User:Gopher

 Hooray! I'm useful! I'm having a wonderful time!

Starting to get the hang of this Wiki thing. The markup language is a bit wierd, and I'm sure there are still many features I'm unaware of, but getting there.

Educational Tangent
After spending several hours reading [WikiMedia's help sections] and experimenting here working on a template that, in retrospect, wasn't that great an idea in the first place. Now I have a simple new signature setup, which (unless I get complaints) you will be seeing from me consistently from here on out. The silver lining on this one is that, in the process of my impractical experiment, I'm now quite well-informed about the workings of templates. And I definately think we should upgrade to 1.6 once it becomes stable enough to be reliable. Then I could make some templates to /really/ streamline the process of creating article entries of basic types (like Characters and Episodes). Might work on some things later that work without needing the new features, but I'll mostly play around in my head until I've thoroughly worked out an idea.

Templates 2/13/06
Today I've done a few new articles off the top of the Wanted Page list. Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche, and Kif Kroker. I also did some work on the Adding to the Wiki page, which I also copied to the Help:Contents page. Thinking of doing the next couple of episodes, My Three Suns and A Big Piece of Garbage, next. I'm not set up to capture DVD screenies, so I'm leaving it to others to upload Futurama episode screenies, but I've been uploading images for the voice talent as I've created their pages. Update Done the two eps, also uploaded an AL1 Key and added it to Alien Languages. A bigger accomplishment today was the completion of the first two category template pages, Template:CharacterArticleTemplate and Template:EpisodeArticleTemplate. Calling these templates with the "subst:" prefix will cause the full text of the template to be pasted directly into the page. I also added a section to the help page explaining their use.