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Suggetsions for layout, formatting, etc

The following is from my email published on Pharyngula - Palaeos Found; updated MAK601006

  • Use of Media Wiki templates and categories: The use of templates is both handy for navigation and breaks the blandness of text, and makes it easier to write pages because you just need the name of the template surrounded by curly brackets. See also the List of templates, for template shorthand and links to review or edit the templates.
  • License - On the old Palaeos the text ranges from Public Domain (Toby's material) to full copyright, depending on the author. There has still beeen no consensus on the Palaeos org license, and it may be better for now to just let it follow the license of the material that is being adapted over.
  • Graphics - I have found that the owners of various graphic images are happy to allow use of their material provided we give acknowledgments, a link back, copyright notice, etc. When using copyrighted pictures on a page, please add a note specifying that this image is copyright and has been used with the owner's permission.
  • Main page - the initial page should be eye-catching, without too much text. Use of graphics and a list of contents to important pages will greatly add to the appeal.

Please feel free to add further suggestions etc M alan kazlev 14:10, 20 September 2006 (PDT)

Help!

Main Page lost!! What happened?? rursus 03:33, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

Hmm, now it's back. Some web gremlins i presume. rursus 03:36, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

Pages on Palaeos.com not by Alan or Toby

Does anyone know if Chris Clowes is happy for pages by him to be transferred over to Palaeos.org? While I'm at it, are there any contributors to Palaeos.com who don't want their material transferred over? -- Christopher Taylor 14:29, 1 November 2006 (Wellington)

I would say Chris is ok with it; just add a copyright symbol after his name with any of his material. With Mikko (Mikko's Phylogeny Archive) if any of his dendrograms are used just add a copyright notice. With Sam Gon (the Trilobite Pages) I copied some his material verbatum from his website with his permission; he agreed on the condition that I kept the format on Palaeos com the same as on his website. But since on Palaeos org we'd be changing the format (and as the wiki develops editing the content) it would be better not to his material as it appears on Palaeos com. However I notice he wrote some Trilobite pages for Wikipedia, so they can certainly be used (with the wikipedia template tag). M alan kazlev 18:08, 31 October 2006 (PST)

Dracontes' suggestions

First of all, the short hand in the form of, for example, "mTr of SAm", has to be extended as here, unlike with Palaeos.com, there are no size limits... Or are there?

Anyway, I always found it and the character lists rather too compact in the old site to be readily intelligible. So first thing to do is to "decompress" the information. Organize it is the next thing: character mode (plesiomorphy, synapomorphy, etc., ...), character type (behavioural, morphological, etc., ...). If the characters are morphological then one should organize them according to the area of the body they correspond to (head, neck, shoulder girdle, etc., ...) Maybe one should construct a character box template to keep things tidy.

Oh, and a misplaced query :-]

I'll update this as I think of more stuff. Dracontes 09:08, 14 November 2006 (PST)

New wiki symbol/icon suggestion

Thought to myself the black Arial "Palaios" on a blurred green circle didn't look too good so I took the liberty of wipping up something in Illustrator more à propos with the wiki's subject:

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The background is a slightly altered Phacops traced from a life sketch I did based on a specimen photograph seen on Dorling Kindersley´s "Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures" or something to that effect; I think Darren Naish was one of the scientific advisors if not one of the authors. I believe Stanton is familiar with the drawing. I'd be up to scanning a few fossiliferous stones I own for a faded thematic background too. Dracontes 04:58, 12 September 2007 (PDT)

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