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Currently, the "Maximum number of changes to show in expanded watchlist" setting under the "Watchlist" section of Preferences has an upper limit of 1000 changes. It would be really helpful if this limit could be increased, say to 2500 or more. I'm finding that, as my watchlist grows, its range becomes significantly reduced, often to less than a day. If there's something big under discussion on on of the admin boards, it gets even smaller. (Once, I recall seeing 250 changes on an admin noticeboard - that eats up a quarter of the available changes just for one page.) If this is a question of server load, perhaps the expansion could be limited to sysops; after all, I find a lot of the "watched" items involve pages that have been recently vandalized, and the people who have done the vandalizing. Thoughts? -- Ckatz chat spy 05:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'm still relatively new and still trying to figure out how to edit on Wiki. I'm posting here because I came across the Video on Trial article where the bottom of the information box is overlapping with images in the article. How would something like this be fixed? Appellative ( talk) 23:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there anyone who can tell me if it's possible to code a little trick for citation formatting? I've got a little test going at
testwiki based on
this discussion. I've removed the braces around the reference numbers and inserted separating commas to avoid the problem they have at fr.wiki with reference numbers running together (so you can't tell whether it's ref #1, #2 and #3 or ref #12 and #3, or ref #123). The thing is that the trailing comma looks awful, especially on individual references (as opposed to those in a 'cite stack'). The comma's wrapped in CSS (class=reference_comma
): what I need is some way (probably javascript) of hiding the comma if it's not immediately followed by another reference. Is this possible?
Happy‑
melon 08:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
You could do something like this with CSS, assuming the comma is before the number, not after:
.reference .cite_comma { display:none } .reference + .reference .cite_comma { display:inline }
Of course, that will not do what you want it to do in browsers that do not support CSS, or more likely, browsers that do not support these CSS selectors. I personally think the "bracket issue" should be solved in the Cite.php extension, not in CSS/JS hacks. And of course, adding spans around the brackets for every ref is not a trivial change in the page size - the Barack Obama article has increased in size by about 14 kB! --- RockMFR 16:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
While adding a "fact" tag to the first paragraph of a statement in Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., I noticed that if the "fact" tag is placed at the end of the first paragraph, then the subsequent line feed is ignored, and the next sentence in the article follows immediately afterwards in the same paragraph.
I moved the "fact" tag so there's a period after it, and the problem disappeared.
I think it may be related to the presence of an infobox to the right; when I tried testing this here, the problem didn't occur.
Where would I request that someone take a look to try and fix this? It'd be nice if this tag could exist at the end of a paragraph without messing up the formatting. Thanks - Tempshill ( talk) 18:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems to be the combination of the category at the end of Template:Fact and the link at the start of the second paragraph. Together, they swallow up the whitespace. Weird. --- RockMFR 19:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
You may need to be a non-admin/logged-off to see this, but the templates I see on WP:SALTed pages are incorrect. For example [1] says to discuss changes on the talk page, however, talk pages of deleted pages can actually be speedy deleted at any time per WP:CSD#G8, so that's not really true, as I recently discovered. Please fix. -- Kendrick7 talk 01:12, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't sure on where to start this discussion, since it's more about MediaWiki than en.wiki specifically, but I'd like to throw out an idea for a better form of user autoconfirm. Right now we have it set that a user has to exist for 4 days and make at least 10 edits before being able to upload, move pages, or edit semi-protected pages. While this does stop a lot of sleeper accounts, I think we can take these same basic settings and make it more effective.
and/or
The thinking behind this is that it makes it a lot less convent to make a sleeper account. Forcing those ten edits in article space means a greater chance of someone noticing them, attracting more attention to the account. A requirement that it would have to be to ten separate pages increases this greatly, but might be over-kill.
Thoughts? -- Ned Scott 01:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
It's silly to bake a lot of project specific complex logic into MediaWiki. Create an autoconfirmer right, grant it to some bot accounts, let them apply magic Bayesian voodoo with astrologically indexed threshold magic and call it done. ;) -- Gmaxwell ( talk) 06:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Given an arbitrary page name (like Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)), I would like to be able to construct the corresponding talk page name (e.g. Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical)) for use in warning templates, something like "Please discuss changes to foo on its talk page", and not have it break if a non-article-space page name is given. Is there anything I'm missing that will do this?
If nothing like this exists, may I suggest a function to extract the namespace from a page name ({{function1:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)}} → "Wikipedia" (or "4")), a function to do the opposite of {{ns:}} ({{function2:Wikipedia}} → "4"), and a function to construct the corresponding page in a particular namespace ({{function3:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|Wikipedia talk}} → "Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical)"). (sig accidentally nowikied, please resign)
Does anyone have the expertise to create a template that would list an article's table of contents in two or more columns, rather than in one long list?
To illustrate what I mean, the list of NHL statistical leaders by country currently has 45 sections. This creates an awful vertical break between the lead section and the rest of the content. One solution might be to use a right-aligned TOC, such as {{ TOCright}}, but this causes the TOC to push the images down past the section where they would should appear (the image of Wayne Gretzky appears next to Slovakia, and subsequent images are also shifted down). For this article in particular, I want a TOC that has three to five columns. The location would be where it is now, but the TOC would be shorter and wider.
There isn't a suitable TOC at Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents. The current TOCs only have limited uses, such as {{ compactTOC}} (headings must be "0–9" or letters) or {{ TOCUSStates}} (heading must be a U.S. state). What I propose is a TOC template that has multiple columns and displays the proper headings of whatever article is using it.
Ideally, the template should be versatile enough to let the user choose how many columns the TOC is to have—within limits, say 2–8, since crowding might happen for users with smaller monitors, with lower screen resolutions, or for articles with long section headings. Such a template would obviously have use in many, many articles. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 07:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
When splitting into columns would it be better to keep related sub-sections together under the main section, or to split in the middle of the section to keep the columns the same size (as a general rule)? Actually for the NHL page it might be better to have only the per-country sub-sections split into columns. — CharlotteWebb 16:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
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Long pages are harder to read, harder to search for, and harder to edit. Those sections are individually self-contained and ideal for splitting into separate pages. -- brion ( talk) 16:40, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I have given the hockey page a manual fix [3] for now. Maybe this will help it pass as a featured list, but it is still less than optimal. — CharlotteWebb 16:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what this edit does; can someone assure me nothing was changed? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
When a user starts a new discussion section by clicking the "new section" or "+" tab, the automatic edit summary reports this simply as "new section", which is unhelpfully uninformative. I wonder whether it is technically feasible to include either
Thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions? Retracted for idiocy.
Skomorokh 21:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I've been trying to restructure the assessment display script at User:Pyrospirit/metadata.js. The script was written using a single wrapper function around most of the script so that it only added two variables to the global scope. As a consequence of this, the functions used by the script cannot be accessed by any other script. What I am trying to do with the script is turn the wrapper function into an object through which the internal functions can be accessed by other scripts, while still keeping the script's internal variables from entering the global scope.
However, I ran into problems attempting to do this. This is the first time I've used custom objects in JavaScript, so it's entirely possible I'm making an obvious mistake. The script seems to fail to load properly; in the current revision, I get an error about how this.begin()
is not a function, despite the fact that it should refer to MetadataObject
's begin
method. I have tried a
variety of different things in various attempts to get the script working with this new structure, but everything has given an error of some sort.
I am using Firefox 3.0 on Windows XP SP2.
If you can figure out what I'm doing wrong here, please let me know. Pyrospirit ( talk · contribs) 05:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
main
method on initialization and then just pass the whole MetadataObject
to addOnloadHook()
.
Pyrospirit (
talk ·
contribs) 16:49, 21 June 2008 (UTC)begin
method, and I've managed to get the getPageSource
method to work fine for the other pages. However, the talk_assess
method doesn't seem to work; it gives an error saying that color
is undefined, despite the fact that it's defined at the beginning of the method. Anyone have a clue what's wrong with it now?
Pyrospirit (
talk ·
contribs) 02:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)Please compare the smoothness of the first equation here to its raw image here. Is img class="tex" scaling up a little, introducing jaggies?
Or is it just me (Firefox 3 in Ubuntu 8.04 with LCD subpixel smoothing on)? 75.61.106.191 ( talk 07:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Anything we can do to prevent something like this: -- http://www. encyclopediadramatica .com/Talk:Grawp#Template_vandalism_against_Wikipedia -- from happening? (ED link is blacklisted; take out the spaces) NawlinWiki ( talk) 11:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to know the reason as why the rear tires of a tractor are bigger than the front tires, unlike in any other locomotive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.214.104.176 ( talk) 14:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:CambridgeBayWeather/Sandbox, which right now consists of a dead external link. If you copy and paste the link it the address bar it sends you to a 404 page. However, if you either right click or left click on the link it sends you right back to the sandbox. If you open the page to edit and press preview then check the link you get sent to the sandbox but this time it's in the editing state. Is this a new feature or something else. It works the same way in Firfox and IE. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:08, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to use Superimpose template ( [5] ), which does not seem to support images with captions (e.g. "thumb" formatting). The template provides parameters, but doesn't use them! Since the template is protected, I can't do anything about it. Was this a design choice, or is there some syntax that I am missing? Thanks, Nimur ( talk) 17:22, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
There's a thin gray line (the line under the section heading "Usage") cutting through the photo at Fish slice. Is this a bug? Badagnani ( talk) 00:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
What is an endash? How does an html endash, a hyphen, and a third type of endash (ISO?) dash differ? In what situations is each one appropriate? The article on en dash does not clarify the situation for me. I would so much appreciate a very simple explanation. Thanks! – Mattisse ( Talk) 00:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
You can use them however you want. Though, I imagine you're looking for how they are used on Wikipedia - WP:DASH should answer your questions. --- RockMFR 01:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
You'll see something like
2. ^ a b c d e Rosewater, Mark ( 2002-08-12). "Codename of the Game". Making Magic. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 2006-09-25.
{{ cite web}}
: Check date values in:|date=
( help)
You see the a b c d? We don't know excactly what a b c d refering to, because the referencer will just appear as:
Wizards of the Coast also assigns an internal editor[2] to each set.
What we need is something like:
Wizards of the Coast also assigns an internal editor[2c to each set. The different editions of the base set, which have varied in size from 295 to 449 cards, contain cards which have all been printed before, with the exception of Alpha, which was the game's first set. Wizards of the Coast releases Magic cards in expansion packs[2d.
As you can see, with out my proposal, you don't know WHERE the letter (a b c d, etc.) is refering to.
Ok, so I have a few limitations, such as the pointed hat\accent\carat\lambda does not look like what it does in <references/> and I could not internal blue link [2], [2c, or [2d.
Please post this on Bugzilla, since I don't haven an account, thanks! 68.148.164.166 ( talk) 07:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
A new proposal has been made to enable my new AbuseFilter extension on English Wikipedia. — Werdna talk 08:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to find out where a template is used? The problem I'm facing right now is that an existing template ( Template:Annotation) has a badly-chosen parameter name: color currently specifies CSS background-color. This parameter's name should be changed to e.g. bg-color, so that color is free to be used in the normal CSS sense of text color. I suspect this template is not widely used and it would not surprise me if the "color" param is not used at all. But I'd like to check before making any changes. Philcha ( talk) 18:05, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Guess this is a pretty nerdy request, but nevertheless:
Will I keep my original User ID (the number) if I go through the unified login process ?
If so, will I also keep my original User ID (the number) on the sub-projects ?
Could not find any info on this anywhere, but I'm _guessing_ the unified login will be tied up to my e-mail addy, whereby the User IDs stays the same ?
Reason I'm asking is I'd like to keep my User ID here on en., and if possible also the ID on the .no wiki. Nerdy, I know ;-)
Also, is there anywhere showing the amount of current registered users ? And/or a graph showing registered users over time ?
Is it possible to find who belongs to a certain User ID ? For example through something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_ID:101 -Snorre/Antwelm ( talk) 04:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Zachkudrna18@yahoo.com ( talk · contribs) is still that, not renamed. He's been gone for two years, so I'm not sure what would happen if he tried to unify, though. They disallowed email account usernames a long time ago too. hbdragon88 ( talk) 03:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I registered my account on June 2 and have made more than 50 edits, however I am unable to edit semi-protected articles. I am primarily interested in controversial social issues, so this is an annoying problem. Can someone please help? Gary P88 ( talk) 17:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
There is not. Users on TOR will have a different autoconfirm threshold than others (ie longer). — Mike. lifeguard | @en.wb 21:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I have a sub-page with sections, that I want to be rendered as "=== TITLE ===" if condition is met, and rendered as "<big><u>TITLE</u></big>" if condition is not met. It works perfectly using ordinary "{{#ifeq:...", except that when rendered as section headers the edit buttons on the right don't show.
The information on the preprocessor introduced earlier this year apparently says this is an intentional effect, and that the preprocessor is now "stricter", but doesn't say how to achieve this goal or a workaround. meta:Migration to the new preprocessor (see table entries 1+2)
As rough outline, the purpose is to control rendering of section headers on a subpage, affecting "patrolled pages" such as xFD and SSP where multiple case subpages may be transcluded onto a main page (common on many sections of the wiki). The idea is that when you look at a subpage itself then the section headers render as === and the page has its usual divisions. But when the subpages are transcluded on the main page, only the top level section on each page appear in the page's TOC - the subsections all render as "big underlined text" rather than subsections, to stop the TOC massively cluttering up.
What I'd like to have ideally is a template of the form {{
formatsectionheader|TITLE}}
that evaluates the (hard coded) condition and renders as "=== TITLE ===" (TOC + [edit] links) or "<big><u>TITLE</u></big>" (not a section title) accordingly. I can see it's apparently possible, but I can't see how. Advice? Thanks!
FT2 (
Talk |
email) 06:24, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
{{
TOClimit}}
- which resolves this specific problem for me. But doesn't explain how to get round this if it happens again where this wouldn't be the reason for wanting to template section headers. Is there a proper way to do that?
FT2 (
Talk |
email) 11:16, 23 June 2008 (UTC)There is no workaround. The solution to the problem you describe is to not attempt to put a thousand deletion discussions on one page. Split it up into lots of pages. The performance of huge aggregated pages is terrible, and the usability advantage of aggregation is marginal. -- Tim Starling ( talk) 15:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. Is there a way to get a more complete list of uncategorized templates, or to get this list to extend beyoned 1000 entries? Thanks -- Thetrick ( talk) 04:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Someone recently uploaded this SVG file, Image:Missouri S&T.svg, and maybe did something wrong in the process. There were licensing and fair use boxes on the page, yet the page hadn't been created (and thus not editable) according to the MediaWiki software. The tab at the top said "create this page" rather than "edit this page", even though the page clearly already existed. So, I went ahead and "created" the page, but the contents that already existed did not go away. It just got pushed below what I added and remains uneditable. Can an admin delete this content, or at least explain what's going on? Thanks.— Lazytiger ( Talk | contribs) 14:23, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Copying: I have copied this from the help desk. -- VegitaU ( talk) 04:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I have a problem displaying this article. I've tried purging the article and clearing my cache, but it only seems to provide a temporary fix. The page ends abruptly at after the references, does not display the FA-Star, does not display the {{ Sept11}} or {{ 9-11 hijackers}} templates, and does not display the categories. I've looked through the code and haven't found anything. Help, please. -- VegitaU ( talk) 01:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Any suggestions? -- VegitaU ( talk) 04:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
There was an error in the second-to-last ref; did that fix it? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
We should have a bot or something go around and change the reflists. Or propose a change. Or edit the reflist syntax. Whatever the community wants. Oh, and you really should get FireFox. Once you've tried it, you'll be hooked. -- VegitaU ( talk) 05:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I see that static.wikipedia.org appears on google searches like this one. I see that on the site's robots.txt file they have disallowed "/wikipedia/", but now that directory doe not exists, and the wikipedia directory exists also on a root folder called "new", so google is probably crawling all of "/new/wikipedia/" which probably means millions of files. Can someone update the robots.txt file to disallow "/new/wikipedia/"? -- Enric Naval ( talk) 00:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Using a reference on a section headings causes really ugly URLs for a direct link to the section, see:
Can we get the code generating those URLs to ignore anything between <ref></ref> tags? -- Enric Naval ( talk) 02:29, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
For some reason people actually copy and paste the fuxored links in various places on the internet [7] which gives us an incomplete list of pages to fix. If anyone has a database dump handy it should be easy to look for <ref> tags inside section headers. — CharlotteWebb 15:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to format internal wikilinks in a way to avoid backlinks? For example, if I click on an article within Template:Theories of gravitation like Whitehead's theory of gravitation, and than I use What links here, I got all the links within the Template:Theories of Gravitation - although in most of those articles Whithead's theory is not mentioned. I tried to correct this by changing the links within the template by using (for example) [[w:History of gravitational theory|]] instead of [[History of gravitational theory]]. Well, it worked but my edits were reverted. Why is changing the format of the links forbidden? And is there another way to avoid backlinks? Thanks. -- D.H ( talk) 08:52, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
If what you need is a list of pages directly linking to Whitehead's theory, perhaps to do some sort of maintenance task, I don't see a problem with obfuscating the navbox links temporarily, as long as you change it back when you're done. Of course if it's going to take a more than a few hours it would be polite to copy the abridged whatlinkshere list to a sandbox page somewhere, then revert the template before doing whatever it is you're about to do.
If you wanted a less intrusive way you could download a database dump and do a regex search for the link (something like \[\[[\s_]*[Ww]hitehead(?:\'|\%27)s[\s_]+theory[\s_]+of[\s_]+gravitation[\s_]*(?:\|[^\]]+)?\]\] would catch all but the most implausible wiki-text). — CharlotteWebb 13:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Just looking for some MediaWiki help really: forgive me if this is the wrong place!
How do i:
Thanks,
B G 7even 19:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Generally speaking if you see some interface text you want to change, copy it, go to Special:AllMessages on your site, and search for it with ctrl-F or whatever in your browser, and you will know which page to edit. — CharlotteWebb 21:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Don't edit Common.js for #1. Edit the appropriate message, e.g., MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-currentevents. The general format for the message name is "tooltip-id", where "id" is of course the XHTML id of the element. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 18:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
To change the upload link in the sidebar, you set the mw:Manual:$wgUploadNavigationUrl in LocalSettings.php. And yes, the anon banner is set in Common.js, though really it should be in Monobook.js and would be had someone not declared skin-specific JS pages deprecated. ; - ) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
This page is one and a half year out of date, that is a problem because I'm interested in knowing what page has the most revisions. Can somebody with the ability to edit this page get it up-to-date? It's very inaccurate since it hasn't been edited for so long. TheBlazikenMaster ( talk) 23:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Does there exist/would somebody write a bot to flag for immediate review changes to bolded terms in article abstracts? Vandalism like this could be caught by human review within seconds if such a systematic approach were installed. — Christian Campbell 07:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
As best as I can tell, collapsed content (whether from collapsible tables or from NavFrame) does not expand automatically when one attempts to print a page; the user must expand the section to get this functionality to occur. While collapsible sections are great for screen reading, they pose a problem for print versions. Unfortunately, I know myself that CSS is capable of handling media-type stylesheets which can help here (they are already used to only present the content, not navigation or customization UI aspects), but I'm unaware, if the collapsible sections utilize javascript as well and how that interferes with it.
Technically, is it possible to have collapsed section auto-expand when printing is performed? If this is not, we need to be more explicit about what content should be "hidden" by collapsible sections in guideline/policy, such that a user, unaware of how collapsing works, can print out the page to get all they need without having to fiddle with it more. If so, then there's actually some nice features to use for infoboxes and the like to help decomplicate their initial appearance on the page. -- MASEM 14:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Comment to EdJohnston's "JavaScript off" solution above: this would not work with
NavFrames that are initially hidden, see
MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive Nov 2007#CSS hidden NavFrame. The universal solution might be possible with something like @media print { div.NavContent, ..., ... table.collapsible tr {display:block !important} }
in
MediaWiki:Common.css. —
AlexSm 16:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there a script or template that automatically sorts?
The Transhumanist 17:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to use Image:Blue Nuthatch.ogv in an article other than Blue Nuthatch. It is formatted there as [[Image:Blue Nuthatch.ogv|thumb|300px|left|Adult Fraser's Hill, Malaysia 1994]], but I would like either to associate it with a picture of my choice, like this sound file at Nuthatch#Description [[Image:Red-breasted-nuthatchmirror.jpg|thumb|The Red-breasted Nuthatch has a call like a tin trumpet. <br />{{*sound| Sitta-canadensis-002.ogg | }}]], or just have it as a button, like {{*sound| Sitta-canadensis-002.ogg | }}. Are either of these possible? jimfbleak ( talk) 18:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Can any admins point me to the discussion page for changes to the "Action Completed" page that pops up when an article is deleted? Thanks, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 14:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I keep having problems when installing Twinkle. I put the code in my monobook page and I bypass my cache but I have yet to see the features associated with Twinkle. Can anybody help me? ÁÌЊ-ÇĄÑČĘŘ ( talk) 20:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was an option at the top of the history page, where we have clicked on 2 radio buttons and pressed the Compare selected versions button, and then we would go back to that point in history, but having 250 older versions to choose to select and 250 newer versions to select. Effectively, a “centering” option from where we are from compared history page, to back to the choosing a number of versions history page. One application of this is when someone gives a link (such as swearing) and then we click on it, but then we want to find a specific user (such as user: kainaw). As you can see, clicking back on the history tab will only return you to the most recent edits, but if we had this option, we would could see when did kainaw reply to User:IntfictExpert, much quicker, and find out when did kainaw reply much sooner with the ctrl+F than without. Post this on bugzilla please thanks (I don’t have an account). 68.148.164.166 ( talk) 11:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I assume it is a feature- that on a printout, using a [url text] the url is also printed. Fine. But shouldn't this be formatted as <. small > ClemRutter ( talk) 16:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Our articles using the User:ProteinBoxBot currently have a lot of template text at the top that will be rather intimidating for newbie editors (see NEURL2 for example). We were wondering about condensing this infobox template into a simple template referring to another page. For example this change (coupled with {{ PBB}} and ITK_(gene)/PBB). This produces a much simpler main gene page.
However, having a "subpage" like ITK_(gene)/PBB falls foul of WP:SUBPAGE. Is there another way people can think of that would allow us to do this? Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it me or have there been more technical difficulties in the Wikimedia area in the past couple of weeks than for the past few months? Simply south ( talk) 18:49, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm getting them so often (for the last two days) that I can barely post or get any work done. Particularly when posting with people who re-edit every one of their posts five times, causing multiple edit conflicts. I'm ready to quit.
SandyGeorgia (
Talk) 01:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
DARN IT !! Yes, it's still happening. I'm hitting it TONS of times and losing TONS of work. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Are we all referring to the same error or different ones? I was referring to that recently i have been trying to edit and that (or sometimes move) but every now and then it has come up with an error page saying something like "Wikipedia has a problem!" and the rest. Simply south ( talk) 20:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:55:52 GMT" MBisanz talk 00:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I wrote User:Flatscan/Template:Talkarchivehist based on Template:Talkarchive. It displays useful historical links below the header, as described in Help talk:Archiving a talk page#Cut-and-paste archiving: Increasing transparency. It appears to work in my limited testing, but any fixes or optimizations are welcome. Is there anywhere to request non-technical feedback?
Sample Special:ExpandTemplates input (currentpage parameter may be omitted):
Thanks. Flatscan ( talk) 02:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
This instalment concerns fonts: is there anywhere a list of those recognised by the MediaWiki software? I see all sorts of fonts in signatures and talk pages, and I always wonder if the editors owning them simply tried out those fonts they knew about until one of them worked. If this is the case, I guess I'll have to start my own list.
I know, yet another question that has absolutely nothing to do with the mainspace. :-) Waltham, The Duke of 04:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
h2 { font-family: Verdana }
and it'll apply only to h2 elements (second-level headers).
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk 14:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Here is a gallery of four image, two of which I personally uploaded to commons. The thumbnail of one of them has ceased to display on FF3.0 running on XP. Click on it- and it loads the correct file. It works on Opera 9.21, and FF3.0b5 on Ubuntu Hardy. ClemRutter ( talk) 16:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to rollback two edits by an IP on History of the Knights Templar (because it was a changed word and self-rv, so it's not helpful to the edit history), and I've clicked rollback (twice, actually) and although the page tells me the edits were rolled back, it appears neither in my contribs nor the edit history for the article. MSJapan ( talk) 22:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
If a user has an article speedy deleted (but not oversighted) does his "contribution" vanish off the Special:Contributions log ? Low Sea ( talk) 02:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to make an image go above the Wikipedia logo? It is on my userpage, and z-index doesn't work because the image isn't static. And I do know this is a silly question. JohnnyMrNinja 08:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The banner is, but the logo is different. [10] It seems to be done using a skin? I don't know how that works but here is the skin. JohnnyMrNinja 21:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Colbert/O'Brien/Stewart feud, the usual categories are not showing up, and the AfD is then not listed at the relevant category pages. Does this have something to do with all the slashes in the page title? ...the software thinks this is a subpage of a subpage? Does anyone know any way around this? Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 20:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I now maintain two SUL accounts, and just now they start conflicting - I can't keep logged into two different wikis on the same browser. Is it possible for the developers to include an option to disable the SUL auto-login-to-other-wikis? hbdragon88 ( talk) 06:13, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
On page history, we can display up to 500 edits and go to the earliest and most recent edits. But when you have a file that is say, 4 years old, and has been edited several thousands of times, and you need to view an edit that is say, 2 years old and about 5000 edits back, it is a real pain to get to as you can only get there 500 edits at a time. Can the capability be added to go through the history from point A directly to a specific edit or at least a specific date? If this capability currently exists, please educate me. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:19, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
×tamp=20080629031234
or similar. This is the timestamp of the first revision on the page, so if you know the exact (or approximate) time of the edit you're looking for, you can just edit this parameter to go directly to the correct time.
Happy‑
melon 13:26, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
&limit=
to whatever number you want), you can set higher limits than 500; I sometimes go for 1000 if I need to manually search a list quickly. This might slow down one's browser somewhat, but I haven't had a problem yet. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
log}} 13:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)Why aren't the instructions for this post at the top of the history page? But thanks guys! — Rlevse • Talk • 18:25, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
How comes whenever i rollback on an article for mainly vandalism, it does not add this article to my watchlist, even though my prefs are set so that everywhere i edit does, or is meant to? Simply south ( talk) 18:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
As mentioned here, there is a problem with userboxes in a Template:Infobox user. Can it be resolved by correcting only the code in the {{ userbox}} template? It would be great if someone could take a look at it. Thanks. -- Kochas ( talk) 22:34, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I finally stopped dragging my heels and made a version of {{ Navbox}} that will work with most other wikis, such as those hosted by Wikia, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki/Template:Navbox. It's a "pure wiki table" version, with {{ !}}'s equaling |'s, making it work with parser functions. There is still one problem left, the use of a div for each group/list
{{#ifeq:{{{evenodd|}}}|swap|odd|{{{evenodd|even}}}}}" {{!}} <div style="padding:{{{listpadding|0em 0.25em}}}">}}{{{list4|}}}{{#if:{{{list4|}}}|</div> }}
Because the div tag starts in one parser and ends in another it breaks, resulting in a visible </div> tag at the end of each list, as seen on wikia:fashion:Template:Grands couturiers. This is the same reason the template code needed to be wikitable code and not HTML, because when the opening and closing HTML tags get separated they then break on these wikis. (because of a different Tidy setting than what we have)
How vital is this div tag? When I took it out of one line it didn't seem to make a difference when viewing on Safari. There's probably a way to still keep it, but use a single parser function, so that the opening and closing tags don't get separated.
Also, on {{ Tnavbar}} there's a switch to use either div or span. Since this also places the opening and closing tags in different parsers, the tags won't apply and will result in orphaned </span> and </div> tags being visible. I assume this is for browser compatibility?
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. -- Ned Scott 23:24, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Cross posted to
Template talk:Navbox#external wiki version. Please respond there.
Eg
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
movl $0, %eax
movq %rbp, %rsp
popq %rbp
ret
pushq %rbp is moved to the far left instead of tabed over. I have seen other spacing styles used for assembly as well (4 spaces instead of a tab) but the error persists there as well.
Also new registers for 64bit processors aren't highlighted. (%rax, %rbx, %r12, %r13, %r13d etc etc) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1veedo ( talk • contribs) 04:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it a problem on my end, or is Template:Infobox Restaurant not showing up in any of the articles? For example: 21 Club has no infobox as far as I can see, but if you click on "edit this page" you can see all the code for the infobox. Same goes for all the other restaurant articles I checked. Is anyone else seeing this? Kafziel Complaint Department 04:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Kariteh has been working very hard to update Template:WikiProject Video games at User:Kariteh/Sandbox and could use some assistance. I know nothing about template code, so am unable to help. The decision was made at WikiProject Video games to automatically assess a non-article page's class based on namespace, i.e. Category:Video games with time travel would automatically be assessed as {{ Category-Class}} and be placed into Category:WikiProject Video games categories. It now appears to sort properly, but does not display the line "This article has been rated as Category-Class on the assessment scale." Could anyone with a knowledge of template code and a desire to help please take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games, Template talk:WikiProject Video games and User:Kariteh/Sandbox? There have been other small improvements at User:Kariteh/Sandbox, so that is definitely the version we'd like to use, but we'd really like to get the bugs out. Thanks! JohnnyMrNinja 05:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
If you go to Wikipedia:Huggle/Whitelist, instead of getting the usual list of usernames, you get 1.) Right under the header is a description of the page that does not exist in the wiki-code anywhere.
This is a list of users whose contributions may be ignored while finding vandalism. It is updated automatically by Huggle.
2.)The rest of the page content is hidden and replaced with instructions on viewing the raw page with ?action=raw, yet, this also doesn't appear in the wiki-code at all, either in the edit box or the raw page text. It's obviously not MediaWiki generated, it wouldn't be able to recognize the page as a list nor know why to leave the rest of the page alone and append the message there. A look at the page history reveals no one edited that into the page. It wasn't like that before, yet no one changed the page to do that. What in the world is up? Calvin 1998 ( t- c) 05:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
For the last three or four days I have been unable to remain logged in to Wikipedia -- I go to Special:UserLogin, enter my password, click "Remember me", get the "Login successful" page, and then no matter where I go from there, I am logged out again. Cache doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, and logging in with the secure server doesn't help either. Is anyone else having this problem? 76.175.32.147 ( talk) 19:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
When I paste text into an edit box with wikiEd on, it adds "Normal 0" in front of the pasted text, just a minor irritant, but what's happening? jimfbleak ( talk) 10:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Another question is, where are you pasting text FROM? I've always had a problem copying text from word processors because formatting codes often get copied and translated into readable text like the kind you describe. Copying text from word processors can also get you unwanted soft line breaks which translate into hard line breaks. If you are trying to prepare text for copying to WP or anything else in your web browser, you might be better using a plain text application such as Wordpad. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 22:10, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
With regard to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_27#Global_counter_variables (circa March 2008), I was unaware of the morphic discussions elsewhere. I posted to discussion in Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources (circa April 2008 - now archived Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources/Archive_22#Request_for_nb_tags), basically to make a request for code development so that something like the following would support narrative notes with a list style type of lower-roman numerals ( (i),(ii),(iii), etc.), which I suggested might be good with a new <nb> tag...
Example text,<nb>This is an example discursive note</nb> more example text.<nb name=Discursive>Discursive notes can be shown separately from references or citations - giving a neater appearing alternative compared to having mixed "Notes and references" or "Notes and citations" sections. This is an example of such a note. It is wishfully generated via a companion to the ref footnotes method (i.e. via use of nb and notes/ tags).</nb> A point made with a supporting reference.<ref>Author, A. (2007). "How to cite references", New York: McGraw-Hill.</ref> A second appearance of a note.<nb name=Discursive/> == Notes == <notes/> == References == <references/>
Plus maybe we could have curve brackets instead of square for some further distinction, producing...
Example text, (i) more example text. (ii) A point made with a supporting reference. [1] A second appearance of a note. (ii)
Notes
References
Anyway, it would be good if something like this could be developed, though I'd just like to say the reason I suggested a list style type of lower-roman numerals ( (i),(ii),(iii), etc.) rather than the use of alphabetic letters, which seem to be otherwise favoured, is not only that you can easily go beyond 26 notes, but principally that it avoids any clash with the alphabetic letters already used in back-links with multiple use of references sharing the same name, as in the example shown above ( ii. ^
a
b ).
I also thought the tag <nb> in combination with <notes/> would be more concise than <note>, with the abbreviation paralleling the existing use of <ref> and <references/> tags.
-- SallyScot ( talk) 17:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the following code in Mediawiki:Common.css is for? It's not used by Template:Reflist, so I'm baffled as to its purpose.
/* VALIDATOR NOTICE: the following is correct, but the W3C validator doesn't accept it */
/* -moz-* is a vendor-specific extension (CSS 2.1 4.1.2.1) */
/* column-count is from the CSS3 module "CSS Multi-column Layout" */
/* Please ignore any validator errors caused by these two lines */
.references-2column {
font-size: 90%;
-moz-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
column-count: 2;
}
— Remember the dot ( talk) 01:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
So, I'm looking for the holy grail for searching wikipedia... the ability to search across all diffs of a single page. So you're only searching within one page, but all the versions of that page. Has anyone hacked this up? -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 18:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on the new redirect meta-template {{ This is a redirect}}, which embeds other templates as chosen by the user. I'm trying to get it so that if one uses the template with "cats=no", then none of the embedded templates give their categories. (With many templates that categorize, one can use the argument "category=" to cause no categorizing to happen, as explained here.)
Simplifying it somewhat, here's an example of what I'm dealing with:
{{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{R_{{{1}}}|{{#ifeq:{{{cats}}}|no|category=|}}|embed=yes}}|}}
Using tests with substing and {{ R from brand name}}, I found that currently, what happens is that the embedded template takes "category=" as the content of its first argument (that is, it thinks "1=category="). (Everything else works.)
I've tried using a template whose content was literally {{{1}}}, so it might "print" the string "category=", but no luck. What does work is to put the "category=" before the ifeq, so that {{ R from brand name}} takes the argument "category=result of ifeq" — but that won't ultimately work with what I'm trying to do.
Any ideas? Lenoxus " * " 04:38, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
. Odd indeed; I will have another look later. If anyone else solves it in the meantime, I would be very interested to know how!
RichardΩ612
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ɸ 10:21, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{R_{{{1}}}|category{{#ifeq:{{{cats}}}|no||1}}=|embed=yes}}|}}
Ok, I know where you're going with this. The issue is with the way the parser handles null and undefined parameters. Each redirect template {{
R from foo}}
contains the code
{{{category|[[Category:Some category]]}}}
If the parameter |category=
is defined, with anything including null, then this is output instead of the category link. So if you were to call {{
R from shortcut|category=Foo}}
, you would get an unwanted "Foo" appearing somewhere in the display - however the way the anti-categorisation system works, you call it as {{
R from shortcut|category=}}
, passing null to the |category=
parameter, so null it output instead of the category link, as desired. However, when you call the template from within another template, you have much less control over what is passed through to the inner template. You can't just put:
{{inner template|category={{{category|}}} }}
Because this will always define |category=
for the inner template, so it will always stop categorisation.
There are two ways to circumvent this problem. The first is to be a bit sneaky with the way you call the inner template:
{{inner template|{{#ifeq:{{{category|foo}}}|foo|xxx|category}}={{{category|}}} }}
Notice what this is doing: if the |category=
parameter is undefined in the outer template, then the logic test equates to true, and the (corrupted) null value is passed to an unused parameter, leaving the |category=
parameter undefined in the inner template. If, however, |category=
is defined in the outer template (as long as it is not defined as "foo", of course) then the logic test fails, and the category parameter is defined for the inner template. This is the simpler method for solving the problem, but it is fairly inelegant, and also a little risky: if another meta-template is created which doesn't contain the same code, then there will be problems. So avoid this, the recommended solution is slightly different: it requires editing all the subtemplates as well, but not in a breaking fashion. In each subtemplate, replace:
{{{category|[[Category:Some category]]}}}
with
{{#ifeq:{{{category|μ}}}|μ|[[Category:Some category]]}}
Note the use of the uncommon character "μ" - the greek letter mu, which is the standard for this system, as the likelihood of anyone ever calling a template with |category=μ
is laughably small. Then in each meta-template, you can use code like this:
{{inner template|category={{{category|μ}}} }}
This system makes it easier to create meta-templates, and most importantly, template chains of any length can be created using the same syntax, passing the μ arguments right down to the bottom level. Essentially, if the |category=
parameter is defined at any point in the chain, then that argument replaces the "μ", and is only evaluated at the bottom template. This makes it a simpler system for creating long chains of templates. I know that's not what you want to do here, but for consistency's sake I suggest that you use the μ system. I hope this explains what you wanted to know - this really should be documented somewhere (any suggestions?).
Happy‑
melon 19:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I wanted my committed identity box at the bottom of the page, but for some reason the background stretches out across the whole page. I reorganized all my userboxes into a sidebar box to try to fix the problem, but it didn't make a difference. I'm guessing that it shouldn't be a Firefox problem, but that is possible as well. Does anyone have any ideas or a fix for this? MSJapan ( talk) 02:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
is all the text really messed up for everyone else or is it just me? 76.1.243.193 ( talk) 00:36, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Good idea on Gary King's part - and is all the text on your screen messed up, or only a certain part? IceUnshattered ( talk) 23:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
I was at the help desk and noticed
this comment. I thought "that's impossible", but
his contributions show that he is (or should be) autoconfirmed. I asked at the admin IRC channel, and
Chris G (
talk ·
contribs ·
blocks ·
protections ·
deletions ·
page moves ·
rights ·
RfA) instructed me to block the user, which I have done Unblocked; concerns raised that the decision was made off-wikiAn unfortunate misunderstanding on both our parts. This has apparently happened to someone else, so I'd like to know how an autoconfirmed user can stop being an autoconfirmed user. Thanks,
PeterSymonds
(talk) 10:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
How hard would it be to incorporate some kind of function that would scan an article's (or a user's) past 50 edits and determine the average/mean time between edits ? The result from this function could be useful in determining what constitutes a "reasonable amount of time" and could be incorporated into any tags that reference that policy. I also suggest that similar to the algorithms used by Fair Isaacs/ FICO that multiple edits by the same editor on the same day be treated as a single edit. This is because I believe "reasonable time" for responses should never be measured in anything less than whole days. Low Sea ( talk) 13:41, 29 June 2008 (UTC) Also, edits by bots should be ignored as machine generated edits have no bearing in the reasonable time issue. Low Sea ( talk) 13:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Sorry Tra, I guess my wording was fuzzy... What I mean is how hard would it be to create a template that included automatically calculated numbers saying something like
As of _DATE-THIS-TAG-WAS-ADDED_ the average number of days between significant edits for this page is approximately _##_ days. A reasonable time to expect a response would be 3 x ## days, which would be sometime after _DATE-PLUS-CALCULATED-DAYS. |
Also, how would one go about getting such a feature created? Low Sea ( talk) 17:49, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Why is it that all links to my shoutbox are in large text and highlighted in red? This is the most bizzare thing I've ever seen. I have firefox and this doesn't happen, just tell me why in the world IE7 does this? and why only to my shoutbox. -- penubag ( talk) 16:31, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
a[title ="User:Penubag/shoutbox"] {color: white; background: red; font-size: 150% }
in your monobook.css, then why are you surprised when it actually works?? Why it's only just started showing up for you when you added it in March I don't know, but in the immortal words of the car repair salesman: "there's your problem!"...
Happy‑
melon 16:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the HTTP header for the connection between Wikipedia and I showed up in random places on my edits [11], [12], and [13] (diffs are in reverse chronological order). I might want to note that right after I saved those edits, I got a "403 Forbidden: You do not have access to / on this server", so I tried resending (and then I noticed the HTTP header was in my comment) Does anyone know how that could have happened? Calvin 1998 ( t- c) 22:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
I've created {{
Export}} as a way to easily create a link that will generate the entire history of a given page in xml format. For whatever reason,
Special:Export is limited to 100 versions, but not when using the url formatted in {{
Export}}. Right now it works in two different ways, one is like {{
purge}}, in that one can throw it up on a page and then click on it (for export people should probably use preview, since it's unlikely they'll need a constant link on the page at all times). It can also be used by putting in another page title, for example {{
export|taco}}
creates "Export: ", which could be used on any page as an export link for
Taco.
The thing about these links is that they're sometimes huge. An exported article could be a few KB, or 10 to 20 MBs (or more). I'm thinking some kind of warning needs to be formatted into the template, but in a way that still allows it to be a relatively small link. I would like it to be simple and flexible, so that it could even be put into things like the links of an AfD.
I got to thinking about the concept of a covered switch, like in the movies. You flip the class cover up, then press the big red button. The idea would be to use the show/hide function seen on many nav and other templates (like the ones on WP:DRV). The default view would be something like "Export" with a link that said "warning" to the side or below. The warning link would actually point to some form of instructions page (possibly Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki/exporting). An editor could then dismiss the warning portion with another link ("show", if it can't be renamed to something else) and then be presented with the actual link.
Before I put a lot of effort into this I figured I'd throw the idea out on the VP. There might be a better idea that I'm not considering. I'm also not sure how to exactly go about this technically and from a style perspective, so any feedback on that would also be very helpful. -- Ned Scott 03:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is any way that a group of account holders could be contacted. If they all watch a common page they could hopefully be reached by posting on that page, but what if they don't? In my case, I'm referring to photo requests: I want to quickly send a message out to all Wikipedians in Bristol. Here the number is only a dozen, so doing it manually isn't too much of an annoyance, but it certainly would be if there were 120 of them. Is it technically possible to do this? It would be nice if all such people would watch such categories so that they could be spoken to as a group, though this seems difficult to achieve without making it somehow compulsory, which isn't going to stick. Richard001 ( talk) 00:12, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, so most people who post here are aware of the pipe trick that lets you post internal links in a short form. However, there's a minor bug — if you combine a colon-separated prefix (namespace or interwiki, it doesn't matter) with a section anchor, it breaks: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pipe trick bug works, but [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pipe trick bug|]] doesn't. That's a bug, sure enough. However, it's not clear to me what the exact correct behavior is (otherwise I'd just post to Bugzilla). Apart from the current breakage, there are four ways this could be formatted:
So, for the purpose of suggesting the correct behavior in a bug report, does anyone have an opinion on just what the correct behavior is? — Gavia immer ( talk) 18:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I'd personally have it display as Pipe trick bug. — Werdna • talk 07:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Of course, this is what i get for suggesting that there are only four ways to do it — people immediately post more than four ways to do it :p I like Lenoxus' logic, but I'm more concerned with what people will want to happen most often. With regard to Werdna's suggestion, I think that would most often be useful to link to a thread on the same page, but you can already do that with less typing: [[#Pipe trick bug]] makes a link like #Pipe trick bug. Of course, if you see it as likely to useful for something else, the preceding doesn't really apply. — Gavia immer ( talk) 14:06, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
If someone posts the first question of the day on Wikipedia:Help desk and the various Wikipedia:Reference desk pages, should the heading for the day's date be generated automatically? I'm asking because I noticed on the Help Desk page that the "Skip to Today's Questions" link didn't work. To make it work I simply added it manually as per this diff, but I'm wondering if something's broken. Another example is Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities where you can see people have asked questions yesterday and today (2 and 3 July), but there's no corresponding heading.-- 92.40.59.17 ( talk) 03:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
In Firefox 3, when clicking a link which redirects to a section in another article, the favicon does not appear in the tab. For example if I go to Double dissolution, it goes to Australian electoral system#Double Dissolutions and the favicon does not appear. Same with Segoe UI which redirects to Segoe#Segoe UI. I can't go straight to the developers at Bugzilla and blame them, because the problem doesn't occur in Internet Explorer 7. Well I could, but it wouldn't be nice, especially if it was a problem with Firefox, not MediaWiki ;). Anyone have an idea what's going on? Harryboyles 04:15, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Greetings, I would like to add content to the UNM Anderson School's Wiki page, but first I wanted to make sure that the way this page is titled makes sense. When I search Wiki with the phrase "Anderson School," the results list (2 total) does not include the UNM Anderson School. This page is currently at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_School_of_Management_%28University_of_New_Mexico%29.
Do you know why the search would not return this page as a result? Would you recommend creating a new page with an adjusted title and moving content from the existing page to the new one?
Thank you,
Jennifer (FIBEA1) 64.106.59.16 ( talk) 19:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Well, I still just receive two results: the UCLA Anderson School and a K-8 Anderson School. No result displays for UNM Anderson School. Jennifer (FIBEA1) 64.106.59.16 ( talk) 19:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I've figured this out. I just needed to edit the results page for 'Anderson School.' Thanks, Jennifer (FIBEA1) 64.106.59.16 ( talk) 20:10, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I tried to save a 305,000 character page containing about 7300 wikilinks, an update of Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin. In response I get the message
“ |
|
” |
In the last twelve hours, there have been 20 or 30 attempted saves and previews with zero successes. I now suspect this is not a temporary error at all. (The allocation size value varies from about 1000 to millions.) Does anyone know? — EncMstr ( talk) 17:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
This is an out of memory error. It's not going to go away, because it's caused by you trying to upload a page that's too large. Notice that the error occurs in the Parser. Make the page smaller, such as by splitting it up.
Note that until the last week or so, you would probably have gotten a white page when you tried to do this. Tim just recently wrote a PHP extension that outputs a proper error page on PHP fatal errors like this. So it's not connected to any trend that extends beyond the last few days. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 19:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
It would be useful to get meta-data about pages other than the one you are looking at.
For example: {{lastupdated|someotherpage}} that would give the last-updated time of someotherpage. This would aid in transcluding summaries: The summary would include the lastupdated time of the transcluded page. An example might help: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee is being split up, with summaries transcluded back into the main page. It would help to put the last-updated time of the transcluded pages in those summaries, for example, {{lastupdated|Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee/Statements about what does not work well in the current Arbitration Committee process}}. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 20:25, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I want to alter a color slightly so that <code>...</code> lines stand out a bit more. I desire however to keep the page looking near the hues of the default skin... just a bit darker.
Thanks // Fra nkB 22:52, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I want to know about the cluster differences like 2Node cluster & 4Node cluster & 8Node cluster ? (two-node cluster and four-node cluster and eight-node cluster) —Preceding unsigned comment added by M parasar ( talk • contribs) 01:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
I've just created some templates that will be useful (i.e. are being used) in chess and paelontology projects, and one of the paleo ones may be useful for other biology articles. When I create the doc pages for these, the "blank" doc page contains the text PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. There are 2 difficulties:
I've seen similar problems when adding images.
I suggest the edit screens for items items for which categories, interwikis, etc. should be modified to provide links to the appropriate lists, which should open in a new browser window / tab so that the user can copy and paste. I'm sure it's not that difficult to modify the edit pages:
It would also be helpful to modify the relevant Help pages so that e.g. Help:Category has at the top a link to the list of categories. Philcha ( talk) 22:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I had the following problem with the {{db-g12}} template:
{{
db-g12}}
This thread resulted into nothing. How can we fix this in such a way that a user receives an error message if the entered URL is equivalent to the URL of the current Wikipedia page. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 06:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
re:
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right;text-align:center" |+Comparison of tangent and sine gradients for various angles ...
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Someone needs to see what's up with margins, especially the left margins on class="wikitable"; Don't know if it's only right floated tables, but I've seen this problem with text running into the table boxes over and over the past few daze. |
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
(Need to have someone translate that for me one day.) // Fra nkB 06:28, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
We could change MediaWiki:Common.css to add a wikitable-right quite easily:
/* wikitable/prettytable class for skinning normal tables */
table.wikitable-right,
table.wikitable,
table.prettytable {
margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
background: #f9f9f9;
border: 1px #aaa solid;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.wikitable-right {
margin: 1em 0 1em 1em;
float: right;
}
You see, easy as pie :D -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 15:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Under Category:Toyama geography stubs there three articles being sorted under Ō. Each article has a proper {{ DEFAULTSORT}} key set to sort under O. Compare with Category:Dissolved municipalities of Toyama Prefecture where all three articles correctly sort under O. Why is it working for one category but not another? Is there something blocking it? Bendono ( talk) 11:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Instead of filching off other knowledgeable people. I'll put it on my list... just below PHP, Perl and C# :D. I don't know how many people have noticed the cool new "number-of-pages-in-category" numbers that now appear after subcategory lists on category pages, but whoever wrote that code deserves a (probably another) medal. Now, how do I go about mucking around with the styles of those numbers based on their values? The numbers are wrapped in <span title="contains ''X'' subcategories, ''Y'' pages, and ''Z'' files"> (#)</span>
spans, but have no attached class. My humble knowledge of CSS suggests that they can't be 'got at' that way, so how would I, for instance, set the font color to grey for X=Y=Z=0?
Happy‑
melon 15:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
My watchlist has over 9,000 entries and I'd like to trim it down. However I can't seem to do so. "View and edit watchlist" simply gives me a blank screen. "Edit raw watchlist" presents me with a list of watchlisted pages, but when I try to save the revised list I get a blank screen, and the changes aren't saved. Is is timing out? Do I need to find a developer to do this by hand? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Warning to regular editors: you might find that you don´t like it because you are used to "move". Please, leave that to a side and be objective.
Can it be done? Prietoquilmes ( talk) 13:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC) P.S: This would be better for the new users.
The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid.
Please choose another name, or use Requested moves to ask an administrator to help you with the move.
Do not manually move the article by copying and pasting it; the page history must be moved along with the article text.
"Moving a page means giving the page another name. The page history is then attached to a new name. Another page with the old name is created and automatically redirects to the new name." The reason why rename is more intuitive than move is that the reason why you "move" an article is to rename it. The users that do it for something else (E.G: archivate an old discussion) already know what move makes and they don´t need it to be intuitive. Prietoquilmes ( talk) 20:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC) The problem that this change brings is the changes that should be make because of this. So if they are too many this might not worth the effort. The main change that should be make would be rename move protection >> rename protection. And this is something i realized after propose the change. Prietoquilmes ( talk) 20:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
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Currently, the "Maximum number of changes to show in expanded watchlist" setting under the "Watchlist" section of Preferences has an upper limit of 1000 changes. It would be really helpful if this limit could be increased, say to 2500 or more. I'm finding that, as my watchlist grows, its range becomes significantly reduced, often to less than a day. If there's something big under discussion on on of the admin boards, it gets even smaller. (Once, I recall seeing 250 changes on an admin noticeboard - that eats up a quarter of the available changes just for one page.) If this is a question of server load, perhaps the expansion could be limited to sysops; after all, I find a lot of the "watched" items involve pages that have been recently vandalized, and the people who have done the vandalizing. Thoughts? -- Ckatz chat spy 05:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'm still relatively new and still trying to figure out how to edit on Wiki. I'm posting here because I came across the Video on Trial article where the bottom of the information box is overlapping with images in the article. How would something like this be fixed? Appellative ( talk) 23:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there anyone who can tell me if it's possible to code a little trick for citation formatting? I've got a little test going at
testwiki based on
this discussion. I've removed the braces around the reference numbers and inserted separating commas to avoid the problem they have at fr.wiki with reference numbers running together (so you can't tell whether it's ref #1, #2 and #3 or ref #12 and #3, or ref #123). The thing is that the trailing comma looks awful, especially on individual references (as opposed to those in a 'cite stack'). The comma's wrapped in CSS (class=reference_comma
): what I need is some way (probably javascript) of hiding the comma if it's not immediately followed by another reference. Is this possible?
Happy‑
melon 08:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
You could do something like this with CSS, assuming the comma is before the number, not after:
.reference .cite_comma { display:none } .reference + .reference .cite_comma { display:inline }
Of course, that will not do what you want it to do in browsers that do not support CSS, or more likely, browsers that do not support these CSS selectors. I personally think the "bracket issue" should be solved in the Cite.php extension, not in CSS/JS hacks. And of course, adding spans around the brackets for every ref is not a trivial change in the page size - the Barack Obama article has increased in size by about 14 kB! --- RockMFR 16:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
While adding a "fact" tag to the first paragraph of a statement in Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., I noticed that if the "fact" tag is placed at the end of the first paragraph, then the subsequent line feed is ignored, and the next sentence in the article follows immediately afterwards in the same paragraph.
I moved the "fact" tag so there's a period after it, and the problem disappeared.
I think it may be related to the presence of an infobox to the right; when I tried testing this here, the problem didn't occur.
Where would I request that someone take a look to try and fix this? It'd be nice if this tag could exist at the end of a paragraph without messing up the formatting. Thanks - Tempshill ( talk) 18:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems to be the combination of the category at the end of Template:Fact and the link at the start of the second paragraph. Together, they swallow up the whitespace. Weird. --- RockMFR 19:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
You may need to be a non-admin/logged-off to see this, but the templates I see on WP:SALTed pages are incorrect. For example [1] says to discuss changes on the talk page, however, talk pages of deleted pages can actually be speedy deleted at any time per WP:CSD#G8, so that's not really true, as I recently discovered. Please fix. -- Kendrick7 talk 01:12, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't sure on where to start this discussion, since it's more about MediaWiki than en.wiki specifically, but I'd like to throw out an idea for a better form of user autoconfirm. Right now we have it set that a user has to exist for 4 days and make at least 10 edits before being able to upload, move pages, or edit semi-protected pages. While this does stop a lot of sleeper accounts, I think we can take these same basic settings and make it more effective.
and/or
The thinking behind this is that it makes it a lot less convent to make a sleeper account. Forcing those ten edits in article space means a greater chance of someone noticing them, attracting more attention to the account. A requirement that it would have to be to ten separate pages increases this greatly, but might be over-kill.
Thoughts? -- Ned Scott 01:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
It's silly to bake a lot of project specific complex logic into MediaWiki. Create an autoconfirmer right, grant it to some bot accounts, let them apply magic Bayesian voodoo with astrologically indexed threshold magic and call it done. ;) -- Gmaxwell ( talk) 06:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Given an arbitrary page name (like Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)), I would like to be able to construct the corresponding talk page name (e.g. Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical)) for use in warning templates, something like "Please discuss changes to foo on its talk page", and not have it break if a non-article-space page name is given. Is there anything I'm missing that will do this?
If nothing like this exists, may I suggest a function to extract the namespace from a page name ({{function1:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)}} → "Wikipedia" (or "4")), a function to do the opposite of {{ns:}} ({{function2:Wikipedia}} → "4"), and a function to construct the corresponding page in a particular namespace ({{function3:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|Wikipedia talk}} → "Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical)"). (sig accidentally nowikied, please resign)
Does anyone have the expertise to create a template that would list an article's table of contents in two or more columns, rather than in one long list?
To illustrate what I mean, the list of NHL statistical leaders by country currently has 45 sections. This creates an awful vertical break between the lead section and the rest of the content. One solution might be to use a right-aligned TOC, such as {{ TOCright}}, but this causes the TOC to push the images down past the section where they would should appear (the image of Wayne Gretzky appears next to Slovakia, and subsequent images are also shifted down). For this article in particular, I want a TOC that has three to five columns. The location would be where it is now, but the TOC would be shorter and wider.
There isn't a suitable TOC at Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents. The current TOCs only have limited uses, such as {{ compactTOC}} (headings must be "0–9" or letters) or {{ TOCUSStates}} (heading must be a U.S. state). What I propose is a TOC template that has multiple columns and displays the proper headings of whatever article is using it.
Ideally, the template should be versatile enough to let the user choose how many columns the TOC is to have—within limits, say 2–8, since crowding might happen for users with smaller monitors, with lower screen resolutions, or for articles with long section headings. Such a template would obviously have use in many, many articles. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 07:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
When splitting into columns would it be better to keep related sub-sections together under the main section, or to split in the middle of the section to keep the columns the same size (as a general rule)? Actually for the NHL page it might be better to have only the per-country sub-sections split into columns. — CharlotteWebb 16:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
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Long pages are harder to read, harder to search for, and harder to edit. Those sections are individually self-contained and ideal for splitting into separate pages. -- brion ( talk) 16:40, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I have given the hockey page a manual fix [3] for now. Maybe this will help it pass as a featured list, but it is still less than optimal. — CharlotteWebb 16:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what this edit does; can someone assure me nothing was changed? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
When a user starts a new discussion section by clicking the "new section" or "+" tab, the automatic edit summary reports this simply as "new section", which is unhelpfully uninformative. I wonder whether it is technically feasible to include either
Thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions? Retracted for idiocy.
Skomorokh 21:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I've been trying to restructure the assessment display script at User:Pyrospirit/metadata.js. The script was written using a single wrapper function around most of the script so that it only added two variables to the global scope. As a consequence of this, the functions used by the script cannot be accessed by any other script. What I am trying to do with the script is turn the wrapper function into an object through which the internal functions can be accessed by other scripts, while still keeping the script's internal variables from entering the global scope.
However, I ran into problems attempting to do this. This is the first time I've used custom objects in JavaScript, so it's entirely possible I'm making an obvious mistake. The script seems to fail to load properly; in the current revision, I get an error about how this.begin()
is not a function, despite the fact that it should refer to MetadataObject
's begin
method. I have tried a
variety of different things in various attempts to get the script working with this new structure, but everything has given an error of some sort.
I am using Firefox 3.0 on Windows XP SP2.
If you can figure out what I'm doing wrong here, please let me know. Pyrospirit ( talk · contribs) 05:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
main
method on initialization and then just pass the whole MetadataObject
to addOnloadHook()
.
Pyrospirit (
talk ·
contribs) 16:49, 21 June 2008 (UTC)begin
method, and I've managed to get the getPageSource
method to work fine for the other pages. However, the talk_assess
method doesn't seem to work; it gives an error saying that color
is undefined, despite the fact that it's defined at the beginning of the method. Anyone have a clue what's wrong with it now?
Pyrospirit (
talk ·
contribs) 02:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)Please compare the smoothness of the first equation here to its raw image here. Is img class="tex" scaling up a little, introducing jaggies?
Or is it just me (Firefox 3 in Ubuntu 8.04 with LCD subpixel smoothing on)? 75.61.106.191 ( talk 07:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Anything we can do to prevent something like this: -- http://www. encyclopediadramatica .com/Talk:Grawp#Template_vandalism_against_Wikipedia -- from happening? (ED link is blacklisted; take out the spaces) NawlinWiki ( talk) 11:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to know the reason as why the rear tires of a tractor are bigger than the front tires, unlike in any other locomotive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.214.104.176 ( talk) 14:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:CambridgeBayWeather/Sandbox, which right now consists of a dead external link. If you copy and paste the link it the address bar it sends you to a 404 page. However, if you either right click or left click on the link it sends you right back to the sandbox. If you open the page to edit and press preview then check the link you get sent to the sandbox but this time it's in the editing state. Is this a new feature or something else. It works the same way in Firfox and IE. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:08, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to use Superimpose template ( [5] ), which does not seem to support images with captions (e.g. "thumb" formatting). The template provides parameters, but doesn't use them! Since the template is protected, I can't do anything about it. Was this a design choice, or is there some syntax that I am missing? Thanks, Nimur ( talk) 17:22, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
There's a thin gray line (the line under the section heading "Usage") cutting through the photo at Fish slice. Is this a bug? Badagnani ( talk) 00:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
What is an endash? How does an html endash, a hyphen, and a third type of endash (ISO?) dash differ? In what situations is each one appropriate? The article on en dash does not clarify the situation for me. I would so much appreciate a very simple explanation. Thanks! – Mattisse ( Talk) 00:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
You can use them however you want. Though, I imagine you're looking for how they are used on Wikipedia - WP:DASH should answer your questions. --- RockMFR 01:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
You'll see something like
2. ^ a b c d e Rosewater, Mark ( 2002-08-12). "Codename of the Game". Making Magic. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 2006-09-25.
{{ cite web}}
: Check date values in:|date=
( help)
You see the a b c d? We don't know excactly what a b c d refering to, because the referencer will just appear as:
Wizards of the Coast also assigns an internal editor[2] to each set.
What we need is something like:
Wizards of the Coast also assigns an internal editor[2c to each set. The different editions of the base set, which have varied in size from 295 to 449 cards, contain cards which have all been printed before, with the exception of Alpha, which was the game's first set. Wizards of the Coast releases Magic cards in expansion packs[2d.
As you can see, with out my proposal, you don't know WHERE the letter (a b c d, etc.) is refering to.
Ok, so I have a few limitations, such as the pointed hat\accent\carat\lambda does not look like what it does in <references/> and I could not internal blue link [2], [2c, or [2d.
Please post this on Bugzilla, since I don't haven an account, thanks! 68.148.164.166 ( talk) 07:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
A new proposal has been made to enable my new AbuseFilter extension on English Wikipedia. — Werdna talk 08:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to find out where a template is used? The problem I'm facing right now is that an existing template ( Template:Annotation) has a badly-chosen parameter name: color currently specifies CSS background-color. This parameter's name should be changed to e.g. bg-color, so that color is free to be used in the normal CSS sense of text color. I suspect this template is not widely used and it would not surprise me if the "color" param is not used at all. But I'd like to check before making any changes. Philcha ( talk) 18:05, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Guess this is a pretty nerdy request, but nevertheless:
Will I keep my original User ID (the number) if I go through the unified login process ?
If so, will I also keep my original User ID (the number) on the sub-projects ?
Could not find any info on this anywhere, but I'm _guessing_ the unified login will be tied up to my e-mail addy, whereby the User IDs stays the same ?
Reason I'm asking is I'd like to keep my User ID here on en., and if possible also the ID on the .no wiki. Nerdy, I know ;-)
Also, is there anywhere showing the amount of current registered users ? And/or a graph showing registered users over time ?
Is it possible to find who belongs to a certain User ID ? For example through something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_ID:101 -Snorre/Antwelm ( talk) 04:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Zachkudrna18@yahoo.com ( talk · contribs) is still that, not renamed. He's been gone for two years, so I'm not sure what would happen if he tried to unify, though. They disallowed email account usernames a long time ago too. hbdragon88 ( talk) 03:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I registered my account on June 2 and have made more than 50 edits, however I am unable to edit semi-protected articles. I am primarily interested in controversial social issues, so this is an annoying problem. Can someone please help? Gary P88 ( talk) 17:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
There is not. Users on TOR will have a different autoconfirm threshold than others (ie longer). — Mike. lifeguard | @en.wb 21:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I have a sub-page with sections, that I want to be rendered as "=== TITLE ===" if condition is met, and rendered as "<big><u>TITLE</u></big>" if condition is not met. It works perfectly using ordinary "{{#ifeq:...", except that when rendered as section headers the edit buttons on the right don't show.
The information on the preprocessor introduced earlier this year apparently says this is an intentional effect, and that the preprocessor is now "stricter", but doesn't say how to achieve this goal or a workaround. meta:Migration to the new preprocessor (see table entries 1+2)
As rough outline, the purpose is to control rendering of section headers on a subpage, affecting "patrolled pages" such as xFD and SSP where multiple case subpages may be transcluded onto a main page (common on many sections of the wiki). The idea is that when you look at a subpage itself then the section headers render as === and the page has its usual divisions. But when the subpages are transcluded on the main page, only the top level section on each page appear in the page's TOC - the subsections all render as "big underlined text" rather than subsections, to stop the TOC massively cluttering up.
What I'd like to have ideally is a template of the form {{
formatsectionheader|TITLE}}
that evaluates the (hard coded) condition and renders as "=== TITLE ===" (TOC + [edit] links) or "<big><u>TITLE</u></big>" (not a section title) accordingly. I can see it's apparently possible, but I can't see how. Advice? Thanks!
FT2 (
Talk |
email) 06:24, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
{{
TOClimit}}
- which resolves this specific problem for me. But doesn't explain how to get round this if it happens again where this wouldn't be the reason for wanting to template section headers. Is there a proper way to do that?
FT2 (
Talk |
email) 11:16, 23 June 2008 (UTC)There is no workaround. The solution to the problem you describe is to not attempt to put a thousand deletion discussions on one page. Split it up into lots of pages. The performance of huge aggregated pages is terrible, and the usability advantage of aggregation is marginal. -- Tim Starling ( talk) 15:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. Is there a way to get a more complete list of uncategorized templates, or to get this list to extend beyoned 1000 entries? Thanks -- Thetrick ( talk) 04:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Someone recently uploaded this SVG file, Image:Missouri S&T.svg, and maybe did something wrong in the process. There were licensing and fair use boxes on the page, yet the page hadn't been created (and thus not editable) according to the MediaWiki software. The tab at the top said "create this page" rather than "edit this page", even though the page clearly already existed. So, I went ahead and "created" the page, but the contents that already existed did not go away. It just got pushed below what I added and remains uneditable. Can an admin delete this content, or at least explain what's going on? Thanks.— Lazytiger ( Talk | contribs) 14:23, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Copying: I have copied this from the help desk. -- VegitaU ( talk) 04:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I have a problem displaying this article. I've tried purging the article and clearing my cache, but it only seems to provide a temporary fix. The page ends abruptly at after the references, does not display the FA-Star, does not display the {{ Sept11}} or {{ 9-11 hijackers}} templates, and does not display the categories. I've looked through the code and haven't found anything. Help, please. -- VegitaU ( talk) 01:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Any suggestions? -- VegitaU ( talk) 04:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
There was an error in the second-to-last ref; did that fix it? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
We should have a bot or something go around and change the reflists. Or propose a change. Or edit the reflist syntax. Whatever the community wants. Oh, and you really should get FireFox. Once you've tried it, you'll be hooked. -- VegitaU ( talk) 05:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I see that static.wikipedia.org appears on google searches like this one. I see that on the site's robots.txt file they have disallowed "/wikipedia/", but now that directory doe not exists, and the wikipedia directory exists also on a root folder called "new", so google is probably crawling all of "/new/wikipedia/" which probably means millions of files. Can someone update the robots.txt file to disallow "/new/wikipedia/"? -- Enric Naval ( talk) 00:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Using a reference on a section headings causes really ugly URLs for a direct link to the section, see:
Can we get the code generating those URLs to ignore anything between <ref></ref> tags? -- Enric Naval ( talk) 02:29, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
For some reason people actually copy and paste the fuxored links in various places on the internet [7] which gives us an incomplete list of pages to fix. If anyone has a database dump handy it should be easy to look for <ref> tags inside section headers. — CharlotteWebb 15:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to format internal wikilinks in a way to avoid backlinks? For example, if I click on an article within Template:Theories of gravitation like Whitehead's theory of gravitation, and than I use What links here, I got all the links within the Template:Theories of Gravitation - although in most of those articles Whithead's theory is not mentioned. I tried to correct this by changing the links within the template by using (for example) [[w:History of gravitational theory|]] instead of [[History of gravitational theory]]. Well, it worked but my edits were reverted. Why is changing the format of the links forbidden? And is there another way to avoid backlinks? Thanks. -- D.H ( talk) 08:52, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
If what you need is a list of pages directly linking to Whitehead's theory, perhaps to do some sort of maintenance task, I don't see a problem with obfuscating the navbox links temporarily, as long as you change it back when you're done. Of course if it's going to take a more than a few hours it would be polite to copy the abridged whatlinkshere list to a sandbox page somewhere, then revert the template before doing whatever it is you're about to do.
If you wanted a less intrusive way you could download a database dump and do a regex search for the link (something like \[\[[\s_]*[Ww]hitehead(?:\'|\%27)s[\s_]+theory[\s_]+of[\s_]+gravitation[\s_]*(?:\|[^\]]+)?\]\] would catch all but the most implausible wiki-text). — CharlotteWebb 13:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Just looking for some MediaWiki help really: forgive me if this is the wrong place!
How do i:
Thanks,
B G 7even 19:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Generally speaking if you see some interface text you want to change, copy it, go to Special:AllMessages on your site, and search for it with ctrl-F or whatever in your browser, and you will know which page to edit. — CharlotteWebb 21:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Don't edit Common.js for #1. Edit the appropriate message, e.g., MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-currentevents. The general format for the message name is "tooltip-id", where "id" is of course the XHTML id of the element. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 18:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
To change the upload link in the sidebar, you set the mw:Manual:$wgUploadNavigationUrl in LocalSettings.php. And yes, the anon banner is set in Common.js, though really it should be in Monobook.js and would be had someone not declared skin-specific JS pages deprecated. ; - ) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
This page is one and a half year out of date, that is a problem because I'm interested in knowing what page has the most revisions. Can somebody with the ability to edit this page get it up-to-date? It's very inaccurate since it hasn't been edited for so long. TheBlazikenMaster ( talk) 23:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Does there exist/would somebody write a bot to flag for immediate review changes to bolded terms in article abstracts? Vandalism like this could be caught by human review within seconds if such a systematic approach were installed. — Christian Campbell 07:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
As best as I can tell, collapsed content (whether from collapsible tables or from NavFrame) does not expand automatically when one attempts to print a page; the user must expand the section to get this functionality to occur. While collapsible sections are great for screen reading, they pose a problem for print versions. Unfortunately, I know myself that CSS is capable of handling media-type stylesheets which can help here (they are already used to only present the content, not navigation or customization UI aspects), but I'm unaware, if the collapsible sections utilize javascript as well and how that interferes with it.
Technically, is it possible to have collapsed section auto-expand when printing is performed? If this is not, we need to be more explicit about what content should be "hidden" by collapsible sections in guideline/policy, such that a user, unaware of how collapsing works, can print out the page to get all they need without having to fiddle with it more. If so, then there's actually some nice features to use for infoboxes and the like to help decomplicate their initial appearance on the page. -- MASEM 14:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Comment to EdJohnston's "JavaScript off" solution above: this would not work with
NavFrames that are initially hidden, see
MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive Nov 2007#CSS hidden NavFrame. The universal solution might be possible with something like @media print { div.NavContent, ..., ... table.collapsible tr {display:block !important} }
in
MediaWiki:Common.css. —
AlexSm 16:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there a script or template that automatically sorts?
The Transhumanist 17:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to use Image:Blue Nuthatch.ogv in an article other than Blue Nuthatch. It is formatted there as [[Image:Blue Nuthatch.ogv|thumb|300px|left|Adult Fraser's Hill, Malaysia 1994]], but I would like either to associate it with a picture of my choice, like this sound file at Nuthatch#Description [[Image:Red-breasted-nuthatchmirror.jpg|thumb|The Red-breasted Nuthatch has a call like a tin trumpet. <br />{{*sound| Sitta-canadensis-002.ogg | }}]], or just have it as a button, like {{*sound| Sitta-canadensis-002.ogg | }}. Are either of these possible? jimfbleak ( talk) 18:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Can any admins point me to the discussion page for changes to the "Action Completed" page that pops up when an article is deleted? Thanks, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 14:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I keep having problems when installing Twinkle. I put the code in my monobook page and I bypass my cache but I have yet to see the features associated with Twinkle. Can anybody help me? ÁÌЊ-ÇĄÑČĘŘ ( talk) 20:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was an option at the top of the history page, where we have clicked on 2 radio buttons and pressed the Compare selected versions button, and then we would go back to that point in history, but having 250 older versions to choose to select and 250 newer versions to select. Effectively, a “centering” option from where we are from compared history page, to back to the choosing a number of versions history page. One application of this is when someone gives a link (such as swearing) and then we click on it, but then we want to find a specific user (such as user: kainaw). As you can see, clicking back on the history tab will only return you to the most recent edits, but if we had this option, we would could see when did kainaw reply to User:IntfictExpert, much quicker, and find out when did kainaw reply much sooner with the ctrl+F than without. Post this on bugzilla please thanks (I don’t have an account). 68.148.164.166 ( talk) 11:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I assume it is a feature- that on a printout, using a [url text] the url is also printed. Fine. But shouldn't this be formatted as <. small > ClemRutter ( talk) 16:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Our articles using the User:ProteinBoxBot currently have a lot of template text at the top that will be rather intimidating for newbie editors (see NEURL2 for example). We were wondering about condensing this infobox template into a simple template referring to another page. For example this change (coupled with {{ PBB}} and ITK_(gene)/PBB). This produces a much simpler main gene page.
However, having a "subpage" like ITK_(gene)/PBB falls foul of WP:SUBPAGE. Is there another way people can think of that would allow us to do this? Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it me or have there been more technical difficulties in the Wikimedia area in the past couple of weeks than for the past few months? Simply south ( talk) 18:49, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm getting them so often (for the last two days) that I can barely post or get any work done. Particularly when posting with people who re-edit every one of their posts five times, causing multiple edit conflicts. I'm ready to quit.
SandyGeorgia (
Talk) 01:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
DARN IT !! Yes, it's still happening. I'm hitting it TONS of times and losing TONS of work. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Are we all referring to the same error or different ones? I was referring to that recently i have been trying to edit and that (or sometimes move) but every now and then it has come up with an error page saying something like "Wikipedia has a problem!" and the rest. Simply south ( talk) 20:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:55:52 GMT" MBisanz talk 00:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I wrote User:Flatscan/Template:Talkarchivehist based on Template:Talkarchive. It displays useful historical links below the header, as described in Help talk:Archiving a talk page#Cut-and-paste archiving: Increasing transparency. It appears to work in my limited testing, but any fixes or optimizations are welcome. Is there anywhere to request non-technical feedback?
Sample Special:ExpandTemplates input (currentpage parameter may be omitted):
Thanks. Flatscan ( talk) 02:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
This instalment concerns fonts: is there anywhere a list of those recognised by the MediaWiki software? I see all sorts of fonts in signatures and talk pages, and I always wonder if the editors owning them simply tried out those fonts they knew about until one of them worked. If this is the case, I guess I'll have to start my own list.
I know, yet another question that has absolutely nothing to do with the mainspace. :-) Waltham, The Duke of 04:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
h2 { font-family: Verdana }
and it'll apply only to h2 elements (second-level headers).
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk 14:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Here is a gallery of four image, two of which I personally uploaded to commons. The thumbnail of one of them has ceased to display on FF3.0 running on XP. Click on it- and it loads the correct file. It works on Opera 9.21, and FF3.0b5 on Ubuntu Hardy. ClemRutter ( talk) 16:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to rollback two edits by an IP on History of the Knights Templar (because it was a changed word and self-rv, so it's not helpful to the edit history), and I've clicked rollback (twice, actually) and although the page tells me the edits were rolled back, it appears neither in my contribs nor the edit history for the article. MSJapan ( talk) 22:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
If a user has an article speedy deleted (but not oversighted) does his "contribution" vanish off the Special:Contributions log ? Low Sea ( talk) 02:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to make an image go above the Wikipedia logo? It is on my userpage, and z-index doesn't work because the image isn't static. And I do know this is a silly question. JohnnyMrNinja 08:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The banner is, but the logo is different. [10] It seems to be done using a skin? I don't know how that works but here is the skin. JohnnyMrNinja 21:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Colbert/O'Brien/Stewart feud, the usual categories are not showing up, and the AfD is then not listed at the relevant category pages. Does this have something to do with all the slashes in the page title? ...the software thinks this is a subpage of a subpage? Does anyone know any way around this? Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 20:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I now maintain two SUL accounts, and just now they start conflicting - I can't keep logged into two different wikis on the same browser. Is it possible for the developers to include an option to disable the SUL auto-login-to-other-wikis? hbdragon88 ( talk) 06:13, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
On page history, we can display up to 500 edits and go to the earliest and most recent edits. But when you have a file that is say, 4 years old, and has been edited several thousands of times, and you need to view an edit that is say, 2 years old and about 5000 edits back, it is a real pain to get to as you can only get there 500 edits at a time. Can the capability be added to go through the history from point A directly to a specific edit or at least a specific date? If this capability currently exists, please educate me. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:19, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
×tamp=20080629031234
or similar. This is the timestamp of the first revision on the page, so if you know the exact (or approximate) time of the edit you're looking for, you can just edit this parameter to go directly to the correct time.
Happy‑
melon 13:26, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
&limit=
to whatever number you want), you can set higher limits than 500; I sometimes go for 1000 if I need to manually search a list quickly. This might slow down one's browser somewhat, but I haven't had a problem yet. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
log}} 13:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)Why aren't the instructions for this post at the top of the history page? But thanks guys! — Rlevse • Talk • 18:25, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
How comes whenever i rollback on an article for mainly vandalism, it does not add this article to my watchlist, even though my prefs are set so that everywhere i edit does, or is meant to? Simply south ( talk) 18:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
As mentioned here, there is a problem with userboxes in a Template:Infobox user. Can it be resolved by correcting only the code in the {{ userbox}} template? It would be great if someone could take a look at it. Thanks. -- Kochas ( talk) 22:34, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I finally stopped dragging my heels and made a version of {{ Navbox}} that will work with most other wikis, such as those hosted by Wikia, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki/Template:Navbox. It's a "pure wiki table" version, with {{ !}}'s equaling |'s, making it work with parser functions. There is still one problem left, the use of a div for each group/list
{{#ifeq:{{{evenodd|}}}|swap|odd|{{{evenodd|even}}}}}" {{!}} <div style="padding:{{{listpadding|0em 0.25em}}}">}}{{{list4|}}}{{#if:{{{list4|}}}|</div> }}
Because the div tag starts in one parser and ends in another it breaks, resulting in a visible </div> tag at the end of each list, as seen on wikia:fashion:Template:Grands couturiers. This is the same reason the template code needed to be wikitable code and not HTML, because when the opening and closing HTML tags get separated they then break on these wikis. (because of a different Tidy setting than what we have)
How vital is this div tag? When I took it out of one line it didn't seem to make a difference when viewing on Safari. There's probably a way to still keep it, but use a single parser function, so that the opening and closing tags don't get separated.
Also, on {{ Tnavbar}} there's a switch to use either div or span. Since this also places the opening and closing tags in different parsers, the tags won't apply and will result in orphaned </span> and </div> tags being visible. I assume this is for browser compatibility?
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. -- Ned Scott 23:24, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Cross posted to
Template talk:Navbox#external wiki version. Please respond there.
Eg
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
movl $0, %eax
movq %rbp, %rsp
popq %rbp
ret
pushq %rbp is moved to the far left instead of tabed over. I have seen other spacing styles used for assembly as well (4 spaces instead of a tab) but the error persists there as well.
Also new registers for 64bit processors aren't highlighted. (%rax, %rbx, %r12, %r13, %r13d etc etc) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1veedo ( talk • contribs) 04:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it a problem on my end, or is Template:Infobox Restaurant not showing up in any of the articles? For example: 21 Club has no infobox as far as I can see, but if you click on "edit this page" you can see all the code for the infobox. Same goes for all the other restaurant articles I checked. Is anyone else seeing this? Kafziel Complaint Department 04:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Kariteh has been working very hard to update Template:WikiProject Video games at User:Kariteh/Sandbox and could use some assistance. I know nothing about template code, so am unable to help. The decision was made at WikiProject Video games to automatically assess a non-article page's class based on namespace, i.e. Category:Video games with time travel would automatically be assessed as {{ Category-Class}} and be placed into Category:WikiProject Video games categories. It now appears to sort properly, but does not display the line "This article has been rated as Category-Class on the assessment scale." Could anyone with a knowledge of template code and a desire to help please take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games, Template talk:WikiProject Video games and User:Kariteh/Sandbox? There have been other small improvements at User:Kariteh/Sandbox, so that is definitely the version we'd like to use, but we'd really like to get the bugs out. Thanks! JohnnyMrNinja 05:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
If you go to Wikipedia:Huggle/Whitelist, instead of getting the usual list of usernames, you get 1.) Right under the header is a description of the page that does not exist in the wiki-code anywhere.
This is a list of users whose contributions may be ignored while finding vandalism. It is updated automatically by Huggle.
2.)The rest of the page content is hidden and replaced with instructions on viewing the raw page with ?action=raw, yet, this also doesn't appear in the wiki-code at all, either in the edit box or the raw page text. It's obviously not MediaWiki generated, it wouldn't be able to recognize the page as a list nor know why to leave the rest of the page alone and append the message there. A look at the page history reveals no one edited that into the page. It wasn't like that before, yet no one changed the page to do that. What in the world is up? Calvin 1998 ( t- c) 05:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
For the last three or four days I have been unable to remain logged in to Wikipedia -- I go to Special:UserLogin, enter my password, click "Remember me", get the "Login successful" page, and then no matter where I go from there, I am logged out again. Cache doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, and logging in with the secure server doesn't help either. Is anyone else having this problem? 76.175.32.147 ( talk) 19:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
When I paste text into an edit box with wikiEd on, it adds "Normal 0" in front of the pasted text, just a minor irritant, but what's happening? jimfbleak ( talk) 10:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Another question is, where are you pasting text FROM? I've always had a problem copying text from word processors because formatting codes often get copied and translated into readable text like the kind you describe. Copying text from word processors can also get you unwanted soft line breaks which translate into hard line breaks. If you are trying to prepare text for copying to WP or anything else in your web browser, you might be better using a plain text application such as Wordpad. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 22:10, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
With regard to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_27#Global_counter_variables (circa March 2008), I was unaware of the morphic discussions elsewhere. I posted to discussion in Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources (circa April 2008 - now archived Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources/Archive_22#Request_for_nb_tags), basically to make a request for code development so that something like the following would support narrative notes with a list style type of lower-roman numerals ( (i),(ii),(iii), etc.), which I suggested might be good with a new <nb> tag...
Example text,<nb>This is an example discursive note</nb> more example text.<nb name=Discursive>Discursive notes can be shown separately from references or citations - giving a neater appearing alternative compared to having mixed "Notes and references" or "Notes and citations" sections. This is an example of such a note. It is wishfully generated via a companion to the ref footnotes method (i.e. via use of nb and notes/ tags).</nb> A point made with a supporting reference.<ref>Author, A. (2007). "How to cite references", New York: McGraw-Hill.</ref> A second appearance of a note.<nb name=Discursive/> == Notes == <notes/> == References == <references/>
Plus maybe we could have curve brackets instead of square for some further distinction, producing...
Example text, (i) more example text. (ii) A point made with a supporting reference. [1] A second appearance of a note. (ii)
Notes
References
Anyway, it would be good if something like this could be developed, though I'd just like to say the reason I suggested a list style type of lower-roman numerals ( (i),(ii),(iii), etc.) rather than the use of alphabetic letters, which seem to be otherwise favoured, is not only that you can easily go beyond 26 notes, but principally that it avoids any clash with the alphabetic letters already used in back-links with multiple use of references sharing the same name, as in the example shown above ( ii. ^
a
b ).
I also thought the tag <nb> in combination with <notes/> would be more concise than <note>, with the abbreviation paralleling the existing use of <ref> and <references/> tags.
-- SallyScot ( talk) 17:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the following code in Mediawiki:Common.css is for? It's not used by Template:Reflist, so I'm baffled as to its purpose.
/* VALIDATOR NOTICE: the following is correct, but the W3C validator doesn't accept it */
/* -moz-* is a vendor-specific extension (CSS 2.1 4.1.2.1) */
/* column-count is from the CSS3 module "CSS Multi-column Layout" */
/* Please ignore any validator errors caused by these two lines */
.references-2column {
font-size: 90%;
-moz-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
column-count: 2;
}
— Remember the dot ( talk) 01:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
So, I'm looking for the holy grail for searching wikipedia... the ability to search across all diffs of a single page. So you're only searching within one page, but all the versions of that page. Has anyone hacked this up? -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 18:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on the new redirect meta-template {{ This is a redirect}}, which embeds other templates as chosen by the user. I'm trying to get it so that if one uses the template with "cats=no", then none of the embedded templates give their categories. (With many templates that categorize, one can use the argument "category=" to cause no categorizing to happen, as explained here.)
Simplifying it somewhat, here's an example of what I'm dealing with:
{{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{R_{{{1}}}|{{#ifeq:{{{cats}}}|no|category=|}}|embed=yes}}|}}
Using tests with substing and {{ R from brand name}}, I found that currently, what happens is that the embedded template takes "category=" as the content of its first argument (that is, it thinks "1=category="). (Everything else works.)
I've tried using a template whose content was literally {{{1}}}, so it might "print" the string "category=", but no luck. What does work is to put the "category=" before the ifeq, so that {{ R from brand name}} takes the argument "category=result of ifeq" — but that won't ultimately work with what I'm trying to do.
Any ideas? Lenoxus " * " 04:38, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
. Odd indeed; I will have another look later. If anyone else solves it in the meantime, I would be very interested to know how!
RichardΩ612
Ɣ
ɸ 10:21, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{R_{{{1}}}|category{{#ifeq:{{{cats}}}|no||1}}=|embed=yes}}|}}
Ok, I know where you're going with this. The issue is with the way the parser handles null and undefined parameters. Each redirect template {{
R from foo}}
contains the code
{{{category|[[Category:Some category]]}}}
If the parameter |category=
is defined, with anything including null, then this is output instead of the category link. So if you were to call {{
R from shortcut|category=Foo}}
, you would get an unwanted "Foo" appearing somewhere in the display - however the way the anti-categorisation system works, you call it as {{
R from shortcut|category=}}
, passing null to the |category=
parameter, so null it output instead of the category link, as desired. However, when you call the template from within another template, you have much less control over what is passed through to the inner template. You can't just put:
{{inner template|category={{{category|}}} }}
Because this will always define |category=
for the inner template, so it will always stop categorisation.
There are two ways to circumvent this problem. The first is to be a bit sneaky with the way you call the inner template:
{{inner template|{{#ifeq:{{{category|foo}}}|foo|xxx|category}}={{{category|}}} }}
Notice what this is doing: if the |category=
parameter is undefined in the outer template, then the logic test equates to true, and the (corrupted) null value is passed to an unused parameter, leaving the |category=
parameter undefined in the inner template. If, however, |category=
is defined in the outer template (as long as it is not defined as "foo", of course) then the logic test fails, and the category parameter is defined for the inner template. This is the simpler method for solving the problem, but it is fairly inelegant, and also a little risky: if another meta-template is created which doesn't contain the same code, then there will be problems. So avoid this, the recommended solution is slightly different: it requires editing all the subtemplates as well, but not in a breaking fashion. In each subtemplate, replace:
{{{category|[[Category:Some category]]}}}
with
{{#ifeq:{{{category|μ}}}|μ|[[Category:Some category]]}}
Note the use of the uncommon character "μ" - the greek letter mu, which is the standard for this system, as the likelihood of anyone ever calling a template with |category=μ
is laughably small. Then in each meta-template, you can use code like this:
{{inner template|category={{{category|μ}}} }}
This system makes it easier to create meta-templates, and most importantly, template chains of any length can be created using the same syntax, passing the μ arguments right down to the bottom level. Essentially, if the |category=
parameter is defined at any point in the chain, then that argument replaces the "μ", and is only evaluated at the bottom template. This makes it a simpler system for creating long chains of templates. I know that's not what you want to do here, but for consistency's sake I suggest that you use the μ system. I hope this explains what you wanted to know - this really should be documented somewhere (any suggestions?).
Happy‑
melon 19:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I wanted my committed identity box at the bottom of the page, but for some reason the background stretches out across the whole page. I reorganized all my userboxes into a sidebar box to try to fix the problem, but it didn't make a difference. I'm guessing that it shouldn't be a Firefox problem, but that is possible as well. Does anyone have any ideas or a fix for this? MSJapan ( talk) 02:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
is all the text really messed up for everyone else or is it just me? 76.1.243.193 ( talk) 00:36, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Good idea on Gary King's part - and is all the text on your screen messed up, or only a certain part? IceUnshattered ( talk) 23:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
I was at the help desk and noticed
this comment. I thought "that's impossible", but
his contributions show that he is (or should be) autoconfirmed. I asked at the admin IRC channel, and
Chris G (
talk ·
contribs ·
blocks ·
protections ·
deletions ·
page moves ·
rights ·
RfA) instructed me to block the user, which I have done Unblocked; concerns raised that the decision was made off-wikiAn unfortunate misunderstanding on both our parts. This has apparently happened to someone else, so I'd like to know how an autoconfirmed user can stop being an autoconfirmed user. Thanks,
PeterSymonds
(talk) 10:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
How hard would it be to incorporate some kind of function that would scan an article's (or a user's) past 50 edits and determine the average/mean time between edits ? The result from this function could be useful in determining what constitutes a "reasonable amount of time" and could be incorporated into any tags that reference that policy. I also suggest that similar to the algorithms used by Fair Isaacs/ FICO that multiple edits by the same editor on the same day be treated as a single edit. This is because I believe "reasonable time" for responses should never be measured in anything less than whole days. Low Sea ( talk) 13:41, 29 June 2008 (UTC) Also, edits by bots should be ignored as machine generated edits have no bearing in the reasonable time issue. Low Sea ( talk) 13:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Sorry Tra, I guess my wording was fuzzy... What I mean is how hard would it be to create a template that included automatically calculated numbers saying something like
As of _DATE-THIS-TAG-WAS-ADDED_ the average number of days between significant edits for this page is approximately _##_ days. A reasonable time to expect a response would be 3 x ## days, which would be sometime after _DATE-PLUS-CALCULATED-DAYS. |
Also, how would one go about getting such a feature created? Low Sea ( talk) 17:49, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Why is it that all links to my shoutbox are in large text and highlighted in red? This is the most bizzare thing I've ever seen. I have firefox and this doesn't happen, just tell me why in the world IE7 does this? and why only to my shoutbox. -- penubag ( talk) 16:31, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
a[title ="User:Penubag/shoutbox"] {color: white; background: red; font-size: 150% }
in your monobook.css, then why are you surprised when it actually works?? Why it's only just started showing up for you when you added it in March I don't know, but in the immortal words of the car repair salesman: "there's your problem!"...
Happy‑
melon 16:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the HTTP header for the connection between Wikipedia and I showed up in random places on my edits [11], [12], and [13] (diffs are in reverse chronological order). I might want to note that right after I saved those edits, I got a "403 Forbidden: You do not have access to / on this server", so I tried resending (and then I noticed the HTTP header was in my comment) Does anyone know how that could have happened? Calvin 1998 ( t- c) 22:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
I've created {{
Export}} as a way to easily create a link that will generate the entire history of a given page in xml format. For whatever reason,
Special:Export is limited to 100 versions, but not when using the url formatted in {{
Export}}. Right now it works in two different ways, one is like {{
purge}}, in that one can throw it up on a page and then click on it (for export people should probably use preview, since it's unlikely they'll need a constant link on the page at all times). It can also be used by putting in another page title, for example {{
export|taco}}
creates "Export: ", which could be used on any page as an export link for
Taco.
The thing about these links is that they're sometimes huge. An exported article could be a few KB, or 10 to 20 MBs (or more). I'm thinking some kind of warning needs to be formatted into the template, but in a way that still allows it to be a relatively small link. I would like it to be simple and flexible, so that it could even be put into things like the links of an AfD.
I got to thinking about the concept of a covered switch, like in the movies. You flip the class cover up, then press the big red button. The idea would be to use the show/hide function seen on many nav and other templates (like the ones on WP:DRV). The default view would be something like "Export" with a link that said "warning" to the side or below. The warning link would actually point to some form of instructions page (possibly Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki/exporting). An editor could then dismiss the warning portion with another link ("show", if it can't be renamed to something else) and then be presented with the actual link.
Before I put a lot of effort into this I figured I'd throw the idea out on the VP. There might be a better idea that I'm not considering. I'm also not sure how to exactly go about this technically and from a style perspective, so any feedback on that would also be very helpful. -- Ned Scott 03:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is any way that a group of account holders could be contacted. If they all watch a common page they could hopefully be reached by posting on that page, but what if they don't? In my case, I'm referring to photo requests: I want to quickly send a message out to all Wikipedians in Bristol. Here the number is only a dozen, so doing it manually isn't too much of an annoyance, but it certainly would be if there were 120 of them. Is it technically possible to do this? It would be nice if all such people would watch such categories so that they could be spoken to as a group, though this seems difficult to achieve without making it somehow compulsory, which isn't going to stick. Richard001 ( talk) 00:12, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, so most people who post here are aware of the pipe trick that lets you post internal links in a short form. However, there's a minor bug — if you combine a colon-separated prefix (namespace or interwiki, it doesn't matter) with a section anchor, it breaks: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pipe trick bug works, but [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pipe trick bug|]] doesn't. That's a bug, sure enough. However, it's not clear to me what the exact correct behavior is (otherwise I'd just post to Bugzilla). Apart from the current breakage, there are four ways this could be formatted:
So, for the purpose of suggesting the correct behavior in a bug report, does anyone have an opinion on just what the correct behavior is? — Gavia immer ( talk) 18:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I'd personally have it display as Pipe trick bug. — Werdna • talk 07:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Of course, this is what i get for suggesting that there are only four ways to do it — people immediately post more than four ways to do it :p I like Lenoxus' logic, but I'm more concerned with what people will want to happen most often. With regard to Werdna's suggestion, I think that would most often be useful to link to a thread on the same page, but you can already do that with less typing: [[#Pipe trick bug]] makes a link like #Pipe trick bug. Of course, if you see it as likely to useful for something else, the preceding doesn't really apply. — Gavia immer ( talk) 14:06, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
If someone posts the first question of the day on Wikipedia:Help desk and the various Wikipedia:Reference desk pages, should the heading for the day's date be generated automatically? I'm asking because I noticed on the Help Desk page that the "Skip to Today's Questions" link didn't work. To make it work I simply added it manually as per this diff, but I'm wondering if something's broken. Another example is Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities where you can see people have asked questions yesterday and today (2 and 3 July), but there's no corresponding heading.-- 92.40.59.17 ( talk) 03:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
In Firefox 3, when clicking a link which redirects to a section in another article, the favicon does not appear in the tab. For example if I go to Double dissolution, it goes to Australian electoral system#Double Dissolutions and the favicon does not appear. Same with Segoe UI which redirects to Segoe#Segoe UI. I can't go straight to the developers at Bugzilla and blame them, because the problem doesn't occur in Internet Explorer 7. Well I could, but it wouldn't be nice, especially if it was a problem with Firefox, not MediaWiki ;). Anyone have an idea what's going on? Harryboyles 04:15, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Greetings, I would like to add content to the UNM Anderson School's Wiki page, but first I wanted to make sure that the way this page is titled makes sense. When I search Wiki with the phrase "Anderson School," the results list (2 total) does not include the UNM Anderson School. This page is currently at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_School_of_Management_%28University_of_New_Mexico%29.
Do you know why the search would not return this page as a result? Would you recommend creating a new page with an adjusted title and moving content from the existing page to the new one?
Thank you,
Jennifer (FIBEA1) 64.106.59.16 ( talk) 19:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Well, I still just receive two results: the UCLA Anderson School and a K-8 Anderson School. No result displays for UNM Anderson School. Jennifer (FIBEA1) 64.106.59.16 ( talk) 19:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I've figured this out. I just needed to edit the results page for 'Anderson School.' Thanks, Jennifer (FIBEA1) 64.106.59.16 ( talk) 20:10, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I tried to save a 305,000 character page containing about 7300 wikilinks, an update of Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin. In response I get the message
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In the last twelve hours, there have been 20 or 30 attempted saves and previews with zero successes. I now suspect this is not a temporary error at all. (The allocation size value varies from about 1000 to millions.) Does anyone know? — EncMstr ( talk) 17:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
This is an out of memory error. It's not going to go away, because it's caused by you trying to upload a page that's too large. Notice that the error occurs in the Parser. Make the page smaller, such as by splitting it up.
Note that until the last week or so, you would probably have gotten a white page when you tried to do this. Tim just recently wrote a PHP extension that outputs a proper error page on PHP fatal errors like this. So it's not connected to any trend that extends beyond the last few days. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 19:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
It would be useful to get meta-data about pages other than the one you are looking at.
For example: {{lastupdated|someotherpage}} that would give the last-updated time of someotherpage. This would aid in transcluding summaries: The summary would include the lastupdated time of the transcluded page. An example might help: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee is being split up, with summaries transcluded back into the main page. It would help to put the last-updated time of the transcluded pages in those summaries, for example, {{lastupdated|Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee/Statements about what does not work well in the current Arbitration Committee process}}. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 20:25, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I want to alter a color slightly so that <code>...</code> lines stand out a bit more. I desire however to keep the page looking near the hues of the default skin... just a bit darker.
Thanks // Fra nkB 22:52, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I want to know about the cluster differences like 2Node cluster & 4Node cluster & 8Node cluster ? (two-node cluster and four-node cluster and eight-node cluster) —Preceding unsigned comment added by M parasar ( talk • contribs) 01:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
I've just created some templates that will be useful (i.e. are being used) in chess and paelontology projects, and one of the paleo ones may be useful for other biology articles. When I create the doc pages for these, the "blank" doc page contains the text PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. There are 2 difficulties:
I've seen similar problems when adding images.
I suggest the edit screens for items items for which categories, interwikis, etc. should be modified to provide links to the appropriate lists, which should open in a new browser window / tab so that the user can copy and paste. I'm sure it's not that difficult to modify the edit pages:
It would also be helpful to modify the relevant Help pages so that e.g. Help:Category has at the top a link to the list of categories. Philcha ( talk) 22:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I had the following problem with the {{db-g12}} template:
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This thread resulted into nothing. How can we fix this in such a way that a user receives an error message if the entered URL is equivalent to the URL of the current Wikipedia page. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 06:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
re:
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right;text-align:center" |+Comparison of tangent and sine gradients for various angles ...
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Someone needs to see what's up with margins, especially the left margins on class="wikitable"; Don't know if it's only right floated tables, but I've seen this problem with text running into the table boxes over and over the past few daze. |
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(Need to have someone translate that for me one day.) // Fra nkB 06:28, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
We could change MediaWiki:Common.css to add a wikitable-right quite easily:
/* wikitable/prettytable class for skinning normal tables */
table.wikitable-right,
table.wikitable,
table.prettytable {
margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
background: #f9f9f9;
border: 1px #aaa solid;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.wikitable-right {
margin: 1em 0 1em 1em;
float: right;
}
You see, easy as pie :D -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 15:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Under Category:Toyama geography stubs there three articles being sorted under Ō. Each article has a proper {{ DEFAULTSORT}} key set to sort under O. Compare with Category:Dissolved municipalities of Toyama Prefecture where all three articles correctly sort under O. Why is it working for one category but not another? Is there something blocking it? Bendono ( talk) 11:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Instead of filching off other knowledgeable people. I'll put it on my list... just below PHP, Perl and C# :D. I don't know how many people have noticed the cool new "number-of-pages-in-category" numbers that now appear after subcategory lists on category pages, but whoever wrote that code deserves a (probably another) medal. Now, how do I go about mucking around with the styles of those numbers based on their values? The numbers are wrapped in <span title="contains ''X'' subcategories, ''Y'' pages, and ''Z'' files"> (#)</span>
spans, but have no attached class. My humble knowledge of CSS suggests that they can't be 'got at' that way, so how would I, for instance, set the font color to grey for X=Y=Z=0?
Happy‑
melon 15:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
My watchlist has over 9,000 entries and I'd like to trim it down. However I can't seem to do so. "View and edit watchlist" simply gives me a blank screen. "Edit raw watchlist" presents me with a list of watchlisted pages, but when I try to save the revised list I get a blank screen, and the changes aren't saved. Is is timing out? Do I need to find a developer to do this by hand? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Warning to regular editors: you might find that you don´t like it because you are used to "move". Please, leave that to a side and be objective.
Can it be done? Prietoquilmes ( talk) 13:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC) P.S: This would be better for the new users.
The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid.
Please choose another name, or use Requested moves to ask an administrator to help you with the move.
Do not manually move the article by copying and pasting it; the page history must be moved along with the article text.
"Moving a page means giving the page another name. The page history is then attached to a new name. Another page with the old name is created and automatically redirects to the new name." The reason why rename is more intuitive than move is that the reason why you "move" an article is to rename it. The users that do it for something else (E.G: archivate an old discussion) already know what move makes and they don´t need it to be intuitive. Prietoquilmes ( talk) 20:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC) The problem that this change brings is the changes that should be make because of this. So if they are too many this might not worth the effort. The main change that should be make would be rename move protection >> rename protection. And this is something i realized after propose the change. Prietoquilmes ( talk) 20:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)