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Oh, and by the way, the 2+2 link is fine. Those of us who look over the poker pages are familiar with 2+2. Cheers. User:CryptoDerk 00:39, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Philip, I made some edits at World Wide Wiki to respond to your questions. Best, MarkDilley
: Thanks, Mark, looks good. - User:PhilipR 13:43, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
== Re: Christian punk ==
Thanks for taking the time to give this article the rewrite it needed. I went ahead and removed the tag because that article doesn't need it anymore. I also moved the "Previous content" section to the talk page. User:Szyslak [ User talk:Szyslak, Special:Contributions/Szyslak ] 08:43, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
== invite ==
You can find more on political wikis in[http://yahoogroups.com/group/openpolitics this yahoogroup on open politics], where people who do a lot of this talk about it. Also there is a more radical group [http://yahoogroups.com/group/newtroll
from the new troll point of view].
== Experimentation ==
I will now make myself into a state:
== List of famous people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ==
Re: Your note on my talk page user talk:noe: I think you are right, it is about time to kill this experiment (after a proper VfD, of course). It would have been a different matter if the list had solidified into a few well documented or well annotated cases, rather than an endless list of idle speculation (which is what it ''seems'' to be, but honestly I havn't really checked anything). I'm not sure I will vote, though — I appear in the page history simply because I chanced to drop by the page one day and saw something I could improve, even without being an expert.
==Wikicities==
I really have no idea. It's probably more a question of how much extra info is there than how "ailve" the project is. --User:SPUI (User talk:SPUI) 17:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Poker Wiki==
Looks good. I doubt if I'll find my way over there as I really haven't done much work on poker stuff since I wrote all those biographies 6 months ago. My time is now mainly split between User:CryptoDerk/CDVF and WP:PMEX. Since I have a good feel for stuff here and reactions, let me say that some things you can do over there that you might not be able to do here include:
*Writing detailed info about all the online poker places. I think we have the major ones here, but it'd be nice to stay on the forefront of such things.
*Writing biographies of "semi-notable" players. For instance, I took a bit of flak for writing an article on David Pham, and he even won a WSOP bracelet!
*Any sort of "how-to". Because Wikipedia is not a how-to guide, if someone tried to write a how-to, or any sort of "original research", like analysis of styles of various poker players, etc. we'd likely send it off to Wikibooks or something.
I'm sure you've already thought of all this. If you're looking to recruit people, you might want to try User:Furrykef who is a semi-pro player, has worked on a lot of various wiki projects, and I liked his work enough to nominate him for admin here. Also, if you're looking for media, text, etc. you may want to contact David Schwartz who runs the WSOP retrospective ( http://gaming.unlv.edu/WSOP/ ). I contacted him a while back to get permission for images and he was very nice and told me I could use anything from the site in accordance with the GFDL. If you explained that wikicities is a Wikimedia project he'd likely give you the same permission. User:CryptoDerk 16:24, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
PhilipR
*Christian
*cynic
*Libertarian
*Poker addict
Other Wikis I like, and my different identities:
*[http://libertarianwiki.org Libertarian Wiki] - [http://libertarianwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:EqualOpportunityCynic EqualOpportunityCynic ]
*DKosopedia - [http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/User:EqualOpportunityCynic - EqualOpportunityCynic]
*[http://games.wikicity.com GameInfo] - [http://games.wikicities.com/index.php?title=User:PhilipR&action=edit PhilipR]
*[http://poker.wikicities.com PokerWiki] - [http://poker.wikicities.com/index.php?title=User:PhilipR&action=edit PhilipR]
*The other language Wikipedias to the left.
== My Wiki TODO ==
As a new Wiki fanatic/Wikipedian (and an ADD person *grin*), I know there's a huge tendency for my eyes to be bigger than my stomach. So these are my priorities in Wikidom -- not just for Wikipedia.
*Gradually add content to [http://poker.wikicities.com PokerWiki] - this month, we're adding casinos
*Read the contentious Marla Ruzicka article so I can be an informed participant in that discussion.
*Keep adding content to [http://libertarianwiki.org Libertarian Wiki] - anything local that I find, + continuing to add states.
*Continue my role in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Punctuation - at least get all the way through my one list.
**Clean up the messy sentence at Qing Dynasty
*Give the Christian punk article some much-needed love and attention.
*Decide whether to WP:VFD the List_of_famous_people_with_attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder (Talk:List_of_famous_people_with_attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder).
=== lower priority ===
*religion:Underground Christian outreach set up; now needs content.
*DMCA and DRM stuff - perhaps get some background from EFF.org?
*Ask Hadley, Massachusetts library if they want to put stuff on here.
*Libertarian stuff -- to get involved or not get involved, that is the question.
*Poker stuff here -- as long as it's within scope!
*Think more about Synchronization issues (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Wikipedia_vs._specific_topical_Wikis])
*In general, be a good citizen by helping with some of the tasks found on the list at Wikipedia:Community_Portal such as transwiki, copyediting, who knows, maybe even write new articles?
(done)
*Keep updating the Massachusetts General Court page - at this point all that's needed is to add some middle initials and delete some others.
*LibertarianWiki: Add MA local election dates.
*Apply for PokerWiki at Wikicities, if all looks well.
**Tally participation at http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2442305&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=365&fpart=1.
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