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still anoying as crap —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.129.88 ( talk) 18:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Dot, hope you're doing well! Could you swing by the talk page for Windows Vista and have a look at our recent work on the final paragraph for the lead section of the article? You're probably aware that it's a bit contentious, so I'd like you to have a look at it and see if we've come up with something that you think is satisfactory and strikes the right tone within the context of the article's lead. Thanks. :-) -/- Warren 22:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Whoops, I was using 2 newline characters instead of 1. Did I get it right in Template:C-ADOD? MBisanz talk 16:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
OK, you've made your point. But I am thouroughly not amused by this action... If you had seen the history, I caught considerable flack for this image by account of it having "copyrightable content" (namely, some IE icons). So while I may seem touchy on this subject, understand that that ordeal caused me a minor trauma. Beside the point that I feel this action is pointless, it only casues extra work for me by having to re-watchlist it again etcetera... I also see no benefit to the project in converting this particular image for the sake of a few kilobutes... especially when it doesn't concern article images. Please delete the PNG version and withdraw the IfD. — Edokter • Talk • 22:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I think the languages are supposed to be sorted on their names in their own language. Not on their 2-letters ISO codes. eg. Suomi should be under the S not on the F. Japanese is Nihongo -> N. etc... So I think you are the one who just screwed it up here. :-) -- Fenring ( talk) 22:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have tried to download it, and of course the computer won't do anything to make it easy for me. :/ Also, I usually know how to spell correctly, but the problem is sometimes that I want to write the edit summary extra-quick so I don't hit an edit conflict. So, I guess I'm just going to have to preview my edit summary to avoid mkistakes. Thanks, Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[1] -> Anything I need to change to get this into my monobook.css? -- soum talk 19:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
references-small
class to always display the references in a single column, overriding the per-article setting? --
soum
talk
19:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)style
attribute instead of a stylesheet. —
Remember the dot (
talk)
20:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)Please read [2]. It was removed not due to any technical problems, but rather due to a major potential for abuse that is left unchecked. krimpet ✽ 18:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
You don't seem to provide any rationale. The redirect seemed useful (I reached this myself and was going to (re)create it before I saw the deletion history note. What other use could a template for a book cover have? Free covers wouldn't need such a template. Richard001 ( talk) 04:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
< thedj> hi, does anyone know if this pageview counter system that was once in place is still an "active" system ? < thedj> http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki_talk%3ACommon.js&diff=210869691&oldid=210833168 < thedj> it's from [[:de:User:LeonWeber]] apparently. < someone> thedj: no, it's offline < thedj> can it be removed ? < someone> yes < thedj> so, stats no longer being collected and never coming back... < someoneelse> thedj, stats.grok.se < someoneelse> so there is no need for LeonWP s stats any more < LeonWeber> wassup? < LeonWeber> thedj, right, remove that please
From #wikimedia-tech (nicks falsified for privacy reasons). -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I just saw the banner on your user page yesterday while on a computer that hadn't upgraded to IE7. You might also want to add a bit about IE7 having problems showing the pages correctly as well. Quite often if an image is placed below an infobox in the opening there will be a large amount of whitespace seen with either version of IE. Sometimes the amount of whitespace is large enough to ensure that the text does not appear on the screen without scrolling down (17 in monitor).
By the way Firefox has a couple of minor problems. Unlike IE Firefox correctly formats the {{reflist|2}}. Now if that is combined with a bare http references, it causes this, even on a 19 in monitor, but it's an easy fix by using [] and a title. This is the only other time I've seen Firefox have trouble with a page, caused by putting the images in a table, but I suspect that no browser can cope with that properly. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Since you've been the maintainer of this page, I'm pointing you at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Wikipedia:Upload MBisanz talk 22:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I see you moved the system messages Uploadtext/en-ownwork, Uploadtext/en-withpermission and Uploadtext/en-nonfree out of the MediaWiki namespace to allow non-admins to edit them. While I see your point and agree that this could well be a good idea, there's one little problem: redirects from system messages don't work. The only reason the customized upload forms didn't break immediately is that (as I understand it) Wikimedia's servers are set to cache these messages rather aggressively, so that any change is likely to take a few days to have any effect.
Fortunately, there does seem to be a workaround in this case. I've edited the messages you moved to replace the redirects with transclusions; this seems to work on my test wiki at least. We'll see in a few days whether it works here too. (Unfortunately, even this won't work with the corresponding license selector pages, since those aren't actually parsed as normal wikitext.) — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 09:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with your boldness. Obviously there was absolutely no consensus to unprotect the page. There is a difference between being bold, and just going against consensus. You have a whole thread of a bunch of people saying do not unprotect, and you just went and unprotected it. I was tempted to just reprotect it, but I figured I would ask you to readd the protection before I made any actions. « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ♦ contribs) @ 07:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi RTD,
Some of the participants in that discussion over at WP:AN sure seemed worried about something. But since potential problems were either vague or unspecified, they seemed pretty ominous, like a legendary big hairy monster.
The concerns seemed over-dramatized. But what could actually happen? I went looking around and found a few possible problems that could occur from the page being unprotected, but they just don't seem that dangerous. I've mentioned them on the thread over at WP:AN.
Thank you for reducing the protection on Wikipedia:Upload. I've finished my clean up. I'll take a closer look at the whole upload system when I have time, and will let you know what I discover.
Again, thanks.
The Transhumanist 14:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed your moves. ;) I'll carefully proofread/copy-edit those pages as I find time.
Meanwhile, it might be a good idea to let some people know about those pages, so they can watchlist them.
Nice job.
Keep up the good work.
The Transhumanist 00:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
This one's still protected.
Please take a look at the enlarged centered headings of the other upload forms, and use the same code to enlarge and center this one's main heading.
And please change the following sentence:
to:
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 03:23, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Done The Transhumanist 01:35, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Actually, Midom IS a developer, please don't revert him. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 08:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Let me quote few things from PERF: In the overwhelming majority of cases means that there's slight minority of cases that has different issues. On the rare occasion they occur, follow instructions from the system administrators who come in to pick up the pieces, and everything will be fine. - well, you just reverted one. Obviously you shouldn't do exactly the same thing again - but you did. listen to the system administrators if they tell you not to do something - it is even in bold. oh well. but the safeguards we have in place are not perfect. - indeed they are not, and thats why we have to do performance engineering. Domas Mituzas ( talk) 08:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm in the process of preparing for a big upcoming event.
Please help promote it, by placing the following notice on your user and/or talk page where others are most likely to see it.
I'd appreciate it.
The Transhumanist 01:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi:
I appreciate you getting back to me so quickly and trying to resolve this issue.
I am not sure what "weak keep" means. The reason his book as multiple citations is due to information from other industry experts or quoting people such as Marx etc... Many reputable media outlets have used him as a pundit in fact he is on BNN tonight speaking about a current controversial matter. I am not sure what NPOV inhection means. And he has been referenced by many media outlets and notable people so I am not sure what "too badly infected with spin" refers to. Is there information that should be removed for this to get approved?
Thanks again you are very helpful. Sarah Sarahanders1712 (talk) 16:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:StephenBuxton" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarahanders1712 ( talk • contribs) 16:47, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Remember the dot - I was just curious, is the above bot still operational? The category of images tagged with {{ ShouldBePNG}} is getting quite badly backlogged. Kelly hi! 22:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Following on from my comments above. I see that 3 does show Downtown Dallas correctly. Sadly though TabMixPlus no longer works which means I'll probably stick with 2 at home for a while. Other than that it looks good so far. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
still anoying as crap —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.129.88 ( talk) 18:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Dot, hope you're doing well! Could you swing by the talk page for Windows Vista and have a look at our recent work on the final paragraph for the lead section of the article? You're probably aware that it's a bit contentious, so I'd like you to have a look at it and see if we've come up with something that you think is satisfactory and strikes the right tone within the context of the article's lead. Thanks. :-) -/- Warren 22:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Whoops, I was using 2 newline characters instead of 1. Did I get it right in Template:C-ADOD? MBisanz talk 16:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
OK, you've made your point. But I am thouroughly not amused by this action... If you had seen the history, I caught considerable flack for this image by account of it having "copyrightable content" (namely, some IE icons). So while I may seem touchy on this subject, understand that that ordeal caused me a minor trauma. Beside the point that I feel this action is pointless, it only casues extra work for me by having to re-watchlist it again etcetera... I also see no benefit to the project in converting this particular image for the sake of a few kilobutes... especially when it doesn't concern article images. Please delete the PNG version and withdraw the IfD. — Edokter • Talk • 22:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I think the languages are supposed to be sorted on their names in their own language. Not on their 2-letters ISO codes. eg. Suomi should be under the S not on the F. Japanese is Nihongo -> N. etc... So I think you are the one who just screwed it up here. :-) -- Fenring ( talk) 22:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have tried to download it, and of course the computer won't do anything to make it easy for me. :/ Also, I usually know how to spell correctly, but the problem is sometimes that I want to write the edit summary extra-quick so I don't hit an edit conflict. So, I guess I'm just going to have to preview my edit summary to avoid mkistakes. Thanks, Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[1] -> Anything I need to change to get this into my monobook.css? -- soum talk 19:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
references-small
class to always display the references in a single column, overriding the per-article setting? --
soum
talk
19:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)style
attribute instead of a stylesheet. —
Remember the dot (
talk)
20:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)Please read [2]. It was removed not due to any technical problems, but rather due to a major potential for abuse that is left unchecked. krimpet ✽ 18:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
You don't seem to provide any rationale. The redirect seemed useful (I reached this myself and was going to (re)create it before I saw the deletion history note. What other use could a template for a book cover have? Free covers wouldn't need such a template. Richard001 ( talk) 04:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
< thedj> hi, does anyone know if this pageview counter system that was once in place is still an "active" system ? < thedj> http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki_talk%3ACommon.js&diff=210869691&oldid=210833168 < thedj> it's from [[:de:User:LeonWeber]] apparently. < someone> thedj: no, it's offline < thedj> can it be removed ? < someone> yes < thedj> so, stats no longer being collected and never coming back... < someoneelse> thedj, stats.grok.se < someoneelse> so there is no need for LeonWP s stats any more < LeonWeber> wassup? < LeonWeber> thedj, right, remove that please
From #wikimedia-tech (nicks falsified for privacy reasons). -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I just saw the banner on your user page yesterday while on a computer that hadn't upgraded to IE7. You might also want to add a bit about IE7 having problems showing the pages correctly as well. Quite often if an image is placed below an infobox in the opening there will be a large amount of whitespace seen with either version of IE. Sometimes the amount of whitespace is large enough to ensure that the text does not appear on the screen without scrolling down (17 in monitor).
By the way Firefox has a couple of minor problems. Unlike IE Firefox correctly formats the {{reflist|2}}. Now if that is combined with a bare http references, it causes this, even on a 19 in monitor, but it's an easy fix by using [] and a title. This is the only other time I've seen Firefox have trouble with a page, caused by putting the images in a table, but I suspect that no browser can cope with that properly. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Since you've been the maintainer of this page, I'm pointing you at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Wikipedia:Upload MBisanz talk 22:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I see you moved the system messages Uploadtext/en-ownwork, Uploadtext/en-withpermission and Uploadtext/en-nonfree out of the MediaWiki namespace to allow non-admins to edit them. While I see your point and agree that this could well be a good idea, there's one little problem: redirects from system messages don't work. The only reason the customized upload forms didn't break immediately is that (as I understand it) Wikimedia's servers are set to cache these messages rather aggressively, so that any change is likely to take a few days to have any effect.
Fortunately, there does seem to be a workaround in this case. I've edited the messages you moved to replace the redirects with transclusions; this seems to work on my test wiki at least. We'll see in a few days whether it works here too. (Unfortunately, even this won't work with the corresponding license selector pages, since those aren't actually parsed as normal wikitext.) — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 09:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with your boldness. Obviously there was absolutely no consensus to unprotect the page. There is a difference between being bold, and just going against consensus. You have a whole thread of a bunch of people saying do not unprotect, and you just went and unprotected it. I was tempted to just reprotect it, but I figured I would ask you to readd the protection before I made any actions. « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ♦ contribs) @ 07:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi RTD,
Some of the participants in that discussion over at WP:AN sure seemed worried about something. But since potential problems were either vague or unspecified, they seemed pretty ominous, like a legendary big hairy monster.
The concerns seemed over-dramatized. But what could actually happen? I went looking around and found a few possible problems that could occur from the page being unprotected, but they just don't seem that dangerous. I've mentioned them on the thread over at WP:AN.
Thank you for reducing the protection on Wikipedia:Upload. I've finished my clean up. I'll take a closer look at the whole upload system when I have time, and will let you know what I discover.
Again, thanks.
The Transhumanist 14:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed your moves. ;) I'll carefully proofread/copy-edit those pages as I find time.
Meanwhile, it might be a good idea to let some people know about those pages, so they can watchlist them.
Nice job.
Keep up the good work.
The Transhumanist 00:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
This one's still protected.
Please take a look at the enlarged centered headings of the other upload forms, and use the same code to enlarge and center this one's main heading.
And please change the following sentence:
to:
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 03:23, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Done The Transhumanist 01:35, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Actually, Midom IS a developer, please don't revert him. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 08:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Let me quote few things from PERF: In the overwhelming majority of cases means that there's slight minority of cases that has different issues. On the rare occasion they occur, follow instructions from the system administrators who come in to pick up the pieces, and everything will be fine. - well, you just reverted one. Obviously you shouldn't do exactly the same thing again - but you did. listen to the system administrators if they tell you not to do something - it is even in bold. oh well. but the safeguards we have in place are not perfect. - indeed they are not, and thats why we have to do performance engineering. Domas Mituzas ( talk) 08:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm in the process of preparing for a big upcoming event.
Please help promote it, by placing the following notice on your user and/or talk page where others are most likely to see it.
I'd appreciate it.
The Transhumanist 01:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi:
I appreciate you getting back to me so quickly and trying to resolve this issue.
I am not sure what "weak keep" means. The reason his book as multiple citations is due to information from other industry experts or quoting people such as Marx etc... Many reputable media outlets have used him as a pundit in fact he is on BNN tonight speaking about a current controversial matter. I am not sure what NPOV inhection means. And he has been referenced by many media outlets and notable people so I am not sure what "too badly infected with spin" refers to. Is there information that should be removed for this to get approved?
Thanks again you are very helpful. Sarah Sarahanders1712 (talk) 16:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:StephenBuxton" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarahanders1712 ( talk • contribs) 16:47, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Remember the dot - I was just curious, is the above bot still operational? The category of images tagged with {{ ShouldBePNG}} is getting quite badly backlogged. Kelly hi! 22:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Following on from my comments above. I see that 3 does show Downtown Dallas correctly. Sadly though TabMixPlus no longer works which means I'll probably stick with 2 at home for a while. Other than that it looks good so far. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)