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Hello, it's me again again requesting a blanking of my monobook.js. However, this time I am requesting that an admin give me rc patrol admin-like revert script because I'm not sure I'm doing it right. -- Pupster210 15:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how to use TW. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you teach me or give me a simpler one? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Add please. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
... -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
You might wish to open the edit window for this section and copy-paste it directly. Alternatively, you can open your monobook and type:
{{subst:navpop}}
That should do the trick. Valentinian T / C 19:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
meanmachine4242
How do i stop other people from editting a page i made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meanmachine4242 ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 25 April 2007
I would like to know how I can archive my talk page. How do I create the page and how do I make the archive box on my current talk page? Thanks in advance! Felixboy 17:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Imagemap isn't working, just showing up as a lot of code and <imagemap>: image is invalid or non-existent. Any reason? Anything to do with the above thread? – Riana ऋ 14:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Within the last few minutes, all SVG images have changed to bluelinks to their image description page and no longer show the image for me: for instance, {{
tick}} displays " ". Are other people getting this problem too? --
ais523 14:24, 24 April 2007 (
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Looks like they are back Richard Thompson ( Talk! | Contribs) 14:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
When and how did Special:Unusedimages and Special:Uncategorizedimages get changed into galleries? Both are hideously bad as galleries and make patrolling a pain. Is this something that comes from the MediaWiki namespace or somewhere else? Thanks. -- BigDT ( 416) 05:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I try to get up newbie contributions, but I get nothing... Is this very overworked, now? To many newbies, or what? Greswik 19:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
What's the deal with the new boxes on the User contributions page? I see vandalism, I go to look at the IP address's page to see what other vandalism has been performed, and I don't see any contributions at all, even the vandalism I just reverted. And what are the purposes of those two boxes? Corvus cornix 18:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Whew, seems to be fixed. Maybe it just needed a lunch break. :) Corvus cornix 20:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
How do I properly use the lowercase parser function with a template variable? I have a switch statement and rather having something like |Test|test|TEST=output, I'd to just have one possible result which I could do if it was all lowercase. I've tried {{#switch:{{lc:{{{variable|}}}}} but that doesn't appear to be working. Any idea?↔ NMajdan• talk 18:04, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I got SVG working on my local copy of MediaWiki, but it doesn't quite render as well as I thought.
This is my template:
However, the SVG image of the stop hand has a white border, which it doesn't on Wikipedia - I'm using ImageMagick as the renderer. If I used Inkscape would that work better??
All advice is appreciated. Thanks, -- SunStar Net talk 20:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
There is some rather odd behavior going on with the map of Richmond County, Virginia. Tested on Camino and Safari, both display a graphic with the state capital, Richmond City, highlighted rather than the county, which is northeast of the city. This graphic also appears on the page for Image:Map_of_Virginia_highlighting_Richmond_County.svg, which is referenced automatically via Template:Infobox U.S. County.
But when I downloaded the SVG to try and fix it, the downloaded SVG had Richmond County highlighted correctly. Seems like there's some weird substitution going on -- would a more advanced WikiGnome please check this out? Thanks. VT hawkeye talk to me 17:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I've fixed this for the following images:
It had already been fixed for Image:Map_of_Virginia_highlighting_Fairfax_County.svg. The duplicate id issue is a problem for all of the other Virginia county maps as well, but they don't show any visible problems because there are no internal references to the duplicate ids. Since most of these county locator maps were generated using the same method by the same user, there are almost certainly maps in other states with the same problem. My fix was to append "_County" to the names of the paths for the counties whose names were the same as a city and update the xref. A safer way to deal with this would probably be to append "_County" to the paths for all counties. Mike Dillon 01:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Made a typo fix on Self-injury and (i was logged on) it changed it all ok, but when i look at my watchlist i see a random ip number (which happens to be mine!)... i suppose it's a bug but dunno what happened, i made a edit to my user page, and my it appaeared as a contribution with my name...Would this have to do maybe with what the above user posted or? Ps is there any actual place to report bugs? Here i thought was most suitable? Later. petze 14:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
For instance a green +1000 means that 1000 chars were added to the article, right? So let's take this, for example:
Hmm?-- Ķĩřβȳ ♥ ♥ ♥ Ťįɱé Ø 03:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
As you can see here, the article ~~~~ is still in Category:Protected redirects, but is no longer a valid title. Any idea for deleting it? It's a bit annoying because all other operations you do on the category listing fail beacuse of it (I have parsed it out, but it's an ugly kludge). Tizio 13:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Broken/
. After that's done, since the title is no longer invalid, it can be deleted normally. --
cesarb
14:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)I am confused, and wondering if I am misusing this or have found a gotcha. I was researching questionable user names and using Special:PrefixIndex. The username a concern had been raised about was User:The way, the truth, and the light which exists. But I can't find it using PrefixIndex and 'The w' (which does find User:The watershark for instance). What am I doing wrong? Can you help me see the light? Shenme 04:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that the cascading notice is not shown in edit histories ( [2]), but is shown in the logs. Is this something that can be done through the MediaWiki namespace, or does this need a bug report? 164.107.166.217 18:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
<code> boxes have a line-height of 1.1em. This value is too small because with certain font sizes a little bit may be cut off from the lower part of characters. Underscores may disappear. Here is an example:
{abcd_efgh}
xxxxxxxxxxx
{abcd_efgh}
In my browser the lower part of the curly braces and the small g are cut off, the underscore disappeared.
I see this problem on Windows XP (both with ClearType turned on and off) with Firefox (fixed width font: Consolas, 15px), IE7 (default font settings) and Opera (default font settings).
I noticed this problem in
Barton-Nackman trick where the underscores disappear from value_type
in the first <code> box.
Changing line-height to 1.2 em solves the problem. BarroColorado 15:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I hope this was the right place to report this ... I'm not sure if this should be considered a MediaWiki bug, or a Wikipedia bug (as the stylesheet is specific to this site). The culprit is in the declarations for pre in http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css -- BarroColorado 18:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
{abcd_efgh} xxxxxxxxxxx {abcd_efgh}
{abcd_efgh} xxxxxxxxxxx {abcd_efgh}
{abcd_efgh}
xxxxxxxxxxx
{abcd_efgh}
I'm Swedish and therefore, I use Swedish even on the English wiki (i.e. I don't write in Swedish but I've chosen that language under "My settings" for all the menus and stuff). At the top of Wikipedia, where we all have the links "My user page", "My discussion page", "My settings", "My watchlist", "My contributions" and "Log out", they are and have always been in Swedish for me, until now. They're all still in Swedish, except for "My watchlist" which is (starting today) for some odd reason in English. I have checked the "System messages" under "Special pages" and there, it still no longer says "Min övervakningslista" but "My watchlist" for me. Does anybody else, who doesn't have English in their language settings, exeperience the same problem and does anybody have a solution? /
Ludde23
Talk
Contrib
18:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I only speak English, but after seeing this I got curious and switched my language setting to Swedish. It did the same thing to me. I don't know what is causing it, but it might be the recent upgrade. -- Luigi Maniac 18:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
After looking at the source, it seems that it issue is that the language files define "watchlist" and "my-watchlist", but not "mywatchlist". I still don't exactly understand how this works, since SkinTemplate.php requests "my-watchlist", but I'm pretty sure that the missing keys for "mywatchlist" are the cause of the problem. The only language with definitions for "mywatchlsit" are zh_yue, bg, ar, zh_tw, de, en, fi, fr, he, and id. Mike Dillon 03:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I just lost over a 100 edits after someone deleted WP:ACC..Is it possible??.. Cometstyles 21:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, it could be restored by any other admin, so it isn't a problem. I can still see and if I wish, restore the page, for example. Prodego talk 23:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Technically, the edits aren't lost, they're just hidden from regular users and are only shown to admins on a page by page basis through Special:Undelete. The edits don't appear to admins on the user contribs page. Because this is what edit counters use to count edits, the deleted edits don't count and the total can go down. Harryboyles 00:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I just tried to delete an image and got this message:
This is the first time I've got this - is it happening to anyone else? If not, what's the reason it might have happened to me? – Riana ऋ 12:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I cropped this image from the original because it was off-centre. Now it seems to be displaying a stretched and distorted version of the original image when it displays at 100 and 200px. But at 80 and 120px it displays correctly. See the image page for sample displays. Is this a server purging issue, and if so why won't it fix? I'm seeing the same thing from IE as well as FF and a good 10 minutes has elapsed, so I presume its not in my browser cache. Any help appreciated. — Moondyne 06:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
In case it hasn't been noted here already: The Spanish Wikipedians are proposing that all Wikipedias in all languages gain an "Appendix:" namespace (like the ones in the Spanish Wikipedia and the English Wiktionary) and that all Wikipedias have an Encyclopedic Support Contents Policy. Uncle G 23:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The place for discussion is the talk page of the Meta page linked to above. The people making the proposal won't see know about your objections if you write them here. Uncle G 15:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
The CSS directive that controlled the size of text rendered in smallcaps was changed some while back. This change needs to be reversed or at least modified. It has resulted in text that is nearly illegible (and certainly crappy-looking) in Safari at default font and size ( sample). At a blown-up font size, one can see that the smallcaps are much smaller than they should be, regardless what the scale of the base font size is ( sample2). — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 03:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
While reviewing my watchlist for red-linked categories that I had edited that had been deleted or renamed (I found one - Category:Texts by J. R. R. Tolkien), I found this deletion of a category. Not a very important one, and one that was empty at the time of deletion. My point is that it wasn't empty at one point, but I can't remember what was in it. Is there anyway to find out what used to be in that category? Carcharoth 01:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
What exactly would the script that I would type into my User page to get the clock from http://zfacts.com/p/793.html onto the page? Alphabetagamma 00:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
In a given user initiated session, it would be helpful to have hierarchy of links that the user is clicking. This would help them being able to go back or move forward to link of interest in the given search. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.55.47 ( talk • contribs)
For some reason I can no longer edit the Yue Fei page. I recently rewrote the entire page and have never had a problem with it before. Now when I try to edit any part of the page, it brings me here (It should say "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"). I even logged off and tried editing the page anonymously and it didn't work either. I can edit other pages, but not this one. There has to be a reason for it.
I just went to the help desk and some people reverted the page back to its original form. I noticed I can only perform one edit after another user does. After that, I can't touch the page. Why is this? ( Ghostexorcist 17:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC))
What causes this kind of borkage? [3] Is this a browser issue, an issue of someone copying and pasting the article into another program to edit, or a setting on the computer? I don't see it every day, but it can be messy to clean up. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 16:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
I'm trying to get the pathname for (arbitrary) images. Special:Filepath used to work(?) but now is inconsistent. For instance Special:Filepath/wiki.png (which resolves to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.png) is found just fine, but Special:Filepath/Africa.png (which resolves to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Africa.png) returns nothing.
Is it the "commons" thing? Any suggestions/workarounds? Thanks. -- Saintrain 22:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks VoA. Solution (at least for commons):
New question:
Thanks devs for implementing the update to: Special:Protectedpages, many sort options are now available. — xaosflux Talk 02:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
As part of adding
microformats (see also
WP:UF) to templates, I need to find a way to add classes to image tags (<img class="logo" [...]>
) and to external links (<href class="url" [...]>
). Is there a way to achieve this, with the the current software?
Andy Mabbett
14:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
A discussion that has involved in to having bot accounts edit at much increased rates (e.g. 3600 edits/hour) is taking place at Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Cydebot_Block. Comment is welcome there. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 07:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
This is probably not the place to ask this type of question, but how do you scan an image from TV show or movie? I'd like to scan a few fair use screenshots for some film/TB articles. Incidentally, I looked into the rationales needed and policies. Aaron Bowen 06:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I'm working on improving Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts including the archive procedures.
We're using the {{ archive}} template on the archived pages to ask users not to edit those pages.
But the link inside the template-generated page heading box directs comments to the (non-existant) archive talk page, rather than the main page at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts. Comments posted on the archive talk pages would not be seen by anyone, so this seems like a problem with the structure of the template - or maybe I'm missing an argument in the template.
An example of the result can be seen here: Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts/Archive/2007
Is it possible this is a bug in the template, or are we not setting it up correctly?
Would someone please advise me on the proper way to set this up so the template does not create a redlink to the archive talk page and instead directs users to add new comments to the main page at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts... ?
Thanks! -- Parzival418 06:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much to both of you for the quick replies. I understand how to use the argument now and will fix the other archive pages.
I tried to find the syntax for this template before I posted my question here, but the template documentation page does not mention any arguments. I looked at the source of the page for the template but didn't know how to read the syntax. Now that I see how you handled it, I understand better what I read there, though just barely, and I still don't understand the "if" part of the template at the end.
Anyway... I thought you might want to know that the documentation page for this template may need to be updated to explain the use of the argument. I would update it myself but I don't want to take a chance on causing confusion if I don't get it right.
I appreciate your help, have a good evening. -- Parzival418 07:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
and the link is given with [[{{{1|{{TALKSPACE}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}|current talk page]]
, which means if the parameter isn't given, then link to the Talk: page above the current page. –
Pomte
07:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)That's great, I get it now. Thanks very much! -- Parzival418 07:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Unless I've missed something obvious, the Category:Soviet Army is both its own parent and its own child. How can this be fixed? Greenshed 22:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone think of anything to add to this template, or should I call it done for now?--VectorPotential Talk 23:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Images on commons redlink when you use the [[:Image:foo.jpg]] format, such as at [4], which actually exists [5]. Worse, when you click such a link it brings up a page editor and provides no clue that the image actually does exist. Is there a work-around? Nardman1 05:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Anybody else notice that all recent edits in the history page now have the number of bytes? What's the use of this feature? -- Hdt83 Chat 00:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
This seems unnecessary on talk pages. Is it possible to hide it on discussion while still showing it for article histories, please? James S. 16:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
.ns-1 .history-size, .ns-3 .history-size, .ns-5 .history-size, .ns-7 .history-size, .ns-9 .history-size, .ns-11 .history-size, .ns-13 .history-size, .ns-15 .history-size, .ns-101 .history-size {display: none}
After some delays, the database schema updates are complete and we've upgraded the software on the servers to the current MediaWiki code. There are a few cute little user-visible improvements, but mostly we've just got more bug fixes and things in. There might be a few new errors which crept in, too, so do give a shout about new oddities. -- brion 13:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
history-size
. Thus you could have something likehistory-size{ display: none; }
.history-size{display: none;}
with a dot.
Alex Smotrov
15:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Bug: WHOIS no longer works off the contributions page of an IP editor. CMummert · talk 14:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm interested in seeing two changes that I believe were announced but aren't in the deployed version:
Are there any plans to get these two things back into a future build? Mike Dillon 15:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
It's really annoying to go into the special contributions page for one particular user, and wind up with a multiple choice question about whether I want to screen for all new users, when I just want one--VectorPotential
Talk
15:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody know why the indent wikimarkup in text ("::...:" or "**...*") doesn't work when there's a left-aligned pic? Is there a bug listed? Niko Silver 20:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks! I was supposing that this may be the case, but had no way of illustrating it as well as you did just now with the borders and all! It seems that the images displace bona-fide text, but they don't displace the indents as well, as evident if you continue your example sequence of indents (until they exceed the image width, which they do!):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
So, shouldn't the wiki-markup (::: and ***) work around this html defect and force (somehow) the indents to be displaced as well (bypassing the html code in the resence of a pic)? I've worked on many articles with pics, and this is the most common problem that editors frequently face in format. To tell you the truth, I haven't noticed even one example, where the indent (if included) was actually intended to be omitted (why on earth would it be included in the first place then?). Shall we list a bug, or is there one already listed? Niko Silver 15:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
float-displace
and/or -moz-float-edge
are CSS properties which might help. In particular, float-displace: indent
looks like it's exactly what you are looking for (and probably isn't implemented in any browser you might think of). --
cesarb
03:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is bot archiving allowed for WikiProject talk pages? It says here that use on article talk is not allowed, but it doesn't mention WikiProject talk. — Alde Baer 13:21, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
probably widely reported right under my nose, but i haven't seen it (sorry!) - but 'my watchlist' now has what seem to be markup characters either side of it - it says <my-watchlist> - any ideas why? - thanks, Petesmiles 11:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
yup - fixed now - thanks wonderful genies! - Petesmiles 11:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
It has been suggested [9] to change the link trail in MediaWiki:Linktrail from "/^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD" to "/^([a-z']+)(.*)$/sD" to allow trailing apostrophes to be included in the link, as is desirable to prevent extra wikitext like here. Is there any reason why this has not been implemented? WARNING: If nobody replies within three days, I will implement this change. Please let me know if this breaks anything. Thanks. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 14:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Change implemented. Any problems, revert and discuss! Thanks, Samsara ( talk • contribs) 22:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm... it doesn't seem to have any effect. Is there any reason why the effect might not be instantaneous? My only other guess is that the apostrophe needs to be escaped, so the variable would read "/^([a-z\']+)(.*)$/sD". Samsara ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks -
I tried to fix the vandalized page for the featured article (on Sly & TFS)... but it looks OK on the edit page.
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but could someone jump in and fix it & lock it temporarily?
THX -CC
Could someone have a look at Robbie Williams. I deleted a copyvio photo that was being used in the infobox and so replaced it with Image:Robbie Williams Hamburg 2006.jpg, a free image from commons. It working fine here on the right, but the infobox shows a redlink to the file name only. The image's page says its linked to by Robbie Williams, it just ins't showing up there. Anyone know whats going on? WjB scribe 03:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
"| Img_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels -->"
I don't see why such a restriction is needed but then again I haven't looked over the code (and don't have time to right now). Yonatan talk 04:46, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I recently noticed that SVG files I upload no longer display the Courier New font correctly, even if that font is explicitly specified. Instead, they use some other (and substantially inferior) monospace font. If I click on them and let Mozilla display them, rather than having MediaWiki convert them to PNG, they look fine. Was the renderer changed on the server side, and, if so, why? *** Crotalus *** 19:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I haven't done any sort of bug reporting yet, mostly because I haven't heard of anyone else having the same problem. Many (not all, though close) of the pages I've gone to won't display images if they're part of a gallery. Sometimes a few thumbnails are shown, sometimes all but one or two, sometimes none, and the number in the gallery doesn't seem to have any effect on how many are(n't) shown. When the images are just regular thumbnails within the [[Image:]] tags, they're ok (though I believe there've been one or two times when those won't display, either), as are images within infoboxes. I've tried purging and refreshing, but it doesn't help any. A few times it's even resulted in fewer pictures being displayed. Between all this, I'm seriously wondering if it's an issue with Wiki (in general, this issue isn't contained to Wikipedia), or with my computer (which is also why I haven't sent any bug reports). Anyone have any ideas what could be causing the problem, or how I can fix it? - Bbik 22:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
If an image thumbnail is not showing, try purging its image description page (if the image is from Wikimedia Commons, you might have to purge there too). If it doesn't work, try again.
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on this, since it's moved quite so far up the list by now, and no response to the listed pictures, either... - Bbik 07:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
????
I uploaded some pictures in my Art Gallery at Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The problem is, sometimes I am unable to see the pictures. Whenever I use a PC it doesn't work... and whenever I use a Mac it does. Is there some type of formatting/programming that I should use in order for me to see the pictures no matter what type of computer I'm using? Would Internet security programs interrupt my viewing of the images possibly? 1013-andy 16:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been asked whether google indexes the changing username archives. It's come up with regards to the right to vanish and people's privacy concerns.
We presume that the logs themselves are not indexed but is there a "no robots" type of thing to stop google indexing? If there isn't - could we do this to protect people who regret making their accounts with their real names? Thanks. Secretlondon 23:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I seem to recall that when editing a page that was deleted protected via the cascading protection, there was some warning somewhere in the edit form about the page being protected (like the red message you got when editing a protected page), and telling which page caused the protection. Can someone confirm this behavior? I don't see that message any longer. Tizio 19:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I am Eapos and find is SICKENING that I can do everything under the sun here EXCEPT delete my account! Can someone please tell me how to delete my account! I do not want to be apart of this kind of sickening and prejudicial online community. Princess Elisabeth Vantar 09:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I also want to delete my account, After a certain time of not logging on does wikipedia remove your account? Someone help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by You05 ( talk • contribs) 06:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
As part of the right to vanish we can rename you to something meaningless and remove redirects. See WP:CHU for renaming. Secretlondon 23:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know how I can archive my talk page. How do I create the page and how do I make the archive box on my current talk page? Thanks in advance! Felixboy 17:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
How do you link to part of a page. I want to do it like #part of Page but I don't want it limited to the headings in the page. 86.41.131.174 14:33, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Within the last few minutes, all SVG images have changed to bluelinks to their image description page and no longer show the image for me: for instance, {{
tick}} displays " ". Are other people getting this problem too? --
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Looks like they are back Richard Thompson ( Talk! | Contribs) 14:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I have a question about the case sensitivity of Wikipedia. If anyone can help or offer input, that is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The problem began when I typed the link: Rebel without a Cause. However, the link did not work correctly, because the "w" in the word "without" was a lower case letter and not an upper case letter. I tried two other variants, and they both did work: Rebel Without a cause and Rebel Without a Cause. I tried a 4th variant, which did not work: Rebel without a cause. So, the question is: why do some of these variants work, and some do not? And, further, when I go to create a page, do I have to create "redirects" for every possible upper / lower case scenario? In this case, there are 16 possible configurations of upper/lower case letters for the 4 words. Cannot Wikipedia simply recognize that "rebel without a cause" (regardless of upper and lower case letters) should ALL direct to the same page? I am very confused and frustrated by this. Can someone please explain how all of this works? Furthermore, what if someone were to mistakenly type something like "Rebel WithouT a Cause" (note the typo of the upper case second "t" in "without")? If someone were to type that one letter accidentally as upper case, cannot Wikipedia nonetheless direct them to the correct article? If not, there are literally thousands of redirects that an editor would have to create -- no? Thanks for any input. The complexity of what should / could be so simple is quite frustrating. ( JosephASpadaro 03:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC))
Using MSIE7 in WinXP, Whilst reading List of emotions, I right clicked on the link Lojban to open it in another window. Instead of the article, I got a section edit window of the current page section. This also happens with artificial language in the same heading. Why does this happen? How can it be stopped? -- SGBailey 20:46, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, cannot get Image:Rickey henderson.jpg to show in the template at Rickey Henderson. Probably something simple, but is has beat me, and at least one other person. -- Ezeu 18:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed this before, but only just now realised what a problem it is. The essence of the problem is that when a category is renamed, it is done by deleting the old category and creating a new category under the new name. The edit history of the old category page is lost! This means that any edits anyone made to that category page are lost from their contributions list. This is not a problem when reviewing any categorisation you made of articles, as you do that by editing article namespace, and the edit history there is preserved when pages are moved/renamed. But categorisation of articles is only half the story. A lot of categorisation structural work is done by people categorising categories. Unfortunately, as category names get tweaked and changed, sometimes to suit changing fashions in category names, the edit history inevitably gets lost, and so does the history of who categorised the categories and edit summaries explaining the categorisations, and so on. Previously, I had only thought that edits to the "blurb" on the category page were lost (which was bad enough), but now I realise that the history of genuine categorisation edits are being lost. Is there no way that:(a) the edit history of category pages can be preserved, or even retrieved from deleted versions; and (b) a contributor can access their "deleted edits" to help review their genuine edits to deleted pages that, in the case of renamed category pages, technically still exist, but under a different name? Carcharoth 01:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
As an aside, in that bug report, Titoxd said "categorylinks doesn't care if the category page doesn't actually *exist*" - a good demonstration is Category:Wikipedians who crack boiled eggs on the rounded end (must ensure the humour quotient stays high). Carcharoth 04:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Okay, my input has been solicited on this, so here I am. There are an absolutely huge number of improvements that could be made to improve the categorization system. I'll start with the harder ones first. It would be really nice to have a way, within MediaWiki, to do true category deletion, merging, and renaming without having to go out and edit each individual article in the categories. But this could be far off in the future. The one problem that has been highlighted in this thread is the issue of category edit histories. As you know, there is no way to move one category page to another. It should be possible in just the same way that it is with article, but it is explicitly disabled, probably because most people would be confused and think that the "move" button should move all of the pages within the category when it was really just moving the text on the category page itself. As a result of this limitation, pyWikipediaBot compiles the names of the contributors to the old category page, copy-paste-moves the text over to the new page with the list of contributors in the edit summary, and then deletes the old page. This is clearly sub-optimal, and could be easily fixed by allowing category moves. -- Cyde Weys 21:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
A search for "wikipedia" on Google shows this [10]: "two million articles and still growing." Did Google add up all of our WPs, or did they make an error?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 00:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Please tell me we won't celebrate reaching 2,000,000 articles? We still have massive backlogs on improving the first 1,000,000... :-( Is there any reliable way to measure whether the quality of the encyclopedia is improving? And anyway, the 2,000,000 figure might be wrong. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-16/News and notes says: "All Wikipedias together have reached 7 million articles." Carcharoth 02:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
No error whatsoever. wikipedia.org does have over 2 million articles, hell, just de and en have that. - M ask? 16:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Why can't it be as good as Google?
Just to be clear: I'm talking about when you type a word in the search for an article and you misspell it--the results SUCK. Google picks up on your errors extremely well and usually knows what you meant.
For examle, I am creating a PNG of File:TalkTalk.gif, and therefore would find it much easier to rename the image extension from .gif to .png, so I can edit it from there. Is there any way to do this? Otherwise, is there a template to show that it has been superseded? δ σ ώ п ҹ (talk) (cont) 14:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
These days, vandal reverting is so fast, that sometimes vandals can be reverted two or three times in one minute.
But edit histories only show time in hours and minutes.
Perhaps the edit histories should be changed to hours, minutes, and seconds, so that you won't confuse all the edits that happened at 8:55 or whatever.
Also, occasionally, if two edits happen one right after the other, those two edits (just those two) will be backward on the edit history. Adding a seconds feature would help, unless the problem only happens when edits are within a second of each other.
Virtual Cowboy 12:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
OK, I just did that, but it looks really awkward (all smooshed together). Is it possible to have the old format and just add seconds? Virtual Cowboy 12:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I tried purging the article, the wikimedia description page, and the wikipedia description page, and tried adding ?! to the article's URL, but no luck. Is there some way to have this image appear here? There are two versions in the wikimedia history. The larger one is what I am trying to see in place. Thank you.- Susanlesch 09:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Imagemap isn't working, just showing up as a lot of code and <imagemap>: image is invalid or non-existent. Any reason? Anything to do with the above thread? – Riana ऋ 14:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there any reason why a newly created account would not show up in the logs? An account request was made two days ago for Spray&Pray ( talk · contribs · account creation), and the account did not exist when I checked it then. The username now appears in "listusers" but I cannot find a creation log for it. The requester reported receiving an e-mail with the account password (as is normal), but cannot login due to incorrect password. Any idea what is going on? jwillbur talk 00:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you please explain how to position the sidebar (the left side of your screen) to the right? ↔ tz ( talk · contribs · autographs) 03:32:29, Thursday, 26 April 2007 ( UTC)
I think this does it:
#column-content { float: left; margin: 0 0.6em 0.6em -12.7em; } #content { border-color: #AAA rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) transparent; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1px 1px 1px medium; } #column-one { padding-top: 1.5em; } #p-cactions { left: -1.5em; } #p-logo { overflow: hidden; position: relative; }
This seems to work alright in Firefox at least. Mike Dillon 04:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Are images and text moved automatically from the English WikiPedia to other language WikiPedia's or vice versa? Or does all of the moving between WikiPedia's in different languages have to be done manually? If moving images is done automatically, is there something that checks to see if an image with the same name exists on the other WikiPedia?
I am trying to figure this out so that it might help in another Wiki where we want to have one version of the pages for internal users and another version for external users in the organization that runs the wiki. Talk to GM 00:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been notified that User:Jefferson Anderson is trying to delete my personal pages. How can I prevent this from happening? Sincerely, --Mattisse 00:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I did sign with Mattisse 02:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC). Now I will sign by clicking the toolbar.--Mattisse 02:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Can I get my pages protected so I can get some rest? Please? --Mattisse 02:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
: I cannot see how such a protection would be in line with the
Wikipedia:Protection policy. Jefferson Anderon is not "deleting" your personal pages; as far as I can see, he removed some content from them which, incidentally, anyone including me can view simply by going into the revision history of your user page. I don't know the history between you two, but I venture to say that this thread will not work to improve relations. May I suggest you blank this thread after reading my message? Regards,
Iamunknown 02:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Responded less civilly on ANI and, after realizing what I'd done, hopefully more civilly on editor's talk page. Suggestion to close thread? --
Iamunknown
03:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
How do i stop other people from editting a page i made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meanmachine4242 ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 25 April 2007
I seem to have lost the bookmark for it. None of their pages seem to direct me to it. How is this achieved? HeadlessJeff 18:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The templates {{ Infobox Ship Career}} ans {{ Infobox Ship Characteristics}} are used like this
{| <!-- infobox table start stuff --> {{Infobox Ship Career |arg=Career value ... }} {{Infobox Ship Characteristics |arg=Characteristics value ... }} |} <!-- table end -->
Under some circumstances, if one of the Career value entries is a LIST (* or #) the infobox breaks (a </TABLE><TABLE> is inserted between the template outputs). Note that all the TABLE code is outside the templates. Nor is there any LIST code in the templates.
Some of the code that breaks the infobox is outlined in the talk page. Because the break happens between the templates suggests a template problem, but because of the wierd circumstances (please see the talk page) it "feels" like a rendering bug.
It's a real puzzler. Thanks. Saintrain 22:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Any ideas why the "user contributions" link has disappeared when I visit people's user/talk pages? -- Dweller 11:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a user warning pallette script? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 15:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Are you a sysop? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
If I fry my monobook (again) I will post with User:Pupster210 -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Hmmmmmm Doesn't do anything. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Does the nowiki do anything? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 19:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! I fried it!!!!!!!! -- Pupster210 20:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
The Image:Teresa Teng.gif still exists but is no longer displayed in the Infobox; the template displays a red link as if the image had been deleted, see this version of page Teresa Teng. As a workaround I have just added a link outside the infobox. If this is a general problem then editors will be deleting red links all over the encyclopedia, so I hope it can be fixed soon. - Fayenatic london (talk) 22:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, GDonato. It appears that it was the image size tag (which you deleted) that was disabling it. Something has changed in the template or the wiki software, because that tag has been there all along and it used to appear just fine. Well done anyway! Fayenatic london (talk) 23:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
px should not put behind the number in the Img_size parameter because it is already provided. See {{ Infobox musical artist}}. – Pomte 23:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Img_size
. If the length of the value is greater than 3, then set that value as the dimension without doing any {{
min}} comparisons. Adding px to the end of the number can be an honest mistake and we can account for that. If it is necessary to fix all of the transclusions, that can be done eventually with time and AWB. Thousands may be an exaggeration though. –
Pomte
18:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Due to an attacker mass-abusing accounts with weak passwords, passwords that are the same as the username can no longer be used. Affected accounts can reset their password by e-mail to something more secure. -- brion 21:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
In case it hasn't been noted here already: The Spanish Wikipedians are proposing that all Wikipedias in all languages gain an "Appendix:" namespace (like the ones in the Spanish Wikipedia and the English Wiktionary) and that all Wikipedias have an Encyclopedic Support Contents Policy. Uncle G 23:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The place for discussion is the talk page of the Meta page linked to above. The people making the proposal won't see know about your objections if you write them here. Uncle G 15:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Minneapolis, Minnesota was really slow to load, so I cut some text and templates. Now I am wondering if there was something else I ought to have done instead. Why is it so much bigger in bytes than these comparable articles? Are there ways to use bytes better? Thanks. - Susanlesch 19:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Article | edit this page in K | footer templates | notes | total page imgs | bytes |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan | 49 | 2 | 42 | 14 | |
Pre-expand include | 478241 | ||||
Post-expand include | 187262 | ||||
Template argument | 106148 | ||||
Minnesota | 79 | 2 | 98 | 27 | |
Pre-expand include | 496253 | ||||
Post-expand include | 213897 | ||||
Template argument | 149742 | ||||
Minneapolis, Minnesota | 77 | 3 | 131 | 29 | |
Pre-expand include | 850946 | ||||
Post-expand include | 317371 | ||||
Template argument | 245963 | ||||
Seattle, Washington | 92 | 4 | 62 | 29 | |
Pre-expand include | 302054 | ||||
Post-expand include | 153586 | ||||
Template argument | 72282 | ||||
San Francisco, California | 92 | 3 | 99 | 31 | |
Pre-expand include | 513537 | ||||
Post-expand include | 204810 | ||||
Template argument | 129598 | ||||
Boston, Massachusetts | 63 | 4 | 43 | 15 | |
Pre-expand include | 545425 | ||||
Post-expand include | 207517 | ||||
Template argument | 141294 |
edit this page in K | footer templates | notes | total page imgs | bytes | |
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Before | 77 | 3 | 131 | 29 | |
Pre-expand include | 850946 | ||||
Post-expand include | 317371 | ||||
Template argument | 245963 | ||||
After | 71 | 3 | 131 | 28 | |
Pre-expand include | 271269 | ||||
Post-expand include | 164407 | ||||
Template argument | 70092 |
Or deleting the entire "Talk" page, for that matter. Doesn't this take "anyone can edit" a little to far? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lumarine ( talk • contribs) 16:16, April 24, 2007
No, this is stupid. Comments belong to a historical record which should never be edited, only appended to. The Wikipedia system is looking at everything as a nail because you have a hammer. -- Ideogram 21:00, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Actually, one thing lost on modern wikipedia is the will to WikiWikiWeb:ReFactor (for instance from WikiWikiWeb:ThreadMode to WikiWikiWeb:DocumentMode). In one sense, the ability is vestigial. In another sense, it's sad that this has been lost -- Kim Bruning 21:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
What we really need is dynamic views on the underlying data where you can choose to view the unfiltered historical record, or a "cleaned-up" version approved by (someone). -- Ideogram 21:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have uploaded better (cropped) versions of some pictures to Commons recently. The problem is that the relevant Wikipedia article ( Tadley) is displaying thumbnails of the earlier versions, though these are in the aspect ratio of the latest versions. Clicking on the thumbnails does correctly display the latest versions. Purging the image description page cache (both WP and Commons) has no effect. Alan Pascoe 20:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I have added a source citation to the RNC 2004 article, but I can't figure out how to code it correctly. Currently both citation links are pulling up only one of the actual citations (you click the little super text number and it is supposed to take you to the full information for that citation, but its taking you to the same citation information for both instead of taking you to the correct information about each separate citation).
I hope that makes sense.
Here's what I'm talking about at the bottom of the Police Tactics section on the following page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention_protest_activity
You'll notice that the 44 citation is listed twice. I couldn't figure out how to make the second citation appear as 45. If you look at the code for the page all the info both cited articles is listed there, but the second citation says 44 not 45. Also, how do you make that appear below the article in the list of citations.
I honestly did look around a lot on the help pages, but I didn't find anything that tells exactly how to do the coding to make a new citation appear correctly with the article and also at the bottom in th list of citations.
I'd appreciate any help on this. It would be nice to be able to learn how to do it, rather than just some one fixing it for me. But, I'll take what I can get I guess.
Thanks!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Misterman8 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for looking at it NMajdan. But the second citation I put in still doesn't appear as a second totally separate article from Jim Dwyer. It should appear as citation #45. But there is no citation # 45 and I don't know how to add a new citation number to the list at the bottom of the page. Can you help out some more please my friend :) ~Misterman8
I'm getting a lot of alerts that my information is being sent unencrypted, including from the Sign in / create account page. Someone could easily intercept my password when I log in, especially if I run an unsecured wireless network, which most people do. This needs to be fixed ASAP. -- Ideogram 17:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, it's me again again requesting a blanking of my monobook.js. However, this time I am requesting that an admin give me rc patrol admin-like revert script because I'm not sure I'm doing it right. -- Pupster210 15:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how to use TW. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you teach me or give me a simpler one? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Add please. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
... -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
You might wish to open the edit window for this section and copy-paste it directly. Alternatively, you can open your monobook and type:
{{subst:navpop}}
That should do the trick. Valentinian T / C 19:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
In the default monobook setting, assuming no custom CSS is used, what six-digit hexadecimal value describes the default color of unclicked internal links, such as this one (before clicking on it)? Pyro spirit Shiny! 03:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Idea: There can be one more tab at the top of article pages, marked "Stabler version". Clicking on this would display a version of the article selected by an algorithm such that it's usually a version that seems to have been approved of by three editors.
Usually, it would be the version left by the 3rd last editor to edit the page. But if reverts have been happening, it would be the version people keep reverting to (if any). The algorithm could be simple or more complex to handle more complex situations such as partial reverts and overlapping edits.
If editor A changes one part of a page and then editor B changes another part of the page, implicitly editor B has indicated approval of editor A's changes. If, on the other hand, B reverts A's changes, that would indicate disapproval. The algorithm would try not to return a version which any later editor had reverted, although in complex situations of overlapping edits it might not always be able to avoid it.
In cases where the last few edits have been vandalism and reverting of it, the algorithm would return the version that people keep reverting back to (provided at least 3 editors, including the one who created it, have left it at that version.) -- Coppertwig 23:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Placing {{ wikibreak}} as I have been previously advised, does not work for me. Sincerely, -- Mattisse 14:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I've done it for you. -- Ezeu 14:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Yesterday I could not find the Tecnical Pump!
I need to go on a Wikibreak as quickly as possible and want to know how to do it -- where to get the banner, etc. I also need to have my pages protected while I am gone, as there isa person who blanks parts of them. If I am not around to guard my pages, I cannot protect them myself. Is this possible? Thank you? -- Mattisse 13:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
P.S. The vandal suggestion I have explored and no dice. The vandal changes his name. I don't know where "old versons" of pages are kept but in the past I have never been able to get one. Also, the vandal blanks only selected parts of the page, not the whole page. I have discussed this with Admins but they have decided AGF regarding the vandal. Would not my solution work - save a text file of each page, and then replace the pages with my text version on my return? Sincerely, -- Mattisse 14:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I apologize for making a personal request, but… I just would like to request a little help. IF you are not busy doing something constructive, and you know a bit about wikicoding, could you please take a look at my user page, and tell me why my stupid menu bar is refusing to stay up at the top, and continues to hide at the bottom where no one can see it? Thanks! N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' T a l k 13:21, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
See Template:Infobox Skyscraper and Circle on Cavill. I changed the template to add float: right; clear: right;, but it's not working. I purged both pages several times as well. I also checked out Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links, but it just said to do float: right; clear: right; which I had already done, and putting a section clear I don't think will work, and the div solution doesn't seem needed here, as it's an infobox and this problem doesn't exist elsewhere. Any help will be appreciated. MECU≈ talk 12:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I just tried to delete an image and got this message:
This is the first time I've got this - is it happening to anyone else? If not, what's the reason it might have happened to me? – Riana ऋ 12:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have been cleaning up some images. In some cases I find images that I can reduce the file size for but with little visual change. For example, optimising a PNG image with optiPNG. I have been replacing images if the file size is approximately halved. This will conserve bandwidth, and make the image more accessible to people on slow connections, but fill up the server with potentially unnecessary files.
Is it worth optimising the image and uploading a new version? If so how much difference makes it worthwhile?
It used to be the case that you could only click on an image on its image page if it had a higher-resolution version than that shown in the preview. If the preview (the image embedded in the image page) was at the maximum size, you couldn't click on it, which gave the user a clue (without having to read the full and preview dimensions) that you could view a bigger version. Now the image is always linked, so you often end up clicking on it to see a bigger version, but it's just the same. The new behavior is annoying. Is it a bug or a feature? Example of new behavior: Image:Raunkiaer.jpg; it used to behave like this: [11]. -- TotoBaggins 05:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I had one unhappy reader inadvertently point out to me that a reversion using Lupin's popups didn't quite work correctly. Pointing at the correct revert point, I got a mix of that version and the most recent vandal edit. Thinking all's good I wandered off having left vandalized text in the article!
Now today I see that this happened to someone else, under pretty much the same circumstances, but using another tool Twinkle. So I'm thinking this is a bit more a problem than what tool is used.
Peek at this history listing starting with the revert. Mentality has pointed to the last good version "revision 125237527 by JoanneB" and started the revert. And nothing complains. But, the second bad edit by 67.128.112.59 sneaks in and remains after the revert is finished. A whole section of text got deleted without anyone the wiser.
In my case, in this history listing you can see the last one of three consecutive bad edits by 88.110.112.166 snuck in before my revert and stayed after the revert was done!
So... how do you know a revert hasn't worked, in that yet another vandal edit has snuck in? Do you have to do a "Compare selected versions" with the revert point and the result, just to see they aren't the same again/anymore? Shenme 05:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just done some further reading and experimentation and I have discovered that the above is either completely incorrect or there has been a change in MediaWiki of which I am not aware. A more likely explanation of the problem is server lag. help:revert#Reverts do not cause edit conflicts explains that reverts never cause edit conflicts. I have checked all the examples above plus three more I know of using the ISO 8601 date format (which is the only direct way of getting at the times of edits to the nearest second that I know of); it can be accessed in the date and time section of the preferences. Looking at the following diffs plus the ones provided above in ISO 8601 format should make things clear: [12], [13] and [14]. In all of these examples and the ones given above, the maximum time between edits is 6 seconds, which is most likely not enough time for all the servers to be alerted that an edit has taken place. Therefore, the problem is related to server lag, and has nothing to do with edit conflicts. Graham 87 14:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Sincerly Meanmachine4242
The repeated blanking of Monk Bonasorte ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) by Meanmachine4242 ( talk · contribs) is probably relevant here. Uncle G 15:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I was looking through the history page of the Michael Goudeau article, and I noticed something peculiar in the 'earliest' history.
The first one there listed by myself (Braksator) is when I created the article, I even marked it (Creation). The ones dated April and March earlier the same year I am sure actually happened in 2007, very recently, they are to do with recent deletion proposals on the article that were ultimately challenged successfully. I am wondering if this is a bug, or have the users deliberatly set their dates backward somehow? Perhaps to make it appear as though the deletion proposal was around longer than it really was.
Braksator 02:34, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I cropped this image from the original because it was off-centre. Now it seems to be displaying a stretched and distorted version of the original image when it displays at 100 and 200px. But at 80 and 120px it displays correctly. See the image page for sample displays. Is this a server purging issue, and if so why won't it fix? I'm seeing the same thing from IE as well as FF and a good 10 minutes has elapsed, so I presume its not in my browser cache. Any help appreciated. — Moondyne 06:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a known problem with numerals following arabic text? See the first line of Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, for an example. If I change that capital i at the start of the date to a figure 1 the whole date jumps to before the arabic text. It's obviously something to do with arabic reading from right to left. Sandbox experiments confirm the problem and it happens here whether I'm logged in or not, on XP using Firefox or IE. If I replace the space following the arabic with it renders OK in the editor, but still jumps on the page: viz.
سر الختم الخليفة 1234 456 789 test
I can fix it by entering some plain text (e.g. born) before the numeral, but that's not the point! I've tried searching for references to this, but the nearest I can find are this and this (search for "arabic text"). I'd appreciate if someone could confirm this is a problem, and is not just something wonky here. Is there a fix? - a <span> perhaps? Smalljim 21:53, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
<bdo>
tag):سر الختم الخليفة 1234 456 789 test
#editform textarea { direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: bidi-override }
on my user stylesheet; it's the exact same CSS the template above uses, but being applied to the edit area. I don't know if it still works; I added it a long time ago, and the skin might have changed in the meantime. It's worth a try. --
cesarb
23:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Please go to User:Will Pittenger#US States. There is a problem with some of the templates towards the end. I don't know why, but they are expanding. I tried creating a test page to see if I could get them to expand and they did when I substed the templates. Why don't they work? They were. Will ( Talk - contribs) 01:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Pre-expand include size: 2047082 bytes Post-expand include size: 138033 bytes Template argument size: 38361 bytes Maximum: 2048000 bytes
Unless I've missed something obvious, the Category:Soviet Army is both its own parent and its own child. How can this be fixed? Greenshed 22:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm working on a table for an article and it would definitely benefit from being sortable. However, I do not want a reader to be able to sort the last column. Is this possible? If so please show me a short example. -- Psychless 21:24, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Solved Problem by myself. -- Psychless 22:25, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I am working on an experiment on my
sandbox subpage. However, with template substitution becoming a primer at a project called
WP:NYCPT, if I transclude my sandbox page, fill in a parameter and subst: it, the editing field of the page after it is saved creates a huge mess of what's left. So what I want to do is substitute e.g. {{User:Imdanumber1/Sandbox|A}}
and when is subst'ed, the editing field will show instead [[A New York City Subway service|A]]
. Is this possible? --
Imdanumber1 (
talk •
contribs)
16:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
<includeonly>{{#switch: ...}}</includeonly>
, use {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#switch: ...}}
. I believe that will do what you want.
Mike Dillon
17:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)I forgot this is a little weird. See Help:Substitution#Optional substitution. Here's something that works:
Type | Wikitext | Display |
---|---|---|
No subst | {{User:Imdanumber1/Sandbox|A}} | A |
Subst | {{subst:User:Imdanumber1/Sandbox|A|subst=subst:}} | A |
Sorry to mislead you about the other version.
Mike Dillon
17:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, it's me again again requesting a blanking of my monobook.js. However, this time I am requesting that an admin give me rc patrol admin-like revert script because I'm not sure I'm doing it right. -- Pupster210 15:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how to use TW. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you teach me or give me a simpler one? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Add please. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
... -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
You might wish to open the edit window for this section and copy-paste it directly. Alternatively, you can open your monobook and type:
{{subst:navpop}}
That should do the trick. Valentinian T / C 19:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
meanmachine4242
How do i stop other people from editting a page i made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meanmachine4242 ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 25 April 2007
I would like to know how I can archive my talk page. How do I create the page and how do I make the archive box on my current talk page? Thanks in advance! Felixboy 17:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Imagemap isn't working, just showing up as a lot of code and <imagemap>: image is invalid or non-existent. Any reason? Anything to do with the above thread? – Riana ऋ 14:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Within the last few minutes, all SVG images have changed to bluelinks to their image description page and no longer show the image for me: for instance, {{
tick}} displays " ". Are other people getting this problem too? --
ais523 14:24, 24 April 2007 (
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Looks like they are back Richard Thompson ( Talk! | Contribs) 14:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
When and how did Special:Unusedimages and Special:Uncategorizedimages get changed into galleries? Both are hideously bad as galleries and make patrolling a pain. Is this something that comes from the MediaWiki namespace or somewhere else? Thanks. -- BigDT ( 416) 05:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I try to get up newbie contributions, but I get nothing... Is this very overworked, now? To many newbies, or what? Greswik 19:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
What's the deal with the new boxes on the User contributions page? I see vandalism, I go to look at the IP address's page to see what other vandalism has been performed, and I don't see any contributions at all, even the vandalism I just reverted. And what are the purposes of those two boxes? Corvus cornix 18:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Whew, seems to be fixed. Maybe it just needed a lunch break. :) Corvus cornix 20:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
How do I properly use the lowercase parser function with a template variable? I have a switch statement and rather having something like |Test|test|TEST=output, I'd to just have one possible result which I could do if it was all lowercase. I've tried {{#switch:{{lc:{{{variable|}}}}} but that doesn't appear to be working. Any idea?↔ NMajdan• talk 18:04, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I got SVG working on my local copy of MediaWiki, but it doesn't quite render as well as I thought.
This is my template:
However, the SVG image of the stop hand has a white border, which it doesn't on Wikipedia - I'm using ImageMagick as the renderer. If I used Inkscape would that work better??
All advice is appreciated. Thanks, -- SunStar Net talk 20:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
There is some rather odd behavior going on with the map of Richmond County, Virginia. Tested on Camino and Safari, both display a graphic with the state capital, Richmond City, highlighted rather than the county, which is northeast of the city. This graphic also appears on the page for Image:Map_of_Virginia_highlighting_Richmond_County.svg, which is referenced automatically via Template:Infobox U.S. County.
But when I downloaded the SVG to try and fix it, the downloaded SVG had Richmond County highlighted correctly. Seems like there's some weird substitution going on -- would a more advanced WikiGnome please check this out? Thanks. VT hawkeye talk to me 17:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I've fixed this for the following images:
It had already been fixed for Image:Map_of_Virginia_highlighting_Fairfax_County.svg. The duplicate id issue is a problem for all of the other Virginia county maps as well, but they don't show any visible problems because there are no internal references to the duplicate ids. Since most of these county locator maps were generated using the same method by the same user, there are almost certainly maps in other states with the same problem. My fix was to append "_County" to the names of the paths for the counties whose names were the same as a city and update the xref. A safer way to deal with this would probably be to append "_County" to the paths for all counties. Mike Dillon 01:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Made a typo fix on Self-injury and (i was logged on) it changed it all ok, but when i look at my watchlist i see a random ip number (which happens to be mine!)... i suppose it's a bug but dunno what happened, i made a edit to my user page, and my it appaeared as a contribution with my name...Would this have to do maybe with what the above user posted or? Ps is there any actual place to report bugs? Here i thought was most suitable? Later. petze 14:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
For instance a green +1000 means that 1000 chars were added to the article, right? So let's take this, for example:
Hmm?-- Ķĩřβȳ ♥ ♥ ♥ Ťįɱé Ø 03:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
As you can see here, the article ~~~~ is still in Category:Protected redirects, but is no longer a valid title. Any idea for deleting it? It's a bit annoying because all other operations you do on the category listing fail beacuse of it (I have parsed it out, but it's an ugly kludge). Tizio 13:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Broken/
. After that's done, since the title is no longer invalid, it can be deleted normally. --
cesarb
14:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)I am confused, and wondering if I am misusing this or have found a gotcha. I was researching questionable user names and using Special:PrefixIndex. The username a concern had been raised about was User:The way, the truth, and the light which exists. But I can't find it using PrefixIndex and 'The w' (which does find User:The watershark for instance). What am I doing wrong? Can you help me see the light? Shenme 04:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that the cascading notice is not shown in edit histories ( [2]), but is shown in the logs. Is this something that can be done through the MediaWiki namespace, or does this need a bug report? 164.107.166.217 18:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
<code> boxes have a line-height of 1.1em. This value is too small because with certain font sizes a little bit may be cut off from the lower part of characters. Underscores may disappear. Here is an example:
{abcd_efgh}
xxxxxxxxxxx
{abcd_efgh}
In my browser the lower part of the curly braces and the small g are cut off, the underscore disappeared.
I see this problem on Windows XP (both with ClearType turned on and off) with Firefox (fixed width font: Consolas, 15px), IE7 (default font settings) and Opera (default font settings).
I noticed this problem in
Barton-Nackman trick where the underscores disappear from value_type
in the first <code> box.
Changing line-height to 1.2 em solves the problem. BarroColorado 15:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I hope this was the right place to report this ... I'm not sure if this should be considered a MediaWiki bug, or a Wikipedia bug (as the stylesheet is specific to this site). The culprit is in the declarations for pre in http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css -- BarroColorado 18:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
{abcd_efgh} xxxxxxxxxxx {abcd_efgh}
{abcd_efgh} xxxxxxxxxxx {abcd_efgh}
{abcd_efgh}
xxxxxxxxxxx
{abcd_efgh}
I'm Swedish and therefore, I use Swedish even on the English wiki (i.e. I don't write in Swedish but I've chosen that language under "My settings" for all the menus and stuff). At the top of Wikipedia, where we all have the links "My user page", "My discussion page", "My settings", "My watchlist", "My contributions" and "Log out", they are and have always been in Swedish for me, until now. They're all still in Swedish, except for "My watchlist" which is (starting today) for some odd reason in English. I have checked the "System messages" under "Special pages" and there, it still no longer says "Min övervakningslista" but "My watchlist" for me. Does anybody else, who doesn't have English in their language settings, exeperience the same problem and does anybody have a solution? /
Ludde23
Talk
Contrib
18:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I only speak English, but after seeing this I got curious and switched my language setting to Swedish. It did the same thing to me. I don't know what is causing it, but it might be the recent upgrade. -- Luigi Maniac 18:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
After looking at the source, it seems that it issue is that the language files define "watchlist" and "my-watchlist", but not "mywatchlist". I still don't exactly understand how this works, since SkinTemplate.php requests "my-watchlist", but I'm pretty sure that the missing keys for "mywatchlist" are the cause of the problem. The only language with definitions for "mywatchlsit" are zh_yue, bg, ar, zh_tw, de, en, fi, fr, he, and id. Mike Dillon 03:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I just lost over a 100 edits after someone deleted WP:ACC..Is it possible??.. Cometstyles 21:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, it could be restored by any other admin, so it isn't a problem. I can still see and if I wish, restore the page, for example. Prodego talk 23:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Technically, the edits aren't lost, they're just hidden from regular users and are only shown to admins on a page by page basis through Special:Undelete. The edits don't appear to admins on the user contribs page. Because this is what edit counters use to count edits, the deleted edits don't count and the total can go down. Harryboyles 00:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I just tried to delete an image and got this message:
This is the first time I've got this - is it happening to anyone else? If not, what's the reason it might have happened to me? – Riana ऋ 12:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I cropped this image from the original because it was off-centre. Now it seems to be displaying a stretched and distorted version of the original image when it displays at 100 and 200px. But at 80 and 120px it displays correctly. See the image page for sample displays. Is this a server purging issue, and if so why won't it fix? I'm seeing the same thing from IE as well as FF and a good 10 minutes has elapsed, so I presume its not in my browser cache. Any help appreciated. — Moondyne 06:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
In case it hasn't been noted here already: The Spanish Wikipedians are proposing that all Wikipedias in all languages gain an "Appendix:" namespace (like the ones in the Spanish Wikipedia and the English Wiktionary) and that all Wikipedias have an Encyclopedic Support Contents Policy. Uncle G 23:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The place for discussion is the talk page of the Meta page linked to above. The people making the proposal won't see know about your objections if you write them here. Uncle G 15:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
The CSS directive that controlled the size of text rendered in smallcaps was changed some while back. This change needs to be reversed or at least modified. It has resulted in text that is nearly illegible (and certainly crappy-looking) in Safari at default font and size ( sample). At a blown-up font size, one can see that the smallcaps are much smaller than they should be, regardless what the scale of the base font size is ( sample2). — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 03:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
While reviewing my watchlist for red-linked categories that I had edited that had been deleted or renamed (I found one - Category:Texts by J. R. R. Tolkien), I found this deletion of a category. Not a very important one, and one that was empty at the time of deletion. My point is that it wasn't empty at one point, but I can't remember what was in it. Is there anyway to find out what used to be in that category? Carcharoth 01:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
What exactly would the script that I would type into my User page to get the clock from http://zfacts.com/p/793.html onto the page? Alphabetagamma 00:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
In a given user initiated session, it would be helpful to have hierarchy of links that the user is clicking. This would help them being able to go back or move forward to link of interest in the given search. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.55.47 ( talk • contribs)
For some reason I can no longer edit the Yue Fei page. I recently rewrote the entire page and have never had a problem with it before. Now when I try to edit any part of the page, it brings me here (It should say "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"). I even logged off and tried editing the page anonymously and it didn't work either. I can edit other pages, but not this one. There has to be a reason for it.
I just went to the help desk and some people reverted the page back to its original form. I noticed I can only perform one edit after another user does. After that, I can't touch the page. Why is this? ( Ghostexorcist 17:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC))
What causes this kind of borkage? [3] Is this a browser issue, an issue of someone copying and pasting the article into another program to edit, or a setting on the computer? I don't see it every day, but it can be messy to clean up. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 16:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
I'm trying to get the pathname for (arbitrary) images. Special:Filepath used to work(?) but now is inconsistent. For instance Special:Filepath/wiki.png (which resolves to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.png) is found just fine, but Special:Filepath/Africa.png (which resolves to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Africa.png) returns nothing.
Is it the "commons" thing? Any suggestions/workarounds? Thanks. -- Saintrain 22:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks VoA. Solution (at least for commons):
New question:
Thanks devs for implementing the update to: Special:Protectedpages, many sort options are now available. — xaosflux Talk 02:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
As part of adding
microformats (see also
WP:UF) to templates, I need to find a way to add classes to image tags (<img class="logo" [...]>
) and to external links (<href class="url" [...]>
). Is there a way to achieve this, with the the current software?
Andy Mabbett
14:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
A discussion that has involved in to having bot accounts edit at much increased rates (e.g. 3600 edits/hour) is taking place at Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Cydebot_Block. Comment is welcome there. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 07:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
This is probably not the place to ask this type of question, but how do you scan an image from TV show or movie? I'd like to scan a few fair use screenshots for some film/TB articles. Incidentally, I looked into the rationales needed and policies. Aaron Bowen 06:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I'm working on improving Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts including the archive procedures.
We're using the {{ archive}} template on the archived pages to ask users not to edit those pages.
But the link inside the template-generated page heading box directs comments to the (non-existant) archive talk page, rather than the main page at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts. Comments posted on the archive talk pages would not be seen by anyone, so this seems like a problem with the structure of the template - or maybe I'm missing an argument in the template.
An example of the result can be seen here: Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts/Archive/2007
Is it possible this is a bug in the template, or are we not setting it up correctly?
Would someone please advise me on the proper way to set this up so the template does not create a redlink to the archive talk page and instead directs users to add new comments to the main page at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts... ?
Thanks! -- Parzival418 06:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much to both of you for the quick replies. I understand how to use the argument now and will fix the other archive pages.
I tried to find the syntax for this template before I posted my question here, but the template documentation page does not mention any arguments. I looked at the source of the page for the template but didn't know how to read the syntax. Now that I see how you handled it, I understand better what I read there, though just barely, and I still don't understand the "if" part of the template at the end.
Anyway... I thought you might want to know that the documentation page for this template may need to be updated to explain the use of the argument. I would update it myself but I don't want to take a chance on causing confusion if I don't get it right.
I appreciate your help, have a good evening. -- Parzival418 07:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
and the link is given with [[{{{1|{{TALKSPACE}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}|current talk page]]
, which means if the parameter isn't given, then link to the Talk: page above the current page. –
Pomte
07:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)That's great, I get it now. Thanks very much! -- Parzival418 07:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Unless I've missed something obvious, the Category:Soviet Army is both its own parent and its own child. How can this be fixed? Greenshed 22:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone think of anything to add to this template, or should I call it done for now?--VectorPotential Talk 23:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Images on commons redlink when you use the [[:Image:foo.jpg]] format, such as at [4], which actually exists [5]. Worse, when you click such a link it brings up a page editor and provides no clue that the image actually does exist. Is there a work-around? Nardman1 05:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Anybody else notice that all recent edits in the history page now have the number of bytes? What's the use of this feature? -- Hdt83 Chat 00:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
This seems unnecessary on talk pages. Is it possible to hide it on discussion while still showing it for article histories, please? James S. 16:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
.ns-1 .history-size, .ns-3 .history-size, .ns-5 .history-size, .ns-7 .history-size, .ns-9 .history-size, .ns-11 .history-size, .ns-13 .history-size, .ns-15 .history-size, .ns-101 .history-size {display: none}
After some delays, the database schema updates are complete and we've upgraded the software on the servers to the current MediaWiki code. There are a few cute little user-visible improvements, but mostly we've just got more bug fixes and things in. There might be a few new errors which crept in, too, so do give a shout about new oddities. -- brion 13:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
history-size
. Thus you could have something likehistory-size{ display: none; }
.history-size{display: none;}
with a dot.
Alex Smotrov
15:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Bug: WHOIS no longer works off the contributions page of an IP editor. CMummert · talk 14:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm interested in seeing two changes that I believe were announced but aren't in the deployed version:
Are there any plans to get these two things back into a future build? Mike Dillon 15:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
It's really annoying to go into the special contributions page for one particular user, and wind up with a multiple choice question about whether I want to screen for all new users, when I just want one--VectorPotential
Talk
15:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody know why the indent wikimarkup in text ("::...:" or "**...*") doesn't work when there's a left-aligned pic? Is there a bug listed? Niko Silver 20:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks! I was supposing that this may be the case, but had no way of illustrating it as well as you did just now with the borders and all! It seems that the images displace bona-fide text, but they don't displace the indents as well, as evident if you continue your example sequence of indents (until they exceed the image width, which they do!):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
So, shouldn't the wiki-markup (::: and ***) work around this html defect and force (somehow) the indents to be displaced as well (bypassing the html code in the resence of a pic)? I've worked on many articles with pics, and this is the most common problem that editors frequently face in format. To tell you the truth, I haven't noticed even one example, where the indent (if included) was actually intended to be omitted (why on earth would it be included in the first place then?). Shall we list a bug, or is there one already listed? Niko Silver 15:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
float-displace
and/or -moz-float-edge
are CSS properties which might help. In particular, float-displace: indent
looks like it's exactly what you are looking for (and probably isn't implemented in any browser you might think of). --
cesarb
03:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is bot archiving allowed for WikiProject talk pages? It says here that use on article talk is not allowed, but it doesn't mention WikiProject talk. — Alde Baer 13:21, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
probably widely reported right under my nose, but i haven't seen it (sorry!) - but 'my watchlist' now has what seem to be markup characters either side of it - it says <my-watchlist> - any ideas why? - thanks, Petesmiles 11:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
yup - fixed now - thanks wonderful genies! - Petesmiles 11:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
It has been suggested [9] to change the link trail in MediaWiki:Linktrail from "/^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD" to "/^([a-z']+)(.*)$/sD" to allow trailing apostrophes to be included in the link, as is desirable to prevent extra wikitext like here. Is there any reason why this has not been implemented? WARNING: If nobody replies within three days, I will implement this change. Please let me know if this breaks anything. Thanks. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 14:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Change implemented. Any problems, revert and discuss! Thanks, Samsara ( talk • contribs) 22:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm... it doesn't seem to have any effect. Is there any reason why the effect might not be instantaneous? My only other guess is that the apostrophe needs to be escaped, so the variable would read "/^([a-z\']+)(.*)$/sD". Samsara ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks -
I tried to fix the vandalized page for the featured article (on Sly & TFS)... but it looks OK on the edit page.
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but could someone jump in and fix it & lock it temporarily?
THX -CC
Could someone have a look at Robbie Williams. I deleted a copyvio photo that was being used in the infobox and so replaced it with Image:Robbie Williams Hamburg 2006.jpg, a free image from commons. It working fine here on the right, but the infobox shows a redlink to the file name only. The image's page says its linked to by Robbie Williams, it just ins't showing up there. Anyone know whats going on? WjB scribe 03:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
"| Img_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels -->"
I don't see why such a restriction is needed but then again I haven't looked over the code (and don't have time to right now). Yonatan talk 04:46, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I recently noticed that SVG files I upload no longer display the Courier New font correctly, even if that font is explicitly specified. Instead, they use some other (and substantially inferior) monospace font. If I click on them and let Mozilla display them, rather than having MediaWiki convert them to PNG, they look fine. Was the renderer changed on the server side, and, if so, why? *** Crotalus *** 19:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I haven't done any sort of bug reporting yet, mostly because I haven't heard of anyone else having the same problem. Many (not all, though close) of the pages I've gone to won't display images if they're part of a gallery. Sometimes a few thumbnails are shown, sometimes all but one or two, sometimes none, and the number in the gallery doesn't seem to have any effect on how many are(n't) shown. When the images are just regular thumbnails within the [[Image:]] tags, they're ok (though I believe there've been one or two times when those won't display, either), as are images within infoboxes. I've tried purging and refreshing, but it doesn't help any. A few times it's even resulted in fewer pictures being displayed. Between all this, I'm seriously wondering if it's an issue with Wiki (in general, this issue isn't contained to Wikipedia), or with my computer (which is also why I haven't sent any bug reports). Anyone have any ideas what could be causing the problem, or how I can fix it? - Bbik 22:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
If an image thumbnail is not showing, try purging its image description page (if the image is from Wikimedia Commons, you might have to purge there too). If it doesn't work, try again.
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on this, since it's moved quite so far up the list by now, and no response to the listed pictures, either... - Bbik 07:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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I uploaded some pictures in my Art Gallery at Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The problem is, sometimes I am unable to see the pictures. Whenever I use a PC it doesn't work... and whenever I use a Mac it does. Is there some type of formatting/programming that I should use in order for me to see the pictures no matter what type of computer I'm using? Would Internet security programs interrupt my viewing of the images possibly? 1013-andy 16:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been asked whether google indexes the changing username archives. It's come up with regards to the right to vanish and people's privacy concerns.
We presume that the logs themselves are not indexed but is there a "no robots" type of thing to stop google indexing? If there isn't - could we do this to protect people who regret making their accounts with their real names? Thanks. Secretlondon 23:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I seem to recall that when editing a page that was deleted protected via the cascading protection, there was some warning somewhere in the edit form about the page being protected (like the red message you got when editing a protected page), and telling which page caused the protection. Can someone confirm this behavior? I don't see that message any longer. Tizio 19:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I am Eapos and find is SICKENING that I can do everything under the sun here EXCEPT delete my account! Can someone please tell me how to delete my account! I do not want to be apart of this kind of sickening and prejudicial online community. Princess Elisabeth Vantar 09:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I also want to delete my account, After a certain time of not logging on does wikipedia remove your account? Someone help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by You05 ( talk • contribs) 06:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
As part of the right to vanish we can rename you to something meaningless and remove redirects. See WP:CHU for renaming. Secretlondon 23:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know how I can archive my talk page. How do I create the page and how do I make the archive box on my current talk page? Thanks in advance! Felixboy 17:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
How do you link to part of a page. I want to do it like #part of Page but I don't want it limited to the headings in the page. 86.41.131.174 14:33, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Within the last few minutes, all SVG images have changed to bluelinks to their image description page and no longer show the image for me: for instance, {{
tick}} displays " ". Are other people getting this problem too? --
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Looks like they are back Richard Thompson ( Talk! | Contribs) 14:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I have a question about the case sensitivity of Wikipedia. If anyone can help or offer input, that is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The problem began when I typed the link: Rebel without a Cause. However, the link did not work correctly, because the "w" in the word "without" was a lower case letter and not an upper case letter. I tried two other variants, and they both did work: Rebel Without a cause and Rebel Without a Cause. I tried a 4th variant, which did not work: Rebel without a cause. So, the question is: why do some of these variants work, and some do not? And, further, when I go to create a page, do I have to create "redirects" for every possible upper / lower case scenario? In this case, there are 16 possible configurations of upper/lower case letters for the 4 words. Cannot Wikipedia simply recognize that "rebel without a cause" (regardless of upper and lower case letters) should ALL direct to the same page? I am very confused and frustrated by this. Can someone please explain how all of this works? Furthermore, what if someone were to mistakenly type something like "Rebel WithouT a Cause" (note the typo of the upper case second "t" in "without")? If someone were to type that one letter accidentally as upper case, cannot Wikipedia nonetheless direct them to the correct article? If not, there are literally thousands of redirects that an editor would have to create -- no? Thanks for any input. The complexity of what should / could be so simple is quite frustrating. ( JosephASpadaro 03:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC))
Using MSIE7 in WinXP, Whilst reading List of emotions, I right clicked on the link Lojban to open it in another window. Instead of the article, I got a section edit window of the current page section. This also happens with artificial language in the same heading. Why does this happen? How can it be stopped? -- SGBailey 20:46, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, cannot get Image:Rickey henderson.jpg to show in the template at Rickey Henderson. Probably something simple, but is has beat me, and at least one other person. -- Ezeu 18:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed this before, but only just now realised what a problem it is. The essence of the problem is that when a category is renamed, it is done by deleting the old category and creating a new category under the new name. The edit history of the old category page is lost! This means that any edits anyone made to that category page are lost from their contributions list. This is not a problem when reviewing any categorisation you made of articles, as you do that by editing article namespace, and the edit history there is preserved when pages are moved/renamed. But categorisation of articles is only half the story. A lot of categorisation structural work is done by people categorising categories. Unfortunately, as category names get tweaked and changed, sometimes to suit changing fashions in category names, the edit history inevitably gets lost, and so does the history of who categorised the categories and edit summaries explaining the categorisations, and so on. Previously, I had only thought that edits to the "blurb" on the category page were lost (which was bad enough), but now I realise that the history of genuine categorisation edits are being lost. Is there no way that:(a) the edit history of category pages can be preserved, or even retrieved from deleted versions; and (b) a contributor can access their "deleted edits" to help review their genuine edits to deleted pages that, in the case of renamed category pages, technically still exist, but under a different name? Carcharoth 01:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
As an aside, in that bug report, Titoxd said "categorylinks doesn't care if the category page doesn't actually *exist*" - a good demonstration is Category:Wikipedians who crack boiled eggs on the rounded end (must ensure the humour quotient stays high). Carcharoth 04:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Okay, my input has been solicited on this, so here I am. There are an absolutely huge number of improvements that could be made to improve the categorization system. I'll start with the harder ones first. It would be really nice to have a way, within MediaWiki, to do true category deletion, merging, and renaming without having to go out and edit each individual article in the categories. But this could be far off in the future. The one problem that has been highlighted in this thread is the issue of category edit histories. As you know, there is no way to move one category page to another. It should be possible in just the same way that it is with article, but it is explicitly disabled, probably because most people would be confused and think that the "move" button should move all of the pages within the category when it was really just moving the text on the category page itself. As a result of this limitation, pyWikipediaBot compiles the names of the contributors to the old category page, copy-paste-moves the text over to the new page with the list of contributors in the edit summary, and then deletes the old page. This is clearly sub-optimal, and could be easily fixed by allowing category moves. -- Cyde Weys 21:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
A search for "wikipedia" on Google shows this [10]: "two million articles and still growing." Did Google add up all of our WPs, or did they make an error?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 00:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Please tell me we won't celebrate reaching 2,000,000 articles? We still have massive backlogs on improving the first 1,000,000... :-( Is there any reliable way to measure whether the quality of the encyclopedia is improving? And anyway, the 2,000,000 figure might be wrong. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-16/News and notes says: "All Wikipedias together have reached 7 million articles." Carcharoth 02:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
No error whatsoever. wikipedia.org does have over 2 million articles, hell, just de and en have that. - M ask? 16:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Why can't it be as good as Google?
Just to be clear: I'm talking about when you type a word in the search for an article and you misspell it--the results SUCK. Google picks up on your errors extremely well and usually knows what you meant.
For examle, I am creating a PNG of File:TalkTalk.gif, and therefore would find it much easier to rename the image extension from .gif to .png, so I can edit it from there. Is there any way to do this? Otherwise, is there a template to show that it has been superseded? δ σ ώ п ҹ (talk) (cont) 14:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
These days, vandal reverting is so fast, that sometimes vandals can be reverted two or three times in one minute.
But edit histories only show time in hours and minutes.
Perhaps the edit histories should be changed to hours, minutes, and seconds, so that you won't confuse all the edits that happened at 8:55 or whatever.
Also, occasionally, if two edits happen one right after the other, those two edits (just those two) will be backward on the edit history. Adding a seconds feature would help, unless the problem only happens when edits are within a second of each other.
Virtual Cowboy 12:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
OK, I just did that, but it looks really awkward (all smooshed together). Is it possible to have the old format and just add seconds? Virtual Cowboy 12:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I tried purging the article, the wikimedia description page, and the wikipedia description page, and tried adding ?! to the article's URL, but no luck. Is there some way to have this image appear here? There are two versions in the wikimedia history. The larger one is what I am trying to see in place. Thank you.- Susanlesch 09:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Imagemap isn't working, just showing up as a lot of code and <imagemap>: image is invalid or non-existent. Any reason? Anything to do with the above thread? – Riana ऋ 14:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there any reason why a newly created account would not show up in the logs? An account request was made two days ago for Spray&Pray ( talk · contribs · account creation), and the account did not exist when I checked it then. The username now appears in "listusers" but I cannot find a creation log for it. The requester reported receiving an e-mail with the account password (as is normal), but cannot login due to incorrect password. Any idea what is going on? jwillbur talk 00:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you please explain how to position the sidebar (the left side of your screen) to the right? ↔ tz ( talk · contribs · autographs) 03:32:29, Thursday, 26 April 2007 ( UTC)
I think this does it:
#column-content { float: left; margin: 0 0.6em 0.6em -12.7em; } #content { border-color: #AAA rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) transparent; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1px 1px 1px medium; } #column-one { padding-top: 1.5em; } #p-cactions { left: -1.5em; } #p-logo { overflow: hidden; position: relative; }
This seems to work alright in Firefox at least. Mike Dillon 04:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Are images and text moved automatically from the English WikiPedia to other language WikiPedia's or vice versa? Or does all of the moving between WikiPedia's in different languages have to be done manually? If moving images is done automatically, is there something that checks to see if an image with the same name exists on the other WikiPedia?
I am trying to figure this out so that it might help in another Wiki where we want to have one version of the pages for internal users and another version for external users in the organization that runs the wiki. Talk to GM 00:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been notified that User:Jefferson Anderson is trying to delete my personal pages. How can I prevent this from happening? Sincerely, --Mattisse 00:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I did sign with Mattisse 02:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC). Now I will sign by clicking the toolbar.--Mattisse 02:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Can I get my pages protected so I can get some rest? Please? --Mattisse 02:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
: I cannot see how such a protection would be in line with the
Wikipedia:Protection policy. Jefferson Anderon is not "deleting" your personal pages; as far as I can see, he removed some content from them which, incidentally, anyone including me can view simply by going into the revision history of your user page. I don't know the history between you two, but I venture to say that this thread will not work to improve relations. May I suggest you blank this thread after reading my message? Regards,
Iamunknown 02:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Responded less civilly on ANI and, after realizing what I'd done, hopefully more civilly on editor's talk page. Suggestion to close thread? --
Iamunknown
03:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
How do i stop other people from editting a page i made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meanmachine4242 ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 25 April 2007
I seem to have lost the bookmark for it. None of their pages seem to direct me to it. How is this achieved? HeadlessJeff 18:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The templates {{ Infobox Ship Career}} ans {{ Infobox Ship Characteristics}} are used like this
{| <!-- infobox table start stuff --> {{Infobox Ship Career |arg=Career value ... }} {{Infobox Ship Characteristics |arg=Characteristics value ... }} |} <!-- table end -->
Under some circumstances, if one of the Career value entries is a LIST (* or #) the infobox breaks (a </TABLE><TABLE> is inserted between the template outputs). Note that all the TABLE code is outside the templates. Nor is there any LIST code in the templates.
Some of the code that breaks the infobox is outlined in the talk page. Because the break happens between the templates suggests a template problem, but because of the wierd circumstances (please see the talk page) it "feels" like a rendering bug.
It's a real puzzler. Thanks. Saintrain 22:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Any ideas why the "user contributions" link has disappeared when I visit people's user/talk pages? -- Dweller 11:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a user warning pallette script? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 15:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Are you a sysop? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
If I fry my monobook (again) I will post with User:Pupster210 -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Hmmmmmm Doesn't do anything. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Does the nowiki do anything? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 19:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! I fried it!!!!!!!! -- Pupster210 20:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
The Image:Teresa Teng.gif still exists but is no longer displayed in the Infobox; the template displays a red link as if the image had been deleted, see this version of page Teresa Teng. As a workaround I have just added a link outside the infobox. If this is a general problem then editors will be deleting red links all over the encyclopedia, so I hope it can be fixed soon. - Fayenatic london (talk) 22:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, GDonato. It appears that it was the image size tag (which you deleted) that was disabling it. Something has changed in the template or the wiki software, because that tag has been there all along and it used to appear just fine. Well done anyway! Fayenatic london (talk) 23:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
px should not put behind the number in the Img_size parameter because it is already provided. See {{ Infobox musical artist}}. – Pomte 23:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Img_size
. If the length of the value is greater than 3, then set that value as the dimension without doing any {{
min}} comparisons. Adding px to the end of the number can be an honest mistake and we can account for that. If it is necessary to fix all of the transclusions, that can be done eventually with time and AWB. Thousands may be an exaggeration though. –
Pomte
18:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Due to an attacker mass-abusing accounts with weak passwords, passwords that are the same as the username can no longer be used. Affected accounts can reset their password by e-mail to something more secure. -- brion 21:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
In case it hasn't been noted here already: The Spanish Wikipedians are proposing that all Wikipedias in all languages gain an "Appendix:" namespace (like the ones in the Spanish Wikipedia and the English Wiktionary) and that all Wikipedias have an Encyclopedic Support Contents Policy. Uncle G 23:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
The place for discussion is the talk page of the Meta page linked to above. The people making the proposal won't see know about your objections if you write them here. Uncle G 15:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Minneapolis, Minnesota was really slow to load, so I cut some text and templates. Now I am wondering if there was something else I ought to have done instead. Why is it so much bigger in bytes than these comparable articles? Are there ways to use bytes better? Thanks. - Susanlesch 19:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Article | edit this page in K | footer templates | notes | total page imgs | bytes |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan | 49 | 2 | 42 | 14 | |
Pre-expand include | 478241 | ||||
Post-expand include | 187262 | ||||
Template argument | 106148 | ||||
Minnesota | 79 | 2 | 98 | 27 | |
Pre-expand include | 496253 | ||||
Post-expand include | 213897 | ||||
Template argument | 149742 | ||||
Minneapolis, Minnesota | 77 | 3 | 131 | 29 | |
Pre-expand include | 850946 | ||||
Post-expand include | 317371 | ||||
Template argument | 245963 | ||||
Seattle, Washington | 92 | 4 | 62 | 29 | |
Pre-expand include | 302054 | ||||
Post-expand include | 153586 | ||||
Template argument | 72282 | ||||
San Francisco, California | 92 | 3 | 99 | 31 | |
Pre-expand include | 513537 | ||||
Post-expand include | 204810 | ||||
Template argument | 129598 | ||||
Boston, Massachusetts | 63 | 4 | 43 | 15 | |
Pre-expand include | 545425 | ||||
Post-expand include | 207517 | ||||
Template argument | 141294 |
edit this page in K | footer templates | notes | total page imgs | bytes | |
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Before | 77 | 3 | 131 | 29 | |
Pre-expand include | 850946 | ||||
Post-expand include | 317371 | ||||
Template argument | 245963 | ||||
After | 71 | 3 | 131 | 28 | |
Pre-expand include | 271269 | ||||
Post-expand include | 164407 | ||||
Template argument | 70092 |
Or deleting the entire "Talk" page, for that matter. Doesn't this take "anyone can edit" a little to far? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lumarine ( talk • contribs) 16:16, April 24, 2007
No, this is stupid. Comments belong to a historical record which should never be edited, only appended to. The Wikipedia system is looking at everything as a nail because you have a hammer. -- Ideogram 21:00, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Actually, one thing lost on modern wikipedia is the will to WikiWikiWeb:ReFactor (for instance from WikiWikiWeb:ThreadMode to WikiWikiWeb:DocumentMode). In one sense, the ability is vestigial. In another sense, it's sad that this has been lost -- Kim Bruning 21:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
What we really need is dynamic views on the underlying data where you can choose to view the unfiltered historical record, or a "cleaned-up" version approved by (someone). -- Ideogram 21:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have uploaded better (cropped) versions of some pictures to Commons recently. The problem is that the relevant Wikipedia article ( Tadley) is displaying thumbnails of the earlier versions, though these are in the aspect ratio of the latest versions. Clicking on the thumbnails does correctly display the latest versions. Purging the image description page cache (both WP and Commons) has no effect. Alan Pascoe 20:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I have added a source citation to the RNC 2004 article, but I can't figure out how to code it correctly. Currently both citation links are pulling up only one of the actual citations (you click the little super text number and it is supposed to take you to the full information for that citation, but its taking you to the same citation information for both instead of taking you to the correct information about each separate citation).
I hope that makes sense.
Here's what I'm talking about at the bottom of the Police Tactics section on the following page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention_protest_activity
You'll notice that the 44 citation is listed twice. I couldn't figure out how to make the second citation appear as 45. If you look at the code for the page all the info both cited articles is listed there, but the second citation says 44 not 45. Also, how do you make that appear below the article in the list of citations.
I honestly did look around a lot on the help pages, but I didn't find anything that tells exactly how to do the coding to make a new citation appear correctly with the article and also at the bottom in th list of citations.
I'd appreciate any help on this. It would be nice to be able to learn how to do it, rather than just some one fixing it for me. But, I'll take what I can get I guess.
Thanks!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Misterman8 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for looking at it NMajdan. But the second citation I put in still doesn't appear as a second totally separate article from Jim Dwyer. It should appear as citation #45. But there is no citation # 45 and I don't know how to add a new citation number to the list at the bottom of the page. Can you help out some more please my friend :) ~Misterman8
I'm getting a lot of alerts that my information is being sent unencrypted, including from the Sign in / create account page. Someone could easily intercept my password when I log in, especially if I run an unsecured wireless network, which most people do. This needs to be fixed ASAP. -- Ideogram 17:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, it's me again again requesting a blanking of my monobook.js. However, this time I am requesting that an admin give me rc patrol admin-like revert script because I'm not sure I'm doing it right. -- Pupster210 15:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how to use TW. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you teach me or give me a simpler one? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Add please. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
... -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 17:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js');
You might wish to open the edit window for this section and copy-paste it directly. Alternatively, you can open your monobook and type:
{{subst:navpop}}
That should do the trick. Valentinian T / C 19:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
In the default monobook setting, assuming no custom CSS is used, what six-digit hexadecimal value describes the default color of unclicked internal links, such as this one (before clicking on it)? Pyro spirit Shiny! 03:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Idea: There can be one more tab at the top of article pages, marked "Stabler version". Clicking on this would display a version of the article selected by an algorithm such that it's usually a version that seems to have been approved of by three editors.
Usually, it would be the version left by the 3rd last editor to edit the page. But if reverts have been happening, it would be the version people keep reverting to (if any). The algorithm could be simple or more complex to handle more complex situations such as partial reverts and overlapping edits.
If editor A changes one part of a page and then editor B changes another part of the page, implicitly editor B has indicated approval of editor A's changes. If, on the other hand, B reverts A's changes, that would indicate disapproval. The algorithm would try not to return a version which any later editor had reverted, although in complex situations of overlapping edits it might not always be able to avoid it.
In cases where the last few edits have been vandalism and reverting of it, the algorithm would return the version that people keep reverting back to (provided at least 3 editors, including the one who created it, have left it at that version.) -- Coppertwig 23:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Placing {{ wikibreak}} as I have been previously advised, does not work for me. Sincerely, -- Mattisse 14:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I've done it for you. -- Ezeu 14:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Yesterday I could not find the Tecnical Pump!
I need to go on a Wikibreak as quickly as possible and want to know how to do it -- where to get the banner, etc. I also need to have my pages protected while I am gone, as there isa person who blanks parts of them. If I am not around to guard my pages, I cannot protect them myself. Is this possible? Thank you? -- Mattisse 13:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
P.S. The vandal suggestion I have explored and no dice. The vandal changes his name. I don't know where "old versons" of pages are kept but in the past I have never been able to get one. Also, the vandal blanks only selected parts of the page, not the whole page. I have discussed this with Admins but they have decided AGF regarding the vandal. Would not my solution work - save a text file of each page, and then replace the pages with my text version on my return? Sincerely, -- Mattisse 14:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I apologize for making a personal request, but… I just would like to request a little help. IF you are not busy doing something constructive, and you know a bit about wikicoding, could you please take a look at my user page, and tell me why my stupid menu bar is refusing to stay up at the top, and continues to hide at the bottom where no one can see it? Thanks! N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' T a l k 13:21, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
See Template:Infobox Skyscraper and Circle on Cavill. I changed the template to add float: right; clear: right;, but it's not working. I purged both pages several times as well. I also checked out Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links, but it just said to do float: right; clear: right; which I had already done, and putting a section clear I don't think will work, and the div solution doesn't seem needed here, as it's an infobox and this problem doesn't exist elsewhere. Any help will be appreciated. MECU≈ talk 12:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I just tried to delete an image and got this message:
This is the first time I've got this - is it happening to anyone else? If not, what's the reason it might have happened to me? – Riana ऋ 12:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have been cleaning up some images. In some cases I find images that I can reduce the file size for but with little visual change. For example, optimising a PNG image with optiPNG. I have been replacing images if the file size is approximately halved. This will conserve bandwidth, and make the image more accessible to people on slow connections, but fill up the server with potentially unnecessary files.
Is it worth optimising the image and uploading a new version? If so how much difference makes it worthwhile?
It used to be the case that you could only click on an image on its image page if it had a higher-resolution version than that shown in the preview. If the preview (the image embedded in the image page) was at the maximum size, you couldn't click on it, which gave the user a clue (without having to read the full and preview dimensions) that you could view a bigger version. Now the image is always linked, so you often end up clicking on it to see a bigger version, but it's just the same. The new behavior is annoying. Is it a bug or a feature? Example of new behavior: Image:Raunkiaer.jpg; it used to behave like this: [11]. -- TotoBaggins 05:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I had one unhappy reader inadvertently point out to me that a reversion using Lupin's popups didn't quite work correctly. Pointing at the correct revert point, I got a mix of that version and the most recent vandal edit. Thinking all's good I wandered off having left vandalized text in the article!
Now today I see that this happened to someone else, under pretty much the same circumstances, but using another tool Twinkle. So I'm thinking this is a bit more a problem than what tool is used.
Peek at this history listing starting with the revert. Mentality has pointed to the last good version "revision 125237527 by JoanneB" and started the revert. And nothing complains. But, the second bad edit by 67.128.112.59 sneaks in and remains after the revert is finished. A whole section of text got deleted without anyone the wiser.
In my case, in this history listing you can see the last one of three consecutive bad edits by 88.110.112.166 snuck in before my revert and stayed after the revert was done!
So... how do you know a revert hasn't worked, in that yet another vandal edit has snuck in? Do you have to do a "Compare selected versions" with the revert point and the result, just to see they aren't the same again/anymore? Shenme 05:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just done some further reading and experimentation and I have discovered that the above is either completely incorrect or there has been a change in MediaWiki of which I am not aware. A more likely explanation of the problem is server lag. help:revert#Reverts do not cause edit conflicts explains that reverts never cause edit conflicts. I have checked all the examples above plus three more I know of using the ISO 8601 date format (which is the only direct way of getting at the times of edits to the nearest second that I know of); it can be accessed in the date and time section of the preferences. Looking at the following diffs plus the ones provided above in ISO 8601 format should make things clear: [12], [13] and [14]. In all of these examples and the ones given above, the maximum time between edits is 6 seconds, which is most likely not enough time for all the servers to be alerted that an edit has taken place. Therefore, the problem is related to server lag, and has nothing to do with edit conflicts. Graham 87 14:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Sincerly Meanmachine4242
The repeated blanking of Monk Bonasorte ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) by Meanmachine4242 ( talk · contribs) is probably relevant here. Uncle G 15:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I was looking through the history page of the Michael Goudeau article, and I noticed something peculiar in the 'earliest' history.
The first one there listed by myself (Braksator) is when I created the article, I even marked it (Creation). The ones dated April and March earlier the same year I am sure actually happened in 2007, very recently, they are to do with recent deletion proposals on the article that were ultimately challenged successfully. I am wondering if this is a bug, or have the users deliberatly set their dates backward somehow? Perhaps to make it appear as though the deletion proposal was around longer than it really was.
Braksator 02:34, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I cropped this image from the original because it was off-centre. Now it seems to be displaying a stretched and distorted version of the original image when it displays at 100 and 200px. But at 80 and 120px it displays correctly. See the image page for sample displays. Is this a server purging issue, and if so why won't it fix? I'm seeing the same thing from IE as well as FF and a good 10 minutes has elapsed, so I presume its not in my browser cache. Any help appreciated. — Moondyne 06:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a known problem with numerals following arabic text? See the first line of Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, for an example. If I change that capital i at the start of the date to a figure 1 the whole date jumps to before the arabic text. It's obviously something to do with arabic reading from right to left. Sandbox experiments confirm the problem and it happens here whether I'm logged in or not, on XP using Firefox or IE. If I replace the space following the arabic with it renders OK in the editor, but still jumps on the page: viz.
سر الختم الخليفة 1234 456 789 test
I can fix it by entering some plain text (e.g. born) before the numeral, but that's not the point! I've tried searching for references to this, but the nearest I can find are this and this (search for "arabic text"). I'd appreciate if someone could confirm this is a problem, and is not just something wonky here. Is there a fix? - a <span> perhaps? Smalljim 21:53, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
<bdo>
tag):سر الختم الخليفة 1234 456 789 test
#editform textarea { direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: bidi-override }
on my user stylesheet; it's the exact same CSS the template above uses, but being applied to the edit area. I don't know if it still works; I added it a long time ago, and the skin might have changed in the meantime. It's worth a try. --
cesarb
23:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Please go to User:Will Pittenger#US States. There is a problem with some of the templates towards the end. I don't know why, but they are expanding. I tried creating a test page to see if I could get them to expand and they did when I substed the templates. Why don't they work? They were. Will ( Talk - contribs) 01:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Pre-expand include size: 2047082 bytes Post-expand include size: 138033 bytes Template argument size: 38361 bytes Maximum: 2048000 bytes
Unless I've missed something obvious, the Category:Soviet Army is both its own parent and its own child. How can this be fixed? Greenshed 22:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm working on a table for an article and it would definitely benefit from being sortable. However, I do not want a reader to be able to sort the last column. Is this possible? If so please show me a short example. -- Psychless 21:24, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Solved Problem by myself. -- Psychless 22:25, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I am working on an experiment on my
sandbox subpage. However, with template substitution becoming a primer at a project called
WP:NYCPT, if I transclude my sandbox page, fill in a parameter and subst: it, the editing field of the page after it is saved creates a huge mess of what's left. So what I want to do is substitute e.g. {{User:Imdanumber1/Sandbox|A}}
and when is subst'ed, the editing field will show instead [[A New York City Subway service|A]]
. Is this possible? --
Imdanumber1 (
talk •
contribs)
16:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
<includeonly>{{#switch: ...}}</includeonly>
, use {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#switch: ...}}
. I believe that will do what you want.
Mike Dillon
17:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)I forgot this is a little weird. See Help:Substitution#Optional substitution. Here's something that works:
Type | Wikitext | Display |
---|---|---|
No subst | {{User:Imdanumber1/Sandbox|A}} | A |
Subst | {{subst:User:Imdanumber1/Sandbox|A|subst=subst:}} | A |
Sorry to mislead you about the other version.
Mike Dillon
17:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)