User talk:StuffOfInterest

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Hi StuffOfInterest - welcome to the wiki directory. I'm glad you like it and appreciate our vision of creating an alternative environment and giving dmoz some competition.

Not sure what you meant by "Rather than polute my website listings I'll do content development here and relocate it out to the pages when ready for prime time." though...?

Let me know if you have any questions.

--Aerik Sylvan 12:15, 29 Nov 2005 (PST) , founder

Regarding polution, I want to build a much better article description for my website. Rather than having drafts out on the main listing I intend to work on it at my user page and then copy the wiki-code over once I'm happy with how it looks. --StuffOfInterest 08:11, 6 Dec 2005 (PST)

Hi! Okay, I get it now. I really like your worldbeachlist entry (and site, nice concept - not fond of the pop-up ads, but that's just my opinion), but the idea for the listings is to be objective - detailed is great, and the external pics are cool, but the subjective detail should really go on the talk page. Or, if you want, create section called something like "from the webmaster" and put the subjective parts that. I really like the "About" section, but it really should go either on the talk page or in a "from the webmaster" section. The main description should be something that others can edit, so it needs to be descriptive and objective. Thanks! --Aerik Sylvan 12:08, 8 Dec 2005 (PST)

P.S. you asked about the whitelist, and adding links - did you figure it out, or did you still have questions?

Thanks for the compliments! Renamed the section. I can see the point of not using "About" since the whole section is pretty subjective. "About" should be more objective. Regarding the popups (or popunder in this case), I go back and forth on it. I've been thinking of taking them off. It wouldn't be the first time. Finally, on the images and links, I figured out how to reference an externally hosted image. It works, but it would be better if I could upload the images and use the standard Wiki display techniques. With that the thumbnails can expand to full size screen shots. Still, not that important. Just having thumbnails gives browsers some idea of what they will see on the site. As for links, it would be nice to link some of the features to appropriate places on the website. The programming would be a bit more complicated, but you might want to consider allowing links which have the article name as the base of the url. With that you wouldn't have third party links within a listing. --StuffOfInterest 15:01, 8 Dec 2005 (PST)

Hi! You're welcome - just to be clear though, the main listing should be objective and descriptive, written in the third person. Also, deep links to the main site already work - try it :-) I'll take the "complicated programming" bit as a compliment. I don't really want to host images, but I'll think about it - allowing uploads is a whole other security thing. Warm Regards, --Aerik Sylvan 17:57, 8 Dec 2005 (PST)

Thanks a lot for catching and removing that spam. That guy was really annoying - I hadn't seen divs used to hide spam before. Jerk. Anyway, thanks! --Aerik Sylvan 12:15, 12 Dec 2005 (PST)

No problem. I poke my head in from time to time to see if there is anything interesting. If something in the recent changes list catches my eye I take a look. I don't think I caught all of his stuff earlier as I had to leave for a meeting. --StuffOfInterest 17:27, 12 Dec 2005 (PST)

BTW, nice job on Worldbeachlist - I went ahead and featured id on the main page (I'm biased, as I'm a closet beach-bum myself!) --Aerik Sylvan 13:39, 23 Dec 2005 (MST)

Aerik, thanks for featuring it. It has been about a year now I've been working on worldbeachlist.com. Over the last few months I've moved away from spending time on feature improvement and into researching content. There is a lot to be done on both sides still.

Interestingly, the search engines seem to pickup wikidweb pretty quickly. I'm already seeing this location in my "site:" queries on both Google and MSN. Unfortunately, there isn't any direct referrals coming from here yet. With a few more quality listings hopefully people will start seeing WikiDirectory as a resource for lookup more than just for listing sites. --StuffOfInterest 07:33, 27 Dec 2005 (MST)