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edit use a nicer logo

please?

We are working on it. While we love our beta logo, we are looking for the next version. Best, MarkDilley
Done: AboutUsLogo TedErnst | talk 21:07, 2 October 2007 (PDT)

edit Connecting an existing account to an OpenID

You can connect an existing account to an OpenID using Special:OpenIDConvert. It's probably a good idea to put this in the documentation, like in MediaWiki:Openidlogininstructions. --Evan 10:58, 10 April 2007 (PDT)

edit Not obvious how to add subdomains

The find box and bot don't make it obvious how to add a page for a subdomain. For instance, because Debian.org exists, looking for Planet.debian.org takes me there. Because PDX.edu exists, Psas.pdx.edu takes me there.

If you think this link would be better somewhere - please add it! :-) AddSubdomain. Best, MarkDilley


edit Картриджи, тонеры, чернила в компании Авэлла

Картриджи HP, картриджи Epson, картриджи Canon, картриджи Xerox, картриджи Lexmark струйные и лазерные в ассортименте, тонер для лазерных картриджей и копиров, СНПЧ для струйных принтеров, чернила, программаторы для обнуления чипов струйных картриджей Epson, фотобарабаны.

I belive this is an advertisement...

edit Stop posting email addresses.

We all have enough trouble with the damn spammers as it is. If someone wants to contact me, they can go to my site and push the "email" button.

We post them in a graphic form, so they are not able to be harvested by a spam bot. Certainly someone could collect them by hand, and that is the same as the whois posting of them. MarkDilley
I would also like to point out that to transform the email to a graphic, type < graphic><email>36b27670b8d607666a57bcabd9f65043</email></graphic> MiCCAS 23:22, 30 April 2007 (PDT)
Or <email>36b27670b8d607666a57bcabd9f65043</email> will do the same thing. — Nathan (talk) / 06:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

edit Mini Site Map

I was working on a page (STVAction.org.uk) and decided to add a Mini Site Map. I have set up a draft template for others to use if they wish though I am sure it can be improved.

If people think this is a good idea please help improve the template. I assume it would be possible for the BOT to generate a mini site map from pages linked to frequently on the site and pages with titles such as home, index, faq, contact, about etc.

John Cross 13:31, 28 April 2007 (PDT)

John, trying to wrap my head around this... explain me more? :-D MarkDilley

edit International Country Codes

International Country Codes are used as categories at YelloWikis.org. Can I suggest that such a categorisation might be useful here.

It might be possible to use the domain name extension of a site to categorise it e.g. "thisisanexample.co.uk" :

Links: 

I would find it useful to be able to search all the ".gov.uk" sites for example.

Let me know what you think.


John Cross 14:03, 28 April 2007 (PDT)

edit Update

For now I will just add {{.extension.country}} and an equivalent category to pages and see how that works. John Cross 13:35, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

edit aboutus.org in IE 6

Re: AboutUs.org in IE 6

I view your home page and some others in Internet Explorer 6, Sometimes I need to click refresh in order to see the left and top navigation.

Thanks of linking my web page, Axtweb.com into AboutUs.org

Thanks for the information! We are glad you like the site! Best, MarkDilley

edit How can I remove one item from Categories?

I tried all kind of access to edit or remove one subject from Categories list, but I have no clue! please Help! EdenRain

All you need to do is edit the page, go to the bottom of the page and remove the category there. You'll see something like: [[Category:Whatever]]. Remove whichever one you need to then click Save Page. If you have any other questions (or if this isn't clear enough), please let us know. — Nathan (talk) / 21:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much Nathan for your help! Probably this feature didn't work before I did create the account. Have a Sunny Day!

You're welcome, glad to help. — Nathan (talk) / 23:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

edit Wont accept .org.uk domains

Hi

I tried adding couple of .org.uk domains but it wont accept them !!

Thanks

John
Try again John, it may be that the AboutUs:Bot was down.. we have had some hiccups in the last day. Best, MarkDilley

edit suggestion box

can you put in table of contents links for this page?

edit Problem with thumbnail update?

Is there a problem with thumbnail update at domaintools? When you click "Que thumbnail for update" the text changes to "Thumbnail qued for update" but nothing happens. I have qued mine for update something like three days ago, but it still the same, from 2004, and the site has changed a lot since then.

The thumnbnail update does not happen immediately. It could take a while. This help file from DomainTools should help a little. If you need further help, please comment back. — Nathan (talk) / 15:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

This help file says that the update should happen in less than an hour, although it could take longer. As I said, I have queued mine a few days ago, and I think that I have tried again even earlier, perhaps a few months back, but the thumbnail still shows my site as it was in 2004. Perhaps you should check to make sure the feature works.

Hi, I just saw that feature work yesterday.. so give it some time, maybe a day? Let us know what happens. Best, MarkDilley
You may also wish to read this; it has information that's most relevant. — Nathan (talk) / 21:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, today is May 9, and the thumbnail is still the same (a correction though, it's not from 2004, it's from 2006). That's two days. As I said, I am almost certain that I had also tried to update it a few months back, and it didn't work, but anyway, if you say that the feature works but it just takes more time, I'll wait.

May 11, thumbnail not updated yet 4 days after I queued it. (I'll be updating this from time to time.)

May 13, and the thumbnail remains the same. There must be a problem. Could you look into it please? My site is here.

May 19, the thumbnail is still the same. Anybody?

May 21, thumbnail the same. Nathan?

edit Buy this domain

I find it BOTH misleading and slimey to allow NetworkSolutions.com to run a link on nearly every domain you list offering to "Buy this Domain". NONE of our domains are currently listed for sale - this link is misleading and deceptive for the average web user. This nonesense should NOT be allowed on your site. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.213.243.224 (talk • contribs) .

Maybe it would be better to say, Make an offer on this domamin. I don't personally understand why it is so upsetting, as the person who owns the domain, you would have final say about whether or not you would want to take the offer. Can you explain to me more why it upsetts you? MarkDilley

Because it gives the impression that the domain is for the sale. (I am not the original poster, I am just answering the question.)

edit cut it out

now

I try to register W/ you , but I'm having trouble.....My screen name Please con tact me for help! My zip is 29576 SC.

THERE IS APROBLEM WITH UPS. I OWN A SMALL RETAIL STORE IN HIALEAH FLORIDA, IN MANY OCCATIONS UPS HIALEAH DON'T WANT TO COOPERATE WITH MY PROBLEME, THE THING IS THAT MY STORE OPENS AT NOON (12:PM) AND NO MATER HOW MANY TIMES I CALL TO INFOR THE DRIVER THAT THE STORE IS NOT OPEN UNTIL NOON, NO BODY GIVE ME ANY CONSIDERATION AND THE TRUCK DRIVER CONTINUE COMING AT 9:30 AM. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR COMPANY? I AM TAKING A CORRECTION STEP, I AMM INFORMING ALL MY SUPPLIES THAT DON'T SHIP MY MERCHANDISE WITH UPS INTED THE SIPPING I WANT TO BY FEDEX. THANK FOR YOUR ATTENTION MICHAEL ANGUELO CELLULAR CITY WIRELESS CORP. 634 EAST 4th AVE, HIALEAH FLA E-MAIL: celpho0

Why don't you contact UPS themselves at UPS.com? We are not owned by UPS, nor do we control the content on their website in any way. Nathan (talk) / 09:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


Dear friends,

We are listening to and looking at the program of Bayless Conley for several years. Every week we look forward to Sunday-morning 8.30 a.m. We are blessed and build up by his message. But.....some time ago you have placed an enormous monitor on the platform with wild rolling, blue clouds (?) Why.....? Does such a talented preacher need such a digital unrest? We experience it as very disturbing and annoying and it leads away from the preachrer and the message. Is that really necessarily? Please, will you put away that monitor from the platform? We love you all and feel connected with the Cottonwood congregation! May God bless you abundantly! Diny and Aad Snijders Holland


edit How about an automatic interwiki map?

I think it would be cool -- and it would help people spruce up their pages -- if you automagically generated interwiki map entries for any sites you discover are wikis.

Barring that, would you be willing to add EcoReality and Veggie Van Gogh to your intermap? They are both in MediaWiki's intermap, but apparently don't get distributed with the MW distros.


Thanks

I would hold on that right now until our MediaWiki upgrade is complete. That's a good project for later on. Nathan (talk) / 18:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

edit Who picks your Music?

I was wondering who ( if human) programs your music?... My suggestion would be to update your current collection. Frank Zappa and Bruce Springstein are no longer considered cool btw!!!If your looking for a good dj I can help you out but pllllleeeeeese no more punishment?????

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Please remember that we are not affiliated with any other website. Nathan (talk) / 18:03, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

edit tracking 

Why are you tracking my computer with out my permission?
Nobody is "tracking" anything. Perhaps you just don't know what we're about? I strongly suggest that you keep your comments to a constructive tone, otherwise we reserve the right to remove or refactor them. Nathan (talk) / 15:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

edit Please remove my info from your site

I wrote you several days ago asking for you to do something about this. You have mixed my domain with another company. I do not want to continue monitoring your site, so please remove my info completely and permanantely.

If I have to put more energy into this to get you to take action it will be in the form of a lawsuit or slamming you in any way I can find.

Why do I have to get ugly to get you to respond???


Scott

Please let us know what you'd like fixed. Of course you can also do it yourself and we'd be more than happy to help. You can leave a message here, by e-mail or in our IRC chat room. I just looked at PrecisionPour.com and it does seem to redirect to another site. But if you own the domain then I'd guess that's what you want it to do?

- Ray | talk 00:08, 24 May 2007 (PDT)

edit Amelox

Hi, I am the owner of Amelox Incorporated.

I found us listed on the AboutUs site many times as AmelOx.

Please! We are not an Ox, but Amelox.

Could you please change that?

Thank you, Rolf Seebach

Done. So you know, blanking your page isn't the way to go about it. Also, this is the SuggestionBox, for suggestions about how we can improve this website. For concerns and changes, you wanted to go here. Nathan (talk) / 14:55, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
This is also something that any logged-in user may do by using the "move" tab. I hope this helps. KristinaWeis | **talk** 17:53, 13 July 2007 (PDT)

edit mbkboutique

IMPORTANT :

www.mbkboutique.com is now www.mbkdarmon.com

Veuillez, SVP faire le nécessaire dans votre site pour remplacer le ou les liens.

Remerciements.

Alain DARMON MBK DARMON 3 Avenue François CUZIN 83000 TOULON Tel: 04.94.357.009

I don't understand why this was posted here. We did not have DomainPages on either pages until I just added them. Nathan (talk) / 20:22, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

edit It is not HamarIJodi.com, it is Hamarijodi.com

Dear Sir, Today I went to your site aboutus.com & found www.Hamarijodi.com written as HamarIJodi.com. an you make the change pl? Thanks Mrs Shevade M.D. Hamarijodi Services Pvt Ltd 9860085020

I'll fix it for you this time, but as this is a wiki; you are more than welcome to create a username and rename the page yourself. Nathan (talk) / 16:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

edit Spelling error

your privacy page contains a section n your privacy page:"How can I prevent the About Us Bot from gathering informaiton about my site."

AboutUs:Privacy_policy#How_can_I_prevent_the_AboutUs:Bot_from_gathering_informaiton_about_my_site.3F

The word information is clearly mispelled as informaiton.

  • Thanks, fixed! --Simon | talk 10:09, 12 June 2007 (PDT)


edit Your Packaging

Emailed the person, and will move to DomainPage ~~ MarkDilley
Moved to Nabisco.com

edit Blanking

Please note that User:Rick_Olney is repeatedly blanking all information on page UnscrewedComic.com

I've left him a warning for now. If he continues, I'll have to ping a member of staff. Nathan (talk) / 06:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

edit novatix

You might want to ensure all your "clients" have a "contact us" link. I've tried to see if Novatix has a patch for a problem but there is no way to contact them. If they don't let you put a "contact us" link in place why not state that the company doesn't want to be bothered by the people that buy their software? Thanks,

Ernie Stevenson
Fry Construction Co., Inc.
</email
972-248-9696 x 101
Hi Ernie, we agree!! Although these folks are not our clients, we do hope by letting everyone fix the information, that we will building a more accurate place for contact information. !!!

I'd like to see an option on each domain page whereby owners can:

  • opt to re-send the bot to their sites immediately to extract it's most recent information;
  • define the max amount of text (perhaps in character count) to extract, and followed by a "read more" link;
  • specify an updates interval/frequency to tell the bot how often the site is updated.

With blogs, news sites, etc., these get updated frequently. I think the above would allow AboutUS to have the most up-to-date information possible if the bot could re-visit any site that chooses to allow it. --Robert | talk

Great ideas, on the last item, the bot generally only hits a page once because the idea is just to get the article started. --User:Ray King | talk 01:45, 31 August 2006 (PDT)
Well, how do you distinguish between domain owner and fake domain owner? The problem here is, there is no way to safely distinguish and I would be majorly p***ed if someone came along and did that for the pages describing my domains. --Assarbad 01:22, 1 September 2006 (PDT)

For some reason subdomains don't work. It would be nice if they were. (220.233.87.9, aka ajdlinux)

Yes, it's on the drawing board, but there are some technical hurdles --User:Ray King | talk 01:45, 31 August 2006 (PDT)

Change the main page's meta tag to be "AboutUs Domain Directory" instead of "Main Page - About Us" so that's what shows up when anyone adds this to their Favorites.

I like the idea, maybe this works - DomainDirectory or Domain Directory - but maybe AboutUs Domain Directory is too long. MarkDilley

edit Refresh thumbnail

Although it looks like you take the thumbnails from a third party, there should be some way to refresh the thumbnails or at least ask for such a refresh to be scheduled. One of my domains has this problems as it was not yet configured, but a thumbnail was already taken. Thanks. --Assarbad 01:22, 1 September 2006 (PDT)

edit Declare owner

One really nice feature would be to link a wiki account to domain pages. This way you spare the concern I raised above (about re-sending the bot), since it is sure the owner does a certain action.

I do not know how this could be achieved best, but there should be some way of identifying a user. An idea for that could be that the respective user requests "ownership" via a button on the respective domain page. One of the editors comes along and sends a message with an activation key to the email address given as ADMIN-C (or whatever else is being decided). Once received, the user will have to enter that key on one of his personal pages and he now owns the page.

Yes, it would be a little risk if someone hacks the mail server, but that's the only one I can see.

Note: The request for ownership must be linked to the wiki user account (although the email addresses need not to match). The request must be valid only for a certain decent period. The request must be linked to the respective domain page as well so that no two activation requests can ever interfere.--Assarbad 01:32, 1 September 2006 (PDT)

Please place concerns here.

edit Discussion

I'd like to see an option on each domain page whereby owners can:

  • opt to re-send the bot to their sites immediately to extract it's most recent information;
  • define the max amount of text (perhaps in character count) to extract, and followed by a "read more" link;
  • specify an updates interval/frequency to tell the bot how often the site is updated.

With blogs, news sites, etc., these get updated frequently. I think the above would allow AboutUS to have the most up-to-date information possible if the bot could re-visit any site that chooses to allow it. --Robert | talk

Great ideas, on the last item, the bot generally only hits a page once because the idea is just to get the article started. --User:Ray King | talk 01:45, 31 August 2006 (PDT)
Well, how do you distinguish between domain owner and fake domain owner? The problem here is, there is no way to safely distinguish and I would be majorly p***ed if someone came along and did that for the pages describing my domains. --Assarbad 01:22, 1 September 2006 (PDT)

For some reason subdomains don't work. It would be nice if they were. (220.233.87.9, aka ajdlinux)

Yes, it's on the drawing board, but there are some technical hurdles --User:Ray King | talk 01:45, 31 August 2006 (PDT)

Change the main page's meta tag to be "AboutUs Domain Directory" instead of "Main Page - About Us" so that's what shows up when anyone adds this to their Favorites.

I like the idea, maybe this works - DomainDirectory or Domain Directory - but maybe AboutUs Domain Directory is too long. MarkDilley

edit Refresh thumbnail

Although it looks like you take the thumbnails from a third party, there should be some way to refresh the thumbnails or at least ask for such a refresh to be scheduled. One of my domains has this problems as it was not yet configured, but a thumbnail was already taken. Thanks. --Assarbad 01:22, 1 September 2006 (PDT)

edit Declare owner

One really nice feature would be to link a wiki account to domain pages. This way you spare the concern I raised above (about re-sending the bot), since it is sure the owner does a certain action.

I do not know how this could be achieved best, but there should be some way of identifying a user. An idea for that could be that the respective user requests "ownership" via a button on the respective domain page. One of the editors comes along and sends a message with an activation key to the email address given as ADMIN-C (or whatever else is being decided). Once received, the user will have to enter that key on one of his personal pages and he now owns the page.

Yes, it would be a little risk if someone hacks the mail server, but that's the only one I can see.

Note: The request for ownership must be linked to the wiki user account (although the email addresses need not to match). The request must be valid only for a certain decent period. The request must be linked to the respective domain page as well so that no two activation requests can ever interfere.--Assarbad 01:32, 1 September 2006 (PDT)

edit DomainPage add

Please add http://www.marinainternationalproperties.com to your search engine. Thank you Marina

Dear Marina, this page is already in our system: MarinaInternationalProperties.com. Let me know if you have any questions about this, and I would recommend that you check out WikiAnatomy to learn more about wiki and this one in particular. KristinaWeis

edit Category list pages

In the Category list pages. To move to next list of pages Click on next 1000. I'd like to go to a letter of alphabet eg "S". I know I could search for specific pages but I was looking for related pages eg Vibration Training type of pages within the category Fitness --User:Di | talk 05:01, 22 July 2007 (PDT)

edit Stop publishing NIC whois queries

From http://news.nic.com/cgi-bin/whois:

Terms and Conditions of Use

All the domain data that is visible in the whois search is protected by law. It is not permitted to use it for any purpose other than technical or administrative requirements associated with the operation of the Internet or in order to contact the domain holder over legal problems. You are not permitted to save it electronically or in any other way without DENIC's express written permission. It is prohibited, in particular, to use it for advertising or any similar purpose.

By maintaining the connection you assure that you have a legitimate interest in the data and that you will only use it for the stated purposes. You are aware that DENIC maintains the right to initiate legal proceedings against you in the event of any breach of this assurance and to bar you from using its whois query. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.253.36.26 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 24 July 2007.

Please read ConcernsFAQ. Information from WHOIS databases are used within the fair use license. Nathan (talk) / 19:36, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

edit Add my web site

I hope you could add my web site to AboutUs! I'm not so good as english since i'm Argentinian and speak spanish, so i can't understand correctly the way to do it myself. Well my web site is pantallasmagenta.bravehost.com, hoping someone read this. Thanks, and goodbye.

It looks like Asad Mahmood Butt has already added the basic framework for the page and it is ready for you to fill in. Check out your wiki page, PantallasMagenta.BraveHost.com and let me know if you have any questions. I would recommend taking the tour(s) at WikiAnatomy to learn more about wiki and AboutUs. KristinaWeis
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