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I have a crazy thought, involving wp:cp
In short, it is badly backlogged, and clearing it out is boring.
What I would like to do is to arm-twist a few editors (maybe 100) to agree to a very small challenge - work on one a week. We get roughly 300 new items a month, so 100 doing one a week would clear the backlog (counting on some to do more, and some not to deliver)
Why am I telling you this?
Because I would like a nice, easy progress chart. One that lets editor know who is meeting this low commitment, and who is not.
Here's a crude mockup: User:Sphilbrick/Copyright_Progress_table What I do not want is for editors to have to update the chart themselves, so I am looking for your expertise. My hope is that there is a way to have an edit to the project page automatically update the progress chart.
Here's how I imagine it working, but you may have better ideas.
An editor reviewing an item will, at some time, use one of the templates in here to identify the results. Most indicate the type of positive resolution, some are not, I can identify the list of those qualifying. My hope is that the template, for example {{ CPC}} could be modified so that it also updates the table. However, as I think about this, I realized the template is substituted, tso that may be a challenge.
I also have some thoughts about mass notification of results, on a monthly basis, but I am now concerned this isn't as easy as I thought, so I'll stop for the moment and see what you think.
I have not run this by our copyright expert yet, I want a sense of feasibility first. -- SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:14, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
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Technical 13 (
talk)
16:00, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
To address this, I'm looking for a way to pass a note through to the speedy deletion templates (I suppose through {{ db-meta}}, but it could be through the templates themselves (e.g. [{{ db-a1}}; {{ db-a3}}, {{ db-empty}}; {{ db-a7}}, {{ db-person}}, {{ db-band}}, {{ db-club}}, {{ db-inc}}, {{ db-web}}, {{ db-animal}}, {{ db-event}}]) that would:
{{CREATETIMESTAMP}}
would return. I'll look into the
Lua option first and see what I can do. If I can get that information, then I can easily add it to the template to only show a note to administrators similar to what I did to improve administrators awareness of if {{
Db-g13}}s were compliant with the six month requirement.
Technical 13 (
talk)
11:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC){{{cts}}}
(Creation TimeStamp) parameter to {{
Db-a1}} and {{
Db-a3}} to start. I'm unsure at this time of which of the more specific db- templates should have such a thing. Take a look at those two and get back to me with a full list of templates you want it added to and any wording changes and I'll implement it for you. :)
Technical 13 (
talk)
14:20, 7 October 2013 (UTC)notes=
parameter when a Twinkle user places the template, but when I preview manually to see what it might look like/where in he template it will appear, it simply doesn't display, e.g., when I preview somewhere {{db-a1|notes=test test test test}} that "note" is not visible. So I can only imagine you still need to do some further coding to make the notes parameter display? Anyway, I will have to think about language for A7 (and its progeny) as it's different than A1 and A3. As to them, AFAICT the only other place where the language should be added is {{
db-empty}}. All other templates I've looked at, like db-nocontent, are just redirects to db-a1 or db-a3.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
12:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
As for where to add this, like db-empty, which passes through A3, if any one the following list pass through A7, then they wouldn't need it (right?), but the list where it should be displayed is: {{ a7}} obviously, and {{ db-person}}, {{ db-band}}, {{ db-club}}, {{ db-inc}}, {{ db-web}}, {{ db-animal}} and {{ db-event}}. Thanks!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 22:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)|notes={{#ifexpr:({{#time:U}}-{{#time:U|{{{cts|1-1-1970}}}}}) <= 900|'''Note''': This article was created less than 15 minutes ago and so the creator may still be adding content. Please consider patrolling pages from the back of the unpatrolled backlog.
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For all your work on sorting out templates, tabs, scripts and who knows what else for WP:WPAFC :) -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 07:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC) |
The ones you put in half jest, half irony, on my talk page now seem to exist! Someone else added one, so I added the others. Fiddle Faddle 22:35, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
I like the formatting idea you did for the arrows, but where you put it (or perhaps how it was coded), the image links no longer work. Could you take a moment to see? — (っ◔◡◔)っ Ross Hill 23:07, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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For this. :) -- t numbermaniac c 00:37, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
In my sandbox, I passed parameter value "foo" to parameter "team", and it produces "foo women's basketball"
However, if I enter "foo Lady", it generates "foo Lady basketball" i.e dropping "women". See User:Sphilbrick/sandbox3 This is desirable, but I don't understand how it happens.
The goal is to make it work for 2013–14 Southern Utah T–Birds basketball team, where the team name indicates the gender, and the infobox link should be:
not
I looked at the code, but I'm not seeing it. -- SPhilbrick (Talk) 00:34, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
If you wouldn't mind taking a look at my question (located at the bottom of my talk page) when you get a chance ... no rush whatsoever, I would appreciate it. Go Phightins ! 02:37, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, hope all is well at your end. This has reference to my article ALLEN Career Institute. I am still waiting for the review. It been more than a month now and no answer from User:NawlinWiki also. I have also updated the content as per the feedback. Please help and guide me.
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Thanks for helping out Daomeideren (and cool sandbox template, by the way), but nevertheless... Yunshui 雲 水 00:04, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
And that's why every RfC (well, almost) degenerates into a free-for-all. You can tell them what it's about and what it's not about but there are always some who come to grind an axe or two, take snipes at people they don't like, ad just generally go right off topic: many just don't bother to read the preamble and proposal properly, very few read through the discussion and that's why they don't know what's going on. I dropped myself in the deep end some years ago and saved a huge discussion on a new policy from dying out in spite of literally hundreds of participants, in the end after most of the louder ones had left the party, a very small group of us went into a backroom and tied it up neatly without any controversies. Problem is, you offer them something they actually want and a place to discuss it, but they come up with arguments why they don't want it. I fully sympathise with your frustration. If you use popups, just drag your mouse down the signatures. Oh well... Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Donald! Wishing you a very happy Halloween :-) TheGeneralUser (talk) 23:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
I have looked at both your userpage and you edit history. I think you are are a fantastic contributor, I have already began analyzing the mediawiki source code. But the truth is, I am just getting started. Yet I want to aid in the technical aspects of wikipedia. I am experienced in PHP, javascript and HTML. TechnicalEngineerA3 ( talk) 11:40, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Tell me about all the template perimeters, as well as some of the things you help with. Also, I would like to know about all those 'bots' that circulate Wikipedia. TechnicalEngineerA3 ( talk) 12:03, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the template making guide. TechnicalEngineerA3 ( talk) 16:11, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
OK I thought I could do this myself, but I'm nervous because I'm not fully following the template. There's a lot of hidden text, which is good because it helps explain, but the it wraps by line is confusing. I guess the template does a sequence of search and replaces, working from the outside in.
The goal is make make sure that 2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball team shows:
rather than
in the info box.
I think this means I need to add a row containing:
(.* Central Arkansas Sugar Bears.*) women's|%1|plain=false
as well as another copy of the Invoke string replace, but I am worried I will screw it up.
Can I persuade you to make the change for me?
The template is {{ Template:Infobox NCAA team season/name}} -- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:10, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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02:55, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Technical 13. The decision of merging the template Infobox criminal with Infobox murderer was taken after a discussion at TfD which had been open for over a week without getting much attention. As you can read in the TfD page, a sandbox page and relative test cases had been created prior to the nomination. If you think the decision to close the discussion as merge was mistaken, you can write to the closing admin, or try WP:DRV.-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 00:27, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
There is an overwhelming amount of users that do not realize that #wikipedia-en-help isn't a general reference channel. This extra step helps to insure that channel operates to it's greatest ability. John Reaves 01:59, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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OK, I tried, but failed.
I created {{ Infobox NCAA team season/namesandbox}}, edited it, and it seems to work in there.
See third to last example where "2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears women's basketball team" becomes "2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball team"
That results should be passed to {{ Infobox NCAA team season/teamsandbox}}
However, in that template the example (second from bottom) generates: 2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears women's basketball team
Which means the new testcase in {{ Infobox NCAA team season/testcases}} do not work.
What am I missing?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:23, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Looks like it's me and you for the December backlog drive. Let's kick some ass and completely eliminate the backlog. Hah. (Hope you're well! Miss harassing you on the IRC but I had to step away. Everytime I logged on to ask a question I ended up hanging around for hours. Way too much fun over there.) Julie JSFarman ( talk) 23:57, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I was rather surprised to see your comment at Bugzilla. My first impression was that it appeared to be an attempt to rdebate the the community's consensus. The creation has been requested by the Foundation, fortunately, because that is the highest authority. Bugzilla can be a finiky place, the techs can somtimes be a law unto themselves, so we don't really want to give them any more grounds other than the resistance they are showing already, to delay the implementation that has been agreed for, and in name, by the en.Wiki community. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:40, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Names of this sort do not necessarily have to be meaningful 'W" and "WT" space are not intuitive, and we know what they mean because we use them so much--doing it over, we might what to call it Project space. Similarly "TimedText" space maybe necessary for technical reasons, but nobody could say it's the only possible name. Along the same lines, I think "Book"space is confusingly similar to another WP project, but we're using it, so we might as well do so. And I never did understand why we need a special Portal space, instead of accommodating it in either article space or WP space. The thingis, none of this matters. What matters is to have a workspace of some sort--we know we need it can can use it for AfC--se'll see what else later.
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can you add one of those like yours in my user page? I am not able to follow the toolserver link. Thanks! Miss Bono [zootalk] 14:12, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
/* [[User talk:Technical_13/edit counter]] */
var editPage = 'Edit count';
var tableClass = 'collapsible collapsed';
var tableStyle = 'width: 268px;';
var tableTopStyle = 'background: #F0F;';
mw.loader.load( 'https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Technical_13/Scripts/Edit_counter.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );
I am using Vector skin Miss Bono [hello, hello!] 12:10, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Please restore the production_website_title parameter immediately. There was no consensus whatsoever to remove it. Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 20:28, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Well, ping? -- TMg 23:10, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about this - I thought that you had simply copied the last part of my comment and signed it as your own, seeing as they were almost identical. You're right that I should have linked to CAT:ETP rather than CAT:EP though. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
You forgot to sign it. Automatic Strikeout ( ₵) 01:09, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
{{ help me}} I have one account and do not understand wht there will be an investigation.
Please help
Please help!
I have had only one account and the same account. On September 19, 2012 I left Indiana University Kokomo. At Indiana University two employees of IT at Indiana University Kokomo, IT, also worked on the Wikipedia page. They are: Kathy Kennedy and Jonathan Grant.
The article is balanced, clean and factual. It is set according to all rules and process. I am at a loss what the issue is.
Thank you! /info/en/?search=Michael_Harris_%28academic%29 ( Tnoova ( talk) 03:16, 29 November 2013 (UTC))
I noticed that you have signed up for the drive. Please note that the AFCBuddy script does not appear to be functioning at this time. Therefore, user Backlog Elimination Drive log pages will need to be manually updated. Northamerica1000 (talk) 04:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for the invite to the Teahouse! I'm sure it will come in handy Almaionescu ( talk) 21:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC) |
See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 December 7#Template:Aranda and others. 213.144.224.123 ( talk) 22:28, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
No names here to prevent angry crosstalk.
I'm a little confused to be honest by the whole thing, and a little scared. Before you weighed in I thought I had put this to bed, I had made a positive stand for good on wikipedia and was going to rest. I understood that before taking things to incident boards, you had to at least try and resolve things amicably, which is what I thought I did.
I thought someone had been treated badly in a thread, I put two messages, one encouraging one to the person who had made a minor faux pas in over reacting to sharp language, and one trying to persuade the other to try and be nicer in the future.
I wrote a message trying to persuade the person who caused the incident to think about how they had acted. I didn't be rude and just say "You did this wrong- don't do it again" as some at WP:AfC would (and have on my talk page)- I took time to explain my perspective. And to me that is politeness. I also put things in the perspective of my background, and how I would feel if I was misunderstood- empaphising with the person I wrote to. This is compassionate. I also coached my criticism in muted terms, rather than bold harsh ones. This again is a kind of politemess I hope to see more of in wikipedia. I started with "hi"- friendliness.
There was one bit though where I was comparing the injured parties slight over reaction to the other parties major over reaction in a kind of compare and contrast- these are similar. Describing being intollerant of a minor faux pas while expecting people to tollerate a major one as hypocricy was not something I was pleased of, but I couldn't think of any other way of putting it. But at the end of a message where such thought had put in, thinking the wholes as rude over just that is a little... odd.
It's all very kafkaesque and frightening now. Rankersbo ( talk) 06:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
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For [1]. The IP address was complaining that their submission had not been accepted, not that they were attempting to submit. Hasteur ( talk) 18:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
Technical 13,
I was trying to empty out
Category:Disambiguation categories that are supposed to be empty and there is one category,
Category:WikiProject participants, that contains three of your user pages. I looked at the Edit function on those pages to see if it was some code/text I could alter so that they would not be assigned to this category but no luck. This isn't urgent but if you could fix this, I could cross this one off my list. ;-)
Liz
Read!
Talk!
03:50, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Just FYI. In many cases, the Lua Convert can hande 3-number conversions, except when parameter 2 is free-form text (not simple "-" or "to" or "by"):
Hence, all those Convert/3, Convert/flip3, Convert/4 (etc.) must remain as wp:wrapper templates, providing extra options which the basic {convert} cannot handle. Many recent Lua Convert problems involve numeric precision:
The Lua has the old rounding, where 1 extra metre increases 5000 m by 407 feet(!) as "16,407 ft" and several users, over the years, have complained, and so it had been fixed now, in the markup Convert. Some tiny amounts show no difference in Lua:
Here, the tiny difference between 800.4–800.5 has been lost in the Lua version, which shows both results as the same, "363.1–363.1 kg". I recommended the default precision be fixed before the Lua transition runs the 2-week reformatting of all 554,000 articles which would undo the corrected precision. However, people wanted to "install Lua" and so I offered Template:Convert/hybrid to allow 10% Lua but keep the improved precision in dash-range numbers. Also, consider the current auto-correction of some units, by markup-based Convert:
Auto-correction can even change from weight to volume-weight of water:
People also requested to convert barrels into tons of oil, so this barrels-to-tons auto-correction was added as well, but will be lost in the Lua version. However, all year, it has been nonstop "Lua Convert" and losing all markup-based Convert improvements for the year was a predictable outcome. It's no big deal, as we saw the warning signs all year long. Happy New Year! - Wikid77 ( talk) 02:19, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
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I copied one of your userboxen and modified it here: User:Timtrent/Userboxen/Not_Dude and I suspect a man of your calibre can tweak it to make it prettier. Please feel free to play, but please explain what you have done on the box's talk page Fiddle Faddle 17:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, if both {{{4}}}
and {{{5}}}
are present (although having 5 without 4 is difficult!), then 3, 4, 5 become the R G B values (0-255) of an RGB triplet that makes the bar colour. Hope that helps. --
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Hi Technical 13! I've very intrigued by the possibility of substituting templates inside references. I'm working on resolving
Category:CS1 errors: dates, including parameters such as |date={{Start date|2009|3|5}}
. When I try to subst it, it either doesn't work or generates a bunch of code inside the reference.
After trying your exact example with success, I built User:GoingBatty/Subst test to do some testing. I figured if I could get Reference 1 to work, then I could expand it to Reference 2 and beyond. For Reference 1, I tried:
<ref name="name goes here">{{Start date(.*?)}}</ref>
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{subst:Start date$1}}|name="name goes here"}}
When I tried that, I got this mess. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
<ref name="name goes bere">\{\{Start date(.*?)\}\}</ref>
and that you realize if you're subst:ing a template, everything in the template needs to be subst:ed as well.
Technical 13 (
talk)
23:45, 21 December 2013 (UTC)<ref>...</ref>
you're not subst:ing the contents of the template. So, the problem you are facing is that {{
Start date}} isn't intended to be subst:ed. To reach your ultimate goal of turning <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate={{Start date|2009|3|5}}}}</ref>
into <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate=03-05-2009}}</ref>
(if I understand it correctly) you will need to:<ref>\{\{cite web(.*?)(\|accessdate=\{\{Start date\|([\d]{4})\|([\d]{1,2})\|([\d]{1,2})\}\})(.*?)\}\}</ref>
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{cite web$1|accessdate={{subst:#time:j F Y|$4-$5-$3}}{{subst:#if:$7|$7}}}}}}
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate={{Start date|2009|3|5}}}}</ref>
into {{subst:#tag:ref|{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate={{subst:#time:j F Y|3-5-2009}}{{subst:#if:|}}}}}}
which will parse out as
[1]|accessdate=
is the first parameter and it will throw the above off a little because $1 won't exist. Unfortunately, AWB doesn't offer a $0 which would return the number of parameters and make this easy to fix. I believe the $0 has been requested before, and I'm not sure what happened to that. For some further reading to understand why these things work as they do, you might be interested in
mw:Help:Extension:ParserFuntions,
mw:Manual:Substitution, and
mw:Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Substitution and embedded parser functions
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talk)
02:32, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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Tech 13, please look at my sandbox – I think this is what the editor at Template talk:Country data Selangor is talking about, to add the pre 1965 flag as a variant. The problem is either my eyes or something else, but I cannot get the variant flag icon at the bottom of the documentation to appear in the lighter yellow of the older flag. What am I doing wrong? – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 04:38, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I got it. The icon was not appearing correctly because it isn't actually created until the variant is added to the live template. Happy Holidays and New Year, too, Technical 13! Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 06:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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I have a crazy thought, involving wp:cp
In short, it is badly backlogged, and clearing it out is boring.
What I would like to do is to arm-twist a few editors (maybe 100) to agree to a very small challenge - work on one a week. We get roughly 300 new items a month, so 100 doing one a week would clear the backlog (counting on some to do more, and some not to deliver)
Why am I telling you this?
Because I would like a nice, easy progress chart. One that lets editor know who is meeting this low commitment, and who is not.
Here's a crude mockup: User:Sphilbrick/Copyright_Progress_table What I do not want is for editors to have to update the chart themselves, so I am looking for your expertise. My hope is that there is a way to have an edit to the project page automatically update the progress chart.
Here's how I imagine it working, but you may have better ideas.
An editor reviewing an item will, at some time, use one of the templates in here to identify the results. Most indicate the type of positive resolution, some are not, I can identify the list of those qualifying. My hope is that the template, for example {{ CPC}} could be modified so that it also updates the table. However, as I think about this, I realized the template is substituted, tso that may be a challenge.
I also have some thoughts about mass notification of results, on a monthly basis, but I am now concerned this isn't as easy as I thought, so I'll stop for the moment and see what you think.
I have not run this by our copyright expert yet, I want a sense of feasibility first. -- SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:14, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
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Technical 13 (
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16:00, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
To address this, I'm looking for a way to pass a note through to the speedy deletion templates (I suppose through {{ db-meta}}, but it could be through the templates themselves (e.g. [{{ db-a1}}; {{ db-a3}}, {{ db-empty}}; {{ db-a7}}, {{ db-person}}, {{ db-band}}, {{ db-club}}, {{ db-inc}}, {{ db-web}}, {{ db-animal}}, {{ db-event}}]) that would:
{{CREATETIMESTAMP}}
would return. I'll look into the
Lua option first and see what I can do. If I can get that information, then I can easily add it to the template to only show a note to administrators similar to what I did to improve administrators awareness of if {{
Db-g13}}s were compliant with the six month requirement.
Technical 13 (
talk)
11:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC){{{cts}}}
(Creation TimeStamp) parameter to {{
Db-a1}} and {{
Db-a3}} to start. I'm unsure at this time of which of the more specific db- templates should have such a thing. Take a look at those two and get back to me with a full list of templates you want it added to and any wording changes and I'll implement it for you. :)
Technical 13 (
talk)
14:20, 7 October 2013 (UTC)notes=
parameter when a Twinkle user places the template, but when I preview manually to see what it might look like/where in he template it will appear, it simply doesn't display, e.g., when I preview somewhere {{db-a1|notes=test test test test}} that "note" is not visible. So I can only imagine you still need to do some further coding to make the notes parameter display? Anyway, I will have to think about language for A7 (and its progeny) as it's different than A1 and A3. As to them, AFAICT the only other place where the language should be added is {{
db-empty}}. All other templates I've looked at, like db-nocontent, are just redirects to db-a1 or db-a3.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
12:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
As for where to add this, like db-empty, which passes through A3, if any one the following list pass through A7, then they wouldn't need it (right?), but the list where it should be displayed is: {{ a7}} obviously, and {{ db-person}}, {{ db-band}}, {{ db-club}}, {{ db-inc}}, {{ db-web}}, {{ db-animal}} and {{ db-event}}. Thanks!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 22:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)|notes={{#ifexpr:({{#time:U}}-{{#time:U|{{{cts|1-1-1970}}}}}) <= 900|'''Note''': This article was created less than 15 minutes ago and so the creator may still be adding content. Please consider patrolling pages from the back of the unpatrolled backlog.
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For all your work on sorting out templates, tabs, scripts and who knows what else for WP:WPAFC :) -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 07:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC) |
The ones you put in half jest, half irony, on my talk page now seem to exist! Someone else added one, so I added the others. Fiddle Faddle 22:35, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
I like the formatting idea you did for the arrows, but where you put it (or perhaps how it was coded), the image links no longer work. Could you take a moment to see? — (っ◔◡◔)っ Ross Hill 23:07, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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For this. :) -- t numbermaniac c 00:37, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
In my sandbox, I passed parameter value "foo" to parameter "team", and it produces "foo women's basketball"
However, if I enter "foo Lady", it generates "foo Lady basketball" i.e dropping "women". See User:Sphilbrick/sandbox3 This is desirable, but I don't understand how it happens.
The goal is to make it work for 2013–14 Southern Utah T–Birds basketball team, where the team name indicates the gender, and the infobox link should be:
not
I looked at the code, but I'm not seeing it. -- SPhilbrick (Talk) 00:34, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
If you wouldn't mind taking a look at my question (located at the bottom of my talk page) when you get a chance ... no rush whatsoever, I would appreciate it. Go Phightins ! 02:37, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw that you just received the protected template editor userright. Are there any full protected templates that you'd like to edit? Let me know and I'll downgrade the protection so you can do so. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 15:04, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, hope all is well at your end. This has reference to my article ALLEN Career Institute. I am still waiting for the review. It been more than a month now and no answer from User:NawlinWiki also. I have also updated the content as per the feedback. Please help and guide me.
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Thanks for helping out Daomeideren (and cool sandbox template, by the way), but nevertheless... Yunshui 雲 水 00:04, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
And that's why every RfC (well, almost) degenerates into a free-for-all. You can tell them what it's about and what it's not about but there are always some who come to grind an axe or two, take snipes at people they don't like, ad just generally go right off topic: many just don't bother to read the preamble and proposal properly, very few read through the discussion and that's why they don't know what's going on. I dropped myself in the deep end some years ago and saved a huge discussion on a new policy from dying out in spite of literally hundreds of participants, in the end after most of the louder ones had left the party, a very small group of us went into a backroom and tied it up neatly without any controversies. Problem is, you offer them something they actually want and a place to discuss it, but they come up with arguments why they don't want it. I fully sympathise with your frustration. If you use popups, just drag your mouse down the signatures. Oh well... Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Donald! Wishing you a very happy Halloween :-) TheGeneralUser (talk) 23:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
I have looked at both your userpage and you edit history. I think you are are a fantastic contributor, I have already began analyzing the mediawiki source code. But the truth is, I am just getting started. Yet I want to aid in the technical aspects of wikipedia. I am experienced in PHP, javascript and HTML. TechnicalEngineerA3 ( talk) 11:40, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Tell me about all the template perimeters, as well as some of the things you help with. Also, I would like to know about all those 'bots' that circulate Wikipedia. TechnicalEngineerA3 ( talk) 12:03, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the template making guide. TechnicalEngineerA3 ( talk) 16:11, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
OK I thought I could do this myself, but I'm nervous because I'm not fully following the template. There's a lot of hidden text, which is good because it helps explain, but the it wraps by line is confusing. I guess the template does a sequence of search and replaces, working from the outside in.
The goal is make make sure that 2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball team shows:
rather than
in the info box.
I think this means I need to add a row containing:
(.* Central Arkansas Sugar Bears.*) women's|%1|plain=false
as well as another copy of the Invoke string replace, but I am worried I will screw it up.
Can I persuade you to make the change for me?
The template is {{ Template:Infobox NCAA team season/name}} -- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:10, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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02:55, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Technical 13. The decision of merging the template Infobox criminal with Infobox murderer was taken after a discussion at TfD which had been open for over a week without getting much attention. As you can read in the TfD page, a sandbox page and relative test cases had been created prior to the nomination. If you think the decision to close the discussion as merge was mistaken, you can write to the closing admin, or try WP:DRV.-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 00:27, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
There is an overwhelming amount of users that do not realize that #wikipedia-en-help isn't a general reference channel. This extra step helps to insure that channel operates to it's greatest ability. John Reaves 01:59, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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OK, I tried, but failed.
I created {{ Infobox NCAA team season/namesandbox}}, edited it, and it seems to work in there.
See third to last example where "2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears women's basketball team" becomes "2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball team"
That results should be passed to {{ Infobox NCAA team season/teamsandbox}}
However, in that template the example (second from bottom) generates: 2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears women's basketball team
Which means the new testcase in {{ Infobox NCAA team season/testcases}} do not work.
What am I missing?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:23, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Looks like it's me and you for the December backlog drive. Let's kick some ass and completely eliminate the backlog. Hah. (Hope you're well! Miss harassing you on the IRC but I had to step away. Everytime I logged on to ask a question I ended up hanging around for hours. Way too much fun over there.) Julie JSFarman ( talk) 23:57, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I was rather surprised to see your comment at Bugzilla. My first impression was that it appeared to be an attempt to rdebate the the community's consensus. The creation has been requested by the Foundation, fortunately, because that is the highest authority. Bugzilla can be a finiky place, the techs can somtimes be a law unto themselves, so we don't really want to give them any more grounds other than the resistance they are showing already, to delay the implementation that has been agreed for, and in name, by the en.Wiki community. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:40, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Names of this sort do not necessarily have to be meaningful 'W" and "WT" space are not intuitive, and we know what they mean because we use them so much--doing it over, we might what to call it Project space. Similarly "TimedText" space maybe necessary for technical reasons, but nobody could say it's the only possible name. Along the same lines, I think "Book"space is confusingly similar to another WP project, but we're using it, so we might as well do so. And I never did understand why we need a special Portal space, instead of accommodating it in either article space or WP space. The thingis, none of this matters. What matters is to have a workspace of some sort--we know we need it can can use it for AfC--se'll see what else later.
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can you add one of those like yours in my user page? I am not able to follow the toolserver link. Thanks! Miss Bono [zootalk] 14:12, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
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var editPage = 'Edit count';
var tableClass = 'collapsible collapsed';
var tableStyle = 'width: 268px;';
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mw.loader.load( 'https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Technical_13/Scripts/Edit_counter.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );
I am using Vector skin Miss Bono [hello, hello!] 12:10, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Please restore the production_website_title parameter immediately. There was no consensus whatsoever to remove it. Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 20:28, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Well, ping? -- TMg 23:10, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about this - I thought that you had simply copied the last part of my comment and signed it as your own, seeing as they were almost identical. You're right that I should have linked to CAT:ETP rather than CAT:EP though. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
You forgot to sign it. Automatic Strikeout ( ₵) 01:09, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
{{ help me}} I have one account and do not understand wht there will be an investigation.
Please help
Please help!
I have had only one account and the same account. On September 19, 2012 I left Indiana University Kokomo. At Indiana University two employees of IT at Indiana University Kokomo, IT, also worked on the Wikipedia page. They are: Kathy Kennedy and Jonathan Grant.
The article is balanced, clean and factual. It is set according to all rules and process. I am at a loss what the issue is.
Thank you! /info/en/?search=Michael_Harris_%28academic%29 ( Tnoova ( talk) 03:16, 29 November 2013 (UTC))
I noticed that you have signed up for the drive. Please note that the AFCBuddy script does not appear to be functioning at this time. Therefore, user Backlog Elimination Drive log pages will need to be manually updated. Northamerica1000 (talk) 04:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 December 7#Template:Aranda and others. 213.144.224.123 ( talk) 22:28, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
No names here to prevent angry crosstalk.
I'm a little confused to be honest by the whole thing, and a little scared. Before you weighed in I thought I had put this to bed, I had made a positive stand for good on wikipedia and was going to rest. I understood that before taking things to incident boards, you had to at least try and resolve things amicably, which is what I thought I did.
I thought someone had been treated badly in a thread, I put two messages, one encouraging one to the person who had made a minor faux pas in over reacting to sharp language, and one trying to persuade the other to try and be nicer in the future.
I wrote a message trying to persuade the person who caused the incident to think about how they had acted. I didn't be rude and just say "You did this wrong- don't do it again" as some at WP:AfC would (and have on my talk page)- I took time to explain my perspective. And to me that is politeness. I also put things in the perspective of my background, and how I would feel if I was misunderstood- empaphising with the person I wrote to. This is compassionate. I also coached my criticism in muted terms, rather than bold harsh ones. This again is a kind of politemess I hope to see more of in wikipedia. I started with "hi"- friendliness.
There was one bit though where I was comparing the injured parties slight over reaction to the other parties major over reaction in a kind of compare and contrast- these are similar. Describing being intollerant of a minor faux pas while expecting people to tollerate a major one as hypocricy was not something I was pleased of, but I couldn't think of any other way of putting it. But at the end of a message where such thought had put in, thinking the wholes as rude over just that is a little... odd.
It's all very kafkaesque and frightening now. Rankersbo ( talk) 06:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
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For [1]. The IP address was complaining that their submission had not been accepted, not that they were attempting to submit. Hasteur ( talk) 18:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
Technical 13,
I was trying to empty out
Category:Disambiguation categories that are supposed to be empty and there is one category,
Category:WikiProject participants, that contains three of your user pages. I looked at the Edit function on those pages to see if it was some code/text I could alter so that they would not be assigned to this category but no luck. This isn't urgent but if you could fix this, I could cross this one off my list. ;-)
Liz
Read!
Talk!
03:50, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Just FYI. In many cases, the Lua Convert can hande 3-number conversions, except when parameter 2 is free-form text (not simple "-" or "to" or "by"):
Hence, all those Convert/3, Convert/flip3, Convert/4 (etc.) must remain as wp:wrapper templates, providing extra options which the basic {convert} cannot handle. Many recent Lua Convert problems involve numeric precision:
The Lua has the old rounding, where 1 extra metre increases 5000 m by 407 feet(!) as "16,407 ft" and several users, over the years, have complained, and so it had been fixed now, in the markup Convert. Some tiny amounts show no difference in Lua:
Here, the tiny difference between 800.4–800.5 has been lost in the Lua version, which shows both results as the same, "363.1–363.1 kg". I recommended the default precision be fixed before the Lua transition runs the 2-week reformatting of all 554,000 articles which would undo the corrected precision. However, people wanted to "install Lua" and so I offered Template:Convert/hybrid to allow 10% Lua but keep the improved precision in dash-range numbers. Also, consider the current auto-correction of some units, by markup-based Convert:
Auto-correction can even change from weight to volume-weight of water:
People also requested to convert barrels into tons of oil, so this barrels-to-tons auto-correction was added as well, but will be lost in the Lua version. However, all year, it has been nonstop "Lua Convert" and losing all markup-based Convert improvements for the year was a predictable outcome. It's no big deal, as we saw the warning signs all year long. Happy New Year! - Wikid77 ( talk) 02:19, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
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I copied one of your userboxen and modified it here: User:Timtrent/Userboxen/Not_Dude and I suspect a man of your calibre can tweak it to make it prettier. Please feel free to play, but please explain what you have done on the box's talk page Fiddle Faddle 17:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, if both {{{4}}}
and {{{5}}}
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Hi Technical 13! I've very intrigued by the possibility of substituting templates inside references. I'm working on resolving
Category:CS1 errors: dates, including parameters such as |date={{Start date|2009|3|5}}
. When I try to subst it, it either doesn't work or generates a bunch of code inside the reference.
After trying your exact example with success, I built User:GoingBatty/Subst test to do some testing. I figured if I could get Reference 1 to work, then I could expand it to Reference 2 and beyond. For Reference 1, I tried:
<ref name="name goes here">{{Start date(.*?)}}</ref>
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{subst:Start date$1}}|name="name goes here"}}
When I tried that, I got this mess. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
<ref name="name goes bere">\{\{Start date(.*?)\}\}</ref>
and that you realize if you're subst:ing a template, everything in the template needs to be subst:ed as well.
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23:45, 21 December 2013 (UTC)<ref>...</ref>
you're not subst:ing the contents of the template. So, the problem you are facing is that {{
Start date}} isn't intended to be subst:ed. To reach your ultimate goal of turning <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate={{Start date|2009|3|5}}}}</ref>
into <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate=03-05-2009}}</ref>
(if I understand it correctly) you will need to:<ref>\{\{cite web(.*?)(\|accessdate=\{\{Start date\|([\d]{4})\|([\d]{1,2})\|([\d]{1,2})\}\})(.*?)\}\}</ref>
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{cite web$1|accessdate={{subst:#time:j F Y|$4-$5-$3}}{{subst:#if:$7|$7}}}}}}
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate={{Start date|2009|3|5}}}}</ref>
into {{subst:#tag:ref|{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com|title=Remove start date template|accessdate={{subst:#time:j F Y|3-5-2009}}{{subst:#if:|}}}}}}
which will parse out as
[1]|accessdate=
is the first parameter and it will throw the above off a little because $1 won't exist. Unfortunately, AWB doesn't offer a $0 which would return the number of parameters and make this easy to fix. I believe the $0 has been requested before, and I'm not sure what happened to that. For some further reading to understand why these things work as they do, you might be interested in
mw:Help:Extension:ParserFuntions,
mw:Manual:Substitution, and
mw:Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Substitution and embedded parser functions
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Tech 13, please look at my sandbox – I think this is what the editor at Template talk:Country data Selangor is talking about, to add the pre 1965 flag as a variant. The problem is either my eyes or something else, but I cannot get the variant flag icon at the bottom of the documentation to appear in the lighter yellow of the older flag. What am I doing wrong? – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 04:38, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I got it. The icon was not appearing correctly because it isn't actually created until the variant is added to the live template. Happy Holidays and New Year, too, Technical 13! Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 06:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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