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Could anybody out there tell me the way to upload small audio bits (in ogg or other formats), like a place name? Also please help me how to link that to the article. Thx Anil 07:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Code | Result |
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{{listen | title=Placename | filename=Placename.ogg | description=This is how you pronounce Placename. }} | |
[[Image:Placename.ogg]] | File:Placename.ogg |
I need help with my popup issues. One time I attempted to remove the popup script but it didn't work and I enter a code to get rid of the script but everytime I log on, it keeps redirecting me immediately to my monobook.js after I log on to and it refuse me to go to other articles (or edit). Can someone remove my script or give me advice on what should I do. Thank you! This IP adress is edited by PrestonH-- 69.236.29.100 04:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
How do I submit an article for the In the news ... spot, please? TerriersFan 23:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
_ _ I propose to create a template {{
text}} whose handwritten text runs 21 lines on a steno pad.
_ _ This would arguably contravene a
WP:TfD decision, but the new version i drafted (prior to realizing a former one had existed!) arguably answers all the objections raised at TfD. Historical details and opportunity to raise objections follow:
_ _
Template:Text was
routinely deleted 08:38, 21 July 2005 by
User:Radiant! per
TfD debate, complete as of 08:31, 19 July 2005. Its complete content was the 7 chars "{{{1}}}". The debate follows:
_ _ Of the nominator & 4 other voters, only one has edited other than user talk pages in the last 2 months, and that one's user page features a bitter response to an arbitration verdict. This leaves me doubtful of the feasibility of reasonable reconsideration by any of the previous voters.
_ _ This is probably too trivial for attention, in which case i'll simply create my version & we can deal then with any objections. Add something here and
leave a new note on my talk page, if you want to discuss it first here, probably including my initially keying the long <NOINCLUDE> portion here instead of onto
Template:Text. (The included portion is the same old 7 characters.)
--
Jerzy•
t 22:21 &
22:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
When I highlight something in an edit box, it shows a mini-preview! Is this new, or am I just unobservant? Milto LOL pia 22:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
popupOnEditSelection=false;
into your
monobook.js to turn it off.
Tra
(Talk)
22:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)Hello. I've found a wiki-method to draw Feynman diagram. Here it is. I want to include this in the MediaWiki. How can I do that? Vinograd19 21:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
If want to have differenct search alternatives lead to the same article, what do I do? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drogo ( talk • contribs) 16:44, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
Currently deleted edits are retrievable up to June 2004, it is time that we actually start cleaning out the deleted old mainspace page revisions for up to, say 2 years? I was reading up this, I do not believe that anyone would really want to look up for something on mainspace that was previously deleted for more than two years, and I'm sure there are costs for maintaining this database. Over half of what is created today is deleted everyday, and we know that several of them are spam/vanity/copyright violations. Do we really need to keep and retrieve them in five years' time, for example?
At the moment images are not undelete-able for up to June 2006, but in future it's going to take up a lot of space if we don't have a cut-off time. Let's be practical, do we really need to retain imagevios, CSD#I4s, CSD#I5s for more than a year that takes up gigs of space and maintenance costs? - Mailer Diablo 16:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I moved the following thread from the WP:AN. The articles in the pages named here have all been deleted, however it looks like this may be an ongoing problem in which there is a delay in updating Category:Proposed_for_deletion_for_over_five_days page. Any ideas? Kla'quot 04:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
The page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_for_deletion_for_over_five_days does not include articles from the following pages:
Is this a problem with the software? Kla'quot 06:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
(pseudo-indent) I've noticed this before. Doesn't seem to be a problem with Template:Dated prod. The relevant part is...
{{#if: {{{day|{{{month|{{{year|}}}}}}}}} |{{#ifexpr: {{#time:U}} > {{#time:U|{{{day}}} {{{month}}} {{{year}}} +5 days}} |<span style="color:red">'''The {{#switch:{{NAMESPACEE}}|{{ns:2}}=user page|{{ns:3}}=user talk page|#default=article}} may be deleted without further notice since this message has remained in place for five days.'''</span>{{hidden-delete-reason|Expired prod, concern: {{{concern|{{{1|}}}}}}}}<includeonly>[[Category:Proposed for deletion for over five days]]</includeonly> |The {{#switch:{{NAMESPACEE}}|{{ns:2}}=user page|{{ns:3}}=user talk page|#default=article}} may be deleted if this message remains in place for five days.{{hidden-delete-reason|Prod, concern: {{{concern|{{{1|}}}}}}}} }}
...and I know from experience that the red notice works correctly. The pages also categorise correctly. Purging the category doesn't work. Perhaps it's a job queue/large wiki lag thing.
Oh, and get deleting - there's two days worth of stuff that needs to be prodded over the edge. MER-C 12:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I've seen that problem before (I wrote the prod code to do it). It's an issue with Mediawiki's category synchronization, I guess it's a task that gets put in the job queue but takes a while before it gets run. — Quarl ( talk) 2007-02-14 05:34Z
Thanks everyone. Is the consensus that there is no feasible way to fix the problem? If we need to adopt an inelegant, brute-force workaround, I'd suggest creating a category for "prodded 3+ days ago" and another category for "prodded 4+ days ago". Admins can then check those categories and see whether they contain articles that were actually prodded 5 days ago. I warned you it was inelegant ;) Kla'quot 06:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
This should have the /* */ added so that it becomes a section link. For example, instead of "New section edit summary", my edit summary here should be /* New section edit summary */ created section
, that is, appearing as "
→New section edit summary - created section". --
Random832(
t
c)
16:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
This is not really of relevence to Wikipedia, but it is to Wikiversity and it involves MediaWiki. I'm asking here as more people may read it. On standard web pages for education use, I regularly use forms for input of data and CGI scripts to analyse the data. In this way for example one can get the reader to answer simple quiz questions, get feedback on whether they are understanding the material, and run simple programs with the results presented back as a web page (actually we run very complex programs as well in this way, but that is another matter). These interactive uses are in my opinion crucial for web based education materials. I would like to use them on Wikiversity. Is it possible in MediaWiki? If so, where can I find the details? -- Bduke 07:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
<input>
tags, however the use is uncommon and therefore I'm not sure about the exact mechanism behind. Maybe some developers could help. --
Der
yck C.
12:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)Weird stuff! -- Itayb 13:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, my contributions list seems to have packed it, I've made contributions after the most recent one listed but they aren't showing, is there a case of the slave catching up and not displaying them? Or are some of my edits just dropping off the map? Cause that could mean trouble when it comes to chasing up my own work! SGGH 00:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
How do I link text to a category page? - TheMeatballX 19:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank You! That was driving me nuts! - TheMeatballX 20:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
browsing through the Special:Listusers there is a user class "import", which currently has no users in it. Was wondering what this was, is this a relic that was used and is no longer needed, or something new that I've missed.
Crazynas t 13:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
A simple/hard question: by default, MySQL creates a single ibdata1 when in InnoDB mode. This file extends itself as you add information. I am using a single mysql server, creating one database per language to execute some queries, and this means the single ibdata1 file holds every database:
mysql> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | afwiki | | anwiki | | arwiki | | azwiki | | bowiki | | dewiki | | enwiki | | eswiki | | fiwiki | | frwiki | | itwiki | | jawiki | | lawiki | | metawiki | | mysql | | nlwiki | | nnwiki | | ocwiki | | papwiki | | pawiki | | plwiki | | ptwiki | | ruwiki | | simplewiki | +--------------------+ 25 rows in set (0.33 sec)
I would like (if possible) having a single ibdata file per database, since I am guessing that would speed some queries. Is there a simple way of doing this without having to manually change my.cnf every time I want to create a new database? I don't think every Wikipedia language is run in its own dedicated server (regardless of front ends). :-) Would forcing MySQL to create index files instead of adding them in the ibdata file make queries and updating faster? Are the MySQL configuration for Wikipedia servers public? Thanks in advance. -- ReyBrujo 00:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I was testing my copy of MediaWiki, and found these in the DefaultSettings.php:
// Experimental permissions, not ready for production use //$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true; //$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['hiderevision'] = true;
I commented them out, and found they worked!!
The log comments appear as (example from my wiki): (Deletion log); 00:50 . . WikiSysop (Talk | contribs | block) (changed revision visibility for User:WikiSysop/Sandbox: changed 1 revisions to 0: test over: hiderevision extension testing done)
I'm surprised this wasn't used before they had the oversight feature! -- sunstar net talk 00:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
What would be the feasibility of having "What links here" return not just the name of the page that links to the target page, but also the text displayed by the link? For example, if the page [[John Doe]] contained the text "[[Richard Roe|his co-conspirator]]", then "What links here" for [[Richard Roe]] would show "[[John Doe]], with the text 'his co-conspirator'". This could be useful in making sure the principle of least surprise is followed, as well as catching subtle violations of NPOV. -- Antaeus Feldspar 14:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
This is related to the discussion going on at ANI and VPR, and see also this. but this specific aspect is a technical issue and belongs here.
How difficult would it be to change the code so that the New Message box appears outside the content box (i.e. above the title or entirely outside the main monobook "frame"), thereby making it easily distinguishable from parodies of it (which necessarily appear in the content box after the title header)? -- Random832( t c) 21:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I meant changing the position in the generated HTML source. By "content box" i meant <div id="content">. And moving the box up wouldn't move the title header down. -- Random832( t c) 22:21, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
There is a picture on the page Vertical launching system that should show several destroyers firing missiles, but everytime I check the page all I see is a red "X" and the photo cpation where the image should be. I have no idea how to fix this, so any help anyone could provide would be apreciated. TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
There may be a problem with the page Wikipedia:Citation templates. It appears to me as an almost blank page with the following fragment of text: "<script type="text/javascript" src="/w/index". Itayb 21:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The current Brake Fade article by "justanother" contains a major technical
errors in that it attributes fade of drum brakes to two old wives tales:
Brake fade is caused by heat expansion of the drum.
Brake fade is caused by outgassing of the brake shoe causing a gas bearing between shoe and drum.
No explanation for how large the thermal expansion that might cause this is,
especially in presence of ovalization of brake drums by braking forces.
The gas bearing hypothesis is especially incredible considering hao much gase would be required for such a levitation and that brakes can fade again after cooling, there being an infinite supply of gas.
That
Drum brakes only work because they have leading shoes with a self servo effect to drive the shoes with their own braking force into the drum.
This effect is recursive and leads to fade at the hot end and brake lockup on the cold and moist end. Turning a page in a newspaper with a wet finger gives an example of change in friction coefficient.
I have proposed that "justanother" give valid references for these two hypotheses by placing citation needed insertions with the alternative that I offer a rewrite of the article. The author's deleting the citation needed does not support the claimed causes of brake fade. The sources offered do not explain the phenomenon and coud just as well be the articel in Wiki. Jobst 21:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been having some difficulty with this code here, whenever I enter it to my homepage (which is where I want it), it doesn't automatically hide the template I've put in - unless I say style="display:none" in the navcontent - but then the hide/show starts out as hide even though the content is hidden. Any ideas?
<div class="NavFrame">
<div class="NavHead">User Talk Templates</div>
<div class="NavContent">
{{User:Pilotguy/Warnings}}
</div>
</div>
Thanks for any help you guys can give (oh and note: if I use {{ Hidden}} and say 2={{User:Pilotguy/Warnings}} for the second parameter - it works, strangeness.Daniel()Folsom T| C| U 21:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
NavigationBarShowDefault = 0;
How does the software know that a user has registered less than 4 days ago (for editing semi-protected pages)? Mr.Z-man talk 00:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Why are so many moderators on here given the power of moderator?Is there a place to complain about certain ones or would it be pretty much useless?Who's in charge say if,every moderator is unreliable and flaky?Im just curious,thank you if you read my question. Tyr 20:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
yes,ones in charge of deleting articles and so forth. Tyr 05:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
well I honestly didnt mean it as such a generalization..I have just encountered a few who are,im sorry to say in love with their own power on deleting articles that have validity,but thank you for the information. Tyr 07:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey all, I had a wiki installation (1.9) installed on my server, and decided I needed a new hard drive, so I followed the procedure outlined in the upgrade section of mediawiki, and all was well... except for a little bug. My Template:· suddenly turned into a Template:·! As all of the pages the template is included on still contained {{·}} and not {{·}}, I simply moved · to · and called it a day, since it looked like it was fixed. Imagine my surprise when bug reports came in saying that all of the {{·}}'s used didn't work! The link was red, but when I clicked it, it naturally went to the edit page for {{·}}.
It certainly looks like a table got corrupted... but I'd hate to go database diving unless I absolutely have to, and know what I'm looking for... :S
Help? Kareeser| Talk! 08:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I've just followed a link from Seamus Heaney to the University of California, only to find that I was apparently no longer logged in; following a further link from the latter article took me to another page which did recognise who I was... I've repeated this a few times, and get the same effect every time. Does anyone else get this effect? If so, what's going on? (If not, the problem would seem to be with me, and I still don't know what's going on, but that's my problem.) -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 11:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a technical problem. I asked for help over on Meta but have gotten no responses thus far. I think I messed up my monobook profile or something. Now when I highlight a section while editing it pops up above the edit section area in a blue tinted version. Also it's very hard to highlight a section in order to cut and paste it or delete it, as it always includes other irrelevant paragraphs and pops them up above the edit section box. How do I turn this off? Quadzilla99 13:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
popupOnEditSelection=false;
Whenever I leave the site, I am automatically logged out despite the fact that I have "remembered my password" checked. This has started happening even when I don'tthe site too. This has never happened to me before. (I'm using Firefox and a Mac.) Any ideas as to why? John Reaves (talk) 01:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Selecting the "printable version" link of the article http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Aloe_vera&printable=yes, then doing a print preview, locks up Firefox 2.0.0.1 and SeaMonkey 1.1a. Works OK with IE 7.0.5730.11. Print preview on other articles' printable version works fine. MeekMark 22:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Need some help to get Template:Topical archive and template:Ordered archive to work right. Here is the syntax we want. Here is the general idea. Im going to give a shot. - Ste| vertigo 10:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC) PS: Wikipedia:Topic archive -SV
Hi. It seems that the <math>
tag does not consistently italicize text which it encloses. For example, compare "" and "". Why is the first one not italicized? This also occurs all the time for single letters like "". I just don't get it. Thanks for any insight. —
Dfass
23:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Can the "Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! " be moved up onto the line under sign in/create account (-10px?) or over left to the middle (500px?), because it is covering up templates like the help contents back, the semiprotect templates and many others and its really irritating. Thank you, 00:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Admins, take a look at Special:Undelete/Help talk:Starting a new page/. Some anon managed to edit the page after it had been deleted to enable cascading protection. (Compare timestamp of last deleted revision with the time of David Levy's deletion.) I've no idea whether it's a problem with the {{ protected title}} template which is used to transclude the deleted page, or even cascading protection itself. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 06:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Eh, cascading protection uses the templatelinks table, which is updated when the source page is edited. It's not really something I'd be willing to fix, seeing as it's a very obscure edge case that would result in non-trivial performance trade-offs. — Werdna talk 06:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if it would be possible to make the semiprotection notice when you go to edit or view the source of a semiprotected page be made more prominent and provide more information (when you do not have enough access to edit a page, a "view source" tab appears instead of the "edit" tab). The current notice on the "edit" tab is, "Note: This page has been semi-protected so that only established users can edit it." The notice on the view source tab is at the bottom of this post. In addition to being more prominent, I think that it should have the same information that is on {{ sprotected}}. This would allow us to do away with the semiprotection notices on articles. The template puts the article in a category as well as notifying readers, but the template could be modified so that it just puts the article in a category.
I think that this would be a wonderful change. The semiprotection notice currently blemishes many otherwise excellent articles. In addition, for a significant number of articles, the semiprotection is permanent. It is not necessary for readers of the article to know whether an article is semiprotected or not. Editors can easily tell that they are unable to edit an article by the lack of an "edit" tab and the presence of the "view source" tab. If that is not enough, perhaps another tab should be put on protected articles. It could be called "protection" or something similar and it could give all of the information needed. Another option would be to have an easy to recognize symbol that an article is protected, such as a padlock. Clicking on the symbol would send you to a page with the information. The symbol should be at the top of the page, like the tabs are, not inside the article.
Notice on the view source tab:
Kjkolb 20:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
In particular, with the addition of auto-expiring page protection, the more automated our protection notices are, then probably the better. I've seen proposals for a MediaWiki message to be displayed, in the place of templates like {{ sprotect}} and the like -- would save us all time adding the templates, with the added bonus of avoiding manual removal of {{ tprotected}} and such. – Luna Santin ( talk) 07:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
As often happens, I forgot about this discussion because there are so many to keep track of. Anyway, in response to AdorableRuffian, I strongly disagree with keeping the notice so prominent, and therefore necessarily unsightly, because some articles are to be permanently semiprotected. If it were temporary, it would not be nearly so bad. That is why I have no objection to cleanup, wikify and similar templates. To have such an unsightly template on a well written article is crazy to me.
There is now an image of a padlock that links to the semiprotection policy on pages that are semiprotected (I do not know how long it has been there). I do not see what is wrong with just having that image as notice, as well as an explanation when someone clicks on the "view source"/"edit this page" tab (the explanation could be what is currently in the notice template). The padlock image could be made larger, if necessary. Alternatively or in addition to making the image larger, text could be placed next to the padlock, perhaps something like "semiprotected". -- Kjkolb 05:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
My mistake. The padlock is an alternative template for the semiprotection notice. Therefore, it appears that this situation has been dealt with. -- Kjkolb 06:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Having an automatic notice at the top of each protected page would be trivial to implement. However, in my opinion, any message at the top of every protected page is highly undesirable; as such I don't intend to implement such a notice. I don't know how other developers feel about it, but I vaguely remember having a discussion about it a few months ago in one of the tech IRC channels Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The need for the existence of #mediawiki? and I'm not the only developer to have this view. — Werdna talk 06:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at Special:Newpages, and noticed a vandal page had been created. The page is [[:/..]] See also [1]. Trying to actually go to that article automatically redirects to the main WP page. I'm not sure if it's happening in my browser or if it's a server-side redirect. Either way, it seems possible to create a page that isn't easily accessible by normal means. Is this a known issue? eaolson 06:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
This is kind of a proposal (sorry if this has been proposed before). When using a <ref> multiple times in an article, the reflist automatically separates each instance into letters (see the first ref in Peter Jennings for example). This is nice. However, the refs in-text don't have the corresponding letter labels, which would be even better. Instead, all of them are labeled [1]. This makes it difficult for readers to return to where they were in the text, as I doubt many of them would keep track of how many times a reference had been used so far in the text. Making refs in text appear as [1a], [1b], [1c], etc. would be better IMO. Of course, using the back button works for most people, but clicking on a ref to return to the text seems more intuitive to me. What do you all think? Gzkn 07:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way I can turn off the "edit merging" feature that combines changes made by two users to the same page at the same time? The feature relatively often merges vandalism reversions with more vandalism ( example). These merges are annoying as they may go unnoticed. I would rather just get the "edit conflict" message every time I edit a page simultaneously with someone else. -- KFP ( talk | contribs) 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, on some Wikipedia edit windows (it only does it there) my browser randomly moves back a page. I am using IE ver. 6. Is there any way I can fix this? Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 02:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The title and tab arrangement on my
Sandbox/Page1 looks fine in Firefox, but it's not so good in MS Internet Explorer v6, as can be seen in the images.
Neither problem is a disaster, and the one with "The Title" can be gotten around by reducing the size, but I'm sure there must be a solution. I'd like to get it fixed because the test version in my sandbox is a copy of the one in use on the
energy portal. I've tried various ideas, but have reached the stage where assistance would be gratefully received...
Further documentation on this talk page Gralo 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm following up on a recent checkuser result but seem unable to create Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Somethingoranother. Is creating such categories restricted in some way? WjB scribe 14:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm wondering if there are any plans to integrate geographical coordinate information with Wikipedia entries.
I ask this b/c I would love to have my GPS receiver tell me all of the things that have a Wikipedia entry as I drive past them, so that I can pull over and look up the article if I want (in my case I'd use my blackberry for this, but soon more PDAs will have built in GPS, etc.)
I know there is a microformat (Geo) designed to do inline lat/long coordinates. So one option would be to simply create a wiki formatting style for coordinates to allow article editors to add them to places, etc.
However the use case that I'm imagining is that someone would want to download lat/long/article information for a given geographical area, such as California, the Southwest US, or Paris, for example...
So it might make sense to tag an article in the database with coordinates so that someone could easily search for all entries with coordinates between four points.
I'm a programmer and would gladly submit a patch to enable this, but I wanted to get an idea of whether anything like this is already in progress or if there are any constraints or concerns I should be aware of.
-matt
Mmmurf 19:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I have just created a new page on Hydrogen in the Kannada wikipedia and put a link to that article from the English wikipedia (i.e., it shows up in the "in other languages" section). Is there a way to automatically get this inter-language link from other language wikipedias as well? or do I have to manually go and put [[kn:xxxx]] link everywhere (i.e., say in the Hindi wikipedia, Japanese wikipedia etc.)? I realize that somebody reading the Hydrogen article in the Japanese wikipedia might not be very interested in reading it in Kannada, but just thought I would ask. Thanks. -- Sarvagna 17:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm following up on a recent checkuser result but seem unable to create Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Somethingoranother. Is creating such categories restricted in some way? WjB scribe 14:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I have recently made some editing to the above mentioned article on Wikipedia.
However after having saved such changes they were temporarily made visible but then when I checked the following day they were gone.
Why has this happened?
Thank You —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.203.67.110 ( talk) 13:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC).
Hello,
I'm wondering if there are any plans to integrate geographical coordinate information with Wikipedia entries.
I ask this b/c I would love to have my GPS receiver tell me all of the things that have a Wikipedia entry as I drive past them, so that I can pull over and look up the article if I want (in my case I'd use my blackberry for this, but soon more PDAs will have built in GPS, etc.)
I know there is a microformat (Geo) designed to do inline lat/long coordinates. So one option would be to simply create a wiki formatting style for coordinates to allow article editors to add them to places, etc.
However the use case that I'm imagining is that someone would want to download lat/long/article information for a given geographical area, such as California, the Southwest US, or Paris, for example...
So it might make sense to tag an article in the database with coordinates so that someone could easily search for all entries with coordinates between four points.
I'm a programmer and would gladly submit a patch to enable this, but I wanted to get an idea of whether anything like this is already in progress or if there are any constraints or concerns I should be aware of.
-matt
Mmmurf 19:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
How does one categorize articles? Thanks in advance. N734LQ 21:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[[Category:Living people]]
to a page will add that page to
Category:Living people. If you want to link to a category rater than including the page in the category you add a colon at the start of the link like so [[:Category:Living people]]
. See
Help:Category for more details and info on sorting entries within a category and such. --
Sherool
(talk)
22:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)Things seem to be in different colors now than before a week ago. Also the contrast is very faint (I can't see commas and footnotes etc.) The print seems small and faint. Also I can barely see the bars on the side (to move the page up and down with). I upgraded my Firefox browser to 2.0.0.1. Could that be it? Thanks! -- Mattisse 20:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Sbrools was good enough to follow up on my request to replace a fair use map with a "home made" SVG version. However he's having some trouble getting MediaWiki to render thumbnails for the image (Opera at least can render the raw SVG just fine). Can anyone see any obvious problems in
Image:Europejews.svg that prevents it from beeing "MediaWiki compatable"? I know next to nothing about SVG syntax and what MediaWiki supports and not, but I guess the standalone="no"
bit in the header may be a problem, and if xlink:href="EmancofJews.gif"
does anyting (as far as I can tell the map is made up of "path" elements not a embeded gif) I guess that would be a no-no too... Is there a page somewhere that list SVG features you need to avoid to make SVG's work properly under MediaWiki? --
Sherool
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08:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
i'm doing a little personal research into the types of articles on wikipedia, and have been using Special:Random to get a random sample of pages (and getting a surprising percentage of soccer club articles and small-county-in-minnesota type stubs). i'd just like some confirmation that this feature does, indeed, return a random (or near-random) article.
to cut to the chase, does every article in the main article space at the instant the button is pushed have an equal chance of being returned? any info is appreciated. thanks much. - barneca 19:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Over the past few days, I've noticed that if I highlight a section of text while editing an article, the text appears (mostly) as it would in the article in a purple box, similar to a preview. When was this feature added and what purpose does it serve that we didn't already have? The box gets rather annoying when I'm trying to cut and paste large sections of text, as it has a tendency to push the edit dialogue off the screen. When it previews the wikicode, it doesn't even display everything correctly. I've had instances where the preview in the purple box is different from the actual preview I get by pushing the preview button, which has always worked just fine for me before. I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but I really don't see the purpose of this highlight code. Hersfold ( talk/ work) 16:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
As stated in the title, all of my settings in common.css (a#new, #personal colour changes, etc...) disappear when mod_rewrite is activated in apache's httpd.conf, even when I don't use the rewriting engine at all. Is this a bug?
I'm using WAMP5 Server 1.6.6
TIA! Kareeser| Talk! 14:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
For me (and this may to some extent be browser dependent), the article British_coin_One_Pound has some layout problems. Between "The reverse designs are as follows" and the text following is a huge piece of vertical white space. I know why this is happening (I think). The ordinary text (terminating at the line "The reverse designs are as follows") can "wrap around" the right hand infobox, and so fit into the space to the left of it. The text after this is a table, which can't. By adjusting the % width of the table until it just fits in the space I can fix the problem. However, this seems an unpleasant ad hoc solution, dependent on the precise measurements of things which may change, or be different in different browsers. What is the correct way to fix this robustly? Thanks, Matt 02:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
When editing an article, I sometimes have to highlight text in the text box. Recently, I noticed that highlighting text in wikilinks (i.e. [[double square brackets]]), the focus is taken away, and the text is echoed just above the text box. What is the purpose of this feature? More importantly, how can I make it stop? It is rather annoying to have the focus repeatedly taken away from what I was editing. --Cheers, Folajimi (leave a note) 21:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
to your monobook.js it seems to go aways. It could be useful for checking you have got the wikilink correct. -- Salix alba ( talk) 23:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Could we display the total number of articles in a category? For instance, it would be nice to know the total number of disambig pages. This total might include or exclude articles in subcategories, or maybe we could get both counts. -- Smack ( talk) 06:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a page that documents how to use preload links? (like this one) I've noticed some of the params don't do what I'd assume they should do (autosummary, autominor). Are these disabled or something? --- RockMFR 05:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Can somebody add {{ tnavbar}} so that it is at the right in the top row of {{ Harry Potter characters}}? When I tried to put it in, it appeared a line break down. Thanks. -- Fbv 65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 05:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
When viewing Wikipedia pages, I've noticed that the letters in italicized (or oblique) words are shifted "downstream" by two letters. In other words, "apple" now reads "crrng." As one can imagine, reading pages with a lot of italicized words becomes impossible!
I'm using a Macintosh G4 with OS 10.4.8 and Safari version 2.0.4. Is there a setting I need to make in order to correct this problem?
Thanks, Bill Pitts (E-Mail removed for security purposes) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Pitts ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC).
It was a positive step to add icons next to media files showing their type (eg. audio), without having to click or hovering mouse over the hyperlinks. However, I found that even the links to the deletion log pages of such files show the icon, even when the media doesn't exist in the first place. (ex. this). Shouldn't these be shown as normal external hyperlinks? — Ambuj Saxena ( ☎) 16:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
** keep the whitespace in front of the ^=, hides rule from konqueror ** this is css3, the validator doesn't like it when validating as css2 */ #bodyContent a.external, #bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] { background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="https://"], .link-https { background: url(lock_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 16px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="mailto:"], .link-mailto { background: url(mail_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="news://"] { background: url(news_icon.png) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="ftp://"], .link-ftp { background: url(file_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="irc://"], .link-irc { background: url(discussionitem_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a.external[href $=".ogg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".OGG"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mid"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MID"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".midi"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MIDI"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mp3"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MP3"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".wav"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".WAV"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".wma"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".WMA"], .link-audio { background: url("audio.png") center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } #bodyContent a.external[href $=".ogm"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".OGM"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".avi"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".AVI"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mpeg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MPEG"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mpg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MPG"], .link-video { background: url("video.png") center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } #bodyContent a.external[href $=".pdf"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".PDF"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".pdf#"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".PDF#"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".pdf?"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".PDF?"], .link-document { background: url("document.png") center right no-repeat; padding-right: 12px; }
#bodyContent a.external[href $=".ogg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".OGG"],
. The $= selector matches the end of an element attribute value. In this case, <a class="external" href="blahblahblah.ogg">. You can defeat this with a simple query string rearrangement:
like this. Congrats though: you have a ~CSS3 browser! --
Splarka (
rant)
08:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I've created this template. But I can't seem to get certain pieces of info (such as Man of the match) to appear in it. Buc 14:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but anyway: I've had navigation popups installed for quite a while, and I just installed 3 more scripts, those being navigation shortcuts, speedy deletion tabs, and edit intro section. They work just fine, but the instructions to clear my browser cache are gone in my monobook.js, and the formatting looks all weird. It even has a random speedy deletion tag stuck in the middle of it! How do I fix all these problems? Here's a link to my monobook.js page: User:Pyrospirit/monobook.js. Thanks, Pyrospirit Flames Fire 00:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
//<pre>
at the start of the page and //</pre>
at the end.
Tra
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01:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)The title and tab arrangement on my
Sandbox/Page1 looks fine in Firefox, but it's not so good in MS Internet Explorer v6, as can be seen in the images.
Neither problem is a disaster, and the one with "The Title" can be gotten around by reducing the size, but I'm sure there must be a solution. I'd like to get it fixed because the test version in my sandbox is a copy of the one in use on the
energy portal. I've tried various ideas, but have reached the stage where assistance would be gratefully received...
Further documentation on this talk page Gralo 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way I can turn off the "edit merging" feature that combines changes made by two users to the same page at the same time? The feature relatively often merges vandalism reversions with more vandalism ( example). These merges are annoying as they may go unnoticed. I would rather just get the "edit conflict" message every time I edit a page simultaneously with someone else. -- KFP ( talk | contribs) 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there any tool or such that can be used to create a sub watchlist; IE if you just want to be notafied on one type of article you're watching.
Take me for example, recently, I tagged a ton of articles about a proposed merge, but i need to keep an eye on the talk pages; however, I'm already watching a ton of pages not related to the topic, I don't want to remove them from my watch list, but I also wish to view 'just' the changes in articles I'm recently tagged. Is there anyway of doing this?-- Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 19:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
We seem to have problems converting SVGs to PNGs for display. See here and here. They render fine in Camino, Firefox, Opera, and Inkscape. The second one looks like this when it should look like this. What's going on? -- M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 ( T | C | @) 07:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I tried to copy an SVG into a Powerpoint and the bottom showed up black. Please advise. Thanks Elatanatari 01:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, on some Wikipedia edit windows (it only does it there) my browser randomly moves back a page. I am using IE ver. 6. Is there any way I can fix this? Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 02:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I want to use CSS hover effects in a navigation template I'm working on. Is there any way to define a CSS class on a wikipedia page? Is there a template or something that would directly let me do hover effects (I'm specifically looking for a change of background color on hover) -- froth T 01:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a feature that allows non-admins to delete and restore pages in their own userspace? This would bypass having to add more pages to the backlog of speedy deletion candidates to get a subpage deleted. Talk pages might need to be exempt to prevent malicious deletions. John Reaves (talk) 10:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Seems like a waste of developer time to me. We have plenty of other stuff to work on (per-page blocking, title blacklist, tor blocking come to mind as being on my to-do list). This provides very little benefit and would probably take a few full days of developer time to create and perfect, which is about as long as it took me to do my protection rewrite. — Werdna talk 06:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
The referenced article is very large (286 KB, I think the edit window said on one of my edit attempts). I had considerable trouble editing it -- when I saved the page, it would not be redisplayed after the save -- and now I can't display it at all. The page load terminates without displaying any content at all. Using Shift+F5 doesn't help, and neither does adding &action=purge to the URL. Is this to be expected with such a large article, or is something else going on? Thanks. -- Tkynerd 00:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I've been noticing the job queue more and more recently, and it seems to be an issue with the size it gets. Right now it's at 140,000, and its occurred to me ( and others) that we should have an archive and graphs to highlight those times when it's all going wrong. A few people have asked stuff like "is 33,000 a large queue?", and without some sort of easily interpreted data archive (eg. a graph), the job queue is just a meaningless number, and there's no point in displaying it to none techies - Jack · talk · 11:22, Sunday, 25 February 2007
Requests | hourly | daily | weekly | monthly | yearly |
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Traffic | hourly | daily | weekly | monthly | yearly |
Bear with me, I am an old refugee from the eight-bit world. I took the link supplied by Soporific and what I found was somewhat opaque to me. Does it tell me, somewhere on that page, that I can enter a command that will make all the lists alphabetical by last name when I see them? I did not find anything in "my preferences" about alphabetization.
Dynamic lists are alphabetical by first name (or title, if that comes before the first name) in Wikipedia and other Wikis I have consulted. Alphabetizing by first name is ok for a 13-year-old's address book but I find it monstrously off-putting. I think there is a practical argument in favour of my attitude too, not just a cultural one: it's not a good idea to to have to work one's way through a long line of "John"s.
First name | Last name |
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Abby | Smith |
Charles | Guy |
John | Can |
John | Smith |
Sarah | Can |
Hope this helps. Gracenotes T § 23:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Or this, which makes the names look more natural:
First name | Last name |
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Abby | Smith |
Charles | Guy |
John | Can |
John | Smith |
Sarah | Can |
Gracenotes T § 23:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
There's something strange going on at Wikipedia:Help desk. For some reason, section edit links have disappeared from the page; I've looked for an errant __NOEDITSECTION__, but haven't had any luck with that. A few other users have reported that as well. Any ideas? Titoxd( ?!?) 22:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to make bulleted text align with non bulleted text. This is specifically an issue in the last parts of Mount Hood#Incident history, but is easily demonstrated here:
No indentation, like this paragraph looks much worse. — EncMstr 01:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
This is kind of a proposal (sorry if this has been proposed before). When using a <ref> multiple times in an article, the reflist automatically separates each instance into letters (see the first ref in Peter Jennings for example). This is nice. However, the refs in-text don't have the corresponding letter labels, which would be even better. Instead, all of them are labeled [1]. This makes it difficult for readers to return to where they were in the text, as I doubt many of them would keep track of how many times a reference had been used so far in the text. Making refs in text appear as [1a], [1b], [1c], etc. would be better IMO. Of course, using the back button works for most people, but clicking on a ref to return to the text seems more intuitive to me. What do you all think? Gzkn 07:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I just uploaded Image:Population density.png to replace Image:Pop density.jpg, but now the oceans are white (because the PNG has an alpha channel and it's composited against a white background by default). Is there any way to change the background to blue? I could always just upload a separate pre-composited PNG with no alpha channel, but that seems like a needless waste of space. — Keenan Pepper 04:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I am proposing that we add the number of bytes of each edit (as seen in watchlists) to the history of articles. This would make it far easier to spot vandalism and blanking of large sections when looking to revert an article, especially when deciding which revision to go for RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 01:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
How so you add mouseover text to a link? For example, a link to an external website where if you mouseover the link, it gives a specific string instead of just a URL. Like explained (sort of) here: Help:Link#"Hover box" on links. Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 01:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <span title="Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Wikipedia</span>] is [[Cool (aesthetic)|<span title="OMFG it is!!!!!!!!">cool</span>]]
There is a really wierd thing going on. I am FreshFruitsRule but every time I try to log in it says that I entered an incorrect password. I did not mistype it (I typed it really slowly, just to see if that was the problem, and it wasn't) and I definitely remember it. Is this an error that happens frequently? -- 216.106.109.30 23:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC) (Although I am FreshFruitsRule, again I am not logged in due to this issue)
{{ bots}} is protected, so its edit page says, because User talk:Redvers is protected with cascading. However, the latter is only semi-protected, and it's caused full protection on the template! Surely this is some sort of MediaWiki bug, but the BugZilla link on this page isn't working for me at the moment. Any ideas on what's going on or how best to report it? Thanks. -- Tardis 16:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at Special:Newpages, and noticed a vandal page had been created. The page is [[:/..]] See also [4]. Trying to actually go to that article automatically redirects to the main WP page. I'm not sure if it's happening in my browser or if it's a server-side redirect. Either way, it seems possible to create a page that isn't easily accessible by normal means. Is this a known issue? eaolson 06:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I thought I read that there is a formatting to add to <gallery> that will allow five images per row instead of the default four. If this is so, what is it? Thanks! -- Mattisse 01:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Am I allowed to blank my talk page? N734LQ 00:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Thought I would ask here, found nothing useful at Meta. I read some comment that Wikipedia:Broken/ is generated due a bug with unicode or so. I spend my time deleting these pages from smaller Wikipedias, and am curious as to why the page is generated by an ip and gets full protection by default. Thanks -- ReyBrujo 04:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Broken/
(in all namespaces, but most often found in the article and talk namespaces), they are all (with one exception) pages which formerly had an inacessible name (broken page titles, page title conflicting with an interwiki prefix, and several other reasons) and which were renamed (directly in the database, so it does not appear in the page history) by a special script ran by the developers. If it seems to have been created by an IP, it's because it was created by an IP, but with a different page title. Unless the script has changed, they aren't protected either (unless they were already protected before).Is there a way to convert a clean number (iE 10000) to a styled number (iE 10.000) in a template? (or the other way around) The clean number would be needed to make calculations. (see here for background) Agathoclea 11:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone else been getting errors like this lately, I just got 2.
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION Fout Fel Fallo 错误 錯誤 Erreur Error Fehler エラー Błąd Errore Erro Chyba English The Wikimedia Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
The problem is most likely temporary and will hopefully be fixed soon. Please check back in a few minutes.
For further information, you can visit the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.
In the meantime, you may be able to view Google's cached version of this page.
Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the Internet by traffic and continues to grow, and as a result the Wikimedia Foundation has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.
If reporting this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the following details: Request: POST http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:68.42.20.1&action=submit, from 68.41.148.42 via sq24.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE9) to 10.0.5.3 (10.0.5.3) Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:38:33 GMT
Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 03:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
:)
--
Michael Billington (
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contribs)
11:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)I've been observing a slow-motion edit war for some time now, discussing this with somebody I came to the conclusion a new layer of protection or "soft block" would be pertinent. The solution would be to enable administrators to a block certain user(s) from making edits to a certain page for a certain amount of time, or even enforce ArbCom decisions, etc, this would in turn allow other users to edit said page free of protection and would bring those in an edit war to the discussion page, when a consensus is reached an administrator can lift the "UB-protect"
At present we have {{ editprotected}}, this can from observations go several days before being checked (which is not great in the long-term), and from my knowledge does not comply with the GFDL 100%.
I believe that a solution like this can only benefit articles, I'm unsure as to the technical implications and as to if it is possible, thus I've brought it here for comments/discussion. thanks/ Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 18:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
What's wrong with the Wikipedia servers in the past two days. The timeouts and "technical difficulties" page when submitting edits are driving me NUTS. Please, any info? Thanks. Xiner ( talk, email) 17:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I just posted a new article titled Winnowing Barn or Winnowing House. I used the or because I see it used in both ways, but they are the same thing. However, the only way to bring it up in a search is to search it the exact same: Winnowing Barn or Winnowing House
A search of winnowing barn or winnowing house it turns up no results, which has created a linking problem since many articles mention these but it will not link to the article. I guess I could simply change the article title to Winnowing Barn but there seems to be now way to do so
Any help is appreciated
Related articles include Mansfield Plantation and wind winnowing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Namey Design Studios ( talk • contribs) 15:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
In wikipedia, some of my images do not load. I sometimes i need to click on the image, and then reload the page, so that the image can be loaded. Other times, the image does not load at all, even after being clicked. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.2, and zone alarm as my firewall. I have allowed all of the settings on my zone alarm. Can someone please help me? IMPS 00:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC) IMPS
There's been a proposal on WP:VPR for a new way to prevent vandalism. It seems to involve some non-trivial software changes, though. Do people think it would be feasible? Thanks. Canderson7 ( talk) 01:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps, GA, A and FA's should all be semiprotected. Snowman 18:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
For sortable tables, are there any future plans to allow the use of sort keys? I'm specifically thinking of tables with people's names, where you might want to display "John Smith" but sort by "Smith, John". I posted this question to the meta Help:Sorting talk page a few days ago, with no response. Is there some place where sortable table functionality is being actively discussed? Or should I submit it as a bug report? Jwillbur 22:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
<span style="display:none">Truman, Harry</span> [[Harry Truman]]See National debt by U.S. presidential terms for an example. Jwillbur 18:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is a bug in the newer versions of Firefox, but formulas does not render correctly in Wikipedia pages.
E.g in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_foundation_of_general_relativity
All the formulas look almost like its original LaTeX syntax if displayed in Firefox. (something like : R = R_{\|} = -{2GM \over {c^2 r^3}} = -{8 \pi G \over {3 c^2 } }\rho (r) )
The problem is on a desktop PC with Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Windows 2000 SP4.
In IE6 the the rendering of the formulas is correct.
The test was also conducted on a Notebook PC with Windows XP SP2 and Firefox 2.0.0.2. There was no problem with the rendering of the formulas on the Notebook PC. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.31.141.163 ( talk) 06:50, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
Meta is huge and there is not a simple way to access its information ("If you can't log in in a Wikipedia, post a note here, if you think you have found a serial spammer, post here, etc"), so I am asking here for either the right page to ask about a problem logging in a Wikipedia, or for an answer :-) I registered as ReyBrujo in ne.wikipedia.org, received the confirmation e-mail (which expires on March 4), and after clicking, I got the Your e-mail address has been confirmed. You may now log in and enjoy the wiki. message. However, my user and password is not recognized, and clicking the "Email" button gives me a आगमन त्रुटी
Login error: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "ReyBrujo".: ईमेल पठाउदा त्रुटी भयो Error sending mail: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "ReyBrujo". However, how could I get the confirmation address if there were no e-mail recorded? Suggestions welcomed :-) --
ReyBrujo
01:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious how many reverts of IP edits are performed and how many addresses blocked each day. Can someone whip up some stats? Thanks. Xiner ( talk, email) 02:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
The DEFAULTSORT magic word appears to work perfectly on article pages, but is malfunctional on talk pages. See
Category:All cue sports pages minus snooker for a big example of how it goes wrong. Instead of sorting
Talk:Vilmos Foldes (with {{DEFAULTSORT:Foldes, Vilmos}}
at the top of that page) under "F", it instead sorts him under "V", and so on, for all bio article talk pages DEFAULSORTed this way. It's obviously doing something or the page would have been sorted under "T" for "Talk:" (like the /Comments pages at the top of the "T" section, which did not use DEFAULTSORT). It just is not doing what it should be doing. This isn't catastrophic but I would hope it could be fixed. I guess having them mis-sort by given name instead of family name is better than having them ALL sort under "T", but it's not ideal. —
SMcCandlish [
talk] [
contrib ツ
02:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
|{{PAGENAME}}
which of course was overriding DEFAULTSORT. Duh. —
SMcCandlish [
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05:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)Is there a spell correcting and/or phonetic search capability in Wikipedia? Emesz 12:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I spent 4 hours creating a pimped up userpage. So, I figured, it might be useful to have userpage templates - essentially, a template a user can copy-paste into their userpage, fill out, and substitute, then go back and edit it as required.
So, I decided to create this template. I'm not that great a coder, however, so I'd appreciate some help checking it over, adjusting it, and so on.
Some of the things I'm struggling with:
{{1}}, {{2}}, {{3}},
etc.Anyone willing to help out? Scalene• UserPage• Talk• Contributions• Biography• Є• 09:34, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
{{{1|text to display in preview}}}
.{{#if:{{{language2|}}}|(the language 2 item goes here)}}
around each item so that it's hidden if the relevant parameter isn't given. :Hope that helps! --
ais523 09:39, 1 March 2007 (
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I was wondering about the community's opinion on what parameters to use for the newer user warnings (such as {{ uw-vandalism3}} or {{ uw-delete1}}). The following are all possibilities.
Parameter name or option | Description |
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1 | A numbered parameter; the value would be the page name that the template-receiver edited. This must stay in place; apprently it's ancient. :) |
#ifexist hack | This is a way to code the template so that if "1" exists, text similar to "as you did to [[:{{{1}}}]]" shows up, but if it doesn't, text similar to "as you did to {{{1}}}" will appear. This is helpful for listing multiple pages. Suggested by Gracenotes ( talk · contribs). |
diff | A link to the diff of vandalism. Can be used as a substitute for, or in conjunction with, 1. Suggested by AzaToth ( talk · contribs) |
oldid | This is an extension of diff, but it's not really needed, since it's much easy to copy an entire link than a specific page revision Suggested by AzaToth ( talk · contribs) |
header | An option to have a header above a template. It does minimize customizing said header, however. Boldly implemented by Esprit15d ( talk · contribs), but then discussed and reverted by Khukri ( talk · contribs). |
2 (or "sig") | Puts a notice at the end of a template |
subst | all ParserFunctions in all templates are preceded by "{{{subst}}}". So if a template is substituted, and "subst" is set equal to "subst:", the messy syntax will disappear. Suggested by AzaToth ( talk · contribs) (known bugs: even if 1 doesn't exist, the ParserFunction will pretend that it does) |
So which ones do you like, and which ones are you less partial to? Gracenotes T § 19:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
There's several non-article namespace pages that are stuck in the CSD category but aren't in it. I've tried clearing the cache. Luigi30 ( Taλk) 18:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Special:All pages is almost useless. It is so choked by redirects and subpages that it is almost impossible to browse base pages with it.
Is there a way to view "Special:All pages" without pagination? 500 at a time is just not enough.
Is there a way to see the wikimarkup version of the output? The screen output is columnized, which makes cutting and pasting useless. Redirects are italisized, but I know of no way to search for italicized strings except in the sourcetext.
Is there a feature for viewing non-redirect base pages only? I.e., no redirects nor subpages included.
Basically I need a list of the Wikipedia namespace's pages, with all the redirects and subpages stripped out. The latest one I could find is a year old.
The Transhumanist 16:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Im a bit of a wiki novice, I usually restrict myself to correcting typos, grammar and tidying up text but I found a partially populated catagory and gave it a go. I tried adding Boris Johnson to the 'Current Conservative MPs (UK)' category page by pasting the tag provided into johnsons links, however unlike the other pages in the cat, it was listed under B for Boris rather than J. Am I doing anything wrong ? or what am I not doing ? Dondilly 16:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Would be useful to have a Google like automatic machine translation capability. Is that somehow possible WITHIN Wikipedia? Of course one can do that by entering the Wikipedia page URL in Google ... Maybe all that has to be done is to build a script on top of the Google capability Emesz 12:39, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
While editing Wikipedia pages I noticed that in my edit window only "ISBN" shows for what showed in a Wikipedia page as a full, punctuated ISBN number. I am using Firefox 2.0.0.1. Did anyone else encouter this problem? Any suggestions? (Meanwhile I switched to Internet Explorer) Emesz 12:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this error is occuring incredibly often and is getting very annoying. Usually, the first and second times I try to hit the "Save Page" button on an edit, I am faced with a error message that can apparently be displayed in about nine different languages. Only by pressing the back button and trying again (often twice) am I able to complete the edit. The error came with this information I'm supposed to include in the report:
If it helps, I use Firefox 2.0 and have the popups nav feature and Interiot's edit counter installed in my monobook.js. If this isn't the place to report this, please let me know where to do so and I'll pass the message on. Thanks. Hersfold ( talk/ work) 22:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible for me to have all of my previous signatures changed to my current signature with little effort on my part? Sanchom ( talk) 03:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
If the first section of List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (the Chief Justice part) is edited, editing seems okay. If you try to edit the section below that, for Seat 1, what actually comes up in the edit box is the section for Seat 8. If you attempt to edit lower sections, all you get is a blank edit box. This was reported as a problem on the article's Talk page over 6 months ago, but hasn't been addressed. I'm using IE 7. Corvus cornix 18:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Help desk#IP address. This probably needs to be brought to wider attention, so I'm posting it here. Does anyone know whether the developers are aware yet? Can anyone reproduce the problem easily? -- ais523 15:00, 2 March 2007 ( U T C)
In this discussion at WP:VPP, a user suggested that we make show "Show preview" mandatory before saves. There is no apparent support for that change. However, this sparked in me a far less drastic idea that a few users have supported involving modifying the default preferences setting upon account creation in a way that would address this issue as well as the perennial proposal that users always be automatically prompted for missing edit summaries. I am seeking second opinions, as well as a feasibility report from you tech gurus, for the following:
The options in user preferences under the editing tab allow a user to choose "show preview on first edit" as well as to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary." Currently these default to unchecked upon account creation. I imagine it would not be difficult to change the software so that upon account creation, these options would instead default to checked.
For "Show preview", I am betting this would lead to a not inconsiderable reduction in error-filled edits, and for the edit summary prompting, not only would it serve to teach new users what an edit summary is, but go a long way toward getting them to use them from the get-go. Many new users might get used to those defaults before they ever realize they have a preference page, and never uncheck them after because they are used to that state of affairs.
To be clear, I am not proposing any change making these two options automatic, just that the two existing preferences default to checked upon account creation (as we already have for other options in editing preferences, such as Show edit toolbar, etc. It would not force anything on anybody; all users would still have the option of changing their preferences, but many will I am hoping, be gently and invisibly guided by starting with these defaults.
I also think it might have at least a mild vandalism reduction side effect. Some vandals must hover over the submit button for a moment thinking "do I really want to do this?" Now they get a second chance to turn back, and may be more likely to after seeing their changes right up there on the screen in preview mode. It is even more likely this would cut down on test edits of the "can I really edit this page in real time" variety. Those new users will see the red-colored "Remember that this is only a preview; changes have not yet been saved!" at the top of the page and will be more likely to not hit save because they realize from that, that it [really] will save to a live change.-- Fuhghettaboutit 06:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello again, it's me, the only guy who is determined to learn CSS and java through Wikipedia alone! I just wanted to double-check some CSS before saving it, can someone please assist me with this as I don't want to find the page breaks after I've saved it. Obviously I've borrowed this from elsewhere, and I've previewed the skin and it looks moderately okay, but, given my previous form, I would like to know if this is all "grammatically correct", as it were.
/* standard link colors */ a { color: #F0F0F0; } a:active, a.new { color: #00FF00; } a.interwiki, a.external { color: #F0F0F0; } a.stub { color: #F0F0F0; } /* put scrollbar on pre sections instead of ugly cutoff/overlap in firefox */ pre { overflow: auto; } /* make a few corners round, only supported by moz/firefox/other gecko browsers for now */ #p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em; } #content { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 1em; } div.pBody { -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 1em; } /* same following the css3 draft specs, any browsers supporting this? */ #p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a { border-radius-topleft: 1em; border-radius-topright: 1em; } #content { border-radius-topleft: 1em; border-radius-bottomleft: 1em; } div.pBody { border-radius-topright: 1em; border-radius-bottomright: 1em; } /* don't use a smaller font */ td.diff-addedline, td.diff-deletedline, td.diff-context { font-size: 100% ;} /* underline just the text that's different */ span.diffchange { text-decoration:underline; } div { line-height: 1.2; font-size: 10pt } /* number */ div { line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 10pt } /* length */ div { line-height: 120%; font-size: 10pt } /* percentage */ /* default skin for navigation boxes */ table.navbox { background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #aaa; clear: both; font-size: 90%; margin: 1em 0em 0em; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 100%; }
There is one final change I want to make to the skin and that is to alter the Navigation, toolbox, and interwiki link bars in the sidebar to #000000, and the text to #F0F0F0, but I don't know how to do this. Any help would be very much appreciated. Bobo . 05:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
.pBody { background-color: #000000; border-color:#444444; color: white } .pBody a { color: #f0f0f0 } .pBody a:active { color: #f000f0 } .pBody a:visited { color: #f0f0f0 }
The translations of the titles/names of a TV episodes of a serie (for example), have some kind of copyrights for the translator? Is necessary to request permission to the translator to use this titles in wikipedia. I'm taking specifically of no official translations. (Sorry about my english) 64.237.177.229 00:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
How many hits does Wikipedia get daily, monthly, yearly? If any of this data is available I would be grateful. Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulmath ( talk • contribs)
I am currently trying something and would like to find out how I could insert html onto a page - I am not planning on adding any to any articles, this is a pure expreiment
I deleted Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics as an empty category and it isn't showing up in the deletion log. Is this a bug? I'm guessing it has to do with the length of the category name. VegaDark 01:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.9, and have loaded two fairly large scripts into my monobook.js page as follows:
importScript("User:Lupin/recent2.js");
importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
They both run fine (thanks Lupin!), but every time I reload a page (using the buttonbar or F5 - not Shift-click), both scripts get re-downloaded (nearly 400kB). This slows things down and also causes unnecessary load on the servers, I guess. Does this happen to anyone else and is there any way I can persuade Firefox to always use the cached copies? TIA
-- Smalljim 23:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, you can call scripts from your hard drive if you install a web server on your computer (any small webserver will do). Put into your monobook.js
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src=" http://localhost/my.js"><\/script>');
and the scripts inside my.js
will be executed as if they were inside monobook.js. Also, this seems to be the best way to develop new scripts without all those extra edits.
—
Alex Smotrov
00:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I have a web site that lists various scholars and their writings. All the links there currently go to Wikipedia articles, but I though it would be nice to provide some kind of "preview" of the Wikipedia article in a DIV (or OBJECT or IFRAME) on the web page itself. Does Wikipedia offer any (API) method by which an article can be embedded into another web page without the navigation bar and other space-consuming paraphernalia. I would just want the "contents" of the Wikipedia page to show up, since there will be very limited space, and it's just a preview anyway. I see that other sites (like Ask.com) seem to be able to do this, but I don't know if they use some elaborate back-end engine that parses and reconstructs the Wikipedia information. I don't have time to program something like that; I'm looking for the easy way! Any ideas? Thanks a lot. — Dfass 18:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I was going to play a video from an article and I was wondering: are these OGG files automatically scanned for viruses when they're uploaded? Thanks.-- Ol' Blue Eyes 07:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I've been having some trouble seeing images I've uploaded to commons. Photos display fine, but when I've tried to add plans which I've coloured up in photoshop and then saved as jpg's they don't seem to display - I just get the X at the top left of the screen. Is it just my browser (IE7) or is there something wrong with them - the image I've just uploaded is Image:Royal Palace Monaco plan2.jpg. Cheers. -- Joopercoopers 03:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
People have been having a lot of fun at Conservapedia's bee in its bonnet about British spellings in Wikipedia. Nevertheless, there is a real issue here, or two issues. First, a redirect does not show the user any reason for the redirection. Second, we don't know what inference an average user makes when they notice that a redirect has occurred.
Many redirects are mistakes and misspellings. When you type in paralell and get a page on Parallel it is reasonable to interpret this as "you misspelled it."
It does not seem impossible that a user who types in phonograph record and gets an article on gramophone record could interpret this as "Dummy! it's called a gramophone record, not a phonograph record." Or, conversely, someone who types in sulphur or colour could feel chided (even though all of these articles open by giving both versions).
I don't think you'd have to be totally paranoid to get that impression. That impression would be wrong, and experienced Wikipedians know this, but a redirect does not give a reason or link to an explanation. And it should.
It seems to me that it would be feasible and wise to expand the redirect mechanism so that a redirect could include a reason. Most reasons would probably be stock reasons from templates. I
I don't know whether the target page should give the full reason following the "redirected from" line, or where it would just say something like "Redirected from Sulphur. Why this was redirected"
Some examples of typical reasons might be:
"Redirected from Phonograph record, because "Phonograph record" is the U. S. term and the editors of this particular article have chosen to use the British term. See style policy."
"Redirected from Lady Mendl, the term by which Elsie de Wolfe was commonly known after her marriage, because "Elsie de Wolfe" is the form commonly used by her biographers."
"Redirected from Paralell, because Paralell is a misspelling." Dpbsmith (talk) 14:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
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Could anybody out there tell me the way to upload small audio bits (in ogg or other formats), like a place name? Also please help me how to link that to the article. Thx Anil 07:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Code | Result |
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{{listen | title=Placename | filename=Placename.ogg | description=This is how you pronounce Placename. }} | |
[[Image:Placename.ogg]] | File:Placename.ogg |
I need help with my popup issues. One time I attempted to remove the popup script but it didn't work and I enter a code to get rid of the script but everytime I log on, it keeps redirecting me immediately to my monobook.js after I log on to and it refuse me to go to other articles (or edit). Can someone remove my script or give me advice on what should I do. Thank you! This IP adress is edited by PrestonH-- 69.236.29.100 04:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
How do I submit an article for the In the news ... spot, please? TerriersFan 23:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
_ _ I propose to create a template {{
text}} whose handwritten text runs 21 lines on a steno pad.
_ _ This would arguably contravene a
WP:TfD decision, but the new version i drafted (prior to realizing a former one had existed!) arguably answers all the objections raised at TfD. Historical details and opportunity to raise objections follow:
_ _
Template:Text was
routinely deleted 08:38, 21 July 2005 by
User:Radiant! per
TfD debate, complete as of 08:31, 19 July 2005. Its complete content was the 7 chars "{{{1}}}". The debate follows:
_ _ Of the nominator & 4 other voters, only one has edited other than user talk pages in the last 2 months, and that one's user page features a bitter response to an arbitration verdict. This leaves me doubtful of the feasibility of reasonable reconsideration by any of the previous voters.
_ _ This is probably too trivial for attention, in which case i'll simply create my version & we can deal then with any objections. Add something here and
leave a new note on my talk page, if you want to discuss it first here, probably including my initially keying the long <NOINCLUDE> portion here instead of onto
Template:Text. (The included portion is the same old 7 characters.)
--
Jerzy•
t 22:21 &
22:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
When I highlight something in an edit box, it shows a mini-preview! Is this new, or am I just unobservant? Milto LOL pia 22:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
popupOnEditSelection=false;
into your
monobook.js to turn it off.
Tra
(Talk)
22:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)Hello. I've found a wiki-method to draw Feynman diagram. Here it is. I want to include this in the MediaWiki. How can I do that? Vinograd19 21:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
If want to have differenct search alternatives lead to the same article, what do I do? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drogo ( talk • contribs) 16:44, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
Currently deleted edits are retrievable up to June 2004, it is time that we actually start cleaning out the deleted old mainspace page revisions for up to, say 2 years? I was reading up this, I do not believe that anyone would really want to look up for something on mainspace that was previously deleted for more than two years, and I'm sure there are costs for maintaining this database. Over half of what is created today is deleted everyday, and we know that several of them are spam/vanity/copyright violations. Do we really need to keep and retrieve them in five years' time, for example?
At the moment images are not undelete-able for up to June 2006, but in future it's going to take up a lot of space if we don't have a cut-off time. Let's be practical, do we really need to retain imagevios, CSD#I4s, CSD#I5s for more than a year that takes up gigs of space and maintenance costs? - Mailer Diablo 16:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I moved the following thread from the WP:AN. The articles in the pages named here have all been deleted, however it looks like this may be an ongoing problem in which there is a delay in updating Category:Proposed_for_deletion_for_over_five_days page. Any ideas? Kla'quot 04:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
The page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_for_deletion_for_over_five_days does not include articles from the following pages:
Is this a problem with the software? Kla'quot 06:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
(pseudo-indent) I've noticed this before. Doesn't seem to be a problem with Template:Dated prod. The relevant part is...
{{#if: {{{day|{{{month|{{{year|}}}}}}}}} |{{#ifexpr: {{#time:U}} > {{#time:U|{{{day}}} {{{month}}} {{{year}}} +5 days}} |<span style="color:red">'''The {{#switch:{{NAMESPACEE}}|{{ns:2}}=user page|{{ns:3}}=user talk page|#default=article}} may be deleted without further notice since this message has remained in place for five days.'''</span>{{hidden-delete-reason|Expired prod, concern: {{{concern|{{{1|}}}}}}}}<includeonly>[[Category:Proposed for deletion for over five days]]</includeonly> |The {{#switch:{{NAMESPACEE}}|{{ns:2}}=user page|{{ns:3}}=user talk page|#default=article}} may be deleted if this message remains in place for five days.{{hidden-delete-reason|Prod, concern: {{{concern|{{{1|}}}}}}}} }}
...and I know from experience that the red notice works correctly. The pages also categorise correctly. Purging the category doesn't work. Perhaps it's a job queue/large wiki lag thing.
Oh, and get deleting - there's two days worth of stuff that needs to be prodded over the edge. MER-C 12:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I've seen that problem before (I wrote the prod code to do it). It's an issue with Mediawiki's category synchronization, I guess it's a task that gets put in the job queue but takes a while before it gets run. — Quarl ( talk) 2007-02-14 05:34Z
Thanks everyone. Is the consensus that there is no feasible way to fix the problem? If we need to adopt an inelegant, brute-force workaround, I'd suggest creating a category for "prodded 3+ days ago" and another category for "prodded 4+ days ago". Admins can then check those categories and see whether they contain articles that were actually prodded 5 days ago. I warned you it was inelegant ;) Kla'quot 06:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
This should have the /* */ added so that it becomes a section link. For example, instead of "New section edit summary", my edit summary here should be /* New section edit summary */ created section
, that is, appearing as "
→New section edit summary - created section". --
Random832(
t
c)
16:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
This is not really of relevence to Wikipedia, but it is to Wikiversity and it involves MediaWiki. I'm asking here as more people may read it. On standard web pages for education use, I regularly use forms for input of data and CGI scripts to analyse the data. In this way for example one can get the reader to answer simple quiz questions, get feedback on whether they are understanding the material, and run simple programs with the results presented back as a web page (actually we run very complex programs as well in this way, but that is another matter). These interactive uses are in my opinion crucial for web based education materials. I would like to use them on Wikiversity. Is it possible in MediaWiki? If so, where can I find the details? -- Bduke 07:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
<input>
tags, however the use is uncommon and therefore I'm not sure about the exact mechanism behind. Maybe some developers could help. --
Der
yck C.
12:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)Weird stuff! -- Itayb 13:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, my contributions list seems to have packed it, I've made contributions after the most recent one listed but they aren't showing, is there a case of the slave catching up and not displaying them? Or are some of my edits just dropping off the map? Cause that could mean trouble when it comes to chasing up my own work! SGGH 00:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
How do I link text to a category page? - TheMeatballX 19:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank You! That was driving me nuts! - TheMeatballX 20:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
browsing through the Special:Listusers there is a user class "import", which currently has no users in it. Was wondering what this was, is this a relic that was used and is no longer needed, or something new that I've missed.
Crazynas t 13:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
A simple/hard question: by default, MySQL creates a single ibdata1 when in InnoDB mode. This file extends itself as you add information. I am using a single mysql server, creating one database per language to execute some queries, and this means the single ibdata1 file holds every database:
mysql> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | afwiki | | anwiki | | arwiki | | azwiki | | bowiki | | dewiki | | enwiki | | eswiki | | fiwiki | | frwiki | | itwiki | | jawiki | | lawiki | | metawiki | | mysql | | nlwiki | | nnwiki | | ocwiki | | papwiki | | pawiki | | plwiki | | ptwiki | | ruwiki | | simplewiki | +--------------------+ 25 rows in set (0.33 sec)
I would like (if possible) having a single ibdata file per database, since I am guessing that would speed some queries. Is there a simple way of doing this without having to manually change my.cnf every time I want to create a new database? I don't think every Wikipedia language is run in its own dedicated server (regardless of front ends). :-) Would forcing MySQL to create index files instead of adding them in the ibdata file make queries and updating faster? Are the MySQL configuration for Wikipedia servers public? Thanks in advance. -- ReyBrujo 00:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I was testing my copy of MediaWiki, and found these in the DefaultSettings.php:
// Experimental permissions, not ready for production use //$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true; //$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['hiderevision'] = true;
I commented them out, and found they worked!!
The log comments appear as (example from my wiki): (Deletion log); 00:50 . . WikiSysop (Talk | contribs | block) (changed revision visibility for User:WikiSysop/Sandbox: changed 1 revisions to 0: test over: hiderevision extension testing done)
I'm surprised this wasn't used before they had the oversight feature! -- sunstar net talk 00:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
What would be the feasibility of having "What links here" return not just the name of the page that links to the target page, but also the text displayed by the link? For example, if the page [[John Doe]] contained the text "[[Richard Roe|his co-conspirator]]", then "What links here" for [[Richard Roe]] would show "[[John Doe]], with the text 'his co-conspirator'". This could be useful in making sure the principle of least surprise is followed, as well as catching subtle violations of NPOV. -- Antaeus Feldspar 14:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
This is related to the discussion going on at ANI and VPR, and see also this. but this specific aspect is a technical issue and belongs here.
How difficult would it be to change the code so that the New Message box appears outside the content box (i.e. above the title or entirely outside the main monobook "frame"), thereby making it easily distinguishable from parodies of it (which necessarily appear in the content box after the title header)? -- Random832( t c) 21:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I meant changing the position in the generated HTML source. By "content box" i meant <div id="content">. And moving the box up wouldn't move the title header down. -- Random832( t c) 22:21, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
There is a picture on the page Vertical launching system that should show several destroyers firing missiles, but everytime I check the page all I see is a red "X" and the photo cpation where the image should be. I have no idea how to fix this, so any help anyone could provide would be apreciated. TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
There may be a problem with the page Wikipedia:Citation templates. It appears to me as an almost blank page with the following fragment of text: "<script type="text/javascript" src="/w/index". Itayb 21:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The current Brake Fade article by "justanother" contains a major technical
errors in that it attributes fade of drum brakes to two old wives tales:
Brake fade is caused by heat expansion of the drum.
Brake fade is caused by outgassing of the brake shoe causing a gas bearing between shoe and drum.
No explanation for how large the thermal expansion that might cause this is,
especially in presence of ovalization of brake drums by braking forces.
The gas bearing hypothesis is especially incredible considering hao much gase would be required for such a levitation and that brakes can fade again after cooling, there being an infinite supply of gas.
That
Drum brakes only work because they have leading shoes with a self servo effect to drive the shoes with their own braking force into the drum.
This effect is recursive and leads to fade at the hot end and brake lockup on the cold and moist end. Turning a page in a newspaper with a wet finger gives an example of change in friction coefficient.
I have proposed that "justanother" give valid references for these two hypotheses by placing citation needed insertions with the alternative that I offer a rewrite of the article. The author's deleting the citation needed does not support the claimed causes of brake fade. The sources offered do not explain the phenomenon and coud just as well be the articel in Wiki. Jobst 21:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been having some difficulty with this code here, whenever I enter it to my homepage (which is where I want it), it doesn't automatically hide the template I've put in - unless I say style="display:none" in the navcontent - but then the hide/show starts out as hide even though the content is hidden. Any ideas?
<div class="NavFrame">
<div class="NavHead">User Talk Templates</div>
<div class="NavContent">
{{User:Pilotguy/Warnings}}
</div>
</div>
Thanks for any help you guys can give (oh and note: if I use {{ Hidden}} and say 2={{User:Pilotguy/Warnings}} for the second parameter - it works, strangeness.Daniel()Folsom T| C| U 21:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
NavigationBarShowDefault = 0;
How does the software know that a user has registered less than 4 days ago (for editing semi-protected pages)? Mr.Z-man talk 00:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Why are so many moderators on here given the power of moderator?Is there a place to complain about certain ones or would it be pretty much useless?Who's in charge say if,every moderator is unreliable and flaky?Im just curious,thank you if you read my question. Tyr 20:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
yes,ones in charge of deleting articles and so forth. Tyr 05:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
well I honestly didnt mean it as such a generalization..I have just encountered a few who are,im sorry to say in love with their own power on deleting articles that have validity,but thank you for the information. Tyr 07:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey all, I had a wiki installation (1.9) installed on my server, and decided I needed a new hard drive, so I followed the procedure outlined in the upgrade section of mediawiki, and all was well... except for a little bug. My Template:· suddenly turned into a Template:·! As all of the pages the template is included on still contained {{·}} and not {{·}}, I simply moved · to · and called it a day, since it looked like it was fixed. Imagine my surprise when bug reports came in saying that all of the {{·}}'s used didn't work! The link was red, but when I clicked it, it naturally went to the edit page for {{·}}.
It certainly looks like a table got corrupted... but I'd hate to go database diving unless I absolutely have to, and know what I'm looking for... :S
Help? Kareeser| Talk! 08:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I've just followed a link from Seamus Heaney to the University of California, only to find that I was apparently no longer logged in; following a further link from the latter article took me to another page which did recognise who I was... I've repeated this a few times, and get the same effect every time. Does anyone else get this effect? If so, what's going on? (If not, the problem would seem to be with me, and I still don't know what's going on, but that's my problem.) -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 11:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a technical problem. I asked for help over on Meta but have gotten no responses thus far. I think I messed up my monobook profile or something. Now when I highlight a section while editing it pops up above the edit section area in a blue tinted version. Also it's very hard to highlight a section in order to cut and paste it or delete it, as it always includes other irrelevant paragraphs and pops them up above the edit section box. How do I turn this off? Quadzilla99 13:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
popupOnEditSelection=false;
Whenever I leave the site, I am automatically logged out despite the fact that I have "remembered my password" checked. This has started happening even when I don'tthe site too. This has never happened to me before. (I'm using Firefox and a Mac.) Any ideas as to why? John Reaves (talk) 01:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Selecting the "printable version" link of the article http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Aloe_vera&printable=yes, then doing a print preview, locks up Firefox 2.0.0.1 and SeaMonkey 1.1a. Works OK with IE 7.0.5730.11. Print preview on other articles' printable version works fine. MeekMark 22:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Need some help to get Template:Topical archive and template:Ordered archive to work right. Here is the syntax we want. Here is the general idea. Im going to give a shot. - Ste| vertigo 10:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC) PS: Wikipedia:Topic archive -SV
Hi. It seems that the <math>
tag does not consistently italicize text which it encloses. For example, compare "" and "". Why is the first one not italicized? This also occurs all the time for single letters like "". I just don't get it. Thanks for any insight. —
Dfass
23:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Can the "Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! " be moved up onto the line under sign in/create account (-10px?) or over left to the middle (500px?), because it is covering up templates like the help contents back, the semiprotect templates and many others and its really irritating. Thank you, 00:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Admins, take a look at Special:Undelete/Help talk:Starting a new page/. Some anon managed to edit the page after it had been deleted to enable cascading protection. (Compare timestamp of last deleted revision with the time of David Levy's deletion.) I've no idea whether it's a problem with the {{ protected title}} template which is used to transclude the deleted page, or even cascading protection itself. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 06:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Eh, cascading protection uses the templatelinks table, which is updated when the source page is edited. It's not really something I'd be willing to fix, seeing as it's a very obscure edge case that would result in non-trivial performance trade-offs. — Werdna talk 06:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if it would be possible to make the semiprotection notice when you go to edit or view the source of a semiprotected page be made more prominent and provide more information (when you do not have enough access to edit a page, a "view source" tab appears instead of the "edit" tab). The current notice on the "edit" tab is, "Note: This page has been semi-protected so that only established users can edit it." The notice on the view source tab is at the bottom of this post. In addition to being more prominent, I think that it should have the same information that is on {{ sprotected}}. This would allow us to do away with the semiprotection notices on articles. The template puts the article in a category as well as notifying readers, but the template could be modified so that it just puts the article in a category.
I think that this would be a wonderful change. The semiprotection notice currently blemishes many otherwise excellent articles. In addition, for a significant number of articles, the semiprotection is permanent. It is not necessary for readers of the article to know whether an article is semiprotected or not. Editors can easily tell that they are unable to edit an article by the lack of an "edit" tab and the presence of the "view source" tab. If that is not enough, perhaps another tab should be put on protected articles. It could be called "protection" or something similar and it could give all of the information needed. Another option would be to have an easy to recognize symbol that an article is protected, such as a padlock. Clicking on the symbol would send you to a page with the information. The symbol should be at the top of the page, like the tabs are, not inside the article.
Notice on the view source tab:
Kjkolb 20:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
In particular, with the addition of auto-expiring page protection, the more automated our protection notices are, then probably the better. I've seen proposals for a MediaWiki message to be displayed, in the place of templates like {{ sprotect}} and the like -- would save us all time adding the templates, with the added bonus of avoiding manual removal of {{ tprotected}} and such. – Luna Santin ( talk) 07:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
As often happens, I forgot about this discussion because there are so many to keep track of. Anyway, in response to AdorableRuffian, I strongly disagree with keeping the notice so prominent, and therefore necessarily unsightly, because some articles are to be permanently semiprotected. If it were temporary, it would not be nearly so bad. That is why I have no objection to cleanup, wikify and similar templates. To have such an unsightly template on a well written article is crazy to me.
There is now an image of a padlock that links to the semiprotection policy on pages that are semiprotected (I do not know how long it has been there). I do not see what is wrong with just having that image as notice, as well as an explanation when someone clicks on the "view source"/"edit this page" tab (the explanation could be what is currently in the notice template). The padlock image could be made larger, if necessary. Alternatively or in addition to making the image larger, text could be placed next to the padlock, perhaps something like "semiprotected". -- Kjkolb 05:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
My mistake. The padlock is an alternative template for the semiprotection notice. Therefore, it appears that this situation has been dealt with. -- Kjkolb 06:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Having an automatic notice at the top of each protected page would be trivial to implement. However, in my opinion, any message at the top of every protected page is highly undesirable; as such I don't intend to implement such a notice. I don't know how other developers feel about it, but I vaguely remember having a discussion about it a few months ago in one of the tech IRC channels Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The need for the existence of #mediawiki? and I'm not the only developer to have this view. — Werdna talk 06:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at Special:Newpages, and noticed a vandal page had been created. The page is [[:/..]] See also [1]. Trying to actually go to that article automatically redirects to the main WP page. I'm not sure if it's happening in my browser or if it's a server-side redirect. Either way, it seems possible to create a page that isn't easily accessible by normal means. Is this a known issue? eaolson 06:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
This is kind of a proposal (sorry if this has been proposed before). When using a <ref> multiple times in an article, the reflist automatically separates each instance into letters (see the first ref in Peter Jennings for example). This is nice. However, the refs in-text don't have the corresponding letter labels, which would be even better. Instead, all of them are labeled [1]. This makes it difficult for readers to return to where they were in the text, as I doubt many of them would keep track of how many times a reference had been used so far in the text. Making refs in text appear as [1a], [1b], [1c], etc. would be better IMO. Of course, using the back button works for most people, but clicking on a ref to return to the text seems more intuitive to me. What do you all think? Gzkn 07:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way I can turn off the "edit merging" feature that combines changes made by two users to the same page at the same time? The feature relatively often merges vandalism reversions with more vandalism ( example). These merges are annoying as they may go unnoticed. I would rather just get the "edit conflict" message every time I edit a page simultaneously with someone else. -- KFP ( talk | contribs) 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, on some Wikipedia edit windows (it only does it there) my browser randomly moves back a page. I am using IE ver. 6. Is there any way I can fix this? Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 02:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The title and tab arrangement on my
Sandbox/Page1 looks fine in Firefox, but it's not so good in MS Internet Explorer v6, as can be seen in the images.
Neither problem is a disaster, and the one with "The Title" can be gotten around by reducing the size, but I'm sure there must be a solution. I'd like to get it fixed because the test version in my sandbox is a copy of the one in use on the
energy portal. I've tried various ideas, but have reached the stage where assistance would be gratefully received...
Further documentation on this talk page Gralo 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm following up on a recent checkuser result but seem unable to create Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Somethingoranother. Is creating such categories restricted in some way? WjB scribe 14:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm wondering if there are any plans to integrate geographical coordinate information with Wikipedia entries.
I ask this b/c I would love to have my GPS receiver tell me all of the things that have a Wikipedia entry as I drive past them, so that I can pull over and look up the article if I want (in my case I'd use my blackberry for this, but soon more PDAs will have built in GPS, etc.)
I know there is a microformat (Geo) designed to do inline lat/long coordinates. So one option would be to simply create a wiki formatting style for coordinates to allow article editors to add them to places, etc.
However the use case that I'm imagining is that someone would want to download lat/long/article information for a given geographical area, such as California, the Southwest US, or Paris, for example...
So it might make sense to tag an article in the database with coordinates so that someone could easily search for all entries with coordinates between four points.
I'm a programmer and would gladly submit a patch to enable this, but I wanted to get an idea of whether anything like this is already in progress or if there are any constraints or concerns I should be aware of.
-matt
Mmmurf 19:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I have just created a new page on Hydrogen in the Kannada wikipedia and put a link to that article from the English wikipedia (i.e., it shows up in the "in other languages" section). Is there a way to automatically get this inter-language link from other language wikipedias as well? or do I have to manually go and put [[kn:xxxx]] link everywhere (i.e., say in the Hindi wikipedia, Japanese wikipedia etc.)? I realize that somebody reading the Hydrogen article in the Japanese wikipedia might not be very interested in reading it in Kannada, but just thought I would ask. Thanks. -- Sarvagna 17:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm following up on a recent checkuser result but seem unable to create Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Somethingoranother. Is creating such categories restricted in some way? WjB scribe 14:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I have recently made some editing to the above mentioned article on Wikipedia.
However after having saved such changes they were temporarily made visible but then when I checked the following day they were gone.
Why has this happened?
Thank You —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.203.67.110 ( talk) 13:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC).
Hello,
I'm wondering if there are any plans to integrate geographical coordinate information with Wikipedia entries.
I ask this b/c I would love to have my GPS receiver tell me all of the things that have a Wikipedia entry as I drive past them, so that I can pull over and look up the article if I want (in my case I'd use my blackberry for this, but soon more PDAs will have built in GPS, etc.)
I know there is a microformat (Geo) designed to do inline lat/long coordinates. So one option would be to simply create a wiki formatting style for coordinates to allow article editors to add them to places, etc.
However the use case that I'm imagining is that someone would want to download lat/long/article information for a given geographical area, such as California, the Southwest US, or Paris, for example...
So it might make sense to tag an article in the database with coordinates so that someone could easily search for all entries with coordinates between four points.
I'm a programmer and would gladly submit a patch to enable this, but I wanted to get an idea of whether anything like this is already in progress or if there are any constraints or concerns I should be aware of.
-matt
Mmmurf 19:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
How does one categorize articles? Thanks in advance. N734LQ 21:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[[Category:Living people]]
to a page will add that page to
Category:Living people. If you want to link to a category rater than including the page in the category you add a colon at the start of the link like so [[:Category:Living people]]
. See
Help:Category for more details and info on sorting entries within a category and such. --
Sherool
(talk)
22:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)Things seem to be in different colors now than before a week ago. Also the contrast is very faint (I can't see commas and footnotes etc.) The print seems small and faint. Also I can barely see the bars on the side (to move the page up and down with). I upgraded my Firefox browser to 2.0.0.1. Could that be it? Thanks! -- Mattisse 20:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Sbrools was good enough to follow up on my request to replace a fair use map with a "home made" SVG version. However he's having some trouble getting MediaWiki to render thumbnails for the image (Opera at least can render the raw SVG just fine). Can anyone see any obvious problems in
Image:Europejews.svg that prevents it from beeing "MediaWiki compatable"? I know next to nothing about SVG syntax and what MediaWiki supports and not, but I guess the standalone="no"
bit in the header may be a problem, and if xlink:href="EmancofJews.gif"
does anyting (as far as I can tell the map is made up of "path" elements not a embeded gif) I guess that would be a no-no too... Is there a page somewhere that list SVG features you need to avoid to make SVG's work properly under MediaWiki? --
Sherool
(talk)
08:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
i'm doing a little personal research into the types of articles on wikipedia, and have been using Special:Random to get a random sample of pages (and getting a surprising percentage of soccer club articles and small-county-in-minnesota type stubs). i'd just like some confirmation that this feature does, indeed, return a random (or near-random) article.
to cut to the chase, does every article in the main article space at the instant the button is pushed have an equal chance of being returned? any info is appreciated. thanks much. - barneca 19:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Over the past few days, I've noticed that if I highlight a section of text while editing an article, the text appears (mostly) as it would in the article in a purple box, similar to a preview. When was this feature added and what purpose does it serve that we didn't already have? The box gets rather annoying when I'm trying to cut and paste large sections of text, as it has a tendency to push the edit dialogue off the screen. When it previews the wikicode, it doesn't even display everything correctly. I've had instances where the preview in the purple box is different from the actual preview I get by pushing the preview button, which has always worked just fine for me before. I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but I really don't see the purpose of this highlight code. Hersfold ( talk/ work) 16:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
As stated in the title, all of my settings in common.css (a#new, #personal colour changes, etc...) disappear when mod_rewrite is activated in apache's httpd.conf, even when I don't use the rewriting engine at all. Is this a bug?
I'm using WAMP5 Server 1.6.6
TIA! Kareeser| Talk! 14:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
For me (and this may to some extent be browser dependent), the article British_coin_One_Pound has some layout problems. Between "The reverse designs are as follows" and the text following is a huge piece of vertical white space. I know why this is happening (I think). The ordinary text (terminating at the line "The reverse designs are as follows") can "wrap around" the right hand infobox, and so fit into the space to the left of it. The text after this is a table, which can't. By adjusting the % width of the table until it just fits in the space I can fix the problem. However, this seems an unpleasant ad hoc solution, dependent on the precise measurements of things which may change, or be different in different browsers. What is the correct way to fix this robustly? Thanks, Matt 02:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
When editing an article, I sometimes have to highlight text in the text box. Recently, I noticed that highlighting text in wikilinks (i.e. [[double square brackets]]), the focus is taken away, and the text is echoed just above the text box. What is the purpose of this feature? More importantly, how can I make it stop? It is rather annoying to have the focus repeatedly taken away from what I was editing. --Cheers, Folajimi (leave a note) 21:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
to your monobook.js it seems to go aways. It could be useful for checking you have got the wikilink correct. -- Salix alba ( talk) 23:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Could we display the total number of articles in a category? For instance, it would be nice to know the total number of disambig pages. This total might include or exclude articles in subcategories, or maybe we could get both counts. -- Smack ( talk) 06:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a page that documents how to use preload links? (like this one) I've noticed some of the params don't do what I'd assume they should do (autosummary, autominor). Are these disabled or something? --- RockMFR 05:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Can somebody add {{ tnavbar}} so that it is at the right in the top row of {{ Harry Potter characters}}? When I tried to put it in, it appeared a line break down. Thanks. -- Fbv 65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 05:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
When viewing Wikipedia pages, I've noticed that the letters in italicized (or oblique) words are shifted "downstream" by two letters. In other words, "apple" now reads "crrng." As one can imagine, reading pages with a lot of italicized words becomes impossible!
I'm using a Macintosh G4 with OS 10.4.8 and Safari version 2.0.4. Is there a setting I need to make in order to correct this problem?
Thanks, Bill Pitts (E-Mail removed for security purposes) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Pitts ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC).
It was a positive step to add icons next to media files showing their type (eg. audio), without having to click or hovering mouse over the hyperlinks. However, I found that even the links to the deletion log pages of such files show the icon, even when the media doesn't exist in the first place. (ex. this). Shouldn't these be shown as normal external hyperlinks? — Ambuj Saxena ( ☎) 16:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
** keep the whitespace in front of the ^=, hides rule from konqueror ** this is css3, the validator doesn't like it when validating as css2 */ #bodyContent a.external, #bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] { background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="https://"], .link-https { background: url(lock_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 16px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="mailto:"], .link-mailto { background: url(mail_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="news://"] { background: url(news_icon.png) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="ftp://"], .link-ftp { background: url(file_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a[href ^="irc://"], .link-irc { background: url(discussionitem_icon.gif) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 18px; } #bodyContent a.external[href $=".ogg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".OGG"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mid"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MID"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".midi"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MIDI"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mp3"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MP3"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".wav"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".WAV"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".wma"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".WMA"], .link-audio { background: url("audio.png") center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } #bodyContent a.external[href $=".ogm"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".OGM"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".avi"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".AVI"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mpeg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MPEG"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".mpg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".MPG"], .link-video { background: url("video.png") center right no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; } #bodyContent a.external[href $=".pdf"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".PDF"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".pdf#"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".PDF#"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".pdf?"], #bodyContent a.external[href *=".PDF?"], .link-document { background: url("document.png") center right no-repeat; padding-right: 12px; }
#bodyContent a.external[href $=".ogg"], #bodyContent a.external[href $=".OGG"],
. The $= selector matches the end of an element attribute value. In this case, <a class="external" href="blahblahblah.ogg">. You can defeat this with a simple query string rearrangement:
like this. Congrats though: you have a ~CSS3 browser! --
Splarka (
rant)
08:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I've created this template. But I can't seem to get certain pieces of info (such as Man of the match) to appear in it. Buc 14:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but anyway: I've had navigation popups installed for quite a while, and I just installed 3 more scripts, those being navigation shortcuts, speedy deletion tabs, and edit intro section. They work just fine, but the instructions to clear my browser cache are gone in my monobook.js, and the formatting looks all weird. It even has a random speedy deletion tag stuck in the middle of it! How do I fix all these problems? Here's a link to my monobook.js page: User:Pyrospirit/monobook.js. Thanks, Pyrospirit Flames Fire 00:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
//<pre>
at the start of the page and //</pre>
at the end.
Tra
(Talk)
01:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)The title and tab arrangement on my
Sandbox/Page1 looks fine in Firefox, but it's not so good in MS Internet Explorer v6, as can be seen in the images.
Neither problem is a disaster, and the one with "The Title" can be gotten around by reducing the size, but I'm sure there must be a solution. I'd like to get it fixed because the test version in my sandbox is a copy of the one in use on the
energy portal. I've tried various ideas, but have reached the stage where assistance would be gratefully received...
Further documentation on this talk page Gralo 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way I can turn off the "edit merging" feature that combines changes made by two users to the same page at the same time? The feature relatively often merges vandalism reversions with more vandalism ( example). These merges are annoying as they may go unnoticed. I would rather just get the "edit conflict" message every time I edit a page simultaneously with someone else. -- KFP ( talk | contribs) 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there any tool or such that can be used to create a sub watchlist; IE if you just want to be notafied on one type of article you're watching.
Take me for example, recently, I tagged a ton of articles about a proposed merge, but i need to keep an eye on the talk pages; however, I'm already watching a ton of pages not related to the topic, I don't want to remove them from my watch list, but I also wish to view 'just' the changes in articles I'm recently tagged. Is there anyway of doing this?-- Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 19:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
We seem to have problems converting SVGs to PNGs for display. See here and here. They render fine in Camino, Firefox, Opera, and Inkscape. The second one looks like this when it should look like this. What's going on? -- M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 ( T | C | @) 07:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I tried to copy an SVG into a Powerpoint and the bottom showed up black. Please advise. Thanks Elatanatari 01:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, on some Wikipedia edit windows (it only does it there) my browser randomly moves back a page. I am using IE ver. 6. Is there any way I can fix this? Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 02:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I want to use CSS hover effects in a navigation template I'm working on. Is there any way to define a CSS class on a wikipedia page? Is there a template or something that would directly let me do hover effects (I'm specifically looking for a change of background color on hover) -- froth T 01:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a feature that allows non-admins to delete and restore pages in their own userspace? This would bypass having to add more pages to the backlog of speedy deletion candidates to get a subpage deleted. Talk pages might need to be exempt to prevent malicious deletions. John Reaves (talk) 10:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Seems like a waste of developer time to me. We have plenty of other stuff to work on (per-page blocking, title blacklist, tor blocking come to mind as being on my to-do list). This provides very little benefit and would probably take a few full days of developer time to create and perfect, which is about as long as it took me to do my protection rewrite. — Werdna talk 06:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
The referenced article is very large (286 KB, I think the edit window said on one of my edit attempts). I had considerable trouble editing it -- when I saved the page, it would not be redisplayed after the save -- and now I can't display it at all. The page load terminates without displaying any content at all. Using Shift+F5 doesn't help, and neither does adding &action=purge to the URL. Is this to be expected with such a large article, or is something else going on? Thanks. -- Tkynerd 00:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I've been noticing the job queue more and more recently, and it seems to be an issue with the size it gets. Right now it's at 140,000, and its occurred to me ( and others) that we should have an archive and graphs to highlight those times when it's all going wrong. A few people have asked stuff like "is 33,000 a large queue?", and without some sort of easily interpreted data archive (eg. a graph), the job queue is just a meaningless number, and there's no point in displaying it to none techies - Jack · talk · 11:22, Sunday, 25 February 2007
Requests | hourly | daily | weekly | monthly | yearly |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Traffic | hourly | daily | weekly | monthly | yearly |
Bear with me, I am an old refugee from the eight-bit world. I took the link supplied by Soporific and what I found was somewhat opaque to me. Does it tell me, somewhere on that page, that I can enter a command that will make all the lists alphabetical by last name when I see them? I did not find anything in "my preferences" about alphabetization.
Dynamic lists are alphabetical by first name (or title, if that comes before the first name) in Wikipedia and other Wikis I have consulted. Alphabetizing by first name is ok for a 13-year-old's address book but I find it monstrously off-putting. I think there is a practical argument in favour of my attitude too, not just a cultural one: it's not a good idea to to have to work one's way through a long line of "John"s.
First name | Last name |
---|---|
Abby | Smith |
Charles | Guy |
John | Can |
John | Smith |
Sarah | Can |
Hope this helps. Gracenotes T § 23:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Or this, which makes the names look more natural:
First name | Last name |
---|---|
Abby | Smith |
Charles | Guy |
John | Can |
John | Smith |
Sarah | Can |
Gracenotes T § 23:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
There's something strange going on at Wikipedia:Help desk. For some reason, section edit links have disappeared from the page; I've looked for an errant __NOEDITSECTION__, but haven't had any luck with that. A few other users have reported that as well. Any ideas? Titoxd( ?!?) 22:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to make bulleted text align with non bulleted text. This is specifically an issue in the last parts of Mount Hood#Incident history, but is easily demonstrated here:
No indentation, like this paragraph looks much worse. — EncMstr 01:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
This is kind of a proposal (sorry if this has been proposed before). When using a <ref> multiple times in an article, the reflist automatically separates each instance into letters (see the first ref in Peter Jennings for example). This is nice. However, the refs in-text don't have the corresponding letter labels, which would be even better. Instead, all of them are labeled [1]. This makes it difficult for readers to return to where they were in the text, as I doubt many of them would keep track of how many times a reference had been used so far in the text. Making refs in text appear as [1a], [1b], [1c], etc. would be better IMO. Of course, using the back button works for most people, but clicking on a ref to return to the text seems more intuitive to me. What do you all think? Gzkn 07:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I just uploaded Image:Population density.png to replace Image:Pop density.jpg, but now the oceans are white (because the PNG has an alpha channel and it's composited against a white background by default). Is there any way to change the background to blue? I could always just upload a separate pre-composited PNG with no alpha channel, but that seems like a needless waste of space. — Keenan Pepper 04:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I am proposing that we add the number of bytes of each edit (as seen in watchlists) to the history of articles. This would make it far easier to spot vandalism and blanking of large sections when looking to revert an article, especially when deciding which revision to go for RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 01:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
How so you add mouseover text to a link? For example, a link to an external website where if you mouseover the link, it gives a specific string instead of just a URL. Like explained (sort of) here: Help:Link#"Hover box" on links. Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 01:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <span title="Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Wikipedia</span>] is [[Cool (aesthetic)|<span title="OMFG it is!!!!!!!!">cool</span>]]
There is a really wierd thing going on. I am FreshFruitsRule but every time I try to log in it says that I entered an incorrect password. I did not mistype it (I typed it really slowly, just to see if that was the problem, and it wasn't) and I definitely remember it. Is this an error that happens frequently? -- 216.106.109.30 23:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC) (Although I am FreshFruitsRule, again I am not logged in due to this issue)
{{ bots}} is protected, so its edit page says, because User talk:Redvers is protected with cascading. However, the latter is only semi-protected, and it's caused full protection on the template! Surely this is some sort of MediaWiki bug, but the BugZilla link on this page isn't working for me at the moment. Any ideas on what's going on or how best to report it? Thanks. -- Tardis 16:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at Special:Newpages, and noticed a vandal page had been created. The page is [[:/..]] See also [4]. Trying to actually go to that article automatically redirects to the main WP page. I'm not sure if it's happening in my browser or if it's a server-side redirect. Either way, it seems possible to create a page that isn't easily accessible by normal means. Is this a known issue? eaolson 06:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I thought I read that there is a formatting to add to <gallery> that will allow five images per row instead of the default four. If this is so, what is it? Thanks! -- Mattisse 01:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Am I allowed to blank my talk page? N734LQ 00:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Thought I would ask here, found nothing useful at Meta. I read some comment that Wikipedia:Broken/ is generated due a bug with unicode or so. I spend my time deleting these pages from smaller Wikipedias, and am curious as to why the page is generated by an ip and gets full protection by default. Thanks -- ReyBrujo 04:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Broken/
(in all namespaces, but most often found in the article and talk namespaces), they are all (with one exception) pages which formerly had an inacessible name (broken page titles, page title conflicting with an interwiki prefix, and several other reasons) and which were renamed (directly in the database, so it does not appear in the page history) by a special script ran by the developers. If it seems to have been created by an IP, it's because it was created by an IP, but with a different page title. Unless the script has changed, they aren't protected either (unless they were already protected before).Is there a way to convert a clean number (iE 10000) to a styled number (iE 10.000) in a template? (or the other way around) The clean number would be needed to make calculations. (see here for background) Agathoclea 11:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone else been getting errors like this lately, I just got 2.
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION Fout Fel Fallo 错误 錯誤 Erreur Error Fehler エラー Błąd Errore Erro Chyba English The Wikimedia Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
The problem is most likely temporary and will hopefully be fixed soon. Please check back in a few minutes.
For further information, you can visit the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.
In the meantime, you may be able to view Google's cached version of this page.
Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the Internet by traffic and continues to grow, and as a result the Wikimedia Foundation has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.
If reporting this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the following details: Request: POST http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:68.42.20.1&action=submit, from 68.41.148.42 via sq24.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE9) to 10.0.5.3 (10.0.5.3) Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:38:33 GMT
Mr.Z-man talk ¢ 03:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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11:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)I've been observing a slow-motion edit war for some time now, discussing this with somebody I came to the conclusion a new layer of protection or "soft block" would be pertinent. The solution would be to enable administrators to a block certain user(s) from making edits to a certain page for a certain amount of time, or even enforce ArbCom decisions, etc, this would in turn allow other users to edit said page free of protection and would bring those in an edit war to the discussion page, when a consensus is reached an administrator can lift the "UB-protect"
At present we have {{ editprotected}}, this can from observations go several days before being checked (which is not great in the long-term), and from my knowledge does not comply with the GFDL 100%.
I believe that a solution like this can only benefit articles, I'm unsure as to the technical implications and as to if it is possible, thus I've brought it here for comments/discussion. thanks/ Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 18:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
What's wrong with the Wikipedia servers in the past two days. The timeouts and "technical difficulties" page when submitting edits are driving me NUTS. Please, any info? Thanks. Xiner ( talk, email) 17:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I just posted a new article titled Winnowing Barn or Winnowing House. I used the or because I see it used in both ways, but they are the same thing. However, the only way to bring it up in a search is to search it the exact same: Winnowing Barn or Winnowing House
A search of winnowing barn or winnowing house it turns up no results, which has created a linking problem since many articles mention these but it will not link to the article. I guess I could simply change the article title to Winnowing Barn but there seems to be now way to do so
Any help is appreciated
Related articles include Mansfield Plantation and wind winnowing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Namey Design Studios ( talk • contribs) 15:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
In wikipedia, some of my images do not load. I sometimes i need to click on the image, and then reload the page, so that the image can be loaded. Other times, the image does not load at all, even after being clicked. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.2, and zone alarm as my firewall. I have allowed all of the settings on my zone alarm. Can someone please help me? IMPS 00:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC) IMPS
There's been a proposal on WP:VPR for a new way to prevent vandalism. It seems to involve some non-trivial software changes, though. Do people think it would be feasible? Thanks. Canderson7 ( talk) 01:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps, GA, A and FA's should all be semiprotected. Snowman 18:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
For sortable tables, are there any future plans to allow the use of sort keys? I'm specifically thinking of tables with people's names, where you might want to display "John Smith" but sort by "Smith, John". I posted this question to the meta Help:Sorting talk page a few days ago, with no response. Is there some place where sortable table functionality is being actively discussed? Or should I submit it as a bug report? Jwillbur 22:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
<span style="display:none">Truman, Harry</span> [[Harry Truman]]See National debt by U.S. presidential terms for an example. Jwillbur 18:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is a bug in the newer versions of Firefox, but formulas does not render correctly in Wikipedia pages.
E.g in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_foundation_of_general_relativity
All the formulas look almost like its original LaTeX syntax if displayed in Firefox. (something like : R = R_{\|} = -{2GM \over {c^2 r^3}} = -{8 \pi G \over {3 c^2 } }\rho (r) )
The problem is on a desktop PC with Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Windows 2000 SP4.
In IE6 the the rendering of the formulas is correct.
The test was also conducted on a Notebook PC with Windows XP SP2 and Firefox 2.0.0.2. There was no problem with the rendering of the formulas on the Notebook PC. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.31.141.163 ( talk) 06:50, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
Meta is huge and there is not a simple way to access its information ("If you can't log in in a Wikipedia, post a note here, if you think you have found a serial spammer, post here, etc"), so I am asking here for either the right page to ask about a problem logging in a Wikipedia, or for an answer :-) I registered as ReyBrujo in ne.wikipedia.org, received the confirmation e-mail (which expires on March 4), and after clicking, I got the Your e-mail address has been confirmed. You may now log in and enjoy the wiki. message. However, my user and password is not recognized, and clicking the "Email" button gives me a आगमन त्रुटी
Login error: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "ReyBrujo".: ईमेल पठाउदा त्रुटी भयो Error sending mail: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "ReyBrujo". However, how could I get the confirmation address if there were no e-mail recorded? Suggestions welcomed :-) --
ReyBrujo
01:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious how many reverts of IP edits are performed and how many addresses blocked each day. Can someone whip up some stats? Thanks. Xiner ( talk, email) 02:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
The DEFAULTSORT magic word appears to work perfectly on article pages, but is malfunctional on talk pages. See
Category:All cue sports pages minus snooker for a big example of how it goes wrong. Instead of sorting
Talk:Vilmos Foldes (with {{DEFAULTSORT:Foldes, Vilmos}}
at the top of that page) under "F", it instead sorts him under "V", and so on, for all bio article talk pages DEFAULSORTed this way. It's obviously doing something or the page would have been sorted under "T" for "Talk:" (like the /Comments pages at the top of the "T" section, which did not use DEFAULTSORT). It just is not doing what it should be doing. This isn't catastrophic but I would hope it could be fixed. I guess having them mis-sort by given name instead of family name is better than having them ALL sort under "T", but it's not ideal. —
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which of course was overriding DEFAULTSORT. Duh. —
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05:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)Is there a spell correcting and/or phonetic search capability in Wikipedia? Emesz 12:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I spent 4 hours creating a pimped up userpage. So, I figured, it might be useful to have userpage templates - essentially, a template a user can copy-paste into their userpage, fill out, and substitute, then go back and edit it as required.
So, I decided to create this template. I'm not that great a coder, however, so I'd appreciate some help checking it over, adjusting it, and so on.
Some of the things I'm struggling with:
{{1}}, {{2}}, {{3}},
etc.Anyone willing to help out? Scalene• UserPage• Talk• Contributions• Biography• Є• 09:34, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
{{{1|text to display in preview}}}
.{{#if:{{{language2|}}}|(the language 2 item goes here)}}
around each item so that it's hidden if the relevant parameter isn't given. :Hope that helps! --
ais523 09:39, 1 March 2007 (
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I was wondering about the community's opinion on what parameters to use for the newer user warnings (such as {{ uw-vandalism3}} or {{ uw-delete1}}). The following are all possibilities.
Parameter name or option | Description |
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1 | A numbered parameter; the value would be the page name that the template-receiver edited. This must stay in place; apprently it's ancient. :) |
#ifexist hack | This is a way to code the template so that if "1" exists, text similar to "as you did to [[:{{{1}}}]]" shows up, but if it doesn't, text similar to "as you did to {{{1}}}" will appear. This is helpful for listing multiple pages. Suggested by Gracenotes ( talk · contribs). |
diff | A link to the diff of vandalism. Can be used as a substitute for, or in conjunction with, 1. Suggested by AzaToth ( talk · contribs) |
oldid | This is an extension of diff, but it's not really needed, since it's much easy to copy an entire link than a specific page revision Suggested by AzaToth ( talk · contribs) |
header | An option to have a header above a template. It does minimize customizing said header, however. Boldly implemented by Esprit15d ( talk · contribs), but then discussed and reverted by Khukri ( talk · contribs). |
2 (or "sig") | Puts a notice at the end of a template |
subst | all ParserFunctions in all templates are preceded by "{{{subst}}}". So if a template is substituted, and "subst" is set equal to "subst:", the messy syntax will disappear. Suggested by AzaToth ( talk · contribs) (known bugs: even if 1 doesn't exist, the ParserFunction will pretend that it does) |
So which ones do you like, and which ones are you less partial to? Gracenotes T § 19:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
There's several non-article namespace pages that are stuck in the CSD category but aren't in it. I've tried clearing the cache. Luigi30 ( Taλk) 18:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Special:All pages is almost useless. It is so choked by redirects and subpages that it is almost impossible to browse base pages with it.
Is there a way to view "Special:All pages" without pagination? 500 at a time is just not enough.
Is there a way to see the wikimarkup version of the output? The screen output is columnized, which makes cutting and pasting useless. Redirects are italisized, but I know of no way to search for italicized strings except in the sourcetext.
Is there a feature for viewing non-redirect base pages only? I.e., no redirects nor subpages included.
Basically I need a list of the Wikipedia namespace's pages, with all the redirects and subpages stripped out. The latest one I could find is a year old.
The Transhumanist 16:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Im a bit of a wiki novice, I usually restrict myself to correcting typos, grammar and tidying up text but I found a partially populated catagory and gave it a go. I tried adding Boris Johnson to the 'Current Conservative MPs (UK)' category page by pasting the tag provided into johnsons links, however unlike the other pages in the cat, it was listed under B for Boris rather than J. Am I doing anything wrong ? or what am I not doing ? Dondilly 16:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Would be useful to have a Google like automatic machine translation capability. Is that somehow possible WITHIN Wikipedia? Of course one can do that by entering the Wikipedia page URL in Google ... Maybe all that has to be done is to build a script on top of the Google capability Emesz 12:39, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
While editing Wikipedia pages I noticed that in my edit window only "ISBN" shows for what showed in a Wikipedia page as a full, punctuated ISBN number. I am using Firefox 2.0.0.1. Did anyone else encouter this problem? Any suggestions? (Meanwhile I switched to Internet Explorer) Emesz 12:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this error is occuring incredibly often and is getting very annoying. Usually, the first and second times I try to hit the "Save Page" button on an edit, I am faced with a error message that can apparently be displayed in about nine different languages. Only by pressing the back button and trying again (often twice) am I able to complete the edit. The error came with this information I'm supposed to include in the report:
If it helps, I use Firefox 2.0 and have the popups nav feature and Interiot's edit counter installed in my monobook.js. If this isn't the place to report this, please let me know where to do so and I'll pass the message on. Thanks. Hersfold ( talk/ work) 22:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible for me to have all of my previous signatures changed to my current signature with little effort on my part? Sanchom ( talk) 03:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
If the first section of List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (the Chief Justice part) is edited, editing seems okay. If you try to edit the section below that, for Seat 1, what actually comes up in the edit box is the section for Seat 8. If you attempt to edit lower sections, all you get is a blank edit box. This was reported as a problem on the article's Talk page over 6 months ago, but hasn't been addressed. I'm using IE 7. Corvus cornix 18:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Help desk#IP address. This probably needs to be brought to wider attention, so I'm posting it here. Does anyone know whether the developers are aware yet? Can anyone reproduce the problem easily? -- ais523 15:00, 2 March 2007 ( U T C)
In this discussion at WP:VPP, a user suggested that we make show "Show preview" mandatory before saves. There is no apparent support for that change. However, this sparked in me a far less drastic idea that a few users have supported involving modifying the default preferences setting upon account creation in a way that would address this issue as well as the perennial proposal that users always be automatically prompted for missing edit summaries. I am seeking second opinions, as well as a feasibility report from you tech gurus, for the following:
The options in user preferences under the editing tab allow a user to choose "show preview on first edit" as well as to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary." Currently these default to unchecked upon account creation. I imagine it would not be difficult to change the software so that upon account creation, these options would instead default to checked.
For "Show preview", I am betting this would lead to a not inconsiderable reduction in error-filled edits, and for the edit summary prompting, not only would it serve to teach new users what an edit summary is, but go a long way toward getting them to use them from the get-go. Many new users might get used to those defaults before they ever realize they have a preference page, and never uncheck them after because they are used to that state of affairs.
To be clear, I am not proposing any change making these two options automatic, just that the two existing preferences default to checked upon account creation (as we already have for other options in editing preferences, such as Show edit toolbar, etc. It would not force anything on anybody; all users would still have the option of changing their preferences, but many will I am hoping, be gently and invisibly guided by starting with these defaults.
I also think it might have at least a mild vandalism reduction side effect. Some vandals must hover over the submit button for a moment thinking "do I really want to do this?" Now they get a second chance to turn back, and may be more likely to after seeing their changes right up there on the screen in preview mode. It is even more likely this would cut down on test edits of the "can I really edit this page in real time" variety. Those new users will see the red-colored "Remember that this is only a preview; changes have not yet been saved!" at the top of the page and will be more likely to not hit save because they realize from that, that it [really] will save to a live change.-- Fuhghettaboutit 06:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello again, it's me, the only guy who is determined to learn CSS and java through Wikipedia alone! I just wanted to double-check some CSS before saving it, can someone please assist me with this as I don't want to find the page breaks after I've saved it. Obviously I've borrowed this from elsewhere, and I've previewed the skin and it looks moderately okay, but, given my previous form, I would like to know if this is all "grammatically correct", as it were.
/* standard link colors */ a { color: #F0F0F0; } a:active, a.new { color: #00FF00; } a.interwiki, a.external { color: #F0F0F0; } a.stub { color: #F0F0F0; } /* put scrollbar on pre sections instead of ugly cutoff/overlap in firefox */ pre { overflow: auto; } /* make a few corners round, only supported by moz/firefox/other gecko browsers for now */ #p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em; } #content { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 1em; } div.pBody { -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 1em; } /* same following the css3 draft specs, any browsers supporting this? */ #p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a { border-radius-topleft: 1em; border-radius-topright: 1em; } #content { border-radius-topleft: 1em; border-radius-bottomleft: 1em; } div.pBody { border-radius-topright: 1em; border-radius-bottomright: 1em; } /* don't use a smaller font */ td.diff-addedline, td.diff-deletedline, td.diff-context { font-size: 100% ;} /* underline just the text that's different */ span.diffchange { text-decoration:underline; } div { line-height: 1.2; font-size: 10pt } /* number */ div { line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 10pt } /* length */ div { line-height: 120%; font-size: 10pt } /* percentage */ /* default skin for navigation boxes */ table.navbox { background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #aaa; clear: both; font-size: 90%; margin: 1em 0em 0em; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 100%; }
There is one final change I want to make to the skin and that is to alter the Navigation, toolbox, and interwiki link bars in the sidebar to #000000, and the text to #F0F0F0, but I don't know how to do this. Any help would be very much appreciated. Bobo . 05:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
.pBody { background-color: #000000; border-color:#444444; color: white } .pBody a { color: #f0f0f0 } .pBody a:active { color: #f000f0 } .pBody a:visited { color: #f0f0f0 }
The translations of the titles/names of a TV episodes of a serie (for example), have some kind of copyrights for the translator? Is necessary to request permission to the translator to use this titles in wikipedia. I'm taking specifically of no official translations. (Sorry about my english) 64.237.177.229 00:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
How many hits does Wikipedia get daily, monthly, yearly? If any of this data is available I would be grateful. Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulmath ( talk • contribs)
I am currently trying something and would like to find out how I could insert html onto a page - I am not planning on adding any to any articles, this is a pure expreiment
I deleted Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics as an empty category and it isn't showing up in the deletion log. Is this a bug? I'm guessing it has to do with the length of the category name. VegaDark 01:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.9, and have loaded two fairly large scripts into my monobook.js page as follows:
importScript("User:Lupin/recent2.js");
importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
They both run fine (thanks Lupin!), but every time I reload a page (using the buttonbar or F5 - not Shift-click), both scripts get re-downloaded (nearly 400kB). This slows things down and also causes unnecessary load on the servers, I guess. Does this happen to anyone else and is there any way I can persuade Firefox to always use the cached copies? TIA
-- Smalljim 23:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, you can call scripts from your hard drive if you install a web server on your computer (any small webserver will do). Put into your monobook.js
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src=" http://localhost/my.js"><\/script>');
and the scripts inside my.js
will be executed as if they were inside monobook.js. Also, this seems to be the best way to develop new scripts without all those extra edits.
—
Alex Smotrov
00:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I have a web site that lists various scholars and their writings. All the links there currently go to Wikipedia articles, but I though it would be nice to provide some kind of "preview" of the Wikipedia article in a DIV (or OBJECT or IFRAME) on the web page itself. Does Wikipedia offer any (API) method by which an article can be embedded into another web page without the navigation bar and other space-consuming paraphernalia. I would just want the "contents" of the Wikipedia page to show up, since there will be very limited space, and it's just a preview anyway. I see that other sites (like Ask.com) seem to be able to do this, but I don't know if they use some elaborate back-end engine that parses and reconstructs the Wikipedia information. I don't have time to program something like that; I'm looking for the easy way! Any ideas? Thanks a lot. — Dfass 18:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I was going to play a video from an article and I was wondering: are these OGG files automatically scanned for viruses when they're uploaded? Thanks.-- Ol' Blue Eyes 07:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I've been having some trouble seeing images I've uploaded to commons. Photos display fine, but when I've tried to add plans which I've coloured up in photoshop and then saved as jpg's they don't seem to display - I just get the X at the top left of the screen. Is it just my browser (IE7) or is there something wrong with them - the image I've just uploaded is Image:Royal Palace Monaco plan2.jpg. Cheers. -- Joopercoopers 03:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
People have been having a lot of fun at Conservapedia's bee in its bonnet about British spellings in Wikipedia. Nevertheless, there is a real issue here, or two issues. First, a redirect does not show the user any reason for the redirection. Second, we don't know what inference an average user makes when they notice that a redirect has occurred.
Many redirects are mistakes and misspellings. When you type in paralell and get a page on Parallel it is reasonable to interpret this as "you misspelled it."
It does not seem impossible that a user who types in phonograph record and gets an article on gramophone record could interpret this as "Dummy! it's called a gramophone record, not a phonograph record." Or, conversely, someone who types in sulphur or colour could feel chided (even though all of these articles open by giving both versions).
I don't think you'd have to be totally paranoid to get that impression. That impression would be wrong, and experienced Wikipedians know this, but a redirect does not give a reason or link to an explanation. And it should.
It seems to me that it would be feasible and wise to expand the redirect mechanism so that a redirect could include a reason. Most reasons would probably be stock reasons from templates. I
I don't know whether the target page should give the full reason following the "redirected from" line, or where it would just say something like "Redirected from Sulphur. Why this was redirected"
Some examples of typical reasons might be:
"Redirected from Phonograph record, because "Phonograph record" is the U. S. term and the editors of this particular article have chosen to use the British term. See style policy."
"Redirected from Lady Mendl, the term by which Elsie de Wolfe was commonly known after her marriage, because "Elsie de Wolfe" is the form commonly used by her biographers."
"Redirected from Paralell, because Paralell is a misspelling." Dpbsmith (talk) 14:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)