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The software that creates the diff pages seems very bad at identifying when a block of text has been unaltered but merely moved by the addition or removal of empty lines ( example - scroll down a bit). This makes it very difficult to see at a glance if part of the text has been modified, as the entire block is highlighted as a change. Is there a bug fix in the works for this? — Swpb talk | edits 15:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC) 22:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it, part of the reason why Wikipedia's diff rendering is sometimes suboptimal is that, to increase speed, the currently used diff engine works in two passes, first computing a crude paragraph-level (line-level, actually) diff and only then doing a word-level diff on pairs of differing paragraphs in similar positions. The problem is that the first pass is unable to distinguish between a single-word change in an otherwise unmodified paragraph and the replacement of an entire paragraph with a completely different one. Thus, it will not always be able to match the old and new paragraphs properly for the second pass. For example, consider the following change:
Old | New |
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Hello!
This is a test. |
This is a test. |
In this case, the first pass diff engine will correctly identify the last paragraphs as identical, and produce the following output:
Old | New | ||
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- | Hello! | ||
This is a test. | This is a test. |
However, if any change is made to the last paragraph, like this:
Old | New |
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Hello!
This is test 1. |
This is test 2. |
then the first pass diff will not recognize them as the same, and will instead try to match the first paragraphs of both versions together, producing a diff like this:
Old | New | ||||
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- | Hello! | + | This is test 2. | ||
- | This is test 1. |
The problem could be partially fixed by doing the second-pass diffs between entire blocks of non-matching paragraphs, but this might destroy the very advantage the two-pass system was originally devised for, which is increased performance for diffs with lots of changes, such as an entire article being overwritten. It also wouldn't help with the related problem where changing a paragraph slightly while moving an empty line from above it to below it or vice versa will cause the first-pass diff to match the empty lines and to consider the non-matching paragraphs to have been deleted and inserted instead. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 17:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Was it always the case that page moves do not show up in your watch list? I noticed this today. I would have expected they do, and seem to remember they used to. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Quick question, does anybody know if there has been any recent problems with sending/relaying emails through the WP interface, or where I need to look to find out? I played around last night sending myself emails; three emails sent over the course of a couple of hours arrived several hours later with the same timstamps. An email sent from a different account (off-wiki) arrived promptly. Or is this normal behaviour? -- Steve Hart 18:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
How do I turn off the PNG transparency Javascript code, which I strongly suspect is contributing to slower loading of pages with inline images, and significantly increasing the frequency of browser crashes on my system? I'm currently using "Classic" skin. Thanks. 02:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Remember the dot ( talk · contribs) is currently working on fixing the speed issues. Please be patient, he expects to come up with a fix within 24 hours. — Edokter • Talk • 19:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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15:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Hi! If someone could take a look at my user page, I would appreciate it. I would like my current tasks and membership under the left-hand column. If someone could tell me why my Monkeynoze box and Monkeynoze cartoon box don't line up horizontally, I would appreciate it. If you can fix it yourself or tell me how to do it, I would appreciate it. Thanks Monkeynoze 02:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed this text:
"Subject/headline (because of a bug, do not use this section adding feature if the headline contains a link):"
For my money, if it's bugged, revert the "improvement" until it works without a bug.
If you must retain a bugged feature, the text needs some work:
I suggest you replace it with something along these lines: While we [[Wikilink to somewhere where the bug's being discussed|tackle a coding bug]], until further notice please do not use links in headlines.
Addresses all four issues. However, I reiterate, my preference would be to ditch a flawed enhancement of the coding. -- Dweller 12:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
The offending text seems to have disappeared. -- Dweller 13:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it normal to have two edit buttons right next to each other like this?-- 69.118.235.97 00:14, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, does anyone know of any good free web hosts that support PHP 5, ImageMagick and command-line PHP so I can install MediaWiki 1.93 or 1.10 - I am setting up a new wiki which will have mw:Extension:Makesysop and mw:Extension:Checkuser on it.
I am going to be exporting some pages from here to the new wiki, per the terms of the GFDL - however, I need to find a free host first.
All advice is appreciated. Thanks, -- SunStar Net talk 18:41, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
The usefulness of "What links here" "file links" on image pages is often severely compromised by the alternative-namespace links being mixed in with the actual encyclopedia content. For example,
Image:Madame Grande.jpg has 208 links to it, but only one actual article (
Catherine Grand). Would it be possible to put the actual articles at the top of the "what links here" page file links section? --
Sean
20:59, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to filter image deletions from the deletion log?--VectorPotential Talk 18:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently used a template for Chinese pop stars which have a Chinese name. The template was {{zh-st|s=|t=}} . However, once I finished using it and saved the page, the article's side bar of "Other languages" came up with a repeated link to this: 한국어 . This is with the case of the article I was working on: Jane Zhang. Could you please have a look and see what is wrong? Thank you. σмgн gσмg 11:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across an article ( Business Triage) that looked like it might be a copyvio: a lengthy, news-article style page in classic businessese and not much Wikimarkup, with only one contributor. I Googled a couple of sentences from it and, indeed, up came a web page that matched the entire article word-for-word (and had copyright notice at the bottom). After satisfying myself that this page was the original publisher of the article (i.e. it was not copied from a GFDL-compatible source), I tried to put a db-copyvio template on the article, specifying the url in question as the url= argument -- only to find myself confronted with:
Spam protection filter: The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You may have added it yourself, the link may have been added by another editor before it was blacklisted, or you may be infected by spyware that adds links to wiki pages. You will need to remove all instances of the blacklisted URL before you can save.
So the copyvio is from a blacklisted page. Alright. But this means that anyone reporting the copyvio then has to then spend time working out how to obstuficate the URL to get past the spam filter, in order to tell the deleting administrator which page the article's a copyvio of! Is there no way to make the spamfilter selective (say, ignoring any urls inside {{template brackets}})? If not, then perhaps there needs to be a discussion on whether the status quo is an acceptable drawback to the advantage of being able to filter out spam links -- IANAL, but could there be potential legal issues here regarding the OCILLA and presenting barriers to "expedious action"? -- simxp ( talk) 20:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me that lately icon like images from the commons (like the global for coordinats and the flag for ships) are not showing up. I switched from my home computer to my laptop and then my mothers laptop, but the result doesn't change. Did something happen to the images? TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I have also seen some odd "missing image" problems. On List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser, although it seems that all others are. As far as I can see, it is included exactly the same way as all other images; neither the wikisource nor "View source" on my Firefox browser suggest any difference. The image ultimately comes from Commons, but so do nearly all others on the page. No problem accessing the corresponding image page on Commons or on en:. Any clues? Can others replicate this problem? I'm pretty sure it's not a "purge" issue unique to one image. - Jmabel | Talk 05:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I believe #What happened here?, #User talk:172.206.116.36, #Image:Locator Dot.svg, #Loads of images (particularly flag images) not showing, #Image:Flag of Canada.svg, #Is it just me, and #Images not showing are all this same issue; it's a little hard to tell, because some are only minimally described. - Jmabel | Talk 09:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
So mine is probably a separate problem. As mentioned above, on List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser; neither, it turns out, is the image of the Cowen Park Bridge. There might be others, too, but these are the two I noticed. Anyone with insights? I take it from Theanphibian's remark above that my observation is, indeed, replicable. - Jmabel | Talk 08:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
While not confirmed, from what I can tell the general idea appears to be that the problem is likely related to the high job que as a result of the template standardisation (which of course meant that everything else got back logged as well). I believe the template standardisation has finished so now we just have to wait a while for the job que to reach more resonable levels. For more info check out Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Overloading and Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Disappearing (default) images. I'm not 100% sure why purging commons helps but I guess purging commons must result in wikipedia getting a new version with high priority Nil Einne 09:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I contacted another user to see if he could fix it and he said it looked fine. For some reason, the text on the left of my userpage is overlapping the right side, but it only does it on FireFox and not IE. I just downloaded FireFox yesterday so I haven't tweaked any options yet. Is there something I'm missing? Tyler Warren 22:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Whatever happened to the bot that was supposed to start adding protection templates to protected articles with no protection templates? Did it fail its BOTREQ or did something else happen to it? I can't seem to find it in the BOTREQ archives.-- 69.118.235.97 11:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Can someone take look at why this image is not showing up? It initially looks odd, so I had reverted it. It is currently being used by many articles. Regards, Ganeshk ( talk) 03:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. For the userpage I am trying to create, I would like to hide the bit at the top that says User:The dark lord trombonator. Does anybody know how to do this? In essence, I am trying to create a personalised version of the Main Page, and would prefer instructions rather than someone doing it for me. Cheers, THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 09:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC).
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is "title override" I think... --
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Awesome, thanks for your combined efforts. Now, is there a way to shift the contents of the page up the X-amount of pixels I have blanked? THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 05:40, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Screenshot, Firefox 2.0. See the strange text in the right corner.
article:
Cory Maye. After logging in it was fine, but without being logged in, it looks like on the screenshot.
Taka 22:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone please help me with making this table look identital in Internet Explorer and Firefox? I spent a whole day to match the column widths with the positions of roller supports in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7, but the table does not look the same in Firefox. Is there any way I can fix it?
-- Sjhan81 06:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Dear friend, 2 steps required. first change the image size to 700px. Second, add style padding:1px; to all cells except for first column. I've tested using the preview. It looks similar in IE as well as FF. I found that size of em is rendered more in FF. I assume IE is ignoring or calculating it differently. The table cells are inheriting the style for padding:0.2em from stylesheet. FF calculates it to 2.33px. I've not edited the table, but you can review it. thanks Jitendra
Is there a way to get that "New Messages" bar back? Because my talk page is archived by me and it won't appear!! -- PNiddy Go! 00:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I've adapted pngfix.js to work (hopefully) with Wikipedia. If this works, it will fix PNG transparency issues for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 users. If you have a working copy of IE 5.5 or 6 and are willing to test this, please add the following code to your Special:Mypage/monobook.js:
/* Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 & 6. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 18-Jan-2006. Tweaked 8 Sep 2007 (UTC) by Remember_the_dot so that it works properly inside Common.js http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnginfo.htm states "This page contains more information for the curious or those who wish to amend the script for special needs", which I take as permission to modify or adapt this script freely. I release my changes into the public domain. */ function PngFix() { if (document.body.filters) { for(var i=0; i<document.images.length; i++) { var img = document.images[i] var imgName = img.src.toUpperCase() if (imgName.substring(imgName.length-3, imgName.length) == "PNG") { var imgID = (img.id) ? "id='" + img.id + "' " : "" var imgClass = (img.className) ? "class='" + img.className + "' " : "" var imgTitle = (img.title) ? "title='" + img.title + "' " : "title='" + img.alt + "' " var imgStyle = "display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle;" + img.style.cssText if (img.align == "left") imgStyle = "float:left;" + imgStyle if (img.align == "right") imgStyle = "float:right;" + imgStyle if (img.parentElement.href) imgStyle = "cursor:hand;" + imgStyle var strNewHTML = "<span " + imgID + imgClass + imgTitle + " style=\"" + "width:" + img.width + "px; height:" + img.height + "px;" + imgStyle + ";" + "filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader" + "(src=\'" + img.src + "\', sizingMethod='image');\"></span>" img.outerHTML = strNewHTML i = i-1 } } } } if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") { var version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")[1]) if (version <= 6 && version >= 5.5) { window.attachEvent("onload", PngFix) } }
Then visit a page such as Special:Upload and see if it displays transparency correctly. If this works, it would greatly improve the user experience for IE 5.5 and 6 users and reduce the need to keep both specially tweaked PNG images in addition to the original SVGs. — Remember the dot ( talk) 23:05, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Remember to bypass your cache after adding the script. — Remember the dot ( talk) 23:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I just updated the script to fix a bug. — Remember the dot ( talk) 02:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I see the script has made it to common.js. Congratulations! Now IE6 user can view PNG as they are meant to be seen. I've removed the script from my monobook.js, purged, and still see PNGs properly. One small change was made I see (one I was going to propose anyway); sizingMethod has been changed from 'scale' to 'image'. A logical step, as Mediawiki already does all the scaling (and icidentally fixed the border bug just below). I've made the same change to the script above, for those users on wiki's that do not have this script incorporated in their common.js yet (like nl.). Does this happen automatically, or is each wiki responsible for their own common.js? — Edokter • Talk • 12:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
My watchlist says that "Due to high database server lag, changes newer than 1268 seconds might not be shown in this list.". Ow! That's about 20 minutes.. Technical problems? Secretlondon 12:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Watchlists are overrated anyway, and an undisputed source of stress. I predict a drop in edit and social conflicts for the duration. ← BenB4 13:20, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
When I clicked the blue triangle in front of an item to see additional changes, I was redirected to an empty page called "RCI0". For the next item it was "RCI1", then "RCI2", "RCM2", "RCL2" etc. I use FF 2.0.0.6. -- Eleassar my talk 15:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Mine's fine. I'll go check again. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:06, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Oh shoot mine says this. "Below are the last 29 changes, as of 12:06, 10 September 2007." I think something's wrong. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I just realised that the watchlist time is GMT I'm US EDT. Still, I'm lagging one minute at least. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This is my userpage. I made it in Internet Explorer and it looks beautiful. However, last night, after downloading Firefox just to use TWINKLE, I happened upon my userpage and it looks horrible. Can anyone help fix it so it looks good on Firefox AND Internet Explorer? Free barnstar to whoever fixes it. If you can fix it, please use my Sandbox and post the entire userpage , fixed in my sandbox. my sandbox Tyler Warren 21:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Wait, when did that happen? I just noticed it while checking my Wikinews account... it apparently counts all edits, as it's quite a bit higher than what I'm used to seeing with wannabe kate. EVula // talk // ☯ // 23:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, how do I defaultsort Richard Carew Pole? He should sort under C, after the other Carews, but if I try {{DEFAULTSORT:Carew Pole, Richard}} he sorts to the beginning of the Carews. Anyone know how to fix this? DuncanHill 21:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Once I found some little mistake on the Block log, it says "8:15 12 September 2007". However, it's supposed to be "8:15 11 September 2007". Will you PLEASE fix that problem? -- PNiddy Go! 15:19, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way we could have a bot that would automatically revert a massive, multi-account campaign to replace the contents of the Evolution page with the first two chapters of Genesis? Or just prohibit saving when that particular page is replaced with Genesis, or perhaps even better, all the ones in Category:Evolution to prevent overspill by annoyed idiots? Adam Cuerden talk 15:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
On projects that do not yet have the pngfix script incorporated in their common.js, I have placed the script in my monobook.js... but that only works when my skin is set to Monobook. To my dismay, I found there is no working equivilant like Special:Mypage/common.js or Special:Mypage/common.css for userspace tweaking that works under all skins. (You can create them, but they are not imported.) Might this be considered as a future upgrade? — Edokter • Talk • 13:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
importScript('User:Edokter/common.js')
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14:04, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
User:DerHexer has made two edits to this page. I can see both edits in the edit history, and I can see both edits when I attempt to edit the page myself. But when looking at "Current version", only one of the edits is showing up. Any ideas? Corvus cornix 18:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
At User talk:212.219.90.77, and on at least one similar vandalism-dominated talk page I remember, when a user is blocked the message is colored. But when he's unblocked and lower-level vandalism warnings resume, they are also colored, even though the same template used on most pages shows as white. That is probably a bug. Art LaPella 18:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. Art LaPella 20:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
For example, [[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|22px|border]] →
. This is a widely used and incredibly useful feature of MediaWiki syntax - what happened?
Andrwsc
07:41, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
sizingMethod='scale'
, and I haven't yet mentioned that I'm also seeing some distorted flag icons. For example, [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|22x20px|border]] →
By the way, all SVGs are rendered as PNGs on this wiki; that's why I brought up the recent changes to Common.js. -- MZMcBride 00:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
The final code just went into common.js, so all problems should be fixed. Thanks got to Remember the dot. — Edokter • Talk • 08:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem. I had not done any editing on Wikipedia for a while. But, when I tried to strart up again, around May, I could not get Wikipedia to open (come up) if I was logged in.
If I deleted my cookie and re-booted, I could go to Wikipedia fine, surf around and make edits on some articles. But, if I logged in, "nope", the progress bar just sits there. It just sits there, says: "Login Successful," but the progress bar is just stuck. If I use "Secure Login" it logs in, is very slow (I am on dial-up), and then logs me out when I go to a new page. It never opens the page, any Wikipedia page. Delete the cookie and re-boot, can go to any page. Login seems to go fine, says that you're logged in, but doesn't open any pages.
So, after a week or so of frustration, I started using a different account. That worked fine until today (2007-08-25). Now it is doing the same thing. Logged in, nothing just a stuck progress bar. Delete cookie and re-boot, view articles.
I tried the things on the help page. But, they don't seem to work either.
I don't have problems with any other site. Just this one. It has to be something that the sever admin's did, made a change in the cookie or something. 90% sure of that. I can connect fine, I can be connected for six, eight, tweleve hours at a time, and surf around to a hundred sites. Of course with dial-up I do avoid sites like U-Tube and the like. I can't believe I am the only one having this issue..???
I think it must have something do with COOKIES? I did a search for "WIKI" on the hard drive and found 26 files (2 *.HTM and 24 *.TXT). I deleted all of them, rebooted, searched, "none", signed on this time it worked, but then when I went to the next page...LOCKUP... So, I searched again:
With just ONE sign in I got SEVEN new files. And notice the "1"'s and "2"'s....this must have something to do with it?? I had to delete them all to get to this page. I have never seen a sight that gives you so many cookies (unless they are ads embeded in a webpage) with just ONE signin. It would also seem that having a "1" and a "2" might cause a conflit?
Is anybody else going to step up to help? I see questions in this forum being answered that don't even belong here, but my problem goes mostly ignored. Thanks
What is the deal?
207.69.139.157 00:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC) (WikiDon)
Well, it HAS to be something with the way that MSFT IE caches passwords/user names. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox and it is working fine. Of course I have not checked the box "Remember me" on the Wikipedia Sign in (log in) page, or do I say "Remember" to "Do you want Firefox to remember this password?" pop-up either. Choosing "Not Now" instead.
So, if I can login on the same computer, all else being the same, and work fine, it MUST be the way that Passwords and/or Usernames are being cached.
How do I clean out the MSFT IE and/or Wikipedia caching of Usernames and/or Passwords, besides clicking "Delete Files" and "Delete Cookies"? They must be hidden in there somewhere.
Please give suggestions. 207.69.139.149 15:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC) (WikiDon)
i speculated on this in talk on the barry bonds page, and it could apply to many, many articles that have statistical data on them that is frequently updated. is there any functionality in wikipedia for 'linking' data from one part of an article to another? for example, on the barry bonds page, the data for a dozen or more different statistics change every few days - he gets a walk, hits an RBI, etc - and since those data appear in more than one place/format in the article, some baseball stats wonk has to go in and update the numbers in a dozen different places. wikipedia lives in/on a database - this seems like something that a database should be able to handle automagically, that is, maintain one table of data - hidden at the top of the article - then use variable substitution in the article to represent the data, so they only have to be updated in the one place. if there is no such functionality....why not! it really seems so basic - to me at least - to the whole point of using databases. i'd think it wouldn't be all *that* difficult to implement, but then my opinion and $3.50 buys you a vente latte. or something like that.... Anastrophe 16:54, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
I would like to ask a question that What is the difference between Sintering & Pelletizing (Of Iron Ore Fines)?
Could you help me in this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.168.70.129 ( talk) 04:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Background:
The basic problem is that the inline citations that work so nicely for auto-numbered footnoted citation lists, make the article source very hard to read. Some workarounds that have been tried are to put the citations all together in their own section, between <includeonly> or <span style="display:none"> tags. There are two problems with this type of solution:
Apparently some people have started hacking at cite.php, but no definitive solution has yet arrived.
Please comment! -- Slashme 15:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I see this is "Idea Whose Time Has Come": See m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php#Forward_references_are_working. Maybe we should take further discussion to the cite.php discussion page? -- Slashme 09:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
I just made my first userbox (yay,me!), I brought it here to share and ask for comment...and nothing at the bottom of this page is showing properly. It's just a bunch of broken templates and such. I tried to fix it, but it's not cooperating...it did show properly when I previews just the "September 13th" section, but it doesn't work when I try the whole page. Can someone please go over and help with it? NOTE: I mistakenly posteded this at WP:AN, and another user is also having issues with this. -- UsaSatsui 02:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
All of a sudden I'm getting edit conflicts when I attempt to undo an edit when another editor reverts the edit. This didn't used to happen, it's just started occurring in the last few minutes. Corvus cornix 21:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a minor problem, which could be fixed in a tick.
The code below im my template:
{{#ifeq:{{{extended|}}}|yes| • |<br>}}
Notice the two spaces either side of the •, well the spaces don't appear on the template. Any way of fixing this. SpecialWindler talk (currently offline) 21:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
{{ Infobox Settlement}} is having its "official name" field (the one that is at the top of the infobox) suddenly appearing much smaller than normal. There doesn't appear to be any changes that would cause this with in the last few hours. Does anyone have a clue why this is happening? Infobox Settlement is transcluded on 14,607 pages, so fixing this is of high importance. — MJCdetroit 03:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
What web hosting service does WP use? Or does WikiMedia manage its own servers? Smaug 20:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Is everybody seeing a red box instead of an image when Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale is transcluded? Corvus cornix 22:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, if this is not the right place to discuss these, could someone point me in the right direction. For those who spend their entire time logged into Wikipedia, and thus wont have seen these; when you view Wikipedia anonymously, two sets of links appear at the top of the page. The first, at the very top right is a subtle link to the Wikimedia donations page, which is understandable; The second is a list of Wikipedia Essays and Help Pages and it appears at the top of the article space on the left. I would like to propose the removal of these left-hand links from Wikipedia:
If the consensus is that Wikipedia is improved by these links, could they please be rendered tidily and legibly, targeted at a specific audience, and dismissable. Also, a few more than seven links would make it seem as though there was a point to this exercise; just because we have the technical ability to do something like this, does not make it a good idea. Conrad.Irwin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conrad.Irwin ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
What does the "Math" bit in preferences actually do? DuncanHill 15:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm currently unable to collapse my watchlist by closing any blue arrows. When I click on them to expand the list of edits, the arrows just disappear. Never saw this happen before, and I've purged various caches, but the problem continues. It kind of defeats the purpose of the collapsed list when the rest of the arrows flow off my screen the first time I click on the arrow for one article. Is this a new watchlist "feature"? Dekimasu よ! 13:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I typed in 'poetic form' into the search box and was surprised to land in a section rather than the top of the page. Can we redirect to a specific section of an article now? This is the URI I got to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_form#Poetic_form
-- Ancheta Wis 10:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
How do I turn off the PNG transparency Javascript code, which I strongly suspect is contributing to slower loading of pages with inline images, and significantly increasing the frequency of browser crashes on my system? I'm currently using "Classic" skin. Thanks. 02:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Remember the dot ( talk · contribs) is currently working on fixing the speed issues. Please be patient, he expects to come up with a fix within 24 hours. — Edokter • Talk • 19:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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15:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Does anyone know of a script to convert the footnotes at Stuttering to cite.php? Can anyone do it? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Never mind; I'm going to do it manually now. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Whatever happened to the bot that was supposed to start adding protection templates to protected articles with no protection templates? Did it fail its BOTREQ or did something else happen to it? I can't seem to find it in the BOTREQ archives.-- 69.118.235.97 11:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Did someone very recently change all the cleanup templates to include a yellow (sometimes red) line to the left of the box? Or was this an accident? The result of a recent template standardization?-- 69.118.235.97 10:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way for a template to detect if it is transcluded to a (semi-)protected page? — Edokter • Talk • 21:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
My "Edits" icon on, User:The Random Editor/Menu is not showing up, is this one of the malfuntioning images, or is it just my computer. -- Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor 17:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, the image is not always appearing on it's description page, and is it not appearing on my userpage where I have inserted it. I've heard from another user that others are experiencing this. Could someone look into this? Btw, this issue showed up on Sept 14, I believe. And I run Firefox and yes, I've bypassed the cache. -- Flyguy649 talk contribs 14:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
It's rendering very oddly - see The Sarah Jane Adventures for an instance.-- Rambutan ( talk) 14:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been browsing Wikipedia, and found that most flag icons and images are not showing (the link worked perfectly) despite using it on two different computers. Does anyone else have this problem?-- Alasdair 09:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it normal to have two edit buttons right next to each other like this?-- 69.118.235.97 00:14, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I found a tracking cookie from Wikia on my computer with the following path: C:\Documents and Settings\[my user name]\Cookies\[my user name]@wikia-ads.wikia[1].txt. I know that Wikipedia leaves cookies for the "Remember Me" checkbox, but isn't leaving spy cookies going a little too far?-- Gnfgb2 07:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
It is impossible to add a link to MediaWiki:Renameuserlogentry. Not sure why this would be. Edit: I was able to get it in with HTML. This message used to work with wikitext though, so question still stands. Prodego talk 23:04, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across an article ( Business Triage) that looked like it might be a copyvio: a lengthy, news-article style page in classic businessese and not much Wikimarkup, with only one contributor. I Googled a couple of sentences from it and, indeed, up came a web page that matched the entire article word-for-word (and had copyright notice at the bottom). After satisfying myself that this page was the original publisher of the article (i.e. it was not copied from a GFDL-compatible source), I tried to put a db-copyvio template on the article, specifying the url in question as the url= argument -- only to find myself confronted with:
Spam protection filter: The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You may have added it yourself, the link may have been added by another editor before it was blacklisted, or you may be infected by spyware that adds links to wiki pages. You will need to remove all instances of the blacklisted URL before you can save.
So the copyvio is from a blacklisted page. Alright. But this means that anyone reporting the copyvio then has to then spend time working out how to obstuficate the URL to get past the spam filter, in order to tell the deleting administrator which page the article's a copyvio of! Is there no way to make the spamfilter selective (say, ignoring any urls inside {{template brackets}})? If not, then perhaps there needs to be a discussion on whether the status quo is an acceptable drawback to the advantage of being able to filter out spam links -- IANAL, but could there be potential legal issues here regarding the OCILLA and presenting barriers to "expedious action"? -- simxp ( talk) 20:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
For the past 3-4 days, I have noticed that these articles have one or more images not showing (all that shows is a place holder):
The images are still present in Wikipedia and in Commons ... they have not been deleted or altered. Each of the images still shows in some articles but not in other articles. In other words, there is no problem with the images themselves ... but there is a random problem related to which articles show or don't show the same specific image. Also, some of the articles have some images that show and some that don't show.
Does anyone know what is going on? Or how long this problem may last? And has anyone alerted Wikipedia's technical gurus who handle such problems? I haven't the faintest clue as to whom to alert or how to alert them. Please help! - mbeychok 18:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I am reposting this from the Administrators' Noticeboard:
Hi. I was trying to add links to two Internet standards I had written to my user page, but received a captcha. I'm blind and there's no way I can respond. Am I going to have to ask for help every time I add an external link to an article? -- SamHartman 16:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Some sites solve this by using spoken captchas, but I am guessing they are not that easy to implement here... -- ReyBrujo 17:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Until we have a better fix, the following could serve: when encountered with a captcha, find the url of the image. Create a section on the admins' noticeboard, link the image, and ask someone to type out the correct alpha-numeric answer for you. Then copy and paste it back to the form you need to enter the captcha into. Obviously this is not optimal, but I suppose it is better than nothing. Are there any deficiencies in this temporary fix? Picaroon (t) 21:14, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me that lately icon like images from the commons (like the global for coordinats and the flag for ships) are not showing up. I switched from my home computer to my laptop and then my mothers laptop, but the result doesn't change. Did something happen to the images? TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I have also seen some odd "missing image" problems. On List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser, although it seems that all others are. As far as I can see, it is included exactly the same way as all other images; neither the wikisource nor "View source" on my Firefox browser suggest any difference. The image ultimately comes from Commons, but so do nearly all others on the page. No problem accessing the corresponding image page on Commons or on en:. Any clues? Can others replicate this problem? I'm pretty sure it's not a "purge" issue unique to one image. - Jmabel | Talk 05:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I believe #What happened here?, #User talk:172.206.116.36, #Image:Locator Dot.svg, #Loads of images (particularly flag images) not showing, #Image:Flag of Canada.svg, #Is it just me, and #Images not showing are all this same issue; it's a little hard to tell, because some are only minimally described. - Jmabel | Talk 09:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
So mine is probably a separate problem. As mentioned above, on List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser; neither, it turns out, is the image of the Cowen Park Bridge. There might be others, too, but these are the two I noticed. Anyone with insights? I take it from Theanphibian's remark above that my observation is, indeed, replicable. - Jmabel | Talk 08:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
While not confirmed, from what I can tell the general idea appears to be that the problem is likely related to the high job que as a result of the template standardisation (which of course meant that everything else got back logged as well). I believe the template standardisation has finished so now we just have to wait a while for the job que to reach more resonable levels. For more info check out Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Overloading and Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Disappearing (default) images. I'm not 100% sure why purging commons helps but I guess purging commons must result in wikipedia getting a new version with high priority Nil Einne 09:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I contacted another user to see if he could fix it and he said it looked fine. For some reason, the text on the left of my userpage is overlapping the right side, but it only does it on FireFox and not IE. I just downloaded FireFox yesterday so I haven't tweaked any options yet. Is there something I'm missing? Tyler Warren 22:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
In the list List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom I want to fix the section 21st century Prime Ministers since the layout of the table there is not the same as the table in other sections. However I can't see anything to fix, the code looks the same as in the other tables. Am I being blind here (always possible) or is it something else. Garion96 (talk) 21:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem with this Web site, Wikipedia. I don't see many images on one page. When I view this page, Australia, there is some image showing. What should I do. Jet (talk) 21:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi! While doing some maintenance I noticed that the Special:Redirects page (whose URI is something like http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Listredirects&limit=500&offset=0) is doing 2 funny things:
The 1st one is new-ish. The 2nd is not handy. Saintrain 20:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
My mistake: in the line "View (previous 500) (next 500) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)" the "Next 500" link has the correct "offset=" value. The "20", "50" etc. links have the offset value equal to the current offset. This redisplays that number of items at the current offset. I (mis-)interpreted them as "next 20", "next 50" etc. D'oh!
Still like to see the whole list, though. Saintrain 15:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
There is a request on talk page of Special:Prefixindex for Special:Suffixindex. I have to second that request. This will be invaluable for finding the noun part of names that have various adjectives. I'm thinking "X logic," "X philosophy," etc.
I was recommended to this area. Be well and thanks for your work. Greg Bard 03:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I posted this over at the Village pump (misc) but they are always slow to respond. The banner has gone away too, but I'm still looking for answers....
Hey, I read up about it on some disscussions, but there are so many threads with a lot of people saying the same thing that everything is broken and not saying anything useful. I just wanted to hear the whole story of what happened instead of link jumping across all the wikimedia projects. I've seen 5 explainations already and I've only been to WP:VPT , here, and the commons VPT. No rush, I'm sure I could read about it soon in the signpost, but if you don't have anything to do, would you respond? Thanks, - Hair chr m 04:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
A number of images are appearing as deleted or blank across wikipedia. However when you click on them and their own page appears they show up. Also some images show up on some pages but do not show up on others. On one page Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) an image of the flag shows up in one part of a sidetable but the very same image does not show up on another part of it!?!? The images which show up or do not show up vary every day. It is a very confusing and serious problem which needs to be solved. I have also noticed a problem with the editing toolbar as mentioned in the section above. These problems have been going on for the past several days and need to be corrected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by R-41 ( talk • contribs) 16:46, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
The editing buttons like signature are not working for me. It really doesn't interfere with my edits but it is annoying. Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently used a template for Chinese pop stars which have a Chinese name. The template was {{zh-st|s=|t=}} . However, once I finished using it and saved the page, the article's side bar of "Other languages" came up with a repeated link to this: 한국어 . This is with the case of the article I was working on: Jane Zhang. Could you please have a look and see what is wrong? Thank you. σмgн gσмg 11:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I just tried to post an AfD which went completely haywire. First the template wouldn't parse, then it wouldn't even subst at all. I had to do everyting manually. — Edokter • Talk • 11:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a problem accessing the geo-hack page from co-ordinate links? I am getting the following error -
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~magnus/geo/geohack.php on this server. Apache Server at tools.wikimedia.de Port 80
Keith D 21:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
amidaniel@hemlock:/home/magnus/public_html$ ls -la total 636 drwxr-xr-- 7 magnus users 4096 2007-09-14 11:15 . drwx--x--x 9 magnus users 4096 2007-08-19 16:45 ..
Background:
The basic problem is that the inline citations that work so nicely for auto-numbered footnoted citation lists, make the article source very hard to read. Some workarounds that have been tried are to put the citations all together in their own section, between <includeonly> or <span style="display:none"> tags. There are two problems with this type of solution:
Apparently some people have started hacking at cite.php, but no definitive solution has yet arrived.
Please comment! -- Slashme 15:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I see this is "Idea Whose Time Has Come": See m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php#Forward_references_are_working. Maybe we should take further discussion to the cite.php discussion page? -- Slashme 09:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
This is my userpage. I made it in Internet Explorer and it looks beautiful. However, last night, after downloading Firefox just to use TWINKLE, I happened upon my userpage and it looks horrible. Can anyone help fix it so it looks good on Firefox AND Internet Explorer? Free barnstar to whoever fixes it. If you can fix it, please use my Sandbox and post the entire userpage , fixed in my sandbox. my sandbox Tyler Warren 21:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
User rename log seems slightly broken. --VectorPotential Talk 20:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Have a look at Category:Fires. The Commons sisterlink is floating over the category bits. Any way to fix this? Carcharoth 22:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
A strange phenomenon I discovered recently is connected to Nickj's wikification tool known as Can We Link It (information on the tool is available within user space for those interested.)
Although I have been using this tool for a few weeks, I discovered late last month that access to the tool was withdrawn. I suspected that it was downtime-related, and simply decided to wait for it to eventually be restored; however, that never occurred.
This week, I happened to have access to a different computer, and discovered that I could use the tool without any problems. I tried using it from my regular machine again, but no such luck.
Is it possible that access to the tool from my account or the IP address for my regular machine has been throttled? If so, are there any suggestions on how I can get said access back (i.e. local install or on-Wiki access) to the tool? -- Aarktica 20:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
If you go to Abortion#Health effects, you see that the "{{ No_consensus-section}}" template is up for deletion. However, if, when you are at Abortion#Health effects, you click on the link to the TfD discussion (which is in the bolded area of the sentence "See templates for deletion, it links incorrectly. It links to a nonexistent section header at TfD, that is given the name of the article in which the template is used. In this case, the nonexistent section is called Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Abortion, when what it should be linking to is Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:No_consensus-section. Why is this happening? Photouploaded 16:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I am having problems logging into my wikipedia account at my school. My school was recently banned from editing wikipedia for vandilism and I can contribute to wikipedia at school in my free time if I can edit pages, of course. The exact problem is as follows: I can log into my account at school, but I can't edit pages. I get the error message that says that my ip address has been banned from editing. When I am at home, I can edit pages with no problems. Any help?-- Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆 tell me about it —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 23:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I undo all user:abcd's today edits.
How to? What is bot command?
undo.py -user:abcd -editdate:20070911 -all undo.py -user:abcd -editdate:20070911 -edit_time_from:092555 -edit_time_to:233059 -all undo.py -user:abcd -edit_date_from:20070911 -edit_date_to:20070921 -all
I want a bot like it.
now, undo.py is not exist.
I want to know bot commands for same effect.
HELP ME!! -- WonYong ( talk • contribs • count • logs • email) 06:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a small discrepancy between the Wannabe Kate tool and the " official" tool that seems to affect mainspace count. It's not down to deleted edits (wrong figure for that) and it also reports a slightly different figure for the number of unique pages. Any ideas? Adrian M. H. 01:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I've done some probing and have discovered the lag on Kate's tool is quite large to make it a very unreliable edit counter as it usually lags by days if not weeks. Interoit's tool is far better when it comes to just scraping your Special:Contributions page. I shall call Interoit's count I. The 'official' count, O listed in your preferences counts all the times you've clicked the edit button, modified a page and then saved it. Therefore whereas I includes moved pages but not deleted pages, O counts all your edits including deleted ones but not your moves. So we have
I + No. edits to deleted pages - No. moves = O. For most people, I've found I > O due to few edits made to pages that eventually get deleted whilst large number of pages being eventually moved. Centy – – 21:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I would like to use different colors than the default for my signature, but I can't figure out how. Using CSS or HTML color attributes doesn't seem to over-ride the link coloring. Can I do this? Eleland 16:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to use a centralized value for some quantity across many pages? For instance suppose we are talking about the distance to the star Vega which is about 25.1 light-years away and that 20 different pages mention the distance to Vega but half of them use different numbers. Is there a way to use some template to reference a value? I have in mind, for example, something like {{distance-star-Vega|default|unitabbr}} where this template refers to a page that deals exclusively with the distance to the star Vega. On that page is defined a default value (there could be others for example specific groups or paper's measured values) and the unit light-years which the template should be able to abbreviate to lyrs on command. This would have enormous advantages for some topics and for the self-consistency of Wikipedia itself. If there's a true debate on the value of some quantity it would be appropriately delegated to the talk page of the template. Hopefully I'm posting this in the right spot. Please excuse any ignorance on the use of Wikipedia on my part. Jason Quinn 14:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to add a link to the personal links when logged in (where it says my talk, my watchlist, etc.) ? I'd like to add a link to 'my sandbox'. -- Dave the Rave (DTR) talk 19:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
document.getElementById('pt-mytalk')
. See example below. --
Splarka (
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07:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC) addOnloadHook(function() {
addPortletLink('p-personal','/wiki/Main_Page','Main','pt-main','The main page','',document.getElementById('pt-mytalk'));
});
Thanks very much, that's perfect. -- Dave the Rave (DTR) talk 15:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that when I get an edit conflict of a section of a page, it then wants me to edit the entire page to resolve the conflict. This, of course, on a large busy page, makes it almost impossible to not get an edit conflict the second time, too. So, I (and, I imagine, others) just cut n paste my edit, reload the page, and try editing the section again. This works, but it's clumsy. Can this be fixed in the software? I'm pretty sure in the past it didn't work this way. I also notice, when I'm foolish enough to just try editing the entire page after getting a conflict, that it's very slow to save the page- as in, minutes sometimes. Sometimes my browser gives up before ever getting a response. Friday (talk) 17:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
hello, I have a monitor resolution of 768x1024. Wikipedia is displaying pages with a width of 1024, forcing me to scroll side to side to read an entire page. how do I get Wikipedia, and other pages that do this, to use my screen width, and not whatever the site uses for screen width? ++++ 16:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi i need help to get my buttons to wrk again the buttons for internal link and bold text for example doesnt work at all. I wonder is it temporary or is it something wrong?thanks, cant sign this message since that button doesnt work either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zingostar ( talk • contribs) 15:06, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Probably another strange question but how do i stop the Wikipedia window from taking priority? Whenever i park this or simply move onto another window, it immediately jumps back to this, I have to go through this numerous times until i can get the other window. Simply south 16:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it me, or has the ~~~~ button vanished from the features list when editing? I went to sign a post, realized the four tildes button wasn't there, and had to type them in rather than pressing the button. Does anyone know where it's gone? Acalamari 22:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
This is really a matter to take to bugzilla, but I'd like some feedback before formulating the bug report. Basically, any links from metadata on image files are untraceable at this time. The lack of control over EXIF links detracts from encyclopedia building (see this RFD for an example) This is further complicated as EXIF links on Commons point to here.
There are two related problems above, both of which probably need technical not editorial solutions. The first is the untraceability of EXIFs and the second the potential for conflict between EXIF links and encyclopedic purposes. The following are possible solutions:
Do both of the above sound reasonable as feature requests for to put on BZ- and if so should they be done as separate requests? I suspect that it needs clarification before it goes onto that system, but I think this would provide a solution to this issue as opposed to the extant haphazard one.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 14:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't log in because I got an error.
There is no user by the name "<your username>". User names are case sensitive. Please check your spelling, or use the link below to create a new user account.
Will you help me? 24.251.234.86 14:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Save page reopens the page with saved data, for sure if save fails then the window should not be closed but if it saves perfectly then the page should close.on choosing 'save and close' option. Vjdchauhan 13:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC).
I'm lost, how to make Navbox hide? such as Template:Survivor_contestants ▪◦▪ ≡ЅiREX≡ Talk 01:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a script to convert the footnotes at Stuttering to cite.php? Can anyone do it? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Never mind; I'm going to do it manually now. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
When there are multiple vandalisms in a row, is there a way to "undo" all of them at once? I have not been able to figure out how, except by doing them one at a time back to the unvandalized page. Or else go back to the last "good" page and edit that. I have seen edit summaries saying "undo last three edits by..." or something similar. Did the editor just do it by hand and report it that way in the edit summary? Thanks. Regards, -- Mattisse 23:31, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Use the "(edit)" link on the left column of the diff showing you vandalism. ← BenB4 07:29, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone knew why some of the links in Template:Saturday Night Live are exceeding the box's boundaries (besides the obvious fact that there are way too many SNL-related articles). Is it just my computer that is doing that? Does anyone think there is something wrong with Template:Navbox? I've tested different screen resolutions, and only 1152x864 resolution works. 1280x1024, 1024x768, and 800x600 doesn't display properly. Suggestions? Thanks in advance! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 03:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
As you know, Wikipedia takes a very rigid stand against vandalism of the site. However, as I have discovered, two different kinds of vandalism are treated differently.
If a vandalized page is on a namespace that has not existed before, than all mention of the page is removed from the history file and placed in the deletion log. For example, clicking on this fake page of "Little Jill Horner" will result in you not seeing the page, but instead a notice that the page does not exist. You can then click on the deletion log to see that the page has indeed been deleted.
However, if the page is on a namespace that exists as a redirect of another page, and the redirect is vandalized, the page will stay in the history file even after the vandalism is discovered and corrected. An example of this is the redirect page called " Brittany Spears" (redirects to Britney Spears). This redirect page is also a vandalism, but it is in the file and anyone can click on it and view it. Never mind that this page is just as worthless as the Little Jill Horner page. The point is that remains on the Wikipedia server, taking up valuable server and hard-disk space that could better be used for legitimate edits.
If anyone in the technical staff can find a remedy for this problem to ensure that vandalized redirect pages are removed from the history just the same as their non-redirect counterparts, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. - Desmond Hobson 17:24, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
In using my watchlist, and my (and others) contributions lists, among other things, I think that adding 2 lines to the "Namespace" filter choices would be most helpful:
(If anyone can think of a better way to phrase them, that would be welcome : )
There are times when it would be helpful to just view an editor's talk page edits, and sometimes, to just view an editor's edits that aren't talk edits. - jc37 08:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Now listed as bugzilla 11499. - jc37 04:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Browsing through http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ I found CommonSettings.php.
I've installed MediaWiki 1.11 on WAMP, Windows XP Home Edition, and am planning to add several more installations.
How would I get CommonSettings.php to work and where would I add it in the directory so all MediaWiki installations have the same extensions (Makesysop, Makebot, Checkuser, Wikihiero, Renameuser, Deletedcontributions)??
I don't want to have to add the extension to each individual wiki, but use the CommonSettings.php.
How would I do this?? Thanks, -- Solumeiras talk 11:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
This question is better asked over at mediawiki: Mediawiki:Project:Support_desk Grymwulf 04:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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The software that creates the diff pages seems very bad at identifying when a block of text has been unaltered but merely moved by the addition or removal of empty lines ( example - scroll down a bit). This makes it very difficult to see at a glance if part of the text has been modified, as the entire block is highlighted as a change. Is there a bug fix in the works for this? — Swpb talk | edits 15:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC) 22:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it, part of the reason why Wikipedia's diff rendering is sometimes suboptimal is that, to increase speed, the currently used diff engine works in two passes, first computing a crude paragraph-level (line-level, actually) diff and only then doing a word-level diff on pairs of differing paragraphs in similar positions. The problem is that the first pass is unable to distinguish between a single-word change in an otherwise unmodified paragraph and the replacement of an entire paragraph with a completely different one. Thus, it will not always be able to match the old and new paragraphs properly for the second pass. For example, consider the following change:
Old | New |
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Hello!
This is a test. |
This is a test. |
In this case, the first pass diff engine will correctly identify the last paragraphs as identical, and produce the following output:
Old | New | ||
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- | Hello! | ||
This is a test. | This is a test. |
However, if any change is made to the last paragraph, like this:
Old | New |
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Hello!
This is test 1. |
This is test 2. |
then the first pass diff will not recognize them as the same, and will instead try to match the first paragraphs of both versions together, producing a diff like this:
Old | New | ||||
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- | Hello! | + | This is test 2. | ||
- | This is test 1. |
The problem could be partially fixed by doing the second-pass diffs between entire blocks of non-matching paragraphs, but this might destroy the very advantage the two-pass system was originally devised for, which is increased performance for diffs with lots of changes, such as an entire article being overwritten. It also wouldn't help with the related problem where changing a paragraph slightly while moving an empty line from above it to below it or vice versa will cause the first-pass diff to match the empty lines and to consider the non-matching paragraphs to have been deleted and inserted instead. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 17:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Was it always the case that page moves do not show up in your watch list? I noticed this today. I would have expected they do, and seem to remember they used to. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Quick question, does anybody know if there has been any recent problems with sending/relaying emails through the WP interface, or where I need to look to find out? I played around last night sending myself emails; three emails sent over the course of a couple of hours arrived several hours later with the same timstamps. An email sent from a different account (off-wiki) arrived promptly. Or is this normal behaviour? -- Steve Hart 18:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
How do I turn off the PNG transparency Javascript code, which I strongly suspect is contributing to slower loading of pages with inline images, and significantly increasing the frequency of browser crashes on my system? I'm currently using "Classic" skin. Thanks. 02:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Remember the dot ( talk · contribs) is currently working on fixing the speed issues. Please be patient, he expects to come up with a fix within 24 hours. — Edokter • Talk • 19:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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15:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Hi! If someone could take a look at my user page, I would appreciate it. I would like my current tasks and membership under the left-hand column. If someone could tell me why my Monkeynoze box and Monkeynoze cartoon box don't line up horizontally, I would appreciate it. If you can fix it yourself or tell me how to do it, I would appreciate it. Thanks Monkeynoze 02:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed this text:
"Subject/headline (because of a bug, do not use this section adding feature if the headline contains a link):"
For my money, if it's bugged, revert the "improvement" until it works without a bug.
If you must retain a bugged feature, the text needs some work:
I suggest you replace it with something along these lines: While we [[Wikilink to somewhere where the bug's being discussed|tackle a coding bug]], until further notice please do not use links in headlines.
Addresses all four issues. However, I reiterate, my preference would be to ditch a flawed enhancement of the coding. -- Dweller 12:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
The offending text seems to have disappeared. -- Dweller 13:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it normal to have two edit buttons right next to each other like this?-- 69.118.235.97 00:14, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, does anyone know of any good free web hosts that support PHP 5, ImageMagick and command-line PHP so I can install MediaWiki 1.93 or 1.10 - I am setting up a new wiki which will have mw:Extension:Makesysop and mw:Extension:Checkuser on it.
I am going to be exporting some pages from here to the new wiki, per the terms of the GFDL - however, I need to find a free host first.
All advice is appreciated. Thanks, -- SunStar Net talk 18:41, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
The usefulness of "What links here" "file links" on image pages is often severely compromised by the alternative-namespace links being mixed in with the actual encyclopedia content. For example,
Image:Madame Grande.jpg has 208 links to it, but only one actual article (
Catherine Grand). Would it be possible to put the actual articles at the top of the "what links here" page file links section? --
Sean
20:59, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to filter image deletions from the deletion log?--VectorPotential Talk 18:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently used a template for Chinese pop stars which have a Chinese name. The template was {{zh-st|s=|t=}} . However, once I finished using it and saved the page, the article's side bar of "Other languages" came up with a repeated link to this: 한국어 . This is with the case of the article I was working on: Jane Zhang. Could you please have a look and see what is wrong? Thank you. σмgн gσмg 11:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across an article ( Business Triage) that looked like it might be a copyvio: a lengthy, news-article style page in classic businessese and not much Wikimarkup, with only one contributor. I Googled a couple of sentences from it and, indeed, up came a web page that matched the entire article word-for-word (and had copyright notice at the bottom). After satisfying myself that this page was the original publisher of the article (i.e. it was not copied from a GFDL-compatible source), I tried to put a db-copyvio template on the article, specifying the url in question as the url= argument -- only to find myself confronted with:
Spam protection filter: The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You may have added it yourself, the link may have been added by another editor before it was blacklisted, or you may be infected by spyware that adds links to wiki pages. You will need to remove all instances of the blacklisted URL before you can save.
So the copyvio is from a blacklisted page. Alright. But this means that anyone reporting the copyvio then has to then spend time working out how to obstuficate the URL to get past the spam filter, in order to tell the deleting administrator which page the article's a copyvio of! Is there no way to make the spamfilter selective (say, ignoring any urls inside {{template brackets}})? If not, then perhaps there needs to be a discussion on whether the status quo is an acceptable drawback to the advantage of being able to filter out spam links -- IANAL, but could there be potential legal issues here regarding the OCILLA and presenting barriers to "expedious action"? -- simxp ( talk) 20:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me that lately icon like images from the commons (like the global for coordinats and the flag for ships) are not showing up. I switched from my home computer to my laptop and then my mothers laptop, but the result doesn't change. Did something happen to the images? TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I have also seen some odd "missing image" problems. On List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser, although it seems that all others are. As far as I can see, it is included exactly the same way as all other images; neither the wikisource nor "View source" on my Firefox browser suggest any difference. The image ultimately comes from Commons, but so do nearly all others on the page. No problem accessing the corresponding image page on Commons or on en:. Any clues? Can others replicate this problem? I'm pretty sure it's not a "purge" issue unique to one image. - Jmabel | Talk 05:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I believe #What happened here?, #User talk:172.206.116.36, #Image:Locator Dot.svg, #Loads of images (particularly flag images) not showing, #Image:Flag of Canada.svg, #Is it just me, and #Images not showing are all this same issue; it's a little hard to tell, because some are only minimally described. - Jmabel | Talk 09:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
So mine is probably a separate problem. As mentioned above, on List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser; neither, it turns out, is the image of the Cowen Park Bridge. There might be others, too, but these are the two I noticed. Anyone with insights? I take it from Theanphibian's remark above that my observation is, indeed, replicable. - Jmabel | Talk 08:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
While not confirmed, from what I can tell the general idea appears to be that the problem is likely related to the high job que as a result of the template standardisation (which of course meant that everything else got back logged as well). I believe the template standardisation has finished so now we just have to wait a while for the job que to reach more resonable levels. For more info check out Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Overloading and Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Disappearing (default) images. I'm not 100% sure why purging commons helps but I guess purging commons must result in wikipedia getting a new version with high priority Nil Einne 09:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I contacted another user to see if he could fix it and he said it looked fine. For some reason, the text on the left of my userpage is overlapping the right side, but it only does it on FireFox and not IE. I just downloaded FireFox yesterday so I haven't tweaked any options yet. Is there something I'm missing? Tyler Warren 22:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Whatever happened to the bot that was supposed to start adding protection templates to protected articles with no protection templates? Did it fail its BOTREQ or did something else happen to it? I can't seem to find it in the BOTREQ archives.-- 69.118.235.97 11:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Can someone take look at why this image is not showing up? It initially looks odd, so I had reverted it. It is currently being used by many articles. Regards, Ganeshk ( talk) 03:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. For the userpage I am trying to create, I would like to hide the bit at the top that says User:The dark lord trombonator. Does anybody know how to do this? In essence, I am trying to create a personalised version of the Main Page, and would prefer instructions rather than someone doing it for me. Cheers, THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 09:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC).
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is "title override" I think... --
Anonymous Dissident
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Awesome, thanks for your combined efforts. Now, is there a way to shift the contents of the page up the X-amount of pixels I have blanked? THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 05:40, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Screenshot, Firefox 2.0. See the strange text in the right corner.
article:
Cory Maye. After logging in it was fine, but without being logged in, it looks like on the screenshot.
Taka 22:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone please help me with making this table look identital in Internet Explorer and Firefox? I spent a whole day to match the column widths with the positions of roller supports in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7, but the table does not look the same in Firefox. Is there any way I can fix it?
-- Sjhan81 06:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Dear friend, 2 steps required. first change the image size to 700px. Second, add style padding:1px; to all cells except for first column. I've tested using the preview. It looks similar in IE as well as FF. I found that size of em is rendered more in FF. I assume IE is ignoring or calculating it differently. The table cells are inheriting the style for padding:0.2em from stylesheet. FF calculates it to 2.33px. I've not edited the table, but you can review it. thanks Jitendra
Is there a way to get that "New Messages" bar back? Because my talk page is archived by me and it won't appear!! -- PNiddy Go! 00:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I've adapted pngfix.js to work (hopefully) with Wikipedia. If this works, it will fix PNG transparency issues for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 users. If you have a working copy of IE 5.5 or 6 and are willing to test this, please add the following code to your Special:Mypage/monobook.js:
/* Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 & 6. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 18-Jan-2006. Tweaked 8 Sep 2007 (UTC) by Remember_the_dot so that it works properly inside Common.js http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnginfo.htm states "This page contains more information for the curious or those who wish to amend the script for special needs", which I take as permission to modify or adapt this script freely. I release my changes into the public domain. */ function PngFix() { if (document.body.filters) { for(var i=0; i<document.images.length; i++) { var img = document.images[i] var imgName = img.src.toUpperCase() if (imgName.substring(imgName.length-3, imgName.length) == "PNG") { var imgID = (img.id) ? "id='" + img.id + "' " : "" var imgClass = (img.className) ? "class='" + img.className + "' " : "" var imgTitle = (img.title) ? "title='" + img.title + "' " : "title='" + img.alt + "' " var imgStyle = "display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle;" + img.style.cssText if (img.align == "left") imgStyle = "float:left;" + imgStyle if (img.align == "right") imgStyle = "float:right;" + imgStyle if (img.parentElement.href) imgStyle = "cursor:hand;" + imgStyle var strNewHTML = "<span " + imgID + imgClass + imgTitle + " style=\"" + "width:" + img.width + "px; height:" + img.height + "px;" + imgStyle + ";" + "filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader" + "(src=\'" + img.src + "\', sizingMethod='image');\"></span>" img.outerHTML = strNewHTML i = i-1 } } } } if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") { var version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")[1]) if (version <= 6 && version >= 5.5) { window.attachEvent("onload", PngFix) } }
Then visit a page such as Special:Upload and see if it displays transparency correctly. If this works, it would greatly improve the user experience for IE 5.5 and 6 users and reduce the need to keep both specially tweaked PNG images in addition to the original SVGs. — Remember the dot ( talk) 23:05, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Remember to bypass your cache after adding the script. — Remember the dot ( talk) 23:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I just updated the script to fix a bug. — Remember the dot ( talk) 02:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I see the script has made it to common.js. Congratulations! Now IE6 user can view PNG as they are meant to be seen. I've removed the script from my monobook.js, purged, and still see PNGs properly. One small change was made I see (one I was going to propose anyway); sizingMethod has been changed from 'scale' to 'image'. A logical step, as Mediawiki already does all the scaling (and icidentally fixed the border bug just below). I've made the same change to the script above, for those users on wiki's that do not have this script incorporated in their common.js yet (like nl.). Does this happen automatically, or is each wiki responsible for their own common.js? — Edokter • Talk • 12:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
My watchlist says that "Due to high database server lag, changes newer than 1268 seconds might not be shown in this list.". Ow! That's about 20 minutes.. Technical problems? Secretlondon 12:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Watchlists are overrated anyway, and an undisputed source of stress. I predict a drop in edit and social conflicts for the duration. ← BenB4 13:20, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
When I clicked the blue triangle in front of an item to see additional changes, I was redirected to an empty page called "RCI0". For the next item it was "RCI1", then "RCI2", "RCM2", "RCL2" etc. I use FF 2.0.0.6. -- Eleassar my talk 15:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Mine's fine. I'll go check again. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:06, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Oh shoot mine says this. "Below are the last 29 changes, as of 12:06, 10 September 2007." I think something's wrong. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I just realised that the watchlist time is GMT I'm US EDT. Still, I'm lagging one minute at least. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This is my userpage. I made it in Internet Explorer and it looks beautiful. However, last night, after downloading Firefox just to use TWINKLE, I happened upon my userpage and it looks horrible. Can anyone help fix it so it looks good on Firefox AND Internet Explorer? Free barnstar to whoever fixes it. If you can fix it, please use my Sandbox and post the entire userpage , fixed in my sandbox. my sandbox Tyler Warren 21:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Wait, when did that happen? I just noticed it while checking my Wikinews account... it apparently counts all edits, as it's quite a bit higher than what I'm used to seeing with wannabe kate. EVula // talk // ☯ // 23:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, how do I defaultsort Richard Carew Pole? He should sort under C, after the other Carews, but if I try {{DEFAULTSORT:Carew Pole, Richard}} he sorts to the beginning of the Carews. Anyone know how to fix this? DuncanHill 21:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Once I found some little mistake on the Block log, it says "8:15 12 September 2007". However, it's supposed to be "8:15 11 September 2007". Will you PLEASE fix that problem? -- PNiddy Go! 15:19, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way we could have a bot that would automatically revert a massive, multi-account campaign to replace the contents of the Evolution page with the first two chapters of Genesis? Or just prohibit saving when that particular page is replaced with Genesis, or perhaps even better, all the ones in Category:Evolution to prevent overspill by annoyed idiots? Adam Cuerden talk 15:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
On projects that do not yet have the pngfix script incorporated in their common.js, I have placed the script in my monobook.js... but that only works when my skin is set to Monobook. To my dismay, I found there is no working equivilant like Special:Mypage/common.js or Special:Mypage/common.css for userspace tweaking that works under all skins. (You can create them, but they are not imported.) Might this be considered as a future upgrade? — Edokter • Talk • 13:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
importScript('User:Edokter/common.js')
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14:04, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
User:DerHexer has made two edits to this page. I can see both edits in the edit history, and I can see both edits when I attempt to edit the page myself. But when looking at "Current version", only one of the edits is showing up. Any ideas? Corvus cornix 18:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
At User talk:212.219.90.77, and on at least one similar vandalism-dominated talk page I remember, when a user is blocked the message is colored. But when he's unblocked and lower-level vandalism warnings resume, they are also colored, even though the same template used on most pages shows as white. That is probably a bug. Art LaPella 18:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. Art LaPella 20:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
For example, [[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|22px|border]] →
. This is a widely used and incredibly useful feature of MediaWiki syntax - what happened?
Andrwsc
07:41, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
sizingMethod='scale'
, and I haven't yet mentioned that I'm also seeing some distorted flag icons. For example, [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|22x20px|border]] →
By the way, all SVGs are rendered as PNGs on this wiki; that's why I brought up the recent changes to Common.js. -- MZMcBride 00:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
The final code just went into common.js, so all problems should be fixed. Thanks got to Remember the dot. — Edokter • Talk • 08:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem. I had not done any editing on Wikipedia for a while. But, when I tried to strart up again, around May, I could not get Wikipedia to open (come up) if I was logged in.
If I deleted my cookie and re-booted, I could go to Wikipedia fine, surf around and make edits on some articles. But, if I logged in, "nope", the progress bar just sits there. It just sits there, says: "Login Successful," but the progress bar is just stuck. If I use "Secure Login" it logs in, is very slow (I am on dial-up), and then logs me out when I go to a new page. It never opens the page, any Wikipedia page. Delete the cookie and re-boot, can go to any page. Login seems to go fine, says that you're logged in, but doesn't open any pages.
So, after a week or so of frustration, I started using a different account. That worked fine until today (2007-08-25). Now it is doing the same thing. Logged in, nothing just a stuck progress bar. Delete cookie and re-boot, view articles.
I tried the things on the help page. But, they don't seem to work either.
I don't have problems with any other site. Just this one. It has to be something that the sever admin's did, made a change in the cookie or something. 90% sure of that. I can connect fine, I can be connected for six, eight, tweleve hours at a time, and surf around to a hundred sites. Of course with dial-up I do avoid sites like U-Tube and the like. I can't believe I am the only one having this issue..???
I think it must have something do with COOKIES? I did a search for "WIKI" on the hard drive and found 26 files (2 *.HTM and 24 *.TXT). I deleted all of them, rebooted, searched, "none", signed on this time it worked, but then when I went to the next page...LOCKUP... So, I searched again:
With just ONE sign in I got SEVEN new files. And notice the "1"'s and "2"'s....this must have something to do with it?? I had to delete them all to get to this page. I have never seen a sight that gives you so many cookies (unless they are ads embeded in a webpage) with just ONE signin. It would also seem that having a "1" and a "2" might cause a conflit?
Is anybody else going to step up to help? I see questions in this forum being answered that don't even belong here, but my problem goes mostly ignored. Thanks
What is the deal?
207.69.139.157 00:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC) (WikiDon)
Well, it HAS to be something with the way that MSFT IE caches passwords/user names. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox and it is working fine. Of course I have not checked the box "Remember me" on the Wikipedia Sign in (log in) page, or do I say "Remember" to "Do you want Firefox to remember this password?" pop-up either. Choosing "Not Now" instead.
So, if I can login on the same computer, all else being the same, and work fine, it MUST be the way that Passwords and/or Usernames are being cached.
How do I clean out the MSFT IE and/or Wikipedia caching of Usernames and/or Passwords, besides clicking "Delete Files" and "Delete Cookies"? They must be hidden in there somewhere.
Please give suggestions. 207.69.139.149 15:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC) (WikiDon)
i speculated on this in talk on the barry bonds page, and it could apply to many, many articles that have statistical data on them that is frequently updated. is there any functionality in wikipedia for 'linking' data from one part of an article to another? for example, on the barry bonds page, the data for a dozen or more different statistics change every few days - he gets a walk, hits an RBI, etc - and since those data appear in more than one place/format in the article, some baseball stats wonk has to go in and update the numbers in a dozen different places. wikipedia lives in/on a database - this seems like something that a database should be able to handle automagically, that is, maintain one table of data - hidden at the top of the article - then use variable substitution in the article to represent the data, so they only have to be updated in the one place. if there is no such functionality....why not! it really seems so basic - to me at least - to the whole point of using databases. i'd think it wouldn't be all *that* difficult to implement, but then my opinion and $3.50 buys you a vente latte. or something like that.... Anastrophe 16:54, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
I would like to ask a question that What is the difference between Sintering & Pelletizing (Of Iron Ore Fines)?
Could you help me in this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.168.70.129 ( talk) 04:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Background:
The basic problem is that the inline citations that work so nicely for auto-numbered footnoted citation lists, make the article source very hard to read. Some workarounds that have been tried are to put the citations all together in their own section, between <includeonly> or <span style="display:none"> tags. There are two problems with this type of solution:
Apparently some people have started hacking at cite.php, but no definitive solution has yet arrived.
Please comment! -- Slashme 15:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I see this is "Idea Whose Time Has Come": See m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php#Forward_references_are_working. Maybe we should take further discussion to the cite.php discussion page? -- Slashme 09:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
I just made my first userbox (yay,me!), I brought it here to share and ask for comment...and nothing at the bottom of this page is showing properly. It's just a bunch of broken templates and such. I tried to fix it, but it's not cooperating...it did show properly when I previews just the "September 13th" section, but it doesn't work when I try the whole page. Can someone please go over and help with it? NOTE: I mistakenly posteded this at WP:AN, and another user is also having issues with this. -- UsaSatsui 02:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
All of a sudden I'm getting edit conflicts when I attempt to undo an edit when another editor reverts the edit. This didn't used to happen, it's just started occurring in the last few minutes. Corvus cornix 21:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a minor problem, which could be fixed in a tick.
The code below im my template:
{{#ifeq:{{{extended|}}}|yes| • |<br>}}
Notice the two spaces either side of the •, well the spaces don't appear on the template. Any way of fixing this. SpecialWindler talk (currently offline) 21:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
{{ Infobox Settlement}} is having its "official name" field (the one that is at the top of the infobox) suddenly appearing much smaller than normal. There doesn't appear to be any changes that would cause this with in the last few hours. Does anyone have a clue why this is happening? Infobox Settlement is transcluded on 14,607 pages, so fixing this is of high importance. — MJCdetroit 03:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
What web hosting service does WP use? Or does WikiMedia manage its own servers? Smaug 20:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Is everybody seeing a red box instead of an image when Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale is transcluded? Corvus cornix 22:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, if this is not the right place to discuss these, could someone point me in the right direction. For those who spend their entire time logged into Wikipedia, and thus wont have seen these; when you view Wikipedia anonymously, two sets of links appear at the top of the page. The first, at the very top right is a subtle link to the Wikimedia donations page, which is understandable; The second is a list of Wikipedia Essays and Help Pages and it appears at the top of the article space on the left. I would like to propose the removal of these left-hand links from Wikipedia:
If the consensus is that Wikipedia is improved by these links, could they please be rendered tidily and legibly, targeted at a specific audience, and dismissable. Also, a few more than seven links would make it seem as though there was a point to this exercise; just because we have the technical ability to do something like this, does not make it a good idea. Conrad.Irwin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conrad.Irwin ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
What does the "Math" bit in preferences actually do? DuncanHill 15:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm currently unable to collapse my watchlist by closing any blue arrows. When I click on them to expand the list of edits, the arrows just disappear. Never saw this happen before, and I've purged various caches, but the problem continues. It kind of defeats the purpose of the collapsed list when the rest of the arrows flow off my screen the first time I click on the arrow for one article. Is this a new watchlist "feature"? Dekimasu よ! 13:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I typed in 'poetic form' into the search box and was surprised to land in a section rather than the top of the page. Can we redirect to a specific section of an article now? This is the URI I got to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_form#Poetic_form
-- Ancheta Wis 10:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
How do I turn off the PNG transparency Javascript code, which I strongly suspect is contributing to slower loading of pages with inline images, and significantly increasing the frequency of browser crashes on my system? I'm currently using "Classic" skin. Thanks. 02:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Remember the dot ( talk · contribs) is currently working on fixing the speed issues. Please be patient, he expects to come up with a fix within 24 hours. — Edokter • Talk • 19:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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15:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Does anyone know of a script to convert the footnotes at Stuttering to cite.php? Can anyone do it? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Never mind; I'm going to do it manually now. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Whatever happened to the bot that was supposed to start adding protection templates to protected articles with no protection templates? Did it fail its BOTREQ or did something else happen to it? I can't seem to find it in the BOTREQ archives.-- 69.118.235.97 11:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Did someone very recently change all the cleanup templates to include a yellow (sometimes red) line to the left of the box? Or was this an accident? The result of a recent template standardization?-- 69.118.235.97 10:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way for a template to detect if it is transcluded to a (semi-)protected page? — Edokter • Talk • 21:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
My "Edits" icon on, User:The Random Editor/Menu is not showing up, is this one of the malfuntioning images, or is it just my computer. -- Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor 17:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
For some reason, the image is not always appearing on it's description page, and is it not appearing on my userpage where I have inserted it. I've heard from another user that others are experiencing this. Could someone look into this? Btw, this issue showed up on Sept 14, I believe. And I run Firefox and yes, I've bypassed the cache. -- Flyguy649 talk contribs 14:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
It's rendering very oddly - see The Sarah Jane Adventures for an instance.-- Rambutan ( talk) 14:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been browsing Wikipedia, and found that most flag icons and images are not showing (the link worked perfectly) despite using it on two different computers. Does anyone else have this problem?-- Alasdair 09:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it normal to have two edit buttons right next to each other like this?-- 69.118.235.97 00:14, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I found a tracking cookie from Wikia on my computer with the following path: C:\Documents and Settings\[my user name]\Cookies\[my user name]@wikia-ads.wikia[1].txt. I know that Wikipedia leaves cookies for the "Remember Me" checkbox, but isn't leaving spy cookies going a little too far?-- Gnfgb2 07:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
It is impossible to add a link to MediaWiki:Renameuserlogentry. Not sure why this would be. Edit: I was able to get it in with HTML. This message used to work with wikitext though, so question still stands. Prodego talk 23:04, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across an article ( Business Triage) that looked like it might be a copyvio: a lengthy, news-article style page in classic businessese and not much Wikimarkup, with only one contributor. I Googled a couple of sentences from it and, indeed, up came a web page that matched the entire article word-for-word (and had copyright notice at the bottom). After satisfying myself that this page was the original publisher of the article (i.e. it was not copied from a GFDL-compatible source), I tried to put a db-copyvio template on the article, specifying the url in question as the url= argument -- only to find myself confronted with:
Spam protection filter: The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You may have added it yourself, the link may have been added by another editor before it was blacklisted, or you may be infected by spyware that adds links to wiki pages. You will need to remove all instances of the blacklisted URL before you can save.
So the copyvio is from a blacklisted page. Alright. But this means that anyone reporting the copyvio then has to then spend time working out how to obstuficate the URL to get past the spam filter, in order to tell the deleting administrator which page the article's a copyvio of! Is there no way to make the spamfilter selective (say, ignoring any urls inside {{template brackets}})? If not, then perhaps there needs to be a discussion on whether the status quo is an acceptable drawback to the advantage of being able to filter out spam links -- IANAL, but could there be potential legal issues here regarding the OCILLA and presenting barriers to "expedious action"? -- simxp ( talk) 20:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
For the past 3-4 days, I have noticed that these articles have one or more images not showing (all that shows is a place holder):
The images are still present in Wikipedia and in Commons ... they have not been deleted or altered. Each of the images still shows in some articles but not in other articles. In other words, there is no problem with the images themselves ... but there is a random problem related to which articles show or don't show the same specific image. Also, some of the articles have some images that show and some that don't show.
Does anyone know what is going on? Or how long this problem may last? And has anyone alerted Wikipedia's technical gurus who handle such problems? I haven't the faintest clue as to whom to alert or how to alert them. Please help! - mbeychok 18:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I am reposting this from the Administrators' Noticeboard:
Hi. I was trying to add links to two Internet standards I had written to my user page, but received a captcha. I'm blind and there's no way I can respond. Am I going to have to ask for help every time I add an external link to an article? -- SamHartman 16:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Some sites solve this by using spoken captchas, but I am guessing they are not that easy to implement here... -- ReyBrujo 17:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Until we have a better fix, the following could serve: when encountered with a captcha, find the url of the image. Create a section on the admins' noticeboard, link the image, and ask someone to type out the correct alpha-numeric answer for you. Then copy and paste it back to the form you need to enter the captcha into. Obviously this is not optimal, but I suppose it is better than nothing. Are there any deficiencies in this temporary fix? Picaroon (t) 21:14, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me that lately icon like images from the commons (like the global for coordinats and the flag for ships) are not showing up. I switched from my home computer to my laptop and then my mothers laptop, but the result doesn't change. Did something happen to the images? TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I have also seen some odd "missing image" problems. On List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser, although it seems that all others are. As far as I can see, it is included exactly the same way as all other images; neither the wikisource nor "View source" on my Firefox browser suggest any difference. The image ultimately comes from Commons, but so do nearly all others on the page. No problem accessing the corresponding image page on Commons or on en:. Any clues? Can others replicate this problem? I'm pretty sure it's not a "purge" issue unique to one image. - Jmabel | Talk 05:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I believe #What happened here?, #User talk:172.206.116.36, #Image:Locator Dot.svg, #Loads of images (particularly flag images) not showing, #Image:Flag of Canada.svg, #Is it just me, and #Images not showing are all this same issue; it's a little hard to tell, because some are only minimally described. - Jmabel | Talk 09:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
So mine is probably a separate problem. As mentioned above, on List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington, the image associated with Broadway High School is not showing up on my browser; neither, it turns out, is the image of the Cowen Park Bridge. There might be others, too, but these are the two I noticed. Anyone with insights? I take it from Theanphibian's remark above that my observation is, indeed, replicable. - Jmabel | Talk 08:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
While not confirmed, from what I can tell the general idea appears to be that the problem is likely related to the high job que as a result of the template standardisation (which of course meant that everything else got back logged as well). I believe the template standardisation has finished so now we just have to wait a while for the job que to reach more resonable levels. For more info check out Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Overloading and Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation/Archive 2#Disappearing (default) images. I'm not 100% sure why purging commons helps but I guess purging commons must result in wikipedia getting a new version with high priority Nil Einne 09:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I contacted another user to see if he could fix it and he said it looked fine. For some reason, the text on the left of my userpage is overlapping the right side, but it only does it on FireFox and not IE. I just downloaded FireFox yesterday so I haven't tweaked any options yet. Is there something I'm missing? Tyler Warren 22:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
In the list List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom I want to fix the section 21st century Prime Ministers since the layout of the table there is not the same as the table in other sections. However I can't see anything to fix, the code looks the same as in the other tables. Am I being blind here (always possible) or is it something else. Garion96 (talk) 21:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem with this Web site, Wikipedia. I don't see many images on one page. When I view this page, Australia, there is some image showing. What should I do. Jet (talk) 21:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi! While doing some maintenance I noticed that the Special:Redirects page (whose URI is something like http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Listredirects&limit=500&offset=0) is doing 2 funny things:
The 1st one is new-ish. The 2nd is not handy. Saintrain 20:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
My mistake: in the line "View (previous 500) (next 500) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)" the "Next 500" link has the correct "offset=" value. The "20", "50" etc. links have the offset value equal to the current offset. This redisplays that number of items at the current offset. I (mis-)interpreted them as "next 20", "next 50" etc. D'oh!
Still like to see the whole list, though. Saintrain 15:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
There is a request on talk page of Special:Prefixindex for Special:Suffixindex. I have to second that request. This will be invaluable for finding the noun part of names that have various adjectives. I'm thinking "X logic," "X philosophy," etc.
I was recommended to this area. Be well and thanks for your work. Greg Bard 03:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I posted this over at the Village pump (misc) but they are always slow to respond. The banner has gone away too, but I'm still looking for answers....
Hey, I read up about it on some disscussions, but there are so many threads with a lot of people saying the same thing that everything is broken and not saying anything useful. I just wanted to hear the whole story of what happened instead of link jumping across all the wikimedia projects. I've seen 5 explainations already and I've only been to WP:VPT , here, and the commons VPT. No rush, I'm sure I could read about it soon in the signpost, but if you don't have anything to do, would you respond? Thanks, - Hair chr m 04:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
A number of images are appearing as deleted or blank across wikipedia. However when you click on them and their own page appears they show up. Also some images show up on some pages but do not show up on others. On one page Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) an image of the flag shows up in one part of a sidetable but the very same image does not show up on another part of it!?!? The images which show up or do not show up vary every day. It is a very confusing and serious problem which needs to be solved. I have also noticed a problem with the editing toolbar as mentioned in the section above. These problems have been going on for the past several days and need to be corrected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by R-41 ( talk • contribs) 16:46, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
The editing buttons like signature are not working for me. It really doesn't interfere with my edits but it is annoying. Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I recently used a template for Chinese pop stars which have a Chinese name. The template was {{zh-st|s=|t=}} . However, once I finished using it and saved the page, the article's side bar of "Other languages" came up with a repeated link to this: 한국어 . This is with the case of the article I was working on: Jane Zhang. Could you please have a look and see what is wrong? Thank you. σмgн gσмg 11:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I just tried to post an AfD which went completely haywire. First the template wouldn't parse, then it wouldn't even subst at all. I had to do everyting manually. — Edokter • Talk • 11:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a problem accessing the geo-hack page from co-ordinate links? I am getting the following error -
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~magnus/geo/geohack.php on this server. Apache Server at tools.wikimedia.de Port 80
Keith D 21:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
amidaniel@hemlock:/home/magnus/public_html$ ls -la total 636 drwxr-xr-- 7 magnus users 4096 2007-09-14 11:15 . drwx--x--x 9 magnus users 4096 2007-08-19 16:45 ..
Background:
The basic problem is that the inline citations that work so nicely for auto-numbered footnoted citation lists, make the article source very hard to read. Some workarounds that have been tried are to put the citations all together in their own section, between <includeonly> or <span style="display:none"> tags. There are two problems with this type of solution:
Apparently some people have started hacking at cite.php, but no definitive solution has yet arrived.
Please comment! -- Slashme 15:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I see this is "Idea Whose Time Has Come": See m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php#Forward_references_are_working. Maybe we should take further discussion to the cite.php discussion page? -- Slashme 09:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
This is my userpage. I made it in Internet Explorer and it looks beautiful. However, last night, after downloading Firefox just to use TWINKLE, I happened upon my userpage and it looks horrible. Can anyone help fix it so it looks good on Firefox AND Internet Explorer? Free barnstar to whoever fixes it. If you can fix it, please use my Sandbox and post the entire userpage , fixed in my sandbox. my sandbox Tyler Warren 21:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
User rename log seems slightly broken. --VectorPotential Talk 20:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Have a look at Category:Fires. The Commons sisterlink is floating over the category bits. Any way to fix this? Carcharoth 22:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
A strange phenomenon I discovered recently is connected to Nickj's wikification tool known as Can We Link It (information on the tool is available within user space for those interested.)
Although I have been using this tool for a few weeks, I discovered late last month that access to the tool was withdrawn. I suspected that it was downtime-related, and simply decided to wait for it to eventually be restored; however, that never occurred.
This week, I happened to have access to a different computer, and discovered that I could use the tool without any problems. I tried using it from my regular machine again, but no such luck.
Is it possible that access to the tool from my account or the IP address for my regular machine has been throttled? If so, are there any suggestions on how I can get said access back (i.e. local install or on-Wiki access) to the tool? -- Aarktica 20:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
If you go to Abortion#Health effects, you see that the "{{ No_consensus-section}}" template is up for deletion. However, if, when you are at Abortion#Health effects, you click on the link to the TfD discussion (which is in the bolded area of the sentence "See templates for deletion, it links incorrectly. It links to a nonexistent section header at TfD, that is given the name of the article in which the template is used. In this case, the nonexistent section is called Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Abortion, when what it should be linking to is Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:No_consensus-section. Why is this happening? Photouploaded 16:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I am having problems logging into my wikipedia account at my school. My school was recently banned from editing wikipedia for vandilism and I can contribute to wikipedia at school in my free time if I can edit pages, of course. The exact problem is as follows: I can log into my account at school, but I can't edit pages. I get the error message that says that my ip address has been banned from editing. When I am at home, I can edit pages with no problems. Any help?-- Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆 tell me about it —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 23:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I undo all user:abcd's today edits.
How to? What is bot command?
undo.py -user:abcd -editdate:20070911 -all undo.py -user:abcd -editdate:20070911 -edit_time_from:092555 -edit_time_to:233059 -all undo.py -user:abcd -edit_date_from:20070911 -edit_date_to:20070921 -all
I want a bot like it.
now, undo.py is not exist.
I want to know bot commands for same effect.
HELP ME!! -- WonYong ( talk • contribs • count • logs • email) 06:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a small discrepancy between the Wannabe Kate tool and the " official" tool that seems to affect mainspace count. It's not down to deleted edits (wrong figure for that) and it also reports a slightly different figure for the number of unique pages. Any ideas? Adrian M. H. 01:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I've done some probing and have discovered the lag on Kate's tool is quite large to make it a very unreliable edit counter as it usually lags by days if not weeks. Interoit's tool is far better when it comes to just scraping your Special:Contributions page. I shall call Interoit's count I. The 'official' count, O listed in your preferences counts all the times you've clicked the edit button, modified a page and then saved it. Therefore whereas I includes moved pages but not deleted pages, O counts all your edits including deleted ones but not your moves. So we have
I + No. edits to deleted pages - No. moves = O. For most people, I've found I > O due to few edits made to pages that eventually get deleted whilst large number of pages being eventually moved. Centy – – 21:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I would like to use different colors than the default for my signature, but I can't figure out how. Using CSS or HTML color attributes doesn't seem to over-ride the link coloring. Can I do this? Eleland 16:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to use a centralized value for some quantity across many pages? For instance suppose we are talking about the distance to the star Vega which is about 25.1 light-years away and that 20 different pages mention the distance to Vega but half of them use different numbers. Is there a way to use some template to reference a value? I have in mind, for example, something like {{distance-star-Vega|default|unitabbr}} where this template refers to a page that deals exclusively with the distance to the star Vega. On that page is defined a default value (there could be others for example specific groups or paper's measured values) and the unit light-years which the template should be able to abbreviate to lyrs on command. This would have enormous advantages for some topics and for the self-consistency of Wikipedia itself. If there's a true debate on the value of some quantity it would be appropriately delegated to the talk page of the template. Hopefully I'm posting this in the right spot. Please excuse any ignorance on the use of Wikipedia on my part. Jason Quinn 14:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to add a link to the personal links when logged in (where it says my talk, my watchlist, etc.) ? I'd like to add a link to 'my sandbox'. -- Dave the Rave (DTR) talk 19:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
document.getElementById('pt-mytalk')
. See example below. --
Splarka (
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07:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC) addOnloadHook(function() {
addPortletLink('p-personal','/wiki/Main_Page','Main','pt-main','The main page','',document.getElementById('pt-mytalk'));
});
Thanks very much, that's perfect. -- Dave the Rave (DTR) talk 15:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that when I get an edit conflict of a section of a page, it then wants me to edit the entire page to resolve the conflict. This, of course, on a large busy page, makes it almost impossible to not get an edit conflict the second time, too. So, I (and, I imagine, others) just cut n paste my edit, reload the page, and try editing the section again. This works, but it's clumsy. Can this be fixed in the software? I'm pretty sure in the past it didn't work this way. I also notice, when I'm foolish enough to just try editing the entire page after getting a conflict, that it's very slow to save the page- as in, minutes sometimes. Sometimes my browser gives up before ever getting a response. Friday (talk) 17:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
hello, I have a monitor resolution of 768x1024. Wikipedia is displaying pages with a width of 1024, forcing me to scroll side to side to read an entire page. how do I get Wikipedia, and other pages that do this, to use my screen width, and not whatever the site uses for screen width? ++++ 16:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi i need help to get my buttons to wrk again the buttons for internal link and bold text for example doesnt work at all. I wonder is it temporary or is it something wrong?thanks, cant sign this message since that button doesnt work either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zingostar ( talk • contribs) 15:06, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Probably another strange question but how do i stop the Wikipedia window from taking priority? Whenever i park this or simply move onto another window, it immediately jumps back to this, I have to go through this numerous times until i can get the other window. Simply south 16:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it me, or has the ~~~~ button vanished from the features list when editing? I went to sign a post, realized the four tildes button wasn't there, and had to type them in rather than pressing the button. Does anyone know where it's gone? Acalamari 22:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
This is really a matter to take to bugzilla, but I'd like some feedback before formulating the bug report. Basically, any links from metadata on image files are untraceable at this time. The lack of control over EXIF links detracts from encyclopedia building (see this RFD for an example) This is further complicated as EXIF links on Commons point to here.
There are two related problems above, both of which probably need technical not editorial solutions. The first is the untraceability of EXIFs and the second the potential for conflict between EXIF links and encyclopedic purposes. The following are possible solutions:
Do both of the above sound reasonable as feature requests for to put on BZ- and if so should they be done as separate requests? I suspect that it needs clarification before it goes onto that system, but I think this would provide a solution to this issue as opposed to the extant haphazard one.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 14:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't log in because I got an error.
There is no user by the name "<your username>". User names are case sensitive. Please check your spelling, or use the link below to create a new user account.
Will you help me? 24.251.234.86 14:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Save page reopens the page with saved data, for sure if save fails then the window should not be closed but if it saves perfectly then the page should close.on choosing 'save and close' option. Vjdchauhan 13:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC).
I'm lost, how to make Navbox hide? such as Template:Survivor_contestants ▪◦▪ ≡ЅiREX≡ Talk 01:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a script to convert the footnotes at Stuttering to cite.php? Can anyone do it? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Never mind; I'm going to do it manually now. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
When there are multiple vandalisms in a row, is there a way to "undo" all of them at once? I have not been able to figure out how, except by doing them one at a time back to the unvandalized page. Or else go back to the last "good" page and edit that. I have seen edit summaries saying "undo last three edits by..." or something similar. Did the editor just do it by hand and report it that way in the edit summary? Thanks. Regards, -- Mattisse 23:31, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Use the "(edit)" link on the left column of the diff showing you vandalism. ← BenB4 07:29, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone knew why some of the links in Template:Saturday Night Live are exceeding the box's boundaries (besides the obvious fact that there are way too many SNL-related articles). Is it just my computer that is doing that? Does anyone think there is something wrong with Template:Navbox? I've tested different screen resolutions, and only 1152x864 resolution works. 1280x1024, 1024x768, and 800x600 doesn't display properly. Suggestions? Thanks in advance! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 03:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
As you know, Wikipedia takes a very rigid stand against vandalism of the site. However, as I have discovered, two different kinds of vandalism are treated differently.
If a vandalized page is on a namespace that has not existed before, than all mention of the page is removed from the history file and placed in the deletion log. For example, clicking on this fake page of "Little Jill Horner" will result in you not seeing the page, but instead a notice that the page does not exist. You can then click on the deletion log to see that the page has indeed been deleted.
However, if the page is on a namespace that exists as a redirect of another page, and the redirect is vandalized, the page will stay in the history file even after the vandalism is discovered and corrected. An example of this is the redirect page called " Brittany Spears" (redirects to Britney Spears). This redirect page is also a vandalism, but it is in the file and anyone can click on it and view it. Never mind that this page is just as worthless as the Little Jill Horner page. The point is that remains on the Wikipedia server, taking up valuable server and hard-disk space that could better be used for legitimate edits.
If anyone in the technical staff can find a remedy for this problem to ensure that vandalized redirect pages are removed from the history just the same as their non-redirect counterparts, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. - Desmond Hobson 17:24, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
In using my watchlist, and my (and others) contributions lists, among other things, I think that adding 2 lines to the "Namespace" filter choices would be most helpful:
(If anyone can think of a better way to phrase them, that would be welcome : )
There are times when it would be helpful to just view an editor's talk page edits, and sometimes, to just view an editor's edits that aren't talk edits. - jc37 08:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Now listed as bugzilla 11499. - jc37 04:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Browsing through http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ I found CommonSettings.php.
I've installed MediaWiki 1.11 on WAMP, Windows XP Home Edition, and am planning to add several more installations.
How would I get CommonSettings.php to work and where would I add it in the directory so all MediaWiki installations have the same extensions (Makesysop, Makebot, Checkuser, Wikihiero, Renameuser, Deletedcontributions)??
I don't want to have to add the extension to each individual wiki, but use the CommonSettings.php.
How would I do this?? Thanks, -- Solumeiras talk 11:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
This question is better asked over at mediawiki: Mediawiki:Project:Support_desk Grymwulf 04:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)