What about the browser statistic at Wikipedia, which browser is most used among us,Wkipedians? -- ThomasK 08:42, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
I'm feeling very frustrated and I hope someone can help me. Let me say that I admit that I have found myself in the midst of a revert war that I should have never entered into; I should have figured out a better tact, but I didn’t and I now I’m stuck.
The entry is question is for Ohio Wesleyan University and the problem is happening with one individual, using one Wiki-user name and various IP addresses to include information that is robbing the entry of its NPOV. By making edits signed in and not signed in, the contributor is attempting to make it appear that more then one person is involved. One I.P. address is an OWU based I.P. address and I’m assuming that the other I.P. is the one that this person uses while at home on break.
Problems with the listed began in July of this year -- before I became involved with the article, which was in September under my user name of “Stude62”. Prior to that time, there have been requests, and attempts to return the document to a NPOV state, however the edits are quickly reverted.
These edits, have resulted in an article that isn’t reliable, isn’t objective and isn’t documented; references are made to publications and outside companies, but date, issue, vol. and page numbers are not included and it makes it very hard to proof the material. In place of properly documented references, superlatives were used ad nauseam.
My goal when I began working on the article was to remove its subjectivity and return the article to a NPOV state that was reliable and informative. I’m not a great writer, but I could see how sentences could be rearranged to place like topics together, and how restructuring that rewording sentences and paragraphs could reduce the wordiness of the article. In a strictly word to word comparison, this article out strips articles for other like school lists with its peer colleges by about 3to1 and that’s even without addressing the issue of content, which the OWU article is seriously lacking.
Along the lines of factual content, the article is lacking in good solid factual content. It’s my contention that the “protector” of the article is more concerned with the school at looking impressive in a way that makes the “protector” look impressive. The school’s credentials are meritorious, and should be recognized in manner in which the credentials speak for themselves, not in such a way that they appear "affected" as they do within the article.
In addition to my attempts to steer the article in the right direction, others have tried, however when suggestions are made, the “protector” immediately questions them, even when suggestions are outlined in the wiki style manual.
The “protector” is also attempting to rewrite the history of OWU without knowing anything about the history that they are trying to rewrite. In its place, the protector is basing his/her history on their perception, not fact.
Yesterday, I contacted the University and have begun to work with the archives and media relations department on formulating a factual rewrite on the article. But I am concerned about the “protector’s” continued ability to vandalize this article based on his/her perceptions trumping reality.
Can anyone help or recommend another user who is expirienced in deal with this type of "protector"?
[[User:Stude62|" user: stude62"]] 16:33, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I am the user he is referring to. I do not appreciate the way Stude62 is working on this, but I will not discuss this as the objective is to come up with a solution. Could you be specific when you talk about "affected language" on the Wesleyan page? Did you discuss any specific words or facts that bothered you in the discussion page? If you did, I will work with you and change them if they are not NPOV. Absolutely. Instead, you keep complaining on various sites in a very general language lacking ANY specific examples. You didn't even bother discussing it on the Wesleyan's page.
Like an hour ago you made a complete overhaul of the article. I liked. Kept it. What's the problem? I only made a few changes that made the facts consistent with the school's facts. (e.g. Methodist Episc. Church). In fact, that's what you told us you heard from the President's Office. I pointed you to a link as well. I don't know what else to say or how to convince you.
FYI, I sign my contributions. :)
Rananim 21:48, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Rananim-
If you want to talk about this, please do so through an email. I am seeking help from the Wiki Community - let the system work.[[User:Stude62|" user: stude62"]] 01:59, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is there any automatic way within WP to count the contributions I have made, or do I just have to open my contribution history and count them all myself? -- Cynical 20:14, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi all!
When reverting a page to an earlier version, I'm adding an edit summary like: "Reverted edits by X to last version by Y". I must be blind, lacking sleep, or both, but I can't seem to do figure out how to make "X" appear as a link to X's contribution page.
I've looked at Wikipedia:Editing FAQ, Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version, Wikipedia:Edit summary, m:Help:Edit summary and Wikipedia:Edit summary legend, but found no answers.
(Yes, I am a semi-clueless Wikinewbie)
Thanks!-- Plek 03:27, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to access Wikipedia via WML or in a low graphics version?
I spend a lot of time sitting and waiting!
IIRC there is a text only version that used to be linked to on the front page. Unfortunately, the address escapes my mind at the moment. Maybe a search for "text only" will get you a link the a text only main page? Mgm| (talk) 12:37, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for that, but I'm afraid I couldn't get anything. This is a strange omission if it has been withdrawn. I use a P900 and I can get a great many sites on it, especially news ones.
If anyone has an idea about this, or a method of contacting the powers that be I would be very greatful.
Thanks again
That is a FINE idea, thanks very much.
I can be contacted at iatc-ourtown(at)earthlink.net
Is there a limit to the number of completed links you can have one one page? I've been trying to add some new pages to " List of craters on the Moon", but every time I do so now it gives me a database error. However I am able to edit other pages just fine, so perhaps I hit some internal limit? The errors generally look like this:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: INSERT IGNORE INTO `links` (l_from,l_to) VALUES ('1378918','6416'), ('1378918','222867'),('1378918','50283'),('1378918','1187827'), ('1378918','497846'),('1378918','702219') from within function "LinksUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; Try restarting transaction (10.0.0.1)".
I tried multiple times and with more than one page, but keep getting an error. Thanks. — RJH 20:32, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
When reading old fashioned paper encyclopedias, I could browse by starting at a letter of the alphabet and going through articles in alphabetical order. I could be introduced to many topics I had never considered before. Is there something equivalent for Wikipedia besides the Random page?
Is it possible to make text appear only after a redirect but not in the main article?
Example:
Rockman redirects to
Mega Man series, as it should. But Rockman is also the name of a line of
guitar amps. Currently the disambiguation text for this problem is at the top of the
Mega Man series page, but it's only useful if the user was redirected from
Rockman.
WHAT on earth am I doing wrong in entering my ISBN's? I simply cannot figure it out. Here is exactly what I enter, and they never link up: ISBN 0300055366. Yes: I am positive that I am not dyslexing the numbers. Many thanks, allie 23:14, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Simple: don't link. Parser magic does this for you: ISBN 0-30-005536-6. JRM 23:21, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)
We are the GNU project from TIFR. We downloaded the categorieslink table as you had directed us.We are not going to keep the articles with us but only the metadata.The metadata includes the keywords and the words that can identify the articles.For that we need the URIs of the various articles.Can you help on the same.Also we aim in creating varios relations between articles.Does WIKIPEDIA already have any such relations between the articles,if it has please give us some information on that too.
Thanking you, Sakecwiki Team(TIFR)
I have been having a devil of a time. I can preview edits and new articles just fine, but when attempting to save page, it goes absymally slowly and (now) usually dosn't work. I sit there waiting ages for the page to load, only to get an error message. I haven't changed my computer and this is a recent problem. The messages are (sorry, it's a bit long):
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: INSERT IGNORE INTO `links` (l_from,l_to) VALUES ('1383433','279684'),('1383433','5355'),('1383433','10646'),('1383433','1380897'),('1383433','49404'),('1383433','555643'),('1383433','26437'),('1383433','50283'),('1383433','1187827'),('1383433','497846'),('1383433','702219') from within function "LinksUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; Try restarting transaction (10.0.0.1)". Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_%28profession%29"
OR:
Sorry- we have a problem... The wikimedia web server didn't return any response to your request. To get information on what's going on you can visit #wikipedia. An "offsite" status page is hosted on OpenFacts.
Generated Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:54:57 GMT by wikipedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE4-20040219)
Thanks Quill 22:46, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have uploaded an image to the Wikimedia Commons that has the same name as an image on the Wikipedia. What is the preferred method of adding this image to an article? I could see changing the name of one or the other but I'm guessing there is a better way.
Thanks - Trick 22:48, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
How can you say you are an on-line encyclopedia? An encyclopedia is based on fact-not liberal opinions such as stated on the tsunami article. My daughter is doing a research paper on the tsunami and pulled up your site. Thank God she asked me about it before she put in her report that the earthquake that caused the tsunami was caused by a hydrogen bomb being tested in the Indian Ocean-by the Busch administration!!! Her teachers would have that she was a complete idiot!! If you want to post crap like that in your on-line site ,call it something else besides an encyclopedia. I have instructed my daughter never to go to your site again. Your site is nothing more than a glorified chat-room.
Really not sure where to ask/mention this...
I ran across Henry Morgenthau, Sr. today (whilst looking for his son). Almost all of the article deals heavily with the contentious issue of the Armenian Genocide and was written by an anonymous IP whose other edits were to pages about that same topic.
I don't know anything in particular about the topic ("many died, was messy, popular with revisionists"), but I do know that what's there is contentious, looks fairly one-sided and vituperative (...tendency toward fabrication...nonsensical tales of brutality...), and therefore doesn't seem entirely trustworthy; it reads as heavily PoV. So, I would edit it, neutralise it a bit. Unfortunately, for all I know he was as bad as the article portrays him, and I have very little in the way of reference material here to work from. What's the best way to flag this for the attention of people with some knowledge of the topic?
Thanks, and apologies for a stupid question. Shimgray 00:56, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to merge all back-to-back edits to an article by the same user into a single edit for the purposes of the history and diffs? If not, why not, and if so, why is this process not automated? -- Boco XLVII 04:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I can't be the only who noticed the edit-war over whether country articles are to use infobox templates or not. Where do I report this time-consuming back-and-forth-editting and request mediation of the differing opinions? As it seems, the different side where not able to come to a compromise or consensus in their discussion of the matter themselves Nightstallion 05:27, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Will transwiki (or crosswiki, whichever they're called) work on any wiki running the Mediawiki software? Also, can crosswiki redirects be made? Thanks, Alphax (t) (c) (e) 07:46, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
How do I add a cross-referring, i.e. clickable (foot)note ? Double-parenthesizing notenumbers does not seem to work. David de Cooman 11:32, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have some history with Wikis. I registered with a CamelCase user name. Is there any chance I can change it so I don't lose history etc?
Diz 12:45, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Do we have a policy guideline on whether links to discussion forums are appropriate? A persistent anon keeps re-adding a links to a couple of hir forums to certain music articles. The forums have less than 100 users each, and most posts are by the forum owner. If there were to be links to discussion forums for these bands at all, there are far more notable ones. I've removed them about half a dozen times, but they're always back within a week or two, usually from a different IP address.
I believe that these sorts of links are discouraged, unless the forum itself is notable enough to be the subject of the article, or are a key source of understanding (certain technology topics, perhaps). However, I have scoured the policy, faq, and help pages for a guideline to which I could refer the anon, and I find nothing about this other than "no advertising or self promotion", and since these are not commercial sites, s/he is not convinced.
Is there a policy page on forum links that I've missed? If not, should this be specifically added? I'd hate to look like I'm "making up" policy in order to remove this person's link, so I would like some input from others on the issue. Catherine\ talk 17:56, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
How can request a link to Special:Allpages on the Main Page? I consider it superior to the Quick index Lee S. Svoboda 18:09, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) Your best bet is discussing it at Talk:Main Page. Mgm| (talk) 09:33, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
I want to nominate Andrew Babcock for deletion. This page was just created today by 216.114.70.163. There is no content on Andrew Babcock, it simply redirects to an unrelated page, which is itself a redirect.
How do I place the VfD notice on the Andrew Babcock page without being redirected and prevented from doing so? Johntex 18:51, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Modern usage tends to style a name like this: G K Chesterton, but traditionally it would be styled like this: G. K. Chesterton.
As G K Chesterton was very much known by his initials, I made a redirect from G K Chesterton to G. K. Chesterton where an article already existed. Conversely, the entry for A E Housman has no periods in its article name. Which style is preferred? Where can I read about this on the site?
Diz 19:13, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The correct style is G. K. Cesterton. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)
Lee S. Svoboda 22:21, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I submitted IPod shuffle to VfD because I feel that this is not a note-worthy device, and that the article is no better than an advertisement. However, the entry has been on VfD for less than a day and it has gotten 11 votes to keep, 1 vote to merge and redirect, and no votes to delete other than my own. It seems there will be a clear consensus to keep this article. Therefore, I would like to withdraw my nomination for VfD and remove the VfD tag from the article. However, other than noting that these tags should not be removed while the issue is "under consideration", the policy on article deletion is silent on this issue. Is it acceptable for me to withdraw my candidate for VfD, given that the consensus opinion seems to be to keep the article? Johntex 00:34, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Seems as though wikipedia disallows iframe tags. Is this correct? If so, why? I'd like to try and use the tag so I can display external content on my user page. Is there another way one can do this?-- Will2k 07:15, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there,
I am a newcomer to the Wikipedia and I am amazed by the contents of the site. I have an existing site on China Arts & Crafts where I wish to include links to Wikipedia, on subjects such as History, Culture, Nationality of China in Chinese and English as reference materials to readers. But the links did not work for Chinese language. I guess it must be problem of the copyright. How can I bypass this since it is a free encyclopia. Please anyone help me and my ID to Wikipedia is 14546 and my name is Larry Chan with email at: larrychan@email.com.
Larry Chan
"Columbia finally landed at Edwards AFB at 5:59 a.m. PST, on Jan. 18. Mission elapsed time was 6 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes, 51 seconds.
After numerous delays Columbia returned to orbit on January 12, 1986. The primary mission was to deploy a geosynchronous KU-1 communications satellite for RCA Americom. A variety of other experiments were also performed successfully including some using the Materials Science Laboratory-2. This was the first flight utilizing NASA's Get Away Special canisters. Perhaps, the mission is most notable for carrying one of only three sitting congressmen into space, John Glenn and Jake Garn being the others."
Could someone more capable than myself, please tell me if the above should be rewritten. It seems confusing to me. I could understand this last paragraph being placed closer to the beginning of the article, but not at the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61-C
vertical lines appear often in texts to edit; i cant find a way to do this on my keyboard; how is it done?
My home town Oldham has a second page Oldham_(borough). This appears to be part of a well organised "project" of English boroughs and administrative authorities.
Now... I have previously merged Macclesfield_(borough) into Macclesfield and redirected into Macclesfield, as the only real content on the borough article was a well made infobox. See the previous edits on those articles. Am I going about his the right way? Would it be good practice to merge Oldham_(borough) into Oldham?
Advice sought. Peter Hitchmough
The old Urban Legends website is now dead and the http://www.urbanlegends.com/ link now goes to a generic search website (associated with oingo.com, which likes to buy up abandoned URLs). I've used the Google site-search to try to find all the references to urbanlegends.com in the Wikipedia, but that search seems to have been incomplete since the original article where I found an external link to urbanlegends.com ( Yellow badge) wasn't listed by Google. I went ahead and changed the pages that I found ( April Fool's Day and Spontaneous human combustion) that hadn't already been changed by someone else, but a more complete search should be done. I am posting this info here since I couldn't find any better place to do it. gK ¿? 04:47, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
We are the Gnu priject from Tifr.We need to know how to get only the content of the article and the images if any.We do not want the wikipedia background as in the navigation on the left,the tabs on the top etc.We need this because when we click on the link that directs to the wikipedia article, the page takes up the whole screen and does not fit in the frame that we provide.It will be very efficient if we get only the content of the article in that frame.If suppose the article is not found then we redirect the user to the Wikipedia main page.We will be grateful if you provide us help on the same.
Do youhaveany MD5 file with you.Do you generate any.If so pleaselet know.Thanks.
Would someone post the photo of her on the Portuguese edition of Wikipedia to the English article? I'm not very good with technical things such as this and would appreciate someone else's aid. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 21:08, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
I made a contribution to an article, and it was reverted within 5 minutes, which was not nearly enough time to even do the slightest research on whether my edits were factual. I thought I was encouraged to Be bold in editing articles, but there is no point if they are reverted without a thought. They could have at least left a reason on the talk page, you know. I don't want this to devolve into a discussion about a specific article, so I'm not mentioning it here, but why should I contribute if the community does not want me to, you know?
First off I have to say that this website is, no offense, IMPOSSIBLE to find your way around.
I just had a simple problem with the spam filter filtering out a website I was trying to link to. It told me to contact an administrator, so I went to the LONG list and picked one at random, but for the life of me I could not find any way to contact the person.
So I thought I'd try to contact the site itself. I went to the help page, and eventually found the Contact us link. The I spent forever trying to find my way around THAT page, before I FINALLY found the link to the Help desk. THEN I couldn't figure out how to post a new question - it took me FOREVER to find the tiny little "post a new question" link.
So anyway, my original problem was that the spam filter was filtering out a website I was trying to add to a page. The page was the Backstreet Boys page, and this is the link I wanted to add: www.bsbunlimited.4t.com.
Are reviews appropriate for an article? I came across Renee Robinson#Performance_Reviews and wasn't sure if it was appropriate, and figured it'd be best to ask before deleting it. :) Thanks! -- Zawersh 06:39, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I have a problem with the font in the Wikipedia site. For some reason the browser uses the unconfortable font Gill Sans MT Shadow when browsing this site- and this site only. Why does it do that? How can I fix it?
Thank you, Racheli.
Thanks, really, but where can I find the preferences screen? is it in my browser? Or somewhere in the Wikipedia site? Racheli.
Finally, a normal font! Thanks!
If I've made edits without logging into my account, is there anyway that these edits could be retroactively accredited to me? Khanartist 10:58, 2005 Jan 16 (UTC)
I have just received an email from
wiki@wikimedia.org
It states a password and username.
These do not refer to me!
Is this a scam or a security bloop from wiki?
Just created new account and I messed up the letters in my User Name. Is there any way I can Change my User Name? If not, how to I 'unsubscribe' - then I would just create a new account with correct User Name. Thanks in advance.
I have noticed that there are a number of articles with a table at the start where it appears on top of the text, see Battle of Methven for an example of this, there are others. There are some other articles which get this right. There is probably some fairly simple solution, but what is it? PatGallacher 01:55, 2005 Jan 17 (UTC)
I am using MS internet explorer v. 5.5 for mac and many pages have blank areas in the text where there should definitely be text. I have seen this in a lot of different pages, but the "Linus Pauling" page really had quite a bit of it....
anyone know how to deal with this? thanks a million in advance. Andrew avwells@comcast.net
Please advise how one can edit tables. For example: In the Opal page there is a spelling mistake in the 'Identification: Colour' cell, to whit "iridiscent", which should read "iridescent". How does one correct this? Incidentally, the link for 'iridiscent' does not work. Is this due to the spelling mistake? Duncan France
I while ago, I created an article on Fazed, which is a blog/discussion site. It was added to and amended by users, but it has now vanished.
Can I find what has happened to this article?
I've been wikifying articles with a number of biblical quotations. Is there
Nothing lets down the presentation of these pages like straggly, unreadable bible verses. This also applies to articles heavily dotted with quotations.
Peter Hitchmough 20:14, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Also, can we include portions of Bible scripture? Are there versions in the public domain? Peter Hitchmough 22:19, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Do business experts believe that within the next five years, all business conducted by firms of more than 10 employees will be done through the Internet?
Hi I'm trying to make an article that some people call racist, however "nigger" is an article here. My article is real and called "nigger antics". It is meant to be serious but Luck and Rick are being rude.
Make them stop and put my article up
I think I would like to start a bunch of pages on various chemical substances that don't currently have articles, giving at least the chemical structure, boiling point, melting point, and so forth. Is there some kind of standardized article stub I can use to start these articles so that my formatting will be consistent with that of similar topics? — Bkell 07:12, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Could some kindly registered-type person move Sauroptergyia to Sauropterygia? Wikipedia:Requested moves and a 5-day delay seems inappropriate since there's no redirect to delete or second page to merge. (It's a new article I just wrote. I had problems saving, so after a wait I tried to create it a second time, and followed a misspelled link instead of typing the title in... and yes, I misspelled the link I followed in the first place :). See external links if there's any question about the spelling. 68.81.231.127 10:14, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi
I've created a page for Lionel Charbonnier. I've included him in 2 categories where his name has doubled up: Category:French footballers and Category:Rangers F.C. footballers. What have I done wrong? - Master Of Ninja 20:54, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
i'm trying to insert lines in a list; it will only let me edit the interior of lines already there, not add on at beginning or end or insert additional lines.
When I try to edit Article One of the United States Constitution, it truncates the text loaded into the edit box. I didn't realise this, and now I can't fix it. I have tried Firefox and IE, and it affects both so it's something to do with the connection. Probably a 32k limit. — PhilHibbs | talk 15:12, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how to go about running a script or bot on Wikipedia, and don't want to start figuring out how. But I've found something that needs a bot/script 1 to be run. So I'm requesting that it be done (see next paragraph). Thanks much! If this is wrong place to ask, someone please direct me to the right place, and I'll repost this there; thanks.
— msh210 18:52, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have remopved this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Script-running_request. —msh210
Hi 'pedians!
I used to be able to simply type a word in the URL, like "wikipedia.org/Banana", and it would go to the right place. Recently, however, trying to go to that URL gives me a "redirection limit exceeded" error. I think it changed within the past couple weeks, but I don't know exactly when, and I couldn't find any mention of it around here.
Is it a problem with my computer, or did Wikipedia change? If the latter, any chance it'll go back so we don't have to always go through the search box?
Thanks!
I think Category:Endangered species should be added to Template:StatusEndangered and Template:StatusCritical, but some of those articles already include the category. Would this cause a problem?
If the article needed an alternate collation name, such as , could this be added to a separate instance of the category in the article itself? — PhilHibbs | talk 11:24, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I believe I can contribute some good articles to Wikipedia, however I am not a native English speaker. Will my grammar and spelling mistakes be corrected? I wish to contribute to main (English) Wikipedia.
Can I upload a picture file just to be used in my user page? Roscoe x 16:19, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Could someone please place the John Bowlby page in the Psychologists subcategory of Psychology. Also, please create a redirect from the search "Bowlby," or "Attachment," or "Loss." Thank you.
I have created an article titled (exactly) Clan MacKay - but only that exact capitalization finds it at all (it's only a few days old). How does this get made generally detectable?
Since it's an orphan (no pages, except this one, link to it), it would also be a good idea to find some related articles, and add wikilinks back to your article, though of course show some some restraint. It will also give you some idea of how people are trying to link to your article (which make good redirects). And every article needs a category or two. 68.81.231.127 13:47, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Tupsharru Thank you for your active and effective involvement and contribution in the discussions on the articles Mathew Mankuzhikary and Sebastian Mankuzhikary. I have followed the same. Try to edit and update it with more information to make the articles perfect. Simple Sinai
I noticed that the text does not wrap properly around the table in this article. However I am not great with tables and my couple of trial changes only made it worse. I presume it is something in the heading of the table? Rmhermen 14:54, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
So all my contributions to wikipedia are GFDL. Does that include my user page? Can I put stuff in my userpage and withhold the rights? - Lethe | Talk 22:20, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
I have added some stuff to Committee of 100, but it is currently two articles in one (which I'm sure(ish) is wroung). How do I make a disambiguation page + two new pages (one for each article) plus delete old page? (if indeed this is what I should do)-- JK the unwise 13:58, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I have two issues on the page for Sophia_University.
Whomever chose the infobox template chose the wrong one. They chose the one for US universities, and Sophia is clearly in Japan. I cannot see a way to change the infobox to the proper template.
Editing the data in an infobox is crazy. I tried for about ten minutes to get rid of the "{{{state}}}" and "{{{free_text}}}" entries, to no avail. I couldn't find any help on infoboxes.
Both of these issues could be fixed with better documentation that gets shown when you edit a page that has an infobox.
Sorry if this question is answered elsewhere; I've gone through all the info articles I can find, and still don't know the answer. I want to create an article on an Australian theatre performer/producer/etc named George Wallace, but there's already an article on an American politician of the same name. Short of removing the other article (bad choice!) how do I do it? - Wocky
At Special:Preferences there is an option called "Limit images on image description pages to" with a dropdown box and several resolutions to select from. The Help:Preferences help file explains this option as "Confusingly in the category "Recent changes and stub display", one can specify a limit on the size of images on image description pages.".
Could someone please explain to me what this option does and/or edit the entry in the help file?
-- Feantur 22:06, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)
If you look at an article such as Mahwah, New Jersey, you'll notice that it has a map showing the location of the town. If, however, you pull up an article for a town in Massachusetts, such as Worcester, Massachusetts, there is no map. There is a nice map of Massachusetts cities and towns available from the Mass. Citizen Information Service at http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cispdf/ma_city_town.pdf . Is there a way to take all 351 Mass. town articles and highlight their location on this map in the article? Is there also a way to do something similar for other states, like New Hampshire? Thanks.
-- Tckma, 2005 Jan 22
RS-485 was improperly cut-and-pasted to EIA-485. Would someone please merge the history of RS-485 into EIA-485, to keep the history with the article? – radiojon 06:28, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)
Anyone besides me notice this? The lowercase r appears as rows of line segments, instead of a solid letter. I'm not sure if my description makes sense, so it's probably better if you see for yourself: open an article with a lowercase "r" in the title (click on Wikipedia:Community Portal, for instance, then look at the title when the article page has loaded.
I asked about this at Village pump a few weeks ago. No one answered and after a few days the lowercase r went back to normal. As of this writing it's happening again. Is this a glitch, or intentional (maybe an in-joke)? Gyrofrog 07:50, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Question moved to Wikipedia:Reference Desk -- Ferkelparade π 13:29, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
We are working on GNU related content management project. Our project aims to create a semantic web enabled portal for content management.We are working at TIFR under the guidance of Dr.Nagarjuna G.
We are currently working on the articles at the Wikipedia site. We have downloaded the cur (current) sql dump which has the entire content including the text of the articles. We are interested only in the names of the articles and the relationship to their categories. We have also tried the categorylinks db but, it gives us the ids of the articles and not their names.
We would like to know if there is any table which just has the names of the articles and their categories.
Thanking you, Sakecwiki team (TIFR)
Hi
I want to create a wimshurst machine article, but its also very commonly known as "wimhurst" machine. do i create 2 pages with identical content?
-- GeCh 13:43, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
-- GeCh 15:33, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how this stuff works, but apparently someone has gone into the KKK article and inserted various obscenity-laden objections to the organization. Somebody might want to fix it before any kiddies go there.
Already reverted by Zigger. If you want to know how to do a revert, go to Wikipedia:Revert Thanks for noticing! Lee S. Svoboda 21:52, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I just made about 5 edits to the Iron Chef page a few minutes ago, and then realized that I wasn't logged in when I did that. Is there any way to go back and associate said edits with my account?
I should have paid closer attention to that, but I didn't. Would like for them to show up in the my contributions area, but I can't find a way to do this myself; assuming it's even possible.
Thanks.
I remember to have read how to change the owner of the editing, when it was done without being logging in. i remember tha can be done by sysop only, but there where a method that can be done only immidiately by the person how have just edit the article. But I dont remember how AnyFile 11:36, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I want to file a complaint against User:Violetriga starting with mediation, as I assume this is the best way. Can someone tell me how to go about it/point me in the right direction please, as wikipedia is designed to be so un-user friendly and complicated? WikiUser 15:07, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is there someone such as a mediator of goodwill who can assist me with abuse from admin Chris0 who has announced he is going to block me against the wikipedia rules-simply for my being at this site. This user has made my life hell here. And also assist me with the following matter:
3RR again You are now on your third revert of List of United Kingdom nations by population. Your use of "countries" rather than "nations" is inconsistent with the article title and is against the previously agreed consensus expressed on Talk:England. Please seek consensus on what the term should be rather than imposing your own view. I suggest raising this issue on Talk:United Kingdom so that any change to the terminology can be made on all of the articles which currently refer to UK nations rather than countries. If you revert List of United Kingdom nations by population again you will be blocked from editing for 24 hours. -- ChrisO 20:51, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
USERS PLEASE NOTE:I have not reverted it at all. I have edited the pages in question, in the same way as everyone else does edit pages. I warned this user that if he continued his abuse of me I would proceed with complaints against him.
I HAVE GIVEN plenty of notice to The Wikipedia Foundation that I am partially disabled and have been caused great distress by the continual abuse of this and other users who have targetted me for abuse since I joined. And I want The Wikipedia Foundation to note that this discrimination, insult and abuse is driving me towards considering suicide.
I CALL FOR all users and Administrators of goodwill to stop this user from harrassing me in this way.WikiUser 21:16, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WikiUser" WikiUser 21:27, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
What about the browser statistic at Wikipedia, which browser is most used among us,Wkipedians? -- ThomasK 08:42, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
I'm feeling very frustrated and I hope someone can help me. Let me say that I admit that I have found myself in the midst of a revert war that I should have never entered into; I should have figured out a better tact, but I didn’t and I now I’m stuck.
The entry is question is for Ohio Wesleyan University and the problem is happening with one individual, using one Wiki-user name and various IP addresses to include information that is robbing the entry of its NPOV. By making edits signed in and not signed in, the contributor is attempting to make it appear that more then one person is involved. One I.P. address is an OWU based I.P. address and I’m assuming that the other I.P. is the one that this person uses while at home on break.
Problems with the listed began in July of this year -- before I became involved with the article, which was in September under my user name of “Stude62”. Prior to that time, there have been requests, and attempts to return the document to a NPOV state, however the edits are quickly reverted.
These edits, have resulted in an article that isn’t reliable, isn’t objective and isn’t documented; references are made to publications and outside companies, but date, issue, vol. and page numbers are not included and it makes it very hard to proof the material. In place of properly documented references, superlatives were used ad nauseam.
My goal when I began working on the article was to remove its subjectivity and return the article to a NPOV state that was reliable and informative. I’m not a great writer, but I could see how sentences could be rearranged to place like topics together, and how restructuring that rewording sentences and paragraphs could reduce the wordiness of the article. In a strictly word to word comparison, this article out strips articles for other like school lists with its peer colleges by about 3to1 and that’s even without addressing the issue of content, which the OWU article is seriously lacking.
Along the lines of factual content, the article is lacking in good solid factual content. It’s my contention that the “protector” of the article is more concerned with the school at looking impressive in a way that makes the “protector” look impressive. The school’s credentials are meritorious, and should be recognized in manner in which the credentials speak for themselves, not in such a way that they appear "affected" as they do within the article.
In addition to my attempts to steer the article in the right direction, others have tried, however when suggestions are made, the “protector” immediately questions them, even when suggestions are outlined in the wiki style manual.
The “protector” is also attempting to rewrite the history of OWU without knowing anything about the history that they are trying to rewrite. In its place, the protector is basing his/her history on their perception, not fact.
Yesterday, I contacted the University and have begun to work with the archives and media relations department on formulating a factual rewrite on the article. But I am concerned about the “protector’s” continued ability to vandalize this article based on his/her perceptions trumping reality.
Can anyone help or recommend another user who is expirienced in deal with this type of "protector"?
[[User:Stude62|" user: stude62"]] 16:33, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I am the user he is referring to. I do not appreciate the way Stude62 is working on this, but I will not discuss this as the objective is to come up with a solution. Could you be specific when you talk about "affected language" on the Wesleyan page? Did you discuss any specific words or facts that bothered you in the discussion page? If you did, I will work with you and change them if they are not NPOV. Absolutely. Instead, you keep complaining on various sites in a very general language lacking ANY specific examples. You didn't even bother discussing it on the Wesleyan's page.
Like an hour ago you made a complete overhaul of the article. I liked. Kept it. What's the problem? I only made a few changes that made the facts consistent with the school's facts. (e.g. Methodist Episc. Church). In fact, that's what you told us you heard from the President's Office. I pointed you to a link as well. I don't know what else to say or how to convince you.
FYI, I sign my contributions. :)
Rananim 21:48, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Rananim-
If you want to talk about this, please do so through an email. I am seeking help from the Wiki Community - let the system work.[[User:Stude62|" user: stude62"]] 01:59, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is there any automatic way within WP to count the contributions I have made, or do I just have to open my contribution history and count them all myself? -- Cynical 20:14, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi all!
When reverting a page to an earlier version, I'm adding an edit summary like: "Reverted edits by X to last version by Y". I must be blind, lacking sleep, or both, but I can't seem to do figure out how to make "X" appear as a link to X's contribution page.
I've looked at Wikipedia:Editing FAQ, Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version, Wikipedia:Edit summary, m:Help:Edit summary and Wikipedia:Edit summary legend, but found no answers.
(Yes, I am a semi-clueless Wikinewbie)
Thanks!-- Plek 03:27, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to access Wikipedia via WML or in a low graphics version?
I spend a lot of time sitting and waiting!
IIRC there is a text only version that used to be linked to on the front page. Unfortunately, the address escapes my mind at the moment. Maybe a search for "text only" will get you a link the a text only main page? Mgm| (talk) 12:37, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for that, but I'm afraid I couldn't get anything. This is a strange omission if it has been withdrawn. I use a P900 and I can get a great many sites on it, especially news ones.
If anyone has an idea about this, or a method of contacting the powers that be I would be very greatful.
Thanks again
That is a FINE idea, thanks very much.
I can be contacted at iatc-ourtown(at)earthlink.net
Is there a limit to the number of completed links you can have one one page? I've been trying to add some new pages to " List of craters on the Moon", but every time I do so now it gives me a database error. However I am able to edit other pages just fine, so perhaps I hit some internal limit? The errors generally look like this:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: INSERT IGNORE INTO `links` (l_from,l_to) VALUES ('1378918','6416'), ('1378918','222867'),('1378918','50283'),('1378918','1187827'), ('1378918','497846'),('1378918','702219') from within function "LinksUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; Try restarting transaction (10.0.0.1)".
I tried multiple times and with more than one page, but keep getting an error. Thanks. — RJH 20:32, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
When reading old fashioned paper encyclopedias, I could browse by starting at a letter of the alphabet and going through articles in alphabetical order. I could be introduced to many topics I had never considered before. Is there something equivalent for Wikipedia besides the Random page?
Is it possible to make text appear only after a redirect but not in the main article?
Example:
Rockman redirects to
Mega Man series, as it should. But Rockman is also the name of a line of
guitar amps. Currently the disambiguation text for this problem is at the top of the
Mega Man series page, but it's only useful if the user was redirected from
Rockman.
WHAT on earth am I doing wrong in entering my ISBN's? I simply cannot figure it out. Here is exactly what I enter, and they never link up: ISBN 0300055366. Yes: I am positive that I am not dyslexing the numbers. Many thanks, allie 23:14, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Simple: don't link. Parser magic does this for you: ISBN 0-30-005536-6. JRM 23:21, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)
We are the GNU project from TIFR. We downloaded the categorieslink table as you had directed us.We are not going to keep the articles with us but only the metadata.The metadata includes the keywords and the words that can identify the articles.For that we need the URIs of the various articles.Can you help on the same.Also we aim in creating varios relations between articles.Does WIKIPEDIA already have any such relations between the articles,if it has please give us some information on that too.
Thanking you, Sakecwiki Team(TIFR)
I have been having a devil of a time. I can preview edits and new articles just fine, but when attempting to save page, it goes absymally slowly and (now) usually dosn't work. I sit there waiting ages for the page to load, only to get an error message. I haven't changed my computer and this is a recent problem. The messages are (sorry, it's a bit long):
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: INSERT IGNORE INTO `links` (l_from,l_to) VALUES ('1383433','279684'),('1383433','5355'),('1383433','10646'),('1383433','1380897'),('1383433','49404'),('1383433','555643'),('1383433','26437'),('1383433','50283'),('1383433','1187827'),('1383433','497846'),('1383433','702219') from within function "LinksUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; Try restarting transaction (10.0.0.1)". Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_%28profession%29"
OR:
Sorry- we have a problem... The wikimedia web server didn't return any response to your request. To get information on what's going on you can visit #wikipedia. An "offsite" status page is hosted on OpenFacts.
Generated Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:54:57 GMT by wikipedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE4-20040219)
Thanks Quill 22:46, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have uploaded an image to the Wikimedia Commons that has the same name as an image on the Wikipedia. What is the preferred method of adding this image to an article? I could see changing the name of one or the other but I'm guessing there is a better way.
Thanks - Trick 22:48, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
How can you say you are an on-line encyclopedia? An encyclopedia is based on fact-not liberal opinions such as stated on the tsunami article. My daughter is doing a research paper on the tsunami and pulled up your site. Thank God she asked me about it before she put in her report that the earthquake that caused the tsunami was caused by a hydrogen bomb being tested in the Indian Ocean-by the Busch administration!!! Her teachers would have that she was a complete idiot!! If you want to post crap like that in your on-line site ,call it something else besides an encyclopedia. I have instructed my daughter never to go to your site again. Your site is nothing more than a glorified chat-room.
Really not sure where to ask/mention this...
I ran across Henry Morgenthau, Sr. today (whilst looking for his son). Almost all of the article deals heavily with the contentious issue of the Armenian Genocide and was written by an anonymous IP whose other edits were to pages about that same topic.
I don't know anything in particular about the topic ("many died, was messy, popular with revisionists"), but I do know that what's there is contentious, looks fairly one-sided and vituperative (...tendency toward fabrication...nonsensical tales of brutality...), and therefore doesn't seem entirely trustworthy; it reads as heavily PoV. So, I would edit it, neutralise it a bit. Unfortunately, for all I know he was as bad as the article portrays him, and I have very little in the way of reference material here to work from. What's the best way to flag this for the attention of people with some knowledge of the topic?
Thanks, and apologies for a stupid question. Shimgray 00:56, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to merge all back-to-back edits to an article by the same user into a single edit for the purposes of the history and diffs? If not, why not, and if so, why is this process not automated? -- Boco XLVII 04:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I can't be the only who noticed the edit-war over whether country articles are to use infobox templates or not. Where do I report this time-consuming back-and-forth-editting and request mediation of the differing opinions? As it seems, the different side where not able to come to a compromise or consensus in their discussion of the matter themselves Nightstallion 05:27, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Will transwiki (or crosswiki, whichever they're called) work on any wiki running the Mediawiki software? Also, can crosswiki redirects be made? Thanks, Alphax (t) (c) (e) 07:46, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
How do I add a cross-referring, i.e. clickable (foot)note ? Double-parenthesizing notenumbers does not seem to work. David de Cooman 11:32, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have some history with Wikis. I registered with a CamelCase user name. Is there any chance I can change it so I don't lose history etc?
Diz 12:45, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Do we have a policy guideline on whether links to discussion forums are appropriate? A persistent anon keeps re-adding a links to a couple of hir forums to certain music articles. The forums have less than 100 users each, and most posts are by the forum owner. If there were to be links to discussion forums for these bands at all, there are far more notable ones. I've removed them about half a dozen times, but they're always back within a week or two, usually from a different IP address.
I believe that these sorts of links are discouraged, unless the forum itself is notable enough to be the subject of the article, or are a key source of understanding (certain technology topics, perhaps). However, I have scoured the policy, faq, and help pages for a guideline to which I could refer the anon, and I find nothing about this other than "no advertising or self promotion", and since these are not commercial sites, s/he is not convinced.
Is there a policy page on forum links that I've missed? If not, should this be specifically added? I'd hate to look like I'm "making up" policy in order to remove this person's link, so I would like some input from others on the issue. Catherine\ talk 17:56, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
How can request a link to Special:Allpages on the Main Page? I consider it superior to the Quick index Lee S. Svoboda 18:09, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) Your best bet is discussing it at Talk:Main Page. Mgm| (talk) 09:33, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
I want to nominate Andrew Babcock for deletion. This page was just created today by 216.114.70.163. There is no content on Andrew Babcock, it simply redirects to an unrelated page, which is itself a redirect.
How do I place the VfD notice on the Andrew Babcock page without being redirected and prevented from doing so? Johntex 18:51, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Modern usage tends to style a name like this: G K Chesterton, but traditionally it would be styled like this: G. K. Chesterton.
As G K Chesterton was very much known by his initials, I made a redirect from G K Chesterton to G. K. Chesterton where an article already existed. Conversely, the entry for A E Housman has no periods in its article name. Which style is preferred? Where can I read about this on the site?
Diz 19:13, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The correct style is G. K. Cesterton. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)
Lee S. Svoboda 22:21, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I submitted IPod shuffle to VfD because I feel that this is not a note-worthy device, and that the article is no better than an advertisement. However, the entry has been on VfD for less than a day and it has gotten 11 votes to keep, 1 vote to merge and redirect, and no votes to delete other than my own. It seems there will be a clear consensus to keep this article. Therefore, I would like to withdraw my nomination for VfD and remove the VfD tag from the article. However, other than noting that these tags should not be removed while the issue is "under consideration", the policy on article deletion is silent on this issue. Is it acceptable for me to withdraw my candidate for VfD, given that the consensus opinion seems to be to keep the article? Johntex 00:34, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Seems as though wikipedia disallows iframe tags. Is this correct? If so, why? I'd like to try and use the tag so I can display external content on my user page. Is there another way one can do this?-- Will2k 07:15, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there,
I am a newcomer to the Wikipedia and I am amazed by the contents of the site. I have an existing site on China Arts & Crafts where I wish to include links to Wikipedia, on subjects such as History, Culture, Nationality of China in Chinese and English as reference materials to readers. But the links did not work for Chinese language. I guess it must be problem of the copyright. How can I bypass this since it is a free encyclopia. Please anyone help me and my ID to Wikipedia is 14546 and my name is Larry Chan with email at: larrychan@email.com.
Larry Chan
"Columbia finally landed at Edwards AFB at 5:59 a.m. PST, on Jan. 18. Mission elapsed time was 6 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes, 51 seconds.
After numerous delays Columbia returned to orbit on January 12, 1986. The primary mission was to deploy a geosynchronous KU-1 communications satellite for RCA Americom. A variety of other experiments were also performed successfully including some using the Materials Science Laboratory-2. This was the first flight utilizing NASA's Get Away Special canisters. Perhaps, the mission is most notable for carrying one of only three sitting congressmen into space, John Glenn and Jake Garn being the others."
Could someone more capable than myself, please tell me if the above should be rewritten. It seems confusing to me. I could understand this last paragraph being placed closer to the beginning of the article, but not at the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61-C
vertical lines appear often in texts to edit; i cant find a way to do this on my keyboard; how is it done?
My home town Oldham has a second page Oldham_(borough). This appears to be part of a well organised "project" of English boroughs and administrative authorities.
Now... I have previously merged Macclesfield_(borough) into Macclesfield and redirected into Macclesfield, as the only real content on the borough article was a well made infobox. See the previous edits on those articles. Am I going about his the right way? Would it be good practice to merge Oldham_(borough) into Oldham?
Advice sought. Peter Hitchmough
The old Urban Legends website is now dead and the http://www.urbanlegends.com/ link now goes to a generic search website (associated with oingo.com, which likes to buy up abandoned URLs). I've used the Google site-search to try to find all the references to urbanlegends.com in the Wikipedia, but that search seems to have been incomplete since the original article where I found an external link to urbanlegends.com ( Yellow badge) wasn't listed by Google. I went ahead and changed the pages that I found ( April Fool's Day and Spontaneous human combustion) that hadn't already been changed by someone else, but a more complete search should be done. I am posting this info here since I couldn't find any better place to do it. gK ¿? 04:47, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
We are the Gnu priject from Tifr.We need to know how to get only the content of the article and the images if any.We do not want the wikipedia background as in the navigation on the left,the tabs on the top etc.We need this because when we click on the link that directs to the wikipedia article, the page takes up the whole screen and does not fit in the frame that we provide.It will be very efficient if we get only the content of the article in that frame.If suppose the article is not found then we redirect the user to the Wikipedia main page.We will be grateful if you provide us help on the same.
Do youhaveany MD5 file with you.Do you generate any.If so pleaselet know.Thanks.
Would someone post the photo of her on the Portuguese edition of Wikipedia to the English article? I'm not very good with technical things such as this and would appreciate someone else's aid. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 21:08, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
I made a contribution to an article, and it was reverted within 5 minutes, which was not nearly enough time to even do the slightest research on whether my edits were factual. I thought I was encouraged to Be bold in editing articles, but there is no point if they are reverted without a thought. They could have at least left a reason on the talk page, you know. I don't want this to devolve into a discussion about a specific article, so I'm not mentioning it here, but why should I contribute if the community does not want me to, you know?
First off I have to say that this website is, no offense, IMPOSSIBLE to find your way around.
I just had a simple problem with the spam filter filtering out a website I was trying to link to. It told me to contact an administrator, so I went to the LONG list and picked one at random, but for the life of me I could not find any way to contact the person.
So I thought I'd try to contact the site itself. I went to the help page, and eventually found the Contact us link. The I spent forever trying to find my way around THAT page, before I FINALLY found the link to the Help desk. THEN I couldn't figure out how to post a new question - it took me FOREVER to find the tiny little "post a new question" link.
So anyway, my original problem was that the spam filter was filtering out a website I was trying to add to a page. The page was the Backstreet Boys page, and this is the link I wanted to add: www.bsbunlimited.4t.com.
Are reviews appropriate for an article? I came across Renee Robinson#Performance_Reviews and wasn't sure if it was appropriate, and figured it'd be best to ask before deleting it. :) Thanks! -- Zawersh 06:39, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I have a problem with the font in the Wikipedia site. For some reason the browser uses the unconfortable font Gill Sans MT Shadow when browsing this site- and this site only. Why does it do that? How can I fix it?
Thank you, Racheli.
Thanks, really, but where can I find the preferences screen? is it in my browser? Or somewhere in the Wikipedia site? Racheli.
Finally, a normal font! Thanks!
If I've made edits without logging into my account, is there anyway that these edits could be retroactively accredited to me? Khanartist 10:58, 2005 Jan 16 (UTC)
I have just received an email from
wiki@wikimedia.org
It states a password and username.
These do not refer to me!
Is this a scam or a security bloop from wiki?
Just created new account and I messed up the letters in my User Name. Is there any way I can Change my User Name? If not, how to I 'unsubscribe' - then I would just create a new account with correct User Name. Thanks in advance.
I have noticed that there are a number of articles with a table at the start where it appears on top of the text, see Battle of Methven for an example of this, there are others. There are some other articles which get this right. There is probably some fairly simple solution, but what is it? PatGallacher 01:55, 2005 Jan 17 (UTC)
I am using MS internet explorer v. 5.5 for mac and many pages have blank areas in the text where there should definitely be text. I have seen this in a lot of different pages, but the "Linus Pauling" page really had quite a bit of it....
anyone know how to deal with this? thanks a million in advance. Andrew avwells@comcast.net
Please advise how one can edit tables. For example: In the Opal page there is a spelling mistake in the 'Identification: Colour' cell, to whit "iridiscent", which should read "iridescent". How does one correct this? Incidentally, the link for 'iridiscent' does not work. Is this due to the spelling mistake? Duncan France
I while ago, I created an article on Fazed, which is a blog/discussion site. It was added to and amended by users, but it has now vanished.
Can I find what has happened to this article?
I've been wikifying articles with a number of biblical quotations. Is there
Nothing lets down the presentation of these pages like straggly, unreadable bible verses. This also applies to articles heavily dotted with quotations.
Peter Hitchmough 20:14, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Also, can we include portions of Bible scripture? Are there versions in the public domain? Peter Hitchmough 22:19, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Do business experts believe that within the next five years, all business conducted by firms of more than 10 employees will be done through the Internet?
Hi I'm trying to make an article that some people call racist, however "nigger" is an article here. My article is real and called "nigger antics". It is meant to be serious but Luck and Rick are being rude.
Make them stop and put my article up
I think I would like to start a bunch of pages on various chemical substances that don't currently have articles, giving at least the chemical structure, boiling point, melting point, and so forth. Is there some kind of standardized article stub I can use to start these articles so that my formatting will be consistent with that of similar topics? — Bkell 07:12, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Could some kindly registered-type person move Sauroptergyia to Sauropterygia? Wikipedia:Requested moves and a 5-day delay seems inappropriate since there's no redirect to delete or second page to merge. (It's a new article I just wrote. I had problems saving, so after a wait I tried to create it a second time, and followed a misspelled link instead of typing the title in... and yes, I misspelled the link I followed in the first place :). See external links if there's any question about the spelling. 68.81.231.127 10:14, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi
I've created a page for Lionel Charbonnier. I've included him in 2 categories where his name has doubled up: Category:French footballers and Category:Rangers F.C. footballers. What have I done wrong? - Master Of Ninja 20:54, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
i'm trying to insert lines in a list; it will only let me edit the interior of lines already there, not add on at beginning or end or insert additional lines.
When I try to edit Article One of the United States Constitution, it truncates the text loaded into the edit box. I didn't realise this, and now I can't fix it. I have tried Firefox and IE, and it affects both so it's something to do with the connection. Probably a 32k limit. — PhilHibbs | talk 15:12, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how to go about running a script or bot on Wikipedia, and don't want to start figuring out how. But I've found something that needs a bot/script 1 to be run. So I'm requesting that it be done (see next paragraph). Thanks much! If this is wrong place to ask, someone please direct me to the right place, and I'll repost this there; thanks.
— msh210 18:52, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have remopved this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Script-running_request. —msh210
Hi 'pedians!
I used to be able to simply type a word in the URL, like "wikipedia.org/Banana", and it would go to the right place. Recently, however, trying to go to that URL gives me a "redirection limit exceeded" error. I think it changed within the past couple weeks, but I don't know exactly when, and I couldn't find any mention of it around here.
Is it a problem with my computer, or did Wikipedia change? If the latter, any chance it'll go back so we don't have to always go through the search box?
Thanks!
I think Category:Endangered species should be added to Template:StatusEndangered and Template:StatusCritical, but some of those articles already include the category. Would this cause a problem?
If the article needed an alternate collation name, such as , could this be added to a separate instance of the category in the article itself? — PhilHibbs | talk 11:24, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I believe I can contribute some good articles to Wikipedia, however I am not a native English speaker. Will my grammar and spelling mistakes be corrected? I wish to contribute to main (English) Wikipedia.
Can I upload a picture file just to be used in my user page? Roscoe x 16:19, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Could someone please place the John Bowlby page in the Psychologists subcategory of Psychology. Also, please create a redirect from the search "Bowlby," or "Attachment," or "Loss." Thank you.
I have created an article titled (exactly) Clan MacKay - but only that exact capitalization finds it at all (it's only a few days old). How does this get made generally detectable?
Since it's an orphan (no pages, except this one, link to it), it would also be a good idea to find some related articles, and add wikilinks back to your article, though of course show some some restraint. It will also give you some idea of how people are trying to link to your article (which make good redirects). And every article needs a category or two. 68.81.231.127 13:47, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Tupsharru Thank you for your active and effective involvement and contribution in the discussions on the articles Mathew Mankuzhikary and Sebastian Mankuzhikary. I have followed the same. Try to edit and update it with more information to make the articles perfect. Simple Sinai
I noticed that the text does not wrap properly around the table in this article. However I am not great with tables and my couple of trial changes only made it worse. I presume it is something in the heading of the table? Rmhermen 14:54, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
So all my contributions to wikipedia are GFDL. Does that include my user page? Can I put stuff in my userpage and withhold the rights? - Lethe | Talk 22:20, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
I have added some stuff to Committee of 100, but it is currently two articles in one (which I'm sure(ish) is wroung). How do I make a disambiguation page + two new pages (one for each article) plus delete old page? (if indeed this is what I should do)-- JK the unwise 13:58, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I have two issues on the page for Sophia_University.
Whomever chose the infobox template chose the wrong one. They chose the one for US universities, and Sophia is clearly in Japan. I cannot see a way to change the infobox to the proper template.
Editing the data in an infobox is crazy. I tried for about ten minutes to get rid of the "{{{state}}}" and "{{{free_text}}}" entries, to no avail. I couldn't find any help on infoboxes.
Both of these issues could be fixed with better documentation that gets shown when you edit a page that has an infobox.
Sorry if this question is answered elsewhere; I've gone through all the info articles I can find, and still don't know the answer. I want to create an article on an Australian theatre performer/producer/etc named George Wallace, but there's already an article on an American politician of the same name. Short of removing the other article (bad choice!) how do I do it? - Wocky
At Special:Preferences there is an option called "Limit images on image description pages to" with a dropdown box and several resolutions to select from. The Help:Preferences help file explains this option as "Confusingly in the category "Recent changes and stub display", one can specify a limit on the size of images on image description pages.".
Could someone please explain to me what this option does and/or edit the entry in the help file?
-- Feantur 22:06, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)
If you look at an article such as Mahwah, New Jersey, you'll notice that it has a map showing the location of the town. If, however, you pull up an article for a town in Massachusetts, such as Worcester, Massachusetts, there is no map. There is a nice map of Massachusetts cities and towns available from the Mass. Citizen Information Service at http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cispdf/ma_city_town.pdf . Is there a way to take all 351 Mass. town articles and highlight their location on this map in the article? Is there also a way to do something similar for other states, like New Hampshire? Thanks.
-- Tckma, 2005 Jan 22
RS-485 was improperly cut-and-pasted to EIA-485. Would someone please merge the history of RS-485 into EIA-485, to keep the history with the article? – radiojon 06:28, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)
Anyone besides me notice this? The lowercase r appears as rows of line segments, instead of a solid letter. I'm not sure if my description makes sense, so it's probably better if you see for yourself: open an article with a lowercase "r" in the title (click on Wikipedia:Community Portal, for instance, then look at the title when the article page has loaded.
I asked about this at Village pump a few weeks ago. No one answered and after a few days the lowercase r went back to normal. As of this writing it's happening again. Is this a glitch, or intentional (maybe an in-joke)? Gyrofrog 07:50, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Question moved to Wikipedia:Reference Desk -- Ferkelparade π 13:29, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
We are working on GNU related content management project. Our project aims to create a semantic web enabled portal for content management.We are working at TIFR under the guidance of Dr.Nagarjuna G.
We are currently working on the articles at the Wikipedia site. We have downloaded the cur (current) sql dump which has the entire content including the text of the articles. We are interested only in the names of the articles and the relationship to their categories. We have also tried the categorylinks db but, it gives us the ids of the articles and not their names.
We would like to know if there is any table which just has the names of the articles and their categories.
Thanking you, Sakecwiki team (TIFR)
Hi
I want to create a wimshurst machine article, but its also very commonly known as "wimhurst" machine. do i create 2 pages with identical content?
-- GeCh 13:43, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
-- GeCh 15:33, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how this stuff works, but apparently someone has gone into the KKK article and inserted various obscenity-laden objections to the organization. Somebody might want to fix it before any kiddies go there.
Already reverted by Zigger. If you want to know how to do a revert, go to Wikipedia:Revert Thanks for noticing! Lee S. Svoboda 21:52, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I just made about 5 edits to the Iron Chef page a few minutes ago, and then realized that I wasn't logged in when I did that. Is there any way to go back and associate said edits with my account?
I should have paid closer attention to that, but I didn't. Would like for them to show up in the my contributions area, but I can't find a way to do this myself; assuming it's even possible.
Thanks.
I remember to have read how to change the owner of the editing, when it was done without being logging in. i remember tha can be done by sysop only, but there where a method that can be done only immidiately by the person how have just edit the article. But I dont remember how AnyFile 11:36, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I want to file a complaint against User:Violetriga starting with mediation, as I assume this is the best way. Can someone tell me how to go about it/point me in the right direction please, as wikipedia is designed to be so un-user friendly and complicated? WikiUser 15:07, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Is there someone such as a mediator of goodwill who can assist me with abuse from admin Chris0 who has announced he is going to block me against the wikipedia rules-simply for my being at this site. This user has made my life hell here. And also assist me with the following matter:
3RR again You are now on your third revert of List of United Kingdom nations by population. Your use of "countries" rather than "nations" is inconsistent with the article title and is against the previously agreed consensus expressed on Talk:England. Please seek consensus on what the term should be rather than imposing your own view. I suggest raising this issue on Talk:United Kingdom so that any change to the terminology can be made on all of the articles which currently refer to UK nations rather than countries. If you revert List of United Kingdom nations by population again you will be blocked from editing for 24 hours. -- ChrisO 20:51, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
USERS PLEASE NOTE:I have not reverted it at all. I have edited the pages in question, in the same way as everyone else does edit pages. I warned this user that if he continued his abuse of me I would proceed with complaints against him.
I HAVE GIVEN plenty of notice to The Wikipedia Foundation that I am partially disabled and have been caused great distress by the continual abuse of this and other users who have targetted me for abuse since I joined. And I want The Wikipedia Foundation to note that this discrimination, insult and abuse is driving me towards considering suicide.
I CALL FOR all users and Administrators of goodwill to stop this user from harrassing me in this way.WikiUser 21:16, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WikiUser" WikiUser 21:27, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)