User talk:Benjamin Seghers

Welcome!

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! -- Stephen Ewen 21:57, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

A few words about workgroups

We are indeed happy to have you in the community. We would also like to introduce you to Citizendium's Workgroups and encourage you to--

1. Join a workgroup if you haven't already
2. Help us add workgroup category tags to articles, especially any articles you create
3. Help us spread the word about workgroups within the CZ community

What are workgroups? To answer that question, I'd like to give you a quick tour.

• Start by checking the various workgroups we have at CZ: List of Workgroups. This link can also be found in the left navigation-bar in the 2nd box (Project Pages), 3rd link in that box (Workgroups). The Workgroup Home(s) can be found in the 2nd column in the List of Workgroups.

• For the purposes of this tour, please take a look at the Biology Workgroup Home: CZ:Biology_Workgroup.
• Now let's take a look at the first table on the Biology Workgroup Home (below).

Workgroups are no longer used for group communications, but they still are used to group articles into fields of interest. Each article is assigned to 1-3 Workgroups via the article's Metadata.

Biology article	All articles (1,622)	To Approve (0)	Editors: active (1) / inactive (46) and Authors: active (441) / inactive (0)	Workgroup Discussion
	Recent changes	Citable Articles (25)
		Subgroups (12.5)

Checklist-generated categories: Underlinked (753) Cat Check (506) Cleanup (0) Subpage categories: Definitions (1,561) Related Articles (1,440 to check 710) Bibliography (399) External Links (447) Gallery (30) Video (33)

Missing subpage categories: Definitions (34) Related Articles (15) Bibliography (32) External Links (33) Article statuses: 104 Developed (status=1) 675 Developing (status=2) 699 Stub (status=3) 102 External (status=4) 128 Advanced (status 0-1) 803 Nonstub (status 0-2) 1,502 Internal (status 0-3)

• In the 2nd column, find the link that says, "all articles," which lists all articles that users have placed [[Category:Biology Workgroup]] at the bottom of their articles.
• Now click on the "recent changes" link underneath the "all articles" in the 2nd column in the top table. This lists all recent changes in articles that have been tagged [[Category:Biology Workgroup]]. In one glance, you can view all the changes that happened while you were away! Feel free to click on all the links to get an idea how the information for your workgroup is organized. All these lists are populated by articles that have the categories properly placed at the bottom of their pages.

This completes your virtual-tour of CZ workgroups. I hope you can see the usefulness of having all articles in Citizendium tagged properly with your Workgroup categories. Make sure to add the Workgroup category labels to your new articles. This is an important part of the Approval process.

Be sure to join a workgroup and take part in this opportunity to collaborate with others who have similar interests as you. You can see what others are working on in the Workgroup recent changes and join in! Remember, we want you to be bold in your contributions at Citizendium.

To add yourself to a workgroup, use the form [[Category:Education Authors|Smith, Bob]], etc., and add it to your user page. Substitute the proper work group for "Education" in the example, and your name-Last, First for the names in the example.

Do not add yourself to the Editors list, only CZ staff add "Editors" to user pages after proper review of applications is completed. To apply to become an editor, please see Editor Application Review Procedure.

To add a workgroup category tag to an article, use the form [[Category:Education Workgroup]] at the bottom of the article. Substitute in the proper workgroup for "Education" in the example.

If you are from Wikipedia originally, you may want to check out this article:

• Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians

-- Stephen Ewen 21:57, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for the welcome. Typically, does Citizendium shun minor, stylistic or grammatical edits in favor of content-filled contributions?

edits or content

Hi Ben, we will always favor quality over quantity. As such also small edits attribute to quality (or can attribute). We prefer of course quality additions that can be verified. Robert Tito |  Talk  23:07, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for the clarification, Dr. Tito! Benjamin Seghers 23:59, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

Global warming

Dear Benjamin (aka "you"), your posts at Global warming and in the relative talk page are great in my view. Thanks, please keep on going! --Nereo Preto 12:41, 28 May 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for you kind words, Dr. Preto. I must say, you've been very helpful as well at global warming and the discussions! Benjamin Seghers 12:47, 28 May 2007 (CDT)

Core Articles

Hi Benjamin, would you like to take a look at CZ:Core Articles, the part about Earth Sciences articles? We are filling the list of our 100 important, but still missing articles there, I'd like to have as much contributions as possible. Ciao, --Nereo Preto 03:28, 29 September 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for the heads up. I've started glacier (and hope to write a good article with the help of others!). Benjamin Seghers 17:40, 4 October 2007 (CDT)

Ben, your assumption was correct. {{Subpages}} can go at the top of the main article space, the talk space, and you can click on the "M" to create the metadata page. For now, until the process gets easier, you can follow this page and scroll down to the "How to use the subpages template" section to see what goes in on the metadata page. I will fill in the details for glacier and you can see the diffs to observe. --Robert W King 21:49, 4 October 2007 (CDT)

Hey, thanks for the clarification. When I tried it, the thing was pretty messed up. I think I understand now though. Benjamin Seghers 01:24, 5 October 2007 (CDT)

Saw your glacier and added some to the intro. Looks like the start of a great article, really! But let me go back to my question. Do you have any ideas for more core articles we are still missing? While I have a pretty good picture of what's core arguments in geology, I think I need help in other fields of Earth Science, e.g., oceanography. You should add to the list! --Nereo Preto 03:26, 6 October 2007 (CDT)

Well, the type of things I would suggest would like ocean circulation, clouds, precipitation, river systems, water pollution, etc., which I would be happy to contribute to, but don't think are broad enough to be considered "core" earth science topics. Benjamin Seghers 04:06, 6 October 2007 (CDT)