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It would be very useful if blocked IP addresses got a notification of abuse while they are reading. With the way many proxies and school IPs use Wikipedia, the intended messages of abuse and new talk page messages never get seen by anyone with the authority (like the ISP or school teacher) to solve the problem.
A message in the site notice area has the capability of cutting down on a ton of vandalism. How possible is this? SchmuckyTheCat ( talk)
I am struggling to work out what the prevailing approach is to Tor. I find Category: Tor exit nodes and Category:Blocked former Tor exit nodes. So I am confused: do we block them, or not? If so, why is there a category of 3000 not-blocked nodes, and a category of 150 currently-blocked nodes that should not be? They both are populated by bots for the most part. So do these two cats represent 'instant backlogs', or is there something I am not aware of? Splash - tk 22:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
How does one change the powers that be to a new idea? This seems an improvement. jmcw ( talk) 07:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Is the "thumb=" parameter option for image display temporarily disabled by a bug, or is it going away permanently? For example, this code [[Image:Smiley.svg|thumb=SFriendly.gif|right|Example]] should display SFriendly.gif at a reasonable size, but instead currently displays Smiley.svg at a huge size... -- AnonMoos ( talk) 03:25, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
<imagemap> |
![]() |
Hopefully resolved through Bug 13624 -- AnonMoos ( talk) 16:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
So, I change and confirm the e-mail address in Special:Preferences. For the rest of the session, I can check back, and the new e-mail address will be listed. When I log out and log back in, however, the e-mail address has reverted back to the old one. This happens on other wikis with my global account, but not with an account not attached to a global account. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know of a solution? WODUP 21:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
On the expanded watchlist, I want an option to hide multiple edits with "(0)" characters changed. Those are almost always vandalism reversions, and when they aren't, they rarely matter much. I already go out of my way to skip those, and I'm always upset when I accidentally click on one. Thanks! Listing Port ( talk) 21:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
don't mix well, because cream color of (Lupin's) Popup background clashes with black background of the dark-screen Monobook. Any suggestions? (I find it useful, but can I change the color scheme?) ~ user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 04:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes you can, using this code added to your Monobook.css, changing the hex colour values with your own:
.navpopup {
background-color: #CCDFFF !important;
border-color: #204080 !important;
}
Hope this helps. Harryboyles 05:20, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Will try. Thanks! ~ user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 02:59, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
So I went to my university computer lab one day and decided to log into wikipedia (when I should've been writing a paper). When I clicked the login screen I saw a notice bar, which was weird since it was logged out. I clicked the view messages and it was a warning to the IP of the machine for vandalism from Feb 15. This was 2 days ago. What I'm wondering is: how long does the "new messages" message stay in the system, and should it expire at sometime after the last talkpage post. Would there be any longterm performance issues with Mediawiki tracking millions of talkpage notices to be put up, when the IP or user may never log in again? MBisanz talk 07:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been trying to modify the Add LI Menu script, which turns navigation tabs into a drop-down menu, to make the toggle of the menus occur on click instead of on hover, but have thus far had no luck (I'm still learning JavaScript). Any attempts to root out the problem would be appreciated. Here are the scripts I'm relying on:
I already know the menus work on hover, so there's really no need to check out the CSS. Thanks as always, — Bob • ( talk) • 18:25, April 6, 2008 (UTC)
It has happened to me a couple of times that I've been logged out while in the midst of protracted editing of an article, so my edits are saved under an IP. Is there anything I can do to prevent this (without having to think about it every time), and if not, is this something that is worth filing as a bug/enhancement? Ma t c hups 01:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
This user script should prevent the submission of an edit if you're not logged in:
addOnloadHook(function() {
var editform = document.getElementById('editform');
if (!editform) return;
editform.action += '&assert=user';
});
This uses the Assert Edit extension, currently enabled on Wikimedia wikis. It can be added to User:Matchups/monobook.js. Note that it won't work if you're logged out when you view the edit page; it only has utility if you somehow log out after opening the edit page but before submitting. If you're logged out when viewing the edit page, a message ( MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning) will be displayed on the edit page (see also this wikitech-l thread). Gracenotes T § 04:01, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
(moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#another_use_of_POV_tags_and_other per comment below, to discuss what policy says about using those tags. I hope this centers the debate on the actual use of the tags)
Take a look at United States Naval Academy history for April 7 starting at 14:46. While it's funny to read from an experienced editors point of view, it must have been quite frustrating for the newbie who was quite exasperated trying to do things "right." I'm not exactly sure what needs to be done here, but I experienced the same sort of problem myself.
I suspect something under the edit page, maybe larger than the tiny helps that are there now.
For those not wanting to spend the time, the article above has the poor newbie trying to get his footnote to be numbered "correctly" by assigning a number himself and sticking it under "references." I mean, it makes sense, though I admit that most of us figured out the area was inexplicably blank when we went there to do the same sort of thing and that was a clue something was up.... Student7 ( talk) 19:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there; the following example (originally modified from Function pointer) illustrates a curious issue, evidently caused by iffy CSS, in which underscores on lines followed by a line extending at least to that point, disappear when wrapped in a <code lang="c"></code> tag. The following are all "M_PI" rather than "M PI":
Insert non-formatted text here
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... shorter line
I can testify that this happens in Windows in both Firefox 2.0.0.13 and IE 7.0.5730.11 (with the default Wiki skin).
Not critical, but slightly odd and irritating! I don't know who maintains this CSS but I imagine it's a line-spacing thing or something equally banal. Carl Turner ( talk) 21:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
PS: If this is in the wrong place... sorry.
<pre><code lang="c" xml:lang="c">... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4 ... M_PI/4 ... ... ... M_PI/4 ... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4 ... shorter line</code> </pre>
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... shorter line
I just spotted the same problem at BSD Daemon#ASCII image. That one really looks like a hard nut to crack: the background color should be set on the <pre> tag, but this can't be done using indentation — and if one tries to use and explicit <pre> tag in the wikitext, MediaWiki helpfully decides to interpret the content as if it were CDATA. Setting the background color in a surrounding block-level tag won't work either, since the monobook style sheet overrides it. So it very much looks like there's currently no reliable way in MediaWiki to have a preformatted text block with a non-default background color and with multicolored text inside it. Aarrgh! Whoever came up with that stupid idea of changing the semantics of <pre> in MediaWiki from those it has in HTML anyway? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 04:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
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A McDonald's spray-molded vacuum-formed Molded Paper Pulp cup carrier. The open slits are punched out following the drying process. |
Occasionally I don't like the formatting of the image thumbnail template, especially since it is limited to only one image. I would like to create my own little collection of images using the wikitable system.
However, when I do this I cannot figure out how to make my own custom design to have the same text styling as an official image thumbnail.
For some reason using <small>foo</small> is not good enough. This does shrink the description font as you can see in my example, but it still leaves a wide ugly whitespace between each line, and I cannot figure out how to remove that gapping.
I would also like to duplicate the single-line table border and the little "enlarge image" image to the right of my text so that it looks very much like a normal single-image thumbnail.
I don't yet know how to access the image thumbnail template used by the automatic thumbnail maker.
DMahalko ( talk) 08:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
<div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:122px;">[[Image:Maome.jpg|120x72px|Caption]] <div class="thumbcaption">Caption</div> </div> </div>
Pegasus «C¦ T» 11:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Let's see if I can mimic the thumbbox... (see source) Maybe I could make it into a template? — Edokter • Talk • 00:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
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![]() | |
![]() | |
A McDonald's spray-molded vacuum-formed Molded Paper Pulp cup carrier. The open slits are punched out following the drying process. |
Has anyone else had major problems with logged-in edits the last hour or two? I see the search engine is currently down for performance reasons. Everything is hanging and erroring out. What is happening? 154.20.153.62 ( talk) 09:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Can I ask a stupid question that I should probably already know the answer to? Isn't there a standard or semi-standard string that you can put at the top of a page in user space that tells Google, Yahoo, etc., etc. not to index it? It would need to be a tag I could add to an individual page myself, not some meta tag thingy that is added by MediaWiki. I've got an idea that will only work if there's a way to hide individual pages from search engines; feel like this should be easy, but am computer-illiterate enough not to know how. -- barneca ( talk) 12:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
(copied here from WP:AN):
(further discussion below)
I saw this category on Special:Upload (possibly on Commons)!! :-) Carcharoth ( talk) 19:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
References section is broken, giving a message when an article has sources, but no given references for particular statements. [2] Londo 06 13:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I've changed the error message at MediaWiki:Cite error references invalid group so people can understand what the heck this is. --- RockMFR 16:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
Gary King (
talk) 08:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Regardless of where I am, my change a few days ago to the ODS article shows up in the article history. But it doesn't always show up in the article itself. The mirror in question is rr.knams.wikimedia.org. DrHydeous ( talk) 14:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
After some objections on IRC, I would appreciate some wider opinions, especially regarding which of these three options is best:
The difference is the grouping by day (see e.g. [3]), and the lack of bullet points in the new format. Tim Starling ( talk) 16:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I've just noticed that Template:Polish borders generates much whitespace, preventing text appearing next to it (as far as my Seamonkey can tell). I think this problem must have appeared recently; the template was not edited for a good few months and worked fine quite recently. If anybody could fix it, it would be much appreciated.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
This probably has been answered several times before, but are block logs cleared on a regular basis? I was blocked several times in the past (once under my current account for a second, just when an admin provided a link to my old block log) under my old username "Davnel03", yet it doesn't show up in the block log. Why is this? D.M.N. ( talk) 17:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes, but my previous blocks don't show up on either the Davnel03 or D.M.N. blocklog. D.M.N. ( talk) 21:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Why are all of my edits in my contributions list showing up with an "N" tag? I thought "N" meant that the edit was creating a New article. Corvus cornix talk 21:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Core biographies/statistics the column called Occupation does not sort (click on the sort button and it will not work). The other columns do. Why is that? Gary King ( talk) 22:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Logs don't seem to be working. DuncanHill ( talk) 23:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I cannot access User Talk:Jagz. When I click on any link to get to that page, IE attempts to download an 'unknown file type' rather than going to that page. I also have the same problem attempting to get to User Talk:Raggz (this started back in Feb.). Is there any reason why that would happen and anything that I can do? Does it have to do with page names ending in 'gz'? (I am using IE 7 on Windows XP). I can get there when I am using other computers. TheRedPenOfDoom ( talk) 00:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
After the latest crapflood from off-Wiki, I noticed that the vandal edits used in these types of attacks always have "B" as their title. So, I have to ask: is "B" a wildcard in these edit links? - Jéské ( v^_^v X of Swords) 00:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
On my complete watchlist ( Special:Watchlist/edit), I now have separate listings for blank talkpages of pages I'm watching. Anybody have any ideas? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 02:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
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It would be very useful if blocked IP addresses got a notification of abuse while they are reading. With the way many proxies and school IPs use Wikipedia, the intended messages of abuse and new talk page messages never get seen by anyone with the authority (like the ISP or school teacher) to solve the problem.
A message in the site notice area has the capability of cutting down on a ton of vandalism. How possible is this? SchmuckyTheCat ( talk)
I am struggling to work out what the prevailing approach is to Tor. I find Category: Tor exit nodes and Category:Blocked former Tor exit nodes. So I am confused: do we block them, or not? If so, why is there a category of 3000 not-blocked nodes, and a category of 150 currently-blocked nodes that should not be? They both are populated by bots for the most part. So do these two cats represent 'instant backlogs', or is there something I am not aware of? Splash - tk 22:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
How does one change the powers that be to a new idea? This seems an improvement. jmcw ( talk) 07:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Is the "thumb=" parameter option for image display temporarily disabled by a bug, or is it going away permanently? For example, this code [[Image:Smiley.svg|thumb=SFriendly.gif|right|Example]] should display SFriendly.gif at a reasonable size, but instead currently displays Smiley.svg at a huge size... -- AnonMoos ( talk) 03:25, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
<imagemap> |
![]() |
Hopefully resolved through Bug 13624 -- AnonMoos ( talk) 16:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
So, I change and confirm the e-mail address in Special:Preferences. For the rest of the session, I can check back, and the new e-mail address will be listed. When I log out and log back in, however, the e-mail address has reverted back to the old one. This happens on other wikis with my global account, but not with an account not attached to a global account. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know of a solution? WODUP 21:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
On the expanded watchlist, I want an option to hide multiple edits with "(0)" characters changed. Those are almost always vandalism reversions, and when they aren't, they rarely matter much. I already go out of my way to skip those, and I'm always upset when I accidentally click on one. Thanks! Listing Port ( talk) 21:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
don't mix well, because cream color of (Lupin's) Popup background clashes with black background of the dark-screen Monobook. Any suggestions? (I find it useful, but can I change the color scheme?) ~ user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 04:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes you can, using this code added to your Monobook.css, changing the hex colour values with your own:
.navpopup {
background-color: #CCDFFF !important;
border-color: #204080 !important;
}
Hope this helps. Harryboyles 05:20, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Will try. Thanks! ~ user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 02:59, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
So I went to my university computer lab one day and decided to log into wikipedia (when I should've been writing a paper). When I clicked the login screen I saw a notice bar, which was weird since it was logged out. I clicked the view messages and it was a warning to the IP of the machine for vandalism from Feb 15. This was 2 days ago. What I'm wondering is: how long does the "new messages" message stay in the system, and should it expire at sometime after the last talkpage post. Would there be any longterm performance issues with Mediawiki tracking millions of talkpage notices to be put up, when the IP or user may never log in again? MBisanz talk 07:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been trying to modify the Add LI Menu script, which turns navigation tabs into a drop-down menu, to make the toggle of the menus occur on click instead of on hover, but have thus far had no luck (I'm still learning JavaScript). Any attempts to root out the problem would be appreciated. Here are the scripts I'm relying on:
I already know the menus work on hover, so there's really no need to check out the CSS. Thanks as always, — Bob • ( talk) • 18:25, April 6, 2008 (UTC)
It has happened to me a couple of times that I've been logged out while in the midst of protracted editing of an article, so my edits are saved under an IP. Is there anything I can do to prevent this (without having to think about it every time), and if not, is this something that is worth filing as a bug/enhancement? Ma t c hups 01:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
This user script should prevent the submission of an edit if you're not logged in:
addOnloadHook(function() {
var editform = document.getElementById('editform');
if (!editform) return;
editform.action += '&assert=user';
});
This uses the Assert Edit extension, currently enabled on Wikimedia wikis. It can be added to User:Matchups/monobook.js. Note that it won't work if you're logged out when you view the edit page; it only has utility if you somehow log out after opening the edit page but before submitting. If you're logged out when viewing the edit page, a message ( MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning) will be displayed on the edit page (see also this wikitech-l thread). Gracenotes T § 04:01, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
(moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#another_use_of_POV_tags_and_other per comment below, to discuss what policy says about using those tags. I hope this centers the debate on the actual use of the tags)
Take a look at United States Naval Academy history for April 7 starting at 14:46. While it's funny to read from an experienced editors point of view, it must have been quite frustrating for the newbie who was quite exasperated trying to do things "right." I'm not exactly sure what needs to be done here, but I experienced the same sort of problem myself.
I suspect something under the edit page, maybe larger than the tiny helps that are there now.
For those not wanting to spend the time, the article above has the poor newbie trying to get his footnote to be numbered "correctly" by assigning a number himself and sticking it under "references." I mean, it makes sense, though I admit that most of us figured out the area was inexplicably blank when we went there to do the same sort of thing and that was a clue something was up.... Student7 ( talk) 19:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there; the following example (originally modified from Function pointer) illustrates a curious issue, evidently caused by iffy CSS, in which underscores on lines followed by a line extending at least to that point, disappear when wrapped in a <code lang="c"></code> tag. The following are all "M_PI" rather than "M PI":
Insert non-formatted text here
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... shorter line
I can testify that this happens in Windows in both Firefox 2.0.0.13 and IE 7.0.5730.11 (with the default Wiki skin).
Not critical, but slightly odd and irritating! I don't know who maintains this CSS but I imagine it's a line-spacing thing or something equally banal. Carl Turner ( talk) 21:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
PS: If this is in the wrong place... sorry.
<pre><code lang="c" xml:lang="c">... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4 ... M_PI/4 ... ... ... M_PI/4 ... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4 ... shorter line</code> </pre>
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... ... M_PI/4
... M_PI/4 ... ... M_PI/4
... shorter line
I just spotted the same problem at BSD Daemon#ASCII image. That one really looks like a hard nut to crack: the background color should be set on the <pre> tag, but this can't be done using indentation — and if one tries to use and explicit <pre> tag in the wikitext, MediaWiki helpfully decides to interpret the content as if it were CDATA. Setting the background color in a surrounding block-level tag won't work either, since the monobook style sheet overrides it. So it very much looks like there's currently no reliable way in MediaWiki to have a preformatted text block with a non-default background color and with multicolored text inside it. Aarrgh! Whoever came up with that stupid idea of changing the semantics of <pre> in MediaWiki from those it has in HTML anyway? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 04:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
![]() |
![]() |
![]() | |
![]() | |
A McDonald's spray-molded vacuum-formed Molded Paper Pulp cup carrier. The open slits are punched out following the drying process. |
Occasionally I don't like the formatting of the image thumbnail template, especially since it is limited to only one image. I would like to create my own little collection of images using the wikitable system.
However, when I do this I cannot figure out how to make my own custom design to have the same text styling as an official image thumbnail.
For some reason using <small>foo</small> is not good enough. This does shrink the description font as you can see in my example, but it still leaves a wide ugly whitespace between each line, and I cannot figure out how to remove that gapping.
I would also like to duplicate the single-line table border and the little "enlarge image" image to the right of my text so that it looks very much like a normal single-image thumbnail.
I don't yet know how to access the image thumbnail template used by the automatic thumbnail maker.
DMahalko ( talk) 08:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
<div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:122px;">[[Image:Maome.jpg|120x72px|Caption]] <div class="thumbcaption">Caption</div> </div> </div>
Pegasus «C¦ T» 11:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Let's see if I can mimic the thumbbox... (see source) Maybe I could make it into a template? — Edokter • Talk • 00:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
![]() |
![]() |
![]() | |
![]() | |
A McDonald's spray-molded vacuum-formed Molded Paper Pulp cup carrier. The open slits are punched out following the drying process. |
Has anyone else had major problems with logged-in edits the last hour or two? I see the search engine is currently down for performance reasons. Everything is hanging and erroring out. What is happening? 154.20.153.62 ( talk) 09:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Can I ask a stupid question that I should probably already know the answer to? Isn't there a standard or semi-standard string that you can put at the top of a page in user space that tells Google, Yahoo, etc., etc. not to index it? It would need to be a tag I could add to an individual page myself, not some meta tag thingy that is added by MediaWiki. I've got an idea that will only work if there's a way to hide individual pages from search engines; feel like this should be easy, but am computer-illiterate enough not to know how. -- barneca ( talk) 12:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
(copied here from WP:AN):
(further discussion below)
I saw this category on Special:Upload (possibly on Commons)!! :-) Carcharoth ( talk) 19:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
References section is broken, giving a message when an article has sources, but no given references for particular statements. [2] Londo 06 13:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I've changed the error message at MediaWiki:Cite error references invalid group so people can understand what the heck this is. --- RockMFR 16:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
Gary King (
talk) 08:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Regardless of where I am, my change a few days ago to the ODS article shows up in the article history. But it doesn't always show up in the article itself. The mirror in question is rr.knams.wikimedia.org. DrHydeous ( talk) 14:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
After some objections on IRC, I would appreciate some wider opinions, especially regarding which of these three options is best:
The difference is the grouping by day (see e.g. [3]), and the lack of bullet points in the new format. Tim Starling ( talk) 16:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I've just noticed that Template:Polish borders generates much whitespace, preventing text appearing next to it (as far as my Seamonkey can tell). I think this problem must have appeared recently; the template was not edited for a good few months and worked fine quite recently. If anybody could fix it, it would be much appreciated.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
This probably has been answered several times before, but are block logs cleared on a regular basis? I was blocked several times in the past (once under my current account for a second, just when an admin provided a link to my old block log) under my old username "Davnel03", yet it doesn't show up in the block log. Why is this? D.M.N. ( talk) 17:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes, but my previous blocks don't show up on either the Davnel03 or D.M.N. blocklog. D.M.N. ( talk) 21:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Why are all of my edits in my contributions list showing up with an "N" tag? I thought "N" meant that the edit was creating a New article. Corvus cornix talk 21:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Core biographies/statistics the column called Occupation does not sort (click on the sort button and it will not work). The other columns do. Why is that? Gary King ( talk) 22:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Logs don't seem to be working. DuncanHill ( talk) 23:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I cannot access User Talk:Jagz. When I click on any link to get to that page, IE attempts to download an 'unknown file type' rather than going to that page. I also have the same problem attempting to get to User Talk:Raggz (this started back in Feb.). Is there any reason why that would happen and anything that I can do? Does it have to do with page names ending in 'gz'? (I am using IE 7 on Windows XP). I can get there when I am using other computers. TheRedPenOfDoom ( talk) 00:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
After the latest crapflood from off-Wiki, I noticed that the vandal edits used in these types of attacks always have "B" as their title. So, I have to ask: is "B" a wildcard in these edit links? - Jéské ( v^_^v X of Swords) 00:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
On my complete watchlist ( Special:Watchlist/edit), I now have separate listings for blank talkpages of pages I'm watching. Anybody have any ideas? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 02:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)