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Following the discussion here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#bot_to_auto-patrol_experienced_article_creators, there seems to be some support for identifying trusted users whose new page creations should be automatically marked as patrolled, as is currently done for admins and bots. How complex would it be to implement something like the ability of admins to give rollback privilege? Pichpich ( talk) 19:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
When I nominate an article for deletion using Twinkle, the link to "this article's entry" on the article page oftentimes does not get purged and stays red, even though the AfD entry exists. An example is at " Population 2" (please don't purge). I think this may be because the creation of the AfD entry page and the addition of the deletion tag occur virtually at the same time. Waiting doesn't help, the link stays red (and links to &action=edit) until the page is manually purged. Is this a known problem? If not, anyone care to write a bug report? -- Lea ( talk) 10:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I use MS Windows XP SP2 on a laptop, and the options at the top of the WP screen ("Username" "my talk" "my preferences" "my watchlist" "my contributions" "log out") bleed into the Wikipedia globe on the left hand side at the "larger" and "largest" screen resolutions.
A few months ago, I could still access all my options at both "larger" and "largest" screen resolutions. Then something changed (spacing and/or text size, etc) and I could access all my options at the "larger" screen resolution but not the "largest" screen resolution. Now something has changed again, and I cannot access all my options at the of the screen under either "largest" or "larger" screen resolutions. Can something be done to correct this?-- Filll ( talk) 23:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a tool that can count how many pages are in a category? If not, is there any way to find out how many pages are in a large category without repeatedly clicking "next 200"? Thanks, Black Falcon ( Talk) 21:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm thinking of putting this on the category page in software. I need to make sure it's technically sound, however. — Werdna talk 00:43, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I've just tried MediaWiki 1.3 and searched for a page as both an anon and logged-in user, and can't create pages. How did people do this back when this site had MW 1.3 installed?? I've just been trying it out on my localhost WAMP server now! -- Solumeiras ( talk) 17:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello!
I have a bit of a basic problem with the java script I have; I was trying to use addOnloadHook( function() where I append text upon clicking on a certain tool bar button, and it did not work. I have tried to look at friendly's welcome script but it had too many parameters I did not need. I am novice at java script to say the least, and I would appreciate if someone could help me with this-perhaps providing the script needed if it was short :)- I know this should be simple enough, and I am quite sure that I have nothing wrong with the procedure (bypassing cache, importing scripts from their locations, monobook.js, etc.) so the problem must be with the script I wrote. Thanks
Λua∫
Wi
se (
Operibus anteire) 15:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
//<nowiki> <-- needed to prevent parsing of tildes and substs
//if edit or preview:
if(wgAction == 'edit' || wgAction == 'submit') addOnloadHook(function() {
//add portlet buttons to trigger another JS function with one parameter
addPortletLink('p-cactions','javascript:addSomeText("Hello there\n ~~~~")', 'greet');
addPortletLink('p-cactions','javascript:addSomeText("{{delete}}")', 'delete');
});
function addSomeText(text) {
//grab textarea by ID
txtb = document.getElementById('wpTextbox1');
//if no textarea, abort
if(!txtb) return;
//if the textarea is not blank, add a line return
if(txtb.value != '') txtb.value += '\n';
//append the text from the parameter
txtb.value += text;
}
//</nowiki>
Please enable this feature. Having such a link would be fairer (than the current situation of not having such a link) to registered users who can't or don't use the Gadgets, as well as to users of IP Addresses.
"The section edit link can be added to MediaWiki: namespace pretty straightforwardly by an admin if any given wiki wants it." [Comment #13 From Simetrical 2006-06-09 01:28:50 UTC]
"If you (or others) believe an edit link for section 0 would generally be useful, it seems more useful to turn it on for all users on all pages (probably suggested through bugzilla or WP:VPT), rather than to rely on a page-by-page basis. – Luna Santin ( talk) 13:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)" [2]
See also: Bugzilla:156, Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 January 18#Template:Edit-first-section, Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 January 20#Template:Edit-top-section
Please find below links for expressing your opinion on my proposal that this feature be enabled. Thank you for your time and for expressing your opinions. — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 10:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Could I get a quick technical check at Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help/Help Desk to make sure I set up the archiver correctly? MBisanz talk 05:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
A silly question probably anyone here can answer: How does one list all subpages of a given Wikipedia page? Silly rabbit ( talk) 14:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to find out exactly how many edits I've made. According to this tool, I've made 9,792 edits, but on My Preferences it says I've made 10,024 edits. Which one is technically correct as it seems like there are 2 conflicting numbers here. D.M.N. ( talk) 15:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
My watchlist is loading slowly due to slowness in accessing the site tools.wikimedia.de (it says "Waiting for tools.wikimedia.de" in the Firefox status bar). Why does my watchlist need to access that server? Thanks, Mike R ( talk) 20:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I've made a basic template for http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php
Someone has probably thought of this idea before, if so feel free to bonk me on the head if a similar template already exists.
I just threw it together really quick for a deletion sorting page. It has five parameters, two categories, the depth for those categories (defaults to 1), and text for the link. Unfortunately it's a bit hard to show everyone how cool this is, since there's database problems right now, but the results look like this:
{{Catscan |Cat1= WikiProject Anime and manga |Cat1_depth=5 |Cat2= Articles for deletion |Link_text= Scan for AfDs}}
makes
{{ Catscan }}
Since the tool isn't working I can't tell if underscores would work for the categoires. If they do then we can use the
magic word {{urlencode|text}}
to convert spaces into underscores. --
Ned Scott 21:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
While under my IP address a second ago, I noticed that I can't add anything to my monobook.js. Could I add things to my IP's monobook.js while under my logged-in account? And, would that be acceptable? F L c 21:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
How much developer pain would be involved in making Special:Search for categories capable of searching either (1) on the contents of category pages or (2) on the titles of category pages? At present, it always searches on both, which is extremely unhelpful when you want to search category titles because the number of irrelevant matches on category contents almost always vastly exceeds the number of relevant matches on category titles. Yeah, Google doesn't suck. - Neparis ( talk) 04:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Special:Whatlinkshere is admittedly an extremely useful page. However, important articles tend to be linked to by hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of other pages. And, although redirects are plainly visible in the aforementioned special page, they can be very hard (and in some cases simply impossible) to find in such massive link directories. Redirects are a somewhat distinct category of pages, and it is often important that all redirects leading to a page should be visible, so that they can be more easily managed. The redirects master list is more or less useless in this respect.
So, I am asking: Is there a way to display only the redirects leading to a specific page? And, in case there is not a way (and I am quite certain that there isn't), could a special page be created to that effect?
I have reasons to believe that this is an interesting proposal suggesting a useful feature. I am eager to see the feedback. Waltham, The Duke of 12:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as discussed above in several threads, there is a number of limitations to the search engine that make it hard to imagine anything else possible. But the wikipedia data is in part stuctured and real full text data. That opens many possibilities which without changing exiting search functions can be implements "on top". A good example is here: http://knecht.cis.uni-muenchen.de/exorbyte/wiki This implementation is not based on a single query box but advanced search features based on multiple inputs (categories, etc.) are possible. You can even have the suggestions appear classified by top relevant categories in the layer ; as long as the data is in structured form of course. Therefore full text indexing is then irrelevant. The index is structured and incrementally updatable. Notice also that suggestions are fault-tolerant - realtime spell corrected. What do you think? contact http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/people/guenthner.html for info. Danicc ( Danicc) 12:43, 9 February 2008 (PST)
There is a help icon/link in a particular template that is used multiple times on many pages. I would like to change this only show only once per page. As such, I would like the template to store a variable counter in the article page to determine if help should be rendered. A viable solution to this would be to use functions defined in mw:Extension:VariablesExtension; however, it does not seem to be globally available in Wikipedia. May I request that it be added and if so, where? If not, what other options are available? (I am aware of workarounds such as an extra parameter to determine the help status, but I would like to avoid such a solution.) Bendono ( talk) 00:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to revert last several edits at once like: Reverted edits by User:SomeUser (talk) to last version by User:AnotherUser.? Like restore an older version of an article that was vandalized subsequently several times.--Lykantrop ( Talk) 06:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Lykantrop: sure. Look in page history. Pick the version you want to revert to. Go there. Click edit. Type a nice edit summary "Reverted edits by User:SomeUser (talk) to last version by User:AnotherUser.". Then hit save. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 16:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, when reverting a persistent vandal on Wikispecies, I came across the pages wikispecies:Category:Pelican Shit and wikispecies:Category:Pig Fucking, which the vandal created. I was quite surprised to see that there were actually 61 pages in this category, and even more so that I could not find back the category in any of these pages (see for example wikispecies:User_talk:203.143.226.98, which shows up in both categories, but has only one edit). Does anyone have any idea what may have caused this? Thanks, Ucucha 14:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I just edited MediaWiki:Common.css to increase the height of the image upload box to 11em, like what is done on the Commons. This removes the vertical scrollbar on Firefox at least, so users won't have to scroll up and down when trying to fill in the information template. If this causes any problems then please revert it. — Remember the dot ( talk) 20:17, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
select#wpLicense {width : 100%; overflow: hidden;}
There are a number of nominations for membership of WP:BAG taking place at the talk page. All community members are invited to comment. Apologies from me for the time it took for this notice to be posted - I said last week that I would post one but have only just now got around to it. Please make any comments by way of response on WT:BAG. Thanks, Mart inp23 00:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone explain why the deletion log entry for WPSI is missing? It was deleted by WJBscribe (who doesn't know why it's missing) after an RFD discussion, but I cannot find the log entry anywhere at Special:Undelete/WPSI, or in the deletion log, but the edit I made to the page is in my deleted contributions. Can anyone shed any light on this? (Feel free to take it to bugzilla if anyone thinks it needs to.) Thanks, matt br 16:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Could you possibly tell me how to add CSS style to a table based on the page its pagename or url? Or maybe where I could learn how. I read about Wikipedia:Conditional tables (deprecated maybe and then to parser functions) and went over my head. To Portal:Minnesota/tab-header used as {{/tab-header}} on about five pages I would like to add "background:#fff; color:#000;" to the CSS for each tab. Thank you. - Susanlesch ( talk) 10:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Longhand for example:
{| width="100%" style="margin:0;" |- style="background:#eef; color:#000;" ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:white;" | [[Portal:Minnesota|Minnesota portal]] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Featured content|'''Featured articles''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Maps|'''Maps of Minnesota''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Wikinews|'''Wikinews''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Symbols|'''State symbols''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Things you can do|'''Things you can do''']] |}
on Portal:Minnesota/Featured content would read:
{| width="100%" style="margin:0;" |- style="background:#eef; color:#000;" ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:white;" | [[Portal:Minnesota|Minnesota portal]] ! style="background:#fff; color:#000; border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Featured content|'''Featured articles''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Maps|'''Maps of Minnesota''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Wikinews|'''Wikinews''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Symbols|'''State symbols''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Things you can do|'''Things you can do''']] |}
I've two questions about the "Modern" skin.
Thanks! Pegasus «C¦ T» 13:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, this is a request for our resident template wizards to add a feature to {{ afd2}} so as to facilitate the closing of WP:AFD discussions by administrators. {{ afd2}} is the template for all AFD discussions.
I propose to add a "(delete)" link to the template that would load the deletion form with the wikilinked title of the AfD page preloaded as the reason for deletion. A similar feature exists for deleting expired
WP:PRODs at {{
dated prod}}. The relevant code there seems to be ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{#if:{{{1|}}}{{{concern|}}}|wpReason={{urlencode:Expired [[WP:PROD|PROD]], concern was: {{{1|}}}{{{concern|}}}}}&|}}action=delete}} delete])
. To see this feature in action, see any one of the oldest articles at
WP:PRODSUM.
I tried to add the code to {{ afd2}} myself but, being a lawyer and not a programmer, gave up in frustration because I couldn't figure out how to use the urlencode: function properly. Thanks! Sandstein ( talk) 21:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
{{{nohistory|history link stuff}}}
doesn't seem to work, dunno why. :S)
Pegasus
«C¦
T» 01:17, 9 February 2008 (UTC)Every time when i logged into wikipedia I cant found my user page, instead of this i found:"Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php". If i not logged in, this time it also happens.But all other pages e.g. talk page, watchlist are okay.Everytime I've to purge. Without purging page is not showing. Clearing cache (both browser and server) is not solved the problem. What should i do? Tanvir che ( talk) 05:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems that neither Help:Section, nor Help:Link, both of which have sections on section linking, explain the scheme used for encoding special characters in section names.
At Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/HBC_Archive_Indexerbot there's a comment on this, whose author has meanwhile left Wikipedia:
If someone knows exactly how the encoding works, I think it should be explained on one or both of those help pages, since it's something one may need to know in order to add a working section link.
Joriki ( talk) 11:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
{{urlencode:a:b/c[[d]]e$f[[foo|bar]] and [[bar]]
}} gives a%3Ab%2Fc%5B%5Bd%5D%5De%24f%5B%5Bfoo%7Cbar%5D%5D+and+%5B%5Bbar%5D%5D
{{anchorencode:a:b/c[[d]]e$f[[foo|bar]] and [[bar]]
}} gives a:b/cde$fbar_and_bar.
This header has id="Test:_a:b.2Fcde.24fbar_and_bar" (links: #Test: a:b/cde$fbar and bar, #Test:_a:b.2Fcde.24fbar_and_bar, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Test:_a:b.2Fcde.24fbar_and_bar). So the rule might become: replace all [[foo|bar]] and [[bar]] with bar, then apply anchorencode.-- Patrick ( talk) 13:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
{{anchorencode:_<_<_>_>_}} {{anchorencode:_<span>_<span>_}} {{anchorencode:_<img>_&lt;img&gt;_}}
Old_PP _.26lt.3B_.26lt.3B_.26gt.3B_.26gt.3B_ _.3Cspan.3E_.26lt.3Bspan.26gt.3B_ _.26lt.3Bimg.26gt.3B_.26lt.3Bimg.26gt.3B_ New_PP _.3C_.26lt.3B_.3E_.26gt.3B_ _.3Cspan.3E_.26lt.3Bspan.26gt.3B_ _.3Cimg.3E_.26lt.3Bimg.26gt.3B_
Is there any way to find recent edits that link to a particular page? Or, is there any way that a technical capability for this could be developed?-- Pharos ( talk) 21:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to selectively choose when this is enabled (like with a url parameter)? I want it enabled for my watchlist, but disabled for some related changes views. — Random832 15:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
&hideenhanced=
URL parameter, but I'm pretty sure they had to modify MediaWiki to do that. The only possible way imho is to disable enhanced recent changes, and write a separate userscript to "enhance" watchlist manually. —
AlexSm 17:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)When I use the coding
<font face="terminal">
the font displays differently on windows and apple. Why? Or is it just how the browser interprets it? Flaminglawyer ( talk · contribs) 17:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Also see generic font families. <span style="font-family: terminal, monospace"> is the "safe" way to do it. -- Splarka ( rant) 19:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Currently when you go to Wikipedia:Upload and click "It is entirely my own work", the Information template skeleton includes a "Permission" line. The problem is that from looking through Special:Log/Upload, it's easy to see that most users who upload images they made themselves are confused by the Permission line and put things like "Yes" or "Granted by uploader". Since when uploading your own work, permission is implicit, and the uploader has to add a license anyway, I'd like to leave the Permission line off the "own work" form. Here's how this would look:
This would mean less confusion, and consequently more useful contributions. What do you think? — Remember the dot ( talk) 01:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Six months ago, bug 10843 was filed, stating that the "Upload file" link does not work when using the secure proxy server. Nothing has been done about this. I suggest adding the following code to MediaWiki:Common.js to fix the problem:
//Fix "Upload file" link when using the secure proxy //This is a workaround that can be removed when bug 10843 is fixed addOnloadHook(function() { document.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Wikipedia:Upload") })
This will prevent users who prefer using secure connections from having to choose between security and being able to upload files easily. — Remember the dot ( talk) 03:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
document.getElementById("t-upload")
exists. The current if (skin == "monobook" || skin == "modern")
obviously doesn't work for about Chick, Simple and MySkin skins. —
AlexSm 03:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently tried to edit the first section (lead) of an article. I have the "Add an [edit] link for the introduction section of a page" checked on my gadgets (and I did the control + shift + r thing), but when I click the edit link for the lead, it brings me to the next section. Charles Stewart ( talk) 07:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am having trouble getting this to produce anything but a null:
{{subst:REVISIONID}}
I know that in the preview, it is supposed to return null, but why does it return a null when I save? It works when you exclude the subst and just do a regular {{REVISIONID}}. But I want to save the REVISIONID of a particular version as it is being saved, and not have that number change when subsequent versions are saved.
Just so you know, this version of this page has REVISIONID = -.
Thanks, Ron Duvall ( talk) 05:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>fullurl:{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAMEE}}|diff={{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>REVISIONID}}}}
There is a BRFA for ClueBot V and Martinp23 has asked for community input. Please take the time and take a look at the BRFA and comment. Thanks. -- Cobi( t| c| b) 21:35, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to wikilink to a talk page (particularly in the project space for XFDs, RFAs, etc.). I know /subpage links to a subpage, for example. Charles Stewart ( talk) 23:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
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Following the discussion here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#bot_to_auto-patrol_experienced_article_creators, there seems to be some support for identifying trusted users whose new page creations should be automatically marked as patrolled, as is currently done for admins and bots. How complex would it be to implement something like the ability of admins to give rollback privilege? Pichpich ( talk) 19:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
When I nominate an article for deletion using Twinkle, the link to "this article's entry" on the article page oftentimes does not get purged and stays red, even though the AfD entry exists. An example is at " Population 2" (please don't purge). I think this may be because the creation of the AfD entry page and the addition of the deletion tag occur virtually at the same time. Waiting doesn't help, the link stays red (and links to &action=edit) until the page is manually purged. Is this a known problem? If not, anyone care to write a bug report? -- Lea ( talk) 10:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I use MS Windows XP SP2 on a laptop, and the options at the top of the WP screen ("Username" "my talk" "my preferences" "my watchlist" "my contributions" "log out") bleed into the Wikipedia globe on the left hand side at the "larger" and "largest" screen resolutions.
A few months ago, I could still access all my options at both "larger" and "largest" screen resolutions. Then something changed (spacing and/or text size, etc) and I could access all my options at the "larger" screen resolution but not the "largest" screen resolution. Now something has changed again, and I cannot access all my options at the of the screen under either "largest" or "larger" screen resolutions. Can something be done to correct this?-- Filll ( talk) 23:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a tool that can count how many pages are in a category? If not, is there any way to find out how many pages are in a large category without repeatedly clicking "next 200"? Thanks, Black Falcon ( Talk) 21:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm thinking of putting this on the category page in software. I need to make sure it's technically sound, however. — Werdna talk 00:43, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I've just tried MediaWiki 1.3 and searched for a page as both an anon and logged-in user, and can't create pages. How did people do this back when this site had MW 1.3 installed?? I've just been trying it out on my localhost WAMP server now! -- Solumeiras ( talk) 17:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello!
I have a bit of a basic problem with the java script I have; I was trying to use addOnloadHook( function() where I append text upon clicking on a certain tool bar button, and it did not work. I have tried to look at friendly's welcome script but it had too many parameters I did not need. I am novice at java script to say the least, and I would appreciate if someone could help me with this-perhaps providing the script needed if it was short :)- I know this should be simple enough, and I am quite sure that I have nothing wrong with the procedure (bypassing cache, importing scripts from their locations, monobook.js, etc.) so the problem must be with the script I wrote. Thanks
Λua∫
Wi
se (
Operibus anteire) 15:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
//<nowiki> <-- needed to prevent parsing of tildes and substs
//if edit or preview:
if(wgAction == 'edit' || wgAction == 'submit') addOnloadHook(function() {
//add portlet buttons to trigger another JS function with one parameter
addPortletLink('p-cactions','javascript:addSomeText("Hello there\n ~~~~")', 'greet');
addPortletLink('p-cactions','javascript:addSomeText("{{delete}}")', 'delete');
});
function addSomeText(text) {
//grab textarea by ID
txtb = document.getElementById('wpTextbox1');
//if no textarea, abort
if(!txtb) return;
//if the textarea is not blank, add a line return
if(txtb.value != '') txtb.value += '\n';
//append the text from the parameter
txtb.value += text;
}
//</nowiki>
Please enable this feature. Having such a link would be fairer (than the current situation of not having such a link) to registered users who can't or don't use the Gadgets, as well as to users of IP Addresses.
"The section edit link can be added to MediaWiki: namespace pretty straightforwardly by an admin if any given wiki wants it." [Comment #13 From Simetrical 2006-06-09 01:28:50 UTC]
"If you (or others) believe an edit link for section 0 would generally be useful, it seems more useful to turn it on for all users on all pages (probably suggested through bugzilla or WP:VPT), rather than to rely on a page-by-page basis. – Luna Santin ( talk) 13:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)" [2]
See also: Bugzilla:156, Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 January 18#Template:Edit-first-section, Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 January 20#Template:Edit-top-section
Please find below links for expressing your opinion on my proposal that this feature be enabled. Thank you for your time and for expressing your opinions. — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 10:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Could I get a quick technical check at Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help/Help Desk to make sure I set up the archiver correctly? MBisanz talk 05:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
A silly question probably anyone here can answer: How does one list all subpages of a given Wikipedia page? Silly rabbit ( talk) 14:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to find out exactly how many edits I've made. According to this tool, I've made 9,792 edits, but on My Preferences it says I've made 10,024 edits. Which one is technically correct as it seems like there are 2 conflicting numbers here. D.M.N. ( talk) 15:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
My watchlist is loading slowly due to slowness in accessing the site tools.wikimedia.de (it says "Waiting for tools.wikimedia.de" in the Firefox status bar). Why does my watchlist need to access that server? Thanks, Mike R ( talk) 20:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I've made a basic template for http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php
Someone has probably thought of this idea before, if so feel free to bonk me on the head if a similar template already exists.
I just threw it together really quick for a deletion sorting page. It has five parameters, two categories, the depth for those categories (defaults to 1), and text for the link. Unfortunately it's a bit hard to show everyone how cool this is, since there's database problems right now, but the results look like this:
{{Catscan |Cat1= WikiProject Anime and manga |Cat1_depth=5 |Cat2= Articles for deletion |Link_text= Scan for AfDs}}
makes
{{ Catscan }}
Since the tool isn't working I can't tell if underscores would work for the categoires. If they do then we can use the
magic word {{urlencode|text}}
to convert spaces into underscores. --
Ned Scott 21:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
While under my IP address a second ago, I noticed that I can't add anything to my monobook.js. Could I add things to my IP's monobook.js while under my logged-in account? And, would that be acceptable? F L c 21:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
How much developer pain would be involved in making Special:Search for categories capable of searching either (1) on the contents of category pages or (2) on the titles of category pages? At present, it always searches on both, which is extremely unhelpful when you want to search category titles because the number of irrelevant matches on category contents almost always vastly exceeds the number of relevant matches on category titles. Yeah, Google doesn't suck. - Neparis ( talk) 04:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Special:Whatlinkshere is admittedly an extremely useful page. However, important articles tend to be linked to by hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of other pages. And, although redirects are plainly visible in the aforementioned special page, they can be very hard (and in some cases simply impossible) to find in such massive link directories. Redirects are a somewhat distinct category of pages, and it is often important that all redirects leading to a page should be visible, so that they can be more easily managed. The redirects master list is more or less useless in this respect.
So, I am asking: Is there a way to display only the redirects leading to a specific page? And, in case there is not a way (and I am quite certain that there isn't), could a special page be created to that effect?
I have reasons to believe that this is an interesting proposal suggesting a useful feature. I am eager to see the feedback. Waltham, The Duke of 12:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as discussed above in several threads, there is a number of limitations to the search engine that make it hard to imagine anything else possible. But the wikipedia data is in part stuctured and real full text data. That opens many possibilities which without changing exiting search functions can be implements "on top". A good example is here: http://knecht.cis.uni-muenchen.de/exorbyte/wiki This implementation is not based on a single query box but advanced search features based on multiple inputs (categories, etc.) are possible. You can even have the suggestions appear classified by top relevant categories in the layer ; as long as the data is in structured form of course. Therefore full text indexing is then irrelevant. The index is structured and incrementally updatable. Notice also that suggestions are fault-tolerant - realtime spell corrected. What do you think? contact http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/people/guenthner.html for info. Danicc ( Danicc) 12:43, 9 February 2008 (PST)
There is a help icon/link in a particular template that is used multiple times on many pages. I would like to change this only show only once per page. As such, I would like the template to store a variable counter in the article page to determine if help should be rendered. A viable solution to this would be to use functions defined in mw:Extension:VariablesExtension; however, it does not seem to be globally available in Wikipedia. May I request that it be added and if so, where? If not, what other options are available? (I am aware of workarounds such as an extra parameter to determine the help status, but I would like to avoid such a solution.) Bendono ( talk) 00:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to revert last several edits at once like: Reverted edits by User:SomeUser (talk) to last version by User:AnotherUser.? Like restore an older version of an article that was vandalized subsequently several times.--Lykantrop ( Talk) 06:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Lykantrop: sure. Look in page history. Pick the version you want to revert to. Go there. Click edit. Type a nice edit summary "Reverted edits by User:SomeUser (talk) to last version by User:AnotherUser.". Then hit save. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 16:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, when reverting a persistent vandal on Wikispecies, I came across the pages wikispecies:Category:Pelican Shit and wikispecies:Category:Pig Fucking, which the vandal created. I was quite surprised to see that there were actually 61 pages in this category, and even more so that I could not find back the category in any of these pages (see for example wikispecies:User_talk:203.143.226.98, which shows up in both categories, but has only one edit). Does anyone have any idea what may have caused this? Thanks, Ucucha 14:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I just edited MediaWiki:Common.css to increase the height of the image upload box to 11em, like what is done on the Commons. This removes the vertical scrollbar on Firefox at least, so users won't have to scroll up and down when trying to fill in the information template. If this causes any problems then please revert it. — Remember the dot ( talk) 20:17, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
select#wpLicense {width : 100%; overflow: hidden;}
There are a number of nominations for membership of WP:BAG taking place at the talk page. All community members are invited to comment. Apologies from me for the time it took for this notice to be posted - I said last week that I would post one but have only just now got around to it. Please make any comments by way of response on WT:BAG. Thanks, Mart inp23 00:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone explain why the deletion log entry for WPSI is missing? It was deleted by WJBscribe (who doesn't know why it's missing) after an RFD discussion, but I cannot find the log entry anywhere at Special:Undelete/WPSI, or in the deletion log, but the edit I made to the page is in my deleted contributions. Can anyone shed any light on this? (Feel free to take it to bugzilla if anyone thinks it needs to.) Thanks, matt br 16:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Could you possibly tell me how to add CSS style to a table based on the page its pagename or url? Or maybe where I could learn how. I read about Wikipedia:Conditional tables (deprecated maybe and then to parser functions) and went over my head. To Portal:Minnesota/tab-header used as {{/tab-header}} on about five pages I would like to add "background:#fff; color:#000;" to the CSS for each tab. Thank you. - Susanlesch ( talk) 10:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Longhand for example:
{| width="100%" style="margin:0;" |- style="background:#eef; color:#000;" ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:white;" | [[Portal:Minnesota|Minnesota portal]] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Featured content|'''Featured articles''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Maps|'''Maps of Minnesota''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Wikinews|'''Wikinews''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Symbols|'''State symbols''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Things you can do|'''Things you can do''']] |}
on Portal:Minnesota/Featured content would read:
{| width="100%" style="margin:0;" |- style="background:#eef; color:#000;" ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:white;" | [[Portal:Minnesota|Minnesota portal]] ! style="background:#fff; color:#000; border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Featured content|'''Featured articles''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Maps|'''Maps of Minnesota''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Wikinews|'''Wikinews''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Symbols|'''State symbols''']] ! style="border:1px solid #bbc; border-bottom:none;" | [[Portal:Minnesota/Things you can do|'''Things you can do''']] |}
I've two questions about the "Modern" skin.
Thanks! Pegasus «C¦ T» 13:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, this is a request for our resident template wizards to add a feature to {{ afd2}} so as to facilitate the closing of WP:AFD discussions by administrators. {{ afd2}} is the template for all AFD discussions.
I propose to add a "(delete)" link to the template that would load the deletion form with the wikilinked title of the AfD page preloaded as the reason for deletion. A similar feature exists for deleting expired
WP:PRODs at {{
dated prod}}. The relevant code there seems to be ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{#if:{{{1|}}}{{{concern|}}}|wpReason={{urlencode:Expired [[WP:PROD|PROD]], concern was: {{{1|}}}{{{concern|}}}}}&|}}action=delete}} delete])
. To see this feature in action, see any one of the oldest articles at
WP:PRODSUM.
I tried to add the code to {{ afd2}} myself but, being a lawyer and not a programmer, gave up in frustration because I couldn't figure out how to use the urlencode: function properly. Thanks! Sandstein ( talk) 21:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
{{{nohistory|history link stuff}}}
doesn't seem to work, dunno why. :S)
Pegasus
«C¦
T» 01:17, 9 February 2008 (UTC)Every time when i logged into wikipedia I cant found my user page, instead of this i found:"Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php". If i not logged in, this time it also happens.But all other pages e.g. talk page, watchlist are okay.Everytime I've to purge. Without purging page is not showing. Clearing cache (both browser and server) is not solved the problem. What should i do? Tanvir che ( talk) 05:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems that neither Help:Section, nor Help:Link, both of which have sections on section linking, explain the scheme used for encoding special characters in section names.
At Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/HBC_Archive_Indexerbot there's a comment on this, whose author has meanwhile left Wikipedia:
If someone knows exactly how the encoding works, I think it should be explained on one or both of those help pages, since it's something one may need to know in order to add a working section link.
Joriki ( talk) 11:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
{{urlencode:a:b/c[[d]]e$f[[foo|bar]] and [[bar]]
}} gives a%3Ab%2Fc%5B%5Bd%5D%5De%24f%5B%5Bfoo%7Cbar%5D%5D+and+%5B%5Bbar%5D%5D
{{anchorencode:a:b/c[[d]]e$f[[foo|bar]] and [[bar]]
}} gives a:b/cde$fbar_and_bar.
This header has id="Test:_a:b.2Fcde.24fbar_and_bar" (links: #Test: a:b/cde$fbar and bar, #Test:_a:b.2Fcde.24fbar_and_bar, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Test:_a:b.2Fcde.24fbar_and_bar). So the rule might become: replace all [[foo|bar]] and [[bar]] with bar, then apply anchorencode.-- Patrick ( talk) 13:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
{{anchorencode:_<_<_>_>_}} {{anchorencode:_<span>_<span>_}} {{anchorencode:_<img>_&lt;img&gt;_}}
Old_PP _.26lt.3B_.26lt.3B_.26gt.3B_.26gt.3B_ _.3Cspan.3E_.26lt.3Bspan.26gt.3B_ _.26lt.3Bimg.26gt.3B_.26lt.3Bimg.26gt.3B_ New_PP _.3C_.26lt.3B_.3E_.26gt.3B_ _.3Cspan.3E_.26lt.3Bspan.26gt.3B_ _.3Cimg.3E_.26lt.3Bimg.26gt.3B_
Is there any way to find recent edits that link to a particular page? Or, is there any way that a technical capability for this could be developed?-- Pharos ( talk) 21:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to selectively choose when this is enabled (like with a url parameter)? I want it enabled for my watchlist, but disabled for some related changes views. — Random832 15:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
&hideenhanced=
URL parameter, but I'm pretty sure they had to modify MediaWiki to do that. The only possible way imho is to disable enhanced recent changes, and write a separate userscript to "enhance" watchlist manually. —
AlexSm 17:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)When I use the coding
<font face="terminal">
the font displays differently on windows and apple. Why? Or is it just how the browser interprets it? Flaminglawyer ( talk · contribs) 17:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Also see generic font families. <span style="font-family: terminal, monospace"> is the "safe" way to do it. -- Splarka ( rant) 19:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Currently when you go to Wikipedia:Upload and click "It is entirely my own work", the Information template skeleton includes a "Permission" line. The problem is that from looking through Special:Log/Upload, it's easy to see that most users who upload images they made themselves are confused by the Permission line and put things like "Yes" or "Granted by uploader". Since when uploading your own work, permission is implicit, and the uploader has to add a license anyway, I'd like to leave the Permission line off the "own work" form. Here's how this would look:
This would mean less confusion, and consequently more useful contributions. What do you think? — Remember the dot ( talk) 01:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Six months ago, bug 10843 was filed, stating that the "Upload file" link does not work when using the secure proxy server. Nothing has been done about this. I suggest adding the following code to MediaWiki:Common.js to fix the problem:
//Fix "Upload file" link when using the secure proxy //This is a workaround that can be removed when bug 10843 is fixed addOnloadHook(function() { document.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Wikipedia:Upload") })
This will prevent users who prefer using secure connections from having to choose between security and being able to upload files easily. — Remember the dot ( talk) 03:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
document.getElementById("t-upload")
exists. The current if (skin == "monobook" || skin == "modern")
obviously doesn't work for about Chick, Simple and MySkin skins. —
AlexSm 03:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently tried to edit the first section (lead) of an article. I have the "Add an [edit] link for the introduction section of a page" checked on my gadgets (and I did the control + shift + r thing), but when I click the edit link for the lead, it brings me to the next section. Charles Stewart ( talk) 07:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am having trouble getting this to produce anything but a null:
{{subst:REVISIONID}}
I know that in the preview, it is supposed to return null, but why does it return a null when I save? It works when you exclude the subst and just do a regular {{REVISIONID}}. But I want to save the REVISIONID of a particular version as it is being saved, and not have that number change when subsequent versions are saved.
Just so you know, this version of this page has REVISIONID = -.
Thanks, Ron Duvall ( talk) 05:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>fullurl:{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAMEE}}|diff={{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>REVISIONID}}}}
There is a BRFA for ClueBot V and Martinp23 has asked for community input. Please take the time and take a look at the BRFA and comment. Thanks. -- Cobi( t| c| b) 21:35, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to wikilink to a talk page (particularly in the project space for XFDs, RFAs, etc.). I know /subpage links to a subpage, for example. Charles Stewart ( talk) 23:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)