Images for our list--Using the wiki

Kevin D. Preuss hyline@tampabay.rr.com
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:11:33 PST
Mary Sue,
Perhaps you or someone more familiar with this could hepl me out.  I posted
a test image of Hymenocallis tubiflora
http://ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/…
But was uncertain how to give description.  I am sure it is easy, once you
know how to do it....

Thanks,
Kevin D. Preuss
http://www.amaryllis-plus.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org>" <msittner@mcn.org>>
To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:56 PM
Subject: [pbs] Images for our list--Using the wiki


> Dear All,
>
> I am changing this subject in case people are looking at wiki wiki and not
> realizing what we are talking about.
>
> The wiki is a place where anyone who wants can upload an image to put it
on
> the web. When you do this, you are given a url that tells you where this
> image is stored. If you want that image to be kept on the Pacific Bulb
> Society wiki page as a wikilink you will need to paste the url there and
> hopefully write above the url what it is and who took the picture. It is
> very easy to do this. All you have to do is to click on edit and write in
> your text. I have included very clear instructions in
> http://ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/… on our
> page. It seems to have gotten relocated but you can access it above. Don't
> be intimidated. We are all learning. If you want me to write you the
> instructions personally if you can't figure out how to print them from our
> page let me know.
>
> If you want members of this group to have the opportunity to look at your
> image, then you need to write the list and tell us about your image and
> include the url so that everyone can click on it and look at it WITHOUT
> HAVING TO DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE TO THEIR COMPUTER.
>
> There is no reason why the person who uploads this image could not send
> this url to the Great Lakes Group or the Australian Group or to Alpine-L
or
> their grandmother or anyone else they want to see it.
>
> We in the Pacific Bulb Society are happy to have anyone who wants to join
> our list join and we believe in sharing our information and resources.
> There is no charge for this. If you want our newsletter that Marguerite
and
> her team are doing four times a year, to participate in our BX-SX, to get
> our membership list, or just feel you want to support us in our efforts to
> do this, please join PBS. The cost is $20 a year for US members and $25
for
> everyone else.
>
> Thank you Sheila Burrow mailto:sheila1@iinet.net.au for being the first
> person besides me to try this out and putting your wonderful pictures as a
> wikilink on our page. I hope to see more of them. I suggest that everyone
> who has not seen Sheila's images listed below to click on them. You will
> not be disappointed.
>
> http://ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/…
> http://ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/…
>
> Now please, Mary Wise, Paul Tyerman, Arnold Trachtenberg, Doug Westfall,
> Lyn Edwards, Rob Hamilton, Jim Shields, John Lonsdale, and all you others
> out there with glorious images, consider sharing one of your jewels and
> trying this out. Bill Dijk, I expect to see you post links for those great
> Brunsvigia pictures you showed for the topic of the week that those people
> who were not part of the images lists didn't get to see.
>
> And if they do this, please everyone else write them PRIVATELY and tell
> them how much you enjoyed seeing their image.
>
> I have written how to upload images on our information page which you have
> the opportunity to access on every email since it is on the top.
>
> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php
>
> Mary Sue
>
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