User talk:Vermont

Welcome

I see in your bio that you have a lot of wiki experience. Are you interested perhaps in applying to be on the managing committee for LPedia? CarynAnnHarlos (talk) 14:35, 22 June 2019 (CDT)

Hello CarynAnnHarlos, and thank you for your message. Given that I've just made an account here, I'm not yet aware of what the managing committee is or how this project is run; at present I'm reading through the LPedia-space pages. However, I'm happy to help out here in any way I can. Regards, Vermont (talk) 17:33, 22 June 2019 (CDT)

It was requested of myself to inform you that I was invited here by MattLongCT. Thanks, Vermont (talk) 17:39, 22 June 2019 (CDT)

Take a look around and get familiar - and I'd invite you to join our next committee meeting (they are open meetings, anyone is welcome) and you can get a feel for what we do. Here is the page with the agenda and log-in information via Zoom LPedia: LPHPC AgendaCarynAnnHarlos (talk)

CarynAnnHarlos: Thank you! I've marked the date and will try my best to attend. I was clicking about the category system and noticed a problem: Category:Small l Libertarians should be deleted as it's deprecated by Category:Small L Libertarians. I changed the category of the one page that was in the former, and it will not effect anything if deleted. Also, in regard to the logo, It looks a bit outdated and a redesign should probably be looked at. However, in the meantime, could it at least be replaced with one with a transparent background? The white background conflicts with MediaWiki's fade. For how it would look, see an example at my wiki, vtwp.org. It'd also be significantly less blurry if it were remade as an .svg file, not a .png. (my wiki's a .png) Is there a page to request administrator actions? I also noticed that your main page and page footer say contributions are released CC-BY 4.0, however in the edit window it does not specify anywhere visible what license you're releasing the content under, which might lead to problems. This could be easily rectified server-side, if I remember correctly. Thanks, Vermont (talk) 18:33, 22 June 2019 (CDT)

I guess I'll throw it out there that Vermont is global sysop on most wikimedia projects (edit conflict) –MattLongCT ?Talk? 18:38, 22 June 2019 (CDT)

If you can use autowikibrowser without additional permissions, feel free to go ahead. The other items, those are in the wheelhouse of some of the other committee members (such as the licensing disclosures and graphics), so I do hope you can make the meeting. It is not required to be a committee member to be an admin, just willingness and know-how, so we can discuss that at the meeting, if it would make things easier for you. The committee is somewhat broken up into areas (such as the aforementioned topics) - I am the one who handles patrolling, over-all category scheme (if you have access to a mac or mac simulator, I can send you my omnioutliner category layout file which makes very the layout very easy for planning purposes). I also do a lot of the physical side stuff with the actual records as the records archive is in Colorado under my supervision.CarynAnnHarlos (talk) 21:04, 23 June 2019 (CDT)

CarynAnnHarlos: Great! I tried to get AWB setup but wasn’t able to find what URL to use when setting which wiki for AWB to edit. What do you use? I tried https://lpedia.org and I also tried it with a www. in front and neither worked. Thanks, Vermont (talk) 21:08, 23 June 2019 (CDT)

I will need to go power up my Windows box to look up what url I was using- I bought a Windows box just to use that as I am typically apple only - I will try to get that later this evening as it is in another part of the house (not with my primary workstation). I know I had to play around with it and put a /w/ in there somewhere.CarynAnnHarlos (talk) 21:14, 23 June 2019 (CDT)

Adding a /w/ works! Thanks, Vermont (talk) 07:29, 27 June 2019 (CDT)