I tried inserting an image in my talk page, it doesn't want to work. Here's the code, I can't find anything wrong with it:
I have looked for one and can't find it.
Every day I get news, history and general knowledge from the wp main page. Would love to have all the factual articles (not meta content) available in an RSS feed.
Apologies if it already exists and I've missed it.
Thanks very much for the response, Chinasaur. Anything "official" afoot in this area?
God. EVERY time I try to nominate something for deletion I manage to screw it up, and I DONT understand why because I follow the instructions to a t. I have no idea how to fix my recent nominations (all Spongebob related.) Could someone go there and fix the, and then leave me a message to tell me what I did wrong? Pacian 18:55, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Can a case for fair use be made for the use of portfolio mugshots of an actor? Could I simply use a still from a movie that's spread amongst the press? Or should I simply wait for a reply from the actor in question? I'd like the pic to be added fairly quickly, but I don't want to break copyright laws. Any comments welcome. Mgm| (talk) 22:42, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)
All photographs are under copyright, yes even publicity stills. The copyright holder should be contacted and his permission obtained before submitting to Wikipedia. -- Minority Report (entropy rim riot) 21:59, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
How do you not show links within articles? The whole page is filled with links and they are distracting.
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I created an article last night: Toasty. I'd like to add this page to Category:Computer and video game terminology, because that is a term that has been used since the 1990's. But I don't know where to start or request such a thing.
What should I do?
Why do I occasionally get this message (look between lines of dashes):
User talk:198.81.26.46 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has now been removed. Please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing material in articles will normally be removed quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Hadal 03:20, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
I have done nothing on this site, except to find myself constantly browsing around on it with admiration! Some weeks ago, I did start one of the "learn to edit" pages, but did nothing with it.
At one point in my session today, all the characters on each page started displaying as small squares. I reloaded the site, and the problem stopped.
I am not trying to hurt the site, really. I can only be accused of spending too much time while I should be doing laundry!!
I created Estate Agent (United Kingdom) from a sketchy page on deadpages called Estate agents. As you can see I inadvertently capped the second word. I tried moving it to a page with the capping fixed but to no avail. Is there a simple way to do this (ie am I being thick) or would someone be kind enough to do the honours? Icundell 01:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a new user and haven't yet mastered all the policies but found this new page Tammy Imre which seems to concern a ongoing court-case and is quite possibly prejudicial. Not especially notable, I wouldn't have thought (althought it's sad to think that's the case...) Thought the safest thing might be to flag it up and move on. Cheers, Mattley 13:26, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I don't usually do images, but I have a drawing I want to upload. The drawing is originally from a book published in Austria in 1918. The copyright should have expired by now, right? Isomorphic 15:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What, if any, is the one true way to link to categories that do not properly fall within the scope of a category, but I consider it rather likely that people will want (ie. wrong from the database POV, right from the navigational concenience POV)?
Example: In Category:Proof_theory, I'd quite like something along the lines of:
Possibly you wish to find material from one of the indirectly related categories: Category : Heuristic | Proofs
to appear just between the catmore template and the main listing of category contents ---- Charles Stewart 09:24, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I've managed to screw up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexology_chart The links to Sciatic and Appendix both reference the edit page, not the actual Wiki entry. Is this some bug related to the use of tables, or is there something else I'm missing?
Found the problem - The actual wiki entry didn't exist.
I tried to create a category Category:Archives in the United Kingdom. If you follow it, it lists the articles, but also says that the category doesn't exist. I couldn't locate what I've done wrong at Wikipedia:Categorization. Mattley 11:59, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, that link won't work. I'm more confused than ever now. But you can get there via Modern Records Centre, which is in the phantom category. Mattley 12:09, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I started an Article about my project New Millennium Orchestra, but I forgot to log in. Can I make it to my username instead of showing my IP?
Thanks!
Take a look at George W. Bush. User:Patriotic is making edits that people widely disagree with, and I've been trying to explain NPOV to both him and myself. My question is not about this specific case, but more general: is there any place I can go to to ask people to help? It's nice that Patriotic and I are talking, but one of us will go away sooner or later, and I'd like to keep the fire burning (and not have everything degenerate into edit wars again). This is the first time I'm in a dispute like this, so pointers are appreciated. JRM 17:28, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
Hi, sometime in the last few months, Wikipedia got a wonderful new look/format, with a nice modern sans-serif font, and with the very useful tabs along the top edge of the article, etc. (was this the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.3?) Anyway, Wikipedia stays "modern" only while I'm anonymous; when I login, Wikipedia reverts to the old/less-attractive format, with the Times/NewRoman font (?) etc. - ugh! I have searched around the helpdesk, FAQ, etc., to no avail. Oh yeah, this may be significant: I use the Opera browser. Help? Harris7 19:44, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I see there is a section in the help desk already on creating a chemical structural formula using ASCII art, but in a lot of the articles on various chemical groups people have used pictures, which look as if they have been created by a program. Is there a program somewhere that does this, or are these just pictures that have been nabbed from elsewhere?
Akchizar 04:47, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I was considering suggesting an article for featured status, and wondered if the presence of links to as yet non-existent articles is considered a no-no in featured articles. Apologies if this is not the right place for this question, but the "Featured article candidates" didn't seem the place for a question about general principles.
Harry 13:34, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
In wikicode tables (the whole {|, |-, |} thing), is there any way to (1) control the width of the columns and (2) to specify the horizontal alignment of the contents of certain data cells? — Matt 18:02, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'd like some advice about sorting out the Kinnaur copyvio. I've checked and sufficient amounts of the article are copied word for word that I believe that it's a coypvio. At the same time, those who wrote it are not being cooperative (they delete requests for clarification from their talk pages e.g. [1]) , so I can't expect their help.
The biggest problem is that there is a reasonable amount of original material, but that the edit which introduced the first copyright violation is quite old [2]. I'm a bit unhappy to revert to the previous version to that. I may try going through the article and editing out apparently copyright material, but without cooperation it is very difficult to tell what is what.
Any suggestions?? Mozzerati 20:27, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)
This is about the most confusing site I've been on. I simply want to vote against deleting the Election 2004 discrepancies article but there is absolutely no clue as to how to do that, as invited at the top of the page. It is a valuable collection of links and information and should be retained. I guess one must be a computer programmer to post on this site.
I've run across an article in Wikipedia that reads like it was written by a marketing hack for a Toronto landmark called Dundas Square. Is there a protocol for vetting this kind of information...this is beyond a rewrite. It really does need to be examined and done away with, IMHO.
Is anyone else seeing the message "Breaking news: Walden o'Dell, CIO of Diebold arrested for rigging the Ohio election results! Kerry recognized as the rightful Present Of the United States!" It was at the top of WP:RD but when I went to edit it out it wasn't visible in the source code, then it vanished from the display. Likewise, I found it atop the Wikipedia:Cleanup but it wasn't in the source code. How could something show up on a page and not be in the source code? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:03, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
Twice yesterday, this newbie noticed facts in articles that may or may not be correct. I can't find out the correct version myself, but someone should. What's the correct way of dealing with things like that?
Specifically, the article on Camille Pissarro claims both that he died on 12th November and 13th November. And the article on Ellis Island used to say that it closed on 12th November but now says that it closed on 29th November. In both cases, I tried to find out the correct date from other web pages, but I found both versions were stated about equally commonly.
I tried posting on the articles' talk pages, but I'm not sure if anyone reads those. Is that the correct place, or is there another location where I could usefully post such questions?
Thanks for any guidance. Stephen Turner 14:38, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What do I do with information that is likely to change in the future? For example, in the Chartered financial analyst article, I wanted to mention how many there were, and wrote "as of 2004...". For another example, the article on Barak Obama starts: "Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician, and U.S. Senator-elect from Illinois." which is clearly only applicable for the moment (as he will soon be a senator, not a senator-elect.
Is there some convention for this sort of thing? I did not see anything on point in the style guide page.
I am very new to Wikipedia. I am trying to post some literal code. Parts of it, for example the text:
textureMap ":SubFolder1:SubFolder2:MyTexture.jpg"
Keep getting a blue "?" inserted in the text (treated as a WikiWord). Is there any way to supress this?
Also does Wikipedia have an equivalent to the HTML pre (pre-formated) tag, or is there a way to force the use of raw HTML?
The site I am trying to post to is not the main Wikipedia site, but seems to be some sort of sub branch, and does not use the formating bar. the site is:
http://www.poserpros.com/wiki/PublicWiki/PublicWiki
(Mirrored on
Wikipedia talk:Vandalism in progress)
User:Bobberton and
User:Kuetipo use one of the same IP addresses as I do. This is because we live in the same house, because we are related. I seem to be the only one given to constructive edits, and I am fairly sure the other two are eventually going to get banned based on my conversations with them IRL. When they do get banned, I do not want to go with them, so I would like to know if there is any way to distance myself from them so that the IP we share is not banned, or that I am in some way still able to access the Wiki. Thank you!
Suntiger 23:59, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
As a newly registered user, how should I create a user page? If I just click on edit, whilst at my account it says on the edit page:
Please do not create an article to promote yourself, a website, a product, or a business (see Wikipedia:Policy).
So this cannot be right, becasue I am not allowed to create an article about myself on that page. So is there some special way of setting up these user pages? And when it is set up, how do I get it to appear upon the structured lists (i.e. alphabetical, country) - is this a separate edit of some kind, or are they linked in some way? Zylek (sig added by User:Ambarish)
Per Template talk:Wikipedialang#Sanskrit, I'd like to change the text that appears for the interlanguage link to the Sanskrit wikipedia from संस्कृत to संस्कृतम्. I've changed the text on Template:Wikipedialang, but I suspect something more needs to be done. What? Ambarish | Talk 00:44, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What is the protcol for handling years mentioned in articles. For example, if I write in a biographical article that someone "... did something in 1965 and did something else in 1966..." is it supposed to be "[1965]" and "[1966]"? I ask only because I notice other contributors putting in the [1965] syntax and I wonder if I am missing something.
Personally, I don't see much value to linking to the 1965 page, but does the link serve any other useful purpose?
Morris 02:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
I know that it would not measure quality, but I was wondering if anyone had any rough measure in terms of either number of articles, or number of megabytes, etc. Morris 02:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
I've updated Did you know and formatted some Main Page sections to wrap text around pictures and make sure the selected anniversaries stay within the table. After I purge the cache it looks fine, but when I went to look at another site and came back, I got the old version. All my changes are still intact when I look at the separate templates, what happened? Mgm| (talk) 10:17, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
An article I wrote is on the votes for deletion and I want to challenge the call for deletion. How do I effectively do that? Please provide specifics, thank you.
The left table on the main page is pushing the right one away. Can someone fix it? I can't find the problem. Mgm| (talk) 12:42, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
I guess it's a problem combining 800x600 screen size with an odd Internet Explorer on a Mac. The right table is no more than 30% of the screen in what I saw. Mgm| (talk) 13:16, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
How do people generate the nice, neat "00:29, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)" style dates? Is there a tag you can use to automate timestamps to discussion entries?
If there isn't, it'd kick ass if there could be one. If there is, I'd have been better able to find it if wikipedia:time, date, and/or timestamp had redirected to mention of it. [User:MrZaius]
( test: 4 July 2024 19:20, 4 July 2024 UTC [ refresh
Hmm... that's weird. the DATE template exists, but not one for the whole unix time? Surely I'm missing something. )
23:48:56, Venezuala/Houston/Chicago/ Evansville-time
There is an article under the category Ethnic Groups: African labeled "Bantu". However, there is no such ethnic group as "Bantu". "Bantu" is a term created by convention among European linguists, and dozens or hundreds of different ethnic groups speak languages categorized as "Bantu" linguistically. The Bantu-speaking peoples collectively share none of the features one might use to define an ethnic group; the ethnic groups who speak Bantu-languages vary widely along all of those features.
This is an issue of definition. It is comparable to writing Ethnic Groups: European: Indo-European. Indo-European isn't an ethnic group, and neither is Bantu.
Yet obviously someone has thought otherwise. I understand the basic idea of NPOV and don't have a problem about working with it within an article.
However, to have something that seems to me to be a factual, definitional error built into the very organizing structure of the information seems to pose a different sort of problem.
Is there a convention for dealing with this sort of difference of perception? How much leeway is there? I assume an article Animals: Fishes: Whales would not be permitted to remain, except perhaps to point out that this is a somewhat common error. Is that assumption correct?
Ndlovu
Help! Someone moved Bosnian language to the less common, more POV name Bosniak language. I tried to undo the move, but moves didn't work the way I though they would. See talk:bosniak language#naming for more info. Can someone help? - Key45 18:19, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have put a number of questions in my User page because they seem too long to foul up your Help desk with. The questions are listed in a part of the user page with a header shown as "November 16, 2004 -- questions to all." I'm really starting to become concerned I should remove my edits and stubs because I'm not sure I'm conforming to some of the standards listed in the citation citing discussion, verifiability, and perfect page discussions, though I'm giving accurate info. Also concerned about the "original research" and "neologisms" discussions I just read. I wonder if someone could answer in my user talk page or if I need to write a long list of questions here? I'd have uploaded a photo or two by now also but I found the copyright discussion too hard to understand. For instance, if I am directly given a photo image by the photographer, who only asks that I put "copyright" and his name on it but approves it to be used, is that not good enough? I don't really understand how to upload images. I don't understand how to make a new page for a historical figure with the same name as a currently existing page also. That issue has slowed me up some. Then if my information is directly from inquiring about birth/date/fact info from the person or their survivors, that might be thought "original research." I'm totally stymied at this point and fear I should remove my entries and edits. I have only been editing and writing about music figures in an area of my specialty in every case, except for a phrase or two related to an entry. Also, should I find a way to put my contributions list links into my user page so someone can go and tell review what I've done and tell me what I need to work on, my flaws? Bebop 20:23, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have discovered today with the Stax entry that someone felt the spacing I added between paragraphs to make them readable was superfluous and removed them. I find it very hard to read articles from a design standpoint if you don't properly space between paragraphs. The only way to do this is to hit Enter three times between paragraphs instead of twice. However, no entries besides the ones I've worked on do this. Therefore, regardless of what I think about the readability issue, I should go back and remove the spacing I added from all entries I've edited, correct? This is also a question in my user page. thanks, Bebop 20:25, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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Is there a way to transfer only certain information from one article to another?
I did a large bibliography section for Boris Vian a while back, and since I had to use different headers for poetry/dramatic works, Wikipedia automatically added a Contents tab right after the article text! I thought it looked very wrong, a CONTENTS tab AFTER the article, covering the bibliography section only.. is there a way to remove it? -- Jashiin 18:11, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Help! I have this image of David Holmes (Dream Job Season 2 Winner) that I want to put into my article on him, but I don't know how to. Here's the link: [3] Mike Hackney 21:38, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's official policy on inappropriate links?
Specifically, there is a page about an actor with an external link leading to his nude pictures. Is this allowed?
Is anyone here really good with Wikimedia templates? We're trying to think of a way to set up the {{delete}} template so that the template can contain the category tag but be sorted in the category list so that it is separate from all of the actual CSDs. I feel like there must be a way to manipulate the pipe trick and template parameters for this effect, but I don't have a lot of experience with templates. Look at my suggestion at Category talk:Candidates for speedy deletion#Cluttering and see if any of those ideas will work. -- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:59, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
I created a page, the Battle of Watling Street. In the search engine, it will only come up when I type in the exact pharse "Battle of Watling Street". Is there anyway to allow another search item to be linking to it? (e.g. by typing "battle of watling street" will bring the page up)
I have just put up an entry for Robert Palmer (author/producer) to help sort out a conflict in other references, such as at the R. L. Burnside entry, to this Palmer being confused with the British singer by the same name. I have a couple of questions. First of all, there seem to be more than one way to do this disambiguating process. Some, as with Al Green (musician), involve making a disambiguation page and specifying what each person was known for. Obviously Al Green, the musician, is much better known than the politician mentioned on that page. Another place in the faqs here discusses just putting a notation on the top of the more famous individual's page and having the search lead straight to the best known individual. For some reason they chose to have a search of "Al Green" lead to a disambiguation page instead of to the musician. So for a search on "Robert Palmer," which method would you suggest be used to disambiguate? I feel it should go to a disambiguation page and have one that is Robert Palmer (British singer) and one that is Robert Palmer (author/producer) because both are famous. Would the problem be that there are too many already-existing links going to the british singer's current Robert Palmer page? I suppose I could try to make a project of looking all those up in a Google wikipedia search and correct them myself if someone was concerned about that. I am worried about how to complete this disambiguation correctly Bebop 23:23, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The most well known of the Martin Luther King clan is Martin Luther King Jr., (the one who delivered the "I have a dream" speach, etc.)
I am thinking of writing a short article on his eldest son, who I believe went by the name "Martin Luther King, III". Should that be the title of the article (with the comma and the roman numeral 3)?
Is there another way to handle this? Some use the custom of dropping the "jr." etc. when only one is alive, but that is probably not wise in this case, as he is so well known.
Hello, i am very new here, actualy just arrived for the first time... Long story short, My first action here was to put a defenition on a link that lead to nowhere (no description or article on the subject) Since i am very new i was wondering how i did and how i could make my article better; so i went to peer reveiw. However, i got hoplessly lost because i cant tell where im supposed to put up a question there (i tried to start a topic but instead i kept being brought e to a editing page of someone else's request) so i left. And i came here and i want to know: how do i navigate the community areas? i can barely tell where the questions stop and the responses begin. Thanks
Tried to edit an entery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_sardine
with my somewhat expanded text (below):
The '''Tanganyika sardine''' is really two species (''Limnothrissa miodon'' and ''Stolothrissa tanganicae'') both of which are small [[planktivorous]] [[pelagic]] [[freshwater]] [[clupeid]] originating from [[Lake Tanganyika]] in East [[Africa]]. They form the major biomass of pelagic fish in Lake Tanganyika, swimming in large schools in the open lake, feeding on copepods and potentially jellyfish. Their major predators are four species of ''Lates'' which are also endemic to Lake Tanganyika, and are related to (but not the same as) the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria. All of these pelagic fish have suffered from overfishing in the last 2 decades. The local names are '''Kapenta''' in Zambia or '''Dagaa'''or '''Ndgaa'''elsewhere. ''Limnothrissa miodon'' has been successfully introduced in both natural and artificial African lakes. Large kapenta fisheries now take place in the [[Kariba Dam]] and [[Cahora Bassa]] in Zambia. {{stub}} [[Categories:Fish, Lake Tanganyika, Fisheries]]
But it said it lost the page and the old ID no longer exists. What now?
How come I can see new pages being added by people with red-linked IDs?
I really.. um... anyway.
I have been told by some people (my writing teacher, parents) that putting up someone else's ideas or information that you learned from that book/person/website is OK, as long as you correctly cite your references/sorces. I have been working by this premice (specificly, leaf leinghts and species distribution- i cannot find species distribution by going by myself out and surveying an extensive area alone- not copyinf and pasting whole articles, just peices of information that i could not obtain elsewhere) Recently i have been told by others that THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Since the site articles on copywright information did not answer my question, i wish to verify trough a third party if either side is correct, because i am getting coflicting reports. Who's correct?
User:Fledgeling00:49, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) P.s In the rowan section it should be noted that its also commonly called Mountain Ash
Most of the facts i am stating would be obvious to an attentive observer, and i cannot go to, say, china, and back to comment on the leingh of the fruit myself. I doubt writers of text encyclopedias would have as well, because they cant go and do everything and be everywhere to the places and things that they list in their books; its simply not feasable. User:Fledgeling,
I've just posted another link on my page User:MacGyverMagic/Articles. However, while it shows in the source code and the history, the new link doesn't show on the page even after I forcefully empty my cache. What am I missing? Mgm| (talk) 08:47, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
?a=b&c=d
; that question mark has to be there, so
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MacGyverMagic/Articles?action=purge, I now realise, does work.Guys,
I tried to find a better forum for this but couldn't.
When you open the following link in IE ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych)
it comes up with
[CLIP START]
Viktor Yanukovych From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
[CLIP END]
where Khia links to ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khia)
But when you open it up in Mozilla it comes up just fine.
what is going on with wikipedia!! lately every time i search something i get an error page. the service is not working properly.
please fix!!!
Hello every sysops at English Wikipedia,
I tried already to ask help from User:Meelar;
please help me to retrieve my password to login to English Wikipedia. I am User:JanJosef, and I am not sure, If I mentioned my e-mail jpospisil at cpoj dot cz
Now I am as User:194.228.18.42 (at my work) and you can check another wikis: Czech - http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Jan Esperanto - http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediisto:Jan Simple - http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JanJosef
(I think, the IP should be the same)
May I receive a new password?
Thank you very much. Jan Pospisil
I suggest you try to see if a developer can help you. Otherwise, set up a new account, using a password similar to one of the other accounts you have so you don't forget, and have your old edits attributed to you. Good luck! Mgm| (talk) 08:59, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
-- 194.228.18.42 16:05, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The occupying force on April 9 allowed more than 70,000 women, children and elderly residents to leave the besieged city, reportedly also allowing males of military age to leave. On April 10, the U.S. military declared a unilateral truce to allow for humanitarian supplies to enter Fallujah. U.S. troops pulled back to the outskirts of the city; local leaders reciprocated the ceasefire, although lower-level intense fighting on both sides continued. An Iraqi mediation team entered the city in an attempt to set up negotiations between the U.S. and local leaders, but as of April 12 had not been successful. The resistance forces capitalized on this 'ceasefire' to conduct the most aggressive counter-offensive of the cordon. Additionally, numerous weapons were found hidden in the humanitarian supply trucks that were attempting to enter the city. [2] ( http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/04/12/rebels_smuggle_supplies_into_iraqi_city/)
the above is from the fallujah article.
The link is broken(the last line) and I did not know how else to tell anyone
I'm putting together a technology plan for an social benefit organization I'm working on starting, and I'm trying to figure out how the wiki tool can best be incorporated into the overall plan. Here are some of my goals and questions:
1. I want to have a series of webpages written by authors representing either their own ideas or those of an organization or group they represent. These authors will be identified, chosen, and recruited by members of the organization. Membership will be open to anyone who lives in the identified community and agrees to uphold certain core values and principles (as outlined by the members themselves) and to strive to behave according to a set of guidelines (also outlined by the members). What defines and unifies the group is that they all live within a defined community (with geographic boundaries) and share an intent to bring about a more just, peaceful and sustainable world in which the desires of the individual are not met at the expense of the needs of others throughout the world. This may not be the best description of the group, but I think you'll get the point.
So my question is this, can a wiki be set-up so that a section of the page which expresses the information and perspective presented by the author (membership elected individual or group of representatives), is protected from edits by others? Then the greater membership could have access to a comment section of the page for continual edits, encouraging the author to continually re-evaluate his/her perspective and integrate their feedback into an ever-evolving article.
The goal here is to take academics and others who've developed a trusted reputation and give them a more public platform upon which to communicate, while also removing them from the "echo chamber" where they only hear from others with the same perspectives. A sort of virtual dialogue amongst those who are either members of the community which is impacted by policies and practices of which they speak or respected experts selected by the community to help formulate solutions which work for the greater good.
2. I don't know how the underlying wiki engine works, as I'm not all that technical, but I'm wondering if the engine could be further developed so that there are tags to represent certain kinds of data. I'm hoping for the ability to have a reference database of books, articles, lectures, videos, etc. that anyone could select from in displaying a list of references or suggested educational materials for a particular purpose. Kind of like a shopping cart of references. Say I'm writing an article about statements made by our president which relate to global warming. I could search the reference database and select those which apply to my article and at the end, I will have an automatically generated list of references. Or perhaps in the body of my article I want to list recommended educational materials grouped by category. I could simply select from the available reference database (adding those not yet there) and have the list sorted according to my specifications (by author, keyword, date, etc). Does this seem possible?
3. How does a non-technical person go about finding someone to help set-up and administer a wiki when there is currently no budget (it's my hope that once the community begins growing, member donations will support some paid staff)?
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. I apologize if this isn't the right place to post these questions; if that's the case, perhaps you can redirect me to the correct place.
Thank you, Jennifer
In the article Cultural and historical background of Jesus, Admin ( User:Theresa knott) took sides by protecting page immediately after revert by Biased editor. Rather than protecting a pre-edit war version (the edit war goes back about 100 or so edits, by the way).
Is this allowed? CheeseDreams 22:33, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Where would one report a Wikipedia mirror which was not citing Wikipedia? http://djpronto.com/ doesn't have any reference to Wikipedia that I can find, but uses Wikipedia content. - Vague | Rant 08:16, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
I'm looking at starting a new category (or finding an existing one!) for chicken breeds. I'd like to make sure my understanding of Wikipedia:Categorization is correct. Here's what I'm planning to do — I'd appreciate any feedback (positive or negative) that anyone would like to offer.
Would Category:Chicken breeds be a suitable category name, based upon the fact that there is already a Category:Dog breeds to do the same task for dogs.
Currently there's Category:Galliformes which includes chickens. It would make sense for the new category to be in a subcategory of Category:Galliformes. Is there a better subcategory instead?
Many thanks,
-- pjf 08:36, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Looks good to me. Noisy | Talk 13:35, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The Wikipedia homepage seems to reliably crash Netscape 4.79. This seems to be due to its use of Javascript on the homepage.
(If I turn off Javascript in Netscape it doesn't crash).
Javascript is *not* a standardized language and I should have a perfect right to use an old browser on an old computer because Netscape 4.79 is faster than modern browsers. Wikipedia should be able to accept and work with that -- they should not be overengineering their web pages to an extent that they crash browsers. Wikipedia is distributing *information*. The distribution of information does *not* require the execution of code on machines visiting a site. I do *not* friggen care about pull down menus or pop-up windows -- I care that the site works reliably in the browser and on the machines that I choose to use.
If anyone could inform me of *who* is responsible for the Wikipedia home page I would appreciate it. Because I want to give them a piece of my mind.
Thank you, Robert Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
What is the meangin of the last link on the history pages? AnyFile 15:46, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I switched Template:New York so it links to Capital District rather than to Capitol District (see Talk:Capitol District). But Whatlinkshere:Capitol_District still lists all the pages that include Template:New York. Why? (It only bothers me because I'm trying to see if anything links to Capitol District, now a redirect page, and I'm getting all these false positive results.) — msh210 18:06, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
No, it's still doing it (from a different machine). Would you mind checking it out, someone, and see if you see it too, please? — msh210 14:47, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, all. — msh210 20:59, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Is there a special page that lists all template pages? I don't want to create new templates that duplicate the function of an existing one. Are there guidelines for what belongs in a template and what does not?
Hello dear Jim,
is the only way for me to get into "Wikepedia" some mention of 42nd Baltic Fraternities` Convention [ which Corps Concordia Rigensis/Hamburg will organize] to become a contributer/editor ?
Greetings from Germany
Jürgen
webmaster@concordia-rigensis.de
I've recently uploaded a picture of a leghorn chicken, and have used it on the Leghorn (chicken) page. Unfortunately, the chicken in question is looking to the right, and I'd much rather mirror the image so that it's looking to the left.
Why do I care which way the chicken is facing? It's got to do with psychology. People naturally want to see what others are looking at. If images of people or animals look interested in the article text, there's a better chance that the reader will be interested as well. If the picture is looking away from the text, then the article overall appears less interesting. Therefore, I want the chicken looking at the text to its left.
I could move the image itself to the left of the page, but then, depending upon the article text and browser settings, one can end up with orphaned words under the image. That can be a little jarring to readers, and something I'd like to avoid.
So, is it possible to automatically mirror or flip an image using regular image mark-up, or will I need to upload a second image (or replace the existing one) with a mirrored copy to suit my purpose?
Many thanks,
-- pjf 07:59, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
In the interests of sanity on my user page, I've borrowed an idea I found on Jimbo Wales' site, and included my picture and list of useful links in a side-bar as a template.
However I notice that any changes to this template don't update immediately, and I cannot find how to make this happen; presumably the template code is cached on the server, because refreshing my browser cache (Ctrl and reload in Mozilla Firefox) does not cause an update, and other items on the main page do update immediately. I usually just wait and hope. I wouldn't know where to look for information on how to fix this. Is there a way I can force the cached template to refresh on the server? -- Minority Report (entropy rim riot) 22:14, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
hi,
how do i vote for/against the deletion of a page
I'd like to do a lot of cleanup in Category:Arts. There doesn't seem to be a lot of activity there. The last decision seems to be here Category_talk:Art#Category:Art. I have some suggestions at Category_talk:Visual arts.
There doesn't seem to be a wiki project about Arts. Is there a place with Arts discussions some place? What would be a good way to proceed? Clubmarx 21:51, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
G'day lovely wikipedians,
At this time Wikipedia does not currently have a page for Silkie, however it does have Silkie (chicken). Unfortunately this means that editors must type an extra "(chicken)" every time they wish to create a link. I'm eager to see this avoided.
I can easily add a redirection page, but what I'd really like to do is rename Silkie (chicken) to Silkie, and have the redirect work the other way around. Are there any conventions that I would be breaking in doing this? Must a chicken breed end in "(chicken)" even if it's not ambiguous?
Note that the only ambiguity I can find is with Selkie, where Silkie is mentioned as an alternate spelling. I've added this to the Silkie (chicken) page, although I'd love someone to check my placement and wording.
Many thanks,
-- pjf 01:25, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I uploaded Image:SelfPorEnhancedLjubljana2004.jpg after spending a long time making sure the photographer understood the copyright issues. But I'm still new to this and it's my first upload.
Big problem -- one is that I forgot to put his name in the jpg title. I certainly don't want to be confused with the person the photo was taken of. How can I move it to say Image:TavFalcoSelfPortraitSlovenia2004.jpg? I would much prefer it be titled that. It is not of interest to either me or wikipedia that it is "enhanced" and "self por" doesn't tell anyone who it's of. I don't know how to delete it and restart and the Move function didn't work. Also, I apparently only activated an "alternate text" option but not a caption and am curious how to format that (see image description page link to article using jpg). Bebop 01:55, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Is it possible to change my username from 'Randyjohnston' to 'Randy Johnston'? Thanks a lot. -- Randyjohnston 04:53, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
How do I make a double brace tag such as {{inuse}} and is there a list of already existing ones?
Is it OK to set up a personal workplace page (User:Name/Workplace) or something like that as a temporary place to work on an article? Hydnjo 01:58, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
How do I link images to an external location? Oven Fresh 21:19, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
perhaps this question was here 1000 times but i didnt found an answer or i am to studpid. But if i want the content of the english encyclopedia on our school server because we dont ve access to the internet what do i ve to do? MYSQl and PHP and Apache2 is installed. How big is the full english version with pictures?
Greets and thx max
Hi,
I would like to edit the description for Capitol College, but the only edit link available lets me change the external link to the college website and nothing else. How can I change the typo in the description? Right now it says that Capitol conifers degrees, which makes me think of pine cones!
User:Viriditas noticed that the WikiProject Protected Areas tables are buggy in Firefox, sometimes overlapping text and causing other problems on the page. Should we be using newer markup or templates? Rmhermen 06:19, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
Would it be okay if I uploaded several album covers and used them in articles about bands? The reason I'm asking is because I've seen people complaining there's a ton of images on Wikipedia that claim to be 'fair use', and a lot of notices about copyright problems etc. And I wouldn't want to add to the problem. The upload dialog has a box that goes "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it under the terms of the Wikipedia copyright." While uploading an album cover that was downloaded a long time ago from some website, I can't really grant that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it, can I? Does that mean I have to find out where I downloaded the image, then contact the webmaster of that particular site, then ask him/her for permission and only upload when the permission is granted? -- Jashiin 10:09, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Several times this week I have been automatically logged out while trying to edit. Why? NB:- If I get logged out while I'm editing this, I'm User:Honeycake. Please either put the reply on my talk page, or notify me on my talk page when the reply is here. Thanks,-- Honeycake (babble were rig) 17:07, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'd like to delete some items from the drop-down search history (empty pages,missspelings, etc) that show up when I start to type into the search box. Can this (editing) be done? Hydnjo 20:45, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
This is more a suggestion for a global feature than a question.
Add a WIKI element for latitude/longitude and range that is searchable, so articles that have a proper 'location' to reference can be found by location.
In other words, historical things have a time and a place. Many articles about things in the world also have a place in the world where those things can be found.
A query based on a GPS receiver could then type in a location and specify a range for the search and find articles about things of interest near that place on the Earth, and conversely when reading an article that contains such a GPS location, could pull up a map with that place/thing centered on it.
So when planning a trip, you could find points of interest on the way, and when doing a school report about something in history or of interest near your school or community, a lot of candidates can be trivially found from a map.
Some additional notation might be added to the location, such as the type of reference (local history, regional history, national history, global history, wildlife habitat, etc.)
It could be something like [gps:N30.24.66:W97.54.19:R1K], and an article might make more than one such reference to cover one or more regions with what are essentially circles on a map. A search engine (such as google) could then spot those references as they're finally formatted.
A java applet with a world map could allow trivial poking in of locations to some sloppy accuracy, while people who are more precise can go out and take a GPS reading and type the data in to the nearest few feet.
Tim Starling is saying he will remove me from the Wikipedia mailing list, but I don't understand on what grounds the basis for this is. Is there anything I can do to get an explaination for his actions please? Thanks, -- Rebroad 21:37, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have been commissioned to write an article about the Passover Seder. My question is based on some beliefs, how is Jesus the fulfillment of the Jewish festivals? Thank you.
I visited Wikipedia in Vietnamese page, it does not display in proper Vietnamese, it has a lots of squares in places of letters . Q: How do I set my PC to view this page in correct Vietnamese ? tro_te@yahoo.com
A friend of mine was asked in a crossword puzzle "Simpsons character starting with "Y" " this had me stumped, could anyone help me with this problem, please email me at v8_freaq@yahoo.com.au, i am unsure if i can get back to this site, my bookmarking deletes sites on me :-(
I edit a library web page and want to put a 'search' field that will link directly to Wikipedia's search. Is there a way to do this?
If this is the incorrect place to ask this, could someone please direct me to the right window?
Thanks in advance.
<form name="wikipedia_search_form" action="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search"> <input name="search" type="text"> <input value="Go" type="submit" name="go"> <input value="Search Wikipedia" type="submit" name="fulltext"> </form>
What does &action=purge do, when appended to the end of a URL? E.g.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Hello,_world&action=purge
— msh210 20:32, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. — msh210 20:57, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
How do you edit your signature that appears with four tildes? Oven Fresh 00:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
A while back I found an image of General Georges Boulanger on the French Wikipdeia (see [5] for image. I added this image to the English language version and then got on with my life. However, I now note that the image on the English language Boulanger page is not the image I added and the page history does not show the one edit to the article since changing the image. Does anyone know what has happened here (eg. someone else has saved an image as Boulanger.jpg which has automatically replaced my image)? -- Roisterer 02:14, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am getting a Proxy Error for PlanetMath. Has it been removed?
I'm posting an article on a newly-created wiki. The owner has just turned on image uploading. However, thumbnails are not working. The image box appears, but instead of a thumbnail inside, there is only a link. The link leads to the proper image. This is the code I'm using: [[Image:test.png|right|thumb|The test image description]]
What does the owner of the wiki need to enable in order to get thumbnails to display properly?
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2004#Disputing_vote_exclusion. I am concerned that some will be unfairly excluded from the current arbiter election. Sam Spade Arb Com election 14:23, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Today, 4 December 2004, 14.44 GMT, the article "Amnesia" on Wikipedia ends with:
It seems this should not be in a Wikipedia article. I wrote about it in the "discussion" side of the page, but should I have deleted the text? Should I have put it in a <!-- and --> tag? Could the Wikipedia documentation be made more clear about what to do in such a case? I did look in the documentation, so if such guidelines are there, they may not be easy enough to find.
Just be bold and delete it! If somebody thinks you were wrong, they will revert it or say so. -- Khendon 14:53, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I added keydrive#The internal components of a typical keydrive as an ordinary section, but really it's an extensive caption for the accompanying diagram. IMHO it would be better as a sidebar to the article, but I'm having trouble figuring out the wiki syntax for doing so. I tried just putting all the text into the image caption, but the parser doesn't seem to like the # marks (which are needed for the numerical expansion of the diagram's labels). I also tried (a bit) html-style DIV tags, but I couldn't get the formatting to work. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.-- John Fader
I'd like to upload a ZIP archive containing the image files and other stuff necessary to make a diagram (which I've already uploaded as a normal JPG). I want to do this so it can be altered by others, including translating or correcting. I tried to upload a ZIP file, but the upload program says ".zip" is not a recommended image file format.. Is there a way to upload a zip, or do I have to do something horrible like rename it to a PNG and tell folks to rename it before use? -- John Fader
I have no clue how to make a phrase appear directly underneath another, I tried newline, and it didn't work. Also I can't seem to link to the sandbox (or other non encyclopedia articles). 69.138.222.255 decided to use my guetsbook as a test page, so I decided to put a link to the sandbox in there.
For example, this is what might appear: sandbox
I tried this as well w:sandbox, which doesn't work either.
Thanks for the help.
So I need to put "wikipedia" in front of the page name to link to non encyclopedia articles?
How can I change my settings so Wikipedia will dispay using my monobook.css stylesheet? Oven Fresh 22:14, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Is there a guide to all the symbols used in
WikiHiero, including what each one represents? --
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ᑐ 04:17, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I have a question pertaining to the OSI-RM and the TCP/IP.
What i intend to know is that how much do these models mirror the real world?
in terms of applying at least one technology such as email,video conferencing,etc; to these models;how does it fit in to the model-if it does?
Hope to learn more from Wikipedia,
Bol
Just out of curiosity, are we allowed to create shortcuts to our Userpage? Like how WP:HD brings you here, could I do something like U:OF? Oven Fresh 16:14, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am battling a "Enhance My Search" nightmare on one of my home computers. It jumps up whenever you open Google or Yahoo searches, and opens a window in front of either. Whether it open in a windows or not, it adds language to your text in any apparent attempt to create links to certain words (IE "work"). None of the programs I have used so far have been able to get rid of it. It really screws up Wikipedia work when editing. Its hard enough to find the right text to use for WP without something being inserted in it. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Any help would be appreciated. Vaoverland 06:36, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Note: due to a technical problem, this entire page was duplicated, and the above section was edited in more than one place; I've folded the two conversations into one above, so apologies if something doesn't make sense/surprises someone. - IMSoP 15:39, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)]
I want to add a link to a Wikipedia entry from keywords in articles on a protal page, similar to what the Trillian3 chat client does. Do you know if there is a service available that provide such short descriptions of Wikipedia entries? Also, what is the best way to find out which keywords are available on Wikipedia, should I download the database to do that?
Other users have sent me emails, but I don't see an option to send emails to any user on their talk pages, even though my email is listed in preferences. Also, can other users (or sysop) see my email or it remains hidden to them? OneGuy 01:04, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
There is no "Printable page" link on any pages when using the default skin (MonoBook). I discovered quite by accident that changing the skin to Classic or CologneBlue in user preferences causes the "Printable page" option to appear in all pages. -- Grnch 23:19, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Why doesn't the default skin have this?
If I belive I'm an important person :P, can I make my own Wiki document page? I have a user page but can I make my own Wiki/MyNameHere page? At this time, 'No page with that title exists' sid007 23:51, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Our food coop wants to start a community written (ala Wiki) clearinghouse of information on the companies that provide foods and services to our coop, and it would be cool to be able to start with the tools you folks have already written. Is the underlying software/PHP scripts and whatever open source and available?
Why is it that when one puts {{R ...}} at the bottom of a redirect page, the R ... message stays there, whereas if one types something at the bottom, it doesn't? Is there a way to rig it so that I can type an explanation (not one of the R ...s) at the bottom of a page, and it'll actually appear there? (I'm thinking in particular of merging the current content of Talk:Handlebody decomposition (minus some of the formatting) into Handlebody decomposition.) — msh210 20:49, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
El Nino is a redirect page. Its text is
#Redirect [[El_Niño]] {{R from misspelling}}
So it is possible (at least under certain circumstances) to include text after a redirect command: one such circumstance is if that text is called by {{ R from misspelling}}. I wish to include text after a redirect command without calling it from Template:R from misspelling or any other template. — msh210 21:50, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
You can't - at least not directly. A link to a foreign-language wikipedia is treated as an external link, and all linked images must reside on the local Wiki server. However, if the image in question is released under the GFDL or is public domain, you can just upload it here and add the relevant license tag (remember to include the original contributor to the foreign-language wikipedia for GFDL images) -- Ferkelparade π 00:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
See above -- Ferkelparade π 01:24, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_skunk#Diet. There is a broken link there to the Skunk Haven section. It isn't working because the Skunk Haven headline is also a hyperlink to their external website. Can anyone help me fix it? Nathanlarson32767 04:33, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've seen two different styles used to dis-ambiguate place names in article titles:
Location, enclosing location Location (encloseing location)
Which is preferred? More specifically, should it be "Bronx, New York", or "Bronx (New York)"?
Thanks for the help. Now, I've got another related problem.
There is an article with the title "City Island (New York)". I was going to move it to "City Island, New York" to go along with the above, but when I tried to do that, I discovered that the comma-delimited version already exists, as a redirect back to the paren-delimited version. To slightly complicate things, there's also a "City Island" article, which is also a redirect. What should I do now to best straighten out this mess?
Hmmm -- now the "City Island, New York" page has lost its entire history!
Please see Duboce Triangle. I added an external link to a neighborhood association but the category assigned is also adding an External Link section - bad style. What is protocol here?
I can't seem to make [[Image:Hydnjo.JPG]] thumbnail sized. I've uploaded it as a 2KB file but it still comes out BIG. Feel free to edit or explain so that I can edit. Also how can I reference that image without displaying it. I used "nowiki" for that image reference in this message but that requires some helpful soul to type it out rather than clicking on it. Thanks, User talk:Hydnjo
Hello. I'm trying to make a signature that one can change already existing copies of by changing a template which is a subpage of my user page, User:Vacuum/sig. Then I set my signature in the preferences to {{:User:Vacuum/sig}}. Unfortunately, it comes out looking like this:
Thanks in advance, Vacuum. PS. The page User:Vacuum/sig does exist, despite the red link.
Hi, does anyone know of any third party programs (or for that matter, features of wikipedia) that can do interesting things with one's "contributions" list? I've seen other wikipedians with all sorts of statistical analysis done to their contributions (e.g. time of day, over the history of their user account, etc.) Are these just generated by scripts that they've written themselves or are there widely available tools? How automated are these programs/scripts/whatever? And finally, does anyone know a better way of finding out how many edits you have other than pasting them all into notepad and seeing how many lines there are? :-) - Lommer 08:48, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
According to that tool: Lommer has 1094 edits (311 current revisions, 783 old revisions) - Mgm| (talk) 09:17, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
I need a numbered definition list. Simply combining # and ;: like this:
#;item1 : def1 #;item2 : def2
does not work; only the first list number is printed. If I add a newline:
#;item1 : def1 #;item2 : def2
then I get two lists, each starting with a one. Is this a bug in wiki? If not, then what should I do? It is a long list so I shouldn't use a table...
#item1 : def1
#item2 : def2
#;item1 #:def1 #'''item2''' #:def2 #'''item3''' #:def3
Every now and then the search button leads to a page saying that for performance reasons the function is not working and putting up Google and Yahoo search boxes instead. Is there a way to make Google the default search option, since the wikipedia search function drives me bonkers with its inflexibility? ta. Icundell 17:15, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Cheers. Trouble is i'm on a somewhat elderly Mac (for another month at least, too). Hopefully, once I get a nice whizzy G5 and Firefox (which has some rather coll extensions) these issues will become moot, but in the mean time I was hopeing for a in-wikipedia solution. Icundell 23:55, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi all,
I am a BCP/DR specialist and found a the need for a disambiguation page for the acronym "DR"
Right now, if you search for "DR" the 'doctor' page pops up.
I just don't know how to make a new disa page.
DR - doctor
DR - disaster recovery
Thanks in advance...
Revmachine21 18:42, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
where can I find a list of common law lawyers in the state of michigan.
Is it possible to maintain a watchlist of users? That is, all edits that they make are reported on some central page? I recall seeing mention of this feature somewhere, but cannot find it. - leigh (φθόγγος) 03:12, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
Does Wikipedia have a policy about using/not using the metric system? Ie when looking at the page on China_National_Highway_312, and it confused me that the author was using miles - I had to use Google to convert it... (of course people from the States might have the opposite problem - what I am asking is whether there is a policy). thanks Hou Shuang 00:20, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In the scientific and medical articles most of us have been trying to use both metric (SI) and American units where different. I can think of some various policies but don't think we have an official one for geographical and other units. For example
I agree with you we should do better at this and it deserves a policy. alteripse 00:45, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
With my European bias, I would be in favour of only using SI units, and having a bot clean up all the mess (should be pretty doable), but I understand if others don't agree... In the meantime, I was just looking for a policy. Hou Shuang 03:36, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I just moved NORAD to North American Aerospace Defense Command, and created a disambiguation page, to be able to include Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation... While I believe this is the right thing to do, I am at loss as to how to clean up all the references to NORAD all over the place - is there some way to do that automatically? Hou Shuang 03:36, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I use my watchlist often, to see what has happened to articles I have helped with, but if I am in a heavy editing bout, it gets all cluttered up with my own changes. I think it would be very useful to have a little (show own edits) (don't show own edits) link. Or is there already a way? Hou Shuang 03:39, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Sorry to not be a techie, but although I've reviewed the relevant instructions on Wiki, I still can't figure out how to add a photo (I have jpg & tif formats) to my user page. Can you explain this to me? Thanks.
User:sca 13dec04
I created a new article and I find that I can not locate the article doing a search but since I have the url I know it did exists. What do I do to add the new article to the archives so that it can be found in a search?
I tried inserting an image in my talk page, it doesn't want to work. Here's the code, I can't find anything wrong with it:
I have looked for one and can't find it.
Every day I get news, history and general knowledge from the wp main page. Would love to have all the factual articles (not meta content) available in an RSS feed.
Apologies if it already exists and I've missed it.
Thanks very much for the response, Chinasaur. Anything "official" afoot in this area?
God. EVERY time I try to nominate something for deletion I manage to screw it up, and I DONT understand why because I follow the instructions to a t. I have no idea how to fix my recent nominations (all Spongebob related.) Could someone go there and fix the, and then leave me a message to tell me what I did wrong? Pacian 18:55, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Can a case for fair use be made for the use of portfolio mugshots of an actor? Could I simply use a still from a movie that's spread amongst the press? Or should I simply wait for a reply from the actor in question? I'd like the pic to be added fairly quickly, but I don't want to break copyright laws. Any comments welcome. Mgm| (talk) 22:42, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)
All photographs are under copyright, yes even publicity stills. The copyright holder should be contacted and his permission obtained before submitting to Wikipedia. -- Minority Report (entropy rim riot) 21:59, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
How do you not show links within articles? The whole page is filled with links and they are distracting.
a {text-decoration: none; color: inherit;}
I created an article last night: Toasty. I'd like to add this page to Category:Computer and video game terminology, because that is a term that has been used since the 1990's. But I don't know where to start or request such a thing.
What should I do?
Why do I occasionally get this message (look between lines of dashes):
User talk:198.81.26.46 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has now been removed. Please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing material in articles will normally be removed quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Hadal 03:20, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
I have done nothing on this site, except to find myself constantly browsing around on it with admiration! Some weeks ago, I did start one of the "learn to edit" pages, but did nothing with it.
At one point in my session today, all the characters on each page started displaying as small squares. I reloaded the site, and the problem stopped.
I am not trying to hurt the site, really. I can only be accused of spending too much time while I should be doing laundry!!
I created Estate Agent (United Kingdom) from a sketchy page on deadpages called Estate agents. As you can see I inadvertently capped the second word. I tried moving it to a page with the capping fixed but to no avail. Is there a simple way to do this (ie am I being thick) or would someone be kind enough to do the honours? Icundell 01:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a new user and haven't yet mastered all the policies but found this new page Tammy Imre which seems to concern a ongoing court-case and is quite possibly prejudicial. Not especially notable, I wouldn't have thought (althought it's sad to think that's the case...) Thought the safest thing might be to flag it up and move on. Cheers, Mattley 13:26, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I don't usually do images, but I have a drawing I want to upload. The drawing is originally from a book published in Austria in 1918. The copyright should have expired by now, right? Isomorphic 15:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What, if any, is the one true way to link to categories that do not properly fall within the scope of a category, but I consider it rather likely that people will want (ie. wrong from the database POV, right from the navigational concenience POV)?
Example: In Category:Proof_theory, I'd quite like something along the lines of:
Possibly you wish to find material from one of the indirectly related categories: Category : Heuristic | Proofs
to appear just between the catmore template and the main listing of category contents ---- Charles Stewart 09:24, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I've managed to screw up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexology_chart The links to Sciatic and Appendix both reference the edit page, not the actual Wiki entry. Is this some bug related to the use of tables, or is there something else I'm missing?
Found the problem - The actual wiki entry didn't exist.
I tried to create a category Category:Archives in the United Kingdom. If you follow it, it lists the articles, but also says that the category doesn't exist. I couldn't locate what I've done wrong at Wikipedia:Categorization. Mattley 11:59, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, that link won't work. I'm more confused than ever now. But you can get there via Modern Records Centre, which is in the phantom category. Mattley 12:09, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I started an Article about my project New Millennium Orchestra, but I forgot to log in. Can I make it to my username instead of showing my IP?
Thanks!
Take a look at George W. Bush. User:Patriotic is making edits that people widely disagree with, and I've been trying to explain NPOV to both him and myself. My question is not about this specific case, but more general: is there any place I can go to to ask people to help? It's nice that Patriotic and I are talking, but one of us will go away sooner or later, and I'd like to keep the fire burning (and not have everything degenerate into edit wars again). This is the first time I'm in a dispute like this, so pointers are appreciated. JRM 17:28, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
Hi, sometime in the last few months, Wikipedia got a wonderful new look/format, with a nice modern sans-serif font, and with the very useful tabs along the top edge of the article, etc. (was this the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.3?) Anyway, Wikipedia stays "modern" only while I'm anonymous; when I login, Wikipedia reverts to the old/less-attractive format, with the Times/NewRoman font (?) etc. - ugh! I have searched around the helpdesk, FAQ, etc., to no avail. Oh yeah, this may be significant: I use the Opera browser. Help? Harris7 19:44, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I see there is a section in the help desk already on creating a chemical structural formula using ASCII art, but in a lot of the articles on various chemical groups people have used pictures, which look as if they have been created by a program. Is there a program somewhere that does this, or are these just pictures that have been nabbed from elsewhere?
Akchizar 04:47, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I was considering suggesting an article for featured status, and wondered if the presence of links to as yet non-existent articles is considered a no-no in featured articles. Apologies if this is not the right place for this question, but the "Featured article candidates" didn't seem the place for a question about general principles.
Harry 13:34, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
In wikicode tables (the whole {|, |-, |} thing), is there any way to (1) control the width of the columns and (2) to specify the horizontal alignment of the contents of certain data cells? — Matt 18:02, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'd like some advice about sorting out the Kinnaur copyvio. I've checked and sufficient amounts of the article are copied word for word that I believe that it's a coypvio. At the same time, those who wrote it are not being cooperative (they delete requests for clarification from their talk pages e.g. [1]) , so I can't expect their help.
The biggest problem is that there is a reasonable amount of original material, but that the edit which introduced the first copyright violation is quite old [2]. I'm a bit unhappy to revert to the previous version to that. I may try going through the article and editing out apparently copyright material, but without cooperation it is very difficult to tell what is what.
Any suggestions?? Mozzerati 20:27, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)
This is about the most confusing site I've been on. I simply want to vote against deleting the Election 2004 discrepancies article but there is absolutely no clue as to how to do that, as invited at the top of the page. It is a valuable collection of links and information and should be retained. I guess one must be a computer programmer to post on this site.
I've run across an article in Wikipedia that reads like it was written by a marketing hack for a Toronto landmark called Dundas Square. Is there a protocol for vetting this kind of information...this is beyond a rewrite. It really does need to be examined and done away with, IMHO.
Is anyone else seeing the message "Breaking news: Walden o'Dell, CIO of Diebold arrested for rigging the Ohio election results! Kerry recognized as the rightful Present Of the United States!" It was at the top of WP:RD but when I went to edit it out it wasn't visible in the source code, then it vanished from the display. Likewise, I found it atop the Wikipedia:Cleanup but it wasn't in the source code. How could something show up on a page and not be in the source code? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:03, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
Twice yesterday, this newbie noticed facts in articles that may or may not be correct. I can't find out the correct version myself, but someone should. What's the correct way of dealing with things like that?
Specifically, the article on Camille Pissarro claims both that he died on 12th November and 13th November. And the article on Ellis Island used to say that it closed on 12th November but now says that it closed on 29th November. In both cases, I tried to find out the correct date from other web pages, but I found both versions were stated about equally commonly.
I tried posting on the articles' talk pages, but I'm not sure if anyone reads those. Is that the correct place, or is there another location where I could usefully post such questions?
Thanks for any guidance. Stephen Turner 14:38, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What do I do with information that is likely to change in the future? For example, in the Chartered financial analyst article, I wanted to mention how many there were, and wrote "as of 2004...". For another example, the article on Barak Obama starts: "Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician, and U.S. Senator-elect from Illinois." which is clearly only applicable for the moment (as he will soon be a senator, not a senator-elect.
Is there some convention for this sort of thing? I did not see anything on point in the style guide page.
I am very new to Wikipedia. I am trying to post some literal code. Parts of it, for example the text:
textureMap ":SubFolder1:SubFolder2:MyTexture.jpg"
Keep getting a blue "?" inserted in the text (treated as a WikiWord). Is there any way to supress this?
Also does Wikipedia have an equivalent to the HTML pre (pre-formated) tag, or is there a way to force the use of raw HTML?
The site I am trying to post to is not the main Wikipedia site, but seems to be some sort of sub branch, and does not use the formating bar. the site is:
http://www.poserpros.com/wiki/PublicWiki/PublicWiki
(Mirrored on
Wikipedia talk:Vandalism in progress)
User:Bobberton and
User:Kuetipo use one of the same IP addresses as I do. This is because we live in the same house, because we are related. I seem to be the only one given to constructive edits, and I am fairly sure the other two are eventually going to get banned based on my conversations with them IRL. When they do get banned, I do not want to go with them, so I would like to know if there is any way to distance myself from them so that the IP we share is not banned, or that I am in some way still able to access the Wiki. Thank you!
Suntiger 23:59, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
As a newly registered user, how should I create a user page? If I just click on edit, whilst at my account it says on the edit page:
Please do not create an article to promote yourself, a website, a product, or a business (see Wikipedia:Policy).
So this cannot be right, becasue I am not allowed to create an article about myself on that page. So is there some special way of setting up these user pages? And when it is set up, how do I get it to appear upon the structured lists (i.e. alphabetical, country) - is this a separate edit of some kind, or are they linked in some way? Zylek (sig added by User:Ambarish)
Per Template talk:Wikipedialang#Sanskrit, I'd like to change the text that appears for the interlanguage link to the Sanskrit wikipedia from संस्कृत to संस्कृतम्. I've changed the text on Template:Wikipedialang, but I suspect something more needs to be done. What? Ambarish | Talk 00:44, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What is the protcol for handling years mentioned in articles. For example, if I write in a biographical article that someone "... did something in 1965 and did something else in 1966..." is it supposed to be "[1965]" and "[1966]"? I ask only because I notice other contributors putting in the [1965] syntax and I wonder if I am missing something.
Personally, I don't see much value to linking to the 1965 page, but does the link serve any other useful purpose?
Morris 02:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
I know that it would not measure quality, but I was wondering if anyone had any rough measure in terms of either number of articles, or number of megabytes, etc. Morris 02:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
I've updated Did you know and formatted some Main Page sections to wrap text around pictures and make sure the selected anniversaries stay within the table. After I purge the cache it looks fine, but when I went to look at another site and came back, I got the old version. All my changes are still intact when I look at the separate templates, what happened? Mgm| (talk) 10:17, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
An article I wrote is on the votes for deletion and I want to challenge the call for deletion. How do I effectively do that? Please provide specifics, thank you.
The left table on the main page is pushing the right one away. Can someone fix it? I can't find the problem. Mgm| (talk) 12:42, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
I guess it's a problem combining 800x600 screen size with an odd Internet Explorer on a Mac. The right table is no more than 30% of the screen in what I saw. Mgm| (talk) 13:16, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
How do people generate the nice, neat "00:29, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)" style dates? Is there a tag you can use to automate timestamps to discussion entries?
If there isn't, it'd kick ass if there could be one. If there is, I'd have been better able to find it if wikipedia:time, date, and/or timestamp had redirected to mention of it. [User:MrZaius]
( test: 4 July 2024 19:20, 4 July 2024 UTC [ refresh
Hmm... that's weird. the DATE template exists, but not one for the whole unix time? Surely I'm missing something. )
23:48:56, Venezuala/Houston/Chicago/ Evansville-time
There is an article under the category Ethnic Groups: African labeled "Bantu". However, there is no such ethnic group as "Bantu". "Bantu" is a term created by convention among European linguists, and dozens or hundreds of different ethnic groups speak languages categorized as "Bantu" linguistically. The Bantu-speaking peoples collectively share none of the features one might use to define an ethnic group; the ethnic groups who speak Bantu-languages vary widely along all of those features.
This is an issue of definition. It is comparable to writing Ethnic Groups: European: Indo-European. Indo-European isn't an ethnic group, and neither is Bantu.
Yet obviously someone has thought otherwise. I understand the basic idea of NPOV and don't have a problem about working with it within an article.
However, to have something that seems to me to be a factual, definitional error built into the very organizing structure of the information seems to pose a different sort of problem.
Is there a convention for dealing with this sort of difference of perception? How much leeway is there? I assume an article Animals: Fishes: Whales would not be permitted to remain, except perhaps to point out that this is a somewhat common error. Is that assumption correct?
Ndlovu
Help! Someone moved Bosnian language to the less common, more POV name Bosniak language. I tried to undo the move, but moves didn't work the way I though they would. See talk:bosniak language#naming for more info. Can someone help? - Key45 18:19, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have put a number of questions in my User page because they seem too long to foul up your Help desk with. The questions are listed in a part of the user page with a header shown as "November 16, 2004 -- questions to all." I'm really starting to become concerned I should remove my edits and stubs because I'm not sure I'm conforming to some of the standards listed in the citation citing discussion, verifiability, and perfect page discussions, though I'm giving accurate info. Also concerned about the "original research" and "neologisms" discussions I just read. I wonder if someone could answer in my user talk page or if I need to write a long list of questions here? I'd have uploaded a photo or two by now also but I found the copyright discussion too hard to understand. For instance, if I am directly given a photo image by the photographer, who only asks that I put "copyright" and his name on it but approves it to be used, is that not good enough? I don't really understand how to upload images. I don't understand how to make a new page for a historical figure with the same name as a currently existing page also. That issue has slowed me up some. Then if my information is directly from inquiring about birth/date/fact info from the person or their survivors, that might be thought "original research." I'm totally stymied at this point and fear I should remove my entries and edits. I have only been editing and writing about music figures in an area of my specialty in every case, except for a phrase or two related to an entry. Also, should I find a way to put my contributions list links into my user page so someone can go and tell review what I've done and tell me what I need to work on, my flaws? Bebop 20:23, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have discovered today with the Stax entry that someone felt the spacing I added between paragraphs to make them readable was superfluous and removed them. I find it very hard to read articles from a design standpoint if you don't properly space between paragraphs. The only way to do this is to hit Enter three times between paragraphs instead of twice. However, no entries besides the ones I've worked on do this. Therefore, regardless of what I think about the readability issue, I should go back and remove the spacing I added from all entries I've edited, correct? This is also a question in my user page. thanks, Bebop 20:25, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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Is there a way to transfer only certain information from one article to another?
I did a large bibliography section for Boris Vian a while back, and since I had to use different headers for poetry/dramatic works, Wikipedia automatically added a Contents tab right after the article text! I thought it looked very wrong, a CONTENTS tab AFTER the article, covering the bibliography section only.. is there a way to remove it? -- Jashiin 18:11, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Help! I have this image of David Holmes (Dream Job Season 2 Winner) that I want to put into my article on him, but I don't know how to. Here's the link: [3] Mike Hackney 21:38, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's official policy on inappropriate links?
Specifically, there is a page about an actor with an external link leading to his nude pictures. Is this allowed?
Is anyone here really good with Wikimedia templates? We're trying to think of a way to set up the {{delete}} template so that the template can contain the category tag but be sorted in the category list so that it is separate from all of the actual CSDs. I feel like there must be a way to manipulate the pipe trick and template parameters for this effect, but I don't have a lot of experience with templates. Look at my suggestion at Category talk:Candidates for speedy deletion#Cluttering and see if any of those ideas will work. -- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:59, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
I created a page, the Battle of Watling Street. In the search engine, it will only come up when I type in the exact pharse "Battle of Watling Street". Is there anyway to allow another search item to be linking to it? (e.g. by typing "battle of watling street" will bring the page up)
I have just put up an entry for Robert Palmer (author/producer) to help sort out a conflict in other references, such as at the R. L. Burnside entry, to this Palmer being confused with the British singer by the same name. I have a couple of questions. First of all, there seem to be more than one way to do this disambiguating process. Some, as with Al Green (musician), involve making a disambiguation page and specifying what each person was known for. Obviously Al Green, the musician, is much better known than the politician mentioned on that page. Another place in the faqs here discusses just putting a notation on the top of the more famous individual's page and having the search lead straight to the best known individual. For some reason they chose to have a search of "Al Green" lead to a disambiguation page instead of to the musician. So for a search on "Robert Palmer," which method would you suggest be used to disambiguate? I feel it should go to a disambiguation page and have one that is Robert Palmer (British singer) and one that is Robert Palmer (author/producer) because both are famous. Would the problem be that there are too many already-existing links going to the british singer's current Robert Palmer page? I suppose I could try to make a project of looking all those up in a Google wikipedia search and correct them myself if someone was concerned about that. I am worried about how to complete this disambiguation correctly Bebop 23:23, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The most well known of the Martin Luther King clan is Martin Luther King Jr., (the one who delivered the "I have a dream" speach, etc.)
I am thinking of writing a short article on his eldest son, who I believe went by the name "Martin Luther King, III". Should that be the title of the article (with the comma and the roman numeral 3)?
Is there another way to handle this? Some use the custom of dropping the "jr." etc. when only one is alive, but that is probably not wise in this case, as he is so well known.
Hello, i am very new here, actualy just arrived for the first time... Long story short, My first action here was to put a defenition on a link that lead to nowhere (no description or article on the subject) Since i am very new i was wondering how i did and how i could make my article better; so i went to peer reveiw. However, i got hoplessly lost because i cant tell where im supposed to put up a question there (i tried to start a topic but instead i kept being brought e to a editing page of someone else's request) so i left. And i came here and i want to know: how do i navigate the community areas? i can barely tell where the questions stop and the responses begin. Thanks
Tried to edit an entery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_sardine
with my somewhat expanded text (below):
The '''Tanganyika sardine''' is really two species (''Limnothrissa miodon'' and ''Stolothrissa tanganicae'') both of which are small [[planktivorous]] [[pelagic]] [[freshwater]] [[clupeid]] originating from [[Lake Tanganyika]] in East [[Africa]]. They form the major biomass of pelagic fish in Lake Tanganyika, swimming in large schools in the open lake, feeding on copepods and potentially jellyfish. Their major predators are four species of ''Lates'' which are also endemic to Lake Tanganyika, and are related to (but not the same as) the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria. All of these pelagic fish have suffered from overfishing in the last 2 decades. The local names are '''Kapenta''' in Zambia or '''Dagaa'''or '''Ndgaa'''elsewhere. ''Limnothrissa miodon'' has been successfully introduced in both natural and artificial African lakes. Large kapenta fisheries now take place in the [[Kariba Dam]] and [[Cahora Bassa]] in Zambia. {{stub}} [[Categories:Fish, Lake Tanganyika, Fisheries]]
But it said it lost the page and the old ID no longer exists. What now?
How come I can see new pages being added by people with red-linked IDs?
I really.. um... anyway.
I have been told by some people (my writing teacher, parents) that putting up someone else's ideas or information that you learned from that book/person/website is OK, as long as you correctly cite your references/sorces. I have been working by this premice (specificly, leaf leinghts and species distribution- i cannot find species distribution by going by myself out and surveying an extensive area alone- not copyinf and pasting whole articles, just peices of information that i could not obtain elsewhere) Recently i have been told by others that THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Since the site articles on copywright information did not answer my question, i wish to verify trough a third party if either side is correct, because i am getting coflicting reports. Who's correct?
User:Fledgeling00:49, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) P.s In the rowan section it should be noted that its also commonly called Mountain Ash
Most of the facts i am stating would be obvious to an attentive observer, and i cannot go to, say, china, and back to comment on the leingh of the fruit myself. I doubt writers of text encyclopedias would have as well, because they cant go and do everything and be everywhere to the places and things that they list in their books; its simply not feasable. User:Fledgeling,
I've just posted another link on my page User:MacGyverMagic/Articles. However, while it shows in the source code and the history, the new link doesn't show on the page even after I forcefully empty my cache. What am I missing? Mgm| (talk) 08:47, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
?a=b&c=d
; that question mark has to be there, so
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MacGyverMagic/Articles?action=purge, I now realise, does work.Guys,
I tried to find a better forum for this but couldn't.
When you open the following link in IE ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych)
it comes up with
[CLIP START]
Viktor Yanukovych From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
MY NECK, MY BACK, LICK MY PUSSY AND MY CRACK. Khia
[CLIP END]
where Khia links to ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khia)
But when you open it up in Mozilla it comes up just fine.
what is going on with wikipedia!! lately every time i search something i get an error page. the service is not working properly.
please fix!!!
Hello every sysops at English Wikipedia,
I tried already to ask help from User:Meelar;
please help me to retrieve my password to login to English Wikipedia. I am User:JanJosef, and I am not sure, If I mentioned my e-mail jpospisil at cpoj dot cz
Now I am as User:194.228.18.42 (at my work) and you can check another wikis: Czech - http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Jan Esperanto - http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediisto:Jan Simple - http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JanJosef
(I think, the IP should be the same)
May I receive a new password?
Thank you very much. Jan Pospisil
I suggest you try to see if a developer can help you. Otherwise, set up a new account, using a password similar to one of the other accounts you have so you don't forget, and have your old edits attributed to you. Good luck! Mgm| (talk) 08:59, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
-- 194.228.18.42 16:05, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The occupying force on April 9 allowed more than 70,000 women, children and elderly residents to leave the besieged city, reportedly also allowing males of military age to leave. On April 10, the U.S. military declared a unilateral truce to allow for humanitarian supplies to enter Fallujah. U.S. troops pulled back to the outskirts of the city; local leaders reciprocated the ceasefire, although lower-level intense fighting on both sides continued. An Iraqi mediation team entered the city in an attempt to set up negotiations between the U.S. and local leaders, but as of April 12 had not been successful. The resistance forces capitalized on this 'ceasefire' to conduct the most aggressive counter-offensive of the cordon. Additionally, numerous weapons were found hidden in the humanitarian supply trucks that were attempting to enter the city. [2] ( http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/04/12/rebels_smuggle_supplies_into_iraqi_city/)
the above is from the fallujah article.
The link is broken(the last line) and I did not know how else to tell anyone
I'm putting together a technology plan for an social benefit organization I'm working on starting, and I'm trying to figure out how the wiki tool can best be incorporated into the overall plan. Here are some of my goals and questions:
1. I want to have a series of webpages written by authors representing either their own ideas or those of an organization or group they represent. These authors will be identified, chosen, and recruited by members of the organization. Membership will be open to anyone who lives in the identified community and agrees to uphold certain core values and principles (as outlined by the members themselves) and to strive to behave according to a set of guidelines (also outlined by the members). What defines and unifies the group is that they all live within a defined community (with geographic boundaries) and share an intent to bring about a more just, peaceful and sustainable world in which the desires of the individual are not met at the expense of the needs of others throughout the world. This may not be the best description of the group, but I think you'll get the point.
So my question is this, can a wiki be set-up so that a section of the page which expresses the information and perspective presented by the author (membership elected individual or group of representatives), is protected from edits by others? Then the greater membership could have access to a comment section of the page for continual edits, encouraging the author to continually re-evaluate his/her perspective and integrate their feedback into an ever-evolving article.
The goal here is to take academics and others who've developed a trusted reputation and give them a more public platform upon which to communicate, while also removing them from the "echo chamber" where they only hear from others with the same perspectives. A sort of virtual dialogue amongst those who are either members of the community which is impacted by policies and practices of which they speak or respected experts selected by the community to help formulate solutions which work for the greater good.
2. I don't know how the underlying wiki engine works, as I'm not all that technical, but I'm wondering if the engine could be further developed so that there are tags to represent certain kinds of data. I'm hoping for the ability to have a reference database of books, articles, lectures, videos, etc. that anyone could select from in displaying a list of references or suggested educational materials for a particular purpose. Kind of like a shopping cart of references. Say I'm writing an article about statements made by our president which relate to global warming. I could search the reference database and select those which apply to my article and at the end, I will have an automatically generated list of references. Or perhaps in the body of my article I want to list recommended educational materials grouped by category. I could simply select from the available reference database (adding those not yet there) and have the list sorted according to my specifications (by author, keyword, date, etc). Does this seem possible?
3. How does a non-technical person go about finding someone to help set-up and administer a wiki when there is currently no budget (it's my hope that once the community begins growing, member donations will support some paid staff)?
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. I apologize if this isn't the right place to post these questions; if that's the case, perhaps you can redirect me to the correct place.
Thank you, Jennifer
In the article Cultural and historical background of Jesus, Admin ( User:Theresa knott) took sides by protecting page immediately after revert by Biased editor. Rather than protecting a pre-edit war version (the edit war goes back about 100 or so edits, by the way).
Is this allowed? CheeseDreams 22:33, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Where would one report a Wikipedia mirror which was not citing Wikipedia? http://djpronto.com/ doesn't have any reference to Wikipedia that I can find, but uses Wikipedia content. - Vague | Rant 08:16, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
I'm looking at starting a new category (or finding an existing one!) for chicken breeds. I'd like to make sure my understanding of Wikipedia:Categorization is correct. Here's what I'm planning to do — I'd appreciate any feedback (positive or negative) that anyone would like to offer.
Would Category:Chicken breeds be a suitable category name, based upon the fact that there is already a Category:Dog breeds to do the same task for dogs.
Currently there's Category:Galliformes which includes chickens. It would make sense for the new category to be in a subcategory of Category:Galliformes. Is there a better subcategory instead?
Many thanks,
-- pjf 08:36, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Looks good to me. Noisy | Talk 13:35, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The Wikipedia homepage seems to reliably crash Netscape 4.79. This seems to be due to its use of Javascript on the homepage.
(If I turn off Javascript in Netscape it doesn't crash).
Javascript is *not* a standardized language and I should have a perfect right to use an old browser on an old computer because Netscape 4.79 is faster than modern browsers. Wikipedia should be able to accept and work with that -- they should not be overengineering their web pages to an extent that they crash browsers. Wikipedia is distributing *information*. The distribution of information does *not* require the execution of code on machines visiting a site. I do *not* friggen care about pull down menus or pop-up windows -- I care that the site works reliably in the browser and on the machines that I choose to use.
If anyone could inform me of *who* is responsible for the Wikipedia home page I would appreciate it. Because I want to give them a piece of my mind.
Thank you, Robert Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
What is the meangin of the last link on the history pages? AnyFile 15:46, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I switched Template:New York so it links to Capital District rather than to Capitol District (see Talk:Capitol District). But Whatlinkshere:Capitol_District still lists all the pages that include Template:New York. Why? (It only bothers me because I'm trying to see if anything links to Capitol District, now a redirect page, and I'm getting all these false positive results.) — msh210 18:06, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
No, it's still doing it (from a different machine). Would you mind checking it out, someone, and see if you see it too, please? — msh210 14:47, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, all. — msh210 20:59, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Is there a special page that lists all template pages? I don't want to create new templates that duplicate the function of an existing one. Are there guidelines for what belongs in a template and what does not?
Hello dear Jim,
is the only way for me to get into "Wikepedia" some mention of 42nd Baltic Fraternities` Convention [ which Corps Concordia Rigensis/Hamburg will organize] to become a contributer/editor ?
Greetings from Germany
Jürgen
webmaster@concordia-rigensis.de
I've recently uploaded a picture of a leghorn chicken, and have used it on the Leghorn (chicken) page. Unfortunately, the chicken in question is looking to the right, and I'd much rather mirror the image so that it's looking to the left.
Why do I care which way the chicken is facing? It's got to do with psychology. People naturally want to see what others are looking at. If images of people or animals look interested in the article text, there's a better chance that the reader will be interested as well. If the picture is looking away from the text, then the article overall appears less interesting. Therefore, I want the chicken looking at the text to its left.
I could move the image itself to the left of the page, but then, depending upon the article text and browser settings, one can end up with orphaned words under the image. That can be a little jarring to readers, and something I'd like to avoid.
So, is it possible to automatically mirror or flip an image using regular image mark-up, or will I need to upload a second image (or replace the existing one) with a mirrored copy to suit my purpose?
Many thanks,
-- pjf 07:59, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
In the interests of sanity on my user page, I've borrowed an idea I found on Jimbo Wales' site, and included my picture and list of useful links in a side-bar as a template.
However I notice that any changes to this template don't update immediately, and I cannot find how to make this happen; presumably the template code is cached on the server, because refreshing my browser cache (Ctrl and reload in Mozilla Firefox) does not cause an update, and other items on the main page do update immediately. I usually just wait and hope. I wouldn't know where to look for information on how to fix this. Is there a way I can force the cached template to refresh on the server? -- Minority Report (entropy rim riot) 22:14, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
hi,
how do i vote for/against the deletion of a page
I'd like to do a lot of cleanup in Category:Arts. There doesn't seem to be a lot of activity there. The last decision seems to be here Category_talk:Art#Category:Art. I have some suggestions at Category_talk:Visual arts.
There doesn't seem to be a wiki project about Arts. Is there a place with Arts discussions some place? What would be a good way to proceed? Clubmarx 21:51, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
G'day lovely wikipedians,
At this time Wikipedia does not currently have a page for Silkie, however it does have Silkie (chicken). Unfortunately this means that editors must type an extra "(chicken)" every time they wish to create a link. I'm eager to see this avoided.
I can easily add a redirection page, but what I'd really like to do is rename Silkie (chicken) to Silkie, and have the redirect work the other way around. Are there any conventions that I would be breaking in doing this? Must a chicken breed end in "(chicken)" even if it's not ambiguous?
Note that the only ambiguity I can find is with Selkie, where Silkie is mentioned as an alternate spelling. I've added this to the Silkie (chicken) page, although I'd love someone to check my placement and wording.
Many thanks,
-- pjf 01:25, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I uploaded Image:SelfPorEnhancedLjubljana2004.jpg after spending a long time making sure the photographer understood the copyright issues. But I'm still new to this and it's my first upload.
Big problem -- one is that I forgot to put his name in the jpg title. I certainly don't want to be confused with the person the photo was taken of. How can I move it to say Image:TavFalcoSelfPortraitSlovenia2004.jpg? I would much prefer it be titled that. It is not of interest to either me or wikipedia that it is "enhanced" and "self por" doesn't tell anyone who it's of. I don't know how to delete it and restart and the Move function didn't work. Also, I apparently only activated an "alternate text" option but not a caption and am curious how to format that (see image description page link to article using jpg). Bebop 01:55, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Is it possible to change my username from 'Randyjohnston' to 'Randy Johnston'? Thanks a lot. -- Randyjohnston 04:53, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
How do I make a double brace tag such as {{inuse}} and is there a list of already existing ones?
Is it OK to set up a personal workplace page (User:Name/Workplace) or something like that as a temporary place to work on an article? Hydnjo 01:58, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
How do I link images to an external location? Oven Fresh 21:19, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
perhaps this question was here 1000 times but i didnt found an answer or i am to studpid. But if i want the content of the english encyclopedia on our school server because we dont ve access to the internet what do i ve to do? MYSQl and PHP and Apache2 is installed. How big is the full english version with pictures?
Greets and thx max
Hi,
I would like to edit the description for Capitol College, but the only edit link available lets me change the external link to the college website and nothing else. How can I change the typo in the description? Right now it says that Capitol conifers degrees, which makes me think of pine cones!
User:Viriditas noticed that the WikiProject Protected Areas tables are buggy in Firefox, sometimes overlapping text and causing other problems on the page. Should we be using newer markup or templates? Rmhermen 06:19, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
Would it be okay if I uploaded several album covers and used them in articles about bands? The reason I'm asking is because I've seen people complaining there's a ton of images on Wikipedia that claim to be 'fair use', and a lot of notices about copyright problems etc. And I wouldn't want to add to the problem. The upload dialog has a box that goes "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it under the terms of the Wikipedia copyright." While uploading an album cover that was downloaded a long time ago from some website, I can't really grant that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it, can I? Does that mean I have to find out where I downloaded the image, then contact the webmaster of that particular site, then ask him/her for permission and only upload when the permission is granted? -- Jashiin 10:09, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Several times this week I have been automatically logged out while trying to edit. Why? NB:- If I get logged out while I'm editing this, I'm User:Honeycake. Please either put the reply on my talk page, or notify me on my talk page when the reply is here. Thanks,-- Honeycake (babble were rig) 17:07, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'd like to delete some items from the drop-down search history (empty pages,missspelings, etc) that show up when I start to type into the search box. Can this (editing) be done? Hydnjo 20:45, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
This is more a suggestion for a global feature than a question.
Add a WIKI element for latitude/longitude and range that is searchable, so articles that have a proper 'location' to reference can be found by location.
In other words, historical things have a time and a place. Many articles about things in the world also have a place in the world where those things can be found.
A query based on a GPS receiver could then type in a location and specify a range for the search and find articles about things of interest near that place on the Earth, and conversely when reading an article that contains such a GPS location, could pull up a map with that place/thing centered on it.
So when planning a trip, you could find points of interest on the way, and when doing a school report about something in history or of interest near your school or community, a lot of candidates can be trivially found from a map.
Some additional notation might be added to the location, such as the type of reference (local history, regional history, national history, global history, wildlife habitat, etc.)
It could be something like [gps:N30.24.66:W97.54.19:R1K], and an article might make more than one such reference to cover one or more regions with what are essentially circles on a map. A search engine (such as google) could then spot those references as they're finally formatted.
A java applet with a world map could allow trivial poking in of locations to some sloppy accuracy, while people who are more precise can go out and take a GPS reading and type the data in to the nearest few feet.
Tim Starling is saying he will remove me from the Wikipedia mailing list, but I don't understand on what grounds the basis for this is. Is there anything I can do to get an explaination for his actions please? Thanks, -- Rebroad 21:37, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have been commissioned to write an article about the Passover Seder. My question is based on some beliefs, how is Jesus the fulfillment of the Jewish festivals? Thank you.
I visited Wikipedia in Vietnamese page, it does not display in proper Vietnamese, it has a lots of squares in places of letters . Q: How do I set my PC to view this page in correct Vietnamese ? tro_te@yahoo.com
A friend of mine was asked in a crossword puzzle "Simpsons character starting with "Y" " this had me stumped, could anyone help me with this problem, please email me at v8_freaq@yahoo.com.au, i am unsure if i can get back to this site, my bookmarking deletes sites on me :-(
I edit a library web page and want to put a 'search' field that will link directly to Wikipedia's search. Is there a way to do this?
If this is the incorrect place to ask this, could someone please direct me to the right window?
Thanks in advance.
<form name="wikipedia_search_form" action="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search"> <input name="search" type="text"> <input value="Go" type="submit" name="go"> <input value="Search Wikipedia" type="submit" name="fulltext"> </form>
What does &action=purge do, when appended to the end of a URL? E.g.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Hello,_world&action=purge
— msh210 20:32, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. — msh210 20:57, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
How do you edit your signature that appears with four tildes? Oven Fresh 00:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
A while back I found an image of General Georges Boulanger on the French Wikipdeia (see [5] for image. I added this image to the English language version and then got on with my life. However, I now note that the image on the English language Boulanger page is not the image I added and the page history does not show the one edit to the article since changing the image. Does anyone know what has happened here (eg. someone else has saved an image as Boulanger.jpg which has automatically replaced my image)? -- Roisterer 02:14, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am getting a Proxy Error for PlanetMath. Has it been removed?
I'm posting an article on a newly-created wiki. The owner has just turned on image uploading. However, thumbnails are not working. The image box appears, but instead of a thumbnail inside, there is only a link. The link leads to the proper image. This is the code I'm using: [[Image:test.png|right|thumb|The test image description]]
What does the owner of the wiki need to enable in order to get thumbnails to display properly?
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2004#Disputing_vote_exclusion. I am concerned that some will be unfairly excluded from the current arbiter election. Sam Spade Arb Com election 14:23, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Today, 4 December 2004, 14.44 GMT, the article "Amnesia" on Wikipedia ends with:
It seems this should not be in a Wikipedia article. I wrote about it in the "discussion" side of the page, but should I have deleted the text? Should I have put it in a <!-- and --> tag? Could the Wikipedia documentation be made more clear about what to do in such a case? I did look in the documentation, so if such guidelines are there, they may not be easy enough to find.
Just be bold and delete it! If somebody thinks you were wrong, they will revert it or say so. -- Khendon 14:53, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I added keydrive#The internal components of a typical keydrive as an ordinary section, but really it's an extensive caption for the accompanying diagram. IMHO it would be better as a sidebar to the article, but I'm having trouble figuring out the wiki syntax for doing so. I tried just putting all the text into the image caption, but the parser doesn't seem to like the # marks (which are needed for the numerical expansion of the diagram's labels). I also tried (a bit) html-style DIV tags, but I couldn't get the formatting to work. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.-- John Fader
I'd like to upload a ZIP archive containing the image files and other stuff necessary to make a diagram (which I've already uploaded as a normal JPG). I want to do this so it can be altered by others, including translating or correcting. I tried to upload a ZIP file, but the upload program says ".zip" is not a recommended image file format.. Is there a way to upload a zip, or do I have to do something horrible like rename it to a PNG and tell folks to rename it before use? -- John Fader
I have no clue how to make a phrase appear directly underneath another, I tried newline, and it didn't work. Also I can't seem to link to the sandbox (or other non encyclopedia articles). 69.138.222.255 decided to use my guetsbook as a test page, so I decided to put a link to the sandbox in there.
For example, this is what might appear: sandbox
I tried this as well w:sandbox, which doesn't work either.
Thanks for the help.
So I need to put "wikipedia" in front of the page name to link to non encyclopedia articles?
How can I change my settings so Wikipedia will dispay using my monobook.css stylesheet? Oven Fresh 22:14, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Is there a guide to all the symbols used in
WikiHiero, including what each one represents? --
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Hello,
I have a question pertaining to the OSI-RM and the TCP/IP.
What i intend to know is that how much do these models mirror the real world?
in terms of applying at least one technology such as email,video conferencing,etc; to these models;how does it fit in to the model-if it does?
Hope to learn more from Wikipedia,
Bol
Just out of curiosity, are we allowed to create shortcuts to our Userpage? Like how WP:HD brings you here, could I do something like U:OF? Oven Fresh 16:14, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am battling a "Enhance My Search" nightmare on one of my home computers. It jumps up whenever you open Google or Yahoo searches, and opens a window in front of either. Whether it open in a windows or not, it adds language to your text in any apparent attempt to create links to certain words (IE "work"). None of the programs I have used so far have been able to get rid of it. It really screws up Wikipedia work when editing. Its hard enough to find the right text to use for WP without something being inserted in it. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Any help would be appreciated. Vaoverland 06:36, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Note: due to a technical problem, this entire page was duplicated, and the above section was edited in more than one place; I've folded the two conversations into one above, so apologies if something doesn't make sense/surprises someone. - IMSoP 15:39, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)]
I want to add a link to a Wikipedia entry from keywords in articles on a protal page, similar to what the Trillian3 chat client does. Do you know if there is a service available that provide such short descriptions of Wikipedia entries? Also, what is the best way to find out which keywords are available on Wikipedia, should I download the database to do that?
Other users have sent me emails, but I don't see an option to send emails to any user on their talk pages, even though my email is listed in preferences. Also, can other users (or sysop) see my email or it remains hidden to them? OneGuy 01:04, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
There is no "Printable page" link on any pages when using the default skin (MonoBook). I discovered quite by accident that changing the skin to Classic or CologneBlue in user preferences causes the "Printable page" option to appear in all pages. -- Grnch 23:19, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Why doesn't the default skin have this?
If I belive I'm an important person :P, can I make my own Wiki document page? I have a user page but can I make my own Wiki/MyNameHere page? At this time, 'No page with that title exists' sid007 23:51, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Our food coop wants to start a community written (ala Wiki) clearinghouse of information on the companies that provide foods and services to our coop, and it would be cool to be able to start with the tools you folks have already written. Is the underlying software/PHP scripts and whatever open source and available?
Why is it that when one puts {{R ...}} at the bottom of a redirect page, the R ... message stays there, whereas if one types something at the bottom, it doesn't? Is there a way to rig it so that I can type an explanation (not one of the R ...s) at the bottom of a page, and it'll actually appear there? (I'm thinking in particular of merging the current content of Talk:Handlebody decomposition (minus some of the formatting) into Handlebody decomposition.) — msh210 20:49, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
El Nino is a redirect page. Its text is
#Redirect [[El_Niño]] {{R from misspelling}}
So it is possible (at least under certain circumstances) to include text after a redirect command: one such circumstance is if that text is called by {{ R from misspelling}}. I wish to include text after a redirect command without calling it from Template:R from misspelling or any other template. — msh210 21:50, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
You can't - at least not directly. A link to a foreign-language wikipedia is treated as an external link, and all linked images must reside on the local Wiki server. However, if the image in question is released under the GFDL or is public domain, you can just upload it here and add the relevant license tag (remember to include the original contributor to the foreign-language wikipedia for GFDL images) -- Ferkelparade π 00:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
See above -- Ferkelparade π 01:24, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_skunk#Diet. There is a broken link there to the Skunk Haven section. It isn't working because the Skunk Haven headline is also a hyperlink to their external website. Can anyone help me fix it? Nathanlarson32767 04:33, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've seen two different styles used to dis-ambiguate place names in article titles:
Location, enclosing location Location (encloseing location)
Which is preferred? More specifically, should it be "Bronx, New York", or "Bronx (New York)"?
Thanks for the help. Now, I've got another related problem.
There is an article with the title "City Island (New York)". I was going to move it to "City Island, New York" to go along with the above, but when I tried to do that, I discovered that the comma-delimited version already exists, as a redirect back to the paren-delimited version. To slightly complicate things, there's also a "City Island" article, which is also a redirect. What should I do now to best straighten out this mess?
Hmmm -- now the "City Island, New York" page has lost its entire history!
Please see Duboce Triangle. I added an external link to a neighborhood association but the category assigned is also adding an External Link section - bad style. What is protocol here?
I can't seem to make [[Image:Hydnjo.JPG]] thumbnail sized. I've uploaded it as a 2KB file but it still comes out BIG. Feel free to edit or explain so that I can edit. Also how can I reference that image without displaying it. I used "nowiki" for that image reference in this message but that requires some helpful soul to type it out rather than clicking on it. Thanks, User talk:Hydnjo
Hello. I'm trying to make a signature that one can change already existing copies of by changing a template which is a subpage of my user page, User:Vacuum/sig. Then I set my signature in the preferences to {{:User:Vacuum/sig}}. Unfortunately, it comes out looking like this:
Thanks in advance, Vacuum. PS. The page User:Vacuum/sig does exist, despite the red link.
Hi, does anyone know of any third party programs (or for that matter, features of wikipedia) that can do interesting things with one's "contributions" list? I've seen other wikipedians with all sorts of statistical analysis done to their contributions (e.g. time of day, over the history of their user account, etc.) Are these just generated by scripts that they've written themselves or are there widely available tools? How automated are these programs/scripts/whatever? And finally, does anyone know a better way of finding out how many edits you have other than pasting them all into notepad and seeing how many lines there are? :-) - Lommer 08:48, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
According to that tool: Lommer has 1094 edits (311 current revisions, 783 old revisions) - Mgm| (talk) 09:17, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
I need a numbered definition list. Simply combining # and ;: like this:
#;item1 : def1 #;item2 : def2
does not work; only the first list number is printed. If I add a newline:
#;item1 : def1 #;item2 : def2
then I get two lists, each starting with a one. Is this a bug in wiki? If not, then what should I do? It is a long list so I shouldn't use a table...
#item1 : def1
#item2 : def2
#;item1 #:def1 #'''item2''' #:def2 #'''item3''' #:def3
Every now and then the search button leads to a page saying that for performance reasons the function is not working and putting up Google and Yahoo search boxes instead. Is there a way to make Google the default search option, since the wikipedia search function drives me bonkers with its inflexibility? ta. Icundell 17:15, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Cheers. Trouble is i'm on a somewhat elderly Mac (for another month at least, too). Hopefully, once I get a nice whizzy G5 and Firefox (which has some rather coll extensions) these issues will become moot, but in the mean time I was hopeing for a in-wikipedia solution. Icundell 23:55, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi all,
I am a BCP/DR specialist and found a the need for a disambiguation page for the acronym "DR"
Right now, if you search for "DR" the 'doctor' page pops up.
I just don't know how to make a new disa page.
DR - doctor
DR - disaster recovery
Thanks in advance...
Revmachine21 18:42, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
where can I find a list of common law lawyers in the state of michigan.
Is it possible to maintain a watchlist of users? That is, all edits that they make are reported on some central page? I recall seeing mention of this feature somewhere, but cannot find it. - leigh (φθόγγος) 03:12, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
Does Wikipedia have a policy about using/not using the metric system? Ie when looking at the page on China_National_Highway_312, and it confused me that the author was using miles - I had to use Google to convert it... (of course people from the States might have the opposite problem - what I am asking is whether there is a policy). thanks Hou Shuang 00:20, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In the scientific and medical articles most of us have been trying to use both metric (SI) and American units where different. I can think of some various policies but don't think we have an official one for geographical and other units. For example
I agree with you we should do better at this and it deserves a policy. alteripse 00:45, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
With my European bias, I would be in favour of only using SI units, and having a bot clean up all the mess (should be pretty doable), but I understand if others don't agree... In the meantime, I was just looking for a policy. Hou Shuang 03:36, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I just moved NORAD to North American Aerospace Defense Command, and created a disambiguation page, to be able to include Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation... While I believe this is the right thing to do, I am at loss as to how to clean up all the references to NORAD all over the place - is there some way to do that automatically? Hou Shuang 03:36, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I use my watchlist often, to see what has happened to articles I have helped with, but if I am in a heavy editing bout, it gets all cluttered up with my own changes. I think it would be very useful to have a little (show own edits) (don't show own edits) link. Or is there already a way? Hou Shuang 03:39, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Sorry to not be a techie, but although I've reviewed the relevant instructions on Wiki, I still can't figure out how to add a photo (I have jpg & tif formats) to my user page. Can you explain this to me? Thanks.
User:sca 13dec04
I created a new article and I find that I can not locate the article doing a search but since I have the url I know it did exists. What do I do to add the new article to the archives so that it can be found in a search?