User talk:Laura

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Contents 1 Send message to ... 2 Vendor Comparison Table and Change to Standard News Skeleton 3 Vendor Comparison Table continued 4 'Facts and Stats' page 5 Small format change to Standard News Story skeleton

Send message to ...

I've just added a 'Send message to ...' option towards the bottom of the side-bar. I used it to start this message.

• Note also that you can sign yourself, with a date-stamp, simply by keying ~~~~ at the end of the message. Gavin 03:53, 15 August 2007 (EDT)

Vendor Comparison Table and Change to Standard News Skeleton

Laura

I've built the skeleton for the Vendor Comparison Table that I mentioned last week and which both Paul and Andy McFarlane have requested. I'll explain to you how I envisage it working, and the table-editing code works, next week. Admin 05:25, 19 August 2007 (EDT)

I have also tweaked the Standard News Skeleton slightly, so that instead of simply repeating the headline of the news article, the template provides a link to the page that contains the article.

• Here's an example: Template:Green tech
• So the Skeleton now looks like this: Standard News Article skeleton
• This is a good example from Wikipedia which shows how the reader can use these links to take themselves from an overview document about the Anglo-Saxons to more detailed articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons (You need to page down three or four times to see the examples.) Gavin 07:39, 19 August 2007 (EDT)

Vendor Comparison Table continued

Laura

I have kicked off a couple of the tables e.g. Vendor_Comparison_Table#Green_Measures_by_Vendors_to_Mitigate_effects_of_own_Operations.

• I think the best process is to scan one document at a time, and note all the environmental actitivies it contains. Then mark that document with [[Category:Scanned in 3Q07 for Vendor Comparison Table]]

so that we don't scan it again for a while.

• So far I have only scanned Accenture and the Environment.

Gavin 13:48, 20 August 2007 (EDT)

'Facts and Stats' page

Laura

I've created a new page called Green Facts and Statistics which will contain key statistics and facts about IT and the environment. People like to be able to quote these things in presentations.

• There are a couple of links after each fact:
  • <> is a link to the wiki page which was the source of the fact.
  • >< is a link to the external source page for the fact.
• Feel free to add further interesting facts.
• There's a separate section that contains market research findings. Hopefully this section won't grow too big, but there is no end to people's ignorance and differences in views, so the section could explode with tedious statistics if we allow it to.
• Feel free to add more facts which contradict facts already on the page—for instance, if one source says that IT is responsible for 2% of all energy consumption, and another source says the figure is 4%.

Best wishes Gavin 04:15, 18 September 2007 (EDT)

Small format change to Standard News Story skeleton

Laura

Welcome back.

I've changed the format of our standard skeleton slightly. The idea is that each news event should be covered by just one page in this wiki. In the past, we have created one new page for each article, even if several articles have covered the same news event.

So now the skeleton is set up so that on one wiki page we can include the text and URL of several articles, if they refer to the same news event.

This means that we'll need to scan each article to check what it's basically about, and then check that against the recent stories that we've already filed on the wiki.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes

Gavin 03:42, 27 September 2007 (EDT)