OrthodoxWiki:Anything Goes

Anything Goes: The name says it all.

Web site of the week: Coptic Christians celebrate the New Year on Sept. 11. 07:16 PM CDT on Friday, September 9, 2005

• http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/copticchristians.htm

Many mark the day by attending church services in the morning and enjoying special foods. Mark the day yourself by visiting this site to learn more about this ancient branch of Christianity.

"Coptic" refers to the Egyptian Christian church.

Christians represent 13 to 15 percent of Egypt's population; Copts also worship at hundreds of Coptic churches throughout the world.

This site's historic overview tells how the Coptic church traces its existence to the Holy Family's visit to Egypt, as recounted in the book of Matthew. St. Mark founded the church during the first century, preaching until his martyrdom in Alexandria around the time that Nero ruled Rome.

A few interesting tidbits: The Coptic church is credited with creating the first Christian monasteries, an Egyptian tradition with pre-Christian origins. The Coptic Orthodox Church's clergy is headed by Pope Shenouda III, the Pope of Alexandria.

Typical Sunday worship for Coptic churches starts at 6 or 6:30 a.m. and lasts from four to six hours. And you thought Baptist preachers were long-winded.

Mary A. Jacobs (Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Religion)

You know this is a good idea when...

...you revisit work you did on OrthodoxWiki to help you with your seminary homework.

Rdr. Andrew

...you put up a page on Orthodoxwiki so you can link to it when you're posting to your blog. [[User:Magda|—magda (talk)]] 17:40, 30 Jul 2005 (EDT)

Custom signatures for discussion pages

Have you ever noticed a custom signature like the one Rdr. Andrew uses on discussion pages? If you want to know how to do it, here's how:

1. Go to your user page. It should be something like http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User:Name, where Name is your username
2. Create an article by typing /sig after your user name in your browser's address bar. For example: http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User:Name/sig
3. This should prompt you to create a new article User:Name/sig
4. You can start the article by clicking on the link that says something like Start the Name/sig article. In reality, you can call the article anything you like
5. Copy and/or modify this sample custom signature or view other's custom signatures for ideas (e.g. Rdr. Andrew's or Joe Rodger's):
   • [[User:Name|<strong>Your Name or Nickname</strong>]] ^{[[User talk:Name|talk]] [[Special:Contributions?target=Name|contribs]]}
   • This sample would produce a signature similiar to this: —Name ^{talk contribs} 12:00, 16 Jun 2005 (EDT)
6. Paste your modified version in your /sig article and save the page
7. Go to your preferences page
8. Under User data, look for the box that say's "Your nickname (for signatures):"
9. Type {{User:Name/sig}} in that box and save your preferences
10. Now whenever you are talking on a discussion page and press the signature button on the editing bar, it will have your custom signature on it