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Today, suddenly and with no warning, all links on Wikipedia pages were no longer underlined in my browser (Firefox 1.0.6 on MacOS X). I immediately suspected a browser issue, maybe corrupt preferences, restarted it, no change; rebooted the machine, same. I tried a different WP skin, and the underlinig was back. I don't know a lot about CSS or the way WP does style, so I started reading, and found that apparently an editor changed the Monobook.css file and removed one line,
a { text-decoration: underline }
with the edit summary, "don't force underlining". Unfortunately, it appears to have broken underlining in my browser; even with "Underline Links" checked, Wikipedia links are not underlined after this change.
There is some discussion on the Monobook.css talk page, but it's from months ago. I posted on the talk page, and the user's talk page. I would have reverted pending discussion, but that's beyond my technical chops, since the Monobook.css page appears to be generated elsewhere and I can't edit it directly.
Does anyone have any idea why that change would have prevented underlining, rather than just making it default to what's set in the browser? Did underlining disappear for a large number of other Firefox users today, or is this just some glitch in my configuration?
I also tried to override this with a monospace.css file as a user sub-page, but weirdly, adding that one line as the monospace.css file only works inside the edit/preview cycle (underlines return), but not after I save the page (and purge browser cache, etc.). Ideas? Thanks, MCB 01:38, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I also use Firefox (on Windows XP) and have noticed this problem. But I also checked Wikipedia on Internet Explorer and this problem occurs on that browser as well. -- FlyingPenguins 20:52, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
I just added the following to my user monobook.css ( User:Ilyanep/monobook.css) and I think it makes wp a lot more readable...
a {text-decoration: none;}
It still underlines on hover, and that's how my own personal webpage works. I think it makes just reading a lot easier. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 21:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
And someone just changed this again. Look, if you want to change your personal stylesheet, go for it, but please stop screwing with things that affect the user experience of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people who did not ask to have it changed. As far as I'm concerned, this is tantamount to vandalism. The question marks are very annoying. They must be even more so for anyone using any sort of assistive devices. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Due to the speed of page dispaly and saving, I often edit several pages in parallel. When mid sentence on one page, having another page pop-up and steal my typing is a pain. Is it possible to set a preference to stop "new edit window on top" behaviour? -- SGBailey 09:08, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
When you click the Newer edit / Older edit links, it ends up as a diff between the next version (older newer) and its neighbour. Would it be possible/sensible to rig it so that you can step the left version and the right version independently. I often want to step through versions comparing them to one particular version. Thus we might end up with 4 links: Left older, Left newer, Right older, Right newer. -- SGBailey 08:58, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, i was editing the article Huainan and using the template "{{Anhui}}" when problem occurred. No matter how i tried, the template wouldn't appear properly but instead appeared plainly as "{{Anhui". The same template has no problem on other pages (such as Ma'anshan or Lu'an). Please help. Great thanks! -- the baffled Plastictv 03:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
What would happen if a vandal reverted as many pages as possible to their starting point in history? Is MediaWiki designed to deal with that threat?
Eje211 21:12, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Usernames with U+202E (Unicode right-to-left override) should be disabled. To see why, check out Special:Log/newusers at 15:57, 16:07, 16:21, 16:26, 16:32 for today, October 13. -- Curps 16:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
U+202B (Unicode right-to-left embedding) might not be such a good idea either. -- Curps 16:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
My ISP (202.180.83.6) has been blocked three times today because of an anonymous vandal. Twice, I have lost work that i was doing because of it. If this keeps up, I may have to quit wikipedia until such time as I can get another IP (and given my financial lack of resources, that may be a considerable time). Surely there must be some way that anons can be blocked from using an IP while allowing registered users to continue using the same IP address? Please? Grutness... wha? 12:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
The vandal account TheVillagePumpIsOkay,ButImNot ( talk · contribs) appears to have vandalized the Village Pump twice, but his contributions show that he only edited the Village Pump once. What's going on? -- Ixfd64 09:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
When the font lists of Template:Unicode and Template:IPA were moved to MediaWiki:Common.css, it somehow broke Template:PIE and Template:IAST. These were apparently just copies of (an old version of) Template:IPA with different title and class parameters (and italicization in the case of Template:PIE). The templates had worked previously; broken they did not fix the IE6 Unicode font bug.
I was able to fix the broken templates by deleting the style parameters and changing the class parameters to either class="Unicode" or class="IPA". But now it occurs to me that this may prevent someone from customizing class="PIE" or class="IAST". Is it possible to specify Template:PIE with class="PIE" so that class="PIE" is by default the same as class="Unicode" (or class="IPA")? -- teb728 08:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Template_talk:Catalan-speaking_world#Usage_remarks? We seem to have a problem, and I'm sure there is a general solution that works in both Internet Explorer and Firefox (and, one hopes, everywhere else), but the two solutions we've tried so far have failed. The problem basically arises when we have two successive, large, right-justified tables or images. There might be a problem specific to how {{ Catalan-speaking world}} is implemented. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:24, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Recently, I noticed that when restoring a page, there is no "select all" button or something of that sort that allows admins to select all the boxes automatically and then choose which revisions of a page not to undelete. It would be pretty useful for removing particularly bad edits that should not be kept in the page history (e.g. Jimbo Wales' personal info). I was wondering if was at all possible to add such a function? Sasquatch t| c 03:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I live in Seoul and haven't been back in North America for quite some time. Just wondering if things are any faster over there or in Europe. When adding interwiki links from our Wikipedia I usually open up fifteen windows at a time right away just in case something weird happens and no pages open for ten minutes or so, which is what happened all day today. And for some reason Opera started turning up blank pages so I switched to Firefox which was a bit better even though pages only loaded properly for about 15 minutes at a time all day today. For some reason metawiki never had any problems though. Anyway, I was wondering if any of those problems have anything to do with being in Asia. I've seriously been considering having a bit of a presentation of Wikipedia over here because I live right in the centre of Seoul in an area just perfect for that sort of thing, but the thought of having to tell someone to wait and come back 15 minutes or maybe 30, maybe more...that scares me and I wouldn't dare try that until I was sure that things were going to work. Mithridates 18:44, 10 October 2005 (UTC) / io:user:mithridates
I submitted an article on Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge that is indicating possible copyright problems. As the manager of this Refuge, I wrote all of the text that is on www.fws.gov/lowersuwannee site and it was put on the web as public domain for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The main goal of listing this information on Wikipedia is to facilitate spreading word about the Refuge.
Can you assist? Please reply to me at
canoekat (at) earthlink (dot) net
Is there already a template to subst the current date via another template. (Confused?) Ok, if I use a template {{test template}} and do NOT subst it, is there a way, to have it show the date that it was used? I created Template:Log date to use inside the other template, but every way I have tried fails. Ie.. subst:Log date, using noinclude, etc. Basically I need to be able to use template 1 w/o subst, and have it subst the date it was used.
Any ideas? Thanks. ∞ Who ?¿? 08:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
All editors have reverted a vandal, looked up his contributions, and found dozens of other edits. Sometimes not all of the damage has been undone by other editors, forcing a careful checking of the history of all the articles the vandal recently edited. Whenever I follow a link from the a vandal's contributions profile, the instance of vandalism may be the current version or another edit may have follow. Not wanting to allow an instance of vandalism to be buried, perhaps, by legit edits, I click the next edit link just to be sure the edit which follows is a revert. Doing this adds up if I am check 10+ edits. Wouldn't it be great if in the contributions profile, there could be a mark next to any edit that indicates an immediate rollback? lots of issues | leave me a message 23:06, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there any easy way to see a list of pages with cross-namespace links out of article space--for instance, pages that link from article space to User, Talk, or Wikipedia namespace? For the most part they shouldn't exist, so it would be good to have an easy way to monitor for them. -- Aquillion 20:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
We are about to start using MediaWiki in our teaching at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and I have a number questions. e.g.
Where can I ask these types of questions or find answers or documentation?
I would like to know of the edit summaries of former redirects are available to be viewed with special:undelete/. For example, if an article with the title Fooer was moved to Fooder, making the original title Fooer a redirect. The move would generate an edit summary in the edit history of Fooer, stating there was a move, and the reasons why it was moved. If Fooder is later being moved back to Fooer, would the previous edit summary at Fooer be lost? Thanks. — Insta ntnood 19:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I have a user page on es:wiki. Is there a way for me to receive that orange "you have new messages" alert, or to design/format one of my own, so that if a message is left at es:wiki, I get an alert at en:wiki?
Thanks.
paul klenk talk 17:22, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Today I created accounts, using my real name (Paul Klenk, just like my user name) at de.wiki, fr.wiki, ja.wiki, pl.wiki, it.wiki, sv.wiki, nl.wiki, and pt.wiki. (This is to protect/maintain my identity across these sites, and assist with a possible future project.)
At the exact moment I was creating these accounts, a vandal created an imposter account at the Spanish site, with my name, Paul Klenk ( es:User talk:Paul Klenk). He claimed to be me, "Paul Klenk from New York". The vandal account has been blocked.
I am trying to figure out a way to solve this problem. I do have an inquiry at es.wiki, but because of the language barrier, it is a bit tricky to communicate.
How do we change this Spanish account's password temporarily so I can take over the account? Can the e-mail address be checked and or changed? (It is not set up to receive e-mail, or I would try to write the person.)
If you have expertise with this, please let me know.
paul klenk talk 23:38, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
There is a current problem with playing sounds. I have therefore devised a playbox which is here on the right. If it looks like an image box, that's because basically it is. It's not that pretty at the moment, but that can be easily fixed.
There are three columns each with a link and a button (which we'll have to get these made to look pretty but these placeholders are okay for the moment):
The caption goes beneath the box, as with pictures.
There are also a few formatting issues that needs to be sorted out as all of it ought to be blue and there are white lines where the table is. I'm also not sure that the text and the icons are required, maybe just the icons with alt text would suffice.
Still, neat, eh?
Please comment here. If you like it vote for it and it'll get noticed. Please say whether you prefer the version with or without the text. I think I'm inclining towards the one without the text. Dunc| ☺ 11:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
I have template:soundbox which is perhaps a little better, but I'd like to do this automatically. Perhaps I should get some proper icons drawn, since the ones above are placeholders. hmm. Dunc| ☺ 20:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I don't think you need the help icon that prominent. Most of the content we have here is provided with little or no explanation of its mechanics. For example the image enlarging has this tiny little double-picture image. If you see it you can work out what it means, and yet it's not intrusive if you know what you're doing. This isn't like MS Office's Tip of the Day that can be dismissed forever at the click of a button, whatever design is chosen will be unchangeable so we need to think about helping new users without constantly insulting the intelligence of regulars. Perhaps the help icon could be of the same scale as the magnifying one, or at the most 32x32 (though that's probably pushing it).
Also, future-proofing. Some day MediaWiki will no doubt have the ability to extract a first frame preview from video footage. Where then does that image go? Alternately, if the contributor decides to manually take a sample frame to include in the media box (this is being experimented with for the Cookbook Wikibook) how do they define the thumbnail image and yet still keep the other formatting aids this design allows without manually creating a template that recreates the code of the automatic one?
Also, customisability. In the See Also section there's no text in the way so the media box could be as big as needed without disrupting anything. However for in-paragraph usage you'd want a more discreet version. There would need to be a way to define this.
I think this is a great idea, it just needs to be made as robust and discreet as possible. Garrett Talk 18:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I have a question about my signature.
My wikiName is Serhiodudnic (12 characters). For the signature I use(in the field SpecialPages->NickName - I have checked "Raw signatures"): "[[User:UserName|nickname]] [[User_talk:UserName|(talk)]]", well there is like this "[[User:Serhiodudnic|nickname]] [[User_talk:Serhiodudnic|(talk)]]", but this is not work. I would my signature shows like this: nickname (talk), but in page it shows like this: nickname (talk)
Why?
Oh, yes! Really! Thank you very much! :)
serhio (talk) 18:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Can I insert a image in the signature? (but the image links to my page)
Thank you. If it is a servers question, I will not set a image in my signature; anyway, of "script point of view" I don't see in what way I can insert in the place of my nick name a image. I have tryed: " <a link="http://wiki/myWikiPage"><img src="http://mylocation/myImage.jpg"></a>" but this don't work...
11:29, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
There is a problem with creating a thumb for animated gifs: The first frame is reduced in size, the follow-up frames aren't, and the image becomes a mess. Here is the sample code that I tried (for use in de:Charge-coupled_Device):
The image is from Wikimedia Commons.
IMHO, there should be an option to avoid animation on thumnails anyway, or maybe this should be the default. These flickering images are quite annoying when reading text. Currently, the only way out is a [ [ Media: ... ] ] link, but a thumb would be helpful for the reader. - Anastasius zwerg 17:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
I have found a workaround in the meanwhile, based on :en:User:Duncharris/playbox. I have created a non-animated thumb and uploaded as a separate image. The code is this:
<div class="thumb tright"> <div style="width:182px;"> [[image:CCD_charge_transfer_animation_thumb.png]] <div class="thumbcaption">[[media:CCD_charge_transfer_animation.gif|Play animation]]</div> <div class="thumbcaption">descriptive text... ([[commons:Image:CCD_charge_transfer_animation.gif|Source and more info]])</div> </div> </div>
Unfortunately, clicking on the thumb only opens the thumb, not the animation. "Play" animation runs the animation alone, "Source and more info" shows the Wikimedia Commons page with the animation. Better solutions are welcome. -- Anastasius zwerg 18:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
The problem: We want a way to briefly link to audio files, like so:
But if you click on the loudspeaker icon, you go to the image page for the loudspeaker icon, which obviously confuses a lot of people. So it currently looks like this:
Ideally, we would be able to use css or software changes to make a clickable icon for audio files. One way I found that works is to add the image to all ogg files, in the same way that external link icons are added after all external links:
#bodyContent a[href $="ogg"] { background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Loudspeaker.png") center left no-repeat; padding-left: 16px; }
This is probably a bad idea, though. We probably want the icons on a case-by-case basis. We should be able to make a class for this:
.audiolink { background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Loudspeaker.png") center left no-repeat; padding-left: 16px; }
This mostly works for me. Problems:
See Template talk:Audio#Possible solution and MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Audio_links Omegatron ( talk) 19:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay, when I refreshed a page a moment ago, everything went weird as if it had been reformatted in an XPish sort of way. It was too specific to just have been a loading error. What's going on? It went when I refreshed again.
Does the 50 Hz used in EU countries pose more or less of an electrocution risk than the 60Hz used in the USA?
Dear Sir: We have mixing plant and flavor business in Iran . We would like to have more information about raw materials of liquid flavors and powder flavors (e.g seasoning ) and circumstance mixing these raw materials and making flavors .
Best regard Asgharinia manager director
You should ask at the reference desk. Dmharvey File:User dmharvey sig.png Talk 13:01, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi all. I was putting up an article for deletion, Midwest lakes policy center, and I noticed that another article, Midwest Lakes Policy Center, was already on the list. They are two different pages, for the same topic. There is just a capitalization difference between the namespaces. However, only one of them shows up on the list, even though in the AFD list's source code both of them are there. I think this is a bug; can anyone comment? -- mdd4696 14:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
someone vandalised the page on Plato by inserting "Hi mom u rule" in the first sentence.
I cannot seem to edit the page.
Somebody please remedy.
A bot is under production to automatically subst certain templates. It is generally accepted that certain templates should always be subst'ed rather than transcluded, for page stability and to reduce server load (see WP:AUM for details). If you have suggestions for templates that should always (or never) be subst'ed, please contribute them to Wikipedia:Subst. R adiant _>|< 23:00, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
In the article Category:User_en-N garbage appears right after its own self-cite; this appears to not be a browser problem, but some template gone deeply amok. Alas, I have not the technical wherewithal to diagnose whence the problem actually is. -- moof 13:18, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I was looking up Greek history on wikipedia tonight and came across this Plato page with a picture of a penis on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
I don't know what to say other than to report it and hope it gets fixed immediately.
thank you.
Hi, I am trying to upload a new version of an image over the top of the earlier one, which I have done many times before. The specific file I am trying to upload over is Image:Yarralumla_IBMap-TEST-MJC.png. I am getting a page that tells me "A file with this name exists already; please go back and upload this file under a new name." and doesn't give me the option to overwrite like I used to get. Is this a problem with the code? -- Martyman- (talk) 03:02, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I have received the same error on Image:A1a_at_ksc_small.jpg. I cannot find any options to change, and I am able to make revision changes to other images. Figure it must be a misconfiguration. -- Mcmillen76 04:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Would it be possible to introduce an artificial delay between the time a username is registered (and appears in Special:Log/newusers) and the time the newly-registered user can make their first edit? It should be at least 60 seconds, perhaps a few minutes, and perhaps this could be enforced in the software by automatically applying a very short block (one that doesn't affect the underlying IP).
This would not inconvenience normal users, who normally only register one username, ever. However it would help to deal with certain abusive sock usernames. Obviously, vandals can register innocuous-sounding sock usernames, but very often the whole point is to create a throwaway single-use username to leave a (taunting or sometimes even obscene) "message" in the contribution history. It would be nice if such "messages" could remain confined to the newusers log.
Right now, vandalbots can make their first edit only seconds after registering, and that's often too fast to block by manual or artificial means. Since the throwaway name is only used for a single hit-and-run edit, there's little benefit to blocking it after the fact, although we do so anyway.
As mentioned above, this wouldn't stop all vandalism, just "taunting username" vandalism. It would remove much of the motivation for even trying to registering "on wheels" or "is communism" sock names, since routine RC patrol would catch these in plenty of time. Right now, such names are often created in bursts, where the vandals engage in a race against time trying to get their edits in before each sock is blocked. We could put an end to that particular bit of nonsense, at least.
-- Curps 19:59, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
No links in the format http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PAGENAME&action=edit§ion=new&editintro=INTROPAGE will work unless PAGENAME doesn't exist. As an example, http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Reference%20desk/Humanities&action=edit§ion=new&editintro=Wikipedia:Reference%20desk/How%20to%20ask doesn't work. They still load a section edit page, but the edit intro does not display. Is this a feature, bug, or "issue"? :) Superm401 | Talk 18:52, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone suggest a reason why Image:UK_IT_and_NIC_2005-06.svg will not render correctly in Wikipedia? The file itself renders correctly in Firefox 1.5 (beta2), Opera 8.5, Adobe SVG viewer in Internet Explorer and Adobe Illustrator CS -- but not in Wikipedia. I would be grateful of any suggestions. -- Throup ( talk) 17:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
No response on Policy in 5 days, so I'll try here:
I've been patrolling images the last few days and noticed a few instances of people uploading .pdf files. Image:Turinys.pdf is an example from today. What is the intention of letting people do this? It won't show up as an image in our pages. (And, probably beside the point, it's not really a free format.) Tempshill 22:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
It appears that currently, we can't click on "Related changes" on a contributions page. This would be a useful feature, especially for tracking the edits of anons. I'm trying to reply to an anon that uses a small range of IPs, but have no way of knowing what their current IP. They are only editing a small number of articles, so I could check the history of each article to find the new IP. It'd be much easier to just click Related Changes. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-10-30 13:51
I am using Opera 9 tp1 and it is displaying external link icons after internal links for all but the menu, tabs, and class .plainlinks. This didn't happen in 8.5 iirc. I can't find where this icon is put in (in the CSS) so I can't see why it's doing this. Please help me as this is getting really annoying. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 03:53, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that the User edits counter doesnt work, which is a shame, because I want to see how much of a life I haven't got :) Sceptre 03:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
no, it was never intentionally disabled (well not recently, anyway :). please stop spreading this rumour. kate.
There are two issues I have with subst; it is not exactly equivalent to simple template transclusion.
First of all, it doesn't process <noinclude> and <includeonly>, which means some templates will behave differently if they are used as {{subst:template}} instead of {{template}}.
Second, parameters with default arguments remain in the substituted text. For example, in {{{2|Blah}}}, if the subst'ed template did not have a second parameter, it will insert {{{2|Blah}}}
in the wikimarkup instead of Blah
. This isn't a problem (currently), but it looks pretty silly. I can't seem to get in BugZilla at the moment, otherwise I'd have put this there. —
squell\
talk
22:34, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
What's the current state of SVG support in Wikipedia? The meta page m:SVG image support seems to be rather outdated. I've been trying to use SVGs for the first time (at polarizer), but the server-side renderer seems to have problems. Sometimes my images don't appear, and when they do render, the text (despite the glyphs apparently being properly embedded) doesn't use the correct font. My picture look ok off-line in the Adobe SVG renderer. I'd like to convert some of my diagrams (e.g.: image:Abbe-diagram.png) to SVG but not if the text doesn't render correctly. Is this as good as it gets at the moment, or am I doing something wrong? -- Bob Mellish 16:57, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Google searching for "Rosa Parks" in en.wikimedia.org search or commons.wikipedia.org search produces no results. A .wikipedia.org search only produces 40 results, many from "Kate's Quickview". ( SEWilco 15:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC))
For the Reference desk, I'm trying to create a link that will help people ask their questions. To that end I've created a link, which is supposed to lead to an edit page with an special page at the top, to explain the rules.
The syntax is [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}}/science|action=edit§ion=new&editintro=User_talk:Ec5618/Laboratory/Dog link] or variations thereof.
The odd thing is that Wikipedia:Reference_desk/science does work (although it's useless as it points to a page named Wikipedia:Reference_desk/science (uncapped science). The correct link should point to Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science, but that one doesn't seem to work. The template that should explain the rules does not appear (and neither does the standard template).
Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? Is it a bug or am I misusing something? -- Ec5618 10:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
It seems to have something to do with the fact that the page already exists, in which case there is no need for the standard Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.-banner. Is there any way this can be enabled/bypassed? It would help to be able to do this on pages such as WP:RD, WP:HD , WP:AFD and the like. -- Ec5618 10:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
On the "Upload file" page, can we remove the "Images copyrighted by Wikimedia" choice from the "Licensing" popup menu? That choice tags the image with "CopyrightByWikimedia", which says:
No ordinary user will ever use this tag, so it shouldn't be in the popup menu. Obviously the tag should exist, but anybody who will be using the tag will be familiar with using {{double brackets}}.
This came up when a user tagged Image:Le Marche.JPG with this tag from the popup menu because she wished to donate the photo to Wikipedia, and thought "CopyrightByWikimedia" would be nice to use. Thanks - Tempshill 04:04, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam, I am representing my client who owns a website on "coins and coin collecting". We would like to place a link in your website,please let us know how we go about it. Thanks for sparing some time. sukumar
I've noticed that, over the last three days, Wikipedia has been rather slow, and the database is down 30% of the time Sceptre 18:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I ran into an interesting thing when looking at two articles: ETA and Eta. I have duplicated the same problem in both Firefox and MSIE on Windows.
To see this problem for yourself you need to have visited some other page (anywhere on the Web) before going to one or other of the above pages. Then load one or other of these pages. If you load ETA first you'll see that there is a disambiguation link at the top to Eta; if you load Eta first, the first link in the second section is to ETA. Click through to the "eta" page that you did not load. Now click your back button. You will go back two pages; the back button will skip the intervening page. Then click the forwards button; with Firefox you will go to the first "eta" page you loaded, but the forwards button will then be disabled, not allowing you to go forward to the next "eta" page; with MSIE you will go to the second "eta" page you loaded, skipping the intervening "eta" page.
Actually, here's an even more straightforward demonstration. Open a new browser window (Firefox or MSIE), type in the address for one of the "eta" pages, then click on the link to the other "eta" page. Look at your back button; it is still disabled, so you can't go back to the first "eta" page you loaded.
I'm not going to run an exhaustive survey of all the possible permutations and results, as I think I've made my point. It's also interesting that it happens in the latest versions of both Firefox and MSIE, so perhaps (since Windows is not a case-sensitive operating system) it's a Windows problem. Anyone out there running a desktop Linux system who can duplicate the problem?
Suggested solution: Perhaps the powers that be (forgive me; I'm new here) should restrict creating articles that have the same name, but are capitalised differently. Any thoughts, or am I missing something or the 50 billionth person to bring this up? :) I did look around but didn't see anything similar.
-- Craig 11:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I keep getting "HTTP 500 - Internal server error", over and over again, whether I want to view a page, edit it, delete it, whatever. I have to keep trying five or six times before the task finally takes.
Also, if I use my Back arrow to go back to the Recent changes page, instead of taking me to the most recent version of the page, it takes me to the first version of the page I saw tonight. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
No matter how much I fiddle with my watchlist, some edits are missing. If I look at my contributions, all edits they appear, and the page history, they're all there too, but not in the watchlist. In fact, it seems like the most recent edit of a page is listed, but earlier edits aren't. If I edit a page, the listing gets updated to that edit, and any previous ones disappear.
I saw an old bug on bugzilla that was fixed, so its not that. I try Ctrl+F5, restart FireFox, restart PC to no avail. Also happens in IE. -- K. AKA Konrad West TALK 03:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Looking for procedures, experiences and practices on how to complete a non-isolated 24kv DC test placing a engineer/human at equal potential to the 24kv DC test object without personal protective equipment (PPE) utilized.
Please reply with any technical references, practices, references, etc.
J. Harvey
<email removed>
I'm curious, I made an article WITH internal links but without any categorization (I'm new at this), and then somehow the logger didn't record any of them and then the admin reinstated some (not all) of them, along with the categorization. I'm very curious as to why the logger would remove them? Is it because I didn't put a categorization? I'm just confused because I wouldn't want to go through all of it and put internal links all over again in another instance. And my friend doesn't believe me when I tell him I did indeed put them in.
Article Ça Va has category Category:Avant-progressive rock albums, yet it does not appear in Category:Avant-progressive rock albums. What gives? -- Bruce1ee 06:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
i'm very sorry if this is mentioned somewhere else on the site, but i can't find it.
please help.
A new user uploaded a new pic replacing the image "Resurrection.jpg". How do I revert the image? (I already told the new user about this and asked him to upload his image under a different name.) Thanks - Tempshill 18:27, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
See User:SPUI/wtf. Image:Amtrak schematic.png exists on commons, and I can embed it full-size or in a frame, or even thumbed as part of the text. But thumbing it in a frame gives a red link. -- SPUI ( talk) 09:23, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
There's now a block link in the toolbox for administrators when visiting user and user talk pages. — Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Far too much whitespace! what is going on? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:20, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
A few minutes ago, I made two section edits that went awry and erased everything but the edited section. It may have happened to others; I'm not sure. The diffs I could find, all showing the trademark "section edit" summary, are http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Superm401/Sandbox&diff=26228979&oldid=26228910 and http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk&diff=26228252&oldid=26228181 -- Superm401 | Talk 01:59, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone figure out why the first image at Great Lakes Storm of 1913 won't display? It does exist, if you go directly to the image page, but it won't show up in the article, just as a red link. It also doesn't show up at Gallery of 1913 Great Lakes storm images/Other images. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-10-21 03:15
I've noticed that some of the pages in my watchlist occasionaly get removed. In particular, I have to add Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism to my watchlist on an almost weekly basis. Has anyone else noticed this? - Trevor MacInnis ( Talk | Contribs) 00:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to disable the new links at the top of the page that take you directly to the search and navigation sections? I don't need them because I can already use keyboard shortcuts to access the sections, and the links are a distraction for me. Also, was there a discussion page for this change, and if so, where was it? - Graham/pianoman87 talk 04:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Here's another strange one... ever since the block I mentioned above was listed, I've been unable to make any new pages with IE. Every time I try, I get "HTTP Error: Resource is not found". I can still create pages OK with Safari and Mozilla, but I don't always have access to them. Editing existing pages with IE seems to be fine. It's got me stumped - anyone got any idea what's going on? (I haven't changed my preferences at all, so it's unlikely to be anything to do with that). Grutness... wha? 14:22, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Category:Bosnian_football_managers&action=edit
FWIW, I do use IE and Mac (IE5.2.1 and OS10.2.8), but creating new pages was no problem at all up until yesterday. As I said, it's fine if I try to create new pages with Safari or Mozilla, but not IE. I don't know if I'm using a proxy server (sorry), but the step in the process is identical to that mentioned above. If, say, I tried to load either [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mippity-moppity-moo] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mippity-moppity-moo&action=edit] it would try to load but would be unable to, coming up with the message as mentioned above. Grutness... wha? 23:32, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
I have the same problem. When I click on a red link, I get a 404 error instead of an edit page. And I'm on Windows Me. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:11, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Our article on the 404 error says IE will ignore a 404 if it's less than 512 bytes. A quick look at the sample Who's linked to above shows it's almost 25 kilobytes, so it shouldn't be a problem. We really need to do something to reduce the bloat. -- cesarb 03:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Works fine for me in IE 5.2.3, Mac OS X 10.4.2. -- Brion 22:00, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Still happening for me. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I've switched back to Firefox in order to access Wikipedia, though I hope it isn't going to hang my computer up like it has been doing. But this is unacceptable for people who have no choice but to use IE, the largest browser in the world. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:47, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Now submitted as bugzilla:3730
This is still happening. This needs to be fixed now. Not only does it make it impossible to warn vandals before I block them, I can't create new AfD entries, I can't see the contributions of users whose edits I see on Recent Changes, and it's going to drive away new users who will almost surely be using IE. 22:52, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
A lot of redirects are listed on Special:BrokenRedirects because they have a weird non-template after them:
#REDIRECT [[Decision tree]] {{R from part of subject}}
is typical. Why are they there? Is it OK to just remove the stuff after the last "]" ? -- SGBailey 17:35, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
OK, I know I'm going to make a fool of myself when someone points out some really obvious thing I've missed, but I've tried. Can anyone explain why the image tag at the top of the section at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Condom&oldid=27243082#Proper_use is not working? Even if reduced to an absolute minimum of parameters (i.e., just using the image name), all you get is a link. The link works and the image is there, but it does not show up as intended on the page. I even tried moving it somewhere else on the page (right to the top) in case some bug was causing a problem with an open tag somewhere, but the same thing happens.
The mark-up:
[[Image:CondomUse.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Male condom application.]]
results in:
<a href="/info/en/?search=Image:CondomUse.jpg" title="Image:CondomUse.jpg">thumb|100px|right|Male condom application.</a>
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
-- Craig ( t| c) 04:53, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
In the search tool we can limit a search to specific namespaces. Is it possible somehow to limit a search to the pages on one's own watchlist? If not, is this bug-worthy? -- Eddi (Talk) 01:33, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Why do we now have a page asking us if we really want to purge the cache for a specific page? Are users really purging too often? It seems to me that the confirmation page would add more to the server load as it has to load and display the new intermediate page before taking action. slambo 16:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that the tabs at the Spanish Wikipedia have a little bend in the upper-right corner, which makes them look more like tabs. Just wondering, is there a reason why we don't do that here? Because the site would look a little bit nicer in my opinion. Tito xd( ?!?) 05:44, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
.pBody { padding: 0.3em 0.1em; -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em; } .portlet h5 { background-color: #e0e3e6; border: thin solid silver; -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em; } #p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a { -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em; /* -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.5em; */ } #content { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.5em; }
Hi; Is the source code open? Where do I find it? TIA, beno
y with macron, ȳ, Unicode 233 hex, which is used in Old English morphology, appears as a box on my computer even though it is enclosed in Template Unicode. The same problem occurs with Template IPA: ȳ
I use MSIE 6.0, and my fonts include Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif.
The problem appears to be that Arial Unicode MS appears before Microsoft Sans Serif in MediaWiki:Common.css, but Arial Unicode MS doesn't support codes 218-24F. -- teb728 10:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I have just used Kates Tool and it only credited me with 592 when the last time I checked I had 617. That is 25 edits lost. I don't want to lose edits. Help. Thanks.-- Dakota t e 08:18, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
The "Internal error: no valid response from search server (10.0.0.17)" error is back. - 42istheanswer 04:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been getting this error all day, and logging out and back in doesn't make it go away. Server troubles?
Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in. -- Rayc 22:46, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Looking through WP:RFD, there are many votes for deletion of redirects to the wikipedia namespace to WP:ASR. I propose there to be a bot to search for redirects from the main to the wikipedia namespace and to delete them. There could be other combinations as well between various namespaces. Can this be done? -- Zondor 19:17, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
{{
wikilink|Horse|Cow}}
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SEWilco
07:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC))My son is trying to make a bibliography card and I don't see anywhere where I would find the author or a date, etc... can you assist?
Can someone please clean up and remove the vandalism on the Wiki article about Romulus Augustus? Also, make it easier to report site vandalism please.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustus
I cannot access the article on the song "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. I get the error message "The Document contains no data" when I try. I am using Firefox on OS X -- anyone else having this problem? -- I've tried it with safari and it doesn't work there either. -- i sent the link to two of my friends, one running XP and the other on OSX (not sure what their browsers are) and both were able to load. Anyone with any ideas? I first noticed the problem at around 10:30 today -- i've never tried to access the page before so i dont know if this is a new problem for me TastemyHouse 18:18, 4 November 2005 (UTC), edited 18:21
The search feature has recently been giving the error
Internal error: no valid response from search server (10.0.0.17)
What does this mean? How can it be fixed? -
42istheanswer
02:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
i wrote some words on your pareidolia page and would like to show the example of what i am talking about, without the reader going to the link. Is that possible? i think it would look good on the page. Thanks fred ressler.
Sorry to re-open this question, but every so often I have difficulty staying logged in. When I go to IRC to check it out, I am informed that the problem is my side, even though when I am experiencing this it doesn't matter where I am logging on to Wikipedia from, it happens. It's just started happening again, I'm fed up with it, and I really don't want to go through the same "it's something wrong your side/no it's not" discussion all over again. What causes this and how can I make sure it stops happening? -- 86.134.201.199 21:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC) ( Francs2000)
Lately, I've been having a recurrent problem with page editing. I'll make the changes I want, then click on "Save page", but instead of the changes being recorded I get a preview, like I would if I had clicked on "Show preview" instead. Sometimes this will happen four or five times before I can get the changes to register. Is this a known problem, or something on my end? — Josiah Rowe 17:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Over in VP(policy) some text vanished between two edits. The inserted paragraph and the preceding paragraph in this edit [2] do not show up in the next edit [3]. ( SEWilco 14:58, 11 November 2005 (UTC))
I posted a query about this a while back - what is the code (e.g. #FFFFFF) for the standard colour of wikilinks? I can't trace it on the list of colours and 'blue' is slightly off. If anyone knows, I'd be very grateful. Thanks, -- HighHopes (T)⋅ (+)⋅ (C)⋅ (E)⋅ (P) 23:37, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
The page is question is Portal:Politics. I'm trying to do two things - firstly, I would like the box with the pictures of a ballot box and Plato to line up vertically with the 'Politics Portal' box (and the other boxes beneath it) - so it just needs to be a little wider. How can I do this? Similarly, the boxes where the page is split into columns are nicely aligned - the gaps between boxes and header boxes are uniform, but I cannot get this to work for the big box at the bottom with the list of aritcles - the gap between this and its header is too large, and as before, it isn't wide enough. What do I need to change, and is there a WP guideline page teaching HTML to morons like myself? Thanks in advance! -- HighHopes (T)⋅ (+)⋅ (C)⋅ (E)⋅ (P) 17:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I first posted about this months ago but I'm still getting the problem. Sometimes when loading a Wikipedia page in IE6 the Category box appears in a separate window in front of and partly obscuring the main text, instead of below it. The box can't be moved with the mouse. Refreshing the page usually cures the problem, only for it to recur later when loading other pages. Lee M 17:17, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to somehow get a list of all subpages an article has? In this case, it's Portal:Politics - I just wanted to clear out unnecessary ones and know which ones I can use etc. Many thanks, -- HighHopes (T)⋅ (+)⋅ (C)⋅ (E)⋅ (P) 20:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but I couldn't find anywhere else to. I usually sign conversations with a template to avoid tedious typing. However, my signature lacks the date. At first, I tried {{CURRENTDATE}} and {{subst:CURRENTDATE}}, but these constantly refresh, not indicating the original posting time. What variable should I put in my template to timestamp my signature? Also, is there a way I can make a personal shortcut to my signature? - ElAmericano | talk 05:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
On the Jehovah's Witnesses pages, we're trying to get a way to link to online JW Bible translation, and I'm wondering if it's possible to get this done in a template like {{NWT-Lookup|book=Ecclesiastes|chapter=9|verses=5-6}}. Problem is the url format is rather complex:
The chapter and verses are straightforward, but the book names are abbreviated, and it would be a pain to ask Wikipedians to remember the JW abbreviations. It would be great to be able to convert full names to the required abbreviations in the template. Is this possible? If not, is there any other way of getting it done? -- K. AKA Konrad West TALK 03:44, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I've created an extension I think a lot of wiki admins may find useful to run on their mediawiki wikis.. take a look:
71.141.249.228 08:22, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi I just installed the program and every time I try to open it, it says access violation at address 00C475E0 in module 'Active~2.0CX'. Read of address 00000000 How can I fix this??
Hi there!
I had created two pages - Vaucluse College FCJ and also Faithful Companions of Jesus - they are working fine but when I search for them using the search box, they do not come up in results.
I was wondering what causes this? The pages have been up for a while now. :)
Thanks!
There's a short page now available that may be helpful to editors who have had problems with the display of their signatures. Very kind regards encephalon 02:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
When I navigate by clicking in wp, not only the wp window, but also other windows in the same IE process also hangs as well. I tried win2k and winxp, and with no luck. -- Skyfiler 02:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I know the image servers on Wikipedia have been slow recently, but today and last night they just do not seem to be serving any images and pages are constantly tryign to download them and not getting anywhere. This happens here and on commons, even with articles that I would have thought to be in my cache. Is there a problem with that part of your network?
I believe the problem could be reduced by avoiding using images in stub messages, since they don't really provide any significant benefit considering how much 'bandwidth' (not talking data-pipe specifically, just overall page/image serving) the shear number of them takes. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Unnecessary_images_are_killing_performance.2C_and_should_be_banned. Waterguy 20:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
For those of you who follow the Technical Pump but not the Policy Pump, a vigorous discussion has been going on there, which was referenced above by User:Waterguy. There is a distinct and immediate need for numbers that can tell us what impact images of different types (for example, associated with stub templates vs. all other images) have on performance of pages being served. In the Policy Pump discussion there are numerous suggestions as to what numbers would be helpful. Could one or more of the technical folks please weigh in with some of these numbers, posting their responses here, at the Technical Pump, where they should probably be found? Thanks very much in anticipation of your help. Courtland 23:38, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
If I try to edit [[x (y)|z]] to just [[x (y)|]], when I edit the saved file again it's back to [[x (y)|z]] (and if no other changes were made to the file, the edit doesn't even show up in the article's History--I assume there's a 'check if anything changed' routine that is checking at a point in the process where [[x (y)|z]] and [[x (y)|]] have been translated to appear the same). Wikipedia seems to have started having this problem in the past two or three weeks. (and no, I don't report bugs in any bug database if it displays submitter's email addresses. Waterguy 19:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
At
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm , the graphs are available in both PNG and
SVG format. But the way the SVG is embedded in the stats pages (via the <embed>
tag), it always demands a plugin, even if you're using
Firefox 1.5, which can view SVG natively. Shouldn't the HTML be changed so that it works in Firefox as well as
IE-with-a-plugin?
P.S. When viewing the SVG
directly to avoid the embedding problem above, the text is overlapping/unreadable at the bottom. That might be a problem too.
Phoenix-forgotten
18:36, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Anyone have any idea what is happening with the list of short pages? Is this just a side effect of a larger problem, or are the page blank vandals just being given a few days to have more fun than usual?
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) as count, page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_len<45 AND page_is_redirect = 0 GROUP BY page_namespace ORDER BY page_namespace DESC; +-------+----------------+ | count | page_namespace | +-------+----------------+ | 4 | 101 | | 45 | 100 | | 828 | 15 | | 14536 | 14 | | 2 | 12 | | 336 | 11 | | 7259 | 10 | | 1 | 9 | | 1190 | 8 | | 855 | 7 | | 83514 | 6 | | 194 | 5 | | 224 | 4 | | 16994 | 3 | | 16123 | 2 | | 32804 | 1 | | 507 | 0 | +-------+----------------+ 17 rows in set (12.29 sec)
The page Cameron Kerry has deleted revisions but doesn’t appear in the deletion log. How? Susvolans ⇔ 11:23, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
What is happening? Like newly edited pages get some crazy fonts, backgrounds and colors. Who is messing up? 150.210.226.7 22:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
This is very odd. Last night, I've made some edits to that page, and it was appearing normal for me then. However, on this edit, most of the text have been blacked out, and no-one else has edited the page after me. The only rational explanation would be that someone changed a template used on that page. However, there are no templates where the problem began to appear (at the "messages" headline). However, adding a </span> tag fixed the problem. I swear that the page was displaying properly earlier.
Anyone have an idea what's going on? Oh, I'm using the Classic skin, by the way. -- Ixfd64 22:40, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
What is going on with the sigs? Mine has been screwed up again, though it has not been changed and has worked perfectly for months. The last time a bot went wrong and screwed up. Please fix it. Entire pages are appearing as size 3 font. Talk:Côte d'Ivoire is now unreadable. FearÉIREANN 22:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
PS: Why are the commands now showing in my sig? They never did before. I haven't changed anything. FearÉIREANN 22:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
And Oh lookie. Everything is getting smaller here now too. Weeeeee!!! FearÉIREANN 22:51, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[[User:Jtdirl|<span style="background-color: orange"><font color="#006666">'''Fear''ÉIREANN'''''</font></span>]][[Image:Ireland-Capitals.PNG|15px]]<sup><font color=blue>[[user_talk:Jtdirl|(caint)</font></sup>]]
Seriously, this has caused major problems and has highlighted the need to block html tags in signatures ( example). violet/riga (t) 23:13, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello !
We disabled tidy extension tonight. It caused some troubles on the servers.
The immediate result is: the site is back up. The side effect is that incorrect HTML is no more fixed automaticly.
People should have a look at their tag and close them. </font> your stuff !!
Hashar 23:01, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Solution: fix the messed up HTML in your sigs. HTML tags must be properly nested or they are ignored and stuff stays on and messes up all that follows. If you're gonna use HTML tags in your sig, do it right. If you don't know how, then don't use the fancy stuff. :-) Vsmith 01:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I have no idea where to ask my table questions, so I guess I'll ask here. How do you make a td fully expand to fit its container, minus the margins. I thought having a margin of, say, .5 em would expand the td to the full size of its parent container, but doing so hasn't worked here. I'm not sure why. What am I doing wrong? - ElAmericano | talk 20:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
I am working on an article that has many "ephemeral" external links and would very much like to be able to use a bot to check them periodically, if one exists ... If someone knows of such a bot, I would greatly appreciate learning about it. Thank you. Polaris999 09:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Curious - I just tried putting Wikipedia inside an HTML frame (just a low-tech "open four web pages at the same time" page for my own use - WP's Search Page, Google, Yahoo Search and Weather.gov.) The other pages are acquiescing but WP isn't having it. When WP loads the frames disappear and WP loads as a single page. Is this behavior by design? I'm using IE 6 (no cracks!) Thanks! -- RevWaldo 18:38, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I have a suggestion for you: Please add full support for HTML (and JavaScript) when editing articles. I've noticed that although some tags work, like <div>, many do not. Please add support for HTML and JavaScript in articles. I hope you can also add support for JSP and PHP. Thanks!
Flarn 18:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Part of the Article has been deleted. The Map is gone. I think I did it on accident and I don't know how to put it back!!!
Q - Hello. I have an acount created through the French part of Wikipedia. I wound like to contribute to other parts of the encyclopedia, such as the English part and the Wikisource. But until now, I have been unable to login with my usual username and password. And no decisive answer came from the French counterpart of Village pump. Thanks in advance for helping.
User Baruch : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Baruch
A - :You have to create a new account for every wikimedia project. Martin 13:26, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Q - Thanks for the answer! When you write "a new account", do you mean with a new name ? I tried to create a new account with my usual name but it is already taken. Baruch.
A - :You could have used the same name if someone hadn't already taken the one you wanted. Now you will just have to make up a new name of your choice. Martin 14:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Q - The fact is that I've searched for a user that has the same name in the English part, and there isn't any. Of course there is me in French... It would be easier if I had the same name of course. Thanks anyway!
There seemed to be no Baruch, but I had to make up a new one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Baruch1677 ... Best!
This is copied from Wikipedia:General complaints and is soemwhat old. Can anyone suggest what the issue might be? DES (talk) 22:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
While trying to get students set up with Wikipedia accounts yesterday, some of the students were unable to create accounts because of some sort of limit on the number of accounts that could be created. The error message (sorry, this isn't an exact quote) said that a given student was unable to create an account because s/he had already created 10 accounts. This was not at all the case; there's no way that any one student even had time to create that many accounts.
Is this some sort of security feature that monitors the domain from which accounts are created? I realize that the computer lab in which we worked might be using some sort of sub-domain that makes it look like one IP address, but that's not the case.
How can this be avoided in the future? It's usually best for me to supervise the students when they create their accounts, but I might be able to turn this into a homework assignment that's done from home or from different labs on campus.
Any help or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raymond Meredith ( talk • contribs) 09:00, 26 January 2005
Klaipėda district municipality, Jurbarkas_district_municipality and some other articles are not showing the Template:infobox savivaldybe even though the template looks perfectly ok on say Kelmė district municipality. Any ideas why? Renata3 20:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
RFC_1036 gives (several times in a row, with IE6):
RFC 1036&action=edit">Start the RFC 1036 article or put up a request for it.
RFC 1036">Search for RFC 1036 in other articles. Look for RFC 1036 in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project. Look for RFC 1036 in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video. RFC 1036">Look for pages linking to this page
If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Try RFC 1036&action=purge">purge, otherwise please wait and check again later before attempting to recreate the page
Apokrif 20:30, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I made a template about skype, and I think we can use it in Babel. But unfortunately, I don't know how to make the "callto" protocol work. Is there anyone can help me to solve it? by Weihao.chiu 08:12, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to get clickable maps into Wikipedia articles? Any system of images or table markup that could create one? I've tried, for instance see Downtown_Ottawa#Map, but the best I have managed is essentially no better than ASCII art. - SimonP 20:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I play these? -- Revolución ( talk) 15:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Why is your server so BLOODY BLOODY SLOW? This must be one of the slowest servers on the internet! At times, it takes AGES to load a page! And this is supposed to be a popular site! Sure, Wikipedia is great, but the server is way, way, way TOO SLOW!!! 131.111.8.101 21:25, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
And today, for me, it is atypically fast. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:55, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Based on some technical information presented in a discussion elsewhere here on the Villiage Pump, I have been experimenting with reading Wikipedia while logged out and only logging in for editing. Based on my experience in the past couple of days, being logged out makes a tremendous difference in the response time for Wikipedia. For instance, while logged in I opened this article section for editing and it took a loonnng time to load but I tested to see the time it took for the same section to load for editing while not logged in and it was almost instantaneous. If you do a lot of editing, working in this schizophrenic manner with one hand logged out and the other logged in can make the difference between accomplishing something and not getting anything done at all. I am not an apologist for Wikipedia's slowness; rather I'm a pragmatist who wants to keep contributing even if it means using workarounds like this. Courtland 01:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I wasn't really sure where to put this post so I put it here. I was wondering, do administrators have a little list of newly added articles that they can review quickly to weed out the "unfactual" ones? A friend of mine said that he put up a stupid article (imagine that) and that you guys had it gone in less than 5 minutes. That's pretty fast even before considering how many articles there are and I am sure there are a lot added every day.
Spanish is spoken in almost an entire hemisphere,
Some articles have a tab containing a plus mark ("+") next to the tab labeled "edit this page". The "+" tab adds a new section, complete with headline, while the other tab edits the whole article. This seems to have no relation to the size of the article. Why this difference? Can one force one or the other? Is there some policy on the topic? Too Old 04:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Probably this has been discussed before but I wonder whether it's possible to make a list or count all the articles in one category, articles in subcategories included. I've searched for that kind of feature and couldn't find anything like this. Thanks. -- Tone 22:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
When I clicked on the discussion tab for the article "Pneumatics" (which has some minor vandalism, BTW), the page that came said: "There is no article called Pneumatics." Just wondering if this is a bug.
Has anyone else noticed that the pictures aren't loading? I was working on stubs last night and forgot to stop one of them from loading. I came back in the morning and the little picture that was embedded in one of the stub templates still hadn't loaded. It's been like this with pictures for about 2 weeks. The searchs are fast and the text loads right away for me, but no pics. Is there a problem with the media server, or with firefox?-- Rayc 01:14, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Erm.. Why are headers all of a sudden showing up in the middle of pages instead of the left side? I liked it better the other way, for what it's worth.-- Sean| Bla ck 19:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, this might be a temporary problem related to apparent stress on the servers, but it seems that my signature has been broken. (My talk page is no longer linked properly.) Just trying to let someone know. --- CH [[User_talk:Hillman|(talk)]] 17:10, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Some article has audio files, that read-out the article. Is there any category for files that has an audio files? If yes, could you mention it. roscoe_x 15:49, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Something odd's going on -- the "show preview" and "show changes" buttons don't do anything anymore; they both just act like I've only refreshed the page (no preview, no show, just the edit box). Clues? -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 18:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
It strikes me that the village pump pages can become rather lengthy and aren't always archived in time, especially because the ordering of sections here does not generally indicate which sections are still active, making archiving somewhat arduous.
It turns out to be feasible to create a bot that would automatically archive any section that hasn't been edited for a week, judging by the timestamps in signatures in that section. Of course the limit of "one week" is an arbitrary choice. Does anyone else think this may be useful? R adiant _>|< 16:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Does converting HTML entities into actual characters cause problems anywhere?
But...
—, –, −, -
µ, μ
⋅, ·
They are already being used quite a bit.
File:Special characters Verdana IE.png-- Patrick 10:59, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
There are still difficulties with editing Unicode. Despite various options, I haven't persuaded vim to edit utf-8 in a way compatible with Wikipedia. If others are encountering such difficulties, Unicode cleanup bots might often have to repeat updates to articles. Have bots noticed often having to repeatedly update the same articles? ( SEWilco 20:21, 13 November 2005 (UTC))
I've noticed that the Wikimedia button that appears on the bottom of every page (except in the Classic skin) is no longer linked to the image on Meta. Was this a recent change? Just curious. -- Ixfd64 10:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there some way to just ping wikipedia to see if a certain article exists? I have a wiki that some frineds and I have been working on, and I've notice a lot of article have "Link to Wikipedia Article" in it. So I was thinking of writing a script that would do a GET and see if it contains "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.". If it does, the "Wikipedia Link" will not be generated (or I'll made it red so people know there isn't an article). Results would be cached for a certain amount of time. But, while I would like that extra functionality, but I don't want to needlessly overload wikipedia with unneccesary gets. Is there an address where it just returns the title or not, or something like that so that it's not a big transfer or anything? Also, I could just download a server dump, but that'd be kinda a waste of space on my little server, since all I need to know is if the article exists or not. Any suggestions? Jeshii 04:33, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
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Today, suddenly and with no warning, all links on Wikipedia pages were no longer underlined in my browser (Firefox 1.0.6 on MacOS X). I immediately suspected a browser issue, maybe corrupt preferences, restarted it, no change; rebooted the machine, same. I tried a different WP skin, and the underlinig was back. I don't know a lot about CSS or the way WP does style, so I started reading, and found that apparently an editor changed the Monobook.css file and removed one line,
a { text-decoration: underline }
with the edit summary, "don't force underlining". Unfortunately, it appears to have broken underlining in my browser; even with "Underline Links" checked, Wikipedia links are not underlined after this change.
There is some discussion on the Monobook.css talk page, but it's from months ago. I posted on the talk page, and the user's talk page. I would have reverted pending discussion, but that's beyond my technical chops, since the Monobook.css page appears to be generated elsewhere and I can't edit it directly.
Does anyone have any idea why that change would have prevented underlining, rather than just making it default to what's set in the browser? Did underlining disappear for a large number of other Firefox users today, or is this just some glitch in my configuration?
I also tried to override this with a monospace.css file as a user sub-page, but weirdly, adding that one line as the monospace.css file only works inside the edit/preview cycle (underlines return), but not after I save the page (and purge browser cache, etc.). Ideas? Thanks, MCB 01:38, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I also use Firefox (on Windows XP) and have noticed this problem. But I also checked Wikipedia on Internet Explorer and this problem occurs on that browser as well. -- FlyingPenguins 20:52, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
I just added the following to my user monobook.css ( User:Ilyanep/monobook.css) and I think it makes wp a lot more readable...
a {text-decoration: none;}
It still underlines on hover, and that's how my own personal webpage works. I think it makes just reading a lot easier. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 21:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
And someone just changed this again. Look, if you want to change your personal stylesheet, go for it, but please stop screwing with things that affect the user experience of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people who did not ask to have it changed. As far as I'm concerned, this is tantamount to vandalism. The question marks are very annoying. They must be even more so for anyone using any sort of assistive devices. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Due to the speed of page dispaly and saving, I often edit several pages in parallel. When mid sentence on one page, having another page pop-up and steal my typing is a pain. Is it possible to set a preference to stop "new edit window on top" behaviour? -- SGBailey 09:08, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
When you click the Newer edit / Older edit links, it ends up as a diff between the next version (older newer) and its neighbour. Would it be possible/sensible to rig it so that you can step the left version and the right version independently. I often want to step through versions comparing them to one particular version. Thus we might end up with 4 links: Left older, Left newer, Right older, Right newer. -- SGBailey 08:58, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, i was editing the article Huainan and using the template "{{Anhui}}" when problem occurred. No matter how i tried, the template wouldn't appear properly but instead appeared plainly as "{{Anhui". The same template has no problem on other pages (such as Ma'anshan or Lu'an). Please help. Great thanks! -- the baffled Plastictv 03:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
What would happen if a vandal reverted as many pages as possible to their starting point in history? Is MediaWiki designed to deal with that threat?
Eje211 21:12, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Usernames with U+202E (Unicode right-to-left override) should be disabled. To see why, check out Special:Log/newusers at 15:57, 16:07, 16:21, 16:26, 16:32 for today, October 13. -- Curps 16:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
U+202B (Unicode right-to-left embedding) might not be such a good idea either. -- Curps 16:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
My ISP (202.180.83.6) has been blocked three times today because of an anonymous vandal. Twice, I have lost work that i was doing because of it. If this keeps up, I may have to quit wikipedia until such time as I can get another IP (and given my financial lack of resources, that may be a considerable time). Surely there must be some way that anons can be blocked from using an IP while allowing registered users to continue using the same IP address? Please? Grutness... wha? 12:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
The vandal account TheVillagePumpIsOkay,ButImNot ( talk · contribs) appears to have vandalized the Village Pump twice, but his contributions show that he only edited the Village Pump once. What's going on? -- Ixfd64 09:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
When the font lists of Template:Unicode and Template:IPA were moved to MediaWiki:Common.css, it somehow broke Template:PIE and Template:IAST. These were apparently just copies of (an old version of) Template:IPA with different title and class parameters (and italicization in the case of Template:PIE). The templates had worked previously; broken they did not fix the IE6 Unicode font bug.
I was able to fix the broken templates by deleting the style parameters and changing the class parameters to either class="Unicode" or class="IPA". But now it occurs to me that this may prevent someone from customizing class="PIE" or class="IAST". Is it possible to specify Template:PIE with class="PIE" so that class="PIE" is by default the same as class="Unicode" (or class="IPA")? -- teb728 08:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Template_talk:Catalan-speaking_world#Usage_remarks? We seem to have a problem, and I'm sure there is a general solution that works in both Internet Explorer and Firefox (and, one hopes, everywhere else), but the two solutions we've tried so far have failed. The problem basically arises when we have two successive, large, right-justified tables or images. There might be a problem specific to how {{ Catalan-speaking world}} is implemented. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:24, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Recently, I noticed that when restoring a page, there is no "select all" button or something of that sort that allows admins to select all the boxes automatically and then choose which revisions of a page not to undelete. It would be pretty useful for removing particularly bad edits that should not be kept in the page history (e.g. Jimbo Wales' personal info). I was wondering if was at all possible to add such a function? Sasquatch t| c 03:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I live in Seoul and haven't been back in North America for quite some time. Just wondering if things are any faster over there or in Europe. When adding interwiki links from our Wikipedia I usually open up fifteen windows at a time right away just in case something weird happens and no pages open for ten minutes or so, which is what happened all day today. And for some reason Opera started turning up blank pages so I switched to Firefox which was a bit better even though pages only loaded properly for about 15 minutes at a time all day today. For some reason metawiki never had any problems though. Anyway, I was wondering if any of those problems have anything to do with being in Asia. I've seriously been considering having a bit of a presentation of Wikipedia over here because I live right in the centre of Seoul in an area just perfect for that sort of thing, but the thought of having to tell someone to wait and come back 15 minutes or maybe 30, maybe more...that scares me and I wouldn't dare try that until I was sure that things were going to work. Mithridates 18:44, 10 October 2005 (UTC) / io:user:mithridates
I submitted an article on Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge that is indicating possible copyright problems. As the manager of this Refuge, I wrote all of the text that is on www.fws.gov/lowersuwannee site and it was put on the web as public domain for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The main goal of listing this information on Wikipedia is to facilitate spreading word about the Refuge.
Can you assist? Please reply to me at
canoekat (at) earthlink (dot) net
Is there already a template to subst the current date via another template. (Confused?) Ok, if I use a template {{test template}} and do NOT subst it, is there a way, to have it show the date that it was used? I created Template:Log date to use inside the other template, but every way I have tried fails. Ie.. subst:Log date, using noinclude, etc. Basically I need to be able to use template 1 w/o subst, and have it subst the date it was used.
Any ideas? Thanks. ∞ Who ?¿? 08:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
All editors have reverted a vandal, looked up his contributions, and found dozens of other edits. Sometimes not all of the damage has been undone by other editors, forcing a careful checking of the history of all the articles the vandal recently edited. Whenever I follow a link from the a vandal's contributions profile, the instance of vandalism may be the current version or another edit may have follow. Not wanting to allow an instance of vandalism to be buried, perhaps, by legit edits, I click the next edit link just to be sure the edit which follows is a revert. Doing this adds up if I am check 10+ edits. Wouldn't it be great if in the contributions profile, there could be a mark next to any edit that indicates an immediate rollback? lots of issues | leave me a message 23:06, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there any easy way to see a list of pages with cross-namespace links out of article space--for instance, pages that link from article space to User, Talk, or Wikipedia namespace? For the most part they shouldn't exist, so it would be good to have an easy way to monitor for them. -- Aquillion 20:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
We are about to start using MediaWiki in our teaching at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and I have a number questions. e.g.
Where can I ask these types of questions or find answers or documentation?
I would like to know of the edit summaries of former redirects are available to be viewed with special:undelete/. For example, if an article with the title Fooer was moved to Fooder, making the original title Fooer a redirect. The move would generate an edit summary in the edit history of Fooer, stating there was a move, and the reasons why it was moved. If Fooder is later being moved back to Fooer, would the previous edit summary at Fooer be lost? Thanks. — Insta ntnood 19:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I have a user page on es:wiki. Is there a way for me to receive that orange "you have new messages" alert, or to design/format one of my own, so that if a message is left at es:wiki, I get an alert at en:wiki?
Thanks.
paul klenk talk 17:22, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Today I created accounts, using my real name (Paul Klenk, just like my user name) at de.wiki, fr.wiki, ja.wiki, pl.wiki, it.wiki, sv.wiki, nl.wiki, and pt.wiki. (This is to protect/maintain my identity across these sites, and assist with a possible future project.)
At the exact moment I was creating these accounts, a vandal created an imposter account at the Spanish site, with my name, Paul Klenk ( es:User talk:Paul Klenk). He claimed to be me, "Paul Klenk from New York". The vandal account has been blocked.
I am trying to figure out a way to solve this problem. I do have an inquiry at es.wiki, but because of the language barrier, it is a bit tricky to communicate.
How do we change this Spanish account's password temporarily so I can take over the account? Can the e-mail address be checked and or changed? (It is not set up to receive e-mail, or I would try to write the person.)
If you have expertise with this, please let me know.
paul klenk talk 23:38, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
There is a current problem with playing sounds. I have therefore devised a playbox which is here on the right. If it looks like an image box, that's because basically it is. It's not that pretty at the moment, but that can be easily fixed.
There are three columns each with a link and a button (which we'll have to get these made to look pretty but these placeholders are okay for the moment):
The caption goes beneath the box, as with pictures.
There are also a few formatting issues that needs to be sorted out as all of it ought to be blue and there are white lines where the table is. I'm also not sure that the text and the icons are required, maybe just the icons with alt text would suffice.
Still, neat, eh?
Please comment here. If you like it vote for it and it'll get noticed. Please say whether you prefer the version with or without the text. I think I'm inclining towards the one without the text. Dunc| ☺ 11:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
I have template:soundbox which is perhaps a little better, but I'd like to do this automatically. Perhaps I should get some proper icons drawn, since the ones above are placeholders. hmm. Dunc| ☺ 20:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I don't think you need the help icon that prominent. Most of the content we have here is provided with little or no explanation of its mechanics. For example the image enlarging has this tiny little double-picture image. If you see it you can work out what it means, and yet it's not intrusive if you know what you're doing. This isn't like MS Office's Tip of the Day that can be dismissed forever at the click of a button, whatever design is chosen will be unchangeable so we need to think about helping new users without constantly insulting the intelligence of regulars. Perhaps the help icon could be of the same scale as the magnifying one, or at the most 32x32 (though that's probably pushing it).
Also, future-proofing. Some day MediaWiki will no doubt have the ability to extract a first frame preview from video footage. Where then does that image go? Alternately, if the contributor decides to manually take a sample frame to include in the media box (this is being experimented with for the Cookbook Wikibook) how do they define the thumbnail image and yet still keep the other formatting aids this design allows without manually creating a template that recreates the code of the automatic one?
Also, customisability. In the See Also section there's no text in the way so the media box could be as big as needed without disrupting anything. However for in-paragraph usage you'd want a more discreet version. There would need to be a way to define this.
I think this is a great idea, it just needs to be made as robust and discreet as possible. Garrett Talk 18:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I have a question about my signature.
My wikiName is Serhiodudnic (12 characters). For the signature I use(in the field SpecialPages->NickName - I have checked "Raw signatures"): "[[User:UserName|nickname]] [[User_talk:UserName|(talk)]]", well there is like this "[[User:Serhiodudnic|nickname]] [[User_talk:Serhiodudnic|(talk)]]", but this is not work. I would my signature shows like this: nickname (talk), but in page it shows like this: nickname (talk)
Why?
Oh, yes! Really! Thank you very much! :)
serhio (talk) 18:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Can I insert a image in the signature? (but the image links to my page)
Thank you. If it is a servers question, I will not set a image in my signature; anyway, of "script point of view" I don't see in what way I can insert in the place of my nick name a image. I have tryed: " <a link="http://wiki/myWikiPage"><img src="http://mylocation/myImage.jpg"></a>" but this don't work...
11:29, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
There is a problem with creating a thumb for animated gifs: The first frame is reduced in size, the follow-up frames aren't, and the image becomes a mess. Here is the sample code that I tried (for use in de:Charge-coupled_Device):
The image is from Wikimedia Commons.
IMHO, there should be an option to avoid animation on thumnails anyway, or maybe this should be the default. These flickering images are quite annoying when reading text. Currently, the only way out is a [ [ Media: ... ] ] link, but a thumb would be helpful for the reader. - Anastasius zwerg 17:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
I have found a workaround in the meanwhile, based on :en:User:Duncharris/playbox. I have created a non-animated thumb and uploaded as a separate image. The code is this:
<div class="thumb tright"> <div style="width:182px;"> [[image:CCD_charge_transfer_animation_thumb.png]] <div class="thumbcaption">[[media:CCD_charge_transfer_animation.gif|Play animation]]</div> <div class="thumbcaption">descriptive text... ([[commons:Image:CCD_charge_transfer_animation.gif|Source and more info]])</div> </div> </div>
Unfortunately, clicking on the thumb only opens the thumb, not the animation. "Play" animation runs the animation alone, "Source and more info" shows the Wikimedia Commons page with the animation. Better solutions are welcome. -- Anastasius zwerg 18:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
The problem: We want a way to briefly link to audio files, like so:
But if you click on the loudspeaker icon, you go to the image page for the loudspeaker icon, which obviously confuses a lot of people. So it currently looks like this:
Ideally, we would be able to use css or software changes to make a clickable icon for audio files. One way I found that works is to add the image to all ogg files, in the same way that external link icons are added after all external links:
#bodyContent a[href $="ogg"] { background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Loudspeaker.png") center left no-repeat; padding-left: 16px; }
This is probably a bad idea, though. We probably want the icons on a case-by-case basis. We should be able to make a class for this:
.audiolink { background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Loudspeaker.png") center left no-repeat; padding-left: 16px; }
This mostly works for me. Problems:
See Template talk:Audio#Possible solution and MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Audio_links Omegatron ( talk) 19:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay, when I refreshed a page a moment ago, everything went weird as if it had been reformatted in an XPish sort of way. It was too specific to just have been a loading error. What's going on? It went when I refreshed again.
Does the 50 Hz used in EU countries pose more or less of an electrocution risk than the 60Hz used in the USA?
Dear Sir: We have mixing plant and flavor business in Iran . We would like to have more information about raw materials of liquid flavors and powder flavors (e.g seasoning ) and circumstance mixing these raw materials and making flavors .
Best regard Asgharinia manager director
You should ask at the reference desk. Dmharvey File:User dmharvey sig.png Talk 13:01, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi all. I was putting up an article for deletion, Midwest lakes policy center, and I noticed that another article, Midwest Lakes Policy Center, was already on the list. They are two different pages, for the same topic. There is just a capitalization difference between the namespaces. However, only one of them shows up on the list, even though in the AFD list's source code both of them are there. I think this is a bug; can anyone comment? -- mdd4696 14:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
someone vandalised the page on Plato by inserting "Hi mom u rule" in the first sentence.
I cannot seem to edit the page.
Somebody please remedy.
A bot is under production to automatically subst certain templates. It is generally accepted that certain templates should always be subst'ed rather than transcluded, for page stability and to reduce server load (see WP:AUM for details). If you have suggestions for templates that should always (or never) be subst'ed, please contribute them to Wikipedia:Subst. R adiant _>|< 23:00, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
In the article Category:User_en-N garbage appears right after its own self-cite; this appears to not be a browser problem, but some template gone deeply amok. Alas, I have not the technical wherewithal to diagnose whence the problem actually is. -- moof 13:18, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I was looking up Greek history on wikipedia tonight and came across this Plato page with a picture of a penis on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
I don't know what to say other than to report it and hope it gets fixed immediately.
thank you.
Hi, I am trying to upload a new version of an image over the top of the earlier one, which I have done many times before. The specific file I am trying to upload over is Image:Yarralumla_IBMap-TEST-MJC.png. I am getting a page that tells me "A file with this name exists already; please go back and upload this file under a new name." and doesn't give me the option to overwrite like I used to get. Is this a problem with the code? -- Martyman- (talk) 03:02, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I have received the same error on Image:A1a_at_ksc_small.jpg. I cannot find any options to change, and I am able to make revision changes to other images. Figure it must be a misconfiguration. -- Mcmillen76 04:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Would it be possible to introduce an artificial delay between the time a username is registered (and appears in Special:Log/newusers) and the time the newly-registered user can make their first edit? It should be at least 60 seconds, perhaps a few minutes, and perhaps this could be enforced in the software by automatically applying a very short block (one that doesn't affect the underlying IP).
This would not inconvenience normal users, who normally only register one username, ever. However it would help to deal with certain abusive sock usernames. Obviously, vandals can register innocuous-sounding sock usernames, but very often the whole point is to create a throwaway single-use username to leave a (taunting or sometimes even obscene) "message" in the contribution history. It would be nice if such "messages" could remain confined to the newusers log.
Right now, vandalbots can make their first edit only seconds after registering, and that's often too fast to block by manual or artificial means. Since the throwaway name is only used for a single hit-and-run edit, there's little benefit to blocking it after the fact, although we do so anyway.
As mentioned above, this wouldn't stop all vandalism, just "taunting username" vandalism. It would remove much of the motivation for even trying to registering "on wheels" or "is communism" sock names, since routine RC patrol would catch these in plenty of time. Right now, such names are often created in bursts, where the vandals engage in a race against time trying to get their edits in before each sock is blocked. We could put an end to that particular bit of nonsense, at least.
-- Curps 19:59, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
No links in the format http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PAGENAME&action=edit§ion=new&editintro=INTROPAGE will work unless PAGENAME doesn't exist. As an example, http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Reference%20desk/Humanities&action=edit§ion=new&editintro=Wikipedia:Reference%20desk/How%20to%20ask doesn't work. They still load a section edit page, but the edit intro does not display. Is this a feature, bug, or "issue"? :) Superm401 | Talk 18:52, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone suggest a reason why Image:UK_IT_and_NIC_2005-06.svg will not render correctly in Wikipedia? The file itself renders correctly in Firefox 1.5 (beta2), Opera 8.5, Adobe SVG viewer in Internet Explorer and Adobe Illustrator CS -- but not in Wikipedia. I would be grateful of any suggestions. -- Throup ( talk) 17:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
No response on Policy in 5 days, so I'll try here:
I've been patrolling images the last few days and noticed a few instances of people uploading .pdf files. Image:Turinys.pdf is an example from today. What is the intention of letting people do this? It won't show up as an image in our pages. (And, probably beside the point, it's not really a free format.) Tempshill 22:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
It appears that currently, we can't click on "Related changes" on a contributions page. This would be a useful feature, especially for tracking the edits of anons. I'm trying to reply to an anon that uses a small range of IPs, but have no way of knowing what their current IP. They are only editing a small number of articles, so I could check the history of each article to find the new IP. It'd be much easier to just click Related Changes. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-10-30 13:51
I am using Opera 9 tp1 and it is displaying external link icons after internal links for all but the menu, tabs, and class .plainlinks. This didn't happen in 8.5 iirc. I can't find where this icon is put in (in the CSS) so I can't see why it's doing this. Please help me as this is getting really annoying. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 03:53, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that the User edits counter doesnt work, which is a shame, because I want to see how much of a life I haven't got :) Sceptre 03:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
no, it was never intentionally disabled (well not recently, anyway :). please stop spreading this rumour. kate.
There are two issues I have with subst; it is not exactly equivalent to simple template transclusion.
First of all, it doesn't process <noinclude> and <includeonly>, which means some templates will behave differently if they are used as {{subst:template}} instead of {{template}}.
Second, parameters with default arguments remain in the substituted text. For example, in {{{2|Blah}}}, if the subst'ed template did not have a second parameter, it will insert {{{2|Blah}}}
in the wikimarkup instead of Blah
. This isn't a problem (currently), but it looks pretty silly. I can't seem to get in BugZilla at the moment, otherwise I'd have put this there. —
squell\
talk
22:34, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
What's the current state of SVG support in Wikipedia? The meta page m:SVG image support seems to be rather outdated. I've been trying to use SVGs for the first time (at polarizer), but the server-side renderer seems to have problems. Sometimes my images don't appear, and when they do render, the text (despite the glyphs apparently being properly embedded) doesn't use the correct font. My picture look ok off-line in the Adobe SVG renderer. I'd like to convert some of my diagrams (e.g.: image:Abbe-diagram.png) to SVG but not if the text doesn't render correctly. Is this as good as it gets at the moment, or am I doing something wrong? -- Bob Mellish 16:57, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Google searching for "Rosa Parks" in en.wikimedia.org search or commons.wikipedia.org search produces no results. A .wikipedia.org search only produces 40 results, many from "Kate's Quickview". ( SEWilco 15:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC))
For the Reference desk, I'm trying to create a link that will help people ask their questions. To that end I've created a link, which is supposed to lead to an edit page with an special page at the top, to explain the rules.
The syntax is [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}}/science|action=edit§ion=new&editintro=User_talk:Ec5618/Laboratory/Dog link] or variations thereof.
The odd thing is that Wikipedia:Reference_desk/science does work (although it's useless as it points to a page named Wikipedia:Reference_desk/science (uncapped science). The correct link should point to Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science, but that one doesn't seem to work. The template that should explain the rules does not appear (and neither does the standard template).
Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? Is it a bug or am I misusing something? -- Ec5618 10:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
It seems to have something to do with the fact that the page already exists, in which case there is no need for the standard Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.-banner. Is there any way this can be enabled/bypassed? It would help to be able to do this on pages such as WP:RD, WP:HD , WP:AFD and the like. -- Ec5618 10:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
On the "Upload file" page, can we remove the "Images copyrighted by Wikimedia" choice from the "Licensing" popup menu? That choice tags the image with "CopyrightByWikimedia", which says:
No ordinary user will ever use this tag, so it shouldn't be in the popup menu. Obviously the tag should exist, but anybody who will be using the tag will be familiar with using {{double brackets}}.
This came up when a user tagged Image:Le Marche.JPG with this tag from the popup menu because she wished to donate the photo to Wikipedia, and thought "CopyrightByWikimedia" would be nice to use. Thanks - Tempshill 04:04, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam, I am representing my client who owns a website on "coins and coin collecting". We would like to place a link in your website,please let us know how we go about it. Thanks for sparing some time. sukumar
I've noticed that, over the last three days, Wikipedia has been rather slow, and the database is down 30% of the time Sceptre 18:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I ran into an interesting thing when looking at two articles: ETA and Eta. I have duplicated the same problem in both Firefox and MSIE on Windows.
To see this problem for yourself you need to have visited some other page (anywhere on the Web) before going to one or other of the above pages. Then load one or other of these pages. If you load ETA first you'll see that there is a disambiguation link at the top to Eta; if you load Eta first, the first link in the second section is to ETA. Click through to the "eta" page that you did not load. Now click your back button. You will go back two pages; the back button will skip the intervening page. Then click the forwards button; with Firefox you will go to the first "eta" page you loaded, but the forwards button will then be disabled, not allowing you to go forward to the next "eta" page; with MSIE you will go to the second "eta" page you loaded, skipping the intervening "eta" page.
Actually, here's an even more straightforward demonstration. Open a new browser window (Firefox or MSIE), type in the address for one of the "eta" pages, then click on the link to the other "eta" page. Look at your back button; it is still disabled, so you can't go back to the first "eta" page you loaded.
I'm not going to run an exhaustive survey of all the possible permutations and results, as I think I've made my point. It's also interesting that it happens in the latest versions of both Firefox and MSIE, so perhaps (since Windows is not a case-sensitive operating system) it's a Windows problem. Anyone out there running a desktop Linux system who can duplicate the problem?
Suggested solution: Perhaps the powers that be (forgive me; I'm new here) should restrict creating articles that have the same name, but are capitalised differently. Any thoughts, or am I missing something or the 50 billionth person to bring this up? :) I did look around but didn't see anything similar.
-- Craig 11:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I keep getting "HTTP 500 - Internal server error", over and over again, whether I want to view a page, edit it, delete it, whatever. I have to keep trying five or six times before the task finally takes.
Also, if I use my Back arrow to go back to the Recent changes page, instead of taking me to the most recent version of the page, it takes me to the first version of the page I saw tonight. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
No matter how much I fiddle with my watchlist, some edits are missing. If I look at my contributions, all edits they appear, and the page history, they're all there too, but not in the watchlist. In fact, it seems like the most recent edit of a page is listed, but earlier edits aren't. If I edit a page, the listing gets updated to that edit, and any previous ones disappear.
I saw an old bug on bugzilla that was fixed, so its not that. I try Ctrl+F5, restart FireFox, restart PC to no avail. Also happens in IE. -- K. AKA Konrad West TALK 03:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Looking for procedures, experiences and practices on how to complete a non-isolated 24kv DC test placing a engineer/human at equal potential to the 24kv DC test object without personal protective equipment (PPE) utilized.
Please reply with any technical references, practices, references, etc.
J. Harvey
<email removed>
I'm curious, I made an article WITH internal links but without any categorization (I'm new at this), and then somehow the logger didn't record any of them and then the admin reinstated some (not all) of them, along with the categorization. I'm very curious as to why the logger would remove them? Is it because I didn't put a categorization? I'm just confused because I wouldn't want to go through all of it and put internal links all over again in another instance. And my friend doesn't believe me when I tell him I did indeed put them in.
Article Ça Va has category Category:Avant-progressive rock albums, yet it does not appear in Category:Avant-progressive rock albums. What gives? -- Bruce1ee 06:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
i'm very sorry if this is mentioned somewhere else on the site, but i can't find it.
please help.
A new user uploaded a new pic replacing the image "Resurrection.jpg". How do I revert the image? (I already told the new user about this and asked him to upload his image under a different name.) Thanks - Tempshill 18:27, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
See User:SPUI/wtf. Image:Amtrak schematic.png exists on commons, and I can embed it full-size or in a frame, or even thumbed as part of the text. But thumbing it in a frame gives a red link. -- SPUI ( talk) 09:23, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
There's now a block link in the toolbox for administrators when visiting user and user talk pages. — Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Far too much whitespace! what is going on? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:20, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
A few minutes ago, I made two section edits that went awry and erased everything but the edited section. It may have happened to others; I'm not sure. The diffs I could find, all showing the trademark "section edit" summary, are http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Superm401/Sandbox&diff=26228979&oldid=26228910 and http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk&diff=26228252&oldid=26228181 -- Superm401 | Talk 01:59, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone figure out why the first image at Great Lakes Storm of 1913 won't display? It does exist, if you go directly to the image page, but it won't show up in the article, just as a red link. It also doesn't show up at Gallery of 1913 Great Lakes storm images/Other images. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-10-21 03:15
I've noticed that some of the pages in my watchlist occasionaly get removed. In particular, I have to add Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism to my watchlist on an almost weekly basis. Has anyone else noticed this? - Trevor MacInnis ( Talk | Contribs) 00:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to disable the new links at the top of the page that take you directly to the search and navigation sections? I don't need them because I can already use keyboard shortcuts to access the sections, and the links are a distraction for me. Also, was there a discussion page for this change, and if so, where was it? - Graham/pianoman87 talk 04:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Here's another strange one... ever since the block I mentioned above was listed, I've been unable to make any new pages with IE. Every time I try, I get "HTTP Error: Resource is not found". I can still create pages OK with Safari and Mozilla, but I don't always have access to them. Editing existing pages with IE seems to be fine. It's got me stumped - anyone got any idea what's going on? (I haven't changed my preferences at all, so it's unlikely to be anything to do with that). Grutness... wha? 14:22, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Category:Bosnian_football_managers&action=edit
FWIW, I do use IE and Mac (IE5.2.1 and OS10.2.8), but creating new pages was no problem at all up until yesterday. As I said, it's fine if I try to create new pages with Safari or Mozilla, but not IE. I don't know if I'm using a proxy server (sorry), but the step in the process is identical to that mentioned above. If, say, I tried to load either [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mippity-moppity-moo] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mippity-moppity-moo&action=edit] it would try to load but would be unable to, coming up with the message as mentioned above. Grutness... wha? 23:32, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
I have the same problem. When I click on a red link, I get a 404 error instead of an edit page. And I'm on Windows Me. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:11, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Our article on the 404 error says IE will ignore a 404 if it's less than 512 bytes. A quick look at the sample Who's linked to above shows it's almost 25 kilobytes, so it shouldn't be a problem. We really need to do something to reduce the bloat. -- cesarb 03:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Works fine for me in IE 5.2.3, Mac OS X 10.4.2. -- Brion 22:00, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Still happening for me. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I've switched back to Firefox in order to access Wikipedia, though I hope it isn't going to hang my computer up like it has been doing. But this is unacceptable for people who have no choice but to use IE, the largest browser in the world. User:Zoe| (talk) 03:47, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Now submitted as bugzilla:3730
This is still happening. This needs to be fixed now. Not only does it make it impossible to warn vandals before I block them, I can't create new AfD entries, I can't see the contributions of users whose edits I see on Recent Changes, and it's going to drive away new users who will almost surely be using IE. 22:52, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
A lot of redirects are listed on Special:BrokenRedirects because they have a weird non-template after them:
#REDIRECT [[Decision tree]] {{R from part of subject}}
is typical. Why are they there? Is it OK to just remove the stuff after the last "]" ? -- SGBailey 17:35, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
OK, I know I'm going to make a fool of myself when someone points out some really obvious thing I've missed, but I've tried. Can anyone explain why the image tag at the top of the section at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Condom&oldid=27243082#Proper_use is not working? Even if reduced to an absolute minimum of parameters (i.e., just using the image name), all you get is a link. The link works and the image is there, but it does not show up as intended on the page. I even tried moving it somewhere else on the page (right to the top) in case some bug was causing a problem with an open tag somewhere, but the same thing happens.
The mark-up:
[[Image:CondomUse.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Male condom application.]]
results in:
<a href="/info/en/?search=Image:CondomUse.jpg" title="Image:CondomUse.jpg">thumb|100px|right|Male condom application.</a>
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
-- Craig ( t| c) 04:53, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
In the search tool we can limit a search to specific namespaces. Is it possible somehow to limit a search to the pages on one's own watchlist? If not, is this bug-worthy? -- Eddi (Talk) 01:33, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Why do we now have a page asking us if we really want to purge the cache for a specific page? Are users really purging too often? It seems to me that the confirmation page would add more to the server load as it has to load and display the new intermediate page before taking action. slambo 16:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that the tabs at the Spanish Wikipedia have a little bend in the upper-right corner, which makes them look more like tabs. Just wondering, is there a reason why we don't do that here? Because the site would look a little bit nicer in my opinion. Tito xd( ?!?) 05:44, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
.pBody { padding: 0.3em 0.1em; -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em; } .portlet h5 { background-color: #e0e3e6; border: thin solid silver; -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em; } #p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a { -moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em; /* -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.5em; */ } #content { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.5em; }
Hi; Is the source code open? Where do I find it? TIA, beno
y with macron, ȳ, Unicode 233 hex, which is used in Old English morphology, appears as a box on my computer even though it is enclosed in Template Unicode. The same problem occurs with Template IPA: ȳ
I use MSIE 6.0, and my fonts include Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif.
The problem appears to be that Arial Unicode MS appears before Microsoft Sans Serif in MediaWiki:Common.css, but Arial Unicode MS doesn't support codes 218-24F. -- teb728 10:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I have just used Kates Tool and it only credited me with 592 when the last time I checked I had 617. That is 25 edits lost. I don't want to lose edits. Help. Thanks.-- Dakota t e 08:18, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
The "Internal error: no valid response from search server (10.0.0.17)" error is back. - 42istheanswer 04:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been getting this error all day, and logging out and back in doesn't make it go away. Server troubles?
Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in. -- Rayc 22:46, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Looking through WP:RFD, there are many votes for deletion of redirects to the wikipedia namespace to WP:ASR. I propose there to be a bot to search for redirects from the main to the wikipedia namespace and to delete them. There could be other combinations as well between various namespaces. Can this be done? -- Zondor 19:17, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
{{
wikilink|Horse|Cow}}
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SEWilco
07:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC))My son is trying to make a bibliography card and I don't see anywhere where I would find the author or a date, etc... can you assist?
Can someone please clean up and remove the vandalism on the Wiki article about Romulus Augustus? Also, make it easier to report site vandalism please.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustus
I cannot access the article on the song "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. I get the error message "The Document contains no data" when I try. I am using Firefox on OS X -- anyone else having this problem? -- I've tried it with safari and it doesn't work there either. -- i sent the link to two of my friends, one running XP and the other on OSX (not sure what their browsers are) and both were able to load. Anyone with any ideas? I first noticed the problem at around 10:30 today -- i've never tried to access the page before so i dont know if this is a new problem for me TastemyHouse 18:18, 4 November 2005 (UTC), edited 18:21
The search feature has recently been giving the error
Internal error: no valid response from search server (10.0.0.17)
What does this mean? How can it be fixed? -
42istheanswer
02:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
i wrote some words on your pareidolia page and would like to show the example of what i am talking about, without the reader going to the link. Is that possible? i think it would look good on the page. Thanks fred ressler.
Sorry to re-open this question, but every so often I have difficulty staying logged in. When I go to IRC to check it out, I am informed that the problem is my side, even though when I am experiencing this it doesn't matter where I am logging on to Wikipedia from, it happens. It's just started happening again, I'm fed up with it, and I really don't want to go through the same "it's something wrong your side/no it's not" discussion all over again. What causes this and how can I make sure it stops happening? -- 86.134.201.199 21:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC) ( Francs2000)
Lately, I've been having a recurrent problem with page editing. I'll make the changes I want, then click on "Save page", but instead of the changes being recorded I get a preview, like I would if I had clicked on "Show preview" instead. Sometimes this will happen four or five times before I can get the changes to register. Is this a known problem, or something on my end? — Josiah Rowe 17:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Over in VP(policy) some text vanished between two edits. The inserted paragraph and the preceding paragraph in this edit [2] do not show up in the next edit [3]. ( SEWilco 14:58, 11 November 2005 (UTC))
I posted a query about this a while back - what is the code (e.g. #FFFFFF) for the standard colour of wikilinks? I can't trace it on the list of colours and 'blue' is slightly off. If anyone knows, I'd be very grateful. Thanks, -- HighHopes (T)⋅ (+)⋅ (C)⋅ (E)⋅ (P) 23:37, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
The page is question is Portal:Politics. I'm trying to do two things - firstly, I would like the box with the pictures of a ballot box and Plato to line up vertically with the 'Politics Portal' box (and the other boxes beneath it) - so it just needs to be a little wider. How can I do this? Similarly, the boxes where the page is split into columns are nicely aligned - the gaps between boxes and header boxes are uniform, but I cannot get this to work for the big box at the bottom with the list of aritcles - the gap between this and its header is too large, and as before, it isn't wide enough. What do I need to change, and is there a WP guideline page teaching HTML to morons like myself? Thanks in advance! -- HighHopes (T)⋅ (+)⋅ (C)⋅ (E)⋅ (P) 17:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I first posted about this months ago but I'm still getting the problem. Sometimes when loading a Wikipedia page in IE6 the Category box appears in a separate window in front of and partly obscuring the main text, instead of below it. The box can't be moved with the mouse. Refreshing the page usually cures the problem, only for it to recur later when loading other pages. Lee M 17:17, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to somehow get a list of all subpages an article has? In this case, it's Portal:Politics - I just wanted to clear out unnecessary ones and know which ones I can use etc. Many thanks, -- HighHopes (T)⋅ (+)⋅ (C)⋅ (E)⋅ (P) 20:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but I couldn't find anywhere else to. I usually sign conversations with a template to avoid tedious typing. However, my signature lacks the date. At first, I tried {{CURRENTDATE}} and {{subst:CURRENTDATE}}, but these constantly refresh, not indicating the original posting time. What variable should I put in my template to timestamp my signature? Also, is there a way I can make a personal shortcut to my signature? - ElAmericano | talk 05:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
On the Jehovah's Witnesses pages, we're trying to get a way to link to online JW Bible translation, and I'm wondering if it's possible to get this done in a template like {{NWT-Lookup|book=Ecclesiastes|chapter=9|verses=5-6}}. Problem is the url format is rather complex:
The chapter and verses are straightforward, but the book names are abbreviated, and it would be a pain to ask Wikipedians to remember the JW abbreviations. It would be great to be able to convert full names to the required abbreviations in the template. Is this possible? If not, is there any other way of getting it done? -- K. AKA Konrad West TALK 03:44, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I've created an extension I think a lot of wiki admins may find useful to run on their mediawiki wikis.. take a look:
71.141.249.228 08:22, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi I just installed the program and every time I try to open it, it says access violation at address 00C475E0 in module 'Active~2.0CX'. Read of address 00000000 How can I fix this??
Hi there!
I had created two pages - Vaucluse College FCJ and also Faithful Companions of Jesus - they are working fine but when I search for them using the search box, they do not come up in results.
I was wondering what causes this? The pages have been up for a while now. :)
Thanks!
There's a short page now available that may be helpful to editors who have had problems with the display of their signatures. Very kind regards encephalon 02:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
When I navigate by clicking in wp, not only the wp window, but also other windows in the same IE process also hangs as well. I tried win2k and winxp, and with no luck. -- Skyfiler 02:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I know the image servers on Wikipedia have been slow recently, but today and last night they just do not seem to be serving any images and pages are constantly tryign to download them and not getting anywhere. This happens here and on commons, even with articles that I would have thought to be in my cache. Is there a problem with that part of your network?
I believe the problem could be reduced by avoiding using images in stub messages, since they don't really provide any significant benefit considering how much 'bandwidth' (not talking data-pipe specifically, just overall page/image serving) the shear number of them takes. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Unnecessary_images_are_killing_performance.2C_and_should_be_banned. Waterguy 20:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
For those of you who follow the Technical Pump but not the Policy Pump, a vigorous discussion has been going on there, which was referenced above by User:Waterguy. There is a distinct and immediate need for numbers that can tell us what impact images of different types (for example, associated with stub templates vs. all other images) have on performance of pages being served. In the Policy Pump discussion there are numerous suggestions as to what numbers would be helpful. Could one or more of the technical folks please weigh in with some of these numbers, posting their responses here, at the Technical Pump, where they should probably be found? Thanks very much in anticipation of your help. Courtland 23:38, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
If I try to edit [[x (y)|z]] to just [[x (y)|]], when I edit the saved file again it's back to [[x (y)|z]] (and if no other changes were made to the file, the edit doesn't even show up in the article's History--I assume there's a 'check if anything changed' routine that is checking at a point in the process where [[x (y)|z]] and [[x (y)|]] have been translated to appear the same). Wikipedia seems to have started having this problem in the past two or three weeks. (and no, I don't report bugs in any bug database if it displays submitter's email addresses. Waterguy 19:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
At
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm , the graphs are available in both PNG and
SVG format. But the way the SVG is embedded in the stats pages (via the <embed>
tag), it always demands a plugin, even if you're using
Firefox 1.5, which can view SVG natively. Shouldn't the HTML be changed so that it works in Firefox as well as
IE-with-a-plugin?
P.S. When viewing the SVG
directly to avoid the embedding problem above, the text is overlapping/unreadable at the bottom. That might be a problem too.
Phoenix-forgotten
18:36, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Anyone have any idea what is happening with the list of short pages? Is this just a side effect of a larger problem, or are the page blank vandals just being given a few days to have more fun than usual?
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) as count, page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_len<45 AND page_is_redirect = 0 GROUP BY page_namespace ORDER BY page_namespace DESC; +-------+----------------+ | count | page_namespace | +-------+----------------+ | 4 | 101 | | 45 | 100 | | 828 | 15 | | 14536 | 14 | | 2 | 12 | | 336 | 11 | | 7259 | 10 | | 1 | 9 | | 1190 | 8 | | 855 | 7 | | 83514 | 6 | | 194 | 5 | | 224 | 4 | | 16994 | 3 | | 16123 | 2 | | 32804 | 1 | | 507 | 0 | +-------+----------------+ 17 rows in set (12.29 sec)
The page Cameron Kerry has deleted revisions but doesn’t appear in the deletion log. How? Susvolans ⇔ 11:23, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
What is happening? Like newly edited pages get some crazy fonts, backgrounds and colors. Who is messing up? 150.210.226.7 22:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
This is very odd. Last night, I've made some edits to that page, and it was appearing normal for me then. However, on this edit, most of the text have been blacked out, and no-one else has edited the page after me. The only rational explanation would be that someone changed a template used on that page. However, there are no templates where the problem began to appear (at the "messages" headline). However, adding a </span> tag fixed the problem. I swear that the page was displaying properly earlier.
Anyone have an idea what's going on? Oh, I'm using the Classic skin, by the way. -- Ixfd64 22:40, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
What is going on with the sigs? Mine has been screwed up again, though it has not been changed and has worked perfectly for months. The last time a bot went wrong and screwed up. Please fix it. Entire pages are appearing as size 3 font. Talk:Côte d'Ivoire is now unreadable. FearÉIREANN 22:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
PS: Why are the commands now showing in my sig? They never did before. I haven't changed anything. FearÉIREANN 22:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
And Oh lookie. Everything is getting smaller here now too. Weeeeee!!! FearÉIREANN 22:51, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[[User:Jtdirl|<span style="background-color: orange"><font color="#006666">'''Fear''ÉIREANN'''''</font></span>]][[Image:Ireland-Capitals.PNG|15px]]<sup><font color=blue>[[user_talk:Jtdirl|(caint)</font></sup>]]
Seriously, this has caused major problems and has highlighted the need to block html tags in signatures ( example). violet/riga (t) 23:13, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello !
We disabled tidy extension tonight. It caused some troubles on the servers.
The immediate result is: the site is back up. The side effect is that incorrect HTML is no more fixed automaticly.
People should have a look at their tag and close them. </font> your stuff !!
Hashar 23:01, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Solution: fix the messed up HTML in your sigs. HTML tags must be properly nested or they are ignored and stuff stays on and messes up all that follows. If you're gonna use HTML tags in your sig, do it right. If you don't know how, then don't use the fancy stuff. :-) Vsmith 01:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I have no idea where to ask my table questions, so I guess I'll ask here. How do you make a td fully expand to fit its container, minus the margins. I thought having a margin of, say, .5 em would expand the td to the full size of its parent container, but doing so hasn't worked here. I'm not sure why. What am I doing wrong? - ElAmericano | talk 20:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
I am working on an article that has many "ephemeral" external links and would very much like to be able to use a bot to check them periodically, if one exists ... If someone knows of such a bot, I would greatly appreciate learning about it. Thank you. Polaris999 09:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Curious - I just tried putting Wikipedia inside an HTML frame (just a low-tech "open four web pages at the same time" page for my own use - WP's Search Page, Google, Yahoo Search and Weather.gov.) The other pages are acquiescing but WP isn't having it. When WP loads the frames disappear and WP loads as a single page. Is this behavior by design? I'm using IE 6 (no cracks!) Thanks! -- RevWaldo 18:38, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I have a suggestion for you: Please add full support for HTML (and JavaScript) when editing articles. I've noticed that although some tags work, like <div>, many do not. Please add support for HTML and JavaScript in articles. I hope you can also add support for JSP and PHP. Thanks!
Flarn 18:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Part of the Article has been deleted. The Map is gone. I think I did it on accident and I don't know how to put it back!!!
Q - Hello. I have an acount created through the French part of Wikipedia. I wound like to contribute to other parts of the encyclopedia, such as the English part and the Wikisource. But until now, I have been unable to login with my usual username and password. And no decisive answer came from the French counterpart of Village pump. Thanks in advance for helping.
User Baruch : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Baruch
A - :You have to create a new account for every wikimedia project. Martin 13:26, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Q - Thanks for the answer! When you write "a new account", do you mean with a new name ? I tried to create a new account with my usual name but it is already taken. Baruch.
A - :You could have used the same name if someone hadn't already taken the one you wanted. Now you will just have to make up a new name of your choice. Martin 14:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Q - The fact is that I've searched for a user that has the same name in the English part, and there isn't any. Of course there is me in French... It would be easier if I had the same name of course. Thanks anyway!
There seemed to be no Baruch, but I had to make up a new one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Baruch1677 ... Best!
This is copied from Wikipedia:General complaints and is soemwhat old. Can anyone suggest what the issue might be? DES (talk) 22:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
While trying to get students set up with Wikipedia accounts yesterday, some of the students were unable to create accounts because of some sort of limit on the number of accounts that could be created. The error message (sorry, this isn't an exact quote) said that a given student was unable to create an account because s/he had already created 10 accounts. This was not at all the case; there's no way that any one student even had time to create that many accounts.
Is this some sort of security feature that monitors the domain from which accounts are created? I realize that the computer lab in which we worked might be using some sort of sub-domain that makes it look like one IP address, but that's not the case.
How can this be avoided in the future? It's usually best for me to supervise the students when they create their accounts, but I might be able to turn this into a homework assignment that's done from home or from different labs on campus.
Any help or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raymond Meredith ( talk • contribs) 09:00, 26 January 2005
Klaipėda district municipality, Jurbarkas_district_municipality and some other articles are not showing the Template:infobox savivaldybe even though the template looks perfectly ok on say Kelmė district municipality. Any ideas why? Renata3 20:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
RFC_1036 gives (several times in a row, with IE6):
RFC 1036&action=edit">Start the RFC 1036 article or put up a request for it.
RFC 1036">Search for RFC 1036 in other articles. Look for RFC 1036 in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project. Look for RFC 1036 in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video. RFC 1036">Look for pages linking to this page
If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Try RFC 1036&action=purge">purge, otherwise please wait and check again later before attempting to recreate the page
Apokrif 20:30, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I made a template about skype, and I think we can use it in Babel. But unfortunately, I don't know how to make the "callto" protocol work. Is there anyone can help me to solve it? by Weihao.chiu 08:12, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to get clickable maps into Wikipedia articles? Any system of images or table markup that could create one? I've tried, for instance see Downtown_Ottawa#Map, but the best I have managed is essentially no better than ASCII art. - SimonP 20:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
How do I play these? -- Revolución ( talk) 15:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Why is your server so BLOODY BLOODY SLOW? This must be one of the slowest servers on the internet! At times, it takes AGES to load a page! And this is supposed to be a popular site! Sure, Wikipedia is great, but the server is way, way, way TOO SLOW!!! 131.111.8.101 21:25, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
And today, for me, it is atypically fast. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:55, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Based on some technical information presented in a discussion elsewhere here on the Villiage Pump, I have been experimenting with reading Wikipedia while logged out and only logging in for editing. Based on my experience in the past couple of days, being logged out makes a tremendous difference in the response time for Wikipedia. For instance, while logged in I opened this article section for editing and it took a loonnng time to load but I tested to see the time it took for the same section to load for editing while not logged in and it was almost instantaneous. If you do a lot of editing, working in this schizophrenic manner with one hand logged out and the other logged in can make the difference between accomplishing something and not getting anything done at all. I am not an apologist for Wikipedia's slowness; rather I'm a pragmatist who wants to keep contributing even if it means using workarounds like this. Courtland 01:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I wasn't really sure where to put this post so I put it here. I was wondering, do administrators have a little list of newly added articles that they can review quickly to weed out the "unfactual" ones? A friend of mine said that he put up a stupid article (imagine that) and that you guys had it gone in less than 5 minutes. That's pretty fast even before considering how many articles there are and I am sure there are a lot added every day.
Spanish is spoken in almost an entire hemisphere,
Some articles have a tab containing a plus mark ("+") next to the tab labeled "edit this page". The "+" tab adds a new section, complete with headline, while the other tab edits the whole article. This seems to have no relation to the size of the article. Why this difference? Can one force one or the other? Is there some policy on the topic? Too Old 04:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Probably this has been discussed before but I wonder whether it's possible to make a list or count all the articles in one category, articles in subcategories included. I've searched for that kind of feature and couldn't find anything like this. Thanks. -- Tone 22:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
When I clicked on the discussion tab for the article "Pneumatics" (which has some minor vandalism, BTW), the page that came said: "There is no article called Pneumatics." Just wondering if this is a bug.
Has anyone else noticed that the pictures aren't loading? I was working on stubs last night and forgot to stop one of them from loading. I came back in the morning and the little picture that was embedded in one of the stub templates still hadn't loaded. It's been like this with pictures for about 2 weeks. The searchs are fast and the text loads right away for me, but no pics. Is there a problem with the media server, or with firefox?-- Rayc 01:14, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Erm.. Why are headers all of a sudden showing up in the middle of pages instead of the left side? I liked it better the other way, for what it's worth.-- Sean| Bla ck 19:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, this might be a temporary problem related to apparent stress on the servers, but it seems that my signature has been broken. (My talk page is no longer linked properly.) Just trying to let someone know. --- CH [[User_talk:Hillman|(talk)]] 17:10, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Some article has audio files, that read-out the article. Is there any category for files that has an audio files? If yes, could you mention it. roscoe_x 15:49, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Something odd's going on -- the "show preview" and "show changes" buttons don't do anything anymore; they both just act like I've only refreshed the page (no preview, no show, just the edit box). Clues? -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 18:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
It strikes me that the village pump pages can become rather lengthy and aren't always archived in time, especially because the ordering of sections here does not generally indicate which sections are still active, making archiving somewhat arduous.
It turns out to be feasible to create a bot that would automatically archive any section that hasn't been edited for a week, judging by the timestamps in signatures in that section. Of course the limit of "one week" is an arbitrary choice. Does anyone else think this may be useful? R adiant _>|< 16:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Does converting HTML entities into actual characters cause problems anywhere?
But...
—, –, −, -
µ, μ
⋅, ·
They are already being used quite a bit.
File:Special characters Verdana IE.png-- Patrick 10:59, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
There are still difficulties with editing Unicode. Despite various options, I haven't persuaded vim to edit utf-8 in a way compatible with Wikipedia. If others are encountering such difficulties, Unicode cleanup bots might often have to repeat updates to articles. Have bots noticed often having to repeatedly update the same articles? ( SEWilco 20:21, 13 November 2005 (UTC))
I've noticed that the Wikimedia button that appears on the bottom of every page (except in the Classic skin) is no longer linked to the image on Meta. Was this a recent change? Just curious. -- Ixfd64 10:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there some way to just ping wikipedia to see if a certain article exists? I have a wiki that some frineds and I have been working on, and I've notice a lot of article have "Link to Wikipedia Article" in it. So I was thinking of writing a script that would do a GET and see if it contains "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.". If it does, the "Wikipedia Link" will not be generated (or I'll made it red so people know there isn't an article). Results would be cached for a certain amount of time. But, while I would like that extra functionality, but I don't want to needlessly overload wikipedia with unneccesary gets. Is there an address where it just returns the title or not, or something like that so that it's not a big transfer or anything? Also, I could just download a server dump, but that'd be kinda a waste of space on my little server, since all I need to know is if the article exists or not. Any suggestions? Jeshii 04:33, 21 November 2005 (UTC)