garbled postings

[Ros’ Haruo]

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 "edit this page". Then edit it as if it were an email 
you were composing. Then click on "Show preview" 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 "Edit summary" 
and click "Save page". 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...

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 (main
page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/wawa/>)
is just as easy as doing it to the English one!) I hope someone will 
criticize the country names on the map at the bastEn
ili'i<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BastEn_ili%27i>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!

lilEnd = haluo

On 7/13/05, Jeffrey Kopp <jeffreykopp at att.net> wrote:
> 
> At 10:07 PM 07/09/05, you wrote:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> lilEnd = haluo 
> 
> 
> 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 Chinook Wawa<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinook_Wawa&action=edit>is often used" to "Chinuk Wawa," as I believe that's the spelling the GR 
> program is using. (Henry or Tony could confirm.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 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 ;)
> 



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