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Seems I messed up when trying to archive Talk:George W. Bush. I removed the content here, created the new archive page here and updated the archive list here. Unfortunately, a link to the new archive page does not show up in the archive list. What did I do wrong? -- Mbc362 00:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Please, please help! How do I convert sound files (place names etc) into ogg format? Where can I get a reliable ogg encoder from? Anil 00:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to prevent users from editing a page by double clicking it? I would like to apply this to Wikipedia:Introduction, the lower part of which can be edited by new users as a kind of sandbox. But of course we don't want users to edit the upper part, which they now can do even accidentally if they doubleclick anywhere. — Sebastian 01:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
If the vandalism is fairly minor, e.g. an added sentence, is it better/more efficient (for Wikipedia) to bring up a prior version and save it, or just fix the vandalism in the current version? Clarityfiend 02:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, i posted a question but i cant see my edit button to reply. why is that?
what is and how do you use an info boxe. J.Mraz 02:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I've already searched the site and found another discussion about this problem, but it didn't help me.
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.1 and I'm behind a D-link router with no special content filtering or anything like that.
When I login, I'm taken to a page that shows my username in the upper right corner telling me that I've successfully logged in, but as soon as i go anywhere else on the site, I'm logged out.
I should mention that i'm on satellite internet, which is total crap, but it shouldn't stop me from staying logged in, I would think.
67.142.130.39 02:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I want to link the article on ducks to the Mapudungun article on ducks or Cuchru how can I do that? It's an incubator and arn:cuchru is not working. please respond to my talk page 71.142.68.229 04:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC) qrc2006/email 04:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
please answer me on here please
Hi! I'm currently creating a Bioinformatics on-line course using Wiki but I was thinking it would be more effective if I can use tabs on the modules. So how do you create tabs just like in this page: [1]
I was reading the above article and then it disappeared. The word 'spam' was at the top left of the file folder outline page. I did not know how to retreive what I was reading. How do I prevent this from occuring again? I am very upset because it was important research and time lost. What did I do wrong that may have caused this problem? What action can I follow if this interferece reappears? 74.103.90.47 03:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Is is possible to prevent a user from editing Wikipedia at the local, user account level, e.g. through a browser cookie? The OS would be Mac OS X 10.4 with the Safari and/or Firefox.
Thanks 24.118.153.134 03:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
That would be correct.
/?title=articlename&action=edit
. If you could figure out a way to block any Wikipedia URLs containing the string "&action=edit", it would be possible. There's probably a way to twist
Greasemonkey into doing something similar or disappearing the edit box / buttons as well. --
Consumed Crustacean (
talk)
05:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)i received this email ala the nigerian scam and it uses a link to here to legitimize it. below is the email. the wiki page was edited on 2/11. i got the email on 2/15. was this created to help the scam or has it been here all along and they are just using it? I thought you should be aware of this.
Dear Sir,
I, representing Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (M.K.), would like to ask for your partnership in re-profiling funds over US$123 million.
I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are in a security vault, Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technincalities where by the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches.Our sharing ratio will be 80% for investment and 15% for your assistance while 5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction. All the documents to this effect are all in place and if you are interested, Please email me your direct telephone number for discussion of this transaction and further details.
Finally, please note that this must be concluded within a short time. Write me back. I look forward to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
Mr.Boris
216.186.88.44 04:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
i just wanted to know the best way to search for in/famous people born or date of death on a particular day? i typed in a particular date, but the list didn't help
Does anyone know the CSS code to change the color of the new messages box for monobook? I've done a search for said code, but I have not been able to locate it thus far. Kyra ~(talk) 07:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
.usermessage { background-color: color;}
what is the; earliest copyright date listed in wikipedia? i was doing a report on calvin coolidge; and.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_coolidge and can't find author(obviously because a bunch of people edited and wrote on it) and date of publication....
or URL(what's that?, anyways)...
citing references is harder.........................than writing the report, anyways...........
how to find the number of contributors —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.109.122.7 ( talk • contribs) 21:08, 16 February 2007
I've added a page to AfD today, 16th Feb, it appeared in the log. Seemed OK.
Being this: Articles_for_deletion/Civilian (street_artist)
Then I bundled some other pages together with it. Now neither they nor the first one are in the log of today's AfD's. Have they gotten lost somewhere, somehow? Marcus22 12:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I want to know how to clear the Wikipedia search browser. I dont want any pages saved here, because most of it is not child-friendly.I want my Wikipedia to be safe for my kids to use.
Hello , we went to the Edouard Glissant Biography and he (Edouard Glissant) thinks that you need to make few corrections on the text . we try to edit directly some changes we made but apparently it doesn't work . Could help us with this ?
If, for example, I use [[image:foo.jpg|100px]], I will get an image that is 100 pixels wide, and the height is calculated automatically. Is there any way I can specify the height I want for an image, and let the width be calculated automatically? – Tivedshambo (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
{{#expr }}
function to calculate the width for the [[image ]]
tag from the desired height. For example, if the original image is 300px wide and 500px tall, and one wants to specify a scaled image height of 200px, the resulting width should be: {{#expr: 200 * 300 / 500}}px = 120px
. Insert the whole expression tag into the image tag's width parameter, like this: [[image:foo.jpg|{{#expr: 200 * 300 / 500}}px]]
, after substituting the actual height and width of the original image, and the desired scaled height. Disclaimer: I have not actually tested this on a real image tag, so you may need to experiment. See:
Help:Calculation. And this would only work on
MediaWiki wikis that have the
ParserFunctions extension installed (such as
Wikipedia). --
Teratornis
17:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)I have created this very nice animation for wikipedia that describes the spread of religion over centuries but when I try to put it in an article in a thumbnail form it doesn't appear, it says the thumbnail image is 404. The image is [4] What do I do? -- zenberg 16:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
convert
program (part of
ImageMagick) to generate the thumbnail. I tried running convert
on the command line to test the thumbnail generation manually, like this:
convert original_file.png -thumbnail 180x120 thumbnail_file.png
convert: Corrupt image `original_file.png'.
convert
program. The
ImageMagick bundle of programs comes standard on
Linux,
Cygwin, etc., if you want to play around with it. --
Teratornis
18:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
file
command on the working file to the output for your file. That might give some clue about what file format to use. References:
Comparison of graphics file formats,
Image file formats. --
Teratornis
22:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)My memoirs (130+ pages) are on a cd. I would like to have this put into book form in at least 10 books. THere are several photos also that we have scanned for use on various pages. Setting margins, etc. does not appeal to me. Can you help?? Thank you
Is there a straightforward way of finding when or by whom a particular bit of text in an article was added? (Short of searching through the edit history, which is very time-consuming if the text was added hundreds of edits ago, even using a binary search.) Ben Finn 17:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
how do you empty your search box?.. 124.6.189.254 18:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
How? I need help here, thx in advance. :-) 207.63.251.231 18:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm wondering how I would go about getting my company's pages on Wikipedia blocked from being edited by other users.
Clairecorus 19:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
User:anaalberts' contribution [6] makes me suspect that this is Patrick Holford, or a representative. The previous history of the patrick holford article makes me more suspicious. Is this something I can/should report - and, if so, where? Thanks in advance Jon m 20:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I have noticed that Wikipedia shows Quill Publishing as being based in New York, however I am the senior partner in Quill Publishing - a publishing company in the UK (North Yorkshire to be precise) and I wondered why Wikipedia fail to list us? To ascertain further details you will find the company and relevant details at the following website www.quillpublishing.co.uk
I am a newcomer. Want to start simply by commenting on Talk pages. Instruction say "go to the Talk Page and hit "+"Tab and type your comments, then sign using four tildes. When I hit the Tab at upper left on by keyboard, a link is highlighted but no place to write appears. Hit Tab again and the next colored link is highlighted. What am I doing wrong?? Have I got the wrong Tab key? Taylour 20:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I do appreciate that. Sorry I am a little slow. Taylour 20:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Taylour, what page of instructions did you read? I would like to review the wording in the section that misled you, and make sure the instructions for new users are understandable to new users. Perhaps the existing wording does not adequately account for the fact that the new user sees the word "Tab" on the keyboard, but the GUI tabs in Wikipedia do not say "Tab" on them. Therefore, the Tab key is more apparently a "Tab" than the GUI item is. The instructions should make clear they are not referring to the Tab key. -- Teratornis 22:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
How can I change the way that redirects appear on Special:Watchlist/edit? On bugzilla:759, it says to add formatting in the CSS page, but Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial doesn't have instructions for how to change the formatting of text based on a spanning class. Thanks! -- Creidieki 21:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
.watchlistredir {font-style: italic;}
I made some changes in a Wikipedia article yesterday, I spent a lot of time finding the references and checking to make sure everything was correct and substantiated. I lost all of my changes when I closed the "Preview" window by mistake, and had to find the references again and enter them all again. I spent several hours doing all of this. When I go to the page today, though, none of the changes I made yesterday are there. However, when I check my "contributions" to Wikipedia, the changes I made are listed. Could you please explain what happened, and why, and how to resolve this? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.80.46.44 ( talk • contribs)
How did the term "mouse" become associated with a black eye or a "shiner"? Josie 209.191.13.243 21:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
My question is when you are embalmed how long does the embalment last before the body is totally decomposed
Please. TNX!
Help desk | ||
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< February 15 | << Jan | February | Mar >> | February 17 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current Help Desk pages. |
Seems I messed up when trying to archive Talk:George W. Bush. I removed the content here, created the new archive page here and updated the archive list here. Unfortunately, a link to the new archive page does not show up in the archive list. What did I do wrong? -- Mbc362 00:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Please, please help! How do I convert sound files (place names etc) into ogg format? Where can I get a reliable ogg encoder from? Anil 00:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to prevent users from editing a page by double clicking it? I would like to apply this to Wikipedia:Introduction, the lower part of which can be edited by new users as a kind of sandbox. But of course we don't want users to edit the upper part, which they now can do even accidentally if they doubleclick anywhere. — Sebastian 01:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
If the vandalism is fairly minor, e.g. an added sentence, is it better/more efficient (for Wikipedia) to bring up a prior version and save it, or just fix the vandalism in the current version? Clarityfiend 02:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, i posted a question but i cant see my edit button to reply. why is that?
what is and how do you use an info boxe. J.Mraz 02:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I've already searched the site and found another discussion about this problem, but it didn't help me.
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.1 and I'm behind a D-link router with no special content filtering or anything like that.
When I login, I'm taken to a page that shows my username in the upper right corner telling me that I've successfully logged in, but as soon as i go anywhere else on the site, I'm logged out.
I should mention that i'm on satellite internet, which is total crap, but it shouldn't stop me from staying logged in, I would think.
67.142.130.39 02:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I want to link the article on ducks to the Mapudungun article on ducks or Cuchru how can I do that? It's an incubator and arn:cuchru is not working. please respond to my talk page 71.142.68.229 04:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC) qrc2006/email 04:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
please answer me on here please
Hi! I'm currently creating a Bioinformatics on-line course using Wiki but I was thinking it would be more effective if I can use tabs on the modules. So how do you create tabs just like in this page: [1]
I was reading the above article and then it disappeared. The word 'spam' was at the top left of the file folder outline page. I did not know how to retreive what I was reading. How do I prevent this from occuring again? I am very upset because it was important research and time lost. What did I do wrong that may have caused this problem? What action can I follow if this interferece reappears? 74.103.90.47 03:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Is is possible to prevent a user from editing Wikipedia at the local, user account level, e.g. through a browser cookie? The OS would be Mac OS X 10.4 with the Safari and/or Firefox.
Thanks 24.118.153.134 03:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
That would be correct.
/?title=articlename&action=edit
. If you could figure out a way to block any Wikipedia URLs containing the string "&action=edit", it would be possible. There's probably a way to twist
Greasemonkey into doing something similar or disappearing the edit box / buttons as well. --
Consumed Crustacean (
talk)
05:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)i received this email ala the nigerian scam and it uses a link to here to legitimize it. below is the email. the wiki page was edited on 2/11. i got the email on 2/15. was this created to help the scam or has it been here all along and they are just using it? I thought you should be aware of this.
Dear Sir,
I, representing Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (M.K.), would like to ask for your partnership in re-profiling funds over US$123 million.
I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are in a security vault, Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technincalities where by the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches.Our sharing ratio will be 80% for investment and 15% for your assistance while 5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction. All the documents to this effect are all in place and if you are interested, Please email me your direct telephone number for discussion of this transaction and further details.
Finally, please note that this must be concluded within a short time. Write me back. I look forward to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
Mr.Boris
216.186.88.44 04:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
i just wanted to know the best way to search for in/famous people born or date of death on a particular day? i typed in a particular date, but the list didn't help
Does anyone know the CSS code to change the color of the new messages box for monobook? I've done a search for said code, but I have not been able to locate it thus far. Kyra ~(talk) 07:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
.usermessage { background-color: color;}
what is the; earliest copyright date listed in wikipedia? i was doing a report on calvin coolidge; and.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_coolidge and can't find author(obviously because a bunch of people edited and wrote on it) and date of publication....
or URL(what's that?, anyways)...
citing references is harder.........................than writing the report, anyways...........
how to find the number of contributors —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.109.122.7 ( talk • contribs) 21:08, 16 February 2007
I've added a page to AfD today, 16th Feb, it appeared in the log. Seemed OK.
Being this: Articles_for_deletion/Civilian (street_artist)
Then I bundled some other pages together with it. Now neither they nor the first one are in the log of today's AfD's. Have they gotten lost somewhere, somehow? Marcus22 12:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I want to know how to clear the Wikipedia search browser. I dont want any pages saved here, because most of it is not child-friendly.I want my Wikipedia to be safe for my kids to use.
Hello , we went to the Edouard Glissant Biography and he (Edouard Glissant) thinks that you need to make few corrections on the text . we try to edit directly some changes we made but apparently it doesn't work . Could help us with this ?
If, for example, I use [[image:foo.jpg|100px]], I will get an image that is 100 pixels wide, and the height is calculated automatically. Is there any way I can specify the height I want for an image, and let the width be calculated automatically? – Tivedshambo (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
{{#expr }}
function to calculate the width for the [[image ]]
tag from the desired height. For example, if the original image is 300px wide and 500px tall, and one wants to specify a scaled image height of 200px, the resulting width should be: {{#expr: 200 * 300 / 500}}px = 120px
. Insert the whole expression tag into the image tag's width parameter, like this: [[image:foo.jpg|{{#expr: 200 * 300 / 500}}px]]
, after substituting the actual height and width of the original image, and the desired scaled height. Disclaimer: I have not actually tested this on a real image tag, so you may need to experiment. See:
Help:Calculation. And this would only work on
MediaWiki wikis that have the
ParserFunctions extension installed (such as
Wikipedia). --
Teratornis
17:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)I have created this very nice animation for wikipedia that describes the spread of religion over centuries but when I try to put it in an article in a thumbnail form it doesn't appear, it says the thumbnail image is 404. The image is [4] What do I do? -- zenberg 16:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
convert
program (part of
ImageMagick) to generate the thumbnail. I tried running convert
on the command line to test the thumbnail generation manually, like this:
convert original_file.png -thumbnail 180x120 thumbnail_file.png
convert: Corrupt image `original_file.png'.
convert
program. The
ImageMagick bundle of programs comes standard on
Linux,
Cygwin, etc., if you want to play around with it. --
Teratornis
18:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
file
command on the working file to the output for your file. That might give some clue about what file format to use. References:
Comparison of graphics file formats,
Image file formats. --
Teratornis
22:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)My memoirs (130+ pages) are on a cd. I would like to have this put into book form in at least 10 books. THere are several photos also that we have scanned for use on various pages. Setting margins, etc. does not appeal to me. Can you help?? Thank you
Is there a straightforward way of finding when or by whom a particular bit of text in an article was added? (Short of searching through the edit history, which is very time-consuming if the text was added hundreds of edits ago, even using a binary search.) Ben Finn 17:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
how do you empty your search box?.. 124.6.189.254 18:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
How? I need help here, thx in advance. :-) 207.63.251.231 18:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm wondering how I would go about getting my company's pages on Wikipedia blocked from being edited by other users.
Clairecorus 19:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
User:anaalberts' contribution [6] makes me suspect that this is Patrick Holford, or a representative. The previous history of the patrick holford article makes me more suspicious. Is this something I can/should report - and, if so, where? Thanks in advance Jon m 20:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I have noticed that Wikipedia shows Quill Publishing as being based in New York, however I am the senior partner in Quill Publishing - a publishing company in the UK (North Yorkshire to be precise) and I wondered why Wikipedia fail to list us? To ascertain further details you will find the company and relevant details at the following website www.quillpublishing.co.uk
I am a newcomer. Want to start simply by commenting on Talk pages. Instruction say "go to the Talk Page and hit "+"Tab and type your comments, then sign using four tildes. When I hit the Tab at upper left on by keyboard, a link is highlighted but no place to write appears. Hit Tab again and the next colored link is highlighted. What am I doing wrong?? Have I got the wrong Tab key? Taylour 20:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I do appreciate that. Sorry I am a little slow. Taylour 20:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Taylour, what page of instructions did you read? I would like to review the wording in the section that misled you, and make sure the instructions for new users are understandable to new users. Perhaps the existing wording does not adequately account for the fact that the new user sees the word "Tab" on the keyboard, but the GUI tabs in Wikipedia do not say "Tab" on them. Therefore, the Tab key is more apparently a "Tab" than the GUI item is. The instructions should make clear they are not referring to the Tab key. -- Teratornis 22:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
How can I change the way that redirects appear on Special:Watchlist/edit? On bugzilla:759, it says to add formatting in the CSS page, but Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial doesn't have instructions for how to change the formatting of text based on a spanning class. Thanks! -- Creidieki 21:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
.watchlistredir {font-style: italic;}
I made some changes in a Wikipedia article yesterday, I spent a lot of time finding the references and checking to make sure everything was correct and substantiated. I lost all of my changes when I closed the "Preview" window by mistake, and had to find the references again and enter them all again. I spent several hours doing all of this. When I go to the page today, though, none of the changes I made yesterday are there. However, when I check my "contributions" to Wikipedia, the changes I made are listed. Could you please explain what happened, and why, and how to resolve this? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.80.46.44 ( talk • contribs)
How did the term "mouse" become associated with a black eye or a "shiner"? Josie 209.191.13.243 21:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
My question is when you are embalmed how long does the embalment last before the body is totally decomposed
Please. TNX!