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persempre907 · Post by **persempre907** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:54 pm

Hi everybody,
yesterday and today, in a moment of folly, I've written, both in italian and in english, the Ducati Paso voice in wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia on the web.
I would want that all you should see it, so you can correct my precarious english and if you want, you can modify the contents.
Ciao.
Francesco

Post by **Skins** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:42 pm

Excellent, Francesco, excellent! The Wikipedia is a wonderful resource - I use it almost every day - and I'm looking forward to seeing your contribution next time I do.

redpaso · Post by **redpaso** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:52 am

Good entry but the English version does need a bit of tidying up, Skins, maybe you have the time?

Post by **Skins** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:58 am

Sure thing, Red. Hopefully, later today.

Post by **Skins** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:12 am

Ok you guys, I have edited Francesco's 'Ducati Paso' article (well done, Francesco, a very good piece of writing) into more standard English grammar and vocabulary. I think it now exists in the Wikipedia as I rewrote it. However, it apparently still needs to be 'Wikified', and I'm not sure exactly what that means. At this point I have begun to feel out of my depth - I barely know how to cut and paste. If someone else can take it from here, I would be most grateful. Otherwise the Wikification will have to wait till have more time, and Christ knows how long it will take me then, seeing as I have no idea what is involved.

750pheonix · Post by **750pheonix** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:13 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati_Paso

Found it eventually... the wikifying means using their syntax to format the page... I just split the text into more legible chunks and put the interesting links in.

Post by **Skins** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:42 pm

Thank you so much. Francesco's text was very close to good English, and I didn't have to change it much, but that was about all the work I could handle at that time.

persempre907 · Post by **persempre907** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:43 pm

Thanks to everybody

!!!
If someone knows how upload a picture...
I'm not able to do.
Ciao.
Francesco

750pheonix · Post by **750pheonix** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:44 pm

images are kind of painful, you have to upload the image to the common directory on their server to make sure that you are not stealing bandwidth or putting naked pictures of someone's wife. the you link to that image... they don't allow external image links on many of the wikipedia sites and specifically not the english language version.

persempre907 · Post by **persempre907** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:04 pm

750pheonix wrote:images are kind of painful

Could you try to upload a beutiful pic?
Ciao
Francesco

lceriani · Post by **lceriani** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:44 pm

A very good job... well done!

DuC-MaN · Post by **DuC-MaN** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:58 pm

persempre907 wrote:
750pheonix wrote:images are kind of painful
Could you try to upload a beutiful pic?
Ciao
Francesco

I would use those ducati.com heritage pix...

http://www.ducati.com/heritage/anni80/7 ... paso.jhtml

http://www.ducati.com/heritage/anni80/9 ... paso.jhtml

http://www.ducati.com/heritage/anni80/907ie/907ie.jhtml

persempre907 · Post by **persempre907** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:14 pm

Why not?
But I think that there are a lot of beautiful pictures also on this website.
Ciao