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Template:Unichar( talk links history). I created a quite elaborate template (using sub-templates and calculations). Workings are OK. Then I documented it with examples on the regular /doc subpage. Now the examples on the regular Template:unichar/doc page itself look OK, but when that same /doc page is transcluded into the main Template-page {{ unichar}} (having the green Document background, etc., all regular), then the examples don't show up well. Diff: the first example reads OK:
On the main Template page, it says:
The 0000 indicates that a hex2dec calculation variable did not end up well in a subtemplate.
I tried purging every page I touched, waiting one whole hour (wow), and re-sandboxed the whole thing. The new sandbox ended up correct after a while, but I cannot reproduce it for real. This good sandbox is on my
User:DePiep page, I'll put it on top. Anyone an idea? Need more sandboxes? -
DePiep (
talk) 19:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Template:Unichar( talk links history). The regular /doc page shows examples OK, but when transcluded onto main Template-page, the examples are broken. See /doc header with good/bad example. I did purge, sandbox (went ok, see my Userpage), checked newPP limits (serious, but under 50%). - DePiep ( talk) 07:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>
, for example {{t|p|q}}
is replaced by {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|p|q}}
. Often that shows up, but not if that wikitext is just used in a condition, or in the case of a template parameter with a default.--
Patrick (
talk) 10:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Need someone to move the user edits from User:Shannon1/usurped3 to User:Shannon1. Still facing a lot of problems with that. Brought it up a few times but never got any help as I am not an admin. Shannon talk contribs 05:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
That old problem again. I created the category Category:Thai film stubs some days ago, after adding the relevant stub tag to 60+ film articles. However, the category only has two articles at the moment while the system refreshes. And there are some massive lags in some page moves I've done, where I've updated the navigation templates on the article with the new article title. Can anything be done about this? Lugnuts ( talk) 08:52, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Several different times, I've tried to find logs for individuals being desysopped, but I don't remember ever being able to find any. For example, let's look at Herostratus — his log shows him creating the account, becoming an admin, having offensive revisions being deleted, being blocked and unblocking himself, and having user rights added, but I can't find anything about him being desysopped. FYI, it happened after a successful request for de-adminship last June, but the log doesn't show anything. Any ideas how to find the exact date and time? Please note that I'm not in any conflict or anything like that with Herostratus; I'm using him strictly as an example. Nyttend ( talk) 21:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Let me tell a short story: it will illuminate my question. Earlier today, I found a user talk page in CAT:CSD that had been tagged with {{ db-band}}. If it had been in mainspace, I would have deleted it, because the page had only ever been used as userspace hosting for what looks to be a nonnotable band; I declined, but only because db-band isn't applicable in userspace. Just a minute ago, I got a note from the IP address that had tagged it, saying basically "I can't just blank the page, or it will be prevented by a filter or be reverted as vandalism, so I just tag it to get the attention of admins so that they'll blank it with nobody thinking that they're vandalising". Now to my question — is there some filter that would actively prevent IPs from blanking user talk pages in contexts such as this? Nyttend ( talk) 02:40, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I looking for help in editing
Template:infobox school district. I want to add GeoLocation ({{
coord}}) (for example the coord for the main office, in the case of where I added it in
Buffalo Public Schools) and to move the {{
country}} box on the Same Line direct line for {{
location}} because it looks tacty when rendering. I would normally try to edit this myself, but it is beyond my knowledge.
Thank you for your help, and your opinions on the matter. (Also posted @
WP:SCH's
WT:WPSPCH for xref) --
Wolfnix •
Talk • 01:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Toliño from Galician Wikipedia. Right there, I'm the user which controls and solves technical issues. But I haven't got any idea about solving the following. Another user asked me if I could fix somehow the code for this external link used as reference:
[http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?ruta=verTabla.jsp?OP=1&B=1&M=&COD=147&R=2[1];9915[12:15:27:32:36]&C=1[all]&F=&S=0:0 Datos do IGE de poboación maior de 16 segundo o nivel de estudos] (2001).
which gives:
The problem is due to the URL syntax, which uses "[" and especially "]" so that MediaWiki understands that this is the end of the link - but it isn't. Do you know any solution to this? Thanks in advance! -- Toliño ( talk) 13:29, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Ran into an odd problem - I was trying to change the lead image on the article UFO, found a nice image over at commons, but when I tried to add it in using the normal [[file:Ufo.gif]] syntax, I got the wrong image. apparently there's an image on wikipedia that has the same name. how can I bypass the Wikipedia image and get the commons image to load? sorry, I've never run itno this problem before, and I can't find any documentation on it. -- Ludwigs2 19:12, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
This image showed up fine when I looked at it in school using Internet Explorer, but is not visible at home in Firefox. Is there a way to fix this? SharkD Talk 04:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I need help logging in, I enter in my username and password and get this:
Login successful From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search
"You have successfully signed in to Wikipedia as "Knowledgekid87".
For help using Wikipedia, please see the help page.
Logging you in to Wikimedia's other projects: (what's this?)"
However as soon as I click on another link it shows me logged out again and says I need to log in, now I cleared my cookies and temps but still have trouble. Is there any way you can help me? None of the other websites I use are giving me this issue. My browser is Internet Explorer 7 ver. 7.0.5730.11 and OS is Windows XP. - 24.91.121.72 ( talk) 23:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I dont really know myself what happened. After I downloaded and ran firefox I noticed that abode reader needed updating so I did that but then noticed that my computer date had been altered (By the update I guess I checked before whe nthe problem started and it was fine) I also updated Java but I do not think that had an impact - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:41, 10 September 2010 (UTC).
Can anyone see where the code to suppress the table of content is at Talk:Muhammad? __ meco ( talk) 13:01, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Announcement about Pending Changes -- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 19:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear fellows!
I have added a request to Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals to announce a possible new gadget (already one on German wikipedia) which generates an interface to skip over and to individually requested revisions by one single click using a drop down menu. To avoid splitting up discussion, I'd recommend to discuss it there. Kind regards, — DerHexer (Talk) 23:31, 6 September 2010 (UTC) P.S.: Script, howto.
importScript('User:DerHexer/testrevisionjumper.js');
? ;o) Kind regards, —
DerHexer
(Talk) 19:42, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
At least, not for me. I assumed this was a transient problem, but for the last several edits I've made, clicking the "Show Preview" button does nothing but move focus to the "Show Preview" button. Anyone know what's going on? For the record: I'm on the Vector skin on Firefox 3.6.8 on Windows Vista, and I use a ton of custom Javascript but I haven't changed any of it recently. — Gavia immer ( talk) 04:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
-- Ludwigs2 16:37, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
See
Template talk:Hex2dec#Lowercase can give different result
In regular cases the template hexadecimal-to-decimal (say 0xA1==>161) is done by {{
hex2dec}} correctly. But when "0x" is omitted, and the input value is in lowercose like "0f6a79" (correct a hexadecimal it is), the template might give the wrong result. It is a template bug. -
DePiep (
talk) 21:45, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
{{ infobox road small}} needs fixed so that it only displays files if they exist. If you take a look at List of county routes in Erie County, New York (129–160) the template in question is spewing redlinked images. ΔT The only constant 15:59, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I wondered if there was something you could do to the Cologne blue setting to keep that format/colouring but to have the categories /interwiki links at the foot of the page, not the top. Any idea? Dr. Blofeld 17:56, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Try viewing Greta Garbo in cologne blue. What I want is the name Greta Garbo to appear directly underneath where it says "free encyclopedia" (about 3 inches higher up the screen) . Dr. Blofeld 17:58, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me if this is not a tech issue; I don't know where else to post. I started an article on Robina Jalali a few hours ago, not knowing she was also known or formerly known as Robina Muqimyar. So after erroneously creating a Robina Jalali page, I patched the new information on her run for political office into the Robina Mugimyar page and changed the name in the text, mentioning Jalali first...it's easier just to look at my work, than to explain it. Can someone check over the two articles, and correct the name or remove the redirect or whatever in the proper way? Thanks! KeptSouth ( talk) 00:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
The "POTD image" template started rendering differently within the last day. Pages that transclude it are generally broken at the moment... what changed? – SJ + 02:33, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Done from sandbox into live
In the
Template:Village pump pages/sandbox is a proposed new view for this page's header box. There are demos before/after in
Template:Village pump pages/testcases, and notes. Any support? -
DePiep (
talk) 17:13, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Currently, all message boxes like {{ Ambox}}, {{ Ombox}} and the like use tables for their formatting. However, per the W3C HTML 5 specification, it's not allowed to use tables for formatting and rather should CSS be used. Could this be switched to a div then? -- The Evil IP address ( talk) 10:38, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the page Caron has an infobox and a local table next to each other. How can I top-align them? Of course, I expect the infobox to be leading. Just edit there and I'll see it. (When the infobox has class="infobox", am I still supposed to do a deeper RTFM?). - DePiep ( talk) 07:40, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
class=infobox
for the second table too. I did that and also moved the table to a template, so that it doesn't clutter the article code.
Svick (
talk) 15:32, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
<div>
is a cleaner solution.)
Svick (
talk) 18:15, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Can someone with CSS skills help at Template talk:Unbulleted list#Unbulleted list, please? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a tool that I can use to view and edit only an article's references? I want to completely fill out an article's cite template parameters, but don't want to fish around the article for all the individual refs. Thanks! SharkD Talk 04:34, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to see what the main page looked like for a certain day? Smallman12q ( talk) 00:05, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm starting to work on a script to validate usages of {{ singlechart}}, and I've encountered a pretty basic obstacle: I can't figure out how to download the raw wikisource of an article. The basic PHP statement
$Wiki_source=file_get_contents("
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=California_Gurls&action=edit");
gets a HTTP 403 error, even though the exact same URL works fine in my browser. I've looked at Special:Export, and it seems dead-set on doing the process in XML. All I want is the raw wikisource of individual articles.— Kww( talk) 22:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
ini_set('user_agent', 'something unique');
.
Anomie
⚔ 23:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD.js seems to have been acting weird today; it adds extra sigs when someone is trying to close an AfD. I personally use User:Tim Song/closeAFD.js, which had been slightly customized (at least in the past, not sure if both are the same now), but it seems to have the same issue, so I'm not sure why this is happening now, as I was doing fine last week. Can anyone who knows more js than I do (AKA anything) figure out why this is happening (and fix it)? — fetch · comms 03:56, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone encountered a user with no registration date? See here for an example with user:Ockron. Found this user while patrolling BLPs and can't figure out how the account was registered. It doesn't appear in any logs that I can see. I have blocked the user, mostly for the vandalism but also concerned about whether the interface was hacked to create the acct. If anyone feels the block is not needed feel free to override me without discussion. 7 09:37, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
The account in question has a user ID indicating that it was registered in July 2005. -- Tim Starling ( talk) 01:39, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Category:1896 in Norway and a large number of similar categories have been nominated for speedy deletion because someone had made inappropriate edits to {{ NorwayByYear}} to remove that and other categories from articles like 1896 in Norway which employ this template. I have now reverted the template changes so that the articles get categorized appropriately, but still the categories remain unpopulated. I made a post here at WP:VPT quite recently about another problem where the categories didn't update after very many hours. How can the updating be forced so that the categories do not get deleted in the meantime? __ meco ( talk) 18:32, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
My apologies in advance for naive question. Is there (where) a simple editor which allows previewing wikipedia-coded articles off-line? Simply put, I am coding a wiki article off-line and want roughly see how it will look (I mean basic formatting features, surely the wikimedia software is constantly updating). Thanks. Materialscientist ( talk) 07:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I did Google it before posting. The solution is not that straightforward. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
See here. Are there any helper scripts/templates to make it possible to sort by currency value? I know this is possible for dates. SharkD Talk 02:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
What have I done wrong at Cppcheck? One of the references shows up incorrectly User A1 ( talk) 19:26, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if the devs can change the WP:ANI page to require a manual checking of a box that says "Yes, I understand I must alert any involved editors immediately after creating this thread" whenever "new section" is clicked? Basket of Puppies 20:19, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
<!-- I agree -->
) to be present, but it's more hassle than it's worth. —
Dispenser 04:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)re {{
Punctuation marks}}
. Recently I changed the table into CSS using <span>
. Now an IP
reverted all that, because of "Formatting trashed (in IE at least). Reverting to last good version" (es). Could someone (using IE) take a look & tell what went wrong? (I use Firefox 3.6.8) -
DePiep (
talk) 15:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC) + section title-
DePiep (
talk) 15:41, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
Punctuation marks/sandbox}}
I put up the css version, and removed all nbsps between the spans, which should do (they were a bit superfluous anyway). Or, should I read Anomie's explanation that it happens in every linebox? -
DePiep (
talk) 20:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
The problem (for me, at least) is Butterball. I have run into the problem many times, and others surely have too. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:01, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I believe skin compatibility fixes shouldn't have to be enabled by the users as gadgets. Does anyone have any objection to moving MediaWiki:Gadget-modernskin-thunks.js into MediaWiki:modern.js? -- Waldir talk 15:35, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to use Template:cite book. I'm using the url parameter to point to the Google books website, but I'm having problems. The url doesn't show up properly in the reference list. I thought it might be the many equals signs in the url itself, so looking at Help:Template#URL_problems, and not fully understanding it, I tried adding braces before and after each equals sign - didn't help. Anyway, I've put the latest usage in my sandbox for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Is pending-changes level two protection effective with respect to high-risk templates, so that transclusions of templates protected in this manner would only display revisions accepted by a reviewer? If so, then it might provide a useful alternative to full protection, to increase the ease with which certain templates can be edited (obviously, some things, such as template:!, are so sensitive that allowing reviewers to change them isn't advisable.) Peter Karlsen ( talk) 16:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:British Mandate for Palestine#Wrong redirection - when clicking the flag of the British Mandate for Palestine. JohnCD ( talk) 17:41, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, is anyone elses javascript causing problems? I can't properly revert with Twinkle. Aiken ( talk) 22:21, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi folks! I now installed the new gadget “revisionjumper” which allows you to easily navigate diffs, articles' histories and articles themselves. A feature-rich drop down menu offers various functions to jump to a certain revision which is situated before or after the selected revision. Besides default parameters, configurable requests can be done. Further, the default setting can be personalized. It was announced some days ago on this village pump where its functions were discribed. All features are explained on User:DerHexer/revisionjumper. Have fun using it! Kind regards, — DerHexer (Talk) 22:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC) P. S.: Please note that scripts like that one atm do not work because of a slow connection to the database (API).
About 11-12 hours ago I was unable to 'connect' to Wikipedia. Other sites such as Google were still accessible. I also note the earlier post about the 'Tampa API servers', Though this was hours earlier, about 15.00 UTC. Was the site down at that time? n.b. Internet Explorer Ver:7.0.5730.13. (Didn't know about the Wikipedia Status Dashboard !) - 220.101 talk \Contribs 03:25, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I just found a strange edit in my deleted contribs. Admin only - check here - I recall reviewing this CSD tag earlier so I definitely went to the page, but I didn't think it was promotional enough to delete it myself as spam, but similarly didn't want to decline the CSD because it was close. I recall leaving the page without touching anything at all. I definitely did not manually do any of what the diff shows (including the accurate edit summary) - so I am wondering if there is a link that I may have clicked that added this section including the edit summary. Any thoughts? Thanks 7 05:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
The above message is tailored for page moves but is also the message provided when one moves files, to which its contents are variously nonsensical, inapplicable or provide bad advice. Is there a way, if I create, say, MediaWiki:Movefiletext, for us to switch all such file moves to that new mediawiki message?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 00:09, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Adam C. Winfield was nominated for deletion. Another contributor moved the article to Adam Winfield. My recollection was that articles that are currently under {{ afd}} shouldn't be moved, for technical reasons, and I moved it back. The other contributor moved it to Adam Winfield a second time. One of the side-effects of this move is that some links that are important, during the course of the {{ afd}}, no longer work. Links, like the history link at the top of the {{ afd}} no longer work.
I applied a {{ rescue}} tag to the article, and, when instantiated, its link to the actual {{ afd}} discussion was a redlink, until I created a redirect.
Am I correct that articles that are currently under {{ afd}} shouldn't be renamed because of all the important administrative links this breaks?
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 14:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Earlier 71.191.119.34 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) was blocked, at 17:22 GMT, but then went on to vandalize Tommy2010's talk page one minute later. I know that sometimes a queue can cause edits to be delayed, but can a queue problem cause an edit to be delayed by almost a full minute? (The vandalism was at 17:23:35, so it wasn't just on the cusp of the previous minute.) — Soap — 17:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
See this edit. The speedy deletion tag wasn't removed, it was the hangon tag, which had been put there by the user who removed it. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 23:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
In the Video Games WikiProject, a lot of articles tend to get deleted due to cruftyness and useful but non-notable gameguide content. My question is, is there a tool that can be used to move/copy articles to Wikia? As Wikia is usually the proper place for these sorts of articles. SharkD Talk 21:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
The Robert Pattinson article has an infobox in which an editor inserted Pattinson's signature. I don't think the signature is even necessary for the article, but putting that aside, I'd like to make it smaller. How do I do that?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
|signature=Image_name.svg{{!}}100px
. —
Dispenser 00:27, 16 September 2010 (UTC)| signature = Robert Pattinson signature.svg{{!}}left{{!}}75px
headerstyle
value (which obviously is inadvisable).
Intelligent
sium 02:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)A question about the signature parameter that is not on (my) topic. Is there a way to search Wikipedia articles to see which ones use the parameter?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
header50 = {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|Signature{{voidd|{{Infobox person/signature}}}}}}
, with a non-existing
Template:Infobox person/signature, then
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox person/signature shows the pages that call the infobox with a non-empty signature parameter.--
Patrick (
talk) 00:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)|signature_size=
parameter, as a single default is unlikely to be suitable in all cases.
PC78 (
talk) 00:43, 18 September 2010 (UTC)|signature_size=
is now supported, and pages with signatures will be added to
Category:Biography with signature (it will take a while for the category to fill, though).
PC78 (
talk) 12:05, 18 September 2010 (UTC)Can somebody point me to the right place to ask for admin access at the test wiki (I am an en-admin). I have a weird bug - the upcoming version of wikEd does not load only if loaded as a gadget. I need to do some on-site gadget debugging but I do not want to do this on Wikipedia. Thanks for your help, Cacycle ( talk) 19:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to get text to wrap and
Ahh, a "hanging indent"? That's the kind often used in bibliographies, where the first line is not indented, but all the rest (in the wrapped paragraph) are. I don't think there is a wiki-markup for it, but it's doable in plain html. Just wrap the paragraph in <p style="text-indent:-.5in"> ... </p>. It's completely non-standard for any use in Wikipedia so you might want to get second opinion about whether it's a good idea to do...whatever you're trying to do.
<p style="text-indent:-.5in">{{lorem}}<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing 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.
Just granpa ( talk) 21:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">{{lorem}}<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing 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.
Hello guys! Okay, so I want to send a message to the email of an IP, because I tracked their email. I don't really want to use my personal email, and I was wondering, how would I get an email at Wikipedia.org? Thanks! Endofskull ( talk) 23:19, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
As can be seen in this diff, it says that "150 intermediate versions are not shown". Is this true, or is it simply a bug in the MediaWiki software, due to the lost page history? Also, why isn't it possible to use diff=prev in the very oldest edits? For me, it directs to the latest edit. Hey Mid ( contributions) 15:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, my latest edit to my own talk page got tagged like this - would anybody please tell me what triggered this? I'm aware that there are filters in place to catch such behavior, but since there's nothing promoting me or my employer on that page (and I wouldn't want that, anyway, I prefer to remain anonymous), nor any external web link, I wonder why it triggered that filter? Is there anyone who can remove this tag after verifying that there's no self-promotion on that page? -- 78.43.71.155 ( talk) 16:22, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Apparently, in July, the browser I was using would convert the Miscrosoft smart backquote character into this: "�?". Here's an example. Hoping to find and fix any remaining instances of this character, I've tried to search for the character using mediawiki search and google, but had no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks. Haus Talk 18:22, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
how can i store video information to view at one time,when incoming picture stops to catch up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chanse209 ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
A few days ago I added a comment to the bottom of a talk page (it was Talk:Proof (truth)), and apparently when I saved the page it wiped everything except the section the comment was in. There may have been an additional anomaly in displaying the page afterward, since I failed to notice the problem at the time. I suspect, but am not certain, that I had used the <edit> link for that section rather than the one for the whole page, and I think there was a browser crash during that edit. I am using Firefox 3.6.9 under Ubuntu, with the Session Manager add-on (as well as numerous others, but I'm guessing that one might be relevant; it retained the text I had typed and restored it after the crash, so perhaps it mangled the page somehow). False vacuum ( talk) 22:31, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
section
parameter from the URL, but it stays on the page in a hidden field). After that, your browser crashed and then the page was restored with the correct URL and text, but the hidden field wasn't restored, so at that point, you were editing the whole page.
Svick (
talk) 12:40, 19 September 2010 (UTC)Do we have a page or procedure to have a check on browser dependent presentations? Tried: WP:BROWSER (no) HELP:BROWSER (red): don't work for this. I can not (or my sysadmin won't allow me to -- that's the same) do a check on IE. So I am restrained by IE's effects. The restrain is not too rational. How to? - DePiep ( talk) 21:13, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any reason that the "yellow highlight" in the top template at Special:NewPages is a different shade of yellow to the actual highlight colour used in the body of the page? matt ( talk) 10:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a tool who can combinate 'what links here' and categories. For example the topics who links to The Netherlands and which topics also are have a place in the category Education I hope so! Dutchf ( talk) 13:50, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
You'll notice when viewing this old version of a page, it's displaying an old version of File:Te.jpg from Wikimedia Commons near the top. It does not display this error on the current version of the page. I checked on another browser without signing in and I'm having the same issue. Why is this not updating? I'm reluctant to purge the commons page because I want an expert (on here) to see it. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 19:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Re: Earwig: it's gone now. Re: TheDJ, again, I tried it in a different browser, and I'd never seen that page before anyway. I think it was mediawiki taking too long to properly cache an image. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 18:58, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm having a problem with pdf files from the New York Times news archives. Basically, the files are opening in a tiny window at the top of the screen that shows only a few lines and cannot be resized. Anyone know what the problem might be? Gatoclass ( talk) 09:44, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
At Bo Burnham, I have a citation to Boston's Weekly Dig that requires a URL of http://www.weeklydig.com/[catpath]/200903/bo-burnham. It's currently used in a {{ cite news}} with nowiki brackets, and I recently tried to surround it in a {{ URL}} wrapper, but none of them seem to be able to get over the square brackets in the URL. Can anybody suggest a fix? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
The first image used at Airman Basic ( File:DCS04980.jpg) has been broken for quite some time. I've used a wide variety of browsers and computers since I first noticed it, and haven't seen any change. Can anybody else see this problem? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
What's the easiest way to find articles in two or more categories? PL290 ( talk) 10:06, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
If this is not the correct venue for asking this question, I sincerely apologize. I cannot figure out for the life of me why this category doesn't include all of the project participants displaying this template/userbox even though several people display the box. If anyone else able to help, it would be much appreciated. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 04:07, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey dudes. How can I get rid of the "Take me back" and "New features" links at the top of the screen? Peace ;-) Anna Lincoln 16:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
li#pt-prefswitch-link-off {
display: none;
}
Where do I file a bug report for an error in the link to the toolserver template transclusion counter? For example, if do a "what links here" for any template with a space in the name (e.g., Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Hang on), you will see links to "external tools". The first link is fine, but the second one appears to be missing the needed "urlencode" and is tripped up by the space in the title. 68.35.13.81 ( talk) 23:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
We're trying to start a new project, with tutorials using screencasts. There are a number of proprietary ways to do whatever we want, but I'd like an open source solution. There's an open source screencast program (CamStudio), but it outputs AVIs for some darn reason. Does anyone know of a dead simple way to covert those to .ogg or .ogv using another open source program? We've found a proprietary screencast program that will do absolutely everthing, so if the minimum is one proprietary program, then a converter is not needed. CamStudio is crazy easy to use, so I'm hoping I can combine it with one more easy program and have it still be easier than some pay program. Thanks a million. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
The above message appears on Dab solver. The only bit of it I understand is "Dab solver does not work". Could someone explain please what has been done, why it has been done, and when will it be undone so that Dab solver will work again? Thanks. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to look at my watchlist in Google Reader, and keep finding that some edits don't appear in the feed. I suspect this is due to the feeds on Wikipedia using the article URL for the id (Atom) or guid (RSS) field, with no other qualifier, so these fields aren't unique.
The W3C validation service says this is categorically wrong for RSS, although it appears to be permitted if not recommended for Atom, so I'll blame Google for GReader failing to cope with the Atom feed properly.
I'm planning on raising this as a bug for the RSS case on Bugzilla, and a feature request for Atom. Before I do that, though, I thought I'd check here in case anyone's found a work-around or can tell me I'm Doing It Wrong.
-- me_ and 17:09, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
The search bar on this search bar is too narrow and is displaying g letters as qs. I recall that a few days after the vector switch the main search bar was widened but this change was apparently never applied to the others. Marcus Qwertyus 19:53, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I just got a new RSS manager, and for some reason, every time I try to sync my watchlist RSS feed, it gives me a 403 error. I exported the links from my other RSS reader, and it worked there, but here it doesn't. Any ideas? A p3rson ‽ 23:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
User-Agent
header.
Svick (
talk) 06:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&allrev=allrev&wlowner=A p3rson&wltoken=<string of 40 numbers and letters you shouldn't publish>&feedformat=rss
, correct?
Svick (
talk) 05:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)\HKCU\Software\DaProfik\pRSSreader
right?
A p3rson
‽ 23:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I noticed today that if you rename an article with edit notices attached, the edit notices get stranded under the old name: they trigger if you edit the redirect that was left behind, but not if you edit the new article name. Can anyone confirm that there isn't an existing Bugzilla report? I can't find one, but I'm pretty amateurish when it comes to Bugzilla.— Kww( talk) 14:51, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that edit conflicts notices aren't appearing AFAICT at the moment. For example, I didn't get an EC making this edit to my sandbox even though I made that edit and the previous edit to the same original version of the page. Earlier today when I made this edit to Stuxnet I also didn't get an EC even though the text that was removed in the previous edit was still in the text when I saved it. I'm fairly sure that I should also have had an EC with this edit as I took more than 4 minutes to look at the sources and make my comment. Has something changed in the software recently? Smartse ( talk) 14:18, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Templates give me nightmares but {{ WPBannerMeta/collapsed}} has over 200,000 links to it. and the template is deleted. Could someone figure out what happened and fix it? ΔT The only constant 22:47, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
The new editbox/toolbar has some CSS issues; I cannot set the line-height (which I find to large) from my own CSS, not even with !important. It seems that any CSS applied to #wpTextbox1 seems to be overridden by http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/css/combined.min.css (not editable). Anyone has a solution? — Edokter • Talk • 14:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
The file: File:KhalilShaikh Mohammed-FBI2.jpg has been deleted recently. Where can i find the information who deleted it and why it was deleted? Thank you. IQinn ( talk) 02:24, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I seem to be having issues with scripts. WP:WikiEd has vanished, and on history pages the Twinkle links for rollback are gone. I'm using Monobook, Firefox 3.6.10, Windows 7. I did just install the WikiTrust add-on, could that be causing it? Fences& Windows 22:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was a template one could use in disambiguation pages to properly pipe song titles, like so:
I didn't see any mention of such a template on WP:PIPING#Piping. Thanks, 28bytes ( talk) 17:38, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
"[[{{{1}}}|{{str left|{{{1}}}|{{#expr: {{str len| {{{1}}} }}-7 }}}}]]"
[[{{{1}}} ({{{2}}})|"{{{1}}}" ({{{2}}})]]So that
{{subst:Song|Hotel California|song}}would generate
[[Hotel California (song)|"Hotel California" (song)]]when the page is saved. 28bytes ( talk) 18:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
({{{2}}})
to {{#if:{{{2|}}}|({{{2}}})}}
. If it is apparent from the context of the disambiguation entry that it is a song,, however, then we might
ignore that particular rule and simply pipe it.
Intelligent
sium 23:18, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
The correct place for reporting such issues might not be here, but I still don't know where it is. Please see this thread. In the "Watchlist" section of My preferences there is a misplaced hyphen, and as such it should be removed. Shall this be done? -- Theurgist ( talk) 01:57, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
For the past few days, only with Chrome and erratically, clicking on the tildes after 'Sign your posts on talk pages' puts my sig in the section heading box when I've started a section. It's doing it now, for instance. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 05:50, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to get the table below to sort in numeric order. It needs to include a cell that says "N/A". I tried adding a couple of hidden rows so that no matter whether the table was sorted low-to-high or high-to-low, the first row could cause the sort order to be numeric. It doesn't seem to work like I hoped. I also tried adding hidden text in the N/A cell, but I can't get it to work that way, either. It goes through 4 separate sorts rather than 2 like it should.
Number |
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97 |
5 |
49 |
— |
-- Greenbreen ( talk) 19:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Number |
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97 |
5 |
49 |
— |
Number |
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97 |
5 |
49 |
N/A |
Dear All technical expert,this is a small Small request from Bengali Wikipedia. I want to know that how do you do the Main page tab as Main page? I submit that T22987 regarding this issue.If you see the main page of this Wikipedia you can see the respective tab shown as "Main page" . But if you see our main page of Bengali Wikipedia, you can see "নিবন্ধ"(Article).Not shown "প্রধান পাতা"(main page) it mean that in our Wikipedia the main page assign as article/main namespane. Mediawiki:Mainpage and Mediawiki:Mainpage-description both are assign "প্রধান পাতা"(main page). And Mediawiki:Nstab-main assign to "নিবন্ধ"(Article).Thank you all in advance. - Jayanta Nath ( Talk| Contrb) 19:09, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
/** Main Page layout fixes *********************************************************
*
* Description: Adds an additional link to the complete list of languages available.
* Maintainers: [[User:AzaToth]], [[User:R. Koot]], [[User:Alex Smotrov]]
*/
if (wgPageName == 'Main_Page' || wgPageName == 'Talk:Main_Page')
addOnloadHook(function () {
addPortletLink('p-lang', 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias',
'Complete list', 'interwiki-completelist', 'Complete list of Wikipedias')
var nstab = document.getElementById('ca-nstab-main')
if (nstab && wgUserLanguage=='en') {
while (nstab.firstChild) nstab = nstab.firstChild
nstab.nodeValue = 'Main Page'
}
}
)
thumb|right|299px|Sized at 299px thumb|right|300px|Sized at 300px thumb|right|301px|Sized at 301px File:Franks expansion.gif
Does not seem to animate at 300px. Works at any other size. Some kind of broken thumbnail or something?
This was reported with a {{helpme}} on Talk:Francia#Animation, and I 'fixed' it by changing the size from 300 to 299.
Is there some broken thumbnail? Will it sort itself out? Chzz ► 04:23, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
The HasCategory parser function doesn't seem to be enabled on enwiki. Does anyone know if it is possible to get it, and how to go about doing so? Would it just involve filing a bugzilla request? rʨanaɢ ( talk) 13:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hm, I guess it's probably not ready, in that case. Do you guys know if there's any other way to do the following: if a template (in this case, {{
zh}}
) is used over and over again on a single page, instead of having to call a certain display parameter every time, is there a way to set sort of a default setting for that entire page? My idea was to have a parameter with a value like {{#ifhascat:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|some category|some value|some other value}}
.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 20:56, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Manufacturers | Milton Bradley Company |
---|---|
Publishers | Milton Bradley Company |
Players | 1 or more |
Age range | 4 to adult |
I spent over an hour trying to debug a template, when I noticed that, oddly enough, it worked as expected when previewing the page while refusing to work when viewing it normally. To see what I mean, look at the template to the right and see how it only shows a bold apostrophe ( ' ) above the box. Now click [edit] for this section and go straight to the edit preview. You should then suddenly see Village pump (technical) in place of where the bold apostrophe was without making any changes! (Unless of course this was fixed by the time you did that.) It's frustrated me to no end trying to make it display the name of the box when the "title" parameter is left blank for
Template:Infobox game... Isn't it strange how it's broken when viewing normally but works fine in edit preview? —
Code
Hydro 16:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
|parameter=
behaves differently than omitting the parameter entirely. This isn't the way it used to work, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. did someone make a code change somewhere that mucked things up?Could a dev comment at T27158? It's been a few weeks now... Smallman12q ( talk) 21:22, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm experiencing a few issues with this template, and bearing in mind the recent policy change at WP:ITALICTITLE it would be ideal to get it working as well as possible. It's a little beyond my coding skills, so any input would be welcome. See discussion at Template talk:Italic title#Issues with this template. Cheers! PC78 ( talk) 22:10, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to create a template which, when substituted, becomes a URL ( example) pointing to the resulting page-revision as of the moment of the save. You would put the template in your signature, so when future editors are reading through your comments on a talk page, they can very quickly see what the underlying article looked like when you were talking about it. The idea is to make old talk page discussions easier to read and relate to.
I'm currently using a version that isolates that revision on the article's "history" page:
That works OK, but it's less convenient, and less likely to take hold widely. I want to generate the URL of that revision, directly.
Over at the help desk, TFOWR introduced me to {{REVISIONID}}. That seems to put us on the right track:
However, we need to make the oldid permanent, but here is what happens when we use {{subst:REVISIONID}}:
In fact, TFOWR points out T8181, i.e. that MediaWiki can't perform {{subst:REVISIONID}}, and suggests maybe we need to create a magic word for {{PREVREVISIONID}}. So we might need another trick.
FYI, here are the instructions for creating MediaWiki URLs.
AGradman / talk / how the subject page looked when I made this edit 01:20, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
For using the revision ID of the subject page on the talk page the bug is unrelated. What we need here is allowing REVISIONID to have a page name as parameter. You could file a new feature request at bugzilla.-- Patrick ( talk) 09:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I posted the original query here and got redirected to the VPT, so doing a cut/paste of the original report made here. Hope this is the right place to report this link error.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands is the wikipedia URL for the Senkaku Islands article that I have problems getting into.
I was searching for "Senkaku Islands" from google, and clicking on the wikipedia result gave me a "404 Not Found" error. Typing "senkaku islands" in Wikipedia's search box will throw up the same error. Similarly, clicking on "senkaku islands" on the disambigiuos Senkaku article page shows up the same 404 error. Same with this redirect page. In fact, the only way I can reach the article is to search for the less common Diaoyutai.
A check with the move logs show that the page has recently been subject with quite a number of moves, due to it being a result territorial disputes between China and Japan. (That was the reason why I was searching for the article originally, as I was looking for more background on the incident). The last discussion regarding the move resulted in a "no-move" agreement among the editors, but the prior moves may have somehow "broken" the way Wikipedia is linking to the article.
As this is a hot news topic at the moment, the article will be highly sought after and the bad link should be fixed as soon as possible. Thanks in advance! Zhanzhao ( talk) 06:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
"Not Found
The requested URL /wiki/Senkaku_Islands was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at en.wikipedia.org Port 80"
Page title is :404 Not Found Zhanzhao ( talk) 15:39, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry guys for the false alarm, I just checked at a computer at my office and its working fine so apparently it IS a home proxy issue, sorry for taking up your time. I was just getting paranoid and thinking that some faction from the region dispute was getting overly enthusiastic and somehow hacking the wikipedia system or at least gaming it over the dispute. Case closed? Zhanzhao ( talk) 23:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
How do i get "& nbsp;" to display. I tried code and nowiki and it still just shows a space. Just granpa ( talk) 21:43, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Here: -- WOSlinker ( talk) 21:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
When a user selects "Wikipedia use only" or non-commercial use only in the license drop-down on the upload form, the file is uploaded with a CSD tag on it. Can we just return an error message to the user and not upload the image at all in these cases? — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 19:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any way I can add custom css to my vector.css to get the effect of highlighted posts, as seen here? If so, what would the css be? / ƒETCH COMMS / 23:15, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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Is there a way to make a loop in a template? I want to send the template a number X and have it return an expression repeated X times. Just granpa ( talk) 00:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you guys (and ladies) help me out with the table "Known Roman bridges" at Roman bridge? I would like to make it so collapsible that only the bold (continents + total) appears when collapsed. Also, I'd like to have a sortable list, but somehow some countries don't follow the order. Thanks in advance Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 08:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
This is a problem in Tamil wikipedia. The template {{coord|display=title}} is not working there. It just displays the coordinates as inline text. While investigating it i found that none of the top icons - pp, fa, ga etc work there (they don't appear at all). Similar problem exists in a few other wikipedias like Friulian Wikipedia. Can someone help me to solve this problem? -- Sodabottle ( talk) 14:11, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone else noticed this? every once in a while I'll submit a post, get an edit conflict, and then go back to realize that my post actually went through (implying that the edit conflict was with my own post). This could happen if (for instance) something in the software was duplicating submit requests, so that the first goes through and then the duplicate request conflicts with the original. it's not a huge problem, just odd. Working on Safari 5.0.2 on Mac OS 10.6.4. -- Ludwigs2 17:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I get it too sometimes, using Google Chrome 6.0.472.63 on WinXP. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
It's also possible for this to happen when some editor starts a new section on a busy discussion page by using the section edit link on the last section and adding a new top-level section at the end of it. The edit conflict resolver doesn't handle this very well - it either ought to be an edit conflict or not, but it generally manifests as an invisible edit conflict that ought to be resolvable. — Gavia immer ( talk) 18:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place to ask...
I'm just wondering how the database stores links within each entry. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_Great_America In the first paragraph, there are links to "amusement park", "cedar fair...", "santa clara...", etc. How are these links stored in the database? They aren't actual HTML-formatted links, right? That would be far too cumbersome.
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.210.240 ( talk) 21:21, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
My new template at Template:Nuclides is finished.
I just have to add the values for the half-lives.
There is one glitch left in the layout that I cant seem to fix myself.
The template, which creates a table, contains this code
The first line creates a table cell containing "50".
When D=yes then the second line starts a new table row.
But when D=yes I get an extra space after the 50 that I dont want.
But if I remove the then I dont get a carriage return which is essential.
How can I get a carriage return without also getting a space?
Just granpa ( talk) 21:48, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
When the cursor is not in the search box, the search box contains the word "Search". Usually, it is a light gray color and disappears as soon as one clicks to type in the search box. At times, however, it is black and does not disappear when one clicks to type in the search box, and it must be manually deleted before searching. The issue is present both when I am logged in and logged out. Any ideas about what may be causing this and how to fix it? (I am using Vector and have IE8). Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:07, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Please look at the References section of the Jimmy Wales article. After the initial note, there is a use of the reflist template and a long string of references, none of which appears in the article, at least not when I'm looking at it. I looked at the template documentation and became hopelessly lost in what appeared to be all sorts of caveats about using the template in this manner. Can someone please explain what is going on? If it matters, I'm using the latest version of Firefox, although if I view it with IE6, it looks the same to me.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 07:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to add filters to the watchlist page?
I have a lot of articles on my watchlist and some (like TV episodes/movies that are targets of fancruft) that I only want to visit every week or two to clean up. But if I only have a little bit of time to edit, I would really like to just be able to filter out everything but the BLP articles and focus my time there without all the other articles cluttering up my "to do" list. Active Banana (bananaphone 14:41, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
foo{{#if:bar|*bar}}
→ foo
Is this an intended feature. Seems a bit daft. – droll [chat] 20:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to have the items in the drop-down menu appear as tabs instead? — Edokter • Talk • 22:50, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
There is now a little "x" after the page titles on my watchlist. Does this mean anything? Thanks. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:53, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I just had a capital U appear in the same space, went when I refreshed my watchlist. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I've started a new template at
Template:Nuclides.
The
doc page fully explains how it works.
Parameters A-D determine which rows are displayed.
Ideally I would like to be able to use another set of parameters to determine which columns are displayed.
(right now all columns are displayed all the time)
The obvious way to make a column not display is to set width=0px for that column.
I tried it and it didnt work in firefox.
Using #if: for every single cell will be a pain and will be slow to render.
Any suggestions?
I'm also hoping that someone who knows more about templates will be kind enough
to look over my work and tell me if there is a much easier way to do this
before I get any further involved with it.
Just granpa (
talk) 22:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
That might help. Just granpa ( talk) 23:38, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
All the Navigation/Search/Toolbox etc malarky that should be under the Wikipedia logo on the left of my Watchlist has disappeared in the last ten minutes. They all still shew fine on any other page. Old-stylee Wikipedia, Google Chrome on WinXP. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:59, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
My question is why is
Wikipedia:Database reports/Cross-namespace redirects/2 appearing on the list of
Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_edit_requests (
exists?)? That category holds the list of open semi-protected edit requests indicated by a {{
edit semi-protected}}
template on the page. The data report page does not contain that template anywhere on it but still appears in the category. --
Stickee
(talk) 02:13, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Why is that possible, and when would that ever be necessary? New pages really aren't minor edits (nor are new sections, really), so I'm not sure why this option is available for such situations, unless it's because the software always shows it on every edit screen and that can't be changed. / ƒETCH COMMS / 03:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you may have read recently on the Wikimedia Blog or in the latest Signpost, the Wikimedia Foundation has released an experimental Article feedback tool, currently enabled on a small subset of Public Policy articles (more details are included in the blog post). The main reason why I'm coming to you today is because we're trying to build a small team of users and developers to assess the feature itself to see what we should do with it, if we should improve it (and if so, how) or simply abandon it.
I realize you may want to focus on "bigger" features such as Pending Changes right now, but it's really important for us that some of you join the workgroup so we make sure it meets your needs.
If you don't want to join the workgroup, but still want to provide feedback, please read the Q&A page and leave comments on the workgroup's talk page.
Many thanks in advance for your help!
guillom, for the Features engineering team. 20:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
As was suggested here, is it possible to show an interface notice while viewing a user's talk page, noting that they are blocked? – xeno talk 17:50, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Why is a javascript solution so repulsive? Popups already does it, so it couldn't be that hard. Gigs ( talk) 19:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Take a look at Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_cleanup_from_August_2010. For some reason, almost all of the cleanup categories have been deleted, though they're still populated. What happened? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 22:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I can't remember whether WikiRank had this or something similar, but in any case they have now (apparently) discontinued the service after their acquisition. Out of curiosity, I built an interactive visualization of Gliese 581 g's edits, using Google Spreadsheets, and thought I'd share the concept here in case someone has ideas on how to improve it (make it work with any article, supplied by the viewer, or group sequential edits by the same editor, etc.), or gets inspired to create something similar (toolserver devs, anyone? :D). It can be found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aj_U36rhRPNldFUwOW4xaEtqMUxobUR4elVVLTdURmc. -- Waldir talk 10:56, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
I entered WP:VPT into the search bar, and although am normally redirected here, it now lists no search results, with the link that says there is an article with the exact name. What's going on? Searches for terms (not article titles) don't work at all either. Bramble claw x 18:22, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Please look at List_of_Jewish_Justices#Justices. The table doesn't start until (I assume) after the navbox on the right ends. I'd like the table to start at the top of the section as there's plenty of room for it to do so, and when I first scrolled down, I initially thought the section was blank. I've looked at the template(s) used, but I don't see how to make this happen.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
style="clear: both"
from
Template:Start U.S. judgeship would work for this specific problem, but I'm wondering if it is there for a reason and the change may affect other articles. If it would then just copy the header and make the change into the article in question.
Rambo's Revenge
(talk) 23:48, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
but I'm setting up a private testwiki space on my own server, and I wanted to know what the code was to get the "Unable to proceed" page when trying to move/delete the Main Page.
Also, would the MP be deleted if I tried to move a page over it? That's what is happening with Mediawiki Default, it seems. / ƒETCH COMMS / 03:37, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
File:DarioCampanile.DalaiLama.Missing Peace.jpg File:DarioCampanile.Paramount.jpg
The thumbnails for these two images appear to be corrupted, somehow.
I'm reporting this 'on behalf of' Sungila ( talk · contribs) who asked for feedback here.
Chzz ► 20:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please fix the coord problem on Dorongou? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs/ editor review)~ 23:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
|longm=
parameter was 70, which is not valid (recall that there are 60 minutes of arc to one degree, just as there are 60 minutes to an hour). I've temporarily fixed it by commenting out the invalid parameter, but you might have to do some more research to find the correct coordinates. The Maplandia external link seems to be the source of this erroneous measurement.
Intelligent
sium 23:31, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes when I click on it it works as normal, other times it adds my sig to the section heading or the search field (the one above the editing field), or elsewhere. I'm using the current version of Chrome. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 17:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone help with the table at User:Skinsmoke/Sandbox/Civil parishes/Kernow please? The places starting with "St" should of course sort at "Saint", how do we make the table do this? DuncanHill ( talk) 09:37, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
This diff [6] makes everything below it disappear from the visible page. Can anyone fix it please? DuncanHill ( talk) 14:31, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
I am passing a parameter with value "06" and it seems to be received with a value of "00" - no doubt it is either something incredibly subtle or something incredibly stupid - however I'm not likely to spot either it seems. Symptom: page displaying "December" ewhen it should be "June"
Just possibly this is WM limit on depth of transclusion? (You can see this limit in effect I believe at template {{ Weather box}} where the sample box has some empty cells - the doc page however shows them filled in. Also template {{ Delink}} which works beautifully in test but in anger breaks inexplicably.)
Rich Farmbrough, 16:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC).
Is it related to the typo in {{
Monthly clean up category}} and also {{
Monthly clean up category/outer core}}, where }}{{#if:{{diags|}}}|
should presumably be }}{{#if:{{{diags|}}}|
(with an extra brace before "diags")? —
Richardguk (
talk) 22:27, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The error has apparently disappeared. Earlier Category:BLP articles lacking sources from June 2006 displayed "This category combines all BLP articles lacking sources from December 2006 ...". Now it correctly says June 2006. I don't know what fixed it. I made some tests during the discussion but didn't find the cause of the error. Previewing
{{Monthly clean up category/monthno|from June 2006}}
correctly displayed 06. Previewing
{{Monthly clean up category|monthno=06}}
correctly displayed "... articles lacking sources from June 2006 ...". But earlier, previewing
{{Monthly clean up category|monthno={{Monthly clean up category/monthno|from June 2006}}}}
incorrectly displayed "... articles lacking sources from December 2006 ...". PrimeHunter ( talk) 12:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Monthly clean up category/monthname}}
. This template produces the correct month name now. Earlier subtemplate {{
Monthly clean up category/monthno}}
(input param #1= {{PAGENAME}} i.e. to use the part "from August 2009") is still used to pass through monthno, but monthno is not used in subtemplates /outer core and {{
Monthly clean up category/core}}
at all. So it's calculated, possibly wrong and unused.{{
Monthly clean up category/outer core}}
. -
DePiep (
talk) 15:46, 5 October 2010 (UTC)I think Ludwigs is probably correct in his diagnosis. The value of monthno (if not passed in as a parameter, as none of the current uses that I am aware of do) is as DaPiep says, correctly calculated and passed down the stack => outer core => core (at one point I thought I was going to need "inner core"!), although /core does use it - successfully - as a category sort key (which was it's entire function originally) see for example
Category:BLP_articles_lacking_sources. It also uses it to calculate the age of the template and nominate it for speedy deletion if it is old and empty - again successfully. Thanks for all the input, it is a great help (especially reassuring me that I'm not just "
template blind" and missing a piece of punctuation!) if I do not hear otherwise I will remove the diagnostic parameter in the relatively near future.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:43, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
I tried to fix the section edit link, bunching problem in the United States Congress, but I guess I don't understand the Template:Fix bunching well enough. Can someone please help?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:43, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Two questions: 1) Why don't redirect pages and titles appear in search engine results?. Is it deliberate? if so, are we (wikipedia) doing it or the search engines are programmed to ignore redirects?
2)I read some where that article talk pages in en.wiki are not indexed by google. But i found that talk pages in some other wikis (like Tamil Wiki) are indexed. Who decides this? google or us (i mean, can we turn this on or off from wikipedia's end?) -- Sodabottle ( talk) 17:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Please be aware of
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 35
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC).
(A) How many GByte do the images actually used in english wikipedia articles use in total?, (B) what would the size of the thumbnail used be? I tried to find this info in the statistics- and download section(s) but only found just about everything about number of articles, requests, size etc.. Electron9 ( talk) 00:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to know, when browsing through my contributions list, which of those pages I currently have watchlisted, is there any easy way to do this? -- œ ™ 10:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Regarding watchlist.. is it possible to have two of them ..?, one for important. And one for less important ones. Without resorting to two users or script-fu? Electron9 ( talk) 11:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that my total edit count clicked up to 20,000 last night, according to X!'s edit counter and SoxBot's admin stats (15,554 edits plus 4,446 deleted edits). A rough count of my contributions and deleted contributions indicates that these are correct. However, the number of edits according to my preferences is only 18,427. Can anyone explain the discrepancy? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 11:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Say you're looking at a diff of a deletion edit where someone has left the edit summary, "Not supported by source cited". So you want to look at the url for the source to verify that. If the ref was given as just a bare url between two "ref" tags then all you have to do is click on the URL to open it.
But if the URL is embedded within a "cite" template then the URL won't be "clickable". If you try to click on it you'll get directed to Template:cite_news or Template:cite_web or whatever. And if you try to "highlight" the URL with your mouse so you can copy-paste it to your browser's "destination address" field, you'll find that you can't easily do so: The highlighting behavior is all wonky, and you'll invariably end up grabbing more characters than you want. You'll have to paste the whole mess into the "destination address" field, and then trim off the extra characters there before trying to access the web site. This makes verifying sources from diffs much harder than it needs to be.
I'm guessing it should be fairly easy to correct this in the MediaWiki software, to just "turn off" the feature whereby hovering over a cite template in diffs targets Template:cite_web or whatever. Would other editors also be in favor of such a feature change request? – OhioStandard ( talk) 20:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Are there any characters that take up zero space?
Control characters maybe?
I am using but it takes up too much space and messes up my layout.
(Some columns refuse to go to zero width when they are supposed to)
Template:Nuclides#Example_charts
The template code demands that I put something there before it will give me a carriage return so I cant just leave it empty.
Just granpa (
talk) 04:02, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a note, my huggle isn't connecting to IRC and is using slow api queries, making vandalism reversion a bit slow. am I the only one having this problem? Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 02:23, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) WT:Huggle#Unable to stay connected to IRC gives a bit more explanation into this matter. Killiondude ( talk) 16:48, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Georgetown University ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Still showing for me (blatantly, and it's ugly), and I can't figure out why. It's not in the transcluded template. Is this a fluke in my browser? If not, can somebody fix it? I don't want to publicize this at ANI or a more visible forum, and you guys seemed likely to know. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:10, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Is there a place or tool where one can get particular statistics? If I wanted to know (as I do, in fact) what percentage of articles created between August 1, 2009, and July 31, 2010, by newcomer editors who had less than 20 edits at the time they created the article were still in existence 60 days after the day they created the article, is there a place or a way to get that information? Best regards, TRANSPORTERMAN ( TALK) 21:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Introducing {{ Gradient}}. Still a bit a work in progress. Works in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but not in Opera and IE (yet). It seems Microsoft filters are blocked, and I am still looking for a way around that. — Edokter • Talk • 17:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
{{ Border-radius}} and {{ Box-shadow}}. Have fun. — Edokter • Talk • 16:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
For an exapmle of how much typing these templates can save, see this edit. — Edokter • Talk • 23:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Nice one! I've already been using box-shadow and its variants on certain Signpost templates... I think subtle use looks great with the new Vector skin. — Pretzels Hii! 18:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
see the discussion at Template_talk:Quote_box#adding_some_minor_coolness and the test cases at Template:Quote_box/testcases. my feeling is that these make for some nice improvements to the interface, and so long as they fail invisibly in browsers where they fail, we might as well start a discussion about using them more broadly in the project (either as separate templates or as additions to the core CSS classes). need some broader opinions on that, though. -- Ludwigs2 23:19, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Proposal here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki_talk:Common.css&oldid=389737066#Add_-webkit-text-size-adjust:_none.3B_to_MediaWiki:Handheld.css -- MZMcBride ( talk) 17:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out the css for external links, but none of the ones I use are working? Is there any place that lists all CSS classes used by Wikipedia? Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 18:19, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
#content a.external, #bodyContent a.external
, which should just about always work. Go
bypass your cache and see if it's fixed. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
edits|
⚡}} 18:28, 9 October 2010 (UTC)I wanted to cite this bloomberg article, but it gives a 404 now. Google cache has a copy though. How can I preserve the google cache copy? (Webcitation doesn't allow citations of google cache). Smallman12q ( talk) 16:34, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
See this to see what I mean. Don't bother looking for me there, as I'n not involved, but I feel like this might be helpful here in quickly identifiing who has what major user right (of course excludin minor things like rolback ad reviewer). Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 00:40, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I previously posted about this here. The mediawiki message linked above is tailored for page moves but is also the message provided when one moves files, where it either makes no sense or gives poor advice. As noted at the past discussion, in order to do this it would need to be coded so that it displays a different message for the file namespace. I have attempted to figure out the code myself but I am not sure at all what I came up with will not break the move text for all moves (a bad result you'd agree) so I would appreciate it if one of you coding gurus would provide me the code or made the edit (giving me credit in the edit summary). Below is the text I propose be added for the file namspace. Thanks.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 19:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Using the form below will rename a file, moving all of its history to the new name. This option is only available to administrators and those with higher permissions.
Leaving a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] from the prior title to the new is the norm for ''page moves'' for various reasons, such as that the prior title often has numerous internal and incoming links that would be broken upon the move and that it may be a likely search term. By contrast, such concerns are not normally applicable to file titles, which are often only linked from the one or two pages on which the file appears. Accordingly, unless this file is included in many pages (check using [[Help:What links here|what links here]]; do not rely solely on the file links at the bottom of the file page), please consider manually changing all links to the old title to the new title, and then moving the file without leaving a redirect behind. The option to leave a redirect behind is checked by default, and must be unticked if you take this course.
Please remember after the move to revisit the file page and remove {{tl|rename media}} or any other code that requested the move. Please also consider [[Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons|moving this page to the Commons]] if it is a public domain release or under a [[Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses|suitable free license]].
Under development is {{
unicode2}}. Target: in specific ranges of Unicode (plane 1 and higher, so non-BMP) use a font-family that does those characters well. This implies that in those places we skip the more general {{
unicode}} template. It is combining Unicode planes (or blocks, scripts), fonts, and browsers, especially browser-default-fonts. (is: for that one script/block, we want to use a font via unicode2 that does well on many browsers. Another script/block, another font)
Request: Can someone check the coding of the class="font-family"-trick in the template? Difficult to check myself, and very sensitive to typos.
Earlier talk e.g.
here. And: can I create like class="unicode2"
? See
/testcases. -
DePiep (
talk) 22:55, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
There is an on going problem with {{ convert}} and {{ documentation}} not working well together. I believe it is a transclusion depth problem. If anyone wants to take a stab at the problem, see Template talk:Documentation#Problems with transclusion depth. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:41, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
How difficult would it be to add vertical bars next to the line(s) that have been changed in a comparison of different versions of an article? I sometimes go crazy trying to find a single character that has changed. Sometimes, as here, I can't find the change at all. Some publications that have recurring updates (like computer manuals and legal treatises) use the convention of inserting vertical bars next to the changes. Would it be hard for Wikipedia to implement such a system? Wine may improve with age, but my eyes don't.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:27, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
.diff-addedline * .diffchange { background-color: #FF7458 !important; color: black !important; }
On the Help Desk today we have reports of intermittent problems with images not displaying - WP:Help desk#Flag not working, WP:Help desk#image problem. Is this the place to report it? -- John of Reading ( talk) 16:50, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
For an information science class in my grad program, I'm writing a paper about the DYK process; although it feels very odd to cite Wikipedia for an academic paper, this is definitely an acceptable situation, since I'm writing about the website itself. To my surprise, the "cite this page" button visible in the toolbox when looking at an article isn't there when I look at a page in any other namespace. Have we ever had such a link available for non-articles? Nyttend ( talk) 14:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
See the doc of Template:Str_left, and also bugzilla:22555.
Not only these templates are very costly in terms of ressources (notably CPU and memory in the garbage collector), and causing excessive delays to render pages (so much that it now affects all other wikis, because the Egnlish Wikipedia constantly takes all ressources and never ends consuming more), but these templates are simply bogous (due to a bug in MediaWiki parserfunctions).
Time to reconsider the use of Template:Str_left and all the related templates that use it, including ALL infoboxes and ALL stub templates, i.e. almost ALL pages of this Wikipedia. Please consider making and using templates that will not need to perform trimming of positional parameters the way it is done today, or that will need to extract a domain name from a specified URL (consider adding a description text parameter instead, or just display the URL without attmpting to truncate it).
Most of those very tricky templates should be phased out (their introduction in this wiki have seriously impacted its performance in too many pages). You should not build this Wikipedia using them, just because MediaWiki does not offer an efficient way to to that with a conventient native parser function. Please ask instead to install string parser functions in this wiki. verdy_p ( talk) 13:50, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Often I want a structure of an infobox and I need it modified for a slightly different purpose, but I find that all the if-conditionals and the recursive template substitution blows up in my face. Isn't there an easier way to modify the structure of an infobox template? John Riemann Soong ( talk) 00:35, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Infobox newspaper}}
) use the {{
Infobox}}
meta-template and those can have code that is relatively easy to understand and edit. Others (like {{
Infobox Universal attraction}}
) use conditionals with wikitable syntax, which can be quite complicated. My opinion is that the latter should be converted to the former format.
Svick (
talk) 19:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Str rightc}}
should be completey avoided in {{unichar/gc}}
.{{
Str rightc}}
does not mention any deprecation or disadvice. Also, could you link to that policy? That would greatly base your use of the word "abuse", and also point to alternatives. Having seen the age of the development question, I don't think a vote from me would add much. -
DePiep (
talk) 10:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)Are null (invisible) edits saved into the MediaWiki database or not? As far as I know, they are not shown in the page history. Hey Mid ( contributions) 13:59, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
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Template:Unichar( talk links history). I created a quite elaborate template (using sub-templates and calculations). Workings are OK. Then I documented it with examples on the regular /doc subpage. Now the examples on the regular Template:unichar/doc page itself look OK, but when that same /doc page is transcluded into the main Template-page {{ unichar}} (having the green Document background, etc., all regular), then the examples don't show up well. Diff: the first example reads OK:
On the main Template page, it says:
The 0000 indicates that a hex2dec calculation variable did not end up well in a subtemplate.
I tried purging every page I touched, waiting one whole hour (wow), and re-sandboxed the whole thing. The new sandbox ended up correct after a while, but I cannot reproduce it for real. This good sandbox is on my
User:DePiep page, I'll put it on top. Anyone an idea? Need more sandboxes? -
DePiep (
talk) 19:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Template:Unichar( talk links history). The regular /doc page shows examples OK, but when transcluded onto main Template-page, the examples are broken. See /doc header with good/bad example. I did purge, sandbox (went ok, see my Userpage), checked newPP limits (serious, but under 50%). - DePiep ( talk) 07:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>
, for example {{t|p|q}}
is replaced by {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|p|q}}
. Often that shows up, but not if that wikitext is just used in a condition, or in the case of a template parameter with a default.--
Patrick (
talk) 10:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Need someone to move the user edits from User:Shannon1/usurped3 to User:Shannon1. Still facing a lot of problems with that. Brought it up a few times but never got any help as I am not an admin. Shannon talk contribs 05:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
That old problem again. I created the category Category:Thai film stubs some days ago, after adding the relevant stub tag to 60+ film articles. However, the category only has two articles at the moment while the system refreshes. And there are some massive lags in some page moves I've done, where I've updated the navigation templates on the article with the new article title. Can anything be done about this? Lugnuts ( talk) 08:52, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Several different times, I've tried to find logs for individuals being desysopped, but I don't remember ever being able to find any. For example, let's look at Herostratus — his log shows him creating the account, becoming an admin, having offensive revisions being deleted, being blocked and unblocking himself, and having user rights added, but I can't find anything about him being desysopped. FYI, it happened after a successful request for de-adminship last June, but the log doesn't show anything. Any ideas how to find the exact date and time? Please note that I'm not in any conflict or anything like that with Herostratus; I'm using him strictly as an example. Nyttend ( talk) 21:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Let me tell a short story: it will illuminate my question. Earlier today, I found a user talk page in CAT:CSD that had been tagged with {{ db-band}}. If it had been in mainspace, I would have deleted it, because the page had only ever been used as userspace hosting for what looks to be a nonnotable band; I declined, but only because db-band isn't applicable in userspace. Just a minute ago, I got a note from the IP address that had tagged it, saying basically "I can't just blank the page, or it will be prevented by a filter or be reverted as vandalism, so I just tag it to get the attention of admins so that they'll blank it with nobody thinking that they're vandalising". Now to my question — is there some filter that would actively prevent IPs from blanking user talk pages in contexts such as this? Nyttend ( talk) 02:40, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I looking for help in editing
Template:infobox school district. I want to add GeoLocation ({{
coord}}) (for example the coord for the main office, in the case of where I added it in
Buffalo Public Schools) and to move the {{
country}} box on the Same Line direct line for {{
location}} because it looks tacty when rendering. I would normally try to edit this myself, but it is beyond my knowledge.
Thank you for your help, and your opinions on the matter. (Also posted @
WP:SCH's
WT:WPSPCH for xref) --
Wolfnix •
Talk • 01:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Toliño from Galician Wikipedia. Right there, I'm the user which controls and solves technical issues. But I haven't got any idea about solving the following. Another user asked me if I could fix somehow the code for this external link used as reference:
[http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?ruta=verTabla.jsp?OP=1&B=1&M=&COD=147&R=2[1];9915[12:15:27:32:36]&C=1[all]&F=&S=0:0 Datos do IGE de poboación maior de 16 segundo o nivel de estudos] (2001).
which gives:
The problem is due to the URL syntax, which uses "[" and especially "]" so that MediaWiki understands that this is the end of the link - but it isn't. Do you know any solution to this? Thanks in advance! -- Toliño ( talk) 13:29, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Ran into an odd problem - I was trying to change the lead image on the article UFO, found a nice image over at commons, but when I tried to add it in using the normal [[file:Ufo.gif]] syntax, I got the wrong image. apparently there's an image on wikipedia that has the same name. how can I bypass the Wikipedia image and get the commons image to load? sorry, I've never run itno this problem before, and I can't find any documentation on it. -- Ludwigs2 19:12, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
This image showed up fine when I looked at it in school using Internet Explorer, but is not visible at home in Firefox. Is there a way to fix this? SharkD Talk 04:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I need help logging in, I enter in my username and password and get this:
Login successful From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search
"You have successfully signed in to Wikipedia as "Knowledgekid87".
For help using Wikipedia, please see the help page.
Logging you in to Wikimedia's other projects: (what's this?)"
However as soon as I click on another link it shows me logged out again and says I need to log in, now I cleared my cookies and temps but still have trouble. Is there any way you can help me? None of the other websites I use are giving me this issue. My browser is Internet Explorer 7 ver. 7.0.5730.11 and OS is Windows XP. - 24.91.121.72 ( talk) 23:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I dont really know myself what happened. After I downloaded and ran firefox I noticed that abode reader needed updating so I did that but then noticed that my computer date had been altered (By the update I guess I checked before whe nthe problem started and it was fine) I also updated Java but I do not think that had an impact - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:41, 10 September 2010 (UTC).
Can anyone see where the code to suppress the table of content is at Talk:Muhammad? __ meco ( talk) 13:01, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Announcement about Pending Changes -- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 19:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Dear fellows!
I have added a request to Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals to announce a possible new gadget (already one on German wikipedia) which generates an interface to skip over and to individually requested revisions by one single click using a drop down menu. To avoid splitting up discussion, I'd recommend to discuss it there. Kind regards, — DerHexer (Talk) 23:31, 6 September 2010 (UTC) P.S.: Script, howto.
importScript('User:DerHexer/testrevisionjumper.js');
? ;o) Kind regards, —
DerHexer
(Talk) 19:42, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
At least, not for me. I assumed this was a transient problem, but for the last several edits I've made, clicking the "Show Preview" button does nothing but move focus to the "Show Preview" button. Anyone know what's going on? For the record: I'm on the Vector skin on Firefox 3.6.8 on Windows Vista, and I use a ton of custom Javascript but I haven't changed any of it recently. — Gavia immer ( talk) 04:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
-- Ludwigs2 16:37, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
See
Template talk:Hex2dec#Lowercase can give different result
In regular cases the template hexadecimal-to-decimal (say 0xA1==>161) is done by {{
hex2dec}} correctly. But when "0x" is omitted, and the input value is in lowercose like "0f6a79" (correct a hexadecimal it is), the template might give the wrong result. It is a template bug. -
DePiep (
talk) 21:45, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
{{ infobox road small}} needs fixed so that it only displays files if they exist. If you take a look at List of county routes in Erie County, New York (129–160) the template in question is spewing redlinked images. ΔT The only constant 15:59, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I wondered if there was something you could do to the Cologne blue setting to keep that format/colouring but to have the categories /interwiki links at the foot of the page, not the top. Any idea? Dr. Blofeld 17:56, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Try viewing Greta Garbo in cologne blue. What I want is the name Greta Garbo to appear directly underneath where it says "free encyclopedia" (about 3 inches higher up the screen) . Dr. Blofeld 17:58, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me if this is not a tech issue; I don't know where else to post. I started an article on Robina Jalali a few hours ago, not knowing she was also known or formerly known as Robina Muqimyar. So after erroneously creating a Robina Jalali page, I patched the new information on her run for political office into the Robina Mugimyar page and changed the name in the text, mentioning Jalali first...it's easier just to look at my work, than to explain it. Can someone check over the two articles, and correct the name or remove the redirect or whatever in the proper way? Thanks! KeptSouth ( talk) 00:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
The "POTD image" template started rendering differently within the last day. Pages that transclude it are generally broken at the moment... what changed? – SJ + 02:33, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Done from sandbox into live
In the
Template:Village pump pages/sandbox is a proposed new view for this page's header box. There are demos before/after in
Template:Village pump pages/testcases, and notes. Any support? -
DePiep (
talk) 17:13, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Currently, all message boxes like {{ Ambox}}, {{ Ombox}} and the like use tables for their formatting. However, per the W3C HTML 5 specification, it's not allowed to use tables for formatting and rather should CSS be used. Could this be switched to a div then? -- The Evil IP address ( talk) 10:38, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the page Caron has an infobox and a local table next to each other. How can I top-align them? Of course, I expect the infobox to be leading. Just edit there and I'll see it. (When the infobox has class="infobox", am I still supposed to do a deeper RTFM?). - DePiep ( talk) 07:40, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
class=infobox
for the second table too. I did that and also moved the table to a template, so that it doesn't clutter the article code.
Svick (
talk) 15:32, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
<div>
is a cleaner solution.)
Svick (
talk) 18:15, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Can someone with CSS skills help at Template talk:Unbulleted list#Unbulleted list, please? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a tool that I can use to view and edit only an article's references? I want to completely fill out an article's cite template parameters, but don't want to fish around the article for all the individual refs. Thanks! SharkD Talk 04:34, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to see what the main page looked like for a certain day? Smallman12q ( talk) 00:05, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm starting to work on a script to validate usages of {{ singlechart}}, and I've encountered a pretty basic obstacle: I can't figure out how to download the raw wikisource of an article. The basic PHP statement
$Wiki_source=file_get_contents("
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=California_Gurls&action=edit");
gets a HTTP 403 error, even though the exact same URL works fine in my browser. I've looked at Special:Export, and it seems dead-set on doing the process in XML. All I want is the raw wikisource of individual articles.— Kww( talk) 22:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
ini_set('user_agent', 'something unique');
.
Anomie
⚔ 23:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD.js seems to have been acting weird today; it adds extra sigs when someone is trying to close an AfD. I personally use User:Tim Song/closeAFD.js, which had been slightly customized (at least in the past, not sure if both are the same now), but it seems to have the same issue, so I'm not sure why this is happening now, as I was doing fine last week. Can anyone who knows more js than I do (AKA anything) figure out why this is happening (and fix it)? — fetch · comms 03:56, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone encountered a user with no registration date? See here for an example with user:Ockron. Found this user while patrolling BLPs and can't figure out how the account was registered. It doesn't appear in any logs that I can see. I have blocked the user, mostly for the vandalism but also concerned about whether the interface was hacked to create the acct. If anyone feels the block is not needed feel free to override me without discussion. 7 09:37, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
The account in question has a user ID indicating that it was registered in July 2005. -- Tim Starling ( talk) 01:39, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Category:1896 in Norway and a large number of similar categories have been nominated for speedy deletion because someone had made inappropriate edits to {{ NorwayByYear}} to remove that and other categories from articles like 1896 in Norway which employ this template. I have now reverted the template changes so that the articles get categorized appropriately, but still the categories remain unpopulated. I made a post here at WP:VPT quite recently about another problem where the categories didn't update after very many hours. How can the updating be forced so that the categories do not get deleted in the meantime? __ meco ( talk) 18:32, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
My apologies in advance for naive question. Is there (where) a simple editor which allows previewing wikipedia-coded articles off-line? Simply put, I am coding a wiki article off-line and want roughly see how it will look (I mean basic formatting features, surely the wikimedia software is constantly updating). Thanks. Materialscientist ( talk) 07:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I did Google it before posting. The solution is not that straightforward. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
See here. Are there any helper scripts/templates to make it possible to sort by currency value? I know this is possible for dates. SharkD Talk 02:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
What have I done wrong at Cppcheck? One of the references shows up incorrectly User A1 ( talk) 19:26, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if the devs can change the WP:ANI page to require a manual checking of a box that says "Yes, I understand I must alert any involved editors immediately after creating this thread" whenever "new section" is clicked? Basket of Puppies 20:19, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
<!-- I agree -->
) to be present, but it's more hassle than it's worth. —
Dispenser 04:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)re {{
Punctuation marks}}
. Recently I changed the table into CSS using <span>
. Now an IP
reverted all that, because of "Formatting trashed (in IE at least). Reverting to last good version" (es). Could someone (using IE) take a look & tell what went wrong? (I use Firefox 3.6.8) -
DePiep (
talk) 15:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC) + section title-
DePiep (
talk) 15:41, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
Punctuation marks/sandbox}}
I put up the css version, and removed all nbsps between the spans, which should do (they were a bit superfluous anyway). Or, should I read Anomie's explanation that it happens in every linebox? -
DePiep (
talk) 20:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
The problem (for me, at least) is Butterball. I have run into the problem many times, and others surely have too. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:01, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I believe skin compatibility fixes shouldn't have to be enabled by the users as gadgets. Does anyone have any objection to moving MediaWiki:Gadget-modernskin-thunks.js into MediaWiki:modern.js? -- Waldir talk 15:35, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to use Template:cite book. I'm using the url parameter to point to the Google books website, but I'm having problems. The url doesn't show up properly in the reference list. I thought it might be the many equals signs in the url itself, so looking at Help:Template#URL_problems, and not fully understanding it, I tried adding braces before and after each equals sign - didn't help. Anyway, I've put the latest usage in my sandbox for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Is pending-changes level two protection effective with respect to high-risk templates, so that transclusions of templates protected in this manner would only display revisions accepted by a reviewer? If so, then it might provide a useful alternative to full protection, to increase the ease with which certain templates can be edited (obviously, some things, such as template:!, are so sensitive that allowing reviewers to change them isn't advisable.) Peter Karlsen ( talk) 16:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:British Mandate for Palestine#Wrong redirection - when clicking the flag of the British Mandate for Palestine. JohnCD ( talk) 17:41, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, is anyone elses javascript causing problems? I can't properly revert with Twinkle. Aiken ( talk) 22:21, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi folks! I now installed the new gadget “revisionjumper” which allows you to easily navigate diffs, articles' histories and articles themselves. A feature-rich drop down menu offers various functions to jump to a certain revision which is situated before or after the selected revision. Besides default parameters, configurable requests can be done. Further, the default setting can be personalized. It was announced some days ago on this village pump where its functions were discribed. All features are explained on User:DerHexer/revisionjumper. Have fun using it! Kind regards, — DerHexer (Talk) 22:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC) P. S.: Please note that scripts like that one atm do not work because of a slow connection to the database (API).
About 11-12 hours ago I was unable to 'connect' to Wikipedia. Other sites such as Google were still accessible. I also note the earlier post about the 'Tampa API servers', Though this was hours earlier, about 15.00 UTC. Was the site down at that time? n.b. Internet Explorer Ver:7.0.5730.13. (Didn't know about the Wikipedia Status Dashboard !) - 220.101 talk \Contribs 03:25, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I just found a strange edit in my deleted contribs. Admin only - check here - I recall reviewing this CSD tag earlier so I definitely went to the page, but I didn't think it was promotional enough to delete it myself as spam, but similarly didn't want to decline the CSD because it was close. I recall leaving the page without touching anything at all. I definitely did not manually do any of what the diff shows (including the accurate edit summary) - so I am wondering if there is a link that I may have clicked that added this section including the edit summary. Any thoughts? Thanks 7 05:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
The above message is tailored for page moves but is also the message provided when one moves files, to which its contents are variously nonsensical, inapplicable or provide bad advice. Is there a way, if I create, say, MediaWiki:Movefiletext, for us to switch all such file moves to that new mediawiki message?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 00:09, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Adam C. Winfield was nominated for deletion. Another contributor moved the article to Adam Winfield. My recollection was that articles that are currently under {{ afd}} shouldn't be moved, for technical reasons, and I moved it back. The other contributor moved it to Adam Winfield a second time. One of the side-effects of this move is that some links that are important, during the course of the {{ afd}}, no longer work. Links, like the history link at the top of the {{ afd}} no longer work.
I applied a {{ rescue}} tag to the article, and, when instantiated, its link to the actual {{ afd}} discussion was a redlink, until I created a redirect.
Am I correct that articles that are currently under {{ afd}} shouldn't be renamed because of all the important administrative links this breaks?
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 14:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Earlier 71.191.119.34 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) was blocked, at 17:22 GMT, but then went on to vandalize Tommy2010's talk page one minute later. I know that sometimes a queue can cause edits to be delayed, but can a queue problem cause an edit to be delayed by almost a full minute? (The vandalism was at 17:23:35, so it wasn't just on the cusp of the previous minute.) — Soap — 17:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
See this edit. The speedy deletion tag wasn't removed, it was the hangon tag, which had been put there by the user who removed it. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 23:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
In the Video Games WikiProject, a lot of articles tend to get deleted due to cruftyness and useful but non-notable gameguide content. My question is, is there a tool that can be used to move/copy articles to Wikia? As Wikia is usually the proper place for these sorts of articles. SharkD Talk 21:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
The Robert Pattinson article has an infobox in which an editor inserted Pattinson's signature. I don't think the signature is even necessary for the article, but putting that aside, I'd like to make it smaller. How do I do that?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
|signature=Image_name.svg{{!}}100px
. —
Dispenser 00:27, 16 September 2010 (UTC)| signature = Robert Pattinson signature.svg{{!}}left{{!}}75px
headerstyle
value (which obviously is inadvisable).
Intelligent
sium 02:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)A question about the signature parameter that is not on (my) topic. Is there a way to search Wikipedia articles to see which ones use the parameter?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
header50 = {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|Signature{{voidd|{{Infobox person/signature}}}}}}
, with a non-existing
Template:Infobox person/signature, then
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox person/signature shows the pages that call the infobox with a non-empty signature parameter.--
Patrick (
talk) 00:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)|signature_size=
parameter, as a single default is unlikely to be suitable in all cases.
PC78 (
talk) 00:43, 18 September 2010 (UTC)|signature_size=
is now supported, and pages with signatures will be added to
Category:Biography with signature (it will take a while for the category to fill, though).
PC78 (
talk) 12:05, 18 September 2010 (UTC)Can somebody point me to the right place to ask for admin access at the test wiki (I am an en-admin). I have a weird bug - the upcoming version of wikEd does not load only if loaded as a gadget. I need to do some on-site gadget debugging but I do not want to do this on Wikipedia. Thanks for your help, Cacycle ( talk) 19:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to get text to wrap and
Ahh, a "hanging indent"? That's the kind often used in bibliographies, where the first line is not indented, but all the rest (in the wrapped paragraph) are. I don't think there is a wiki-markup for it, but it's doable in plain html. Just wrap the paragraph in <p style="text-indent:-.5in"> ... </p>. It's completely non-standard for any use in Wikipedia so you might want to get second opinion about whether it's a good idea to do...whatever you're trying to do.
<p style="text-indent:-.5in">{{lorem}}<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing 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.
Just granpa ( talk) 21:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">{{lorem}}<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing 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.
Hello guys! Okay, so I want to send a message to the email of an IP, because I tracked their email. I don't really want to use my personal email, and I was wondering, how would I get an email at Wikipedia.org? Thanks! Endofskull ( talk) 23:19, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
As can be seen in this diff, it says that "150 intermediate versions are not shown". Is this true, or is it simply a bug in the MediaWiki software, due to the lost page history? Also, why isn't it possible to use diff=prev in the very oldest edits? For me, it directs to the latest edit. Hey Mid ( contributions) 15:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, my latest edit to my own talk page got tagged like this - would anybody please tell me what triggered this? I'm aware that there are filters in place to catch such behavior, but since there's nothing promoting me or my employer on that page (and I wouldn't want that, anyway, I prefer to remain anonymous), nor any external web link, I wonder why it triggered that filter? Is there anyone who can remove this tag after verifying that there's no self-promotion on that page? -- 78.43.71.155 ( talk) 16:22, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Apparently, in July, the browser I was using would convert the Miscrosoft smart backquote character into this: "�?". Here's an example. Hoping to find and fix any remaining instances of this character, I've tried to search for the character using mediawiki search and google, but had no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks. Haus Talk 18:22, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
how can i store video information to view at one time,when incoming picture stops to catch up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chanse209 ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
A few days ago I added a comment to the bottom of a talk page (it was Talk:Proof (truth)), and apparently when I saved the page it wiped everything except the section the comment was in. There may have been an additional anomaly in displaying the page afterward, since I failed to notice the problem at the time. I suspect, but am not certain, that I had used the <edit> link for that section rather than the one for the whole page, and I think there was a browser crash during that edit. I am using Firefox 3.6.9 under Ubuntu, with the Session Manager add-on (as well as numerous others, but I'm guessing that one might be relevant; it retained the text I had typed and restored it after the crash, so perhaps it mangled the page somehow). False vacuum ( talk) 22:31, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
section
parameter from the URL, but it stays on the page in a hidden field). After that, your browser crashed and then the page was restored with the correct URL and text, but the hidden field wasn't restored, so at that point, you were editing the whole page.
Svick (
talk) 12:40, 19 September 2010 (UTC)Do we have a page or procedure to have a check on browser dependent presentations? Tried: WP:BROWSER (no) HELP:BROWSER (red): don't work for this. I can not (or my sysadmin won't allow me to -- that's the same) do a check on IE. So I am restrained by IE's effects. The restrain is not too rational. How to? - DePiep ( talk) 21:13, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any reason that the "yellow highlight" in the top template at Special:NewPages is a different shade of yellow to the actual highlight colour used in the body of the page? matt ( talk) 10:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there a tool who can combinate 'what links here' and categories. For example the topics who links to The Netherlands and which topics also are have a place in the category Education I hope so! Dutchf ( talk) 13:50, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
You'll notice when viewing this old version of a page, it's displaying an old version of File:Te.jpg from Wikimedia Commons near the top. It does not display this error on the current version of the page. I checked on another browser without signing in and I'm having the same issue. Why is this not updating? I'm reluctant to purge the commons page because I want an expert (on here) to see it. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 19:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Re: Earwig: it's gone now. Re: TheDJ, again, I tried it in a different browser, and I'd never seen that page before anyway. I think it was mediawiki taking too long to properly cache an image. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 18:58, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm having a problem with pdf files from the New York Times news archives. Basically, the files are opening in a tiny window at the top of the screen that shows only a few lines and cannot be resized. Anyone know what the problem might be? Gatoclass ( talk) 09:44, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
At Bo Burnham, I have a citation to Boston's Weekly Dig that requires a URL of http://www.weeklydig.com/[catpath]/200903/bo-burnham. It's currently used in a {{ cite news}} with nowiki brackets, and I recently tried to surround it in a {{ URL}} wrapper, but none of them seem to be able to get over the square brackets in the URL. Can anybody suggest a fix? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
The first image used at Airman Basic ( File:DCS04980.jpg) has been broken for quite some time. I've used a wide variety of browsers and computers since I first noticed it, and haven't seen any change. Can anybody else see this problem? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
What's the easiest way to find articles in two or more categories? PL290 ( talk) 10:06, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
If this is not the correct venue for asking this question, I sincerely apologize. I cannot figure out for the life of me why this category doesn't include all of the project participants displaying this template/userbox even though several people display the box. If anyone else able to help, it would be much appreciated. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 04:07, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey dudes. How can I get rid of the "Take me back" and "New features" links at the top of the screen? Peace ;-) Anna Lincoln 16:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
li#pt-prefswitch-link-off {
display: none;
}
Where do I file a bug report for an error in the link to the toolserver template transclusion counter? For example, if do a "what links here" for any template with a space in the name (e.g., Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Hang on), you will see links to "external tools". The first link is fine, but the second one appears to be missing the needed "urlencode" and is tripped up by the space in the title. 68.35.13.81 ( talk) 23:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
We're trying to start a new project, with tutorials using screencasts. There are a number of proprietary ways to do whatever we want, but I'd like an open source solution. There's an open source screencast program (CamStudio), but it outputs AVIs for some darn reason. Does anyone know of a dead simple way to covert those to .ogg or .ogv using another open source program? We've found a proprietary screencast program that will do absolutely everthing, so if the minimum is one proprietary program, then a converter is not needed. CamStudio is crazy easy to use, so I'm hoping I can combine it with one more easy program and have it still be easier than some pay program. Thanks a million. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
The above message appears on Dab solver. The only bit of it I understand is "Dab solver does not work". Could someone explain please what has been done, why it has been done, and when will it be undone so that Dab solver will work again? Thanks. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to look at my watchlist in Google Reader, and keep finding that some edits don't appear in the feed. I suspect this is due to the feeds on Wikipedia using the article URL for the id (Atom) or guid (RSS) field, with no other qualifier, so these fields aren't unique.
The W3C validation service says this is categorically wrong for RSS, although it appears to be permitted if not recommended for Atom, so I'll blame Google for GReader failing to cope with the Atom feed properly.
I'm planning on raising this as a bug for the RSS case on Bugzilla, and a feature request for Atom. Before I do that, though, I thought I'd check here in case anyone's found a work-around or can tell me I'm Doing It Wrong.
-- me_ and 17:09, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
The search bar on this search bar is too narrow and is displaying g letters as qs. I recall that a few days after the vector switch the main search bar was widened but this change was apparently never applied to the others. Marcus Qwertyus 19:53, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I just got a new RSS manager, and for some reason, every time I try to sync my watchlist RSS feed, it gives me a 403 error. I exported the links from my other RSS reader, and it worked there, but here it doesn't. Any ideas? A p3rson ‽ 23:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
User-Agent
header.
Svick (
talk) 06:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&allrev=allrev&wlowner=A p3rson&wltoken=<string of 40 numbers and letters you shouldn't publish>&feedformat=rss
, correct?
Svick (
talk) 05:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)\HKCU\Software\DaProfik\pRSSreader
right?
A p3rson
‽ 23:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I noticed today that if you rename an article with edit notices attached, the edit notices get stranded under the old name: they trigger if you edit the redirect that was left behind, but not if you edit the new article name. Can anyone confirm that there isn't an existing Bugzilla report? I can't find one, but I'm pretty amateurish when it comes to Bugzilla.— Kww( talk) 14:51, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that edit conflicts notices aren't appearing AFAICT at the moment. For example, I didn't get an EC making this edit to my sandbox even though I made that edit and the previous edit to the same original version of the page. Earlier today when I made this edit to Stuxnet I also didn't get an EC even though the text that was removed in the previous edit was still in the text when I saved it. I'm fairly sure that I should also have had an EC with this edit as I took more than 4 minutes to look at the sources and make my comment. Has something changed in the software recently? Smartse ( talk) 14:18, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Templates give me nightmares but {{ WPBannerMeta/collapsed}} has over 200,000 links to it. and the template is deleted. Could someone figure out what happened and fix it? ΔT The only constant 22:47, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
The new editbox/toolbar has some CSS issues; I cannot set the line-height (which I find to large) from my own CSS, not even with !important. It seems that any CSS applied to #wpTextbox1 seems to be overridden by http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/css/combined.min.css (not editable). Anyone has a solution? — Edokter • Talk • 14:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
The file: File:KhalilShaikh Mohammed-FBI2.jpg has been deleted recently. Where can i find the information who deleted it and why it was deleted? Thank you. IQinn ( talk) 02:24, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I seem to be having issues with scripts. WP:WikiEd has vanished, and on history pages the Twinkle links for rollback are gone. I'm using Monobook, Firefox 3.6.10, Windows 7. I did just install the WikiTrust add-on, could that be causing it? Fences& Windows 22:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was a template one could use in disambiguation pages to properly pipe song titles, like so:
I didn't see any mention of such a template on WP:PIPING#Piping. Thanks, 28bytes ( talk) 17:38, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
"[[{{{1}}}|{{str left|{{{1}}}|{{#expr: {{str len| {{{1}}} }}-7 }}}}]]"
[[{{{1}}} ({{{2}}})|"{{{1}}}" ({{{2}}})]]So that
{{subst:Song|Hotel California|song}}would generate
[[Hotel California (song)|"Hotel California" (song)]]when the page is saved. 28bytes ( talk) 18:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
({{{2}}})
to {{#if:{{{2|}}}|({{{2}}})}}
. If it is apparent from the context of the disambiguation entry that it is a song,, however, then we might
ignore that particular rule and simply pipe it.
Intelligent
sium 23:18, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
The correct place for reporting such issues might not be here, but I still don't know where it is. Please see this thread. In the "Watchlist" section of My preferences there is a misplaced hyphen, and as such it should be removed. Shall this be done? -- Theurgist ( talk) 01:57, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
For the past few days, only with Chrome and erratically, clicking on the tildes after 'Sign your posts on talk pages' puts my sig in the section heading box when I've started a section. It's doing it now, for instance. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 05:50, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to get the table below to sort in numeric order. It needs to include a cell that says "N/A". I tried adding a couple of hidden rows so that no matter whether the table was sorted low-to-high or high-to-low, the first row could cause the sort order to be numeric. It doesn't seem to work like I hoped. I also tried adding hidden text in the N/A cell, but I can't get it to work that way, either. It goes through 4 separate sorts rather than 2 like it should.
Number |
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97 |
5 |
49 |
— |
-- Greenbreen ( talk) 19:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Number |
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97 |
5 |
49 |
— |
Number |
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97 |
5 |
49 |
N/A |
Dear All technical expert,this is a small Small request from Bengali Wikipedia. I want to know that how do you do the Main page tab as Main page? I submit that T22987 regarding this issue.If you see the main page of this Wikipedia you can see the respective tab shown as "Main page" . But if you see our main page of Bengali Wikipedia, you can see "নিবন্ধ"(Article).Not shown "প্রধান পাতা"(main page) it mean that in our Wikipedia the main page assign as article/main namespane. Mediawiki:Mainpage and Mediawiki:Mainpage-description both are assign "প্রধান পাতা"(main page). And Mediawiki:Nstab-main assign to "নিবন্ধ"(Article).Thank you all in advance. - Jayanta Nath ( Talk| Contrb) 19:09, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
/** Main Page layout fixes *********************************************************
*
* Description: Adds an additional link to the complete list of languages available.
* Maintainers: [[User:AzaToth]], [[User:R. Koot]], [[User:Alex Smotrov]]
*/
if (wgPageName == 'Main_Page' || wgPageName == 'Talk:Main_Page')
addOnloadHook(function () {
addPortletLink('p-lang', 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias',
'Complete list', 'interwiki-completelist', 'Complete list of Wikipedias')
var nstab = document.getElementById('ca-nstab-main')
if (nstab && wgUserLanguage=='en') {
while (nstab.firstChild) nstab = nstab.firstChild
nstab.nodeValue = 'Main Page'
}
}
)
thumb|right|299px|Sized at 299px thumb|right|300px|Sized at 300px thumb|right|301px|Sized at 301px File:Franks expansion.gif
Does not seem to animate at 300px. Works at any other size. Some kind of broken thumbnail or something?
This was reported with a {{helpme}} on Talk:Francia#Animation, and I 'fixed' it by changing the size from 300 to 299.
Is there some broken thumbnail? Will it sort itself out? Chzz ► 04:23, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
The HasCategory parser function doesn't seem to be enabled on enwiki. Does anyone know if it is possible to get it, and how to go about doing so? Would it just involve filing a bugzilla request? rʨanaɢ ( talk) 13:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hm, I guess it's probably not ready, in that case. Do you guys know if there's any other way to do the following: if a template (in this case, {{
zh}}
) is used over and over again on a single page, instead of having to call a certain display parameter every time, is there a way to set sort of a default setting for that entire page? My idea was to have a parameter with a value like {{#ifhascat:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|some category|some value|some other value}}
.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 20:56, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Manufacturers | Milton Bradley Company |
---|---|
Publishers | Milton Bradley Company |
Players | 1 or more |
Age range | 4 to adult |
I spent over an hour trying to debug a template, when I noticed that, oddly enough, it worked as expected when previewing the page while refusing to work when viewing it normally. To see what I mean, look at the template to the right and see how it only shows a bold apostrophe ( ' ) above the box. Now click [edit] for this section and go straight to the edit preview. You should then suddenly see Village pump (technical) in place of where the bold apostrophe was without making any changes! (Unless of course this was fixed by the time you did that.) It's frustrated me to no end trying to make it display the name of the box when the "title" parameter is left blank for
Template:Infobox game... Isn't it strange how it's broken when viewing normally but works fine in edit preview? —
Code
Hydro 16:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
|parameter=
behaves differently than omitting the parameter entirely. This isn't the way it used to work, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. did someone make a code change somewhere that mucked things up?Could a dev comment at T27158? It's been a few weeks now... Smallman12q ( talk) 21:22, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm experiencing a few issues with this template, and bearing in mind the recent policy change at WP:ITALICTITLE it would be ideal to get it working as well as possible. It's a little beyond my coding skills, so any input would be welcome. See discussion at Template talk:Italic title#Issues with this template. Cheers! PC78 ( talk) 22:10, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to create a template which, when substituted, becomes a URL ( example) pointing to the resulting page-revision as of the moment of the save. You would put the template in your signature, so when future editors are reading through your comments on a talk page, they can very quickly see what the underlying article looked like when you were talking about it. The idea is to make old talk page discussions easier to read and relate to.
I'm currently using a version that isolates that revision on the article's "history" page:
That works OK, but it's less convenient, and less likely to take hold widely. I want to generate the URL of that revision, directly.
Over at the help desk, TFOWR introduced me to {{REVISIONID}}. That seems to put us on the right track:
However, we need to make the oldid permanent, but here is what happens when we use {{subst:REVISIONID}}:
In fact, TFOWR points out T8181, i.e. that MediaWiki can't perform {{subst:REVISIONID}}, and suggests maybe we need to create a magic word for {{PREVREVISIONID}}. So we might need another trick.
FYI, here are the instructions for creating MediaWiki URLs.
AGradman / talk / how the subject page looked when I made this edit 01:20, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
For using the revision ID of the subject page on the talk page the bug is unrelated. What we need here is allowing REVISIONID to have a page name as parameter. You could file a new feature request at bugzilla.-- Patrick ( talk) 09:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I posted the original query here and got redirected to the VPT, so doing a cut/paste of the original report made here. Hope this is the right place to report this link error.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands is the wikipedia URL for the Senkaku Islands article that I have problems getting into.
I was searching for "Senkaku Islands" from google, and clicking on the wikipedia result gave me a "404 Not Found" error. Typing "senkaku islands" in Wikipedia's search box will throw up the same error. Similarly, clicking on "senkaku islands" on the disambigiuos Senkaku article page shows up the same 404 error. Same with this redirect page. In fact, the only way I can reach the article is to search for the less common Diaoyutai.
A check with the move logs show that the page has recently been subject with quite a number of moves, due to it being a result territorial disputes between China and Japan. (That was the reason why I was searching for the article originally, as I was looking for more background on the incident). The last discussion regarding the move resulted in a "no-move" agreement among the editors, but the prior moves may have somehow "broken" the way Wikipedia is linking to the article.
As this is a hot news topic at the moment, the article will be highly sought after and the bad link should be fixed as soon as possible. Thanks in advance! Zhanzhao ( talk) 06:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
"Not Found
The requested URL /wiki/Senkaku_Islands was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at en.wikipedia.org Port 80"
Page title is :404 Not Found Zhanzhao ( talk) 15:39, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry guys for the false alarm, I just checked at a computer at my office and its working fine so apparently it IS a home proxy issue, sorry for taking up your time. I was just getting paranoid and thinking that some faction from the region dispute was getting overly enthusiastic and somehow hacking the wikipedia system or at least gaming it over the dispute. Case closed? Zhanzhao ( talk) 23:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
How do i get "& nbsp;" to display. I tried code and nowiki and it still just shows a space. Just granpa ( talk) 21:43, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Here: -- WOSlinker ( talk) 21:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
When a user selects "Wikipedia use only" or non-commercial use only in the license drop-down on the upload form, the file is uploaded with a CSD tag on it. Can we just return an error message to the user and not upload the image at all in these cases? — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 19:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any way I can add custom css to my vector.css to get the effect of highlighted posts, as seen here? If so, what would the css be? / ƒETCH COMMS / 23:15, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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Is there a way to make a loop in a template? I want to send the template a number X and have it return an expression repeated X times. Just granpa ( talk) 00:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you guys (and ladies) help me out with the table "Known Roman bridges" at Roman bridge? I would like to make it so collapsible that only the bold (continents + total) appears when collapsed. Also, I'd like to have a sortable list, but somehow some countries don't follow the order. Thanks in advance Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 08:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
This is a problem in Tamil wikipedia. The template {{coord|display=title}} is not working there. It just displays the coordinates as inline text. While investigating it i found that none of the top icons - pp, fa, ga etc work there (they don't appear at all). Similar problem exists in a few other wikipedias like Friulian Wikipedia. Can someone help me to solve this problem? -- Sodabottle ( talk) 14:11, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone else noticed this? every once in a while I'll submit a post, get an edit conflict, and then go back to realize that my post actually went through (implying that the edit conflict was with my own post). This could happen if (for instance) something in the software was duplicating submit requests, so that the first goes through and then the duplicate request conflicts with the original. it's not a huge problem, just odd. Working on Safari 5.0.2 on Mac OS 10.6.4. -- Ludwigs2 17:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I get it too sometimes, using Google Chrome 6.0.472.63 on WinXP. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
It's also possible for this to happen when some editor starts a new section on a busy discussion page by using the section edit link on the last section and adding a new top-level section at the end of it. The edit conflict resolver doesn't handle this very well - it either ought to be an edit conflict or not, but it generally manifests as an invisible edit conflict that ought to be resolvable. — Gavia immer ( talk) 18:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place to ask...
I'm just wondering how the database stores links within each entry. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_Great_America In the first paragraph, there are links to "amusement park", "cedar fair...", "santa clara...", etc. How are these links stored in the database? They aren't actual HTML-formatted links, right? That would be far too cumbersome.
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.210.240 ( talk) 21:21, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
My new template at Template:Nuclides is finished.
I just have to add the values for the half-lives.
There is one glitch left in the layout that I cant seem to fix myself.
The template, which creates a table, contains this code
The first line creates a table cell containing "50".
When D=yes then the second line starts a new table row.
But when D=yes I get an extra space after the 50 that I dont want.
But if I remove the then I dont get a carriage return which is essential.
How can I get a carriage return without also getting a space?
Just granpa ( talk) 21:48, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
When the cursor is not in the search box, the search box contains the word "Search". Usually, it is a light gray color and disappears as soon as one clicks to type in the search box. At times, however, it is black and does not disappear when one clicks to type in the search box, and it must be manually deleted before searching. The issue is present both when I am logged in and logged out. Any ideas about what may be causing this and how to fix it? (I am using Vector and have IE8). Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:07, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Please look at the References section of the Jimmy Wales article. After the initial note, there is a use of the reflist template and a long string of references, none of which appears in the article, at least not when I'm looking at it. I looked at the template documentation and became hopelessly lost in what appeared to be all sorts of caveats about using the template in this manner. Can someone please explain what is going on? If it matters, I'm using the latest version of Firefox, although if I view it with IE6, it looks the same to me.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 07:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to add filters to the watchlist page?
I have a lot of articles on my watchlist and some (like TV episodes/movies that are targets of fancruft) that I only want to visit every week or two to clean up. But if I only have a little bit of time to edit, I would really like to just be able to filter out everything but the BLP articles and focus my time there without all the other articles cluttering up my "to do" list. Active Banana (bananaphone 14:41, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
foo{{#if:bar|*bar}}
→ foo
Is this an intended feature. Seems a bit daft. – droll [chat] 20:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to have the items in the drop-down menu appear as tabs instead? — Edokter • Talk • 22:50, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
There is now a little "x" after the page titles on my watchlist. Does this mean anything? Thanks. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:53, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I just had a capital U appear in the same space, went when I refreshed my watchlist. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I've started a new template at
Template:Nuclides.
The
doc page fully explains how it works.
Parameters A-D determine which rows are displayed.
Ideally I would like to be able to use another set of parameters to determine which columns are displayed.
(right now all columns are displayed all the time)
The obvious way to make a column not display is to set width=0px for that column.
I tried it and it didnt work in firefox.
Using #if: for every single cell will be a pain and will be slow to render.
Any suggestions?
I'm also hoping that someone who knows more about templates will be kind enough
to look over my work and tell me if there is a much easier way to do this
before I get any further involved with it.
Just granpa (
talk) 22:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
That might help. Just granpa ( talk) 23:38, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
All the Navigation/Search/Toolbox etc malarky that should be under the Wikipedia logo on the left of my Watchlist has disappeared in the last ten minutes. They all still shew fine on any other page. Old-stylee Wikipedia, Google Chrome on WinXP. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:59, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
My question is why is
Wikipedia:Database reports/Cross-namespace redirects/2 appearing on the list of
Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_edit_requests (
exists?)? That category holds the list of open semi-protected edit requests indicated by a {{
edit semi-protected}}
template on the page. The data report page does not contain that template anywhere on it but still appears in the category. --
Stickee
(talk) 02:13, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Why is that possible, and when would that ever be necessary? New pages really aren't minor edits (nor are new sections, really), so I'm not sure why this option is available for such situations, unless it's because the software always shows it on every edit screen and that can't be changed. / ƒETCH COMMS / 03:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you may have read recently on the Wikimedia Blog or in the latest Signpost, the Wikimedia Foundation has released an experimental Article feedback tool, currently enabled on a small subset of Public Policy articles (more details are included in the blog post). The main reason why I'm coming to you today is because we're trying to build a small team of users and developers to assess the feature itself to see what we should do with it, if we should improve it (and if so, how) or simply abandon it.
I realize you may want to focus on "bigger" features such as Pending Changes right now, but it's really important for us that some of you join the workgroup so we make sure it meets your needs.
If you don't want to join the workgroup, but still want to provide feedback, please read the Q&A page and leave comments on the workgroup's talk page.
Many thanks in advance for your help!
guillom, for the Features engineering team. 20:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
As was suggested here, is it possible to show an interface notice while viewing a user's talk page, noting that they are blocked? – xeno talk 17:50, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Why is a javascript solution so repulsive? Popups already does it, so it couldn't be that hard. Gigs ( talk) 19:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Take a look at Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_cleanup_from_August_2010. For some reason, almost all of the cleanup categories have been deleted, though they're still populated. What happened? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 22:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I can't remember whether WikiRank had this or something similar, but in any case they have now (apparently) discontinued the service after their acquisition. Out of curiosity, I built an interactive visualization of Gliese 581 g's edits, using Google Spreadsheets, and thought I'd share the concept here in case someone has ideas on how to improve it (make it work with any article, supplied by the viewer, or group sequential edits by the same editor, etc.), or gets inspired to create something similar (toolserver devs, anyone? :D). It can be found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aj_U36rhRPNldFUwOW4xaEtqMUxobUR4elVVLTdURmc. -- Waldir talk 10:56, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
I entered WP:VPT into the search bar, and although am normally redirected here, it now lists no search results, with the link that says there is an article with the exact name. What's going on? Searches for terms (not article titles) don't work at all either. Bramble claw x 18:22, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Please look at List_of_Jewish_Justices#Justices. The table doesn't start until (I assume) after the navbox on the right ends. I'd like the table to start at the top of the section as there's plenty of room for it to do so, and when I first scrolled down, I initially thought the section was blank. I've looked at the template(s) used, but I don't see how to make this happen.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
style="clear: both"
from
Template:Start U.S. judgeship would work for this specific problem, but I'm wondering if it is there for a reason and the change may affect other articles. If it would then just copy the header and make the change into the article in question.
Rambo's Revenge
(talk) 23:48, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
but I'm setting up a private testwiki space on my own server, and I wanted to know what the code was to get the "Unable to proceed" page when trying to move/delete the Main Page.
Also, would the MP be deleted if I tried to move a page over it? That's what is happening with Mediawiki Default, it seems. / ƒETCH COMMS / 03:37, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
File:DarioCampanile.DalaiLama.Missing Peace.jpg File:DarioCampanile.Paramount.jpg
The thumbnails for these two images appear to be corrupted, somehow.
I'm reporting this 'on behalf of' Sungila ( talk · contribs) who asked for feedback here.
Chzz ► 20:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please fix the coord problem on Dorongou? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs/ editor review)~ 23:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
|longm=
parameter was 70, which is not valid (recall that there are 60 minutes of arc to one degree, just as there are 60 minutes to an hour). I've temporarily fixed it by commenting out the invalid parameter, but you might have to do some more research to find the correct coordinates. The Maplandia external link seems to be the source of this erroneous measurement.
Intelligent
sium 23:31, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes when I click on it it works as normal, other times it adds my sig to the section heading or the search field (the one above the editing field), or elsewhere. I'm using the current version of Chrome. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 17:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone help with the table at User:Skinsmoke/Sandbox/Civil parishes/Kernow please? The places starting with "St" should of course sort at "Saint", how do we make the table do this? DuncanHill ( talk) 09:37, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
This diff [6] makes everything below it disappear from the visible page. Can anyone fix it please? DuncanHill ( talk) 14:31, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
I am passing a parameter with value "06" and it seems to be received with a value of "00" - no doubt it is either something incredibly subtle or something incredibly stupid - however I'm not likely to spot either it seems. Symptom: page displaying "December" ewhen it should be "June"
Just possibly this is WM limit on depth of transclusion? (You can see this limit in effect I believe at template {{ Weather box}} where the sample box has some empty cells - the doc page however shows them filled in. Also template {{ Delink}} which works beautifully in test but in anger breaks inexplicably.)
Rich Farmbrough, 16:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC).
Is it related to the typo in {{
Monthly clean up category}} and also {{
Monthly clean up category/outer core}}, where }}{{#if:{{diags|}}}|
should presumably be }}{{#if:{{{diags|}}}|
(with an extra brace before "diags")? —
Richardguk (
talk) 22:27, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The error has apparently disappeared. Earlier Category:BLP articles lacking sources from June 2006 displayed "This category combines all BLP articles lacking sources from December 2006 ...". Now it correctly says June 2006. I don't know what fixed it. I made some tests during the discussion but didn't find the cause of the error. Previewing
{{Monthly clean up category/monthno|from June 2006}}
correctly displayed 06. Previewing
{{Monthly clean up category|monthno=06}}
correctly displayed "... articles lacking sources from June 2006 ...". But earlier, previewing
{{Monthly clean up category|monthno={{Monthly clean up category/monthno|from June 2006}}}}
incorrectly displayed "... articles lacking sources from December 2006 ...". PrimeHunter ( talk) 12:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Monthly clean up category/monthname}}
. This template produces the correct month name now. Earlier subtemplate {{
Monthly clean up category/monthno}}
(input param #1= {{PAGENAME}} i.e. to use the part "from August 2009") is still used to pass through monthno, but monthno is not used in subtemplates /outer core and {{
Monthly clean up category/core}}
at all. So it's calculated, possibly wrong and unused.{{
Monthly clean up category/outer core}}
. -
DePiep (
talk) 15:46, 5 October 2010 (UTC)I think Ludwigs is probably correct in his diagnosis. The value of monthno (if not passed in as a parameter, as none of the current uses that I am aware of do) is as DaPiep says, correctly calculated and passed down the stack => outer core => core (at one point I thought I was going to need "inner core"!), although /core does use it - successfully - as a category sort key (which was it's entire function originally) see for example
Category:BLP_articles_lacking_sources. It also uses it to calculate the age of the template and nominate it for speedy deletion if it is old and empty - again successfully. Thanks for all the input, it is a great help (especially reassuring me that I'm not just "
template blind" and missing a piece of punctuation!) if I do not hear otherwise I will remove the diagnostic parameter in the relatively near future.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:43, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
I tried to fix the section edit link, bunching problem in the United States Congress, but I guess I don't understand the Template:Fix bunching well enough. Can someone please help?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:43, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Two questions: 1) Why don't redirect pages and titles appear in search engine results?. Is it deliberate? if so, are we (wikipedia) doing it or the search engines are programmed to ignore redirects?
2)I read some where that article talk pages in en.wiki are not indexed by google. But i found that talk pages in some other wikis (like Tamil Wiki) are indexed. Who decides this? google or us (i mean, can we turn this on or off from wikipedia's end?) -- Sodabottle ( talk) 17:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Please be aware of
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 35
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC).
(A) How many GByte do the images actually used in english wikipedia articles use in total?, (B) what would the size of the thumbnail used be? I tried to find this info in the statistics- and download section(s) but only found just about everything about number of articles, requests, size etc.. Electron9 ( talk) 00:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to know, when browsing through my contributions list, which of those pages I currently have watchlisted, is there any easy way to do this? -- œ ™ 10:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Regarding watchlist.. is it possible to have two of them ..?, one for important. And one for less important ones. Without resorting to two users or script-fu? Electron9 ( talk) 11:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that my total edit count clicked up to 20,000 last night, according to X!'s edit counter and SoxBot's admin stats (15,554 edits plus 4,446 deleted edits). A rough count of my contributions and deleted contributions indicates that these are correct. However, the number of edits according to my preferences is only 18,427. Can anyone explain the discrepancy? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 11:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Say you're looking at a diff of a deletion edit where someone has left the edit summary, "Not supported by source cited". So you want to look at the url for the source to verify that. If the ref was given as just a bare url between two "ref" tags then all you have to do is click on the URL to open it.
But if the URL is embedded within a "cite" template then the URL won't be "clickable". If you try to click on it you'll get directed to Template:cite_news or Template:cite_web or whatever. And if you try to "highlight" the URL with your mouse so you can copy-paste it to your browser's "destination address" field, you'll find that you can't easily do so: The highlighting behavior is all wonky, and you'll invariably end up grabbing more characters than you want. You'll have to paste the whole mess into the "destination address" field, and then trim off the extra characters there before trying to access the web site. This makes verifying sources from diffs much harder than it needs to be.
I'm guessing it should be fairly easy to correct this in the MediaWiki software, to just "turn off" the feature whereby hovering over a cite template in diffs targets Template:cite_web or whatever. Would other editors also be in favor of such a feature change request? – OhioStandard ( talk) 20:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Are there any characters that take up zero space?
Control characters maybe?
I am using but it takes up too much space and messes up my layout.
(Some columns refuse to go to zero width when they are supposed to)
Template:Nuclides#Example_charts
The template code demands that I put something there before it will give me a carriage return so I cant just leave it empty.
Just granpa (
talk) 04:02, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a note, my huggle isn't connecting to IRC and is using slow api queries, making vandalism reversion a bit slow. am I the only one having this problem? Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 02:23, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) WT:Huggle#Unable to stay connected to IRC gives a bit more explanation into this matter. Killiondude ( talk) 16:48, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Georgetown University ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Still showing for me (blatantly, and it's ugly), and I can't figure out why. It's not in the transcluded template. Is this a fluke in my browser? If not, can somebody fix it? I don't want to publicize this at ANI or a more visible forum, and you guys seemed likely to know. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:10, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Is there a place or tool where one can get particular statistics? If I wanted to know (as I do, in fact) what percentage of articles created between August 1, 2009, and July 31, 2010, by newcomer editors who had less than 20 edits at the time they created the article were still in existence 60 days after the day they created the article, is there a place or a way to get that information? Best regards, TRANSPORTERMAN ( TALK) 21:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Introducing {{ Gradient}}. Still a bit a work in progress. Works in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but not in Opera and IE (yet). It seems Microsoft filters are blocked, and I am still looking for a way around that. — Edokter • Talk • 17:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
{{ Border-radius}} and {{ Box-shadow}}. Have fun. — Edokter • Talk • 16:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
For an exapmle of how much typing these templates can save, see this edit. — Edokter • Talk • 23:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Nice one! I've already been using box-shadow and its variants on certain Signpost templates... I think subtle use looks great with the new Vector skin. — Pretzels Hii! 18:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
see the discussion at Template_talk:Quote_box#adding_some_minor_coolness and the test cases at Template:Quote_box/testcases. my feeling is that these make for some nice improvements to the interface, and so long as they fail invisibly in browsers where they fail, we might as well start a discussion about using them more broadly in the project (either as separate templates or as additions to the core CSS classes). need some broader opinions on that, though. -- Ludwigs2 23:19, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Proposal here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki_talk:Common.css&oldid=389737066#Add_-webkit-text-size-adjust:_none.3B_to_MediaWiki:Handheld.css -- MZMcBride ( talk) 17:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out the css for external links, but none of the ones I use are working? Is there any place that lists all CSS classes used by Wikipedia? Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 18:19, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
#content a.external, #bodyContent a.external
, which should just about always work. Go
bypass your cache and see if it's fixed. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
edits|
⚡}} 18:28, 9 October 2010 (UTC)I wanted to cite this bloomberg article, but it gives a 404 now. Google cache has a copy though. How can I preserve the google cache copy? (Webcitation doesn't allow citations of google cache). Smallman12q ( talk) 16:34, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
See this to see what I mean. Don't bother looking for me there, as I'n not involved, but I feel like this might be helpful here in quickly identifiing who has what major user right (of course excludin minor things like rolback ad reviewer). Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 00:40, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I previously posted about this here. The mediawiki message linked above is tailored for page moves but is also the message provided when one moves files, where it either makes no sense or gives poor advice. As noted at the past discussion, in order to do this it would need to be coded so that it displays a different message for the file namespace. I have attempted to figure out the code myself but I am not sure at all what I came up with will not break the move text for all moves (a bad result you'd agree) so I would appreciate it if one of you coding gurus would provide me the code or made the edit (giving me credit in the edit summary). Below is the text I propose be added for the file namspace. Thanks.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 19:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Using the form below will rename a file, moving all of its history to the new name. This option is only available to administrators and those with higher permissions.
Leaving a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] from the prior title to the new is the norm for ''page moves'' for various reasons, such as that the prior title often has numerous internal and incoming links that would be broken upon the move and that it may be a likely search term. By contrast, such concerns are not normally applicable to file titles, which are often only linked from the one or two pages on which the file appears. Accordingly, unless this file is included in many pages (check using [[Help:What links here|what links here]]; do not rely solely on the file links at the bottom of the file page), please consider manually changing all links to the old title to the new title, and then moving the file without leaving a redirect behind. The option to leave a redirect behind is checked by default, and must be unticked if you take this course.
Please remember after the move to revisit the file page and remove {{tl|rename media}} or any other code that requested the move. Please also consider [[Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons|moving this page to the Commons]] if it is a public domain release or under a [[Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses|suitable free license]].
Under development is {{
unicode2}}. Target: in specific ranges of Unicode (plane 1 and higher, so non-BMP) use a font-family that does those characters well. This implies that in those places we skip the more general {{
unicode}} template. It is combining Unicode planes (or blocks, scripts), fonts, and browsers, especially browser-default-fonts. (is: for that one script/block, we want to use a font via unicode2 that does well on many browsers. Another script/block, another font)
Request: Can someone check the coding of the class="font-family"-trick in the template? Difficult to check myself, and very sensitive to typos.
Earlier talk e.g.
here. And: can I create like class="unicode2"
? See
/testcases. -
DePiep (
talk) 22:55, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
There is an on going problem with {{ convert}} and {{ documentation}} not working well together. I believe it is a transclusion depth problem. If anyone wants to take a stab at the problem, see Template talk:Documentation#Problems with transclusion depth. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:41, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
How difficult would it be to add vertical bars next to the line(s) that have been changed in a comparison of different versions of an article? I sometimes go crazy trying to find a single character that has changed. Sometimes, as here, I can't find the change at all. Some publications that have recurring updates (like computer manuals and legal treatises) use the convention of inserting vertical bars next to the changes. Would it be hard for Wikipedia to implement such a system? Wine may improve with age, but my eyes don't.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:27, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
.diff-addedline * .diffchange { background-color: #FF7458 !important; color: black !important; }
On the Help Desk today we have reports of intermittent problems with images not displaying - WP:Help desk#Flag not working, WP:Help desk#image problem. Is this the place to report it? -- John of Reading ( talk) 16:50, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
For an information science class in my grad program, I'm writing a paper about the DYK process; although it feels very odd to cite Wikipedia for an academic paper, this is definitely an acceptable situation, since I'm writing about the website itself. To my surprise, the "cite this page" button visible in the toolbox when looking at an article isn't there when I look at a page in any other namespace. Have we ever had such a link available for non-articles? Nyttend ( talk) 14:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
See the doc of Template:Str_left, and also bugzilla:22555.
Not only these templates are very costly in terms of ressources (notably CPU and memory in the garbage collector), and causing excessive delays to render pages (so much that it now affects all other wikis, because the Egnlish Wikipedia constantly takes all ressources and never ends consuming more), but these templates are simply bogous (due to a bug in MediaWiki parserfunctions).
Time to reconsider the use of Template:Str_left and all the related templates that use it, including ALL infoboxes and ALL stub templates, i.e. almost ALL pages of this Wikipedia. Please consider making and using templates that will not need to perform trimming of positional parameters the way it is done today, or that will need to extract a domain name from a specified URL (consider adding a description text parameter instead, or just display the URL without attmpting to truncate it).
Most of those very tricky templates should be phased out (their introduction in this wiki have seriously impacted its performance in too many pages). You should not build this Wikipedia using them, just because MediaWiki does not offer an efficient way to to that with a conventient native parser function. Please ask instead to install string parser functions in this wiki. verdy_p ( talk) 13:50, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Often I want a structure of an infobox and I need it modified for a slightly different purpose, but I find that all the if-conditionals and the recursive template substitution blows up in my face. Isn't there an easier way to modify the structure of an infobox template? John Riemann Soong ( talk) 00:35, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Infobox newspaper}}
) use the {{
Infobox}}
meta-template and those can have code that is relatively easy to understand and edit. Others (like {{
Infobox Universal attraction}}
) use conditionals with wikitable syntax, which can be quite complicated. My opinion is that the latter should be converted to the former format.
Svick (
talk) 19:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
{{
Str rightc}}
should be completey avoided in {{unichar/gc}}
.{{
Str rightc}}
does not mention any deprecation or disadvice. Also, could you link to that policy? That would greatly base your use of the word "abuse", and also point to alternatives. Having seen the age of the development question, I don't think a vote from me would add much. -
DePiep (
talk) 10:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)Are null (invisible) edits saved into the MediaWiki database or not? As far as I know, they are not shown in the page history. Hey Mid ( contributions) 13:59, 11 October 2010 (UTC)