So, while I wasn’t truly paying attention, you all have added almost seven HUNDRED patterns to the vintage stitching Patterns Wiki! That is, frankly, awesome.
Even much more incredible is that Janet at Lanetz Living has provided a $100 gift certificate for a wiki contest! (UPDATE: Rita at Cemetarian has provided a $50 gift certificate for 2nd place!)
So here’s exactly how the wiki contest is going to work — I’d like to get even much more PATTERNS into the wiki, since the bigger it is, the much more helpful it will be. So let’s objective for 3000 patterns by midnight, central Time, Jan 1, 2008. If we hit that goal, I’ll choose ONE pattern page randomly from all those produced as well as reward the developer keeping that spiffy Lanetz Living gift certificate!
Obviously, the much more patterns you upload, the higher your possibilities of winning …
Quite a few people have emailed me, stating that they have a great deal of patterns they’d like to add to the wiki, however they don’t understand exactly how as well as they’re concerned about messing things up. To which I say: it’s a wiki! Don’t concern as well much about messing things up. Wikis are both fluid as well as resilient; anything you “break” can be fixed in a matter of moments. however if you’re still concerned (or if you’re not a “let’s go in as well as mess around as well as see what happens” type of person), here’s a bit quick how-to on adding pages as well as patterns to the wiki.
The very first thing you ought to do, if whatsoever possible, is log in. (It’s alright to edit anonymously, however for useful reasons, I can’t award the prize to Anonymous. You’re in it for purely altruistic reasons if you edit anonymously.)
After you login in, produce a page! A page starts with a pattern, as well as a pattern starts with a number. To begin a new page for a new pattern, utilize this box:
This is the box on the house page, on the lower left. If you utilize this box, then the page headers/dividers (Links to reviews/blog posts, Sources/Vendors, Gallery, as well as Wishlist) will show up on the page automatically.
Type your pattern name as well as number (e.g., vogue 5380) into the box. That will begin a new page called “Vogue 5380”. If there is one more pattern already went into that has the exact same producer as well as number, as well as yours is different, phone call it “Vogue 5380 A” (B, C, etc.).
Don’t put additional info into the page name, like a date or a description. just the pattern maker as well as number. Some early patterns didn’t listing makers, so you can just utilize a number (or phone call them newspaper Pattern).
Now your new page ought to open! then you can add an image. look for the link that states “Insert Image”. If you don’t see the link, you’re most likely not logged in. only logged-in individuals can submit an image. On my page it appears like this:
Clicking this will provide you a “Browse” box — discover the pattern picture on your computer as well as click on it. then submit it.
You will then get an choice box to select whether to submit a thumbnail (small) image, or a full-size. Unless your picture is HUGE, off the screen huge, please submit the full-size. subtitle it with the pattern name as well as number:
Your page ought to reload as well as you’ll see these labels inserted on the page for the pattern image:
[[Image:Vogue5380.jpg|Vogue 5380]]
If you are linking to a page on your blog or your site, you can paste that link in under the “= links to reviews/blog messages =” or “= Sources/Vendors =” lines. (If you are so inclined, you can link to any type of page where I’ve written about a pattern — to discover it, Google [“Pattern Number” site:dressaday.com], which ought to turn up any type of pages on my site where that pattern is referenced.)
Now you’re almost done! All that’s left is to add any type of notes or categories. If you feel like typing in the notes from the pattern (“Simplicity Pattern 1732 … This includes; 3 variations of this wise slim skirt. view 1 has high rise, shaped waist as well as suspenders. view 2 boasts top-stitching as well as tab comprehensive pleat at left front. view 3 features a back kick pleat as well as tab trim at hipline.”) go ahead!
You can likewise add categories: Some great ones for any type of pattern include the pattern producer (Vogue), the year or decade if understood (1950s, 1954), what type of garment it is (dresses, jackets), any type of style features (pockets, collars), etc. keep in mind that the point of classifications is to make “buckets” to kind patterns with. So if you’d like to be able to see a listing of all patterns in the wiki that have french cuffs, you have to label all the patterns in the wiki that have french cuffs! [Not all classifications are worthwhile: some poor classifications would be “date of upload” (because it’s in the history of the page), your name (ditto), “I like this” (not a helpful classificationfor other people), etc.]
Then just hit save as well as you’re done! You made a pattern page! best now submitting a new pattern takes me about three minutes. depending upon your Web connection, size of your pattern picture files, as well as exactly how numerous other people are uploading, you may take a teeny bit longer.
You may be asking “I’d like to help, however I don’t truly have a great deal of pattern pictures … what can I do?” Lots! You can add categories, you can ‘tidy’ pages that don’t have the best headers, as well as you can go to the listing of sellers on the house page as well as submit their images! (If you do that, download the pictures to your difficult drive very first — otherwise you can’t discover them when you search — as well as be sure to link the seller’s page to the wiki page.)
Go submit patterns, have fun, as well as figure out exactly how you’re going to spend that $100 at Lanetz Living. I’m not eligible to win, of course, however if I were, I’d most likely begin with this (the one on the left)!
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