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The last entry on my watchlist is:
Wikipedia:SOURCE
It is marked as a dead link, but it isn't, of course. When I look at the redirect page, it does not have an "unwatch" tab. When I check it and click on "remove titles" it still remains on my list.
When I "edit raw watchlist" and delete it, it is still on my list.
I tried "watch" then "unwatch". It is still my list.
How can I get rid of it? -- Softtest123 ( talk) 13:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Your watchlist has been updated. 1 title was removed: * Wikipedia:SOURCE (Talk) Your watchlist contains 25 titles, excluding talk pages.
and
... Voluntary Voting System Guidelines Voting machine Wikipedia:SOURCE User:WimdeValk Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup ...
The first problem can be seen at Wikipedia:Translation/*/In Progress and Wikipedia:Translation/*/Proofreaders Needed. In the template box in the upper left corner of the page, only as late as November 2007 is shown. I put the months up to February 2008 into the template (the template is Template:Translation/Months, which shows the same problem). Interestingly, all of the months do show up in the problem pages' tables of contents.
The second problem can be seen at Wikipedia:Translation/*/Translation Requests and Wikipedia:Translation/*/Completed Translations. Neither of these pages even show the table of contents. The template problem applies to these pages, too.
I'm not familiar with the code {{#if: {{{include_all|}}} so I won't attempt to work it out on my own. But I think that piece of code, found at Template:Translation/Months, might be the source of both problems. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 01:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
While it's not currently possible to move/rename images, Betacommand has a bot that can perform the function for us the hard way.
Requests for image movement should be placed at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:Image renaming. Admins are automatically authorized for the use of this tool, and non-admins may be added by having an admin list you at the bottom of Wikipedia:Image renaming, which also includes instructions on using the tool.
There is no "Requests for" process involved, you just need to have a reasonably good edit history.
Related pages can be found in Category:Image renaming ~Kylu ( u| t) 06:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Did the database just crash or something? Wikipedia was down for several minutes for me.-- 172.168.50.11 ( talk) 23:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to look at someone's (e.g. your own) contributions only in terms of new articles (preferable even just non-redirects)? It seems impossible to find the new pages you've made among the jungle of edits.
A second question: is Wikipedia's number of articles (~2.2 million) exclusive of disambiguation pages? Richard001 ( talk) 01:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Friends,
On most Wikipedia pages that have footnotes the gap in the line above the note is increased, and gives the whole article a ragged effect. A piece of css code can fix that easily.
Just add the following to your main .css: sup {vertical-align:text-top;} and see the difference!
Best wishes,
Ananda
Sunday, 2nd February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.54.67.33 ( talk) 23:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Unicode is currently planning on adding a capital version of ß (sharp s) in Version 5.1 (expected March 2008). That presents a potential technical problem in that currently we map initial lowercase letters to uppercase. So what will be done for ß when support for Unicode 5.1 is added to the MediaWiki software? Special case it as a lowercase letter for its one article (and 10 redirects added for articles about subjects that begin with the Greek letter β), move it to the uppercase, or use it as an excuse for ending automatic case folding? Caerwine Caer’s whines 00:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Good evening,
On #wikipedia-fr (the French Wikipédia IRC channel), an user has requested help about adding colored text in articles (e.g. for a legend "in red").
As a model is not really a good idea in these case (how to choose the hexadecimal color code?), I've coded http://www.dereckson.be/tools/colorpicker/ to help him.
The left area is to pick the right color, with a Photoshop-like interface.
The right area is divided in 3 tabs:
Enjoy ;-) -- Dereckson ( talk) 03:58, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I often need to change hatnotes generated manually by users into {{ dablink}} templated messages. The benefits are obvious - they become non-printable and can be programmed by users in their stylesheet.
Typically, these hatnotes take the form of :'' (indent and then italics). This makes them ideal for a bot-assisted search and replace operation. Anyone have a spare bot that could be used for this purpose? Unfortunately, Wikipedia search does not allow search for formatting. API access is therefore a prerequisite. JFW | T@lk 08:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Recently, the default text and links that appear when creating a new article seem to have changed. Right now it only says
Information for editors
This is fine, but I seem to recall that previously there was a link to look for links to the article and to search for the term. Am I imagining that these links used to be there? If I'm not mistaken, I thought those links were very convenient to help avoid accidentally creating duplicate articles. older ≠ wiser 17:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I can get commonsettings.php to work for my new MediaWiki 1.12 copy I downloaded from SVN, however I don't quite get InitialiseSettings.php as per http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.html
why does the CommonSettings.php page ( http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.html) not include the following line:
$wgGroupPermissions['steward' ]['userrights-interwiki'] = true;
According to mediawiki.org it says that line has to be included in CommonSettings.php or LocalSettings.php for stewards to set rights on other wikis - which I did using the above text.
Anyone able to help me with this one?? Also, what would I do to get InitialiseSettings.php working?? Thanks, -- Solumeiras ( talk) 19:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
(P.S. Anyone who can help me with this gets a barnstar!)
Read bugzilla:12881 and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2008-February/000345.html for more details — VasilievVV ( talk) 04:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Other than the alphabetical compact Table of Contents templates, is there a means to either
I ask because the TOC at Wikipedia:New_articles_(New_Zealand) is very ugly - the item numbers run on into the actual dates which are the headings, and it is excessively long. Just the months might suffice. dramatic ( talk) 04:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Wondering if there is a way to find out how many pages use a particular template such as Template:Infobox Rugby Union biography. Londo 06 13:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I believe there are some tools on toolserv that can do the counting as well, and not count page links. Not sure where it is, though. -- Ned Scott 03:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
You can also use the API, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eititle=Template:Stub&eilimit=500 . MER-C 04:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Delete reason dropdown script — Random832 17:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any webpage out there, or is there any potential to upgrade Wikipedia, so I could cross reference categories? E.g, if I wanted to find Dutch actors born in 1970, I could cross reference our Dutch actors and 1970 births categories and come up with a list of articles that are in both category sets. I've poked around and can't find a way to do this, but it would be a really helpful tool for a lot of people. Any thoughts? Neıl ☎ 15:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to force the arguments of a template to resolve/execute first prior before actaully calling a template? That is, is there anyway to have: {{t1|a{{#if:{{{b|}}}|{{!}}b|}}|c}} as the content of template t2 such that {{t2|a=1|c=3}} executes {{t1|1|3}} while {{t2|a=1|b=2|c=3}} executes {{t1|1|2|3}}
Basically, this is try to provide a alternating color infobox where entries are optional; I thought using one base template to provided the alternating color functionality using unnamed parameters, and then having the infobox template format a call to this would work (as done on the Navbox template), but the execution order fails more. Of course, if anyone has a better suggestion/existing solution, I'd love to hear it. -- MASEM 01:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Page title | |
---|---|
1 | 1 |
3 | 3 |
4 | 4 |
6 | 6 |
7 | 7 |
9 | 9 |
13 | 13
|
(←)Ok, I've figured out a way to do this, basically adding up the number of defined unnamed parameters in an #ifexpr, using the mod 2 result to determine odd or even (similar to the above). Of course, now I'm stuck on returns in the table layout: If I use {{User:Masem/infobox/base|title=Page title|1|1|||3|3|4|4|||6|6|7|7|||9|9|||||||13|13|es=background:#f0f0f0;|os=}}, I get the result shown to the right. The extra spaces on the table are a result of having two (or more) empty rows between those that are defined (based on using Special:ExpandTemplates, which seem to automatically create a <br/> and I can't figure out how to not prevent an unneeded row from creating a blank line. I've tried HTML commenting to link lines together with no luck. Any pointers here? -- MASEM 07:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe this isn't a bug, but I have noticed this on many talk pages. (I don't want to add clutter, but could give examples if necessary). In these cases, there are parts of a section, or an entire section, of a talk page that is not followed by a signature (including the "unsigned" default). Is this a problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Z1perlster ( talk • contribs)
Would it be possible/desirable to make namespaces into subdomains? Like Image:something.jpg's address would start with http://images.en.wikipedia.org and Wikipedia: namespace pages would start with wikipedia.en.wikipedia.org? The only reason I have in mind is that it would make it easier to Google site: search within a namespace. :) Any other benefits/disadvantages you can think of? — Omegatron 04:06, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Drives me nuts when that disappears. Thanks Shawis ( talk) 08:21, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new archive box to replace the current {{ archives}}, {{ archive box}}, and {{ archive box collapsible}} templates. It incorporates all of the necessary parameters. Could I please get some comments/suggestions on it. And how would I go about implementing it? Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 14:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
This is probably a mistake on my part, but does anyone have a suggestion as to why the small gray note at the top of the User talk:Voyagerfan5761#User talk:89.244.182.22 section is showing the default text specified in the template ( User:Voyagerfan5761/talknote) rather than the markup specified? I didn't have problems before the new preprocessor; am I being affected? What do I need to do differently/change in the template or call? Tuvok T @ lk/ Improve 01:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I have found that Template: Infobox Former Country runs into problems where there is a condominium between two countries rather than a colony of one country - as in the New Hebrides and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The template does not recognize it. I need help finding a way to include it on those pages. Can anyone help? Btn551 ( talk) 04:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Admittedly, there have been several improvements over the years in respect with redirects. One no longer gets carried to the redirect's target when saving an edit to the redirect, and one can also avoid this abrupt journey when following a link from a category, and I think from a couple of other places (as usually, my memory serves me badly here).
I think there is another transition to be improved. The cleverer of you might have guessed it already by looking at the message's title. Personally, I find it stupid to write a message in a redirect's talk page (a protected one, in my case; I was asking for an administrator's help), then try to go back to the redirect and have it... redirect you.
To make a long story short, I now do solemny propose that the upper-left corner tag of a redirect should incorporate the "redirect=no" function (or something like that), at least when returning from a talk page. As I think that the tag's main function is to refresh the page as is, or, again, something like that, I have few hopes of this getting done. I do think, however, that it would save many editors from an unnecessary journey back and forth. Waltham, The Duke of 01:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 February 2/Images, the first item was reported by me. I checked back now to see if anything had happened. The image link was not red, so I tried clicking on it to confirm the image was still there. It wasn't. (So far so good.) The link took me to a page reading:
Here "log" was a link to this page, which shows "No matching items in log." It is exactly as if the image was never there (unless you look at the history of the one page where the image was being used).
I then went to Wikipedia:Copyright problems, where the specific page I edited is transcluded. On that page, the link to the image in question is red, so again it is as if the image was never there.
Why should it be different when I access the full "Copyright problems" page vs. the specific subpage? Is it intended that I should be able to "see the log for more information", or not? If so, why is there nothing there? And if not, why was I offered it?
-- 207.176.159.90 ( talk) 01:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
the health of the body depends on acid, alkaloid, and base; in other words, pH-balance. this has to do with anti-aging.
on the internet, already, it says that if the cells of the body stay away from the acid side of pH-balance, then most bad diseases can not form in the body.
it is also known that the nucleus of the cell commands the rest of the cell, except, maybe, the mitachondria(s) of the cell. combining pH-balance with the nucleus command states that a less acidic nucleus will knock the cell into its best shape, unless the mitachondria(s) need to be less acidic, too. In that case, if we knock the nucleus and the mitachondria(s) to be less acidic, this will knock the cell into being its best shape.
assuming the best shape of a cell or a body is about 25 years old, it may be best to keep the pH-balance of the cells, their nuclei, and their mitachondria(s) to be the same or around the pH-balance of 25 years old cells.
there may be DNA in the nucleus that command the pH-balance of the nucleus which will also command the pH-balance of the rest of the cell. if this same DNA is in the mitachondria(s) or if the mitachondria(s) nuclei follow the cell's nucleus's DNA, then the entire cell's pH-balance will be commanded by the certain pH-sensitive DNA expression. The trick will be to get this certain pH-sensitive DNA expression to be around the pH-balance of a 25 year old cell's nucleus.
how to find this certain pH-sensitive DNA of the nucleus and mitachondria9s0 is
I've posted some AWB questions at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. Since you guys are technophiles, I figure you might know the answers. I'd appreciate your input on them. Thank you. The Transhumanist 07:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
A number of templates have stopped working, looks like the common theme is that they pass a parameter on to another template thus:
{{fact|{{#if:{{{date|}}}|date={{{date}}}}}}}
Maybe this is to do with the new parser, but regardless, is there a workaround?
Rich Farmbrough, 13:20 7 February 2008 (GMT).
For some reason, this strikes me as particularly worrisome:
What in the world does the $1 mean? Is this just a glitch? Silly rabbit ( talk) 15:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd appreciate some input on Village_pump_(technical)#Category_title_searching, which is a question about improving wikimedia's category searching. - Neparis ( talk) 21:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the "Save" button does not work when I am using the Classic skin. It works fine with the other skins. Also, this seems to be an IE-only problem; the button works perfectly when I am using Firefox.
Could this have something to do with the user scripts that I am using? -- Ixfd64 ( talk) 00:24, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Watchlist - Is there a way to automatically watch every page you look at, not just edit. Alexsanderson83 ( talk) 09:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
//Auto page watcher, activates the ajax-watch function after 1 second delay
//Note that a delay is required as the ajax watchlist setup script loads after addOnloadHooks.
//If you want to watch *all* namespaces, change wgNamespaceNumber==0 to wgNamespaceNumber!=-1
if(wgNamespaceNumber==0) addOnloadHook(function() {
var foo = setTimeout('watchThis()',1000); //milliseconds. Increase if on a slow connection.
})
function watchThis() {
var wli = document.getElementById('ca-watch');
if(!wli) return;
var wlink = wli.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
//we can't .click() an href, and the .onclick is a mess, so lets clone it
var wbutt = document.createElement('button');
wbutt.onclick = wlink.onclick;
wbutt.style.display = 'none';
wlink.parentNode.appendChild(wbutt);
wbutt.click();
}
We use mediawiki at work. I know a change approval option has been discussed, but has it ever been implemented? They'd like this feature at work. — Rlevse • Talk • 14:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
The comment on the first line of ZHX1 causes additional vertical space. I thought it would normally be eaten by the parser (or that's what I gathered from Migration to the new preprocessor), so its presence shouldn't make a difference at all. (It seems to interplay with the invisible template, since it doesn't occur on simpler pages.) Is this a bug, or am I missing something? -- Lea ( talk) 10:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
<!-- foo --> {{PBB Controls}} <!-- bar --> test
<!-- foo --> {{PBB Controls}} <!-- bar --> test
Hi. For some reason, on List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), this edit broke the time line, but this previous edit was fine. (The first edit actually did break the time line when I tried to pipe the link to a non-existent page, but after I fixed that it was fine. No such luck with the problem edit - the page I am trying to link to definitely exists.)
Any help on this would be much appreciated! Thanks, -- Sam Chase 17:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
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The last entry on my watchlist is:
Wikipedia:SOURCE
It is marked as a dead link, but it isn't, of course. When I look at the redirect page, it does not have an "unwatch" tab. When I check it and click on "remove titles" it still remains on my list.
When I "edit raw watchlist" and delete it, it is still on my list.
I tried "watch" then "unwatch". It is still my list.
How can I get rid of it? -- Softtest123 ( talk) 13:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Your watchlist has been updated. 1 title was removed: * Wikipedia:SOURCE (Talk) Your watchlist contains 25 titles, excluding talk pages.
and
... Voluntary Voting System Guidelines Voting machine Wikipedia:SOURCE User:WimdeValk Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup ...
The first problem can be seen at Wikipedia:Translation/*/In Progress and Wikipedia:Translation/*/Proofreaders Needed. In the template box in the upper left corner of the page, only as late as November 2007 is shown. I put the months up to February 2008 into the template (the template is Template:Translation/Months, which shows the same problem). Interestingly, all of the months do show up in the problem pages' tables of contents.
The second problem can be seen at Wikipedia:Translation/*/Translation Requests and Wikipedia:Translation/*/Completed Translations. Neither of these pages even show the table of contents. The template problem applies to these pages, too.
I'm not familiar with the code {{#if: {{{include_all|}}} so I won't attempt to work it out on my own. But I think that piece of code, found at Template:Translation/Months, might be the source of both problems. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 01:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
While it's not currently possible to move/rename images, Betacommand has a bot that can perform the function for us the hard way.
Requests for image movement should be placed at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:Image renaming. Admins are automatically authorized for the use of this tool, and non-admins may be added by having an admin list you at the bottom of Wikipedia:Image renaming, which also includes instructions on using the tool.
There is no "Requests for" process involved, you just need to have a reasonably good edit history.
Related pages can be found in Category:Image renaming ~Kylu ( u| t) 06:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Did the database just crash or something? Wikipedia was down for several minutes for me.-- 172.168.50.11 ( talk) 23:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to look at someone's (e.g. your own) contributions only in terms of new articles (preferable even just non-redirects)? It seems impossible to find the new pages you've made among the jungle of edits.
A second question: is Wikipedia's number of articles (~2.2 million) exclusive of disambiguation pages? Richard001 ( talk) 01:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Friends,
On most Wikipedia pages that have footnotes the gap in the line above the note is increased, and gives the whole article a ragged effect. A piece of css code can fix that easily.
Just add the following to your main .css: sup {vertical-align:text-top;} and see the difference!
Best wishes,
Ananda
Sunday, 2nd February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.54.67.33 ( talk) 23:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Unicode is currently planning on adding a capital version of ß (sharp s) in Version 5.1 (expected March 2008). That presents a potential technical problem in that currently we map initial lowercase letters to uppercase. So what will be done for ß when support for Unicode 5.1 is added to the MediaWiki software? Special case it as a lowercase letter for its one article (and 10 redirects added for articles about subjects that begin with the Greek letter β), move it to the uppercase, or use it as an excuse for ending automatic case folding? Caerwine Caer’s whines 00:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Good evening,
On #wikipedia-fr (the French Wikipédia IRC channel), an user has requested help about adding colored text in articles (e.g. for a legend "in red").
As a model is not really a good idea in these case (how to choose the hexadecimal color code?), I've coded http://www.dereckson.be/tools/colorpicker/ to help him.
The left area is to pick the right color, with a Photoshop-like interface.
The right area is divided in 3 tabs:
Enjoy ;-) -- Dereckson ( talk) 03:58, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I often need to change hatnotes generated manually by users into {{ dablink}} templated messages. The benefits are obvious - they become non-printable and can be programmed by users in their stylesheet.
Typically, these hatnotes take the form of :'' (indent and then italics). This makes them ideal for a bot-assisted search and replace operation. Anyone have a spare bot that could be used for this purpose? Unfortunately, Wikipedia search does not allow search for formatting. API access is therefore a prerequisite. JFW | T@lk 08:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Recently, the default text and links that appear when creating a new article seem to have changed. Right now it only says
Information for editors
This is fine, but I seem to recall that previously there was a link to look for links to the article and to search for the term. Am I imagining that these links used to be there? If I'm not mistaken, I thought those links were very convenient to help avoid accidentally creating duplicate articles. older ≠ wiser 17:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I can get commonsettings.php to work for my new MediaWiki 1.12 copy I downloaded from SVN, however I don't quite get InitialiseSettings.php as per http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.html
why does the CommonSettings.php page ( http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.html) not include the following line:
$wgGroupPermissions['steward' ]['userrights-interwiki'] = true;
According to mediawiki.org it says that line has to be included in CommonSettings.php or LocalSettings.php for stewards to set rights on other wikis - which I did using the above text.
Anyone able to help me with this one?? Also, what would I do to get InitialiseSettings.php working?? Thanks, -- Solumeiras ( talk) 19:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
(P.S. Anyone who can help me with this gets a barnstar!)
Read bugzilla:12881 and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2008-February/000345.html for more details — VasilievVV ( talk) 04:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Other than the alphabetical compact Table of Contents templates, is there a means to either
I ask because the TOC at Wikipedia:New_articles_(New_Zealand) is very ugly - the item numbers run on into the actual dates which are the headings, and it is excessively long. Just the months might suffice. dramatic ( talk) 04:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Wondering if there is a way to find out how many pages use a particular template such as Template:Infobox Rugby Union biography. Londo 06 13:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I believe there are some tools on toolserv that can do the counting as well, and not count page links. Not sure where it is, though. -- Ned Scott 03:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
You can also use the API, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eititle=Template:Stub&eilimit=500 . MER-C 04:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Delete reason dropdown script — Random832 17:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any webpage out there, or is there any potential to upgrade Wikipedia, so I could cross reference categories? E.g, if I wanted to find Dutch actors born in 1970, I could cross reference our Dutch actors and 1970 births categories and come up with a list of articles that are in both category sets. I've poked around and can't find a way to do this, but it would be a really helpful tool for a lot of people. Any thoughts? Neıl ☎ 15:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to force the arguments of a template to resolve/execute first prior before actaully calling a template? That is, is there anyway to have: {{t1|a{{#if:{{{b|}}}|{{!}}b|}}|c}} as the content of template t2 such that {{t2|a=1|c=3}} executes {{t1|1|3}} while {{t2|a=1|b=2|c=3}} executes {{t1|1|2|3}}
Basically, this is try to provide a alternating color infobox where entries are optional; I thought using one base template to provided the alternating color functionality using unnamed parameters, and then having the infobox template format a call to this would work (as done on the Navbox template), but the execution order fails more. Of course, if anyone has a better suggestion/existing solution, I'd love to hear it. -- MASEM 01:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Page title | |
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1 | 1 |
3 | 3 |
4 | 4 |
6 | 6 |
7 | 7 |
9 | 9 |
13 | 13
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(←)Ok, I've figured out a way to do this, basically adding up the number of defined unnamed parameters in an #ifexpr, using the mod 2 result to determine odd or even (similar to the above). Of course, now I'm stuck on returns in the table layout: If I use {{User:Masem/infobox/base|title=Page title|1|1|||3|3|4|4|||6|6|7|7|||9|9|||||||13|13|es=background:#f0f0f0;|os=}}, I get the result shown to the right. The extra spaces on the table are a result of having two (or more) empty rows between those that are defined (based on using Special:ExpandTemplates, which seem to automatically create a <br/> and I can't figure out how to not prevent an unneeded row from creating a blank line. I've tried HTML commenting to link lines together with no luck. Any pointers here? -- MASEM 07:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe this isn't a bug, but I have noticed this on many talk pages. (I don't want to add clutter, but could give examples if necessary). In these cases, there are parts of a section, or an entire section, of a talk page that is not followed by a signature (including the "unsigned" default). Is this a problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Z1perlster ( talk • contribs)
Would it be possible/desirable to make namespaces into subdomains? Like Image:something.jpg's address would start with http://images.en.wikipedia.org and Wikipedia: namespace pages would start with wikipedia.en.wikipedia.org? The only reason I have in mind is that it would make it easier to Google site: search within a namespace. :) Any other benefits/disadvantages you can think of? — Omegatron 04:06, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Drives me nuts when that disappears. Thanks Shawis ( talk) 08:21, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new archive box to replace the current {{ archives}}, {{ archive box}}, and {{ archive box collapsible}} templates. It incorporates all of the necessary parameters. Could I please get some comments/suggestions on it. And how would I go about implementing it? Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 14:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
This is probably a mistake on my part, but does anyone have a suggestion as to why the small gray note at the top of the User talk:Voyagerfan5761#User talk:89.244.182.22 section is showing the default text specified in the template ( User:Voyagerfan5761/talknote) rather than the markup specified? I didn't have problems before the new preprocessor; am I being affected? What do I need to do differently/change in the template or call? Tuvok T @ lk/ Improve 01:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I have found that Template: Infobox Former Country runs into problems where there is a condominium between two countries rather than a colony of one country - as in the New Hebrides and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The template does not recognize it. I need help finding a way to include it on those pages. Can anyone help? Btn551 ( talk) 04:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Admittedly, there have been several improvements over the years in respect with redirects. One no longer gets carried to the redirect's target when saving an edit to the redirect, and one can also avoid this abrupt journey when following a link from a category, and I think from a couple of other places (as usually, my memory serves me badly here).
I think there is another transition to be improved. The cleverer of you might have guessed it already by looking at the message's title. Personally, I find it stupid to write a message in a redirect's talk page (a protected one, in my case; I was asking for an administrator's help), then try to go back to the redirect and have it... redirect you.
To make a long story short, I now do solemny propose that the upper-left corner tag of a redirect should incorporate the "redirect=no" function (or something like that), at least when returning from a talk page. As I think that the tag's main function is to refresh the page as is, or, again, something like that, I have few hopes of this getting done. I do think, however, that it would save many editors from an unnecessary journey back and forth. Waltham, The Duke of 01:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 February 2/Images, the first item was reported by me. I checked back now to see if anything had happened. The image link was not red, so I tried clicking on it to confirm the image was still there. It wasn't. (So far so good.) The link took me to a page reading:
Here "log" was a link to this page, which shows "No matching items in log." It is exactly as if the image was never there (unless you look at the history of the one page where the image was being used).
I then went to Wikipedia:Copyright problems, where the specific page I edited is transcluded. On that page, the link to the image in question is red, so again it is as if the image was never there.
Why should it be different when I access the full "Copyright problems" page vs. the specific subpage? Is it intended that I should be able to "see the log for more information", or not? If so, why is there nothing there? And if not, why was I offered it?
-- 207.176.159.90 ( talk) 01:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
the health of the body depends on acid, alkaloid, and base; in other words, pH-balance. this has to do with anti-aging.
on the internet, already, it says that if the cells of the body stay away from the acid side of pH-balance, then most bad diseases can not form in the body.
it is also known that the nucleus of the cell commands the rest of the cell, except, maybe, the mitachondria(s) of the cell. combining pH-balance with the nucleus command states that a less acidic nucleus will knock the cell into its best shape, unless the mitachondria(s) need to be less acidic, too. In that case, if we knock the nucleus and the mitachondria(s) to be less acidic, this will knock the cell into being its best shape.
assuming the best shape of a cell or a body is about 25 years old, it may be best to keep the pH-balance of the cells, their nuclei, and their mitachondria(s) to be the same or around the pH-balance of 25 years old cells.
there may be DNA in the nucleus that command the pH-balance of the nucleus which will also command the pH-balance of the rest of the cell. if this same DNA is in the mitachondria(s) or if the mitachondria(s) nuclei follow the cell's nucleus's DNA, then the entire cell's pH-balance will be commanded by the certain pH-sensitive DNA expression. The trick will be to get this certain pH-sensitive DNA expression to be around the pH-balance of a 25 year old cell's nucleus.
how to find this certain pH-sensitive DNA of the nucleus and mitachondria9s0 is
I've posted some AWB questions at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. Since you guys are technophiles, I figure you might know the answers. I'd appreciate your input on them. Thank you. The Transhumanist 07:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
A number of templates have stopped working, looks like the common theme is that they pass a parameter on to another template thus:
{{fact|{{#if:{{{date|}}}|date={{{date}}}}}}}
Maybe this is to do with the new parser, but regardless, is there a workaround?
Rich Farmbrough, 13:20 7 February 2008 (GMT).
For some reason, this strikes me as particularly worrisome:
What in the world does the $1 mean? Is this just a glitch? Silly rabbit ( talk) 15:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd appreciate some input on Village_pump_(technical)#Category_title_searching, which is a question about improving wikimedia's category searching. - Neparis ( talk) 21:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the "Save" button does not work when I am using the Classic skin. It works fine with the other skins. Also, this seems to be an IE-only problem; the button works perfectly when I am using Firefox.
Could this have something to do with the user scripts that I am using? -- Ixfd64 ( talk) 00:24, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Watchlist - Is there a way to automatically watch every page you look at, not just edit. Alexsanderson83 ( talk) 09:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
//Auto page watcher, activates the ajax-watch function after 1 second delay
//Note that a delay is required as the ajax watchlist setup script loads after addOnloadHooks.
//If you want to watch *all* namespaces, change wgNamespaceNumber==0 to wgNamespaceNumber!=-1
if(wgNamespaceNumber==0) addOnloadHook(function() {
var foo = setTimeout('watchThis()',1000); //milliseconds. Increase if on a slow connection.
})
function watchThis() {
var wli = document.getElementById('ca-watch');
if(!wli) return;
var wlink = wli.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
//we can't .click() an href, and the .onclick is a mess, so lets clone it
var wbutt = document.createElement('button');
wbutt.onclick = wlink.onclick;
wbutt.style.display = 'none';
wlink.parentNode.appendChild(wbutt);
wbutt.click();
}
We use mediawiki at work. I know a change approval option has been discussed, but has it ever been implemented? They'd like this feature at work. — Rlevse • Talk • 14:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
The comment on the first line of ZHX1 causes additional vertical space. I thought it would normally be eaten by the parser (or that's what I gathered from Migration to the new preprocessor), so its presence shouldn't make a difference at all. (It seems to interplay with the invisible template, since it doesn't occur on simpler pages.) Is this a bug, or am I missing something? -- Lea ( talk) 10:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
<!-- foo --> {{PBB Controls}} <!-- bar --> test
<!-- foo --> {{PBB Controls}} <!-- bar --> test
Hi. For some reason, on List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), this edit broke the time line, but this previous edit was fine. (The first edit actually did break the time line when I tried to pipe the link to a non-existent page, but after I fixed that it was fine. No such luck with the problem edit - the page I am trying to link to definitely exists.)
Any help on this would be much appreciated! Thanks, -- Sam Chase 17:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)