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'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
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When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
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Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
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Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
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On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
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Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
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<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
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<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
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<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
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<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
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<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
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<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
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<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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{{TOCleft}}The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Accommodation==<br />
[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|Amber House B&B]]''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet. until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
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For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
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Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
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New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
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The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
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[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
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Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
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===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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[[Category:Port cities in New Zealand]]</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16800Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-28T16:49:14Z<p>Amber House Limited: /* Geolocation */ trying to guess geo syntax</p>
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roof line.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
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{{Geolinks-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}--></div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16799Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-28T16:46:11Z<p>Amber House Limited: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roof line.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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{{Geolinks-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}--></div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16798Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-28T16:38:35Z<p>Amber House Limited: /* External links */ removing US based maps</p>
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roof line.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
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When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
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Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
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Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
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On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
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Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
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<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
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<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
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<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
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<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
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<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
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<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
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Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
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Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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{{Geolinks-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}--></div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Snerfling&diff=16791User talk:Snerfling2007-05-28T15:35:30Z<p>Amber House Limited: /* Customising the "table of contents" position */ correction</p>
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<div>Hello world --[[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:57, 16 November 2006 (PST)<br />
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Dear Snerfling, How would I go about adding "by Category" to the ASK query on [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]]? Thanks---[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:23, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Please see [[Centiare:Water Cooler|water cooler - technical]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:46, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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All of this new information is going to take a little while to digest and regurgitate into something of value, luckily I process rather fast. This semantic tag thing especially is a bit of a mental juggernaut to wrap my pea brain around but i'll get there. I'll keep in mind the main space v. directory from now on. Thank you immensely for all of your help. <br />
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sidebar - I'd like the riches but fame. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:25, 3 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Monetizing Web 3.0==<br />
1. ''I'm still unsure on how to turn directory pages into money besides google ads. It's hard to conseptualize why business's would want to link through me or how replacing recipes with companies yields anything. I'm looking into ripping and modifying wiki travel for some income, but again I can't see how that translates into money besides google ads.''<br />
:Well, first of all, you can't ripoff copyrighted information. The way to proceed is to convince other subject matter experts to work with you in developing marketable content.<br />
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:Secondly, IMO Google ads are merely a first step towards full-on Web 3.0 ie transactions. Become an expert on semantic tags and demonstrate how they can be incorporated by businesses. Here's the realkey: which platform(s) is Web 3.0 to be implemented? Apache via raw XML? Or a truly beautiful interface like MediaWiki that is so forgiving with its open-edit capabilities? Have you taken a look at the automatically generated [[RDF]]s? I mean, do you have any idea how cool that is? Google absolutely scarfs them up.<br />
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:I'd bet on a wiki - we like to think Centiare has thought this through and has the platform, tools & resident experts to show others how to pull it off.<br />
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2. ''If I created directory pages on let's say microsoft, dell, halliburton, could I then sell the pages back to them or would they usurp me sans fee? <br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)''<br />
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:Directory listings are owned by entities that own the names, so you can't sell them property they already own. The reason we let non-owners create directory listings for entities they don't own is two-fold:<br />
:* To enable the same type of activity that takes place at Wikipedia ie many people seem to have an interest in creating articles for entities in which they have a personal interest. The problem at WP, of course, is that someone else then comes in and ''"messes with their stuff".''<br />
:* As the semantic web emerges, to allow those that have developed expertise in this field to offer their services to entities in which they created directory listings.<br />
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:Keep your eye on the transaction cycle. How will this fit with hotels, restaurants & others in the hospitality industies? MediWiki provides an awesome platform to present summary information, place images, generate SEO semantic tags, link to reviews/recommendations, and enable purchases (reservations). How are they going to do this? By spending huge money on consultants using raw XML, or gain assistance from wikipedians who are already familiar with an incredibly easy to use wiki interface?<br />
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:Get the picture? Service/product catalog links to order-processing via semantic tags is the key. That's Web 3.0 - and we think it's going to happen here. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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=== Adsense Regulations ===<br />
It's against Adsense TOS to run more than one publisher code on a single web page. I am unable to edit this page [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Adsense]]. Can you take care of changing the codes? pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX needs to be the same on both ad units.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:07, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Oops, sorry about that. I was just trying to demo the different styles (vert & horz). I'll unprotect the page so that you can edit/modify as needed. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:31, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Semantic Centiare==<br />
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::DING DING DING. It's ringing a bell. Once I get this semantic thing down pat I can incorporate it with my existing medawiki skills and become the high priced consultant and create web 3.0 pages for businesses. If I'm still reasonably close to what you're saying then -------- this brings up whole new questions. <br />
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*<s>Do more than a hand full of people know about and implement semantic tags?</s> - read about XML (centiare using metawiki is MUCH easier)<br />
*<s>What is centiare doing to attract new users?</s> - stupid question - marketing obviously<br />
*Are there social networking possibilities for a wiki? Personally I can't see writing on other's talk pages for socialization - Are there private messanging possibilities with a wiki?<br />
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:I'm not the big Wikipedia guy - Greg is. (I'm a systems guy - my background is in accounting/financial computer systems.) We're using MediaWiki the same way Wikipedia is ie talk pages & water cooler (village pump). If you know of any other methods, I'm all ears.<br />
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*Will pages like "[[Directory:Houston]]", or other cities be profitable in the future?<br />
:Depends on what you're selling. What do people want to know about or purchase from Houston?<br />
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*<s>Why is "Japan" a main space article but the United States a directory?<br />
:Japan comes up as a directory entry; am I missing something?</s><br />
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I'm reading as much as possible about the future semantic web. This scares the privacy advocate in me.<br />
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"''Enthusiasm about the Semantic Web could be tempered by concerns regarding censorship and privacy. For instance, text-analyzing techniques can now be easily bypassed by using other words, metaphors for instance, or by using images in place of words. An advanced implementation of the Semantic Web would make it a lot easier for governments to control the viewing and creation of online information as this information would be much easier for an automated content-blocking machine to understand. In addition, the issue has also been raised that with the use of FOAF (software) files and Geolocation meta-data, there would be very little anonymity associated with the authorship of articles on things such as a personal blog.''" [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:03, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:You're still young, so you're not (yet) a cynic. I'm a published author - the publishing game is all about selling product. The way to sell product is to hype the crap out of it. You're little tidbit above was probably written by a promotions person. If you don't think the banking/credit system doesn't already have every bit of information on you and your family, then you've been hanging out too long at WP.<br />
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:All you need to know about the world is that the drive for cheaper & better is never ending. Someone comes out with something that works better for less, forget about trying to stop the movement. Web 3.0 is all about optimizing business information while delivering less expensive record keeping/transactional costs. (Do you know what a headache accounting is? Do you know what people will do to avoid managing books?)<br />
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: Ain't nothing gonna stop Web3.0 if the tech platform comes together. We think an easy to edit system like a wiki is the way to go. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:18, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Japan==<br />
I'm just using Japan to get my feet wet in this semantic stuff. Feel free to correct me when I screw up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:15, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Looks good - see my notes in your user_talk pages. If you just follow the [[Directory:California]] example (rolling up to US and drilling down to county/city/districts), you should be golden. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:19, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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<s>Ah!! Why did the semantic box in [[Directory:Japan]] disappear? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:21, 6 February 2007 (PST)</s><br />
figured it out myself (I should do that more often)<br />
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I won't - but I am creating a state template by cannibalizing the overly complicated wiki template. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:40, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==50 States==<br />
I think we should use the 50 states to set an example of how centiare should work and why it is different than wikipedia. Throwing out some ideas - so - to do this we need to <br />
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*first make the states uniform in approach.<br />
*show off the attributes, and relations more<br />
*infobox all the states in a '''simple''' box. No crazy highest peak, state bird, crap. That belongs in an enclyopedia, not a directory. Centiare is business and people oriented though so things like GDP and governors, should be mentioned.<br />
*no long winded paragraphs/sections like texas currently has. Concise - no one wants a history book when they go looking for the yellow pages. <br />
*Now there's no problem to have all the cities and counties on each state page but when there are a few hundred it will look horrible. Maybe link off to a "Counties in X State" page and "Cities in X State" page. Or do that and couple it with a "major city" attribute to distinguish pages like houston. <br />
*Maybe a "businesses located in x state" with a short blurb about business in the state and a link to a semantic table.<br />
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Just some ideas. Feel free to pick them apart. oder stimmen Sie mit einigen uberein. Boeuf, Ce n'est pas un grand chose. (And eventually expand into centiare.fr/centiare.de)<br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:21, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:These are all good ideas. However, there's a problem - the states are '''owned''' (ie controlled) by [[User:OmniMediaGroup|OMG]] until at which time the governors' offices want to take over. (That is, the '''true owners''' of the respective states' official web sites.)<br />
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:Insofar as your specific comments, we have [[Centiare:subpage|subpage]]s enabled for just these reasons. If you take a look at [[Directory:Texas]], you can see I added a [[Directory:Texas/Counties|counties]] link earlier today. Ideally, each state would be organized in a uniform fashion that took full advantage of subpages & ASK queries - including history, etc.<br />
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:Rather than try & address 50 states, why don't we perfect Texas? If we do a bang up job on Texas, we can take it to the governor + each county + each (major) city + businesses, social orgs (churces, Boy Scouts), sports (Little League, etc), etc. If you browse through [[Directory:California]], you can see I experimented with each different level of government/agencies. To the extent of adding a few more tags, the existing relationships, attributes & categories (don't forget categories - read the [[Centiare:ASK|ASK]] primer) are all working very well.<br />
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:If we get Texas wired, then we can take the same idea to the other states. They ALL have economic development offices. The Net is all about lowering the cost of doing business, including marketing. Semantic tags + user controlled info (Web 3.0) is the secret weapon of small businesses. If we went after women & minorities, there would probably be money available for training them on Web 3.0. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:06, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I will be adding useful content to all the pages I've "parked" on but I'm working out this google adsense thing right now to get some revenue. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:49, 8 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Nope, I mainly use my andman8@yahoo.com account. I had to sign up with the rminks1 account bc centiare requires a business email address but I never check it. Could you forward the stuff to my yahoo account. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:42, 9 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Google Videos==<br />
Is there any way I can add a google video instead of a youtube video as they are better quality? <br />
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Like a <google>XXXXXXXX</google> [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:30, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:The generic <nowiki><embed></nowiki> should work fine since it works with [[Centiare:Extensions/Google_Gadgets|Google Gadgets]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:09, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::It doesn't work because the google gadget doesn't let you pick the individual video. How does the youtube one work? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:35, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Huh? Are you saying there isn't a video per page @ Google? If not, how would a parser function pull out the video anyway? That's how <nowiki><youtube> & <adsense></nowiki> work - it isn't magic. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:39, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::::I don't really know. Though you seem way more knowledgable than me. Could you create one embeded video link from google for me so I can use it as a template for all the others? The freaks link is here [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=freaks&hl=en] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:38, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Search Triple===<br />
I don't quite get what your hinting at with the whole has thing. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:25, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Without getting overly technical, semantics are all about subject:relation:value. (Three elements or "search triple".) So, Berlin:is capital of:Germany OR Germany:has capital is:Berlin. I wouldn't get too hung up on it - it's sort of the standard means of identifying relations. If you're interested in reading more, you should check out [http://www.ontoworld.org Semantic MediaWiki] site. Take a browse through their relations and you'll see the pattern. The bottom line is to reach some agreement on a set of movie tags. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:51, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==ACRs for Ask the Doctors==<br />
Would you mind taking a look at the work-up page for one of my future projects and let me know your thoughts on possible ACRs. If you check out some of the working links I think you'll know where I want to go with this. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Ask the Doctors]] TIA--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:16, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Will do - thanx for the heads up. I'll try & get back with you within the hour. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:18, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::Sorry, I should have mentioned, no hurry on this.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:24, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Movie Tags===<br />
Thanks for creating all the movie sem tags. Do you think you could add [[Directory:Garrett Minks/Page Creations]] to the assistance and help parts of centiare? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:33, 16 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Done. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:33, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Of course, another the step on the way to being the semantic king. I'm just finishing up with my first client [[Directory:Nathaniel Lande]] and will jump in right after. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 08:16, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Book Tags===<br />
Thanks for the book tags. There is an issue with Author Of as a relation. It produces a red link as a page relation directing to a "this page does not exist...yada yada yada" I think we need an Attribute:Author<br />
--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 10:13, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:If we use an 'author of' relation, we can also make directory listings (ie property) for their works. If an author has multiple works, then we can run ASK queries to list all books that have the 'author of' tag. Attributes are generally good if you don't want to internally reference links. I think a relation in this case is better. What do you think? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:21, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I think the Author Of and Has Author relations should definitely stay for future instances as you described above. I've created an ASK roll-up in my book area to demonstrate why I created the Author attribute yesterday. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Books]] If you don't think it's appropriate we can discuss. --[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 06:54, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::I really think you should use [[Relation:Has Author]]. As you can see, attributes, unlike relations, don't automatically include hyper-links within ASK queries. This, of course, prevents browsing; if you simply added a <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> as a stub for author listings, it would (a) get rid of the redlinks, and (b) give you another page in which to drop adsense ads. Please reconsider. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:34, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Pulp==<br />
I HATE collectivism! They destroyed my pulp fiction article on wikipedia. I'm never making another non paid edit on that stupid ****. Phew - felt good to vent. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:30, 25 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==I'm adding [[keyword:= to everything==<br />
the keyword "a new kind of wiki" comes up 6th out of 55 million!<br />
[http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=a+new+kind+of+wiki&btnG=Google+Search] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:41, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Hmmm, maybe I should add it to the front page? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:45, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Thanks for the heads up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 10:01, 4 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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The medical tag attribute won't work for personal injury, bankruptcy, and divorce. What kind of universal tag would you suggest? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:12, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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-nevermind - just too dumb to read the bottom half of your message. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:06, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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== Milson Printing Logo ==<br />
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I re-uploaded the Milson Printing Logo image. I think it serves as a good "prompt" to get new contributors to change the image to their own appropriate one. You had deleted it March 15 as a "duplicate", but I'm not seeing how it was a duplicate image. Let me know if you want to delete it again. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 12:06, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Sorry about that. What happened was someone (I forget who) uploaded a new image by overwriting Milson. I then renamed it & deleted Milson, even though it was the new image. I now this came up before - if it ever turns into a problem, I'll have to extend the protection extension to the Image directory as well. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 12:09, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==contact==<br />
You were probably already aware but I've discovered these feedback boxes and think they are quite cool. what ever you type in and submit gets emailed directly to me. This interweb is quite amazing! [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:48, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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<embed><br />
<script src="http://www.formlogix.com/publish.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">CreatePublishFrame('VXNlcklkPTEyODMyLkZvcm1JZD0yLlJvd0lEPS0xLkFwcE5hbWU9QXBwLkZvcm1OYW1lPW5ldyBmb3JtLlF1aWNrTGlua0lEPS0x','293','350','www.formlogix.com');</script><br />
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:Hey, those things are pretty cool. I wasn't aware of them specifically, since there's so many of these script widgets floating around. Do you want to add them to list of [[Centiare:extensions]]? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:35, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I think it would be a great addition. I added it to my "ownership" template with really cool results. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:52, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Red Links===<br />
Doesn't Google frown upon creating pages with no content like the sailing related stuff? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:47, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:I didn't want a bunch of red links on the front page - feel free to add some content if the mood strikes you. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 18:29, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Consider it done, thanks to GFDL content from Encyclopedian.com. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 19:25, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Bad account ==<br />
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Looks like a mistaken duplicate account (with a lower-case "l") was [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User:Jerry_lavoie&action=edit made here]. Can we delete accounts, as if they never existed, or can you only "block"? Not that it's bugging me... --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:55, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:We don't make distinctions between unactivated user accounts, whether resulting from incorrect/invalid email addresses, etc. It always dangerous to actually "delete" database records; they really don't take up any space, so it's better to leave them alone. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:10, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Taming the ad beast ==<br />
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Let Garrett and me know what you think of [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Garrett&diff=13544&oldid=13520 what I told Garrett]. I don't want to suppress the spirit, but we also don't want Centiare mucked up with 80% ads, 20% content. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:02, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Firefox blocked the pop-up as well. I agree with your observation that users hate pop-up ads. That being said, I think there's a natural counter-acting moderation for those with their own directory listings. That is, potential problems arise in situations where non-owners have developed directory listings. Since these are allowed at our discretion, we can easily create a policy governing this practice. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 13:41, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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adbrite looks much more on the up and up and doesn't have pop-ups. [http://www.adbrite.com] Why google why! - this looks to be a suitable replacement and better than the last one. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:00, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Social --> Share this page ==<br />
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Karl, could you please change the "Quick Addition" template so that the additional "share" script is headed "Share this page", rather than "Social"? It's the more common terminology, and that's how I've updated the "long form" Add a listing pages. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:45, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Karl, hope you don't mind, but I made the "Share this page" change.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:21, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Looks great. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:48, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== My user page. ==<br />
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Aha! Thanks for the fix! [[User:Nathan|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Nathan|talk]]) 11:25, 20 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==featured articles==<br />
Is it cool if I make up one or two FA's a week that show off more of what makes centiare cool like ask queries and embedded videos? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:44, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:That's great - I've been hoping people would suggest/prepare FAs so we could display articles other than states. Once you have them mocked up, just place them on the [[Centiare:Today's featured article/Submissions|FA waiting list]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:01, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==sysop==<br />
can you allow me to do thay move=sysop thing so my pages and my clients pages are view source instead of edit? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:21, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Sysop edited pages need to be individually protected in order to be read only. It would be easier to just return your account status to regular, that way each of your directory listings would automatically be protected. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:08, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
::then could you return me to a regular user and set up an admin account maybe? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:50, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::Go ahead and create another account and we'll set it up as vuser. We'll turn your Garrett account into a regular user. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:48, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==New Skin==<br />
So how exactly do I make a new skin - the code on the meta wiki page isn't even close. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:33, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:The css/js changes are made to your own respective files. I think you're finding out first hand why changing the basic appearance is such a big deal. I find it hard to believe that the look & feel is what is preventing more people from signing up and using the service. Centiare is loaded with all sorts of functions and extensions - it just needs to find its audience. Personally, I would focus on increasing the usability of the pages you've created so far. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:02, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::You're right. Why don't we just put the new layout on hold until 10,000 articles or the top 25,000 on alexa. I think more word of mouth/google results to draw people to centiare then an effortless form filling to create a good looking listing would bring us to that goal by the end of the summer.<br />
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::Down the road I might be able to actually make associates/ad revenue or even better sell a country for a few grand after showing it gets X thousand hits a day :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 20:06, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Forms 2.0===<br />
You might want to take a look at this new MW [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ forms package]. I'm going to be installing it shortly to see if it will work with Centiare's sem tags and other extensions. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:20, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Compete rank==<br />
My awesome firefox tool bar added the "compete rank" to my browser showing exactly how many unique page views a site gets per day. We're ranked 880,000 thousand and get 986 unique visitors per day. I'm sure google analytics tells you this already but I thought the site as a whole got more like 5,000 hits a day? College doesn't start until the fall which means marketing marketing... eventual riches. We should start thinking viral. [http://snapshot.compete.com/] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:37, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Interesting - looks like something similar to Alexa. Did you get the email I sent you regarding biz ops? Btw, where are you going to college? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:36, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==widgety==<br />
There are million's of scripts/widget's out there but since you've already created a bunch and have them queued up for FA do you mind if I incorporate my sharethis/html/ads/semantic box into your previously created content? And thank you so much for the business advice, it's greatly appreciated :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:24, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Knock yourself out - I set them up just to get started. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:03, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== RSS - Moved from OMG Talk Page ==<br />
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[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleFeed Extension:SimpleFeed] <br />
I loaded it and ran a test [[RSS|here]], but it doesn't seem to be working; the RSS widget that Garrett suggested renders much better. Let me know if you can get it working properly and/or whether Garrett's works better either way.<br />
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I think the SimplePie library needs to be installed to get this RSS feed parser to work.<br />
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[http://simplepie.org/docs/plugins/mediawiki/ SimplePie]<br />
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It will be better than the RSS Include that Garrett and I have been using because the feed content is included in the page source and the search engines see a fresh page of content every time they crawl. It will help populate empty pages with content. '''IF''' you can get it working will you set the default number of feeds to 15 instead of 5.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 07:25, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:A few weeks ago I had tried to install/run SimplePie's MW extension from their ''own web site'' before you referenced the ''MW-meta'' SP extension. In both instances I couldn't get it to work, so I ended up deleting the entire set of files off the server. (That's why it's not rendering at all.)<br />
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:Are you positive SP will work better than the RSS widget Garrett found? If so, I'll make yet another effort (3rd time's the charm?) to get the SP reader going. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:53, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Absolutely positive! PHP parsing adds (writes) RSS content to the Centiare page source. The javascript (Garrett's widget) only <u>displays</u> content from another site. I'm confident you can make this happen. Fingers crossed!!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:09, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::OK, one more time. If I have any problems again, I'll contact the MW and/or SP developers directly for assistance. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:06, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::::Alright, it's [[Centiare:Extensions/RSS|finally working]]! While some others had commented that they also couldn't install the extension, there were some recommendations by another who had slightly tweaked the procedures to get it to work. Have fun with it. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:34, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Success, thank you!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:39, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==templates==<br />
I templated every aspect of a widget page minus the unique script and the page size went from ~2000 bytes down to 750. Can google still pick up on the code behind the page to pagerank my listings? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:59, 19 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I have no idea if they're going to work as I just did ''replace all'' from wikipedia to centiare and hit save. I kinda sorta kind I might kinda know what I might be doing maybe. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:53, 20 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AdSizes==<br />
I noticed some adsense experimentation with the ad sizes. The following are the allowable ad sizes.<br />
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[[Image:AdSizes.png]]<br />
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The adsense code needs to be modified in four places to change the size of the ad.<br />
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* google_ad_client = "pub-5512298628457000";<br />
* google_ad_width = '''120''';<br />
* google_ad_height = '''240''';<br />
* google_ad_format = "'''120x240'''_as";<br />
* google_ad_type = "text_image";<br />
* google_ad_channel = "";<br />
* google_color_border = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_link = "0066CC";<br />
* google_color_text = "000000";<br />
* google_color_url = "008000";<br />
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--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:59, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Muchas gracias - you are the maestro. I finally applied for my very own Adsense account today, so I'll be able to swap out your client ID for mine shortly. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 10:02, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==[[Directory:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]]==<br />
Is their any alternative to moving the Directory:GlassBeadGame article to Directory:Wikipedia Review? I am not owner or even an admin of WR and do not seek to speak on their behalf. I believe by moving the article I become the only person at WR who can edit the the article. <br />
[[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 19:56, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:In this case, we have three options:<br />
:# Centiare allows non-owners to create directory listings with the knowledge that they will be transfered when the real owners appear (eg OMG created content for celebrities). You could create/maintain WR until the owner(s) elected to take control of their Centiare listing.<br />
:# Create another entity - we allow virtual DBAs (doing business as). See [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]] for an example.<br />
:# Delete the directory listing and use your anonymous user page.<br />
:Let me know what you'd like to do. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 03:32, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:: I moved all the content from [[Directory:Wikipedia Review]] and any sub pages I created to [[User:GlassBeadGame]] you can delete the pages in the Directory namespace. Hopefully someone responsible for WR will start an appropriate article soon. Thanks. [[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 08:25, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==ASK Query Limit?==<br />
Is there a limit to the amount of articles an ASK query will display? This rollup is only showing A-G and there should be more showing. [[Directory:Medical_News_Today]] Did I do something wrong?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:37, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Yeah, we currently have a 50 record limit in our default settings to avoid dumping the database. We should discuss whether we want to increase this limit, or encourage users to create sub-queries via categories, etc. to produce smaller, 50 record max queries.<br />
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:For example, even once SoX has 5k+ records, I can use parameters like geog, sic, stock exchange, fiscal year-end, etc to bring down queries to reasonable levels. I'd like to hear Greg's opinion on this; I can up the limit, but then we sort of are encouraging straight dumps. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:07, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Is there a way to break alphabetically, A-D E-H ...?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 16:36, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::Perhaps - let me look at the documentation. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:57, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::So the sector portals off the main page will be limited to 50 also? I think this illustrates why companies go for names like "AAAA Plumbing Services". Everyone at the low end of the alphabet will be out of luck.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:04, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::Yes, gross listings are limited to 50. But there's nothing stopping anyone from creating ad hoc master index pages linked to separate report pages that run queries based on specific input criteria such as alpha AAA-CCC, DDD-FFF, etc.<br />
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:::You should experiment with [[Centiare|ASK]] to see if it can assess tagged page titles; I know it can assess number ranges such as population. If it has trouble with internal strings, we can always create new alpha tags such as <nowiki>[[Attribute:Name Range A]]</nowiki>, etc. to filter queries. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:40, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::::I understand that limits on ASK queries are necessary to protect the database. However, at this stage, we have no evidence that ANYONE is using Centiare to off-load lists or content. Personally, I think until we see such activity taking place, we would be "showing off" more of our content by upping that limit to something more likely to cover our editors' needs and interests -- maybe N=500, rather than N=50? --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:15, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::I was reading through the [[Help:Inline queries|ASK]] documentation and there's supposed to be an option where add'l records that exceed the max limit can be displayed via an embedded link:<br />
::::''If not all results of a query have been displayed due to a restricted limit, there will often be a link to "further results" that is displayed below the query. The text of this link can be modified by setting the parameter searchlabel.''<br />
:::Problem is, I couldn't get it to work. This would solve the issue and provide a nice navigational component. Let me look into it; if I can't get it to work, I'll increase the default display limit. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:25, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AAHHH! I'm deleting my ownership template==<br />
I'm pretty sure google has dropped all of my pages because they have too many links and are just another zombie site. Zut! I can't find anything on search.<br />
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[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:08, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Customising the "table of contents" position==<br />
Thank you for your kind welcome on our talk page [[User_talk:Amber_House_Limited|Amber_House_Limited]]. <br />
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We have tried (and failed) to re-position the table of contents on our directory page [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] by using the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> we are familiar with from Wikipedia.<br />
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How is a customised position for the ToC achieved here?<br />
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Also, how do we disable just the <br />
# Topographic map from TopoZone<br />
# Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA <br />
since New Zealand is a long way outwith the coverage areas of those American-centric maps? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 07:19, 28 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Hi there - glad to have you on board. I set up to the various TOC templates, so let me know if your listing is rendering the way you like. I also commented out the geo codes to eliminate the reference points that were interfering with your image.<br />
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:Btw, we have the new [[Centiare:Extensions|Google map extension]] enabled + we allow java/flash scripts in case you want to [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Gadgets|embed a map widget/gadget]].<br />
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:We've also got all sorts of SEO tools enabled at Centiare that should really help boost your rankings. Chief amongst these are the various [[Special:Attributes|semantic tags]] that not only help organize internal data, but also provide invaluable machine tags that Google seems to prefer.<br />
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:There's a bunch of experienced wikipedians hanging out here how have figured out some interesting tricks, so feel free to drop a general comment/question either at the [[Centiare:Water Cooler|Water Cooler]] or respective talk pages. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:48, 28 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Thank you for fixing the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> template.<br />
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::However, '''ALL''' the geo information has now disappeared from the [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] altogether! The co-ordinates are no longer listed top left and neither do we have the google maps or WikiMapia choices. Looks like the baby has gone with the bath water. If it's not possible to disable just the <br />
::# Topographic map from TopoZone<br />
::# Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA <br />
::then we'll just have to put up with them.<br />
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::Could you also look to see why the image Nelson.png map is not displaying properly in the [[Nelson, New Zealand]] infobox? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 08:22, 28 May 2007 (PDT)</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Snerfling&diff=16790User talk:Snerfling2007-05-28T15:34:29Z<p>Amber House Limited: /* Customising the "table of contents" position */ correction</p>
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<div>Hello world --[[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:57, 16 November 2006 (PST)<br />
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Dear Snerfling, How would I go about adding "by Category" to the ASK query on [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]]? Thanks---[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:23, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Please see [[Centiare:Water Cooler|water cooler - technical]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:46, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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All of this new information is going to take a little while to digest and regurgitate into something of value, luckily I process rather fast. This semantic tag thing especially is a bit of a mental juggernaut to wrap my pea brain around but i'll get there. I'll keep in mind the main space v. directory from now on. Thank you immensely for all of your help. <br />
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sidebar - I'd like the riches but fame. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:25, 3 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Monetizing Web 3.0==<br />
1. ''I'm still unsure on how to turn directory pages into money besides google ads. It's hard to conseptualize why business's would want to link through me or how replacing recipes with companies yields anything. I'm looking into ripping and modifying wiki travel for some income, but again I can't see how that translates into money besides google ads.''<br />
:Well, first of all, you can't ripoff copyrighted information. The way to proceed is to convince other subject matter experts to work with you in developing marketable content.<br />
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:Secondly, IMO Google ads are merely a first step towards full-on Web 3.0 ie transactions. Become an expert on semantic tags and demonstrate how they can be incorporated by businesses. Here's the realkey: which platform(s) is Web 3.0 to be implemented? Apache via raw XML? Or a truly beautiful interface like MediaWiki that is so forgiving with its open-edit capabilities? Have you taken a look at the automatically generated [[RDF]]s? I mean, do you have any idea how cool that is? Google absolutely scarfs them up.<br />
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:I'd bet on a wiki - we like to think Centiare has thought this through and has the platform, tools & resident experts to show others how to pull it off.<br />
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2. ''If I created directory pages on let's say microsoft, dell, halliburton, could I then sell the pages back to them or would they usurp me sans fee? <br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)''<br />
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:Directory listings are owned by entities that own the names, so you can't sell them property they already own. The reason we let non-owners create directory listings for entities they don't own is two-fold:<br />
:* To enable the same type of activity that takes place at Wikipedia ie many people seem to have an interest in creating articles for entities in which they have a personal interest. The problem at WP, of course, is that someone else then comes in and ''"messes with their stuff".''<br />
:* As the semantic web emerges, to allow those that have developed expertise in this field to offer their services to entities in which they created directory listings.<br />
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:Keep your eye on the transaction cycle. How will this fit with hotels, restaurants & others in the hospitality industies? MediWiki provides an awesome platform to present summary information, place images, generate SEO semantic tags, link to reviews/recommendations, and enable purchases (reservations). How are they going to do this? By spending huge money on consultants using raw XML, or gain assistance from wikipedians who are already familiar with an incredibly easy to use wiki interface?<br />
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:Get the picture? Service/product catalog links to order-processing via semantic tags is the key. That's Web 3.0 - and we think it's going to happen here. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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=== Adsense Regulations ===<br />
It's against Adsense TOS to run more than one publisher code on a single web page. I am unable to edit this page [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Adsense]]. Can you take care of changing the codes? pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX needs to be the same on both ad units.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:07, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Oops, sorry about that. I was just trying to demo the different styles (vert & horz). I'll unprotect the page so that you can edit/modify as needed. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:31, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Semantic Centiare==<br />
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::DING DING DING. It's ringing a bell. Once I get this semantic thing down pat I can incorporate it with my existing medawiki skills and become the high priced consultant and create web 3.0 pages for businesses. If I'm still reasonably close to what you're saying then -------- this brings up whole new questions. <br />
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*<s>Do more than a hand full of people know about and implement semantic tags?</s> - read about XML (centiare using metawiki is MUCH easier)<br />
*<s>What is centiare doing to attract new users?</s> - stupid question - marketing obviously<br />
*Are there social networking possibilities for a wiki? Personally I can't see writing on other's talk pages for socialization - Are there private messanging possibilities with a wiki?<br />
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:I'm not the big Wikipedia guy - Greg is. (I'm a systems guy - my background is in accounting/financial computer systems.) We're using MediaWiki the same way Wikipedia is ie talk pages & water cooler (village pump). If you know of any other methods, I'm all ears.<br />
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*Will pages like "[[Directory:Houston]]", or other cities be profitable in the future?<br />
:Depends on what you're selling. What do people want to know about or purchase from Houston?<br />
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*<s>Why is "Japan" a main space article but the United States a directory?<br />
:Japan comes up as a directory entry; am I missing something?</s><br />
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I'm reading as much as possible about the future semantic web. This scares the privacy advocate in me.<br />
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"''Enthusiasm about the Semantic Web could be tempered by concerns regarding censorship and privacy. For instance, text-analyzing techniques can now be easily bypassed by using other words, metaphors for instance, or by using images in place of words. An advanced implementation of the Semantic Web would make it a lot easier for governments to control the viewing and creation of online information as this information would be much easier for an automated content-blocking machine to understand. In addition, the issue has also been raised that with the use of FOAF (software) files and Geolocation meta-data, there would be very little anonymity associated with the authorship of articles on things such as a personal blog.''" [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:03, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:You're still young, so you're not (yet) a cynic. I'm a published author - the publishing game is all about selling product. The way to sell product is to hype the crap out of it. You're little tidbit above was probably written by a promotions person. If you don't think the banking/credit system doesn't already have every bit of information on you and your family, then you've been hanging out too long at WP.<br />
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:All you need to know about the world is that the drive for cheaper & better is never ending. Someone comes out with something that works better for less, forget about trying to stop the movement. Web 3.0 is all about optimizing business information while delivering less expensive record keeping/transactional costs. (Do you know what a headache accounting is? Do you know what people will do to avoid managing books?)<br />
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: Ain't nothing gonna stop Web3.0 if the tech platform comes together. We think an easy to edit system like a wiki is the way to go. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:18, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Japan==<br />
I'm just using Japan to get my feet wet in this semantic stuff. Feel free to correct me when I screw up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:15, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Looks good - see my notes in your user_talk pages. If you just follow the [[Directory:California]] example (rolling up to US and drilling down to county/city/districts), you should be golden. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:19, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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<s>Ah!! Why did the semantic box in [[Directory:Japan]] disappear? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:21, 6 February 2007 (PST)</s><br />
figured it out myself (I should do that more often)<br />
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I won't - but I am creating a state template by cannibalizing the overly complicated wiki template. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:40, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==50 States==<br />
I think we should use the 50 states to set an example of how centiare should work and why it is different than wikipedia. Throwing out some ideas - so - to do this we need to <br />
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*first make the states uniform in approach.<br />
*show off the attributes, and relations more<br />
*infobox all the states in a '''simple''' box. No crazy highest peak, state bird, crap. That belongs in an enclyopedia, not a directory. Centiare is business and people oriented though so things like GDP and governors, should be mentioned.<br />
*no long winded paragraphs/sections like texas currently has. Concise - no one wants a history book when they go looking for the yellow pages. <br />
*Now there's no problem to have all the cities and counties on each state page but when there are a few hundred it will look horrible. Maybe link off to a "Counties in X State" page and "Cities in X State" page. Or do that and couple it with a "major city" attribute to distinguish pages like houston. <br />
*Maybe a "businesses located in x state" with a short blurb about business in the state and a link to a semantic table.<br />
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Just some ideas. Feel free to pick them apart. oder stimmen Sie mit einigen uberein. Boeuf, Ce n'est pas un grand chose. (And eventually expand into centiare.fr/centiare.de)<br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:21, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:These are all good ideas. However, there's a problem - the states are '''owned''' (ie controlled) by [[User:OmniMediaGroup|OMG]] until at which time the governors' offices want to take over. (That is, the '''true owners''' of the respective states' official web sites.)<br />
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:Insofar as your specific comments, we have [[Centiare:subpage|subpage]]s enabled for just these reasons. If you take a look at [[Directory:Texas]], you can see I added a [[Directory:Texas/Counties|counties]] link earlier today. Ideally, each state would be organized in a uniform fashion that took full advantage of subpages & ASK queries - including history, etc.<br />
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:Rather than try & address 50 states, why don't we perfect Texas? If we do a bang up job on Texas, we can take it to the governor + each county + each (major) city + businesses, social orgs (churces, Boy Scouts), sports (Little League, etc), etc. If you browse through [[Directory:California]], you can see I experimented with each different level of government/agencies. To the extent of adding a few more tags, the existing relationships, attributes & categories (don't forget categories - read the [[Centiare:ASK|ASK]] primer) are all working very well.<br />
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:If we get Texas wired, then we can take the same idea to the other states. They ALL have economic development offices. The Net is all about lowering the cost of doing business, including marketing. Semantic tags + user controlled info (Web 3.0) is the secret weapon of small businesses. If we went after women & minorities, there would probably be money available for training them on Web 3.0. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:06, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I will be adding useful content to all the pages I've "parked" on but I'm working out this google adsense thing right now to get some revenue. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:49, 8 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Nope, I mainly use my andman8@yahoo.com account. I had to sign up with the rminks1 account bc centiare requires a business email address but I never check it. Could you forward the stuff to my yahoo account. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:42, 9 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Google Videos==<br />
Is there any way I can add a google video instead of a youtube video as they are better quality? <br />
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Like a <google>XXXXXXXX</google> [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:30, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:The generic <nowiki><embed></nowiki> should work fine since it works with [[Centiare:Extensions/Google_Gadgets|Google Gadgets]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:09, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::It doesn't work because the google gadget doesn't let you pick the individual video. How does the youtube one work? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:35, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Huh? Are you saying there isn't a video per page @ Google? If not, how would a parser function pull out the video anyway? That's how <nowiki><youtube> & <adsense></nowiki> work - it isn't magic. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:39, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::::I don't really know. Though you seem way more knowledgable than me. Could you create one embeded video link from google for me so I can use it as a template for all the others? The freaks link is here [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=freaks&hl=en] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:38, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Search Triple===<br />
I don't quite get what your hinting at with the whole has thing. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:25, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Without getting overly technical, semantics are all about subject:relation:value. (Three elements or "search triple".) So, Berlin:is capital of:Germany OR Germany:has capital is:Berlin. I wouldn't get too hung up on it - it's sort of the standard means of identifying relations. If you're interested in reading more, you should check out [http://www.ontoworld.org Semantic MediaWiki] site. Take a browse through their relations and you'll see the pattern. The bottom line is to reach some agreement on a set of movie tags. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:51, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==ACRs for Ask the Doctors==<br />
Would you mind taking a look at the work-up page for one of my future projects and let me know your thoughts on possible ACRs. If you check out some of the working links I think you'll know where I want to go with this. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Ask the Doctors]] TIA--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:16, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Will do - thanx for the heads up. I'll try & get back with you within the hour. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:18, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::Sorry, I should have mentioned, no hurry on this.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:24, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Movie Tags===<br />
Thanks for creating all the movie sem tags. Do you think you could add [[Directory:Garrett Minks/Page Creations]] to the assistance and help parts of centiare? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:33, 16 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Done. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:33, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Of course, another the step on the way to being the semantic king. I'm just finishing up with my first client [[Directory:Nathaniel Lande]] and will jump in right after. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 08:16, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Book Tags===<br />
Thanks for the book tags. There is an issue with Author Of as a relation. It produces a red link as a page relation directing to a "this page does not exist...yada yada yada" I think we need an Attribute:Author<br />
--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 10:13, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:If we use an 'author of' relation, we can also make directory listings (ie property) for their works. If an author has multiple works, then we can run ASK queries to list all books that have the 'author of' tag. Attributes are generally good if you don't want to internally reference links. I think a relation in this case is better. What do you think? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:21, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I think the Author Of and Has Author relations should definitely stay for future instances as you described above. I've created an ASK roll-up in my book area to demonstrate why I created the Author attribute yesterday. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Books]] If you don't think it's appropriate we can discuss. --[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 06:54, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::I really think you should use [[Relation:Has Author]]. As you can see, attributes, unlike relations, don't automatically include hyper-links within ASK queries. This, of course, prevents browsing; if you simply added a <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> as a stub for author listings, it would (a) get rid of the redlinks, and (b) give you another page in which to drop adsense ads. Please reconsider. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:34, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Pulp==<br />
I HATE collectivism! They destroyed my pulp fiction article on wikipedia. I'm never making another non paid edit on that stupid ****. Phew - felt good to vent. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:30, 25 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==I'm adding [[keyword:= to everything==<br />
the keyword "a new kind of wiki" comes up 6th out of 55 million!<br />
[http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=a+new+kind+of+wiki&btnG=Google+Search] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:41, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Hmmm, maybe I should add it to the front page? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:45, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Thanks for the heads up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 10:01, 4 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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The medical tag attribute won't work for personal injury, bankruptcy, and divorce. What kind of universal tag would you suggest? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:12, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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-nevermind - just too dumb to read the bottom half of your message. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:06, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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== Milson Printing Logo ==<br />
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I re-uploaded the Milson Printing Logo image. I think it serves as a good "prompt" to get new contributors to change the image to their own appropriate one. You had deleted it March 15 as a "duplicate", but I'm not seeing how it was a duplicate image. Let me know if you want to delete it again. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 12:06, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Sorry about that. What happened was someone (I forget who) uploaded a new image by overwriting Milson. I then renamed it & deleted Milson, even though it was the new image. I now this came up before - if it ever turns into a problem, I'll have to extend the protection extension to the Image directory as well. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 12:09, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==contact==<br />
You were probably already aware but I've discovered these feedback boxes and think they are quite cool. what ever you type in and submit gets emailed directly to me. This interweb is quite amazing! [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:48, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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<script src="http://www.formlogix.com/publish.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">CreatePublishFrame('VXNlcklkPTEyODMyLkZvcm1JZD0yLlJvd0lEPS0xLkFwcE5hbWU9QXBwLkZvcm1OYW1lPW5ldyBmb3JtLlF1aWNrTGlua0lEPS0x','293','350','www.formlogix.com');</script><br />
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:Hey, those things are pretty cool. I wasn't aware of them specifically, since there's so many of these script widgets floating around. Do you want to add them to list of [[Centiare:extensions]]? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:35, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I think it would be a great addition. I added it to my "ownership" template with really cool results. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:52, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Red Links===<br />
Doesn't Google frown upon creating pages with no content like the sailing related stuff? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:47, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:I didn't want a bunch of red links on the front page - feel free to add some content if the mood strikes you. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 18:29, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Consider it done, thanks to GFDL content from Encyclopedian.com. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 19:25, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Bad account ==<br />
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Looks like a mistaken duplicate account (with a lower-case "l") was [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User:Jerry_lavoie&action=edit made here]. Can we delete accounts, as if they never existed, or can you only "block"? Not that it's bugging me... --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:55, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:We don't make distinctions between unactivated user accounts, whether resulting from incorrect/invalid email addresses, etc. It always dangerous to actually "delete" database records; they really don't take up any space, so it's better to leave them alone. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:10, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Taming the ad beast ==<br />
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Let Garrett and me know what you think of [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Garrett&diff=13544&oldid=13520 what I told Garrett]. I don't want to suppress the spirit, but we also don't want Centiare mucked up with 80% ads, 20% content. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:02, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Firefox blocked the pop-up as well. I agree with your observation that users hate pop-up ads. That being said, I think there's a natural counter-acting moderation for those with their own directory listings. That is, potential problems arise in situations where non-owners have developed directory listings. Since these are allowed at our discretion, we can easily create a policy governing this practice. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 13:41, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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adbrite looks much more on the up and up and doesn't have pop-ups. [http://www.adbrite.com] Why google why! - this looks to be a suitable replacement and better than the last one. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:00, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Social --> Share this page ==<br />
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Karl, could you please change the "Quick Addition" template so that the additional "share" script is headed "Share this page", rather than "Social"? It's the more common terminology, and that's how I've updated the "long form" Add a listing pages. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:45, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Karl, hope you don't mind, but I made the "Share this page" change.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:21, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Looks great. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:48, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== My user page. ==<br />
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Aha! Thanks for the fix! [[User:Nathan|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Nathan|talk]]) 11:25, 20 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==featured articles==<br />
Is it cool if I make up one or two FA's a week that show off more of what makes centiare cool like ask queries and embedded videos? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:44, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:That's great - I've been hoping people would suggest/prepare FAs so we could display articles other than states. Once you have them mocked up, just place them on the [[Centiare:Today's featured article/Submissions|FA waiting list]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:01, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==sysop==<br />
can you allow me to do thay move=sysop thing so my pages and my clients pages are view source instead of edit? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:21, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Sysop edited pages need to be individually protected in order to be read only. It would be easier to just return your account status to regular, that way each of your directory listings would automatically be protected. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:08, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
::then could you return me to a regular user and set up an admin account maybe? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:50, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::Go ahead and create another account and we'll set it up as vuser. We'll turn your Garrett account into a regular user. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:48, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==New Skin==<br />
So how exactly do I make a new skin - the code on the meta wiki page isn't even close. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:33, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:The css/js changes are made to your own respective files. I think you're finding out first hand why changing the basic appearance is such a big deal. I find it hard to believe that the look & feel is what is preventing more people from signing up and using the service. Centiare is loaded with all sorts of functions and extensions - it just needs to find its audience. Personally, I would focus on increasing the usability of the pages you've created so far. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:02, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::You're right. Why don't we just put the new layout on hold until 10,000 articles or the top 25,000 on alexa. I think more word of mouth/google results to draw people to centiare then an effortless form filling to create a good looking listing would bring us to that goal by the end of the summer.<br />
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::Down the road I might be able to actually make associates/ad revenue or even better sell a country for a few grand after showing it gets X thousand hits a day :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 20:06, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Forms 2.0===<br />
You might want to take a look at this new MW [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ forms package]. I'm going to be installing it shortly to see if it will work with Centiare's sem tags and other extensions. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:20, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Compete rank==<br />
My awesome firefox tool bar added the "compete rank" to my browser showing exactly how many unique page views a site gets per day. We're ranked 880,000 thousand and get 986 unique visitors per day. I'm sure google analytics tells you this already but I thought the site as a whole got more like 5,000 hits a day? College doesn't start until the fall which means marketing marketing... eventual riches. We should start thinking viral. [http://snapshot.compete.com/] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:37, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Interesting - looks like something similar to Alexa. Did you get the email I sent you regarding biz ops? Btw, where are you going to college? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:36, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==widgety==<br />
There are million's of scripts/widget's out there but since you've already created a bunch and have them queued up for FA do you mind if I incorporate my sharethis/html/ads/semantic box into your previously created content? And thank you so much for the business advice, it's greatly appreciated :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:24, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Knock yourself out - I set them up just to get started. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:03, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== RSS - Moved from OMG Talk Page ==<br />
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[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleFeed Extension:SimpleFeed] <br />
I loaded it and ran a test [[RSS|here]], but it doesn't seem to be working; the RSS widget that Garrett suggested renders much better. Let me know if you can get it working properly and/or whether Garrett's works better either way.<br />
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I think the SimplePie library needs to be installed to get this RSS feed parser to work.<br />
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[http://simplepie.org/docs/plugins/mediawiki/ SimplePie]<br />
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It will be better than the RSS Include that Garrett and I have been using because the feed content is included in the page source and the search engines see a fresh page of content every time they crawl. It will help populate empty pages with content. '''IF''' you can get it working will you set the default number of feeds to 15 instead of 5.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 07:25, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:A few weeks ago I had tried to install/run SimplePie's MW extension from their ''own web site'' before you referenced the ''MW-meta'' SP extension. In both instances I couldn't get it to work, so I ended up deleting the entire set of files off the server. (That's why it's not rendering at all.)<br />
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:Are you positive SP will work better than the RSS widget Garrett found? If so, I'll make yet another effort (3rd time's the charm?) to get the SP reader going. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:53, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Absolutely positive! PHP parsing adds (writes) RSS content to the Centiare page source. The javascript (Garrett's widget) only <u>displays</u> content from another site. I'm confident you can make this happen. Fingers crossed!!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:09, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::OK, one more time. If I have any problems again, I'll contact the MW and/or SP developers directly for assistance. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:06, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::::Alright, it's [[Centiare:Extensions/RSS|finally working]]! While some others had commented that they also couldn't install the extension, there were some recommendations by another who had slightly tweaked the procedures to get it to work. Have fun with it. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:34, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Success, thank you!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:39, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==templates==<br />
I templated every aspect of a widget page minus the unique script and the page size went from ~2000 bytes down to 750. Can google still pick up on the code behind the page to pagerank my listings? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:59, 19 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I have no idea if they're going to work as I just did ''replace all'' from wikipedia to centiare and hit save. I kinda sorta kind I might kinda know what I might be doing maybe. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:53, 20 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AdSizes==<br />
I noticed some adsense experimentation with the ad sizes. The following are the allowable ad sizes.<br />
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[[Image:AdSizes.png]]<br />
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The adsense code needs to be modified in four places to change the size of the ad.<br />
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* google_ad_client = "pub-5512298628457000";<br />
* google_ad_width = '''120''';<br />
* google_ad_height = '''240''';<br />
* google_ad_format = "'''120x240'''_as";<br />
* google_ad_type = "text_image";<br />
* google_ad_channel = "";<br />
* google_color_border = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_link = "0066CC";<br />
* google_color_text = "000000";<br />
* google_color_url = "008000";<br />
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--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:59, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Muchas gracias - you are the maestro. I finally applied for my very own Adsense account today, so I'll be able to swap out your client ID for mine shortly. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 10:02, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==[[Directory:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]]==<br />
Is their any alternative to moving the Directory:GlassBeadGame article to Directory:Wikipedia Review? I am not owner or even an admin of WR and do not seek to speak on their behalf. I believe by moving the article I become the only person at WR who can edit the the article. <br />
[[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 19:56, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:In this case, we have three options:<br />
:# Centiare allows non-owners to create directory listings with the knowledge that they will be transfered when the real owners appear (eg OMG created content for celebrities). You could create/maintain WR until the owner(s) elected to take control of their Centiare listing.<br />
:# Create another entity - we allow virtual DBAs (doing business as). See [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]] for an example.<br />
:# Delete the directory listing and use your anonymous user page.<br />
:Let me know what you'd like to do. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 03:32, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:: I moved all the content from [[Directory:Wikipedia Review]] and any sub pages I created to [[User:GlassBeadGame]] you can delete the pages in the Directory namespace. Hopefully someone responsible for WR will start an appropriate article soon. Thanks. [[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 08:25, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==ASK Query Limit?==<br />
Is there a limit to the amount of articles an ASK query will display? This rollup is only showing A-G and there should be more showing. [[Directory:Medical_News_Today]] Did I do something wrong?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:37, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Yeah, we currently have a 50 record limit in our default settings to avoid dumping the database. We should discuss whether we want to increase this limit, or encourage users to create sub-queries via categories, etc. to produce smaller, 50 record max queries.<br />
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:For example, even once SoX has 5k+ records, I can use parameters like geog, sic, stock exchange, fiscal year-end, etc to bring down queries to reasonable levels. I'd like to hear Greg's opinion on this; I can up the limit, but then we sort of are encouraging straight dumps. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:07, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Is there a way to break alphabetically, A-D E-H ...?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 16:36, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::Perhaps - let me look at the documentation. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:57, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::So the sector portals off the main page will be limited to 50 also? I think this illustrates why companies go for names like "AAAA Plumbing Services". Everyone at the low end of the alphabet will be out of luck.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:04, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::Yes, gross listings are limited to 50. But there's nothing stopping anyone from creating ad hoc master index pages linked to separate report pages that run queries based on specific input criteria such as alpha AAA-CCC, DDD-FFF, etc.<br />
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:::You should experiment with [[Centiare|ASK]] to see if it can assess tagged page titles; I know it can assess number ranges such as population. If it has trouble with internal strings, we can always create new alpha tags such as <nowiki>[[Attribute:Name Range A]]</nowiki>, etc. to filter queries. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:40, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::::I understand that limits on ASK queries are necessary to protect the database. However, at this stage, we have no evidence that ANYONE is using Centiare to off-load lists or content. Personally, I think until we see such activity taking place, we would be "showing off" more of our content by upping that limit to something more likely to cover our editors' needs and interests -- maybe N=500, rather than N=50? --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:15, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::I was reading through the [[Help:Inline queries|ASK]] documentation and there's supposed to be an option where add'l records that exceed the max limit can be displayed via an embedded link:<br />
::::''If not all results of a query have been displayed due to a restricted limit, there will often be a link to "further results" that is displayed below the query. The text of this link can be modified by setting the parameter searchlabel.''<br />
:::Problem is, I couldn't get it to work. This would solve the issue and provide a nice navigational component. Let me look into it; if I can't get it to work, I'll increase the default display limit. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:25, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AAHHH! I'm deleting my ownership template==<br />
I'm pretty sure google has dropped all of my pages because they have too many links and are just another zombie site. Zut! I can't find anything on search.<br />
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[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:08, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Customising the "table of contents" position==<br />
Thank you for your kind welcome on our talk page [[User_talk:Amber_House_Limited|Amber_House_Limited]]. <br />
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We have tried (and failed) to re-position the table of contents on our directory page [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] by using the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> we are familiar with from Wikipedia.<br />
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How is a customised position for the ToC achieved here?<br />
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Also, how do we disable just the <br />
# Topographic map from TopoZone<br />
# Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA <br />
since New Zealand is a long way outwith the coverage areas of those American-centric maps? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 07:19, 28 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Hi there - glad to have you on board. I set up to the various TOC templates, so let me know if your listing is rendering the way you like. I also commented out the geo codes to eliminate the reference points that were interfering with your image.<br />
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:Btw, we have the new [[Centiare:Extensions|Google map extension]] enabled + we allow java/flash scripts in case you want to [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Gadgets|embed a map widget/gadget]].<br />
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:We've also got all sorts of SEO tools enabled at Centiare that should really help boost your rankings. Chief amongst these are the various [[Special:Attributes|semantic tags]] that not only help organize internal data, but also provide invaluable machine tags that Google seems to prefer.<br />
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:There's a bunch of experienced wikipedians hanging out here how have figured out some interesting tricks, so feel free to drop a general comment/question either at the [[Centiare:Water Cooler|Water Cooler]] or respective talk pages. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:48, 28 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Thank you for fixing the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> template.<br />
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::However, '''ALL''' the geo information has now disappeared from the [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] altogether! The co-ordinates are no longer listed top left and neither do we have the google maps or WikiMapia choices. Looks like the baby has gone with the bath water. If it's not possible to disable just the <br />
# Topographic map from TopoZone<br />
# Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA <br />
then we'll just have to put up with them.<br />
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::Could you also look to see why the image Nelson.png map is not displaying properly in the [[Nelson, New Zealand]] infobox? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 08:22, 28 May 2007 (PDT)</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=What_we%27ve_got_here_is_(a)_failure_to_communicate&diff=16788What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate2007-05-28T15:30:29Z<p>Amber House Limited: format and sp.</p>
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<div>Two close variants of this line are spoken in the 1967 film ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''. Nuances of accent, delivery, and intonation aside, they are as follows:<br />
# "'''What we've got here is … failure to communicate.'''" — spoken by "The&nbsp;Captain", the imperious prison warden played by [[Strother Martin]], near the [[epitasis]] of the [[plot|storyline]].<br />
# "'''What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'''" — spoken by "Luke", the reprobate inmate played by [[Paul Newman]] near the [[catastrophe (drama)|catastrophe]] of the action.<br />
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The line is first delivered in a scene where Luke, having just been returned to the chain gang after a clever and daring but all too brief escape, mocks the despotic affectations of benevolence on the part of the Cap'n, The outraged Cap'n lashes out, hurling Luke into the culvert beside them on the roadway. Recovering his composure, he pronounces his summary judgment of the problem, that it can be nothing more than a matter of Luke failing to understand the one-way nature of the communication that is incumbent on his present demotion in social status.<br />
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The theme is recapitulated during the final action of the main plot. As evening falls, Luke's second escape from prison brings him to a roughhewn country church hall, where he seeks shelter and makes his last despairing attempt to communicate with the Maker who made him the way he is. Quickly surrounded by the flashing lights of police cars, and entreated to surrender by his adoptive sidekick, the character handled "Dragline" ([[George Kennedy]]), Luke goes to the window to — what? <br />
# concede defeat <br />
# size up the enemy <br />
# taunt his captors one more time <br />
— at any rate he speaks his rendition of the line, this time being a stark allusion to the ironic way that God has answered his plea, the posse picks (3), and they shoot him.</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16786Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-28T15:24:57Z<p>Amber House Limited: replaced geocode template</p>
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roof line.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
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When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
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Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
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Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
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On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
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Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
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<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
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<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
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<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
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<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
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<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
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<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
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Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = Adam and Anne Amber<br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street<br />Nelson<br />]][[New Zealand]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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<div>Hello world --[[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:57, 16 November 2006 (PST)<br />
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Dear Snerfling, How would I go about adding "by Category" to the ASK query on [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]]? Thanks---[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:23, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Please see [[Centiare:Water Cooler|water cooler - technical]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:46, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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All of this new information is going to take a little while to digest and regurgitate into something of value, luckily I process rather fast. This semantic tag thing especially is a bit of a mental juggernaut to wrap my pea brain around but i'll get there. I'll keep in mind the main space v. directory from now on. Thank you immensely for all of your help. <br />
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sidebar - I'd like the riches but fame. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:25, 3 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Monetizing Web 3.0==<br />
1. ''I'm still unsure on how to turn directory pages into money besides google ads. It's hard to conseptualize why business's would want to link through me or how replacing recipes with companies yields anything. I'm looking into ripping and modifying wiki travel for some income, but again I can't see how that translates into money besides google ads.''<br />
:Well, first of all, you can't ripoff copyrighted information. The way to proceed is to convince other subject matter experts to work with you in developing marketable content.<br />
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:Secondly, IMO Google ads are merely a first step towards full-on Web 3.0 ie transactions. Become an expert on semantic tags and demonstrate how they can be incorporated by businesses. Here's the realkey: which platform(s) is Web 3.0 to be implemented? Apache via raw XML? Or a truly beautiful interface like MediaWiki that is so forgiving with its open-edit capabilities? Have you taken a look at the automatically generated [[RDF]]s? I mean, do you have any idea how cool that is? Google absolutely scarfs them up.<br />
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:I'd bet on a wiki - we like to think Centiare has thought this through and has the platform, tools & resident experts to show others how to pull it off.<br />
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2. ''If I created directory pages on let's say microsoft, dell, halliburton, could I then sell the pages back to them or would they usurp me sans fee? <br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)''<br />
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:Directory listings are owned by entities that own the names, so you can't sell them property they already own. The reason we let non-owners create directory listings for entities they don't own is two-fold:<br />
:* To enable the same type of activity that takes place at Wikipedia ie many people seem to have an interest in creating articles for entities in which they have a personal interest. The problem at WP, of course, is that someone else then comes in and ''"messes with their stuff".''<br />
:* As the semantic web emerges, to allow those that have developed expertise in this field to offer their services to entities in which they created directory listings.<br />
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:Keep your eye on the transaction cycle. How will this fit with hotels, restaurants & others in the hospitality industies? MediWiki provides an awesome platform to present summary information, place images, generate SEO semantic tags, link to reviews/recommendations, and enable purchases (reservations). How are they going to do this? By spending huge money on consultants using raw XML, or gain assistance from wikipedians who are already familiar with an incredibly easy to use wiki interface?<br />
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:Get the picture? Service/product catalog links to order-processing via semantic tags is the key. That's Web 3.0 - and we think it's going to happen here. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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=== Adsense Regulations ===<br />
It's against Adsense TOS to run more than one publisher code on a single web page. I am unable to edit this page [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Adsense]]. Can you take care of changing the codes? pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX needs to be the same on both ad units.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:07, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Oops, sorry about that. I was just trying to demo the different styles (vert & horz). I'll unprotect the page so that you can edit/modify as needed. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:31, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Semantic Centiare==<br />
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::DING DING DING. It's ringing a bell. Once I get this semantic thing down pat I can incorporate it with my existing medawiki skills and become the high priced consultant and create web 3.0 pages for businesses. If I'm still reasonably close to what you're saying then -------- this brings up whole new questions. <br />
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*<s>Do more than a hand full of people know about and implement semantic tags?</s> - read about XML (centiare using metawiki is MUCH easier)<br />
*<s>What is centiare doing to attract new users?</s> - stupid question - marketing obviously<br />
*Are there social networking possibilities for a wiki? Personally I can't see writing on other's talk pages for socialization - Are there private messanging possibilities with a wiki?<br />
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:I'm not the big Wikipedia guy - Greg is. (I'm a systems guy - my background is in accounting/financial computer systems.) We're using MediaWiki the same way Wikipedia is ie talk pages & water cooler (village pump). If you know of any other methods, I'm all ears.<br />
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*Will pages like "[[Directory:Houston]]", or other cities be profitable in the future?<br />
:Depends on what you're selling. What do people want to know about or purchase from Houston?<br />
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*<s>Why is "Japan" a main space article but the United States a directory?<br />
:Japan comes up as a directory entry; am I missing something?</s><br />
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I'm reading as much as possible about the future semantic web. This scares the privacy advocate in me.<br />
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"''Enthusiasm about the Semantic Web could be tempered by concerns regarding censorship and privacy. For instance, text-analyzing techniques can now be easily bypassed by using other words, metaphors for instance, or by using images in place of words. An advanced implementation of the Semantic Web would make it a lot easier for governments to control the viewing and creation of online information as this information would be much easier for an automated content-blocking machine to understand. In addition, the issue has also been raised that with the use of FOAF (software) files and Geolocation meta-data, there would be very little anonymity associated with the authorship of articles on things such as a personal blog.''" [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:03, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:You're still young, so you're not (yet) a cynic. I'm a published author - the publishing game is all about selling product. The way to sell product is to hype the crap out of it. You're little tidbit above was probably written by a promotions person. If you don't think the banking/credit system doesn't already have every bit of information on you and your family, then you've been hanging out too long at WP.<br />
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:All you need to know about the world is that the drive for cheaper & better is never ending. Someone comes out with something that works better for less, forget about trying to stop the movement. Web 3.0 is all about optimizing business information while delivering less expensive record keeping/transactional costs. (Do you know what a headache accounting is? Do you know what people will do to avoid managing books?)<br />
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: Ain't nothing gonna stop Web3.0 if the tech platform comes together. We think an easy to edit system like a wiki is the way to go. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:18, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Japan==<br />
I'm just using Japan to get my feet wet in this semantic stuff. Feel free to correct me when I screw up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:15, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Looks good - see my notes in your user_talk pages. If you just follow the [[Directory:California]] example (rolling up to US and drilling down to county/city/districts), you should be golden. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:19, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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<s>Ah!! Why did the semantic box in [[Directory:Japan]] disappear? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:21, 6 February 2007 (PST)</s><br />
figured it out myself (I should do that more often)<br />
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I won't - but I am creating a state template by cannibalizing the overly complicated wiki template. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:40, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==50 States==<br />
I think we should use the 50 states to set an example of how centiare should work and why it is different than wikipedia. Throwing out some ideas - so - to do this we need to <br />
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*first make the states uniform in approach.<br />
*show off the attributes, and relations more<br />
*infobox all the states in a '''simple''' box. No crazy highest peak, state bird, crap. That belongs in an enclyopedia, not a directory. Centiare is business and people oriented though so things like GDP and governors, should be mentioned.<br />
*no long winded paragraphs/sections like texas currently has. Concise - no one wants a history book when they go looking for the yellow pages. <br />
*Now there's no problem to have all the cities and counties on each state page but when there are a few hundred it will look horrible. Maybe link off to a "Counties in X State" page and "Cities in X State" page. Or do that and couple it with a "major city" attribute to distinguish pages like houston. <br />
*Maybe a "businesses located in x state" with a short blurb about business in the state and a link to a semantic table.<br />
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Just some ideas. Feel free to pick them apart. oder stimmen Sie mit einigen uberein. Boeuf, Ce n'est pas un grand chose. (And eventually expand into centiare.fr/centiare.de)<br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:21, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:These are all good ideas. However, there's a problem - the states are '''owned''' (ie controlled) by [[User:OmniMediaGroup|OMG]] until at which time the governors' offices want to take over. (That is, the '''true owners''' of the respective states' official web sites.)<br />
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:Insofar as your specific comments, we have [[Centiare:subpage|subpage]]s enabled for just these reasons. If you take a look at [[Directory:Texas]], you can see I added a [[Directory:Texas/Counties|counties]] link earlier today. Ideally, each state would be organized in a uniform fashion that took full advantage of subpages & ASK queries - including history, etc.<br />
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:Rather than try & address 50 states, why don't we perfect Texas? If we do a bang up job on Texas, we can take it to the governor + each county + each (major) city + businesses, social orgs (churces, Boy Scouts), sports (Little League, etc), etc. If you browse through [[Directory:California]], you can see I experimented with each different level of government/agencies. To the extent of adding a few more tags, the existing relationships, attributes & categories (don't forget categories - read the [[Centiare:ASK|ASK]] primer) are all working very well.<br />
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:If we get Texas wired, then we can take the same idea to the other states. They ALL have economic development offices. The Net is all about lowering the cost of doing business, including marketing. Semantic tags + user controlled info (Web 3.0) is the secret weapon of small businesses. If we went after women & minorities, there would probably be money available for training them on Web 3.0. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:06, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I will be adding useful content to all the pages I've "parked" on but I'm working out this google adsense thing right now to get some revenue. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:49, 8 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Nope, I mainly use my andman8@yahoo.com account. I had to sign up with the rminks1 account bc centiare requires a business email address but I never check it. Could you forward the stuff to my yahoo account. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:42, 9 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Google Videos==<br />
Is there any way I can add a google video instead of a youtube video as they are better quality? <br />
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Like a <google>XXXXXXXX</google> [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:30, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:The generic <nowiki><embed></nowiki> should work fine since it works with [[Centiare:Extensions/Google_Gadgets|Google Gadgets]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:09, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::It doesn't work because the google gadget doesn't let you pick the individual video. How does the youtube one work? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:35, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Huh? Are you saying there isn't a video per page @ Google? If not, how would a parser function pull out the video anyway? That's how <nowiki><youtube> & <adsense></nowiki> work - it isn't magic. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:39, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::::I don't really know. Though you seem way more knowledgable than me. Could you create one embeded video link from google for me so I can use it as a template for all the others? The freaks link is here [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=freaks&hl=en] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:38, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Search Triple===<br />
I don't quite get what your hinting at with the whole has thing. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:25, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Without getting overly technical, semantics are all about subject:relation:value. (Three elements or "search triple".) So, Berlin:is capital of:Germany OR Germany:has capital is:Berlin. I wouldn't get too hung up on it - it's sort of the standard means of identifying relations. If you're interested in reading more, you should check out [http://www.ontoworld.org Semantic MediaWiki] site. Take a browse through their relations and you'll see the pattern. The bottom line is to reach some agreement on a set of movie tags. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:51, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==ACRs for Ask the Doctors==<br />
Would you mind taking a look at the work-up page for one of my future projects and let me know your thoughts on possible ACRs. If you check out some of the working links I think you'll know where I want to go with this. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Ask the Doctors]] TIA--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:16, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Will do - thanx for the heads up. I'll try & get back with you within the hour. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:18, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::Sorry, I should have mentioned, no hurry on this.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:24, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Movie Tags===<br />
Thanks for creating all the movie sem tags. Do you think you could add [[Directory:Garrett Minks/Page Creations]] to the assistance and help parts of centiare? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:33, 16 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Done. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:33, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Of course, another the step on the way to being the semantic king. I'm just finishing up with my first client [[Directory:Nathaniel Lande]] and will jump in right after. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 08:16, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Book Tags===<br />
Thanks for the book tags. There is an issue with Author Of as a relation. It produces a red link as a page relation directing to a "this page does not exist...yada yada yada" I think we need an Attribute:Author<br />
--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 10:13, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:If we use an 'author of' relation, we can also make directory listings (ie property) for their works. If an author has multiple works, then we can run ASK queries to list all books that have the 'author of' tag. Attributes are generally good if you don't want to internally reference links. I think a relation in this case is better. What do you think? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:21, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I think the Author Of and Has Author relations should definitely stay for future instances as you described above. I've created an ASK roll-up in my book area to demonstrate why I created the Author attribute yesterday. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Books]] If you don't think it's appropriate we can discuss. --[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 06:54, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::I really think you should use [[Relation:Has Author]]. As you can see, attributes, unlike relations, don't automatically include hyper-links within ASK queries. This, of course, prevents browsing; if you simply added a <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> as a stub for author listings, it would (a) get rid of the redlinks, and (b) give you another page in which to drop adsense ads. Please reconsider. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:34, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Pulp==<br />
I HATE collectivism! They destroyed my pulp fiction article on wikipedia. I'm never making another non paid edit on that stupid ****. Phew - felt good to vent. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:30, 25 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==I'm adding [[keyword:= to everything==<br />
the keyword "a new kind of wiki" comes up 6th out of 55 million!<br />
[http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=a+new+kind+of+wiki&btnG=Google+Search] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:41, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Hmmm, maybe I should add it to the front page? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:45, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Thanks for the heads up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 10:01, 4 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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The medical tag attribute won't work for personal injury, bankruptcy, and divorce. What kind of universal tag would you suggest? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:12, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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-nevermind - just too dumb to read the bottom half of your message. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:06, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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== Milson Printing Logo ==<br />
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I re-uploaded the Milson Printing Logo image. I think it serves as a good "prompt" to get new contributors to change the image to their own appropriate one. You had deleted it March 15 as a "duplicate", but I'm not seeing how it was a duplicate image. Let me know if you want to delete it again. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 12:06, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Sorry about that. What happened was someone (I forget who) uploaded a new image by overwriting Milson. I then renamed it & deleted Milson, even though it was the new image. I now this came up before - if it ever turns into a problem, I'll have to extend the protection extension to the Image directory as well. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 12:09, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==contact==<br />
You were probably already aware but I've discovered these feedback boxes and think they are quite cool. what ever you type in and submit gets emailed directly to me. This interweb is quite amazing! [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:48, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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<script src="http://www.formlogix.com/publish.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">CreatePublishFrame('VXNlcklkPTEyODMyLkZvcm1JZD0yLlJvd0lEPS0xLkFwcE5hbWU9QXBwLkZvcm1OYW1lPW5ldyBmb3JtLlF1aWNrTGlua0lEPS0x','293','350','www.formlogix.com');</script><br />
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:Hey, those things are pretty cool. I wasn't aware of them specifically, since there's so many of these script widgets floating around. Do you want to add them to list of [[Centiare:extensions]]? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:35, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I think it would be a great addition. I added it to my "ownership" template with really cool results. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:52, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Red Links===<br />
Doesn't Google frown upon creating pages with no content like the sailing related stuff? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:47, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:I didn't want a bunch of red links on the front page - feel free to add some content if the mood strikes you. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 18:29, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Consider it done, thanks to GFDL content from Encyclopedian.com. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 19:25, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Bad account ==<br />
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Looks like a mistaken duplicate account (with a lower-case "l") was [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User:Jerry_lavoie&action=edit made here]. Can we delete accounts, as if they never existed, or can you only "block"? Not that it's bugging me... --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:55, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:We don't make distinctions between unactivated user accounts, whether resulting from incorrect/invalid email addresses, etc. It always dangerous to actually "delete" database records; they really don't take up any space, so it's better to leave them alone. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:10, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Taming the ad beast ==<br />
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Let Garrett and me know what you think of [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Garrett&diff=13544&oldid=13520 what I told Garrett]. I don't want to suppress the spirit, but we also don't want Centiare mucked up with 80% ads, 20% content. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:02, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Firefox blocked the pop-up as well. I agree with your observation that users hate pop-up ads. That being said, I think there's a natural counter-acting moderation for those with their own directory listings. That is, potential problems arise in situations where non-owners have developed directory listings. Since these are allowed at our discretion, we can easily create a policy governing this practice. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 13:41, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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adbrite looks much more on the up and up and doesn't have pop-ups. [http://www.adbrite.com] Why google why! - this looks to be a suitable replacement and better than the last one. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:00, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Social --> Share this page ==<br />
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Karl, could you please change the "Quick Addition" template so that the additional "share" script is headed "Share this page", rather than "Social"? It's the more common terminology, and that's how I've updated the "long form" Add a listing pages. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:45, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Karl, hope you don't mind, but I made the "Share this page" change.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:21, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Looks great. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:48, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== My user page. ==<br />
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Aha! Thanks for the fix! [[User:Nathan|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Nathan|talk]]) 11:25, 20 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==featured articles==<br />
Is it cool if I make up one or two FA's a week that show off more of what makes centiare cool like ask queries and embedded videos? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:44, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:That's great - I've been hoping people would suggest/prepare FAs so we could display articles other than states. Once you have them mocked up, just place them on the [[Centiare:Today's featured article/Submissions|FA waiting list]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:01, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==sysop==<br />
can you allow me to do thay move=sysop thing so my pages and my clients pages are view source instead of edit? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:21, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Sysop edited pages need to be individually protected in order to be read only. It would be easier to just return your account status to regular, that way each of your directory listings would automatically be protected. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:08, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
::then could you return me to a regular user and set up an admin account maybe? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:50, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::Go ahead and create another account and we'll set it up as vuser. We'll turn your Garrett account into a regular user. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:48, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==New Skin==<br />
So how exactly do I make a new skin - the code on the meta wiki page isn't even close. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:33, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:The css/js changes are made to your own respective files. I think you're finding out first hand why changing the basic appearance is such a big deal. I find it hard to believe that the look & feel is what is preventing more people from signing up and using the service. Centiare is loaded with all sorts of functions and extensions - it just needs to find its audience. Personally, I would focus on increasing the usability of the pages you've created so far. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:02, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::You're right. Why don't we just put the new layout on hold until 10,000 articles or the top 25,000 on alexa. I think more word of mouth/google results to draw people to centiare then an effortless form filling to create a good looking listing would bring us to that goal by the end of the summer.<br />
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::Down the road I might be able to actually make associates/ad revenue or even better sell a country for a few grand after showing it gets X thousand hits a day :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 20:06, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Forms 2.0===<br />
You might want to take a look at this new MW [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ forms package]. I'm going to be installing it shortly to see if it will work with Centiare's sem tags and other extensions. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:20, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Compete rank==<br />
My awesome firefox tool bar added the "compete rank" to my browser showing exactly how many unique page views a site gets per day. We're ranked 880,000 thousand and get 986 unique visitors per day. I'm sure google analytics tells you this already but I thought the site as a whole got more like 5,000 hits a day? College doesn't start until the fall which means marketing marketing... eventual riches. We should start thinking viral. [http://snapshot.compete.com/] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:37, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Interesting - looks like something similar to Alexa. Did you get the email I sent you regarding biz ops? Btw, where are you going to college? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:36, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==widgety==<br />
There are million's of scripts/widget's out there but since you've already created a bunch and have them queued up for FA do you mind if I incorporate my sharethis/html/ads/semantic box into your previously created content? And thank you so much for the business advice, it's greatly appreciated :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:24, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Knock yourself out - I set them up just to get started. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:03, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== RSS - Moved from OMG Talk Page ==<br />
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[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleFeed Extension:SimpleFeed] <br />
I loaded it and ran a test [[RSS|here]], but it doesn't seem to be working; the RSS widget that Garrett suggested renders much better. Let me know if you can get it working properly and/or whether Garrett's works better either way.<br />
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I think the SimplePie library needs to be installed to get this RSS feed parser to work.<br />
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[http://simplepie.org/docs/plugins/mediawiki/ SimplePie]<br />
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It will be better than the RSS Include that Garrett and I have been using because the feed content is included in the page source and the search engines see a fresh page of content every time they crawl. It will help populate empty pages with content. '''IF''' you can get it working will you set the default number of feeds to 15 instead of 5.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 07:25, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:A few weeks ago I had tried to install/run SimplePie's MW extension from their ''own web site'' before you referenced the ''MW-meta'' SP extension. In both instances I couldn't get it to work, so I ended up deleting the entire set of files off the server. (That's why it's not rendering at all.)<br />
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:Are you positive SP will work better than the RSS widget Garrett found? If so, I'll make yet another effort (3rd time's the charm?) to get the SP reader going. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:53, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Absolutely positive! PHP parsing adds (writes) RSS content to the Centiare page source. The javascript (Garrett's widget) only <u>displays</u> content from another site. I'm confident you can make this happen. Fingers crossed!!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:09, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::OK, one more time. If I have any problems again, I'll contact the MW and/or SP developers directly for assistance. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:06, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::::Alright, it's [[Centiare:Extensions/RSS|finally working]]! While some others had commented that they also couldn't install the extension, there were some recommendations by another who had slightly tweaked the procedures to get it to work. Have fun with it. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:34, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Success, thank you!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:39, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==templates==<br />
I templated every aspect of a widget page minus the unique script and the page size went from ~2000 bytes down to 750. Can google still pick up on the code behind the page to pagerank my listings? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:59, 19 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I have no idea if they're going to work as I just did ''replace all'' from wikipedia to centiare and hit save. I kinda sorta kind I might kinda know what I might be doing maybe. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:53, 20 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AdSizes==<br />
I noticed some adsense experimentation with the ad sizes. The following are the allowable ad sizes.<br />
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[[Image:AdSizes.png]]<br />
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The adsense code needs to be modified in four places to change the size of the ad.<br />
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* google_ad_client = "pub-5512298628457000";<br />
* google_ad_width = '''120''';<br />
* google_ad_height = '''240''';<br />
* google_ad_format = "'''120x240'''_as";<br />
* google_ad_type = "text_image";<br />
* google_ad_channel = "";<br />
* google_color_border = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_link = "0066CC";<br />
* google_color_text = "000000";<br />
* google_color_url = "008000";<br />
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--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:59, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Muchas gracias - you are the maestro. I finally applied for my very own Adsense account today, so I'll be able to swap out your client ID for mine shortly. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 10:02, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==[[Directory:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]]==<br />
Is their any alternative to moving the Directory:GlassBeadGame article to Directory:Wikipedia Review? I am not owner or even an admin of WR and do not seek to speak on their behalf. I believe by moving the article I become the only person at WR who can edit the the article. <br />
[[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 19:56, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:In this case, we have three options:<br />
:# Centiare allows non-owners to create directory listings with the knowledge that they will be transfered when the real owners appear (eg OMG created content for celebrities). You could create/maintain WR until the owner(s) elected to take control of their Centiare listing.<br />
:# Create another entity - we allow virtual DBAs (doing business as). See [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]] for an example.<br />
:# Delete the directory listing and use your anonymous user page.<br />
:Let me know what you'd like to do. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 03:32, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:: I moved all the content from [[Directory:Wikipedia Review]] and any sub pages I created to [[User:GlassBeadGame]] you can delete the pages in the Directory namespace. Hopefully someone responsible for WR will start an appropriate article soon. Thanks. [[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 08:25, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==ASK Query Limit?==<br />
Is there a limit to the amount of articles an ASK query will display? This rollup is only showing A-G and there should be more showing. [[Directory:Medical_News_Today]] Did I do something wrong?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:37, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Yeah, we currently have a 50 record limit in our default settings to avoid dumping the database. We should discuss whether we want to increase this limit, or encourage users to create sub-queries via categories, etc. to produce smaller, 50 record max queries.<br />
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:For example, even once SoX has 5k+ records, I can use parameters like geog, sic, stock exchange, fiscal year-end, etc to bring down queries to reasonable levels. I'd like to hear Greg's opinion on this; I can up the limit, but then we sort of are encouraging straight dumps. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:07, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Is there a way to break alphabetically, A-D E-H ...?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 16:36, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::Perhaps - let me look at the documentation. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:57, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::So the sector portals off the main page will be limited to 50 also? I think this illustrates why companies go for names like "AAAA Plumbing Services". Everyone at the low end of the alphabet will be out of luck.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:04, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::Yes, gross listings are limited to 50. But there's nothing stopping anyone from creating ad hoc master index pages linked to separate report pages that run queries based on specific input criteria such as alpha AAA-CCC, DDD-FFF, etc.<br />
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:::You should experiment with [[Centiare|ASK]] to see if it can assess tagged page titles; I know it can assess number ranges such as population. If it has trouble with internal strings, we can always create new alpha tags such as <nowiki>[[Attribute:Name Range A]]</nowiki>, etc. to filter queries. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:40, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::::I understand that limits on ASK queries are necessary to protect the database. However, at this stage, we have no evidence that ANYONE is using Centiare to off-load lists or content. Personally, I think until we see such activity taking place, we would be "showing off" more of our content by upping that limit to something more likely to cover our editors' needs and interests -- maybe N=500, rather than N=50? --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:15, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:::I was reading through the [[Help:Inline queries|ASK]] documentation and there's supposed to be an option where add'l records that exceed the max limit can be displayed via an embedded link:<br />
::::''If not all results of a query have been displayed due to a restricted limit, there will often be a link to "further results" that is displayed below the query. The text of this link can be modified by setting the parameter searchlabel.''<br />
:::Problem is, I couldn't get it to work. This would solve the issue and provide a nice navigational component. Let me look into it; if I can't get it to work, I'll increase the default display limit. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:25, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AAHHH! I'm deleting my ownership template==<br />
I'm pretty sure google has dropped all of my pages because they have too many links and are just another zombie site. Zut! I can't find anything on search.<br />
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[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:08, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Customising the "table of contents" position==<br />
Thank you for your kind welcome on our talk page [[User_talk:Amber_House_Limited|Amber_House_Limited]]. <br />
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We have tried (and failed) to re-position the table of contents on our directory page [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] by using the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> we are familiar with from Wikipedia.<br />
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How is a customised position for the ToC achieved here?<br />
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Also, how do we disable just the <br />
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# Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA <br />
since New Zealand is a long way outwith the coverage areas of those American-centric maps? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 07:19, 28 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Hi there - glad to have you on board. I set up to the various TOC templates, so let me know if your listing is rendering the way you like. I also commented out the geo codes to eliminate the reference points that were interfering with your image.<br />
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:Btw, we have the new [[Centiare:Extensions|Google map extension]] enabled + we allow java/flash scripts in case you want to [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Gadgets|embed a map widget/gadget]].<br />
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:We've also got all sorts of SEO tools enabled at Centiare that should really help boost your rankings. Chief amongst these are the various [[Special:Attributes|semantic tags]] that not only help organize internal data, but also provide invaluable machine tags that Google seems to prefer.<br />
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:There's a bunch of experienced wikipedians hanging out here how have figured out some interesting tricks, so feel free to drop a general comment/question either at the [[Centiare:Water Cooler|Water Cooler]] or respective talk pages. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:48, 28 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Thank you for fixing the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> template.<br />
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::However, '''ALL''' the geo information has now disappeared from the [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] altogether! The co-ordinates are no longer listed top left and neither do we have the google maps or WikiMapia choices. Looks like the baby has gone with the bath water. If it's not possible to disable just the <br />
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then we'll just have to put up with them.<br />
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::Could you also look to see why the image Nelson.png map is not displaying properly in the [[Nelson. New Zealand]] infobox? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 08:22, 28 May 2007 (PDT)</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Nelson,_New_Zealand&diff=16781Directory:Nelson, New Zealand2007-05-28T15:15:32Z<p>Amber House Limited: repositioned ToC</p>
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|colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF" style="font-weight:bold;"|<big>Nelson</big><br><big>''Whakatū''</big> ([[M%C4%81ori_language|Māori]])<br />
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{{TOCleft}}The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Accommodation==<br />
[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|Amber House B&B]]''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet. until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
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For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
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Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
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New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
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The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
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[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
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Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
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===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Accommodation==<br />
[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|Amber House B&B]]''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet. until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
<br />
For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
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Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
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New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
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The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
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[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
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Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
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===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Accommodation==<br />
[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|Amber House B&B]]''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
<br />
For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
<br />
Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
<br />
Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
<br />
New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
<br />
The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
<br />
The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
<br />
Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
<br />
===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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|colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF" style="font-weight:bold;"|<big>Nelson</big><br><big>''Whakatū''</big> ([[M%C4%81ori_language|Māori]])<br />
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|Population:<br><small>(June 2006 estimate)</small> ||60,500<br><small>(urban)</small><br>46,400 [http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/5B50D4BB-EC38-4616-BFF3-60815717DC24/0/subnationalpopulationestimatesjun06hotp.pdf]<br><small>(unitary)</small><br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Accommodation==<br />
[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|Amber House B&B]]''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. [I've got to declare an interest in that I'm an editor of Wikipedia articles on Amber and Cabragh Houses...] NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
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For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
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Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
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New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
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The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
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[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
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Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
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===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|Amber House]] B&B''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. [I've got to declare an interest in that I'm an editor of Wikipedia articles on Amber and Cabragh Houses...] NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
<br />
For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
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Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
<br />
New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
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The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
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[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
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Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
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===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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|colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF" style="font-weight:bold;"|<big>Nelson</big><br><big>''Whakatū''</big> ([[M%C4%81ori_language|Māori]])<br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Accommodation==<br />
[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson#See|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
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* '''[[:Wikipedia:Amber_House|Amber House]] B&B''', 46 Weka Street, +64-21-202 4961, [http://www.AmberHouse.co.nz]. Open all year, basic bed and breakfast in a lovely 1897 Villa that used to be a School for Girls and ''little'' boys. Traditional Rose Garden with the oldest walnut tree in the South Island hidden away at the back of the plot. One of the few that still offers a cooked breakfast. Now has satellite TV and fast Broadband. Quiet until the owner's kids come home from school when it's bedlam until they go to bed about 20:30hrs. [I've got to declare an interest in that I'm an editor of Wikipedia articles on Amber and Cabragh Houses...] NZ$69 single - NZ$80 double (''party of 4 from NZ$37pppn'') <br />
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* '''Awaroa Lodge & Cafe''' [http://www.awaroalodge.co.nz/] is a beautiful lodge inside the Abel Tasman National Park. It offers amazing food in a very beautiful place, accessible via the Abel Tasman NP track system, or by water taxi from Nelson or Takaka. [There is also now a cheaper summer time service direct from Nelson Port (Freephone 0508 488 066). The previous service went bust so might be a good idea to ring first.] <br />
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* '''Blackwoods Retreat''' [http://www.blackwoodsretreat.co.nz], a fantastic place to kick back in a private cottage in the countryside, relax and enjoy getting away from it all without getting too far away! Something for everyone and more, short and long-term bookings taken.<br />
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* '''Harbourside Motor Lodge''' [http://www.harbourside.co.nz], in Nelson Port. marina views from most of the units. Continental or cooked breakfast available. Close to restaurants, cafes, galleries, shopping.<br />
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* '''Maitai Camp & Cabins''' [http://www.maitairiver.co.nz/], 7km up the Maitai river valley. Cabins, campsites and a bunk house are available for accommodation. The camp is only accessable via a foot bridge and the whole site is surrounded by the Maitai river. An industrial kitchen and a huge hall with a small stage and a competition size billiard table is available for group gatherings.<br />
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* '''Meadowbank Homestead''' [http://experiences.abeltasman.co.nz/accommodation]. Awaroa or Torrent Bay Lodge on the beachfront in Abel Tasman National Park. Hosted by the Wilson family, direct descendants of the first European settlers to the area. <br />
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* '''The Lodge at Paratiho Farms''' [http://www.paratiho.co.nz], nestled within a private 2,000-acre estate at the top of the South Island, guests are entertained in a stylish, luxurious and relaxed environment amongst a large collection of art. Exquisite cuisine including the discovery of local wines is a gastronomically enchanting experience. Seriously expensive.<br />
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* '''Tudor Lodge Motel''', [http://www.tudorlodgenelson.co.nz/]. A timeless classic with an abundance of wonderful features. Close to the beach and city centre, this great motel offers everything that a tourist to the Nelson region would need.<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
<br />
For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
<br />
Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
<br />
Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
<br />
The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
<br />
While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
<br />
In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
<br />
New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
<br />
Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
<br />
==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
<br />
The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
<br />
The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
<br />
Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
<br />
===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roof line.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
<div align="center">[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]</div><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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<div>Hello world --[[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:57, 16 November 2006 (PST)<br />
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Dear Snerfling, How would I go about adding "by Category" to the ASK query on [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]]? Thanks---[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:23, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Please see [[Centiare:Water Cooler|water cooler - technical]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:46, 19 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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All of this new information is going to take a little while to digest and regurgitate into something of value, luckily I process rather fast. This semantic tag thing especially is a bit of a mental juggernaut to wrap my pea brain around but i'll get there. I'll keep in mind the main space v. directory from now on. Thank you immensely for all of your help. <br />
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sidebar - I'd like the riches but fame. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:25, 3 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Monetizing Web 3.0==<br />
1. ''I'm still unsure on how to turn directory pages into money besides google ads. It's hard to conseptualize why business's would want to link through me or how replacing recipes with companies yields anything. I'm looking into ripping and modifying wiki travel for some income, but again I can't see how that translates into money besides google ads.''<br />
:Well, first of all, you can't ripoff copyrighted information. The way to proceed is to convince other subject matter experts to work with you in developing marketable content.<br />
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:Secondly, IMO Google ads are merely a first step towards full-on Web 3.0 ie transactions. Become an expert on semantic tags and demonstrate how they can be incorporated by businesses. Here's the realkey: which platform(s) is Web 3.0 to be implemented? Apache via raw XML? Or a truly beautiful interface like MediaWiki that is so forgiving with its open-edit capabilities? Have you taken a look at the automatically generated [[RDF]]s? I mean, do you have any idea how cool that is? Google absolutely scarfs them up.<br />
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:I'd bet on a wiki - we like to think Centiare has thought this through and has the platform, tools & resident experts to show others how to pull it off.<br />
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2. ''If I created directory pages on let's say microsoft, dell, halliburton, could I then sell the pages back to them or would they usurp me sans fee? <br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)''<br />
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:Directory listings are owned by entities that own the names, so you can't sell them property they already own. The reason we let non-owners create directory listings for entities they don't own is two-fold:<br />
:* To enable the same type of activity that takes place at Wikipedia ie many people seem to have an interest in creating articles for entities in which they have a personal interest. The problem at WP, of course, is that someone else then comes in and ''"messes with their stuff".''<br />
:* As the semantic web emerges, to allow those that have developed expertise in this field to offer their services to entities in which they created directory listings.<br />
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:Keep your eye on the transaction cycle. How will this fit with hotels, restaurants & others in the hospitality industies? MediWiki provides an awesome platform to present summary information, place images, generate SEO semantic tags, link to reviews/recommendations, and enable purchases (reservations). How are they going to do this? By spending huge money on consultants using raw XML, or gain assistance from wikipedians who are already familiar with an incredibly easy to use wiki interface?<br />
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:Get the picture? Service/product catalog links to order-processing via semantic tags is the key. That's Web 3.0 - and we think it's going to happen here. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:36, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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=== Adsense Regulations ===<br />
It's against Adsense TOS to run more than one publisher code on a single web page. I am unable to edit this page [[Centiare:Extensions/Google Adsense]]. Can you take care of changing the codes? pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX needs to be the same on both ad units.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:07, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Oops, sorry about that. I was just trying to demo the different styles (vert & horz). I'll unprotect the page so that you can edit/modify as needed. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:31, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Semantic Centiare==<br />
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::DING DING DING. It's ringing a bell. Once I get this semantic thing down pat I can incorporate it with my existing medawiki skills and become the high priced consultant and create web 3.0 pages for businesses. If I'm still reasonably close to what you're saying then -------- this brings up whole new questions. <br />
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*<s>Do more than a hand full of people know about and implement semantic tags?</s> - read about XML (centiare using metawiki is MUCH easier)<br />
*<s>What is centiare doing to attract new users?</s> - stupid question - marketing obviously<br />
*Are there social networking possibilities for a wiki? Personally I can't see writing on other's talk pages for socialization - Are there private messanging possibilities with a wiki?<br />
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:I'm not the big Wikipedia guy - Greg is. (I'm a systems guy - my background is in accounting/financial computer systems.) We're using MediaWiki the same way Wikipedia is ie talk pages & water cooler (village pump). If you know of any other methods, I'm all ears.<br />
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*Will pages like "[[Directory:Houston]]", or other cities be profitable in the future?<br />
:Depends on what you're selling. What do people want to know about or purchase from Houston?<br />
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*<s>Why is "Japan" a main space article but the United States a directory?<br />
:Japan comes up as a directory entry; am I missing something?</s><br />
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I'm reading as much as possible about the future semantic web. This scares the privacy advocate in me.<br />
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"''Enthusiasm about the Semantic Web could be tempered by concerns regarding censorship and privacy. For instance, text-analyzing techniques can now be easily bypassed by using other words, metaphors for instance, or by using images in place of words. An advanced implementation of the Semantic Web would make it a lot easier for governments to control the viewing and creation of online information as this information would be much easier for an automated content-blocking machine to understand. In addition, the issue has also been raised that with the use of FOAF (software) files and Geolocation meta-data, there would be very little anonymity associated with the authorship of articles on things such as a personal blog.''" [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:03, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:You're still young, so you're not (yet) a cynic. I'm a published author - the publishing game is all about selling product. The way to sell product is to hype the crap out of it. You're little tidbit above was probably written by a promotions person. If you don't think the banking/credit system doesn't already have every bit of information on you and your family, then you've been hanging out too long at WP.<br />
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:All you need to know about the world is that the drive for cheaper & better is never ending. Someone comes out with something that works better for less, forget about trying to stop the movement. Web 3.0 is all about optimizing business information while delivering less expensive record keeping/transactional costs. (Do you know what a headache accounting is? Do you know what people will do to avoid managing books?)<br />
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: Ain't nothing gonna stop Web3.0 if the tech platform comes together. We think an easy to edit system like a wiki is the way to go. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:18, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Japan==<br />
I'm just using Japan to get my feet wet in this semantic stuff. Feel free to correct me when I screw up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:15, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Looks good - see my notes in your user_talk pages. If you just follow the [[Directory:California]] example (rolling up to US and drilling down to county/city/districts), you should be golden. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:19, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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<s>Ah!! Why did the semantic box in [[Directory:Japan]] disappear? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:21, 6 February 2007 (PST)</s><br />
figured it out myself (I should do that more often)<br />
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I won't - but I am creating a state template by cannibalizing the overly complicated wiki template. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:40, 6 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==50 States==<br />
I think we should use the 50 states to set an example of how centiare should work and why it is different than wikipedia. Throwing out some ideas - so - to do this we need to <br />
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*first make the states uniform in approach.<br />
*show off the attributes, and relations more<br />
*infobox all the states in a '''simple''' box. No crazy highest peak, state bird, crap. That belongs in an enclyopedia, not a directory. Centiare is business and people oriented though so things like GDP and governors, should be mentioned.<br />
*no long winded paragraphs/sections like texas currently has. Concise - no one wants a history book when they go looking for the yellow pages. <br />
*Now there's no problem to have all the cities and counties on each state page but when there are a few hundred it will look horrible. Maybe link off to a "Counties in X State" page and "Cities in X State" page. Or do that and couple it with a "major city" attribute to distinguish pages like houston. <br />
*Maybe a "businesses located in x state" with a short blurb about business in the state and a link to a semantic table.<br />
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Just some ideas. Feel free to pick them apart. oder stimmen Sie mit einigen uberein. Boeuf, Ce n'est pas un grand chose. (And eventually expand into centiare.fr/centiare.de)<br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:21, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:These are all good ideas. However, there's a problem - the states are '''owned''' (ie controlled) by [[User:OmniMediaGroup|OMG]] until at which time the governors' offices want to take over. (That is, the '''true owners''' of the respective states' official web sites.)<br />
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:Insofar as your specific comments, we have [[Centiare:subpage|subpage]]s enabled for just these reasons. If you take a look at [[Directory:Texas]], you can see I added a [[Directory:Texas/Counties|counties]] link earlier today. Ideally, each state would be organized in a uniform fashion that took full advantage of subpages & ASK queries - including history, etc.<br />
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:Rather than try & address 50 states, why don't we perfect Texas? If we do a bang up job on Texas, we can take it to the governor + each county + each (major) city + businesses, social orgs (churces, Boy Scouts), sports (Little League, etc), etc. If you browse through [[Directory:California]], you can see I experimented with each different level of government/agencies. To the extent of adding a few more tags, the existing relationships, attributes & categories (don't forget categories - read the [[Centiare:ASK|ASK]] primer) are all working very well.<br />
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:If we get Texas wired, then we can take the same idea to the other states. They ALL have economic development offices. The Net is all about lowering the cost of doing business, including marketing. Semantic tags + user controlled info (Web 3.0) is the secret weapon of small businesses. If we went after women & minorities, there would probably be money available for training them on Web 3.0. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:06, 7 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I will be adding useful content to all the pages I've "parked" on but I'm working out this google adsense thing right now to get some revenue. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:49, 8 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Nope, I mainly use my andman8@yahoo.com account. I had to sign up with the rminks1 account bc centiare requires a business email address but I never check it. Could you forward the stuff to my yahoo account. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:42, 9 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Google Videos==<br />
Is there any way I can add a google video instead of a youtube video as they are better quality? <br />
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Like a <google>XXXXXXXX</google> [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:30, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:The generic <nowiki><embed></nowiki> should work fine since it works with [[Centiare:Extensions/Google_Gadgets|Google Gadgets]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:09, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::It doesn't work because the google gadget doesn't let you pick the individual video. How does the youtube one work? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:35, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::Huh? Are you saying there isn't a video per page @ Google? If not, how would a parser function pull out the video anyway? That's how <nowiki><youtube> & <adsense></nowiki> work - it isn't magic. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:39, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::::I don't really know. Though you seem way more knowledgable than me. Could you create one embeded video link from google for me so I can use it as a template for all the others? The freaks link is here [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=freaks&hl=en] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:38, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Search Triple===<br />
I don't quite get what your hinting at with the whole has thing. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:25, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Without getting overly technical, semantics are all about subject:relation:value. (Three elements or "search triple".) So, Berlin:is capital of:Germany OR Germany:has capital is:Berlin. I wouldn't get too hung up on it - it's sort of the standard means of identifying relations. If you're interested in reading more, you should check out [http://www.ontoworld.org Semantic MediaWiki] site. Take a browse through their relations and you'll see the pattern. The bottom line is to reach some agreement on a set of movie tags. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:51, 14 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==ACRs for Ask the Doctors==<br />
Would you mind taking a look at the work-up page for one of my future projects and let me know your thoughts on possible ACRs. If you check out some of the working links I think you'll know where I want to go with this. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Ask the Doctors]] TIA--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:16, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Will do - thanx for the heads up. I'll try & get back with you within the hour. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:18, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::Sorry, I should have mentioned, no hurry on this.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:24, 13 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Movie Tags===<br />
Thanks for creating all the movie sem tags. Do you think you could add [[Directory:Garrett Minks/Page Creations]] to the assistance and help parts of centiare? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:33, 16 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Done. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:33, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Of course, another the step on the way to being the semantic king. I'm just finishing up with my first client [[Directory:Nathaniel Lande]] and will jump in right after. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 08:16, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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===Book Tags===<br />
Thanks for the book tags. There is an issue with Author Of as a relation. It produces a red link as a page relation directing to a "this page does not exist...yada yada yada" I think we need an Attribute:Author<br />
--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 10:13, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:If we use an 'author of' relation, we can also make directory listings (ie property) for their works. If an author has multiple works, then we can run ASK queries to list all books that have the 'author of' tag. Attributes are generally good if you don't want to internally reference links. I think a relation in this case is better. What do you think? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:21, 23 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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::I think the Author Of and Has Author relations should definitely stay for future instances as you described above. I've created an ASK roll-up in my book area to demonstrate why I created the Author attribute yesterday. [[User:OmniMediaGroup/Books]] If you don't think it's appropriate we can discuss. --[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 06:54, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:::I really think you should use [[Relation:Has Author]]. As you can see, attributes, unlike relations, don't automatically include hyper-links within ASK queries. This, of course, prevents browsing; if you simply added a <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> as a stub for author listings, it would (a) get rid of the redlinks, and (b) give you another page in which to drop adsense ads. Please reconsider. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:34, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==Pulp==<br />
I HATE collectivism! They destroyed my pulp fiction article on wikipedia. I'm never making another non paid edit on that stupid ****. Phew - felt good to vent. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:30, 25 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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==I'm adding [[keyword:= to everything==<br />
the keyword "a new kind of wiki" comes up 6th out of 55 million!<br />
[http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=a+new+kind+of+wiki&btnG=Google+Search] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:41, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Hmmm, maybe I should add it to the front page? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:45, 27 February 2007 (PST)<br />
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Thanks for the heads up. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 10:01, 4 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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The medical tag attribute won't work for personal injury, bankruptcy, and divorce. What kind of universal tag would you suggest? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:12, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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-nevermind - just too dumb to read the bottom half of your message. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:06, 9 March 2007 (PST)<br />
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== Milson Printing Logo ==<br />
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I re-uploaded the Milson Printing Logo image. I think it serves as a good "prompt" to get new contributors to change the image to their own appropriate one. You had deleted it March 15 as a "duplicate", but I'm not seeing how it was a duplicate image. Let me know if you want to delete it again. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 12:06, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Sorry about that. What happened was someone (I forget who) uploaded a new image by overwriting Milson. I then renamed it & deleted Milson, even though it was the new image. I now this came up before - if it ever turns into a problem, I'll have to extend the protection extension to the Image directory as well. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 12:09, 27 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==contact==<br />
You were probably already aware but I've discovered these feedback boxes and think they are quite cool. what ever you type in and submit gets emailed directly to me. This interweb is quite amazing! [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 14:48, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Hey, those things are pretty cool. I wasn't aware of them specifically, since there's so many of these script widgets floating around. Do you want to add them to list of [[Centiare:extensions]]? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:35, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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I think it would be a great addition. I added it to my "ownership" template with really cool results. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 17:52, 28 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Red Links===<br />
Doesn't Google frown upon creating pages with no content like the sailing related stuff? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:47, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:I didn't want a bunch of red links on the front page - feel free to add some content if the mood strikes you. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 18:29, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Consider it done, thanks to GFDL content from Encyclopedian.com. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 19:25, 31 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Bad account ==<br />
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Looks like a mistaken duplicate account (with a lower-case "l") was [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User:Jerry_lavoie&action=edit made here]. Can we delete accounts, as if they never existed, or can you only "block"? Not that it's bugging me... --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 07:55, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:We don't make distinctions between unactivated user accounts, whether resulting from incorrect/invalid email addresses, etc. It always dangerous to actually "delete" database records; they really don't take up any space, so it's better to leave them alone. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:10, 6 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Taming the ad beast ==<br />
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Let Garrett and me know what you think of [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Garrett&diff=13544&oldid=13520 what I told Garrett]. I don't want to suppress the spirit, but we also don't want Centiare mucked up with 80% ads, 20% content. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:02, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Firefox blocked the pop-up as well. I agree with your observation that users hate pop-up ads. That being said, I think there's a natural counter-acting moderation for those with their own directory listings. That is, potential problems arise in situations where non-owners have developed directory listings. Since these are allowed at our discretion, we can easily create a policy governing this practice. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 13:41, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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adbrite looks much more on the up and up and doesn't have pop-ups. [http://www.adbrite.com] Why google why! - this looks to be a suitable replacement and better than the last one. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:00, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Social --> Share this page ==<br />
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Karl, could you please change the "Quick Addition" template so that the additional "share" script is headed "Share this page", rather than "Social"? It's the more common terminology, and that's how I've updated the "long form" Add a listing pages. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:45, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:Karl, hope you don't mind, but I made the "Share this page" change.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:21, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::Looks great. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 14:48, 9 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== My user page. ==<br />
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Aha! Thanks for the fix! [[User:Nathan|Nathan]] ([[User talk:Nathan|talk]]) 11:25, 20 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==featured articles==<br />
Is it cool if I make up one or two FA's a week that show off more of what makes centiare cool like ask queries and embedded videos? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 09:44, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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:That's great - I've been hoping people would suggest/prepare FAs so we could display articles other than states. Once you have them mocked up, just place them on the [[Centiare:Today's featured article/Submissions|FA waiting list]]. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:01, 22 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==sysop==<br />
can you allow me to do thay move=sysop thing so my pages and my clients pages are view source instead of edit? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:21, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Sysop edited pages need to be individually protected in order to be read only. It would be easier to just return your account status to regular, that way each of your directory listings would automatically be protected. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 22:08, 25 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
::then could you return me to a regular user and set up an admin account maybe? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 12:50, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::Go ahead and create another account and we'll set it up as vuser. We'll turn your Garrett account into a regular user. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:48, 26 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==New Skin==<br />
So how exactly do I make a new skin - the code on the meta wiki page isn't even close. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 15:33, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:The css/js changes are made to your own respective files. I think you're finding out first hand why changing the basic appearance is such a big deal. I find it hard to believe that the look & feel is what is preventing more people from signing up and using the service. Centiare is loaded with all sorts of functions and extensions - it just needs to find its audience. Personally, I would focus on increasing the usability of the pages you've created so far. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 19:02, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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::You're right. Why don't we just put the new layout on hold until 10,000 articles or the top 25,000 on alexa. I think more word of mouth/google results to draw people to centiare then an effortless form filling to create a good looking listing would bring us to that goal by the end of the summer.<br />
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::Down the road I might be able to actually make associates/ad revenue or even better sell a country for a few grand after showing it gets X thousand hits a day :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 20:06, 15 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===Forms 2.0===<br />
You might want to take a look at this new MW [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ forms package]. I'm going to be installing it shortly to see if it will work with Centiare's sem tags and other extensions. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:20, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Compete rank==<br />
My awesome firefox tool bar added the "compete rank" to my browser showing exactly how many unique page views a site gets per day. We're ranked 880,000 thousand and get 986 unique visitors per day. I'm sure google analytics tells you this already but I thought the site as a whole got more like 5,000 hits a day? College doesn't start until the fall which means marketing marketing... eventual riches. We should start thinking viral. [http://snapshot.compete.com/] [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 13:37, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Interesting - looks like something similar to Alexa. Did you get the email I sent you regarding biz ops? Btw, where are you going to college? [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:36, 16 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==widgety==<br />
There are million's of scripts/widget's out there but since you've already created a bunch and have them queued up for FA do you mind if I incorporate my sharethis/html/ads/semantic box into your previously created content? And thank you so much for the business advice, it's greatly appreciated :) [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 18:24, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Knock yourself out - I set them up just to get started. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:03, 17 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== RSS - Moved from OMG Talk Page ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleFeed Extension:SimpleFeed] <br />
I loaded it and ran a test [[RSS|here]], but it doesn't seem to be working; the RSS widget that Garrett suggested renders much better. Let me know if you can get it working properly and/or whether Garrett's works better either way.<br />
<br />
I think the SimplePie library needs to be installed to get this RSS feed parser to work.<br />
<br />
[http://simplepie.org/docs/plugins/mediawiki/ SimplePie]<br />
<br />
It will be better than the RSS Include that Garrett and I have been using because the feed content is included in the page source and the search engines see a fresh page of content every time they crawl. It will help populate empty pages with content. '''IF''' you can get it working will you set the default number of feeds to 15 instead of 5.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 07:25, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:A few weeks ago I had tried to install/run SimplePie's MW extension from their ''own web site'' before you referenced the ''MW-meta'' SP extension. In both instances I couldn't get it to work, so I ended up deleting the entire set of files off the server. (That's why it's not rendering at all.)<br />
<br />
:Are you positive SP will work better than the RSS widget Garrett found? If so, I'll make yet another effort (3rd time's the charm?) to get the SP reader going. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 07:53, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::Absolutely positive! PHP parsing adds (writes) RSS content to the Centiare page source. The javascript (Garrett's widget) only <u>displays</u> content from another site. I'm confident you can make this happen. Fingers crossed!!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:09, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::OK, one more time. If I have any problems again, I'll contact the MW and/or SP developers directly for assistance. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:06, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::::Alright, it's [[Centiare:Extensions/RSS|finally working]]! While some others had commented that they also couldn't install the extension, there were some recommendations by another who had slightly tweaked the procedures to get it to work. Have fun with it. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:34, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::Success, thank you!--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:39, 18 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==templates==<br />
I templated every aspect of a widget page minus the unique script and the page size went from ~2000 bytes down to 750. Can google still pick up on the code behind the page to pagerank my listings? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:59, 19 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
I have no idea if they're going to work as I just did ''replace all'' from wikipedia to centiare and hit save. I kinda sorta kind I might kinda know what I might be doing maybe. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 19:53, 20 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==AdSizes==<br />
I noticed some adsense experimentation with the ad sizes. The following are the allowable ad sizes.<br />
<br><br />
[[Image:AdSizes.png]]<br />
<br><br />
The adsense code needs to be modified in four places to change the size of the ad.<br />
<br><br />
* google_ad_client = "pub-5512298628457000";<br />
* google_ad_width = '''120''';<br />
* google_ad_height = '''240''';<br />
* google_ad_format = "'''120x240'''_as";<br />
* google_ad_type = "text_image";<br />
* google_ad_channel = "";<br />
* google_color_border = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";<br />
* google_color_link = "0066CC";<br />
* google_color_text = "000000";<br />
* google_color_url = "008000";<br />
<br />
--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 09:59, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:Muchas gracias - you are the maestro. I finally applied for my very own Adsense account today, so I'll be able to swap out your client ID for mine shortly. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 10:02, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==[[Directory:Wikipedia Review|Wikipedia Review]]==<br />
Is their any alternative to moving the Directory:GlassBeadGame article to Directory:Wikipedia Review? I am not owner or even an admin of WR and do not seek to speak on their behalf. I believe by moving the article I become the only person at WR who can edit the the article. <br />
[[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 19:56, 21 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:In this case, we have three options:<br />
:# Centiare allows non-owners to create directory listings with the knowledge that they will be transfered when the real owners appear (eg OMG created content for celebrities). You could create/maintain WR until the owner(s) elected to take control of their Centiare listing.<br />
:# Create another entity - we allow virtual DBAs (doing business as). See [[Directory:KJ Kitchens]] for an example.<br />
:# Delete the directory listing and use your anonymous user page.<br />
:Let me know what you'd like to do. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 03:32, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:: I moved all the content from [[Directory:Wikipedia Review]] and any sub pages I created to [[User:GlassBeadGame]] you can delete the pages in the Directory namespace. Hopefully someone responsible for WR will start an appropriate article soon. Thanks. [[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 08:25, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
==ASK Query Limit?==<br />
Is there a limit to the amount of articles an ASK query will display? This rollup is only showing A-G and there should be more showing. [[Directory:Medical_News_Today]] Did I do something wrong?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 14:37, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:Yeah, we currently have a 50 record limit in our default settings to avoid dumping the database. We should discuss whether we want to increase this limit, or encourage users to create sub-queries via categories, etc. to produce smaller, 50 record max queries.<br />
<br />
:For example, even once SoX has 5k+ records, I can use parameters like geog, sic, stock exchange, fiscal year-end, etc to bring down queries to reasonable levels. I'd like to hear Greg's opinion on this; I can up the limit, but then we sort of are encouraging straight dumps. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 15:07, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::Is there a way to break alphabetically, A-D E-H ...?--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 16:36, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::Perhaps - let me look at the documentation. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 20:57, 22 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::So the sector portals off the main page will be limited to 50 also? I think this illustrates why companies go for names like "AAAA Plumbing Services". Everyone at the low end of the alphabet will be out of luck.--[[User:OmniMediaGroup|OmniMediaGroup]] 08:04, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::Yes, gross listings are limited to 50. But there's nothing stopping anyone from creating ad hoc master index pages linked to separate report pages that run queries based on specific input criteria such as alpha AAA-CCC, DDD-FFF, etc.<br />
<br />
:::You should experiment with [[Centiare|ASK]] to see if it can assess tagged page titles; I know it can assess number ranges such as population. If it has trouble with internal strings, we can always create new alpha tags such as <nowiki>[[Attribute:Name Range A]]</nowiki>, etc. to filter queries. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:40, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::::I understand that limits on ASK queries are necessary to protect the database. However, at this stage, we have no evidence that ANYONE is using Centiare to off-load lists or content. Personally, I think until we see such activity taking place, we would be "showing off" more of our content by upping that limit to something more likely to cover our editors' needs and interests -- maybe N=500, rather than N=50? --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:15, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::I was reading through the [[Help:Inline queries|ASK]] documentation and there's supposed to be an option where add'l records that exceed the max limit can be displayed via an embedded link:<br />
::::''If not all results of a query have been displayed due to a restricted limit, there will often be a link to "further results" that is displayed below the query. The text of this link can be modified by setting the parameter searchlabel.''<br />
:::Problem is, I couldn't get it to work. This would solve the issue and provide a nice navigational component. Let me look into it; if I can't get it to work, I'll increase the default display limit. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 09:25, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
==AAHHH! I'm deleting my ownership template==<br />
I'm pretty sure google has dropped all of my pages because they have too many links and are just another zombie site. Zut! I can't find anything on search.<br />
<br />
[[User:Garrett|Garrett]] 11:08, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
==Customising the "table of contents" position==<br />
Thank you for your kind welcome on our talk page [[User_talk:Amber_House_Limited|Amber_House_Limited]]. <br />
<br />
We have tried (and failed) to re-position the table of contents on our directory page [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House]] by using the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> {{TOCleft}} we are familiar with from Wikipedia.<br />
<br />
How is a customised position for the ToC achieved here?<br />
<br />
Also, how do we disable the <br />
# Topographic map from TopoZone<br />
# Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA <br />
since New Zealand is a long way outwith the coverage areas of those American-centric maps? [[User:Amber House Limited|Amber House Limited]] 07:19, 28 May 2007 (PDT)</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16754Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-28T14:07:00Z<p>Amber House Limited: tried (and failed) to re-position table of contents with {{TOCleft}} template</p>
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]<br /><br />
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''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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==Photo gallery==<br />
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| owner = Adam and Anne Amber<br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]<br /><br />
<br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest accommodation prices in Nelson, NZ] the longer in advance you [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
<p>Upstairs, the en-suite Blue Room has its own balconies with a view over Tasman Bay to the Arthur Ranges on one side and the Sugar Loaf and Botanical Hill <br />
([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%2C_New_Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F geographical Centre of New Zealand]) <br />
from the other balcony.</p><br />
<br />
<p>All our <strong>rooms are BIG</strong> - large enough for <strong><em>two</em> Queen Beds</strong> and our Green Room is <strong>very <br />
good value</strong> for families and those on a limited budget and willing to share a bathroom.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Guests compliment us on our hot <strong>breakfasts cooked to individual order</strong>. Many folks have enjoyed one of <br />
our "Ulster Fry"s - or you can just help yourself to fruit any time and from a cold (or `continental' style) <br />
buffet breakfast if you`re watching your weight.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Most city buses, the Charabanc and Double Decker city sightseeing tours and all long distance coaches stop right outside Amber House Bed and <br />
Breakfast (B &amp; B) Guest House - so you can lie in a bit longer if you're off on a day trip to the Abel Tasman National Park or paragliding that day... <br />
We have a garage for Bikes and Kayaks and we grow many of our own vegetables organically in the sunniest place in New Zealand.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Because we have children at primary school we do <u>not</u> allow smoking anywhere on our land.<br />
(If you <em>are</em> a Smoker, then the Milton Chalet Motel just down the road would be a good choice <br />
of accommodation since they <em>do</em> allow smoking outside some of their budget accommodation units...)</p><br />
<br />
<p>Both Anne and Adam Amber are born and raised in Nelson and we would very much enjoy giving you tips on how to get the best <br />
out of your stay in the Top of the South...</p><br />
<br />
Welcome home! <div align="center"><br />
<p><big><strong><em>AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!&#8482;</em></strong></big></p><br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]<br /><br />
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''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.''<br /> (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest prices the longer in advance you book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
<br />
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| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = Adam and Anne Amber<br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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==Prices==<br />
'''Typical prices of our rooms per night:'''<br /><br />
Single occupancy from NZ $69.00 ( USD 50.14 ) but can go as low as NZ $29.00 ( USD 21.07 )<br /><br />
Double occupancy from NZ $80.00 ( USD 58.13 ) but can go as low as NZ $57.00 ( USD 41.42 )<br /><br />
Double [En-Suite and Air Conditioned] from NZ $119.00 ( USD 86.47 ) but can go as low as NZ $96.00 ( USD 69.75 )<br /><br />
Group of 4 persons from NZ $148.00 ( USD 107.54 ) but can go as low as NZ $103.00 ( USD 74.84 )<br /><br />
[ie from as little as NZ $26.00 ( USD 18.89 ) per person per night (pppn)]<br /><br />
''All prices quoted by Amber House Limited are for immediate cash settlement and include breakfast, hot and cold drinks, fruit and biscuits and all applicable taxes, levies and service charges. Tipping is not common practice in New Zealand, "Thank you" is all that is expected - even for exceptional service.'' (Our prices change dynamically according to demand so there is sometimes a small peak season supplement imposed from 15 November thru' 15 April and you will get [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html the cheapest prices the longer in advance you book online!]. Prices in US Dollars above were converted on 28 May 2007 and our website has real-time conversion for 160 different currencies.) <br />
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*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg|420px|thumb|right|1897 Amber House. (Photo taken from the North-West in late Southern Hemisphere winter with the [[Nelson, New Zealand#Centre_of_New_Zealand.3F|Centre of New Zealand]] visible above the roofline.)]]<br />
'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
<br />
When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
<br />
Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
<br />
Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
<br />
On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
<br />
Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
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| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
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| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
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| owner = Adam and Anne Amber<br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website home page]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/reservations.html Reserve Bed and Breakfast accommodation on-line in Nelson, New Zealand at Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings]<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html Interactive map, travel directions and National Park information for Amber House B & B Guest House tourist lodgings in Nelson (handy for Abel Tasman) New Zealand]<br />
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| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = <!-- [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] --><br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
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| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[2006]]]] <br />
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'''Amber House''' is a family run bed and breakfast (B & B) Guest House in [[Nelson, New Zealand]] in the scenically stunning [[South Island]].<br />
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When our family home was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, it stood on the southern shore of Nelson's Haven, with fat little Weka running up and down the strand.<br />
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Now the vibrant and exciting city of Nelson has grown up and outwards around Amber House, but our home remains a peaceful and helpful haven for travellers with all of our city's attractions just a short stroll from our front gate.<br />
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Our guests can amble to the nearby Miyazu traditional Japanese gardens and listen to the water bell, take a look at the new wharekai on Whakatu Marae, or simply sit on our verandah and enjoy the fragrance of our irish roses in the front garden.<br />
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On Friday afternoons, the Farmers Market is just opposite us in Founders Heritage Park while Saturday morning sees many of our guests off to visit the `World-famous-in-New Zealand' craft and artisan market in nearby Montgomery Square where they mingle with locals prodding organic vegetables.<br />
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Although crystal chandeliers hang from ceilings more than eleven feet high downstairs, we do have a new 21st Century hot water system, satellite dish, Broadband Internet, en-suite bathrooms and our Rose Room even has air-conditioning.<br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = <!-- [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] --><br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
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| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an [[Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House|accommodation]] and lodgings business in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_House family home] in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
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| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[2006]]]] <br />
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| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_House family home] in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[2006]]]] <br />
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| industry = <!-- [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]] --><br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
<!-- [Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]] --><br />[[Phone:=+64-21-202 4961]]<br>[[Web:=www.amberhouse.co.nz|[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website]]]<br />
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'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_House family home] in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = <!-- [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] --><br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
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| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br />Nelson<br />[[New Zealand]]<br />
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'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
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One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
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{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = <!-- [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] --><br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[2006]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = <!-- {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] --><br />
| key_people = <!-- [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] --> <br />
| industry = <!-- [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]] --><br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=46 Weka Street]]<br>Nelson [[New Zealand]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=+64-21-202 4961]]<br>[[Web:=www.amberhouse.co.nz|[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) --><!-- [[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]] --><br />
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}}<br />
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<br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
<!-- <br />
One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
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{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = <!-- [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] --><br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[2006]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = <!-- {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = <!-- [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] --> <br />
| industry = <!-- [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=4729 Elvis Presley Blvd]]<br>Memphis, [[State_Code:=TN]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=901.555.1212]]<br>[[Web:=www.milsonprinting.com|[http://www.milsonprinting.com Milson Printing website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) -->[[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]]<br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
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--><br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
<!-- <br />
One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
--><br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
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<!-- <br />
<center><br />
<adsense><br />
google_ad_client = 'pub-4781341637005814';<br />
google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
google_color_bg = '003366';<br />
google_color_link = 'FFFFFF';<br />
google_color_text = 'AECCEB';<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
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===Share this page===<br />
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{{Mapit-US-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16685Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-27T22:19:44Z<p>Amber House Limited: attempting to fix remarking out</p>
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| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] <br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[1965]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] <br />
| industry = [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=4729 Elvis Presley Blvd]]<br>Memphis, [[State_Code:=TN]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=901.555.1212]]<br>[[Web:=www.milsonprinting.com|[http://www.milsonprinting.com Milson Printing website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) -->[[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]]<br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
<br />
--><br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
<!-- <br />
One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
--><br />
<!-- <br />
== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves. --><br />
<br />
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<!-- <br />
<center><br />
<adsense><br />
google_ad_client = 'pub-4781341637005814';<br />
google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
google_color_bg = '003366';<br />
google_color_link = 'FFFFFF';<br />
google_color_text = 'AECCEB';<br />
google_color_url = 'AECCEB';<br />
</adsense><br />
</center> --><br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
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{{Mapit-US-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16684Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-27T22:15:40Z<p>Amber House Limited: remarked out sections under construction</p>
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{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] <br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[1965]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] <br />
| industry = [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=4729 Elvis Presley Blvd]]<br>Memphis, [[State_Code:=TN]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=901.555.1212]]<br>[[Web:=www.milsonprinting.com|[http://www.milsonprinting.com Milson Printing website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) -->[[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]]<br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
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--><br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves.<br />
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google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
google_color_bg = '003366';<br />
google_color_link = 'FFFFFF';<br />
google_color_text = 'AECCEB';<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
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{{Mapit-US-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16683Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-27T22:11:31Z<p>Amber House Limited: corrected geo co-ordinates syntax</p>
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{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] <br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[1965]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] <br />
| industry = [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=4729 Elvis Presley Blvd]]<br>Memphis, [[State_Code:=TN]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=901.555.1212]]<br>[[Web:=www.milsonprinting.com|[http://www.milsonprinting.com Milson Printing website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) -->[[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]]<br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
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<br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves.<br />
<br />
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<br />
<center><br />
<adsense><br />
google_ad_client = 'pub-4781341637005814';<br />
google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
google_color_bg = '003366';<br />
google_color_link = 'FFFFFF';<br />
google_color_text = 'AECCEB';<br />
google_color_url = 'AECCEB';<br />
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==Photo gallery==<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
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===Share this page===<br />
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<br />
{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] <br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[1965]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] <br />
| industry = [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=4729 Elvis Presley Blvd]]<br>Memphis, [[State_Code:=TN]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=901.555.1212]]<br>[[Web:=www.milsonprinting.com|[http://www.milsonprinting.com Milson Printing website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) -->[[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]]<br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves.<br />
<br />
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<br />
<center><br />
<adsense><br />
google_ad_client = 'pub-4781341637005814';<br />
google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
google_color_bg = '003366';<br />
google_color_link = 'FFFFFF';<br />
google_color_text = 'AECCEB';<br />
google_color_url = 'AECCEB';<br />
</adsense><br />
</center><br />
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==Photo gallery==<br />
<gallery><br />
image:Pumpkin_2006.jpg<br />
image:Lake_Lure_golf_view.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
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==References==<br />
<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:1; column-count:1;"><br />
<references /><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
<br />
===Share this page===<br />
<sharethis /><br />
<br />
===Geolocation===<br />
<!-- {{Mapit-US-cityscale|35.019608|-90.025098}} --><br />
{{Geolinks-cityscale|-41.2667|173.2931}}</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16681Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-27T22:05:13Z<p>Amber House Limited: added company slogan</p>
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<br />
{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] <br />
| company_slogan = '''AMBER HOUSE - at the centre!™ '''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[1965]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] <br />
| industry = [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
| subsid = <!-- List any subsidiary operations here. --> <br />
| owner = <!-- Useful for privately or closely-held firms. --><br />
| contact = [[Address:=4729 Elvis Presley Blvd]]<br>Memphis, [[State_Code:=TN]] [[Zip:=38116]]-[[Plus4:=0000]]<br>[[Phone:=901.555.1212]]<br>[[Web:=www.milsonprinting.com|[http://www.milsonprinting.com Milson Printing website]]]<br />
| reference = <!-- Reference items help facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) -->[[NAICS]]: [[NAICS_Code1:=32311]], [[NAICS_Code2:=32312]]<br>[[Attribute:Region1|Region]]: [[Region1:=Orange County|[[Directory:Orange County|The OC]]]]<br>[[Latitude]]: [[Latitude:=35.019608|35°01'10.59"]]<br>[[Longitude]]: [[Longitude:=-90.025098|-90°01'30.35"]]<br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
<br />
One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves.<br />
<br />
<!-- This is how a Google ad template can be used. Of course, you'd replace this client ID with your own client ID. --><br />
<br />
<center><br />
<adsense><br />
google_ad_client = 'pub-4781341637005814';<br />
google_ad_width = 468;<br />
google_ad_height = 60;<br />
google_ad_format = '468x60_as';<br />
google_ad_type = 'text_image';//2006-12-28: Centiare Directory space<br />
google_ad_channel = '2388332058';<br />
google_color_border = '6699CC';<br />
google_color_bg = '003366';<br />
google_color_link = 'FFFFFF';<br />
google_color_text = 'AECCEB';<br />
google_color_url = 'AECCEB';<br />
</adsense><br />
</center><br />
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<br />
==Photo gallery==<br />
<gallery><br />
image:Pumpkin_2006.jpg<br />
image:Lake_Lure_golf_view.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
==References==<br />
<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:1; column-count:1;"><br />
<references /><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/ Amber House website]<br />
<br />
===Share this page===<br />
<sharethis /><br />
<br />
===Geolocation===<br />
{{Mapit-US-cityscale|35.019608|-90.025098}}</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Amber_House_Bed_and_Breakfast_Guest_House&diff=16680Directory:Amber House Bed and Breakfast Guest House2007-05-27T22:01:45Z<p>Amber House Limited: trial edit</p>
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<br />
{{Infobox_Company <br />
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Amber House Limited]]<br />
| company_logo = [[Image:Milson_Printing_Logo.jpg|150px|Milson Printing logo]] <br />
| company_slogan = ''Your Printing Guru''<br />
| company_type = [[Company_Type:=Private|[[Private Company|Private]]]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=1897|[[1965]]]] <br />
| founder = <br />
| location = {{flagicon|US}} [[City:=Memphis|[[Directory:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]]], [[State_Name:=Tennessee|[[Directory:Tennessee|Tennessee]]]], [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|USA]]]] <br />
| key_people = [[Key_Person1:=Sanford Milson|[[Directory:Sanford Milson|Sanford Milson]]]], [[Key_Person1_Title:=CEO|CEO]]<br>[[Key_Person2:=Ollie Hopnoodle]], [[Key_Person2_Title:=COO|General Manager]] <br />
| industry = [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Printing|[[Printing]]]]<br>[[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Support Activities for Printing|[[Printing Support]]]]<br />
| products = <!-- You can list the company's products here. --><br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income =<br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = {{profit}} [[Employees:=11|11]] (2007) <br />
| parent = <!-- Link to a parent company here. --><br />
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'''Amber House Limited''' is the family corporation of the Amber family, formed in 2006 with limited liability, although we can trace the family history back to 972AD in [[Ireland]]. It operates an accommodation and lodgings business in the family home in [[Nelson, New Zealand]]<br />
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One of Milson's clients has recently expanded his reach into entrepreneurial ventures centering on wiki editing and optimization. <ref name="DieWelt">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Mathias|title=Wikipedia-Artikel, die man kaufen kann|publisher=[[Directory:Die Welt|Die Welt]]|date=2006-08-24|url=http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html|accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> <br />
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== History ==<br />
Milson Printing started business in [[1965]] in a small shop on Duval Street in Key West, Florida. As the business expanded, it moved in [[1974]] to a larger facility in town on Caroline Street, and then again moved in [[1998]] to its present location in Memphis, where the owner could be closer to the blues music he so loves.<br />
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{{Mapit-US-cityscale|35.019608|-90.025098}}</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Nelson,_New_Zealand&diff=16679Directory:Nelson, New Zealand2007-05-27T21:54:26Z<p>Amber House Limited: /* Surviving historic buildings */ ordered list alphabetically</p>
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|colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF" style="font-weight:bold;"|<big>Nelson</big><br><big>''Whakatū''</big> ([[M%C4%81ori_language|Māori]])<br />
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|Population:<br><small>(June 2006 estimate)</small> ||60,500<br><small>(urban)</small><br>46,400 [http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/5B50D4BB-EC38-4616-BFF3-60815717DC24/0/subnationalpopulationestimatesjun06hotp.pdf]<br><small>(unitary)</small><br />
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|Mayor:||[[Paul Matheson]]<br />
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|Extent:||from Rai Saddle to<br>Stoke<br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
<br />
For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
<br />
Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
<br />
While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
<br />
In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
<br />
New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
<br />
Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
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Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
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The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
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[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
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Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
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===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
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Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
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The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
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Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
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After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
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The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
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===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
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===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
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==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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[[Category:Port cities in New Zealand]]</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Nelson,_New_Zealand&diff=16677Directory:Nelson, New Zealand2007-05-27T21:50:16Z<p>Amber House Limited: /* Surviving historic buildings */ Provided external link to Amber House</p>
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|colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF" style="font-weight:bold;"|<big>Nelson</big><br><big>''Whakatū''</big> ([[M%C4%81ori_language|Māori]])<br />
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[[Image:Nelson.PNG|220px|center]]<br />
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|Population:<br><small>(June 2006 estimate)</small> ||60,500<br><small>(urban)</small><br>46,400 [http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/5B50D4BB-EC38-4616-BFF3-60815717DC24/0/subnationalpopulationestimatesjun06hotp.pdf]<br><small>(unitary)</small><br />
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!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF"|Urban Area <br />
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|Extent:||from Glenduan to<br>the Wairoa River <br />
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|-<br />
|Name:||Nelson City<br />
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|Mayor:||[[Paul Matheson]]<br />
|-<br />
|Extent:||from Rai Saddle to<br>Stoke<br />
|-<br />
|Land Area:|| 444km²<br />
|}<br />
The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
<br />
Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
<br />
Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
<br />
Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
<br />
For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
<br />
Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
<br />
Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
<br />
===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
<br />
The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
<br />
While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
<br />
In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
<br />
New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
<br />
Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
<br />
Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
<br />
==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
<br />
The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
<br />
The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
<br />
Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
<br />
===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
<br />
Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
<br />
The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
<br />
Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
<br />
After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
<br />
The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
<br />
===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
<br />
===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
<br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[http://www.amberhouse.co.nz Amber House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
<br />
==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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[[Category:Port cities in New Zealand]]</div>Amber House Limitedhttps://mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Directory:Nelson,_New_Zealand&diff=16676Directory:Nelson, New Zealand2007-05-27T21:45:48Z<p>Amber House Limited: imported article from Wikipedia</p>
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|colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF" style="font-weight:bold;"|<big>Nelson</big><br><big>''Whakatū''</big> ([[M%C4%81ori_language|Māori]])<br />
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|Population:<br><small>(June 2006 estimate)</small> ||60,500<br><small>(urban)</small><br>46,400 [http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/5B50D4BB-EC38-4616-BFF3-60815717DC24/0/subnationalpopulationestimatesjun06hotp.pdf]<br><small>(unitary)</small><br />
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|Mayor:||[[Paul Matheson]]<br />
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The City of '''Nelson''' stands on the southern shore of [[Tasman Bay]], at the northern end of the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]] and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region.<br />
Nelson received its name in honour of the [[Horatio Nelson|1st Viscount Nelson]] and Admiral of the fleet that defeated both the French and Spanish fleets at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805. Many of the roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.<br />
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Nelson is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the [[Nelson Arts Festival]]. The annual [[Wearable Art]] Awards were begun in Nelson and there is a Museum of Wearable Arts showcasing winning designs close to the [[Nelson Airport|Airport]].<br />
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Nelson is the birthplace of [[Ernest Rutherford|Lord Rutherford]], the Nobel prize-winning physicist whose image appears on New Zealand's one hundred dollar banknote (the largest denomination in circulation in New Zealand).<br />
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Nelson's [[Māori]] name, Whakatū, [http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/list_placenames.shtml] means "a place to stand", literally meaning "home".<br />
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==Geography==<br />
[[Image:Nelson New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A view of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand"]]<br />
The Nelson Tasman or "Top of the South" region is administered as two [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]] by [[Nelson City Council]] and the (much larger in geographical area) adjoining [[Tasman District Council]] headquartered in [[Richmond, New Zealand|Richmond]] 15 kilometres to the southwest. It is positioned between [[Marlborough, New Zealand|Marlborough]], another unitary authority, to the east and the [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Regional Council]] to the west. <br />
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For some while there has been talk about amalgamating[http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?GoldenBayCommunityBoardNews] [http://taslib.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Friday2June2006] [http://tdc.govt.nz/index.php?SpecialCouncilMinutes,Thursday15June2006] the two authorities in order to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils exemplified[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/making_nelson_the_destination.htm] by [[Latitude Nelson]][http://www.nelsonnz.com] (their jointly owned tourist promotion vehicle).<br />
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Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a natural breakwater known as the Boulder Bank, which also reduces the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tahunanui where a recent project to protect the silver sands from tidal scouring and the coastal dune system from erosion has proved a great success. This allows for some of the safest sea bathing in the country.<br />
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Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other. It functions as the gateway to [[Abel Tasman National Park]], [[Kahurangi National Park]], Lakes [[Lake Rotoiti, Nelson|Rotoiti]] and [[Lake Rotoroa|Rotoroa]] in the [[Nelson Lakes National Park]]. It is a centre for both [[ecotourism]] and [[adventure tourism]] and has a high reputation among [[cave|caving]] enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around [[Takaka Hill]] and Mounts [[Mount Owen, New Zealand|Owen]] and [[Nettlebed_Cave|Arthur]] which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere. [[Image:Geographical centre nelson.jpg|thumb|150px|The marker at the "Centre of New Zealand"|right]]<br />
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===Climate===<br />
Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national statistics for [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/overview/climate_sunshine sunshine hours], with an annual average total of over 2400 hours. You can see the raw data here: [http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/sunshine/]<br />
===Centre of New Zealand?===<br />
The geographical "Centre of New Zealand" allegedly lies in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city. However, this supposed "centre" was simply the convenient starting point for the original trigonometrical surveys of the South Island. The '''true''' geographical centre lies in a patch of unremarkable dense [[scrubland|scrub]] in a forest on [[Spooner's Range, New Zealand|Spooner's Range]] near [[Tapawera]], 35 kilometres southwest of Nelson.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}<br />
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The first [[rugby football|rugby]] match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on [[May 14]], [[1870]], between the [[Nelson Football Club]] and [[Nelson College]] and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by [[Nelson City Council]] in 2006.<br />
===Population===<br />
Figures released on 23 April 2007 by Statistics New Zealand showed that 3774 people born in the United Kingdom and Ireland lived in the Nelson City Council area and made up 9.1 per cent of its population [http://www.amberhouse.co.nz/location.html#Population] - the highest proportion of residents from the [[North East Atlantic Archipelago]] in New Zealand - with another 9.5 per cent of Nelson residents born overseas in other locations outwith New Zealand. Although Statistics New Zealand no longer keeps statistics for numbers of residents born in the [[German language|German]]-speaking countries, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wellington has stated that a greater proportion of German speakers live in the Nelson and Bays area than anywhere else in New Zealand.<br />
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While Britons remained the biggest migrant group in New Zealand as a whole, 2006 saw China overtook Australia for the first time to come in second on the list. There were 202,401 people born in England living in New Zealand, 78,117 born in China, and 62,742 from Australia - while Scotland dropped to eighth place from its previous fifth place New Zealand ranking.<br />
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In the 2006 census, 1,297,104 people (34.7 percent) stated that they had no religion.<br />
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New Zealand became increasingly ethnically diverse between the 2001 and 2006 censuses and saw an almost 50 percent jump in the number of Asian people living in the country. People identifying as Filipino increased by 52.7 per cent to 16,938 persons - in fourth place after China (40.5% increase), India (68.2% increase) and Korea (61.8% increase).<br />
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Neither Nelson nor Tasman district saw quite as big an increase, although there was a 23.7 percent rise in the number of Asians living in Nelson and a 35.4 percent rise in the number in Tasman district.<br />
<br />
Nelson's total population rose from 41,568 in 2001 to 42,888 in 2006, while Tasman district's rose from 41,352 to 44,625 to exceed that of Nelson for the first time ever.[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/census-2006/census-2006.htm]<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
Music lovers may attend the biennial [[Nelson School of Music]] [[Winter Music Festival]], the [[Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music]] [http://www.music.org.nz/index.php] and the annual [[Nelson Jazz Festival|Jazz Festival]].</p><br />
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The [[Taste Nelson festival]] at [[Founders Park]] highlights this region's gastronomy, the [[Festival of Possibilities]] features well-being and wonderment, while the [[Suter International Film Festival]] screens 20 non-Hollywood films in late May to June every year.<br />
<br />
The [[Nelson Kite Festival]] takes advantage of the reliable sea breezes that blow inland from Tasman Bay across Neale Park each afternoon with kite lovers arriving from around New Zealand and from overseas.<br />
<br />
[[Image:nelsoncity.jpg|thumb|center|700px|A panorama over Nelson City]]<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
===Early settlement===<br />
Settlement of Nelson began about 1100 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. The earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are the Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Tumatakokiri, Ngāti Apa and Rangitane tribes.<br />
<br />
Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.<br />
<br />
===New Zealand Company ===<br />
[[Image:Nelson cathedral.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Diocese_of_Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] on Church Hill, central Nelson|right]]<br />
The [[New Zealand Company]] in [[London]] planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy cheaply from the [[Māori]] some 200,000 acres (800 km²) which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell (at a considerable profit) to intending settlers. The Company earmarked future profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers and their families, and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.<br />
<br />
Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain [[Arthur Wakefield]]. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, [[William Hobson]] would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable [[arable land]]; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60,000 acres (243 km²), less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.<br />
<br />
The Company secured from the Māori for £800 a vague and undetermined area, but including Nelson, Waimea, [[Motueka]], [[Riwaka]] and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. These ships were the Fifeshire, the Mary-Ann, the Lord Auckland and the Lloyds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.<br />
<br />
Notably, the early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of [[Germany|German]] immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau ([[Upper Moutere]]) and Neudorf. These were mostly Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.<br />
<br />
After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and the labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.<br />
<br />
The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated quite adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the [[Wairau Affray]], wherein twenty-two settlers died. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.<br />
<br />
===Nelson Province===<br />
From 1853 until 1876, Nelson was the capital of [[Nelson Province]].<br />
<br />
===Surviving historic buildings===<br />
<br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg3.htm#cathedral Christ Church Cathedral]<br /><br />
[[Amber House]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/broadgreen-house/broadgreen-background.htm Broadgreen House]<br /><br />
[[Cabragh House]]<br /><br />
[[Chez Eelco]]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/founders/founders.htm Founders Park] Windmill<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/isel_house/isel-house.htm Isel House]<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/heritage/melrose.htm Melrose House]<br /><br />
[[Nelson Central School]] Renwick House<br /><br />
[http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/aboutnelson/visitors-guide/visitor-guide-pg1.htm#southstreet South Street Cottages]<br /><br />
[[Victorian Rose]] Pub<br /><br />
<br />
==Sister cities==<br />
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], Japan <br />
* {{flagicon|China}} City of [[Huangshi]], People's Republic of China; <br />
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Eureka, CA]], USA<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Nelson Airport (New Zealand)|Nelson Airport]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*{{wikitravel|Nelson}}<br />
* [http://www.nelsonnz.com/ Latitude Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.harlequin.co.nz/nelson/ The Harlequin Guide to Nelson]<br />
* [http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/index.htm Nelson City Council]<br />
* [http://www.nmit.ac.nz/ Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology]<br />
* [http://www.portnelson.co.nz/ Nelson Ports]<br />
* [http://www.creativetourism.co.nz/ Creative Tourism Nelson]<br />
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