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Morning, RexxS! Thank you for your feedback on my changes to Challenger bank. And I hope this is the right place to come back to you. The reason for capitalising Authorisation With Restrictions is that I thought this is the way it is referred to by the regulators, the FCA and the PRA. However, on closer scrutiny, I realise this is not the case. You were right. Also, I see my mistake with the Minor Edit and I know how I did it. I recongnised that my work on the page is NOT a Minor Edit. However, I did return a couple of times and found small tweaks and I called them Minor Edits. Which they were. What I hadn't accounted for is that they were still part of the overall Major Edit. I guess this is partly down to not yet knowing how long scrutiny takes. Finally, as a heads up, I'm planning a revision of the table of banks. I think it should match those given on the Bank of England's website here, and I want to add a Status column to the table, giving where each bank is, either in terms of authorisation (small a!) or in terms of market valuation (some of which are collosal!). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lighteater ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Ok, it seems simple on the surface, so I'll start with this response, and for more info go to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Statement by Thryduulf, 2nd paragraph. It is connected to the above DS Notice at the top of my page but not in a graphics sorta way. How do we trigger the edit filter in that DS Notice graphic at the top of my page - (hopefully it will lead to bigger and better things once I get past the resistance) Atsme Talk 📧 19:16, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
-- derived from template:ds/alert --
and {{Z33}}
. This pops us the notice at
MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-DS, applies the tag "discretionary sanctions alert" to the edit, and logs it in
the Edit filter log].<!-- -- derived from template:ds/alert -- {{Z33}} -->
in your notice at the top of the page. If it works, you'll get the popup.{{subst:alert|topic code}}
(in my case, with topics ap, blp or ps). When the editor tries to save (or preview would be better) their DS alert post, (provided the target user has already been alerted that year), a notice will pop-up to inform the editor that the user has already received a DS alert in the respective topic area that year, and prevents the editor from posting a 2nd alert.
Atsme
Talk
📧
13:57, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RexxS! See this suggestion regarding the above in the event you need it for future reference. I tested it as suggested and it worked but it appears more tweaking may be needed. Apologies for not presenting my question to you much clearer than I did - apparently, it was equally as unclear when I presented it ARCA. Only a few understood my proposal but that happens to me from time to time. It seems perfectly clear in my head, but when I try to explain it on paper it suddenly becomes confusing and a bit more complicated. Atsme Talk 📧 16:39, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm on my smartphone, so cannot easily xonfirm, but it appears that 93.86.115.173 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has no constructive, and few destructive, edits. Perhaps a more elaborate welcome message could be added? I may check later and add the warning myself.... — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
I would be super gratefull for help here /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Medical_resources#RfC_Pull_classification_codes_from_WD EncycloABC ( talk) 19:53, 4 June 2019 (UTC) (the sandbox of that page and this code
| {{#if: {{wdib|ps=1|qid={{{QID|}}}|P5806|{{{SNOMED CT|<noinclude>x</noinclude>}}}}}
| '''[[SNOMED CT|SNOMED CT]]''': [http://snomed.info/id/{{wdib|ps=1|qid={{{QID|}}}|P5806|{{{SNOMED CT|<noinclude>x</noinclude>}}}}} {{wdib|ps=1|qid={{{QID|}}}|P5806|{{{SNOMEDCT|<noinclude>x</noinclude>}}}}}]}}
It is not unheard of to be insulted around here, but while Falstaff might be 'malt-worn', I was expecting the quality insult 'malt-worm'. Would it be okay to fix that at User:RexxS/Shakespearean insults? Or any others, like 'frouard' s.b. 'froward' ? Hmm, 'varlet' s.b. 'varlot'? Looks like only those three. Shenme ( talk) 06:10, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Every now and again, depending on the page and this time it was
Wikipedia:Featured articles, I get the following error message and wondered if it's something that should be reported (and to whom?) or if it's a browser issue:
Javascript Error
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript at line 103: Error: AJAX error: error
Thanks in advance...
Atsme
Talk
📧
10:45, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS. Would it be possible to support category related to list (P1754) and list related to category (P1753) in Module:WikidataIB, please? They're analogous to topic's main category (P910) and category's main topic (P301) respectively, so it would be an extra check wherever those two are currently checked. It's most urgent for the "getCommonsLink" function, so I've tried adding that to WikidataIB/sandbox, and it seems to work. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 06:53, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS, just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for the links you provided in the "New 'User reporting'" thread at WP:FRAM. I glanced at some of them yesterday afternoon and intend to read through fully. Very informative and from the little I've looked at raise lots of questions. Victoria ( tk) 18:31, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS. How are you doing? I just want to follow-up regarding this task which you have been helping me with. Please do let me know if there is anything I could do to reduce any confusion or help ease the task. I will recreate the sandbox environment when you're ready (to avoid others removing it again). Thank you again for the continuous support! Kindest regards, Reh man 03:28, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
By post-save signing, I'm wondering if you got the ping m:CentralNotice/Request/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2019#Central_Notice_admin_comments here? I may need to leave notes instead. Let me know. Thanks! -- Fæ ( talk) 08:49, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello RexxS,
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 04:38, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I won't be going to Stockholm most unfortunately, because I really can't afford $3,000 just for 5 days in the far north of Europe. I'll leave that trip to the Europeans and the 70-strong WMF junket. But next year Wikimania is right on my doorstep. I hope you will be able to come. I will be making absolutely sure that my friends who are able to come will have a great time. Regards, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:16, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for watching over Franz Kafka and improving. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:55, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
As far as I can see, the article on Scuba diving makes no references to Great Britain or British people. I quote from one of your sentences: "The article clearly has the template {Use British English} and editors are expected to respect it." I did not see this template anywhere in the article, and I had no idea that the article "Scuba diving" pertained to Great Britain. A person who reads this article is not led to believe that he is in England.
In the article on John Lennon or Lady Diana Spencer, I would certainly understand the use of British spelling, but I still don't see the logic of this in the article on Scuba diving. I would like for you to direct me to this template that tells editors to use British English. The template is certainly not very conspicuous. Anthony22 ( talk) 01:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
I just saw the reference to British English on the talk page. I don't generally check the talk page before editing, and I had no way of knowing that the subject matter was related to British spelling. I guess that it's important and logical to check the template on the talk page before editing. I still don't understand why the article on scuba diving is linked to Great Britain instead of countries in general. I'm rather certain that there are more recreational divers in the United States (population 327 million) than Great Britain (population 60 million). Scuba diving is a universal recreational activity that is practiced and enjoyed all over the world. Notice my spelling of the word "practiced." Great Britain is noted for the Beatles, the Royal Family, Tony Blair, and Winston Churchill, not scuba diving. Anthony22 ( talk) 11:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
"When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, maintain it in the absence of consensus to the contrary. With few exceptions (e.g., when a topic has strong national ties or a term/spelling carries less ambiguity), there is no valid reason for such a change."You've been around long enough; you should know these policies without having to be reminded. You must not alter the variant of English used unless there are valid reasons such as strong national ties. I hope that is clear enough for you.
"I don't generally check the talk page before editing". Well, the next time you're thinking of unilaterally altering the English variant of an article, you'd better check for that template, because you've now been alerted, the excuse of not knowing about it won't be available.
I clicked "thanks" on your protection note really only because I am so pleased, still, that you're an admin. Take it easy, Drmies ( talk) 14:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Cheers, and cheers to Floq and his RfA. Thanks for your note in the "General comments" section. For the record, I have the utmost respect for Ajraddatz; this may be the first time I ever disagreed with them, and you phrased it very well. Thanks. Drmies ( talk) 00:28, 23 July 2019 (UTC) |
I made an edit on one of your pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User%3ARexxS%2Flicence&type=revision&diff=907481863&oldid=802561663 Rong Qiqi ( talk) PRO-WIKIPEDIA = ANTI-WMF 06:23, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, just for your information, your username has been mentioned in this Wikimedia Space topic where a Lua expert is sought. If it doesn't fit you, maybe someone you know? 😊 Qgil-WMF ( talk) 12:21, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Rex - I'm having an issue when using edit view in Firefox. The text in the edit section is tiny - I can barely see it...maybe 6pt...and it only recently started doing that. Why? It doesn't do that in Safari or Chrome. It's only in edit view in Firefox. Any suggestions?? Atsme Talk 📧 16:25, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
mw-editfont-monospace
class. You don't have any custom css, so you haven't altered that. It looks like you've accidentally changed a setting in Firefox for Monospace fonts. Have a look at the Firefox menu → Options → Language and Appearance → Fonts and Colors → Advanced... then see if you have something other than Monospace Size set to 13, and make sure you have ticked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". If that doesn't sort out the problem, let me know, and I'll have another think. --
RexxS (
talk)
16:54, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS, long time no talk. I hope you're well. If you have any time, would you be prepared to take a look at the relatively intricately coded table at MLS Cup 2001 and assess it for accessibility? No mad rush, but I've just undertaken to GAN review it, and while ACCESS isn't a requirement, rather like an MOT, I'd like to add advisories where possible should anyone wish to (a) improve it for its own benefit or (b) take it further, to FAC for instance. All the best. The Rambling Man ( REJOICE!) 20:29, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
style="valign:top;"
, not attributes like valign=top
. I could improve all of that for you if you wanted, as an example for the nominator. As far as other aspects of accessibility are concerned, the colour contrasts are fine, as is the text size, and no information is being conveyed by colour or other visual markup that isn't available by other means for a blind visitor.Among your last fifty logged actions I see only one block, for 31 hours. Did you not receive a sheet with the rates for the various blocks? Are you not some underpaid part-timer like the rest of us? Are you really suggesting you applied for this job to do some good, to be positive? Hmm? Don't you know we're supposed to be powerhungry a-holes? Drmies ( talk) 20:26, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS. I think your latest edit to WikidataIB reverted this one adding P1754 to the commons link - can you have a look please? Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 19:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
I just got to know about the session on Wikidata infoboxes workshop at Wikimania 2019. I am interested in it but unfortunately I am based in another continent and won't make it to Wikimania. I was wondering if remote participation is possible? If not, if we can access the video later on. Thanks a lot -- Nandana ( talk) 15:38, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Thanks for crafting this super good intro to Lua. I found it very helpful! custom-signa|ture ( talk) 20:09, 14 August 2019 (UTC) |
Please could you attribute your close as the use of the first person with no obvious link to who is speaking is confusing. I'd rather not drop an {{ unsigned}} in a closure header as I wouldn't put it past someone to wikilawyer that that affected the validity of the close(!). Thryduulf ( talk) 00:14, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that Bisogn (I'm not linking the editor because I don't want to alert the editor, which is also why I'm not posting to ANI) has made a series "white space edits" essentially removing whitespace. I assume it's to get to autoconfirmed status. I've reverted them all in an effort to slow the editor, but I wanted to mention it to an admin who might be interested in seeing if this is socking or some other sort of behaviour. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 04:41, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, are there a video or slide-deck for Wikimania 2019 talk? I was sad to have not been able to make it to Stockholm, but I'd love to see what was discussed. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 10:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, RexxS - is it possible to add a carousel inside an infobox so the picture changes every so often? I think it would be cool to have one in the infobox for WP:WikiProject Dogs. I suppose we could add one top/center of the page, but the infobox is my choice. If possible, I just need you to give me a kickstart like you did for my user page. Atsme Talk 📧 01:43, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
|
separator and use the first part for the filename and the second part for the caption. The demo infobox on the right (code is above) contains the lines for |image=
and |caption=
that you need to use. Copy and paste those two into the infobox in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs, replacing the current two lines that give a fixed image.|switchsecs=
from 5 seconds to whatever number you want to be the time between image changes. Using 86400 would give one day between changes. Don't forget to change the number in both lines to be the same, otherwise the captions will be out of sync with the images. Let me know how it goes. --
RexxS (
talk)
14:23, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Template:OnlyOffline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- Colin° Talk 13:38, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi! Lately I have been doing some further Lua experiments on test wiki and encountered a server timeout (>10s) for the first time since I have started working with Lua. Apparently the line responsible for the timeout is a relatively complex string.gsub, which on single use already takes >3s, so with multiple use on a page it obviously leads to a timeout. Honestly I was very surprised, since I have been using gsubs on a regular basis and none of the others (in the same module and template) has ever gotten close to a timeout (without that one line I stay at around 1s). I couldn’t find any documentation on how to work around such problems, so I thought I’ll ask you for advice. The line in question is string.gsub (content, "(\n|.-)colspan(%=.-|.-%<span class%='charts%-mobileonly.-\n|.-class%='charts%-)mobileonlycell('.-)%↑(%])", "%1class%='charts%-mobileonly' colspan%2mobileonly%3%←%4")
. I’m sure I could shorten it a little bit since the wikitable structure (contained in “content”) is predictable, but I don’t get what about this match makes it take so long compared to other substitutions; does it contain a mistake or something? Any hints are appreciated. Best regards,
XanonymusX (
talk)
16:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
|INHALT=
, it is difficult to debug. Anyway, your replacement string in line 338 looks faulty to me, and it gave me an error when testing on my local Lua test implementation. In replacement strings, the only characters that you can escape are the numbers 1 to 9 which are then substituted by the captures from the pattern matching. So I think your replacement string should be something like:
"%1class='charts-mobileonly' colspan%2mobileonly%3←%4"
= <
, etc. The only characters you must escape are the "magic characters": ^ $ ( ) % . [ ] * + - ?
and you often don't need to escape those (such as
when there is no unescaped
in the string). Consider this for the pattern to match:
"(\n|.-)colspan(=.-|.-<span class='charts-mobileonly.-\n|.-class='charts-)mobileonlycell('.-)↑(])"
.-
and that causes too many checks for matching at each character position in the content string. I might get a chance to think about exactly what the gsub is trying to do later but I'm letting you know this much now.
Johnuniq (
talk)
23:36, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
-
qualifier and it's possibly because I had seen performance issues with it in the past. I've given you some extra rights on Test Wiki in case you ever have to work on protected modules, etc. Cheers --
RexxS (
talk)
13:20, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello RexxS ! You have help me and some other users to see sense before. It was about
Swedish Wikipedia about two years ago, I estimate. Hence I hope you might be able to have a look at a different subject and involved contributor. As we don't come anywhere and the subject is of greater importance, I think.
If possible, could you have a look at this article
Scandinavian Monetary Union. This article ends with a quote, from two authors in economic history. I feel this far away from the encyclopedic style we are obligated to follow. Quotes as such can certainly be used, but not as a source in itself. It's a matter of style, I would say. In written encyclopedias , I've never seen anything similar to this! Neither in any other article at Wikipedia. Not like this. I don't really know which guideline, just that this is wrong. What these two authors have expressed in writing at one page of 100+ pages, becomes far too heavy if compared to a normal text with a normal reference to the work in question as source. The user who insists on using this poor style quote is
User:Snooganssnoogans And I hope this alerts him/her too.
Boeing720 (
talk)
03:35, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
This page 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. |
Morning, RexxS! Thank you for your feedback on my changes to Challenger bank. And I hope this is the right place to come back to you. The reason for capitalising Authorisation With Restrictions is that I thought this is the way it is referred to by the regulators, the FCA and the PRA. However, on closer scrutiny, I realise this is not the case. You were right. Also, I see my mistake with the Minor Edit and I know how I did it. I recongnised that my work on the page is NOT a Minor Edit. However, I did return a couple of times and found small tweaks and I called them Minor Edits. Which they were. What I hadn't accounted for is that they were still part of the overall Major Edit. I guess this is partly down to not yet knowing how long scrutiny takes. Finally, as a heads up, I'm planning a revision of the table of banks. I think it should match those given on the Bank of England's website here, and I want to add a Status column to the table, giving where each bank is, either in terms of authorisation (small a!) or in terms of market valuation (some of which are collosal!). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lighteater ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Ok, it seems simple on the surface, so I'll start with this response, and for more info go to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Statement by Thryduulf, 2nd paragraph. It is connected to the above DS Notice at the top of my page but not in a graphics sorta way. How do we trigger the edit filter in that DS Notice graphic at the top of my page - (hopefully it will lead to bigger and better things once I get past the resistance) Atsme Talk 📧 19:16, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
-- derived from template:ds/alert --
and {{Z33}}
. This pops us the notice at
MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-DS, applies the tag "discretionary sanctions alert" to the edit, and logs it in
the Edit filter log].<!-- -- derived from template:ds/alert -- {{Z33}} -->
in your notice at the top of the page. If it works, you'll get the popup.{{subst:alert|topic code}}
(in my case, with topics ap, blp or ps). When the editor tries to save (or preview would be better) their DS alert post, (provided the target user has already been alerted that year), a notice will pop-up to inform the editor that the user has already received a DS alert in the respective topic area that year, and prevents the editor from posting a 2nd alert.
Atsme
Talk
📧
13:57, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RexxS! See this suggestion regarding the above in the event you need it for future reference. I tested it as suggested and it worked but it appears more tweaking may be needed. Apologies for not presenting my question to you much clearer than I did - apparently, it was equally as unclear when I presented it ARCA. Only a few understood my proposal but that happens to me from time to time. It seems perfectly clear in my head, but when I try to explain it on paper it suddenly becomes confusing and a bit more complicated. Atsme Talk 📧 16:39, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm on my smartphone, so cannot easily xonfirm, but it appears that 93.86.115.173 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has no constructive, and few destructive, edits. Perhaps a more elaborate welcome message could be added? I may check later and add the warning myself.... — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
I would be super gratefull for help here /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Medical_resources#RfC_Pull_classification_codes_from_WD EncycloABC ( talk) 19:53, 4 June 2019 (UTC) (the sandbox of that page and this code
| {{#if: {{wdib|ps=1|qid={{{QID|}}}|P5806|{{{SNOMED CT|<noinclude>x</noinclude>}}}}}
| '''[[SNOMED CT|SNOMED CT]]''': [http://snomed.info/id/{{wdib|ps=1|qid={{{QID|}}}|P5806|{{{SNOMED CT|<noinclude>x</noinclude>}}}}} {{wdib|ps=1|qid={{{QID|}}}|P5806|{{{SNOMEDCT|<noinclude>x</noinclude>}}}}}]}}
It is not unheard of to be insulted around here, but while Falstaff might be 'malt-worn', I was expecting the quality insult 'malt-worm'. Would it be okay to fix that at User:RexxS/Shakespearean insults? Or any others, like 'frouard' s.b. 'froward' ? Hmm, 'varlet' s.b. 'varlot'? Looks like only those three. Shenme ( talk) 06:10, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Every now and again, depending on the page and this time it was
Wikipedia:Featured articles, I get the following error message and wondered if it's something that should be reported (and to whom?) or if it's a browser issue:
Javascript Error
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript at line 103: Error: AJAX error: error
Thanks in advance...
Atsme
Talk
📧
10:45, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS. Would it be possible to support category related to list (P1754) and list related to category (P1753) in Module:WikidataIB, please? They're analogous to topic's main category (P910) and category's main topic (P301) respectively, so it would be an extra check wherever those two are currently checked. It's most urgent for the "getCommonsLink" function, so I've tried adding that to WikidataIB/sandbox, and it seems to work. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 06:53, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS, just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for the links you provided in the "New 'User reporting'" thread at WP:FRAM. I glanced at some of them yesterday afternoon and intend to read through fully. Very informative and from the little I've looked at raise lots of questions. Victoria ( tk) 18:31, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS. How are you doing? I just want to follow-up regarding this task which you have been helping me with. Please do let me know if there is anything I could do to reduce any confusion or help ease the task. I will recreate the sandbox environment when you're ready (to avoid others removing it again). Thank you again for the continuous support! Kindest regards, Reh man 03:28, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
By post-save signing, I'm wondering if you got the ping m:CentralNotice/Request/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2019#Central_Notice_admin_comments here? I may need to leave notes instead. Let me know. Thanks! -- Fæ ( talk) 08:49, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello RexxS,
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 04:38, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I won't be going to Stockholm most unfortunately, because I really can't afford $3,000 just for 5 days in the far north of Europe. I'll leave that trip to the Europeans and the 70-strong WMF junket. But next year Wikimania is right on my doorstep. I hope you will be able to come. I will be making absolutely sure that my friends who are able to come will have a great time. Regards, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:16, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for watching over Franz Kafka and improving. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:55, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
As far as I can see, the article on Scuba diving makes no references to Great Britain or British people. I quote from one of your sentences: "The article clearly has the template {Use British English} and editors are expected to respect it." I did not see this template anywhere in the article, and I had no idea that the article "Scuba diving" pertained to Great Britain. A person who reads this article is not led to believe that he is in England.
In the article on John Lennon or Lady Diana Spencer, I would certainly understand the use of British spelling, but I still don't see the logic of this in the article on Scuba diving. I would like for you to direct me to this template that tells editors to use British English. The template is certainly not very conspicuous. Anthony22 ( talk) 01:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
I just saw the reference to British English on the talk page. I don't generally check the talk page before editing, and I had no way of knowing that the subject matter was related to British spelling. I guess that it's important and logical to check the template on the talk page before editing. I still don't understand why the article on scuba diving is linked to Great Britain instead of countries in general. I'm rather certain that there are more recreational divers in the United States (population 327 million) than Great Britain (population 60 million). Scuba diving is a universal recreational activity that is practiced and enjoyed all over the world. Notice my spelling of the word "practiced." Great Britain is noted for the Beatles, the Royal Family, Tony Blair, and Winston Churchill, not scuba diving. Anthony22 ( talk) 11:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
"When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, maintain it in the absence of consensus to the contrary. With few exceptions (e.g., when a topic has strong national ties or a term/spelling carries less ambiguity), there is no valid reason for such a change."You've been around long enough; you should know these policies without having to be reminded. You must not alter the variant of English used unless there are valid reasons such as strong national ties. I hope that is clear enough for you.
"I don't generally check the talk page before editing". Well, the next time you're thinking of unilaterally altering the English variant of an article, you'd better check for that template, because you've now been alerted, the excuse of not knowing about it won't be available.
I clicked "thanks" on your protection note really only because I am so pleased, still, that you're an admin. Take it easy, Drmies ( talk) 14:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Cheers, and cheers to Floq and his RfA. Thanks for your note in the "General comments" section. For the record, I have the utmost respect for Ajraddatz; this may be the first time I ever disagreed with them, and you phrased it very well. Thanks. Drmies ( talk) 00:28, 23 July 2019 (UTC) |
I made an edit on one of your pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User%3ARexxS%2Flicence&type=revision&diff=907481863&oldid=802561663 Rong Qiqi ( talk) PRO-WIKIPEDIA = ANTI-WMF 06:23, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, just for your information, your username has been mentioned in this Wikimedia Space topic where a Lua expert is sought. If it doesn't fit you, maybe someone you know? 😊 Qgil-WMF ( talk) 12:21, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Rex - I'm having an issue when using edit view in Firefox. The text in the edit section is tiny - I can barely see it...maybe 6pt...and it only recently started doing that. Why? It doesn't do that in Safari or Chrome. It's only in edit view in Firefox. Any suggestions?? Atsme Talk 📧 16:25, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
mw-editfont-monospace
class. You don't have any custom css, so you haven't altered that. It looks like you've accidentally changed a setting in Firefox for Monospace fonts. Have a look at the Firefox menu → Options → Language and Appearance → Fonts and Colors → Advanced... then see if you have something other than Monospace Size set to 13, and make sure you have ticked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". If that doesn't sort out the problem, let me know, and I'll have another think. --
RexxS (
talk)
16:54, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS, long time no talk. I hope you're well. If you have any time, would you be prepared to take a look at the relatively intricately coded table at MLS Cup 2001 and assess it for accessibility? No mad rush, but I've just undertaken to GAN review it, and while ACCESS isn't a requirement, rather like an MOT, I'd like to add advisories where possible should anyone wish to (a) improve it for its own benefit or (b) take it further, to FAC for instance. All the best. The Rambling Man ( REJOICE!) 20:29, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
style="valign:top;"
, not attributes like valign=top
. I could improve all of that for you if you wanted, as an example for the nominator. As far as other aspects of accessibility are concerned, the colour contrasts are fine, as is the text size, and no information is being conveyed by colour or other visual markup that isn't available by other means for a blind visitor.Among your last fifty logged actions I see only one block, for 31 hours. Did you not receive a sheet with the rates for the various blocks? Are you not some underpaid part-timer like the rest of us? Are you really suggesting you applied for this job to do some good, to be positive? Hmm? Don't you know we're supposed to be powerhungry a-holes? Drmies ( talk) 20:26, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi RexxS. I think your latest edit to WikidataIB reverted this one adding P1754 to the commons link - can you have a look please? Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 19:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
I just got to know about the session on Wikidata infoboxes workshop at Wikimania 2019. I am interested in it but unfortunately I am based in another continent and won't make it to Wikimania. I was wondering if remote participation is possible? If not, if we can access the video later on. Thanks a lot -- Nandana ( talk) 15:38, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Thanks for crafting this super good intro to Lua. I found it very helpful! custom-signa|ture ( talk) 20:09, 14 August 2019 (UTC) |
Please could you attribute your close as the use of the first person with no obvious link to who is speaking is confusing. I'd rather not drop an {{ unsigned}} in a closure header as I wouldn't put it past someone to wikilawyer that that affected the validity of the close(!). Thryduulf ( talk) 00:14, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that Bisogn (I'm not linking the editor because I don't want to alert the editor, which is also why I'm not posting to ANI) has made a series "white space edits" essentially removing whitespace. I assume it's to get to autoconfirmed status. I've reverted them all in an effort to slow the editor, but I wanted to mention it to an admin who might be interested in seeing if this is socking or some other sort of behaviour. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 04:41, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, are there a video or slide-deck for Wikimania 2019 talk? I was sad to have not been able to make it to Stockholm, but I'd love to see what was discussed. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 10:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, RexxS - is it possible to add a carousel inside an infobox so the picture changes every so often? I think it would be cool to have one in the infobox for WP:WikiProject Dogs. I suppose we could add one top/center of the page, but the infobox is my choice. If possible, I just need you to give me a kickstart like you did for my user page. Atsme Talk 📧 01:43, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
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separator and use the first part for the filename and the second part for the caption. The demo infobox on the right (code is above) contains the lines for |image=
and |caption=
that you need to use. Copy and paste those two into the infobox in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs, replacing the current two lines that give a fixed image.|switchsecs=
from 5 seconds to whatever number you want to be the time between image changes. Using 86400 would give one day between changes. Don't forget to change the number in both lines to be the same, otherwise the captions will be out of sync with the images. Let me know how it goes. --
RexxS (
talk)
14:23, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Template:OnlyOffline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- Colin° Talk 13:38, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi! Lately I have been doing some further Lua experiments on test wiki and encountered a server timeout (>10s) for the first time since I have started working with Lua. Apparently the line responsible for the timeout is a relatively complex string.gsub, which on single use already takes >3s, so with multiple use on a page it obviously leads to a timeout. Honestly I was very surprised, since I have been using gsubs on a regular basis and none of the others (in the same module and template) has ever gotten close to a timeout (without that one line I stay at around 1s). I couldn’t find any documentation on how to work around such problems, so I thought I’ll ask you for advice. The line in question is string.gsub (content, "(\n|.-)colspan(%=.-|.-%<span class%='charts%-mobileonly.-\n|.-class%='charts%-)mobileonlycell('.-)%↑(%])", "%1class%='charts%-mobileonly' colspan%2mobileonly%3%←%4")
. I’m sure I could shorten it a little bit since the wikitable structure (contained in “content”) is predictable, but I don’t get what about this match makes it take so long compared to other substitutions; does it contain a mistake or something? Any hints are appreciated. Best regards,
XanonymusX (
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16:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
|INHALT=
, it is difficult to debug. Anyway, your replacement string in line 338 looks faulty to me, and it gave me an error when testing on my local Lua test implementation. In replacement strings, the only characters that you can escape are the numbers 1 to 9 which are then substituted by the captures from the pattern matching. So I think your replacement string should be something like:
"%1class='charts-mobileonly' colspan%2mobileonly%3←%4"
= <
, etc. The only characters you must escape are the "magic characters": ^ $ ( ) % . [ ] * + - ?
and you often don't need to escape those (such as
when there is no unescaped
in the string). Consider this for the pattern to match:
"(\n|.-)colspan(=.-|.-<span class='charts-mobileonly.-\n|.-class='charts-)mobileonlycell('.-)↑(])"
.-
and that causes too many checks for matching at each character position in the content string. I might get a chance to think about exactly what the gsub is trying to do later but I'm letting you know this much now.
Johnuniq (
talk)
23:36, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
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qualifier and it's possibly because I had seen performance issues with it in the past. I've given you some extra rights on Test Wiki in case you ever have to work on protected modules, etc. Cheers --
RexxS (
talk)
13:20, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello RexxS ! You have help me and some other users to see sense before. It was about
Swedish Wikipedia about two years ago, I estimate. Hence I hope you might be able to have a look at a different subject and involved contributor. As we don't come anywhere and the subject is of greater importance, I think.
If possible, could you have a look at this article
Scandinavian Monetary Union. This article ends with a quote, from two authors in economic history. I feel this far away from the encyclopedic style we are obligated to follow. Quotes as such can certainly be used, but not as a source in itself. It's a matter of style, I would say. In written encyclopedias , I've never seen anything similar to this! Neither in any other article at Wikipedia. Not like this. I don't really know which guideline, just that this is wrong. What these two authors have expressed in writing at one page of 100+ pages, becomes far too heavy if compared to a normal text with a normal reference to the work in question as source. The user who insists on using this poor style quote is
User:Snooganssnoogans And I hope this alerts him/her too.
Boeing720 (
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03:35, 8 September 2019 (UTC)