[Campaigns-l] Quick wiki survey and tutorial

[Stephen Abbott]

Jimmy, you took that previous comment ("garbage") very well and I just
wanted to praise your skills of diplomacy and tact!

And I also have to agree - brevity is better.

(Note that my original response here was 4,269 words long. I cut it down a
bit.)

(...just kidding.)

Stephen A.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
To: <campaigns-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Campaigns-l] Quick wiki survey and tutorial


> neoclassical at mail.com wrote:
> >> Type in something like this:
> >>
> >> I am Jimmy Wales, and I live in [[Florida]], in the [[United
> >> States]].
> >
> > This format is much more effective than the lengthy garbage currently
> > on WikiPedia. (Yes, I do write documentation for a living ;)
>
> Cool!  It is supposed to be easy to get started, and you are right, the
> Wikipedians (who have been doing this for a long time) tend to be a bit
> wordy about it. :)