User talk:Nanette

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Welcome

Welcome Nanette! I've really enjoyed your comments on Jim F.'s Sunday school lessons, and look forward to hearing more of your thoughts here. We all know the wiki takes a bit of getting used to, so if you have any questions or need to experiment, please don't be shy to ask or be self-conscious at all. --RobertC 15:37, 25 Jan 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, RobertC. I do feel a bit like I'm talking into a wind tunnel...but your "welcome" ended the echo...thanks. I feel very much the hillbilly of this group as I read everyone's erudite comments with well connected credentials. I think my biggest question is how to access information, i.e. Greek Bible, word entymology, etc. There must be some "favorite" sources ya'll use. Mind sharing what they are? Again, thanks for the response.
Forgive me, Robert, I just visited your homepage & saw your suggestions for further study. I'll follow up with those links. Feel free to give me further advice if you have it. Regards. --User:Nanette

My page is very much out of date, sorry. Here are the resources I find most helpful:

  • NeXt Bible: This is a great place to get good alternate translations and a few helpful notes (I think the NRSV is the best and most commonly used translation by scholars nowdays; the NASB is a good, literal translation).
  • BLB: Great online resource for Greek and Hebrew study. Click on the "C" to the left of each verse to see word-for-word translations, and click on the Strong's number next to each word to open a page giving a definition of each word (interlinear text) and all the uses of that word in the Bible--very handy....
  • Dr. Constable's Bible Study Notes: This is the best free, online commentary I've found. Be sure to use the bookmarks to navigate the pdf files (the Matthew file is 418 pages!).

The goal of the site, as I understand it, is just to provide a venue and a resource to encourage (communal) scripture study on whatever topic or level users are interested in, so don't worry about being hillbilly or erudite, just be yourself! --RobertC 03:20, 26 Jan 2007 (UTC)

(P.S. Notice that on talk/discussion pages, you can sign your name to a comment by clicking on the icon that looks like a signature, second from the right, or by inserting 4 tildes.)

Hello Nanette,

Welcome to Feast upon the Word. The home page is a good intro to the site. The following links are also sometimes helpful to newcomers:

On talk pages, please sign your name. You can do this by using three tildes (~~~) which will automatically produce your name, four tildas (~~~~) produces the date as well. (When editing, clicking the 2nd-button in from the right above the editing window will insert this automatically.)

I hope you enjoy adding commentary and editing other people's commentary.

Hi Nannette, that's the standard welcome text. Also, if you haven't looked at it yet, check out Site:Other_scripture_resources. You can get to this page from the left nav, the last link under other stuff. --Matthew Faulconer 03:22, 26 Jan 2007 (UTC)

To the Experienced: Questions --

  1. 1 I'm not sure where/how to post a comment that I'm inviting response to. Is the User Page the same as the Discussion Page? I see others' posts, including tables of contents, with people being able to read/respond to them. Do I post this on my user page?
  2. 2 How do I make a table of contents?
  3. 3 Can I write something in Microsoft Word & paste it here already formatted?
  4. 4 What about a graphic, can I add that as a paste?
  5. 5 How do other's know my post has been posted & choose to read/respond? Do others' have the ability to edit my user page--well, obviously they do. We're all just trusting one another in our editing?
  6. 6 Was I suppose to post this barrage of questions on someone else's user page? I feel uncomfortable editing someone else's page. I'm not even sure someone will read what I've just written?! --Nanette 18:42, 27 Jan 2007 (UTC)
Matthew and Robert will probably have better general information for you, but here are a couple of "quick starts" for getting involved with the wiki. Your most important helps are going to be the links in the box to the left on the screen. "Recent changes" takes you to a list of the most recent changes on the site (this is how others find out that you've posted something, and how you find out that others have posted something). You can click on the links listed under recent changes and go directly to where there is discussion going on. In the end, it is perhaps this "recent changes" link that you will use the most.
If you want to put some commentary on more directly (i.e., without trying to insert yourself into a discussion or something that is already going on), use the links under "scripture commentary." Just click on whichever book, and it will bring up the books within that book. Pick a book, and then a chapter, and then a five-verse stretch. Then you'll find yourself on a commentary page. If you click on "edit" it will allow you to start posting questions, lexical notes, exegesis, and/or links. And you are underway. Once you have clicked on "edit," there will be an "Editing help" link that will give you instructions if you are still trying to figure things out. Everyone here is very patient, and we will all help you as you figure out how the site works, so don't be too worried about making a "major" mistake (almost anything can be fixed).
You should also know that every commentary page (and every user page, too) has a "talk" or "discussion" page (the tab that says "discussion"). On the discussion page goes, as you might guess, discussion about the commentary page, while the commentary page is specifically for commentary, questions, links, etc. So you can begin by posting some thoughts/commentary/questions or you can start on the discussion page and simply discuss some issues you'd like to take up, etc. If you go through some of the "recent changes," you'll probably get an idea of how it works.
Welcome aboard. I'm excited, as the others are, to have you here. Feel free to ask any questions here, and someone will see it and respond. --Joe Spencer 00:17, 28 Jan 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Joe for attempting to help. I think I've checked into all those sidebar things but my questions still remain. I've tried to number them in case anyone can specifically address them. I've clicked "discussion" but here I am still on the User Page. I had hoped I could get to the "discussion" page where I'd like to post some scripture related thoughts. I'll save this & see if it begins a "discussion" page like I've seen at other user's sites...nope, didn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Nanette, Let me take your questions one at a time.

  1. 1 I'm not sure where/how to post a comment that I'm inviting response to.

Not sure I really understand this one. Le't keep going though and maybe the answer will come out.

Is the User Page the same as the Discussion Page?

Each user has a user page. Each user page (and as Joe points out every page) has its own discussion page.

I see others' posts, including tables of contents, with people being able to read/respond to them. Do I post this on my user page?

You are welcome to post stuff on your own user page and your own discussion page that will work like this. The table of contents will show up automatically when there are 4 sections or more (or maybe it is three. I'll go ahead and add some section headings to this page and you'll see what I mean).

  1. 2 How do I make a table of contents?

You can make a heading by typing two equal signs before and after the heading name. If you have several heading the table of contents will automatically show up.

  1. 3 Can I write something in Microsoft Word & paste it here already formatted?

In short, no. But there may be some utility that would convert HTML or WORD docs to mediawikimarkup on the internet. I wouldn't recommend that though as it probably would not work well.

  1. 4 What about a graphic, can I add that as a paste?

Yes, you can put in pictures. Let me find some instructions for that.

  1. 5 How do other's know my post has been posted & choose to read/respond? Do others' have the ability to edit my user page--well, obviously they do. We're all just trusting one another in our editing?

Yes. The main way we see what each other is doing is through recent changes page (the third link on the left.)

  1. 6 Was I suppose to post this barrage of questions on someone else's user page? I feel uncomfortable editing someone else's page. I'm not even sure someone will read what I've just written?!

Feel free to post any question on my page if you wish (I just gave you permission) but posting here works too. --Matthew Faulconer 18:25, 28 Jan 2007 (UTC)

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