User talk:Laserblue

Thank you much for your amazing page. ZyMOS 21:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello again,

I added an intro to your howto on Howto write a CIMMYT maize pedigree. Can you check to see if i got it correct. Also i was thinking that it might one of these might be a better name for you pages
 * Howto document a maize's pedigree using the CIMMYT or Purdy pedigree notation system
 * what do u think

and maybe for the Guide, Guide Plant Breeding Technician IT‎ some diffrent names could be
 * Guide to setting up a Plant Breeding xxx
 * Guide to organizing a Plant Breeding xxx
 * Im not sure of the appropriate word for xxx

Let me know what u think
 * ZyMOS 23:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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On one of your pages you mentions u needed a batch uploader for pictures check out this User:ZyMOS/Meta:upload

=link problem= The internal link "Using Plant Breeding Software" was corrupted by an edit attempt that changed the title to "Viable Software.
 * That seems bizaar, i dont know why. Where is the new software page? ZyMOS 12:16, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

we're doing a bunch of cleanup work here
Was hoping you might want to drop by and get involved again :-) color="Blue">Gil (color="Blue" size="1">talk) 10:34, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

"How to Document a Maize Line's Pedigree using the Purdy Pedigree Notation System and CIMMYT extensions for Maize" sounds o.k. but it is a very long title. CIMMYT uses the Purdy Pedigree Notation but also seems to have some additional possibly in-house notation for maize pedigrees.

"A Guide to Setting up a Maize Breeding Facility" might be the best title. The current title is ungrammatical and too ambitious. A professional plant breeding technician won't find a lot of technical material here. I'm thinking that 'Plant Breeding' is just too large a subject area because there are facilities for breeding all kinds of plants for all kinds of purposes.

I like the search engine optimization but there seems to be very little interest in the subject matter. Very few people seem to want to contribute or change the wiki. I would also like to work on using the Agrovoc agricultural ontology and RDFS like VASAT such as in a semantic wiki.

So far, I've only seen a few contributions to the wiki and they have been usually been additions of useful software. One contributor may have been involved with the breeding of ornamental flowers which is another possible work environment for a plant breeding technician.

I've also had a difficult time keeping external links current and now there are quite a few problems with aggregated educational material being blocked due to copyright and intellectual property issues. Laserblue 17:09, December 20, 2010 (UTC)