User:John
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I have been turning wood for 4 years. I live in Kansas, USA. Woodturning is a hobby interest for me. Among my hobbies are reading, US History, and photography. I am employed as a Health Care Administrator; married, my wife teaches Special Math at the Elementary Level, with one adult daughter, she works as on a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit with her R.N.
I got started with a ca. 1936 Walker Turner lathe, added into a purchase of walnut. In 2006 I added my dream lathe, a Powermatic 3520b. I turn bowls, and bowls and some other items. Everyone told me not to worry about wood, now I have 3+ big trees waiting on my hobby turning time to turn.
My bookmarks
General
WikiCommunity Woodturning - Talk Page
Places in this Wiki for Wood Turning
Places for Contributors and Editors
User_talk:toolrest User:toolrest
User_talk:twjones User:twjones
User_talk:Jzysman User:jzysman
Thoughts and Questions
Work on Tool Pages for Turning Tools
Learning about formatting Wiki style
Intricacies of software settings and how the insides of the Wiki work for a non-sysop type.
Templates and Subpage Possibilities. The Template Help is some good stuff, just takes a while to get the details into my head.
I'm pondering the need for an article to terminology. In the US, turners want to turn a tenon to chuck onto. In the UK it is a spigot that is turned. We also have catch -- dig-in; pillar drill -- drill press; and others. Perhaps this is not a long enough list to warrant an article?
My Journey
I started with the Wiki process January 17, 2009. I thought I would put a few notes here from time to time about what I am learning about the Wiki Community. --JN 07:34, 22 January 2009 (CST)
First Reaction was this is somewhat easy. I picked History of Woodturning and started the article. Came back to it a couple of times and finally put up an image of a pole lathe. Some of the wiki stuff I picked up was from looking at pages and checking the edit boxes. I did stop hitting the save button when I am just looking - I found the cancel link and thus do not save a page in all the revision stuff with no changes.
I next found a couple of buttons on the Tool Bar of all the Edit Boxes.
- I like the Ab (3rd from left) It will format my internal links; type the page name highlight and click or click and then type in the page name.
- The A (5th from left) inserts a Level 2 Headline. Use them for Section Headers. When you get 4 on a page, the wiki will place a contents box and links to the sections at the top of the page.
- The Signature Button (2nd from Right) is also handy for leaving your sig and timestamp on a talk page.
I now know that a colon to start the line will indent and the convention is to indent responses to items on talk pages. 2 colons indent another stop etc.
I also figured out that every page has a talk page. Most viewers will only see the page, one can use the Discuss This Page link in the sidebar to access a talk page. Contributors and editors can discuss and coordinate their collaboration on the talk page. --stnick 07:46, 22 January 2009 (CST)
I am also learning my way around. Recent Changes and the various links on the Side Bar are handy. Placing book marks (internal links) on my page and other items. I feel comfortable with the expanding layout of my page and my talk page. --stnick 20:54, 22 January 2009 (CST)
As usual, I always jump in and work on inventing the wheel all over again. After some fun with formatting images, Toolrest points out the wonderful Help Pages. --stnick 07:25, 23 January 2009 (CST)
Put my collection of posts on Preparing Green Wood, on the page. I even added one image for the page. The maple is from Kenny's tree. --stnick 00:05, 25 January 2009 (CST)
OK!! The End of Week One!! Let's see how it goes from here. --stnick 15:47, 25 January 2009 (CST)
Ok! This week, I've been working on bringing over a template from MediaWiki for an Info Box on Prominent Turners. I got the code in what I think is the right place and finally figured out the documentation goes on a sub page and then how to create a subpage. Found that a link on the bottom of the template page creates the subpage. So I got that in. And I got an infobox for prominent turners going in my sand box. Now, I get to read the comments and figure out how to change the paramenters to take the writer info box from MediaWiki and apply it to turners. --stnick 23:14, 28 January 2009 (CST)
The reading about subpages starts a whole new line of thinking about expanding the Wiki. --stnick 23:16, 28 January 2009 (CST)
Moved the Infobox template to a subpage of my talk page. Worked on changing parameters of the template and documentation. Involved project!
- Questions galore - will post next session. Primarily about what appear to be sub templates. --stnick 23:46, 29 January 2009 (CST)
OK! The End of Week Three! Spent a little time with the templates. Life got busy, so I did small stuff here. Uploading some pictures etc. Also got to turn and thus take the pictures. --stnick 07:27, 9 February 2009 (CST)
