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Contents 1 creative commons / copyright templates 2 ParserFunctions 3 Pilgrim House 4 adminship 5 Hello from France 6 bahaikipedia commons 7 City Template 8 Lithumoa 9 Copyright re: Sacred Writings, works of the Guardian 10 hosting etc. 11 Hello from Germany 12 David! 13 Covenant Breaker Sites 14 Tahirih BPOV 15 Vandalism and Quotes 16 OMG 17 House of worship 18 2000 19 Pictures 20 Info boxes

[edit] creative commons / copyright templates

hey David - thanks for the work on the CC-BY-SA template! one thing we might want to do is copy over other templates from Wikipedia so that images and other content can be more easily categorized. I think it's important that we respect copyright as much as possible to avoid problems, and Wikipedia seems to have a bunch of great image copyright templates that cover off pretty much every situation. --Dragfyre 11:00, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

Here's a non-exhaustive list of templates we could use:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-2.5
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD (contains links to several different types of public domain declarations)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL (contains links to several different types of GFDL declarations... might be overkill, but at least it would allow us to properly license images found on Wikipedia)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Non-free_fair_use_in (for non-free fair use images)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Attribution
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:No_source
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:No_license
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:No_source_no_license
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Don%27t_know

Others, for certain types of images which might be useful:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:UN_map (for UN maps)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-USGov-CIA-WF (for CIA Factbook maps)

--Dragfyre 11:23, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

[edit] ParserFunctions

is the ParserFunctions extension installed on this thing? It doesn't look like it.--Dragfyre 13:47, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Pilgrim House

Pff, that was a mistake, deleting it. Should it have been moved to the talk page? I was confused about that, but that was not why I deleted it, just a mistake. But I added it back, kinda. Gerald 11:05, 7 August 2007 (MDT)

Ok, I understand we don't need our own yet. When we do I will help contribute to it. I suppose POV issues are something that will be decided as more people get involved, they need a consensus decision. I noticed you were traveling, Taiwan sounds fun, I hope it is! Gerald 11:11, 7 August 2007 (MDT)

[edit] adminship

Hey, re your comment, I suppose it's up to you - I wouldn't mind. I won't be able to guarantee that I'll be a particularly active admin, but if you want someone to help out a little who knows a bit about the ins and outs of wikis, then sure ;) --Dragfyre 15:17, 4 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Hello from France

I am the webmaster of frequence19 and I would like open a French section of your encyclopaedia. In 2011 in France we will celebrate the arriving of Abdul baha in Paris. The committee of the organization of this event requested to me for create an bahai encyclopaedia. Thus I come has you for we associate.--Superouioui 04:42, 7 September 2007 (MDT)

Hi Superouioui, its great that you've come here :) I will set up fr.bahaikipedia.org for you immediately. It is exciting because we also just launched the Chinese version zh.bahaikipedia.org :D I will reply here when it is done or you can check yourself also. David 05:25, 7 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] bahaikipedia commons

Hey David - nice work on the Commons - except I can't seem to use Commons images on the english bahaikipedia. any ideas? --Dragfyre 10:47, 13 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] City Template

You may be interested in the city template I'm working on @ User:Dragfyre/CityTemplate. Feel free to make changes to the page, and/or use it for work on city articles. --Dragfyre 16:51, 16 September 2007 (MDT)

Oh, and good morning :) --Dragfyre 22:01, 16 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Lithumoa

Lithuania...Samoa...practically the same thing, right? :-) There's a lot to add so there's a need for speed, I suppose! Keep up the good work, and hopefully there will be a few more of us assisting come along soon enough. --Bgtribble 03:18, 20 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Copyright re: Sacred Writings, works of the Guardian

We might want to add something about this in the Copyright templates... I found it while browsing bahai-library...

Sacred Writings, the works of the Guardian, materials produced by World Centre Publications, or the Bahá'í International Community may, according to an official statement by the Universal House of Justice, be reproduced electronically with no restrictions.

see http://bahai-library.com/uhj/permission.html --Dragfyre 09:56, 21 September 2007 (MDT)

Hey - I was thinking more along the lines of the included graphic, which I found on bahai-library... the copyright status is as noted in the official statement of the Universal House of Justice. The current copyright status I've indicated for the graphic isn't exactly right, and it would be nice to have a special option for "Works of the Guardian", "Baha'i World Centre/BIC publications", etc. I'm mostly concerned with media/images; text is a different matter, and I agree that we should probably go easy on storing entire copies of the Writings in wiki format. --Dragfyre 12:04, 21 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] hosting etc.

hmmmm, i suppose - you posted all the hosting-related instructions to the admin boards right? are there likely to be any issues while you're away? oh and I can't guarantee I'll be super responsive, but I'll at least try ;) --Dragfyre 19:14, 28 September 2007 (MDT)

true. would it be ok if the new wikis waited until you came back?--Dragfyre 19:22, 28 September 2007 (MDT)

and you can send me any info you need to via facebook or by email at dragfyre at sandwich dot net --Dragfyre 19:22, 28 September 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Hello from Germany

Hello, I have just came across Bahaikipedia and the first thing I would like to do is to express my admiration! Great, I am really very positively impressed! You seem to be the most active author in the English project, correct? Some time ago, we in Germany wanted to start a similar project, but it did not work, for many trivial reasons. There was already some material in German prepared, so my first thought was, why not to try to make a German portal? The other idea which would be near to me, were to open a Russian portal (my mother language). But German first, I will try to draw attention of a few active German Baha'i wikipedians to your site. I am just placing a new language request on the new-language-request site? Where on Earth are you? Mine is a little village in Germany between Frankfurt and Erfurt. You can reach me over <contact AT chimgan.net>

Stanislav

[edit] David!

I am happy to be contributing again. I think I will be working mostly technical stuff, bringing articles over from wikipedia, changing things to BPOV, and the like. I am not comfortable writing articles of contributing to them much. I love this project though, and if it can be helpful to someone else like me who found the Faith online, then it is a Godsend.RuhiWarrior19 05:59, 11 October 2007 (MDT)

Also, David, how do I go about using book cover images, are they public domain?RuhiWarrior19 06:42, 11 October 2007 (MDT)

I visited both, and a lot of other websites that individuals run. Bahai.org I just did not find helpful, it gives basic FAQs, and has no references or quotes from the writings. It has some more in-depth information at info.bahai.org, but nothing introductory to spur someone's interest or keep it. Bahai.us has a lot of the good introductory stuff, but no real resources for further investigation. If they combined the two... The Baha'i news sites I did not visit. What worries me however is how many covenant breaker websites there are online, and how they turn up prominently on the search pages and I don't think a seeker would see a difference unless ey know in advance the difference.RuhiWarrior19 13:42, 11 October 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Covenant Breaker Sites

Living in Idaho where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is big, (Mormonism) I see the LDS Faith as latent Troops waiting to enter. They were founded at the same time, their founder was tapping into the atmosphere of the Bab's coming and correctly foresaw many Baha'i events, but they fail to recognize that Christ as returned. Yet if a Mormon tries to research the connections between our Faiths, they get almost exclusively Covenant Breaker sites.

Seeing the popularity of wikipedia, and the many advantages the wiki format has over other formats for researching a religion, I would not be surprised if this site does help counter that problem.RuhiWarrior19 18:50, 11 October 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Tahirih BPOV

David, what is the BPOV issue with the article on Qurratu'l-Ayn? The article seems correct in BPOV to me. RuhiWarrior19 19:02, 11 October 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Vandalism and Quotes

I apologize for my extreme posting on your discussion page lately. I have an idea for increasing the usefullness of this encyclopedia for further exploration of issues relating to the Baha'i Faith. Some of the articles from the Baha'i Encylcopedia being compiled by the NSA do this, and I was hoping we might make this standard on Bahaikipedia pages. My idea is that a few quotation be included in each article under a section entitled Further Reading, or Quotations from the Baha'i writings. Short qoutations relating to the topic at hand with links in the attribution to where the entire writing is availible online. I have a demonstration of what I mean in my sandbox http://bahaikipedia.org/User:Gerald/sandbox1 RuhiWarrior19 09:29, 13 October 2007 (MDT) David, sorry again. I have been finding random vandalism on a few major pages. The word Baha'i has been messed with and made unreadable, and random words like drumbcol and riccodondrole are being added to the top of pages. The Help page, the Main page, and the About page have been messed with, I have reverted them all, but I think perhaps editing on main pages should be limited to people with accounts, rather than IP addresses? I am not able to do this, so I thought I would bring it up.RuhiWarrior19 09:41, 13 October 2007 (MDT) David, I will take the quotes on as a personal project of mine, great opportunity to help while studying the writings. As for the vandalism, I will try and keep on it anytime I am online as well. (I am somewhat intrigued honestly as to who is doing it, but their IP address changes every time.) Allah'u'abha!RuhiWarrior19 07:44, 14 October 2007 (MDT)

[edit] OMG

O jeez! I had no clue, I thought you were off to that foray into the wilderness you had mentioned... hope you get well soon!! --Dragfyre 10:06, 23 October 2007 (MDT)

[edit] House of worship

Hi, i couldn't save my edit in House of worship. (=fa:مشرق‌الاذکار) Thanks, Iran 11:37, 25 October 2007 (MDT)

[edit] 2000

HAPPY 2000th ARTICLE :D --Dragfyre 11:09, 5 November 2007 (MST)

[edit] Pictures

All of the images come from http://bahaullah.org/. The terms of service there are the same as at the media bank,a dn I expect they will be included in the media bank at some point. I maintained original captions, in keeping with the TOS, however I only included them in the actual article not on the Image info pages. http://bahaullah.org is an amazing resource, and an enchanting site. RuhiWarrior19 21:21, 9 November 2007 (MST)

[edit] Info boxes

Alláh'u'Abhá hello, i am a frequent page editor on this site and I am wondering if you can help me on making a Infobox on the page for Abdu'l Baha. if you would kindly just make the box and i will gladly fill in all the details.

thank you

james rastani

hello im jim ive just joined this site and have just edited about Munirih Khanum. if there is anything else you want me to do i will try.