Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School,
Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 19 November 2016 No. 785
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Dear Friends,
How to keep The Abbey School memories
alive through WIKIPEDIA. Interesting chat
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From Don to ANTONI MICKIEWICZ
Oct 4 at 3:51 PM
Hi, George,
There are literally hundreds of citations you can make for your
Wikipedia entry.
The most prolific source is, of course, the Circulars.
You will need to go to each of the 15 years of 52 Circulars and search
them for key words such as “Fr Benedict” or “Fr Augustine” or “history” or
“commencement” or “Refectory”.
When you find a Circular with something relevant to what you have
written, you select and copy the URL for that Circular, and you use that URL as
your citation.
For example, I went to the 2015 Circulars.
In the top left hand corner there is a search window to search the 2015
Circulars.
I typed in “history” and pressed “enter”.
I got several Circulars with emails dealing with the history of the
Abbey School.
You will also want to add Kazim’s Abbey School Facebook page and Fr
Harold’s in order to give your article more credibility and gravitas.
Keep well.
Don
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From:
Kazim Abasali [mailto:mailto:empowerwithart@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
October 04, 2016 5:44 AM
Finally able to
sign in.
Thanks to who made
the changes?
Let us work
together on this.
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mailto:amickiew@att.net
Oct 4 at 10:48 AM
How do you post a
picture?
Would like to post
our traditional one
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Oct 4 at 7:20 AM
Have added a few
more items this morning.....not sure as to what is the minimum that we need to
have to avoid the rejection.
Will continue to
populate as I study past circulars to get applicable information.
I am copying the
latest version onto Word.
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From: Kazim Abasali
Sent:
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 9:06 AM
Do not have any
other ideas to share right now.
Hopefully someone
may be able to help.
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:48 PM,
ANTONI MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Latest issue in
latest version: citation request.
This stuff came
from my memory from reading, sharing, etc.
Other than
Circulars and MSB Database....to the best of my knowledge...we do not have any
other official documents to cite.
Does anyone have
other ideas?
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On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 7:42 AM,
Kazim Abasali <empowerwithart@gmail.com> wrote:
Keep up the tempo
Guys, very much appreciated.
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:52 PM,
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Was school opened
in 1942 0r 1944?
All available
records indicate 1944…..what is y’all’s recollection?
Do we need to
include any additional alumni in this effort this week that can and would be
willing to help?
If so, please pass
on this urgent request to them as we only have a few more days before we are
eliminated….
Thanks.
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:25 PM,
ANTONI MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Thanks, Kazim for making the changes.....and Don, for sharing your
suggestions.
I have not created a Word document as Don suggests.
I was hoping to encourage some of the alumni to make the respective
entries for the years they attended....probably not a very good
assumption.
I also was unaware of all the requirements that have to be
met.
I will continue populating.....but will probably be
"removed".
Thanks again for all your ideas and support,
George
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:00 AM,
George Mickiewicz <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Thanks, Don, for
the interesting and valuable information.
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To: ANTONI MICKIEWICZ
Oct 3 at 9:45 PM
Hello, George,
The message from Wikipedia tells you what the problem is.
There is excessive capitalisation.
The heading should be “Abbey School. . .” not “ABBEY SCHOOL . . .”
Then, it says it is giving you seven days to populate the page with all
the information you have.
I presume you have prepared a Word document with all the information you
have. If not, you have seven days to do so. You would not want to use Wikipedia
as a sort of scratch board on which you experiment with material.
You would want to have all the material you want to post previously
prepared in a Word document, with all appropriate footnotes and links. When the
page is complete (after you have sent it to several of us to proof-read and
edit for you) you would simply paste it in to the Wikipedia page.
So it seems to me, anyway.
Don
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On Monday, October 3, 2016 8:18 AM,
Kazim Abasali <empowerwithart@gmail.com> wrote:
George,
Trying to get my
log in again and will make the changes.
I did see that my
first registry was in 2011.
Trying to get a new
password now.
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On Monday, October 3, 2016 8:51 PM,
Kazim Abasali <empowerwithart@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes Don,
That is the
solution.
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:23 PM,
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Hi Guys
As I tried to continue populating the topic this morning….Wikipedia
informed me of a series of issues that need to be corrected….or…the article
will be deleted. Unfortunately I am not knowledgeable enough about addressing
the required changes…..so I have posted the following request for help on our
FB:
Wikipedia....PLEASE HELP....I have run into a
few technical issues as you can see from the latest version. Primarily one dealing
with format and acceptable practices. Would greatly appreciate assistance to
overcome this issue and I will continue to populate the information. Here is
link to latest version as of this morning....Thank you very much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ABBEY_SCHOOL,_MOUNT_SAINT_
BENEDICT,_TRINIDAD
If you have a friend or family member with the
expertise to do it…..please ask them for their kind and valuable
assistance…..thanks.
Un abrazo,
George
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From: ANTONI
MICKIEWICZ
Sent:
Monday, October 3, 2016 9:21 AM
Thanks a bunch my
good friend
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From:
Kazim Abasali [mailto:mailto:empowerwithart@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday,
October 03, 2016 4:26 AM
Thanks for the
metrics Don.
Enjoy 'retirement'
my friend.
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On Oct 2, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Don Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
wrote:
Hello, George,
Back from the island tour, had my afternoon nap, read all the regional
and international Sunday newspapers I need to read, had some supper, and am now
settling down to answer emails before I go back to bed for a good night’s
sleep. Ah, the strenuous life of the retired person.
The “metrics” for Ladislao’s Circulars as of today, 2 October 2016, are
as follows:
2001 Circulars: 7,819 page
views: http://
abbeyschool2001circulars. blogspot.com/
2002 Circulars: 7,438 page views: http://
abbeyschool2002circulars. blogspot.com/
2003 Circulars: 20,281 page
views: http://
abbeyschool2003circulars. blogspot.com/
2004 Circulars: 19,664 page
views: http://
abbeyschool2004circulars. blogspot.com/
2005 Circulars: 14,844 page
views: http://
abbeyschool2005circulars. blogspot.com/
2006 Circulars: 7,227
visitors: http://msbtunapuna.blogspot. com/
2007 Circulars: 9,613
visitors: http://abbeyschool2007.
blogspot.com/
2008 Circulars: 10,144
visitors: http:// abbeyschool2008circulars.
blogspot.com/
2009 Circulars: 6,738
visitors: http://
abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2009cir culars.blogspot.com/
2010 Circulars: 35,481 page
views: http://
abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2010cir culars.blogspot.com/
2011 Circulars: 7,040
visitors: http://
abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2011cir culars.blogspot.com/
2012 Circulars: 19,081 page views: http://
abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2012cir culars.blogspot.com/
2013 Circulars: 17,704 page
views: http://
abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2013cir culars.blogspot.com/
2014 Circulars: 14,794 page
views: http://
abbeyschool2014circulars. blogspot.com/
2015 Circulars: 7,469 page
views: http://
abbeyschool2015circulars. blogspot.com/
2016 Circulars: 3,155 page views and
continuing: http://
abbeyschool2016circulars. blogspot.com/
Note that some years measure “visitors” while other years measure “pages
viewed” so the statistics are not homogenous throughout the period under
review.
It appears that our high point of readers of the Circular was the year
2010, with 35,000 pages viewed. Readership has been declining steadily since
that date. There were 19,000 pages read in 2012, 18,000 in 2013,15,000 in 2014,
and 7,500 in 2015 (a mere 20% of the readership experienced in 2010).
Time to memorialise the history of the school on Wikipedia before the
readership of the Circulars falls to zero.
Keep well.
Don
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From: ANTONI
MICKIEWICZ
Sent:
Sunday, October 2, 2016 8:08 AM
Great Kazim...
I know what you
mean by this......dozens of user names....hundreds/thousands of
passwords....going back decades ago.
Do you have a sense
of how many alumni check our FB page on a regular basis? I see that we have 127
members....it seems that only 25-40% seem to read it on a regular basis.
Ladislao/Don....do
you have any "metrics" on the Circulars?
Warm regards,
George
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On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:07 PM,
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Congrats, Nigel,
That was a test and you passed it.
Just curious to see who really read the first entry….as far as this
morning is concerned…you are the only who responded on the “1968”
test…
Anybody in the world has the power to correct, add, subtract, etc.
Ideally, I would like to see every living alumni contribute to
it.
As far as potential human “publicity” for this effort goes….
I am aware of 3 options….Circulars…Facebook… Personal E-Mail
Contacts.
The rest is in the hands of the Holy Spirit.
I am planning to add a little every few days unless others have done
so…..keep it organic and technology centred.
Have a blessed Sunday,
George
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On Sunday, October 2, 2016 7:00 AM,
Kazim Abasali <empowerwithart@gmail.com> wrote:
I did see the
mistake and tried to correct it.
However, years ago
I joined Wikipedia and cannot remember either my username or password.
And could not make
the correction.
So, I am trying to
get my sign-in rectified.
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From: Nigel Boos [mailto:nigelboos@gmail.com]
Sent:
Saturday, October 01, 2016 9:18 PM
Shish,
This is an
excellent initiative. I hope many of the OB’s will take advantage of it and
enter their information.
Just one thing - I
believe that the School closed in 1986, and not 1968.
Nigel
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On Oct 1, 2016, at 10:35 AM,
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Hi Guys
FYI
Starting
a WIKIPEDIA Abbey School topic. I have initiated this effort by creating
I
have broken it down by decades to allow alumni to personally enter appropriate,
memorable and value adding information. Thus it will become a repository of our
history with each one of us contributing our memories. Please be sure to become
familiar with the WIKIPEDIA policy and guidelines. In advance, thanks for your
valuable contributions.
May
God bless you,
George
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com, if you would
like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you would like to
include.
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61IF0032UFE, Urbano Fedak
15LK5206FBMDV, Maurice de Verteuil
14LK5713FBGRP, Joseph Habib, UNKNOWN Joe Berment,
Allen Keith and Yunnus Ali
86LK7939FBBAND, Gerard Kenny and Band
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