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mithridates aka 데이빛 05:03, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

(That's what it looks like when you get welcomed as a new user)

Contents

Redirects

Hallo du. Don't forget to enclose the page address in square brackets when writing a redirect, like this:

#Redirect:[[Yep]]

And not like this:

#Redirect:Yep

mithridates aka 데이빛 12:00, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Hee hee

Hee hee, want to know how to do that? I just found out myself.

How do I add links/images up there?

Just like any other page. I'll show you, just a sec. Just delete the content and resave it this time though instead of deleting the whole page.

Galbijim says

Galbijim says:

Click edit on the page to see how to use the template. You write "speech=" and then whatever you have to say afterwards.

mithridates aka 데이빛 12:35, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes!

Yes! Our first vandalism! Actually they changed it back right away so I think they were just experimenting but still, there it was. That reminds me, we need a sandbox. I'll put one up in a sec. mithridates aka 데이빛 16:26, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Lakes and stuff

Damn, all this writing about lakes, rivers, islands and so on makes me want to actually see some of them. Let's make this site a smashing success so that we can actually do that when the weather warms up. mithridates aka 데이빛 09:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll go nuts with a camera. I've got the photo bug these days of taking pictures of anything to put up on here, whenever I'm out and about.--Galbijim 09:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Found one

Right here:

http://www.geocities.com/ypmljulia/images/Stir-Fry/spicy_pork_stirfry.htm mithridates aka 데이빛 16:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

--Galbijim 16:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)== Er... like this? ==

NameNameNameNameNameNameNAme
Address
Telephone
Fax
Email
Website
Areas of practice
Spoken languages

Actually, can you make it horizontal? I'm not inputing individual lawyer names, just company contact info--Galbijim 15:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Just take a look at English-speaking lawyers and you'll see what I'm saying. I just want a table for every law firm to pretty up what I've done.--Galbijim 15:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, that. mithridates aka 데이빛 15:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I put two of them in a table. I'm off to bed now (up at 5 am) but if that's good you can put the rest in or I'll put them in myself tomorrow. mithridates aka 데이빛 16:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, we're getting closer, but let's scrap the idea until I can show you in person, or if I find an example on another wiki.--Galbijim 16:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Okay. You can always fool around with the formatting, by changing the width and whatnot, or we could also have two or three in one column, that sort of thing. Maybe scribble out the way you want it to look on notepad and put the image up here so I can copy that. mithridates aka 데이빛 16:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

One more before I go to bed. Take a look at this standard box. Maybe this is cleaner.

Aram International Law Offices
  • 5th Floor, Haesung Building, 51-7

Banpo-dong, Seocho-ku, Seoul 137-040

  • Tel: 82-2-591-8100
  • Fax: 82-2-596-6081
  • E-mail: khsohn@aramlaw.com
  • Homepage
  • Areas of practice: Full-Service Firm.
  • Spoken languages: Korean, English, Japanese and German.

mithridates aka 데이빛 16:20, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I'll try it out and see how they look, thanks--Galbijim 16:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Directory sample

I've made up a sample of what it could look like here. Half of it is in Italian but I think you can imagine. Replace pictures here and there...one thing though is that the font is already as small as it can get so sub-articles would have to be put in parenthesis, or perhaps put some in bold and others not. mithridates aka 데이빛 04:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

We're on the right track, however, the links are still jumbled and not orderly, which will not be good for usability, when we have a lot more entries for the directory. Rather than trying to cram it all in a horizontal directory, what about making it vertical, similar to what is on the main page now. We should have sub-directories listed for relevance. Maybe we can try what google does and have the most frequently trafficked articles and categories listed, and then have some relevant articles/categories along with it, and eventually say 'etc.'. This way the user can click thru on the directory and find a more robust, specific directory. In other words, the mainpage directory can be a 'sampling' directory to point the user in the right direction. ie, if they are looking for an article on severance and other related articles, they will see Working in Korea directory with some sample sub-directories listed. Clicking on 'Working in Korea' will take them to a whole page directory (that isn't fighting for space with Welcome/First-time Users/Other content, like on the mainpage). This secondary directory can basically organize and chronicle the relevant articles that fall within this subject. Then, when that sub-directory page gets too crowded, we can make sub-directory pages for the content that is eating up a lot of space. This basically how Google and Yahoo sort their directories.--Galbijim 06:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, okay. I assume then you're visualizing something like this but on a vertical level instead? I'll give it a bit more thought and see what I come up with. mithridates aka 데이빛 06:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I think that a DMOZ direction is a good first step to take for now.--Galbijim 06:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Lots of pictures

Right here in case you haven't seen them before and are looking for some more. mithridates aka 데이빛 15:34, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Categories

Hey, check out the changes I've made to the words you're putting up. That's the way to have them in subcategories to make words easier to find. mithridates aka 데이빛 15:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's how you do it

Here's what I wrote on Timchi's talk page:

Ah, don't do that. It goes [[Category:Ko 고]], then [[Category:Ko ㄱ]], then [[Category:Korean words]]. Each one is a subcategory of the other to make words easy to find.

mithridates aka 데이빛 15:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

It's the same as on the Korean Wiktionary and every other Korean dictionary BTW: http://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%82%B1%EB%A7%90%EC%82%AC%EC%A0%84:%EA%B0%80%EB%82%98%EB%8B%A4_%EC%B0%BE%EA%B8%B0_%EB%9D%BC

Tim was accidentally logged in as me for that Korean stuff. Problem is, is the Korean vocab book he is writing from is sorted by root word, hence why he's categorizing by 가. We need to figure how we want to categorize root words.--Galbijim 15:49, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I see. There's no problem with two categories though, or five or ten or whatever. Maybe the category [[Kr 가]] or something for Korean root? If you're adding a new category to the system I've already set up then it doesn't matter what it is. mithridates aka 데이빛 22:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

My only problem is for the people that will be looking for the specific Korean word, alphabetically and not by root. Tim is going to be putting up a load of words. Maybe I'll ask him to have the root category, as well as the word category.--Galbijim 03:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

... to accept the things I cannot change...

A couple small things that need editing by someone else:

"...new files, to view..." should be "... new files. To view..."

Also, it says to click the "copyright button" if it's copyrighted material, but I didn't see one when was uploading my pictures.

Might want to specify in the Use of Content paragraph by which licence things here are protected. It's only mentioned incidentally in the No contract; Limited licence section. --Atkinson 15:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I can't edit the special pages directly, as that's a software thing. I'll have to get the wikimedia host to do that. As for the license, we're using the Wikimedia one, but we'll see if we can expand on that.--Galbijim 15:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

It could look like this, for example.

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<center>We now have 9,821 articles; help us reach our first goal of 10,000!
mithridates aka 데이빛

It's a start, but given how vital the cross-promotion is from wiki to forums and galbi main, we need it a lot bigger than that.--59.10.49.45 18:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Or like this

A big 'Thank you!' to everyone who donated in this fundraiser!
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's personal appeal for donations is still ongoing.

That's what Wikipedia had on top during the funding drive. Maybe something in a box like that, and I think we could still fit the 10,000 article images in too. But now time for bed. mithridates aka 데이빛 18:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I like that idea, but can you somehow make it into a template box that can be added to into the articles? Can you try this out and also add the Galbijim logo into it? I'm basically thinking about going into every well-trafficked article and putting in the template that would say 'If you have any questions or thoughts on short-term housing in Korea, please visit our discussion forums.', in the example of what I would put in the main accommodation page. The words 'discussion forums', would be linked to the forums. I know that we have the discussion pages in the wiki, but given that our wiki articles will likely be the first Galbijim pages that users will stumble across on Google, we need more cross-promotion to the forums. I'll upload a better logo for you to use.--211.192.198.220 10:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

This might be good

Tell me what you think of this: Writing {{Forum|555}} gives you this: discussion on this topic. 555 is the numbef of the topic. Assuming the topic numbers never change on the board, that is. We could add this template to pages whenever there's a good discussion on a topic so they can go right there. mithridates aka 데이빛 12:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Fabulous!--Galbijim 15:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Wise words

“Galbijim might be interested in using this template for headers on some of the interview-style pages he's been doing.”

~ User:Mithridates


And something else I stole

This can be put on the main page when we have something to announce. mithridates aka 데이빛 11:55, 24 April 2006 (CEST)

August 22/06 Update- We just integrated the forums with the wiki and as a result some of you may notice some temporary login problems. Please see this thread on the issue. ------Galbijim

Eataone2

Here it is:

Companies partnered with Eat-a-one
Chakraa Cashcarry Casa loca Cafe T8
Buddha Body gym Bangkok Bali
Ashoka Arvoric Al-saba Abby's
Aaa

That's sexcellent! Do you know to make the images link to the article? That's becoming important. I see a lot of people clicking on the Shwing image on the mainpage, thinking that it'll go to the article. If we're going to deploy this Eataone template, then we need to get our heads our this image linking thing--Galbijim 03:51, 6 May 2006 (CEST)

I'm pretty sure you can't do a direct link through an image - but we could put a link to the article on the image page itself so that they can go straight there after they realize their mistake. Or even put the first paragraph of the article on the image page and then a read more... kind of link, that might work. mithridates aka 데이빛 04:22, 6 May 2006 (CEST)

Pictures

Hey, I just stumbled on a way to get images to go to other pages rather than the page where they're located; it involves placing an invisible link over top of the image with the Template:Click. For some reason it gets an odd purple line under it when the picture is too large but for small ones it looks just fine. Maybe you'll want to fool around with it a bit. mithridates aka 데이빛 14:52, 14 May 2006 (CEST)

Pictures

Hey, I just stumbled on a way to get images to go to other pages rather than the page where they're located; it involves placing an invisible link over top of the image with the Template:Click. For some reason it gets an odd purple line under it when the picture is too large but for small ones it looks just fine. Maybe you'll want to fool around with it a bit. Go to my page and click on my picture; it'll take you to the front page now. mithridates aka 데이빛 14:52, 14 May 2006 (CEST)

Good job. This makes me feeling groovy.--Galbijim 16:31, 14 May 2006 (CEST)

I can't seem to get this working for the Shwing, EFL-Law, and Itaewon images on the mainpage. Can you have a go?--Galbijim 01:56, 15 May 2006 (CEST)

Mainpage messed up

The mainpage doesn't display the search function, etc. Don't know if you haven't noticed.--Hater Depot 16:37, 27 July 2006 (CEST)

Looks fine to me...mithridates aka 데이빛 16:59, 27 July 2006 (CEST)

Korean english orthography

Yo, where did I not use the current form - that is my practice, though if I copied something from Wikipedia something may have got by me. Plz point out what you are referring to....

--Skookum 04:07, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

I noticed Shinsa-dong. Should be Sinsa. I know a few months back you were using the old romanization, so I wasn't sure if you were still doing that or not. Mith is guilty of the same, sometimes. :)--Galbijim 04:13, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

That's because I'll never write 'si' in place of 'shi'. That's just going too far. 'si' makes me want to start killing people. mithridates aka 데이빛 05:32, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

Well, I disagree with 50% of the current romanization standard, but we have to put aside personal feelings about it for the sake of usability. Newbs are going to search for things like Sinsa Station and find nothing, because we don't like how its spelled. That's not right. If you guys don't like it then make Shinsa redirect to Sinsa and not the other way around.--Galbijim 05:44, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

Oh, the reason for that BTW is that P changing to B is just fine because sometimes it's a B and the same with the rest of the changes, that depends on the location of the consonant. But 'si' for an sh followed by an i? That probably came from some gay 'one sound per consonant letter' rule that somebody made up. mithridates aka 데이빛 05:46, 7 August 2006 (CEST)
'Siheung' also brings up our wiki because it's a redirect to 'shiheung', so there's no problem with searching either as long as one redirects to the other. mithridates aka 데이빛 05:56, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

I disagree that we should be putting personal preference over what's going to be most commonly used and seen by newbs when out and about. It's bad enough that the current romanization is phonetically misleading. Someone looking at one of our subway line lists are going to say where the hell is Siheung? I can't find it. They are then left to click thru whatever looks similar. I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, but all of the subways and streets are littered with govt's new romanization and that is what we should default to, to avoid confusion. I suggest making your own preference redirect to the common one.----Galbijim 06:03, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

Oops. Just outed my prostitution handle.--Galbijim 06:04, 7 August 2006 (CEST)

Maybe. I think I'll start a discussion on it first. I can take a romanization that helps / at least doesn't hinder the pronunciation of a word, but not something as blatantly wrong as 'si' is. Let's see what others have to say (I've written a few hundred pages with 'shi' in them so changing would be no mean task). mithridates aka 데이빛 06:09, 7 August 2006 (CEST)


Muju-eup

Can you double-check a few of the place names in your content in the Muju-eup article. Particularly Sedcheon and Ancheon. Are you sure those aren't supposed be Seocheon and Incheon, or are they smaller burgs in the area?--Galbijim 02:55, 31 August 2006 (CEST)

I'm not home right now so don't have my huge Korean atlas handy but I don't think Ancheon is Incheon. And Cheongcheong is actually that - a small town to the southwest of Muju. Sedcheon does sound wrong though. I'll look it up when I get home.

Also when in the Muju-eup entry you bracket Muju in the photo blurb - this links to Muju-gun while the blurb talks about Muju town, which is basically the center of Muju-eup. Which is where we are already.


Bundang

Where did you find infromation about the Bundang Natural History Museum (자연과 생명 박물관). I would like to add to it but I couldn't find anything about it online. Do you know what dong it is in? Is this a different place than the The Bundang Museum of Nature (분당자연박물관)?

I found it here. It looks like it might be what you already have, unless they are separate pavilions at the same location.--Galbijim 03:17, 10 September 2006 (CEST)

Vegetarian portal

I think that's a good idea. The vegetarian restaurants template is getting too long and unwieldy for most of the pages, IMO. I'll go ahead and write to whoever runs the site; we have a mutual friend who thinks they'll be interested in helping each other out.


Titles

It is happening everywhere. Even the top of this page should say

User talk:Galbijim like this--> User talk:Galbijim but to me it just looks like:--> User talk:Galbijim. Bundanggumin 03:14, 18 November 2006 (CET)

ESL images

I think Teacher schedule.JPG could find some use on some ESL pages somewhere, or maybe on one to come. Anyway, there it is. If there's some other school-related image that you've been thinking would be cool to have let me know.--Hater Depot 06:30, 27 November 2006 (CET)

What about...

changing the template over to a horizontal one that you can place on the top like Template:Japaneseempire? Although I also see that the Geochang template could be made a bit thinner without adding extra lines and maybe that'll help out too. mithridates aka 데이빛 04:46, 1 December 2006 (CET)

Geochang/test might be another option where we can sneak images into the template. Or move the Wikipedia template out of the way like you said. mithridates aka 데이빛 04:58, 1 December 2006 (CET)

Undirecting redirects

Got any idea about undoing redirects? I must've done this a while back, redirected some things in the Chuncheon article. So now we have Seo-myeon redirecting to Seo-myeon (Chuncheon) when Seo-myeon really needs to be a disambiguation page. There may be others in Chuncheon too. ==Skookum

Another template

I noticed the other day that the Korean Wikipedia is using a different type of template from the one that we brought over last year, and copied over it looks like this. What do you think? Better? If you like it then copy it over and we'll proceed with the rest of them slowly. The big difference is the colour. mithridates aka 데이빛 16:45, 26 December 2006 (CET)

Reporting for duty

I've got 15 days with no work or anything to do besides work as hard as I can on the wiki. Is there any place in particular you want me to scope out and gather info about, or just anything to do?--Hater Depot 04:44, 9 April 2007 (CEST)


Headers

I just realized the other day that the subheaders appear larger than the headers. Is it supposed to be like that? Is there any simple way to make it do the reverse. Bundanggumin 05:54, 19 November 2007 (PST)


Okay, stopped editing. If you could save those changes, that would be great. Thanks.Yangsanggunja 21:41, 16 January 2008 (PST)

Uploading Images

Umm...since the design of Galbijim was made over, has the method to upload images changed? I feel stupid but I can't seem to find any way to do it. Help~! Bundanggumin 02:43, 19 January 2008 (PST)

Hanja Images

I suppose I should have thought about changing the pixles like that...is that what you think looks best - or is that just something you think can work - or does it matter? I am curious what people other than me. Bundanggumin 06:55, 26 January 2008 (PST)

FWIW, I like the way you've done it on 四 best, but like I said, I personally prefer the animated graphics. Yangsanggunja

Hanja pages formatting problem

Thanks for pointing that out -- I have been working in firefox, where the text wraps around both the hanja template and the stroke order picture. It looks nice in firefox...I just assumed it would work that way in IE as well....I'll tinker around and see if I can get it to do the same in both. Bundanggumin 18:05, 26 January 2008 (PST)

You were right, I will go around and fix them today. Thanks Bundanggumin 18:07, 26 January 2008 (PST)
On second thought, no it doesn't work actually. I may have to just adjust the template and make a space for a picture at the bottom. Bundanggumin 18:14, 26 January 2008 (PST)

Link exchange?

Hi I run a Korean language wiki, http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/ and I think we both provide a much needed service to expats in Korea. I was proposing possibly linking each other's wiki on the front page. Let me know if you're interested.

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