Yeah, thanks Jeff, I'll change the oo to u, as I'm sure you're right
about that. You really should try editing the Wikipedia! It's quite
easy. Find something to change (a minor typo will do) and click on the
tab at the top of the page that says "<span style="font-weight: bold;">edit this page</span>". Then edit it as if it were an email you were composing. Then click on "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Show preview
</span>"
at the bottom, and check to see if the change looks the way you
intended it to. If it does, then type a brief description of what you
did in the box where it says "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Edit summary</span>" and click "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Save page</span>".
Voilà, you're an encyclopedia editor! If you make a significant
substantive change you should justify it in the "Edit summary" field,
including source references. And before editing I would encourage you
to register; this way both you and everybody else can track your
contributions and, if something needs clarification, can ask the right
person. Although Wikipedia allows anonymous editing (which sometimes
leads to vandalism), named contributions are more polite and useful,
and more highly regarded by the community. Incidentally, if were to
edit the Chinook Jargon article right now, I would change the link that
reads "Oregon State" to read "Oregon". "Residents of Oregon State"
sounds to me like college students who live in the dorms. "Residents of
Oregon" sounds much better (to me). But I'll leave that edit for
someone else, at least for a few days...<br>
<br>
I hope you don't mind my forwarding this to the list in hopes of
encouraging other potential co-editors. (And note, editing, improving,
expanding the Chinuk Wawa Test Wikipedia (<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/wawa/">main page</a>) is just as easy as doing it to the English one!) I hope someone will criticize the country names on the map at the
<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BastEn_ili%27i"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bastEn ili'i</span></a>
article, and add some text! (Look at the text that a contributor in
North Carolina has been adding to the main page! And if he said
something wrong, jump in and edit it!) If you don't see a link to the
subject you want to write about, edit the list to add it, and then
start writing!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">lilEnd = haluo<br>
<br>
On 7/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeffrey Kopp</b> <<a href="mailto:jeffreykopp@att.net">jeffreykopp@att.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 10:07 PM 07/09/05, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="http://">Does this "garbled
posts" thing have to do with Wikipedia? ... But I don't think the
problem was with reference to Wikipedia, it sounded like an email
problem. </blockquote><br>
Yes, I think it's a coding-conversion problem which only appears in the
list's digests. I just subscribed to the digest myself, so I could try to
see what's going on for Dave.<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="http://">lilEnd = haluo
</blockquote><br>
I appreciate your keeping the Wikipedia's Jargon entry tidy. I don't know
how to edit it yet myself, so I'd like to suggest you might change
"but today the term
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinook_Wawa&action=edit" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Chinook Wawa</a> is often used" to "Chinuk Wawa," as I
believe that's the spelling the GR program is using. (Henry or Tony
could confirm.)<br><br>
Regards,<br><br>
Jeff<br><br>
P.S. I could use some fresh Ballard jokes (my son in Seattle enjoys them,
and I haven't lived there for 20 years now), if you should happen to have
any new ones ;)<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br><br>-- <br>Meet the Whole World Halfway — Learn and Use Esperanto!<br><a href="http://www.lernu.net">www.lernu.net</a><br>Mia TTTejo : <a href="http://www.scn.org/~lilandbr/">http://www.scn.org/~lilandbr/
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