On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Dale Bewley dlbewley@lib.ucdavis.edu wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:04 -0500, Max Spevack wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote:
- Pascal will update the FWN StyleGuide to indicate that person
references should ideally reference the appropriate User: wiki page, if it exists. If it does not, we will use CamelCase references as a fallback.
Ian Weller tells me FAS users can be queried on IRC by messaging zodbot:
(02:56:24 PM) ianweller: .fas karsten wade (02:56:25 PM) zodbot: ianweller: quaid 'Karsten Wade' ..<snip>.. (02:56:29 PM) ianweller: .wikilink quaid (02:56:31 PM) zodbot: ianweller: [[User:quaid|Karsten Wade]]
This does seem to be handy, if not outisde typical workflow. It doesn't seem complete though:
(03:08:31 PM) dbewley1: .fas dale bewley (03:08:33 PM) zodbot: dbewley1: 'dale bewley' Not Found!
I checked and I have the 'privacy' box ticked in FAS, so I guess that's why I'm missing.
I see that to appease the wiki czar, we've so far decided to link to [[User:FAS_LOGIN|Full Name]] and fall back to camel case after a manual query fails.
To be honest, I'm not very inclined to search for FAS usernames given a full name just to link them from the article. I think it would be a little too onerous. If camel case names are deemed evil, should we discuss how valuable it is to have name links at all? Generally I'm all for the more links the better, but I'd prefer to keep things as easy as possible on us writers.
I'm in agreement here I think. Unless there's an easy way to find people's names or guess them then it becomes time-consuming to find them in the wiki. I was using the wiki advanced search with the User box ticked and gave up after doing a couple because it took so long. By comparison it's pretty easy to guess people's CamelCase name in general.
The only way I can think of around this is to obtain a dump of the FAS usernames correlated to the surname/familyname of the user. We could probably then use this to build dictionaries for whatever texteditors we use (see next point).
Maybe we can discuss beat writer personal workflows. Describe our own habits, and pick up some tips from others. Probably best to start a new thread for that.
The workflows do indeed make a big difference to what we expect or can achieve from the above changes. I'll look for the other thread or go start it now. Mine's a bit wonky but it had distinct advantages until the above changes!
Best wishes,