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Is there any way to alphabetise the list of articles that link to a specific article? Sometimes it looks like an attempt has been made ( like so), but then given up halfway through. Would it require a change of my settings, or would specific code need to be written? THe help page states the following, but does not suggest why, or provide a remedy:
Seems a good idea to alphabetise instead of leave random, has it been suggested before? - mastodon
You know how watchlists are supposed to only show the most recent change for each article on the list? Well, now every time an article on my list gets edited, there's an entry on the watchlist page for it. My watchlist is now covered with 50,000 edits (or so it seems =P) to George W. Bush. Is this a bug, a sudden policy change, or what? Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 05:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Even having enabled the new option to only keep the recent change, the list of people who have edited it is rather a clutter. I still prefer the classical option, rather than the new variant or the list-all option. ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 05:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
The notice says "to hide them, disable ERC", which doesn't make sense. At the very least it should say "to summarize older edits, enable ERC". freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 05:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Dang, that didn't last long. Oh well. -- Cyde Weys 06:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I would still want the diff and hist options on the LHS of the screen and lined up, as the output is more structured and easier to comprehend that way -ie the old way. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 06:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
A problem I seem to have now which I didn't have before is that it's now impossible to have more than 500 edits show up in my watchlist. Since I want to catch up with the recent changes to the pages I watch from the past three days, I've got a problem. Help!? — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 18:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I ran into a tool a while ago that allowed me to determine what the total # of edits i've made are, what types they were, and i even got a detailed breakdown on how many of each category i had. I'd like to use it again. I wonder, what is this tool? How do i get to it?-- Screwball23 talk 00:13, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
trying to add <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> to my userpage to make Google drop its cache, which contains my real name and email address in an old version, but am unable to do so - it comes through as text. Does anyone know how/whether I can do this? Thanks - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 21:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
(Moved from Wikipedia talk:Redirect)
Ok, I've been said redirects are cheap and fixing them is a strain on the server. I have created a bot ( MiszaBot ( talk · contribs)) that can automatically fix single-/double-/triple-/whatever- redirects. It can work in two modes:
While I understand that the second behavior is a strain on the servers, I'd like to ask for an expert's opinion on the first type. Thank you, Misza 13 T C 21:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any reason the authentication cookies only last a month? If I remember correctly the maximum time for cookies is a year, and it seems a little silly to cut them that short. -- Kickstart70- T- C 15:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone who has the ability to edit them actually read the Wikipedia talk:Special: pages? Ardric47 04:50, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
The default setting for the Watchlist now only displays the changes in the last 12 hours. Can the default be changed back to the changes in the last 3 days? Also, when I try to view the changes to all the pages in my Watchlist, it only displays the changes in the last 28 days. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 05:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
The article on shadowwar was deleted on March 26th. A copy of it can be found here. When I search for (say) "In the land of shadowwar" (with or without the double quotes), the deleted article shows up in the search results as a blue link! Is this the right place to report such inconsistencies? If not, where should I go? Cheers, Chris Chittleborough 00:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm getting fed up with the inability of 'experts' on here to provide an answer as to how to switch off and on the highlighted links on a page. It is poor design to default to highlighting links as they are 99% irrelevant to the article in question. If this isn't already available then somebody should have it done by the end of the week.
Hello, I too feel the underlined links are kind of a pain. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.2, and I have unchecked the 'underline links' box. Unfortunately, the links in Wikipedia, and no other sites, are underlined. I did try clearing cache and bypassing cache. Any suggestions are appreciated! -- AnthonyA7 08:42, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
m:cite.php emits the references on the Mediawiki reserved tag <references/>. I've seen the html produced for this is <ol class="references">.
On a lot of articles, editors put the <references/> inside a <div style="font-size:85%"> (or 90%) which causes me having trouble reading that small font. But it seems like I'm a negligible old man and thus fail to convince the majority of youngsters with perfect sight to use a larger font for the references :-(.
Luckily, I can set a larger font in my own monobook.css. I have specified .references { font-size:111%; }
there (to compensate for 90%).
Instead of specifying in each and every article <div style="font-size:85%"> before the <references/>, couldn't we agree to set that in
Mediawiki:common.css or at least in
Mediawiki:monobook.css as .references { font-size:85%; }
?
This would also make it easier for me to set a larger font for myself by overriding that setting in my monobook.css.
As a side note, someone even created Template:Footnotes... (mentioned in Wikipedia:Footnotes).
Thanks for any comments and tips. I hope this is the right place to ask. -- Ligulem 17:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Discussion continued at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#proposed change to css (.references) -- Francis Schonken 12:04, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to archive stuff? My talk page is getting pretty long! Joziboy 19 April 2006, 23:25 (UTC)
The file
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=-&action=raw&smaxage=0&gen=js has javascript that transforms the Article tab for the Main Page to say "main page". It should really be changed to "Main Page", as all the other tabs are capitalised with the lower-casing done by CSS. This causes the Main Page to look horrible and inconsistant in browsers that don't support text-transform: lowercase;
(or for anyone browsing with CSS off). —
Ian Moody (
talk) 23:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to find out what pages have been protected for the longest amount of time running, similar to the was UuU was found out the be the earliest edited page? I know some pages are protected forever, but some other ones get protected and then forgotten about for ages, see for example Tom Swift III which was protected for about 9 months (Give or take...). Thanx. 68.39.174.238 21:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post but here goes. I've been doing lots of renaming recently after putting through two naming conventions ( companies and TV shows). One thing that I regularly run into is deleting a redirect to make way for the main article. Sometimes the redirect has a useful edit history that can only be preserved by moving it to another name, deleting the redirect to the new temporary redirect then moving the existing article to the correct name, then moving the original redirect back - typically to where the correctly named article was. That was confusing so hopefully this will help
Example - "HCA Inc." needs to be moved to "Hospital Corporation of America", but there is a useful history at "Hospital Corporation of America". The only way to save "Hospital Corporation of America" is to do multiple holding moves then moving the edit history at "Hospital Corporation of America" to "HCA Inc." which is now a redirect to "Hospital Corporation of America". It would be very helpful if the two articles can be transposed at the time of the move with both edit histories retained and the new destination redirected by the source article rather than a new redirect with no edit history HCA Inc. <--> Hospital Corporation of America
Thanks! -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 21:14, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I notice that thumbnails are, all of a sudden, not appearing on many, many pages. See, for instance, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I've seen dozens of these in the last 30 minutes. Can anyone help??
I have made a request for this feature at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5653. Please discuss there. Ingoolemo talk 18:33, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Image thumbnails are displaying error messages. This has happened from different machines on different LAN's, so the problem seems to be Wikipedia's. Also, response time has gotten very slow: five minutes to load a page. 208.20.251.27 15:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
This is a HUGE problem. Thumbnails are not appearing on dozens of pages.
Hi
Several users from the LB-Wiki have a problem with the galleries. Some of the horizontal images are not shown when inside a gallery-tag. Apparently, according to rumours on DE-wiki, this has to do with a specific version of Norton Antivirus who reacts to images having a certain size. However, after some testing, some of the images, even after resizing, cropping etc. still wouldn't show. So there might also be a problem with the image itself, maybe depending on the camera ?
Is this problem known ? Thx in advance :-)
Is there a way to find articles that are in two categories? For example, articles that are disease stubs that also have cleanup or wikify tags? Thatcher131 02:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any possible way to delete a page's history? Or at least so that no one else on Wikipedia can see it? Jonathan talk File:Canada flag 300.png 03:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I have pretty well finished merging three articles: Nozzles, De Laval nozzle and Flow through nozzles. What I need to know is:
Please let me spell it out for me in much detail ... I've only been working in Wikipedia for a few months. - mbeychok 23:09, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
What you'd do is merge any relevant material into the one article, and make the other two into redirects to that article. Explain where the material came from/is going in the edit summaries. Anything which links to those articles will then be automatically redirected (check and fix any double-redirects). The redirects will still show the history of the original articles, so no history is lost, and redirects can still quite happily have talk pages, so there is no merging necessary there. If you want to you can correct the articles listed in "what links here", but that isn't normally done by the merger, ahtough it will probably be gradually fixed by subsequent editors. Grutness... wha? 00:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
At Apr 14, 2006, 11:14 AM (GMT-3), it seems that formula rendering in PNG is not working. Can anyone check that? -- zanderredux 14:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
In Special:Preferences, on the Watchlist tab, there are two new options. By selecting Enhanced watchlist, the watchlist will change behaviour, to be more like Recent changes. That means that instead of just seeing the lates edit to each article on the watchlist, the most recent edits to all the articles are shown. In order not to overwhelm editors with thousands of articles on their watchlist, there is one other new configuration on the watchlist tab, Number of edits to show in expanded watchlist, with a default value of 250. If this value is set higher than that, it is recommeded also to check the Enhanced recent changes (JavaScript) option on the tab for Recent changes. -- Wegge 22:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Say I have a wiki article AAAAA. Article AAAAA includes section aa, section aaa, and section aaaa. For some reason, I want to include section aaa of article AAAAA in article BBBBB as section bbb. Can I do this and maintain the link to aaa? So that if aaa was edited in AAAAA, then the edits would show up in BBBBB? Thanks, Mike -- MikeShelton 21:06, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I think I found my own answer at [ [2]]
There seems to be a problem with one of the images in World War II. If you go down to the section "Aftermath" and look down the images on the right there is one with the caption "Zones of occupation of Germany in 1946" obviously intending to be a map. However it's actually a picture of a (modern) tank. If you follow the link then it goes to an image showing the map I would expect. My technical knowledge has reached its limits - would someone else mind looking at it? DJ Clayworth 15:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for a new user name. Is there a way to search the special page User list using wildcards so it brings back similar names? It seems to only return exact matches. Thanks. Thatcher131 11:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I think the name "move", while technically correct, is not the exact right choice to use. From what I get, the page history is moved to the other page, but it is basically renaming—and would be a simpler concept for new users to grasp, no? Would people be opposed to calling it "rename", or something along those lines? - Mysekurity [m! 03:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Would someone mind taking a look at my sig and letting me know if I can cut out any of the HTML code without changing its appearance or function? Thanks. TIJUANA BRASS ¡Épa!- E@ 02:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to add another cooling tower photo to Cooling tower. The one already in that article is of a hyperbolic tower, and I want to add a photo of a non-hyperbolic tower (as widely used in heavy industries). I found a photo that I liked on the website of the Marley Company ... one of the leading companies designing and erecting such cooling towers. I emailed their webmaster and asked permission to use the photo in Wikipedia. Here is a copy of the email request I sent him:
And here is the answer that I received by email:
Is that good enough for me to go ahead and use the photo in Cooling tower? If so, when I upload it and have to supply information on the photo and where it came from, exactly what should I say? - mbeychok 00:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
We had another power failure at our Florida hosting facility a few hours ago. They're blaming the equipment, and it's being replaced.
Hopefully pretty much everything's working correctly by now. Note that the data dumps on download.wikimedia.org are currently offline; if we don't get that server back up soon I'll move them to another machine. -- Brion 18:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes, the radio buttons don't show up. Is this an issue that has been brought up? Will this be worked on?
68.148.165.213 08:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add an ID to the table that contains the category listing so the background color can be overridden with CSS? Right now it has a white background which looks weird against the light blue used in Monobook for the main article section. — Locke Cole • t • c 22:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to use the wiki math gen to create some equations for work i'm doing. Is it possible to
a) download a gen applet so i dont waste wikimedia image space for non wiki equations; and more importantly
b) get a vector/adjustable resolution image to the equations aren't pixelly in my word processor?
I know the system is based on LaTeX (correct me if i'm wrong here), so do i have to buy a version of LaTeX to make this happen, or is it free and usable? Thanks in advance for any help!
Cheers - LozDunn (at) gmail.com
Why are all these sponsored links (in green) showing up everywhere? They're kind of annoying. Are they here to stay? — Akrabbim 14:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I have created an article on Freezywater which is a place in London Borough of Enfield, but when you type Freezywater into Search, only the London Borough of Enfield appears in the results, you then need to click on this and then select Freezywater within the article. How do I make Freezywater appear as a result? Rogwan 12:55, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I have moved the article on Country rock to Country rock (music) and made Country rock a disambiguation page (due to the term's use in geology as well). The 400 or so links to the old Country rock page should be revised to link to the new page ( Country rock (music)). Is there an automated way to revise all Wiki links to a page? Thanks: Hgilbert 08:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I've spent quite a bit of time searching for this without luck, and then I decided to make it easier on myself and simply ask if such a thing exists. Is there an ampersand operator (i.e. "&action=edit") that will allow me to load a diff while hiding the preview? I was thinking something along the lines of "&showpreview=false" but have had no success with any of my guesses. I believe such an operator would add a serious boost to the speed of my app and could result in a great deal more vandalism being reverted, as I would no longer need to wait for images, etc., to load--simply seeing the change is usually enough to determine whether or not an edit is vandalism. Essentially what I would like to do would be to load a diff exactly as it does when you click "Show Changes" when editing a page (without the editform of course). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 05:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
It sounds like something we could add, though. Rob Church ( talk) 10:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
i have some doubts in communication
What is modulation and demodulation ? why we go for modulation ? can v transmit signal without modulation if not why ?
I notice that everytime I typed in a search, there pops are a list of pages > that closely resemble what I looked for. > > However, whenever I typed in a search that is "not 100% technical as it > should be", I usually see 0 resemblance pop up, and said "try searching > again." So I may suggest that it could be improved if somebody set up a "do > you mean ____________(link)" and then searcher can click on the link instead > of retype.
What does it mean when a Wikipedia search says "Results 1-4 of 4" but only shows 1 result? For instance, this search. Are there 3 other articles hiding out there that match the search but aren't being displayed, or is it just some counting bug in the search engine? – Tifego (t) 00:18, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
All of a sudden, the little automatic editing boxes don't work (bold, signature, etc). Is this some security option? Or do I just have to wait for this annoyance to get flushed out the system? -- Zeizmic 20:05, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Yeah! Thanks. Everything works great now. -- Zeizmic 01:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
It used to be possible to get a list of articles which seemed from their categories to be biographies but there was no category to show whether they were still alive. Can we get that list back please? - Runcorn 12:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Cyde has developed a References converter to revise article using the older methods of referencing such as {{reference label}} and {{note label}} to the new Cite. php method using <ref> and <references/>.
The older method using {{reference label}} and {{note label}} placed a caret (^) in front of each cited reference in the reference list which was quite clear and easy-to-read. The new Cite.php method places an anaemic, washed-out and hard-to-read vertical arrow in front of each cited reference.
I asked Cyde if we could somehow get to use that much better looking caret (rather than the washed out arrow) with the new Cite php.method and he agreed that the caret looked better. He also said "I think you're onto a good thing here and the change you're suggesting would be REALLY simple to make (a single character substitution to the code, actually)." Although Cyde is an administrator, this is out of his bailiwick and he suggested that I broach this suggested change here. If anyone knows how to bring this to the attention of whatever group developed the new Cite.php referencing methd, PLEASE do so! Thanks, - mbeychok 03:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
i suggest to implement a feature which allows (screen-) absolute displaying of the header of a large table for better orientation while reading/comparing contents within large tables which do not fit on one screen-site.
technically the table header would simply be a non-ambiguous css-class, which is de/activated via a toggle-button like i.e. the one wikipedia already has to show/hide contents.
PutzfetzenORG 22:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
(appologies up front if this post is in the wrong location)
I have an old 1946 city planning map for Huntington Township on Long Island, which IMHO is of historical significance as a snapshot in time before modern suburbs exploded. I've already provided a copy of the map to the Long Island historical society but I'd like to share the map with anybody online by creating an article for it and then linking to it from the Huntington article. First of all, is there anything wrong with that from a non-technical level? The article would contain text explanations but the primary feature would be just a big map.
Now if there's nothing wrong with the concept of creating an article for displaying this map, I'll move on to my technical questions. My map is large and has great detail down to street names and such. It's been scanned to an image at a whopping 8,790 x 6,400 pixels. Obviously this would be a ridicuous size to fit on any webpage and scaling it down would eliminate the details that make it important. What I would ideally like to do is to break the map down in to sections and table-it together so that clicking on a section would go to a full-screen version of that section.
Any other ideas if this doesn't belong or technically can't be part of Wikipedia? If there's another good option out there I suppose that could be done and then an external link added. But I still think this is good encyclopedia-worty content (like original town names, structures and streets that no longer exist, etc.). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fife Club ( talk • contribs) 21:21, 18 April 2006.
I recently learned of the specific URL construction that lets you create a hyperlink that opens a new subject on a page:
[{{fullurl:{{ns:3}}:{{PAGENAMEE}}|action=edit§ion=new}} leave a message]
Is there a similar construction that allows you to create a hyperlink which will add a page to the user's watchlist? Thanks in advance. — WCityMike ( talk • contribs) 22:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
You should probably go over to
Heraclitus and click edit to see what I've done to get a fuller appreciation of this. Anyways, I'm trying to create references for things by using the Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page). format that I thought I was supposed to. After I have put my references between the brackets and everything, however, the link that I created doesn't link to anything, plus my references don't exist in the "references" section. To clarify, this means two things are going wrong: (1) my references aren't in the reference section, (2) the reference "link" doesn't link to anything. Can someone go over to Heraclitus, fix this, and then tell me what I've done wrong and how to do it right if I ever need to cite references again? God bless you, every one (that was a joke of sorts, I'm
agnostic), --
Matthew 17:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
<references/>
in the References section - this is what displays the references cited inline in your article.
ericg
✈ 20:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)If I recall correctly, it is possible to transfer edits done in one account to another. Do I recall correctly? And if I do, who do I have to contact to have it done? Thanks, Yuval madar 17:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Is "prod" still broken because of the toolserver outage, or is it back up? And is there a status page for this? -- John Nagle 16:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
According to WP:PROD there is a backup system in place. RicD o d 17:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way to view the longest pages within a particular category, instead of globally? -- Froth 15:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed that the parser mangles nested <sup> tags. This breaks mathematical expressions involving nested powers rather badly: for example, x<sup>y<sup>z</sup></sup> renders as xyz, where it should look like . One can of course use math mode to work around this, but this forces the expression to be rendered as an image, which is less than ideal. I'm pretty sure this used to work once, though I've no idea when it may have been broken. Anyway, a fix would be nice. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 14:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Thats me spraying a sock-bug - AGAIN. I've done what I could on my end, and it still comes back. Martial Law 23:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC) :)
I will like to find out what IPs in the range 61.95.147.0 to 61.95.147.255 have made contributions to Wikipedia. Is there some tool I can use/someone I can request to find out this information? Simply the list of IPs that have at least one contribution will suffice. Thank you. Loom91 07:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at WP:TIP? The next tip link in all the tips has stopped working and I'm unsure what caused it or how how to fix it. -- Hetar 01:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
MONTH DAY,
MONTH DAY, YEAR
I know this isn't the place to report bugs, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or if something else is going on. I'd like to know if anyone has seen this before or if they know anything about it.
I recently noticed the icon image in {{ game-stub}} was showing nasty jaggies because it was being scaled down and GIF images don't scale down well at all ( see the version in question). I downloaded the GIF from Commons, converted it to PNG with The Gimp, reuploaded it to Commons, and then changed the stub template to use it instead.
The trouble is that it shows completely blank. The image itself seems fine, and it shows up as a 200px thumbnail at right just fine. The 100px and 40px versions (40px being what the template uses) both show a blank image for some reason. Does anyone know why this is? Should I report this as a bug? Is it something wrong with the file? Is there a better place to ask this? — Saxifrage ✎ 18:30, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Cesarb handled the Monobook.css, and Docu handled the CologneBlue.css, is anybody game for more? On Saturday, I also posted:
Still begging for these to be transferred from Talk to .CSS, there are many thousands of pages using the templates now!
Odd, they worked for me when I changed my preferences to each, and viewed pages such as Detroit and Chicago.
And I never tried with different font sizes. I expect that nothing positioned "absolute" will work when the font size changes.
Nostalgia is supposed to fit between the lines on the left, like CologneBlue, just under "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" avoiding the globe on the right. Now tried it increasing and decreasing font +2, +1, -1, and -2 sizes, and worked like a charm on FireFox!
Standard is supposed to fit on the right, like monobook, under the line. Don't know about the "HTML table", as it doesn't appear in the source, unless you are talking about the search box. There's no conflict there. Now tried it increasing and decreasing font +2, +1, -1, and -2 sizes, and worked like a charm on FireFox, staying right under the search box. Heck, works better than the title line (that moves all over the place).
Oh well, unless somebody steps forward and does some serious testing, looks like those two lose out....
Since these are primarily used in Geo templates and Infoboxen, that argument doesn't hold water. And having them at the bottom of the page is just plain useless. Defeats the whole point of having them easily accessible at the top!
File:Chicago with Standard top 4.5em coordinates.pdf
Here's my screenshot. It fits quite nicely above the "In other languages", with a lot of space left over. I've tested at 5 different text sizes. There's that little {{ Audio}} image that is sitting on top of my "Talk" link, but nobody has fixed that problem, yet.
File:Chicago with Nostalgia top 3.9em coordinates.pdf
Likewise, here's my screenshot. It fits quite nicely below the "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". I've tested at 5 different text sizes. Again, there's that little {{ Audio}} image that is sitting on top of the globe, but nobody has fixed that problem, yet.
Search engines show redundant information. Also, infoboxes should not be part of a search engine abstract. The discussion is here Wikipedia_talk:List_of_infoboxes#Search engine appearance, but it's relevant outside of infoboxes. -- GunnarRene 22:24, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone else getting these errors on wikipedia?
(10.0.5.3) -- Zeno McDohl 19:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia statistics haven't been updated for quite a while (dec 2005). Anyone knows why ? Are they gonna be updated regularly again ? Xevi 18:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
There is a new interface to get parsed data from mediawiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php
It allows bots and javascript code to get useful information like what links and templates does a page have, user status, page revisions, and much more in many formats such as XML and JSON. Operations in bulk are supported. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Yurik 17:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
i've just started a page at Wikipedia:Css and javascript hacks to keep track of css and javascript hacks that are used to workaround defficancies in mediawiki. Plugwash 17:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I'd like to add a new preference to the user profile. This has been discussed, with some people in favour, and some unconvinced and willing to see it in action. I have a couple of questions.
Thanks. PizzaMargherita 15:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know how the "Random articles" selection of articles work? We have been trying to make some statistical research on the Swedish wikipedia by having 10 persons check 100 random articles and categorize their quality. However, it seems a little that the selection process tends to pick forgotten articles, not the ones that are recent or popoular. Am I wrong or is the random articles working like this? MoRsΞ 10:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there anyone who can give a expression with this error?
It seems to be impossible:
...... } elseif ( ctype_alpha( $char ) ) { // Word // Find the rest of it $remaining = substr( $expr, $p ); if ( !preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z]*/', $remaining, $matches ) ) { // This should be unreachable $this->error( 'preg_match_failure' ); return false; }
Is there a string with one heading letter being ctype_alpha but can't preg_match? I think this won't appear, but Tim Starling says: "Finding a method for reaching that branch is left as an exercise for the reader. Or you could find something more useful to do, like I don't know, writing some code of your own." ( m:talk:ParserFunctions#what's the use of preg_match_failure ?) I've been messed up on this. meta:User:Upssdr 09:27, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I need help,everytime i post, a blue box appears and cuts my edit short,especially new subjects.
FOr example, I edited the article "The Emperor's New School" to include another heading about the timeline of it, but it showed a few words and cut into something else, thanks in advance Julz 03:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Since 15 Apr 06, the article Wikipedia:Advice to AOL users has stated that "[t]here have also been plans to modify the MediaWiki software so that AOL users would automatically be made to bypass the proxy system using https. This feature is currently still at an early stage, but it may be enabled some time in the future." As I have never heard anything about this, I was wondering if someone could confirm or deny that this is actually being done, and perhaps also give a status report. Furthermore, is work currently being done to implement the same kind of secured server editing requisite as was done at Wiktionary? (see Wiktionary:AOL) Any input from devs or involved persons would be much appreciated, as we are currently in the process of rewriting and/or rejecting a proposal very closely related to this. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 20:56, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
These red ? have just recently (see my time/date stamp) shown up on my talk page. I have no clue as to why. If I did something to cause this, please explain. If I'm not to worry, also please explain. Thanks for helping me to sleep better tonight. ;-) hydnjo talk 00:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Couple of updates. Thought I'd announce one here while I'm at it; the other has to be announced.
Special:Newpages now offers namespace filtering. Go nuts.
Bureaucrats can now grant and revoke bot status for users on the local project. This is in response to a long-standing request from the stewards, both to cut down their workload, and to allow local projects to have more control over what happens there.
Now's the time to clean up the bot approval pages and get that process kicking. The new page is available at Special:Makebot. It should be obvious enough how to use it, but I'll put up some documentation post-haste, for the curious.
An audit trail for use of the MakeBot extension is available at Special:Log/makebot.
For the curious and 'crat-flag-devoid; a nice screenshot can be found at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/c/c0/Makebot.png.
Cheers. Rob Church ( talk) 23:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
How about revoke button on Special:Makesysop also :) borgx ( talk) 11:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Very nice, namespace filtering is always useful. Thanks to all the devs. Martin 11:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
The article in question is Rui Roentgen. I hate to AFD it and bite the newbie; I've suggested he move it to his userpage... but what else can I do? Is there a tag to indicate autobiographical content in an article? Alba 19:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
This is a stupid question, and I should really know the answer, but how would one go about editing their monobook.css file? Specifically, I want to use the monobook skin on a wiki that has removed it (options are Classic, Nostalgia, and Cologne Blue). -- SheeEttin 01:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! My user page ( User:Pharaoh Hound) seems to have some bugs, for one thing I can't edit the individual sections. For another, when I tried to put an image on it the image appeared at the bottom of the page, rather than in the "My pets" section where I put it. I'm pretty new to wiki, so I don't know what's wrong. could someone please help me? Pharaoh Hound 19:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Pharaoh Hound 20:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I and many other web developers would dearly love to see an official, endorsed Wikipedia API that allows people the world over to take all the wonderful Wiki encyclopedic information and use it in their web sites and web applications, especially in these days of Web 2.0 and mash-ups.
The current APIs on offer either cost a lot of money or use horribly ugly screen scraping techniques which just isn't cricket.
So what do people say? I say please Wikipedia, please make an official Wiki API so we can use and make the most of all the lovely vast Wiki data and promote Wikipedia evermore at the same time.
Yours with fingers and toes crossed,
Paul.
Is there a way of automatically placing the "featured article star" on the inbound "in other languages" links from other language wikipedias? Currently it is necessary to manually go through each linked language and add {{Link FA|en}} to the code, surely this could be done with a bot or something. Furthermore, the stars need to be removed when an article gets de-listed from FA status, this should also be done automatically. Is this even possible? Witty lama 14:27, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Periodically, when I open a Wikipedia page I get an error that "Internet Explorer cannot open the page"; this appears in a window superimposed over the properly opened page! Clicking OK goes to the IE error page; if I click on IE's Back button, the proper page reappears. Does anyone know a fix for this problem? Hgilbert 07:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place to post this but, my defult skin has changed and it is really awful now and doesn't even work right anymore (i.e. I cannot click on a link when there are other links on the left of the screen.) It was hard and slow to change it to one that works (others are broken too). I'm now using classic mode but I dont like it. Please send for help. Greasysteve13 13:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how to add things into the info box. Specifically, Capital News Service (MI) and Michigan State University Residence Halls Association need to be added into the following infobox:
{{ Michigan State University}}
~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tdslappy ( talk • contribs) 19:56, 20 April 2006
There are at least two ways to edit a template:
Either way will get you here. Conscious 12:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Can someone shed some light on the discussion I'm having with User:Mboverload? I suspect that the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser tool he used to do this edit broke the double-byte characters in Pescadores Islands, but I can't tell from what he's saying whether it's just something wrong with my browser that I'm seeing the html escapes as ?'s marks for real or if the AWB tool is really obliterating them, or if the two of us are just talking past eachother.... thanks, Kendrick7 15:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Where are the Userboxes Korodzik 09:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I have figured out alot. Just one last question how do you get the light blue object below the panther? John R G 06:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Potomac Senior High School | |
File:PSHS.jpg |
Established | 1979 |
basically im trying to get the following centered. If that helps.
Potomac Senior High School |
On this note I am sure i have the link formatted correctly, but it won't load that way. I've examiend the actual code at least 2-3 times and it is driving me nuts. Can someone see if it's a bug or if it's something that I just overlooked? - Hbdragon88 04:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to make a table the trick is Im trying to use a different color of font and center and make it colspan=2. can you help me? John R G 04:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
{| border="1" | colspan="2" style="color: green; text-align: center;" | Cell 1, row 1 |- | Cell 1, row 2 | Cell 2, row 2 |}
... which produces:
Cell 1, row 1 | |
Cell 1, row 2 | Cell 2, row 2 |
From your recent edit at the Sandbox, I think I can show you where you went wrong. You wrote (leaving out the "right" attribute because it's a pain for this example's layout):
{| border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 width=280 | |colspan=2| bgcolor=#000080 | <font color=#75B2DD> '''Potomac Senior High School''' |}
Which produces:
bgcolor=#000080 | Potomac Senior High School |
The correct format for this is:
{| border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 width=280 | |colspan=2 bgcolor=#000080 | <font color=#75B2DD> '''Potomac Senior High School''' |}
Notice there is no bar between colspan and bgcolor, and there is a terminating bar at the end of the list of attributes for the whole table. This produces:
Potomac Senior High School |
Note that what you are trying to accomplish with this might be better achieve through different formatting than a table. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style for how articles are formatted at Wikipedia. — Saxifrage ✎ 12:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello all - I wonder if anyone might be able to help me with a catagory task that i've begun. I created the category Current_British_MPs (self explanatory I hope). You'll also see that I've added the first 5 MPs to the list. There are 646 MPs in the Commons, so to complete the list manually will take a while. We currently have other similiar cat.s - such as Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_English_constituencies - which feautures members of the House of Lords as well as House of Commons. My question is this - is there a quick way of editing cat.s, for example putting all of Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_English_constituencies into Current MPs, and then somehow just going through a list and quickly deleting 'Lords' who don't apply? Any clever cat. editing tips would be appreciated - or even just confirmation that its a long, manual task - then I'll go and try and get some help doing it.... thanks! Petesmiles 03:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to link to an external page from many different Wiki pages. I would like to be able to put the external link on one Wiki page, so that when you click on the link to the Wiki page in another page it automatically redirects you to the external link. This could save a lot of time when the external page changes, as it does periodically. For instance, I might like to provide a link to a baseball teams home page on the Internet. [[Washington Nationals]] and the Washington National page would be a link to [http://washington.nationals.com/ Washington Nationals]. If the Nationals change their web site, I could change it in just one page and all of the links would go to the right place. I would like to make it so that when the Wiki page is called it automatically goes to the external link rather than having to make another click on the external link in the Wiki page. Talk to Dr. M 01:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi all. Is there any system in place for labeling IP ranges with who owns them? Is this even a good idea? I know we have AOL's IP ranges on Special:Blockip, but I'm wondering what others think of labeling IPs owned by universities, schools, or other organizations whose IPs are shared by many people. This might make it easier to determine whether an IP is static or not, and assist admins in making their blocking decisions. ~ MDD 46 96 02:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I put a picture first in en.wiki and then on Commons (it was my mistake), and they have the same name. Now I updated an improved version in Commons and I'd like it to be changed in en.wiki as well, but en.wiki completely ignored the updated version. How can I do so that it will be updated automatically?? (I'm interested in it because I have more than one picture to update in the same way). The picture I'm talking about is Image:BesselJ_plot.svg on en.wiki and this on Commons. Alessio Damato 20:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Today I saw that my own Talk page was labeled "Category: Articles with unsourced statements". I checked the category, and found lots of user talk pages on it [3]. Now, I would hardly consider my talkpage an article, and there is no statements on it, in a citateble sense, so I wanted to remove the label but couldn't find it in the edit box. And I cant seem to find it in the history of my talkpage either, so I can't even see who labeled my talk page. Can anybody help me with this? EyesAllMine 22:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
(blushing) Thanks ... I feel so ... well, stupid. LOL EyesAllMine 23:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Take a look at Java programming language, and click on the Wikipedia:Featured article emblem in the upper right corner, you will be redirected to information on the image.
Take a look at India, and click on the featured article emblem, you will be redirected to the article about featured articles.
What is wrong with the Java programming language article?
-- Velle 18:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I have to say, thet the hungarian names of Mozart symphonies has changed to eg. Mozart: Szimfónia No. 1 to Mozart: 1. szimfónia, szó please tell to a robot to change the links. Thx. w:hu:User:NZs ----
I'm having difficulty getting the refs at the bottom of Thermopsis rhombifolia to show properly. I can see nothing wrong with the code - what's the problem? Thanks in advance! D e nni ☯ 15:29, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at these links and tell me if they have a clue what's going on:
If you scroll down to the bottom you'll see that in the current version there are two names in the last list, whilst in the permanent link to the current version they're not there. (Hopefully no one will edit the page before someone gets a chance to see this). If you have any ideas, please let me know! Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 07:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
we are working on a spellchecker for which we need a dictionary. we came to know that Wikipedia offers a free open source dictionary database. Where to download this dictionary database..?. Are there any specialized wordlists available...i mean specialized wordlists for world wide web, Domains, Medical...etc
So, kindly plz help us by giving some information regarding that.
Regards, Srik. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.63.122.130 ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 13 June 2024 UTC [ refresh.
What's the best way to add a small black border around an image, without having a caption? In HTML, I'd just do <img ... style="border:1px solid black">, but I don't see a straightforward way to do that in wikitext. (this is for userpages or whatnot, I realize it's not the standard layout for article images). One way is to add a div with a hard-coded width and height... is there a better way to do it?
-- Interiot 14:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Try a table:
![]() |
— Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 20:24, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I found on meta a reference to a modified version of rsvg that is used for the conversions on Wikipedia, but was hoping to find more details. Is there a reference of exactly what commands are being used, what fonts it has available, and so on?
I'd like to duplicate the conversion locally so I can make sure that images (especially those containing text) will appear as intended before uploading.
Thanks. -- iMb~ Meow 02:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
My username is Torvik on the English Wikipedia, and whenever I attempt to log on, it either reverts back to where I was without logging in, or it will log me in successfully, but as soon as I click a Wiki-link, it will take me to the proper page, but I will suddenly be logged out. I tried both FF and IE, and the login status is equally unpredictable using both. Thanks. -Torvik 67.142.130.22 09:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC) PS: Please don't tell me to clear my cookies and restart my browser. I've done everything I can possibly think of on my own end. And yes, I've activated my account with the link sent to my email address.
OK, this is weird. After a restart, I open Firefox and go to the English WP Main Page, and try logging in from there. It works, which doesn't surprise me. (It usually logs me on properly, but just whenever I click a link, it follows the link correctly, but I'm logged out.) However, I clicked the "Return to Main Page" link at the bottom of the Successful Log in screen, and it takes me to the Main Page, fully logged in. Refreshing the page, I'm still logged in. So I got my hopes up. Then I clicked Community Portal and all was lost. What in the heck is going on? — 67.142.130.43 18:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
WTF?! Five minutes after posting ^that^, while on this page, I clicked the WikipediA logo in the top left corner to return to the Main Page. All of a sudden now, I'm logged in when I'm on the Main Page, but returning to VPT, or anywhere else for that matter, I'm logged out. Again returning to the Main Page, I'm logged in. I am now thouroughly confused and annoyed. I explained all this in my User talk:Torvik page. — 67.142.130.43 19:03, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I fixed it! It had nothing to do with my cookies. I was getting desperate, so I sent a password request email for Torvik and S-torvik, used the new jumbled-up password, and it works seamlessly. Amazing. Thanks for your help and stuff, guys. - Torvik 04:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I would like to find out all web addresses that wikipedia and related websites use, so I can set my internet filter to stop filtering my edits to pages here. I first put in en.wikipedia.org but it didn't solve the problem. I then put in upload.wikimedia.org which seemed to help most things, but it is still pulling out some words. Although my primery concern here is about Wikipedia, I would also want to stop filtering other sites of Wikimedia. Can I get a list of all web address which my edits are going thru, or anything to do with HTTPS FTP or anything else that might solve this problem. Shlomke 20:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia category information is stored in a database. Is it possible to make non-trivial queries to that database? Are Boolean operators available? With better searching, some problems with the category scheme can be cleaned up.
For example, we have Category:Canadian musical groups and Category: Hardcore punk groups. So how would one query for "Canadian hardcore punk groups"? If that's not possible, it should be. What tends to happen now is that there are occasional categories like Category:Australian punk rock groups, but they're not used much and aren't maintained, and thus aren't too useful. -- John Nagle 18:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Up, that is the question, How do I add a redirect to a Wikipedia article so that, for example, someone searching for "Jose Afonso", doesn't get a "sorry that is not in this encyclopedia" message because the person making the inquiry did not or could not spell "Jose" with an accented "é".
Hi,
When I'm looking at an anonymous IP's talk page, often I'd like to briefly see the contribution history of that IP when dealing with vandalism. There doesn't appear to be a 'contributions' history button on the talk page, though. What's the quickest way to get to it? - Richardcavell 06:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi folks, I'm currently pushing my company to adopt mediawiki as our main collaborative working tool. I'm looking for a way to automaticaly create an article containing a list of permanent links pointing to specific versions of articles. It could be a category but this category should be "frozen"; the category should list the articles versions frozen at time T.
In short, I'm trying to "tag" (as in cvs or subversion) a list of articles.
Is it feasible with mediawiki? Maybe using some Bots?
Thanks, -- Effco 20:46, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It appears that at somepoint recently someone has changed somethign somewhere to make the contents of table cells fully justified if they are on more than one line. Imho this looks absolutely atrocious on most tables and should be set locally and the global reverted to standard left-aligned text. I haven't been able to work out where the change was made, but it affects all tables whether or not they use the Wikitable class. I also cannot find any discussion on this anywhere. Can anyone help! Thryduulf 18:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm an admin and can alter MediaWiki pages. How do I correct the name of a language displayed in the "Other languages" box? MediaWiki:Otherlanguages isn't it. Angr ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I think this is fixed now: Go to your user preferences, and look under editing. If "use external editor by default" is on, turn it off. Correct me if I'm wrong MBlume 08:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Every time I click on 'edit this page' it starts a download for a file called 'index.php,' and doesn't go to the editing page. It wasn't like this before. I am using Firefox 1.5.0.2. Please help me!
It seems that I can edit from the side 'edit[s]' but not the main 'edit this page', for instance I had to click on 'edit' on the above question and alter it to write this down. How queer. Skinnyweed 21:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I think I've fixed it. Go to your user preferences, and look under editing. If "use external editor by default" is on, turn it off. MBlume 02:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It should be noted that your browser is supposed to download index.php when you're editing. That's the page that has the edit form. It should still go to the edit form, however, once it's finished downloading the page. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 03:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi - this is a naive question, I'm sure, but a page I've been working on has been kind of hijacked, and because its title has been changed, I can't seem to locate the versions of the page that were listed under the original title. (The original title was 'quantum mysticism', the new title is 'quantum metaphysics'.) Thanks. Adambrowne666 11:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Argh! I'm an idiot! I've done exactly what you warned me against, and done a cut-and-paste move, losing the history of the article. I can't see how to fix it. Adambrowne666 21:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
See the linked image. It's pretty much self-explanatory. This occurs when editors using low-resolution screens don't put sufficient space between images, and when viewers with high-res screens (such as I) come along, the images stack in a really aesthetically-unpleasing way. How can we fix this bug, other than just shuffling the images around in the article so that they have sufficient space between them? I think the desired behavior would be to have the images stack to the left on top of each other, not stick out to the side like that. But I don't know if this is a browser issue or what. Please, I'm hoping someone in here has the technical knowledge to figure this out. P.S. Ignore Alphax's meddling. -- Cyde Weys 05:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I have a 3 day gap in my contributions at the beginning of the month (30th March to 3rd April). I know that I made edits during that time. Is it possible to find out what was deleted and why ? Frelke 21:50, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
All of these pages have been deleted recently by someone other than myself. Frelke 04:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Robsteadman announced early in April that he was leaving Wikipedia, and asked me to delete his user page and talk page. I deleted his user page immediately, and began to delete the archives while thinking about whether or not it would be appropriate to delete the talk page. The archives, I felt, could be deleted without objection, as there would be nothing in them that wouldn't be in the history of the talk page itself. I thought I'd ask other admins what they felt about the request to delete the talk page. As far as I know, it's not forbidden, but some people think it shouldn't be done. I was quite happy to do it if it was found to be appropriate, although Robsteadman has certainly not been a friend to me. When I deleted an archive, I checked "what links here", and it brought me to the Frelke subpages. I found that he has started copying all the material on Rob's pages to his own subpages. I wondered for a moment was he Rob, coming back under another name, but realized he wasn't. I asked him about it on his talk page, and he called Rob "a very dangerous moron". Discussion can be found here if he doesn't remove it. (If he does, it can be found in the history of his talk page.) I found it remarkably petty. I think I was going into work at the time, but another editor reported it at WP:AN/I. The archived discussion can be found here. I had nothing to do with the deletion of the pages, but support it wholeheartedly, and very much question the appropriateness of copying these pages and making spiteful comments. AnnH ♫ 11:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi!
I was just wondering, does Wikipedia use some kind of backup system? I mean it would suck if a database crash wiped wikipedia away from the internet. I mean it would take a while to rebuild right? So is there any articles somewhere which I can read about wikipedia backup?
Thanks!! - Enselic 16:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I keep on getting this message whenever I edit Wikipedia:
What does this mean? Thanks for your help! -- HappyCamper 03:07, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wikibug0ul.png
I looked up an article, and it for some reason gave me this bug at the bottom of the screen. Any insight as to exactly what happened?
I'm pretty sure this is not the place I should make this question (so admins: feel free to move it to anywhere appropriate). Please note that everything that follows is either AFAIK, or IIRC, or a speculation.
Opera Mini allows phone users to browse the Internet as they would normally do from their computers (well, almost) -- this includes Wikipedia. I used Opera Mini to make some contributions here and there, and it works just fine.
The service should work as follows: When I follow a link, Opera Mini servers retrieve that page and size them down (cutting images away, removing bells and whistles, probably using a proprietary language, etc.) before sendind to your phone.
Now, suppose another wikipedian using Opera Mini gets an IP block, a ban or whatever that applies to IPs. This block(/ban/whatever) will not only legitimatedly prevent edits from this user but will also prevent edits by other non-blocked(/banned/whatever) users. This is because all Opera Mini end up to share the same IP range as a result of this mechanism.
What do you think?
PS: Excuse my bad spelling, grammar and knowledge of Wikipedia policies.
-- badpazzword 21:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone else please look at these diffs [4] [5] [6] and tell me what they see? I was expecting diffs on JzG's article page (which I was looking at via Interiot's tool while researching my vote on an RfA), but I'm getting three different pages - one of which has JzG's name in the title... — Wh o uk ( talk) 08:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
What's that template to clear floats before a new heading? -- Connel MacKenzie 04:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Why aren't these questions archived sanely? I'm lucky to make it over to Wikipedia once a week as it is...much of the time it is much, much longer between my visits over here. -- Connel MacKenzie 04:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (Wiktionary sysop)
This diff [8] comes from my contributions according to Interiot's tool, yet it doesn't lead to one of my diffs by to a diff on a completely different page. Any idea what's up? (If this is the wrong place to bring this up, feel free to move it whereever it should be). JoshuaZ 19:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to make a link on a page that will bypass the browser's pass, as if you were pressing CTRL+F5 or SHIFT+Reload? I tried using this code: [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=purge}} Purge page cache]
, which produces this link
Purge page cache but it doesn't seem to work on
my user page. Suggestions?
J. Finkelstein 13:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The modern way to write that is {{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=purge}}
, which produces (on this page)
this link. Note that, with either syntax, you need to use PAGENAME without the extra E, otherwise the page name gets URL-escaped twice. I've fixed it above for you. —
Ilmari Karonen (
talk) 20:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The "purge" action instructs the servers to clear the parser cache and purge the squid caches for a page. This causes the output sent to the browser to be more up to date than the local cached version, and so all the caches are updated. "Ctrl + R", or a hard refresh in most browsers, causes that browser to fetch the most up to date version of the page possible, although server-side caching is not affected using this method.
I imagine, "stripped out of any regular Wikipedia page" above, used in context, refers to the JavaScript hinted at in the post; Saxifrage suggested some JavaScript could be used to instruct the browser to hard-refresh the page, but rightly stated that this would be escaped by the parser and sanitiser, to prevent obvious abuses of such misfeatures. Rob Church ( talk) 06:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
How do we get the infobox right-aligned? I was trying to write this article into OE, but the infobox is left-aligned, and text starts underneath it, not next to it as in the English Wikipedia.-- JamesR1701E 18:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes , Mediawiki:Common.css -- GunnarRene 17:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Quick note: I've changed how the edit toolbar buttons work a little bit. If you find that the buttons don't work in Firefox or Konqueror when clicked, make sure you've reloaded all the JavaScript. (Command+R twice in Safari, or ctrl+shift+R in Firefox.) There was a funky incompatibility with the custom 'redirect' button, now fixed. -- Brion 11:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Let me just test if this works ... The answer is 'no'. I've just done the ctrl+shift+R in firefox, and I still have the problem where the screen scrolls up and the pointer slides off the bottom of the button. Noisy | Talk 17:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I have changed the Extra edit buttons javascript. The problem seemed to because the original code used the onload event. This overrode wikipedia's use of the onload event stopping wikipedia building its buttons correctly. I have replaced that with an addOnLoadHook call to wikibits.js.
When I did this a problem with the order of the buttons occurred. The extra edit buttons were inserted before the wikipedia toolbar buttons. I haven't really resolved this because I can't seem to force extra edit buttons script to put its buttons after Wikipedia's (I think this is because Wikipedia's buttons haven't been built at the time). In the end I have settled for putting the buttons a second line.
I have tested this in Firefox and IE and it looked okay. YOu will need to force a refresh.
My javascript / DOM knowledge is not very good so if anybody has any better solutions please amend the code. -- MarkS 21:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I have updated Extra edit buttons again. This time I have removed all the old code (which entered HTML at the end of the toolbar). The new code uses the wmCustomEditButtons array, which means Wikipedia itself creates the extra buttons. The new code is a lot simpler. I have tested this on Firefox (1.5.0.2), IE (7) and Opera (8.5). For the moment the new code is under the development area so I can test it for a couple of days before updating the live version. If anybody has any comments let me know. -- MarkS 20:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Basic buttons still broken. Submitted Bug 5747. -- John Nagle 19:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Mailing lists, OTRS, etc. will be unavailable for about an hour as of 19:00 UTC. This is to allow Jens Franck to perform maintenance on mail.wikimedia.org. Rob Church ( talk) 19:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem with the editcounter, which is showing my no. of edits to be 7, whereas they are actually ~4000. What's up?--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to get a
better
Template:citeencyclopedia working with ParserFunctions, but one segment simply refuses to cooperate. Anyone familiar with #if know why
{{#if:{{{authorlink|}}}
|[[{{{authorlink}}}|
}}
doesn't want to work even though the same code is used in
Template:cite book?
PoptartKing 01:08, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
The tool (semi-bot) that I have been working on, Citation Tool has reached a usable and useful state, I believe. The purpose of this tool is several fold, but the main (and implemented) goal is the detection and guided correction of errors in m:Cite.php markup.
As of this exact moment, the tool does the correct diagnosis of two types of errors. By later today, it should also be able to propose specific modified text that corrects the errors (sometimes requiring operator decisions). The web page for the tool also links back to the edit page for a given corrected article. Notice that any modification made based on the advice of Citation Tool is made under the user's own WP username. The two types of problems currently identified are:
These type of errors seem to occur quite frequently "in the wild". The proposed changes made by Citation Tool do not change the referencing style or technology used on a page (currently: plans are underway to aid insertion of Harvard references as an adjunct to footnotes, where a mixed style is appropriate). So as far as I can see, the changes proposed by the tool should be non-controversial. The only possible issue I can see is that editors might disagree about whether a currently hidden footnote content is or is not better than the one that had been visible; but that's a pretty regular editorial/content issue, per article.
Well... the other issue is that the tool might be buggy, since it hasn't been banged on by anyone other than me yet. That's why I'd appreciate some other people using it, and paying attention to results. If the diagnosis or proposed solution seems to be wrong for certain pages, that matter needs to be identified and fixed. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 21:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to check which autoblocks have been generated on the basis of blocks I have made, but can't find a way to filter the list (search filters on the blocked user not the blocking admin). Can anybody help? Cheers TigerShark 19:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I put Popups in my monobook.js and they came up. However, when I click the revert button the popup, it does nothing. It goes the editing page of the article and says the submit button has already been pressed. Once it submits, nothing happens. I'm just on the same page and it doesn't show my revision in the history nor does it actually revert. Why is this? Please reply on my talk page. TeckWiz 20:14, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Can someone who understands these thing edit Template:Infobox World's Tallest Building so that the optional "destroyed field" has Destroyed left aligned like all the other entries. Because it is optional, it appears to be done with a classs rather than a style, so... (For an example, see World Trade Center -- SGBailey 20:15, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
How can I remove the automatic box with an arrow coming out of it that appears after a non-wiki link, like this one?
Developer Ashar Voultoiz has compiled a list of images which are possible duplicates. I'm sure there's a bunch of users out there with a master plan for dealing with this sort of thing. Have fun. Rob Church ( talk) 18:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I've drafted a new policy -- it doesn't require any devs, but if implemented it would result in the creation of hundreds of new templates (in a psuedo-namespace: each would be prefaced with "WP"). Would this have any technical implications? Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 08:06, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
{{
WP|NOR}}
I added the afdanons template a an AFD recently, and noticed something odd. I used subst on the template because I'm currently under the impression that subst is better in places where the notice won't really be changing based on the template changing. However, the afdanons template also includes instruction for users on how to sign posts with ~~~~ inside of a pair of nowiki tags. subst unfortunately ignored the nowiki tags and replaced them with my signature. (See the diff at the beginning for the exact scenario). So anyway my question/comment is this: shouldn't we make subst ignore text inside nowiki tags? -- Bachrach44 16:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add all redirects to entries at the complete watch list ( Special:Watchlist/edit), so that it is easier to check whether essential redirects are added to the page? KimvdLinde 19:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
If i wanted to redirect some search keywords to an already existing site, how would i do that?
Dear all
Daniel5127 asked me this question and I don't know the answer. Could someone please respond to Daniel? Deb 12:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Deb. It's me Daniel5127. I have been using Wikipedia since March. 3. 2006. Ahh, I have a some question of Wikipedia. As I read all of Wikipedia Policy, It's little bit hard to understand because there are many policies more than I know. So, Let me ask you about Wikipedian Bot. So, What is the job for Wikipedian Bot? I personally think that Wikipedian Bots know all of languages(English, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Portugese, French etc..), and cleaning some messy things. Does Wikipedian bots care about vandalism? I have seen some article was bad articles, but Wikipedian bots doesn't care about it. That's why I want to know more about Wikipedian bots. Ok? Please, Explain to me Why does wikipedian bots ID end with BOt. Cheers!!!! Daniel5127, 01:21, 30 April 2006(UTC)
Today, the header on each page, with "my watchlist", has started jumping from the right side of the page to the left side of the page every time I try to click on it. I somebody working on this? Rick Norwood 12:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I made a test redirect page to see if redirecting to a different Wiki would work. It didn't, although it looked like the "redirect=no" page and the link was clickable. So I'm wondering, why isn't this activated? What problems could it entail? -- Shultz IV 05:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
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Is there any way to alphabetise the list of articles that link to a specific article? Sometimes it looks like an attempt has been made ( like so), but then given up halfway through. Would it require a change of my settings, or would specific code need to be written? THe help page states the following, but does not suggest why, or provide a remedy:
Seems a good idea to alphabetise instead of leave random, has it been suggested before? - mastodon
You know how watchlists are supposed to only show the most recent change for each article on the list? Well, now every time an article on my list gets edited, there's an entry on the watchlist page for it. My watchlist is now covered with 50,000 edits (or so it seems =P) to George W. Bush. Is this a bug, a sudden policy change, or what? Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 05:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Even having enabled the new option to only keep the recent change, the list of people who have edited it is rather a clutter. I still prefer the classical option, rather than the new variant or the list-all option. ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 05:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
The notice says "to hide them, disable ERC", which doesn't make sense. At the very least it should say "to summarize older edits, enable ERC". freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 05:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Dang, that didn't last long. Oh well. -- Cyde Weys 06:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I would still want the diff and hist options on the LHS of the screen and lined up, as the output is more structured and easier to comprehend that way -ie the old way. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 06:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
A problem I seem to have now which I didn't have before is that it's now impossible to have more than 500 edits show up in my watchlist. Since I want to catch up with the recent changes to the pages I watch from the past three days, I've got a problem. Help!? — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 18:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I ran into a tool a while ago that allowed me to determine what the total # of edits i've made are, what types they were, and i even got a detailed breakdown on how many of each category i had. I'd like to use it again. I wonder, what is this tool? How do i get to it?-- Screwball23 talk 00:13, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
trying to add <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> to my userpage to make Google drop its cache, which contains my real name and email address in an old version, but am unable to do so - it comes through as text. Does anyone know how/whether I can do this? Thanks - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 21:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
(Moved from Wikipedia talk:Redirect)
Ok, I've been said redirects are cheap and fixing them is a strain on the server. I have created a bot ( MiszaBot ( talk · contribs)) that can automatically fix single-/double-/triple-/whatever- redirects. It can work in two modes:
While I understand that the second behavior is a strain on the servers, I'd like to ask for an expert's opinion on the first type. Thank you, Misza 13 T C 21:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any reason the authentication cookies only last a month? If I remember correctly the maximum time for cookies is a year, and it seems a little silly to cut them that short. -- Kickstart70- T- C 15:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone who has the ability to edit them actually read the Wikipedia talk:Special: pages? Ardric47 04:50, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
The default setting for the Watchlist now only displays the changes in the last 12 hours. Can the default be changed back to the changes in the last 3 days? Also, when I try to view the changes to all the pages in my Watchlist, it only displays the changes in the last 28 days. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 05:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
The article on shadowwar was deleted on March 26th. A copy of it can be found here. When I search for (say) "In the land of shadowwar" (with or without the double quotes), the deleted article shows up in the search results as a blue link! Is this the right place to report such inconsistencies? If not, where should I go? Cheers, Chris Chittleborough 00:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm getting fed up with the inability of 'experts' on here to provide an answer as to how to switch off and on the highlighted links on a page. It is poor design to default to highlighting links as they are 99% irrelevant to the article in question. If this isn't already available then somebody should have it done by the end of the week.
Hello, I too feel the underlined links are kind of a pain. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.2, and I have unchecked the 'underline links' box. Unfortunately, the links in Wikipedia, and no other sites, are underlined. I did try clearing cache and bypassing cache. Any suggestions are appreciated! -- AnthonyA7 08:42, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
m:cite.php emits the references on the Mediawiki reserved tag <references/>. I've seen the html produced for this is <ol class="references">.
On a lot of articles, editors put the <references/> inside a <div style="font-size:85%"> (or 90%) which causes me having trouble reading that small font. But it seems like I'm a negligible old man and thus fail to convince the majority of youngsters with perfect sight to use a larger font for the references :-(.
Luckily, I can set a larger font in my own monobook.css. I have specified .references { font-size:111%; }
there (to compensate for 90%).
Instead of specifying in each and every article <div style="font-size:85%"> before the <references/>, couldn't we agree to set that in
Mediawiki:common.css or at least in
Mediawiki:monobook.css as .references { font-size:85%; }
?
This would also make it easier for me to set a larger font for myself by overriding that setting in my monobook.css.
As a side note, someone even created Template:Footnotes... (mentioned in Wikipedia:Footnotes).
Thanks for any comments and tips. I hope this is the right place to ask. -- Ligulem 17:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Discussion continued at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#proposed change to css (.references) -- Francis Schonken 12:04, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to archive stuff? My talk page is getting pretty long! Joziboy 19 April 2006, 23:25 (UTC)
The file
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=-&action=raw&smaxage=0&gen=js has javascript that transforms the Article tab for the Main Page to say "main page". It should really be changed to "Main Page", as all the other tabs are capitalised with the lower-casing done by CSS. This causes the Main Page to look horrible and inconsistant in browsers that don't support text-transform: lowercase;
(or for anyone browsing with CSS off). —
Ian Moody (
talk) 23:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to find out what pages have been protected for the longest amount of time running, similar to the was UuU was found out the be the earliest edited page? I know some pages are protected forever, but some other ones get protected and then forgotten about for ages, see for example Tom Swift III which was protected for about 9 months (Give or take...). Thanx. 68.39.174.238 21:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post but here goes. I've been doing lots of renaming recently after putting through two naming conventions ( companies and TV shows). One thing that I regularly run into is deleting a redirect to make way for the main article. Sometimes the redirect has a useful edit history that can only be preserved by moving it to another name, deleting the redirect to the new temporary redirect then moving the existing article to the correct name, then moving the original redirect back - typically to where the correctly named article was. That was confusing so hopefully this will help
Example - "HCA Inc." needs to be moved to "Hospital Corporation of America", but there is a useful history at "Hospital Corporation of America". The only way to save "Hospital Corporation of America" is to do multiple holding moves then moving the edit history at "Hospital Corporation of America" to "HCA Inc." which is now a redirect to "Hospital Corporation of America". It would be very helpful if the two articles can be transposed at the time of the move with both edit histories retained and the new destination redirected by the source article rather than a new redirect with no edit history HCA Inc. <--> Hospital Corporation of America
Thanks! -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 21:14, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I notice that thumbnails are, all of a sudden, not appearing on many, many pages. See, for instance, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I've seen dozens of these in the last 30 minutes. Can anyone help??
I have made a request for this feature at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5653. Please discuss there. Ingoolemo talk 18:33, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Image thumbnails are displaying error messages. This has happened from different machines on different LAN's, so the problem seems to be Wikipedia's. Also, response time has gotten very slow: five minutes to load a page. 208.20.251.27 15:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
This is a HUGE problem. Thumbnails are not appearing on dozens of pages.
Hi
Several users from the LB-Wiki have a problem with the galleries. Some of the horizontal images are not shown when inside a gallery-tag. Apparently, according to rumours on DE-wiki, this has to do with a specific version of Norton Antivirus who reacts to images having a certain size. However, after some testing, some of the images, even after resizing, cropping etc. still wouldn't show. So there might also be a problem with the image itself, maybe depending on the camera ?
Is this problem known ? Thx in advance :-)
Is there a way to find articles that are in two categories? For example, articles that are disease stubs that also have cleanup or wikify tags? Thatcher131 02:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any possible way to delete a page's history? Or at least so that no one else on Wikipedia can see it? Jonathan talk File:Canada flag 300.png 03:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I have pretty well finished merging three articles: Nozzles, De Laval nozzle and Flow through nozzles. What I need to know is:
Please let me spell it out for me in much detail ... I've only been working in Wikipedia for a few months. - mbeychok 23:09, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
What you'd do is merge any relevant material into the one article, and make the other two into redirects to that article. Explain where the material came from/is going in the edit summaries. Anything which links to those articles will then be automatically redirected (check and fix any double-redirects). The redirects will still show the history of the original articles, so no history is lost, and redirects can still quite happily have talk pages, so there is no merging necessary there. If you want to you can correct the articles listed in "what links here", but that isn't normally done by the merger, ahtough it will probably be gradually fixed by subsequent editors. Grutness... wha? 00:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
At Apr 14, 2006, 11:14 AM (GMT-3), it seems that formula rendering in PNG is not working. Can anyone check that? -- zanderredux 14:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
In Special:Preferences, on the Watchlist tab, there are two new options. By selecting Enhanced watchlist, the watchlist will change behaviour, to be more like Recent changes. That means that instead of just seeing the lates edit to each article on the watchlist, the most recent edits to all the articles are shown. In order not to overwhelm editors with thousands of articles on their watchlist, there is one other new configuration on the watchlist tab, Number of edits to show in expanded watchlist, with a default value of 250. If this value is set higher than that, it is recommeded also to check the Enhanced recent changes (JavaScript) option on the tab for Recent changes. -- Wegge 22:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Say I have a wiki article AAAAA. Article AAAAA includes section aa, section aaa, and section aaaa. For some reason, I want to include section aaa of article AAAAA in article BBBBB as section bbb. Can I do this and maintain the link to aaa? So that if aaa was edited in AAAAA, then the edits would show up in BBBBB? Thanks, Mike -- MikeShelton 21:06, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I think I found my own answer at [ [2]]
There seems to be a problem with one of the images in World War II. If you go down to the section "Aftermath" and look down the images on the right there is one with the caption "Zones of occupation of Germany in 1946" obviously intending to be a map. However it's actually a picture of a (modern) tank. If you follow the link then it goes to an image showing the map I would expect. My technical knowledge has reached its limits - would someone else mind looking at it? DJ Clayworth 15:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for a new user name. Is there a way to search the special page User list using wildcards so it brings back similar names? It seems to only return exact matches. Thanks. Thatcher131 11:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I think the name "move", while technically correct, is not the exact right choice to use. From what I get, the page history is moved to the other page, but it is basically renaming—and would be a simpler concept for new users to grasp, no? Would people be opposed to calling it "rename", or something along those lines? - Mysekurity [m! 03:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Would someone mind taking a look at my sig and letting me know if I can cut out any of the HTML code without changing its appearance or function? Thanks. TIJUANA BRASS ¡Épa!- E@ 02:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to add another cooling tower photo to Cooling tower. The one already in that article is of a hyperbolic tower, and I want to add a photo of a non-hyperbolic tower (as widely used in heavy industries). I found a photo that I liked on the website of the Marley Company ... one of the leading companies designing and erecting such cooling towers. I emailed their webmaster and asked permission to use the photo in Wikipedia. Here is a copy of the email request I sent him:
And here is the answer that I received by email:
Is that good enough for me to go ahead and use the photo in Cooling tower? If so, when I upload it and have to supply information on the photo and where it came from, exactly what should I say? - mbeychok 00:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
We had another power failure at our Florida hosting facility a few hours ago. They're blaming the equipment, and it's being replaced.
Hopefully pretty much everything's working correctly by now. Note that the data dumps on download.wikimedia.org are currently offline; if we don't get that server back up soon I'll move them to another machine. -- Brion 18:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes, the radio buttons don't show up. Is this an issue that has been brought up? Will this be worked on?
68.148.165.213 08:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add an ID to the table that contains the category listing so the background color can be overridden with CSS? Right now it has a white background which looks weird against the light blue used in Monobook for the main article section. — Locke Cole • t • c 22:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to use the wiki math gen to create some equations for work i'm doing. Is it possible to
a) download a gen applet so i dont waste wikimedia image space for non wiki equations; and more importantly
b) get a vector/adjustable resolution image to the equations aren't pixelly in my word processor?
I know the system is based on LaTeX (correct me if i'm wrong here), so do i have to buy a version of LaTeX to make this happen, or is it free and usable? Thanks in advance for any help!
Cheers - LozDunn (at) gmail.com
Why are all these sponsored links (in green) showing up everywhere? They're kind of annoying. Are they here to stay? — Akrabbim 14:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I have created an article on Freezywater which is a place in London Borough of Enfield, but when you type Freezywater into Search, only the London Borough of Enfield appears in the results, you then need to click on this and then select Freezywater within the article. How do I make Freezywater appear as a result? Rogwan 12:55, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I have moved the article on Country rock to Country rock (music) and made Country rock a disambiguation page (due to the term's use in geology as well). The 400 or so links to the old Country rock page should be revised to link to the new page ( Country rock (music)). Is there an automated way to revise all Wiki links to a page? Thanks: Hgilbert 08:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I've spent quite a bit of time searching for this without luck, and then I decided to make it easier on myself and simply ask if such a thing exists. Is there an ampersand operator (i.e. "&action=edit") that will allow me to load a diff while hiding the preview? I was thinking something along the lines of "&showpreview=false" but have had no success with any of my guesses. I believe such an operator would add a serious boost to the speed of my app and could result in a great deal more vandalism being reverted, as I would no longer need to wait for images, etc., to load--simply seeing the change is usually enough to determine whether or not an edit is vandalism. Essentially what I would like to do would be to load a diff exactly as it does when you click "Show Changes" when editing a page (without the editform of course). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 05:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
It sounds like something we could add, though. Rob Church ( talk) 10:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
i have some doubts in communication
What is modulation and demodulation ? why we go for modulation ? can v transmit signal without modulation if not why ?
I notice that everytime I typed in a search, there pops are a list of pages > that closely resemble what I looked for. > > However, whenever I typed in a search that is "not 100% technical as it > should be", I usually see 0 resemblance pop up, and said "try searching > again." So I may suggest that it could be improved if somebody set up a "do > you mean ____________(link)" and then searcher can click on the link instead > of retype.
What does it mean when a Wikipedia search says "Results 1-4 of 4" but only shows 1 result? For instance, this search. Are there 3 other articles hiding out there that match the search but aren't being displayed, or is it just some counting bug in the search engine? – Tifego (t) 00:18, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
All of a sudden, the little automatic editing boxes don't work (bold, signature, etc). Is this some security option? Or do I just have to wait for this annoyance to get flushed out the system? -- Zeizmic 20:05, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Yeah! Thanks. Everything works great now. -- Zeizmic 01:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
It used to be possible to get a list of articles which seemed from their categories to be biographies but there was no category to show whether they were still alive. Can we get that list back please? - Runcorn 12:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Cyde has developed a References converter to revise article using the older methods of referencing such as {{reference label}} and {{note label}} to the new Cite. php method using <ref> and <references/>.
The older method using {{reference label}} and {{note label}} placed a caret (^) in front of each cited reference in the reference list which was quite clear and easy-to-read. The new Cite.php method places an anaemic, washed-out and hard-to-read vertical arrow in front of each cited reference.
I asked Cyde if we could somehow get to use that much better looking caret (rather than the washed out arrow) with the new Cite php.method and he agreed that the caret looked better. He also said "I think you're onto a good thing here and the change you're suggesting would be REALLY simple to make (a single character substitution to the code, actually)." Although Cyde is an administrator, this is out of his bailiwick and he suggested that I broach this suggested change here. If anyone knows how to bring this to the attention of whatever group developed the new Cite.php referencing methd, PLEASE do so! Thanks, - mbeychok 03:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
i suggest to implement a feature which allows (screen-) absolute displaying of the header of a large table for better orientation while reading/comparing contents within large tables which do not fit on one screen-site.
technically the table header would simply be a non-ambiguous css-class, which is de/activated via a toggle-button like i.e. the one wikipedia already has to show/hide contents.
PutzfetzenORG 22:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
(appologies up front if this post is in the wrong location)
I have an old 1946 city planning map for Huntington Township on Long Island, which IMHO is of historical significance as a snapshot in time before modern suburbs exploded. I've already provided a copy of the map to the Long Island historical society but I'd like to share the map with anybody online by creating an article for it and then linking to it from the Huntington article. First of all, is there anything wrong with that from a non-technical level? The article would contain text explanations but the primary feature would be just a big map.
Now if there's nothing wrong with the concept of creating an article for displaying this map, I'll move on to my technical questions. My map is large and has great detail down to street names and such. It's been scanned to an image at a whopping 8,790 x 6,400 pixels. Obviously this would be a ridicuous size to fit on any webpage and scaling it down would eliminate the details that make it important. What I would ideally like to do is to break the map down in to sections and table-it together so that clicking on a section would go to a full-screen version of that section.
Any other ideas if this doesn't belong or technically can't be part of Wikipedia? If there's another good option out there I suppose that could be done and then an external link added. But I still think this is good encyclopedia-worty content (like original town names, structures and streets that no longer exist, etc.). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fife Club ( talk • contribs) 21:21, 18 April 2006.
I recently learned of the specific URL construction that lets you create a hyperlink that opens a new subject on a page:
[{{fullurl:{{ns:3}}:{{PAGENAMEE}}|action=edit§ion=new}} leave a message]
Is there a similar construction that allows you to create a hyperlink which will add a page to the user's watchlist? Thanks in advance. — WCityMike ( talk • contribs) 22:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
You should probably go over to
Heraclitus and click edit to see what I've done to get a fuller appreciation of this. Anyways, I'm trying to create references for things by using the Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page). format that I thought I was supposed to. After I have put my references between the brackets and everything, however, the link that I created doesn't link to anything, plus my references don't exist in the "references" section. To clarify, this means two things are going wrong: (1) my references aren't in the reference section, (2) the reference "link" doesn't link to anything. Can someone go over to Heraclitus, fix this, and then tell me what I've done wrong and how to do it right if I ever need to cite references again? God bless you, every one (that was a joke of sorts, I'm
agnostic), --
Matthew 17:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
<references/>
in the References section - this is what displays the references cited inline in your article.
ericg
✈ 20:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)If I recall correctly, it is possible to transfer edits done in one account to another. Do I recall correctly? And if I do, who do I have to contact to have it done? Thanks, Yuval madar 17:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Is "prod" still broken because of the toolserver outage, or is it back up? And is there a status page for this? -- John Nagle 16:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
According to WP:PROD there is a backup system in place. RicD o d 17:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way to view the longest pages within a particular category, instead of globally? -- Froth 15:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed that the parser mangles nested <sup> tags. This breaks mathematical expressions involving nested powers rather badly: for example, x<sup>y<sup>z</sup></sup> renders as xyz, where it should look like . One can of course use math mode to work around this, but this forces the expression to be rendered as an image, which is less than ideal. I'm pretty sure this used to work once, though I've no idea when it may have been broken. Anyway, a fix would be nice. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 14:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Thats me spraying a sock-bug - AGAIN. I've done what I could on my end, and it still comes back. Martial Law 23:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC) :)
I will like to find out what IPs in the range 61.95.147.0 to 61.95.147.255 have made contributions to Wikipedia. Is there some tool I can use/someone I can request to find out this information? Simply the list of IPs that have at least one contribution will suffice. Thank you. Loom91 07:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at WP:TIP? The next tip link in all the tips has stopped working and I'm unsure what caused it or how how to fix it. -- Hetar 01:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
MONTH DAY,
MONTH DAY, YEAR
I know this isn't the place to report bugs, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or if something else is going on. I'd like to know if anyone has seen this before or if they know anything about it.
I recently noticed the icon image in {{ game-stub}} was showing nasty jaggies because it was being scaled down and GIF images don't scale down well at all ( see the version in question). I downloaded the GIF from Commons, converted it to PNG with The Gimp, reuploaded it to Commons, and then changed the stub template to use it instead.
The trouble is that it shows completely blank. The image itself seems fine, and it shows up as a 200px thumbnail at right just fine. The 100px and 40px versions (40px being what the template uses) both show a blank image for some reason. Does anyone know why this is? Should I report this as a bug? Is it something wrong with the file? Is there a better place to ask this? — Saxifrage ✎ 18:30, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Cesarb handled the Monobook.css, and Docu handled the CologneBlue.css, is anybody game for more? On Saturday, I also posted:
Still begging for these to be transferred from Talk to .CSS, there are many thousands of pages using the templates now!
Odd, they worked for me when I changed my preferences to each, and viewed pages such as Detroit and Chicago.
And I never tried with different font sizes. I expect that nothing positioned "absolute" will work when the font size changes.
Nostalgia is supposed to fit between the lines on the left, like CologneBlue, just under "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" avoiding the globe on the right. Now tried it increasing and decreasing font +2, +1, -1, and -2 sizes, and worked like a charm on FireFox!
Standard is supposed to fit on the right, like monobook, under the line. Don't know about the "HTML table", as it doesn't appear in the source, unless you are talking about the search box. There's no conflict there. Now tried it increasing and decreasing font +2, +1, -1, and -2 sizes, and worked like a charm on FireFox, staying right under the search box. Heck, works better than the title line (that moves all over the place).
Oh well, unless somebody steps forward and does some serious testing, looks like those two lose out....
Since these are primarily used in Geo templates and Infoboxen, that argument doesn't hold water. And having them at the bottom of the page is just plain useless. Defeats the whole point of having them easily accessible at the top!
File:Chicago with Standard top 4.5em coordinates.pdf
Here's my screenshot. It fits quite nicely above the "In other languages", with a lot of space left over. I've tested at 5 different text sizes. There's that little {{ Audio}} image that is sitting on top of my "Talk" link, but nobody has fixed that problem, yet.
File:Chicago with Nostalgia top 3.9em coordinates.pdf
Likewise, here's my screenshot. It fits quite nicely below the "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". I've tested at 5 different text sizes. Again, there's that little {{ Audio}} image that is sitting on top of the globe, but nobody has fixed that problem, yet.
Search engines show redundant information. Also, infoboxes should not be part of a search engine abstract. The discussion is here Wikipedia_talk:List_of_infoboxes#Search engine appearance, but it's relevant outside of infoboxes. -- GunnarRene 22:24, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone else getting these errors on wikipedia?
(10.0.5.3) -- Zeno McDohl 19:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia statistics haven't been updated for quite a while (dec 2005). Anyone knows why ? Are they gonna be updated regularly again ? Xevi 18:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
There is a new interface to get parsed data from mediawiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php
It allows bots and javascript code to get useful information like what links and templates does a page have, user status, page revisions, and much more in many formats such as XML and JSON. Operations in bulk are supported. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Yurik 17:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
i've just started a page at Wikipedia:Css and javascript hacks to keep track of css and javascript hacks that are used to workaround defficancies in mediawiki. Plugwash 17:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I'd like to add a new preference to the user profile. This has been discussed, with some people in favour, and some unconvinced and willing to see it in action. I have a couple of questions.
Thanks. PizzaMargherita 15:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know how the "Random articles" selection of articles work? We have been trying to make some statistical research on the Swedish wikipedia by having 10 persons check 100 random articles and categorize their quality. However, it seems a little that the selection process tends to pick forgotten articles, not the ones that are recent or popoular. Am I wrong or is the random articles working like this? MoRsΞ 10:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there anyone who can give a expression with this error?
It seems to be impossible:
...... } elseif ( ctype_alpha( $char ) ) { // Word // Find the rest of it $remaining = substr( $expr, $p ); if ( !preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z]*/', $remaining, $matches ) ) { // This should be unreachable $this->error( 'preg_match_failure' ); return false; }
Is there a string with one heading letter being ctype_alpha but can't preg_match? I think this won't appear, but Tim Starling says: "Finding a method for reaching that branch is left as an exercise for the reader. Or you could find something more useful to do, like I don't know, writing some code of your own." ( m:talk:ParserFunctions#what's the use of preg_match_failure ?) I've been messed up on this. meta:User:Upssdr 09:27, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I need help,everytime i post, a blue box appears and cuts my edit short,especially new subjects.
FOr example, I edited the article "The Emperor's New School" to include another heading about the timeline of it, but it showed a few words and cut into something else, thanks in advance Julz 03:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Since 15 Apr 06, the article Wikipedia:Advice to AOL users has stated that "[t]here have also been plans to modify the MediaWiki software so that AOL users would automatically be made to bypass the proxy system using https. This feature is currently still at an early stage, but it may be enabled some time in the future." As I have never heard anything about this, I was wondering if someone could confirm or deny that this is actually being done, and perhaps also give a status report. Furthermore, is work currently being done to implement the same kind of secured server editing requisite as was done at Wiktionary? (see Wiktionary:AOL) Any input from devs or involved persons would be much appreciated, as we are currently in the process of rewriting and/or rejecting a proposal very closely related to this. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 20:56, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
These red ? have just recently (see my time/date stamp) shown up on my talk page. I have no clue as to why. If I did something to cause this, please explain. If I'm not to worry, also please explain. Thanks for helping me to sleep better tonight. ;-) hydnjo talk 00:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Couple of updates. Thought I'd announce one here while I'm at it; the other has to be announced.
Special:Newpages now offers namespace filtering. Go nuts.
Bureaucrats can now grant and revoke bot status for users on the local project. This is in response to a long-standing request from the stewards, both to cut down their workload, and to allow local projects to have more control over what happens there.
Now's the time to clean up the bot approval pages and get that process kicking. The new page is available at Special:Makebot. It should be obvious enough how to use it, but I'll put up some documentation post-haste, for the curious.
An audit trail for use of the MakeBot extension is available at Special:Log/makebot.
For the curious and 'crat-flag-devoid; a nice screenshot can be found at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/c/c0/Makebot.png.
Cheers. Rob Church ( talk) 23:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
How about revoke button on Special:Makesysop also :) borgx ( talk) 11:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Very nice, namespace filtering is always useful. Thanks to all the devs. Martin 11:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
The article in question is Rui Roentgen. I hate to AFD it and bite the newbie; I've suggested he move it to his userpage... but what else can I do? Is there a tag to indicate autobiographical content in an article? Alba 19:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
This is a stupid question, and I should really know the answer, but how would one go about editing their monobook.css file? Specifically, I want to use the monobook skin on a wiki that has removed it (options are Classic, Nostalgia, and Cologne Blue). -- SheeEttin 01:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! My user page ( User:Pharaoh Hound) seems to have some bugs, for one thing I can't edit the individual sections. For another, when I tried to put an image on it the image appeared at the bottom of the page, rather than in the "My pets" section where I put it. I'm pretty new to wiki, so I don't know what's wrong. could someone please help me? Pharaoh Hound 19:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Pharaoh Hound 20:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I and many other web developers would dearly love to see an official, endorsed Wikipedia API that allows people the world over to take all the wonderful Wiki encyclopedic information and use it in their web sites and web applications, especially in these days of Web 2.0 and mash-ups.
The current APIs on offer either cost a lot of money or use horribly ugly screen scraping techniques which just isn't cricket.
So what do people say? I say please Wikipedia, please make an official Wiki API so we can use and make the most of all the lovely vast Wiki data and promote Wikipedia evermore at the same time.
Yours with fingers and toes crossed,
Paul.
Is there a way of automatically placing the "featured article star" on the inbound "in other languages" links from other language wikipedias? Currently it is necessary to manually go through each linked language and add {{Link FA|en}} to the code, surely this could be done with a bot or something. Furthermore, the stars need to be removed when an article gets de-listed from FA status, this should also be done automatically. Is this even possible? Witty lama 14:27, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Periodically, when I open a Wikipedia page I get an error that "Internet Explorer cannot open the page"; this appears in a window superimposed over the properly opened page! Clicking OK goes to the IE error page; if I click on IE's Back button, the proper page reappears. Does anyone know a fix for this problem? Hgilbert 07:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place to post this but, my defult skin has changed and it is really awful now and doesn't even work right anymore (i.e. I cannot click on a link when there are other links on the left of the screen.) It was hard and slow to change it to one that works (others are broken too). I'm now using classic mode but I dont like it. Please send for help. Greasysteve13 13:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how to add things into the info box. Specifically, Capital News Service (MI) and Michigan State University Residence Halls Association need to be added into the following infobox:
{{ Michigan State University}}
~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tdslappy ( talk • contribs) 19:56, 20 April 2006
There are at least two ways to edit a template:
Either way will get you here. Conscious 12:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Can someone shed some light on the discussion I'm having with User:Mboverload? I suspect that the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser tool he used to do this edit broke the double-byte characters in Pescadores Islands, but I can't tell from what he's saying whether it's just something wrong with my browser that I'm seeing the html escapes as ?'s marks for real or if the AWB tool is really obliterating them, or if the two of us are just talking past eachother.... thanks, Kendrick7 15:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Where are the Userboxes Korodzik 09:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I have figured out alot. Just one last question how do you get the light blue object below the panther? John R G 06:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Potomac Senior High School | |
File:PSHS.jpg |
Established | 1979 |
basically im trying to get the following centered. If that helps.
Potomac Senior High School |
On this note I am sure i have the link formatted correctly, but it won't load that way. I've examiend the actual code at least 2-3 times and it is driving me nuts. Can someone see if it's a bug or if it's something that I just overlooked? - Hbdragon88 04:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to make a table the trick is Im trying to use a different color of font and center and make it colspan=2. can you help me? John R G 04:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
{| border="1" | colspan="2" style="color: green; text-align: center;" | Cell 1, row 1 |- | Cell 1, row 2 | Cell 2, row 2 |}
... which produces:
Cell 1, row 1 | |
Cell 1, row 2 | Cell 2, row 2 |
From your recent edit at the Sandbox, I think I can show you where you went wrong. You wrote (leaving out the "right" attribute because it's a pain for this example's layout):
{| border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 width=280 | |colspan=2| bgcolor=#000080 | <font color=#75B2DD> '''Potomac Senior High School''' |}
Which produces:
bgcolor=#000080 | Potomac Senior High School |
The correct format for this is:
{| border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 width=280 | |colspan=2 bgcolor=#000080 | <font color=#75B2DD> '''Potomac Senior High School''' |}
Notice there is no bar between colspan and bgcolor, and there is a terminating bar at the end of the list of attributes for the whole table. This produces:
Potomac Senior High School |
Note that what you are trying to accomplish with this might be better achieve through different formatting than a table. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style for how articles are formatted at Wikipedia. — Saxifrage ✎ 12:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello all - I wonder if anyone might be able to help me with a catagory task that i've begun. I created the category Current_British_MPs (self explanatory I hope). You'll also see that I've added the first 5 MPs to the list. There are 646 MPs in the Commons, so to complete the list manually will take a while. We currently have other similiar cat.s - such as Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_English_constituencies - which feautures members of the House of Lords as well as House of Commons. My question is this - is there a quick way of editing cat.s, for example putting all of Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_English_constituencies into Current MPs, and then somehow just going through a list and quickly deleting 'Lords' who don't apply? Any clever cat. editing tips would be appreciated - or even just confirmation that its a long, manual task - then I'll go and try and get some help doing it.... thanks! Petesmiles 03:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to link to an external page from many different Wiki pages. I would like to be able to put the external link on one Wiki page, so that when you click on the link to the Wiki page in another page it automatically redirects you to the external link. This could save a lot of time when the external page changes, as it does periodically. For instance, I might like to provide a link to a baseball teams home page on the Internet. [[Washington Nationals]] and the Washington National page would be a link to [http://washington.nationals.com/ Washington Nationals]. If the Nationals change their web site, I could change it in just one page and all of the links would go to the right place. I would like to make it so that when the Wiki page is called it automatically goes to the external link rather than having to make another click on the external link in the Wiki page. Talk to Dr. M 01:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi all. Is there any system in place for labeling IP ranges with who owns them? Is this even a good idea? I know we have AOL's IP ranges on Special:Blockip, but I'm wondering what others think of labeling IPs owned by universities, schools, or other organizations whose IPs are shared by many people. This might make it easier to determine whether an IP is static or not, and assist admins in making their blocking decisions. ~ MDD 46 96 02:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I put a picture first in en.wiki and then on Commons (it was my mistake), and they have the same name. Now I updated an improved version in Commons and I'd like it to be changed in en.wiki as well, but en.wiki completely ignored the updated version. How can I do so that it will be updated automatically?? (I'm interested in it because I have more than one picture to update in the same way). The picture I'm talking about is Image:BesselJ_plot.svg on en.wiki and this on Commons. Alessio Damato 20:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Today I saw that my own Talk page was labeled "Category: Articles with unsourced statements". I checked the category, and found lots of user talk pages on it [3]. Now, I would hardly consider my talkpage an article, and there is no statements on it, in a citateble sense, so I wanted to remove the label but couldn't find it in the edit box. And I cant seem to find it in the history of my talkpage either, so I can't even see who labeled my talk page. Can anybody help me with this? EyesAllMine 22:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
(blushing) Thanks ... I feel so ... well, stupid. LOL EyesAllMine 23:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Take a look at Java programming language, and click on the Wikipedia:Featured article emblem in the upper right corner, you will be redirected to information on the image.
Take a look at India, and click on the featured article emblem, you will be redirected to the article about featured articles.
What is wrong with the Java programming language article?
-- Velle 18:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I have to say, thet the hungarian names of Mozart symphonies has changed to eg. Mozart: Szimfónia No. 1 to Mozart: 1. szimfónia, szó please tell to a robot to change the links. Thx. w:hu:User:NZs ----
I'm having difficulty getting the refs at the bottom of Thermopsis rhombifolia to show properly. I can see nothing wrong with the code - what's the problem? Thanks in advance! D e nni ☯ 15:29, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at these links and tell me if they have a clue what's going on:
If you scroll down to the bottom you'll see that in the current version there are two names in the last list, whilst in the permanent link to the current version they're not there. (Hopefully no one will edit the page before someone gets a chance to see this). If you have any ideas, please let me know! Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 07:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
we are working on a spellchecker for which we need a dictionary. we came to know that Wikipedia offers a free open source dictionary database. Where to download this dictionary database..?. Are there any specialized wordlists available...i mean specialized wordlists for world wide web, Domains, Medical...etc
So, kindly plz help us by giving some information regarding that.
Regards, Srik. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.63.122.130 ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 13 June 2024 UTC [ refresh.
What's the best way to add a small black border around an image, without having a caption? In HTML, I'd just do <img ... style="border:1px solid black">, but I don't see a straightforward way to do that in wikitext. (this is for userpages or whatnot, I realize it's not the standard layout for article images). One way is to add a div with a hard-coded width and height... is there a better way to do it?
-- Interiot 14:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Try a table:
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— Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 20:24, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I found on meta a reference to a modified version of rsvg that is used for the conversions on Wikipedia, but was hoping to find more details. Is there a reference of exactly what commands are being used, what fonts it has available, and so on?
I'd like to duplicate the conversion locally so I can make sure that images (especially those containing text) will appear as intended before uploading.
Thanks. -- iMb~ Meow 02:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
My username is Torvik on the English Wikipedia, and whenever I attempt to log on, it either reverts back to where I was without logging in, or it will log me in successfully, but as soon as I click a Wiki-link, it will take me to the proper page, but I will suddenly be logged out. I tried both FF and IE, and the login status is equally unpredictable using both. Thanks. -Torvik 67.142.130.22 09:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC) PS: Please don't tell me to clear my cookies and restart my browser. I've done everything I can possibly think of on my own end. And yes, I've activated my account with the link sent to my email address.
OK, this is weird. After a restart, I open Firefox and go to the English WP Main Page, and try logging in from there. It works, which doesn't surprise me. (It usually logs me on properly, but just whenever I click a link, it follows the link correctly, but I'm logged out.) However, I clicked the "Return to Main Page" link at the bottom of the Successful Log in screen, and it takes me to the Main Page, fully logged in. Refreshing the page, I'm still logged in. So I got my hopes up. Then I clicked Community Portal and all was lost. What in the heck is going on? — 67.142.130.43 18:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
WTF?! Five minutes after posting ^that^, while on this page, I clicked the WikipediA logo in the top left corner to return to the Main Page. All of a sudden now, I'm logged in when I'm on the Main Page, but returning to VPT, or anywhere else for that matter, I'm logged out. Again returning to the Main Page, I'm logged in. I am now thouroughly confused and annoyed. I explained all this in my User talk:Torvik page. — 67.142.130.43 19:03, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I fixed it! It had nothing to do with my cookies. I was getting desperate, so I sent a password request email for Torvik and S-torvik, used the new jumbled-up password, and it works seamlessly. Amazing. Thanks for your help and stuff, guys. - Torvik 04:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I would like to find out all web addresses that wikipedia and related websites use, so I can set my internet filter to stop filtering my edits to pages here. I first put in en.wikipedia.org but it didn't solve the problem. I then put in upload.wikimedia.org which seemed to help most things, but it is still pulling out some words. Although my primery concern here is about Wikipedia, I would also want to stop filtering other sites of Wikimedia. Can I get a list of all web address which my edits are going thru, or anything to do with HTTPS FTP or anything else that might solve this problem. Shlomke 20:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia category information is stored in a database. Is it possible to make non-trivial queries to that database? Are Boolean operators available? With better searching, some problems with the category scheme can be cleaned up.
For example, we have Category:Canadian musical groups and Category: Hardcore punk groups. So how would one query for "Canadian hardcore punk groups"? If that's not possible, it should be. What tends to happen now is that there are occasional categories like Category:Australian punk rock groups, but they're not used much and aren't maintained, and thus aren't too useful. -- John Nagle 18:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Up, that is the question, How do I add a redirect to a Wikipedia article so that, for example, someone searching for "Jose Afonso", doesn't get a "sorry that is not in this encyclopedia" message because the person making the inquiry did not or could not spell "Jose" with an accented "é".
Hi,
When I'm looking at an anonymous IP's talk page, often I'd like to briefly see the contribution history of that IP when dealing with vandalism. There doesn't appear to be a 'contributions' history button on the talk page, though. What's the quickest way to get to it? - Richardcavell 06:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi folks, I'm currently pushing my company to adopt mediawiki as our main collaborative working tool. I'm looking for a way to automaticaly create an article containing a list of permanent links pointing to specific versions of articles. It could be a category but this category should be "frozen"; the category should list the articles versions frozen at time T.
In short, I'm trying to "tag" (as in cvs or subversion) a list of articles.
Is it feasible with mediawiki? Maybe using some Bots?
Thanks, -- Effco 20:46, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It appears that at somepoint recently someone has changed somethign somewhere to make the contents of table cells fully justified if they are on more than one line. Imho this looks absolutely atrocious on most tables and should be set locally and the global reverted to standard left-aligned text. I haven't been able to work out where the change was made, but it affects all tables whether or not they use the Wikitable class. I also cannot find any discussion on this anywhere. Can anyone help! Thryduulf 18:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm an admin and can alter MediaWiki pages. How do I correct the name of a language displayed in the "Other languages" box? MediaWiki:Otherlanguages isn't it. Angr ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I think this is fixed now: Go to your user preferences, and look under editing. If "use external editor by default" is on, turn it off. Correct me if I'm wrong MBlume 08:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Every time I click on 'edit this page' it starts a download for a file called 'index.php,' and doesn't go to the editing page. It wasn't like this before. I am using Firefox 1.5.0.2. Please help me!
It seems that I can edit from the side 'edit[s]' but not the main 'edit this page', for instance I had to click on 'edit' on the above question and alter it to write this down. How queer. Skinnyweed 21:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I think I've fixed it. Go to your user preferences, and look under editing. If "use external editor by default" is on, turn it off. MBlume 02:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It should be noted that your browser is supposed to download index.php when you're editing. That's the page that has the edit form. It should still go to the edit form, however, once it's finished downloading the page. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 03:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi - this is a naive question, I'm sure, but a page I've been working on has been kind of hijacked, and because its title has been changed, I can't seem to locate the versions of the page that were listed under the original title. (The original title was 'quantum mysticism', the new title is 'quantum metaphysics'.) Thanks. Adambrowne666 11:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Argh! I'm an idiot! I've done exactly what you warned me against, and done a cut-and-paste move, losing the history of the article. I can't see how to fix it. Adambrowne666 21:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
See the linked image. It's pretty much self-explanatory. This occurs when editors using low-resolution screens don't put sufficient space between images, and when viewers with high-res screens (such as I) come along, the images stack in a really aesthetically-unpleasing way. How can we fix this bug, other than just shuffling the images around in the article so that they have sufficient space between them? I think the desired behavior would be to have the images stack to the left on top of each other, not stick out to the side like that. But I don't know if this is a browser issue or what. Please, I'm hoping someone in here has the technical knowledge to figure this out. P.S. Ignore Alphax's meddling. -- Cyde Weys 05:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I have a 3 day gap in my contributions at the beginning of the month (30th March to 3rd April). I know that I made edits during that time. Is it possible to find out what was deleted and why ? Frelke 21:50, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
All of these pages have been deleted recently by someone other than myself. Frelke 04:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Robsteadman announced early in April that he was leaving Wikipedia, and asked me to delete his user page and talk page. I deleted his user page immediately, and began to delete the archives while thinking about whether or not it would be appropriate to delete the talk page. The archives, I felt, could be deleted without objection, as there would be nothing in them that wouldn't be in the history of the talk page itself. I thought I'd ask other admins what they felt about the request to delete the talk page. As far as I know, it's not forbidden, but some people think it shouldn't be done. I was quite happy to do it if it was found to be appropriate, although Robsteadman has certainly not been a friend to me. When I deleted an archive, I checked "what links here", and it brought me to the Frelke subpages. I found that he has started copying all the material on Rob's pages to his own subpages. I wondered for a moment was he Rob, coming back under another name, but realized he wasn't. I asked him about it on his talk page, and he called Rob "a very dangerous moron". Discussion can be found here if he doesn't remove it. (If he does, it can be found in the history of his talk page.) I found it remarkably petty. I think I was going into work at the time, but another editor reported it at WP:AN/I. The archived discussion can be found here. I had nothing to do with the deletion of the pages, but support it wholeheartedly, and very much question the appropriateness of copying these pages and making spiteful comments. AnnH ♫ 11:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi!
I was just wondering, does Wikipedia use some kind of backup system? I mean it would suck if a database crash wiped wikipedia away from the internet. I mean it would take a while to rebuild right? So is there any articles somewhere which I can read about wikipedia backup?
Thanks!! - Enselic 16:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I keep on getting this message whenever I edit Wikipedia:
What does this mean? Thanks for your help! -- HappyCamper 03:07, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wikibug0ul.png
I looked up an article, and it for some reason gave me this bug at the bottom of the screen. Any insight as to exactly what happened?
I'm pretty sure this is not the place I should make this question (so admins: feel free to move it to anywhere appropriate). Please note that everything that follows is either AFAIK, or IIRC, or a speculation.
Opera Mini allows phone users to browse the Internet as they would normally do from their computers (well, almost) -- this includes Wikipedia. I used Opera Mini to make some contributions here and there, and it works just fine.
The service should work as follows: When I follow a link, Opera Mini servers retrieve that page and size them down (cutting images away, removing bells and whistles, probably using a proprietary language, etc.) before sendind to your phone.
Now, suppose another wikipedian using Opera Mini gets an IP block, a ban or whatever that applies to IPs. This block(/ban/whatever) will not only legitimatedly prevent edits from this user but will also prevent edits by other non-blocked(/banned/whatever) users. This is because all Opera Mini end up to share the same IP range as a result of this mechanism.
What do you think?
PS: Excuse my bad spelling, grammar and knowledge of Wikipedia policies.
-- badpazzword 21:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone else please look at these diffs [4] [5] [6] and tell me what they see? I was expecting diffs on JzG's article page (which I was looking at via Interiot's tool while researching my vote on an RfA), but I'm getting three different pages - one of which has JzG's name in the title... — Wh o uk ( talk) 08:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
What's that template to clear floats before a new heading? -- Connel MacKenzie 04:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Why aren't these questions archived sanely? I'm lucky to make it over to Wikipedia once a week as it is...much of the time it is much, much longer between my visits over here. -- Connel MacKenzie 04:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (Wiktionary sysop)
This diff [8] comes from my contributions according to Interiot's tool, yet it doesn't lead to one of my diffs by to a diff on a completely different page. Any idea what's up? (If this is the wrong place to bring this up, feel free to move it whereever it should be). JoshuaZ 19:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to make a link on a page that will bypass the browser's pass, as if you were pressing CTRL+F5 or SHIFT+Reload? I tried using this code: [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=purge}} Purge page cache]
, which produces this link
Purge page cache but it doesn't seem to work on
my user page. Suggestions?
J. Finkelstein 13:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The modern way to write that is {{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=purge}}
, which produces (on this page)
this link. Note that, with either syntax, you need to use PAGENAME without the extra E, otherwise the page name gets URL-escaped twice. I've fixed it above for you. —
Ilmari Karonen (
talk) 20:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The "purge" action instructs the servers to clear the parser cache and purge the squid caches for a page. This causes the output sent to the browser to be more up to date than the local cached version, and so all the caches are updated. "Ctrl + R", or a hard refresh in most browsers, causes that browser to fetch the most up to date version of the page possible, although server-side caching is not affected using this method.
I imagine, "stripped out of any regular Wikipedia page" above, used in context, refers to the JavaScript hinted at in the post; Saxifrage suggested some JavaScript could be used to instruct the browser to hard-refresh the page, but rightly stated that this would be escaped by the parser and sanitiser, to prevent obvious abuses of such misfeatures. Rob Church ( talk) 06:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
How do we get the infobox right-aligned? I was trying to write this article into OE, but the infobox is left-aligned, and text starts underneath it, not next to it as in the English Wikipedia.-- JamesR1701E 18:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes , Mediawiki:Common.css -- GunnarRene 17:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Quick note: I've changed how the edit toolbar buttons work a little bit. If you find that the buttons don't work in Firefox or Konqueror when clicked, make sure you've reloaded all the JavaScript. (Command+R twice in Safari, or ctrl+shift+R in Firefox.) There was a funky incompatibility with the custom 'redirect' button, now fixed. -- Brion 11:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Let me just test if this works ... The answer is 'no'. I've just done the ctrl+shift+R in firefox, and I still have the problem where the screen scrolls up and the pointer slides off the bottom of the button. Noisy | Talk 17:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I have changed the Extra edit buttons javascript. The problem seemed to because the original code used the onload event. This overrode wikipedia's use of the onload event stopping wikipedia building its buttons correctly. I have replaced that with an addOnLoadHook call to wikibits.js.
When I did this a problem with the order of the buttons occurred. The extra edit buttons were inserted before the wikipedia toolbar buttons. I haven't really resolved this because I can't seem to force extra edit buttons script to put its buttons after Wikipedia's (I think this is because Wikipedia's buttons haven't been built at the time). In the end I have settled for putting the buttons a second line.
I have tested this in Firefox and IE and it looked okay. YOu will need to force a refresh.
My javascript / DOM knowledge is not very good so if anybody has any better solutions please amend the code. -- MarkS 21:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I have updated Extra edit buttons again. This time I have removed all the old code (which entered HTML at the end of the toolbar). The new code uses the wmCustomEditButtons array, which means Wikipedia itself creates the extra buttons. The new code is a lot simpler. I have tested this on Firefox (1.5.0.2), IE (7) and Opera (8.5). For the moment the new code is under the development area so I can test it for a couple of days before updating the live version. If anybody has any comments let me know. -- MarkS 20:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Basic buttons still broken. Submitted Bug 5747. -- John Nagle 19:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Mailing lists, OTRS, etc. will be unavailable for about an hour as of 19:00 UTC. This is to allow Jens Franck to perform maintenance on mail.wikimedia.org. Rob Church ( talk) 19:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem with the editcounter, which is showing my no. of edits to be 7, whereas they are actually ~4000. What's up?--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to get a
better
Template:citeencyclopedia working with ParserFunctions, but one segment simply refuses to cooperate. Anyone familiar with #if know why
{{#if:{{{authorlink|}}}
|[[{{{authorlink}}}|
}}
doesn't want to work even though the same code is used in
Template:cite book?
PoptartKing 01:08, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
The tool (semi-bot) that I have been working on, Citation Tool has reached a usable and useful state, I believe. The purpose of this tool is several fold, but the main (and implemented) goal is the detection and guided correction of errors in m:Cite.php markup.
As of this exact moment, the tool does the correct diagnosis of two types of errors. By later today, it should also be able to propose specific modified text that corrects the errors (sometimes requiring operator decisions). The web page for the tool also links back to the edit page for a given corrected article. Notice that any modification made based on the advice of Citation Tool is made under the user's own WP username. The two types of problems currently identified are:
These type of errors seem to occur quite frequently "in the wild". The proposed changes made by Citation Tool do not change the referencing style or technology used on a page (currently: plans are underway to aid insertion of Harvard references as an adjunct to footnotes, where a mixed style is appropriate). So as far as I can see, the changes proposed by the tool should be non-controversial. The only possible issue I can see is that editors might disagree about whether a currently hidden footnote content is or is not better than the one that had been visible; but that's a pretty regular editorial/content issue, per article.
Well... the other issue is that the tool might be buggy, since it hasn't been banged on by anyone other than me yet. That's why I'd appreciate some other people using it, and paying attention to results. If the diagnosis or proposed solution seems to be wrong for certain pages, that matter needs to be identified and fixed. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 21:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to check which autoblocks have been generated on the basis of blocks I have made, but can't find a way to filter the list (search filters on the blocked user not the blocking admin). Can anybody help? Cheers TigerShark 19:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I put Popups in my monobook.js and they came up. However, when I click the revert button the popup, it does nothing. It goes the editing page of the article and says the submit button has already been pressed. Once it submits, nothing happens. I'm just on the same page and it doesn't show my revision in the history nor does it actually revert. Why is this? Please reply on my talk page. TeckWiz 20:14, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Can someone who understands these thing edit Template:Infobox World's Tallest Building so that the optional "destroyed field" has Destroyed left aligned like all the other entries. Because it is optional, it appears to be done with a classs rather than a style, so... (For an example, see World Trade Center -- SGBailey 20:15, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
How can I remove the automatic box with an arrow coming out of it that appears after a non-wiki link, like this one?
Developer Ashar Voultoiz has compiled a list of images which are possible duplicates. I'm sure there's a bunch of users out there with a master plan for dealing with this sort of thing. Have fun. Rob Church ( talk) 18:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I've drafted a new policy -- it doesn't require any devs, but if implemented it would result in the creation of hundreds of new templates (in a psuedo-namespace: each would be prefaced with "WP"). Would this have any technical implications? Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 08:06, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
{{
WP|NOR}}
I added the afdanons template a an AFD recently, and noticed something odd. I used subst on the template because I'm currently under the impression that subst is better in places where the notice won't really be changing based on the template changing. However, the afdanons template also includes instruction for users on how to sign posts with ~~~~ inside of a pair of nowiki tags. subst unfortunately ignored the nowiki tags and replaced them with my signature. (See the diff at the beginning for the exact scenario). So anyway my question/comment is this: shouldn't we make subst ignore text inside nowiki tags? -- Bachrach44 16:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add all redirects to entries at the complete watch list ( Special:Watchlist/edit), so that it is easier to check whether essential redirects are added to the page? KimvdLinde 19:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
If i wanted to redirect some search keywords to an already existing site, how would i do that?
Dear all
Daniel5127 asked me this question and I don't know the answer. Could someone please respond to Daniel? Deb 12:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Deb. It's me Daniel5127. I have been using Wikipedia since March. 3. 2006. Ahh, I have a some question of Wikipedia. As I read all of Wikipedia Policy, It's little bit hard to understand because there are many policies more than I know. So, Let me ask you about Wikipedian Bot. So, What is the job for Wikipedian Bot? I personally think that Wikipedian Bots know all of languages(English, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Portugese, French etc..), and cleaning some messy things. Does Wikipedian bots care about vandalism? I have seen some article was bad articles, but Wikipedian bots doesn't care about it. That's why I want to know more about Wikipedian bots. Ok? Please, Explain to me Why does wikipedian bots ID end with BOt. Cheers!!!! Daniel5127, 01:21, 30 April 2006(UTC)
Today, the header on each page, with "my watchlist", has started jumping from the right side of the page to the left side of the page every time I try to click on it. I somebody working on this? Rick Norwood 12:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I made a test redirect page to see if redirecting to a different Wiki would work. It didn't, although it looked like the "redirect=no" page and the link was clickable. So I'm wondering, why isn't this activated? What problems could it entail? -- Shultz IV 05:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)