I would like to translate many articles in Wikipedia to the Spanish version, however I have not found a proper procedure for doing so. Cross-wiki links and such. Is there a place that outlines the general procedure for this? Thanks! -- Kitsune Sniper / David Silva 00:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
1. I wrote an article about TALKING ATMs
2. Someone wanted it merged into the ATM article, where it now resides under the heading "Disability Assisted ATMs"
3. The term "Talking ATM" is not a searchable term even tho the term is in the part of the ATM article referred to above.
4. How can I set it so if someone searches for "Talking ATM" they end up in the "disability Assited ATM" section - or at least in the ATM section?
5. Also - NOBODY refers to these machines as "disability assisted" -- the term is not used and incorrect. Where would I put a suggestion to change the term back to "Talking ATM"
Thanks!
Lainey Feingold (who has been working with the blind community on TALKING ATMs for 10 years!)
In "What links here" for the article "Stroboscope", one of the linking articles is also named "Stroboscope". Is something wrong? BrownBean 04:28, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! BrownBean 01:39, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I wrote a fairly extensive article on the programming language FALSE. Then not long after, I found that there already was an article called False programming language that I had managed to miss entirely. I'm working on merging them, but I need some help as to which of the two article titles I should merge into.
In favor of FALSE:
In favor of False programming language
The manual is in plaintext, so perhaps it is only "FALSE" there to give emphasis to the name. On the other hand, the author doesn't seem to add any more emphasis to the name than a leading capital in the remainder of the site (where he is not restricted to all-caps to add emphasis; having html it could be bold or some such).
Given this contradiction, I'm at a bit of a loss. Also see Talk:FALSE.
Ethan ( talk) 04:43, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I renewed a page with up-dated facts and nice pics, but it is replaced by a very old short version every second day. Why? Thanks in advance Sky Tower
I was re-directed to Tryfan from Moel Tryfan while cross checking links from North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway. I know enough to know these are different mountains, 9½ miles apart.
Can we have the re-direct taken off please? AHEMSLTD 14:22, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Retrieved from " Talk:Tryfan"
I don't know if this is a bug or a problem with my set-up. When I search for "Kitchener Ontario", in the user namespace, I get results 1-20 of 225. But if I click on "next" or "2" to get the second page, it says there were no matches to the query. What's going on? -- 192.206.151.130 16:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
A note has come up whilst using Wikipedia saying that I have been blocked from amending articles because of repreated vandalism of articles. I was not aware I have done this, and if I have it is certainly inadvertent. I have used Wikipedia to get much information, and I have been amending just the birth and death records of politicians which I have the information and Wikipedia does not and have added this information to the articles. But I appear to have upset someone (who hasnt contacted me directly). HELP! I am happy continuing using Wikepedia but just wanted to put something back in. :) RobStreatham —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobStreatham ( talk • contribs) 16:23, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Charlie Richmond 16:50, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity. When someone is banned from editing a certain group of articles or topic, how does the community make sure he hasn't broken his punishment? Does Wikipedia have a feature that allows to block certain pages from a user, or the decision is followed by watching the user's activities? CG 17:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
This behavior causes articles to be effectively lost or duplicated.
Is there any way around this problem?
Thanks!
would someone please have a look at the Paddy Casey page? In the singles section of the discography the first single is out of place in the table. i can't get it to go down where it should be, and i feel like i've tried everything... any chance anyone else would have a look and see if they can set it right?
cheers guys!
NaLaochra 02:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
what is "nik" and "donatello's"
Hi. How do I report a user who keeps on adding material about a person and this person's book on various pages? He never adds HTML links, so I can't call it link-spamming. He has never contributed anything else. I suspect this user and this book author is the same person. Also, what warning can I give? -- Perfecto 01:37, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
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The pictures in these articles are failing to load.
There is no German/Deutsch/Germany/Deutschland regional notice board, so I don't know where to ask for help. I need help from someone familiar with Germany or German to verify the article THTR-300. Is this a notable, real-life power plant? -- Perfecto 04:17, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed the typical text to revert something is: Reverted edits by 12.217.63.92 to last version by K1Bond007, but with the 12.217.63.92 changed to that person's contributions. How do I wikify that? Also, is there an easy way to write that without constantly typing that in? Thanks. -- JHMM13 05:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Just a really quick question, but I tried to create the subcat of Category:Religious NPOV disputes to help subcat the extrememly large Category:NPOV disputes, but when I look at the latter, it's not showing the subcat the first as a subcat >:\ Sherurcij 09:06, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.120.176.26 ( talk • contribs)
I'm sure there's a clever CSS way to do it, but I'm not sure how. How can I get a wikilink to appear in white text when it's against the black background of a table cell? If left its normal blue colour, the link is virtually invisible. -- Gareth Hughes 13:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Well, if I wanted to type the link Wikipedia in white, I would type the following:
[[Wikipedia|<span style="color: #FFFFFF">Wikipedia</span>]]
This looks like Wikipedia. I'm not sure if this is what you want, though. Izehar 17:47, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
No, the script I typed above will make the letters white, regardless of the background colour. Izehar 18:57, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.11.209.13 ( talk • contribs)
Unlike other items in an article (wikify, copyedit, etc), I never see a {contents} tag, so I wonder what makes one? How do you add it? Right now, I can only do this by copying a segment out of an existing article with a Table of Contents. Also, How do you set where the Contents appears? I see some pages with it at the top, but most have it after the intro paragraph. What is the "proper" location? Rlevse 17:42, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Why are some pictures not showing up? 130.111.98.131 18:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
What is a taxobox? Someone said I needed one. and how do I make one? Thanks -- LPW 20:26, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I recently set up a personal wiki to manage notes and whatnot. The install went through without much trouble. But whenever I attempt to save a page using the "Save Page" button I get sent to a preview page with the generic Remember that this is only a preview, and has not yet been saved! preview page line. I have tried editing various types of pages (main page, talk, discussion), as well as creating new pages. None of them allow me to save pages. I've tried editing from a sysop account and regular account, no dice. saving my preferences is also out of the question.
However, I am able to edit pages anonymously, which makes it all the more confusing. It seems like something gets set read-only once I log in, but I'm not familiar enough with mediawiki to know what.
TIA, tom link to my wiki
after reading your posts I tried connecting to the wiki via a proxy and I had no problems. I turned off the proxy and encountered the same problems. I am on the same subnet as the server, I wonder if that could be causing the problem. -Tom
Or better yet, the lack thereof. Many times I've reverted vandalism, saved my edits, and found via the history that someone else had already reverted it; however, I can't remember ever getting an edit conflict for any of these. I'm guessing this is either a technical issue or something to do with merging identical edits. Deltabeignet 05:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I am working on the Wikipedia Mailing List. A user in Brazil wants to leave information for an admin on the Danish Wikipedia. How can I get in touch with her and let her know.
Capitalistroadster 06:04, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I want to transfer all the Taxobox templates from en wiki to telugu wiki. Is there a way I can do this quick ? -- Vyzasatya 07:10, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Article on Methane is being messed up with random words
Does a last name have it's own symbol? I am looking for a symbol for the last name HURTADO.
Thank you
How do I create a link to: Wikipedia Article Web URL
Thanks,
Yesselman 17:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I am interested in purchasing Dora the Explora dubbed in German and have tried multiple web sites with no sucess. I have also called Niceledoen to no avail. Are you able to help tell me where I can order via e-mail Dora the explora dubbed in german.
Thank you.
Linda McBride <email address removed>
Can't you read the rules? It says do not list your e-mail address! In response to your inquiry: I don't think we can help you. Izehar 18:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
BTW, it might help if you had the show's name & the network's name correct; the show is "Dora the Explorer," and the network is Nickelodeon.
Has anyone ever gotten solicited by chatting over wikipedia? --anon
Does this mean that Wikipedia isn't as safe as it seems? Is it like a chat room you're saying? --anon
I read it, but it didn't say, "Wikipedia is not a chat room." It just said not to talk about other things on article's talk pages and do it on a user's talk page instead. --anon
Many members of wikipedia are teenagers and this site is friendly to them. Banana04131 21:05, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay...Guess I overeacted a bit! Sorry! --anon
How do you clean up an article? I have attempted to clean the E-102 Gamma article many times, but the tag is still there! Could I please have some advice? --anon
But how do I know that it's actually not clean? --anon
Okay, I read it, and I think the article's clean! And I already wrote to the person who put the tag on, but she/he isn't answering. --anon
Okay, thank you! --anon
How do you make an external link spread out? For example, I want it to look like www.wikiepdia.com, but instead, I get [1] instead. Why? --anon
In order to get www.example.org, you must type:
[http://www.example.org/ www.example.org]
Izehar 19:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Now I'm confused... Izehar 19:25, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm a little confused, but I'll go test it out. www.wikipedia.com. It works! Thanks! But I still don't get the URL and web reference thing. --anon
Is it okay if I just don't use those templates? --anon
Okay, thanks! --anon
Okay, thanks, again! --anon
In October I wrote an article on the "Battle of Salineville", a Civil War battle fought in Ohio. It was my first original article. Google does not locate that article. Also if I type only "Salineville" into the Wikipedia search box, Wikipedia does not locate my article.
I also extensively editted an existing article on capture-recapture called "mark and recapture". Google does locate that article, and Wikipedia locates it too even if I don't type in the exact name.
Is there some way I can make my "Battle of Salineville" article easier to find for people searching the internet for that information. Note that I wrote that article before I registered here. I tried linking my Civil War article to several other Civil War pages, but that hasn't made mine easier to find.
Thanks for any thoughts. -- Mark W. Miller 21:03, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Whenever I try to redirect it comes out as
I don't understand why. I've tried How to edit a page and Redirecting. -- AidPc 21:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
To redirect a page to, for example Wikipedia, you must type:
#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia]]
Izehar 21:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I create a link to a Web URL for the word Religion"
Example: Definition of Religion http://www.yesselman.com/SpinIdea.htm#Religion
Thanks,
Yesselman 17:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
PS: I think I am a member; am I not?
If not a member, how do I become one?
To link to that website under the label religion, type the following:
[http://www.yesselman.com/SpinIdea.htm#Religion Religion]
That will produce Religion. Yes, you are a memeber - please sign you name using four tildes ~~~~ Izehar 22:01, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Where is the DYK page? Why is there no wikipedia entry for DYK ?
Why am I getting logged out every few hours or days, instead of every few weeks or months as it used to be? Kaz 01:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
C'mon, guys, someone speak up! I've tried both IE and Netscape, and both are logging me out pretty much every time I close the browser, despite my cache and cookie settings being very liberal. What gives? Kaz 03:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
OK, I already checked the cookie settings, they're as liberal as possible, but I'll try manually clearing the cache.
Firefox is actually a part of the problem, in this case, not the solution. Aside from IE simply working better, whether we like MS or not, Firefox manifested this problem first, though now IE and Netscape 8 (a good compromise for people who want to be able to view websites correctly, yet hate Microsoft) are also doing it. Kaz 16:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Black Mamba is a redirect that refers to Mamba, however the Mamba article is about Black Mambas specifically. I'm not sure how to rectify this or how to bring it to the attention of someone who can. Thanks. -- Bad carpet 06:33, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
In between the Title lineage and External links sections lie ALL the [edit] links. I don't know what is wrong with the article, but could someone help? x42bn6 Talk 08:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
i updated some text about limp bizkit and it was deleted almost immediately. Here's the message I received:
User talk:172.148.243.195 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Talk:Limp Bizkit, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! --Nlu 08:49, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Can someone tell me whas' up with that?
thx
Hello,
I created my very first account on wikipedia this morning and mistakenly used my email address as my username. When I then added a new entry, I noticed that my email address was visible. I then added a nickname, which changed the visible text, but when clicking on the nickname, my email address is again visible. I would like to change my username so it is no longer my email address and stop the display of my email address on wikipedia. Help!
JonathanKing 15:46, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Could someone tell me how to get an image to sit squarely in the middle of the cell of a table on Wikipedia? I've got it horizontally centred, but it keeps floating to the top of the cell. -- Gareth Hughes 16:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Rick! It's not just in that article: there are a few articles which use this new feature to allow a map or other image to be displayed in the bottom of the infobox. The bit of wikitext that is included when this option is switched on is at {{ language/map}}. This includes the 'vertical-align' property. I've tried using <div> tags around the image in the article space, but that makes it disappear completely. I'm a bit stuck with this one. -- Gareth Hughes 13:59, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
There is an article that I've become aware which had a hung ("no consensus") Afd, but new seems to have been abandoned by its creator without having fixed its problems. I would like to restart Afd on it, but there is an archived debate sub-page, marked "please do not change". I can find procedures for appealing completed deletions, but I can't find a procedure for retrying after a mistrial (or, for that matter, deleting a page that has had a definite keep in the past). What's the correct procedure? -- David Woolley 23:28, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
I wish to make a map with the following: contour lines and coordinates. The map is intended toi be used to develop a disaster reduction paln for a communal area in Zimbabwe.
Macadonald Kadzatsa
Roman (disambiguation) → Roman which claims to be a disambiguation page (although it has too much stuff on it IMHO), and I think it should be the other way around, i.e. the disambiguation content should be on Roman (disambiguation) and Roman should redirect. Can a mere mortal switch them over? If not, how do I queue it up for an an admin to look at? Or am I wrong in thinking they should be switched? -- LesleyW 11:40, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I insert an image into my article and upload it? I'm having trouble finding this Rlevse 15:00, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm using the Wiki browser-based Upload File method. Rlevse 21:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Dear Help Desk,
Is it possible to create targets in Wikipedia Articles so that one can link to the target within the Article?
If possible; kindly tell me how.
Many thanks,
Yesselman 15:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Can Wikipedia feature the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, a sporting event in Asia, in the main page for the next three days? The "soft-opening" happened November 25 and the games will formally open on November 27. Homboy 17:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
If I wanted to add a picture to a page, and I'm the owner and photographer of the picture, which license choice do I choose? It's a public building (a bridge) and it was taken from public land. Also, since I'm the owner/photographer, is there anything else I need to do to make sure this is appropriately identified? Thanks! -- EaglesFanInTampa 18:25, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
A small improvement in the formulation of Alexander's sub-basis theorem. The current formulation uses the phrase "sub-basic cover" without explanation; at first I thought it meant just "sub-basis"; but in fact it meant "cover contained (as a subset) in a sub-basis". Better for the statement to be more explicit.
Harold Hodes (<email removed - see instructions at top>)
Sometime last night all thumbnailed pictures on wikipedia stopped displaying on my computer. Not just on wikipedia but the commons too. The wikipedia and commons logos on the top left show, though. Now the pictures are just white blanks that have the appropriate size but nothing shows. Even full-size images don't appear, and the only way to get them to show is to view the image by itself, ie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg doesn't work but http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg does. Not sure if this is localised, just me or universal. Some help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Миборовский U| T| C| E| Chugoku Banzai! 21:18, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Im trying to format my articles. I want a new section to start after pictures or tables. Right now I have to use <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> until I reach the end of the table or picture. Is there a better way to do this?-- Ewok Slayer 21:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Ciao, and many thanks in advance for assistance. I am new to Wikipedia and have been wandering around the site, lost. I have AOL and when I created my account, negative banning comments appeared on the 'my talk' area. I created the account today and have yet to do anything but correct a typo. I read the part about AOL and the dynamic IP addresses, but is there a way for an AOL user to have a solo account? What I mean is, is there a way to have my account only be mine so that I can contribute in peace, or will this problem continue? I am sorry if this is a stupid newbie query, if there is a link or FAQ that I missed, I would appreciate some direction.
Mille grazie, Alipes 01:36, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Alipes 01:57, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
I heard there is a place where people who wrote really stupid things have them posted and I was wondering where I could find this, Thank you.
How do I use this to find out what is a Real Estate Limited partnerships and what does derivaatives options mean?
I'm lost on how to use this, can you e-mail me at <e-mail removed>
Thanks,
Carla
A user has e-mailed the Help mailing list inquiring whether there were any film clips on Wikipedia.
I am not aware of any although I am sure that it would be possible to add it to the commons.
If you are aware of any non-copyvio clips on Wikipedia, could you please respond.
Capitalistroadster 02:11, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes, there do indeed exist film clips on Wikipedia - Brian0918 and I uploaded virtually all of them (I'm the one who showed him how to do convert them to ogg theora). They can be found on commons:Category:video Raul654 14:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
I just uploaded an image but after pressing the button to upload, I realized I made a mistake in the image description and other data. Questions:
Rebelduder69 ( talk · contribs) cut the content of Get Rich or Die Tryin' (which was previously about the 2003 album), pasted it into Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003 album), and has turned the original page into a disambiguation page. The problem is, this happened almost three months ago, and several users have edited both pages since then, so the edit histories are very wrong. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks in advance. Extraordinary Machine 14:33, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Can somebody publish a Wikipedia article and sell it for commercial purposes? GFDL license it seems allow commercial use of uploaded photos. How about the text and the photos together, can they be printed and sold without any legal restriction? Thanks to whomever answers this. Walter Ching 14:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello: I am the owner of a web site that previously had an article in Wikipedia. This article was recently deleted and I would like to discuss/contest this move. What is the appropriate way to do so? Thank you.
I created an old version of this picture File:Betrayal(LOF).jpg. I tried uploading a new one but everytime I do it only shows the old one. I tried reverting but I can't get my newone to show up. It's in the file history ones though.-- User:Jedi6 November 26, 2005
Server: lighttpd/1.4.7 X-Cache: MISS from will.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from will.wikimedia.org:80 X-Cache: MISS from vandale.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from vandale.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 anchor-cache-01 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.1)
Is it possible (legal) to add audio samples to a wiki page? For example, 30 second clips of essential material of a certain band? I've seen some pages link to *.ogg files that have been uploaded to Wiki. More info would be appreciated. Thanks!
-- Flunkycarter 00:06, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
So a copyrighted song, with the quality dramatically reduced (A low OGG bitrate, reduced in quality) and only providing a 30 sec. (reduced in quantity) sample of a copyrighted song would be allowed under Fair Use to illustrate an educational article(Wiki Article)?
-- Flunkycarter 22:09, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I delete a page, title and all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.28.235.62 ( talk • contribs) 06:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to get a feed URL for specific sections of the Wikipedia main page (i.e., In the News)?
I've been looking at some of the articles that link to Roman (a rather detailed disambiguation page with lots of links), and its history. All of the articles that I have looked at so far (maybe ten, I know it's a small sample) have very general references to "the Romans". I believe that people will continue to write "the Romans..." and link to Roman without giving it a second thought, as they should be able to do. Therefore, I now think that one possible solution is that "Roman/s" could redirect to a portal on Ancient Rome, but no such portal exists as yet.
My question is, what requirements need to be met for the operation of a portal? Would it need a maintainer, or can it be set up so that no maintenance is necessary? Is there a proposal discussion process that should be followed before going ahead?
Why does the wiki break my sig now? It only started happening recently (sometime between Nov. 10 and 22 judging from my contribs). It should look like #1 (that's copy-pasted), but wikipedia is now auto-reformatting it to #2. I assume some software change is to blame, but how can I get the desired result back?
I realize there are external tools for this but I'm looking for a javascript implementation, whether a bookmarklet or something I can add to my monobook.js. There's a replace function on user scripts, perhaps there can be one for searching and highlighting or going to that place while editing. Gflores Talk 00:14, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
There are some non-existent (red) links which seem to call more for definitions than articles, even brief ones (because there are good specialized links out there). I have a vague notion that there is a WP place for such items and that it is fact poor practice to make articles out of definitions? Is so, no? Can you point me to a how-to? Thanks, Halcatalyst 01:26, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
About 20 minutes after I log in, if I haven't physically communicated with WP, I get logged out. I might be in the middle of editing a page. (OK, I think slowly.) Is this the work of a watchdog on the WP servers, or is it some other part of my total system? I use Win XP. Is there a workaround? Thanks, Halcatalyst 01:32, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
A Wikipedia user has sent an e-mail to the Help mailing list as follows:
In the " Crystal system entry", the last four trigonal point groups can't be printed, i;e., they are left off of a print out. They do show up just fine on the screen. I have looked at the HTML and I can not see what the problem is. I would be interested in knowing what the problem is as well as having it corrected.
I have had a look and cannot find the problem. If you can see what the problem is and can fix it, it would be greatly appreciated.
Capitalistroadster 02:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
How do you cite a page?
<no contents> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.117.106.114 ( talk • contribs)
What is the publishing company, city of publication and copyright date for the article "Military Tribunals in the USA"
I am doing a bibliography for a speech and I used your site as a source. Who do i put as the author?
I created this template here for new people who'd be pretty pissed off when there recent article gets deleted. Any thoughts? Should it even stay? ε γκυκλοπαίδεια * (talk) 02:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Vandal ova here: User:James of Wales. Put a template on already. Looks like the Wikipedia is Communism dude impersonating whoever the guy was who created this site, I have to remember his name. At any rate, delete him! ε γκυκλοπαίδεια * (talk) 03:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I ran across William D. Ferris while trying to fix the hockey dab page. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with it, maybe WP:VAIN, but I really can't put my finger on it. Help from a more experienced user would be helpful, along with recommendations for next time. D-Rock 05:58, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
(No question)
eg, If I do a google search for my friends band called "juju space jazz", it doesn't come up, but if I do a search on "Simon Posford" (the producer) it comes up with ";;;Simon Posford - Wikipedia" etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zangtubba ( talk • contribs)
Good Day
I have visited Wikipedia often and have read many extremely well written articles, however, today I stumbled into something quite confusing. I am reading up on Micronations, the reason being that I am aspiring to be granted political asylum by a certain country, but should it nor be granted I would like to consider alternatives. To me it is a vital issue, an issue that would affect my family and myself in a most serious manner. I ask for your serious consideration of my question(s)
My specific question centers around the entry about the dominion of Mechizedek. I read through the contents as in the Wikipedia entry, then noticed a section called "talk" clicked on it and entered into a discussion that, put simply, astounded me. I believe wholeheartedly in UNBIASSED facts, and thought that this was what Wikipedia was about, but after reading the entire thread (a few times over to understand the implications) I was forced to conclude that whoever was responsable (in this case rather unresponsable..my opinion) certainly was NOT looking for factual or even balanced entries. There seemed to be decided "camps", each with a very unforgiving and seperate agenda. Now, at the risk of dragging my question out. I shall just ask it straightforward.
In reference to the specific entry abdout the dominion of Mechizedek, why can there not be an independant review of the entire entry, by people that have a PROVEN ability to be unbiassed?
I would like to qualify my question further by equating my thoughts..
If certain individuals of a country commit "crimes"..I put this in inverted commas because, what is described as a crime in some countries would not neccesarilly be so in others...eg. drinking a alcoholic beverage in USA is legal(at the moment, but not in the past)...elsewhere it would be VERY illegal (at the moment, but not neccesarilly in the past) Thus, the impression that I get is that OPINION should be disregarded when FACTS are at stake. The facts should be balanced and given with impartiality.
Again with reference to the Mechizedek site, I found it absolutely bewildering to read through a series of claims, counter-claims and at the end of the day...absolutely no consensus and leaving me no other option but to revert to trusty old GOOGLE to try and find FACTS and decide for myself.
Please help me on this issue, I am not too familliar with the editing and administration of the wikipedia articles, but I would like to believe that someone would clear this queation up for me.
Kindest Regards immigrationissues2002 Caracas, Venezuela
You can contact them by leaving a message on the article's talk page at Talk:Dominion of Melchizedek. Izehar 20:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
what kind of lawyer should i get for at fault cases?
Is this possible? What I want is
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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
(except moreobviously as a list)
I tried this (standard wiki syntax):
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
obviously wrong. I tried a hack (inserting <P> where I want a break, but leaving on the same line):
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Any suggestions? Thanks, pfctdayelise 05:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
→
Ξxtreme Unction {
yakł
blah} 00:54, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
In case anyone else is interested, me and Extreme Unction have puzzled out a solution. Forget wikisyntax and use <ol> (ordered list) in combination with <br&;gt or <p> tags.
eg.
<ol> <li> Item 1 blah blah blah <p> Item 1 is so important it needs two paragraphs </p></li> <li> Item 2 is also very important <p> So it has two pars as well </p></li></ol>
-->
Item 1 is so important it needs two paragraphs
So it has two pars as well
You can also close your <li> tags if you want, it's better html I think but it works anyway. <ol> MUST be closed.
pfctdayelise 02:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Just wondering what spelling is preferred, American, or English (UK, Canada, etc), as in color or colour? Thanks!
How can I change my user name? -- Yochai Twitto 10:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering what tag is appropriate (if any) for scans of video games manuals. Also is the same tag appropriate if its taken from a pdf file found on the games disc? Thanks. Examples File:Alterac-warcraft2-with-orc-symbol.jpg - User:UnlimitedAccess
Hi,
I have my own copy of WikiMedia installed, and I'd like not to have rel=nofollow tag along with my external links. Whrer can I change the script settings to restrict placing this tag?
Thanks.
--> Already found: edit includes/Linker.php
function makeExternalLink( $url, $text, $escape = true, $linktype = ' ' ) { $style = $this->getExternalLinkAttributes( $url, $text, 'external ' . $linktype ); global $wgNoFollowLinks; if( $wgNoFollowLinks ) { $style .= '';
Remove :)
Hey, guys. I'm a pretty regular article editor, but I've run into problems in the past with uploading images, so I'm looking for a few tips in general, and if it's OK to upload this picture which is a part of this article from vatican.va. Thanks, JHMM13 16:12, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I was looking for information about the Treaty of Lausanne, but didn't know what it was called exactly, so I opened the Lausanne article, first. However, I didn't find a reference to the treaty there.
How should I add a link to the treaty to the Lausanne article? Of course, I could write something about it in the History section, and link to it in the "See also" section, but I wonder if there should also be a disambiguation remark at the top of the Lausanne article, since "Lausanne" could also refer to the Treaty of Lausanne, just like " Maastricht" could refer to the Maastricht Treaty. -- Benne 16:44, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
How do i find out the information that you put on a bibliography card?
How do I put a border on a picture? Izehar 21:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
HI, if I have made a mistake in the licensing of a photo how do I correct it? and if I took the Photo and release all right would (GFDL-self) be the correct licensing? -- LPW 21:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this is obvious or answered in some FAQ or guidline page that I missed but I've been trying to put in a template on the Oxford Street talk page that notes that the article was used as a press source in Time Out London this week. I'm pretty useless at filling out templates as it is but thought I'd give it a go. Problematically, I couldn't seem to find one that allows me to skip putting in a URL or website. There is a Time Out London website, but they don't have the article on there. I've put it down on the Wikipedia as a press source listings anyway so someone might put it in for me but it would be nice to find out how it's done for the future. Thanks in advance. Jellypuzzle 22:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
When editing articles about fictional objects, I frequently use tables based on Infoboxes (though not the actual box itself) to summarise the information. See either the box on this page: Springfield (The Simpsons), or a couple of (hypothetical) examples on the user page ( User:Smurrayinchester/Infoboxes). But, I just realised that this could potentially be confusing to some users, making a fictional thing seem 'real', even just briefly, and am no longer sure whether I should keep them. Should I? smurrayinchester( User), ( Talk) 22:28, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I'm really confused here. What is the difference between a category and a portal? If it's layout then how come the links on the main page (culture, geography, etc.) point to categories rather than portals, even though they have the same layout as a portal?
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of portals? I've tagged Category:Wikiportals, Category:Portals, and even Wikipedia:Portal, because I found them confusing, and, frankly, a mess. Category:Wikiportals gives me links to several portals, but also "subcategories" which are just the category links from the main page. Category:Portals gives me an alphabetical listing, but when I click a letter, just shows me a list of various categories, and no portals. Wikipedia:Portal has 2 lists, which are inconsistent, and I suspect neither is complete. Some portals listed as complete are red, and yet some work when I click them on the other list.
Can anyone explain this more clearly for me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.125.142 ( talk • contribs)
I'm working on this article, and it seems obvious to me that it would be better if the contents list went crossways rather than downwards because the sections are A, B, C etc.
Is there a straightforward way of achieving that? I realise I could go:
...and so on, but that seems a bit of a palaver. Besides, even then I wouldn't know how to supress the automatic contents list. AndyJones 23:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm curious. -- Perfecto 00:53, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
While doing some research about Expedition Robinson, the European version of North America's Survivor, I noticed that second paragraph from the Overview section of the Expedition Robinson article is plagarized from the third paragraph on this website [2]. I'm not sure how to go about reporting plagarism so someone can clean it up, but I am not familiar enough with the European version of the game to correct this. The best I could do is reword it. How should this be taken care of? Jtrost 00:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, The other day I added this category, [[Category:Historical pederastic relationships]] to the article on George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and got a redlink that leads to a page claiming that "Wikipedia does not yet have a Category page called Historical pederastic relationships." However, the same category link leading from Marsilio Ficino works perfectly well and leads to the correct category page for this very category. Can you help fix this problem? Haiduc 01:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
do i get paid if i constantly supply wikipedia with information and various articles that are of public interest?
I've recently nominated a few pictures on Ifd, because they are in violation of the original owner's copyright. It clearly states it cannot be used without prior permission by the webmaster. I have yet to see this proof. In addition, I've attempted to use one of the photos, and recieved this response, from the very same user that defended his actions. A couple of minutes ago, I came across Copyright Violations, and saw that I could nominate for immediate deletion.
Any help? What should I do? Thanks in advance. Pacific Coast Highway| Spam me! 22:03, 15 June 2024 UTC [ refresh
I posted comments on Talk:Ushabti, but I'm afraid my comments may not be seen if I just leave them there. It seems to me that the Ushabti article should either be deleted or merged/redirected into the Shabti article. The trouble is that I'm not sure how to proceed. I tried looking through the help pages, but it's hard to find the information I need in the limited time I have (my lunch break at work). Could someone tell me what I need to do, or do it for me in a way that will allow me to see how it was done? I see this sort of thing occasionally and am never sure what to do about it. Unfortunately, I'm rarely able to spend more than a few minutes at a time helping out with Wikipedia, so I tend to look for projects I can complete quickly. -- CKA3KA (Skazka) 20:46, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I created a template to write categories without having to type 'category' (I always spell it 'cateogyr' because of typos) and on the first page I used it, the template didn't work. Why didn't it work? Is it because of subst? Maybe that I used subst: and User: together? It just appeared on the screen as {{subst:User:Thelb4/cat|British record producers|Parsons, Alan}}. Thelb 4 21:04, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
What does wikipedia mean?
Wikipedia is a papier-mâché word formed out of wiki (i.e. a group of Web pages that allows users to add content) and -pedia (from encyclopaedia). In other words, it means the free encyclopedia; free meaning open for anyone to edit. Izehar 00:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
There currently are 4 William F. Gibson pages, at least:
1) redirect William F. Gibson => redirect William Ford Gibson
2) redirect William Ford Gibson => article William Ford Gibson (writer)
3) disambiguation William Gibson
4) article William Ford Gibson (writer)
How do I set it up so that a search on William F. Gibson gets straight to 4) article William Ford Gibson (writer), without having to go through intermediary pages such as 2) and 3) ?
-- Kessler 00:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Oops yes I didn't check my link: I was referring to William Gibson (novelist). And altho I haven't read that article in detail it looks OK to me: my concern right now is with the redirecting -- I'd like my William F. Gibson search to get to that article direct. -- Kessler 01:28, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I can easily get a list of all my contributions, but these don't identify which of them was a new article. I haven't created many, but there are some. Where do I find this info? JackofOz 01:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I doubt this is the place to ask, but I dunno where one should:
Might someone point me at a link for installing the Wikipedia's data on one's machine and setting it up to be accessed via web server? In other words, something like "Download the SQL export, import it into MySQL, then download any of these three software packages: X (for PERL), Y (for php), and X (Java), then plug in the corresponding front end code, found (here), using any web server software which supports CGI-BIN."
Something like that. Pretty please. 209.33.24.118 02:57, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I AM SO EFFING SICK OF BEING RANDOMLY LOGGED OUT! The above was (as that ip always is) me. Kaz 03:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Where is Wikipedia run? It is strange to see that the last time a page was edited was tomorrow morning.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.119.44.82 ( talk • contribs) 03:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
what is the edition of wikipedia?
"This message is regarding the page Opium. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks.
Sycthos 04:24, 1 December 2005 (UTC)"
Why thank you Sycthos, bot or mod, comparable as though they may be. I feel all welcome now. I guess adding Edgar Allan Poe to the list of famous opium users is stubid.
More like a complaint than a question, but couldn't find a complaint section, which annoys me further. Pssh, copyleft people and mistakes? Get out of here.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.160.181.90 ( talk • contribs) 05:40, 1 December 2005
I'm having an incredibly tough time adding a simple Temple University logo to my Temple football page. I just keep getting that box to ask me to fill out the information and when i do that the logo doesn't show up in any context but a word file. As far as copywright because it's a generic logo, it's considered "fair use" so that shouldn't be a problem. A similar example is listed on the Villanova University page with its logo. Thanks for any help you can give me. Mike
I was just passing this page, and it seemed ripe for a bit of editting, as the part I wanted turned out to be the last sentence. I thought: "aha, this really is a geo disambiguation page!" But after I started to work on it, I discovered that the several paragraphs had actually been separate pages, and are now combined (having redirects from them) -- no sections, it was all one big amalgam (so I made them sections now for clarity). What's the procedure for "undoing" the consolidation? It turns out there are nearly 100 links to this page, so not for the faint-hearted! I've got no vested interest in the content. (Given directions, though, I'll gladly do the work.) William Allen Simpson 07:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: Parellada. This article is part of the English wikipedia, yet it's written in (95% sure of this) Spanish. Should the article be deleted, translated or moved? It c ertainly needs copyediting and wikifying... but there's not much this poor old monoglot can do right now. Should I be posting this message somewhere else? Is Articles Requiring Attention just for important articles, for example? *Satis 11:15, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
On loading my user page, the page normally appears as two tables set out side-by-side like columns (as it should). However, about 1 in 4 four times when loading the page, the tables stack on top of each other instead of side by side. The error normally fixes after refresh, but oddly, the error only occurs in Firefox, not Internet Explorer! Is it a fault with the browser, or the table layout? smurrayinchester( User), ( Ho Ho Ho!) 15:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hiya, I'm a college professor, and I encourage my students to be critical thinkers regarding Wikipedia and the internet as I think Wikipedia and the internet have similar strengths and weaknesses. As such, I have changed a page in a crazy way (and then immediately change it back).
I got a message to do this in the sandbox, but have since been unable to find said sandbox--can anyone point me in the correct direction? Can I do it without my students realizing it is "fake"? I really want them to think critically about what they read and putting that Abe Lincoln was the son of teenage mutant ninja turtles and seeing that live on the screen (which we immediately change and talk about ethical communication) has gotten the point across more clearly than anything else I've tried. Thanks!
Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.
I am in no way code-literate (other than what i've picked up through copying, pasting, and changing the text contained therein) as far as tables go, so if someone could take a look at Apollo Sunshine (album) and tell me why the date "2003" under "Apollo Sunshine Chronology" is bold, i'd really like that. a whole lot. jfg284 you were saying? 20:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a student at Harvard College, a research aide in the Stephen M. Kosslyn Neuropsychology Lab, and the creator of the user "KosslynLab".
This summer, in my capacity as an employee of the Kosslyn Lab, I prepared and posted a cluster of articles about Mental Imagery, Motor Imagery, Visual Imagery, and Auditory Imagery. The articles were adapted from a Nature article by Kosslyn, Thompson, and Ganis, all of whom gave me permission to post the content on wikipedia. I also received permission via email from Nature to post the content.
I was dismayed to find that the articles that I posted were recently deleted. Users worried about copyright violations and that the content constituted "original research". I apologize if I violated any wiki regulations - I am a new user and I certainly have much to learn about the wiki world. However, since I do have permission to post this content from all parties involved, it is a shame that the world no longer has access to it.
I would like to repost the articles in a form acceptable to the wiki community. Can you give me pointers about how I might do so?
Thanks,
KosslynLab
Hmmm... I certainly made all four pages that I mentioned. See here.
Is there a HTML to Wiki translator anywhere? -- Member 23:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to split a list into two (or more) distinct columns? I have been editing the planemo article and the list is far too long to go down one side of the screen.
Additionally, is there any way to maintain the number bullet points down a list when one of the numbered points is then broken down into further bullets? e.g.
Here "Mars" is given the number 1, and not 4 as it should be.
#Mercury #Venus #Earth #*Luna #Mars
<ol start="111"><li>a <li>b</ol>
I made a smaller (in kb) and easyer to see version of File:Communistpartyrunstates.jpg ( link). The problem is that if i try to upload a new version, the fact that the current is a .jpg and the new is a .gif conflicts, so is there any way to update it or do i have to upload the new then delete the current one. -- ThrashedParanoid 03:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I notice a lot of people 'advertise' their edit count. How is this statistic obtained? can someone tell me how I can find out mine (for my own vanity/interesting). novacatz 04:02, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Are any search engines available to search WP only? Halcatalyst 05:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks to all who responded. The WP link on my Firefox search window is most cool! Halcatalyst 04:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I edit my monobook.js? When I go to " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bmdavll/monobook.js" I get an error message: The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "User:Bmdavll/monobook.js". Trying to edit that brings me to a new page. Do I need to create it first? Bmdavll 06:22, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I've added a note to the error message ( MediaWiki:Missingarticle) about this, so it now reads:
The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "$1".
This might be because no page has yet been created with this name, in which case you can start it by clicking the "edit this page" link.
If it is a recently changed page, trying again in a minute or two will usually work. Alternatively, you may have followed an outdated diff or history link to a page that has been deleted.
If this is not the case, you may have found a bug in the software. Please report this using the procedure given at Wikipedia:Bug_reports, making note of the URL.
Thryduulf 12:44, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Whwn I try to log in or register it tells me I must have cookies enabled which they are. I am in Malaysia since early November and just today got internet access which might be the reason but I can't see why it would be. There are testy messages on the talk page of this ip and I sure would like to distance myself from them because they are not mine. I am a registered user with over 800 edits and I have never vandalised. Any user here got any advice. I would appreciate any input. thank you.-- 219.93.174.106 09:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
MediaWiki:Loginend has been moved to MediaWiki:Signupend because of some redesign, but in the process the username instructions disappeared of the login screen. Can someone fill me in about what happened in this redesign and why the mover blanked it after moving?
I have been using Wikipedia for some time, but only recently created an account. After doing so, I immediately ran into a confusing problem. My browser, Internet Explorer to be exact, is set to allow cookies in most cases and I even added wikipedia.org to my list of "Always Allowed" domains. I tried setting by browser privacy settings to entirely eliminate restrictions on cookies, yet still experienced the same problem. When I log in, everything appears in order and it says "Login Successful." However, after I click on a link or run a search only once, occasionally twice, the buttons in the top right corner are replaced by "Sign in / create account." Additionally, when I do appear to be logged in and I attempt to edit my preferences, add a site to my watchlist, or perform any action related to my account, I get a message stating that I "must be logged in to do that." No matter how many times I try logging in and repeating the process, I always get the same result. What is wrong and how can I fix this?
Anyone know how to do this pleae ? In my wiki I have several external links, and the back button on the navigator doesn't always work. I know the user can force a new window (eg using IE via a right-click, open in new window) but I would like to make this automatic. Many thanks in advance Hilary
Is it possible to place a target between Headers in articles? If so, how?
Many thanks,
Yesselman 14:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
<div id="foo">...</div>
to do this. Just beware of using the same ID more than once - like when someone put such a tag in a template which was used multiple times on one page... -
IMSoP 19:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)I recently deleted a vandalism redirect for the second time. However, when I visit the deleted redirect, it merely shows "View or restore 2 deleted edits?" without making it into a hyperlink. Thus I am unable to actually view those edits, even though I am an admin. Viewing deleted edits of other pages works fine. Here is the link to the deleted redirect: [5]. What is the reason for this? — JIP | Talk 15:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
What does the <noinclude> tag do? (For example: Template:Nasdaq) Shawnc 16:10, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Every other edit I make makes a stupid error message pop up; and then I get logged out sometimes. I ruined my edits of Military ranks of Mexico, and I was hoping that someone could help. Is there a problem with Wikipedia's servers? ε γκυκλοπαίδεια * (talk) 19:57, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Can someone direct me to the help page or policy regarding links? The reason I ask is this: I often find articles cluttered with links that aren't beneficial. Some seem to double bracket every word in an article that may lead to another article without regard if it adds anything but color to the topic. Other than clutter, I think that spurious linking likely adds to the tasks of the disambiguation project. Likely this is a common question, and I'll be glad to RTFM if anyone can tell me which M to R. =) -- Bad carpet 22:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
How do you make a deletion template that isn't for speedy deletion?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 23:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
What just happened to my signature? It was fine several weeks ago. -- King of <font color="red">♥</font> [[User talk:King of Hearts|<font color="red">♦</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/King of Hearts|♣]] [[Special:Emailuser/King of Hearts|♠]] 23:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I decided to make my first contribution to wikipedia. Created an article on Richard Gregg (an empty link refered from Simple living). After being put to quick deletion after 2 days was deleted. How do I refute the deletion criteria? I was given a reason (not important enough). I explained why I didn't agree. The article was deleted without further explaination. Is this a normal way of acting here? I dont want to defend here the relevance of the article only ask if this could be considered abuse of deletion powers and if not how a person can start the discussion about the relevance of the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.193.82.160 ( talk • contribs) 02:55, December 3 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
1... I made some minor alterations to the Down Syndrome page and was wondering how I let anyone know that the source of my information is already contained in an existing external link? I know it is a requirement to provide the sources so that it's not simply me voicing off.
2... I also made some minor changes to the Down Syndrome page just before signing up, is there anyway to associate the earlier change with my new identity?
Thanks Donald.
I've just left it in the external links, as there are no sources listed for the page.
Thank you, Donald.
"A change to Harvard style requires consensus from everyone who has provided inline references, but as there are only three, that ought not to be too difficult to achieve. -- David Woolley 10:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)"
User Larry sent the following question to the Wikimedia Help Desk.
I run Windows Me and InternetExplorer 5.5, and have full set of Arial Unicode MS. I can display every Latvian, Romanian, and Croatian character properly when going to ordinary Eastern European and Baltic web pages, but many characters do not properly display on English Wiki pages about foreign languages. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
Any help you can give him would be appreciated. Capitalistroadster 09:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
There was an article about Wikipedia in today's Helsingin sanomat. Is there a place in Wikipedia where I can translate the article to make it available for other Wikipedians to see? — JIP | Talk 12:28, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I decided (a couple of weeks ago) to add an image of my own Mangle to the article about, well, mangles. I've never uploaded an image before and Wikipedia's help page adviced I upload it to the Wikimedia Commons, which I duly did under commons:Mangle.jpg.
When I tried making an image link to Mangle.jpg, however, another image (File:Mangle.jpj) resident on Wikipedia itself blocked it. Can someone explain how I'd write the image link so that I bypass this image and go directly to the one on the Commons? commons:File:Mangle.jpg doesn't work, and I can't find information on this anywhere. (BTW, the blocking image is up for deletion soon so it's not a big issue for this article, but I'd like to know for the future.) -- Birdseed 13:38, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
-- Birdseed 11:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to disambiguate Pantheon to Pantheon, Rome in the timeline Template:Roman Empire by the usual piping Pantheon. However, this edit breaks the formatting of the rest of the table. Is this a bug in EasyTimeline or am I doing something wrong? Kusma (talk) 15:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I make a template?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 16:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How can you do this? My signature shows a small try but the problem is pretty obvious. -- Worthawholebean Talk Contribs 17:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I found the way to fix it. You have to set margin-right to the same value you set left to. -- Worthawholebean Talk Contribs 19:39, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
contribs |
talk |
On any edit page (the one I'm typing on, even), the words Edit summary have been split. The is on the same line as the typing box (squeezed into the side), but the summary is where it should be, underneath the box. I don't want to bring this up on Bugzilla, as I don't want to give an e-mail address. Thelb 4 22:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I edit my signature. I have seen many people with colors, images, and background color in there signatures. What page has the ability for me to change my signature? JedOs 09:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
It tells me that the HTML is invalid, how can i fix this? JedOs 11:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way you can change the font style on Wikipedia?-- XenoNeon 11:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Why are my edits erased without giving a reason? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.215.34.90 ( talk • contribs) 2005-12-04 13:04:14
Welcome!
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Currently, you are editing without a username. You can continue to do so as you are not required to log in to Wikipedia to read and write articles, however, logging in will result in a username being shown instead of your IP address (yours is Help desk/Archive 35). Logging in does not require any personal details. There are many other benefits for logging in to Wikipedia.
Please note these points:
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from Wikipedian: wangi 13:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
For the past week, it's been giveng me an error whenevr I try to search for anything. Can someone fix this?
I am interested in doing some translation of project space pages (eg here, the Wikipedia: space) for the commons project, mainly. I believe that translators often tend to have lists of particular words (eg technical) that are always translated a certain way, so wherever you have "watchlist" in en: you have word/phrase "X" in language Foo. "Standard translations", if you will. Does anyone know if lists like these exist on wikimedia anywhere? I am not sure where to look or who to ask.
Specifically, I am interested in en:->zh: (Chinese). Where is the best place to ask about this type of thing?
thanks, pfctdayelise 14:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
how does wikipedia choose what articles will be featured articles.
Every time someone reverts an artivle, they seem to use exactly the same message, "Reverted edits by (X) to last version by (Y)" (complete with links).
It seems rather odd that nearly everyone should take the time to write out the formatting for this exact message (without ever changing a word or making a typo) every time they revert vandalism, so I though it must be an automatically generated message (it isn't). Is there some sort of shortcut people use for this (a template, maybe?) It just struck me as quite strange.
Spanish usage of the word romper and quebrar . Translate into English
What's the easiest way to search in specific Wikipedia namespaces with Google? ‣ᓛᖁ ᑐ 18:06, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Foo beans
, when I'm searching for Foo beans in the Wikipedia: namespace.--
Commander Keane 18:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)How do I get those links in the Edit Summary poniting to parts of the article to appear (the ones that are arrows)? -- LifeMega 19:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
/* Edit Summary links */
(That's for editing this question. I used the edit section button for this edit, and I found that in the edit summary). When I save this edit, there will be a little arrow in the edit summary.--
Commander Keane 20:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)I understand how to block specific IP addresses/usernames, but I don't have a clue how to unblock them. I'm sure it's something very stupid and simple I'm missing. I also don't understand the autoblocker. Could some more experienced, patient admin explain this to me? H e rmione 1980 21:10, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
User Manuel has sent the Help Desk an e-mail that I was unable to resolve for him. His original email read:
I am trying to copy and print several colors from your "Color List" so I can relate the names to their color. The names will print but the colors will not. Is there anything I can do to get the color to print ? Will appreciate your help
My initial response referring to the article didn't resolve his problems. He has sent me a followup e-mail.
Thank you for your e-mail. I may not have explained what I wanted to do correctly.
I get your LIST OF COLORS in my screen but when I try to print one color, any color, to relate the name of the color, as for example "Crimson red" to the color red square next to the name the "color" shown, does not print.
I have tried clicking on the Printable Version link shown on the left hand side of the screen and I have tried highlighting the wholo line and non of these will work.
Sorry if I am giving you too much of a problem.
I would be grateful for any assistance you could give him.
Capitalistroadster 22:56, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I used to have a bookmark swiped from someone's user page which let me edit just the lead of an article. Now I've changed computers, lost my bookmark, and can't remember where I first got it. Help! Mark 1 23:30, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi After reading about 30 pages on templates, I still can't figure out how to create and edit templates like the one at the bottom of this question. By expimentation I have made some sucessful edits, but the whole template page looks like giberish to me and I can't find a page which explains it. Here is the link to the template page, thanks: Template:StargateTech Tobyk777 04:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
{{ StargateTech}}
Recently, I've been logging #Wikipedia on IRC. According to one of the users on the channel (who is an experienced editor here on Wikipedia), if I were to quote any content from the IRC channel, this would be against the rules. I've reviewed Category:Wikipedia official policy, Category:Wikipedia guidelines and even Category:Wikipedia proposals and Category:Wikipedia rejected policies, but have found nothing stating this is against Wikipedia policy. I've also reviewed Wikipedia:Arbitration policy/Precedents attempting to find some guidance on this point but outside of ArbCom acknowledging lack of jurisdiction over IRC, I've found nothing to state that quoting IRC would be against policy. I've found several instances here on Wikipedia where IRC has been quoted. Could someone please point out where this is supposedly against the rules? Thanks, -- Durin 17:59, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a template for the message "The preceding unsigned comment was contributed by User:SampleUser"? Or is it, like rollback, just a perk of being an admin? jfg284 you were saying? 18:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
{{unsigned|SampleUser|.}}
.--
Commander Keane 20:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC){{unsigned|SampleUser}}
. I routinely use {{
unsigned2}} though because you can copy and paste the user/time out of the history, insert a pipe (|) and be done with it. As an example from the history for this page, I copied "13:01, December 5, 2005 SampleUser", put a pipe between the time/user, "13:01, December 5, 2005|SampleUser" and put this in: {{unsigned2|13:01, December 5, 2005|SampleUser}}
Thank you much. jfg284 you were saying? 23:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to use this script as a tab to get the title of the page and copy that to my clipboard (for easy pasting) or to maybe make the Location Bar equal the title so I can just highlight that and copy it. Is that possible? I'm not familiar with scripting...
Also, is there a script that will search the textarea when I'm editing? Firefox doesn't do it and I only see a replace script. I can't imagine it'd be that difficult, but what do I know. Thanks, I appreciate any help. Gflores Talk 18:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to receive an automatic alert when a page is edited? I could not find the answer to this question by searching and apologize if it is often asked. Josh
How does user e-mail work?
How come my ability to create new articles has all of a sudden been cut down today? -- 69.117.6.28 22:08, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
How to get an image in the commons to appear on a wikipedia page? [[File:commons:Bball.gif]] doesn't work. [[Commons:File:Bball.gif]] doesn't work. I'm sorry I soiled your Help page with this question. Metarhyme 00:09, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, 130.243.135.145! [[File:Bball.gif]] works. Metarhyme 02:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Where can I find out how to create a table or something like that to put stuff side by side or beneath each other? Str1977 01:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I added a couple of definitions to the disambiguation page for "spinner", one a computer-science definition, and the other a sexual definition.
I just checked it, and someone removed the sexual definition, commenting "deleted a vulgar/slang definition whose importance is sub-encyclopedic and whose mention essentially amounts to vandalism".
Now, that seems a rather extreme viewpoint to me, especially since my addition wasn't particularly graphic or gratuitous.
After reading up a bit on this site regarding policy, I couldn't find anything saying if there is a stated policy on such definitions, so I thought I'd ask you if there is such a guideline or policy. Are sexual definitions in disambiguation pages specifically discouraged, or was this just an instance of an easily-offended person?
Yours,
Tim Bessie -- Tbessie
Wikipedia is NOT censored for minors. Info on vulgar/sexual words is fine. - Greg Asche (talk) 03:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Which is preferred (i.e., more server-friendly): [[The Republic|''Republic'']] or ''[[The Republic|Republic]]''? Or does it not matter? -- zenohockey 03:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it okay to write articles on characters from television shows and movies? I have never see one on Wikipedia, so I'm wondering if it's okay. For example:
The Parkers: Nikki Parker (Acted by Monqiue)
Mean Girls: Cady (Acted by Lindsay Lohan)
Moesha: Moesha (Acted by Brandy Norwood)
So is it okay? --anon
Okay! Thanks! --anon
I'm sure this must have been asked before, but since I can't find it I'll ask it here (again?): is there a way to add a timestamp (or rather, a date) to a template. I've been experimenting a lot with this, but all I can manage is either the day on which the template was created (when using subst:), or the current day (when not using subst:). But what I'm looking for is the date on which the template was used.
Thanks in advance, -- IJzeren Jan In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 10:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
This is partly a trivial matter, and I've been meaning to ask this question for a while now, but why is it that wikilinks are always underlined when logged in, and only underline when "hovered" over when not logged in? For example, this link to Science is underlined always when logged in, but when not logged in, it simply appears blue and is only underlined when one "hovers" the mouse over it. Is there a technical reason for this, or does it have no purpose? -- Daverocks 10:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
HOW DO I CONTRIBUTE AN ARTICLE TO WIKIPEDIA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.94.171 ( talk • contribs)
Why is it that I cannot create new articles without an account at this time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.61.232.18 ( talk • contribs)
Adam Puckett
Hello, I do not find where I can ask this question, so I do here: It seems, that the article about The Salvation Army is suddenly very very much shorter. Was this a vandal or was this a correct editing? There are no more external links and just one picture. Please have a look at it. I do not really know. thank you regards HAMUBA 6 December 2005
Thank you for your answer - I had first to create an account also in English. The username from another language does not work... HAMUBA 16:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
(no question)
I recently made an article entitled "The iBridge Network". However when I search for "ibridge" or "iBridge" I get no returns. I believe these two descriptors will be used the vast majority of the time when searching for this article. How do I go about making those two words return a result that either goes directly to the original article or reurn a link that goes there?
Thanks for your help.
I copied the "Ask a new question" code from Help Desk onto Wikipedia:Articles for creation. On Help Desk, the code creates a new *subsection* (===), while on Articles for creation, it creates a new *section* (==). Why is this? What would I have to change from the current Articles for Creation page to organize it by day? -- Creidieki 23:01, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I make a new discussion page and archive the old one?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 23:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Could someone help monitor this page? People are joining in the 'fun' due to the controversy with his father. Nil Einne 01:17, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I have a suggestion about wikipedia, but I'm not sure who I should give it to.
See Gattaca. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I have uploaded my first image. I have 3 questions. 1) I am unable to see the image when I go to view it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alter-auto-1.gif . Did I upload it wrong? It does show up on the Wiki page it is referenced on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_%28automobile%29 2) I am unable to change the size of the image on the Wiki page it is referenced on, I have tried numerous "resizing" commands. I just get an empty box w/ the red X. 3) I was unsure of how to classify it with a COPYRIGHT TAG. I documented the web page that it was downloaded. It was a historical photo from approximately 1915. I received permission from the web site "owner" ---DRUSSEL3-- Drussel3 03:24, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Are the things put here free to use? Because I wouldn't want to be vandalizing Wikipedia if I put it on another site. --anon
I'm trying to say that there's another site (looks kind of like another encyclopedia) and I would like to put one of the articles on Wikipedia on that site. --anon
In "my preferences" there's a box that says "Enable 'jump to' accessibility links." What does this do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzedar ( talk • contribs)
I don't know much about about images, so... how would one go about fixing the syntax problem here? -- zenohockey 05:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I used User mff enclosed with {{}} on my user page (it's still there) and it worked fine for awhile. Now the image is gone and REDIRECT Template:Userbox firefox remains. What happened? Halcatalyst 05:18, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I add 2 or more scripts to monobook.js ?? JedOs 05:20, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
/* [[User:Pilaf/livepreview.js]] */ // [[User:Lupin/recent2.js]] - please include this line document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Lupin/recent2.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
Can some one take a look at this history page. It's almost like a strange bot that copies a user. This thing/person has also set up an jgrutz (I'm jgritz) account which puzzles me even further. Can someone else take a look at this and comment Jgritz 09:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that you can lay claim to anonymous edits you've made if/when you register. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? (By "claim", I mean so that the edit shows up as being done by your username, instead of just an IP.) Ends Of Invention 10:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
How can I add an image to my article???
An image from my website has been posted on the Wikipedia without attribution. I discovered it by accident. I wish proper attribution. I do not know how to contact the person who posted the image. What should I do: (1) insert proper attribution? (2) other? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.79.32.242 ( talk • contribs)
What is the reason for adding to a question the "Unsigned by (ISP address)"
Does Wikipedia have permission to use images from the Hubble Heritage Project? ‣ᓛᖁ ᑐ 17:17, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to use the above template but it doesn't seem to be working. I have gone to the webpage, "List of famous naturalized citizens of the United States" to find an example of how it is used, but this one is not working too. Can you please advise how it ought to be used? — PM Poon 18:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there anything I can do to create a page without a username? I don't really want another person to create it for me (cause I like doing it), and I don't really want a username. Is there some kind of place to discuss the matter? --anon
I don't think it's nice! Besides, I'm not sure if having a username is safe. If somebody hacked into my username, will they see any personal/important info? --anon
Is there a WikiProject or some other page where one can request help for IPA transcription?
A user has just added the pronounciation "Lay Mizz-rob" to Les Misérables (musical), which doesn't seem terribly accurate to me. I figured that the pronunciation ought to be in the IPA, per Wikipedia:Manual of style (pronunciation), but I don't know enough about either the IPA or French to do it properly. Where is the best place to ask for assistance on this? — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 20:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I've gotten into the habit of just typing "rvv" as the edit summary when I revert vandalism. However, I'd like to know how some people (very speedily, BTW, so they don't seem to be typing it out) get summaries like:
"(Reverted edits by [VANDAL] (talk) to last version by [LAST GOOD POSTER])"
Is there a set template to put in the summary box or something? Staxringold 22:32, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Does there remain any means of changing my account password? Where this option would ordanarily be on the log in page, it is gone. Could you help?-- Thomas Aquinas 23:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to link a foreign article into a English category? How? WriterFromAfar755 00:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Please answer me quickly, im a new user. how do i add to discussion? -- Chormang 02:07, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Do we really need a fairuse rationale for screenshots? - Ta bu shi da yu 02:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Joe sent the following question to the Wikimedia Help Mailing List.
Hello, i am a software developer, and i am involved in a project concerning your wiki software. My partners and i have a few questions on how to use your software. it basically involves putting your wiki software onto a PDA handheld device. i downloaded the source to the software but we dont know what to do with it from there. if you could help me out on how to put and access your wikipedia software on other devices. if you need anymore info please let me know.
I would be grateful for any assitance you can give him. Capitalistroadster 04:36, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
In some articles (but I can't remember which) I noticed a symbol before an external link signalling that it's in French or Spanish etc. Where do I find those? David Sneek 12:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Why is the link to my own talk page suddenly bolded in Recent changes? — JIP | Talk 12:48, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been doing an extensive makeover on Hopkins School (I've been doing mostly cosmetic work until the school archivist gets back to me so I can improve the short history section). You'll notice there is a reference in the sidebar for the Endowment, auto-numbered 1 (because the side-bar is the first code for the article) and a note over financial aid, auto-numbered 2. The problem is when READING the article the endowment is the second thing you see, not the first. I was wondering if there was something one can add to the ref code to custom number (or do I just have to shift the references around to match the auto-numbering, even if it isn't perfect)? Staxringold 14:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a link to a list of all the classification templates for users?, If you don't know what I mean ....
gb-0 | This user cannot tolerate any form of Gibberish language, and is therefore easily emotionally traumatized by The Sims. |
1337-0 | This user has no idea what 1337 is and/or prefers to contribute using proper words. |
175 | I scored a 175 on the Are You a Wikipediholic Test. |
xp | This user uses Windows XP. |
win | This user contributes using Microsoft Windows. |
This user opposes the installation of any kind of advertisements on Wikimedia Foundation operated sites. |
I mean that sort of thing.They are a great idea - well done to whoever thought of it - but I would like to see them all. . To anyone who replies - thank you.
DTR 17:03, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
How do you pronounce the words Wikipedia? Thanks,-- 166.66.60.42 17:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC) Tipper
Hi!
I was trying to fix the Chemical structure structure diagram on the Bremelanotide article, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Rasmus (talk) 18:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC).
I made a table for fuel oil, but it is always displayed at the bottom of the article, even though there is text beneath it in the source. Thanks, Kjkolb 22:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I looked in the WP:MOS but I couldn't find any guidance about this. If a person has one or more pseudonyms/pen names etc, which one should be used? Which one should even be the article name?
I have a couple of feelings about this. 1. The usage should be consistent throughout the article, otherwise reading it may make it seem schizeophrenic. 2. It would probably make sense for the name used to be the same as the article name. Obviously you'd have RDRs from all the other names.
Some examples...
sigh. a little help? -- pfctdayelise 00:02, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed various users, when signing their names, use purple backgrounds and yellow text, or brown backgrounds and purple text, or some strange combination of the like. Is there a way to edit what happens when you sign with 4 tildes (~), or are they manually editing each instance?-- Canaen 02:34, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Please, what font does Wikipedia use?- Gillean666 03:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
body { font: x-small sans-serif; ... }
when do i get an award, reward or star.
>x<ino 10:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
":Usually, when someone notices your work on their own, and gives you one."
What!? I though, when creating article, it isn't yours nor you shouldn't clame it.
Anyway How do i award myself?.
like i said, I either want to be an admin or award.
>x<ino 11:11, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the link
If i don't ask, they won't notice, "it's good to give it a try!" "MacGyverMagic's comment" you mean mine:)
>x<ino 11:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
maybe MacGyverMagic maybe a fool:P
First of all, if i get payed for contributing, i won't bother putting it there, second, voluterring is also a gift, a free gift to give, without asking for money. I wasnt asking for money from wiki >x<ino 12:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Like i asked again!...
>x<ino 12:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Please look it up in your encyclopedia! Read Wikipedia. — Sverdrup 14:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Today I've seen a couple of talk pages created for nonexistent templates, created by anon users, which have turned out as vandalism. I seem to remember that although anons can't create articles any more, they can create talk pages. I suggest that anons should be prohibited from creating talk pages for articles, categories, templates or project pages that don't exist yet, to prevent this sort of vandalism. — JIP | Talk 12:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
i've has , and my ipod for about a 2 weeks and now it's saying o.k to disconnect. what does that mean?
Please could someone convert File:Soccerball.svg from svg to png, jpg or psd so I can't edit it using Adobe Photoshop? Thank you. CG 17:31, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, It has become apparent that a couple of categories I have created have been improperly named. Specifically, these are "Category:Pederastic relationships" and "Category:Mythical pederastic relationships". Since the included articles are not about relationships but about persons, I'd like to request that they be re-named "Category:Pederastic lovers" and "Category:Mythical pederastic personages". Thanks in advance Haiduc 18:00, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone help turn the series of userboxes on my page into a long line along the right side, alongside the remainder of the page's text, a la User:Cmdrjameson? Thanks! - Wezzo 20:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
The Category:Role-playing games page has several problems that I can't figure out. First, some entries (such as Engel and RhyDin) seem to be listed under "*" and not under their first letter. Second, the page seems to end at "R", when I know at least Worlds of Wonder should be listed. Thanks to anyone who can explain or help. -- GRuban 22:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you all, folks. I didn't see the "next 200" link, but findings it, yes, Worlds of Wonder is there. Thanks for fixing those two hacks, JIP. I think this means we need to split this category page somehow, since it's too large if people are resorting to hacks to make names findable. Will mull over. GRuban 21:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
What is a "babel"?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 23:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there I can install a bot on my own wiki? I have no knowledge of programming (other than PHP, HTML and such) - would it be possible to install some kind of simple bot to delete things and check things or whatever? Thank you kindly for any help you could offer!
Is there a known amount of Wikipedians with siblings who are also Wikipedians? -- Ali K 01:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know the ratio of men to women users of Wikipedia-- Ali K 01:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it an appropriate subject for a Wikipedia article, or for a category, to write about dates of national importance? Not all such dates are included in (for one example) List of holidays by country. Or in any other list or category I've seen here. Yet, it seems to me just as important a way of understanding a nation, to describe the dates (and the reasons why those dates matter) which resonate in the memory and culture of a country -- as it is to describe the geology or the population or the GDP of a country.
Please comment, I'd welcome direction on this. Cheers, Madmagic 03:52, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Sometime within the last 24 hours, I've lost the ability to submit changes to moderately long articles and sections of articles. User:Melchoir#Test_1 seems to be about the limit; if I add a few more characters and click "Save page", it times out; after a few minutes a Wikipedia Error message shows up. The same happens if I click "Show preview". If I then remove the offending characters, going back under the limit, I can submit and preview with almost no lag at all. This happens whether or not I'm logged in, in both Safari and Firefox, and I've tried two static IPs in the same building.
On the other hand, I'm able to post extremely long sections of text to forumer.com, as in here, and I can post to Wikipedia as normal if I go through a remote proxy, such as at Anonymouse.org.
What's going on? Melchoir 05:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I just checked, and I have the same problem on the other languages, as well as Wikisource... Melchoir 07:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
i am starting my own wiki ( http://wikiclassifieds.org) and would like some directions on how to create custom special pages. thanks. -- Zondor 05:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed the time in timestamps is all UTC. Is it possible to change mine to read my own time zone, or is there something I don't know about Wikipedia which means they all have to be "UTC or bust"? Gohst 15:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I attribute anonymous edits with my IP to my username? I remember reading somewhere that you could do this however I can't seem to find instructions. I'm not sure if this is no longer possible or what. :/ I've been editing for a while anonymously so it would be great if I can indeed add all my anonymous edits to my username without actually having to publically reveal my IP (e.g. making a big message on my user page saying "xx.xx.xxx.xx was me editing anonymously, here are my contributions".. I really would prefer not to have to do that -_-
Thanks for anyone that can help!
Wikipedia is cool :D
-- Red-skinned femme-fatale black-latex-clad b-tch from Hell 16:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
1) If you are the sole user of that IP, you don't need to make a mess and list those edits on your userpage, you can refer people to the contribution history for that IP. 2) If you are not the only user of that IP, changing the attribution for those edits wouldn't have been possible anyway. Are you unhappy with revealing your IP, or with listing all your anon contributions on your userpage? - Mgm| (talk) 19:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This is not a copyright violation, but I would like to know whether the licence on a picture is ok as it is: The picture included (and others linked from Führerbunker) includes a text which forbids commercial use, as does the text on the picture's page. Is this an acceptable licence for Wikipedia? Complicating matters, the picture's page also states that the picture is licenced und a Creative Common by-sa licence, which does not exclude commercial work. So is all this just fine or should something be done?
I looked for any answer in the FAQ and elsewhere, but couldn't find anything useful. Any pointers are welcome! -- Yooden
Ironically, the above section describing my problem has already grown too long for me to edit it. So, no, just editing sections doesn't work for me! Melchoir 18:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to sort articles based on the first few letters instead of just the first letter? Example: If I have Mosque Acheh, Mosque Kampong, can I sort using "Mosque A", "Mosque B", etc instead of just "A", "B", etc.? Unlike in English where the word "mosque" is written at the back of the name, eg. "Acheh Mosque", it is reversed to read "Masjid Acheh" in the Malay language.
I have tried using the above template with one letter (with Gflores assistance) and it works. It didn't work when I tried to extend it thus:
I understand that one way is actually to use: [[Category:Mosque|Acheh, Mosque]] at the bottom of an article, but then again, when there are many users involved, some may not be able to follow. — PM Poon 18:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Rick Block, actually it is alright if all the articles in the category page begins with "Masjid" (meaning "mosque"). I am trying to use the template, CatAZ, to navigate the category page. Apparently it cannot work with more than one letter. Do you know how to modify the template so that it can work? Thanks. — PM Poon 19:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
An article I just wrote, Q TV, has been flagged as in need of citations. However, the article only contains basic information obvious from watching the channel such as Channel number, content, etc (ie: not sourced information). What should I do for the citation? smurrayinchester( User), ( Ho Ho Ho!) 22:24, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Where do I go to discuss the ban of anonymous users creating articles? --anon
Which is the best place? --anon
I would like to translate many articles in Wikipedia to the Spanish version, however I have not found a proper procedure for doing so. Cross-wiki links and such. Is there a place that outlines the general procedure for this? Thanks! -- Kitsune Sniper / David Silva 00:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
1. I wrote an article about TALKING ATMs
2. Someone wanted it merged into the ATM article, where it now resides under the heading "Disability Assisted ATMs"
3. The term "Talking ATM" is not a searchable term even tho the term is in the part of the ATM article referred to above.
4. How can I set it so if someone searches for "Talking ATM" they end up in the "disability Assited ATM" section - or at least in the ATM section?
5. Also - NOBODY refers to these machines as "disability assisted" -- the term is not used and incorrect. Where would I put a suggestion to change the term back to "Talking ATM"
Thanks!
Lainey Feingold (who has been working with the blind community on TALKING ATMs for 10 years!)
In "What links here" for the article "Stroboscope", one of the linking articles is also named "Stroboscope". Is something wrong? BrownBean 04:28, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! BrownBean 01:39, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I wrote a fairly extensive article on the programming language FALSE. Then not long after, I found that there already was an article called False programming language that I had managed to miss entirely. I'm working on merging them, but I need some help as to which of the two article titles I should merge into.
In favor of FALSE:
In favor of False programming language
The manual is in plaintext, so perhaps it is only "FALSE" there to give emphasis to the name. On the other hand, the author doesn't seem to add any more emphasis to the name than a leading capital in the remainder of the site (where he is not restricted to all-caps to add emphasis; having html it could be bold or some such).
Given this contradiction, I'm at a bit of a loss. Also see Talk:FALSE.
Ethan ( talk) 04:43, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I renewed a page with up-dated facts and nice pics, but it is replaced by a very old short version every second day. Why? Thanks in advance Sky Tower
I was re-directed to Tryfan from Moel Tryfan while cross checking links from North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway. I know enough to know these are different mountains, 9½ miles apart.
Can we have the re-direct taken off please? AHEMSLTD 14:22, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Retrieved from " Talk:Tryfan"
I don't know if this is a bug or a problem with my set-up. When I search for "Kitchener Ontario", in the user namespace, I get results 1-20 of 225. But if I click on "next" or "2" to get the second page, it says there were no matches to the query. What's going on? -- 192.206.151.130 16:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
A note has come up whilst using Wikipedia saying that I have been blocked from amending articles because of repreated vandalism of articles. I was not aware I have done this, and if I have it is certainly inadvertent. I have used Wikipedia to get much information, and I have been amending just the birth and death records of politicians which I have the information and Wikipedia does not and have added this information to the articles. But I appear to have upset someone (who hasnt contacted me directly). HELP! I am happy continuing using Wikepedia but just wanted to put something back in. :) RobStreatham —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobStreatham ( talk • contribs) 16:23, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Charlie Richmond 16:50, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity. When someone is banned from editing a certain group of articles or topic, how does the community make sure he hasn't broken his punishment? Does Wikipedia have a feature that allows to block certain pages from a user, or the decision is followed by watching the user's activities? CG 17:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
This behavior causes articles to be effectively lost or duplicated.
Is there any way around this problem?
Thanks!
would someone please have a look at the Paddy Casey page? In the singles section of the discography the first single is out of place in the table. i can't get it to go down where it should be, and i feel like i've tried everything... any chance anyone else would have a look and see if they can set it right?
cheers guys!
NaLaochra 02:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
what is "nik" and "donatello's"
Hi. How do I report a user who keeps on adding material about a person and this person's book on various pages? He never adds HTML links, so I can't call it link-spamming. He has never contributed anything else. I suspect this user and this book author is the same person. Also, what warning can I give? -- Perfecto 01:37, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
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The pictures in these articles are failing to load.
There is no German/Deutsch/Germany/Deutschland regional notice board, so I don't know where to ask for help. I need help from someone familiar with Germany or German to verify the article THTR-300. Is this a notable, real-life power plant? -- Perfecto 04:17, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed the typical text to revert something is: Reverted edits by 12.217.63.92 to last version by K1Bond007, but with the 12.217.63.92 changed to that person's contributions. How do I wikify that? Also, is there an easy way to write that without constantly typing that in? Thanks. -- JHMM13 05:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Just a really quick question, but I tried to create the subcat of Category:Religious NPOV disputes to help subcat the extrememly large Category:NPOV disputes, but when I look at the latter, it's not showing the subcat the first as a subcat >:\ Sherurcij 09:06, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.120.176.26 ( talk • contribs)
I'm sure there's a clever CSS way to do it, but I'm not sure how. How can I get a wikilink to appear in white text when it's against the black background of a table cell? If left its normal blue colour, the link is virtually invisible. -- Gareth Hughes 13:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Well, if I wanted to type the link Wikipedia in white, I would type the following:
[[Wikipedia|<span style="color: #FFFFFF">Wikipedia</span>]]
This looks like Wikipedia. I'm not sure if this is what you want, though. Izehar 17:47, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
No, the script I typed above will make the letters white, regardless of the background colour. Izehar 18:57, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.11.209.13 ( talk • contribs)
Unlike other items in an article (wikify, copyedit, etc), I never see a {contents} tag, so I wonder what makes one? How do you add it? Right now, I can only do this by copying a segment out of an existing article with a Table of Contents. Also, How do you set where the Contents appears? I see some pages with it at the top, but most have it after the intro paragraph. What is the "proper" location? Rlevse 17:42, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Why are some pictures not showing up? 130.111.98.131 18:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
What is a taxobox? Someone said I needed one. and how do I make one? Thanks -- LPW 20:26, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I recently set up a personal wiki to manage notes and whatnot. The install went through without much trouble. But whenever I attempt to save a page using the "Save Page" button I get sent to a preview page with the generic Remember that this is only a preview, and has not yet been saved! preview page line. I have tried editing various types of pages (main page, talk, discussion), as well as creating new pages. None of them allow me to save pages. I've tried editing from a sysop account and regular account, no dice. saving my preferences is also out of the question.
However, I am able to edit pages anonymously, which makes it all the more confusing. It seems like something gets set read-only once I log in, but I'm not familiar enough with mediawiki to know what.
TIA, tom link to my wiki
after reading your posts I tried connecting to the wiki via a proxy and I had no problems. I turned off the proxy and encountered the same problems. I am on the same subnet as the server, I wonder if that could be causing the problem. -Tom
Or better yet, the lack thereof. Many times I've reverted vandalism, saved my edits, and found via the history that someone else had already reverted it; however, I can't remember ever getting an edit conflict for any of these. I'm guessing this is either a technical issue or something to do with merging identical edits. Deltabeignet 05:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I am working on the Wikipedia Mailing List. A user in Brazil wants to leave information for an admin on the Danish Wikipedia. How can I get in touch with her and let her know.
Capitalistroadster 06:04, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I want to transfer all the Taxobox templates from en wiki to telugu wiki. Is there a way I can do this quick ? -- Vyzasatya 07:10, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Article on Methane is being messed up with random words
Does a last name have it's own symbol? I am looking for a symbol for the last name HURTADO.
Thank you
How do I create a link to: Wikipedia Article Web URL
Thanks,
Yesselman 17:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I am interested in purchasing Dora the Explora dubbed in German and have tried multiple web sites with no sucess. I have also called Niceledoen to no avail. Are you able to help tell me where I can order via e-mail Dora the explora dubbed in german.
Thank you.
Linda McBride <email address removed>
Can't you read the rules? It says do not list your e-mail address! In response to your inquiry: I don't think we can help you. Izehar 18:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
BTW, it might help if you had the show's name & the network's name correct; the show is "Dora the Explorer," and the network is Nickelodeon.
Has anyone ever gotten solicited by chatting over wikipedia? --anon
Does this mean that Wikipedia isn't as safe as it seems? Is it like a chat room you're saying? --anon
I read it, but it didn't say, "Wikipedia is not a chat room." It just said not to talk about other things on article's talk pages and do it on a user's talk page instead. --anon
Many members of wikipedia are teenagers and this site is friendly to them. Banana04131 21:05, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay...Guess I overeacted a bit! Sorry! --anon
How do you clean up an article? I have attempted to clean the E-102 Gamma article many times, but the tag is still there! Could I please have some advice? --anon
But how do I know that it's actually not clean? --anon
Okay, I read it, and I think the article's clean! And I already wrote to the person who put the tag on, but she/he isn't answering. --anon
Okay, thank you! --anon
How do you make an external link spread out? For example, I want it to look like www.wikiepdia.com, but instead, I get [1] instead. Why? --anon
In order to get www.example.org, you must type:
[http://www.example.org/ www.example.org]
Izehar 19:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Now I'm confused... Izehar 19:25, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm a little confused, but I'll go test it out. www.wikipedia.com. It works! Thanks! But I still don't get the URL and web reference thing. --anon
Is it okay if I just don't use those templates? --anon
Okay, thanks! --anon
Okay, thanks, again! --anon
In October I wrote an article on the "Battle of Salineville", a Civil War battle fought in Ohio. It was my first original article. Google does not locate that article. Also if I type only "Salineville" into the Wikipedia search box, Wikipedia does not locate my article.
I also extensively editted an existing article on capture-recapture called "mark and recapture". Google does locate that article, and Wikipedia locates it too even if I don't type in the exact name.
Is there some way I can make my "Battle of Salineville" article easier to find for people searching the internet for that information. Note that I wrote that article before I registered here. I tried linking my Civil War article to several other Civil War pages, but that hasn't made mine easier to find.
Thanks for any thoughts. -- Mark W. Miller 21:03, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Whenever I try to redirect it comes out as
I don't understand why. I've tried How to edit a page and Redirecting. -- AidPc 21:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
To redirect a page to, for example Wikipedia, you must type:
#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia]]
Izehar 21:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I create a link to a Web URL for the word Religion"
Example: Definition of Religion http://www.yesselman.com/SpinIdea.htm#Religion
Thanks,
Yesselman 17:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
PS: I think I am a member; am I not?
If not a member, how do I become one?
To link to that website under the label religion, type the following:
[http://www.yesselman.com/SpinIdea.htm#Religion Religion]
That will produce Religion. Yes, you are a memeber - please sign you name using four tildes ~~~~ Izehar 22:01, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Where is the DYK page? Why is there no wikipedia entry for DYK ?
Why am I getting logged out every few hours or days, instead of every few weeks or months as it used to be? Kaz 01:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
C'mon, guys, someone speak up! I've tried both IE and Netscape, and both are logging me out pretty much every time I close the browser, despite my cache and cookie settings being very liberal. What gives? Kaz 03:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
OK, I already checked the cookie settings, they're as liberal as possible, but I'll try manually clearing the cache.
Firefox is actually a part of the problem, in this case, not the solution. Aside from IE simply working better, whether we like MS or not, Firefox manifested this problem first, though now IE and Netscape 8 (a good compromise for people who want to be able to view websites correctly, yet hate Microsoft) are also doing it. Kaz 16:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Black Mamba is a redirect that refers to Mamba, however the Mamba article is about Black Mambas specifically. I'm not sure how to rectify this or how to bring it to the attention of someone who can. Thanks. -- Bad carpet 06:33, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
In between the Title lineage and External links sections lie ALL the [edit] links. I don't know what is wrong with the article, but could someone help? x42bn6 Talk 08:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
i updated some text about limp bizkit and it was deleted almost immediately. Here's the message I received:
User talk:172.148.243.195 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Talk:Limp Bizkit, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! --Nlu 08:49, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Can someone tell me whas' up with that?
thx
Hello,
I created my very first account on wikipedia this morning and mistakenly used my email address as my username. When I then added a new entry, I noticed that my email address was visible. I then added a nickname, which changed the visible text, but when clicking on the nickname, my email address is again visible. I would like to change my username so it is no longer my email address and stop the display of my email address on wikipedia. Help!
JonathanKing 15:46, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Could someone tell me how to get an image to sit squarely in the middle of the cell of a table on Wikipedia? I've got it horizontally centred, but it keeps floating to the top of the cell. -- Gareth Hughes 16:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Rick! It's not just in that article: there are a few articles which use this new feature to allow a map or other image to be displayed in the bottom of the infobox. The bit of wikitext that is included when this option is switched on is at {{ language/map}}. This includes the 'vertical-align' property. I've tried using <div> tags around the image in the article space, but that makes it disappear completely. I'm a bit stuck with this one. -- Gareth Hughes 13:59, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
There is an article that I've become aware which had a hung ("no consensus") Afd, but new seems to have been abandoned by its creator without having fixed its problems. I would like to restart Afd on it, but there is an archived debate sub-page, marked "please do not change". I can find procedures for appealing completed deletions, but I can't find a procedure for retrying after a mistrial (or, for that matter, deleting a page that has had a definite keep in the past). What's the correct procedure? -- David Woolley 23:28, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
I wish to make a map with the following: contour lines and coordinates. The map is intended toi be used to develop a disaster reduction paln for a communal area in Zimbabwe.
Macadonald Kadzatsa
Roman (disambiguation) → Roman which claims to be a disambiguation page (although it has too much stuff on it IMHO), and I think it should be the other way around, i.e. the disambiguation content should be on Roman (disambiguation) and Roman should redirect. Can a mere mortal switch them over? If not, how do I queue it up for an an admin to look at? Or am I wrong in thinking they should be switched? -- LesleyW 11:40, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I insert an image into my article and upload it? I'm having trouble finding this Rlevse 15:00, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm using the Wiki browser-based Upload File method. Rlevse 21:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Dear Help Desk,
Is it possible to create targets in Wikipedia Articles so that one can link to the target within the Article?
If possible; kindly tell me how.
Many thanks,
Yesselman 15:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Can Wikipedia feature the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, a sporting event in Asia, in the main page for the next three days? The "soft-opening" happened November 25 and the games will formally open on November 27. Homboy 17:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
If I wanted to add a picture to a page, and I'm the owner and photographer of the picture, which license choice do I choose? It's a public building (a bridge) and it was taken from public land. Also, since I'm the owner/photographer, is there anything else I need to do to make sure this is appropriately identified? Thanks! -- EaglesFanInTampa 18:25, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
A small improvement in the formulation of Alexander's sub-basis theorem. The current formulation uses the phrase "sub-basic cover" without explanation; at first I thought it meant just "sub-basis"; but in fact it meant "cover contained (as a subset) in a sub-basis". Better for the statement to be more explicit.
Harold Hodes (<email removed - see instructions at top>)
Sometime last night all thumbnailed pictures on wikipedia stopped displaying on my computer. Not just on wikipedia but the commons too. The wikipedia and commons logos on the top left show, though. Now the pictures are just white blanks that have the appropriate size but nothing shows. Even full-size images don't appear, and the only way to get them to show is to view the image by itself, ie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg doesn't work but http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg does. Not sure if this is localised, just me or universal. Some help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Миборовский U| T| C| E| Chugoku Banzai! 21:18, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Im trying to format my articles. I want a new section to start after pictures or tables. Right now I have to use <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> until I reach the end of the table or picture. Is there a better way to do this?-- Ewok Slayer 21:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Ciao, and many thanks in advance for assistance. I am new to Wikipedia and have been wandering around the site, lost. I have AOL and when I created my account, negative banning comments appeared on the 'my talk' area. I created the account today and have yet to do anything but correct a typo. I read the part about AOL and the dynamic IP addresses, but is there a way for an AOL user to have a solo account? What I mean is, is there a way to have my account only be mine so that I can contribute in peace, or will this problem continue? I am sorry if this is a stupid newbie query, if there is a link or FAQ that I missed, I would appreciate some direction.
Mille grazie, Alipes 01:36, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Alipes 01:57, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
I heard there is a place where people who wrote really stupid things have them posted and I was wondering where I could find this, Thank you.
How do I use this to find out what is a Real Estate Limited partnerships and what does derivaatives options mean?
I'm lost on how to use this, can you e-mail me at <e-mail removed>
Thanks,
Carla
A user has e-mailed the Help mailing list inquiring whether there were any film clips on Wikipedia.
I am not aware of any although I am sure that it would be possible to add it to the commons.
If you are aware of any non-copyvio clips on Wikipedia, could you please respond.
Capitalistroadster 02:11, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes, there do indeed exist film clips on Wikipedia - Brian0918 and I uploaded virtually all of them (I'm the one who showed him how to do convert them to ogg theora). They can be found on commons:Category:video Raul654 14:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
I just uploaded an image but after pressing the button to upload, I realized I made a mistake in the image description and other data. Questions:
Rebelduder69 ( talk · contribs) cut the content of Get Rich or Die Tryin' (which was previously about the 2003 album), pasted it into Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003 album), and has turned the original page into a disambiguation page. The problem is, this happened almost three months ago, and several users have edited both pages since then, so the edit histories are very wrong. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks in advance. Extraordinary Machine 14:33, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Can somebody publish a Wikipedia article and sell it for commercial purposes? GFDL license it seems allow commercial use of uploaded photos. How about the text and the photos together, can they be printed and sold without any legal restriction? Thanks to whomever answers this. Walter Ching 14:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello: I am the owner of a web site that previously had an article in Wikipedia. This article was recently deleted and I would like to discuss/contest this move. What is the appropriate way to do so? Thank you.
I created an old version of this picture File:Betrayal(LOF).jpg. I tried uploading a new one but everytime I do it only shows the old one. I tried reverting but I can't get my newone to show up. It's in the file history ones though.-- User:Jedi6 November 26, 2005
Server: lighttpd/1.4.7 X-Cache: MISS from will.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from will.wikimedia.org:80 X-Cache: MISS from vandale.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from vandale.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 anchor-cache-01 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.1)
Is it possible (legal) to add audio samples to a wiki page? For example, 30 second clips of essential material of a certain band? I've seen some pages link to *.ogg files that have been uploaded to Wiki. More info would be appreciated. Thanks!
-- Flunkycarter 00:06, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
So a copyrighted song, with the quality dramatically reduced (A low OGG bitrate, reduced in quality) and only providing a 30 sec. (reduced in quantity) sample of a copyrighted song would be allowed under Fair Use to illustrate an educational article(Wiki Article)?
-- Flunkycarter 22:09, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I delete a page, title and all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.28.235.62 ( talk • contribs) 06:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to get a feed URL for specific sections of the Wikipedia main page (i.e., In the News)?
I've been looking at some of the articles that link to Roman (a rather detailed disambiguation page with lots of links), and its history. All of the articles that I have looked at so far (maybe ten, I know it's a small sample) have very general references to "the Romans". I believe that people will continue to write "the Romans..." and link to Roman without giving it a second thought, as they should be able to do. Therefore, I now think that one possible solution is that "Roman/s" could redirect to a portal on Ancient Rome, but no such portal exists as yet.
My question is, what requirements need to be met for the operation of a portal? Would it need a maintainer, or can it be set up so that no maintenance is necessary? Is there a proposal discussion process that should be followed before going ahead?
Why does the wiki break my sig now? It only started happening recently (sometime between Nov. 10 and 22 judging from my contribs). It should look like #1 (that's copy-pasted), but wikipedia is now auto-reformatting it to #2. I assume some software change is to blame, but how can I get the desired result back?
I realize there are external tools for this but I'm looking for a javascript implementation, whether a bookmarklet or something I can add to my monobook.js. There's a replace function on user scripts, perhaps there can be one for searching and highlighting or going to that place while editing. Gflores Talk 00:14, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
There are some non-existent (red) links which seem to call more for definitions than articles, even brief ones (because there are good specialized links out there). I have a vague notion that there is a WP place for such items and that it is fact poor practice to make articles out of definitions? Is so, no? Can you point me to a how-to? Thanks, Halcatalyst 01:26, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
About 20 minutes after I log in, if I haven't physically communicated with WP, I get logged out. I might be in the middle of editing a page. (OK, I think slowly.) Is this the work of a watchdog on the WP servers, or is it some other part of my total system? I use Win XP. Is there a workaround? Thanks, Halcatalyst 01:32, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
A Wikipedia user has sent an e-mail to the Help mailing list as follows:
In the " Crystal system entry", the last four trigonal point groups can't be printed, i;e., they are left off of a print out. They do show up just fine on the screen. I have looked at the HTML and I can not see what the problem is. I would be interested in knowing what the problem is as well as having it corrected.
I have had a look and cannot find the problem. If you can see what the problem is and can fix it, it would be greatly appreciated.
Capitalistroadster 02:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
How do you cite a page?
<no contents> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.117.106.114 ( talk • contribs)
What is the publishing company, city of publication and copyright date for the article "Military Tribunals in the USA"
I am doing a bibliography for a speech and I used your site as a source. Who do i put as the author?
I created this template here for new people who'd be pretty pissed off when there recent article gets deleted. Any thoughts? Should it even stay? ε γκυκλοπαίδεια * (talk) 02:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Vandal ova here: User:James of Wales. Put a template on already. Looks like the Wikipedia is Communism dude impersonating whoever the guy was who created this site, I have to remember his name. At any rate, delete him! ε γκυκλοπαίδεια * (talk) 03:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I ran across William D. Ferris while trying to fix the hockey dab page. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with it, maybe WP:VAIN, but I really can't put my finger on it. Help from a more experienced user would be helpful, along with recommendations for next time. D-Rock 05:58, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
(No question)
eg, If I do a google search for my friends band called "juju space jazz", it doesn't come up, but if I do a search on "Simon Posford" (the producer) it comes up with ";;;Simon Posford - Wikipedia" etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zangtubba ( talk • contribs)
Good Day
I have visited Wikipedia often and have read many extremely well written articles, however, today I stumbled into something quite confusing. I am reading up on Micronations, the reason being that I am aspiring to be granted political asylum by a certain country, but should it nor be granted I would like to consider alternatives. To me it is a vital issue, an issue that would affect my family and myself in a most serious manner. I ask for your serious consideration of my question(s)
My specific question centers around the entry about the dominion of Mechizedek. I read through the contents as in the Wikipedia entry, then noticed a section called "talk" clicked on it and entered into a discussion that, put simply, astounded me. I believe wholeheartedly in UNBIASSED facts, and thought that this was what Wikipedia was about, but after reading the entire thread (a few times over to understand the implications) I was forced to conclude that whoever was responsable (in this case rather unresponsable..my opinion) certainly was NOT looking for factual or even balanced entries. There seemed to be decided "camps", each with a very unforgiving and seperate agenda. Now, at the risk of dragging my question out. I shall just ask it straightforward.
In reference to the specific entry abdout the dominion of Mechizedek, why can there not be an independant review of the entire entry, by people that have a PROVEN ability to be unbiassed?
I would like to qualify my question further by equating my thoughts..
If certain individuals of a country commit "crimes"..I put this in inverted commas because, what is described as a crime in some countries would not neccesarilly be so in others...eg. drinking a alcoholic beverage in USA is legal(at the moment, but not in the past)...elsewhere it would be VERY illegal (at the moment, but not neccesarilly in the past) Thus, the impression that I get is that OPINION should be disregarded when FACTS are at stake. The facts should be balanced and given with impartiality.
Again with reference to the Mechizedek site, I found it absolutely bewildering to read through a series of claims, counter-claims and at the end of the day...absolutely no consensus and leaving me no other option but to revert to trusty old GOOGLE to try and find FACTS and decide for myself.
Please help me on this issue, I am not too familliar with the editing and administration of the wikipedia articles, but I would like to believe that someone would clear this queation up for me.
Kindest Regards immigrationissues2002 Caracas, Venezuela
You can contact them by leaving a message on the article's talk page at Talk:Dominion of Melchizedek. Izehar 20:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
what kind of lawyer should i get for at fault cases?
Is this possible? What I want is
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
(except moreobviously as a list)
I tried this (standard wiki syntax):
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
obviously wrong. I tried a hack (inserting <P> where I want a break, but leaving on the same line):
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Any suggestions? Thanks, pfctdayelise 05:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
→
Ξxtreme Unction {
yakł
blah} 00:54, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
In case anyone else is interested, me and Extreme Unction have puzzled out a solution. Forget wikisyntax and use <ol> (ordered list) in combination with <br&;gt or <p> tags.
eg.
<ol> <li> Item 1 blah blah blah <p> Item 1 is so important it needs two paragraphs </p></li> <li> Item 2 is also very important <p> So it has two pars as well </p></li></ol>
-->
Item 1 is so important it needs two paragraphs
So it has two pars as well
You can also close your <li> tags if you want, it's better html I think but it works anyway. <ol> MUST be closed.
pfctdayelise 02:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Just wondering what spelling is preferred, American, or English (UK, Canada, etc), as in color or colour? Thanks!
How can I change my user name? -- Yochai Twitto 10:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering what tag is appropriate (if any) for scans of video games manuals. Also is the same tag appropriate if its taken from a pdf file found on the games disc? Thanks. Examples File:Alterac-warcraft2-with-orc-symbol.jpg - User:UnlimitedAccess
Hi,
I have my own copy of WikiMedia installed, and I'd like not to have rel=nofollow tag along with my external links. Whrer can I change the script settings to restrict placing this tag?
Thanks.
--> Already found: edit includes/Linker.php
function makeExternalLink( $url, $text, $escape = true, $linktype = ' ' ) { $style = $this->getExternalLinkAttributes( $url, $text, 'external ' . $linktype ); global $wgNoFollowLinks; if( $wgNoFollowLinks ) { $style .= '';
Remove :)
Hey, guys. I'm a pretty regular article editor, but I've run into problems in the past with uploading images, so I'm looking for a few tips in general, and if it's OK to upload this picture which is a part of this article from vatican.va. Thanks, JHMM13 16:12, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I was looking for information about the Treaty of Lausanne, but didn't know what it was called exactly, so I opened the Lausanne article, first. However, I didn't find a reference to the treaty there.
How should I add a link to the treaty to the Lausanne article? Of course, I could write something about it in the History section, and link to it in the "See also" section, but I wonder if there should also be a disambiguation remark at the top of the Lausanne article, since "Lausanne" could also refer to the Treaty of Lausanne, just like " Maastricht" could refer to the Maastricht Treaty. -- Benne 16:44, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
How do i find out the information that you put on a bibliography card?
How do I put a border on a picture? Izehar 21:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
HI, if I have made a mistake in the licensing of a photo how do I correct it? and if I took the Photo and release all right would (GFDL-self) be the correct licensing? -- LPW 21:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this is obvious or answered in some FAQ or guidline page that I missed but I've been trying to put in a template on the Oxford Street talk page that notes that the article was used as a press source in Time Out London this week. I'm pretty useless at filling out templates as it is but thought I'd give it a go. Problematically, I couldn't seem to find one that allows me to skip putting in a URL or website. There is a Time Out London website, but they don't have the article on there. I've put it down on the Wikipedia as a press source listings anyway so someone might put it in for me but it would be nice to find out how it's done for the future. Thanks in advance. Jellypuzzle 22:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
When editing articles about fictional objects, I frequently use tables based on Infoboxes (though not the actual box itself) to summarise the information. See either the box on this page: Springfield (The Simpsons), or a couple of (hypothetical) examples on the user page ( User:Smurrayinchester/Infoboxes). But, I just realised that this could potentially be confusing to some users, making a fictional thing seem 'real', even just briefly, and am no longer sure whether I should keep them. Should I? smurrayinchester( User), ( Talk) 22:28, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I'm really confused here. What is the difference between a category and a portal? If it's layout then how come the links on the main page (culture, geography, etc.) point to categories rather than portals, even though they have the same layout as a portal?
Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of portals? I've tagged Category:Wikiportals, Category:Portals, and even Wikipedia:Portal, because I found them confusing, and, frankly, a mess. Category:Wikiportals gives me links to several portals, but also "subcategories" which are just the category links from the main page. Category:Portals gives me an alphabetical listing, but when I click a letter, just shows me a list of various categories, and no portals. Wikipedia:Portal has 2 lists, which are inconsistent, and I suspect neither is complete. Some portals listed as complete are red, and yet some work when I click them on the other list.
Can anyone explain this more clearly for me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.125.142 ( talk • contribs)
I'm working on this article, and it seems obvious to me that it would be better if the contents list went crossways rather than downwards because the sections are A, B, C etc.
Is there a straightforward way of achieving that? I realise I could go:
...and so on, but that seems a bit of a palaver. Besides, even then I wouldn't know how to supress the automatic contents list. AndyJones 23:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm curious. -- Perfecto 00:53, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
While doing some research about Expedition Robinson, the European version of North America's Survivor, I noticed that second paragraph from the Overview section of the Expedition Robinson article is plagarized from the third paragraph on this website [2]. I'm not sure how to go about reporting plagarism so someone can clean it up, but I am not familiar enough with the European version of the game to correct this. The best I could do is reword it. How should this be taken care of? Jtrost 00:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, The other day I added this category, [[Category:Historical pederastic relationships]] to the article on George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and got a redlink that leads to a page claiming that "Wikipedia does not yet have a Category page called Historical pederastic relationships." However, the same category link leading from Marsilio Ficino works perfectly well and leads to the correct category page for this very category. Can you help fix this problem? Haiduc 01:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
do i get paid if i constantly supply wikipedia with information and various articles that are of public interest?
I've recently nominated a few pictures on Ifd, because they are in violation of the original owner's copyright. It clearly states it cannot be used without prior permission by the webmaster. I have yet to see this proof. In addition, I've attempted to use one of the photos, and recieved this response, from the very same user that defended his actions. A couple of minutes ago, I came across Copyright Violations, and saw that I could nominate for immediate deletion.
Any help? What should I do? Thanks in advance. Pacific Coast Highway| Spam me! 22:03, 15 June 2024 UTC [ refresh
I posted comments on Talk:Ushabti, but I'm afraid my comments may not be seen if I just leave them there. It seems to me that the Ushabti article should either be deleted or merged/redirected into the Shabti article. The trouble is that I'm not sure how to proceed. I tried looking through the help pages, but it's hard to find the information I need in the limited time I have (my lunch break at work). Could someone tell me what I need to do, or do it for me in a way that will allow me to see how it was done? I see this sort of thing occasionally and am never sure what to do about it. Unfortunately, I'm rarely able to spend more than a few minutes at a time helping out with Wikipedia, so I tend to look for projects I can complete quickly. -- CKA3KA (Skazka) 20:46, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I created a template to write categories without having to type 'category' (I always spell it 'cateogyr' because of typos) and on the first page I used it, the template didn't work. Why didn't it work? Is it because of subst? Maybe that I used subst: and User: together? It just appeared on the screen as {{subst:User:Thelb4/cat|British record producers|Parsons, Alan}}. Thelb 4 21:04, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
What does wikipedia mean?
Wikipedia is a papier-mâché word formed out of wiki (i.e. a group of Web pages that allows users to add content) and -pedia (from encyclopaedia). In other words, it means the free encyclopedia; free meaning open for anyone to edit. Izehar 00:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
There currently are 4 William F. Gibson pages, at least:
1) redirect William F. Gibson => redirect William Ford Gibson
2) redirect William Ford Gibson => article William Ford Gibson (writer)
3) disambiguation William Gibson
4) article William Ford Gibson (writer)
How do I set it up so that a search on William F. Gibson gets straight to 4) article William Ford Gibson (writer), without having to go through intermediary pages such as 2) and 3) ?
-- Kessler 00:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Oops yes I didn't check my link: I was referring to William Gibson (novelist). And altho I haven't read that article in detail it looks OK to me: my concern right now is with the redirecting -- I'd like my William F. Gibson search to get to that article direct. -- Kessler 01:28, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I can easily get a list of all my contributions, but these don't identify which of them was a new article. I haven't created many, but there are some. Where do I find this info? JackofOz 01:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I doubt this is the place to ask, but I dunno where one should:
Might someone point me at a link for installing the Wikipedia's data on one's machine and setting it up to be accessed via web server? In other words, something like "Download the SQL export, import it into MySQL, then download any of these three software packages: X (for PERL), Y (for php), and X (Java), then plug in the corresponding front end code, found (here), using any web server software which supports CGI-BIN."
Something like that. Pretty please. 209.33.24.118 02:57, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I AM SO EFFING SICK OF BEING RANDOMLY LOGGED OUT! The above was (as that ip always is) me. Kaz 03:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Where is Wikipedia run? It is strange to see that the last time a page was edited was tomorrow morning.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.119.44.82 ( talk • contribs) 03:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
what is the edition of wikipedia?
"This message is regarding the page Opium. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks.
Sycthos 04:24, 1 December 2005 (UTC)"
Why thank you Sycthos, bot or mod, comparable as though they may be. I feel all welcome now. I guess adding Edgar Allan Poe to the list of famous opium users is stubid.
More like a complaint than a question, but couldn't find a complaint section, which annoys me further. Pssh, copyleft people and mistakes? Get out of here.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.160.181.90 ( talk • contribs) 05:40, 1 December 2005
I'm having an incredibly tough time adding a simple Temple University logo to my Temple football page. I just keep getting that box to ask me to fill out the information and when i do that the logo doesn't show up in any context but a word file. As far as copywright because it's a generic logo, it's considered "fair use" so that shouldn't be a problem. A similar example is listed on the Villanova University page with its logo. Thanks for any help you can give me. Mike
I was just passing this page, and it seemed ripe for a bit of editting, as the part I wanted turned out to be the last sentence. I thought: "aha, this really is a geo disambiguation page!" But after I started to work on it, I discovered that the several paragraphs had actually been separate pages, and are now combined (having redirects from them) -- no sections, it was all one big amalgam (so I made them sections now for clarity). What's the procedure for "undoing" the consolidation? It turns out there are nearly 100 links to this page, so not for the faint-hearted! I've got no vested interest in the content. (Given directions, though, I'll gladly do the work.) William Allen Simpson 07:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: Parellada. This article is part of the English wikipedia, yet it's written in (95% sure of this) Spanish. Should the article be deleted, translated or moved? It c ertainly needs copyediting and wikifying... but there's not much this poor old monoglot can do right now. Should I be posting this message somewhere else? Is Articles Requiring Attention just for important articles, for example? *Satis 11:15, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
On loading my user page, the page normally appears as two tables set out side-by-side like columns (as it should). However, about 1 in 4 four times when loading the page, the tables stack on top of each other instead of side by side. The error normally fixes after refresh, but oddly, the error only occurs in Firefox, not Internet Explorer! Is it a fault with the browser, or the table layout? smurrayinchester( User), ( Ho Ho Ho!) 15:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hiya, I'm a college professor, and I encourage my students to be critical thinkers regarding Wikipedia and the internet as I think Wikipedia and the internet have similar strengths and weaknesses. As such, I have changed a page in a crazy way (and then immediately change it back).
I got a message to do this in the sandbox, but have since been unable to find said sandbox--can anyone point me in the correct direction? Can I do it without my students realizing it is "fake"? I really want them to think critically about what they read and putting that Abe Lincoln was the son of teenage mutant ninja turtles and seeing that live on the screen (which we immediately change and talk about ethical communication) has gotten the point across more clearly than anything else I've tried. Thanks!
Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.
I am in no way code-literate (other than what i've picked up through copying, pasting, and changing the text contained therein) as far as tables go, so if someone could take a look at Apollo Sunshine (album) and tell me why the date "2003" under "Apollo Sunshine Chronology" is bold, i'd really like that. a whole lot. jfg284 you were saying? 20:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a student at Harvard College, a research aide in the Stephen M. Kosslyn Neuropsychology Lab, and the creator of the user "KosslynLab".
This summer, in my capacity as an employee of the Kosslyn Lab, I prepared and posted a cluster of articles about Mental Imagery, Motor Imagery, Visual Imagery, and Auditory Imagery. The articles were adapted from a Nature article by Kosslyn, Thompson, and Ganis, all of whom gave me permission to post the content on wikipedia. I also received permission via email from Nature to post the content.
I was dismayed to find that the articles that I posted were recently deleted. Users worried about copyright violations and that the content constituted "original research". I apologize if I violated any wiki regulations - I am a new user and I certainly have much to learn about the wiki world. However, since I do have permission to post this content from all parties involved, it is a shame that the world no longer has access to it.
I would like to repost the articles in a form acceptable to the wiki community. Can you give me pointers about how I might do so?
Thanks,
KosslynLab
Hmmm... I certainly made all four pages that I mentioned. See here.
Is there a HTML to Wiki translator anywhere? -- Member 23:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to split a list into two (or more) distinct columns? I have been editing the planemo article and the list is far too long to go down one side of the screen.
Additionally, is there any way to maintain the number bullet points down a list when one of the numbered points is then broken down into further bullets? e.g.
Here "Mars" is given the number 1, and not 4 as it should be.
#Mercury #Venus #Earth #*Luna #Mars
<ol start="111"><li>a <li>b</ol>
I made a smaller (in kb) and easyer to see version of File:Communistpartyrunstates.jpg ( link). The problem is that if i try to upload a new version, the fact that the current is a .jpg and the new is a .gif conflicts, so is there any way to update it or do i have to upload the new then delete the current one. -- ThrashedParanoid 03:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I notice a lot of people 'advertise' their edit count. How is this statistic obtained? can someone tell me how I can find out mine (for my own vanity/interesting). novacatz 04:02, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Are any search engines available to search WP only? Halcatalyst 05:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks to all who responded. The WP link on my Firefox search window is most cool! Halcatalyst 04:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I edit my monobook.js? When I go to " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bmdavll/monobook.js" I get an error message: The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "User:Bmdavll/monobook.js". Trying to edit that brings me to a new page. Do I need to create it first? Bmdavll 06:22, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I've added a note to the error message ( MediaWiki:Missingarticle) about this, so it now reads:
The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "$1".
This might be because no page has yet been created with this name, in which case you can start it by clicking the "edit this page" link.
If it is a recently changed page, trying again in a minute or two will usually work. Alternatively, you may have followed an outdated diff or history link to a page that has been deleted.
If this is not the case, you may have found a bug in the software. Please report this using the procedure given at Wikipedia:Bug_reports, making note of the URL.
Thryduulf 12:44, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Whwn I try to log in or register it tells me I must have cookies enabled which they are. I am in Malaysia since early November and just today got internet access which might be the reason but I can't see why it would be. There are testy messages on the talk page of this ip and I sure would like to distance myself from them because they are not mine. I am a registered user with over 800 edits and I have never vandalised. Any user here got any advice. I would appreciate any input. thank you.-- 219.93.174.106 09:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
MediaWiki:Loginend has been moved to MediaWiki:Signupend because of some redesign, but in the process the username instructions disappeared of the login screen. Can someone fill me in about what happened in this redesign and why the mover blanked it after moving?
I have been using Wikipedia for some time, but only recently created an account. After doing so, I immediately ran into a confusing problem. My browser, Internet Explorer to be exact, is set to allow cookies in most cases and I even added wikipedia.org to my list of "Always Allowed" domains. I tried setting by browser privacy settings to entirely eliminate restrictions on cookies, yet still experienced the same problem. When I log in, everything appears in order and it says "Login Successful." However, after I click on a link or run a search only once, occasionally twice, the buttons in the top right corner are replaced by "Sign in / create account." Additionally, when I do appear to be logged in and I attempt to edit my preferences, add a site to my watchlist, or perform any action related to my account, I get a message stating that I "must be logged in to do that." No matter how many times I try logging in and repeating the process, I always get the same result. What is wrong and how can I fix this?
Anyone know how to do this pleae ? In my wiki I have several external links, and the back button on the navigator doesn't always work. I know the user can force a new window (eg using IE via a right-click, open in new window) but I would like to make this automatic. Many thanks in advance Hilary
Is it possible to place a target between Headers in articles? If so, how?
Many thanks,
Yesselman 14:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
<div id="foo">...</div>
to do this. Just beware of using the same ID more than once - like when someone put such a tag in a template which was used multiple times on one page... -
IMSoP 19:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)I recently deleted a vandalism redirect for the second time. However, when I visit the deleted redirect, it merely shows "View or restore 2 deleted edits?" without making it into a hyperlink. Thus I am unable to actually view those edits, even though I am an admin. Viewing deleted edits of other pages works fine. Here is the link to the deleted redirect: [5]. What is the reason for this? — JIP | Talk 15:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
What does the <noinclude> tag do? (For example: Template:Nasdaq) Shawnc 16:10, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Every other edit I make makes a stupid error message pop up; and then I get logged out sometimes. I ruined my edits of Military ranks of Mexico, and I was hoping that someone could help. Is there a problem with Wikipedia's servers? ε γκυκλοπαίδεια * (talk) 19:57, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Can someone direct me to the help page or policy regarding links? The reason I ask is this: I often find articles cluttered with links that aren't beneficial. Some seem to double bracket every word in an article that may lead to another article without regard if it adds anything but color to the topic. Other than clutter, I think that spurious linking likely adds to the tasks of the disambiguation project. Likely this is a common question, and I'll be glad to RTFM if anyone can tell me which M to R. =) -- Bad carpet 22:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
How do you make a deletion template that isn't for speedy deletion?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 23:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
What just happened to my signature? It was fine several weeks ago. -- King of <font color="red">♥</font> [[User talk:King of Hearts|<font color="red">♦</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/King of Hearts|♣]] [[Special:Emailuser/King of Hearts|♠]] 23:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I decided to make my first contribution to wikipedia. Created an article on Richard Gregg (an empty link refered from Simple living). After being put to quick deletion after 2 days was deleted. How do I refute the deletion criteria? I was given a reason (not important enough). I explained why I didn't agree. The article was deleted without further explaination. Is this a normal way of acting here? I dont want to defend here the relevance of the article only ask if this could be considered abuse of deletion powers and if not how a person can start the discussion about the relevance of the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.193.82.160 ( talk • contribs) 02:55, December 3 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
1... I made some minor alterations to the Down Syndrome page and was wondering how I let anyone know that the source of my information is already contained in an existing external link? I know it is a requirement to provide the sources so that it's not simply me voicing off.
2... I also made some minor changes to the Down Syndrome page just before signing up, is there anyway to associate the earlier change with my new identity?
Thanks Donald.
I've just left it in the external links, as there are no sources listed for the page.
Thank you, Donald.
"A change to Harvard style requires consensus from everyone who has provided inline references, but as there are only three, that ought not to be too difficult to achieve. -- David Woolley 10:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)"
User Larry sent the following question to the Wikimedia Help Desk.
I run Windows Me and InternetExplorer 5.5, and have full set of Arial Unicode MS. I can display every Latvian, Romanian, and Croatian character properly when going to ordinary Eastern European and Baltic web pages, but many characters do not properly display on English Wiki pages about foreign languages. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
Any help you can give him would be appreciated. Capitalistroadster 09:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
There was an article about Wikipedia in today's Helsingin sanomat. Is there a place in Wikipedia where I can translate the article to make it available for other Wikipedians to see? — JIP | Talk 12:28, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I decided (a couple of weeks ago) to add an image of my own Mangle to the article about, well, mangles. I've never uploaded an image before and Wikipedia's help page adviced I upload it to the Wikimedia Commons, which I duly did under commons:Mangle.jpg.
When I tried making an image link to Mangle.jpg, however, another image (File:Mangle.jpj) resident on Wikipedia itself blocked it. Can someone explain how I'd write the image link so that I bypass this image and go directly to the one on the Commons? commons:File:Mangle.jpg doesn't work, and I can't find information on this anywhere. (BTW, the blocking image is up for deletion soon so it's not a big issue for this article, but I'd like to know for the future.) -- Birdseed 13:38, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
-- Birdseed 11:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to disambiguate Pantheon to Pantheon, Rome in the timeline Template:Roman Empire by the usual piping Pantheon. However, this edit breaks the formatting of the rest of the table. Is this a bug in EasyTimeline or am I doing something wrong? Kusma (talk) 15:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I make a template?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 16:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How can you do this? My signature shows a small try but the problem is pretty obvious. -- Worthawholebean Talk Contribs 17:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I found the way to fix it. You have to set margin-right to the same value you set left to. -- Worthawholebean Talk Contribs 19:39, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
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talk |
On any edit page (the one I'm typing on, even), the words Edit summary have been split. The is on the same line as the typing box (squeezed into the side), but the summary is where it should be, underneath the box. I don't want to bring this up on Bugzilla, as I don't want to give an e-mail address. Thelb 4 22:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I edit my signature. I have seen many people with colors, images, and background color in there signatures. What page has the ability for me to change my signature? JedOs 09:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
It tells me that the HTML is invalid, how can i fix this? JedOs 11:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way you can change the font style on Wikipedia?-- XenoNeon 11:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Why are my edits erased without giving a reason? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.215.34.90 ( talk • contribs) 2005-12-04 13:04:14
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions.
Currently, you are editing without a username. You can continue to do so as you are not required to log in to Wikipedia to read and write articles, however, logging in will result in a username being shown instead of your IP address (yours is Help desk/Archive 35). Logging in does not require any personal details. There are many other benefits for logging in to Wikipedia.
Please note these points:
The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, ask me on my Talk page – I will answer your questions as far as I can! Thank you again for contributing to Wikipedia.
from Wikipedian: wangi 13:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
For the past week, it's been giveng me an error whenevr I try to search for anything. Can someone fix this?
I am interested in doing some translation of project space pages (eg here, the Wikipedia: space) for the commons project, mainly. I believe that translators often tend to have lists of particular words (eg technical) that are always translated a certain way, so wherever you have "watchlist" in en: you have word/phrase "X" in language Foo. "Standard translations", if you will. Does anyone know if lists like these exist on wikimedia anywhere? I am not sure where to look or who to ask.
Specifically, I am interested in en:->zh: (Chinese). Where is the best place to ask about this type of thing?
thanks, pfctdayelise 14:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
how does wikipedia choose what articles will be featured articles.
Every time someone reverts an artivle, they seem to use exactly the same message, "Reverted edits by (X) to last version by (Y)" (complete with links).
It seems rather odd that nearly everyone should take the time to write out the formatting for this exact message (without ever changing a word or making a typo) every time they revert vandalism, so I though it must be an automatically generated message (it isn't). Is there some sort of shortcut people use for this (a template, maybe?) It just struck me as quite strange.
Spanish usage of the word romper and quebrar . Translate into English
What's the easiest way to search in specific Wikipedia namespaces with Google? ‣ᓛᖁ ᑐ 18:06, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Foo beans
, when I'm searching for Foo beans in the Wikipedia: namespace.--
Commander Keane 18:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)How do I get those links in the Edit Summary poniting to parts of the article to appear (the ones that are arrows)? -- LifeMega 19:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
/* Edit Summary links */
(That's for editing this question. I used the edit section button for this edit, and I found that in the edit summary). When I save this edit, there will be a little arrow in the edit summary.--
Commander Keane 20:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)I understand how to block specific IP addresses/usernames, but I don't have a clue how to unblock them. I'm sure it's something very stupid and simple I'm missing. I also don't understand the autoblocker. Could some more experienced, patient admin explain this to me? H e rmione 1980 21:10, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
User Manuel has sent the Help Desk an e-mail that I was unable to resolve for him. His original email read:
I am trying to copy and print several colors from your "Color List" so I can relate the names to their color. The names will print but the colors will not. Is there anything I can do to get the color to print ? Will appreciate your help
My initial response referring to the article didn't resolve his problems. He has sent me a followup e-mail.
Thank you for your e-mail. I may not have explained what I wanted to do correctly.
I get your LIST OF COLORS in my screen but when I try to print one color, any color, to relate the name of the color, as for example "Crimson red" to the color red square next to the name the "color" shown, does not print.
I have tried clicking on the Printable Version link shown on the left hand side of the screen and I have tried highlighting the wholo line and non of these will work.
Sorry if I am giving you too much of a problem.
I would be grateful for any assistance you could give him.
Capitalistroadster 22:56, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I used to have a bookmark swiped from someone's user page which let me edit just the lead of an article. Now I've changed computers, lost my bookmark, and can't remember where I first got it. Help! Mark 1 23:30, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi After reading about 30 pages on templates, I still can't figure out how to create and edit templates like the one at the bottom of this question. By expimentation I have made some sucessful edits, but the whole template page looks like giberish to me and I can't find a page which explains it. Here is the link to the template page, thanks: Template:StargateTech Tobyk777 04:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
{{ StargateTech}}
Recently, I've been logging #Wikipedia on IRC. According to one of the users on the channel (who is an experienced editor here on Wikipedia), if I were to quote any content from the IRC channel, this would be against the rules. I've reviewed Category:Wikipedia official policy, Category:Wikipedia guidelines and even Category:Wikipedia proposals and Category:Wikipedia rejected policies, but have found nothing stating this is against Wikipedia policy. I've also reviewed Wikipedia:Arbitration policy/Precedents attempting to find some guidance on this point but outside of ArbCom acknowledging lack of jurisdiction over IRC, I've found nothing to state that quoting IRC would be against policy. I've found several instances here on Wikipedia where IRC has been quoted. Could someone please point out where this is supposedly against the rules? Thanks, -- Durin 17:59, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a template for the message "The preceding unsigned comment was contributed by User:SampleUser"? Or is it, like rollback, just a perk of being an admin? jfg284 you were saying? 18:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
{{unsigned|SampleUser|.}}
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Commander Keane 20:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC){{unsigned|SampleUser}}
. I routinely use {{
unsigned2}} though because you can copy and paste the user/time out of the history, insert a pipe (|) and be done with it. As an example from the history for this page, I copied "13:01, December 5, 2005 SampleUser", put a pipe between the time/user, "13:01, December 5, 2005|SampleUser" and put this in: {{unsigned2|13:01, December 5, 2005|SampleUser}}
Thank you much. jfg284 you were saying? 23:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to use this script as a tab to get the title of the page and copy that to my clipboard (for easy pasting) or to maybe make the Location Bar equal the title so I can just highlight that and copy it. Is that possible? I'm not familiar with scripting...
Also, is there a script that will search the textarea when I'm editing? Firefox doesn't do it and I only see a replace script. I can't imagine it'd be that difficult, but what do I know. Thanks, I appreciate any help. Gflores Talk 18:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to receive an automatic alert when a page is edited? I could not find the answer to this question by searching and apologize if it is often asked. Josh
How does user e-mail work?
How come my ability to create new articles has all of a sudden been cut down today? -- 69.117.6.28 22:08, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
How to get an image in the commons to appear on a wikipedia page? [[File:commons:Bball.gif]] doesn't work. [[Commons:File:Bball.gif]] doesn't work. I'm sorry I soiled your Help page with this question. Metarhyme 00:09, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, 130.243.135.145! [[File:Bball.gif]] works. Metarhyme 02:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Where can I find out how to create a table or something like that to put stuff side by side or beneath each other? Str1977 01:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I added a couple of definitions to the disambiguation page for "spinner", one a computer-science definition, and the other a sexual definition.
I just checked it, and someone removed the sexual definition, commenting "deleted a vulgar/slang definition whose importance is sub-encyclopedic and whose mention essentially amounts to vandalism".
Now, that seems a rather extreme viewpoint to me, especially since my addition wasn't particularly graphic or gratuitous.
After reading up a bit on this site regarding policy, I couldn't find anything saying if there is a stated policy on such definitions, so I thought I'd ask you if there is such a guideline or policy. Are sexual definitions in disambiguation pages specifically discouraged, or was this just an instance of an easily-offended person?
Yours,
Tim Bessie -- Tbessie
Wikipedia is NOT censored for minors. Info on vulgar/sexual words is fine. - Greg Asche (talk) 03:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Which is preferred (i.e., more server-friendly): [[The Republic|''Republic'']] or ''[[The Republic|Republic]]''? Or does it not matter? -- zenohockey 03:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it okay to write articles on characters from television shows and movies? I have never see one on Wikipedia, so I'm wondering if it's okay. For example:
The Parkers: Nikki Parker (Acted by Monqiue)
Mean Girls: Cady (Acted by Lindsay Lohan)
Moesha: Moesha (Acted by Brandy Norwood)
So is it okay? --anon
Okay! Thanks! --anon
I'm sure this must have been asked before, but since I can't find it I'll ask it here (again?): is there a way to add a timestamp (or rather, a date) to a template. I've been experimenting a lot with this, but all I can manage is either the day on which the template was created (when using subst:), or the current day (when not using subst:). But what I'm looking for is the date on which the template was used.
Thanks in advance, -- IJzeren Jan In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 10:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
This is partly a trivial matter, and I've been meaning to ask this question for a while now, but why is it that wikilinks are always underlined when logged in, and only underline when "hovered" over when not logged in? For example, this link to Science is underlined always when logged in, but when not logged in, it simply appears blue and is only underlined when one "hovers" the mouse over it. Is there a technical reason for this, or does it have no purpose? -- Daverocks 10:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
HOW DO I CONTRIBUTE AN ARTICLE TO WIKIPEDIA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.94.171 ( talk • contribs)
Why is it that I cannot create new articles without an account at this time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.61.232.18 ( talk • contribs)
Adam Puckett
Hello, I do not find where I can ask this question, so I do here: It seems, that the article about The Salvation Army is suddenly very very much shorter. Was this a vandal or was this a correct editing? There are no more external links and just one picture. Please have a look at it. I do not really know. thank you regards HAMUBA 6 December 2005
Thank you for your answer - I had first to create an account also in English. The username from another language does not work... HAMUBA 16:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
(no question)
I recently made an article entitled "The iBridge Network". However when I search for "ibridge" or "iBridge" I get no returns. I believe these two descriptors will be used the vast majority of the time when searching for this article. How do I go about making those two words return a result that either goes directly to the original article or reurn a link that goes there?
Thanks for your help.
I copied the "Ask a new question" code from Help Desk onto Wikipedia:Articles for creation. On Help Desk, the code creates a new *subsection* (===), while on Articles for creation, it creates a new *section* (==). Why is this? What would I have to change from the current Articles for Creation page to organize it by day? -- Creidieki 23:01, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I make a new discussion page and archive the old one?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 23:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Could someone help monitor this page? People are joining in the 'fun' due to the controversy with his father. Nil Einne 01:17, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I have a suggestion about wikipedia, but I'm not sure who I should give it to.
See Gattaca. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I have uploaded my first image. I have 3 questions. 1) I am unable to see the image when I go to view it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alter-auto-1.gif . Did I upload it wrong? It does show up on the Wiki page it is referenced on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_%28automobile%29 2) I am unable to change the size of the image on the Wiki page it is referenced on, I have tried numerous "resizing" commands. I just get an empty box w/ the red X. 3) I was unsure of how to classify it with a COPYRIGHT TAG. I documented the web page that it was downloaded. It was a historical photo from approximately 1915. I received permission from the web site "owner" ---DRUSSEL3-- Drussel3 03:24, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Are the things put here free to use? Because I wouldn't want to be vandalizing Wikipedia if I put it on another site. --anon
I'm trying to say that there's another site (looks kind of like another encyclopedia) and I would like to put one of the articles on Wikipedia on that site. --anon
In "my preferences" there's a box that says "Enable 'jump to' accessibility links." What does this do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzedar ( talk • contribs)
I don't know much about about images, so... how would one go about fixing the syntax problem here? -- zenohockey 05:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I used User mff enclosed with {{}} on my user page (it's still there) and it worked fine for awhile. Now the image is gone and REDIRECT Template:Userbox firefox remains. What happened? Halcatalyst 05:18, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I add 2 or more scripts to monobook.js ?? JedOs 05:20, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
/* [[User:Pilaf/livepreview.js]] */ // [[User:Lupin/recent2.js]] - please include this line document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Lupin/recent2.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
Can some one take a look at this history page. It's almost like a strange bot that copies a user. This thing/person has also set up an jgrutz (I'm jgritz) account which puzzles me even further. Can someone else take a look at this and comment Jgritz 09:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that you can lay claim to anonymous edits you've made if/when you register. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? (By "claim", I mean so that the edit shows up as being done by your username, instead of just an IP.) Ends Of Invention 10:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
How can I add an image to my article???
An image from my website has been posted on the Wikipedia without attribution. I discovered it by accident. I wish proper attribution. I do not know how to contact the person who posted the image. What should I do: (1) insert proper attribution? (2) other? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.79.32.242 ( talk • contribs)
What is the reason for adding to a question the "Unsigned by (ISP address)"
Does Wikipedia have permission to use images from the Hubble Heritage Project? ‣ᓛᖁ ᑐ 17:17, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to use the above template but it doesn't seem to be working. I have gone to the webpage, "List of famous naturalized citizens of the United States" to find an example of how it is used, but this one is not working too. Can you please advise how it ought to be used? — PM Poon 18:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there anything I can do to create a page without a username? I don't really want another person to create it for me (cause I like doing it), and I don't really want a username. Is there some kind of place to discuss the matter? --anon
I don't think it's nice! Besides, I'm not sure if having a username is safe. If somebody hacked into my username, will they see any personal/important info? --anon
Is there a WikiProject or some other page where one can request help for IPA transcription?
A user has just added the pronounciation "Lay Mizz-rob" to Les Misérables (musical), which doesn't seem terribly accurate to me. I figured that the pronunciation ought to be in the IPA, per Wikipedia:Manual of style (pronunciation), but I don't know enough about either the IPA or French to do it properly. Where is the best place to ask for assistance on this? — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 20:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I've gotten into the habit of just typing "rvv" as the edit summary when I revert vandalism. However, I'd like to know how some people (very speedily, BTW, so they don't seem to be typing it out) get summaries like:
"(Reverted edits by [VANDAL] (talk) to last version by [LAST GOOD POSTER])"
Is there a set template to put in the summary box or something? Staxringold 22:32, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Does there remain any means of changing my account password? Where this option would ordanarily be on the log in page, it is gone. Could you help?-- Thomas Aquinas 23:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to link a foreign article into a English category? How? WriterFromAfar755 00:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Please answer me quickly, im a new user. how do i add to discussion? -- Chormang 02:07, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Do we really need a fairuse rationale for screenshots? - Ta bu shi da yu 02:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Joe sent the following question to the Wikimedia Help Mailing List.
Hello, i am a software developer, and i am involved in a project concerning your wiki software. My partners and i have a few questions on how to use your software. it basically involves putting your wiki software onto a PDA handheld device. i downloaded the source to the software but we dont know what to do with it from there. if you could help me out on how to put and access your wikipedia software on other devices. if you need anymore info please let me know.
I would be grateful for any assitance you can give him. Capitalistroadster 04:36, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
In some articles (but I can't remember which) I noticed a symbol before an external link signalling that it's in French or Spanish etc. Where do I find those? David Sneek 12:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Why is the link to my own talk page suddenly bolded in Recent changes? — JIP | Talk 12:48, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been doing an extensive makeover on Hopkins School (I've been doing mostly cosmetic work until the school archivist gets back to me so I can improve the short history section). You'll notice there is a reference in the sidebar for the Endowment, auto-numbered 1 (because the side-bar is the first code for the article) and a note over financial aid, auto-numbered 2. The problem is when READING the article the endowment is the second thing you see, not the first. I was wondering if there was something one can add to the ref code to custom number (or do I just have to shift the references around to match the auto-numbering, even if it isn't perfect)? Staxringold 14:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a link to a list of all the classification templates for users?, If you don't know what I mean ....
gb-0 | This user cannot tolerate any form of Gibberish language, and is therefore easily emotionally traumatized by The Sims. |
1337-0 | This user has no idea what 1337 is and/or prefers to contribute using proper words. |
175 | I scored a 175 on the Are You a Wikipediholic Test. |
xp | This user uses Windows XP. |
win | This user contributes using Microsoft Windows. |
This user opposes the installation of any kind of advertisements on Wikimedia Foundation operated sites. |
I mean that sort of thing.They are a great idea - well done to whoever thought of it - but I would like to see them all. . To anyone who replies - thank you.
DTR 17:03, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
How do you pronounce the words Wikipedia? Thanks,-- 166.66.60.42 17:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC) Tipper
Hi!
I was trying to fix the Chemical structure structure diagram on the Bremelanotide article, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Rasmus (talk) 18:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC).
I made a table for fuel oil, but it is always displayed at the bottom of the article, even though there is text beneath it in the source. Thanks, Kjkolb 22:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I looked in the WP:MOS but I couldn't find any guidance about this. If a person has one or more pseudonyms/pen names etc, which one should be used? Which one should even be the article name?
I have a couple of feelings about this. 1. The usage should be consistent throughout the article, otherwise reading it may make it seem schizeophrenic. 2. It would probably make sense for the name used to be the same as the article name. Obviously you'd have RDRs from all the other names.
Some examples...
sigh. a little help? -- pfctdayelise 00:02, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed various users, when signing their names, use purple backgrounds and yellow text, or brown backgrounds and purple text, or some strange combination of the like. Is there a way to edit what happens when you sign with 4 tildes (~), or are they manually editing each instance?-- Canaen 02:34, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Please, what font does Wikipedia use?- Gillean666 03:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
body { font: x-small sans-serif; ... }
when do i get an award, reward or star.
>x<ino 10:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
":Usually, when someone notices your work on their own, and gives you one."
What!? I though, when creating article, it isn't yours nor you shouldn't clame it.
Anyway How do i award myself?.
like i said, I either want to be an admin or award.
>x<ino 11:11, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the link
If i don't ask, they won't notice, "it's good to give it a try!" "MacGyverMagic's comment" you mean mine:)
>x<ino 11:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
maybe MacGyverMagic maybe a fool:P
First of all, if i get payed for contributing, i won't bother putting it there, second, voluterring is also a gift, a free gift to give, without asking for money. I wasnt asking for money from wiki >x<ino 12:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Like i asked again!...
>x<ino 12:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Please look it up in your encyclopedia! Read Wikipedia. — Sverdrup 14:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Today I've seen a couple of talk pages created for nonexistent templates, created by anon users, which have turned out as vandalism. I seem to remember that although anons can't create articles any more, they can create talk pages. I suggest that anons should be prohibited from creating talk pages for articles, categories, templates or project pages that don't exist yet, to prevent this sort of vandalism. — JIP | Talk 12:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
i've has , and my ipod for about a 2 weeks and now it's saying o.k to disconnect. what does that mean?
Please could someone convert File:Soccerball.svg from svg to png, jpg or psd so I can't edit it using Adobe Photoshop? Thank you. CG 17:31, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, It has become apparent that a couple of categories I have created have been improperly named. Specifically, these are "Category:Pederastic relationships" and "Category:Mythical pederastic relationships". Since the included articles are not about relationships but about persons, I'd like to request that they be re-named "Category:Pederastic lovers" and "Category:Mythical pederastic personages". Thanks in advance Haiduc 18:00, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone help turn the series of userboxes on my page into a long line along the right side, alongside the remainder of the page's text, a la User:Cmdrjameson? Thanks! - Wezzo 20:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
The Category:Role-playing games page has several problems that I can't figure out. First, some entries (such as Engel and RhyDin) seem to be listed under "*" and not under their first letter. Second, the page seems to end at "R", when I know at least Worlds of Wonder should be listed. Thanks to anyone who can explain or help. -- GRuban 22:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you all, folks. I didn't see the "next 200" link, but findings it, yes, Worlds of Wonder is there. Thanks for fixing those two hacks, JIP. I think this means we need to split this category page somehow, since it's too large if people are resorting to hacks to make names findable. Will mull over. GRuban 21:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
What is a "babel"?-- Anti-Anonymex2 Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco! 23:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there I can install a bot on my own wiki? I have no knowledge of programming (other than PHP, HTML and such) - would it be possible to install some kind of simple bot to delete things and check things or whatever? Thank you kindly for any help you could offer!
Is there a known amount of Wikipedians with siblings who are also Wikipedians? -- Ali K 01:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know the ratio of men to women users of Wikipedia-- Ali K 01:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it an appropriate subject for a Wikipedia article, or for a category, to write about dates of national importance? Not all such dates are included in (for one example) List of holidays by country. Or in any other list or category I've seen here. Yet, it seems to me just as important a way of understanding a nation, to describe the dates (and the reasons why those dates matter) which resonate in the memory and culture of a country -- as it is to describe the geology or the population or the GDP of a country.
Please comment, I'd welcome direction on this. Cheers, Madmagic 03:52, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Sometime within the last 24 hours, I've lost the ability to submit changes to moderately long articles and sections of articles. User:Melchoir#Test_1 seems to be about the limit; if I add a few more characters and click "Save page", it times out; after a few minutes a Wikipedia Error message shows up. The same happens if I click "Show preview". If I then remove the offending characters, going back under the limit, I can submit and preview with almost no lag at all. This happens whether or not I'm logged in, in both Safari and Firefox, and I've tried two static IPs in the same building.
On the other hand, I'm able to post extremely long sections of text to forumer.com, as in here, and I can post to Wikipedia as normal if I go through a remote proxy, such as at Anonymouse.org.
What's going on? Melchoir 05:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I just checked, and I have the same problem on the other languages, as well as Wikisource... Melchoir 07:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
i am starting my own wiki ( http://wikiclassifieds.org) and would like some directions on how to create custom special pages. thanks. -- Zondor 05:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed the time in timestamps is all UTC. Is it possible to change mine to read my own time zone, or is there something I don't know about Wikipedia which means they all have to be "UTC or bust"? Gohst 15:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
How do I attribute anonymous edits with my IP to my username? I remember reading somewhere that you could do this however I can't seem to find instructions. I'm not sure if this is no longer possible or what. :/ I've been editing for a while anonymously so it would be great if I can indeed add all my anonymous edits to my username without actually having to publically reveal my IP (e.g. making a big message on my user page saying "xx.xx.xxx.xx was me editing anonymously, here are my contributions".. I really would prefer not to have to do that -_-
Thanks for anyone that can help!
Wikipedia is cool :D
-- Red-skinned femme-fatale black-latex-clad b-tch from Hell 16:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
1) If you are the sole user of that IP, you don't need to make a mess and list those edits on your userpage, you can refer people to the contribution history for that IP. 2) If you are not the only user of that IP, changing the attribution for those edits wouldn't have been possible anyway. Are you unhappy with revealing your IP, or with listing all your anon contributions on your userpage? - Mgm| (talk) 19:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This is not a copyright violation, but I would like to know whether the licence on a picture is ok as it is: The picture included (and others linked from Führerbunker) includes a text which forbids commercial use, as does the text on the picture's page. Is this an acceptable licence for Wikipedia? Complicating matters, the picture's page also states that the picture is licenced und a Creative Common by-sa licence, which does not exclude commercial work. So is all this just fine or should something be done?
I looked for any answer in the FAQ and elsewhere, but couldn't find anything useful. Any pointers are welcome! -- Yooden
Ironically, the above section describing my problem has already grown too long for me to edit it. So, no, just editing sections doesn't work for me! Melchoir 18:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to sort articles based on the first few letters instead of just the first letter? Example: If I have Mosque Acheh, Mosque Kampong, can I sort using "Mosque A", "Mosque B", etc instead of just "A", "B", etc.? Unlike in English where the word "mosque" is written at the back of the name, eg. "Acheh Mosque", it is reversed to read "Masjid Acheh" in the Malay language.
I have tried using the above template with one letter (with Gflores assistance) and it works. It didn't work when I tried to extend it thus:
I understand that one way is actually to use: [[Category:Mosque|Acheh, Mosque]] at the bottom of an article, but then again, when there are many users involved, some may not be able to follow. — PM Poon 18:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Rick Block, actually it is alright if all the articles in the category page begins with "Masjid" (meaning "mosque"). I am trying to use the template, CatAZ, to navigate the category page. Apparently it cannot work with more than one letter. Do you know how to modify the template so that it can work? Thanks. — PM Poon 19:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
An article I just wrote, Q TV, has been flagged as in need of citations. However, the article only contains basic information obvious from watching the channel such as Channel number, content, etc (ie: not sourced information). What should I do for the citation? smurrayinchester( User), ( Ho Ho Ho!) 22:24, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Where do I go to discuss the ban of anonymous users creating articles? --anon
Which is the best place? --anon