User talk:MKOHUT

Hi MKOHUT,

my name's Jordan. It seems that we're the two folks working the most on M&D so I thought we should get in touch. I set up the Data-by-date system, what do you think? I reformatted your post for 1787 so that it is year for the page, month for the section, and then date number and abreviated month in bold before the text.

I've been slowly (I'm moving and looking for work right now so I don't have as much computer time as i did) going through M&D, historical data, and Mason's Jornal (I have a copy if you ever want me to look something up in it for you let me know) and trying to place each event inthe book in space and time. I have found a few places where pynchon deviates from the historical reality. some might be mistakes (events happen a day or two quicker than they really did in brooklyn, i think) but some may be on purpose (the full lunar eclipse that disrupts the ware-beaver's competition in the book was set on a day where there was actually a solar eclipse and then we read a chinese story about a solar eclipse- he is playing his story history and astronomy here.

I can be reached via this forum, but it would be easier to chat via e-mail for me: jordan@riseup.net

y'r ob'd'nt s'rv't, Jordan Arthur Fink

Hi Mark, Tim (WikiAdmin) here. Links are easy. Just check out the help pages or, if you want, I'll send the intro email again which says how. But please do review the help pages. You can always click "Show preview" and then test your links (and use your "back" button to get back to the page you're editing. I think you can certainly get it. It's the spirit and magic of hypertext and the wiki to link to things you reference. For M&D, to link back to a page reference in the annotations.

[[Chapter 27: 266-274#Page xxx|This is the linked text.]]

which appears like this: This is the linked text.

That is, links within the wiki are bracketed with double brackets and the link is separated from the visible linked text with a pipe "|".

External links are bracketed with *one* bracket and the hyperlink, which always begins with "http://", is separated from the visible text with a single space:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon Thomas Pynchon]

which appears like this: Thomas Pynchon

The above links to another annotation page. Each chapter has its page range, which you can get by mousing over the page-by-page annotation link and looking in the status bar (at the bottom of your browser) and see what it says.

Just look at what others have done and you'll see what to do. Test it until it's right.

You're doing some amazing and useful work here, but you really need to learn how to work in the Web zone. Let me know specific questions and I'll assist.

But you're a smart guy and you should be able to understand the help pages.

But I'm here if you need me: tim at hyperarts dot com. WikiAdmin 20:26, 13 March 2007 (PDT)