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Twitter the DailyBuzz!! edit Tuesday, 20 May 2008 How to create your own AboutUs.org page from XavierMedia.com Please take a look and contribute to AboutUsFrontPage proposal. Igorberger "Sites like Aboutus.org also tend to rank very highly around brand terms because of the authority of the domain and the on-page optimisation / relevance each page has." from You Don't Own Your Brand Online...But You Can Own the Search Results blog post on SEOmoz.org by Glen Allsopp highlighting AboutUs.org edit Monday, 19 May 2008 Sk8.com.br shows off its new AboutUs Banner on the website (it rotates at the top with other banners) - nice work Uriel! ~~ MarkDilley edit Sunday, 18 May 2008 Category:Human Rights Category:Human Rights Activist What is it, and how does one do it? Please read my blog to see how I do it Igor The Troll Human Rights Activist blog Thank you, Igorberger Hugh has asked a great question, please help to respond: How does search work on AboutUs. Best, MarkDilley edit Friday, 16 May 2008 Wikia.com fixed their RecentChanges feature! Check it in action on WoWWiki.com AJAX RC! NickBurrus edit Thursday, 15 May, 2008 wikiHow.com had a great ad feature the ability to hide them. This rocks! ~~ MarkDilley Nick Burrus is determined to put RecentVisitors back to how it once was, a focus on the AboutUs community not a long list of advertisements. Please contribute. :] edit Wednesday, 14 May 2008 TechCrunch.com: Google Maps Adds More: Wikipedia Entries and Geo-Coded Photos edit Wednesday, 07 May 2008 Nice review of AboutUs: http://ambercase.blogspot.com/2008/05/aboutusorg-wiki-directory.html -- TedErnst (talk) Marshall Kirkpatrick writes in ReadWriteWeb about the new DekiWiki.com release: MindTouch Goes Polyglot, Gets Nod From Mozilla ~~ MarkDilley Happy 1 year anniversary of working at AboutUs to Asad and Obed! TedErnst (talk) Thanks Ted, it's been an exciting one year :-) Asad | *~talk~* 22:43, 7 May 2008 (PDT) Yay for Asad and Obed! Its fun working with you guys in the office. --Sa'ad talk•email•chat edit Tuesday, 06 May 2008 Use of UniversalWikiEditButton in default template of the new Dokuwiki release via Mashable.com PikiWiki Webpage Creation Service Launches Facebook Application edit Tuesday, 29 April 2008 Late notice, I know, but Silicon Forest has been the Wikipedia/WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week for a while. (The word "week" is treated very loosely in this context!) I suggested this collaboration a while back, because I thought a good article on the Silicon Forest would be a nice complement to the Portland Tech portal. So, I encourage AboutUs'er's to get on over and get to work! -Pete 20:20, 29 April 2008 (PDT) edit Monday, 28 April 2008 Clay Shirky posts an inspired story Looking for the mouse. Walwyn over at Flickr demonstrates yet another way to give credibility to a website by linking to its AboutUs article. -- Saad edit Friday, 25 April 2008 The potential of wiki & collaboration in general are the themes at the Web 2.0 Expo -- Julia What does this mean? http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016962.html -- TedErnst (talk) edit Tuesday, 22 April 2008 Column: Kennis delen verslaat concurrentie by Verne Harnish (the Growth Guy) on Sprout.nl. Avoid being a wiki-island. Why is this important? Read the rest of the article. edit Monday, 21 April 2008 Bob (User:Gamecock) has made some banner ads and a description of AboutUs for submission to TopSitesAmerica.com. Here they are: AboutUs is a wiki for and about businesses and organizations, with info on websites and your community. Come see why the knowledge of many makes us one of the fastest-growing and most powerful sites on the web today. Anybody can edit our pages, it's Easy! edit Saturday, 19 April 2008 AboutUs is search result for the term wikiflu! The link. --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 02:57, 19 April 2008 (PDT) edit Thursday, 17 April 2008 The Wikimedia Foundation just started a blog, and they're inquiring about RecentChangesCamp. Steven | talk to me 15:15, 17 April 2008 (PDT) Thought for the day: via Zdnet.com [1] via AppSpot.com We Need a Wikipedia for data via ReadWriteWeb.com Where to find open data on the web ~~ MarkDilley edit An Award for Ward Our very own Ward Cunningham got a prestigious honor for his technology contributions today (which include creating the first wiki). Ward received the Mayor's Technology Award for "exceptional innovation and vision in technology" from Portland, OR Mayor Potter. The award, given annually, was presented at the InnoTech Conference, a business and technology innovation conference held this week in Portland. edit Wednesday, 16 April 2008 Link to us [2] from PR-USA.net ~~ 75.148.54.233 edit Tuesday, 15 April 2008 After our Stakeholder Meeting today, I stayed up on IRC and talked with the majority of WikiCoaches and a few community members about the way we envision the organization of the "WikiCoaching" work for our Paid Article service. and how that dovetails into some of our other "paid" offerings like portal creation. As a result: I created a WikiCoachingLog as a landing page for interaction and discussion between the coaches and community, thinking that could be useful. I added a transcript of the IRC discussion WikiCoaching 15-April-2008 if anyone is interested. It's a rather thick read, but might be illuminating to people to see how we trying to organize this work internally. -- TakKendrick | talk 01:12, 16 April 2008 (PDT) Check out the new front page Wiki. ~~ MarkDilley How about a story twist to organizational pages? Check out my revamp of StJude.org's page at StJude.org/Idea. I believe this can add a unique texture and feel to the page for when someone reads it, in an attempt to try and relate to the visitor. Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] I made StJude.org/Idea the final StJude.org page sense it wasn't opposed. [ Talk - Contribs ] 2008Qtr1StakeholderMeeting TODAY!!!!! --Simon | talk edit Monday, 14 April 2008 Gazelles is launching a public wiki (think Wikipedia) in partnership with AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley edit Friday, 11 April 2008 Green technology enthusiast, Jean Pierre de Lutz, and I collaboratively worked on the AboutUs sponsored page GreenBoatBateauVert.com, to create an informative article about the ongoing Greening of his boat Sean Seamour III - an experience he wishes to share with mariners from around the world who seek to make the sea a greener place. But Jean also wishes to bring the French community closer and wants them to actively participate in this effort. So, he went ahead and translated the entire article we had created into French: BateauVert ! Kudos to Jean for his initiative, great work on the articles, and bringing out the true potential of Coach-Client collaboration. Obed Suhail edit Thursday 10 April 2008 AboutUs mentioned in this post about links ~~ MarkDilley AboutUs Sponsored page SouqElArab.com is inspired by the idea of using WikiBoxes and employs one in his article. --Sa'ad talk•email•chat 05:19, 10 April 2008 (PDT) This is AWESOME!!! ~~ MarkDilley edit Friday, 04 April 2008 edit WikiBirthday cake! Last week (25 March) was the 13th anniversary of the creation of the first Wiki by AboutUs' own Ward Cunningham. To commemorate this "WikiBirthday" the Portland WikiWednesday group had a cake at their meeting on 3 April. Members were asked to "edit" the blank cake by adding their names in frosting. (photos by JohnStanton) -- TakKendrick | talk 16:39, 4 April 2008 (PDT) SiliconFlorist.com links to AboutUs weblog post on Idea for making money on AboutUs. ~~Saad BrooksvillePC.com tags their website with the AboutUsBadge. See Badge for website owners page on how you too can let visitors to your website know of your AboutUs wiki article. ~~Saad edit Thursday, 03 April 2008 Using AboutUS to get a free backlink edit Wednesday, 02 April 2008 A great graphic on wiki at the Wikinomics.com weblog - Wiki collaboration leads to happiness WikiWednesday tonight! weblog post ~~ MarkDilley Rick Turoczy from SiliconFlorist.com notes Ward at InnoTechConference.com PDX ~~ MarkDilley Archives edit for previous content, see March 2008 Community Portal Help (Live chat) Get involved! RSS Newsfeed wiki messy

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edit False Positives

167.org.uk falsley identified as adult, I have removed tag. Pleae add to whitelist. sy278 10:13, 25 April 2008 (PDT)

edit Hello,

Heya Vartan. I am wondering what do you think Web 3.0 will be like?

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 19:34, 5 January 2008 (PST)

edit Re:

Freakin' Awesome!

...

I don't know what I'm saying.

--Vartantalkcontribsemail 19:37, 5 January 2008 (PST)

edit Hypocrisy

Ah, I'm up and online sporadically (just like you probably) and really... sleeping is so much better from 3 to noon. Kristina ..talk.. 23:32, 5 January 2008 (PST)

edit Heya.

Just checking up. Everything alright and all?

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 17:41, 8 January 2008 (PST)

Great to see you doing well. Hope you can go full time. =). That sucks about the rain. We didn't get much here =P.

My side not so great now. EKG came back bad, so doctor won't allow me to eat or drink besides one glass of water (for medications) every twelve hours. She wants there to be no influence on my lab work. :/ Oh well. So next few days my activity will continue to be low.

so rawr.

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 18:37, 8 January 2008 (PST)

Classic Vartan. Just classic. xD.

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 09:13, 9 January 2008 (PST)

edit xD

Llama + Ted = Good Combination?

I have a pink one somewhere as well.

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 06:35, 11 January 2008 (PST)

Llama + Ted = Wierd Combination --Vartantalkcontribsemail 09:38, 11 January 2008 (PST)

edit RE: Whats up

Tired. Very tired. xD. I did a lot of work on AboutUs today and toying with two websites I been working on. One I'm pleased with how it's going, the other one is going to just open, if it dies, oh well, I spent three years on that one. Too long. =P

Grats on college. =] So what's up?

NickBurrus

edit FYI

Asma is a woman. :-) TedErnst (talk) 20:30, 14 January 2008 (PST)

edit CMS Source

SQL: http://needaear.com/hcms/backup-nick.errorhost.com-1-15-2008.tar.gz Files: http://needaear.com/hcms/hfad.sql.gz

SQL database: hfad User: hfad Password: I'll tell you =P. It is random though =P.

And you know the password to get to the files. =P

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 13:12, 15 January 2008 (PST)

edit Rawr.

I felt like playing around with graphics all day today. PSP is awesome o_o. I will never touch photoshop cs3 again.

haha. Do whatever you'd like. =) --Nick not logged in whatever my username is . I need my beauty sleep soon.

Good gorram kid! <,< Do I need to take that trout back from Ted? --Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 02:02, 19 January 2008 (PST)

edit Okay...

I'll make your new signature soon, when I feel like opening up PSP. I have to go to the doctors in the morning, and I gotta play RFO with my cousin. xD. He called me today telling me to get on WoW after that he told me to download RFO >.> I hope I don't get addicted to it. xD.

I'll get your signature done soon and read that Avatar commentary thing done soon.

--Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 20:06, 21 January 2008 (PST)

edit Rollback token

Hi Vartan,

According to [3] the rollback token API won't be available until a future Mediawiki release. We'll probably be upgrading sometime in the near future, but we're definitely not going to be including any features that aren't part of an official release. Can't the bot simply edit the page back to where it was before? That's effectively rolling it back, right? Let me know if you run into any other issues.

edit bots

Hey Vartan,

Let's talk bots when you have a moment. I'm thinking the user sort bot is maybe not all that useful. And I'd love to put your efforts to something very useful, if you're into it. Are your bots something you could configure so I could run? I ask because what I'm needing a bot for is adult content, and not sure it's a good idea to have you working on that directly. What I have in mind is two things.

1. Take a category like Category:Adult, for example, and make sure every page in that category is flagged.
2. Take a category like Category:PossibleAdultContent, for example, and make sure none of the pages in that category are in any other categories (remove all other categories from those pages).

What do you think? Possible? Easy? Can I run the bot? TedErnst (talk) 07:41, 23 January 2008 (PST)

edit Hello ... rawr ...

iPodHacking just made me their lead wiki administrator. O_o. o_O. I don't even own an iPod.

And this is awesome, (intro to RF online, but in a different format but the song sound is the same video is different)

--Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 13:08, 23 January 2008 (PST)

edit Mac!

clickity

Windows XP no more. o_O. Freaken sweet. Took forever to get that done. xD

The speed actually seems the same to me o_O. --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 08:49, 24 January 2008 (PST)

edit bot your working on

here - would like to chat about it when you get a sec. Best, MarkDilley

edit open proxie

Wikipedia's work on open proxies - which Steven Walling thought was the gibberish bots entrance to our site. ~~ MarkDilley

edit Not Adult

This page doesn't seem to be Adult: 1-Web-Development.com. Great work, by the way. Asad | *~talk~* 01:08, 31 January 2008 (PST)

edit fyi.. :-)

[4] ~~ MarkDilley

edit Yer bot

Hey Vartan, I wanted to let you know about some false positives: 100Megs10.com, 100Megs12.com, 100Megs13.com, 100Megs14.com, 100Megs15.com, 100Megs2.com, 100Megs20.com, 100Megs21.com, 100Megs3.com, 100Megs6.com, 100Megs7.com.

These sites have an inaccurate description that probably triggered the bot & were originally categorized "doom metal". I cleaned up the doom metal category so these pages were on my watchlist. No big deal, just thought I'd let you know. Thanks! Julia

edit adult content bot blocked - explanation

Hi Vartan,

Could you give me a call? We've got a day or two of the bots work now, which is really cool, and we'd like you to give the bot a break (turn it off), which is why I blocked it. We've gotten a few false positives (people pointing out it's wrong), and would like a few days to evaluate the work and decide what to do next. Give me a ring and we'll talk more about it, okay? Thanks!

peace, TedErnst (talk) 14:07, 31 January 2008 (PST)

edit camelCaseconverter

it nice!

edit re

yw

edit "Move"

It's essentially a really strong redirect I guess. The page you move from still exists, but it's just a redirect page now. For example, I used "move" on User:KristinaWeis to take it to Kristina Weis. Kristina .talk. .chat. 12:24, 2 February 2008 (PST)

edit Bounty Hunter!

Hi Vartan,

Use action=render to get just the rendered page content. For example: http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=User:VartanSimonian&action=render

Regards,
Brandon

edit Gone tomorrow, irc soon?

Hey Vartan, I'm gone most of tomorrow, and am only online sparsely today. Feel free to email me if you have something specific. Otherwise, can we chat on Wednesday? -- VinhNguyen 15:47, 4 February 2008 (PST)

edit Heya.

Mind if I call you tonight?

--Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 09:00, 12 February 2008 (PST)

Hi Vartan, I spoke with Kristina about the edits you mentioned this morning. There is a 24 hour block and she has communicated with the editor via email; perhaps there was a misunderstanding. Best, Kasey

edit Hi there!

I hadn't seen you around for a bit so I wanted to check in and say hello. Hello! I hope you're doing well :) Kristina (contact me) 16:33, 17 April 2008 (PDT)