there, you can click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page and you can:

• Practice writing articles in the Wiki markup language.
• If you already know the Wiki markup language, you can draft any articles you want to write and keep changing them until you are completely satisfied with them ... and then you can create a new article by cutting and pasting the sandbox article into the new one.
• You can invite other Citizens to visit your sandbox, review a prospective article that you wrote in sandbox, and ask for their comments/critique before you proceed to cut and paste it into a new article.

Don't know what the Wiki markup language is? Click ==>CZ:How to edit an article    Another excellent way to learn the Wiki markup coding is to click on the "Edit" tab at the top of any article and see how the markup coding was used there.

Enjoy! Milton Beychok 04:41, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Using Related Articles

While the Related Articles page will take any text, it's really designed to use Template:R, which has lots of options. Let me give you some basics. Incidentally, I am using, in edit mode, an escape sequence so I can show you the commands; start out looking at this in normal page mode.

I'm in the middle of rebuilding my OS, so I may not have my regular email working for a bit -- trying to figure out how to get Outlook to import the settings from the old boot drive, now mounted non-boot.

Assume you are on the page Management domain/Related articles

Now, enter:

==Subtopics==

{{r|Administrative management domain (email)}}

{{r|Private management domain (email)}}

When you save, you'll have a red link for both topics, and a gray area for the definition.

Clicking on the red link will create an article page. Just to start, put in some brief words and save.

Now, search for ADMD, and it will ask if you want to create it. Answer yes, and type in #REDIRECT [[Administrative management domain]] and save.

You should have a blue link to Administrative management domain.

On the Management Domain related articles page, click in the gray area on Administrative managemet domain, and you'll get prompted to enter a definition. Write a sentence or so and save. Page back to the related articles page, refresh, and you should see a blue link to the article, and a filled-in definition.

Howard C. Berkowitz 18:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)