User talk:Karamazow

Welcome!

Hello, Karamazow, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Help pages
• Help:Getting Started
• What the ISFDB Wiki is for
• ISFDB FAQ
• Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
• Wiki Conventions - How things are usually done on this wiki.
• Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Mhhutchins 17:40, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks you very much for the welcome speech and the information about the images. I have now edited the pubs and will wait for a mod to approve. I have no idea what to do with the four tildes :-( Will scan the Wiki for an explanation, though... Many thanks --Karamazow 11:40, 29 March 2012 (UTC) Edit: Got that now, I think. The Wiki says left most but one button, but it actually is the right most but one ... --Karamazow 11:40, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

The tilde is also available on most keyboards. In the US, it's the first key on the number line, just left of "1". You have to shift to enter the tilde character. Mhhutchins 13:57, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Linking Images

If you re-read the instructions I gave you about linking images to publication records, you'll see that you're supposed to enter the entire URL in the record's "Image URL" field, not just the file name. Please try again. Mhhutchins 14:16, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Ah! I see, I did that just now. Thanks again! Karamazow 22:17, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Yep, worked fine, images now accepted.

Here's another Q for you... The order of the stories in http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?STRNGRSNTH1959 do not match the order in the book and seems completely random (they are not arranged alphabetically nor chronologically). Is there a method to let them appear in correct order? Thanks again! Karamazow 07:06, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes, edit the record and give the page numbers on which the stories start (don't use the table of contents page.) Thanks. (Also, sdding a colon to each successive message in a wiki discussion makes a clearer display. And don't use the keyboard "enter" key to create a line break. They don't work in a wiki environment.) Mhhutchins 15:44, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Don't load image until the record has been created

Although it's possible to do so, it's better to wait until the record is in the database. If you upload it before hand, you have to name it and you have to add a license tag claiming fair use (to prevent us from being liable for copyright infringement). By waiting until it's in the system and using the "Upload Cover Scan" function, the system does all of this automatically, and gives the image a unique file name. (You might accidentally give it the same name as another record and overwrite the original file.) So I'll accept the submission adding the Dutch version of Michael Strogoff - De Koerier van de Czaar, but I'll have some work to do to bring the image file up to speed. BTW, what is the source for your data? It is ISFDB policy that you note your sources. If you're working from a copy of the book itself, you should record in the Note to Moderator that you're doing so, and will be doing a primary verification of the record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 01:36, 31 March 2012 (UTC)