Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing

Descriptio: For discussion of LibraryThing's unique "Common Knowledge" feature—a sort of "fielded wiki" available on work and author pages—and our more conventional wiki, WikiThing.

Ascriptiones: crowd-sourcing (1), CK (1), HelpThing (2), WikiThing (2), Common Knowledge (2), site-related (2)

infiniteletters has proposed combining the group Librarything Series into this group.
Current tally: Yes 4, No 8

Institutum: Sep 10, 2007 scriptus a fluteflute; Lingua: English

Group Talk

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award pages - data missing? 5Stbalbach, December 7ignore
Introducing Common Knowledge! 110rsterling, December 2ignore
wiki: integrate/link HelpThing and Help and FAQ pages? 10caffron, November 3ignore
Deleting a work from a Book award list? 3RMXtreme, November 3ignore
remove book from currently reading 4joannasephine, October 27ignore
contributor versus author 2lquilter, October 26ignore
Any circumstances where deleting from CK is ok? 19klarusu, October 26ignore
An explanation of "Disambiguation notice" ? 7AnnieMod, October 17ignore
Golden Compass: Three-Revert Rule for me... 24rsterling, October 14ignore
Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize 23klarusu, October 14ignore
an xls file with book data + the CK field "original publication date"? 9bnielsen, October 5ignore
Oy Vey correcting the corrections 8staffordcastle, September 29ignore
Member Recommendation Improvement (Trying Again!) 1stephmo, September 28ignore
wikithing help page for importing books (Amazon) 1rsterling, September 22ignore
restoring deleted data? (member made mass deletes) 26rsterling, September 15ignore
Notes on a Scandal 11kathrynnd, September 11ignore
wiki page on dvd entries 1skittles, September 9ignore
Canonical Title for Japanese Manga 7BarkingMatt, September 7ignore
URLs in short biography field 3conceptDawg, Augustus 25ignore
Man Booker Prize for Fiction vs. Booker Prize 19rsterling, Augustus 10ignore
Could not process my edit! Help? 6legallypuzzled, Augustus 4ignore
wikithing: contents box out of place 2hailelib, Augustus 1ignore
HelpThing and disabled features 1caffron, Augustus 1ignore
Recommendations Page Help Is Completely Outdated 5caffron, Iulius 31ignore
Tweaking Common Knowledge 6justjim, Iulius 30ignore
Newbie question about collections 4sqdancer, Iulius 29ignore
Occupations - not the same as Title 9geoffmiles, Iulius 28ignore
Unattributed biographies 9stephmo, Iulius 28ignore
Allowable special characters in Collections (and/or other places)? 4WholeHouseLibrary, Iulius 27ignore
Collections Wiki Update/Discussion Thread 7eromsted, Iulius 27ignore
Hammett Prize Nominee (2005) vs. Hammett (Nominee, 2005) 8stephmo, Iulius 23ignore
Blurbers 39rsterling, Iulius 22ignore
Common Knowledge: Rules! 282jimroberts, Iulius 19ignore
Book Description (not really CK but opinions sought) 14hailelib, Iulius 18ignore
are there problems with canonical name for authors? e.g. Plato not Platon 15rsterling, Iulius 14ignore
Madeleine-Marius, S.C., etc. 1KingRat, Iulius 8ignore
1.5 million CK edits? Yippee! 1DanoStone, Iulius 4ignore
Shortlist / Nominee Questions 3AnnieMod, Iulius 1ignore
Publisher's Editor... 14KingRat, Iunius 19ignore
1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read 14AnnieMod, Iunius 5ignore
WikiThing: Gallery display bug 4quyet, Iunius 5ignore
link to author's website - where? 7quyet, Iunius 5ignore
Question about first words 5Noisy, Iunius 4ignore
First words 12BarkingMatt, Iunius 4ignore
Most Recent Activity 9lorax, Iunius 3ignore
Original title 21justjim, Iunius 1ignore
Cruddy awards 37deniro, Maius 29ignore
CK Clouds 6conceptDawg, Maius 28ignore
Award name change 9stephmo, Maius 22ignore
WWI or World War I 17stephmo, Maius 11ignore
Nationality Field 7bernsad, Maius 5ignore
The use of leading zeroes in the Canonical Title field 6trollsdotter, Maius 3ignore
CK search working? 5carport, Aprilis 23ignore
bookaward group "Goncourt" problem 17vpfluke, Aprilis 11ignore
Canonical Name: "A Novel" 30BarkingMatt, Martius 29ignore
CK history incomplete? 5rsterling, Martius 28ignore
strange error message 1erilarlo, Martius 25ignore
A couple of questions on Relationships and Organizations 11hailelib, Martius 17ignore
new CK field ?? Connections 3sqdancer, Martius 16ignore
Wikipedia - The Missing Manual 6JohnBroughton, Martius 15ignore
Burial location 5sqdancer, Martius 13ignore
award names in different language versions (why delete somebody's entries?) 10stephmo, Martius 12ignore
Character Nicknames and Quotes 1d2vge, Martius 11ignore
University Name Changes 5Osbaldistone, Martius 10ignore
Alien race field for CK? 14auntmarge64, Martius 9ignore
Note in CK for book's original title? 3amysisson, Martius 5ignore
Canonical name? 17ty1997, Martius 4ignore
names in CK: alphabetizing (matronyms etc) 51Anneli, Februarius 24ignore
Cleaning up Common Knowledge 91lquilter, Februarius 22ignore
occupations - academics 2kevinashley, Februarius 14ignore
Common Knowledge and Fair Use Doctrine 9andyl, Februarius 14ignore
Amber Series that would not die 21jjwilson61, Februarius 13ignore
"Dead or Alive" Authors 79lorax, Februarius 12ignore
Legal names: MLA or APA Style 6E59F, Februarius 11ignore
Use ISO standards for country names 10stephmo, Februarius 11ignore
New CK field? - Dedications 31stephmo, Februarius 11ignore
First "Zombie" for Dead or Alive? 3dukeallen, Februarius 10ignore
Changing Firstname Lastname to Lastname, Firstname 3infiniteletters, Februarius 6ignore
new CK field: Legal name 9PhaedraB, Februarius 3ignore
amusing biography 4tardis, Februarius 2ignore
"Combine" characters? 5jimroberts, Februarius 2ignore
garbage data (vandalism) 3qebo, Ianuarius 29ignore
Can I edit layout of book list? (prefer format like Wiki topic list) 2rsterling, Ianuarius 26ignore
Series - covers 2abbottthomas, Ianuarius 25ignore
Is it OK to create a wiki thing for a group. 31Noisy, Ianuarius 24ignore
Series: Omnibus Editions 3digifish_books, Ianuarius 21ignore
help: reviewing 3kristinbell, Ianuarius 19ignore
How to add books to "recently read activity"(and then rate them ), please? 3ryn_books, Ianuarius 19ignore
Adding Books & Website Info to Author Page 14Allemande, Ianuarius 18ignore
Cleaning up CK "descriptions" that aren't 6rsterling, Ianuarius 15ignore
Last Sentence 5LisaMorr, Ianuarius 14ignore
Blurbers: Last, First or First Last? 6rorrison, Ianuarius 13ignore
What is "canonical title"? 62abbottthomas, Ianuarius 12ignore
Date format 6davidt8, Ianuarius 9ignore
canonical title for condensed books 2PaulFoley, Ianuarius 6ignore
Common Knowledge Edit Pencil's not working today? 3Melmoth, Ianuarius 2ignore
CK: Pet Peeve Entries 30timepiece, December 2008ignore
Non-English Common Knowledge 31geitebukkeskjegg, December 2008ignore
Help with Completing an Honor... 3stephmo, December 2008ignore
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