User talk:Preposterous
Archiving
[edit]Welcome on Wikipedia, Preposterous!
You can learn how to archive here. Some additional comments: I like to keep/make a talk page structured (moving discussions to other sections & merging certain discussions), which makes the talk page less chaotic and makes archiving or searching in archives easier. (It is sometimes frustrating to see however that people don't even try to respect the talk page structure and just keep adding topics which are already being discussed above). Then I make an archive box (see the above link) and I use the "cut-and-paste"-method to fill the archives with dead or repetitive discussions (and nonsense-topics), most of the times till they reach 75-90kbs (there isn't really a policy about archive size I think - but I find it an appropriate size). Then I start a new archive. I also try to keep the talk page below 150kb, which seems way too much but is quite difficult to achieve for fast growing talk pages. In order to easily find earlier discussions, I provide a link in similar live discussions to the archives, sometimes with a summary. Have fun! Sijo Ripa 23:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Meetup
[edit]Wikipedia:Meetup/Tampa -- You're invited! Hires an editor (talk) 21:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
[edit]Greetings,
My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.
I would like to include your Wikipedia user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Wikipedia present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?
With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.
I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.
Thank-you,
John-Paul Mcvea
University of Alberta
jmcvea@ualberta.ca