User talk:Vincent H. Bartning

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! Aleksander Stos 02:18, 19 September 2007 (CDT)

Welcome!

Hey Vincent, I noticed that you have written your first CZ article, so I wanted to stop by and say hi and welcome to the project. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions, and I'll try to point you in the right direction. --Todd Coles 12:07, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Hello Todd, thanks for the welcome. It's been a while since I've done work on an actual wiki, probably at least six months. What about the approval process here on Citizendium? What about the image commons, if there is one? Bye for now, Vincent H. Bartning 15:33, 7 March 2008 (CST)

As far as the approval process goes, you can read about it here CZ:Approval Process. The nuts and bolts of it is, when an article reaches a completed state, an editor from the appropriate workgroup needs to nominate it. Sometimes this involves you finding an editor to look at it, other times they will find it themselves, it really just depends on the size and activity level of the workgroup (for example, the biology workgroup has a large number of active editors and authors, while geography has no editors that I'm aware of). After the article is nominated, it usually takes about a week to be officially approved, giving everyone a chance to proofread and polish it. Then the approved version is locked from editing, and a draft copy is made editable so further changes can occur and await another approval.

We don't have anything like Wikimedia Commons here, but feel free to upload appropriate images using the upload wizard. Stephen Ewen has put a lot of work into creating templates and such for the various copyrights, and is a good person to ask regarding anything concerning images.

Hope this helps! --Todd Coles 18:28, 7 March 2008 (CST)

Welcome Vince. Please take my note on the Geneva Conv talk page as witty banter. After reading it, it comes across as rather harse, not lighthearted as I meant it to be. David E. Volk 20:31, 10 July 2008 (CDT)