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I am searching around for any (hopefully comprehensive) source that talks about the changes in WP markup syntax. For example, a while back, Wikipedia used the not-uncommon convention of CamelCase words as the way to specify wiki links. This was before the current convention of square brackets.
Also, I am looking for client-side implementations of WP wiki syntax parsers, engines that parse and convert to HTML, but are not based on PHP or web-server code.
Any info and archive links that you can provide will be most appreciated. Thanks. dr.ef.tymac 19:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
hello everyone! well.i want to know about the particle filters thoroughly.can any one please help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodgalpriya ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I’m here to raise a topic again that I raised a few weeks ago about section headings which seem to clash with images and infoboxes on almost every occasion, see this image. However, I’ve noticed that this problem doesn’t exist with horizontal rules and it doesn't seem to exist on foreign language Wikipedias (see this article to see what I mean), at least not with images anyway. Why does this issue occur, and, more importantly, what can be done to fix it? Max Naylor 19:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
h2 {border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;}
h2 {border-bottom: none;}
div.tright {
border-width: 0.5em 0pt 0.8em 1.4em;
}
div.tleft {
border-width: 0.5em 1.4em 0.8em 0pt;
}
div.thumb {
border-style: solid;
}
Exactly how does the roll back function execute. When an administrator presses the rollback button what goes on in the wikipedia database? Specifically I would like to know if the any of the data on the is sent through the inter tubes aside from the rollback request. Thanks for any answers I get. -Icewedge 06:03, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
How do I do this? (If you want to know why, see WT:CRIC#Cricket) -- Dweller 10:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this problem, but the toolbar buttons no longer work when I'm using the Classic skin. This seems to be an IE-only problem; the buttons work correctly when I'm using Firefox. -- Ixfd64 15:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that only certain computers were affected. I tried editing on another computer while using Internet Explorer, but I didn't run into any problems. Anyways, it appears that this issue has been fixed! :) -- Ixfd64 21:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/User-script manager isn't seeming to work for me no matter what I do... I copy and paste the script text that it says to onto my monobook.js page, and it's not working...? If there's anything that needs to be done, an admin can feel free to add it to my monobook.js. Thank you! Y0u | Y0ur talk page 00:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Can the statistics for English language wikipedians please be updated? Not done since June 2006. [ [1]] 81.103.224.91 21:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey - is there any way to define a parameter within a template? As in say you want a new parameter - can you create it within the template?-- daniel folsom 22:39, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
<!-- In Template:Foo --> {{/bar|x={{{1}}} is a really awesome {{{2}}}! }} <!-- Then, in Template:Foo/bar --> Indeed, {{{x}}} I was going to say '{{{x}}}' myself, but you said '{{{x}}}' first.
I had occasion to run Wikipedia's own "robots.txt" file [2] through a "robots.txt syntax checker" [3]. There were many errors reported, mostly due to blank lines in places where the syntax doesn't allow blank lines. Tried another robots.txt checker [4], and that, too, reported errors. Some cleanup is needed. Thanks. -- John Nagle 00:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I am the author of the robots.txt tester on searchenginepromotionhelp.com.
The wiki robots.txt file has disallow statemnts which do not include a path, this is an error and the tester is correctly reporting it as such.
Example:
User-agent: IsraBot
Disallow:
My interpretation of the RFC is that comments are not permitted between a User-agent: statement and ruleline so those comments are flagged as errors.
The robots.txt RFC is here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html
Regards,
Bob
September 30, 2007 16:01 GMT —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob seph ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Quoting from the RFC:
Comments are allowed anywhere in the file, and consist of optional whitespace, followed by a comment character '#' followed by the comment, terminated by the end-of-line.
So it is only the blank lines that are problems, not the comments. As for blank paths, this is the only way to specify 'everything is allowed', and the RFC actually uses blank paths in its examples, implying that they're acceptable too. -- ais523 08:59, 1 October 2007 ( U T C)
Anyone else having trouble accessing their watchlist? I keep getting a 500 Internal Server error. — Edokter • Talk • 15:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Can't contact the database server: Unknown error ()
>
Rugby471
talk ⚔
17:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Added my sig :-) > Rugby471 talk ⚔ 17:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)"
Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Living_people has the problem too, but Special:Recentchangeslinked/ shows the regular "no target" error. Anyway, this is not good because there's going to be a lot of undetected vandalism. Is there a developers' noticeboard? — Edokter • Talk • 17:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
It is for me... — Edokter • Talk • 17:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I created my new account yesterday and i cannot log in ?! Where can i see - and why - my account has been deleted - Thanks in advance - Bjorkfan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.217.157.113 ( talk) 07:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, yesterday I created an account only in "common", so I found everything back Bjorkfan 08:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
User rename log seems slightly broken. --VectorPotential Talk 20:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
After an image is uploaded into Wikipedia, is there a template or some other tag that can be used to have it also automatically uploaded into Commons? Or must I go to Commons and manually upload it there as well? - mbeychok 18:40, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The Wikipedia editor extension wikEd is now Greasemonkey compatible - that means it can be installed locally and then runs automatically on every MediaWiki wiki. wikEd is a full-featured edit page-integrated text editor with features such as syntax highlighting, MS-Word and web page import, powerful search and replace, and on-page preview and changes display. wikEd can still be installed by pasting a short code snippet to your User:Username/monobook.js page.
wikEd is currently only compatible with Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers, but work is ongoing to make it work under MSIE 7 and Opera 9 - please see the developer documentation and discussion if you would like to help. Cacycle 01:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
where is the page where i can ask for a speed deletion of an image i uploaded?!? ...did not find it - thanks in advance kernitou talk 09:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a feeling there probably isn't, but is there any sort of template, magic word, or other variety of wikicode that is able to read the last contributor to a page, or the time of the last edit? I'm looking to set up a sort of "vandal alarm" for my userpage that will display some sort of warning if I'm not the last person to have edited the page, but haven't found any sort of template that will allow this. Thanks. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 05:47, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{subst:REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}|{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}|unvandalized|vandalized!}}
I sometimes see pictures (and their borders) overlapping text. Here's what I see at the
William Henry Harrison
Battle of the Thames article:
Note the overlapped text at the top of the picture, and to the right of that, the "edit edit edit" text being overlapped by the words "General Harrison". I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.7, on Windows XP.
Tempshill
16:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I am from Malayalam Wikipedia ( http://ml.wikipedia.org).
We are having problems with some special pages that we are tring to create in Malayalam Wikipedia.
In Malayalam Wikipedia we are trying to create the special upload pages as in the English Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload).
As an experiment we started with the upload page
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
See the corresponding special page in Malayalam Wikipedia at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list is creating problem for us.
The license that is used in English wiki is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. We have created the same license in Malayalam Wiki. See that at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list in the malayalam wikipedia on this special
upload page is still showing the licenses that are defined at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses.
We want this special upload page to show the same licenses as in the English Wikipedia. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance.-- Shijualex 11:48, 4 October 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)
Seems that toolserver, or at least access to MySQL databases there, is down. [5] [6] [7] Not sure who to report this to, if anyone is aware of this, etc. I'm not on IRC now. -- Aude ( talk) 14:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that non-Wikimedia interwiki codes do not work in Wikimedia project URLs. For example, the entry for " John" on Wiktionary can be accessed via [[wikt:John]] or through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:John. However, the latter method does not work for non-Wikimedia wikis. For example, the main page of the Mozilla Wiki can be accessed via [[MozillaWiki:Main Page]], but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MozillaWiki:Main_Page results in a "bad title" error.
Is this intentional? -- Ixfd64 09:38, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason that [[[sic]]] renders as [[[sic]]] instead of [ sic]? The later can be produced with [<span/>[[sic]]] but I don't see why that is necessary because "" is not allowed in the titles of pages. ← BenB4 04:09, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
Entering wikipedia.org in the address bar promptly crashes mozilla with an Exit 11.
Mozilla 1.7.13 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060420
uname -a SunOS somename 5.6 Generic_105181-32 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.201.242.130 ( talk) 19:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been noticing for quite some time now that some thumbnails are a bit blurry. However if I ask for a very slightly larger or smaller thumbnail that doesn't exist yet the blurriness goes away; likewise if I simply purge the cache for the image. So I guess this is due to the blurry thumbnails being generated by an older version of MediaWiki that didn't have a very good image resizing algorithm. I noticed this phenonemon a while back, but decided not to pay attention because the upgrade could have been recent and the thumbnails didn't have time to be updated yet. However I find that I still come across many blurry thumbnails, to wit this €2 coin -- this severely harms readability because a blurry 150px thumbnail contains about as much information as a smaller 100px thumbnail. Plus by clicking on a blurry thumbnail you don't expect to find a nice high-resolution picture. I have no idea how to solve this: it's not feasible to hand-purge the tens of thousands of faulty thumbnails, so I don't know if MediaWiki has a way to automatically rebuild old thumbnails without putting too much strain on the server. Hope some technically-enclined person reads this. -- Ma Baker 16:06, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
File:150px €2 commemorative coin Italy 2005.jpg (blurry) vs. File:€2 commemorative coin Italy 2005.jpg (not blurry)
I'm lost, how to make Navbox hide? such as Template:Survivor_contestants ▪◦▪ ≡ЅiREX≡ Talk 01:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I found this file in my MediaWiki 1.11 installation - what exactly is it meant to do?? I'm not sure what to do with it... any advice?? Thanks, -- Solumeiras talk 17:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
i just happened to upload : Image:Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg i cannot see it : why please?!? is there any delay?! kernitou talk 06:30, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
another question : when i put the link in an article do i have to write Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg OR Grand_Funk_Railroad_We're_An_American_Band.jpg ? kernitou talk
If you want to put the image in the article you add [[ in front of the file name and ]] behind, like this: [[Image:Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg]].
If you want to put a link to the image you add [[: in front of the file name and ]] behind, like this: Image:Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg.
Maybe Wikipedia deleted the image because you don't know the million rules about fair use.
-- Kaypoh 06:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Maybe it's just a delay in updating the database. The difference between when you are logged in and when you are not logged in makes me think it might have to do with your browser cache. I can see the image fine, both here and on the image page. -- Slashme 08:32, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thumb
and right
floating the images away?I can see all the images that you uploaded. The problem is definitely something on your end. Either it has to do with your browser cache, your internet connection, something to do with your software setup or something else entirely, but it is not a problem with the Wikipedia software, and should not be discussed any further on this page, which is specifically for the discussion of technical issues about Wikipedia, and not for user support. -- Slashme 13:24, 28 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)
Is something wrong with my computer, or have other people been noticing this as well? Right now Wikipedia default loads in the "nostalgia" skin, like it looked right back when we launched this project six years ago. And no, I haven't changed my preferences or anything. Sometimes it toggles back and forth between ordinary and old-style. Any idea what this could be?? K. Lásztocska 00:21, 30 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)
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 tried to upload 3 .doc files today but found out that the file type is not acceptable. i do not know how to convert, tried some manipulations on my own to convert it to jpeg, not sure if i succeeded. anyway, bottom line is i asked a friend to do it since she had some experience. i just want my uploads to be rejected and hers- beverly maniago - to be accepted, since the important thing to have it posted. pls. advice... -- Pamexz 07:52, 29 September 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamexz ( talk • contribs) 07:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Image:Monosialotetrahexosylganglioside.PNG shows up as a gray box with "Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters" in the center. I purged and bypassed my cache, to no avail. The same thing happened when I moved it to Commons, which makes me think this is some sort of software quirk. shoy 04:22, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This annoying thing has happened at least twice on wiki so far within the past year or so, and I don't want it to happen again. This happens occasionally, and I mean very occasionally, but when it happens I lose my privacy. I am asking for help now because I'm still annoyed that it happens. Sometimes, when I edit, and I save, instead of staying logged in, the site for some reason logs me out, and I end up having my edit saved as an anon. This can happen on only the history, or sometimes worse, on a page where I sign my name. I'm very concerned about this because I have heard all the horrible stories about people being able to hack someone's computer or enter someone's house through an IP. However, sometimes the IP shows only a country, or occasionally perhaps a city that is incorrect, but nevertheless I'm still concerned. I will not tell you when or where this happened. What causes this to happen, and what can I do to prevent it? After it happened the first time, I have found myself constantly pressing page preview to make sure I was logged in still, and checking the history afterwards to make sure it saved under my username. However, sometimes I am busy or forget to preview, and one time it happened again. Are there signs of soontobeloggedoutaftersavingwikieditsageness, and is there anything that could be done to prevent it? I know pagepreviewing has prevented this from happening at least once. What can I do? Thanks. ~ A H 1( T C U) 22:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
This problem has been known to happen to me as well, although I haven't noticed it recently, both on Wikipedia and another Wikimedia wiki. (Hmm... it only happened back when I had no browser choices but IE6... but I don't know whether this is the problem or not.) 'Remember me' definitely solves the problem, if it's not a security risk for you to use it in your case. To prevent actually saving an edit when logged out, previewing and then saving immediately is the best advice; it tended only to happen when I'd left my browser on the same page for a long time period without changing it. Maybe it's a problem with cookies? -- ais523 17:16, 28 September 2007 ( U T C)
An alternate method, if you are using firefox, is to edit your local userContent.css file (google for instructions) and stylize the MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning, sort of like this:
#anoneditwarning { border:3px dashed #ff00ff !important; background-color: #ffff00 !important; font-size:200% !important; color:#ff00ff !important;}
That should get your attention. -- Splarka ( rant) 07:44, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I had occasion to run Wikipedia's own "robots.txt" file [8] through a "robots.txt syntax checker" [9]. There were many errors reported, mostly due to blank lines in places where the syntax doesn't allow blank lines. Tried another robots.txt checker [10], and that, too, reported errors. Some cleanup is needed. Thanks. -- John Nagle 00:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I am the author of the robots.txt tester on searchenginepromotionhelp.com.
The wiki robots.txt file has disallow statemnts which do not include a path, this is an error and the tester is correctly reporting it as such.
Example:
User-agent: IsraBot
Disallow:
My interpretation of the RFC is that comments are not permitted between a User-agent: statement and ruleline so those comments are flagged as errors.
The robots.txt RFC is here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html
Regards,
Bob
September 30, 2007 16:01 GMT —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob seph ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Quoting from the RFC:
Comments are allowed anywhere in the file, and consist of optional whitespace, followed by a comment character '#' followed by the comment, terminated by the end-of-line.
So it is only the blank lines that are problems, not the comments. As for blank paths, this is the only way to specify 'everything is allowed', and the RFC actually uses blank paths in its examples, implying that they're acceptable too. -- ais523 08:59, 1 October 2007 ( U T C)
Input is sought for a major style change to {{ expand list}}. The discussion can be found here: Template_talk:Expand_list#proposal. Thanks, --- J.S ( T/ C/ WRE) 19:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
That's pretty much my question. The page to create a wikipedia account has references to information on how to create a secure password. Why does the page then not use encryption? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.70.55.149 ( talk) 07:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to get a list of all users created in a two hour time frame (9AM to 11AM Jan 28 2007 UTC, to be exact). However, the user creation log doesn't seem to be adjustible by timestamp, only by numerical offsets and the users or pages involved. It would be very tedious to get to that date by clicking next over and over. Is there an easier way to get the usernames of all users created in this timeframe, or the whole day if 2 hours isn't possible? I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me out with this. Picaroon (t) 22:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a page on my wiki entitled "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)" but when I search for "CSS" this page is not reported. How can I make a search on "CSS" find this page? What code do I have to put on the page? Thanks!
-- Anamacha 08:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to simultaneously check the contributions of an entire range of IP addresses? Like 127.1.0.0/16, or something. Someguy1221 18:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I want to interwiki as follwing
how to? -- WonYong Talk 12:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman A while back I uploaded several historical maps and put them on several history articles. Later I found some inaccuracies on those maps, so I corrected them on my computer and used the "Upload New Version" feature on the images' homepages. SOME of those new versions appeared with no problems; others still aren't showing the corrected versions (even after more than a week). I've tried to re-upload new versions on a couple of the maps, but still no change (even after a day or more). What makes the images show corrected versions? One image example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:East-Hem_475ad.jpg Thomas Lessman 21:29, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman Unfortunately it's still showing the old version of the map. The new version shows the title of the map in the top left corner of the map, between Iceland and Scandinavia. If you click on the version next to the first "revert" option (right under the "current" version"), it shows the correct version. But even when I click on "Revert", it still shows the incorrect version (without the title, and with some boundries showing incorrectly). Also I tried the Purge feature you described (which I didn't know about earlier), but it still shows the older version. Thomas Lessman 22:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman LOL! Actually, I clear my browser cache at least 1-2 times per day (I work in a tech support dept). If you go to the Roman Empire article and scroll about 3/4 of the way down, you'll see 3 of the maps I uploaded a while back. The middle one (476ad) updated just fine (shows the title and correct borders) but the 1st and 3rd ones (475ad & 500ad) don't show the updated versions. Even when you click on the thumbnail, the 1st & 3rd maps open to show the old versions, but the 2nd one shows the correct version. Sorry man; I'll try to settle down! LOL Thomas Lessman 22:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman Even from another computer, I still saw the older version and not the newer. It's possible however, that the reason is because the filename changed from older to newer (I started adding "_web-sm" onto the maps on my computer when finished editing them, to differentiate from the originals).
Also, thanks for the heads up about the credits part, TCC. I only added those on there because I've been receiving feedback about inaccuracies on the maps, and I wanted to let people know how to contact me to let me know any changes that needed to be made. That and I also give the maps to local schools, and one of the teachers requested that I put "author info" on the image so they could see where they were from. Thomas Lessman 14:35, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
If you go to the Roman Empire article and scroll down about 3/4 of the way down, you'll see 3 of the maps I put on the article. The middle map shows the title in the top-left corner (that's the updated version). The 1st and 3rd maps don't show the title (still showing the old versions). I don't understand why one of the maps udated just fine, but the others don't. Thomas Lessman 16:23, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I would like to point out a minor problem with regards to the FA template shown on this talk page. When I click show the date is shown as November 2007. But when I click edit to this talk-page, the date is shown as November 2006. I just cannot comprehend this anomaly. Does anyone have any answers with regards to this? The template should be fixed but I do not know how. This is indeed a bit strange as well. For more information please view this comments. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 01:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there any sort of limit to the number of tabs that can be displayed on the top of a page? My monobook.js page has enough scripts to give me almost 20 tabs, but even though my screen resolution is set high enough to probably display 25 tabs, some of them don't display. Is there some function built into Firefox or MediaWiki that's preventing the tabs from displaying? Pyrospirit ( talk · contribs) 15:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I am wondering if there is a way to assign or simulate a "permanent id" for articles and items that a user has on his or her watch list.
For example, if the user has Millet on her watchlist, and someone changes the title of that article to something else [e.g., Millet (grain)], is there an unambiguous and failsafe way for that user to know that Millet (grain) is just a re-titled manifestation of Millet?
The purpose is to determine the possibility to automate certain aspects of watchlist management, hence the request for a "permanent id" field (or anything similar) to make this possible. dr.ef.tymac 10:09, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Is Special:MIMEsearch supposed to be disabled? I recently added a note to MediaWiki:Mimesearch-summary to reflect this page's current status - I'm just wondering why it is not working. --- RockMFR 16:35, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm interested in having an infobox which allows scrolling through multiple images. For example, check out this link: [11]. The arrows right above the image allow scrolling through images without reloading the page. Clever AJAX I assume? Anything similar been done on WP? If not, any thoughts on how difficult it would be to implement? AndrewGNF 01:28, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, so I got MediaWiki 1.11 working on my WAMP server, now all I need to do is ensure my other two wikis (when I install them) have the same settings. I created CommonSettings.php, as shown below:
<?php #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Settings common to all wikis #$wgStyleSheetPath = '/w/skins'; $wgStyleSheetPath = '/skins; $wgArticlePath = "//$1"; $wgScriptPath = '/w'; $wgStockPath = '/images'; $wgDBerrorLog = '/home/testwiki/logs/dberror.log'; $wgCheckDBSchema = false; if(!isset($wgLocaltimezone)) $wgLocaltimezone = 'UTC'; # Ugly hack warning! This needs smoothing out. if($wgLocaltimezone) { $oldtz = getenv('TZ'); putenv("TZ=$wgLocaltimezone"); $wgLocalTZoffset = date('Z') / 60; putenv("TZ=$oldtz"); } $wgShowIPinHeader = false; $wgUseGzip = true; $wgRCMaxAge = 30*86400; $wgLegalTitleChars = "+ %!\"$&'()*,\\-.\\/0-9:;=?@A-Z\\\\^_`a-z~\\x80-\\xFF"; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = '/usr/bin/convert'; $wgSVGConverters['rsvg-convert'] = '$path/rsvg-convert -w$width -h$height -o$output $input'; $wgAllowUserJs = true; $wgAllowUserCss = true; */ ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = false; if( $site == 'wikinews' ) { #$wgRightsPage = "";# Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright $wgRightsUrl = 'http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/'; $wgRightsText = 'Creative Commons Attribution 2.5'; $wgRightsIcon = 'http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png'; } else { #$wgRightsPage = "";# Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright $wgRightsUrl = 'http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html'; $wgRightsText = 'GNU Free Documentation License'; $wgRightsIcon = '/style/images/gnu-fdl.png'; } wfProfileOut( "$fname-misc1" ); wfProfileIn( "$fname-ext-include1" ); include($IP.'/extensions/timeline/Timeline.php'); include($IP.'/extensions/wikihiero/wikihiero.php'); include( $IP.'/extensions/SiteMatrix/SiteMatrix.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/Newuserlog/Newuserlog.php' ); require( $IP.'/extensions/Makesysop/SpecialMakesysop.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/Makebot/Makebot.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php' ); require( "$IP/extensions/Oversight/HideRevision.php" ); $wgGroupPermissions['oversight']['hiderevision'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['oversight']['oversight'] = true; // <ref> and <references> tags -ævar, 2005-12-23 require( $IP.'/extensions/Cite/Cite.php' ); // psuedobotinterface -ævar, 2005-12-25 require( $IP.'/extensions/Filepath/SpecialFilepath.php' ); # Inputbox extension for searching or creating articles include( $IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/ExpandTemplates/ExpandTemplates.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/PicturePopup/PicturePopup.php' ); $wgAllowRealName = false; $wgSysopRangeBans = true; $wgSysopUserBans = true; #### To declare an outage: #include("outage.php"); #declareOutage( "2005-01-03", "04:00", "08:00" ); # Log IP addresses in the recentchanges table $wgPutIPinRC = true; $wgUploadSizeWarning='5000000'; # Default address gets rejected by some mail hosts $wgPasswordSender = 'wiki@wikimedia.org'; # If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload # path here. Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they # will be put into $wgUploadDirectory. # # If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the # shared repository if no file of the given name is found in # the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). # Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this # directory. # $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons'; # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found #$wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/mnt/wikipedia/htdocs/commons/upload'; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/commons'; # Set this to false especially if you have a set of files that need to be # accessible by all wikis, and you do not want to use the hash (path/a/aa/) # directory layout. $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'commonswiki'; $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = true; $wgDisabledActions = array( 'credits' ); $wgDisableHardRedirects = true; # Process group overrides $wgGroupPermissions['steward' ]['makesysop' ] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['steward' ]['userrights'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['makesysop' ] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['userrights'] = false; foreach ( $groupOverrides as $group => $permissions ) { if ( !array_key_exists( $group, $wgGroupPermissions ) ) { $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = array(); } $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = $permissions + $wgGroupPermissions[$group]; } foreach ( $groupOverrides2 as $group => $permissions ) { if ( !array_key_exists( $group, $wgGroupPermissions ) ) { $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = array(); } $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = $permissions + $wgGroupPermissions[$group]; } // Prevent re-uploads /* $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['reupload'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['reupload-shared'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload-shared'] = false; */ // Added throttle for account creations if( false /*$lang == 'zh' || $lang == 'en'*/ ) { <pre>require( "$IP/extensions/Throttle/UserThrottle.php" ); $wgGlobalAccountCreationThrottle = array( /* 'min_interval' => 30, // Hard minimum time between creations (default 5) 'soft_time' => 300, // Timeout for rolling count 'soft_limit' => 5, // 5 registrations in five minutes (default 10) */ 'min_interval' => 0, // Hard minimum time between creations (default 5) 'soft_time' => 60, // Timeout for rolling count (default 5 minutes) 'soft_limit' => 2, // 2 registrations in one minutes (default 10) ); } ?>
Will this CommonSettings.php work?? If it doesn't, what do I need to do so it does work?
Thanks, -- Solumeiras talk 21:57, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
For those who used multiple instances of the old {{ Anchor}} with:
{{Anchor|Foo}}{{Anchor|Bar}}{{Anchor|Baz}}
There is now the possibility of just:
{{Anchors|Foo|Bar|Baz}}
or to add multiple functional aliases to a heading:
==George Walker Bush {{Anchors|George W. Bush|Dubya}}==
Details at the doc of {{ Anchor}} alias {{ Anchors}}. — Komusou talk @ 22:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I had the source of a well-programmed Wikipedia bot in C, but I lost it, and cannot find it at the moment. The bot was on the Wikipedia signpost, but, now, I just want the source of a bot programmed in C. Any help is appreciated! -- əˈnon gahy ♫Look What I've Done!♫ 20:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I am looking for a way to load the content of articles without loading the CSS, images, etc. It seems to me I remember someone showing me a way to view the XML of any MediaWiki article. It was somthing like /wiki/Special:XML?title=(title)... Does anyone know what I'm talking about? -- Anthony5429 19:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
action=render
and wikicode with action=raw
(
example); also see
mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php ∴
Alex Smotrov
19:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC){{
editprotected}}
Please add min-width:100px
to the definition for .thumbinner, so that on boxes for narrower images the caption text isn't squeezed down --
Random832
15:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Anyway, does anyone here have any objections? — Random832 16:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
A useful feature would be the ability to put an invisible comment on a page that will show up when someone attempts to move the page, telling them e.g. a consensus was reached about the current title, or is currently being discussed on the talk page, etc - for certain cases where the existing title appears incorrect (language variants, awkward constructions, etc) and a good-faith editor may assume they can simply move it without discussion. This would be similar to placing HTML comments in problematic areas on articles in case someone who doesn't know about the controversy tries to edit it - while you might say that since moving is limited to autoconfirmed users that shouldn't be a problem - but it's not that hard to go four days without running into a controversy or being aware one exists in some cases. I thought of this in response to a thread on ANI. — Random832 16:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to make my signature colorful, but it isn't working. Can I have some help? This is what I have in my prefs. <span style="color: #ff0000">[[User:Pupster21|Pupster21]]</span>, <span style="color: #ff7f00">[[User_talk:Pupster21|Talk To Me]]</span> —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 12:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Ah crap. Forgot to sign. -- Pupster21, Talk To Me 12:19, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It seems recently that when I try to log into Wikipedia from either the Seattle Public Library or the University of Washington Libraries, it fails. Login from my home machine is fine. Only obvious difference is that my home machine uses FireFox, whereas UW uses IE and the SPL uses some weird proprietary thing that is pretty clearly IE underneath. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? - Jmabel | Talk 23:36, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
It gives me the page with a captcha, suggesting that I might want to create an account. - 69.17.114.183 16:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I was doing something important when the database locked up a few seconds ago. Oh well. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 11:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to insert HTML into wiki pages in such a way as the viewing browser will interpret and execute the code? I can put things in a <pre> box but that turns off execution as well. thanks! -- Anamacha 04:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
i did not find in the help section the list of the "faces" (courier, arial...) for the font function (i'll use it only on my page, right!) - thanks in advance kernitou talk 20:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the best forum for this, but here goes: why is the preferences/user profile edit count much higher than the wannabe_kate (not sure if that's actually what it's called) counter? It's obviously not the most pressing issue, but I'm curious. Thanks. Freshacconci | Talk 17:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Why is the {{ cite web}} template in the ref#5 in the Special:Search/HDi interactive format article not rendering properly? I am not seeing any syntactic error! -- soum talk 16:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
title
parameter. That is, it was fragmented like so:{{cite web| url = http://www.dvdforum.org/images/Requirements%20Specification%20for%20HD%20DVD%20Video%20Application-July2005.pdf | title = Requirements Specification for HD DVD Video Application | accessdate = 2007-10-03}}
For some reason I think it's either Azaoth or Voice of All's script, but for some reason the pop up (where it says action and user with a drop down menu) won't bring down the menu. Is there an update to anything that I should be aware of? -- Amaraiel 14:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk pages with no corresponding non-talk page may be eligible for deletion per WP:CSD#G8, but I can't find any easy way to search for such pages. I imagine that could be implemented as a special page without too much trouble. -- Derlay 12:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I am from Malayalam Wikipedia ( http://ml.wikipedia.org).
We are having problems with some special pages that we are tring to create in Malayalam Wikipedia.
In Malayalam Wikipedia we are trying to create the special upload pages as in the English Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload).
As an experiment we started with the upload page
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
See the corresponding special page in Malayalam Wikipedia at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list is creating problem for us.
The license that is used in English wiki is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. We have created the same license in Malayalam Wiki. See that at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list in the malayalam wikipedia on this special
upload page is still showing the licenses that are defined at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses.
We want this special upload page to show the same licenses as in the English Wikipedia. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance.-- Shijualex 11:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please 1) conrifm my vision that there are currently indeed red links on Help:Contents or more specifically this verision [12], 2) revert if so 3) clarify why the links don't seem to work if their appearance is changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tikiwont ( talk • contribs) 10:13, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
What is going on with my image Alcoalogo.svg? If you go it's page, it says that no pages link to the picture. However, if you go to the Alcoa page, you can clearly see the image in the infobox on the right-hand side. What is going on? Thanks, Weatherman1126 ( talk) 01:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I got one message, and the dumb yellow bar won't go away. I tried everything. I went to my talk page, I even resopnded to the message. I tried going to new pages, and an option about purging my cache. But nothing is helping. This is a public IP, and someone else is going to be getting that message forever. Please make it go away. 71.58.97.225 19:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
When I first load a page in IE, it is fine. When I refresh it, there is a syntax error. It says there is an error with line 2, character 1. This happens both when logged in and logged out, so it is not a monobook.js error. When using Firefox, an entry appears in the error console, saying that there is a syntax error with the following line:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Does anyone else have this problem? - BANG ! 00:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Proposed changes to Monobook.css are being discussed here. Input is sought and welcome. -- MZMcBride 02:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Yesterday an article, Psychiatric abuse, was deleted after heated debate. The article talk page had a lot of information on it. Has it disappeared along with the article? Or do deleted pages and their talk pages go somewhere? Thanks! -- Mattisse 01:46, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Have deleted pages ever been purged? 1of3 02:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a bug or something I'm doing wrong, so I'm posting here first before I (maybe) go to Bugzilla. I am trying to extend the {{
flagicon}} template to permit users to disable them. (This was a request made by more than one editor.) I had surrounded the existing rendering output (found in
Template:country flagicon2) by <span class="flagicon">....</span>
, so that the following could be put in a user's monobook.css (or whatever) settings: .flagicon { display: none; }
. This worked perfectly for any tranclusions of flagicon
made directly from main article text, but not for certain transclusions when the flagicon
call was made from within another template. For example, at
1954 FIFA World Cup#Knockout stage, the {{
Round8-with third}} template is used to format a table of match results. (Actually,
Template:fb is used here, but it is built on the same system as flagicon
.) This table was totally munged, as every parameter that used fb
was passed an empty string.
I have discovered that this problem only happens when flagicon
etc. are used as positional parameters to other templates (as was the case for Round8-with third
). Using the flag templates as named parameters works as I expected. Here are some sandbox test pages to illustrate this point:
{{
flag|Canada}}
. The CSS setting to set display:none;
works as expected if this page is transcluded directly.On my browser anyway (IE7), the call fails for the first template using my "modified" flag template (with the embedded span
) as a positional parameter, but still works for the existing flag
template (that doesn't have the span).
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Andrwsc 17:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
The PngFix script, allowing IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 users to see PNG images with proper transparency, has just been updated. While it has been extensively tested (on Commons), bugs have a habbit of surfacing without notice. So if you see any problem with displaying PNG images in IE5.5/6.0, try bypassing your cache first. If the problem persists, please post it here. — Edokter • Talk • 09:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Yikes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:1632_characters is showing A LOT of article titles that have nothing to do with 1632 series or 1632 series characters (the "link to [list article]) of most content in ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:1632 character articles [which is correct], which is the job of said template--putting things into there.
Can someone look into what's happening so the (links) go away in the list below (excerpt of Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:1632_characters):
* Tollbooth Gallery (links) *1634: The Bavarian Crisis (links)* Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1982 (links) * Armagh (Assembly constituency) (links) *1632 characters (links)
...
#Alexander MacKay (redirect page, transclusion) (links)* Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography/M (links) * Duncan Cameron (fur trader) (links)
And there may be more! (fix these and we'll see). The last time I saw anything like this t'was database corruption. Let me know what you all find by pinging my talk. Thanks! Cheers! // Fra nkB 21:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
It may happen that an innocent-looking change can cause trouble, for example by replacing </ref> with </ ref>, which is a non-functional tag. WP's differencer seems to ignore most changes in the number of blanks, and does not highlight them in red. If you are looking at diffs, and need to see differences in blanks, is there any option that can be tweaked? EdJohnston 20:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
diffchange
. So you could add something like this to
your monobook.css:.diffchange { border: 1px dotted red; }
What's a good way to center an image horizontally within a userbox? I've just made four userboxes and three look fine but one ends up left aligned. Any advice is welcome. Kroyw 03:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm starting my own wiki at http://wiki.anamacha.net ... and I am not sure where to go next. I intend for it to be a repository of information both about me and things I might use later. It's to be something of an 'outboard brain;' it's a personalpedia, a place to write things down, a place for brain dumps, and so on. This is all because I have problems with organization and my memory and such.
Anyway, I've got some content on my site, but I don't want to go too much further before my work starts creaking under its own weight. Would some of you more experienced Wikipedians take a look at my site and tell me what you think? Do some of you have your own wikis? If so, could you point me at them or at least tell me what you use them for and how they are organized?
I have a Suggestions page (and section on the main page) but you'll need to create an account in order to edit it. I have an account here, so you could easily mail me through that, I suppose.
Anamacha 04:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
I think there might be something wrong with the edit history. In this edit here I removed some vandalism, but in the edit here it says that I added the vandalism. If someone could explain what is wrong (or what I might have misinterpreted) that would be great! Icestorm815 22:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible for the MediaWiki image upload wizard to present the uploader with a blank {{ Information}} template, the way that the Commons upload wizard does? I think this would be helpful in ensuring the correct copyright information is present, and in making sure a description of the image is present on the image page. Videmus Omnia Talk 19:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Lately, I've been loosing edits -- making edits and then later not seeing them show up. I just noticed what I believe to be the cause -- I am being falsely nagged about not having provided an edit summary when I actually did provide an edit summary, at least some of the time. I just saw a case where that clearly did happen -- when I clicked save a second timein response tothe nag, the edit got saved, complete with the edit summary which was nagged to have been missing. I have apparently presumed on completion of page reloads that my edit (with edit summary provided) did complete, and have exited the page after it reloaded without reading the warning that the edit had not been saved because I was falsely believed not to have provided an edit summary. -- Boracay Bill 11:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
If it happens too often, you can turn off "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" in Prefs/Editing. 1of3 14:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Screencap in Firefox 2.0.0.6) There seems to be a pretty bad overlap between the Wiktionary template and the cleanup templates.-- 69.118.235.97 12:58, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I put the following CSS shown below in my user stylesheet. The purpose was to override monobook positioning of the page's elements when I view it in IE on Windows Mobile 5 on my Sony Treo.
If I remove the @media handheld {} wrapper, pages appear as I expect them to in a regular browser AND on my Treo, with the content at the top and the navigation at the bottom, and on the Treo the content fills the full width of the screen (which it didn't do in monobook before I added my customer styles).
With the @media handheld {} wrapper surrounding the styles, I get regular monobook on my computer. On the Treo, the links to jump to the navigation and search box at the bottom do appear underneath the page's heading, as I styled them to do, and the navigation does appear at the bottom. So I know that IE on the Treo recognizes that it's supposed to process the rules inside the @media wrapper. But I can't get rid of the left and top margins that offset the content from the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Even adding the !important didn't help.
Has anyone here had experience with this?
@media handheld {
div#jump-to-nav { display: block; font-style: italic; }
div#topicon { position: static; }
body div#column-content {
position: static ! important; float: none;
margin-left: 0px ! important;
margin-top: 0px ! important;
width: 100% ! important;
padding-left: 0px ! important; }
body div#column-content div#content {
position: static ! important; float: none;
margin-left: 0pt ! important;
margin-top: 0pt ! important;
width: 100% ! important;
padding-left: 0px ! important; }
div#column-one { position: static; padding-top: 1em; }
#p-logo { position: static; }
.portlet h5 { margin: 0.5em 0; }
.portlet li { white-space: nowrap; }
#p-cactions { position: static; padding-left: 0; white-space: normal; }
#p-cactions h5 { display: block; }
#p-cactions ul { margin: 0; }
#p-personal { position: static; white-space: normal; }
#p-personal h5 { display: block; }
#p-personal ul { text-align: left; padding: 0; }
div#p-logo { display: none; }
#footer { margin: 1em 0; }
}
— Largo Plazo 17:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
I hope someone can solve this problem for me. Whenever I try to count the number of edits on this page, an error answer comes up, being unable to show the number of my edits. However, as for other users, they can find the number of edits with no problems at all. For example, the number of edits for User:Blood Red Sandman is shown here with no problems at all. Can someone fix this for me? Thanks. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 13:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
There was a recent case where someone sent a vulgar, harassing email to User:Wiki Raja from the email address netmongers@gmail.com pretending to be User:Netmonger (note the additional "s" in the email address). Netmonger was subsequently blocked, but after the consensus among admins on the case on AN/I was that it was a joe job intending to frame Netmonger, the blocking admin left a note on Netmonger's block log that the previous blocks were in error.
Is there a way to find which Wikipedia account has the email address netmongers@gmail.com attached to it? It's likely a throw away account, so check user may be able to confirm who the actual creator of the account was.-- snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 16:06, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a page on my wiki entitled "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)" but when I search for "CSS" this page is not reported. How can I make a search on "CSS" find this page? What code do I have to put on the page? Thanks!
-- Anamacha 08:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
This diff clearly shows that I added a relfist and categories, yet the page still shows an oudated version. I've tried this in Opera 9 and IE6, so it's not a cache issue on my side...is osmething wrong wiht the server? hbdragon88 06:56, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Wow that was dumb. I should have realized that from the beginning. I've seen that screw up pages before and fixed them. It just didn't click this time. Thanks for the help. hbdragon88 07:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. Why is the landing page for Wikipedia.org so wide? It's been doing my head in my months because I can't figure it out. Thanks Doyley Talk 13:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how to go about this but thought it would be a good idea. Internal links currently look like this:
Yet external links currently look like this:
It would be better to replace the space in external links with a vertical line to corrspond with internal links like this:
Anyone agree?-- Phoenix 15 17:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Are we running some database update in the background again or is the counter stuck somehow? I chekced yesterday and it was at around 2 mill, now it's around 3,2 - 3.1 million and fluctuating up and down with 100.000 every few seconds. -- Sherool (talk) 04:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't have the technical savvy to know how to implement it, but would it be possible to enable watching of subpages (for example, individual topics in ANI) instead of an entire page? It would be very useful on pages where there is a single discussion out of many that one wishes to follow. ~ Eliz 81 (C) 03:34, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
It would be cool if there was an option to change the primary background color from white to black. This way poeple who spend long amounts of time reading and browsing the site wont get as much eye fatigue from reading off a brite white web page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hariziz ( talk • contribs) 21:51, 9 October 2007
Wikipedia was working yesterday for me finely until I went on and tried to search for articles such as {{JAG}} and {{Hybrid}}. It came up with this error:
"WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION Fout Fel Fallo 错误 錯誤 Erreur Error Fehler エラー Błąd Errore Erro Chyba English The Wikimedia Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
The problem is most likely temporary and will hopefully be fixed soon. Please check back in a few minutes.
For further information, you can visit the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.
In the meantime, you may be able to view Google's cached version of this page.
Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the Internet by traffic and continues to grow, and as a result the Wikimedia Foundation has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.
If reporting this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the following details: Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Hybrid&go=Go, from 66.230.200.135 via sq31.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE13) to () Error: ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD, errno (11) Resource temporarily unavailable at Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:30:38 GMT "
What does it mean and what do I do, I have some research to do.
Kenny Sullivan 21:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I've got a complicated template system for the Wikipedia Signpost (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Footer, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08, and {{ S-s}}). Essentially, what I'm trying to do is have it so that transcluding it normally produces what's generated at WP:POST/A (scroll down to see the example on October 1), but that transcluding it via the footer template produces what you see at the bottom of each Signpost page (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08/From the editor).
It's almost perfect, but note what the bottom of this page looks like -- the "from the editor" is on its own line, as the first link. I don't want that. There is an easy work-around -- by removing the line break in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08 between the first and second line, this should disappear. But I don't want to do that, because it makes it tougher to edit. Is there anything I'm missing, probably in {{ S-s}}, that would help me do that? Ral315 » 17:04, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, Is there a problem today? I am patrolling recent changes and every 5 or so reverts I am getting a 500 internal error when submitting a page. Thanks Doyley Talk 15:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
The .usermessage bar is staying active permanently for me, like it does sometimes for anons. Has anyone else had this happen? It's not a big deal for me, as I have hidden it temporarily, but it could annoy anyone who doesn't know how to do that (or want to do that). Adrian M. H. 13:45, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello guys.
Basically, I don't have an internet connected PC but I do have a phone with GPRS (which I'm using to write this message). A while ago I downloaded the source of several low-activity articles ( Category:Sesotho language) and worked on them at home (being careful to include those few changes implemented by other editors). I need to know if it is possible to send my changes to Wikipedia but without using the usual edit box mechanism (eg by using FTP or uploading a file as with images, which my phone can do)?
Basically, I'm too lazy to go to an internet cafe and wondered if I could do this at home instead. Thanks for any responses.
Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 13:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
It's okay. I finally took the plunge and decided to use my phone as a USB modem. It's actually cheaper than the (local) cafe as I'm only paying for data, not time (and implementing these changes is taking much longer than I thought it would). Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 16:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to disable the section-edit ([edit]) links on a per-section basis? -- soum talk 10:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
The recent netmonger case got me thinking. If you use 'e-mail this user' to e-mail people, is this logged? Does the log include the contents e-mail that was sent? The way I see it, if you use the wikimedia servers to e-mail someone it should be logged. If there is some dispute about an e-mail then checkusers, on the request of one of the parties, should be allowed to check the logs to confirm an e-mail was sent. Preferably they should also be able to view the contents of the e-mail that was sent too. I don't think this violates the privacy of participants as if you choose to e-mail someone you are not entitled to deny it if the receivee takes offence at the e-mail. Some people may be unsettled by the idea that other people can read the e-mails but since checkusers are supposed to be highly trusted users and are only allowed to view the contents in restrictive circumstances (the participant who requests it can always reveal the contents of the e-mail anyway) this should not be a problem. In any case, privacy when sending unencrypted e-mails is never guaranteed and provided there is a warning that it is logged when sending the e-mail it should be fine. The checkuser does not need to see the e-mail addresses of either participant instead all the logs need to show is something like "user XYZ sent an e-mail to user ABC". It seems to me if we don't log e-mails, people can abuse the 'e-mail this user' function to send death threats and other extremely bad violations of policy and then claim they didn't send the e-mails. I believe this has happened before but the people who have received these e-mails have usually been one or more highly trusted users so it hasn't been a problem. I appreciate that this will require discussion on meta and changes to the privacy policy but I wanted to see what people here think before taking it there. Nil Einne 10:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
At Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster I get the following IE warning when trying to play either of the videos: "The website wants to run the following add-on: 'Java(TM) Web Start ActiveX Control' from 'Sun Microsystems, Inc. (unverified publisher)...'
This is largely gobbledegook to me, but I usually have no problem running Java controls, and according to this, this message is "usually caused by the website trying to use older code". It goes on to say: "Once you approve a control, any site on the Internet will be able to script that control without prompting you again. You should NOT approve the control unless you have strong reason to believe that the control is safe [...] You should encourage site owners to change their web sites to check for the newer, safer versions of the controls."
Does this mean that Wikipedia is using some dodgy old control that may expose users to risks?
Matt 12:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC).
I tried to get the main body text of an article to be double-spaced when in ?printable=yes mode (really useful for copyediting articles) but I haven't gotten it to work at all. I've tried to play around with my monobook.css, with media @print rules, but nothing. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Titoxd( ?!? - cool stuff) 18:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
line-height: 1.5em;
specified on the <p> tag, which will override anything just set in #content for most of an article and set it to Wikipedia's default 1½-space; you may also need to set separate line-heights on ul, ol, dd, fieldset, and pre, depending on what you want to be doublespaced. --
ais523 15:16, 9 October 2007 (
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The problem is, that with ?printable=yes, the only change to the page source is the link to /skins-1.5/common/commonPrint.css?100 has its media definition removed, so the print stylesheet is also applied in-browser. So, for printing, in theory nothing really changes. What you could do instead is a dirty little hack: Apply the doublespace CSS rules you wish in your css without a media @print rule. Then try something in your js like:
if(document.location.indexOf('printable=yes')==-1) { document.write('<style type="text/css"> /* css here to reset the spacing to de-facto */ </style>'); }
Then whenever you are not on a printable page, the text should be as you specify (and as it isn't waiting for document load, it is transparent), and whenever you're on a printable page, the text will be doublespaced per your personal css. Note that you could use importScript() instead, but that would require an extra subpage (which you don't really need for just one or two CSS definitions). -- Splarka ( rant) 07:26, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
@media print { #content * {line-height: 2em} }
in monobook.css seems to work (at least in bowser print preview) in Firefox 1.5, Opera 9.2, IE6 and probably everywhere else. Note the *. And make sure your monobook doesn't have errors, such using // for comments ∴
Alex Smotrov
13:58, 10 October 2007 (UTC)Is there a reason certain articles are very slow to load? I don't think it can be text size alone, as I rarely have problems with articles of similar size. I'm speaking mainly of United States, which can take up to half a minute to load diffs, whereas other articles load them within 5 seconds. I just clicked 'last' on the most recent diff in history and it took 34 seconds to load; I then went to a similarly-sized article (149k vs 163k), World War II, and loading the most recent diff took only 7 seconds. This is odd, and I would like to know why the United States article in particular is suffering from this. Is it the number of references? The sheer number of versions in history? -- Golbez 00:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Another problem that pops up because of this - any time I submit an edit to United States, I eventually get a Mediawiki error notice, I guess because it's taking so long to come back with a result. This is unacceptable, and can NOT be blamed on my computer. The edit still goes through but there's no indication of this unless you look at the article (another 34 seconds!) or history. -- Golbez 20:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
This is a cache size issue. The text alone from United States is 500 KB of meta-templated goodness, not counting javascript, stylesheets and of course images. I clocked five various diffs (with "time wget" from the shell) at between 43 and 48(!) seconds just now. The second try of each was about 5 seconds. When a particular version of an article with enough templates in it gets bumped from the caches, you wait. And wait. I disbelieve the developers when they say transclusion isn't a performance penalty. That depends on having an effectively much larger cache than we do. 1of3 03:40, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Category sorting system doesn't recognize various diacritical characters, forcing us to ignore them in category sorting - which can have small impact but also pretty major. Is there a bug filled on that we could vote upon? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 17:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there a piece of custom css I could use to not have to see the words "Revision history of .." in front of every page history title?--VectorPotential Talk 13:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function(){
/* Fix the title of the history page */
if(wgAction=='history'){
document.title=wgPageName.replace(/_/g,' ')+' - Wikipedia History';
var h=document.getElementsByTagName('H1');
if(h.length){
h=h0];
while(h.firstChild) h.removeChild(h.firstChild);
h.appendChild(document.createTextNode(wgPageName.replace(/_/g,' ')));
}
}
});
Why is User:JAnDbot being allowed to remove interwiki links? I have contacted the owner on the Czech WP, but it's still removing good iw links from pages. For example, see recent edits to Tincture (heraldry), where it removed links to the Catalan, German, and Dutch WPs. If allowed to continue, the bot could do serious damage to cross-pedia work. Could someone please STOP it? -- EncycloPetey 21:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
How can I code it so that a password is required to view certain specific pages of my wiki? In other words, I want most of my wiki readable by all, but on a few pages I want the user to provide the password to see the full text.
thanks!
-- Anamacha 03:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to be vague, which I suspect is the case, but I want to link to some wiki pages and need to use a complete URL. I have looked at all the policy and help I can find on links but haven't found what I need. In order for my app, a PDF printer driver, to recognise a link it must contain “.htm”, “.html” … etc which Wiki url,s don’t. I tried adding various extensions directly and also /index.htm but can't get anything to work. Please help, I only need a document name, default or otherwise and I am feeling a little silly now, after all links are hardly complicated.
What is up w/the watchlists??? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 11:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Can someone please help me figure out how to add a template(or even a wrapup script) to my talk page so that it ALWAYS remains on the bottom of the talk page regardless of new edits being added? For instance a template such as {{Editor review}} or a script wrap up such as </div>. I would like them to stay at the bottom of my talk page, even if new edits are added. Is there a code that can do this? Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 17:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
clear:both; position:absolute; left:0; bottom:0; margin-top:20px;
below my talk page header; the last content cleared it OK. Whatever you want to place in there, it should work. But as Alex says, it is sort of an illusion because it's not actually at the bottom in the edit window.
Adrian
M. H.
18:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)blue:both;
for clear:both;
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Adrian
M. H.
18:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)That's not it. I changed that myself to test colors to see if I could make it colorful or something. I'm saying the initial one doesn't work. It obscures the bottom comments. I want it to be spaced away from the bottom comment for instance perhaps with <br>. Wikidudeman (talk) 19:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Nope : User talk:Wikidudeman. Feel free to edit my talk page to see if you can get it to work. Wikidudeman (talk) 22:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a working version of this (as far as I can see, at least) on
my user talk page, transcluded from
my talk page header. The code used is <div style="position: absolute; bottom: 0; width:90%; height:20px; font-size: 95%;"><center>[[#toc|table of contents]]'' ~ ''[[#top|top of page]]''</center></div>
, and the text seems to always display after the close of the main (background) div of the page - I'd recommend consulting the code of my page header. I'm not sure of the stability of this hack, and I know it probably doesn't work for all skins (in fact, I'm pretty sure it breaks nastily in cologneblue), but it seems to work fine for monobook.
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Nihitres, Can I steal your talk page code for my own? I want something similar to that for my own talk page. Perhaps you can help me get it on there. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I've used an unclosed div trick (originally from user:Interiot) for a "not here" box that floats at the bottom. See, for example, user talk:John Fader. -- Rick Block ( talk) 13:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox_neon is having issues with its "Triple point" entry. Someone more wiki-savvy might want to have a look at it. Aaadddaaammm 02:24, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Regarding Template:MexPostRefPresidents, could someone please help me get "<< Post-Independence Presidents" and ">> Post-Revolution Presidents" on the same line? Same with Template:PMPortugal1926, regarding "<< First Republic" and ">> Third Republic". Thank you. Biruitorul 16:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I seem to have a problem with some images on here. Some images, not all of them, load properly at first, but then become a one-pixel wide line. (See this example) This may have to do with the previously mentioned New PngFix; but I'm not so sure. Anyone else getting this?
Mr. Matté 14:12, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Matté 14:30, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Matté 16:02, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Lisa_del_Giocondo on left under "navigation, interaction, search, toolbox" there is "in other languages" and you see
yet when clicking into Nederlands you then see that this article is also available in Spanish, yet this was not picked up on english wiki. Matthew Yeager 03:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
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I am searching around for any (hopefully comprehensive) source that talks about the changes in WP markup syntax. For example, a while back, Wikipedia used the not-uncommon convention of CamelCase words as the way to specify wiki links. This was before the current convention of square brackets.
Also, I am looking for client-side implementations of WP wiki syntax parsers, engines that parse and convert to HTML, but are not based on PHP or web-server code.
Any info and archive links that you can provide will be most appreciated. Thanks. dr.ef.tymac 19:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
hello everyone! well.i want to know about the particle filters thoroughly.can any one please help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodgalpriya ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I’m here to raise a topic again that I raised a few weeks ago about section headings which seem to clash with images and infoboxes on almost every occasion, see this image. However, I’ve noticed that this problem doesn’t exist with horizontal rules and it doesn't seem to exist on foreign language Wikipedias (see this article to see what I mean), at least not with images anyway. Why does this issue occur, and, more importantly, what can be done to fix it? Max Naylor 19:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
h2 {border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;}
h2 {border-bottom: none;}
div.tright {
border-width: 0.5em 0pt 0.8em 1.4em;
}
div.tleft {
border-width: 0.5em 1.4em 0.8em 0pt;
}
div.thumb {
border-style: solid;
}
Exactly how does the roll back function execute. When an administrator presses the rollback button what goes on in the wikipedia database? Specifically I would like to know if the any of the data on the is sent through the inter tubes aside from the rollback request. Thanks for any answers I get. -Icewedge 06:03, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
How do I do this? (If you want to know why, see WT:CRIC#Cricket) -- Dweller 10:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this problem, but the toolbar buttons no longer work when I'm using the Classic skin. This seems to be an IE-only problem; the buttons work correctly when I'm using Firefox. -- Ixfd64 15:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that only certain computers were affected. I tried editing on another computer while using Internet Explorer, but I didn't run into any problems. Anyways, it appears that this issue has been fixed! :) -- Ixfd64 21:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/User-script manager isn't seeming to work for me no matter what I do... I copy and paste the script text that it says to onto my monobook.js page, and it's not working...? If there's anything that needs to be done, an admin can feel free to add it to my monobook.js. Thank you! Y0u | Y0ur talk page 00:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Can the statistics for English language wikipedians please be updated? Not done since June 2006. [ [1]] 81.103.224.91 21:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey - is there any way to define a parameter within a template? As in say you want a new parameter - can you create it within the template?-- daniel folsom 22:39, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
<!-- In Template:Foo --> {{/bar|x={{{1}}} is a really awesome {{{2}}}! }} <!-- Then, in Template:Foo/bar --> Indeed, {{{x}}} I was going to say '{{{x}}}' myself, but you said '{{{x}}}' first.
I had occasion to run Wikipedia's own "robots.txt" file [2] through a "robots.txt syntax checker" [3]. There were many errors reported, mostly due to blank lines in places where the syntax doesn't allow blank lines. Tried another robots.txt checker [4], and that, too, reported errors. Some cleanup is needed. Thanks. -- John Nagle 00:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I am the author of the robots.txt tester on searchenginepromotionhelp.com.
The wiki robots.txt file has disallow statemnts which do not include a path, this is an error and the tester is correctly reporting it as such.
Example:
User-agent: IsraBot
Disallow:
My interpretation of the RFC is that comments are not permitted between a User-agent: statement and ruleline so those comments are flagged as errors.
The robots.txt RFC is here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html
Regards,
Bob
September 30, 2007 16:01 GMT —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob seph ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Quoting from the RFC:
Comments are allowed anywhere in the file, and consist of optional whitespace, followed by a comment character '#' followed by the comment, terminated by the end-of-line.
So it is only the blank lines that are problems, not the comments. As for blank paths, this is the only way to specify 'everything is allowed', and the RFC actually uses blank paths in its examples, implying that they're acceptable too. -- ais523 08:59, 1 October 2007 ( U T C)
Anyone else having trouble accessing their watchlist? I keep getting a 500 Internal Server error. — Edokter • Talk • 15:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Can't contact the database server: Unknown error ()
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Rugby471
talk ⚔
17:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Added my sig :-) > Rugby471 talk ⚔ 17:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)"
Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Living_people has the problem too, but Special:Recentchangeslinked/ shows the regular "no target" error. Anyway, this is not good because there's going to be a lot of undetected vandalism. Is there a developers' noticeboard? — Edokter • Talk • 17:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
It is for me... — Edokter • Talk • 17:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I created my new account yesterday and i cannot log in ?! Where can i see - and why - my account has been deleted - Thanks in advance - Bjorkfan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.217.157.113 ( talk) 07:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, yesterday I created an account only in "common", so I found everything back Bjorkfan 08:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
User rename log seems slightly broken. --VectorPotential Talk 20:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
After an image is uploaded into Wikipedia, is there a template or some other tag that can be used to have it also automatically uploaded into Commons? Or must I go to Commons and manually upload it there as well? - mbeychok 18:40, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The Wikipedia editor extension wikEd is now Greasemonkey compatible - that means it can be installed locally and then runs automatically on every MediaWiki wiki. wikEd is a full-featured edit page-integrated text editor with features such as syntax highlighting, MS-Word and web page import, powerful search and replace, and on-page preview and changes display. wikEd can still be installed by pasting a short code snippet to your User:Username/monobook.js page.
wikEd is currently only compatible with Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers, but work is ongoing to make it work under MSIE 7 and Opera 9 - please see the developer documentation and discussion if you would like to help. Cacycle 01:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
where is the page where i can ask for a speed deletion of an image i uploaded?!? ...did not find it - thanks in advance kernitou talk 09:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a feeling there probably isn't, but is there any sort of template, magic word, or other variety of wikicode that is able to read the last contributor to a page, or the time of the last edit? I'm looking to set up a sort of "vandal alarm" for my userpage that will display some sort of warning if I'm not the last person to have edited the page, but haven't found any sort of template that will allow this. Thanks. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 05:47, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{subst:REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}|{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}|unvandalized|vandalized!}}
I sometimes see pictures (and their borders) overlapping text. Here's what I see at the
William Henry Harrison
Battle of the Thames article:
Note the overlapped text at the top of the picture, and to the right of that, the "edit edit edit" text being overlapped by the words "General Harrison". I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.7, on Windows XP.
Tempshill
16:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I am from Malayalam Wikipedia ( http://ml.wikipedia.org).
We are having problems with some special pages that we are tring to create in Malayalam Wikipedia.
In Malayalam Wikipedia we are trying to create the special upload pages as in the English Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload).
As an experiment we started with the upload page
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
See the corresponding special page in Malayalam Wikipedia at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list is creating problem for us.
The license that is used in English wiki is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. We have created the same license in Malayalam Wiki. See that at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list in the malayalam wikipedia on this special
upload page is still showing the licenses that are defined at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses.
We want this special upload page to show the same licenses as in the English Wikipedia. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance.-- Shijualex 11:48, 4 October 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)
Seems that toolserver, or at least access to MySQL databases there, is down. [5] [6] [7] Not sure who to report this to, if anyone is aware of this, etc. I'm not on IRC now. -- Aude ( talk) 14:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that non-Wikimedia interwiki codes do not work in Wikimedia project URLs. For example, the entry for " John" on Wiktionary can be accessed via [[wikt:John]] or through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:John. However, the latter method does not work for non-Wikimedia wikis. For example, the main page of the Mozilla Wiki can be accessed via [[MozillaWiki:Main Page]], but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MozillaWiki:Main_Page results in a "bad title" error.
Is this intentional? -- Ixfd64 09:38, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason that [[[sic]]] renders as [[[sic]]] instead of [ sic]? The later can be produced with [<span/>[[sic]]] but I don't see why that is necessary because "" is not allowed in the titles of pages. ← BenB4 04:09, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
Entering wikipedia.org in the address bar promptly crashes mozilla with an Exit 11.
Mozilla 1.7.13 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060420
uname -a SunOS somename 5.6 Generic_105181-32 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.201.242.130 ( talk) 19:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been noticing for quite some time now that some thumbnails are a bit blurry. However if I ask for a very slightly larger or smaller thumbnail that doesn't exist yet the blurriness goes away; likewise if I simply purge the cache for the image. So I guess this is due to the blurry thumbnails being generated by an older version of MediaWiki that didn't have a very good image resizing algorithm. I noticed this phenonemon a while back, but decided not to pay attention because the upgrade could have been recent and the thumbnails didn't have time to be updated yet. However I find that I still come across many blurry thumbnails, to wit this €2 coin -- this severely harms readability because a blurry 150px thumbnail contains about as much information as a smaller 100px thumbnail. Plus by clicking on a blurry thumbnail you don't expect to find a nice high-resolution picture. I have no idea how to solve this: it's not feasible to hand-purge the tens of thousands of faulty thumbnails, so I don't know if MediaWiki has a way to automatically rebuild old thumbnails without putting too much strain on the server. Hope some technically-enclined person reads this. -- Ma Baker 16:06, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
File:150px €2 commemorative coin Italy 2005.jpg (blurry) vs. File:€2 commemorative coin Italy 2005.jpg (not blurry)
I'm lost, how to make Navbox hide? such as Template:Survivor_contestants ▪◦▪ ≡ЅiREX≡ Talk 01:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I found this file in my MediaWiki 1.11 installation - what exactly is it meant to do?? I'm not sure what to do with it... any advice?? Thanks, -- Solumeiras talk 17:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
i just happened to upload : Image:Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg i cannot see it : why please?!? is there any delay?! kernitou talk 06:30, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
another question : when i put the link in an article do i have to write Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg OR Grand_Funk_Railroad_We're_An_American_Band.jpg ? kernitou talk
If you want to put the image in the article you add [[ in front of the file name and ]] behind, like this: [[Image:Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg]].
If you want to put a link to the image you add [[: in front of the file name and ]] behind, like this: Image:Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band.jpg.
Maybe Wikipedia deleted the image because you don't know the million rules about fair use.
-- Kaypoh 06:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Maybe it's just a delay in updating the database. The difference between when you are logged in and when you are not logged in makes me think it might have to do with your browser cache. I can see the image fine, both here and on the image page. -- Slashme 08:32, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thumb
and right
floating the images away?I can see all the images that you uploaded. The problem is definitely something on your end. Either it has to do with your browser cache, your internet connection, something to do with your software setup or something else entirely, but it is not a problem with the Wikipedia software, and should not be discussed any further on this page, which is specifically for the discussion of technical issues about Wikipedia, and not for user support. -- Slashme 13:24, 28 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)
Is something wrong with my computer, or have other people been noticing this as well? Right now Wikipedia default loads in the "nostalgia" skin, like it looked right back when we launched this project six years ago. And no, I haven't changed my preferences or anything. Sometimes it toggles back and forth between ordinary and old-style. Any idea what this could be?? K. Lásztocska 00:21, 30 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)
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 tried to upload 3 .doc files today but found out that the file type is not acceptable. i do not know how to convert, tried some manipulations on my own to convert it to jpeg, not sure if i succeeded. anyway, bottom line is i asked a friend to do it since she had some experience. i just want my uploads to be rejected and hers- beverly maniago - to be accepted, since the important thing to have it posted. pls. advice... -- Pamexz 07:52, 29 September 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamexz ( talk • contribs) 07:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Image:Monosialotetrahexosylganglioside.PNG shows up as a gray box with "Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters" in the center. I purged and bypassed my cache, to no avail. The same thing happened when I moved it to Commons, which makes me think this is some sort of software quirk. shoy 04:22, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This annoying thing has happened at least twice on wiki so far within the past year or so, and I don't want it to happen again. This happens occasionally, and I mean very occasionally, but when it happens I lose my privacy. I am asking for help now because I'm still annoyed that it happens. Sometimes, when I edit, and I save, instead of staying logged in, the site for some reason logs me out, and I end up having my edit saved as an anon. This can happen on only the history, or sometimes worse, on a page where I sign my name. I'm very concerned about this because I have heard all the horrible stories about people being able to hack someone's computer or enter someone's house through an IP. However, sometimes the IP shows only a country, or occasionally perhaps a city that is incorrect, but nevertheless I'm still concerned. I will not tell you when or where this happened. What causes this to happen, and what can I do to prevent it? After it happened the first time, I have found myself constantly pressing page preview to make sure I was logged in still, and checking the history afterwards to make sure it saved under my username. However, sometimes I am busy or forget to preview, and one time it happened again. Are there signs of soontobeloggedoutaftersavingwikieditsageness, and is there anything that could be done to prevent it? I know pagepreviewing has prevented this from happening at least once. What can I do? Thanks. ~ A H 1( T C U) 22:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
This problem has been known to happen to me as well, although I haven't noticed it recently, both on Wikipedia and another Wikimedia wiki. (Hmm... it only happened back when I had no browser choices but IE6... but I don't know whether this is the problem or not.) 'Remember me' definitely solves the problem, if it's not a security risk for you to use it in your case. To prevent actually saving an edit when logged out, previewing and then saving immediately is the best advice; it tended only to happen when I'd left my browser on the same page for a long time period without changing it. Maybe it's a problem with cookies? -- ais523 17:16, 28 September 2007 ( U T C)
An alternate method, if you are using firefox, is to edit your local userContent.css file (google for instructions) and stylize the MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning, sort of like this:
#anoneditwarning { border:3px dashed #ff00ff !important; background-color: #ffff00 !important; font-size:200% !important; color:#ff00ff !important;}
That should get your attention. -- Splarka ( rant) 07:44, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I had occasion to run Wikipedia's own "robots.txt" file [8] through a "robots.txt syntax checker" [9]. There were many errors reported, mostly due to blank lines in places where the syntax doesn't allow blank lines. Tried another robots.txt checker [10], and that, too, reported errors. Some cleanup is needed. Thanks. -- John Nagle 00:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I am the author of the robots.txt tester on searchenginepromotionhelp.com.
The wiki robots.txt file has disallow statemnts which do not include a path, this is an error and the tester is correctly reporting it as such.
Example:
User-agent: IsraBot
Disallow:
My interpretation of the RFC is that comments are not permitted between a User-agent: statement and ruleline so those comments are flagged as errors.
The robots.txt RFC is here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html
Regards,
Bob
September 30, 2007 16:01 GMT —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob seph ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Quoting from the RFC:
Comments are allowed anywhere in the file, and consist of optional whitespace, followed by a comment character '#' followed by the comment, terminated by the end-of-line.
So it is only the blank lines that are problems, not the comments. As for blank paths, this is the only way to specify 'everything is allowed', and the RFC actually uses blank paths in its examples, implying that they're acceptable too. -- ais523 08:59, 1 October 2007 ( U T C)
Input is sought for a major style change to {{ expand list}}. The discussion can be found here: Template_talk:Expand_list#proposal. Thanks, --- J.S ( T/ C/ WRE) 19:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
That's pretty much my question. The page to create a wikipedia account has references to information on how to create a secure password. Why does the page then not use encryption? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.70.55.149 ( talk) 07:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to get a list of all users created in a two hour time frame (9AM to 11AM Jan 28 2007 UTC, to be exact). However, the user creation log doesn't seem to be adjustible by timestamp, only by numerical offsets and the users or pages involved. It would be very tedious to get to that date by clicking next over and over. Is there an easier way to get the usernames of all users created in this timeframe, or the whole day if 2 hours isn't possible? I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me out with this. Picaroon (t) 22:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a page on my wiki entitled "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)" but when I search for "CSS" this page is not reported. How can I make a search on "CSS" find this page? What code do I have to put on the page? Thanks!
-- Anamacha 08:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to simultaneously check the contributions of an entire range of IP addresses? Like 127.1.0.0/16, or something. Someguy1221 18:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I want to interwiki as follwing
how to? -- WonYong Talk 12:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman A while back I uploaded several historical maps and put them on several history articles. Later I found some inaccuracies on those maps, so I corrected them on my computer and used the "Upload New Version" feature on the images' homepages. SOME of those new versions appeared with no problems; others still aren't showing the corrected versions (even after more than a week). I've tried to re-upload new versions on a couple of the maps, but still no change (even after a day or more). What makes the images show corrected versions? One image example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:East-Hem_475ad.jpg Thomas Lessman 21:29, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman Unfortunately it's still showing the old version of the map. The new version shows the title of the map in the top left corner of the map, between Iceland and Scandinavia. If you click on the version next to the first "revert" option (right under the "current" version"), it shows the correct version. But even when I click on "Revert", it still shows the incorrect version (without the title, and with some boundries showing incorrectly). Also I tried the Purge feature you described (which I didn't know about earlier), but it still shows the older version. Thomas Lessman 22:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman LOL! Actually, I clear my browser cache at least 1-2 times per day (I work in a tech support dept). If you go to the Roman Empire article and scroll about 3/4 of the way down, you'll see 3 of the maps I uploaded a while back. The middle one (476ad) updated just fine (shows the title and correct borders) but the 1st and 3rd ones (475ad & 500ad) don't show the updated versions. Even when you click on the thumbnail, the 1st & 3rd maps open to show the old versions, but the 2nd one shows the correct version. Sorry man; I'll try to settle down! LOL Thomas Lessman 22:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thomas Lessman Even from another computer, I still saw the older version and not the newer. It's possible however, that the reason is because the filename changed from older to newer (I started adding "_web-sm" onto the maps on my computer when finished editing them, to differentiate from the originals).
Also, thanks for the heads up about the credits part, TCC. I only added those on there because I've been receiving feedback about inaccuracies on the maps, and I wanted to let people know how to contact me to let me know any changes that needed to be made. That and I also give the maps to local schools, and one of the teachers requested that I put "author info" on the image so they could see where they were from. Thomas Lessman 14:35, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
If you go to the Roman Empire article and scroll down about 3/4 of the way down, you'll see 3 of the maps I put on the article. The middle map shows the title in the top-left corner (that's the updated version). The 1st and 3rd maps don't show the title (still showing the old versions). I don't understand why one of the maps udated just fine, but the others don't. Thomas Lessman 16:23, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I would like to point out a minor problem with regards to the FA template shown on this talk page. When I click show the date is shown as November 2007. But when I click edit to this talk-page, the date is shown as November 2006. I just cannot comprehend this anomaly. Does anyone have any answers with regards to this? The template should be fixed but I do not know how. This is indeed a bit strange as well. For more information please view this comments. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 01:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there any sort of limit to the number of tabs that can be displayed on the top of a page? My monobook.js page has enough scripts to give me almost 20 tabs, but even though my screen resolution is set high enough to probably display 25 tabs, some of them don't display. Is there some function built into Firefox or MediaWiki that's preventing the tabs from displaying? Pyrospirit ( talk · contribs) 15:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I am wondering if there is a way to assign or simulate a "permanent id" for articles and items that a user has on his or her watch list.
For example, if the user has Millet on her watchlist, and someone changes the title of that article to something else [e.g., Millet (grain)], is there an unambiguous and failsafe way for that user to know that Millet (grain) is just a re-titled manifestation of Millet?
The purpose is to determine the possibility to automate certain aspects of watchlist management, hence the request for a "permanent id" field (or anything similar) to make this possible. dr.ef.tymac 10:09, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Is Special:MIMEsearch supposed to be disabled? I recently added a note to MediaWiki:Mimesearch-summary to reflect this page's current status - I'm just wondering why it is not working. --- RockMFR 16:35, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm interested in having an infobox which allows scrolling through multiple images. For example, check out this link: [11]. The arrows right above the image allow scrolling through images without reloading the page. Clever AJAX I assume? Anything similar been done on WP? If not, any thoughts on how difficult it would be to implement? AndrewGNF 01:28, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, so I got MediaWiki 1.11 working on my WAMP server, now all I need to do is ensure my other two wikis (when I install them) have the same settings. I created CommonSettings.php, as shown below:
<?php #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Settings common to all wikis #$wgStyleSheetPath = '/w/skins'; $wgStyleSheetPath = '/skins; $wgArticlePath = "//$1"; $wgScriptPath = '/w'; $wgStockPath = '/images'; $wgDBerrorLog = '/home/testwiki/logs/dberror.log'; $wgCheckDBSchema = false; if(!isset($wgLocaltimezone)) $wgLocaltimezone = 'UTC'; # Ugly hack warning! This needs smoothing out. if($wgLocaltimezone) { $oldtz = getenv('TZ'); putenv("TZ=$wgLocaltimezone"); $wgLocalTZoffset = date('Z') / 60; putenv("TZ=$oldtz"); } $wgShowIPinHeader = false; $wgUseGzip = true; $wgRCMaxAge = 30*86400; $wgLegalTitleChars = "+ %!\"$&'()*,\\-.\\/0-9:;=?@A-Z\\\\^_`a-z~\\x80-\\xFF"; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = '/usr/bin/convert'; $wgSVGConverters['rsvg-convert'] = '$path/rsvg-convert -w$width -h$height -o$output $input'; $wgAllowUserJs = true; $wgAllowUserCss = true; */ ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = false; if( $site == 'wikinews' ) { #$wgRightsPage = "";# Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright $wgRightsUrl = 'http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/'; $wgRightsText = 'Creative Commons Attribution 2.5'; $wgRightsIcon = 'http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png'; } else { #$wgRightsPage = "";# Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright $wgRightsUrl = 'http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html'; $wgRightsText = 'GNU Free Documentation License'; $wgRightsIcon = '/style/images/gnu-fdl.png'; } wfProfileOut( "$fname-misc1" ); wfProfileIn( "$fname-ext-include1" ); include($IP.'/extensions/timeline/Timeline.php'); include($IP.'/extensions/wikihiero/wikihiero.php'); include( $IP.'/extensions/SiteMatrix/SiteMatrix.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/Newuserlog/Newuserlog.php' ); require( $IP.'/extensions/Makesysop/SpecialMakesysop.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/Makebot/Makebot.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php' ); require( "$IP/extensions/Oversight/HideRevision.php" ); $wgGroupPermissions['oversight']['hiderevision'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['oversight']['oversight'] = true; // <ref> and <references> tags -ævar, 2005-12-23 require( $IP.'/extensions/Cite/Cite.php' ); // psuedobotinterface -ævar, 2005-12-25 require( $IP.'/extensions/Filepath/SpecialFilepath.php' ); # Inputbox extension for searching or creating articles include( $IP.'/extensions/inputbox/inputbox.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/ExpandTemplates/ExpandTemplates.php' ); include( $IP.'/extensions/PicturePopup/PicturePopup.php' ); $wgAllowRealName = false; $wgSysopRangeBans = true; $wgSysopUserBans = true; #### To declare an outage: #include("outage.php"); #declareOutage( "2005-01-03", "04:00", "08:00" ); # Log IP addresses in the recentchanges table $wgPutIPinRC = true; $wgUploadSizeWarning='5000000'; # Default address gets rejected by some mail hosts $wgPasswordSender = 'wiki@wikimedia.org'; # If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload # path here. Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they # will be put into $wgUploadDirectory. # # If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the # shared repository if no file of the given name is found in # the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). # Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this # directory. # $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons'; # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found #$wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/mnt/wikipedia/htdocs/commons/upload'; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/commons'; # Set this to false especially if you have a set of files that need to be # accessible by all wikis, and you do not want to use the hash (path/a/aa/) # directory layout. $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'commonswiki'; $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = true; $wgDisabledActions = array( 'credits' ); $wgDisableHardRedirects = true; # Process group overrides $wgGroupPermissions['steward' ]['makesysop' ] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['steward' ]['userrights'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['makesysop' ] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['userrights'] = false; foreach ( $groupOverrides as $group => $permissions ) { if ( !array_key_exists( $group, $wgGroupPermissions ) ) { $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = array(); } $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = $permissions + $wgGroupPermissions[$group]; } foreach ( $groupOverrides2 as $group => $permissions ) { if ( !array_key_exists( $group, $wgGroupPermissions ) ) { $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = array(); } $wgGroupPermissions[$group] = $permissions + $wgGroupPermissions[$group]; } // Prevent re-uploads /* $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['reupload'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['reupload-shared'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload-shared'] = false; */ // Added throttle for account creations if( false /*$lang == 'zh' || $lang == 'en'*/ ) { <pre>require( "$IP/extensions/Throttle/UserThrottle.php" ); $wgGlobalAccountCreationThrottle = array( /* 'min_interval' => 30, // Hard minimum time between creations (default 5) 'soft_time' => 300, // Timeout for rolling count 'soft_limit' => 5, // 5 registrations in five minutes (default 10) */ 'min_interval' => 0, // Hard minimum time between creations (default 5) 'soft_time' => 60, // Timeout for rolling count (default 5 minutes) 'soft_limit' => 2, // 2 registrations in one minutes (default 10) ); } ?>
Will this CommonSettings.php work?? If it doesn't, what do I need to do so it does work?
Thanks, -- Solumeiras talk 21:57, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
For those who used multiple instances of the old {{ Anchor}} with:
{{Anchor|Foo}}{{Anchor|Bar}}{{Anchor|Baz}}
There is now the possibility of just:
{{Anchors|Foo|Bar|Baz}}
or to add multiple functional aliases to a heading:
==George Walker Bush {{Anchors|George W. Bush|Dubya}}==
Details at the doc of {{ Anchor}} alias {{ Anchors}}. — Komusou talk @ 22:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I had the source of a well-programmed Wikipedia bot in C, but I lost it, and cannot find it at the moment. The bot was on the Wikipedia signpost, but, now, I just want the source of a bot programmed in C. Any help is appreciated! -- əˈnon gahy ♫Look What I've Done!♫ 20:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I am looking for a way to load the content of articles without loading the CSS, images, etc. It seems to me I remember someone showing me a way to view the XML of any MediaWiki article. It was somthing like /wiki/Special:XML?title=(title)... Does anyone know what I'm talking about? -- Anthony5429 19:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
action=render
and wikicode with action=raw
(
example); also see
mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php ∴
Alex Smotrov
19:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC){{
editprotected}}
Please add min-width:100px
to the definition for .thumbinner, so that on boxes for narrower images the caption text isn't squeezed down --
Random832
15:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Anyway, does anyone here have any objections? — Random832 16:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
A useful feature would be the ability to put an invisible comment on a page that will show up when someone attempts to move the page, telling them e.g. a consensus was reached about the current title, or is currently being discussed on the talk page, etc - for certain cases where the existing title appears incorrect (language variants, awkward constructions, etc) and a good-faith editor may assume they can simply move it without discussion. This would be similar to placing HTML comments in problematic areas on articles in case someone who doesn't know about the controversy tries to edit it - while you might say that since moving is limited to autoconfirmed users that shouldn't be a problem - but it's not that hard to go four days without running into a controversy or being aware one exists in some cases. I thought of this in response to a thread on ANI. — Random832 16:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to make my signature colorful, but it isn't working. Can I have some help? This is what I have in my prefs. <span style="color: #ff0000">[[User:Pupster21|Pupster21]]</span>, <span style="color: #ff7f00">[[User_talk:Pupster21|Talk To Me]]</span> —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 12:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Ah crap. Forgot to sign. -- Pupster21, Talk To Me 12:19, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It seems recently that when I try to log into Wikipedia from either the Seattle Public Library or the University of Washington Libraries, it fails. Login from my home machine is fine. Only obvious difference is that my home machine uses FireFox, whereas UW uses IE and the SPL uses some weird proprietary thing that is pretty clearly IE underneath. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? - Jmabel | Talk 23:36, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
It gives me the page with a captcha, suggesting that I might want to create an account. - 69.17.114.183 16:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I was doing something important when the database locked up a few seconds ago. Oh well. -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 11:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to insert HTML into wiki pages in such a way as the viewing browser will interpret and execute the code? I can put things in a <pre> box but that turns off execution as well. thanks! -- Anamacha 04:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
i did not find in the help section the list of the "faces" (courier, arial...) for the font function (i'll use it only on my page, right!) - thanks in advance kernitou talk 20:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the best forum for this, but here goes: why is the preferences/user profile edit count much higher than the wannabe_kate (not sure if that's actually what it's called) counter? It's obviously not the most pressing issue, but I'm curious. Thanks. Freshacconci | Talk 17:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Why is the {{ cite web}} template in the ref#5 in the Special:Search/HDi interactive format article not rendering properly? I am not seeing any syntactic error! -- soum talk 16:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
title
parameter. That is, it was fragmented like so:{{cite web| url = http://www.dvdforum.org/images/Requirements%20Specification%20for%20HD%20DVD%20Video%20Application-July2005.pdf | title = Requirements Specification for HD DVD Video Application | accessdate = 2007-10-03}}
For some reason I think it's either Azaoth or Voice of All's script, but for some reason the pop up (where it says action and user with a drop down menu) won't bring down the menu. Is there an update to anything that I should be aware of? -- Amaraiel 14:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk pages with no corresponding non-talk page may be eligible for deletion per WP:CSD#G8, but I can't find any easy way to search for such pages. I imagine that could be implemented as a special page without too much trouble. -- Derlay 12:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I am from Malayalam Wikipedia ( http://ml.wikipedia.org).
We are having problems with some special pages that we are tring to create in Malayalam Wikipedia.
In Malayalam Wikipedia we are trying to create the special upload pages as in the English Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload).
As an experiment we started with the upload page
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
See the corresponding special page in Malayalam Wikipedia at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list is creating problem for us.
The license that is used in English wiki is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. We have created the same license in Malayalam Wiki. See that at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork.
But the license drop down list in the malayalam wikipedia on this special
upload page is still showing the licenses that are defined at
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses.
We want this special upload page to show the same licenses as in the English Wikipedia. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance.-- Shijualex 11:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please 1) conrifm my vision that there are currently indeed red links on Help:Contents or more specifically this verision [12], 2) revert if so 3) clarify why the links don't seem to work if their appearance is changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tikiwont ( talk • contribs) 10:13, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
What is going on with my image Alcoalogo.svg? If you go it's page, it says that no pages link to the picture. However, if you go to the Alcoa page, you can clearly see the image in the infobox on the right-hand side. What is going on? Thanks, Weatherman1126 ( talk) 01:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I got one message, and the dumb yellow bar won't go away. I tried everything. I went to my talk page, I even resopnded to the message. I tried going to new pages, and an option about purging my cache. But nothing is helping. This is a public IP, and someone else is going to be getting that message forever. Please make it go away. 71.58.97.225 19:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
When I first load a page in IE, it is fine. When I refresh it, there is a syntax error. It says there is an error with line 2, character 1. This happens both when logged in and logged out, so it is not a monobook.js error. When using Firefox, an entry appears in the error console, saying that there is a syntax error with the following line:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Does anyone else have this problem? - BANG ! 00:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Proposed changes to Monobook.css are being discussed here. Input is sought and welcome. -- MZMcBride 02:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Yesterday an article, Psychiatric abuse, was deleted after heated debate. The article talk page had a lot of information on it. Has it disappeared along with the article? Or do deleted pages and their talk pages go somewhere? Thanks! -- Mattisse 01:46, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Have deleted pages ever been purged? 1of3 02:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a bug or something I'm doing wrong, so I'm posting here first before I (maybe) go to Bugzilla. I am trying to extend the {{
flagicon}} template to permit users to disable them. (This was a request made by more than one editor.) I had surrounded the existing rendering output (found in
Template:country flagicon2) by <span class="flagicon">....</span>
, so that the following could be put in a user's monobook.css (or whatever) settings: .flagicon { display: none; }
. This worked perfectly for any tranclusions of flagicon
made directly from main article text, but not for certain transclusions when the flagicon
call was made from within another template. For example, at
1954 FIFA World Cup#Knockout stage, the {{
Round8-with third}} template is used to format a table of match results. (Actually,
Template:fb is used here, but it is built on the same system as flagicon
.) This table was totally munged, as every parameter that used fb
was passed an empty string.
I have discovered that this problem only happens when flagicon
etc. are used as positional parameters to other templates (as was the case for Round8-with third
). Using the flag templates as named parameters works as I expected. Here are some sandbox test pages to illustrate this point:
{{
flag|Canada}}
. The CSS setting to set display:none;
works as expected if this page is transcluded directly.On my browser anyway (IE7), the call fails for the first template using my "modified" flag template (with the embedded span
) as a positional parameter, but still works for the existing flag
template (that doesn't have the span).
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Andrwsc 17:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
The PngFix script, allowing IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 users to see PNG images with proper transparency, has just been updated. While it has been extensively tested (on Commons), bugs have a habbit of surfacing without notice. So if you see any problem with displaying PNG images in IE5.5/6.0, try bypassing your cache first. If the problem persists, please post it here. — Edokter • Talk • 09:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Yikes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:1632_characters is showing A LOT of article titles that have nothing to do with 1632 series or 1632 series characters (the "link to [list article]) of most content in ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:1632 character articles [which is correct], which is the job of said template--putting things into there.
Can someone look into what's happening so the (links) go away in the list below (excerpt of Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:1632_characters):
* Tollbooth Gallery (links) *1634: The Bavarian Crisis (links)* Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1982 (links) * Armagh (Assembly constituency) (links) *1632 characters (links)
...
#Alexander MacKay (redirect page, transclusion) (links)* Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography/M (links) * Duncan Cameron (fur trader) (links)
And there may be more! (fix these and we'll see). The last time I saw anything like this t'was database corruption. Let me know what you all find by pinging my talk. Thanks! Cheers! // Fra nkB 21:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
It may happen that an innocent-looking change can cause trouble, for example by replacing </ref> with </ ref>, which is a non-functional tag. WP's differencer seems to ignore most changes in the number of blanks, and does not highlight them in red. If you are looking at diffs, and need to see differences in blanks, is there any option that can be tweaked? EdJohnston 20:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
diffchange
. So you could add something like this to
your monobook.css:.diffchange { border: 1px dotted red; }
What's a good way to center an image horizontally within a userbox? I've just made four userboxes and three look fine but one ends up left aligned. Any advice is welcome. Kroyw 03:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm starting my own wiki at http://wiki.anamacha.net ... and I am not sure where to go next. I intend for it to be a repository of information both about me and things I might use later. It's to be something of an 'outboard brain;' it's a personalpedia, a place to write things down, a place for brain dumps, and so on. This is all because I have problems with organization and my memory and such.
Anyway, I've got some content on my site, but I don't want to go too much further before my work starts creaking under its own weight. Would some of you more experienced Wikipedians take a look at my site and tell me what you think? Do some of you have your own wikis? If so, could you point me at them or at least tell me what you use them for and how they are organized?
I have a Suggestions page (and section on the main page) but you'll need to create an account in order to edit it. I have an account here, so you could easily mail me through that, I suppose.
Anamacha 04:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
I think there might be something wrong with the edit history. In this edit here I removed some vandalism, but in the edit here it says that I added the vandalism. If someone could explain what is wrong (or what I might have misinterpreted) that would be great! Icestorm815 22:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible for the MediaWiki image upload wizard to present the uploader with a blank {{ Information}} template, the way that the Commons upload wizard does? I think this would be helpful in ensuring the correct copyright information is present, and in making sure a description of the image is present on the image page. Videmus Omnia Talk 19:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Lately, I've been loosing edits -- making edits and then later not seeing them show up. I just noticed what I believe to be the cause -- I am being falsely nagged about not having provided an edit summary when I actually did provide an edit summary, at least some of the time. I just saw a case where that clearly did happen -- when I clicked save a second timein response tothe nag, the edit got saved, complete with the edit summary which was nagged to have been missing. I have apparently presumed on completion of page reloads that my edit (with edit summary provided) did complete, and have exited the page after it reloaded without reading the warning that the edit had not been saved because I was falsely believed not to have provided an edit summary. -- Boracay Bill 11:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
If it happens too often, you can turn off "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" in Prefs/Editing. 1of3 14:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Screencap in Firefox 2.0.0.6) There seems to be a pretty bad overlap between the Wiktionary template and the cleanup templates.-- 69.118.235.97 12:58, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I put the following CSS shown below in my user stylesheet. The purpose was to override monobook positioning of the page's elements when I view it in IE on Windows Mobile 5 on my Sony Treo.
If I remove the @media handheld {} wrapper, pages appear as I expect them to in a regular browser AND on my Treo, with the content at the top and the navigation at the bottom, and on the Treo the content fills the full width of the screen (which it didn't do in monobook before I added my customer styles).
With the @media handheld {} wrapper surrounding the styles, I get regular monobook on my computer. On the Treo, the links to jump to the navigation and search box at the bottom do appear underneath the page's heading, as I styled them to do, and the navigation does appear at the bottom. So I know that IE on the Treo recognizes that it's supposed to process the rules inside the @media wrapper. But I can't get rid of the left and top margins that offset the content from the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Even adding the !important didn't help.
Has anyone here had experience with this?
@media handheld {
div#jump-to-nav { display: block; font-style: italic; }
div#topicon { position: static; }
body div#column-content {
position: static ! important; float: none;
margin-left: 0px ! important;
margin-top: 0px ! important;
width: 100% ! important;
padding-left: 0px ! important; }
body div#column-content div#content {
position: static ! important; float: none;
margin-left: 0pt ! important;
margin-top: 0pt ! important;
width: 100% ! important;
padding-left: 0px ! important; }
div#column-one { position: static; padding-top: 1em; }
#p-logo { position: static; }
.portlet h5 { margin: 0.5em 0; }
.portlet li { white-space: nowrap; }
#p-cactions { position: static; padding-left: 0; white-space: normal; }
#p-cactions h5 { display: block; }
#p-cactions ul { margin: 0; }
#p-personal { position: static; white-space: normal; }
#p-personal h5 { display: block; }
#p-personal ul { text-align: left; padding: 0; }
div#p-logo { display: none; }
#footer { margin: 1em 0; }
}
— Largo Plazo 17:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
I hope someone can solve this problem for me. Whenever I try to count the number of edits on this page, an error answer comes up, being unable to show the number of my edits. However, as for other users, they can find the number of edits with no problems at all. For example, the number of edits for User:Blood Red Sandman is shown here with no problems at all. Can someone fix this for me? Thanks. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 13:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
There was a recent case where someone sent a vulgar, harassing email to User:Wiki Raja from the email address netmongers@gmail.com pretending to be User:Netmonger (note the additional "s" in the email address). Netmonger was subsequently blocked, but after the consensus among admins on the case on AN/I was that it was a joe job intending to frame Netmonger, the blocking admin left a note on Netmonger's block log that the previous blocks were in error.
Is there a way to find which Wikipedia account has the email address netmongers@gmail.com attached to it? It's likely a throw away account, so check user may be able to confirm who the actual creator of the account was.-- snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 16:06, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a page on my wiki entitled "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)" but when I search for "CSS" this page is not reported. How can I make a search on "CSS" find this page? What code do I have to put on the page? Thanks!
-- Anamacha 08:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
This diff clearly shows that I added a relfist and categories, yet the page still shows an oudated version. I've tried this in Opera 9 and IE6, so it's not a cache issue on my side...is osmething wrong wiht the server? hbdragon88 06:56, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Wow that was dumb. I should have realized that from the beginning. I've seen that screw up pages before and fixed them. It just didn't click this time. Thanks for the help. hbdragon88 07:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. Why is the landing page for Wikipedia.org so wide? It's been doing my head in my months because I can't figure it out. Thanks Doyley Talk 13:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how to go about this but thought it would be a good idea. Internal links currently look like this:
Yet external links currently look like this:
It would be better to replace the space in external links with a vertical line to corrspond with internal links like this:
Anyone agree?-- Phoenix 15 17:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Are we running some database update in the background again or is the counter stuck somehow? I chekced yesterday and it was at around 2 mill, now it's around 3,2 - 3.1 million and fluctuating up and down with 100.000 every few seconds. -- Sherool (talk) 04:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't have the technical savvy to know how to implement it, but would it be possible to enable watching of subpages (for example, individual topics in ANI) instead of an entire page? It would be very useful on pages where there is a single discussion out of many that one wishes to follow. ~ Eliz 81 (C) 03:34, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
It would be cool if there was an option to change the primary background color from white to black. This way poeple who spend long amounts of time reading and browsing the site wont get as much eye fatigue from reading off a brite white web page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hariziz ( talk • contribs) 21:51, 9 October 2007
Wikipedia was working yesterday for me finely until I went on and tried to search for articles such as {{JAG}} and {{Hybrid}}. It came up with this error:
"WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION Fout Fel Fallo 错误 錯誤 Erreur Error Fehler エラー Błąd Errore Erro Chyba English The Wikimedia Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
The problem is most likely temporary and will hopefully be fixed soon. Please check back in a few minutes.
For further information, you can visit the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.
In the meantime, you may be able to view Google's cached version of this page.
Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the Internet by traffic and continues to grow, and as a result the Wikimedia Foundation has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.
If reporting this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the following details: Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Hybrid&go=Go, from 66.230.200.135 via sq31.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE13) to () Error: ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD, errno (11) Resource temporarily unavailable at Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:30:38 GMT "
What does it mean and what do I do, I have some research to do.
Kenny Sullivan 21:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I've got a complicated template system for the Wikipedia Signpost (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Footer, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08, and {{ S-s}}). Essentially, what I'm trying to do is have it so that transcluding it normally produces what's generated at WP:POST/A (scroll down to see the example on October 1), but that transcluding it via the footer template produces what you see at the bottom of each Signpost page (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08/From the editor).
It's almost perfect, but note what the bottom of this page looks like -- the "from the editor" is on its own line, as the first link. I don't want that. There is an easy work-around -- by removing the line break in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08 between the first and second line, this should disappear. But I don't want to do that, because it makes it tougher to edit. Is there anything I'm missing, probably in {{ S-s}}, that would help me do that? Ral315 » 17:04, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, Is there a problem today? I am patrolling recent changes and every 5 or so reverts I am getting a 500 internal error when submitting a page. Thanks Doyley Talk 15:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
The .usermessage bar is staying active permanently for me, like it does sometimes for anons. Has anyone else had this happen? It's not a big deal for me, as I have hidden it temporarily, but it could annoy anyone who doesn't know how to do that (or want to do that). Adrian M. H. 13:45, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello guys.
Basically, I don't have an internet connected PC but I do have a phone with GPRS (which I'm using to write this message). A while ago I downloaded the source of several low-activity articles ( Category:Sesotho language) and worked on them at home (being careful to include those few changes implemented by other editors). I need to know if it is possible to send my changes to Wikipedia but without using the usual edit box mechanism (eg by using FTP or uploading a file as with images, which my phone can do)?
Basically, I'm too lazy to go to an internet cafe and wondered if I could do this at home instead. Thanks for any responses.
Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 13:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
It's okay. I finally took the plunge and decided to use my phone as a USB modem. It's actually cheaper than the (local) cafe as I'm only paying for data, not time (and implementing these changes is taking much longer than I thought it would). Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 16:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to disable the section-edit ([edit]) links on a per-section basis? -- soum talk 10:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
The recent netmonger case got me thinking. If you use 'e-mail this user' to e-mail people, is this logged? Does the log include the contents e-mail that was sent? The way I see it, if you use the wikimedia servers to e-mail someone it should be logged. If there is some dispute about an e-mail then checkusers, on the request of one of the parties, should be allowed to check the logs to confirm an e-mail was sent. Preferably they should also be able to view the contents of the e-mail that was sent too. I don't think this violates the privacy of participants as if you choose to e-mail someone you are not entitled to deny it if the receivee takes offence at the e-mail. Some people may be unsettled by the idea that other people can read the e-mails but since checkusers are supposed to be highly trusted users and are only allowed to view the contents in restrictive circumstances (the participant who requests it can always reveal the contents of the e-mail anyway) this should not be a problem. In any case, privacy when sending unencrypted e-mails is never guaranteed and provided there is a warning that it is logged when sending the e-mail it should be fine. The checkuser does not need to see the e-mail addresses of either participant instead all the logs need to show is something like "user XYZ sent an e-mail to user ABC". It seems to me if we don't log e-mails, people can abuse the 'e-mail this user' function to send death threats and other extremely bad violations of policy and then claim they didn't send the e-mails. I believe this has happened before but the people who have received these e-mails have usually been one or more highly trusted users so it hasn't been a problem. I appreciate that this will require discussion on meta and changes to the privacy policy but I wanted to see what people here think before taking it there. Nil Einne 10:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
At Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster I get the following IE warning when trying to play either of the videos: "The website wants to run the following add-on: 'Java(TM) Web Start ActiveX Control' from 'Sun Microsystems, Inc. (unverified publisher)...'
This is largely gobbledegook to me, but I usually have no problem running Java controls, and according to this, this message is "usually caused by the website trying to use older code". It goes on to say: "Once you approve a control, any site on the Internet will be able to script that control without prompting you again. You should NOT approve the control unless you have strong reason to believe that the control is safe [...] You should encourage site owners to change their web sites to check for the newer, safer versions of the controls."
Does this mean that Wikipedia is using some dodgy old control that may expose users to risks?
Matt 12:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC).
I tried to get the main body text of an article to be double-spaced when in ?printable=yes mode (really useful for copyediting articles) but I haven't gotten it to work at all. I've tried to play around with my monobook.css, with media @print rules, but nothing. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Titoxd( ?!? - cool stuff) 18:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
line-height: 1.5em;
specified on the <p> tag, which will override anything just set in #content for most of an article and set it to Wikipedia's default 1½-space; you may also need to set separate line-heights on ul, ol, dd, fieldset, and pre, depending on what you want to be doublespaced. --
ais523 15:16, 9 October 2007 (
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The problem is, that with ?printable=yes, the only change to the page source is the link to /skins-1.5/common/commonPrint.css?100 has its media definition removed, so the print stylesheet is also applied in-browser. So, for printing, in theory nothing really changes. What you could do instead is a dirty little hack: Apply the doublespace CSS rules you wish in your css without a media @print rule. Then try something in your js like:
if(document.location.indexOf('printable=yes')==-1) { document.write('<style type="text/css"> /* css here to reset the spacing to de-facto */ </style>'); }
Then whenever you are not on a printable page, the text should be as you specify (and as it isn't waiting for document load, it is transparent), and whenever you're on a printable page, the text will be doublespaced per your personal css. Note that you could use importScript() instead, but that would require an extra subpage (which you don't really need for just one or two CSS definitions). -- Splarka ( rant) 07:26, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
@media print { #content * {line-height: 2em} }
in monobook.css seems to work (at least in bowser print preview) in Firefox 1.5, Opera 9.2, IE6 and probably everywhere else. Note the *. And make sure your monobook doesn't have errors, such using // for comments ∴
Alex Smotrov
13:58, 10 October 2007 (UTC)Is there a reason certain articles are very slow to load? I don't think it can be text size alone, as I rarely have problems with articles of similar size. I'm speaking mainly of United States, which can take up to half a minute to load diffs, whereas other articles load them within 5 seconds. I just clicked 'last' on the most recent diff in history and it took 34 seconds to load; I then went to a similarly-sized article (149k vs 163k), World War II, and loading the most recent diff took only 7 seconds. This is odd, and I would like to know why the United States article in particular is suffering from this. Is it the number of references? The sheer number of versions in history? -- Golbez 00:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Another problem that pops up because of this - any time I submit an edit to United States, I eventually get a Mediawiki error notice, I guess because it's taking so long to come back with a result. This is unacceptable, and can NOT be blamed on my computer. The edit still goes through but there's no indication of this unless you look at the article (another 34 seconds!) or history. -- Golbez 20:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
This is a cache size issue. The text alone from United States is 500 KB of meta-templated goodness, not counting javascript, stylesheets and of course images. I clocked five various diffs (with "time wget" from the shell) at between 43 and 48(!) seconds just now. The second try of each was about 5 seconds. When a particular version of an article with enough templates in it gets bumped from the caches, you wait. And wait. I disbelieve the developers when they say transclusion isn't a performance penalty. That depends on having an effectively much larger cache than we do. 1of3 03:40, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Category sorting system doesn't recognize various diacritical characters, forcing us to ignore them in category sorting - which can have small impact but also pretty major. Is there a bug filled on that we could vote upon? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 17:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there a piece of custom css I could use to not have to see the words "Revision history of .." in front of every page history title?--VectorPotential Talk 13:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
addOnloadHook(function(){
/* Fix the title of the history page */
if(wgAction=='history'){
document.title=wgPageName.replace(/_/g,' ')+' - Wikipedia History';
var h=document.getElementsByTagName('H1');
if(h.length){
h=h0];
while(h.firstChild) h.removeChild(h.firstChild);
h.appendChild(document.createTextNode(wgPageName.replace(/_/g,' ')));
}
}
});
Why is User:JAnDbot being allowed to remove interwiki links? I have contacted the owner on the Czech WP, but it's still removing good iw links from pages. For example, see recent edits to Tincture (heraldry), where it removed links to the Catalan, German, and Dutch WPs. If allowed to continue, the bot could do serious damage to cross-pedia work. Could someone please STOP it? -- EncycloPetey 21:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
How can I code it so that a password is required to view certain specific pages of my wiki? In other words, I want most of my wiki readable by all, but on a few pages I want the user to provide the password to see the full text.
thanks!
-- Anamacha 03:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to be vague, which I suspect is the case, but I want to link to some wiki pages and need to use a complete URL. I have looked at all the policy and help I can find on links but haven't found what I need. In order for my app, a PDF printer driver, to recognise a link it must contain “.htm”, “.html” … etc which Wiki url,s don’t. I tried adding various extensions directly and also /index.htm but can't get anything to work. Please help, I only need a document name, default or otherwise and I am feeling a little silly now, after all links are hardly complicated.
What is up w/the watchlists??? -- Pupster21 Talk To Me 11:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Can someone please help me figure out how to add a template(or even a wrapup script) to my talk page so that it ALWAYS remains on the bottom of the talk page regardless of new edits being added? For instance a template such as {{Editor review}} or a script wrap up such as </div>. I would like them to stay at the bottom of my talk page, even if new edits are added. Is there a code that can do this? Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 17:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
clear:both; position:absolute; left:0; bottom:0; margin-top:20px;
below my talk page header; the last content cleared it OK. Whatever you want to place in there, it should work. But as Alex says, it is sort of an illusion because it's not actually at the bottom in the edit window.
Adrian
M. H.
18:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)blue:both;
for clear:both;
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Adrian
M. H.
18:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)That's not it. I changed that myself to test colors to see if I could make it colorful or something. I'm saying the initial one doesn't work. It obscures the bottom comments. I want it to be spaced away from the bottom comment for instance perhaps with <br>. Wikidudeman (talk) 19:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Nope : User talk:Wikidudeman. Feel free to edit my talk page to see if you can get it to work. Wikidudeman (talk) 22:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a working version of this (as far as I can see, at least) on
my user talk page, transcluded from
my talk page header. The code used is <div style="position: absolute; bottom: 0; width:90%; height:20px; font-size: 95%;"><center>[[#toc|table of contents]]'' ~ ''[[#top|top of page]]''</center></div>
, and the text seems to always display after the close of the main (background) div of the page - I'd recommend consulting the code of my page header. I'm not sure of the stability of this hack, and I know it probably doesn't work for all skins (in fact, I'm pretty sure it breaks nastily in cologneblue), but it seems to work fine for monobook.
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Nihitres, Can I steal your talk page code for my own? I want something similar to that for my own talk page. Perhaps you can help me get it on there. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I've used an unclosed div trick (originally from user:Interiot) for a "not here" box that floats at the bottom. See, for example, user talk:John Fader. -- Rick Block ( talk) 13:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox_neon is having issues with its "Triple point" entry. Someone more wiki-savvy might want to have a look at it. Aaadddaaammm 02:24, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Regarding Template:MexPostRefPresidents, could someone please help me get "<< Post-Independence Presidents" and ">> Post-Revolution Presidents" on the same line? Same with Template:PMPortugal1926, regarding "<< First Republic" and ">> Third Republic". Thank you. Biruitorul 16:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I seem to have a problem with some images on here. Some images, not all of them, load properly at first, but then become a one-pixel wide line. (See this example) This may have to do with the previously mentioned New PngFix; but I'm not so sure. Anyone else getting this?
Mr. Matté 14:12, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Matté 14:30, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Matté 16:02, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Lisa_del_Giocondo on left under "navigation, interaction, search, toolbox" there is "in other languages" and you see
yet when clicking into Nederlands you then see that this article is also available in Spanish, yet this was not picked up on english wiki. Matthew Yeager 03:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)