User talk:Wintermute314

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Wintermute314, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] User page templates?

I see that some users have userpages with all kinds of tables and even maps of their home location. It suppose that there are templates for this but I can't find them on the help pages on User pages. Can somebody point me to some more information? TNX a 1.0E6

You can add images to your userpage much as you would to an article. Take a look at some articles with maps, like Poland, Congo etc. Essentially your userpage isn't very important, just write a sentence or two about your interests. When you gain some experience in WP you will understand map and image placement (eg Wikipedia:Images).--Commander Keane 16:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] welcome to the crypto corner

W, I think you've chosen a name of great distinction, though more would be, of course, better. Anyway, welcome aboard the crypto corner. We have done some good work, but there is, as always, more to do, and your help will be appreciated by all us cryptiacs, and probably the curious Average Reader, as well. You may also find yourself with an opinion on one of the great teapot tempests of our time, the cy v ci debate. See the Project page at cypher v cipher. Perhaps you too would like to chyme in? As a Belgian, your perspective is likely to, at least, different.

Glad to have you helping out with our great project of talking over the world by telling everyone about crypto.

Regarding your curiosity about how such a thing as WP might work, I can commend much of the crypto corner to you as an example of quality work (eg, Enigma and its close relations), and can suggest (with pinched nose and at arm's length) Diabetic ketoacidosis as a counterexample. You may have some impulse to pitch in there. I certainly have, but in the absence of professional qualification, I \'ve been hesitant to do so much more than around the edges. ww 17:16, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] MUMPS

W; On another point entirely, can you tell me whether MUMPS (or M for those dislike the full name) is used in Belgium in medicine? Hospitals, clinics, etc?

There are some alternative implementations, some fully open source (from Sanchez Associates) some experimental and open source (from Kevin O'Kane and students in Iowa) and others purely commercial (eg, Cache from Intersystems). I expect that some of those might be used in your area, though the odd name history may confuse. Am I right? ww 23:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I know that Cache has quite some following, usually from people who converted from MUMPS. There are a few notable new sales wins for Cache but not all that much. MUMPS is still in use in older systems. E.g. the University of Ghent still uses an old SMS (now Siemens) Hospital Information System that is largely based on MUMPS. 10-15 years ago Lab systems based on MUMPS were actively marketed in Belgium. Probably some of them are still in use. --Wintermute314 08:24, 11 August 2006 (UTC)