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Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:B Neue Wache interior 1b.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 24, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-12-24. howcheng { chat} 18:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:USA Lassen NP Kings Creek CA edit3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 29, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-09-29. howcheng { chat} 00:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Your WikiMiniAtlas is wonderful. Whilst taking a look at its internal workings, I noticed a typo in the HTML produced by the iframe.html script: the <head> tag is missing its closing bracket. -- The Anome 08:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi I've recently been adding the Tibetan towns and villages to wikipedia complete with coordinates. However the titles of the new villages I have been adding aren't showing on the wiki mini atlas in the globe. If you look at Tibet on the map only the larger places like Lhasa, Dhingri, Shigatse, Golmud etc are showing when it ought to show the titles of smaller places like Alamdo, Azog, Baicang etc and tens of others i have been adding when you zoom in. PLease can you help me because I am trying to draw up a detailed map of Tibet as I add these articles but they are just not registering as places on the map ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 09:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
How to insert WMA into a div to replace maps to Infobox?-- Pako-wiki 15:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Amsel Weibchen aufgeplustert edit2 clone.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 23, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-10-23. howcheng { chat} 17:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Our practice of loading WMA from meta is resulting in a small but measurable decrease in browser load speed for cold-cache users. The reason for this is that when the script is not cached by the client the request to meta requires a brand new TCP connection to meta and page rendering blocks while the script is fetched. There is no particular reason that we need this fetch to be blocking. I'd suggest we wrap the document.write in an anonymous function that gets attached as an onload hook, though with this change the master WMA script will likely need to be changed to execute right away. I know you have been busy lately, so if you don't get a chance to look into this first, I'll go ahead and test a solution, but it might be a few days before I can look into it. -- Gmaxwell 05:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Just wondering what you think of the pano head. Considering how many panoramic images I take, I suppose its surprising I haven't as yet invested in one. To be honest, most of the shots I take either have low parallax error or are hand-held. Ptgui/smartblend does a good job of masking errors, but it would still be a helpful thing to have in the arsenal. The NN is pretty expensive for something that may not be used very often (and is a bit bulky by the looks of things), and the Panosaurus is significantly cheaper (the NN seems about £150 and the Panosaurus is USD$78 + shipping of about $20... bargain!). Did you do much research and why did you choose the NN over other rivals? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 14:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:CH Caterpillar.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 3, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-05-03. howcheng { chat} 05:15, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Dschwen,
May I please ask you to take a look here:
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=12&year=2007
Please take a look at 3D SUNBEAMS and please see how they call them. Thank you for your time and no response is needed. Regards--
Mbz1 (
talk) 15:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Here's an idea as I dislike huge size of the GeoTemplate, is when the link is clicked to popup an iframe loading GeoHack mini with 5-10 links to the most popular mapping sites, a more link which direct to the full GeoHack page, and an link to load the WikiMiniAtlas inside. This has the advantage of shorter loading times, makes our mapping service more obvious, and faster for the user. — Dispenser ( talk) 06:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your vote on Clay Anderson's spacewalk, for FP. Please take a look at edit 1, and if possible, reconsider? - Ohmpandya We need to talk... ♦ contribs 01:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey deBivort! I just went to yor userpage for the first time and noticed the cool Image:User_debivort_travels.png. Did you manually draw that? Or did you use GPS traces? -- Dschwen 13:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah it hasn't gone done terrible well with a few people which is a shame as I'd hoped it would be a positive thing for the photographic community. As I mentioned on the FPC talkpage I used my own profile as a template for other users to follow - I mean I could have made a profile of someone else or xxxxx'd it but I thought it would look like a hollow show of modesty and pretension if I didn't include my profile there. Oh well life is not fair I guess! :-) -- Fir0002 22:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. Please place this award somewhere on your userpage! Also be sure to visit the Photographic Masters' Guild Homepage. There you can find out more about project and utilize the forums etc. As a recipient I would request that you create yourself a profile and add five of your very best images (not necessarily 5 FP's - just five photos you think are your best) to the Guild Gallery. If you don't do this within 14 days of recieving this award I'll assume you'd rather I do it on your behalf. |
Well Done Dschwen, we've had our differences but you've certainly done your bit for the FP collection! :-) -- Fir0002 08:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC) |
I noticed that you have participated in Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates in the past. There are now two candidates and the project appears to be abandoned. If you could look at the candidates and vote it would be appreciated. Zginder ( talk) ( Contrib) 18:24, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Once Fcb981 told you: "Just thought you should know, Dschwen, you lost a lot of respect from me just niow." I believe you should know that you lost the last bit of respect that I still had for you after your latest comment. In a mean time may I please ask you to stop giving me orders? May I please also ask you to spare your time and do not respond this message. Thanks.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 01:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I recently noticed that your Sparrenburg FP got orphaned, as the article was deleted for being a copyvio. I put in for a translation request and voila, Sparrenberg Castle was created and your photo now has a home. If you have time, you may want to proofread the article (apparently, that step is still outstanding). Regards, howcheng { chat} 07:35, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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Please stop deleting the Mapit template from Edison, Nebraska. Community articles are required to have the Mapit link in the EL section. Nyttend ( talk) 02:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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I've left a note at User talk:Dschwen/highlightredirects.js about possibly simplifying the script, if you so choose. Redirect-highlighting has (finally!) been subsumed by MediaWiki: as of early March 2008, pages now have a CSS class mw-redirect to links that are redirects. This change would speed up the script by reducing extra client-server communication to, well, nothing. Thanks :) Gracenotes T § 01:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I have made several major changes to your script. You may wish to adopt them into the actual script.
My version can be found here.
The changes I made were:
Thanks! archanamiya · talk 15:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Rather than fill the FP nom with even more conversation, I figured I'd bring the chat here. I recently discovered a neat little tool that works similarly to HDR tone mapping, but less intrusively, and without the additional step of actually creating a 32bit HDR file. Basically, you feed it multiple exposures (either the same frame processed from RAW at various exposures, such as -1.5, 0 and +1.5 stops, or individual frames that are aligned perfectly), and it will analyse them, pick the areas that are exposed in the middle of the exposure curve, and merge them all together to create an 'ideally' exposed image. To be honest, I don't know any more than that about how it does what it does other than what is on the site itself, but it works very well indeed, without any obvious haloes. As you would expect, the resultant image is often low in contrast, having squeezed a lot of dynamic range out of it, but if you feed it 16 bit TIFFs, it will spit out 16 bit TIFFs too, which respond very well to further post processing. Anyway, thats the secret weapon. The rest is just the dart art of photoshop editing. ;-) Oh, and while Tufuse is command line driven, there is a GUI available for it. Its all a bit cutting edge at the moment - both Tufuse and its GUI are very much beta right now, but I haven't found anything else out there that does the job as well as it does. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 01:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello Dschwen,
I am sorry to say, but I have nominated one of your most early works that was promoted to FP status for delisting. The discussion for this delisting nomination can be found here.
Kind Regards,
Booksworm Sprechen-sie Koala? 10:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen! I left you a message in meta wikiminiatlas discussion some days ago. Read it when you can! Bye! - User:Theklan.eu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.16.207.133 ( talk) 00:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
By the way... there's a week now that WMA is not properly working on eu:wp. It gives a mysql error message. Do you know why? - Theklan ( talk) 10:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen, Just letting you know that I've added your profile details based off the commons MoP info. Hope its to your liking -- Fir0002 10:43, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if yr script is quite working right: entering 1794 births & English philosophers should yield at least one article ( William Whewell) but the results say 0 at the moment. Do you plan to provide as output a list of the (first n) results? I take it you know CatScan. As useful as linkto for some purposes might be linkfrom (e.g. which of the items on this List of Foos are in that category) and the ability to ask which of a group are not in a category. Dsp13 ( talk) 15:30, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you commented on this engine image. You may like to comment on the planned new image here Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 12:15, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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My name in author place is because usually as you upload the photo, your name is already written in author's place. So I forgot to remove my name (And I did afterward in most cases. however, some works are infact shared contribution. (We created it together). -- Arad ( talk) 17:45, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Just a not to let you know that I've reverted your deletion of the watermills on the tributaries of the River Teise. This has been discussed on the talk page of the article before. The duplication is not "unnecessary" as the River Teise article is about the river itself, of which the watermills form a part, whilst the Medway watermills articles deal solely with the two hundred plus watermills on the River Medway and its tributaries. The main problem is that the River Teise article needs to be expanded to cover the other aspects of the river, which will then give it more balance. Mjroots ( talk) 09:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if I misattributed the Statue of Liberty picture. Is you picture on Wiki Commons? If not, are you OK with me using it in the montage? I can always replace that frame with one of the others if you wish. -- Jleon ( talk) 15:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate your photography, Dschwen. Normally your comments are insightful rather than sarcastic. Why the change? Durova Charge! 14:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the cool WikiMiniAtlas and I want to integrate it into Hebrew Wikipedia. Because Hebrew is written from right to left, I't looks bad sometimes. I think you should move all the styling out of JS into css (better code) and in the JS use only class or id property (almost never use x.style.something - maybe only in the display to show/hide). Then, we can create another css (extra - which not replace the css, but overriddes some properties), RTL.css, for rtl languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Persian etc). I guess it should be the same as the regular css, but everywhere where using right should use left, and left should be right, and margin/padding: 0 5px 0 0 should 0 0 0 5px and vice versa and most important use "direction:rtl".
Another problem, which is general and happens in LTR languages too, is the _ between 2 words. Thanks, ערן ( talk) 20:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I mentioned you over at WP:AN, in a comment that perhaps using this script on Wikipedia would be helpful. See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#AFD_backlog. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 21:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:CH cow 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 2, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-10-02. howcheng { chat} 16:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know I nominated one of your Biden/Obama images on FPC. Seems you've been a bit disillusioned by it all lately though? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:02, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
hello; thanks for undoing my change of wood duck image; you were right, especially given the monitor brightness requirement laid down in the commons image guidelines (i have just discovered them, and now i see that the guidelines require a minimum of 2 megapixels); that brightness is too bright for me; my image is over-exposed where the bird is white, but at least the colours are vivid; your best criticism was the blurriness; your choice of image is too gloomy, even when my monitor brightness is calibrated; it could stand a little exposure compensation, some gamma correction and a drop of saturation; that might make it more useful when someone arrives on the page (as i did this morning), looking for a good image with which to confirm the identification of the bird in his own photograph; that is the only reason i signed up, uploaded my image and used it to replace the almost colourless existing wood duck; your photographer did take a good, sharp image; just not a helpful one; which leaves the matter of file format; if you were serious, please direct me to the guidance that advises against use of png Mashoo ( talk) 21:42, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
that sense of yours is now more common; thank you for your assistance; but my image was a crop, not a downscale; there was no file size juggling going on; a pretty poor image though, and i would not have substituted it, but for the original incumbent's lack of dynamism; as for exposure, i intend to upload a further version of my duck, without the exposure compensation blowing out the white bits; perhaps it will end up as dull as the one i was trying to replace, but it will be good to have put my lessons learned to some use; and i will put your jpeg advice into practice —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mashoo ( talk • contribs) 18:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I just got your question idea, but at this point in the RFA, it's probably not really needed (roughly 4 hours left). Also, I'm going to be busy tonight with offline stuff, and need to go soon, so I probably wouldn't be able to write a thoughtful response in time. Thanks for offering a question, though. Happy editing, Spencer T♦ C 19:57, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Also, I'd like to thank you for voting in my RFA. Thanks also for expressing your trust in me, and I hope that I live up to your expectations. Don't forget, if you have any questions (or bits of advice), please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again, Spencer T♦ C 03:00, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey Daniel, I browsed thru your gallery but couldn't see many macro images apart from the dragonfly and coin. Could you give me a few links? Unfortunately, Fir's pictures are all downsampled. Muhammad (talk) 12:43, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Something funny happened with your vote...can you clarify it a bit? Something must've got messed up somewhere. Thanks, Spencer T♦ C 01:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey Daniel, I stitched the panorama once again, taking into consideration some of your comments and the new version has IMO almost not tilt, and the levels problem that Janke mentioned has been sorted out. About the 360 degrees, due to a slight crop after the stitching, the panorama is a tad short of 360. Under what name should I upload the new pano? What should I do with the current FPC? Muhammad (talk) 07:00, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Dragonfly macro.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 1, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-11-01. howcheng { chat} 17:23, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for catching and fixing the error in the coordinates for some of the Illinois townships; as I continue to expand the Illinois township articles, I'll be sure to avoid that issue. As for existing articles that may still need this fix, I can do that with AWB if you wish. Omnedon ( talk) 15:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I just extracted a list of still broken articles from the database:
Best, Dschwen 16:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
We should work together? — Dispenser 05:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Long time since I worked on the database part, still learning. Anyway, tools:~dispenser has all the coordinates in a tab seperated text file. It looks like blacklinks is a good indicator of popularity. Once I get computer with excel 2007 I'll do some analysis, never thought I'd get close to that million row limit ;-). — Dispenser 07:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
That is the most amazing... I'm at a loss for words. Already enshrined at the top of my user page (although it might be more fitting at the bottom: "leaving Brooklyn..." but nah). And not for nothing but, I write this message from, yep, Brooklyn:)-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 04:32, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
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The Angry Tarsier of Appreciation! | |
For providing me the most ideal image I could ever hope for, I giveth unto you this small furious prosimian as a token of my thanks.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 04:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
It doesn't work any more on cawiki. Has it changed somehow? -- Vriullop ( talk) 10:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Yep, here it is:
if (document.styleSheets[0].cssRules) {
At the bottom of ca:MediaWiki:Common.js. It throws an
uncaught exception: Security error (NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR)
If I manually execute the WikiMiniAtlas initialisation routine, it works. Maybe the error is specific to newer Firefox versions. That code seems to have been adde a long time ago. -- Dschwen 15:11, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Happy New Year! DO you have any idea why your wonderful category & link intersection has recently stopped working? Dsp13 ( talk) 21:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I've used a small workaround to achieve a little bit more elegance in the Henning, Illinois article. See Geobox talk.-- papageno ( talk) 17:08, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen,
After a quick browse through the history of Sunset I've noticed you've previously edited the page. Your input is now requested in choosing a new lead picture here. Thanks for your time, -- Fir0002 00:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey Daniel, Could you please take a look Wikipedia_talk:Valued_picture_candidates#Bot_Closings.3F? Is it possible and would you be willing to create and/or operate the bot? -- Muhammad (talk) 18:16, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Removing every photo from a location outside the US, and removing a humble miner's cottage to replace it with you local "high quality" panorama is short-sighted, insular and not in the spirit of Christmas. The decoration of that 4-room miner's cottage tells a story that isn't told by any of your other photos. I'm putting it back. You can choose which one of your American panorams you want, but two is superfluous. Happy New Year! Amandajm ( talk) 10:13, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Staten Island Ferry terminal.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 25, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-25. howcheng { chat} 17:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
WikiMiniAtlas was activated today on the Swedish Wikipedia, by modifying sv:Mediawiki:Common.js. However, some Swedish coordinates seem to be missing from the database. Perhaps it hasn't been updated? For example, sv:Kävlinge is not shown on the map. And the Swedish Wikipedia is not in the selection list in the settings. Can this be solved? -- LA2 ( talk) 20:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
For the CoordinateProcessing, isn't it enough to (1) silently drop parts of the article name after comma or in parenthesis, and (2) to automatically blacklist articles that contain more than very few coordinates? If an article name is "Paris in Illinois", then it would perhaps be interesting to know which such prepositions ("in") can function as a comma. -- LA2 ( talk) 16:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Fourteen days have gone by, and still no update as far as I can see. Kolossos doesn't answer my questions on his German talk page. What's up? -- LA2 ( talk) 00:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
In answer of your comment at Template_talk:Geobox#type:_parameter_needs_sensible_defaults!, I made a test version with new defaults. -- User:Docu
I have been pointed in your direction as someone who works with raw wikidata and also in OSM. I just wonder if you offer some advice on how I might get access to some raw data for UK wiki articles, specifically the data markup contained in {{ infobox UK place}}. Do you know if it is possible to do that? Fmph ( talk) 20:18, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
G'day. By chance I discovered the {{Pano360}} template at commons. I started a bit of discussion about the viewer at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#360_Panorama_Viewer (primarily to advertise the fact that it exists). It seemed to me that whilst in reduced resolution mode the applet was still downloading the full image prior to display, making things slow for large panoramas. Assuming that this is the case would it be difficult to modify the applet so it loads a thumbnail from commons instead? If you have any other similiarly useful tools please advertise them. Noodle snacks ( talk) 09:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Lately I've been trolling for articles with bad coordinates, by looking for [W]s in the oceans on Google Maps. There are quite a few, but a lot of times — when I check the Wikipedia article — I've found that you already fixed it. ... Months ago. Google isn't exactly snappy about refreshing its database, is it?
—WWoods (
talk) 23:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
For completeness, I like to add WMA to the above, but I couldn't figure out a way to link to it directly. The version used at [2] doesn't seem to do it any more. Can it be done?
BTW, the updating frequency mentioned at m:WikiMiniAtlas#Data_Sources is it still current? -- User:Docu
http://stable.toolserver.org/wma/iframe.html?{latdec}_{londec}_800_600_en_4_en
I do not disagree with your position, but I have a question. I did not think we were allowed to outright delete material from the talk page. Alyeska ( talk) 15:04, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
In that case I would recommend Fields of science have its talk page cleaned up. It would be better if you cleaned it up than myself since I have a conflict of interest. This guy is very vocal. Alyeska ( talk) 15:42, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
In that case enjoy the rest of your Friday. Thanks for the input on this. Alyeska ( talk) 16:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hmmm. Until recently the article had a sentence remarking on that very fact... I hadn't noticed, but it has gone away. I'll restore it. And good catch on other articles that cite the 110 figure! Kevin Forsyth ( talk) 17:09, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Noabaak ( talk) 16:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Noa, writing on New York Guide for Korean readers(to be published in book within 3 months). I would like to use your photograph from Top of the Rock. Still a beginner communicateur, I did not find your email address. Hopefully you can find mine on my profile and contact me through email. Thanks.
Regarding Rehoboth Carpenter family - We have surveyed, we have compromised, we have repeatedly asked to user Iwanafish to communicate. He refuses with his snide comments and reversions to non-wiki versions. We have warned him "offically" a lot more than 3 times. Repeatedly, we have asked for mediation, we have asked for help and I do not know who else to ask. Can you pass this up the chain of editors?
User Iwanafish continues to disrupt and vandalize this page and it has spread his behavior to other pages. John Carpenter (bishop) John Carpenter, town clerk of London What else can we do but shut down the articles involved and provide warnings that when they are restored by user Iwanafish that they are garbage? Has wikipedia lost the ability to police itself? I am beginning to think this is a hopeless cause where such bullies can inflict such damage to wikipedia. What else can be done? John R. Carpenter Jrcrin001 ( talk) 05:38, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen, I like your javascript extension HighlightRedirects very much. Some time ago I changed my wikipedia skin to vector. Unfortunately the highlighting does not work there. Do you also have a javascript extension for highlighting redirects that one can use in vector.js? -- Ephraim33 ( talk) 10:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes, but in the German language wikipedia. The very same snippet works in
de:User:Ephraim33/monobook.js, but does not work in
de:User:Ephraim33/vector.js. (The same is true in the English wikipedia). At least I cannot find the "redirects" button.
With monobook I see the following buttons: article, discussion, edit this page, history, move, watch, redirects.
With vector: Page, Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, Move, Watch.
--
Ephraim33 (
talk) 15:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you add something like
highlightRedirects.addStylesheetRule('a.mw-redirect:visited', 'color:darkgreen');
right after
highlightRedirects.addStylesheetRule('a.mw-redirect', 'color:green');
This allows visited links to be colored as well. You can choose the color :) Danke! Plastikspork ( talk) 00:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your comments! :) Durova 299 19:38, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Because the alt attribute is missing firefox simply uses the title attribute. Please add mapbutton.alt="";
before mapbutton.style.padding = '0px 3px 0px 0px';
to
m:MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js. This would also increase the accessibility of coordinates to screen readers. —
Dispenser 20:23, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Wow. I really appreciate your honesty here :-). That goes to show how taking a fresh look at things without the prejudice of let's say a username can help ;-). Cheers! -- Dschwen 15:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
I'd suggest waiting a few weeks, then renominating: You could probably do a better job at managing the nomination, and I think it would pass if so. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 192 FCs served 10:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
| I can see the value of showing the unrestored side, but |now I'm curious, what do you mean by with more height/visibility?
Your photo is of great technical quality, no doubt, but the proportions are not ideal for an infobox. The aspect ratio means that when you fit it into the width of a standard infobox, the image looks very "flat", so that the image drowns in the text in the box. Most people find that infobox photos should have the aspect ratios of portraits, not of landscapes. There are exceptions, of course.
I felt that it would be better to place your photo where it belongs in the article, where there can also be inserted a comment that indicates the high resolution of the image.
What you really should do, though, is to insert your photo in the article about El Castillo. There's already a photo there that is identical to yours, but in a much lower resolution. Maybe you can also use it in the articla about Itza, although the one used there may be more relevant than yours, since it has lots of people on it, to illustrate that the steps have not always been off-limits to tourists.
Keep up the good shooting! #8D)
uspn ( talk) 06:21, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
The current icon looks decorative in appearance like the icons we use for external links. This appears to confuse readers into the purpose of the icon. There are some way to fix this: 1) differentiate the icon with some user interface element such as a drop down arrow or lines 2) Make the icon in a 3d button possibly using the <button> tag 3) add a rollover/hover effect separate from the URL underline. — Dispenser 21:43, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
We are use line-height:
hack on superscripts, but the WMA icon increases the line height. See
Ridge Route for an example. Would it be possible to use .clientHeight
to check if there is enough space to load the icon? —
Dispenser 21:59, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is sarcasm or a pointed comment but it seems directed at me so you should note that i switched out the previous image for the one you just replaced pretty recently (4th of Feb this year, [3]), there had been a highly perspective distorted image in the article that someone had used to replace yours nearly a full 2 years before that [4]. I have never even seen your image before and I certainly didn't replace it with mine, I actually only originally uploaded it as a demonstration on FP when the perspective distorted image was going through FP and then figured as part of the discussion that it was a better illustrative image for the article than the FP candidate. Mfield ( Oi!) 02:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Currently the javascript for the WikiMiniAtlas is loaded on every page view, no matter if a page has coordinates or not. I intend to make it so it only loads when needed. (This is for the English Wikipedia, but the fix can probably be reused on other Wikipedias.) See discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.js#WikiMiniAtlas.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 17:35, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
It used to be that the blue globe linking to WikiMiniAtlas was disabled for off-Earth coordinates. This seems to no longer be the case -- see Template:Coord/testcases, for instance. I suppose this change might be related to the recently-added 5-second timeout (which by the way I greatly appreciate). I'd like to return to the blue globe appearing only for terrestrial coordinates. Would you kindly investigate the regression and, if possible, implement a fix? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 05:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
There is a problem with WMA using visibility:hidden instead of display:none to hide the iframe in Safari. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Annoying.2C_constantly_present_invisible_div — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 11:37, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Dschwen. Thanks a lot for this tool: http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/intersection/, I find it very useful. Just a little question: Is there any tool intersecting categories and WikiProject banners, placed at talk pages? (e. g. {{Composers}} + [[Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs]]). User:WolterBot generates cleanup listings automatically, however, it could be useful to create quick lists manually. Is there any possibility, please? I'm asking here, since I'm absolutely unenlightened in technical matters :) Thanks for your answer. Have a nice day. -- Vejvančický ( talk) 15:35, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for replying to
my question. Much appreciated!
DeltaFalcon
talk /
contribs 08:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I refactored part of the poll to hopefully adequately reflect that there is a third option that people wanted under one of the sections. Please review the current state of the section and change your contribution as you see fit.
Adding new options as I have done is the suggested way for the poll to proceed, and I think the degree of differentiation we now have is roughly what we should be aiming for - not too many different options so we can still see some consensus developing, and not too few so that people can find an option that reasonably approximates what they want.
(refactor edit diff: [5]) Thanks, Papa Lima Whiskey ( talk) 16:57, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll just mention that there are some new reply options for this question, which also serves as an example of how the poll should progress when none of the available options suit the contributors. The question on dealing with unclear consensus has apparently been the most controversial so far. I remain hopeful that we will succeed in representing people's opinions by the time the poll ends. Feel free to change your vote or add a new reply option if the three new ones still don't quite work for you. (But obviously, try to create something general enough that it's likely to gather a following.) Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey ( talk) 09:18, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:B Neue Wache interior 1b.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 24, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-12-24. howcheng { chat} 18:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:USA Lassen NP Kings Creek CA edit3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 29, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-09-29. howcheng { chat} 00:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Your WikiMiniAtlas is wonderful. Whilst taking a look at its internal workings, I noticed a typo in the HTML produced by the iframe.html script: the <head> tag is missing its closing bracket. -- The Anome 08:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi I've recently been adding the Tibetan towns and villages to wikipedia complete with coordinates. However the titles of the new villages I have been adding aren't showing on the wiki mini atlas in the globe. If you look at Tibet on the map only the larger places like Lhasa, Dhingri, Shigatse, Golmud etc are showing when it ought to show the titles of smaller places like Alamdo, Azog, Baicang etc and tens of others i have been adding when you zoom in. PLease can you help me because I am trying to draw up a detailed map of Tibet as I add these articles but they are just not registering as places on the map ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 09:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
How to insert WMA into a div to replace maps to Infobox?-- Pako-wiki 15:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Amsel Weibchen aufgeplustert edit2 clone.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 23, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-10-23. howcheng { chat} 17:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Our practice of loading WMA from meta is resulting in a small but measurable decrease in browser load speed for cold-cache users. The reason for this is that when the script is not cached by the client the request to meta requires a brand new TCP connection to meta and page rendering blocks while the script is fetched. There is no particular reason that we need this fetch to be blocking. I'd suggest we wrap the document.write in an anonymous function that gets attached as an onload hook, though with this change the master WMA script will likely need to be changed to execute right away. I know you have been busy lately, so if you don't get a chance to look into this first, I'll go ahead and test a solution, but it might be a few days before I can look into it. -- Gmaxwell 05:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Just wondering what you think of the pano head. Considering how many panoramic images I take, I suppose its surprising I haven't as yet invested in one. To be honest, most of the shots I take either have low parallax error or are hand-held. Ptgui/smartblend does a good job of masking errors, but it would still be a helpful thing to have in the arsenal. The NN is pretty expensive for something that may not be used very often (and is a bit bulky by the looks of things), and the Panosaurus is significantly cheaper (the NN seems about £150 and the Panosaurus is USD$78 + shipping of about $20... bargain!). Did you do much research and why did you choose the NN over other rivals? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 14:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:CH Caterpillar.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 3, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-05-03. howcheng { chat} 05:15, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Dschwen,
May I please ask you to take a look here:
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=12&year=2007
Please take a look at 3D SUNBEAMS and please see how they call them. Thank you for your time and no response is needed. Regards--
Mbz1 (
talk) 15:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Here's an idea as I dislike huge size of the GeoTemplate, is when the link is clicked to popup an iframe loading GeoHack mini with 5-10 links to the most popular mapping sites, a more link which direct to the full GeoHack page, and an link to load the WikiMiniAtlas inside. This has the advantage of shorter loading times, makes our mapping service more obvious, and faster for the user. — Dispenser ( talk) 06:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your vote on Clay Anderson's spacewalk, for FP. Please take a look at edit 1, and if possible, reconsider? - Ohmpandya We need to talk... ♦ contribs 01:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey deBivort! I just went to yor userpage for the first time and noticed the cool Image:User_debivort_travels.png. Did you manually draw that? Or did you use GPS traces? -- Dschwen 13:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah it hasn't gone done terrible well with a few people which is a shame as I'd hoped it would be a positive thing for the photographic community. As I mentioned on the FPC talkpage I used my own profile as a template for other users to follow - I mean I could have made a profile of someone else or xxxxx'd it but I thought it would look like a hollow show of modesty and pretension if I didn't include my profile there. Oh well life is not fair I guess! :-) -- Fir0002 22:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. Please place this award somewhere on your userpage! Also be sure to visit the Photographic Masters' Guild Homepage. There you can find out more about project and utilize the forums etc. As a recipient I would request that you create yourself a profile and add five of your very best images (not necessarily 5 FP's - just five photos you think are your best) to the Guild Gallery. If you don't do this within 14 days of recieving this award I'll assume you'd rather I do it on your behalf. |
Well Done Dschwen, we've had our differences but you've certainly done your bit for the FP collection! :-) -- Fir0002 08:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC) |
I noticed that you have participated in Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates in the past. There are now two candidates and the project appears to be abandoned. If you could look at the candidates and vote it would be appreciated. Zginder ( talk) ( Contrib) 18:24, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Once Fcb981 told you: "Just thought you should know, Dschwen, you lost a lot of respect from me just niow." I believe you should know that you lost the last bit of respect that I still had for you after your latest comment. In a mean time may I please ask you to stop giving me orders? May I please also ask you to spare your time and do not respond this message. Thanks.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 01:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I recently noticed that your Sparrenburg FP got orphaned, as the article was deleted for being a copyvio. I put in for a translation request and voila, Sparrenberg Castle was created and your photo now has a home. If you have time, you may want to proofread the article (apparently, that step is still outstanding). Regards, howcheng { chat} 07:35, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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Please stop deleting the Mapit template from Edison, Nebraska. Community articles are required to have the Mapit link in the EL section. Nyttend ( talk) 02:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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I've left a note at User talk:Dschwen/highlightredirects.js about possibly simplifying the script, if you so choose. Redirect-highlighting has (finally!) been subsumed by MediaWiki: as of early March 2008, pages now have a CSS class mw-redirect to links that are redirects. This change would speed up the script by reducing extra client-server communication to, well, nothing. Thanks :) Gracenotes T § 01:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I have made several major changes to your script. You may wish to adopt them into the actual script.
My version can be found here.
The changes I made were:
Thanks! archanamiya · talk 15:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Rather than fill the FP nom with even more conversation, I figured I'd bring the chat here. I recently discovered a neat little tool that works similarly to HDR tone mapping, but less intrusively, and without the additional step of actually creating a 32bit HDR file. Basically, you feed it multiple exposures (either the same frame processed from RAW at various exposures, such as -1.5, 0 and +1.5 stops, or individual frames that are aligned perfectly), and it will analyse them, pick the areas that are exposed in the middle of the exposure curve, and merge them all together to create an 'ideally' exposed image. To be honest, I don't know any more than that about how it does what it does other than what is on the site itself, but it works very well indeed, without any obvious haloes. As you would expect, the resultant image is often low in contrast, having squeezed a lot of dynamic range out of it, but if you feed it 16 bit TIFFs, it will spit out 16 bit TIFFs too, which respond very well to further post processing. Anyway, thats the secret weapon. The rest is just the dart art of photoshop editing. ;-) Oh, and while Tufuse is command line driven, there is a GUI available for it. Its all a bit cutting edge at the moment - both Tufuse and its GUI are very much beta right now, but I haven't found anything else out there that does the job as well as it does. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 01:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello Dschwen,
I am sorry to say, but I have nominated one of your most early works that was promoted to FP status for delisting. The discussion for this delisting nomination can be found here.
Kind Regards,
Booksworm Sprechen-sie Koala? 10:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen! I left you a message in meta wikiminiatlas discussion some days ago. Read it when you can! Bye! - User:Theklan.eu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.16.207.133 ( talk) 00:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
By the way... there's a week now that WMA is not properly working on eu:wp. It gives a mysql error message. Do you know why? - Theklan ( talk) 10:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen, Just letting you know that I've added your profile details based off the commons MoP info. Hope its to your liking -- Fir0002 10:43, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if yr script is quite working right: entering 1794 births & English philosophers should yield at least one article ( William Whewell) but the results say 0 at the moment. Do you plan to provide as output a list of the (first n) results? I take it you know CatScan. As useful as linkto for some purposes might be linkfrom (e.g. which of the items on this List of Foos are in that category) and the ability to ask which of a group are not in a category. Dsp13 ( talk) 15:30, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you commented on this engine image. You may like to comment on the planned new image here Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 12:15, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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My name in author place is because usually as you upload the photo, your name is already written in author's place. So I forgot to remove my name (And I did afterward in most cases. however, some works are infact shared contribution. (We created it together). -- Arad ( talk) 17:45, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Just a not to let you know that I've reverted your deletion of the watermills on the tributaries of the River Teise. This has been discussed on the talk page of the article before. The duplication is not "unnecessary" as the River Teise article is about the river itself, of which the watermills form a part, whilst the Medway watermills articles deal solely with the two hundred plus watermills on the River Medway and its tributaries. The main problem is that the River Teise article needs to be expanded to cover the other aspects of the river, which will then give it more balance. Mjroots ( talk) 09:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if I misattributed the Statue of Liberty picture. Is you picture on Wiki Commons? If not, are you OK with me using it in the montage? I can always replace that frame with one of the others if you wish. -- Jleon ( talk) 15:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate your photography, Dschwen. Normally your comments are insightful rather than sarcastic. Why the change? Durova Charge! 14:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the cool WikiMiniAtlas and I want to integrate it into Hebrew Wikipedia. Because Hebrew is written from right to left, I't looks bad sometimes. I think you should move all the styling out of JS into css (better code) and in the JS use only class or id property (almost never use x.style.something - maybe only in the display to show/hide). Then, we can create another css (extra - which not replace the css, but overriddes some properties), RTL.css, for rtl languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Persian etc). I guess it should be the same as the regular css, but everywhere where using right should use left, and left should be right, and margin/padding: 0 5px 0 0 should 0 0 0 5px and vice versa and most important use "direction:rtl".
Another problem, which is general and happens in LTR languages too, is the _ between 2 words. Thanks, ערן ( talk) 20:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I mentioned you over at WP:AN, in a comment that perhaps using this script on Wikipedia would be helpful. See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#AFD_backlog. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 21:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:CH cow 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 2, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-10-02. howcheng { chat} 16:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know I nominated one of your Biden/Obama images on FPC. Seems you've been a bit disillusioned by it all lately though? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:02, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
hello; thanks for undoing my change of wood duck image; you were right, especially given the monitor brightness requirement laid down in the commons image guidelines (i have just discovered them, and now i see that the guidelines require a minimum of 2 megapixels); that brightness is too bright for me; my image is over-exposed where the bird is white, but at least the colours are vivid; your best criticism was the blurriness; your choice of image is too gloomy, even when my monitor brightness is calibrated; it could stand a little exposure compensation, some gamma correction and a drop of saturation; that might make it more useful when someone arrives on the page (as i did this morning), looking for a good image with which to confirm the identification of the bird in his own photograph; that is the only reason i signed up, uploaded my image and used it to replace the almost colourless existing wood duck; your photographer did take a good, sharp image; just not a helpful one; which leaves the matter of file format; if you were serious, please direct me to the guidance that advises against use of png Mashoo ( talk) 21:42, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
that sense of yours is now more common; thank you for your assistance; but my image was a crop, not a downscale; there was no file size juggling going on; a pretty poor image though, and i would not have substituted it, but for the original incumbent's lack of dynamism; as for exposure, i intend to upload a further version of my duck, without the exposure compensation blowing out the white bits; perhaps it will end up as dull as the one i was trying to replace, but it will be good to have put my lessons learned to some use; and i will put your jpeg advice into practice —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mashoo ( talk • contribs) 18:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I just got your question idea, but at this point in the RFA, it's probably not really needed (roughly 4 hours left). Also, I'm going to be busy tonight with offline stuff, and need to go soon, so I probably wouldn't be able to write a thoughtful response in time. Thanks for offering a question, though. Happy editing, Spencer T♦ C 19:57, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Also, I'd like to thank you for voting in my RFA. Thanks also for expressing your trust in me, and I hope that I live up to your expectations. Don't forget, if you have any questions (or bits of advice), please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again, Spencer T♦ C 03:00, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey Daniel, I browsed thru your gallery but couldn't see many macro images apart from the dragonfly and coin. Could you give me a few links? Unfortunately, Fir's pictures are all downsampled. Muhammad (talk) 12:43, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Something funny happened with your vote...can you clarify it a bit? Something must've got messed up somewhere. Thanks, Spencer T♦ C 01:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey Daniel, I stitched the panorama once again, taking into consideration some of your comments and the new version has IMO almost not tilt, and the levels problem that Janke mentioned has been sorted out. About the 360 degrees, due to a slight crop after the stitching, the panorama is a tad short of 360. Under what name should I upload the new pano? What should I do with the current FPC? Muhammad (talk) 07:00, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Dragonfly macro.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 1, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-11-01. howcheng { chat} 17:23, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for catching and fixing the error in the coordinates for some of the Illinois townships; as I continue to expand the Illinois township articles, I'll be sure to avoid that issue. As for existing articles that may still need this fix, I can do that with AWB if you wish. Omnedon ( talk) 15:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I just extracted a list of still broken articles from the database:
Best, Dschwen 16:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
We should work together? — Dispenser 05:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Long time since I worked on the database part, still learning. Anyway, tools:~dispenser has all the coordinates in a tab seperated text file. It looks like blacklinks is a good indicator of popularity. Once I get computer with excel 2007 I'll do some analysis, never thought I'd get close to that million row limit ;-). — Dispenser 07:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
That is the most amazing... I'm at a loss for words. Already enshrined at the top of my user page (although it might be more fitting at the bottom: "leaving Brooklyn..." but nah). And not for nothing but, I write this message from, yep, Brooklyn:)-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 04:32, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
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The Angry Tarsier of Appreciation! | |
For providing me the most ideal image I could ever hope for, I giveth unto you this small furious prosimian as a token of my thanks.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 04:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
It doesn't work any more on cawiki. Has it changed somehow? -- Vriullop ( talk) 10:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Yep, here it is:
if (document.styleSheets[0].cssRules) {
At the bottom of ca:MediaWiki:Common.js. It throws an
uncaught exception: Security error (NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR)
If I manually execute the WikiMiniAtlas initialisation routine, it works. Maybe the error is specific to newer Firefox versions. That code seems to have been adde a long time ago. -- Dschwen 15:11, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Happy New Year! DO you have any idea why your wonderful category & link intersection has recently stopped working? Dsp13 ( talk) 21:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I've used a small workaround to achieve a little bit more elegance in the Henning, Illinois article. See Geobox talk.-- papageno ( talk) 17:08, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen,
After a quick browse through the history of Sunset I've noticed you've previously edited the page. Your input is now requested in choosing a new lead picture here. Thanks for your time, -- Fir0002 00:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey Daniel, Could you please take a look Wikipedia_talk:Valued_picture_candidates#Bot_Closings.3F? Is it possible and would you be willing to create and/or operate the bot? -- Muhammad (talk) 18:16, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Removing every photo from a location outside the US, and removing a humble miner's cottage to replace it with you local "high quality" panorama is short-sighted, insular and not in the spirit of Christmas. The decoration of that 4-room miner's cottage tells a story that isn't told by any of your other photos. I'm putting it back. You can choose which one of your American panorams you want, but two is superfluous. Happy New Year! Amandajm ( talk) 10:13, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Daniel,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Staten Island Ferry terminal.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 25, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-25. howcheng { chat} 17:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
WikiMiniAtlas was activated today on the Swedish Wikipedia, by modifying sv:Mediawiki:Common.js. However, some Swedish coordinates seem to be missing from the database. Perhaps it hasn't been updated? For example, sv:Kävlinge is not shown on the map. And the Swedish Wikipedia is not in the selection list in the settings. Can this be solved? -- LA2 ( talk) 20:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
For the CoordinateProcessing, isn't it enough to (1) silently drop parts of the article name after comma or in parenthesis, and (2) to automatically blacklist articles that contain more than very few coordinates? If an article name is "Paris in Illinois", then it would perhaps be interesting to know which such prepositions ("in") can function as a comma. -- LA2 ( talk) 16:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Fourteen days have gone by, and still no update as far as I can see. Kolossos doesn't answer my questions on his German talk page. What's up? -- LA2 ( talk) 00:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
In answer of your comment at Template_talk:Geobox#type:_parameter_needs_sensible_defaults!, I made a test version with new defaults. -- User:Docu
I have been pointed in your direction as someone who works with raw wikidata and also in OSM. I just wonder if you offer some advice on how I might get access to some raw data for UK wiki articles, specifically the data markup contained in {{ infobox UK place}}. Do you know if it is possible to do that? Fmph ( talk) 20:18, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
G'day. By chance I discovered the {{Pano360}} template at commons. I started a bit of discussion about the viewer at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#360_Panorama_Viewer (primarily to advertise the fact that it exists). It seemed to me that whilst in reduced resolution mode the applet was still downloading the full image prior to display, making things slow for large panoramas. Assuming that this is the case would it be difficult to modify the applet so it loads a thumbnail from commons instead? If you have any other similiarly useful tools please advertise them. Noodle snacks ( talk) 09:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Lately I've been trolling for articles with bad coordinates, by looking for [W]s in the oceans on Google Maps. There are quite a few, but a lot of times — when I check the Wikipedia article — I've found that you already fixed it. ... Months ago. Google isn't exactly snappy about refreshing its database, is it?
—WWoods (
talk) 23:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
For completeness, I like to add WMA to the above, but I couldn't figure out a way to link to it directly. The version used at [2] doesn't seem to do it any more. Can it be done?
BTW, the updating frequency mentioned at m:WikiMiniAtlas#Data_Sources is it still current? -- User:Docu
http://stable.toolserver.org/wma/iframe.html?{latdec}_{londec}_800_600_en_4_en
I do not disagree with your position, but I have a question. I did not think we were allowed to outright delete material from the talk page. Alyeska ( talk) 15:04, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
In that case I would recommend Fields of science have its talk page cleaned up. It would be better if you cleaned it up than myself since I have a conflict of interest. This guy is very vocal. Alyeska ( talk) 15:42, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
In that case enjoy the rest of your Friday. Thanks for the input on this. Alyeska ( talk) 16:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hmmm. Until recently the article had a sentence remarking on that very fact... I hadn't noticed, but it has gone away. I'll restore it. And good catch on other articles that cite the 110 figure! Kevin Forsyth ( talk) 17:09, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Noabaak ( talk) 16:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Noa, writing on New York Guide for Korean readers(to be published in book within 3 months). I would like to use your photograph from Top of the Rock. Still a beginner communicateur, I did not find your email address. Hopefully you can find mine on my profile and contact me through email. Thanks.
Regarding Rehoboth Carpenter family - We have surveyed, we have compromised, we have repeatedly asked to user Iwanafish to communicate. He refuses with his snide comments and reversions to non-wiki versions. We have warned him "offically" a lot more than 3 times. Repeatedly, we have asked for mediation, we have asked for help and I do not know who else to ask. Can you pass this up the chain of editors?
User Iwanafish continues to disrupt and vandalize this page and it has spread his behavior to other pages. John Carpenter (bishop) John Carpenter, town clerk of London What else can we do but shut down the articles involved and provide warnings that when they are restored by user Iwanafish that they are garbage? Has wikipedia lost the ability to police itself? I am beginning to think this is a hopeless cause where such bullies can inflict such damage to wikipedia. What else can be done? John R. Carpenter Jrcrin001 ( talk) 05:38, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dschwen, I like your javascript extension HighlightRedirects very much. Some time ago I changed my wikipedia skin to vector. Unfortunately the highlighting does not work there. Do you also have a javascript extension for highlighting redirects that one can use in vector.js? -- Ephraim33 ( talk) 10:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes, but in the German language wikipedia. The very same snippet works in
de:User:Ephraim33/monobook.js, but does not work in
de:User:Ephraim33/vector.js. (The same is true in the English wikipedia). At least I cannot find the "redirects" button.
With monobook I see the following buttons: article, discussion, edit this page, history, move, watch, redirects.
With vector: Page, Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, Move, Watch.
--
Ephraim33 (
talk) 15:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you add something like
highlightRedirects.addStylesheetRule('a.mw-redirect:visited', 'color:darkgreen');
right after
highlightRedirects.addStylesheetRule('a.mw-redirect', 'color:green');
This allows visited links to be colored as well. You can choose the color :) Danke! Plastikspork ( talk) 00:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your comments! :) Durova 299 19:38, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Because the alt attribute is missing firefox simply uses the title attribute. Please add mapbutton.alt="";
before mapbutton.style.padding = '0px 3px 0px 0px';
to
m:MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js. This would also increase the accessibility of coordinates to screen readers. —
Dispenser 20:23, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Wow. I really appreciate your honesty here :-). That goes to show how taking a fresh look at things without the prejudice of let's say a username can help ;-). Cheers! -- Dschwen 15:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
I'd suggest waiting a few weeks, then renominating: You could probably do a better job at managing the nomination, and I think it would pass if so. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 192 FCs served 10:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
| I can see the value of showing the unrestored side, but |now I'm curious, what do you mean by with more height/visibility?
Your photo is of great technical quality, no doubt, but the proportions are not ideal for an infobox. The aspect ratio means that when you fit it into the width of a standard infobox, the image looks very "flat", so that the image drowns in the text in the box. Most people find that infobox photos should have the aspect ratios of portraits, not of landscapes. There are exceptions, of course.
I felt that it would be better to place your photo where it belongs in the article, where there can also be inserted a comment that indicates the high resolution of the image.
What you really should do, though, is to insert your photo in the article about El Castillo. There's already a photo there that is identical to yours, but in a much lower resolution. Maybe you can also use it in the articla about Itza, although the one used there may be more relevant than yours, since it has lots of people on it, to illustrate that the steps have not always been off-limits to tourists.
Keep up the good shooting! #8D)
uspn ( talk) 06:21, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
The current icon looks decorative in appearance like the icons we use for external links. This appears to confuse readers into the purpose of the icon. There are some way to fix this: 1) differentiate the icon with some user interface element such as a drop down arrow or lines 2) Make the icon in a 3d button possibly using the <button> tag 3) add a rollover/hover effect separate from the URL underline. — Dispenser 21:43, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
We are use line-height:
hack on superscripts, but the WMA icon increases the line height. See
Ridge Route for an example. Would it be possible to use .clientHeight
to check if there is enough space to load the icon? —
Dispenser 21:59, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is sarcasm or a pointed comment but it seems directed at me so you should note that i switched out the previous image for the one you just replaced pretty recently (4th of Feb this year, [3]), there had been a highly perspective distorted image in the article that someone had used to replace yours nearly a full 2 years before that [4]. I have never even seen your image before and I certainly didn't replace it with mine, I actually only originally uploaded it as a demonstration on FP when the perspective distorted image was going through FP and then figured as part of the discussion that it was a better illustrative image for the article than the FP candidate. Mfield ( Oi!) 02:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Currently the javascript for the WikiMiniAtlas is loaded on every page view, no matter if a page has coordinates or not. I intend to make it so it only loads when needed. (This is for the English Wikipedia, but the fix can probably be reused on other Wikipedias.) See discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.js#WikiMiniAtlas.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 17:35, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
It used to be that the blue globe linking to WikiMiniAtlas was disabled for off-Earth coordinates. This seems to no longer be the case -- see Template:Coord/testcases, for instance. I suppose this change might be related to the recently-added 5-second timeout (which by the way I greatly appreciate). I'd like to return to the blue globe appearing only for terrestrial coordinates. Would you kindly investigate the regression and, if possible, implement a fix? -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 05:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
There is a problem with WMA using visibility:hidden instead of display:none to hide the iframe in Safari. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Annoying.2C_constantly_present_invisible_div — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 11:37, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Dschwen. Thanks a lot for this tool: http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/intersection/, I find it very useful. Just a little question: Is there any tool intersecting categories and WikiProject banners, placed at talk pages? (e. g. {{Composers}} + [[Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs]]). User:WolterBot generates cleanup listings automatically, however, it could be useful to create quick lists manually. Is there any possibility, please? I'm asking here, since I'm absolutely unenlightened in technical matters :) Thanks for your answer. Have a nice day. -- Vejvančický ( talk) 15:35, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for replying to
my question. Much appreciated!
DeltaFalcon
talk /
contribs 08:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I refactored part of the poll to hopefully adequately reflect that there is a third option that people wanted under one of the sections. Please review the current state of the section and change your contribution as you see fit.
Adding new options as I have done is the suggested way for the poll to proceed, and I think the degree of differentiation we now have is roughly what we should be aiming for - not too many different options so we can still see some consensus developing, and not too few so that people can find an option that reasonably approximates what they want.
(refactor edit diff: [5]) Thanks, Papa Lima Whiskey ( talk) 16:57, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll just mention that there are some new reply options for this question, which also serves as an example of how the poll should progress when none of the available options suit the contributors. The question on dealing with unclear consensus has apparently been the most controversial so far. I remain hopeful that we will succeed in representing people's opinions by the time the poll ends. Feel free to change your vote or add a new reply option if the three new ones still don't quite work for you. (But obviously, try to create something general enough that it's likely to gather a following.) Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey ( talk) 09:18, 28 April 2010 (UTC)