User talk:Beetstra

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first message

Hi Dirk, please let me know if there are any things (a) I can do or (b) I should ask our server admin to do. Do you still want me to ask him to do the tasks mentioned in the email? Also, I'm giving a presentation on wikis (using this wiki as a demo), will you be around at 19:00 UTC next Friday (20th)? It would be great to have an outsider drop by if you have a few minutes. Thanks, Walkerma 21:48, 14 October 2006 (EDT)

Hi Martin, if you could ask him to do these tasks, that would be nice (would give you some things to see what is possible with the extensions on wikipedia). 19:00 UTC? That is late in the evening here, say .. 23:00? Friday-evenings are a bit difficult, I guess what Albions do on Fridayevening, and well .. I am trying to mingle with them. But I could give it a try, and mingle with them on other times. What things do you have in mind? --Beetstra 13:51, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

Demo

The talk starts in just over 3 hours time, 3pm Eastern (summer) time, I guess that is 8pm British Summer Time. The talk is at least 30 mins, so actual use of the wiki won't start until at least 8:30pm BST. If you can appear as an outside participant, that would be great fun! I appreciate it. We'll talk more about running the scripts on here later if you're available. Thanks a lot! Walkerma 11:56, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

Hi. they're here. Try commenting to User:Chaos! Walkerma 16:23, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

Thanks for the comments, I was showing them to the class and talking a bit about you. Sorry if you had to hang around, I hope it didn't cause you a problem. I got absolutely bombarded with questions right from the very first slide, so it took me an hour to get through things (I'd planned on 30-40 minutes). At least it was a positive thing- people showed an intense interest in the topic, and I think the presentation was well-received (I hope so, the dean was there who reviews my tenure application!).

Regarding the scope of the wiki, my plan was for chemical publishing at the start, but I may open it up to more once the presentation and demo is finished. My daughter keeps wanting me to start a Chemistry Club for kids (she's 7) to learn about chemistry, maybe I'll try something like that on the wiki! Although it was set up for the publishing project, I can see that other chemistry projects might work. By the way, you might want to talk to User:Sj on en Wikipedia (yes, he has a dormant account here!), he has a testing server with (I think) a complete dump of Wikipedia on it. He's a physics major, and would be very supportive of the kind of thing you're doing. Maybe we should talk more tonight on this site, about what you need. Feel free to write things, your templates are amazing - thanks!

Many thanks! Walkerma 17:49, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

Thanks

Hi Dirk, thanks for putting in these templates. You realise when you have a separate wiki how many Wikipedia templates you tend to rely on! I'm preparing information for a computer science professor, we're collaborating on a game (as you've seen). He knows very little chemistry, but he knows a lot about computer games, and he has students that can write the code. Cheers, Walkerma 14:40, 28 October 2006 (EDT)

Rename

Hi, thanks for pitching in and helping - yes, they upgraded the version of mediawiki last year. I hope my email is good news, too. I just wanted to let you know, my plan is to rename parts of this site "wikichem" rather than "chemwiki". This is simply because the domain name I have is www.wikichem.org and I wanted it to match. Does this sounds reasonable? I also let Rifleman know. Cheers, Walkerma 23:29, 2 March 2008 (EST)

Fine with me. --Beetstra 17:27, 3 March 2008 (EST)