Invitation: Wikipedia Bridge Articles
Jugoslav Dujic
is "a free encyclopedia which anyone can edit" -- an anarchistic idea
that turned into (mostly) a success.
Judging that many of rec.games.bridge people have some spare time
(by 2 accounts -- you have time to play bridge and time to hang on
usenet :-) ), I thought that some of you might be interested in
contributing to the series of articles on Bridge on Wikipedia.
Currently, these articles are a mixed bag: there's e.g. an article on
Winkle squeeze, but not an article on Forcing bid, nor about
Giorgio Belladonna or Bobby Wolff.
If you're interested (and not familiar with how Wikipedia works),
read on; otherwise, skip the rest and go to the next board :-).
Every Wikipedia article has an "Edit" tab where you can edit
the text of the article. After you complete it, click on "Preview"
to check it, then on "Save" so that you -- and everyone -- can see the
result. It's that simple. The bad side of it the same as the good
side of it -- since anyone can modify it, numerous vandals lurk around
and insert various kind of crap. The (admittedly not perfect) validation
of articles is based on the fact that other editors can see the
vandalism and revert it back.
1. CREATING A USER ACCOUNT
This step is optional, but highly recommended, so that other users can
identify you and talk to you. Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup
choose a user name and a password. Every next time when you want to edit
something, just click on "Sign In" link in top right corner and sign in.
Now, you can spare a few words about yourself on your own user page. A mere
"hi" is enough, for minimalists. Click on your "MyName" link in top
left corner, edit the page. That's it.
2. BRIDGE CATEGORY
Current bridge articles are listed in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bridge
and its sub-categories. You can pick up an existing one and improve it.
If a link in the article is red, that means that the target link does
not exist; you can create it if you want by clicking on red link.
Do NOT edit the category page above itself though; it's maintained
automagically. If you're making a new article, make sure that it's linked
from anywhere.
For example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Belladonna
will give you the opportunity to start an article on Giorgio Belladonna.
You should add a link from his page to [[Blue Team (bridge)]] and vice versa.
"Stub" articles are short introductory articles which need expansion.
The list of card-game stub articles is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Card_game_stubs
(There's no category for Bridge-related stubs yet, because of insufficient
number of articles.)
3. EDITING BASICS
There are many Wikipedia conventions on text formatting, but here are the
basics:
'''bold'''
''italic''
[[link]] link to an existing (or not-existing) article on Wikipedia
(Case matters, except very first letter!)
[[contract bridge|bridge]]
gives _bridge_ but links to "Contract bridge"
[http://www.foo.com]
External link (to www.foo.com)
[http://www.foo.com Foo bridge site]
External link, displaying _Foo bridge site_
=Heading 1=
==Heading 2==
===Heading 3===
Bridge-specific stuff:
♠ Spade symbol
♥ Heart
♣ Club
♦ Diamond
Hand diagram template:
{{BridgeHand
|AKQ|AKQ|AKQ|AKQJ
|J109|J109|J1098|1098
|876|8765|765|765
|5432|432|432|432}}
in order N, W, E, S. It is possible, of course, to create rgb favorite
14-card hands :-).
See also templates listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bridge_templates
Article categorization: insert one of
[[Category:Bridge]]
[[Category:Bridge players]]
etc.
to assign a (sub)category to it; it will appear automatically in appropriate
category list.
To specify that the article is a "stub", insert
{{card-game-stub}}
somewhere at the end.
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That's it. My Wikipedia account is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Duja
in case you want to reach me (and hang me :-) ).
--
Jugoslav
___________
www.xeffort.com
Please reply to the newsgroup.
You can find my real e-mail on my home page above.
Barry Rigal
efforts (indeed for all I know it may even have been a deliberate usage and
I'm just out of date) but given what I think about computers I draw your
attention in this article to 'automagically' [maybe it is the way a car
starts up on a cold morning]
Barry Rigal
"Jugoslav Dujic" <jdu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:408a47F...@individual.net...
> ***automagically***. If you're making a new article, make sure that it's
Eric Kehr
> As one of the world's worst typists I should not make fun of other people's
> efforts (indeed for all I know it may even have been a deliberate usage and
> I'm just out of date) but given what I think about computers I draw your
> attention in this article to 'automagically' [maybe it is the way a car
> starts up on a cold morning]
>
> Barry Rigal
2 million hits and they can't all be typos! It means something along the
lines of "It works automatically but I have no idea how"
Indeed, Wikipedia lists "automagically" on its list of portmanteau words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portmanteaus
Eric Kehr
FootballWeb
"Eric Kehr" <eric...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:cb-dnfylNfE_lgLe...@pipex.net...
> Barry Rigal wrote:
> > As one of the world's worst typists I should not make fun of other
people's
> > efforts (indeed for all I know it may even have been a deliberate usage
and
> > I'm just out of date) but given what I think about computers I draw your
> > attention in this article to 'automagically' [maybe it is the way a car
> > starts up on a cold morning]
> >
> > Barry Rigal
> Automagically is a common enough word where I live. Google gives nearly
> 2 million hits and they can't all be typos! It means something along the
> lines of "It works automatically but I have no idea how"
Never write a phrase like "they can't all be typos" on this newsgroup
it's just tempting fate
Nick Wedd
<jdu...@yahoo.com> writes
>As many of you probably know, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)
>is "a free encyclopedia which anyone can edit" -- an anarchistic idea
>that turned into (mostly) a success.
>
>Judging that many of rec.games.bridge people have some spare time
>(by 2 accounts -- you have time to play bridge and time to hang on
>usenet :-) ), I thought that some of you might be interested in
>contributing to the series of articles on Bridge on Wikipedia.
>Currently, these articles are a mixed bag: there's e.g. an article on
>Winkle squeeze, but not an article on Forcing bid, nor about
>Giorgio Belladonna or Bobby Wolff.
What is the attitude of Wikipedia to people copying material to it from
elsewhere, in disregard of copyright?
Nick
--
Nick Wedd ni...@maproom.co.uk
Mark Brader
> What is the attitude of Wikipedia to people copying material to it from
> elsewhere, in disregard of copyright?
It's not allowed, and if it happens, the material is removed when discovered.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "History will be kind to me, for I intend
m...@vex.net to write it." -- Churchill
Jugoslav Dujic
| Nick Wedd writes:
|| What is the attitude of Wikipedia to people copying material to it from
|| elsewhere, in disregard of copyright?
|
| It's not allowed, and if it happens, the material is removed when discovered.
You can report the copyright violation, if you find one, by adding an
entry on one of the following pages:
Suspected copyright violations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_copyright_examinations
For copyright owners - requests for removal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_for_immediate_removal_of_copyright_violation