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Andreas Micklei

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Oct 12, 2009, 3:24:20 AM10/12/09
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Hi all,

in the last days the CPC Wiki has seen increased activity. Many of the
new articles could use a little rephrasing by english native speakers.
If english is your native language and you can spare half an hour of the
time, why not make one CPC Wiki page better?

Look here for worthwile candiates:

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Special:NewPages

or here:

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500

Oh, and by the way: You all know the new home of the CPC Wiki
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/ right? Please update your bookmarks and any links
pointing to the wiki or to articles inside the wiki.

Thanks in advance!

regards,
Andreas Micklei

Brian Watson

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Oct 12, 2009, 5:11:05 AM10/12/09
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Pass me any pages you want checking and editing and I'll do it, Andreas.

I do have some experiance editing computerese text from my 8BIT magazine
days.
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Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
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Gryzor

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Oct 12, 2009, 10:14:28 AM10/12/09
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Indeed, the past few days have seen some 70 (!) new pages,and thusly
we have finally passed the 2.5K mark. Hurray!

As Andreas pointed out, the New Pages page (or the Recent Changes page
here: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Special:RecentChanges ; it also
has every page that's been changed, but new pages are clearly marked
with an N and it's easier to read) is a good place to start if you
want to occasionally help. There are also RSS feeds on these pages so
you can follow contributions and act whenevery you feel like it...

Cheers
Gryzor

On 12 Οκτ, 10:24, Andreas Micklei <nur...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in the last days the CPC Wiki has seen increased activity. Many of the
> new articles could use a little rephrasing by english native speakers.
> If english is your native language and you can spare half an hour of the
> time, why not make one CPC Wiki page better?
>
> Look here for worthwile candiates:
>
> http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Special:NewPages
>
> or here:
>
> http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500
>

> Oh, and by the way: You all know the new home of the CPC Wikihttp://www.cpcwiki.eu/right? Please update your bookmarks and any links

Bryce

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Oct 16, 2009, 5:05:42 AM10/16/09
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Hi,
I'm a native english speaker, I browsed the wiki last night and
yes, there's a few
english errors, but generally the standard is very high, nothing to be
ashamed of.
I've created an account so that I can "tune" the english, but I also
have quite a bit
of content I could add too. My "area of expertise" is hardware
developement / repair
which seemed to be lacking in some areas. Is there any particular
direction you intend
for the wiki, or is anything good. I have quite a few hardware add-ons
I've developed
over the years, which have never been put online. I thought the wiki
might be the place
to release them into the wild? I might even do a guide to repairing
CPCs if I get around
to it.

Let me know,
Bryce.

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Prai Jei

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Oct 17, 2009, 12:29:05 PM10/17/09
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Paul Martin set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> In article
> <7824d2be-3cae-4c52...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, Bryce


> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm a native english speaker, I browsed the wiki last night and
>> yes, there's a few english errors, but generally the standard is very
>> high, nothing to be ashamed of.
>

> There are a few classic German-to-English mistakes in the wiki (eg.
> phrasing of idioms, lingering "ist"s). Nothing too bad though.

Also watch out for "it gives" (from "es gibt") where we would say "there
is".
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ξ:) Proud to be curly

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Gryzor

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Oct 18, 2009, 3:50:48 AM10/18/09
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No, there's no specific 'direction' for the wiki, anything and
everything goes.

But, when a developer of old (or contemporary) comes along with things
he could contribute on his creations, then that's extra tasty and
interesting... :)

Cheers
Gryzor

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