Wiki Images and Text
Mary Sue Ittner (Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:02:10 PDT)

Dear All,

The wiki administrators prefer that you announce the wiki page when you
announce your pictures instead of the url. One of the reasons for this is
that when you go to the wiki page you can read the text about the images
which is one of the advantages of our wiki over a web site that just
displays images without telling you anything about them. The other reason
is that we frequently change the names of files (moving them to a
subdirectory, correcting misspelled names or misidentified plants or files
named oddly) and then the original url given the group ends up with that
funny message from ibiblio that it could not be found. Very rarely do the
wiki pages change so if the pages are referenced we can make changes and
the archive url will still work.

In late May Bill Dijk loaded a lot of images to the wiki and he is now
writing about them. I'm going to reference the wiki pages and encourage
those of you who may be interested in these plants to go to the pages and
read what he has said about his pictures.

To learn about Androcymbium ciliolatum
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Gloriosa--I've changed names of the files he gave before so those links
won't work and added a picture taken last summer of mine. Bill's pictures
show two color variations and we still have Sheila Burrow's wonderful
close-up. In my picture I wanted to give people an idea of how much space
this plant needs and how much it can climb in a season. Which reminds me
that perhaps this year I need to rig up string in my greenhouse it can
scramble up the string before it falls over.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Bill has added some interesting text along with pictures of the two color
forms of Bessera elegans.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

More wiki urls tomorrow.

Mary Sue

PBS List Administrator, Wiki Worker, TOW Coordinator (Whew!)