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Re: Curator for lugnet.trains
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:06:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > Perhaps you should consider tidying up the existing page, and making changes
> > offline/elsewhere until you have a professional looking effort for the group
> > to consider?
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> Is that how you do the pages *you* curate? Drop me a note with the URL of
> one of your curated FTX pages and I'll check it out and learn from your
> example. Thanks for the offer of mentorship, it's certainly appreciated.
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> Doing the work offline is certainly worthy of consideration but the way I'm
> doing it is to modify the page as I get notes about what to add (and I have
> gotten several already, thank you all very much). Less labor intensive that
> way than keeping an offline copy (which, since it isn't HTML, can't just be
> tested in any old browser, it has to be tested here on LUGNET).
One way to test is to keep a copy in your personal Lugnet area, and test there,
maybe even posting a link if you want others to check it out before updating
the main page. However for something like the main trains page (or any group's
main page), which is fairly small anyway, and generally only contains links, I
agree it's probably not worth it.
ROSCO
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| (...) Too much cut and paste, too likely to introduce errors, too labor intensive and no real benefit. It's just *not like* HTML where you upload the exact page you want after checking it out locally. This is particularly true for the front page of (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Such as what? There's nothing missing that wasn't missing when I took it on. I've a mind to remove Will's link if no one comes forth with a correction for it as it's a bit dated. Other than that everything is correct AFAIK. Certainly if you or (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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