User talk:Wikimanager

For those interested in Admin Duties
Hello everyone! I am the webmaster for Cookbookwiki.com and Head Administrator. If anyone is interested in becoming an administrator please let me know! Post here! Or if you just have a comment, feel free to post it here as well!

A few admin duties:


 * Encourage community participation in discussions
 * Participate in discussions as often as possible
 * Make weekly enhancements to content (typos, misrepresentations and false information)
 * Occasionally add content to the site
 * Most important, greet new members and educate them on wiki guidelines

I will give you admin rights once you have shown administrative interest in the site by attending to these duties.

I am volunteering for admin duties
Hey Wikimanager! Count me in! Ryan 07:58, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)

I'll be definetly IN for this one
I'm in too, man. Alex here ;) You know this was my 1st job with you and I did get involved with it affectively too as u well noticed.

Alex

License?
What license is the information in this site? I couldn't easily find that anywhere. GNU Free Documentation License

G'day fellow gastronomes!
I'm an Australian currently in UK (Edit: Back in Australia as of Nov 2006) and I'd love to join your quest! I can contribute to and edit articles relating to Australian and/or British cuisine if you need help in those areas?

I can already see a few spelling mistakes in some Aussie and Brit ingredient names, but I don't think I can edit them. Would I be able to do this with some Admin permissions?

Looking forward to a great future for this enterprise.

Cheers, --ProofReader 16:30, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

Thanks
Dear Wikimanager:

I am simply posting this comment to inform you that I have received your message,and to thank you for your welcome and comments.

Sincerely, Dutchman

P.S.: I have been using Wiki for a couple of years now.

re: Welcome to the site!
Hey welcome to the site! Let me know if you would like admin privs!

Wikimanager 23:39, 7 January 2007 (MST)

Retrieved from "http://www.cookbookwiki.com/User_talk:CornSoup"


 * Sure. I just verified my email if you need to contact me privately. CornSoup 11:03, 8 January 2007 (MST)


 * Woohoo... I can break things now.


 * Oh, on a completely unrelated side-note, do you mind if I run w:WP:AWB on some of the mass-uploaded unwikified submissions? It's great they are uploading them, but they are really quite hard to read! CornSoup 15:42, 9 January 2007 (MST)


 * Ok, cool. Thanks. Tools? I can't think of anything.  One thing I'd like to see at some point is a page dedicated to weights/measures conversion for our European friends. CornSoup 16:58, 9 January 2007 (MST)

Mass cleanup of un-wikified entries
Well, I'm planning (with your aproval) to do some mass-cleanup of "Cats Recipes" submissions... (someone really needs to fix that thing!)

But before I do that, I have some questions:
 * 1) What is with that   template I see allover the place? Should I be adding that to wikified recipes?
 * 2) I'd like to turn off the table of contence in all the resipies I wikify... is that ok? (useing  ) I realy think the TOC looks realy out of place when the page is quite short.
 * 3) Should I add an empty "See Also" section?

Oh, some of the other changes I was planning...
 * Convert 1/4 to ¼ (or ½ ⅓ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞)

And maybe some other things I haven't thought of yet.

CornSoup 16:54, 9 January 2007 (MST)

AWB
I've been completely unable to get AWB working. I've noticed others have had some issues getting it working for sites other then wikipedia. I'll keep trying and let you know if anything changes. CornSoup 13:14, 16 January 2007 (MST)

Black-eyed peas
G'day Wikimanager,

I've come across an entry which leads to a totally blank page - http://www.cookbookwiki.com/Black-eyed_pea. Perhaps you can delete it because I get nothing at all on the page! :D

Cheers, PR

ProofReader 14:48, Tues 16 Jan 2007 (AEST)

map
User:Castletower has used a map of mine (Image:Map of Native American.png) without identifying the source. Please dont use the map without attribution. Also I would prefer if you use the most recent version of the map which is more accurate. The version you have here is from May 2005. My last update is December 2006. Also you cant read the map -- its too small!

Log in required?
I am a long time supporter of the wiki system. I have gotten all my friends obsessed with wikipedia, and i have often been saying there needs to be a wikipedia for recipes. I have just discovered this site and it is exactly what I was looking for.

However, I am very disappointed to find that editing on this site requires a username. I do not see any benefit in requiring usernames for editing, especially if you want the non-traditional wiki users to contribute recipes and techniques, such as mothers and grandmothers who could really make this site great.

Requiring a user to log in tends to deter new users from contributing. It makes users who are new to the wiki system think, "Well I just wanted to correct a portion size or a spelling error, but I don't want to have to remember a username and password." Thankfully you do not require valid e-mail addresses and e-mail conformations or there would be no hope.

Its not as if a cookbook wiki of all things is in any danger of major vandalism.

Therefore I strongly believe that this site should follow wikipedia's example and do away with required log in.