User_talk: Anna

Hi Anna! I am Rosy from ES wikiHow, lately we have had a few contributors that have expressed their interest in translating as community members. In the instructions in this article How to Translate a wikiHow Article it says to use this form or to contact you directly. I would just like to verify if the form is still working or if we should just contact you directly with the request to tie the translation with the original EN articles. Thanks in advance :)

Muchas gracias Anna! thank you for letting me know, we will handle it and modify the instructions in the Spanish version of this article so it done directly with us. I really appreciate your help :)

Your welcome, Anna.

Thanks Anna, for the recognition and the thumbs-ups. I'm happy to help. :)

I don't often do Tips Patrol because the number there is really low, but I like it.

Thanks Anna! I've been increasing my 'sphere of influence', per se.

Also, a question: Should there be sample docs in this article?

Ahh! Clever!

Hello Anna:
Doc F. Checking in... Hey I started another translation on http://www.wikihow.com/Accept-Learning-Disabilities I'll Notify you when i'm Done with it. Also http://es.wikihow.com/tener-confianza-en-ti-mismo-y-ser-conversador-si-tienes-una-discapacidad is done. You can do your magic now..
Thank you
Gabriel

some one was talking about putting up a dating thread are those aloud?

Wow! So glad you appreciated and commented on the illustrations I added to the Multigenerational ect. article. I'm still thinking about the How to be a Snow Princess article, and inspired by it, so this seems to be the way for me to go. At least for now. I am enjoying the fun and challenge of it all.

Thank you Anna. F

ok...

was there any misspell words

was that an insult or a compliment

Okay. Then
They are aware. .
Just following the instructions but I see that you and Rosy recently discussed this.

Absolutely, that restaurant article could use more substance, but who knows what our readers might consider "helpful?" The author certainly seems to have a feel for some of the nuances of the business, but he appears to have passed over a lot of details. Let's hope another restaurateur comes along and sees the article.

i understand my friend wrote it

Yeah, I was a bit suprised because you changed nearly half (I don't know if I'm exaggerating) of my article, but your made sense more than mine, so no worries.

In response to your question, I have edited other wikis before on multiple wiki frameworks: dokuWiki, Wikimedia, Wikia, and WikiDot. Some of the wikis I've contributed to, I've made extensive changes and additions due to lack of content or consistency. This is especially true on wikis for certain games, where the information isn't updated nearly as often as it should be.

One of my least favorite things to see in an article or How-to is anything based on an easily disproven myth (for example, the myth that shaving makes hair grow in thicker). Not only is the reasoning baseless, but it also reflects poorly on the integrity of any given site's ability to deliver correct information.

Stub, be gone! I just did the illustrations for the ballerina article, How to Paint a Ballerina in Watercolor. Things are coming along and I'm still taking a lot of fun from it. I hope this helps get it reclassified into a proper article.

Thank you, Anna. My pleasure. Now to celebrate with a nice cuppa. (I lived in England 2 years and yes, love tea, always have.---It might be my Irish heritage.) I was happy to be able to glide through doing it. One tiny glitch early on, but my hubbymeister was on hand to lend and hand.

Thank you Anna for being helpful!

I don't know, but if you check the history, the historical template has been removed repeatedly.

It gets way more advanced. I will consider doing an article.

No problem! Haha, well I think we get the most lightning strikes per state in the country, so definitely good to know ;)

It was pretty hard at first, But it's fun and addicting! I can't stand seeing misspelled words, they're the worst!!!

Hello Anna, Thank you for promoting my article :)

"I saw you making some great spellchecker edits and just wanted to drop by to say thanks! How are you liking that tool so far. It looks like you have a good eye for it! Have you done a lot of proofreading in the past?"

Thanks! I've never really done any proofreading other than my own papers, I'm still a student and I have some pretty strict teachers. That's about it.

well, shoot. that's what I get for being in a hurry. has it been fixed yet?

That's awesome, congrats to them! :)

Hi Anna, I was looking at the front page of wikiHow when I came across the article Look Like a Zombie. I noticed that the displayed picture is that of a woman taking a shower. I think that a more appropriate picture would be the one displayed below, as it fits the article contents better. What do you think?

I've always gone to wikiHow when I have a problem or question, it seems to be where I get most quality information. I eventually got curious as to how the process works, and I signed up.  :)

It's nice, I had an account years ago but never really used it, thus it was lost in the deep abyss of my accounts. I like to help out, and fixing some spelling errors here, moving categories here, etc. are all little things that eventually add up to increase the quality of things.

It probably had something to do with Wired in it.

As for other wikis, I have - and still do - contribute to multiple wikia wikis.

Hi Anna, I just wrote two new articles. Do you mind taking a look at them? Also, one of the article needs a minor title change (my office program changed it accidentally). Thanks a lot.

Yeah, except they are general wikis more like wikipedia instead of guides like wikihow.

Hi! I actually just experience patellofemoral pain due to abnormal muscle imbalance, but it is worsened when dancing. Knee injuries are very common in dancers because we are constantly rotating our legs and we put a lot of pressure on our joints.

Hey, I have a question while patrolling. I've been seeing #REDIRECT edits, what do I do with these?

Okay, thanks!

Oh, oops...better have that edit rolled back. Thanks for the heads up!

Hi Anna! Yes, I do create a lot of sewing DIY! They're fun to make and I think sewing is a useful skill for everyone to learn :)

Heya Anna, I'm facing a lot of difficulties editing this article. The sections shifted itself not letting me edit what I want.

Hello Anna I'm finding it very hard to collect images for my Page how to play guitar with feet. Please guide me if you have any clue.Thank you.

Have fun, Anna.

You restored a version of http://www.wikihow.com/Spot-a-Pro-Social-Psychopath that should be another method, not a complete replacement of my direct experience dealing with psychopaths. I had to undo the edit, but I would like to add those tips as another method.

Hi Anna I created an article called 'how to improve your knowledge' and you suggested I merge it with another article, thanks for the advice and I was wondering how to go about doing that.

Is there a list or guidelines for editing an article? Not the nut and bolts of wikiHow:Editing Basics, rather more subjective things. I noticed in the Family Dinners article, someone added in the introduction, about after the dinner, being too full for "even a thin wafer." That comes directly from a Monty Python skit, the one from The Story of Life. Isn't that plagiarism??? Also, when it is time to quit editing, is there a way to freeze an article. I did the Ballerina edits again just now and last night, before yet another editing session, it looked like monkeys had been playing in the text. Just aiming high as I am sure you would want us all to do. A simple list of dos and don'ts of editing needs to be reviewed.

hey anna just had a look at that article 'how to improve general knowledge' and before i merge the article to it want to run something by you. it seems that the general knowledge in the article is portrayed as a specific kind of knowledge about current culture, tv radio and general talk. much like mathematical knowledge is specifically about addition subtraction, division, multiplication. whereas the article named, how to improve your knowledge' by not having the 'general' pretext appears to be not about a specific type of knowledge, and would perhaps be strange to merge with an article on specific knowledge such as general or mathematical knowledge. Just wanted to run that by you before I move it,I dont want to disrupt anything so i thought i had better ask. Thank you :)

Anna,

There is good advice in [1], but the article is a duplicate. It seems the author worked very hard on formalizing the methods and I am not in a position to address this issue on mobile. What can you suggest/do?

I just corrected the spelling. Yes make that edit.

You are such a cool head. This is just so different from how I have worked in the past. It takes getting used to. No particular concerns about the ballerina article. After I got the pictures with it, there were quite a few changes I did make. Prior to that point, it was reading a little/lot spacey. I think it is better now. Glad about the pop culture reference. I tend to stay miles away from any hint if treading on another's work. Thanks again. Oh, I was in a tiny town called, Wallingford on Thames, between Reading and Oxford, about 40 miles Southwest of London. Tea time again for me, the perfect way to take a break. Horrors! I do use teabags, but, I do know the proper way and have all the accouterments. Oh, cool history, I lived in a really wonderful old, old house, a gentleman's farm in earlier times called, Nuneham Murren. I loved how places had names rather than just numbers for the address.

I don't remember rolling those back? They seem good to me too.

thank you for taking the time to reply to me anna. it could be a personal thing but I wil explain my thinking behind it. I was thinking of things that would enter a general knowledge quiz and things that would not make it into a general knowledge quiz. and using this as a measuring tool, the category 'general knowledge' would seem to disqualify other kinds of knowledge that perhaps are not so well known or would require focused study in that specific field to know. for instance a general knowledge quiz would likely not contain a quadratic equation or ask the participants to perform a a SWOT analysis on a new business model and would therefore disqualify these types of knowledge from being included in the 'general knowledge' category. However This was just a quick analysis I had after looking at the article and what it seemed to suggest by the methods presented. Again thanks for getting back to me :)

Not a problem. A yes, I bowl almost every day.

that last role back couldn't have been me? I haven't patrolled all day. All I have done so fare is add links to the article. Maybe someone else is doing it but it says my name for some reason? strange....

The images just seemed a bit misplaced (instead of appearing at the top, they appear after the text). It's okay if you remove the tag though - it looks perfectly fine either way! 👍

Looks fine now. Thanks!

no I don't think I hit those? the only things I have hit are "edit" and "save". But thanks I will ovoid those other buttons anyway.

You are welcome! And thank you, Anna, for the thumb up! :) Much appreciate it.

Maybe user:Seymour Edits (SE) is successful, but it cuts off editors/mashes articles. Let me explain. I just put 6000 bytes in about 10 edits of How to Bluff in Poker; so, next I'll feel gutted, if SE ransacks the article. I do not see SE doing nice, graceful, in-context edits. It totally deletes 4, 6, 8, and 10 people's work/devalues their contributions, unnecessarily. Surely, there could be some collaboration. Collaboration should be in essence: working in context (first). Doing it the SE way is thrashing hard working volunteers for working.

EditHow to work in context:

1. Make multiple passes to clean the steps and substeps for phrasing and smoothing, before any bold edits.
2. Add in some steps still in context, original order, valuing people's previous work.
3. Finally, reshuffle and organize the steps.

EditThis will have allowed editors to see what was done before it was tossed like a mixed salad.

Hello Anna, thanks a million for the kind words! You made the edit sound cooler than it actually is! =)

As I understand it, Seymour Edits are done through the wikiHow office by interns/staff???.

It is utterly frustrating to try to verify/appreciate amazing, wonderful changes they made because the new version has no correlation to the original...

I have tried repeatedly to follow the parallel comparison on many of them: it's hopeless! I find they usually delete the text, paste in a whole new version, not doing collaborative edits at all, as such -- but they should do inplace/in context edits, in large part to begin the process.

For the purpose of collaboration, we should respect "legacy" edits and do edits consistent with the existing form and order of the article, at first...

Avoid disrespectful, fell-swoop rewrites, where they clear the edit window and "replace all" with a random order/non-correlated redo. -- concerned, Gary

I looked on the oldest pages link for the forgotten article project, which is a project where we fix old articles and articles with old tags, and I looked at it, saw it had potential, and it seemed like I could easily fix it.

De nada (you're welcome). :) -M

Well, the wikiHaus could set some guidelines for SE to be collaborative/in such a way that the efforts of editors new and old shown to be appreciated. They do not at this time operate in a mannerly/civil way.

One could quickly do a brush-out and set before, cutting hair to the bone, and pasting on a wig/scalping and graphing new scalp.

The SE is only doing it in a bold redo manner because that is okay in the office. If a Assume Good Faith systematic approach were taken, it would not have to be so. I never do a smash and burn, pull down and tear up edit. It is not necessarily in Bad Faith, but it is murderous to not be kind and use sedatives in the approach.

I believe so.

Hi about the absorption of calcium from green leaves. It is much harder to get calcium from spinach because of the Oxalic acid that interfere with the absorption of calcium ions. So it's basically referred to spinach. But aurogula has good amount of calcium and pretty good absorption.

Thank you! c: I'm glad to have caught it!

Okay, so the text that "Seymour Edits" obliterates can be compared to {{speedy}} of gibberish...

Unfortunately, a recent page you edited here has been "Seymoured". Typically content will be Seymoured, without respect to existing article.

Okay, thanks for your answers. I appreciate your efforts. You are not the policy maker, I know.