Helpful userboxes for monitoring this category and concept include:
Code | Result | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
{{ User:UBX/helpme}} |
|
Usage | ||
{{ Template:User Helper}} |
|
Usage | ||
Note that the below userbox has a couple possible parameters and full documentation can be found on the userbox's page. | ||||
{{ User:Technical 13/Userboxes/Help me responder}} |
|
Usage | ||
{{ User:Technical 13/Userboxes/Admin help responder}} |
|
Usage |
I check this page maybe twice per "wikipedia session" which is just about every day and have have only once seen a user listed as requesting help. Unless I am the butt of a cosmic statistics joke, there must be some reason why the the message to add {{help me}} in many templates does not seem to garner much response.-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Are people other than admins allowed to answer these calls for help, if we ever see them? 'Cause I am not an admin.-- Ch ili 14 21:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
If anyone wants help answering CAT:HELP requests more quickly, I've written a script that can add immediate-request categories to your watchlist ( User:ais523/catwatch.js). -- ais523 15:33, 15 November 2006 ( U T C)
I think we should rename this "Wikipedian's requesting help" as it sounds more suitable and they aren't really "looking for help" they are requesting help.
Give me your views!
Regards
Dep. Garcia (Talk to Me) 19:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
How about Wikipedians seeking help as opposed to Wikipedians requesting help and Wikipedians looking for help.
Views? Let me hear (read) them.
Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 17:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! Let's do it! Nina Odell 17:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Reason: The renaming of this category would make the encyclopedia help system more professional and seeking is shorter than looking for.
If any can come up with a better reason than mine, please do so. Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 18:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Oppose: The page is not part of the encyclopedia, it does not need encyclopediac tone. Whether the status quo or one of the suggestions is more "professional" depends on what kind of service is being offered and who our customers are. "Seeking", "Requesting" and "Looking for" are synonyms, the only difference is in tone. "Looking for" is the simplest and most informal, and so the most friendly, open and welcoming. Is this not the kind of 'professional service' we want to offer? Don't you think our 'customers' deserve this rather than staid formally?
As for "seeking" or "requesting" being "shorter" - please, we're talking about whether a sentence should be three or four words in length! If by brevity we are seeking clarity, a simple phrasal verb such as "looking for" does a lot more than precise verbs such as the ones proposed. Definitions are below (fom the NOAD);
-- sony-youth talk 22:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I am not going to give a Support or Oppose 'vote' on this, I think the name of it is fine either way. Looking for help does sound a bit more like they're not going to find the help, like Sony-youth says above, you are attempting to find. You will find it, 100% of these questions get answered if they are legitimate requests. — jacĸrм ( talk) 04:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
For all those who monitor this category, here's a userbox:
Code | Result | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
|{{ User:UBX/helpme}} |
|
Usage | ||
|{{ Template:User Helper}} |
|
Usage |
Hope you like. RyanLupin ( talk/ contribs) 11:18, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I added one for those who use IRC to monitor. Lara ❤ Love 17:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone considered breaking this down into more specialized areas? For example,
One thing I find frustrating is when someone asks a specialized question that sits for 24 hours or more. I was thinking if a user marked their request with a specific type of question, it could be listed in this category and the specialized category. That way the irc channel would still see it in this category. Thoughts?-- 12 Noon 2¢ 23:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
{{helpme}}
on their user talk page and ask a question is simple enough, but new users still often get it wrong (placing it on the wrong page, for instance, or not asking a question), and anything that makes it harder to use is a bad idea. (This is also one reason why the {{
helpme}} template has some unlikely-looking redirects.) --
ais523 09:13, 13 December 2007 (
U
T
C)
I use the help service-thing often, and I have a suggestion. Could a little space be added somewhere to say if anybody is actively helping out at that time - it is quite annoying when I'm waiting for your questions to be answered, and I wonder whether anyone is available or not. Thanks! TheMoridian 09:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The link shown above doesn't work when I click on it. It does the same when i'm using other Computers. Therefore If it is useless to others, it needs to be fixed or deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Condalence ( talk • contribs) 02:17, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
ok. i need help. here is my conundrum: I found the object relations page and it was a little sparse, so i added to it. then i found there were these little stub pages out there, just hanging, on aspects of the theory. I think the stub pages should be merged with the sub sections on the object relations theory page. these stubby parts relate to the sub sections created on the main page for the theory. the stub pages are: depressive position and Paranoid-schizoid position. i've tried reading the help pages to figure out how to do this, but im really only finding info on creating redirects, and the content is different on these two, so the content from the stubs should probably be merged into the (overly technical) stuff at the main theory page on object relations.
the second part of my question is the sub sections on the main page, are they live links? if i put brackets around the words they are titled, will it direct there? it doesnt seem to. if not, can that be possible, and what is that called? how do i look it up so i can make it so?
thanks so much. Majicshrink ( talk) 17:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
[[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English sources]]
results in
Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English sources, which goes to the subsection of the page. The URL for that is easy, it's the same text format with the site URL prefixed, but with all spaces replaced by underscores ("_"s) thus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English_sources
is the link. By the way, further questions should probably be asked at the
help desk, or you can use this category by placing the template {{
helpme}} on your talk page. This is actually a page intended for discussion of the associated category page, and not an actual help forum itself. Cheers.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk) 23:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)#REDIRECT [[object_relations_theory#Paranoid-schizoid_position]]
Hi! I've just found this area (and I've been here for what, 3 years now and a mop wielder for 3 months? I should explore more), and I thought I should try and help out too. Only thing is, I can't find any instructions/guidelines as to what is usually done. For example - do you delete the helpme tag once you've helped out? Do you mark the page as "being helped" whilst you help out so that others don't waste their time duplicating the aid? In short - is there an instructions page somewhere? If so, could you make the link to it a bit more obvious, as I can't find it! (I probably just need glasses) Thanks, StephenBuxton ( talk) 16:08, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
any of you folks familiar with Lupin? I'm wanting to tweak the spell check part so that it shows the actual diff prior to actually changing the word (fixes the spelling). I tried User:Ioeth (or something like that a while back, but he doesn't seem to be around a whole lot these days. I tried the help desk. I tried various links in WP:Lupin - just haven't found anyone who can help. The reason I want to show the "diff" first - is so I don't change the spelling in a quote, or reference, or a place where it's actually out of context and acceptable as is. Thanks — Ched ~ (yes?) 18:41, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
The refresh button looks really cool. How do I add I to my talk and user page. Also how do I get a cool signature.-- 20thtryer ( talk) 13:24, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
purge button}}
template? The file used in it,
Crystal 128 reload.png, is licensed as free software under
GNU LGPL (version 2.1 or later). A vector version of this image is available at
File:Crystal_128_reload.svg. :-)
benzband (
talk) 16:24, 29 March 2012 (UTC)Currently a query goes through {{ helpme}} to {{ helpme-helped}}, optionally through {{ helpme-working}}.
I would like to propose two things, here. Gryllida 10:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Add a new {{ helpme-pending}} template, for when helper asked for additional information and is waiting for user reply. Gryllida 10:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Look at how n:Template:Developing works, and add buttons users to toggle helpme requests state using JS rather than manual source edit. Gryllida 10:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
<span id="develop_to_review_link">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} '''submit for review''']</span>
is simply a link to the edit page. The project I'm working on (I actually started coding and got the first part done yesterday), will allow you to click a link, "maybe" fill in a few boxes or select options in a popup, and the page will reload and it will be done. No edit pages, little code if any, little messing around waiting for multiple page loads, bam! done.
Technical 13 (
talk) 13:17, 15 September 2013 (UTC)I read several messages. I understood none of them. Specific questions follow.
/****
function to automate removing {{tl|develop}} and adding {{tl|review}}
Apparently people actually have problems with this.
Also removes {{tl|tasks}}
maintainers: [[user:Bawolff]]
****/
addOnloadHook(function () {
var changeDevelopToReviewButton = document.getElementById('develop_to_review_link');
if (changeDevelopToReviewButton) {
try {
//in a try since this makes some assumptions about the format of
//the {{tl|develop}} template, which could change.
importScript('User:Bawolff/mwapilib2.js');
var button = document.createElement('button');
button.type = 'button';
button.appendChild(changeDevelopToReviewButton.firstChild.firstChild);
changeDevelopToReviewButton.replaceChild(button, changeDevelopToReviewButton.firstChild);
button.onclick = function () {
this.disabled = true;
if (this && this.firstChild && this.firstChild.firstChild && this.firstChild.firstChild.data) this.firstChild.firstChild.data = "Loading...";
api(wgPageName).getPage().
push().
setDefaultSummary("Please review this article. (moved using js via button)").
lift( function( input ) { return !input.match( /\{\{[Rr]eview\}\}/ ); }).
abortIfFalse().
pop().
replace(/\{\{(?:[dD]evelop(?:ing|ment)?|[dD]raft|[tT]asks)(?:\|[^}]*)?\}\}/g, "").
replace(/^/, "\{\{review}}\n").
savePage().
lift(function () {
alert("The article is now listed as needing review.");
location.reload();
}).
exec();
}
}
catch (e) {}
}
});
There is a cross-wiki discussion in progress as to whether c:
should be enabled globally as an
interwiki prefix for links to the
Wikimedia Commons. If the proposal gains consensus this will require the deletion or renaming of
several pages on the English WIkipedia whose titles begin with "C:", including one or more redirects to this page. Please take a moment to participate in
the discussion.
There is also a related discussion on the English Wikipedia at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 February 16#C:ATT to which you are invited to contribute.
Thank you.
Thryduulf (
talk) 15:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I think c: should be considered as a interwiki prefix. Vibrantone1 ( talk) 09:48, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Helpful userboxes for monitoring this category and concept include:
Code | Result | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
{{ User:UBX/helpme}} |
|
Usage | ||
{{ Template:User Helper}} |
|
Usage | ||
Note that the below userbox has a couple possible parameters and full documentation can be found on the userbox's page. | ||||
{{ User:Technical 13/Userboxes/Help me responder}} |
|
Usage | ||
{{ User:Technical 13/Userboxes/Admin help responder}} |
|
Usage |
I check this page maybe twice per "wikipedia session" which is just about every day and have have only once seen a user listed as requesting help. Unless I am the butt of a cosmic statistics joke, there must be some reason why the the message to add {{help me}} in many templates does not seem to garner much response.-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Are people other than admins allowed to answer these calls for help, if we ever see them? 'Cause I am not an admin.-- Ch ili 14 21:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
If anyone wants help answering CAT:HELP requests more quickly, I've written a script that can add immediate-request categories to your watchlist ( User:ais523/catwatch.js). -- ais523 15:33, 15 November 2006 ( U T C)
I think we should rename this "Wikipedian's requesting help" as it sounds more suitable and they aren't really "looking for help" they are requesting help.
Give me your views!
Regards
Dep. Garcia (Talk to Me) 19:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
How about Wikipedians seeking help as opposed to Wikipedians requesting help and Wikipedians looking for help.
Views? Let me hear (read) them.
Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 17:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! Let's do it! Nina Odell 17:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Reason: The renaming of this category would make the encyclopedia help system more professional and seeking is shorter than looking for.
If any can come up with a better reason than mine, please do so. Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 18:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Oppose: The page is not part of the encyclopedia, it does not need encyclopediac tone. Whether the status quo or one of the suggestions is more "professional" depends on what kind of service is being offered and who our customers are. "Seeking", "Requesting" and "Looking for" are synonyms, the only difference is in tone. "Looking for" is the simplest and most informal, and so the most friendly, open and welcoming. Is this not the kind of 'professional service' we want to offer? Don't you think our 'customers' deserve this rather than staid formally?
As for "seeking" or "requesting" being "shorter" - please, we're talking about whether a sentence should be three or four words in length! If by brevity we are seeking clarity, a simple phrasal verb such as "looking for" does a lot more than precise verbs such as the ones proposed. Definitions are below (fom the NOAD);
-- sony-youth talk 22:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I am not going to give a Support or Oppose 'vote' on this, I think the name of it is fine either way. Looking for help does sound a bit more like they're not going to find the help, like Sony-youth says above, you are attempting to find. You will find it, 100% of these questions get answered if they are legitimate requests. — jacĸrм ( talk) 04:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
For all those who monitor this category, here's a userbox:
Code | Result | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
|{{ User:UBX/helpme}} |
|
Usage | ||
|{{ Template:User Helper}} |
|
Usage |
Hope you like. RyanLupin ( talk/ contribs) 11:18, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I added one for those who use IRC to monitor. Lara ❤ Love 17:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone considered breaking this down into more specialized areas? For example,
One thing I find frustrating is when someone asks a specialized question that sits for 24 hours or more. I was thinking if a user marked their request with a specific type of question, it could be listed in this category and the specialized category. That way the irc channel would still see it in this category. Thoughts?-- 12 Noon 2¢ 23:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
{{helpme}}
on their user talk page and ask a question is simple enough, but new users still often get it wrong (placing it on the wrong page, for instance, or not asking a question), and anything that makes it harder to use is a bad idea. (This is also one reason why the {{
helpme}} template has some unlikely-looking redirects.) --
ais523 09:13, 13 December 2007 (
U
T
C)
I use the help service-thing often, and I have a suggestion. Could a little space be added somewhere to say if anybody is actively helping out at that time - it is quite annoying when I'm waiting for your questions to be answered, and I wonder whether anyone is available or not. Thanks! TheMoridian 09:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The link shown above doesn't work when I click on it. It does the same when i'm using other Computers. Therefore If it is useless to others, it needs to be fixed or deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Condalence ( talk • contribs) 02:17, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
ok. i need help. here is my conundrum: I found the object relations page and it was a little sparse, so i added to it. then i found there were these little stub pages out there, just hanging, on aspects of the theory. I think the stub pages should be merged with the sub sections on the object relations theory page. these stubby parts relate to the sub sections created on the main page for the theory. the stub pages are: depressive position and Paranoid-schizoid position. i've tried reading the help pages to figure out how to do this, but im really only finding info on creating redirects, and the content is different on these two, so the content from the stubs should probably be merged into the (overly technical) stuff at the main theory page on object relations.
the second part of my question is the sub sections on the main page, are they live links? if i put brackets around the words they are titled, will it direct there? it doesnt seem to. if not, can that be possible, and what is that called? how do i look it up so i can make it so?
thanks so much. Majicshrink ( talk) 17:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
[[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English sources]]
results in
Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English sources, which goes to the subsection of the page. The URL for that is easy, it's the same text format with the site URL prefixed, but with all spaces replaced by underscores ("_"s) thus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English_sources
is the link. By the way, further questions should probably be asked at the
help desk, or you can use this category by placing the template {{
helpme}} on your talk page. This is actually a page intended for discussion of the associated category page, and not an actual help forum itself. Cheers.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk) 23:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)#REDIRECT [[object_relations_theory#Paranoid-schizoid_position]]
Hi! I've just found this area (and I've been here for what, 3 years now and a mop wielder for 3 months? I should explore more), and I thought I should try and help out too. Only thing is, I can't find any instructions/guidelines as to what is usually done. For example - do you delete the helpme tag once you've helped out? Do you mark the page as "being helped" whilst you help out so that others don't waste their time duplicating the aid? In short - is there an instructions page somewhere? If so, could you make the link to it a bit more obvious, as I can't find it! (I probably just need glasses) Thanks, StephenBuxton ( talk) 16:08, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
any of you folks familiar with Lupin? I'm wanting to tweak the spell check part so that it shows the actual diff prior to actually changing the word (fixes the spelling). I tried User:Ioeth (or something like that a while back, but he doesn't seem to be around a whole lot these days. I tried the help desk. I tried various links in WP:Lupin - just haven't found anyone who can help. The reason I want to show the "diff" first - is so I don't change the spelling in a quote, or reference, or a place where it's actually out of context and acceptable as is. Thanks — Ched ~ (yes?) 18:41, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
The refresh button looks really cool. How do I add I to my talk and user page. Also how do I get a cool signature.-- 20thtryer ( talk) 13:24, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
purge button}}
template? The file used in it,
Crystal 128 reload.png, is licensed as free software under
GNU LGPL (version 2.1 or later). A vector version of this image is available at
File:Crystal_128_reload.svg. :-)
benzband (
talk) 16:24, 29 March 2012 (UTC)Currently a query goes through {{ helpme}} to {{ helpme-helped}}, optionally through {{ helpme-working}}.
I would like to propose two things, here. Gryllida 10:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Add a new {{ helpme-pending}} template, for when helper asked for additional information and is waiting for user reply. Gryllida 10:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Look at how n:Template:Developing works, and add buttons users to toggle helpme requests state using JS rather than manual source edit. Gryllida 10:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
<span id="develop_to_review_link">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} '''submit for review''']</span>
is simply a link to the edit page. The project I'm working on (I actually started coding and got the first part done yesterday), will allow you to click a link, "maybe" fill in a few boxes or select options in a popup, and the page will reload and it will be done. No edit pages, little code if any, little messing around waiting for multiple page loads, bam! done.
Technical 13 (
talk) 13:17, 15 September 2013 (UTC)I read several messages. I understood none of them. Specific questions follow.
/****
function to automate removing {{tl|develop}} and adding {{tl|review}}
Apparently people actually have problems with this.
Also removes {{tl|tasks}}
maintainers: [[user:Bawolff]]
****/
addOnloadHook(function () {
var changeDevelopToReviewButton = document.getElementById('develop_to_review_link');
if (changeDevelopToReviewButton) {
try {
//in a try since this makes some assumptions about the format of
//the {{tl|develop}} template, which could change.
importScript('User:Bawolff/mwapilib2.js');
var button = document.createElement('button');
button.type = 'button';
button.appendChild(changeDevelopToReviewButton.firstChild.firstChild);
changeDevelopToReviewButton.replaceChild(button, changeDevelopToReviewButton.firstChild);
button.onclick = function () {
this.disabled = true;
if (this && this.firstChild && this.firstChild.firstChild && this.firstChild.firstChild.data) this.firstChild.firstChild.data = "Loading...";
api(wgPageName).getPage().
push().
setDefaultSummary("Please review this article. (moved using js via button)").
lift( function( input ) { return !input.match( /\{\{[Rr]eview\}\}/ ); }).
abortIfFalse().
pop().
replace(/\{\{(?:[dD]evelop(?:ing|ment)?|[dD]raft|[tT]asks)(?:\|[^}]*)?\}\}/g, "").
replace(/^/, "\{\{review}}\n").
savePage().
lift(function () {
alert("The article is now listed as needing review.");
location.reload();
}).
exec();
}
}
catch (e) {}
}
});
There is a cross-wiki discussion in progress as to whether c:
should be enabled globally as an
interwiki prefix for links to the
Wikimedia Commons. If the proposal gains consensus this will require the deletion or renaming of
several pages on the English WIkipedia whose titles begin with "C:", including one or more redirects to this page. Please take a moment to participate in
the discussion.
There is also a related discussion on the English Wikipedia at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 February 16#C:ATT to which you are invited to contribute.
Thank you.
Thryduulf (
talk) 15:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I think c: should be considered as a interwiki prefix. Vibrantone1 ( talk) 09:48, 3 July 2016 (UTC)