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For lack of a better place to put this... what exactly is up with this: [1] ? Look at the edit summary. I can't figure out why it's like that. I know I've seen it before, too, but I can't remember where. What's causing this? Gscshoyru 17:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone see Image:AVATARLOGO-blk.jpg? The image (full size and thumbs) will not display in Firefox 1.5 or IE6, but I can view it in a number of graphics editors. --- RockMFR 02:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Last night, when clicking on "my watchlist", I noticed that it said in the status bar "contacting tools.wikimedia.de". I was quite concerned about this, because tools.wikimedia.de responds extremely slowly for me, with response times on the order of a minute.
Today I am not seeing "contacting tools.wikimedia.de" when using "my watchlist", but I would like developers to be aware that there is a problem with that website for users with certain configurations. I don't know what configurations; I've never been able to debug the issue, but I use the web in general just fine with these configs, so the problem is with tools.wikimedia.de. Thus I would request that nothing critical be hosted there (such as watchlists). -- Trovatore 18:02, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
This code has been removed for the time being. Go ahead and bypass your cache to see if you see any further issues. Hopefully, if this is redone, it is done in the proper way as a MediaWiki extension that is actually installed on the Wikimedia server cluster. FYI, it seems to have been related to trying to show notices regarding Wikipedia:Meetups by geographic area. Mike Dillon 20:17, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Notice the initial report said that it said contacting tools.wikimedia.de but he did not report that the page actually loaded slowly. The code is constructed in a manner which makes even worst case failure modes not impact the page loading (thought your browser may still say 'contacting toolserver.wikimedia.de', it won't impact page display, this was tested in FF2,FF3, Opera, IE6, and IE7, Konqueror, and Safari). -- Gmaxwell 01:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:7F:70:87:7A inet6 addr: fe80::20e:7fff:fe70:877a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:720 (720.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:C6:E8:25 inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fec6:e825/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:214961 (209.9 KiB) TX bytes:33727 (32.9 KiB) Interrupt:11
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:71.138.134.48 P-t-P:71.138.135.254 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:203385 (198.6 KiB) TX bytes:28526 (27.8 KiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifdown sit0 ifdown: interface sit0 not configured zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifconfig sit0 down zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifconfig sit0 sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 inet6 addr: ::71.138.134.48/96 Scope:Compat UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
So I found a BRUTAL UGLY hack -- I moved /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/net/ipv6 to /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/net/disable.ipv6. Now the module loader doesn't find the module at all at boot time, throws a hissy fit about it, but eventually boots without it. And now I can see tools.wikimedia.de in a reasonable time. But come on, don't you agree this is bad behavior on the toolserver's side? It ought to be able to figure out that a client is experiencing this issue with a much shorter timeout, then remember it for the rest of the session, rather than repeating the same huge timeout for every single request.
(By the way, I *did* first try changing /etc/modules.conf -- didn't work; something else is causing the module to be loaded, and I have no reasonable way of figuring out what). -- Trovatore 08:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
blacklist ipv6
(and perhaps other blacklist lines) to /etc/modprobe.conf
; see man modprobe.conf
for the details. That said, disabling ipv6 shouldn't be needed; since you don't have a default ipv6 route, the connection should fail and your browser should immediately fallback to the ipv4 alternative. Another option is to actually add a working ipv6 default route to your computer (installing
miredo is an easy option if you are behind a NAT; if you aren't, setting up
6to4 with the default anycast route will give you better performance).zermelo:~# ip6tables -A INPUT -j REJECT ip6tables: No chain/target/match by that name
ip6t_REJECT
, enabled by CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_REJECT
("REJECT target support"). --
cesarb 17:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Having a link that wipes the whole watchlist which is as directly accessible as that, alongside the others, is just wrong. Please, please, please, move it somewhere less accessible. -- Stephen Burnett 10:42, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm currently using this (long) code:
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{2}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{3}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
on is:wikipedia. Dose anyone know if I can make this code shorter? Something like
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1}}} or {{{2}}} or {{{3}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
But I tried that, and couldn't get it to work. -- Steinn inn 20:25, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1|}}}{{{2|}}}{{{3|}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
{{#switch:bird|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}=[[Category:Bird-stub]]|#default=}}
might do the trick. Depends, again.
Gracenotes
T § 22:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1|{{{2|{{{3|}}}}}}}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
Is it possible to check if a page is on at least one person's watchlist? I'm trying to find unwatched pages, but the admin-only specialpage hasn't been too useful.- Wafulz 19:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at the difference between my revisions on my talk page and found this one [2]. Which is interesting, because I never made those changes. If you look at the revisions in comparision seperately, [3] and [4] you can see that those changes never occured. The only thing I had changed in that edit was adding a response to the bottom topic. What could be causing this error? -- Android Mouse 04:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I recently discovered the the sort function on "wikitable sortable" e.g. List of United States cities by population does not work with OSX and Safari. Sometimes clicking in the data fields just toggles the list up and down alphabetically; today for some reason the sort buttons are missing completely. This applies to both OS 10.3.9 with Safari 1.3.2 and OS 10.4.10 with Safari 2.0.4. OS 10.4.10 with Firefox 2.0.0.3 is fine. Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
These are no doubt helpful remarks from the point of view of solving the problem, but they are not solutions. Is there somewhere else I should be asking? Ben MacDui (Talk) 14:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way of screening of filtering the deletion log so it shows only deletions of articles from mainspace? I'm trying to analyze recent speedy deletions WT:CSD/Analysis, and I want to eliminate the 80% or so that are images, talk pages, redirects, user pages, and so forth to speed up work on the rest. DGG ( talk) 04:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there a variable that contains the username of the current editor, ie. something like {{CURRENTUSER}} that I can use in templates? ~~~ (sig without date) isn't any good as it usually contains all kinds of formatting. I need only the username. -- Edokter ( Talk) 17:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Never mind... I just realized it wouldn't work anyway (without substing) for what I had in mind. -- Edokter ( Talk) 19:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
There are times when several user pages links to an article and the it becomes difficult to know which main space articles links to that page. Putting User Space links at bottom/separately will help. Vjdchauhan 13:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
addOnloadHook(function(){ var ln = document.getElementById('t-whatlinkshere'); if (!ln) return; ln.firstChild.href = ln.firstChild.getAttribute('href', 2) + '?namespace=0'; })
If there are numerous links to an image file then it becomes difficult to know which main space articles links/uses that image as several times it is cluttered with links to User Pages. Vjdchauhan 13:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
I have three questions:
Is it possible to make an ordinary link to a Javascript function? (i.e. something like this, but with "javascript:document.editform.submit()" instead of "google.com") Sala Skan ( Review me) 18:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
May I and how create several personal watchlists for different topics? --Quellem 16:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a harder task which is to make such lists not using each word 'personally', but fitting each word to the list from a suitable (interesting for me) category. For instance, I tried to insert manually to my list every relevant astronomical term, but quickly understood this is not for a human being. Any programming proposals? --Quellem 18:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Does anyone know how I can make a list such as this one:
Category:B-Class Wikipedia 1.0 Arts articles|Anime and manga
Be ordered by article size, or by "what links here"? Or better yet, is there a guide or a manual somewhere for these things? Thanks! -- SidiLemine 13:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
General question to the techs who recently allowed us more review on our watchlist? I have a "wish", as my watchlist grows and grows, to be able to sort the list by topic. I would like to be able to call up list A, B, or C - and review activity in those specific areas. Does this sound like others might find it useful too? If you are doing programming in this area, please let me know. WBardwin 05:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
This idea would be easy to implement with a different output format of the watchlist. Currently, the list is output as an " html outline" that presents only one view of the information. Some "filtering" is possible, as you already know, with the form controls at the top of the page.
In contrast, if the information were output as a table, the sorting and categorization could be accomplished easily. Even with no programming at all, any user with a spreadsheet could load the table and do all the searching, sorting, and analysis they wanted. Technically, you could do this right now, but you'd need to have at least minor programming skills to convert the irregular "outline" into a "table". Irregular output formats are a common problem of software design, and is usually the principle limitation that prevents easy implementation of ideas such as the ones you propose here. dr.ef.tymac 03:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Following the creation of a new disambig page, I would like to update all the pages which link to it so that they point to the relevant unambiguous page. As 99% of these links all need to link to the same (renamed) article, is there a search & replace tool / bot / admin facility / something where I can request that these edits are made automatically, rather than having to do them by hand. Thanks. SP-KP 16:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Have a look at how I set up Nature abhors a vacuum. Is this way of setting up a redirect to link to a paragraph within an article a good thing? Should the practice be more widespread? Carcharoth 16:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
On the page Johnny Fingers the image Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg appears as a link rather than displaying the actual image. This is the markup used:
[[Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg|thumb|right|Johnnie Fingers with colleagues and friends JPR and Miumiu, August 2006]]
The actual image should appear. I assume this is related to the & in the filename. I asked this at MW:Project:Support desk#Image with an & in the file name shown only as text link and the only response I got was that it may be a caching problem. Is this a known issue? Thanks Patleahy 01:25, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
If someone wants to edit top section of the page he/she have to go through 'edit this page' tab which opens whole page for editing and if the page is large then it takes time, similarly preview also takes time. Providing '[edit]' link to the top section is solve this problem. Vjdchauhan 13:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
People editing large articles are not always aware of this. For huge articles, say, 400KB+, this can cause breakage on days when the server is very busy. I had intermittent problems editing Wikipedia:List of missing journals until I discovered the section 0 trick and added the edit link. Two suggested workarounds: 1) make the monobook.js with the [0] tab included one of the scripts listed in the preferences, or 2) a robot that automatically adds the edit {{ Edit-first-section}} template to articles big enough to cause technical problems. Even if you do the first, the 2nd is very desirable. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
(I took this and copied it ffrom my question at NCHP.)
I have a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and a Windows XP 2000. I don't know if it's with everybody, my computer, or my browser but Arial cannot show Tibetan. I downloaded a font called "jomolhari" to the computer and it can read Tibetan. So, I changed the Tibetan script in some articles to Jomolhari font. Am I doing something wrong by chanigng the font for Tibetan in WP articles? Should I change it back? ionas68224| talk| contribs| email 02:41, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I want to make a little bit advertisement for a project that extracts all datas from templates from the database dump.
Project page:
de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Vorlagenauswertung/en
Startpage:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/templatetiger/template-choice.php?lang=en
You can also make simple queries. --
Kolossos 20:59, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Help us help the admins by providing an easy "Report copyright violation" link that goes to Wikipedia:Copyright problems on image pages. I felt like I was using up a good deal of time trying to find this page, when it could have been an easy link from the image page. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I have a simple request: Please give us the ability to exclude bot edits on "Related changes" pages. "Special:Recentchangeslinked" is used by some projects for project-level watches, and having to wade through bot edits can get annoying at times. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:00, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in a system that might allow a group of editors to add a large number of selected articles relating to a specific Project to their watch list. Is there a simple way to find out if any existing bots do this? Is there an alternative method anyone knows of? Cheers Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I think the deletion log could be made more useful if entries could be filtered by namespace and month/year. That way, someone patrolling the deletion log for article deletions wouldn't have to look through dozens of images. It can also reduce the number of times someone has to hit "next 50", which is probably a problem for those with slow connections who can't really utilise the option of displaying 500 entries on a single page. Any thoughts? -- Black Falcon ( Talk) 02:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid there's no way to show this without a couple sample pictures, as it's a rescaling bug. It's most visible at around 400px, though it's visible to some extent at most resolutions except the very large.
As you can see, the fine lines that make up the sky in this engraving get turned into interference patterns, and not even consistent interference patterns. Why? Adam Cuerden talk 15:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am not too worried but I may have accidentally reverted a valid edit. For some reason the diff page is scrambled. - Susanlesch 04:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
{{ Talkback}} Tell me what you think. My first venture in templating. -- Edokter ( Talk) 19:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
<div class="usermessage"> template contents </div>
. There are people who have customised their new messages bar .
Harryboyles 11:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Someone recently introduced me to a technique for customising the labels of the tabs (from Edit this page to , for example) using:
if(document.getElementById('ca-edit')) { document.getElementById('ca-edit').firstChild.innerHTML = 'Edit'; } })
But I cannot get this to work. I checked this code against the user's own JS page and I could not see any differences, I cleared my cache and purged the server cache, but the only effect was negative - it caused Twinkle's CSD tab to vanish. I should be able to do this, but I must be missing something. Adrian M. H. 16:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function(){
You should probably also check that that $wgNamespaceNumber != -1 to avoid obnoxious js errors on special pages .. if you care about that, that is :D.
AmiDaniel (
talk) 08:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
From a discussion on Wiktionary (copied and pasted here):
Note: the users are linked to their Wiktionary accounts here:
Why is it that steward access works on meta and here on Wikipedia only, yet any other Wikimedia project can list them but it does not work?? Interested to know! -- SunStar Net talk 22:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I have a technical problem. I am a newcomer on Wiki and the exact opposite of a nerd, so this may be the wrong place to ask or I may be making some other mistake, and I know you all have other things to do. Please forgive me in that case. I have asked real-life friends for help, but they doubt the problem is with my computer.
To the point:
1. I created my Wiki account about a week ago. I got an e-mail, which I was asked to browse to confirm my account. I did that (any number of times), but only got to the "confirmation invalid" page. Now, I happened to be logged in over the deadline and a nice older colleague told me my account was verified by that. But I had also asked for the e-mail connection, and that part gave the same result when I asked for it anew today. I had protracted problems with my e-mail server last week, but when it did function, only this seemed not to.
2.a) Browsing with Microsoft Explorer: Every time I turn pages (whether by search&go, topflap, link without or -in a box), I get error messages (which I just okay away). Most often: "Line: 672 / Character: 35 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". But some hour ago, it changed to: "Line: 673 / Character: 8 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". With the former error, I seemed to have no further problem within a page. At the same time as the latter turned up (connection or not?), it became impossible to make a redirect. I checked my typing many times over, but all I got was a normal article text reading: "1. REDIRECT", and then the target word in normal size.
2.b) Using Mozilla Firefox, the page turning works allright. Instead, as far as I have discovered, some section "edit" marks are displaced up or down, and on the "edit" subpage, a hotchpotch of words (from those handled by the last few editors, it seems) appear underlined in red. The editing works somewhat erratically.
Both these browser problems appear, as far as I have discovered, only in the English Wikipedia. Not on other Wikipedias I have peeped into, nor on my e-mail or Google.
Can somebody help me, or repost this letter to the right authority? I would be infinitely grateful. Yours sincerely,
Keinstein 20:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, and pardon if this is my error or I overlooked an obvious reason. Under the "External links" section in Minneapolis Post Office, why does the U.S. Postal Service not find a url inside a cite web template and does in a simple link? Looking back in the edit history, 1) a simple link works, 2) cite web template fails to connect, and 3) a visual approximation of cite web but again a simple link works. (To maybe save some time, I'll copy this question to both the Village Pump technical and the cite web talk page.) Thank you. - Susanlesch 03:05, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
%7C
) makes it work:
link. This
much shorter link also works.
Mike Dillon 03:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Any update on Unified Login support whereby same user-database will be used on all of Wikipedia's sister projects. Vjdchauhan 20:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC).
When one links a word(s) to the corresponding article page, several times one inadvertently links it to disambiguation page instead of the proper page. This will hep editors point to proper pages. As of now there are several pages which inadvertently links to disambiguation page. Vjdchauhan 13:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
I'd just like to point out here that an internal link to a disambig page is not the end of the world. In fact, it's much less problematic than an internal link to the wrong page (that is, an unintended meaning of a term) -- that's a situation much more likely to confuse readers, and much less likely to be easily detected and corrected.
So while I have no objection to seeing a warning when adding such a link, assuming it's convenient to code, I would caution against getting too zealous on this issue and making it appear that internal links to dab pages must be resolved at all costs. When you're not sure, it's better to leave the link to the dab page than to resolve it to the wrong page. -- Trovatore 08:59, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
I know this page isn't really intended to deal with user scripts, but I figured I would probably get a quick answer here. =)
I'm using the script that adds the !vote icons to vote pages. How could I restrict the pages on which this script initializes, such as only on AFD discussions? GrooveDog ( talk) 02:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
if(wgNamespaceNumber==0) return;
bit? You can just add some more if() or a switch() there to cause the script to abort, if certain conditions are not met. Some useful js variables for this would be wgPageName and wgTitle. --
Splarka (
rant) 07:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC)On Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 July 22 there are two entries (separate from each other) that have {{ Discussion blanked}} stuck on them:
The AfD pages themselves seem fine; the templates are not there:
The templates aren't there, yet on the log page, they're stuck with the two. - WarthogDemon 17:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that some images don't appear at certain sizes. Of the 19 pictures in the two galleries here, I can only see ten of them. Sometimes I'll add a picture, not see it, change the px parameter slightly and then I will see it. I have this problem using Firefox, IE and Opera. All show or don't show the same images. This has been bothering me for months and months, I finally decided to ask about it.-- ☑ SamuelWantman 07:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
This happens on all wikiprojects, for example, 6 images don't appear on this category page in commons. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 10:46, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I need help with regards to templates. For more information, please view this page. I feel that it is paramount to achieve consistency with regards to templates. If anyone knows how to correct this, it would be much appreciated. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 05:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I have (again) a CSS related question: How can I override the personal userlinks? Specifically, I'd like my userpage link go to my "welcome" page. It must have something to do with the #pt-userpage value, but I have no idea about the proper syntax. — AldeBaer ( c) 17:52, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function () {
document.getElementById("pt-userpage").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = "/wiki/User:AldeBaer/welcome";
});
A great place is WikiProject User Scripts. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 06:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way of screening of filtering the deletion log so it shows only deletions of articles from mainspace? I'm trying to analyze recent speedy deletions WT:CSD/Analysis, and I want to eliminate the 80% or so that are images, talk pages, redirects, user pages, and so forth to speed up work on the rest. DGG ( talk) 04:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone seen or heard of a solution that allows users to automatically generate citation code for WP articles? If you are wondering what I am talking about, see auto-cite proposal. Thanks for your comments and feedback. dr.ef.tymac 20:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
I have created the template {{ Age in weeks}} for use on List of ATP number 1 ranked players, for example. I need help making it always round down even if it should round up; a floor function or something? — MC Snowy · ( talk) 18:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm having an issue with galleries or images, not sure which, on this page: User:Wickethewok/images. On this page, the first image under "Professional images" is not showing. In general, I can't get the image ( Image:Sasha2.jpg) to show up as a thumbnail. FYI, I recently moved this to Commons along with a few other images, but this one is giving me problems. Does anyone know why it won't show up? Much thanks! Wickethewok 17:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
When you create a new section of a talk page with the + tab, the edit summary in the watchlist does not provide a section link or the /* */ syntax that indicates section editing. I propose adding this syntax and link (the → link) so that it is easier to follow a link from the watchlist directly to the new section. I'll open a feature request bug if others agree. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 15:42, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
+/* Example section */
instead of /* Example section */
.
Tra
(Talk) 16:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Sometimes I see a picture render over text in a Wikipedia article. Is this a problem with my browser (firefox 2.0.0.4) or with Wikipedia? My uneducated guess is that the judgment of when text should wrap needs to be more strict. Tempshill 05:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
column-count
property.
Anomie 13:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Is there a way to exclude a wikipedia page from search engines? For example, Wikipedia:List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people/To be sorted is an internal WikiProject page that we're using to determine if people have referenced sources that claim that they're LGBT. But it often shows up when I'm Google-ing for those references :) -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 20:52, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be a way to tell what pages redirect to a given page, other than to look through "What links here". In my case, I want to know what templates redirect to {{ WikiProject Biography}}. I happen to know that Template:WikiProject Biography is a redirect there. Are there any others? It appears to me that the only way to tell is to go through the "What links here" list, and since there are 380,000 pages that transclude this template, that's a bit prohibitive. Any ideas? – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 11:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
importScript('User:Barticus88/WhatLinksHere.js');
into your monobook.js file.
Harryboyles 13:58, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Solution 1: Use the api.php backlinks query to fetch the list of backlinks for the page and then use the api.php prop=info query on those titles to see which ones are redirects. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
What should be done so that Talk:I/O request packets is *not* a sub-page of Talk:I ? -- soum talk 08:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I've completed much of the work on my dead link checking script. With this script, you may check a single page or entire category of pages for bad and dead links. Each link detected will be given a score based on its error code, content-type, and redirection. This way it can elevate 'soft' 404 error or servers sending out a bad MIME type. The results are colored according to their rank progressing from red to green and group by page. If you’re using Firefox, click the "Use javascript" button to enable enhancements that let you preview the page, built-in search types for locating the link again, and submitting the changes to Wikipedia using your account. I'm currently looking for some feed back over the interface and methods for searching replacement links. — Dispenser 23:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
On the page Johnny Fingers the image Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg appears as a link rather than displaying the actual image. This is the markup used:
[[Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg|thumb|right|Johnnie Fingers with colleagues and friends JPR and Miumiu, August 2006]]
The actual image should appear. I assume this is related to the & in the filename. I asked this at MW:Project:Support desk#Image with an & in the file name shown only as text link and the only response I got was that it may be a caching problem. Is this a known issue? Thanks Patleahy 01:25, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Help_desk#Technical_Questions and MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Main_Page_title_coding. I was looking at other outlets to get this issue answered. Thank you. -- User:Charitwo/Sig 01:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
If someone wants to edit top section of the page he/she have to go through 'edit this page' tab which opens whole page for editing and if the page is large then it takes time, similarly preview also takes time. Providing '[edit]' link to the top section is solve this problem. Vjdchauhan 13:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
People editing large articles are not always aware of this. For huge articles, say, 400KB+, this can cause breakage on days when the server is very busy. I had intermittent problems editing Wikipedia:List of missing journals until I discovered the section 0 trick and added the edit link. Two suggested workarounds: 1) make the monobook.js with the [0] tab included one of the scripts listed in the preferences, or 2) a robot that automatically adds the edit {{ Edit-first-section}} template to articles big enough to cause technical problems. Even if you do the first, the 2nd is very desirable. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
There has recently been discussion on a talk page to change the newly added interwiki links on the geohack. To see an example on how these interwiki links look like go here. The idea is to add a code to the Magnus' toys that finds any interwiki links in the Template and changes them into interwiki links to the geohack.
A few flaws are in the current interwiki links.
I believe it would be best if we would avoid the discussion to spread trough many places and continued the discussion at the original talk page, instead of here. Thank you. -- Steinn inn 13:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to have the article " Hybrid ARQ" under the expanded title, "Hybrid automatic repeat-request", and redirect to it from the abbreviated title. I created a new page with the expanded title, pasted the content from the old page, and replaced the content in the old page with redirect code. But then I read that this is bad because it does not preserve the content history. So I reverted "Hybrid ARQ" to its old state and deleted the new content of "Hybrid automatic repeat-request". Then I renamed "Hybrid automatic repeat-request" to "Hybrid ARQ (temp)" and planned to rename "Hybrid ARQ" to the expanded title. But I can't because the page "Hybrid automatic repeat-request" still exists (and redirects to "Hybrid ARQ (temp)"). How to solve this mess? - Pgan002 05:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I've found that when I try to revert simple page blankings I'm required to fill in a captcha because of the external links that are being added back. When did this happen? This is becomming a large annoyance when fighting vandals and my patience for this recent change is wearing thin. -- Android Mouse 23:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
See Template talk:Cite web#Parameter language. The span wrapping $language was specifying an apparently superfluous position, which I'm told was causing display errors in one or more versions of IE. I've removed that, for the time being, if anybody wants to have a look. The rest of that request has more to do with whether $language should be bolded or not -- for that, I figure we need some more discussion. Input welcomed and requested. – Luna Santin ( talk) 20:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
A small CSS bug (I think) in IE6: when an external link wrap to the next line, the link icon disappears. Actually, it moves to the very end of the next line, and you can still see the top of the icon. I can't actually find where this is defined; I found a whole slew of a.external classes in main.css, except for regular http: links. But I think it is related to the following:
background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat;
Firefox displayes it correctly. -- Edokter ( Talk) 13:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone with an insight into technical issues involving maps have a look at Template_talk:Coord#Co-ordinates_for_polar_locations and the discussion below that one as well, please? Thanks. Carcharoth 13:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Is someone working onfixing them? I made a major edit to an article I had hoped would have help save it, but when I pressed save, it didn't do the usual This is only a preview page it went straight to the page, but with none of my edits! Hitting the back button showed no sign of my edits having ever been done, so I couldn't do my usual copy+paste+save. I looked at my watchlist, where I was confirmed that the site had a major database lag of 157 seconds. If anyone could at the very least help me find at lest a quarter of my edits to the Non-canonical spells in Harry Potter page, I'd be much obliged. Therequiembellishere 17:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Here's an example | |
This will wrap: | It shows the odd wrapping in Firefox 2.0.0.4, and IE6 and IE7 via Wine |
Anomie 21:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
Currently infoboxes inherit text-align:justify from the bodyContent class (in MediaWiki:Monobook.css). This can look ugly, because it creates huge gaps; see for example Universal Serial Bus, where in "Number of devices" there is such a big space between "Number" and "of" that "of" is closer to the text in the right hand column than to "Number". I think it makes sense to add text-align:left to infoboxes to fix this. Headings should be unaffected since they have text-align:center set manually on them. Hairy Dude 20:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
.infobox {text-align:left}
into your own
monobook.css so that it appears just for you.
Tra
(Talk) 21:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)I'm not sure if this has ever been discussed, but I was wondering if its possible to include the time/date of the edits made on a watchlist. Pats Sox Princess 20:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
(diff) (hist) . . User talk:Moe Epsilon; 22:41 . . (+1,168) . . Rbellin (Talk | contribs | block) (→Lists - an agony in eight fits - reply)
OMG. I can't believe I never noticed the time. I'm used to looking at Special Contribs, and just learning to use the watchlist. I guess the fact that the time is in a different place in the watchlist than Special Contribs through me off. Pats Sox Princess 23:34, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
(diff) (hist) . . Oneworld destinations; 11:17:07 . . (+4) . . 213.158.196.65 (Talk) (IB fly's to warsaw now:))
(cur) (last) 2007-07-26T11:17:31 Malkageffen (Talk | contribs) (6,740 bytes) (undo)
Well, if its possible, everything should be standardized. Make time go to the right of the pagename, and get rid of (cur) and (last)--just use (diff) Pats Sox Princess 19:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
The context would be article content something like:
Dawkins says that Caddis larvae are among most remarkable creatures on earth.<ref>{{harv|Dawkins|2006|p=238}}</ref> [...] == References == <references/> [...]
== Bibliography ==
{{
citation}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(
help).</nowiki>
All of that currently exists, of course.
The first bit with the {{ Harv}} puts an entry in the References list containing an item which wikilinks to the matching citation in the Bibliography section. There may be several of these linking to the same book citation with different page numbers. If one follows the wikilinks, it is necessary to use the browser's page history (via the Back button, etc.) to back up from the Bibliography list entry to the Reference section item from whence one came. There is a clickable backlink at the References section item which links back to the ref in the article text. Most navigation to between refs and notes/cites is done with clickable links and backlinks. This need for the Back button to be used is an exception to that user interface convention.
My idea is that it might be useful to have a template ( {{ Back}}? ) which could be placed immediately prior to {{ Citation}} in the above context example and which would insert an icon ( ^ would do fine, like other backlink icons ) which, if clicked, went one page back in the article history (back to the page showing the References list item from whece the user came).
My javascript skills are very rusty, and I'm not sure whether javascript can be used inside of a template. Comments? Have I OD'd on wikiedits today? -- Boracay Bill 08:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I've always assumed the autoblocker sets a duration of 24 hours, when we block somebody with autoblocks enabled. I've seen a few cases where someone's autoblock seemed to outlast their original block, though. In cases where fewer than 24 hours remain on the original block, is the autoblock duration still 24 hours? – Luna Santin ( talk) 22:04, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, all! I reported a request (not actually a bug) to Bugzilla.wikimedia.org several days ago. Will I hear something back from them? What's the process? Bugzilla doesn't seem well documented except for How to report a bug - everything else is a bit unclear. -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 21:20, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in a system that might allow a group of editors to add a large number of selected articles relating to a specific Project to their watch list. Is there a simple way to find out if any existing bots do this? Is there an alternative method anyone knows of? Cheers Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I am seeing a weird favicon now in my browser when i come to wp, its like a 3d box with red blue and light blue sides? Is that supposed to be there? When I request the url directly its the correct one. Is this a bug in IE or something? pw 13:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible, and if so how, to specify the alt
attribute of an image a) when uploading the image and B) for an individual use of that image in an article?
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 13:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
From Wikipedia:Alternative text for images#Conflict between caption and alt text: "the image syntax has no way of specifying alt text that is different from the caption". -- Patleahy 20:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I tried to nominate my recently created article Bernard d'Abrera at Did You Know but I was unable to make the wikilink work properly: [8] -- Filll 17:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
For issues encountered when adding microformats to Wikipedia and other sites, using Media Wiki mark-up, please see [9]. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 16:50, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I originally had this in WP:VPA but decided to move it here. I was wondering if there is a way to make a usermessage similar to the orange "You have new messages" one. The new one would appear when a user page was edited by anyone other than the owner of the page. The message would probably be red and say something along the lines of "You have new vandalism." I realize that there probably would be a large amount of people against this as an official feature, but is there a way for it to be implemented as a user script? — Bob • ( talk) • 22:40, July 26, 2007 (UTC)
Having now become addicted to tabbed browsing, I find it frustrating that the Wikipedia search entry does not support this. I doubt that I am the first to raise this point. Is this the correct forum to mention this? -- CloudSurfer 21:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function(){
if(!document.getElementById('searchform')) return
var search = document.getElementById('searchform');
var check = document.createElement('input');
check.setAttribute('type','checkbox');
check.setAttribute('name','newwindow');
check.setAttribute('id','newwindow');
check.setAttribute('value','true');
check.setAttribute('onclick','searchTargetSwap(this.checked);');
search.appendChild(check);
search.appendChild(document.createTextNode('new window'));
});
function searchTargetSwap(chkd) {
var search = document.getElementById('searchform');
if(chkd) {
search.setAttribute('target','_blank');
} else {
search.setAttribute('target','');
}
}
Alternative approach (without extra checkbox). Tested in IE 6 (hold Shift) and Firefox 1.5 (hold either Shift or Ctrl). You do not need the script in Opera 9.2, it has this functionality built-in (hold Shift) ∴ Alex Smotrov 15:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
//hold shift to open Go/Search in new windows
addOnloadHook(function(){
var but
if (but=document.getElementById('searchGoButton')) but.onclick = newWinSearch
if (but=document.getElementById('mw-searchButton')) but.onclick = newWinSearch
})
function newWinSearch(e){
if (!e) var e = window.event
this.form.target = (e.shiftKey || (is_gecko && e.ctrlKey)) ? '_blank' : ''
}
I've been running something like Sparkla's checkbox version for a few months: User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/searchNewWindow.js. Mike Dillon 18:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
The article Sea turtle is current semi-protected, yet I don't see the usual indicator on the top of the rendered page (while I'm logged on) that indicates that it is indeed semi-protected. Why is Sea turtle different from other semi-protected pages like George Bush ? - Bevo 16:30, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I was trying to look up user accounts created between 15:00 and 15:20 on 20th July, but the log doesn't go back past 25th. Despite that, usernames created earlier do show up when searched for. Is there any way around that problem?
I neeed this information because it may be relevant to a vandal who utilized sockpuppets created several days before the actual attack in order to circumvent partial page protection. There is a gap between the creation times of two of his accounts - which may mean he has created one or more in between - so I want to check the list of accounts created in the corresponding period to see if any other were used in a manner that may suggest a connection with the vandal.--
The Fifth Horseman 15:44, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I have a technical problem. I am a newcomer on Wiki and the exact opposite of a nerd, so this may be the wrong place to ask or I may be making some other mistake, and I know you all have other things to do. Please forgive me in that case. I have asked real-life friends for help, but they doubt the problem is with my computer.
To the point:
1. I created my Wiki account about a week ago. I got an e-mail, which I was asked to browse to confirm my account. I did that (any number of times), but only got to the "confirmation invalid" page. Now, I happened to be logged in over the deadline and a nice older colleague told me my account was verified by that. But I had also asked for the e-mail connection, and that part gave the same result when I asked for it anew today. I had protracted problems with my e-mail server last week, but when it did function, only this seemed not to.
2.a) Browsing with Microsoft Explorer: Every time I turn pages (whether by search&go, topflap, link without or -in a box), I get error messages (which I just okay away). Most often: "Line: 672 / Character: 35 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". But some hour ago, it changed to: "Line: 673 / Character: 8 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". With the former error, I seemed to have no further problem within a page. At the same time as the latter turned up (connection or not?), it became impossible to make a redirect. I checked my typing many times over, but all I got was a normal article text reading: "1. REDIRECT", and then the target word in normal size.
2.b) Using Mozilla Firefox, the page turning works allright. Instead, as far as I have discovered, some section "edit" marks are displaced up or down, and on the "edit" subpage, a hotchpotch of words (from those handled by the last few editors, it seems) appear underlined in red. The editing works somewhat erratically.
Both these browser problems appear, as far as I have discovered, only in the English Wikipedia. Not on other Wikipedias I have peeped into, nor on my e-mail or Google.
Can somebody help me, or repost this letter to the right authority? I would be infinitely grateful. Yours sincerely,
Keinstein 20:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
My monobook.js stopped responding. It doesn't work at all. How do I fix this? - Flubeca Talk 15:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that {{ db-userreq}} no longer works to delete user scripts, as the template is not expanded. Similarly, manually adding the script page to the deletion request categories fails. Any suggestions? Anomie 23:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I have recently moved all the articles from Category:Max Ernst paintings to the new Category:Paintings by Max Ernst to be more in keeping with the relevant naming convention. I assumed that categories disappear after you remove the parent categories, but the old category still exists with no links or contents. How do I get rid of it? Justin Foote 23:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
As is the custom, to ensure openness and encourage community participation, I'm informing the technical community of a pending BAG membership nomination. All comments are welcomed, and all are treated equally. Madman bum and angel is the user in question, and you can view the debate here. As always, any comments you may wish to make on open BRFAs will be very welcome on their respective pages :). Thanks, Mart inp23 18:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could take a look at the problem I posted about Here. After several people trying to help, the issue is still unresolved. I'd like to add that I've disabled Adblocking in Firefox 2.0.0.5, and have no add-ons running in IE7 (7.0.5730.11), and have disabled all of the native blocking services that came with it (I use IE7 specifically for various testing purposes, so nothing is blocked with it). I'm very computer savvy, software savvy, and I have done everything on my end I know of that would cause this issue. (Also I'd like to reiterate that I do see all other images on Wikipedia. I've never been to a page and not seen the images that were supposed to be there.) Any help you could provide would be appreciated. Thanks! Ariel♥ Gold 10:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
What do you see when you go directly to the image? If there is a transparent proxy in there somewhere, it might be replacing the image with an HTML explanation page which you might be able to see that way. If that doesn't work, you could also try installing the Firefox Live HTTP Headers extension to let us know what you see in the server response when using Ctrl-F5 on the above image link. For example, I see:
HTTP/1.x 200 OK Content-Type: image/jpeg Etag: "7261208650148119589" Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:36 GMT Content-Length: 8620 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:43:23 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.13 Age: 2720 X-Cache: HIT from sq43.wikimedia.org, MISS from sq41.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from sq43.wikimedia.org:3128, MISS from sq41.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 sq43.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE12), 1.0 sq41.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE12) Connection: close
Anomie 13:45, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Alright, I installed the Firefox Live HTTP Headers extension, but it is not showing up in my add-ons list, nor in the "view" menu, so I'm unsure what to do with it. Pressing ctrl-f5 when viewing the page, does nothing, the image is still not there for me. *shrug* :) Ariel♥ Gold 10:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
GET /wikipedia/en/a/ad/Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg HTTP/1.1
, or you could just
load the image directly after clearing the box and it should be the only section.
Anomie 13:22, 27 July 2007 (UTC)I'm sorry, I don't mean to be dense, but I do not understand what this add on does, or is supposed to do. I'm still not seeing the image, and there is a whole ton of info in the box when I hit ctrl-F5. Clearing the box does just that, clears it. Pressing ctrl-F5 again fills it up with the same amount of stuff. I am still unsure what you mean by "you could just after clearing the box" I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do :) Again, I'm sorry I'm having a hard time figuring this out. Ariel♥ Gold 13:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg GET /wikipedia/en/a/ad/Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host: upload.wikimedia.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive If-Modified-Since: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: max-age=0 HTTP/1.x 200 OK Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a Pragma: No-cache Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:00:00 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 881 Content-Type: image/gif ---------------------------------------------------------- http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox&appver= 2.0.0.5&version=goog-white-domain:1:23,goog-white-url:1:371,goog-black-url:1:12900,goog-black-enchash:1:30188 GET /safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox&appver=2.0.0.5&version= goog-white-domain:1:23,goog-white-url:1:371,goog-black-url:1:12900,goog-black-enchash:1:30188 HTTP/1.1 Host: sb.google.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: PREF=ID=7e348dffb4cac7e3:TM=1185535849:LM=1185535849:S=o7OEtEZQjZIKTZYR HTTP/1.x 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Server: TrustRank Frontend Transfer-Encoding: chunked ----------------: ---- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:19:44 GMT Cache-Control: private, x-gzip-ok="" ----------------------------------------------------------
So, the big thing that jumps out at me is this sb.google.com thing, which bothers me for a number of reasons. First, I do not have google toolbar installed, (*Holds up garlic, the sign of the cross and any other items to ward off evil* lol)
I have never installed any google software, nor do I have any other google add-ons installed. I do a comprehensive virus scan each night with two different programs, as well as spyware/adware scans with two separate programs each morning. In over 10 years of being online, I've never once had a virus, or any type of adware/spyware. I just ran both scans, and again, 0 threats found, even on deep scans.
I found this site but it still would not explain why the image will not load in IE7, to which I have added no add-ons, and I have disabled the built-in pop-up blocker, and the built-in phishing filter. I use it for testing purposes, and therefore nothing is blocked in IE7.
The add-ons I have installed on Firefox relating to advertisements (adblock, noscript) I've disabled, restarted Firefox, and tried again and still see no image.
At this point, I am ready to just give up and say "oh well, I can't upload images if I want to see them" lol. Ariel♥ Gold 17:44, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
image/gif
) instead of the requested JPEG. The headers indicate that it was served by "Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a" and that the image was created in August 2000. This definitely sounds like an ad-blocking proxy that is replacing the requested image with a transparent one-pixel GIF. What does the title bar in Firefox say when you load this image? Does it say "Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg (GIF Image, 1x1 pixel) - Mozilla Firefox"?
Mike Dillon 17:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)HTTP/1.x 200 OK Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a Pragma: No-cache Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:00:00 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 881 Content-Type: image/gif
Alright, thank you to everyone for the suggestions and assistance! It is most greatly appreciated. Ariel♥ Gold 17:53, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Since yesterday we are having technical problems in the Latin Wikipedia. Some/many talk pages are not displayed, I mean, they are displayed blank, there is not even a navigation on the top. See la:Vicipaedia:Taberna#Blank_talk_pages.
To whom should we report this problem? Thanks! -- Roland2 06:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, My user name is borgx from Indonesian Wikipedia. I would like to ask the strategy used for English Wikipedia in monitoring their recent changes. As far as I'm concern it has thousands of edits an hour (exact numbers escape me). My questions are:
Indonesian Wikipedia now has approx. 1,300 edits per day and the numbers will only grow in time. Although the numbers (comparing to yours) considered low, we also have a very limited number of sysops -- specially when out of 14 syspops, we only have a few active ones and during their monitoring period -- which is not a continuous-- they only check the top 50 or 100 and go about and did something else. These actions leaves gap out of the 1,300 edits a day + we have no mechanism that gives an information to public user saying " the changes had been checked" so we might be checking the same thing several time.
I understand that we have a "patrolled edit" mechanism, but this mechanism is not going well this time because new users may edit something up to 20 times in a certain time and we need to marked patrolled edit 20 times <-- this is not practical. (I have submitted bug 8697 for this but there's no action from developer for my request).
Thanks for any advice - Regards - borgx ( talk) 00:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't help but laugh at this. Guess Google caught a vandalized version again. See the entry for Wikipedia, and you'll know what I mean... -- Hdt83 Chat 05:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=boise&btnG=Search.
Why not map the white colour of the favicon to an alpha channel so it appears with transparency? I have uploaded a version of the Wikipedia favicon with transparency to this location...
http://wikicode.frihost.net/bt/favicon.ico
I have tested this in Firefox and the transparency does function correctly so there is not that silly white box surrounding the W in tabs and in the bookmarks menu. -- Anthony5429 03:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I was just editing Dir en grey discography, wikifying it. I was going by section, so as not to wikify it all, and then have an edit conflict. Anyways, I did the Albums section, the EPs section, the Remix albums section, and was working on the Singles section. I was done with the Singles section, clicked "Save page" and it said "Wikipedia is currently down, so you will not be able to save your edits." or something like that. I assumed it just meant the Singles section, since all the other sections had already been saved. I edited the page, and the other sections were wikified, and I started to work on the Singles section again. I was done, clicked "Save page" and then the only section that was wikified was the Singles section. All the other sections had been reverted to a list format. Help? *silver* 23:47, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The option to "unlock move permission" in the protection window for currently unprotected pages does not seem to working properly for me. Specifically, the move window stays disabled even after clicking the checkbox. Dragons flight 22:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The page State Farm Insurance looks blank, even though it seems to have valid content. -- Amir E. Aharoni 14:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I would think it would be excellent if we could create a shortcut like WP: for user pages. U: would be my suggestion for user pages and UT: for user talk pages.. Thoughts? Jmfangio| ►Chat 09:22, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
There are millions of Wikipedia users, it would be very likely that more then 1 user would want the same shortcut, thousands of users would fight over U:Model Wikipedian. Tcrow777 talk 23:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I was attempting to edit a page when I received a "Database locked" error message ("The database has been automatically locked while the slave database servers catch up to the master" [controlled by MediaWiki:Readonly lag]). I know there has been a bit of controversy surrounding those terms, and I think it would be best for us to at least interwiki link the words "master" and "slave", not only as a political correct approach, but also to be less cryptic and have the error message more understandable/useful. Thoughts? - Mysekurity 21:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
(arbitrary undent) I just got a database locked notice while deleting stuff at CAT:CSD, and the words didn't seem to be linked, despite the message having been changed. Any idea what happened? Nihiltres( t. l) 18:59, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I've completed much of the work on my dead link checking script. With this script, you may check a single page or entire category of pages for bad and dead links. Each link detected will be given a score based on its error code, content-type, and redirection. This way it can elevate 'soft' 404 error or servers sending out a bad MIME type. The results are colored according to their rank progressing from red to green and group by page. If you’re using Firefox, click the "Use javascript" button to enable enhancements that let you preview the page, built-in search types for locating the link again, and submitting the changes to Wikipedia using your account. I'm currently looking for some feed back over the interface and methods for searching replacement links. — Dispenser 23:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to post on the village pump again, but I have another problem. Silly me. Anyways, I want *silver* ► to be my signature for whenever I type ~~~~, with the date, of course. Anyhow, I entered that into the signature slot on "My Preferences," and checked "Raw signature." It was too big, but I'm positive I've seen people with signatures bigger than that. Help? *silver* 16:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
<font>
instead of CSS? Gracenotes goes into combat mode ;)</small>
tag isn't matched with a starting tag, and the first <span>
isn't matched with a closing tag. Regardless, the following works, and it's a bit shorter than your previous one:
Moved from MediaWiki talk:Common.js#Please set NavigationBarShowDefault .3D 0 (an editprotected request):
In the unmaintained but very widely used Dynamic Navigation Bars (NavFrame) section, the variable NavigationBarShowDefault controls how many NavFrames need to appear before they are all supposed to be initially collapsed. Currently it is set to the value of autoCollapse (== 2), which controls the analogous behavior for collapsible tables above.
Sadly, the templates which use NavFrames, e.g. {{ hidden}} and {{ ifd}} contain <div class="NavContent" style="... display:none; ..."> which, when there are 2 or fewer NavFrames on a page, results in a "[hide]" toggle which doesn't do anything but change to "[show]" the first time it is clicked, which then acts normally. This bug has been reported multiple times, e.g., on Template talk:Hidden and Template talk:Ifd.
This problem can be corrected by changing var NavigationBarShowDefault = autoCollapse; to var NavigationBarShowDefault = 0; which will have no adverse effects (in fact 0 is suggested as a value in comments just above the assignment statement.)
A superior but more complcated fix would have createNavigationBarToggleButton() examine the .style.display of its NavContent and NavPic children, and have it set the NavToggle to be a NavigationBarShow instead of a NavigationBarHide if any child's .style.display == 'none'. Code showing how to query those children's values is already in the previous function toggleNavigationBar() where they are toggled. Then you could remove the NavigationBarShowDefault variable and the loop it controls at the end of createNavigationBarToggleButton(). This would be far superior because it will allow effective control of the toggle's initial state, but you would want to debug it in your personal Common.js file first, of course. I have tested the fixed code below in my monobook.js Thank you.
BenB4 01:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
/** Dynamic Navigation Bars (experimental) *************************************
*
* Description: See [[Wikipedia:NavFrame]].
* Maintainers: UNMAINTAINED
*/
// set up the words in your language
var NavigationBarHide = '[' + collapseCaption + ']';
var NavigationBarShow = '[' + expandCaption + ']';
// shows and hides content and picture (if available) of navigation bars
// Parameters:
// indexNavigationBar: the index of navigation bar to be toggled
function toggleNavigationBar(indexNavigationBar)
{
var NavToggle = document.getElementById("NavToggle" + indexNavigationBar);
var NavFrame = document.getElementById("NavFrame" + indexNavigationBar);
if (!NavFrame || !NavToggle) {
return false;
}
// if shown now
if (NavToggle.firstChild.data == NavigationBarHide) {
for (
var NavChild = NavFrame.firstChild;
NavChild != null;
NavChild = NavChild.nextSibling
) {
if ( hasClass( NavChild, 'NavPic' ) ) {
NavChild.style.display = 'none';
}
if ( hasClass( NavChild, 'NavContent') ) {
NavChild.style.display = 'none';
}
}
NavToggle.firstChild.data = NavigationBarShow;
// if hidden now
} else if (NavToggle.firstChild.data == NavigationBarShow) {
for (
var NavChild = NavFrame.firstChild;
NavChild != null;
NavChild = NavChild.nextSibling
) {
if (hasClass(NavChild, 'NavPic')) {
NavChild.style.display = 'block';
}
if (hasClass(NavChild, 'NavContent')) {
NavChild.style.display = 'block';
}
}
NavToggle.firstChild.data = NavigationBarHide;
}
}
// adds show/hide-button to navigation bars
function createNavigationBarToggleButton()
{
var indexNavigationBar = 0;
// iterate over all < div >-elements
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
for(
var i=0;
NavFrame = divsi];
i++
) {
// if found a navigation bar
if (hasClass(NavFrame, "NavFrame")) {
indexNavigationBar++;
var NavToggle = document.createElement("a");
NavToggle.className = 'NavToggle';
NavToggle.setAttribute('id', 'NavToggle' + indexNavigationBar);
NavToggle.setAttribute('href', 'javascript:toggleNavigationBar(' + indexNavigationBar + ');');
var NavToggleText = document.createTextNode(NavigationBarHide);
for (
var NavChild = NavFrame.firstChild;
NavChild != null;
NavChild = NavChild.nextSibling
) {
if ( hasClass( NavChild, 'NavPic' ) || hasClass( NavChild, 'NavContent' ) ) {
if (NavChild.style.display == 'none') {
NavToggleText = document.createTextNode(NavigationBarShow);
break;
}
}
}
NavToggle.appendChild(NavToggleText);
// Find the NavHead and attach the toggle link (Must be this complicated because Moz's firstChild handling is borked)
for(
var j=0;
j < NavFrame.childNodes.length;
j++
) {
if (hasClass(NavFrame.childNodesj], "NavHead")) {
NavFrame.childNodesj].appendChild(NavToggle);
}
}
NavFrame.setAttribute('id', 'NavFrame' + indexNavigationBar);
}
}
}
addOnloadHook( createNavigationBarToggleButton );
The first and last lines match the already-existing section beginning and end lines. Note that this solution will not fix the bug if there are nested NavFrames, as many of our templates, e.g., {{ hidden}} have for some reason. I will fix those separately. ← Ben B4 01:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
There are two supporters above, are there any objections or more support? ← Ben B4 07:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Standard penetration test says that it is in Category:Unassessed CE articles, but it is not displayed on the category page. I have tried purging and refreshing the pages, but I can't get it to show up. It has been about one day since the category was created. Does anyone know what is going on? -- Basar ( talk · contribs) 00:47, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to use javascript to toggle another function? I.E. have a link (perhaps a porlet link) that is used to toggle a function on/off to keep it from always acting? Obsidian Mask 23:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
FYI, I have made a first attempt at adding hCalendar microformats to articles about dated events. Some issues remain to be resolved! Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 20:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
On the German wikipedia my list of contributions ( here) has a series of entries relating to edits to de:Benutzer:ABF/Politisches System Belgiens I have never made (on the German Wikipedia). The page seems to have been imported with its history from the English wikipedia. The edits to the above page predate my first contributions to the German wikipedia! How can this happen? Who could correct this? Cheers. -- Edcolins 19:14, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Is someone working onfixing them? I made a major edit to an article I had hoped would have help save it, but when I pressed save, it didn't do the usual This is only a preview page it went straight to the page, but with none of my edits! Hitting the back button showed no sign of my edits having ever been done, so I couldn't do my usual copy+paste+save. I looked at my watchlist, where I was confirmed that the site had a major database lag of 157 seconds. If anyone could at the very least help me find at lest a quarter of my edits to the Non-canonical spells in Harry Potter page, I'd be much obliged. Therequiembellishere 17:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a collapsible table, but with the show link right next to the content of the firs cell: like this (non working, just grahics):
Disc one show |
---|
Disc one hide | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
This last table is what I am trying to reproduce. I know it is possible, because it is what the "Contents" box of all pages look like (apart from text-align=left). Is the any way of controlling where and how the [show] link appears? Maybe by using a bit of HTML, or use a bit of script? I'll take anything. Please help me. Thank you.
happypal (
Talk |
contribs) 08:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Here's an example | |
This will wrap: | It shows the odd wrapping in Firefox 2.0.0.4, and IE6 and IE7 via Wine |
Anomie 21:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
Currently infoboxes inherit text-align:justify from the bodyContent class (in MediaWiki:Monobook.css). This can look ugly, because it creates huge gaps; see for example Universal Serial Bus, where in "Number of devices" there is such a big space between "Number" and "of" that "of" is closer to the text in the right hand column than to "Number". I think it makes sense to add text-align:left to infoboxes to fix this. Headings should be unaffected since they have text-align:center set manually on them. Hairy Dude 20:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
.infobox {text-align:left}
into your own
monobook.css so that it appears just for you.
Tra
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For lack of a better place to put this... what exactly is up with this: [1] ? Look at the edit summary. I can't figure out why it's like that. I know I've seen it before, too, but I can't remember where. What's causing this? Gscshoyru 17:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone see Image:AVATARLOGO-blk.jpg? The image (full size and thumbs) will not display in Firefox 1.5 or IE6, but I can view it in a number of graphics editors. --- RockMFR 02:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Last night, when clicking on "my watchlist", I noticed that it said in the status bar "contacting tools.wikimedia.de". I was quite concerned about this, because tools.wikimedia.de responds extremely slowly for me, with response times on the order of a minute.
Today I am not seeing "contacting tools.wikimedia.de" when using "my watchlist", but I would like developers to be aware that there is a problem with that website for users with certain configurations. I don't know what configurations; I've never been able to debug the issue, but I use the web in general just fine with these configs, so the problem is with tools.wikimedia.de. Thus I would request that nothing critical be hosted there (such as watchlists). -- Trovatore 18:02, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
This code has been removed for the time being. Go ahead and bypass your cache to see if you see any further issues. Hopefully, if this is redone, it is done in the proper way as a MediaWiki extension that is actually installed on the Wikimedia server cluster. FYI, it seems to have been related to trying to show notices regarding Wikipedia:Meetups by geographic area. Mike Dillon 20:17, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Notice the initial report said that it said contacting tools.wikimedia.de but he did not report that the page actually loaded slowly. The code is constructed in a manner which makes even worst case failure modes not impact the page loading (thought your browser may still say 'contacting toolserver.wikimedia.de', it won't impact page display, this was tested in FF2,FF3, Opera, IE6, and IE7, Konqueror, and Safari). -- Gmaxwell 01:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:7F:70:87:7A inet6 addr: fe80::20e:7fff:fe70:877a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:720 (720.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:C6:E8:25 inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fec6:e825/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:214961 (209.9 KiB) TX bytes:33727 (32.9 KiB) Interrupt:11
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:71.138.134.48 P-t-P:71.138.135.254 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:203385 (198.6 KiB) TX bytes:28526 (27.8 KiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifdown sit0 ifdown: interface sit0 not configured zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifconfig sit0 down zermelo:/etc/ppp# ifconfig sit0 sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 inet6 addr: ::71.138.134.48/96 Scope:Compat UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
So I found a BRUTAL UGLY hack -- I moved /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/net/ipv6 to /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/net/disable.ipv6. Now the module loader doesn't find the module at all at boot time, throws a hissy fit about it, but eventually boots without it. And now I can see tools.wikimedia.de in a reasonable time. But come on, don't you agree this is bad behavior on the toolserver's side? It ought to be able to figure out that a client is experiencing this issue with a much shorter timeout, then remember it for the rest of the session, rather than repeating the same huge timeout for every single request.
(By the way, I *did* first try changing /etc/modules.conf -- didn't work; something else is causing the module to be loaded, and I have no reasonable way of figuring out what). -- Trovatore 08:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
blacklist ipv6
(and perhaps other blacklist lines) to /etc/modprobe.conf
; see man modprobe.conf
for the details. That said, disabling ipv6 shouldn't be needed; since you don't have a default ipv6 route, the connection should fail and your browser should immediately fallback to the ipv4 alternative. Another option is to actually add a working ipv6 default route to your computer (installing
miredo is an easy option if you are behind a NAT; if you aren't, setting up
6to4 with the default anycast route will give you better performance).zermelo:~# ip6tables -A INPUT -j REJECT ip6tables: No chain/target/match by that name
ip6t_REJECT
, enabled by CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_REJECT
("REJECT target support"). --
cesarb 17:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Having a link that wipes the whole watchlist which is as directly accessible as that, alongside the others, is just wrong. Please, please, please, move it somewhere less accessible. -- Stephen Burnett 10:42, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm currently using this (long) code:
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{2}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{3}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
on is:wikipedia. Dose anyone know if I can make this code shorter? Something like
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1}}} or {{{2}}} or {{{3}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
But I tried that, and couldn't get it to work. -- Steinn inn 20:25, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1|}}}{{{2|}}}{{{3|}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
{{#switch:bird|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}=[[Category:Bird-stub]]|#default=}}
might do the trick. Depends, again.
Gracenotes
T § 22:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:bird|{{{1|{{{2|{{{3|}}}}}}}}}|[[Category:Bird-stub]]}}
Is it possible to check if a page is on at least one person's watchlist? I'm trying to find unwatched pages, but the admin-only specialpage hasn't been too useful.- Wafulz 19:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at the difference between my revisions on my talk page and found this one [2]. Which is interesting, because I never made those changes. If you look at the revisions in comparision seperately, [3] and [4] you can see that those changes never occured. The only thing I had changed in that edit was adding a response to the bottom topic. What could be causing this error? -- Android Mouse 04:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I recently discovered the the sort function on "wikitable sortable" e.g. List of United States cities by population does not work with OSX and Safari. Sometimes clicking in the data fields just toggles the list up and down alphabetically; today for some reason the sort buttons are missing completely. This applies to both OS 10.3.9 with Safari 1.3.2 and OS 10.4.10 with Safari 2.0.4. OS 10.4.10 with Firefox 2.0.0.3 is fine. Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
These are no doubt helpful remarks from the point of view of solving the problem, but they are not solutions. Is there somewhere else I should be asking? Ben MacDui (Talk) 14:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way of screening of filtering the deletion log so it shows only deletions of articles from mainspace? I'm trying to analyze recent speedy deletions WT:CSD/Analysis, and I want to eliminate the 80% or so that are images, talk pages, redirects, user pages, and so forth to speed up work on the rest. DGG ( talk) 04:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there a variable that contains the username of the current editor, ie. something like {{CURRENTUSER}} that I can use in templates? ~~~ (sig without date) isn't any good as it usually contains all kinds of formatting. I need only the username. -- Edokter ( Talk) 17:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Never mind... I just realized it wouldn't work anyway (without substing) for what I had in mind. -- Edokter ( Talk) 19:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
There are times when several user pages links to an article and the it becomes difficult to know which main space articles links to that page. Putting User Space links at bottom/separately will help. Vjdchauhan 13:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
addOnloadHook(function(){ var ln = document.getElementById('t-whatlinkshere'); if (!ln) return; ln.firstChild.href = ln.firstChild.getAttribute('href', 2) + '?namespace=0'; })
If there are numerous links to an image file then it becomes difficult to know which main space articles links/uses that image as several times it is cluttered with links to User Pages. Vjdchauhan 13:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
I have three questions:
Is it possible to make an ordinary link to a Javascript function? (i.e. something like this, but with "javascript:document.editform.submit()" instead of "google.com") Sala Skan ( Review me) 18:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
May I and how create several personal watchlists for different topics? --Quellem 16:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a harder task which is to make such lists not using each word 'personally', but fitting each word to the list from a suitable (interesting for me) category. For instance, I tried to insert manually to my list every relevant astronomical term, but quickly understood this is not for a human being. Any programming proposals? --Quellem 18:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Does anyone know how I can make a list such as this one:
Category:B-Class Wikipedia 1.0 Arts articles|Anime and manga
Be ordered by article size, or by "what links here"? Or better yet, is there a guide or a manual somewhere for these things? Thanks! -- SidiLemine 13:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
General question to the techs who recently allowed us more review on our watchlist? I have a "wish", as my watchlist grows and grows, to be able to sort the list by topic. I would like to be able to call up list A, B, or C - and review activity in those specific areas. Does this sound like others might find it useful too? If you are doing programming in this area, please let me know. WBardwin 05:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
This idea would be easy to implement with a different output format of the watchlist. Currently, the list is output as an " html outline" that presents only one view of the information. Some "filtering" is possible, as you already know, with the form controls at the top of the page.
In contrast, if the information were output as a table, the sorting and categorization could be accomplished easily. Even with no programming at all, any user with a spreadsheet could load the table and do all the searching, sorting, and analysis they wanted. Technically, you could do this right now, but you'd need to have at least minor programming skills to convert the irregular "outline" into a "table". Irregular output formats are a common problem of software design, and is usually the principle limitation that prevents easy implementation of ideas such as the ones you propose here. dr.ef.tymac 03:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Following the creation of a new disambig page, I would like to update all the pages which link to it so that they point to the relevant unambiguous page. As 99% of these links all need to link to the same (renamed) article, is there a search & replace tool / bot / admin facility / something where I can request that these edits are made automatically, rather than having to do them by hand. Thanks. SP-KP 16:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Have a look at how I set up Nature abhors a vacuum. Is this way of setting up a redirect to link to a paragraph within an article a good thing? Should the practice be more widespread? Carcharoth 16:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
On the page Johnny Fingers the image Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg appears as a link rather than displaying the actual image. This is the markup used:
[[Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg|thumb|right|Johnnie Fingers with colleagues and friends JPR and Miumiu, August 2006]]
The actual image should appear. I assume this is related to the & in the filename. I asked this at MW:Project:Support desk#Image with an & in the file name shown only as text link and the only response I got was that it may be a caching problem. Is this a known issue? Thanks Patleahy 01:25, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
If someone wants to edit top section of the page he/she have to go through 'edit this page' tab which opens whole page for editing and if the page is large then it takes time, similarly preview also takes time. Providing '[edit]' link to the top section is solve this problem. Vjdchauhan 13:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
People editing large articles are not always aware of this. For huge articles, say, 400KB+, this can cause breakage on days when the server is very busy. I had intermittent problems editing Wikipedia:List of missing journals until I discovered the section 0 trick and added the edit link. Two suggested workarounds: 1) make the monobook.js with the [0] tab included one of the scripts listed in the preferences, or 2) a robot that automatically adds the edit {{ Edit-first-section}} template to articles big enough to cause technical problems. Even if you do the first, the 2nd is very desirable. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
(I took this and copied it ffrom my question at NCHP.)
I have a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and a Windows XP 2000. I don't know if it's with everybody, my computer, or my browser but Arial cannot show Tibetan. I downloaded a font called "jomolhari" to the computer and it can read Tibetan. So, I changed the Tibetan script in some articles to Jomolhari font. Am I doing something wrong by chanigng the font for Tibetan in WP articles? Should I change it back? ionas68224| talk| contribs| email 02:41, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I want to make a little bit advertisement for a project that extracts all datas from templates from the database dump.
Project page:
de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Vorlagenauswertung/en
Startpage:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/templatetiger/template-choice.php?lang=en
You can also make simple queries. --
Kolossos 20:59, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Help us help the admins by providing an easy "Report copyright violation" link that goes to Wikipedia:Copyright problems on image pages. I felt like I was using up a good deal of time trying to find this page, when it could have been an easy link from the image page. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I have a simple request: Please give us the ability to exclude bot edits on "Related changes" pages. "Special:Recentchangeslinked" is used by some projects for project-level watches, and having to wade through bot edits can get annoying at times. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:00, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in a system that might allow a group of editors to add a large number of selected articles relating to a specific Project to their watch list. Is there a simple way to find out if any existing bots do this? Is there an alternative method anyone knows of? Cheers Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I think the deletion log could be made more useful if entries could be filtered by namespace and month/year. That way, someone patrolling the deletion log for article deletions wouldn't have to look through dozens of images. It can also reduce the number of times someone has to hit "next 50", which is probably a problem for those with slow connections who can't really utilise the option of displaying 500 entries on a single page. Any thoughts? -- Black Falcon ( Talk) 02:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid there's no way to show this without a couple sample pictures, as it's a rescaling bug. It's most visible at around 400px, though it's visible to some extent at most resolutions except the very large.
As you can see, the fine lines that make up the sky in this engraving get turned into interference patterns, and not even consistent interference patterns. Why? Adam Cuerden talk 15:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am not too worried but I may have accidentally reverted a valid edit. For some reason the diff page is scrambled. - Susanlesch 04:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
{{ Talkback}} Tell me what you think. My first venture in templating. -- Edokter ( Talk) 19:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
<div class="usermessage"> template contents </div>
. There are people who have customised their new messages bar .
Harryboyles 11:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Someone recently introduced me to a technique for customising the labels of the tabs (from Edit this page to , for example) using:
if(document.getElementById('ca-edit')) { document.getElementById('ca-edit').firstChild.innerHTML = 'Edit'; } })
But I cannot get this to work. I checked this code against the user's own JS page and I could not see any differences, I cleared my cache and purged the server cache, but the only effect was negative - it caused Twinkle's CSD tab to vanish. I should be able to do this, but I must be missing something. Adrian M. H. 16:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function(){
You should probably also check that that $wgNamespaceNumber != -1 to avoid obnoxious js errors on special pages .. if you care about that, that is :D.
AmiDaniel (
talk) 08:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
From a discussion on Wiktionary (copied and pasted here):
Note: the users are linked to their Wiktionary accounts here:
Why is it that steward access works on meta and here on Wikipedia only, yet any other Wikimedia project can list them but it does not work?? Interested to know! -- SunStar Net talk 22:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I have a technical problem. I am a newcomer on Wiki and the exact opposite of a nerd, so this may be the wrong place to ask or I may be making some other mistake, and I know you all have other things to do. Please forgive me in that case. I have asked real-life friends for help, but they doubt the problem is with my computer.
To the point:
1. I created my Wiki account about a week ago. I got an e-mail, which I was asked to browse to confirm my account. I did that (any number of times), but only got to the "confirmation invalid" page. Now, I happened to be logged in over the deadline and a nice older colleague told me my account was verified by that. But I had also asked for the e-mail connection, and that part gave the same result when I asked for it anew today. I had protracted problems with my e-mail server last week, but when it did function, only this seemed not to.
2.a) Browsing with Microsoft Explorer: Every time I turn pages (whether by search&go, topflap, link without or -in a box), I get error messages (which I just okay away). Most often: "Line: 672 / Character: 35 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". But some hour ago, it changed to: "Line: 673 / Character: 8 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". With the former error, I seemed to have no further problem within a page. At the same time as the latter turned up (connection or not?), it became impossible to make a redirect. I checked my typing many times over, but all I got was a normal article text reading: "1. REDIRECT", and then the target word in normal size.
2.b) Using Mozilla Firefox, the page turning works allright. Instead, as far as I have discovered, some section "edit" marks are displaced up or down, and on the "edit" subpage, a hotchpotch of words (from those handled by the last few editors, it seems) appear underlined in red. The editing works somewhat erratically.
Both these browser problems appear, as far as I have discovered, only in the English Wikipedia. Not on other Wikipedias I have peeped into, nor on my e-mail or Google.
Can somebody help me, or repost this letter to the right authority? I would be infinitely grateful. Yours sincerely,
Keinstein 20:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, and pardon if this is my error or I overlooked an obvious reason. Under the "External links" section in Minneapolis Post Office, why does the U.S. Postal Service not find a url inside a cite web template and does in a simple link? Looking back in the edit history, 1) a simple link works, 2) cite web template fails to connect, and 3) a visual approximation of cite web but again a simple link works. (To maybe save some time, I'll copy this question to both the Village Pump technical and the cite web talk page.) Thank you. - Susanlesch 03:05, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
%7C
) makes it work:
link. This
much shorter link also works.
Mike Dillon 03:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Any update on Unified Login support whereby same user-database will be used on all of Wikipedia's sister projects. Vjdchauhan 20:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC).
When one links a word(s) to the corresponding article page, several times one inadvertently links it to disambiguation page instead of the proper page. This will hep editors point to proper pages. As of now there are several pages which inadvertently links to disambiguation page. Vjdchauhan 13:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
I'd just like to point out here that an internal link to a disambig page is not the end of the world. In fact, it's much less problematic than an internal link to the wrong page (that is, an unintended meaning of a term) -- that's a situation much more likely to confuse readers, and much less likely to be easily detected and corrected.
So while I have no objection to seeing a warning when adding such a link, assuming it's convenient to code, I would caution against getting too zealous on this issue and making it appear that internal links to dab pages must be resolved at all costs. When you're not sure, it's better to leave the link to the dab page than to resolve it to the wrong page. -- Trovatore 08:59, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
I know this page isn't really intended to deal with user scripts, but I figured I would probably get a quick answer here. =)
I'm using the script that adds the !vote icons to vote pages. How could I restrict the pages on which this script initializes, such as only on AFD discussions? GrooveDog ( talk) 02:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
if(wgNamespaceNumber==0) return;
bit? You can just add some more if() or a switch() there to cause the script to abort, if certain conditions are not met. Some useful js variables for this would be wgPageName and wgTitle. --
Splarka (
rant) 07:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC)On Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 July 22 there are two entries (separate from each other) that have {{ Discussion blanked}} stuck on them:
The AfD pages themselves seem fine; the templates are not there:
The templates aren't there, yet on the log page, they're stuck with the two. - WarthogDemon 17:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that some images don't appear at certain sizes. Of the 19 pictures in the two galleries here, I can only see ten of them. Sometimes I'll add a picture, not see it, change the px parameter slightly and then I will see it. I have this problem using Firefox, IE and Opera. All show or don't show the same images. This has been bothering me for months and months, I finally decided to ask about it.-- ☑ SamuelWantman 07:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
This happens on all wikiprojects, for example, 6 images don't appear on this category page in commons. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 10:46, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I need help with regards to templates. For more information, please view this page. I feel that it is paramount to achieve consistency with regards to templates. If anyone knows how to correct this, it would be much appreciated. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 05:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I have (again) a CSS related question: How can I override the personal userlinks? Specifically, I'd like my userpage link go to my "welcome" page. It must have something to do with the #pt-userpage value, but I have no idea about the proper syntax. — AldeBaer ( c) 17:52, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function () {
document.getElementById("pt-userpage").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = "/wiki/User:AldeBaer/welcome";
});
A great place is WikiProject User Scripts. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 06:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way of screening of filtering the deletion log so it shows only deletions of articles from mainspace? I'm trying to analyze recent speedy deletions WT:CSD/Analysis, and I want to eliminate the 80% or so that are images, talk pages, redirects, user pages, and so forth to speed up work on the rest. DGG ( talk) 04:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone seen or heard of a solution that allows users to automatically generate citation code for WP articles? If you are wondering what I am talking about, see auto-cite proposal. Thanks for your comments and feedback. dr.ef.tymac 20:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
I have created the template {{ Age in weeks}} for use on List of ATP number 1 ranked players, for example. I need help making it always round down even if it should round up; a floor function or something? — MC Snowy · ( talk) 18:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm having an issue with galleries or images, not sure which, on this page: User:Wickethewok/images. On this page, the first image under "Professional images" is not showing. In general, I can't get the image ( Image:Sasha2.jpg) to show up as a thumbnail. FYI, I recently moved this to Commons along with a few other images, but this one is giving me problems. Does anyone know why it won't show up? Much thanks! Wickethewok 17:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
When you create a new section of a talk page with the + tab, the edit summary in the watchlist does not provide a section link or the /* */ syntax that indicates section editing. I propose adding this syntax and link (the → link) so that it is easier to follow a link from the watchlist directly to the new section. I'll open a feature request bug if others agree. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 15:42, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
+/* Example section */
instead of /* Example section */
.
Tra
(Talk) 16:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Sometimes I see a picture render over text in a Wikipedia article. Is this a problem with my browser (firefox 2.0.0.4) or with Wikipedia? My uneducated guess is that the judgment of when text should wrap needs to be more strict. Tempshill 05:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
column-count
property.
Anomie 13:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Is there a way to exclude a wikipedia page from search engines? For example, Wikipedia:List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people/To be sorted is an internal WikiProject page that we're using to determine if people have referenced sources that claim that they're LGBT. But it often shows up when I'm Google-ing for those references :) -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 20:52, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be a way to tell what pages redirect to a given page, other than to look through "What links here". In my case, I want to know what templates redirect to {{ WikiProject Biography}}. I happen to know that Template:WikiProject Biography is a redirect there. Are there any others? It appears to me that the only way to tell is to go through the "What links here" list, and since there are 380,000 pages that transclude this template, that's a bit prohibitive. Any ideas? – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 11:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
importScript('User:Barticus88/WhatLinksHere.js');
into your monobook.js file.
Harryboyles 13:58, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Solution 1: Use the api.php backlinks query to fetch the list of backlinks for the page and then use the api.php prop=info query on those titles to see which ones are redirects. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
What should be done so that Talk:I/O request packets is *not* a sub-page of Talk:I ? -- soum talk 08:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I've completed much of the work on my dead link checking script. With this script, you may check a single page or entire category of pages for bad and dead links. Each link detected will be given a score based on its error code, content-type, and redirection. This way it can elevate 'soft' 404 error or servers sending out a bad MIME type. The results are colored according to their rank progressing from red to green and group by page. If you’re using Firefox, click the "Use javascript" button to enable enhancements that let you preview the page, built-in search types for locating the link again, and submitting the changes to Wikipedia using your account. I'm currently looking for some feed back over the interface and methods for searching replacement links. — Dispenser 23:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
On the page Johnny Fingers the image Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg appears as a link rather than displaying the actual image. This is the markup used:
[[Image:JX, JP & KG.jpg|thumb|right|Johnnie Fingers with colleagues and friends JPR and Miumiu, August 2006]]
The actual image should appear. I assume this is related to the & in the filename. I asked this at MW:Project:Support desk#Image with an & in the file name shown only as text link and the only response I got was that it may be a caching problem. Is this a known issue? Thanks Patleahy 01:25, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Help_desk#Technical_Questions and MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Main_Page_title_coding. I was looking at other outlets to get this issue answered. Thank you. -- User:Charitwo/Sig 01:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
If someone wants to edit top section of the page he/she have to go through 'edit this page' tab which opens whole page for editing and if the page is large then it takes time, similarly preview also takes time. Providing '[edit]' link to the top section is solve this problem. Vjdchauhan 13:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC).
People editing large articles are not always aware of this. For huge articles, say, 400KB+, this can cause breakage on days when the server is very busy. I had intermittent problems editing Wikipedia:List of missing journals until I discovered the section 0 trick and added the edit link. Two suggested workarounds: 1) make the monobook.js with the [0] tab included one of the scripts listed in the preferences, or 2) a robot that automatically adds the edit {{ Edit-first-section}} template to articles big enough to cause technical problems. Even if you do the first, the 2nd is very desirable. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
There has recently been discussion on a talk page to change the newly added interwiki links on the geohack. To see an example on how these interwiki links look like go here. The idea is to add a code to the Magnus' toys that finds any interwiki links in the Template and changes them into interwiki links to the geohack.
A few flaws are in the current interwiki links.
I believe it would be best if we would avoid the discussion to spread trough many places and continued the discussion at the original talk page, instead of here. Thank you. -- Steinn inn 13:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to have the article " Hybrid ARQ" under the expanded title, "Hybrid automatic repeat-request", and redirect to it from the abbreviated title. I created a new page with the expanded title, pasted the content from the old page, and replaced the content in the old page with redirect code. But then I read that this is bad because it does not preserve the content history. So I reverted "Hybrid ARQ" to its old state and deleted the new content of "Hybrid automatic repeat-request". Then I renamed "Hybrid automatic repeat-request" to "Hybrid ARQ (temp)" and planned to rename "Hybrid ARQ" to the expanded title. But I can't because the page "Hybrid automatic repeat-request" still exists (and redirects to "Hybrid ARQ (temp)"). How to solve this mess? - Pgan002 05:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I've found that when I try to revert simple page blankings I'm required to fill in a captcha because of the external links that are being added back. When did this happen? This is becomming a large annoyance when fighting vandals and my patience for this recent change is wearing thin. -- Android Mouse 23:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
See Template talk:Cite web#Parameter language. The span wrapping $language was specifying an apparently superfluous position, which I'm told was causing display errors in one or more versions of IE. I've removed that, for the time being, if anybody wants to have a look. The rest of that request has more to do with whether $language should be bolded or not -- for that, I figure we need some more discussion. Input welcomed and requested. – Luna Santin ( talk) 20:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
A small CSS bug (I think) in IE6: when an external link wrap to the next line, the link icon disappears. Actually, it moves to the very end of the next line, and you can still see the top of the icon. I can't actually find where this is defined; I found a whole slew of a.external classes in main.css, except for regular http: links. But I think it is related to the following:
background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat;
Firefox displayes it correctly. -- Edokter ( Talk) 13:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone with an insight into technical issues involving maps have a look at Template_talk:Coord#Co-ordinates_for_polar_locations and the discussion below that one as well, please? Thanks. Carcharoth 13:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Is someone working onfixing them? I made a major edit to an article I had hoped would have help save it, but when I pressed save, it didn't do the usual This is only a preview page it went straight to the page, but with none of my edits! Hitting the back button showed no sign of my edits having ever been done, so I couldn't do my usual copy+paste+save. I looked at my watchlist, where I was confirmed that the site had a major database lag of 157 seconds. If anyone could at the very least help me find at lest a quarter of my edits to the Non-canonical spells in Harry Potter page, I'd be much obliged. Therequiembellishere 17:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Here's an example | |
This will wrap: | It shows the odd wrapping in Firefox 2.0.0.4, and IE6 and IE7 via Wine |
Anomie 21:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
Currently infoboxes inherit text-align:justify from the bodyContent class (in MediaWiki:Monobook.css). This can look ugly, because it creates huge gaps; see for example Universal Serial Bus, where in "Number of devices" there is such a big space between "Number" and "of" that "of" is closer to the text in the right hand column than to "Number". I think it makes sense to add text-align:left to infoboxes to fix this. Headings should be unaffected since they have text-align:center set manually on them. Hairy Dude 20:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
.infobox {text-align:left}
into your own
monobook.css so that it appears just for you.
Tra
(Talk) 21:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)I'm not sure if this has ever been discussed, but I was wondering if its possible to include the time/date of the edits made on a watchlist. Pats Sox Princess 20:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
(diff) (hist) . . User talk:Moe Epsilon; 22:41 . . (+1,168) . . Rbellin (Talk | contribs | block) (→Lists - an agony in eight fits - reply)
OMG. I can't believe I never noticed the time. I'm used to looking at Special Contribs, and just learning to use the watchlist. I guess the fact that the time is in a different place in the watchlist than Special Contribs through me off. Pats Sox Princess 23:34, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
(diff) (hist) . . Oneworld destinations; 11:17:07 . . (+4) . . 213.158.196.65 (Talk) (IB fly's to warsaw now:))
(cur) (last) 2007-07-26T11:17:31 Malkageffen (Talk | contribs) (6,740 bytes) (undo)
Well, if its possible, everything should be standardized. Make time go to the right of the pagename, and get rid of (cur) and (last)--just use (diff) Pats Sox Princess 19:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
The context would be article content something like:
Dawkins says that Caddis larvae are among most remarkable creatures on earth.<ref>{{harv|Dawkins|2006|p=238}}</ref> [...] == References == <references/> [...]
== Bibliography ==
{{
citation}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(
help).</nowiki>
All of that currently exists, of course.
The first bit with the {{ Harv}} puts an entry in the References list containing an item which wikilinks to the matching citation in the Bibliography section. There may be several of these linking to the same book citation with different page numbers. If one follows the wikilinks, it is necessary to use the browser's page history (via the Back button, etc.) to back up from the Bibliography list entry to the Reference section item from whence one came. There is a clickable backlink at the References section item which links back to the ref in the article text. Most navigation to between refs and notes/cites is done with clickable links and backlinks. This need for the Back button to be used is an exception to that user interface convention.
My idea is that it might be useful to have a template ( {{ Back}}? ) which could be placed immediately prior to {{ Citation}} in the above context example and which would insert an icon ( ^ would do fine, like other backlink icons ) which, if clicked, went one page back in the article history (back to the page showing the References list item from whece the user came).
My javascript skills are very rusty, and I'm not sure whether javascript can be used inside of a template. Comments? Have I OD'd on wikiedits today? -- Boracay Bill 08:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I've always assumed the autoblocker sets a duration of 24 hours, when we block somebody with autoblocks enabled. I've seen a few cases where someone's autoblock seemed to outlast their original block, though. In cases where fewer than 24 hours remain on the original block, is the autoblock duration still 24 hours? – Luna Santin ( talk) 22:04, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, all! I reported a request (not actually a bug) to Bugzilla.wikimedia.org several days ago. Will I hear something back from them? What's the process? Bugzilla doesn't seem well documented except for How to report a bug - everything else is a bit unclear. -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 21:20, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in a system that might allow a group of editors to add a large number of selected articles relating to a specific Project to their watch list. Is there a simple way to find out if any existing bots do this? Is there an alternative method anyone knows of? Cheers Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I am seeing a weird favicon now in my browser when i come to wp, its like a 3d box with red blue and light blue sides? Is that supposed to be there? When I request the url directly its the correct one. Is this a bug in IE or something? pw 13:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible, and if so how, to specify the alt
attribute of an image a) when uploading the image and B) for an individual use of that image in an article?
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 13:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
From Wikipedia:Alternative text for images#Conflict between caption and alt text: "the image syntax has no way of specifying alt text that is different from the caption". -- Patleahy 20:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I tried to nominate my recently created article Bernard d'Abrera at Did You Know but I was unable to make the wikilink work properly: [8] -- Filll 17:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
For issues encountered when adding microformats to Wikipedia and other sites, using Media Wiki mark-up, please see [9]. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 16:50, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I originally had this in WP:VPA but decided to move it here. I was wondering if there is a way to make a usermessage similar to the orange "You have new messages" one. The new one would appear when a user page was edited by anyone other than the owner of the page. The message would probably be red and say something along the lines of "You have new vandalism." I realize that there probably would be a large amount of people against this as an official feature, but is there a way for it to be implemented as a user script? — Bob • ( talk) • 22:40, July 26, 2007 (UTC)
Having now become addicted to tabbed browsing, I find it frustrating that the Wikipedia search entry does not support this. I doubt that I am the first to raise this point. Is this the correct forum to mention this? -- CloudSurfer 21:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function(){
if(!document.getElementById('searchform')) return
var search = document.getElementById('searchform');
var check = document.createElement('input');
check.setAttribute('type','checkbox');
check.setAttribute('name','newwindow');
check.setAttribute('id','newwindow');
check.setAttribute('value','true');
check.setAttribute('onclick','searchTargetSwap(this.checked);');
search.appendChild(check);
search.appendChild(document.createTextNode('new window'));
});
function searchTargetSwap(chkd) {
var search = document.getElementById('searchform');
if(chkd) {
search.setAttribute('target','_blank');
} else {
search.setAttribute('target','');
}
}
Alternative approach (without extra checkbox). Tested in IE 6 (hold Shift) and Firefox 1.5 (hold either Shift or Ctrl). You do not need the script in Opera 9.2, it has this functionality built-in (hold Shift) ∴ Alex Smotrov 15:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
//hold shift to open Go/Search in new windows
addOnloadHook(function(){
var but
if (but=document.getElementById('searchGoButton')) but.onclick = newWinSearch
if (but=document.getElementById('mw-searchButton')) but.onclick = newWinSearch
})
function newWinSearch(e){
if (!e) var e = window.event
this.form.target = (e.shiftKey || (is_gecko && e.ctrlKey)) ? '_blank' : ''
}
I've been running something like Sparkla's checkbox version for a few months: User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/searchNewWindow.js. Mike Dillon 18:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
The article Sea turtle is current semi-protected, yet I don't see the usual indicator on the top of the rendered page (while I'm logged on) that indicates that it is indeed semi-protected. Why is Sea turtle different from other semi-protected pages like George Bush ? - Bevo 16:30, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I was trying to look up user accounts created between 15:00 and 15:20 on 20th July, but the log doesn't go back past 25th. Despite that, usernames created earlier do show up when searched for. Is there any way around that problem?
I neeed this information because it may be relevant to a vandal who utilized sockpuppets created several days before the actual attack in order to circumvent partial page protection. There is a gap between the creation times of two of his accounts - which may mean he has created one or more in between - so I want to check the list of accounts created in the corresponding period to see if any other were used in a manner that may suggest a connection with the vandal.--
The Fifth Horseman 15:44, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I have a technical problem. I am a newcomer on Wiki and the exact opposite of a nerd, so this may be the wrong place to ask or I may be making some other mistake, and I know you all have other things to do. Please forgive me in that case. I have asked real-life friends for help, but they doubt the problem is with my computer.
To the point:
1. I created my Wiki account about a week ago. I got an e-mail, which I was asked to browse to confirm my account. I did that (any number of times), but only got to the "confirmation invalid" page. Now, I happened to be logged in over the deadline and a nice older colleague told me my account was verified by that. But I had also asked for the e-mail connection, and that part gave the same result when I asked for it anew today. I had protracted problems with my e-mail server last week, but when it did function, only this seemed not to.
2.a) Browsing with Microsoft Explorer: Every time I turn pages (whether by search&go, topflap, link without or -in a box), I get error messages (which I just okay away). Most often: "Line: 672 / Character: 35 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". But some hour ago, it changed to: "Line: 673 / Character: 8 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0". With the former error, I seemed to have no further problem within a page. At the same time as the latter turned up (connection or not?), it became impossible to make a redirect. I checked my typing many times over, but all I got was a normal article text reading: "1. REDIRECT", and then the target word in normal size.
2.b) Using Mozilla Firefox, the page turning works allright. Instead, as far as I have discovered, some section "edit" marks are displaced up or down, and on the "edit" subpage, a hotchpotch of words (from those handled by the last few editors, it seems) appear underlined in red. The editing works somewhat erratically.
Both these browser problems appear, as far as I have discovered, only in the English Wikipedia. Not on other Wikipedias I have peeped into, nor on my e-mail or Google.
Can somebody help me, or repost this letter to the right authority? I would be infinitely grateful. Yours sincerely,
Keinstein 20:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
My monobook.js stopped responding. It doesn't work at all. How do I fix this? - Flubeca Talk 15:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that {{ db-userreq}} no longer works to delete user scripts, as the template is not expanded. Similarly, manually adding the script page to the deletion request categories fails. Any suggestions? Anomie 23:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I have recently moved all the articles from Category:Max Ernst paintings to the new Category:Paintings by Max Ernst to be more in keeping with the relevant naming convention. I assumed that categories disappear after you remove the parent categories, but the old category still exists with no links or contents. How do I get rid of it? Justin Foote 23:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
As is the custom, to ensure openness and encourage community participation, I'm informing the technical community of a pending BAG membership nomination. All comments are welcomed, and all are treated equally. Madman bum and angel is the user in question, and you can view the debate here. As always, any comments you may wish to make on open BRFAs will be very welcome on their respective pages :). Thanks, Mart inp23 18:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could take a look at the problem I posted about Here. After several people trying to help, the issue is still unresolved. I'd like to add that I've disabled Adblocking in Firefox 2.0.0.5, and have no add-ons running in IE7 (7.0.5730.11), and have disabled all of the native blocking services that came with it (I use IE7 specifically for various testing purposes, so nothing is blocked with it). I'm very computer savvy, software savvy, and I have done everything on my end I know of that would cause this issue. (Also I'd like to reiterate that I do see all other images on Wikipedia. I've never been to a page and not seen the images that were supposed to be there.) Any help you could provide would be appreciated. Thanks! Ariel♥ Gold 10:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
What do you see when you go directly to the image? If there is a transparent proxy in there somewhere, it might be replacing the image with an HTML explanation page which you might be able to see that way. If that doesn't work, you could also try installing the Firefox Live HTTP Headers extension to let us know what you see in the server response when using Ctrl-F5 on the above image link. For example, I see:
HTTP/1.x 200 OK Content-Type: image/jpeg Etag: "7261208650148119589" Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:36 GMT Content-Length: 8620 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:43:23 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.13 Age: 2720 X-Cache: HIT from sq43.wikimedia.org, MISS from sq41.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from sq43.wikimedia.org:3128, MISS from sq41.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 sq43.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE12), 1.0 sq41.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE12) Connection: close
Anomie 13:45, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Alright, I installed the Firefox Live HTTP Headers extension, but it is not showing up in my add-ons list, nor in the "view" menu, so I'm unsure what to do with it. Pressing ctrl-f5 when viewing the page, does nothing, the image is still not there for me. *shrug* :) Ariel♥ Gold 10:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
GET /wikipedia/en/a/ad/Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg HTTP/1.1
, or you could just
load the image directly after clearing the box and it should be the only section.
Anomie 13:22, 27 July 2007 (UTC)I'm sorry, I don't mean to be dense, but I do not understand what this add on does, or is supposed to do. I'm still not seeing the image, and there is a whole ton of info in the box when I hit ctrl-F5. Clearing the box does just that, clears it. Pressing ctrl-F5 again fills it up with the same amount of stuff. I am still unsure what you mean by "you could just after clearing the box" I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do :) Again, I'm sorry I'm having a hard time figuring this out. Ariel♥ Gold 13:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg GET /wikipedia/en/a/ad/Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host: upload.wikimedia.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive If-Modified-Since: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: max-age=0 HTTP/1.x 200 OK Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a Pragma: No-cache Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:00:00 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 881 Content-Type: image/gif ---------------------------------------------------------- http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox&appver= 2.0.0.5&version=goog-white-domain:1:23,goog-white-url:1:371,goog-black-url:1:12900,goog-black-enchash:1:30188 GET /safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox&appver=2.0.0.5&version= goog-white-domain:1:23,goog-white-url:1:371,goog-black-url:1:12900,goog-black-enchash:1:30188 HTTP/1.1 Host: sb.google.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: PREF=ID=7e348dffb4cac7e3:TM=1185535849:LM=1185535849:S=o7OEtEZQjZIKTZYR HTTP/1.x 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Server: TrustRank Frontend Transfer-Encoding: chunked ----------------: ---- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:19:44 GMT Cache-Control: private, x-gzip-ok="" ----------------------------------------------------------
So, the big thing that jumps out at me is this sb.google.com thing, which bothers me for a number of reasons. First, I do not have google toolbar installed, (*Holds up garlic, the sign of the cross and any other items to ward off evil* lol)
I have never installed any google software, nor do I have any other google add-ons installed. I do a comprehensive virus scan each night with two different programs, as well as spyware/adware scans with two separate programs each morning. In over 10 years of being online, I've never once had a virus, or any type of adware/spyware. I just ran both scans, and again, 0 threats found, even on deep scans.
I found this site but it still would not explain why the image will not load in IE7, to which I have added no add-ons, and I have disabled the built-in pop-up blocker, and the built-in phishing filter. I use it for testing purposes, and therefore nothing is blocked in IE7.
The add-ons I have installed on Firefox relating to advertisements (adblock, noscript) I've disabled, restarted Firefox, and tried again and still see no image.
At this point, I am ready to just give up and say "oh well, I can't upload images if I want to see them" lol. Ariel♥ Gold 17:44, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
image/gif
) instead of the requested JPEG. The headers indicate that it was served by "Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a" and that the image was created in August 2000. This definitely sounds like an ad-blocking proxy that is replacing the requested image with a transparent one-pixel GIF. What does the title bar in Firefox say when you load this image? Does it say "Amy_Grant_in_1998.jpg (GIF Image, 1x1 pixel) - Mozilla Firefox"?
Mike Dillon 17:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)HTTP/1.x 200 OK Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a Pragma: No-cache Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:00:00 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 881 Content-Type: image/gif
Alright, thank you to everyone for the suggestions and assistance! It is most greatly appreciated. Ariel♥ Gold 17:53, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Since yesterday we are having technical problems in the Latin Wikipedia. Some/many talk pages are not displayed, I mean, they are displayed blank, there is not even a navigation on the top. See la:Vicipaedia:Taberna#Blank_talk_pages.
To whom should we report this problem? Thanks! -- Roland2 06:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, My user name is borgx from Indonesian Wikipedia. I would like to ask the strategy used for English Wikipedia in monitoring their recent changes. As far as I'm concern it has thousands of edits an hour (exact numbers escape me). My questions are:
Indonesian Wikipedia now has approx. 1,300 edits per day and the numbers will only grow in time. Although the numbers (comparing to yours) considered low, we also have a very limited number of sysops -- specially when out of 14 syspops, we only have a few active ones and during their monitoring period -- which is not a continuous-- they only check the top 50 or 100 and go about and did something else. These actions leaves gap out of the 1,300 edits a day + we have no mechanism that gives an information to public user saying " the changes had been checked" so we might be checking the same thing several time.
I understand that we have a "patrolled edit" mechanism, but this mechanism is not going well this time because new users may edit something up to 20 times in a certain time and we need to marked patrolled edit 20 times <-- this is not practical. (I have submitted bug 8697 for this but there's no action from developer for my request).
Thanks for any advice - Regards - borgx ( talk) 00:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't help but laugh at this. Guess Google caught a vandalized version again. See the entry for Wikipedia, and you'll know what I mean... -- Hdt83 Chat 05:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=boise&btnG=Search.
Why not map the white colour of the favicon to an alpha channel so it appears with transparency? I have uploaded a version of the Wikipedia favicon with transparency to this location...
http://wikicode.frihost.net/bt/favicon.ico
I have tested this in Firefox and the transparency does function correctly so there is not that silly white box surrounding the W in tabs and in the bookmarks menu. -- Anthony5429 03:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I was just editing Dir en grey discography, wikifying it. I was going by section, so as not to wikify it all, and then have an edit conflict. Anyways, I did the Albums section, the EPs section, the Remix albums section, and was working on the Singles section. I was done with the Singles section, clicked "Save page" and it said "Wikipedia is currently down, so you will not be able to save your edits." or something like that. I assumed it just meant the Singles section, since all the other sections had already been saved. I edited the page, and the other sections were wikified, and I started to work on the Singles section again. I was done, clicked "Save page" and then the only section that was wikified was the Singles section. All the other sections had been reverted to a list format. Help? *silver* 23:47, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The option to "unlock move permission" in the protection window for currently unprotected pages does not seem to working properly for me. Specifically, the move window stays disabled even after clicking the checkbox. Dragons flight 22:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The page State Farm Insurance looks blank, even though it seems to have valid content. -- Amir E. Aharoni 14:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I would think it would be excellent if we could create a shortcut like WP: for user pages. U: would be my suggestion for user pages and UT: for user talk pages.. Thoughts? Jmfangio| ►Chat 09:22, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
There are millions of Wikipedia users, it would be very likely that more then 1 user would want the same shortcut, thousands of users would fight over U:Model Wikipedian. Tcrow777 talk 23:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I was attempting to edit a page when I received a "Database locked" error message ("The database has been automatically locked while the slave database servers catch up to the master" [controlled by MediaWiki:Readonly lag]). I know there has been a bit of controversy surrounding those terms, and I think it would be best for us to at least interwiki link the words "master" and "slave", not only as a political correct approach, but also to be less cryptic and have the error message more understandable/useful. Thoughts? - Mysekurity 21:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
(arbitrary undent) I just got a database locked notice while deleting stuff at CAT:CSD, and the words didn't seem to be linked, despite the message having been changed. Any idea what happened? Nihiltres( t. l) 18:59, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I've completed much of the work on my dead link checking script. With this script, you may check a single page or entire category of pages for bad and dead links. Each link detected will be given a score based on its error code, content-type, and redirection. This way it can elevate 'soft' 404 error or servers sending out a bad MIME type. The results are colored according to their rank progressing from red to green and group by page. If you’re using Firefox, click the "Use javascript" button to enable enhancements that let you preview the page, built-in search types for locating the link again, and submitting the changes to Wikipedia using your account. I'm currently looking for some feed back over the interface and methods for searching replacement links. — Dispenser 23:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to post on the village pump again, but I have another problem. Silly me. Anyways, I want *silver* ► to be my signature for whenever I type ~~~~, with the date, of course. Anyhow, I entered that into the signature slot on "My Preferences," and checked "Raw signature." It was too big, but I'm positive I've seen people with signatures bigger than that. Help? *silver* 16:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
<font>
instead of CSS? Gracenotes goes into combat mode ;)</small>
tag isn't matched with a starting tag, and the first <span>
isn't matched with a closing tag. Regardless, the following works, and it's a bit shorter than your previous one:
Moved from MediaWiki talk:Common.js#Please set NavigationBarShowDefault .3D 0 (an editprotected request):
In the unmaintained but very widely used Dynamic Navigation Bars (NavFrame) section, the variable NavigationBarShowDefault controls how many NavFrames need to appear before they are all supposed to be initially collapsed. Currently it is set to the value of autoCollapse (== 2), which controls the analogous behavior for collapsible tables above.
Sadly, the templates which use NavFrames, e.g. {{ hidden}} and {{ ifd}} contain <div class="NavContent" style="... display:none; ..."> which, when there are 2 or fewer NavFrames on a page, results in a "[hide]" toggle which doesn't do anything but change to "[show]" the first time it is clicked, which then acts normally. This bug has been reported multiple times, e.g., on Template talk:Hidden and Template talk:Ifd.
This problem can be corrected by changing var NavigationBarShowDefault = autoCollapse; to var NavigationBarShowDefault = 0; which will have no adverse effects (in fact 0 is suggested as a value in comments just above the assignment statement.)
A superior but more complcated fix would have createNavigationBarToggleButton() examine the .style.display of its NavContent and NavPic children, and have it set the NavToggle to be a NavigationBarShow instead of a NavigationBarHide if any child's .style.display == 'none'. Code showing how to query those children's values is already in the previous function toggleNavigationBar() where they are toggled. Then you could remove the NavigationBarShowDefault variable and the loop it controls at the end of createNavigationBarToggleButton(). This would be far superior because it will allow effective control of the toggle's initial state, but you would want to debug it in your personal Common.js file first, of course. I have tested the fixed code below in my monobook.js Thank you.
BenB4 01:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
/** Dynamic Navigation Bars (experimental) *************************************
*
* Description: See [[Wikipedia:NavFrame]].
* Maintainers: UNMAINTAINED
*/
// set up the words in your language
var NavigationBarHide = '[' + collapseCaption + ']';
var NavigationBarShow = '[' + expandCaption + ']';
// shows and hides content and picture (if available) of navigation bars
// Parameters:
// indexNavigationBar: the index of navigation bar to be toggled
function toggleNavigationBar(indexNavigationBar)
{
var NavToggle = document.getElementById("NavToggle" + indexNavigationBar);
var NavFrame = document.getElementById("NavFrame" + indexNavigationBar);
if (!NavFrame || !NavToggle) {
return false;
}
// if shown now
if (NavToggle.firstChild.data == NavigationBarHide) {
for (
var NavChild = NavFrame.firstChild;
NavChild != null;
NavChild = NavChild.nextSibling
) {
if ( hasClass( NavChild, 'NavPic' ) ) {
NavChild.style.display = 'none';
}
if ( hasClass( NavChild, 'NavContent') ) {
NavChild.style.display = 'none';
}
}
NavToggle.firstChild.data = NavigationBarShow;
// if hidden now
} else if (NavToggle.firstChild.data == NavigationBarShow) {
for (
var NavChild = NavFrame.firstChild;
NavChild != null;
NavChild = NavChild.nextSibling
) {
if (hasClass(NavChild, 'NavPic')) {
NavChild.style.display = 'block';
}
if (hasClass(NavChild, 'NavContent')) {
NavChild.style.display = 'block';
}
}
NavToggle.firstChild.data = NavigationBarHide;
}
}
// adds show/hide-button to navigation bars
function createNavigationBarToggleButton()
{
var indexNavigationBar = 0;
// iterate over all < div >-elements
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
for(
var i=0;
NavFrame = divsi];
i++
) {
// if found a navigation bar
if (hasClass(NavFrame, "NavFrame")) {
indexNavigationBar++;
var NavToggle = document.createElement("a");
NavToggle.className = 'NavToggle';
NavToggle.setAttribute('id', 'NavToggle' + indexNavigationBar);
NavToggle.setAttribute('href', 'javascript:toggleNavigationBar(' + indexNavigationBar + ');');
var NavToggleText = document.createTextNode(NavigationBarHide);
for (
var NavChild = NavFrame.firstChild;
NavChild != null;
NavChild = NavChild.nextSibling
) {
if ( hasClass( NavChild, 'NavPic' ) || hasClass( NavChild, 'NavContent' ) ) {
if (NavChild.style.display == 'none') {
NavToggleText = document.createTextNode(NavigationBarShow);
break;
}
}
}
NavToggle.appendChild(NavToggleText);
// Find the NavHead and attach the toggle link (Must be this complicated because Moz's firstChild handling is borked)
for(
var j=0;
j < NavFrame.childNodes.length;
j++
) {
if (hasClass(NavFrame.childNodesj], "NavHead")) {
NavFrame.childNodesj].appendChild(NavToggle);
}
}
NavFrame.setAttribute('id', 'NavFrame' + indexNavigationBar);
}
}
}
addOnloadHook( createNavigationBarToggleButton );
The first and last lines match the already-existing section beginning and end lines. Note that this solution will not fix the bug if there are nested NavFrames, as many of our templates, e.g., {{ hidden}} have for some reason. I will fix those separately. ← Ben B4 01:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
There are two supporters above, are there any objections or more support? ← Ben B4 07:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Standard penetration test says that it is in Category:Unassessed CE articles, but it is not displayed on the category page. I have tried purging and refreshing the pages, but I can't get it to show up. It has been about one day since the category was created. Does anyone know what is going on? -- Basar ( talk · contribs) 00:47, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to use javascript to toggle another function? I.E. have a link (perhaps a porlet link) that is used to toggle a function on/off to keep it from always acting? Obsidian Mask 23:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
FYI, I have made a first attempt at adding hCalendar microformats to articles about dated events. Some issues remain to be resolved! Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 20:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
On the German wikipedia my list of contributions ( here) has a series of entries relating to edits to de:Benutzer:ABF/Politisches System Belgiens I have never made (on the German Wikipedia). The page seems to have been imported with its history from the English wikipedia. The edits to the above page predate my first contributions to the German wikipedia! How can this happen? Who could correct this? Cheers. -- Edcolins 19:14, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Is someone working onfixing them? I made a major edit to an article I had hoped would have help save it, but when I pressed save, it didn't do the usual This is only a preview page it went straight to the page, but with none of my edits! Hitting the back button showed no sign of my edits having ever been done, so I couldn't do my usual copy+paste+save. I looked at my watchlist, where I was confirmed that the site had a major database lag of 157 seconds. If anyone could at the very least help me find at lest a quarter of my edits to the Non-canonical spells in Harry Potter page, I'd be much obliged. Therequiembellishere 17:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a collapsible table, but with the show link right next to the content of the firs cell: like this (non working, just grahics):
Disc one show |
---|
Disc one hide | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
This last table is what I am trying to reproduce. I know it is possible, because it is what the "Contents" box of all pages look like (apart from text-align=left). Is the any way of controlling where and how the [show] link appears? Maybe by using a bit of HTML, or use a bit of script? I'll take anything. Please help me. Thank you.
happypal (
Talk |
contribs) 08:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Here's an example | |
This will wrap: | It shows the odd wrapping in Firefox 2.0.0.4, and IE6 and IE7 via Wine |
Anomie 21:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
Currently infoboxes inherit text-align:justify from the bodyContent class (in MediaWiki:Monobook.css). This can look ugly, because it creates huge gaps; see for example Universal Serial Bus, where in "Number of devices" there is such a big space between "Number" and "of" that "of" is closer to the text in the right hand column than to "Number". I think it makes sense to add text-align:left to infoboxes to fix this. Headings should be unaffected since they have text-align:center set manually on them. Hairy Dude 20:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
.infobox {text-align:left}
into your own
monobook.css so that it appears just for you.
Tra
(Talk) 21:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)