Wiki Assistance Please
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:55:07 PDT)

Dear All,

I have spent quite a lot of time going through the pbs wiki and deleting
mistakes and trying to get the pictures listed on wiki pages that were
never added. To prevent my burning out I have a few pleas for those of you
who use the wiki.

Please remember not to load large files. Most of you do a great job with
this, but there are exceptions. I then have to transfer them out and reduce
them and transfer them back if someone has already announced the picture to
the group. I would just delete them and ask people to reload a smaller
file, but then we'd get all these people writing notes to the list saying
they can't see the picture.

If you load a file to the wiki that you aren't happy with and don't intend
for anyone to see please tell me or Mark to take it off. It is great when
you recognize a mistake and load another image to correct it, but we don't
want to leave the mistakes. If you misspelled it or misnamed it let us
know. We can change that. You don't have to load another file that is the
same. If something is a mystery and it gets identified, let us change the
name of it instead of adding the same picture with a new name.

If it is a plant, when you are naming it please spell out the genus name
and start it with a capital. As we have more and more pictures on the wiki
(I printed out 25 pages and that doesn't include the old files or Mark's
Alliums), it is increasingly hard to figure out what something is if you do
not have the genus in the name. For instance think about the names of these
two from yesterday:
canescens3.JPG
TanteBloom1.JPG
I'd have no idea at all what these were if I were trouble shooting. We
didn't emphasize this in the beginning but we should have we now realize.

Thanks everyone for your help on this.

Mary Sue